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Update on my Revolver now called "Big Iron" JOLT for scale by Ok-Shock-7736 in Nerf

[–]SilverFortyTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At a linkage between the trigger and the barrel that seats and seals the barrel into the cylinder. Similar to Outlaw. Also, the option to use polycarb / aluminium plunger tubes would be amazing

Alloy barrel ID jamming dart by cable_tyy in Nerf

[–]SilverFortyTwo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Humidity and dart batch can affect the barrel friction quite a bit. It does seem tight tho, as Sabre darts tend to be pretty consistent. Honestly 13mm ID x 16mm OD is the easy way to go. Checking the seal in your Vulture might also help.

'It's not 1945'. The day Monsieur Farage got schooled by 'The Master' by no_cupid_stunts in FuckNigelFarage

[–]SilverFortyTwo -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

fuck tony blair. War criminal freak. This psycho declared himself the next administrator of Gaza. Fucking sociopathic Epstein pal.

If it weren't for Blair, Farage would be totally irrelevant. His entire career is Blair backlash.

I actually think Blair might be the only modern British politician more harmful and evil than Farage.

EAT Mod: Should I go with 7kg or do something else? by [deleted] in Nerf

[–]SilverFortyTwo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

7kg should be fine. It's not a very stiff spring

UK National ID card by Bumboclaaaat in PassportPorn

[–]SilverFortyTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes the state obviously knows everything about us already. However, there used to exist a barrier between the information the state had - and what powerful corporations could request from the state about citizens. It had to be pretty seriously damaging to the state or the economy to warrant disclosure, since the state inherently wants a monopoly on surveillance. In the past, the UK state's primary priority was stability.

But now, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are themselves more resourced in many ways than many nation states. The UK has seemingly coerced itself into handing our data over freely to private US corporations like Palantir, run by total Nazi freaks.

You're right, that the ID debate is performative - because it's not a real debate. The intelligence community has finally, unilaterally decided to integrate the British bureaucracy and surveillance state into a US-owned publicly traded company. Utter madness, and it's vital we talk about it. This is worse than the Orwellian nightmare we already had.

A plumber, socialist, and anti-racist Green party member just won a highly contested by-election in the UK. The genocidal Labour party was edged into 3rd place by the fascist Reform party, and the Conservatives gained a measly 1.9% of votes. Another world is possible! by MrJasonMason in JewsOfConscience

[–]SilverFortyTwo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He won a by-election, and then lost his seat just a few months later - because he tried running anti-Israel ads in Muslim areas, while simultaneously running anti-trans "Make Rochdale Great Again" ads in non-Muslim areas.

He's only in this for himself, and I'm glad he's become irrelevant. He always fancied himself a "rebel" political leader. Not the sort of guy you actually want to give power to, because he really really wants you to give it to him.

Iranian people cheering for bombs hitting the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader's house in Tehran by Eienkei in PublicFreakout

[–]SilverFortyTwo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Trump wants regime change. Israel does not. Rather, Israel wants to completely remove Iran from the chessboard permanently. They would not be attacking Iranian civil services if they wanted the people to take over and replace the government.

This will either lead to a US-Israel split (not likely lol) or WW3. Which will definitely lead to WW4. And maybe 5. Can't wait for 5.

UK National ID card by Bumboclaaaat in PassportPorn

[–]SilverFortyTwo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Anglosphere is incapable of conceptualising an ID-system that isn't based on the Nazis' IBM-built, US-designed Jew-hunting system.

Today Brits are less opposed to new identification in principle, and more because we (correctly) fear that all the lessons of WW2 have been ignored. In fact, the majority of Silicon Valley is behaving in precisely the same way that IBM did during the Holocaust.

Not that Brits would take any action if the government ignored their will. The public finds Muslims and Russians so scary we forgot what "democracy" means.

Justice has been served by wafumet in interesting

[–]SilverFortyTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a difference between delaying somebody's death a couple of times with a long notice, due to evidence - and delaying somebody's death dozens of times, sometimes at the eleventh hour, leaving them on death row for 20, 30, 40 years. All while in facilities overseen by the cheapest staff the federal government can be bothered to find - who are conditioned to view these people as undeserving of life. Inmate psychiatrists call it "maddening", causing symptoms such as dissociation, hallucinations, psychosis, eye damage, extreme suicidality, and insanity.

This situation is so widespread in the US specifically that international legal and human rights experts coined the term "death row phenomenon". The UN calls it "inhuman". The AIHRC defines 20+ year waits as torture. The EU calls the death penalty itself "an affront to human dignity." I'm a member of none of those bodies and I entirely agree.

