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"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." -- Buddha

If God existed, and had a gender, which one would you prefer it to be?

Want to turn me on and you don't have sunglasses?

Send me wildfire and riot photos instead.

So just weighed myself for the first time in like a year and a half, basically before i left to go to Israel (which i now left).... Lost 30 lbs in that time, thats a nice surprise.

"Deplatforming is great until it happens to you"

This assumes you are speaking to a group of people who have never been deplatformed. But this is far from the case.

There isn't any politics free abstract solution. Deplatforming a fun video game forum because "video games cause violence" is bad.

Deplatforming nazis is good.

It's very messy and we will need to have discussions about the boundary forever.

"Just allow everything" isn't a solution and it doesn't even really do what it claims

@PlumpCat
Lithium Titanite is missing from your collection. I bought a bunch from Ali Express. Cool stuff. Safe to discharge to 0V. Won't catch fire if cut, punctured, etc. Very high cycle life.
@freemo

Am i the only one who collects every possible chemistry of battery he can get his hands on?

@Clementulus When I traveled to Israel about 2 years ago at the border they asked "Do you have any weapons?"... I responded, while flexing "Just these guns!"... long story short they took me in the back and questioned me for like 3 hours before they let me in :)

@freemo the hands attached to these guns :blobflexmoustacheL: :blobflexmoustacheR:
P.S : I live in Canada

@flab

Ok so watched a few videos and, as expected, the actual answer is nuanced.

When shooting ballistic gel with no MDF, and using a FMJ bullet, then the 9mm indeed does have noticably more penetration. However if you are in a situation where you dont want deep penetration then you would be using hollow point...

When shooting hollow point on ballistic gel without MDF then 9mm and 0.45 ACP has exactly the same penetration. I t should be noted the 0.45 ACP while having the same penetration also did more damage to the gel in terms of cavity size... So in this particular test the .45 is superior as it has more stopping power for the same penetration.

When using MDF in front of the ballistic gel, however, we find the .45 ACP is significantly more penetrating than the 9mm.

so would seem that while the FMJ certainly gave results consistent with your claim, the more real world scenario of the hollow point in fact was counter to your claim and consistent with mine, that the ACP will be more penetrating than the 9mm.

Source for the hollow point tests:

youtube.com/watch?v=1lSbHijfza

Lol ya gotta give the government points for consistency at least...

I am always impressed by the insane over the top work ethic that Mexican Migrants have. I hired a new maid to clean my home, she was half the price of most of the other ones on the site, which I like because then I can give very generous tips... Not knowing I was going to tip well she even brings her sister at no extra cost (keep in mind they are working hourly here)...

Best cleaning job I ever saw, took half the time because I had an extra person for free, and at half the price to boot. Can't wait till they see the 200% tip I gave them :)

@freemo Iron made in a blast furnace is saturated with C and is about 4.5%.This is a crude cast iron and we reduce it to 0.06% to make mild steel. Above around 0.8%C it forms Fe3C (Cementite) and looses toughness but is hard, so used for tools which shouldn't need to resist impacts. These are rough guides and are equilibrium based. Once you add other alloys or do heat treatments, everything is different.

What is your favorite handgun caliber for self-defense?

Blueing steel is a process of intentionally rusing steel as a treatment designed to prevent the rusting of steel.

The key is if you control the type of rust you can create a hard protective coating as opposed to natural rust which is more brittle.

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