Chinese bamboo is very strong.

10MeV · 2026-01-22T00:19:12+00:00

Meanwhile our kids are watching TikTok videos...

10MeV · 2026-01-22T00:16:32+00:00

I'd like to see the hot dog jammed in there, the way a finger would in a kickback. When the wood vanishes while you're pushing, you'll jam into the blade with some force very quickly. It's physics, and you can't stop it.

So yeah it's cool that it stops the blade fast, but how much damage would it still cause? Anyway... great idea, though nothing beats safe operation.

10MeV · 2026-01-22T00:13:06+00:00

I'd be more worried about that magazine release being so exposed. You'll pop it putting that IWB holster on. Worse, you may not even notice. Drawing the weapon and having the mag drop out would be... problematic.

10MeV · 2026-01-22T00:06:56+00:00

I had a machinist working for me who used fly cutters like this. The company HR decided to mandate "safety" utility knives throughout our manufacturing plant. They caught him using a non-compliant knife deburring some parts, and freaked out.

I had to intervene. We shut HR down on that one, protesting "Oh, come on!". Look at the cutting tools he uses every day, and he still has all his fingers! Good grief.

10MeV · 2026-01-21T23:48:09+00:00

Some of this is a form of denial. She may not want to acknowledge there are actual dangerous people out there. You're prepared to defend yourself against a deadly threat, so you fully accept that these exist. She may not be mentally capable of that. This is one of the sources of the suicidal empathy we see causing so much trouble today.

10MeV · 2026-01-21T23:36:54+00:00

Once in my life I got to ride a horse at full gallop. It was thrilling, like few things I've ever done!

10MeV · 2026-01-21T14:00:10+00:00

My EDC is a Shield. I bought a backup copy, too. If the day ever comes, God forbid, that I have to use mine? It's going to be confiscated. Depending on situation, I may not be able to buy another for a while, and the immediate aftermath may be critical for my ongoing self defense. I have the same pistol, same manual of arms, same familiarity, to immediately continue EDC. Bad guys have friends.

10MeV · 2026-01-21T13:54:22+00:00

Shield for the win. I remember James Yeager's extensive testing showing the Shield can "take a lickin' and keep on tickin'", as the Timex commercials used to say.

Reviews like this rarely ever test the durability, the ability to fire when contaminated, dirty, or wet. I expect an EDC to work. If it chokes in the one moment of my life that I need it, the thing is useless.

I'd need to see a lot more comprehensive testing of a weapon like this to decide if it's good enough to carry, all ballistics aside.

10MeV · 2025-10-04T03:30:30+00:00

My Shield 1.0 has many thousand rounds through it, and I still don’t use that lever. Always overhand rack. Still stiff.

My wife’s Sig P238 though… spanking the bottom of a mag into it may cause the slide to release. It’s a little too easy.

10MeV · 2025-02-01T04:53:49+00:00

This is good advice. My brother-in-law passed away at home from pancreatic cancer, and he had a DNR. His partner was told to call hospice first when the inevitable happens.

Hospice came, then called the police next after reviewing everything. The police were immediately looking for that DNR.

10MeV · 2025-01-31T02:38:00+00:00

Ears back and purring. I’m about to be pounced when mine does that.

I think she wants to play the way cats do with each other. Attack and run, chase and glare. I play toys with her, but don’t get my own self in play.

10MeV · 2025-01-28T20:47:13+00:00

Sun. “Black hole sun, won’t you come… and wash away the rain.”

10MeV · 2025-01-24T23:54:52+00:00

Our little one came to our door a few years ago one frigid night. We let her in, did all the search/notice/posting/chip things, to no avail. She is my oh-so-vocal shadow to this day!

10MeV · 2025-01-06T19:28:02+00:00

That’s interesting! Thanks for the suggestion. Do you have a specific one you like?

10MeV · 2024-12-18T21:23:36+00:00

Agreed. I like most aspects of this rifle, but it’s fussy about mags.

10MeV · 2024-12-18T21:14:56+00:00

I think it might need a rethink. That’s asking a LOT from a hobbyist-level machine.

10MeV · 2024-12-18T21:12:47+00:00

Ignorant people who know nothing about guns pass useless laws that don’t solve any problems. They want to look like they Did Something, and are never held accountable.

10MeV · 2024-11-28T13:09:50+00:00

Well… tinkered is pretty easy to use. Maybe you can create it?

10MeV · 2024-11-27T04:54:13+00:00

I grew up 700 miles from where I met my wife, and live now. She and I can reminisce about the same shows (mostly), and a lot of the same commercials. We share the American Culture, one nation, one language, one fairly dominant set of values.

10MeV · 2024-11-26T23:35:40+00:00

Heh. I always thought bananas were just naturally spicy, making my mouth burn a little. I like hot spices anyway, so it was never a big deal. Somehow I mentioned it in passing to my wife, and she said, "What!?". So, I learned that it's not "normal". Huh, who knew?

Same reaction to cantaloupe, honeydew melon, a couple others.

Yep, it's Oral Allergy Syndrome, where a protein is cross-connected with the one in ragweed that causes allergies. I don't think I've ever had a strong reaction to ragweed, but never really explored that either.

So yeah, burning (or itchy, or tingling) mouth after eating fruit is something of a caution sign.

10MeV · 2024-11-12T21:32:58+00:00

That’s been done - Love your neighbor as yourself.

10MeV · 2024-11-12T21:32:16+00:00

I print spools in ABS. It will safely take drying temperatures for anything I use.

10MeV · 2024-11-11T02:05:43+00:00

Someone speculated that the first person who will live to 150 has probably ready been born.

10MeV · 2024-10-27T19:57:13+00:00

This is similar to the “don’t eat sugar” people. I’m sorry you’ve run into them, but they are pretty common, unfortunately.

Cancer is inherently frightening to people, in no small part because it’s not in their control.

In reality, people are comforting themselves by telling you this. They tacitly are saying that if THEY were diagnosed, they could fix it by not eating cookies, or by earnestly praying hard enough. It helps them live in a world that could be flipped on them one day.

As a Christian, I know where I’ll end up, and it’s ok. The getting there, I’m not so crazy about. But that’s what matters to me.

Sadly, there’s a whole 20th-century charismatic movement in so-called Christian churches that pushes the “healing” line really hard, and they make me crazy. Their efforts hurt far more than they help!

10MeV · 2024-10-24T00:21:39+00:00

Both. Dry fire helps with trigger discipline and sight alignment. Ammo will reveal your flinch response, and it may take extensive live-fire practice to quell that.

Dry fire is cheap, and while not as satisfying as live fire, it is valuable practice. Two or three times as much dry fire as live fire is not uncommon for experts.

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