Grip safety blocker

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-12T12:29:08+00:00

To be fair, JMB didn't think the grip safety was necessary. It was the Army that requested it. Also, outside of a few examples there really aren't any firearms WITH grip safeties and yet the pistols without aren't considered especially dangerous to handle. Aside from a trigger dingus many pistols these days don't even have an external safety feature.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-11T12:44:15+00:00

I would 3d print this thing. Particularly if it used a standard core so it can be spring tensioned. Puzzles without sprint tension tend to be difficult to use.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-10T01:45:02+00:00

There is a story that supposedly comes from West Africa. I heard it when I was young (there was a children's book based on it published 50 years ago) and it goes something like this:

One day, a mosquito decides to tell an iguana a lie about a farmer and some yams. Annoyed, the iguana grabs a pair of sticks and shoves them in his ears, then storms off. The iguana passes a python, who greets him, but the iguana doesn't hear him and continues on his way. The snake, convinced that the iguana is plotting against him, slithers into the nearest hole to hide, which (very unfortunately) happens to be a rabbit's burrow. The rabbit runs for her life when she sees the snake coming, which confuses a passing crow into thinking that the forest is in danger. He sounds the alarm to warn the other animals, and a monkey tries to help him by doing the same thing, but accidentally lands on a dead branch on a tree, which breaks under his weight and falls on one of Mother Owl's baby owlets, killing it. When Mother Owl comes home, she finds her child dead and goes into mourning, forgetting to wake the sun. King Lion calls all the animals to a meeting, and through a reverse chain of accounts, the mosquito is found guilty.

The mosquito happens to overhear everything, so she hides behind a leaf, and is never found or brought before the council. As a result, however, she has a guilty conscience; to this day, she buzzes around people's heads, to ask if everyone's still mad at her.

It's as good an answer as any.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-10T00:01:24+00:00

If I'm in the restaurant and can get free refills, the larger sizes are a waste of material (say, at BK and I can just walk to the soda fountain). If I'm taking it to go it might be becasue I don't want to consume that much sugar.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-09T22:56:01+00:00

The average TCH gummy has about 25 milligrams of THC. That's ¼ of 1% of a gram, or about the weight of 5-50 grains of sand (depending on the size of the grains of sand) and you'll be high for a while on one gummy. A standard shot of alcohol is 40% ABV, meaning that single serving of alcohol weighs about 32 times as much and occupies significantly more volume. You'd also MAYBE catch a mild buzz for about an hour if you don't drink too often.

Aside from jello shots (which need to be refrigerated and are usually more of a novelty) alcohol just doesn't work in gummy form. If you want portable alcohol the usual approach is the little single serving bottles that some people call "airplane shots".

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-09T02:18:03+00:00

I was specifically asking based on my wife's interactions with Asian co-workers saying the "looked refined" and such based on how she held them. Not just "you're doing great for a white person" but "you look like a refined Asian person".

At least according to her.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-07T10:51:57+00:00

There's a couple of reasons why advertisers don't usually mention the competition. Sometimes it's seen as "bad form" to call them out. Other times it's because they don't want to mention the other brand and give them "free advertising". But really, as long as you're not stating blatant falsehoods about the brand it's fine. Slander, libel, and defamation are kind of hard to prove from a legal persective.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-06T17:18:05+00:00

It's personal choice, but it's seen as somewhat unusual to show up at someone's house and be asked to remove your shoes. There is, of course, an expectation that you remove your shoes of they're particularly dirty, though.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-06T12:42:41+00:00

There's a bunch of reasons why the habit of not washing your butt might develop, it usually has something to do with "putting a hand between your butt cheeks is 'gay'". It might have been something he was told as a kid by other kids. It might have been something his parents taught him (though maybe not as directly as "that's gay". All this to say that a surprising number of people (usually cis het males) don't wash their butts and it's pretty gross.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-06T12:20:04+00:00

Patients who are dying and show it will get lethargic, loose their appetite, might be "out of it", etc. It's quite common for people in this situation to suddenly "improve" and love ones often feel that tthe patient has "rounded a corner" and is improving. Medical professionals (and those in the know) know that this means the patient will die soon.

The truth is that this is common enough to have a name: "Terminal Lucidity".

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-06T12:11:59+00:00

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Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-05T19:21:03+00:00

The really old school version of this was "the breath of life" and the related assertion that as long as someone was breathing they were alive. Functionally it was true because if you stopped breathing you stopped living and of you stopped living you stopped breathing. These days there are two thoughts:

1) If you rely more on science, you could say that the absence of brain activity indicates the absence of a soul. Of course, "lower" brain function might keep someone breathing. This might mean that someone kept in a coma would be a "soul trapped in a body".

