“The mark of success”

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11347488/

The butt of the stock goes against your shoulder, not in your armpit!

Sounds more like sour grapes.

sh.itjust.works got hammered around that time by what appeared to be content scraping bots. It was bad enough to interfere with normal server use, and we had to restrict traffic temporarily while TheDude dealt with it. I’m not sure which other fedi instances were hit, or to what extent.

Edit: More context… https://sh.itjust.works/post/66524166

This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

My partner: chaotic evil position but she’s lying on the floor with her legs on the seat of the chair.

Douglas fir. Though larches are cool, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_flag

Not a straight or quick path, either. Looking back at my comment I make it sound like he did a total 180 to sainthood. He was still a piece of shit late in life, just less so than when he was younger. He never fessed up to a war crime he committed while in the German Navy, for example. The podcast does a decent job of going through the wrinkles in his life.

I just finished the Behind the Bastards episodes on Martin. What an interesting man. In his younger years he was a German nationalist, antisemite, member of the Freikorps, and Nazi supporter (though also imprisoned for religious disagreements with the Nazis). Later in life he wrote that famous “First they came…” poem, became an anti-war activist, was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union, and before he died said he was moving towards become an anarchist.

If anyone is modeling more meme parts, would you please make me a set of AR grips like this while you’re at it?

More for me. I sip it straight.

The show expertly targeted young Millennials transitioning into adulthood. But the audience grew up and matured. Watching HIMYM now is like time warping back to your first apartment after college and being a little embarrassed at the way you and your old friends used to be.

Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier,

the last of Barrett’s privateers.

That article is not what I initially assumed it would be. Now I’m curious to read the story.

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It’s long overdue. This should have been the response last year when the Pentagon started limiting press access and required journalists to sign a pledge to only publish pre-approved information.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/23/back-to-the-future-writer-bad-guy-biff-was-based-on-donald-trump

I live in Japan where bicycles are registered with the police.

Is that mandatory registration for all bicycles, or voluntary?

I have encountered cities, and even universities, in North America that offer voluntary bicycle registration. Very few bike owners here actually register their bikes, though. And I assume the different registration systems do not sync up, so a thief simply needs to move the bicycle elsewhere when they sell it.

If you have any suspicion the bike might be stolen, then assume it is stolen.

I bet they’re a fun couple.

Project Orion

Imagine a ship full of nuclear bombs. The ship has a blast shield at its back end. The ship poops out a series of bombs, each of which explode and push the craft forward.

This was a seriously funded research project. They launched functional (non-nuclear) prototypes and penciled out a Mars mission using this technology. The project was thankfully cancelled due to the signing of the 1963 partial nuclear test ban treaty. Because maybe detonating a bunch of nukes in the atmosphere isn’t such a good idea, when most of us still need that atmosphere after the rocket is gone.