Mostly_Gristle @ Mostly_Gristle @lemmy.world

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I have kind of a boring job that allows me to wear headphones all day so I have a ton.

Music related: -60 songs that explain the 90s -20,000 hertz -No dogs in space

History/Politics (humorous/lighthearted): -The dollop -Behind the bastards -Cool people who did cool stuff -You're wrong about -American hysteria -It books could kill

History/Politics/News and Current Events: -Congressional dish -The lawfare podcast -Straight White American Jesus -American history tellers -In our time with Melvin Bragg -Lions led by donkeys -Reveal -Throughline

Science/Tech/Art/Design: -99% invisible -Articles of interest -Ologies -You are not so smart -Science vs. -Sawbones -This podcast will kill you -The last archive -Proof

Spooky/strange/macabre: -Box of Oddities -The shallow end -Lore -Cabinet of curiosities -Radio rental -Spooked -Monsters among us -Real life ghost stories -We can be weirdos

Misc: -No such thing as a fish -The blindboy podcast -The bugle -The gargle -Darknet diaries -Craphound, the Cory Doctorow podcast -Off menu -Criminal -Swindled

They actually have three internal safeties: There's the one on the trigger which prevents the trigger from moving backward unless something is inside the trigger guard, is physically on the trigger shoe, and pulling it backward. There's a sort of little shelf on the trigger sear which part of the cruciform slots into which prevents downward movement of the cruciform and keeps it from slipping off the striker and allowing the gun to fire if dropped. Then there's the firing pin safety plunger, which prevents the firing pin/striker from moving forward until the plunger is depressed by a protrusion on the trigger bar when the trigger is in the pulled position. Which means you have to do something monumentally stupid and reckless to shoot yourself in the foot.

Just imagine that he's pooping.

Well that's an interesting stance for a company founded by a literal Nazi to take.

Sometimes I think the end of the world actually did happen in 2012, it's just that the fallout is happening over a longer time scale than anyone anticipated.

Fuck. I never noticed this outfit had a codpiece. Holy crap.

The Daily Mail has published an explosive report

Has this been confirmed independently? As much as I love a little schadenfreude, the Daily Mail isn't a real news source. It's barely credible as a tabloid gossip rag.

The Hudsucker Proxy.

You know, for the kids.

His ex-girlfriend is an IRA bomber

An IRA bomber who couldn't do a convincing Irish accent if her life depended on it. Seriously, it's so bad.

I don't know about the debt thing, but I've had a fantasy for a while that some place like Florida decides to secede, and that attracts all the conservative chuds, white supremacists, and christo-fascists, who all rush to move down there to have their "revolution." Then we just wall Florida off the way they wanted to do with Mexico. The conservatives can have the ultra-capitalist nightmare they've always wanted to build, and the rest of us can get on with life and finally have socialized healthcare and properly funded schools.

I'm guessing they live in a large sprawling suburban apartment complex whose trash facilities were designed to be out of the way and unobtrusive rather than functional and convenient.

My last apartment was in a place kind of like that. It sat on a lot that was probably about eight city blocks. For the entire complex they had eight dumpsters in four trash enclosures around the perimeter, two of which were toward the front of the complex, and the other two toward the middle. If you lived at the back of the complex you'd have to carry your trash for at least a block and a half to dispose of it. It wasn't uncommon to see people driving to the trash enclosure with bags of trash balanced on their car's trunk lid.

Obviously the greatest documentary ever committed to film: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

Plus they don't send the Pinkertons to bash people's skulls in when it's cops on the picket line.

It was the spider solitaire from the games solitaire and casual games folder in the start menu.

Yeah, it's very annoying. So annoying that I just stopped playing solitaire rather than sit through the ad. It remains unwatched.

With a skin complexion like that I have to assume just about everything he does involves drinking.

Yeah, being forced to sit through unskippable ads in order to even just play solitaire is real special. And even if you close the program and restart your PC, the ads are still right there waiting for you to watch before you can continue with your game. This is probably going to be my last Windows machine.

Non-hurricane everyday tip: Put a 1/3 to 1/2 full water bottle in your freezer upside down. Once it's frozen keep it in the freezer right side up so that the ice is suspended in the top of the bottle. If you ever open your freezer and see the ice back in the bottom of the bottle it means your freezer has lost power long enough to thaw, and you may need to throw some food out.

I've personally found this tip to be extremely handy.

A TOS from the perspective of Lursa and B'Etor would be like episodes of Scooby Doo or Inspector Gadget or something.

I have a couple of cheap no-name screw top steel water bottles I bought from a Kroger almost 20 years ago for like $3-ish a piece. I bought them solely because the bottle part was one solid piece, and they didn't have any of the weird plastic clearcoat a lot of steel drinkware has, which meant I could boil water in them if I needed to when I was up camping or hiking. A lot of other more expensive bottles being made at the time were two or three pieces press-fit together, and wouldn't be likely to survive much of that.

I've been using them daily more or less constantly since then. They're a little banged up, but still going strong. I wish I knew where I could buy more.