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In the horror movie universe flashlight technology has not advanced since the 1970's

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A DA/SA pistol takes about the same time to fire a first shot as a single action with a manual safety if you have any amount of practice

Apparently there was an increase in hunting and fishing licences in 2020. Something good came of the pandemic.

When I start researching something and the first search result is a book instead of a paper or article or something. I think I may be in over my head.

They deleted all old videos from the white house youtube channel

Tulsi Gabbard posted a Tucker Carleson segment on her youtube channel

we need a technological advance in the field of whiteboard markers

It's actually stunning that not only is someone crazy enough to write this but they also have a job at the washington post

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The intersection between the hacker community and the gun community is interesting

Sometimes I get really into learning about vestigial technologies and design standards. Like how ascii was originally designed for electronic typewriters and has the carriage return character for telling a typewriter to move to the beginning of a line. That's used to do terminal animations nowdays. Also I remember reading somewhere that the current american standard railway width was designed to allow two horses to stand side-by-side within a train car. Also the main streets in paris are the width of a french cavalry regiment from the 1830's so they could move through the city easier.

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