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Well that sounds good to me! It’s hard to undo the only stuff you’ve ever known, but it’s important for people to see it’s possible.

Lol they got to leave some wildcards out there to fill out the surprising news section.

I can’t imagine what it must be like for adults that live lives like that.

My childhood wasn’t great, but nothing on this level and I know it did a number on me. I hope things are better for you now.

I largely agree, but less so with the empty chamber/hammerless points. Anything modern is going to have a transfer bar blocking the firing pin from reaching the primer without a full trigger depress. For the hammerless, I don’t know if you could drop that thing in any way from any height where the internal hammer would get enough inertia to overpower that trigger spring. Anything to do that would advance it to the next chamber anyway and come back on a loaded one.

Even so, having people be extra cautious is better the extra careless. You should always do not just what is safe, but also whatever you are comfortable doing after understanding your own personality.

The majority are, but ones made really small (think sterotypical tv/movie detective with ankle holster or shoulder holster) typically hold 5 to minimize overall size.

Even larger guns can either have 7, 8, or 10 shot if they’re made for really small cartridges for relaxed target shooting, or 5 if they are one of the modern uber magnum bear defense types.

I love these tyoes of family secrets! 😂

Probably not too many ways to create a narrative where you look intelligent for getting shot randomly.

The Ruger was a bit of a surprise. The Taurus was not. They have a pretty bad history for this. Both are striker fired semi autos, which are more mechanically complex than a revolver. The only revolver recall I saw this millennium was for a Rossi, which is also owned by Taurus. If there wasn’t a plant in Georgia, I’d think they’d have been banned from import by now from the massive PT series recall.

Also “article of clothing” isn’t the best holster option, and likely increases the odds of injuring one’s self much more than even the worst pistol to make it out the factory door.

I could be wrong of course, but if I had to put money on either him shooting himself and making a corny excuse vs even the cheapest gun on the market going off from a 2 foot fall, I’d feel very confident putting my money on his index finger. The gun in a shoe and then forgetting about the gun in the shoe don’t paint this guy as the safest character.

I was very skeptical about this story playing out as told. When looking for a more complete article, this exact story is published from 2019 from multiple sources.

While I don’t think it is a requirement all guns sold in the US need to pass the SAAMI Drop Test, I can’t imagine anything being sold that wouldn’t pass it, especially a revolver where the design likely hasn’t changed in 100 years. The drop test covers drops at various angles from 4 feet high, higher than a person sitting and taking off a shoe. Revolvers also need to have the hammer pulled back before firing or have extremely long and heavy trigger pulls.

I’m calling both fake news and if this story did happen, I can’t see it being anything but a negligent discharge from someone assuming it wasn’t loaded or just being a fool putting a finger where it didn’t belong.

Lol so much polite sass! Good ad transition as well. Bravo.

I do a lot of things in an introverted way, but I learned I do way better learning with another human being. Not that I disagree with anything in his video. I’ve tried his method for learning music, but I’ve had so much better luck with in person lessons just because I can interrupt right away when I don’t get something and have them explain it in different words until it gets through. They can also observe me, and catch me before I get something wrong ingrained in my brain or push me to work on weak areas of my studies.

I still do a lot of musical and other learning how the video talks about though. Good stuff for anyone interested.

Kanye’s brand in the comic is a very memorable brand logo, no boobs required.

I’d rather see the young lady though. 😤

Well, both actually. Maybe.

It seems they had him get killed by a cyber truck. 😐

The app icon is currently a Duo with X eyes and they showed his casket.

Feels very Mr Peanut in 2020, which I see they brought him back after just a year.

I don’t know what exactly they’re doing, but they seem to have been going through branding struggles the last year or so.

I enjoyed their Spanish course and did it everyday for like 3 years. I got ticked when they took away my golden owl for completing all the courses when they started adding new stuff and added more pay to win type things. I was glad they added new things, but I didn’t like them yanking my achievement.

Whatever this thing with Duo is, it also seems to be something centered around X, as most content about it seems sources from there and now they are showing him having been hit by a cyber truck… Both of which make me enjoy this campaign even less.

I miss old Duolingo.

I hope they didn’t kill him off for good. He was a very identifiable mascot with years of brand recognition, and though some publicly disliked his guilt tripping, he deserves better than an offscreen Poochie death.

You have no idea how many double takes I’ve had to do scrolling this week! It’s like when someone calls out to someone with the same name as you.

I’m with you on this stuff. Leave this stuff to The Daily Show correspondents. This is as serious as the Red, White, and Blue Land proposal.

If I’m looking for who I’m voting for and saw:

1. Tried but failed to get school breakfast refunded.

2. Tried to troll Republicans with the Ant-Whacking bill.

Number 1 may have also failed to accomplish anything, but they spent their time in office at least attempting to do what they were elected to do.

This stuff feels like lame Ron/Rand Paul crap trying to make worthless votes look like they’re actually principles. If this is the best use of time they can find, we’re in trouble. They need to be out figuring out why they lost to literal criminals, not coming up with ways to “slam” them and doing their version of Steven Miller’s searching out obscure old regulation to impede the burning of our rights and protections.

We have succeeded in getting each other to see it though the other person’s perspective, so this has turned into a better comment chain than probably 90% of political posts! 😁

Good point about contractors and civilian labor. That’s a whole topic on its own. Some argue in favor of the flexibility and financial aspects of having private industry provide some services, and there is truth to that. It’s much of the basis as the idea of “running the government like a business.”

I personally feel many of the goals of the government have a hard time coexisting with something designed to function like a business. Some things need to be done that will never be profitable, and I think it is an important distinction that people are working directly for the citizenry, not for who holds their contract.

Nobody likes paying bills, aka taxes, even if they’re receiving benefit from it, but the goal should often be to just ensure we are getting our money’s worth of services more than if we should eliminate them or given control over to private parties.

We mean the same thing I believe. I phrased it thinking of how on a per citizen basis they now only have half a fed workers time they used to, while your phrasing comes at it from the employee has to do twice as much with the same resources.

I’ll concede I probably was not clear in the way I intended and I appreciate you reframing my thoughts for me. 😅

Just to look at that a different way, 1970 = 1 fed employee for every 72.5 citizens, 2024 = 1 fed employee for every 113.3 citizens. Add on top of that a budget that likely has not increased proportionally, and the strain gets even greater. So it sounds like our government is able to operate half as effectively as it was in the 70s, and they think that is too much.