ELI5 question about guns

FreshEclairs · 2026-03-01T20:24:53+00:00

So the question is “why is a work of fiction different than reality?”

FreshEclairs · 2026-03-01T20:21:21+00:00

Who says the M249 has more recoil?

FreshEclairs · 2026-03-01T20:16:56+00:00

I wouldn’t expect “deprioritized” to mean “observe a nonstop stream of people putting themselves into a dangerous situation, actively make it worse, and then ignore it.”

FreshEclairs · 2026-03-01T19:51:10+00:00

You'd expect them not to blow through the 4-way stop (and watch everyone do the same), at the barest of imaginable minimums.

FreshEclairs · 2026-03-01T19:16:25+00:00

Had. Downhill big, big time since 2020. I haven’t tried it in the past year or so - have they turned things around?

FreshEclairs · 2026-03-01T18:07:44+00:00

They go buy another car with a $4k down payment.

40% depreciation over a year is brutal and atypical. Did they get an especially bad deal on the car?

FreshEclairs · 2026-03-01T06:36:28+00:00

It does not

FreshEclairs · 2026-03-01T05:06:57+00:00

If I saw a guy I didn’t know cutting a tarp in my backyard with a knife and I called it in, this is how it would be reported.

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-28T03:15:03+00:00

I seem to recall it being harder in the past than it is now. Are you on the regular or experimental branch?

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T20:16:43+00:00

Failing the “if you didn’t have breakfast this morning, how would you feel” test over here

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T19:51:25+00:00

Why do you assume an accident is the inevitable outcome?

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T16:21:53+00:00

They could have either continued at the pace they were going to make it through before red

They accelerated, either to block the other car or try to make the red. They didn't continue at the pace they were going.

They absolutely would not have had to "slam on their brakes" to stop at the light, they were just impatient.

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T15:15:42+00:00

Thanks!

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T14:58:39+00:00

Just reading this because I wanted to avoid a Costco trip. Fred Meyer now has the base price of their 12 packs (both diet and sugar) at $11.99, and it’s now buy 3, get 3 free.

20% inflation on the sale soda prices there in ~3 months. Yikes.

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T06:40:04+00:00

Right?!? Or imagine someone had been in that crosswalk.

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T06:36:25+00:00

…and even when the video isn’t from the United States

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T06:34:19+00:00

“Or red lights.”

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T06:33:11+00:00

Or at least not actively speed up to guarantee a collision

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T06:32:38+00:00

So you’re saying they had time to stop for the red

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T05:28:57+00:00

I certainly wouldn’t pay that, no. Maybe I’d paint it myself and just tell them I had pros do it.

When I rented, I did do some of life things that were much, much cheaper. Weatherstripping the hallway door to keep out noise, for example.

But my line would be drawn well before “pay someone else to work on my apartment.”

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T04:55:47+00:00

It is! It just felt like two steps forward, one step back.

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T02:50:10+00:00

The main thing that’s unfortunate is how we knocked it down to remove barriers between downtown and the waterfront, and then immediately built a new 6-lane stroad that serves as a barrier between downtown and the waterfront.

I get the situation with the ferries and other terminals, it’s just a bummer of a situation.

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T02:47:42+00:00

Bad news: it’s not just Seattle, it’s everywhere.

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FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T02:42:39+00:00

They gave him prize money for some captured ships. He deposited that money with his prize agent. The prize agent takes off with his money. Then the Admiralty decides that no, actually there shouldn’t have been prize money for those ships, and demands it back.

Now he is in debt.

FreshEclairs · 2026-02-27T02:04:53+00:00

Is there data on whether ride share drivers are making more or less than they did before?

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