NonWonderDog

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[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

In Michigan someone (probably the Democrats) is actually sending canvassers door-to-door to do polling.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No, they have it right. Add-on software means “added to this node/machine”, as in not part of the system image used to configure multiple machines. It’s all very archaic.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

The weight classes used to be round numbers, but they changed them all up or down a couple kilo in 1992 after a doping scandal in order to reset all the records.

And then they did the same thing in 1997, for the same reason.

And then they did the same thing in 2018, for the same reason.

It's very silly, but I guess it means we get more world record attempts?

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Depending on atmospheric conditions bullet contrails can be very visible. Looks real to me.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

To be fair, the criteria are very precise, they’re just only vaguely related to reality.

My favorite is the double-barreled 1911 pistol. It has two triggers, because if it only had one trigger it would be a machine gun (it would fire multiple bullets with one pull of the trigger). But physically it would never work if it didn’t always fire both barrels at exactly the same time, so it only has one slide and both hammers are connected to each other. But because you have to drop two sears with two triggers before it will fire apparently it’s totally legal.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 53 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Caught NPR this morning as they brought someone on to tell us:

  • Raisi was the hardest of hard liners
  • He hated America
  • He even opposed the assassination of Suleimani, in an example of how hard-line he was
  • He was actually just a puppet of the supreme leader
  • And everyone in Iran hated him anyway

So I guess it was an assassination then?

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's actually a film from 2020, about film during the cultural revolution.

The magnet links should work without signing up, so in decreasing order of quality:

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6288206

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6071969

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6072852

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Three working torrents at rutracker.org (search "one second 2020").

I found a few Chinese torrents on BT4G searching "一秒钟", but I don't have a way to connect to Chinese peers.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Iskandr and Kinzhal don’t follow that ballistic missile trajectory, though. Neither does ATACMS. These are all semi-ballistic missiles that follow something closer to the "hypersonic glide vehicle" trajectory in your drawing (without the little skim maneuver, though, probably).

The real difference here is range. Things called "hypersonic glide vehicles" are intercontinental. Iskandr is "just" a missile that flys a low trajectory really fast.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Worked for Fidel, though?

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where I am in the US I have to go to an asian grocery store and buy a 20 lb bag if I want white rice that isn’t pre-washed and fortified, and even then half the stock is labelled 無洗米.

I don’t understand this dunk at all.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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