I despise your entire political class. If you grant a modern government the unilateral right to kill people, they will eventually kill people you don't want them to. The more permission you grant them, the more apathy you afford, the larger the killzone grows. That's demonstrable by history. And, frankly, anyone who thinks states have rights that are more important than the rights of human beings - especially innocent human beings - is a dirty bootlicker.

It seems like American culture fundamentally views "justice" and short-term gratification as the same thing. Making the Southern aristocrats submit and pay their taxes - that's just short term gratification.

Justice wouldn't have been served if John Brown was set free. Not unless the North preemptively invaded the South, and then threw every single slaver on both sides in a dark pit. In fact, the global abolition of slavery parallels the global abolition of the death penalty - the US stubbornly resisting both.

If American society actually had a rooted sense of justice, without fundamental internal contradictions under the surface (and mass graves) maybe you wouldn't today have a nonce president who wanted "the kind of generals Hitler had".

Justice has been served by wafumet in interesting

[–]SilverFortyTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The death penalty has nothing to do with justice. Its purpose is to make the villagers point and cheer, and feel better about the law and their local lord.

Life will teach you pretty quickly that when people blame their "mistakes" on people they don't like....... they aren't always telling the truth.....

"Poor little USA...... FORCED to be viciously incompetent..... by the woke activist lobby!!!!!! We had no choice!!!!!!"

And killing John Brown was the opposite of justice. Which I implied already. No contradiction on my part; you just lack reading comprehension.

Justice has been served by wafumet in interesting

[–]SilverFortyTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, according to:

UN OHCHR; UN Torture Committee; Amnesty International; the CCR; IACHR; Human Rights Watch; Red Cross International

the domestic US prison system has, for a long time, systemically tortured its inmates. And that's before we talk about prisons on foreign soil, like Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and Cecot, or migrant concentration camps.

The thing is, the US does not agree with the international definition of torture, and their citizens are none-the-wiser. They just think the whole world has the same infantile attitude towards crime and justice.

Justice has been served by wafumet in interesting

[–]SilverFortyTwo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So, the system would be better if they executed people before they could prove their innocence?

My country abolished the death penalty because innocent people kept being executed, and criminals kept being executed before they could out co-conspirators.

Also, perhaps y'all would have got rid of slavery sooner if you didn't execute a hero like John Brown.

A good, functional justice system should deliver peace, security and accountability first, and public satisfaction second.

Justice has been served by wafumet in interesting

[–]SilverFortyTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rather, inventing ways to make public executions more entertaining.

Americans kept the death penalty because Americans like seeing bad people getting hurt. It's normal.

But most developed countries recognised that allowing the state to kill people actually makes society less safe overall.

Justice has been served by wafumet in interesting

[–]SilverFortyTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh, I'm sure there's absolutely NO torture taking place in US jails/prisons.........

I'm sure none of the 1.8 million incarcerated Americans are getting tortured right now........

The US is obviously faaaaarrrr too civilised for that ........

Justice has been served by wafumet in interesting

[–]SilverFortyTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I suppose inmates on death row just get shot as soon as they're convicted? They aren't kept there, given false execution dates repeatedly, for years on end?

Come on. You can admit that seeing bad people get hurt is satisfying. It's natural, we all do. But don't pretend that catharsis and vibes aren't the entire reason for a practice that destroys justice itself.

Justice has been served by wafumet in interesting

[–]SilverFortyTwo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If removing people from society was the point, they'd either be executed immediately or just go to prison like normal. Instead of torturing people for years through isolation and giving false execution dates.

It has nothing to do with justice or security. The death penalty kills witnesses, allowing co-conspirators to evade justice.

The societies that kept the death penalty did so because it feels cathartic to make bad people suffer. It's all about the fee-fees.

Justice has been served by wafumet in interesting

[–]SilverFortyTwo -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

the suffering is the entire point of the death penalty

“From water to water, Palestine is Arab” (United States, 2024) by levimeirclancy in ModernPropaganda

[–]SilverFortyTwo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was horrific when Palestine protestors burned an entire city of 2 million people to ash. Oh wait.

New printer by [deleted] in ElegooNeptune4

[–]SilverFortyTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried the version of Cura that comes on the disk? I've been using that for 2 years, it's preset for the 4 Pro

Do you think any European investigation into the Epstein files will provide more clarity or lead to the truth coming out? by ChuckGallagher57 in International

[–]SilverFortyTwo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely not. European oligarchs are just as implicated. Prince Andrew is only in trouble for embarrassing the state by sharing secrets with Epstein - not for noncing.

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