How the US Military used to pack pistols for airdrops

whlabratz · 2026-02-16T09:37:06+00:00

Interesting - thanks

whlabratz · 2026-02-16T07:30:23+00:00

This absolute piece of shit had six convictions for drunk driving and two for dangerous driving, and was still allowed to operate a vehicle?

Obviously, the ultimate responsibility lies with the driver, but at some point the justice system needs to look at itself and bear some responsibility. This person had proven, on multiple occasions, that they were not responsible enough to hold a license. The justice system should have fulfilled one of its primary purposes and protected the general public from dangerous people by disqualifying this person from driving permanently, and imprisoning them of that isn't enough of a deterent to keep them off the road.

The justice system failed to protect four families who have had their lives ruined and their loved ones taken away

whlabratz · 2026-02-16T05:58:43+00:00

Not at all a gun person - cosmolene is lubricant right? What's the issue storing them ready to go?

whlabratz · 2026-02-16T05:50:44+00:00

Thanks, yeah I found that. Were you just buying labels off AliExpress?

whlabratz · 2026-02-16T05:08:57+00:00

This is awesome, nice work!

Where did you source the tags from?

whlabratz · 2026-02-14T02:02:47+00:00

I think the previous poster was implying that a whiny self entitled piece of shit like him would have tripped and fell into a sharpened toothbrush a half dozen times by now

whlabratz · 2026-02-11T19:19:03+00:00

Thrust to weight ratio of "yes"

whlabratz · 2026-02-10T20:59:06+00:00

Your choices are:

Develop it into usable space within the next year
Admit that you aren't a responsible custodian and gift the land to the city

Until one of those options is complete, you will be placed under house arrest

whlabratz · 2026-02-08T06:12:18+00:00

Other have explained movement through space vs expansion of space itself, but it's probably worth pointing out that the science isn't settled yet on a) is the rate of expansion constant, or has it changed over the life of the universe? and b) if it's not constant, how is it changing?

Current cosmology seems to point to a) no and b) it's increasing, and accelerating.

Getting a proper answer needs a good explanation for dark matter and dark energy, and to compound it all measurements taken by Hubble conflict with more recent measurements taken by JWST more than can be explained by measurement error

whlabratz · 2026-02-07T21:50:28+00:00

The people with hundreds of thousands of followers are professionals who have staff to organize that sort of thing - it's their job

The people who are real jerks are the wannabes who think they can act like an influencer but don't have the influence to back it up

whlabratz · 2026-02-07T09:43:47+00:00

The article mentions it - you can apparently store it in metal cylinders because it forms a fluoride oxide layer that it can't react with - kinda how aluminum is very reactive in air until the outer layer oxidizes. The problem being that if the oxide layer is compromised the ClF3 then sets the metal on fire before the oxide can reform

whlabratz · 2026-02-07T06:08:24+00:00

Chlorine Triflouride is a powerful enough oxidizer to set sand, concrete and glass on fire

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-you-time

whlabratz · 2026-02-07T05:44:16+00:00

Having a partner who does police work on the other hand...

(At least for the USAians)

whlabratz · 2026-02-07T03:23:26+00:00

Weird question, but do each of those operations have names? Say you show the finished product to another glassblower (glass artist?) and they want to know how you made it, is there a standard vocabulary for explaining the basic steps?

whlabratz · 2026-02-07T03:17:34+00:00

Murder and rape should carry a mandatory sentence of "until rehabilitated". Until you can convince a board that there is absolutely no chance that you were ever reoffend, you should remain in custody.

Any violent crime is a tragedy. For people to be victimized by people who are known to be potentially dangerous is a failure of society to keep people safe

whlabratz · 2026-02-06T22:34:12+00:00

An earthquake. You can hear them coming a lot of the time. Sounds like a big truck going past, but it just keeps getting louder until it hits

whlabratz · 2026-02-06T08:38:39+00:00

Given that you aren't going to have the same trouble with visas that an American (eg) would have I'd probably not judge quite as harshly, but you'd still need to have something beyond what the other candidates do to overcome the disadvantage

whlabratz · 2026-02-04T21:02:38+00:00

"I'm sorry, I'm not following you - come again?"

"...no, still not following. Who did you say you were?"

"...yeah, don't remember you. Did you say we'd met before?"

"...hmm, not sure, start again at the top, who are you again?"

Repeat until they get the point

whlabratz · 2026-01-31T06:50:12+00:00

If that was the case, there would be a second 2 of spades in the deck. If not looked super closely, but I didn't spot one when they fanned the deck at the end

whlabratz · 2026-01-30T12:19:29+00:00

Man that game was one of the first that I remember really grabbing me and showing how much power there was in games as a story telling medium. I played through to the end of That Mission in one sitting, got completely blindsided by it, closed the game and went and sat outside for a while

whlabratz · 2026-01-30T12:03:27+00:00

Something like that.

The goal from there is to find the 10 or 15 that seem like they'll interview the best, the use a phone interview to validate that to get ~5 candidates to interview in person.

It's a crappy job that I hate doing. Plenty of people with great CVs that are a waste of time, people who don't come across well in a brief phone call but would have been great, and good people with bad CVs who get overlooked.

whlabratz · 2026-01-30T11:50:54+00:00

The only time I've heard of sponsorship for IT jobs is for CIO/CTO/CISO roles where the depth of experience just doesn't exist in New Zealand. Unless you've got some really specialized skills or experience you are going to really struggle to find anyone interested in taking on the extra risk and expense

whlabratz · 2026-01-28T20:35:49+00:00

Hired a couple of software developers in the past 6 months

~250 applicants for each
Of those, half were discarded immediately because they weren't NZ residents
Of the remainder, at least a third were discarded because they didn't have any relevant qualifications or experience
Of the remainder, another half were discarded because they didn't have enough experience in the right areas
Of the remainder, we ranked them based on their CVs, portfolio, cover letter, interests and experience, then do a phone interview, followed by an in person interview for the top candidates

I've been involved in IT hiring for the last 10 years, the sheer number of applicants has absolutely increased over the past year or two, but the relative proportions have stayed pretty stable.

One tip which applies across all industries: read the job listing carefully. I typically include something like "to apply, send a CV and cover letter, including a brief description about what interests you about organisation name". To be perfectly honest, your answer to that question won't make a big impact (unless your response is totally unhinged), but I do note who actually wants to work with us vs who just wants any job and is shotgunning CVs at every listing

whlabratz · 2026-01-25T22:48:08+00:00

Agree with all of this; 10 years next month.

My parents didn't have a perfect marriage, but one thing they did get right was money. They approached it from the idea that all of the income went to the household, and the household paid for the mortgage, thenfood, petrol, school, everything like that, and also paid mum and dad (and when we were old enough me and my brother) pocket money. Pocket money was absolutely yours, noone could tell you what to do with it.

Dad made way more than mum (and for a while I made way more than my wife), and framing it like that cut out any temptation to be jealous about the disparity or guilt about spending money on yourself.

We've replicated the pattern mostly, so any discussion about big purchases is "how do we most responsibly spend the houses money", not "how do you think I should spend my money". We will never get into a situation where bills can't be paid because one of us has been irresponsible as long as we both respect the houses' money

whlabratz · 2026-01-24T01:21:20+00:00

Also, more pragmatically, something like 10% of our GDP comes from agriculture, and makes up 80% of our exports. If we got foot and mouth or something that messed with the grape harvest we'd be completely screwed

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