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The only people I know still watching the news or even TV are my parents (boomers). Pretty much everyone else has turned off TV and gets any news via internet sights. This does not bode well for legacy media.

Klaus on Netflix is pretty cute for animation. Lots of big names for voices.

Even so, after seeing the photo it was obviously taken on a sporting clays course. Which was invented in England.

The monitors were a definite innovation at the time and probably quite effective when used correctly. Unfortunately they suffered in rough seas. I can see how the gun turret monitor morphed into the battleship based on how the later monitors were used for shore bombardment.

This is becoming an issue lots of places. My property taxes have increased by 30% last year. I am now paying as much as my mortgage in property tax. I expect more states to implement something like prop 13 or people will be forced out of houses they own.

Times have changed. My dad’s first house was 25k and he made 3.5k per year. Our current house cost 2.5 times our yearly income and is taxed value is now 5x. So in multiples of yearly income it’s similar, just the numbers are much bigger. Inflation at work.

I recently asked a cousin who bought a house in San Diego, for a 3 bedroom typical suburban house, 2 million. I bet their mortgage is over a million. 500k won’t buy you much in many markets. In other markets you can still get a house for a couple hundred k, but the jobs won’t pay 6 figures.

Only problem with that is it probably won’t start the other vehicle without the source vehicle running. Voltage is only 12.3-12.5 v and will drop under load. When running it will 14-14.5.

If it’s a clone as many are, then any gen 3 slide will fit. The switch is a really simple device, just a wedge that moves the transfer bar to reset the sear and then releases it. It attaches to the back of the slide on the little part that holds the striker spring. Since it was patented, you can look up how to make one. Not hard, but a felony to have one. i am not a Glock fan, but did build a p80 to see how the Glock worked. Actually a lot of nice engineering went into it. Simple design, but works well. It has several safeties, the sear can’t drop until the trigger moves back. Also a striker block that’s activated by the trigger, so it’s drop safe. The reason the trigger is not crisp like a single action is the striker is held only partially compressed until the trigger is pulled. The take up in the trigger moves the striker to the fully compressed position and then the transfer bar/sear moves down, releasing the striker. Very few parts. The magazine catch spring is simply a short rod that slips into the right spot, all molded in to the frame.

There are plenty of Glock clones out there that people will be building gen 1-3 Glock clones for a long time. You can build a complete gun without any glock parts, so why will this matter.

There has to be some recoil as recoil is conservation of momentum. Essentially the mass of the bolt x its speed, plus some from moving the limbs? Not sure how long launching a bolt takes, but that would spread the recoil out over time. Probably longer than a firearm making it seem like less recoil in addition to the levels being a lot lower.

Probably not. I have not tried QL with pistol cartridges, just rifle. For subsonic rifle loads it does not work well. It overestimates velocity by quite a bit. Seems drag from the bullet to barrel is not accounted for correctly at slower speeds and low pressures. It may work fine for pistol loads, but it does not for slow rifle loads.

You can say that about all politicians. They don’t want to solve the problems, just look like they are doing something. Also why not do something instead of worrying about a message.

Have seen this on packages I have shipped. It was going about an hour east, instead it went south, then 4 hrs north, then back south, then 6 hrs east, then delivered. I asked our local postmaster why service was so bad and she said they are trying to cut the number of trips that they make. Ie used to bring mail in the morning and pick up at night. Now they only bring and pick up in the am with the same truck. So I think the back and forth is packages that don’t get unloaded. They just stay on the truck, hence the multiple trips. The single trip per day also slows down service.

Interesting, if that means an officer can’t buy them, that will make for some unhappy cops. I bet it gets changed if it’s signed into law as it would mean no cops can buy a semi auto. Only an issued duty weapon.

Probably has an exemption for Leo. Then they can sell them and make lots. Amazing that they go after Glock, yet Glock didn’t invent the switch. better not tell them about forced reset triggers. Those are becoming the thing to have now. A machine gun without being a machine gun. Most pistols can be converted, so if the law doesn’t call out Glock by name only, most semi autos will become illegal.

Many chemical processes use chemicals that will burn, are toxic, corrosive, or are explosive. The difference is in an industrial setting the equipment is set up to make sure it doesn’t go boom or kill people. A guy cooking meth in a stolen trailer doesn’t take those precautions. They cut corners and hope it all goes well. My brother used to work at a plant that makes polypropylene, lots of dangerous chemicals. Think of the union carbide leak in India of what happens when it goes wrong.

Supposedly that distinctive sound is due to the rotor tips getting close to or even breaking the sound barrier.

Went to pour over (chemex) as that’s what my brother the coffee snob uses. He roasts his own beans and has a 2 lb roaster. I have a small chemex style carafe from eBay/ amazon, added a burr grinder, scale, and kettle. If doing a single cup, 20-22g of beans to 300g of water. For two cups, 30/500. Have a bigger carafe for company and more than 2 cups.

That’s about what they did for white 33, the p38. I expect the P47 will be similar. Almost a complete new build. I am just glad to see another one flying.

No idea how many, but the air museum in Colorado Springs has one that air worthy and working on another to restore it. They also have a p38 of which there are 13 or 14 still left flying.

Imho part of the 320 issue is they took a hammer fired pistol and converted it to striker fired. Had to do a lot of fancy mechanisms to make it work. They also didn’t do a trigger dongle like most other manufacturers. They also hold the striker all the way back unlike Glock that holds it half way.

There have been a couple people who have found some 320’s will go off with slide movement if they are not assembled per directions and the mag block fails. Very much a corner case, but it can happen. Ryan Kleckner did a good analysis on his going ballistic podcast.

I use Westone defend ear customs. They distribute the Cens which are made in England in the USA under the DE name. Not cheap, but they offer the advantage that you can get new earmolds if you need them as the electronics snap into the silicone ear pc. My wife is looking at new molds as it’s been 12 years since she got them and she has lost 50 lbs (medical). It has changed the shape of her ears enough that the old molds don’t fit. All she has to do is get new molds and not molds and electronics.

If you count military, it’s about 16k on the dc3, but the 737 will overtake it if ai is correct. It’s suggesting that counting open orders 737 production will be over 17k with about 12k built already.