Mostly_Gristle

Mostly_Gristle, 1 day ago

Same for me too. Reddit, for all its other faults, is still just about the only place you can still get candid opinions on products in a place where it’s discussed by a large group with a deep knowledge base. Especially with niche things like fountain pens, goodyear-welted boots, and stuff like that.

Not sure how long that’s going to last though. The search engines are already hip to that trick, and even in just the last few months I’ve noticed a change in how many Reddit links I get vs product links when I add Reddit to my search query. Reddit is hip to it too, and with recently becoming a publicly traded corporation they’re probably going to wring every last cent out of that until every post mentioning a product is a bot-infested sewage fire like everything else.

Mostly_Gristle, 2 days ago

Did he just fucking think the safety was on?

That looks like a Glock, and Glocks don’t have a manual safety. A lot of modern pistols don’t have them anymore. Not that having one would have helped this guy. With gun handling this reckless it was only a matter of time before something bad happened.

Mostly_Gristle, 2 days ago

I do actually know the difference between a Glock and a S&W. The video I saw was light on pixels, and the way it was edited the gun was in motion for most of it. I could tell it was a striker-fired pistol, but it was hard to make out exactly which one, and I’m at work and didn’t want to Google up a higher quality video of a guy shooting himself in the head. It looked enough like a Glock, and it’s usually a Glock in these types of videos so I just kind of guessed. Apparently I got it wrong.

Mostly_Gristle, 2 days ago

Not necessarily. With most newer pistols being designed to be drop safe, modern hard-sided Kydex retention holsters have taken over most of the function that you used to need a manual safety for.

Safeties aren’t there to prevent the person holding the gun from pulling the trigger, and they’re not meant to compensate for unsafe handling of the gun. They’re mostly there to keep the gun from firing while you’re carrying it, or if it gets dropped. Imagine a soldier walking through some dense brush, or hitting the ground while diving for cover with a pistol in a leather or nylon holster on their hip. If you bump into the wrong stray branch, or land on the wrong rock, it could poke the holster hard enough to pull the trigger through the side of the holster. So you need something that physically prevents the trigger from being pulled.

Glocks, and other brands of similarly designed pistols have several internal safeties that make it drop-safe, and which block the firing pin from moving forward unless the trigger is pulled all the way. It’s next to impossible for a Glock to go off unless the trigger is pulled. Then with a modern hard-sided retention holster protecting the trigger, you can carry with a round in the chamber and not have to worry about the gun going off. It makes a traditional manual safety a little redundant, and some companies just don’t bother with it anymore. On a lot of hammer-fired pistols it’s been replaced by a de-cocker.

The thing manual safeties are still nice to have for is re-holstering your gun while the holster is on your body. You don’t have to worry about loose clothing getting caught in the trigger guard as much. You should still be careful doing it, but it’s nice to have that extra layer of safety. But then, if you’re walking around with a gun it really should never come out of its holster except for a life-or-death situation.

Mostly_Gristle, 5 days ago

Yeah, I’ve read a bunch of articles over the last few years about how a lot of law enforcement agencies are finding that instead of getting a warrant and doing a bunch of surveillance they can just buy people’s private data from a data broker and get more info than they would have been able, or allowed, to gather if they’d gotten the warrant.

Mostly_Gristle, 7 days ago

I’m not sure if they’re still around, but PostSecret and the Internet K-Hole were sites you could spend hours on.

Mostly_Gristle, 8 days ago

You might give a TC Electronic Magus pedal a try. It’s basically an updated version of the old RAT distortion pedals, and it’s really pretty versatile. You can get light, almost clean tones all the way to a pretty punchy rock distortion. There’s a little bit of a learning curve learning to balance the gain and volume knobs to get the distortion level you want (both knobs kind of control both volume and gain, but in slightly different ways), and the tone knob is reversed from most pedals, but it’s not difficult to get the hang of. It’s also not very expensive. When I bought mine I think it was like sixty bucks. That was pre-pandemic though so they’ve probably gone up in price since then, but I’d be surprised if they were more than $80 or $90.

I bought mine on a whim and not really expecting much, but it ended up being my go-to distortion for pretty much everything except super high-gain metal distortion.

