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Buckshot spread is another common mistake in fiction, e.g. when it's close you still need to aim

Guns are still not hearing-safe outside. And if you're indoors, you probably should double up on the hearing protection (foam plugs with over the ear protection on top) This one is…

Announcing "on your left" is a great way for someone to move left, because more often than not, they're oblivious on the shared paths, and the spotlight effect messes with their he…

https://www.ontario.ca/page/bicycle-safety We are required to have a bell in Ontario. Ontario, at the minimum, asks us to ring a bell, or verbally communicate, when we are passing …

It is absolutely a people problem just as much as it's an infrastructure problem. We call them multi-use path (MUP) here. It has a yellow line painted straight down the middle, and…

Conde Nasty corrupts eveything.

Electrek's take on the rusty brake is lousy. Rusty rotors has reduced effectiveness. EV with regen uses the actual brakes because the driver hits the brakes hard enough, presumably…

Even if we take the argument at face value, we should allow LLMs to train their models for free, on the backs of real people's work, just so that there's a chance that they actuall…

Not that professional. Looks like a suppressor on a pistol, but not configured and tested so that it doesn't malfunction. Shooter is skilled enough to deal with the malfunctions. T…

"CSIS had never made any mistakes" - Maher Arar

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Cause maybe the third time, someone's going to be a railroad statistic.

Library for my city has passes for patrons. If one doesn't want to use archive links, might be good to check their local library.

Literally closing paragraph of the article: The virus can also destroy immune responses to previous infections—a phenomenon known as "immune amnesia"—which can leave children vulne…

People are learning what knife collectors always knew. There's no stainless steel. There's stain less steel.

Don't forget Iraq. 6000 civilian dead in the first 2 months of shock and awe. Compare the rates of civilian death too

https://jalopnik.com/stealing-toyota-prius-batteries-is-now-... Oh, there is one. It just takes longer with higher risks.

Bull-bars on the front of emergency vehicles? /s

How many are brave enough to challenge it in the face of arrest or worse police violence?

You'd think when Rota, the speaker said that the soldier thought against the Russians in WW2, people would clue in. We have 338 trained seals up in Parliament. And they're still sa…

Don't worry, there are plenty of doublethink practitioners who believes that Russia blew up Nord Stream, pipelines that supplies Russian gas to Germany that Russia already turned o…

It's the same old, tired rant about how Python's terrible. The post is basically a surgeon complaining that a chef's knife is terrible for surgery; or how the F-16 can't loiter in …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepsea_Challenger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron#Activism_and_oth... You were saying? Cameron is one of the few that went to the Mariana…

Cameron's taken risks in subs that took them to more than 2x the depth and back. The list of DSVs taking people well past the depth of the Titanic and came back is actually fairly …

It's ugly, it's only at 300ft, and it's an equivalent of a leaking valve, so they're not going from inside atmosphere to outside pressure in an instant. At their depth, where presu…

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