NonWonderDog

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[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

To be fair, the criteria are very precise, they’re just only vaguely related to reality.

My favorite is the double-barreled 1911 pistol. It has two triggers, because if it only had one trigger it would be a machine gun (it would fire multiple bullets with one pull of the trigger). But physically it would never work if it didn’t always fire both barrels at exactly the same time, so it only has one slide and both hammers are connected to each other. But because you have to drop two sears with two triggers before it will fire apparently it’s totally legal.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Caught NPR this morning as they brought someone on to tell us:

  • Raisi was the hardest of hard liners
  • He hated America
  • He even opposed the assassination of Suleimani, in an example of how hard-line he was
  • He was actually just a puppet of the supreme leader
  • And everyone in Iran hated him anyway

So I guess it was an assassination then?

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's actually a film from 2020, about film during the cultural revolution.

The magnet links should work without signing up, so in decreasing order of quality:

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6288206

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6071969

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6072852

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Three working torrents at rutracker.org (search "one second 2020").

I found a few Chinese torrents on BT4G searching "一秒钟", but I don't have a way to connect to Chinese peers.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Iskandr and Kinzhal don’t follow that ballistic missile trajectory, though. Neither does ATACMS. These are all semi-ballistic missiles that follow something closer to the "hypersonic glide vehicle" trajectory in your drawing (without the little skim maneuver, though, probably).

The real difference here is range. Things called "hypersonic glide vehicles" are intercontinental. Iskandr is "just" a missile that flys a low trajectory really fast.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worked for Fidel, though?

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where I am in the US I have to go to an asian grocery store and buy a 20 lb bag if I want white rice that isn’t pre-washed and fortified, and even then half the stock is labelled 無洗米.

I don’t understand this dunk at all.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

1-800-THE-COPS
All major credit cards

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ジョー員

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's an incredibly stupid Iowa state law saying their caucus has to be at least 8 days before any primary.

There's a similarly stupid New Hampshire state law saying their primary has to be at least 7 days before any other primary.

Those laws don't actually mean anything, and doubly so because there's actually no law saying primaries have to take place at all.

The Democratic and Republican parties put out their own schedules of what states get to go first, and if any state breaks the rules the results don't count.

This year the Democratic party said South Carolina is supposed to be the first primary, but New Hampshire set theirs first anyway, and so Biden wasn't on the ballot and the New Hampshire results don't count.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just passed a pro-Palestine trucker convoy near the Islamic center in Rashida's district (I don't live there), kinda cool.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They also claimed to have damaged the Samum a while ago, but I’m not sure how anyone would be able to tell.

Its heartbreaking how the two coolest ships in the world just never worked right. There’s a grand total of two seconds of footage of Sivuch at full hover, and I was almost hoping we might get more. :(

EDIT: found it. Soviet archival footage of Sivuch fully out of the water running on turbines at 15 seconds.

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