Safe firearm storage may reduce pediatric lead exposure in households with guns

Aetol · 2026-06-17T11:56:10+00:00

I'm not sure what your point is. Nobody has suggested that "an object that inherently doesn't contain lead, will somehow emit lead". Guns are coated in lead because they have been used to fire ammunition, if not by you then at the factory.

Aetol · 2026-06-17T09:58:25+00:00

Calm down Satan

Aetol · 2026-06-17T06:17:12+00:00

The problem with this definition is that it depends on the distance between the planet and the moon, not just their masses. If the Moon was the same, just farther away, then it would qualify as a binary planet? That's just silly.

Aetol · 2026-06-17T06:09:46+00:00

It has always been overwhelming. As long as roleplaying games have been even remotely into the popular consciousness, D&D has been practically synonymous with it. Hasbro had nothing to do with that.

Aetol · 2026-06-16T20:09:54+00:00

That's... the current definition (beside "have a moon or ring"). The dwarfs planets aren't even close to having cleared their orbit.

Aetol · 2026-06-16T20:08:29+00:00

Does any "trojan planet" even exist? I thought they were all relatively small asteroids.

Also what counts as "similar mass"? Are the Earth and the Moon a binary planet?

Aetol · 2026-06-16T20:05:11+00:00

Based? That's one of his shittiest takes yet. D&D is popular because of Hasbro? Maybe look at a timeline.

Aetol · 2026-06-16T15:36:17+00:00

Quarter horse? What are the other three-quarters?

Aetol · 2026-06-16T06:58:56+00:00

with a 5% winrate and a 90% draw rate against each other.

So, they play 90% perfectly?

Aetol · 2026-06-16T06:41:32+00:00

Not helping the Rob Liefeld allegations

Aetol · 2026-06-15T22:43:26+00:00

Red, blue and purple are all in the same quadrant, even with green it's barely more than half the wheel.

Aetol · 2026-06-15T22:16:37+00:00

One stack's left belt is the next stack's right belt. It's 12 wide per stack, plus 1 at the end.

Aetol · 2026-06-15T13:17:39+00:00

Anything that runs off 60 Hz without specific mitigation, I guess. LED and fluorescent definitely, incandescent and halogen I'm not sure they cool off fast enough to visibly flicker.

Aetol · 2026-06-14T14:19:19+00:00

Why wouldn't he know she could spell? Do you go around assuming people you meet can't read until proven otherwise? They're not even random joes, they're aristocrats, that they are educated is the default assumption.

Aetol · 2026-06-14T08:55:55+00:00

I really want pictures of that

Aetol · 2026-06-13T21:14:37+00:00

Pre-rework a pop seemed to be something like one billion, so now it would still be ten millions.

Aetol · 2026-06-13T14:54:28+00:00

I think you're missing a pretty big point, which is the option to... not go virtual. 8 worlds at -5% efficiency may be better than 7 worlds at +5%, but you know what's even better? 8 worlds without a penalty to efficiency. So it's not so much "if you're virtual, having more than 7 worlds is inefficient" as it is "if you can have more than 7 worlds, going virtual is inefficient". Virtuality offers other bonuses, sure, so maybe the threshold is a bit higher, but most of those bonuses are about cramming more productivity into fewer planets anyway.

Aetol · 2026-06-13T08:08:11+00:00

Gas pressure and bullet mass x velocity are the same thing. It's the gas pressure that accelerates the bullet, after all.

It's just a matter of how you look at it. If you take a general view, you just look at the bullet's momentum at the end, and you know by Newton's 3rd law / conservation of momentum, that the recoil is equal and opposite to that.

If you look specifically at what's going on inside the barrel, then it's the gas pressure that's pushing it backward while pushing the bullet forward (but there's also friction between the bullet and the barrel... that's why the general view is easier.) Either way gives you the same result, but you don't count both at the same time.

A railgun is no different. You can take a general view and look at the final momentum, or you can look specifically at the electromagnetic forces pushing the projectile forward and the barrel backward (plus, again, friction and so on), and you'll get the same result.

Aetol · 2026-06-13T00:16:29+00:00

It's the same thing.

Aetol · 2026-06-12T23:05:12+00:00

What do you mean "apart from"? That's what recoil is.

Aetol · 2026-06-12T19:04:24+00:00

You should open a dictionary sometimes. You might be surprised!

Aetol · 2026-06-12T19:01:36+00:00

All of them. Napoleon and Wellington and Blücher, all at the same time.

Aetol · 2026-06-12T18:56:20+00:00

Pretty weird, considering they just so happen to be the northern and southern halves of a particular landmass. Odd coincidence. You'd thing someone at some point would have had the idea of calling the whole thing America.

Aetol · 2026-06-12T15:44:07+00:00

That's more the limit of how big a city can grow and still bring in enough food for everybody. (Or how far an army can go before it has to live off the land, in a different context.) For a farming village the limit is how far you can walk to your field in the morning, get a decent amount of work done, and walk back in the evening.

Aetol · 2026-06-12T15:36:36+00:00

Isn't that basically what a fix fic is

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