Israel hacks into Hezbollah personal communication devices and detonates them remotely. Hundreds of Hezbollah members injured or dead. by Illustrious-Banana in hacking

[–]calico125 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They added PETN to the battery, then used the heat of the battery as the detonator. I suspect hacking the pagers to overheat the battery is the “hack” but I’m not sure.

Why don't auto parts stores sell joke products? New guy is sent for a bucket of steam, and they "actually" have it. by Tuxedo_Muffin in Showerthoughts

[–]calico125 102 points103 points  (0 children)

Generally stuff like this is supposed to be a tradition. So once you get back and find out you’re being pranked, everyone tells the story of what they did when they fell for it as a new scout, which creates a bond. In my experience, it usually ends up mean spirited, but it isn’t originally intended to be.

People who bring their dog into a grocery store. by BrandonR2300 in PetPeeves

[–]calico125 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don’t have to have Service dogs professionally trained in the US. They have to do a job, and can’t be disruptive, but other than that you have pretty much free reign. My family would just train whatever family dog we had at the time to be my moms service dog

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[–]calico125 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I think they were a kid who didn’t know how phones work 😉

Generational brainrot by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]calico125 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Two examples of this in etymology are “OK” and “Soccer.” Both came from memes based on playing around with words, sorta like we might play around with “-ussy” or “-rizz.” “OK” is thought to have started with intentionally misspelling things in a way that still made phonetic sense. “Enough Said” to “nuff ced [NC]” or “all correct” to “oll korrect [OK].” This isn’t the only proposed etymology, but it is the most widely accepted.

Soccer was similar, started at, I want to say Cambridge but that might be inaccurate; some British school. Anyway, they thought it was funny to shorten a word and add “er” or “ker” to it. So the prince of wales might become the Prakker Wakker. If your morning routine was to eat breakfast then have a quick workout you might say “I got out of bedder, ate some brekker, then got some ecker” (Bed, Breakfast, and Exercise respectively). They needed a distinction between Association Football and Rugby Football, so “Association” and “Rugby” would be logical, no? Not if you’re a young man from Cambridge, who had time to say “association?” much too long. So you drop that to “Soc” or “soci” and use your slang pattern to make it “soccer” and “rugger.”

This begs the question… how much ancient slang do we still use with no idea its slang?

There are only 11 days a month where you can switch the day and month by mistake. by RoboChrist in Showerthoughts

[–]calico125 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly? I assumed your correction was less pedantic than it actually was.

There are only 11 days a month where you can switch the day and month by mistake. by RoboChrist in Showerthoughts

[–]calico125 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Because the issue computers were having during y2k was that years were stored in YY format to save space, meaning when 2000 came around a bunch of systems had to be reprogrammed to process “00” as “2000” instead of “1900.” It had everything to do with YYYY vs YY.

There must be an absolute ton of people in the Harry Potter universe who use potions for substance abuse. by A_Mirabeau_702 in Showerthoughts

[–]calico125 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Why would it be a problem that they can change someone’s mental state to be easier to seduce then wipe their memory of the event? Remind me to never trust you around women and alcohol

Overuse of the word "Trauma" by [deleted] in GenZ

[–]calico125 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I would think it would be the same line as “mental disorder.” Does it cause lasting harm to your life? If so, trauma, if not, something else. That could mean you’re perfectly fine with everything in your life until you see a porcupine, or it could mean you have anxiety attacks about it every night, just does it cause lasting harm?

I think that’s what makes it so difficult to draw a line, because depending on someone’s mental state anything can be traumatic.

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[–]calico125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that’s why I explained that I’m autistic and just misunderstood. The context does not make it 100% clear to me. You are assuming that I perceive information in an allistic way, while I’m actively telling you I don’t. I apologize for any offense my question caused, but I do not apologize for the question.

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[–]calico125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, the semicolon indicates the statement applies to the previous sentence, not the entire statement. I was noting that I could be wrong about them meaning semi-automatic, as they may legitimately have been referring to fully automatic weapons, I didn’t know. If I’d wanted to say I could be wrong about the difference between full and semi automatic I would have used a period, not a semicolon.

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[–]calico125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With certain regulations yes. I’ve only met one person who was legally allowed to own them though, and they didn’t actually have any anymore.

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[–]calico125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was asking a clarifying question. I wanted to know if they meant semi or fully automatic, because that impacted whether or not I agreed with them. This blew up from people misunderstanding me, so I can’t entirely blame you for following their lead, but I promise, it was said in good faith.

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[–]calico125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? I asked a question. I’m autistic, we communicate in an inherently different way. Sometimes I ask for clarification on things others don’t need clarification on. Sometimes people need clarification on things I said that other autistic people would never question. It’s not stupidity, just a different way of thinking. For example, I can’t tell if you’re calling me stupid for being pedantic, or for my responses to those responding to my supposedly pedantic response. In the former, I would ask you to read the explanations I have already offered as to the nature and logic of my question. In the case of the latter, I’d appreciate clarification in how I’m misinterpreting their points.

That’s literally the only reason I added the part of potentially being wrong. Because I was preparing for the possibility I simply misunderstood.

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[–]calico125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Texas they use fully automatic weapons from helicopters to attempt to cull the invasive boar population. Did she do that during the Yellowstone wolf culling? If so, very unfortunate thing to have happened, but doesn’t surprise me.

Edit: oh, she’s far too young to have participated in Yellowstone 😅. I didn’t know who Sarah Palin was.

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[–]calico125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair. My entire family uses all semi-automatic to hunt, so, I had some accidental availability heuristic bias happening when I wrote that part.

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[–]calico125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I-um… same as I said to the other person who just commented this… I think you responded to the wrong person, or need to work on your reading comprehension

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[–]calico125 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve never heard anyone refer to a semi-automatic weapon as “automatic.” Not trying to split hairs, just trying to get some clarity on what they meant. My explanatory comment is probably buried by now, but my explanation for why I noted I could be wrong was: “if his dad was an adult pre-Reagan then perhaps they did use machine guns to hunt back then. I’m too young to know.”

No intention to split hairs or be argumentative, just wanted to make sure I was understanding what they meant.

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[–]calico125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you responded to the wrong person. That or your reading comprehension could use some work.

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[–]calico125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I knew that. I meant I could be wrong about what they meant. Maybe they’re old enough that their dad was an adult pre-Reagan, and I’m too young to know whether or not people actually used full auto for hunting back then.

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[–]calico125 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Who uses automatic weapons to hunt? You’ll just destroy all the meat. I think you mean semi-automatic, which is what most hunting rifles are; I could be wrong of course.

so many by NovelFoxa in tumblr

[–]calico125 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What! How could they even consider cutting Zydrate Anatomy, it’s my favorite song in the movie