Mostly_Gristle, 8 days ago

I don’t know anything about the Drake/Kendrick thing, but the term nymph probably became associated with pedophilia because of the novel Lolita. It’s one of the creepy endearments the main character comes up with while he is obsessing over the child he’s going to rape later in the story.

Mostly_Gristle, 10 days ago

That A2 carry handle tho.

Mostly_Gristle, 12 days ago

My main takeaway from this article is that “Austrian Economist” is apparently the new euphemism fascists are using to try and trick people into thinking they’re doing something other than fascism.

Mostly_Gristle, 13 days ago

Depends on which map you look at.

Mostly_Gristle, 14 days ago

If this dude figured out how to lift a full size duty weapon out of a retention holster using nothing but a plastic dino-grabber then he deserves to keep those guns.

Mostly_Gristle, 13 days ago

The short answer is that AR-15s are just better rifles. They’re more accurate, they’re more reliable, they’re easier to clean and maintain, they’re easier to repair, they have much better ergonomics, none of the parts are proprietary, and consequently there’s an enormous aftermarket for parts, accessories, and customization. They also have a modular design that, with the exception of the barrel nut and castle nut which have torque specifications, can be almost completely disassembled with a single roll punch and an allen wrench or two. That means if something breaks or wears out you don’t have to send it back to the manufacturer or pay out the nose for a gunsmith, you can just order the part and fix it yourself with basically just a pointy stick and a YouTube video. It also means you can start out with a really cheap rifle and upgrade it component by component until you have a high-end rifle if you want to.

That Mini-14 on the bottom is a fine rifle, and they’re actually pretty popular, but the AR platform outclasses it on most crucial metrics. If you could only have one or the other, for most people it’d be the AR without question. A lot of people have spilled a lot of ink speculating about this reason or that reason as to why so many people want ARs, and usually manage to miss the fact that they’re just fantastic rifles. Even with the amount of cringey fetishizing of the military that happens on the conservative side of the gun community, nobody would want one if they sucked.

Mostly_Gristle, 14 days ago

In the same CoolZone Media vein, Hood Politics might fit the bill as well.

Mostly_Gristle, 15 days ago

Sounds like a rejected lyric from a Leonard Cohen song.

Mostly_Gristle, 16 days ago

Yeah, for people with hemochromatosis (too much iron in the blood) the main treatment is still bloodletting.

Mostly_Gristle, 16 days ago

This is mostly a guess, but I would imagine it’s probably for places like the UK where semi-auto rifles are caliber restricted to .22 rimfire. If you want to shoot anything larger the action has to be cycled manually.

I’ve seen pump-action conversion kits for the AR platform as well.

Mostly_Gristle, 18 days ago

And if you eat that, and then eat the right kind of flower… Holy crap, my dude, shit gets wild.

Mostly_Gristle, 18 days ago

The privilege is being able to choose to eat that way out of a sense of morality or fashion rather for the reason that it’s literally all there is to eat. The privilege is being able to turn your nose up at perfectly edible food for no other reason than that it’s got a bit of egg, honey, or butter in it without having to worry about starving to death. The privilege is also having access to such an abundance and variety of food that you can maintain a vegan diet year round and not have to fear that you won’t meet all the calorie, protein, and vitamin requirements you need to stay alive and healthy while much of the world is in a constant struggle to scrape together enough calories of any kind to stay alive.

Mostly_Gristle, 19 days ago

Excellent.

Mostly_Gristle, 21 days ago

It is perpetually disappointing the extent to which so many people who claim to be Christians fail to understand even the CliffsNotes version of the Gospel.

Jesus’ arrest was probably bound to happen sooner or later though. As noted Biblical scholar Andrew Zaltzman has often pointed out, Pontius Pilate was a law and order administrator, and Jesus was absolutely guilty under the law at the time.

Mostly_Gristle, 21 days ago

I think the longer wavelengths of AM transmissions travel a lot farther, and are less prone to scattering, but that’s about it. FM allows for more information density (you can broadcast in stereo, for example), and is less prone to the static that plagues AM radio. That’s why AM is mostly talk stations, and FM tends to be mostly music.

Mostly_Gristle, 22 days ago

My astigmatism is pretty bad and I’ve never had any problem seeing these.

Mostly_Gristle, 26 days ago

Even if it were legal and constitutional somehow I foresee some slight issues when it comes to enforcement and compliance.

Mostly_Gristle, 26 days ago

There’s really only one choice .