Liz

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[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Watch Active Self Protection and you will find piles examples where a quick draw is necessary with no time to rack the slide.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

It's literally that xkcd geologist cartoon, where they think the average person knows the chemical formula for feltzbar and quartz. Everyone vastly overestimates the average person's knowledge level for areas they themselves already understand.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago

There's only one solution for the US. The world's fastest bullet train network. Anything less will not do.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

Eyyyyy midwest.social!

[–] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The micro SD is 4 TB. Only the full sized SD is 8.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

I don't think it's right, but:

The top of entertainment. Vast majority compete in sports with little-to-no money in them. Being only a small part of a two-week competition every four years.

Now, personally, I think competing on the Olympics should come with an automatic $50k bonus, but I don't have control over that.

[–] Liz@midwest.social -2 points 3 months ago

He almost certainly tested the very few modern handguns known to have that problem, for which they rightly got a lot of hate. You'd have to link the specific video, I don't watch GT.

[–] Liz@midwest.social -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There's loads of people who have no idea how guns work. It's somewhat specialized knowledge.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

I have absolutely no doubt he pulled the trigger when he fell. Only certain types of mechanisms can stop the gun from firing when you pull the trigger, and there's reasons to not want that mechanism on your gun.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 28 points 3 months ago

I went to the cheapest public university I got into here in the US. An extremely standard university. I paid $10,000 per semester in tuition, not including books and fees. Do you really think American education is twenty times better?

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the paper, I'll read up.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why in the hell would they have to do the tests in secret? So Big Carseat doesn't shut them down?

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