The image/animation that sticks to the top, showing visually what is being talked about as we scroll is really nice work, and I typically hate fancy pages changes during scrolling.
Wow that’s asinine. Like, russian-tier levels of lying straight to your face.
I should really know to expect less, but they yet again managed to slide under even my low expectations of sense.
Pistols are the least important weapon in a war. Their capabilities are essential identical, and you can replace every sig with a Glock and the only thing that’ll change is whose pockets the money fills.
The idea of an enemy trying to plan a battle based on the flaws of a particular pistol is exceedingly silly. Even Blackadder has gags more grounded in reality.
Army is going to try to limit distribution of any internal document, a version of deny-all security. There could be more general insights to be obtained by enemies, not specifics, and this information can add to other intel to build a theory. For example, if the pistol spec said "oh we only need 5 rounds", then that could be evidence towards Army not taking close quarters combat seriously. It would not be used to build a "just dodge 5 times then charge" doctrine.
I believe you may be confusing the type of safeties that block even intentional firings with safeties that try to block unintended firings (such as from drops or other mechanical stress). Pistols have multiple levels of safeties involved.
A trigger safety is meant to ensure that the trigger must be intentionally pulled (as opposed to moving during an impact) for the firing pin to be able to release and hit cartridge primer.
The 1911 famously has a grip safety, which needs to be depressed for the trigger to move. This is to try to ensure someone has to be gripping it with intent to fire, for it to be able to do so. While much safer than other pistols at the time, 100+ years later the design is relatively flawed, and isn’t truly drop safe, as the firing pin can still move.
That’s an interesting point. I would also add that having a pretext can be important as well.
I’ve had 24 hour instant access via phone/text to my siblings for almost 2 decades, but we really didn’t talk much until we started doing gaming stuff with voice chat on weekends. I think part of it is it really helps if there’s something, anything, that can fill the gaps in conversation and provide a pretext to getting together (even just virtually). We’ve since talked about so much that we likely would have never otherwise brought up or picked up a phone to talk about.
Hell, one of my favorite games as a kid (wyvern: https://web.archive.org/web/20040102095422/http://www.caboch...) was basically just a chat box with an adequate mmorpg attached. Sometimes I even just skipped the game and connected via telnet, since that was an option, so I’d be available when someone I knew popped on.
Or more likely, their kids are still going to be renting and living paycheck to paycheck at 50, so they aren’t going to have time, space, energy, or money to take care of the parents when they are barely treading water.
I encounter a lot of people my age and younger whose own retirement plant is basically:
Plan A: Miraculously get rich
Plan S: When severe disability or pain hits, find the exit.
Maby it’s the lifelong depression, the disappointment at what the future’s become, or the hopelessness that society can escape neo-feudalism to something better, but there’s a noticeable decrease in the desire to keep living at any cost. Who knows whether we’ll actually see this start to see this express in the next few decades.
To be fair - this first plan is actually very doable if you're a reasonably skilled programmer in the 21st century.
Like you know that Tim Bray article about Bitcoin where he's like "and that's the thing about late stage capitalism, there's so much money floating around that people can't find a use for that we get stuff like cryptocurrency speculation"?
Find one reasonably convincing business idea, bonus points if it uses current hot tech trends, ask rich boomers for money via "seeking venture capital funding/investment", pay yourself an exorbitant salary for 5 years and then close shop because "we ran out of funding but the market didn't materialize".
If you're posting on Hacker News, and you want to be rich, I reckon you can reasonably expect to have a seven figure net worth in a decade or so if you consistently make good decisions.
I believe this is part of what [Spectrum OS](https://spectrum-os.org/) is ultimately trying to do. That said, while it’s being actively developed, it’s not a trivial effort and is nowhere near “download the iso and daily drive it”.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.11...
“The future is now, old man”
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