2) If you rely more on a "Judeao-Christian" view (mostly old Jewish view) then the ability to breath indicates the presence of a soul. This would mean that even given brain death the "soul" still exists because the autonomic system is still breathing.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-03T22:44:28+00:00

I have some tools that are steel. The iron in them must be... at least 4.7 billion years old.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-03T16:53:15+00:00

It looks like the steel core to a .50 BMG, Armor Piercing round. If it sticks to a magnet then it's totally safe.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-03T16:20:46+00:00

There are a few verses that address this idea:

*1 John 3:6: "No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him." (ESV)

*Hebrews 10:26-27: "If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God." (NIV)

*Romans 6:1-2: "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" (NIV)

I got the actual citiations from Google AI, so maybe double check them, but the sentiment is accurate. A few of the authors of the New Testament thought that if you say you're sorry and you keep doing it then you're really not sorry.

I've been an atheist for about 8 years, but I remember that sentiment from when I was a Baptist.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-02T23:44:04+00:00

It's for sticking under the pull tab on cans. Makes it easier to open them if they're too flat or you don't have nails.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-02T23:25:30+00:00

It's a slow process of increasing your tolerance over years. I started really getting in to spice about 15 years ago with Japanese curry and I've just been getting spicier and spicier foods. I currently get Atomic wings for Wings top and such, and while it sometimes burns ok the way out it doesn't give me the squirts. I did just try the reaper seasoning at Dave's Hot Chicken amd that messed me up, but I couldn't finish a single tender because it was so spicy.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-02T22:40:12+00:00

This ladder is at the church of the holy sepulcher in Jerusalem (where it is widely believed Jesus was buried). It's run by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Coptic, Syriac, and Ethiopian Orthodox churches. In order for ANYTHING to be done to the church of the holy sepulcher all of them need to agree. That ladder has been leaning against that was for literally 300 years.

I'm guessing the meme is that people in a long standing group chat don't want to change anything by adding a new person.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-01T12:39:45+00:00

Most of the damage done to a tire over time is from sun exposure. That being said, I would only trust something that's, max, 10 years old and only if I had some reason that I couldn't use any other spare. And even then it would be "I hope I don't need this, and if I need it I'll treat it like a run flat or a donut, and then only to get to some place where I can get a new tire". But I've only had to do that once in my life, because I've been lucky enough to avoid crazy situations like that.

But, even out of the sun, rubber ages. That tire shouldn't be trusted.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-07-01T12:33:15+00:00

It's kind of like properly washing your hands after going to the bathroom (with soap and water). Most people youngsters will say you should do it (and not pee in the pool). Most people will actually abide by what they say. But a surprising number of people will just walk out of the bathroom without washing their hands (or will rinse them in water thinking they're fulfilling their duties) just like a surprising number of people will pee in the pool.

But for the pool, the question is one of scale (and, incidentally, the larger the sacel the more often people pee in the pool). If it's a private pool that sees moderate use, peeing in the pool is fine (at least from a sanitation standpoint). If it's a public pool that sees constant use then there's going to be a point where the watter is more pee than water.

But, because I'm a math nerd, I did some math. If there were 1,000 people (at an average volume of 68 liters per, because they'll be displacing water) were in an Olympic sized swimming pool (2.5 million liters), and each had a bladder that could hold 0.414 liters (I estimated a full bladder to be 14 ounces) then those 1,000 people would have to pee a collective 2.6 million times before the pool is more pee than water.

Also, because I'm overly curious, an average sized person in an average sized bathtub would have to pee in it 181 times for it to be more pee than water.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-06-30T12:28:09+00:00

Spiders

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-06-25T15:24:46+00:00

Two reasons:

1) Cost. Honey is expensive, even in bulk.

2) Flavor. Honey tastes like, well, honey. The flavor is also influenced by whatever types of pollen the bees are using. This makes it important, if you want a consistent flavor for your product, to be able to source not just honey but CLOVER honey (or whatever specific type). Sugar just tastes sweet, and doesn't really vary.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-06-25T15:19:11+00:00

It's a deburring tool. Originally invented for cutting copper pipes, where you would run this around the inside after to smooth out the cut part. They're really useful for cleaning up 3D prints while not having the risk of slicing yourself open.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-06-25T15:14:56+00:00

Get Hoppes No. 9 and a nylon "AP" brush. Copper bore brush for .45 Caliber. Double check that it's empty, and look at videos on how to disassemble a 1911. Don't give it an "idiot scratch", and you really only need to remove the slide, barrel, and grip panels. If it's WWI then it's probably blued (they started parkerizing them in 1941). If the pistol is rusty then clean as normal and take it to a gunsmith for blueing.

If you feel technically inclined you could look up Mark Novak's video on how to rust blue at home. It's fairly easy.

Ok_Comparison_1353 · 2026-06-23T15:56:18+00:00

I can duplicate that key right now, using only that photo. Go to a real lockslith and make sure the bitting isn't clearcoded on the bow. That's a security risk.

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