The Picard ManeuverWait, not like that
NOT_RICKGuns are fun as hell, it’s true. Unfortunately as with most things in the world, shit gets ruined because people don’t know how to act right
DerpgonHopefully OOP lives in a country that has good gun laws - like Czechia.
I’m Australian and guns are really strictly regulated here, I also believe that guns are FUCKING FUN. Sometimes I get shitty about how hard it is to own a gun for recreational shooting then I see a smackhead at the supermarket screaming at random people and how unlikely it is that they have a gun and I think “Yep, Ill take that trade”.
I’m pretty sure that access to guns would instantly end my depression.
But America is DC, Europe is already AC!
America is AC…
My bad. I only remember something about them using DC to electrocute an elephant to prove how much better it was.
It is 60Hz tho (instead of 50) which is stoopid. So you were on the right track.
Why is 60hz stupid? The US was ahead of Europe in terms of electrical development last century and 50hz generators were bigger and more expensive than 60hz generators at the time.
“Imperial existed since before metric and was more usable at the time so we should use it forever.”
Just stop trying to be the “im not like the other girls” of the world and join the blue world.
Seems like a waste of money to replace, and this is coming from someone that wouldn’t mind if we switched to metric here in the states. The Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion is the only one that fucks me up
Oh and Japan uses both 50 and 60, so we’re not even the craziest grid setup
Yeah ofc now its kinda too late. But there was a time where it was easily foreseeable that it would make sense to switch, but wasnt done.
1.0 cycle a second > 0.8 cycles a second.
Also fuck 25fps TV
50Hz is 50 cycles per second, and 60Hz is 60 cycles a second. Nothing is using as slow as 1 cycle per second.
The AssmanThey’ll say “aw, Topsy” at my autopsy, but no one will be more shocked than me.
I think that was Edison using AC. Apparently it was not part of the war of the currents.
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant
That was actually to prove how “dangerous” it was. This was when Edison and Tesla were duking it out, trying to get their respective electricity types established as the standard. Edison and JP Morgan decided it would be a good promotion for alternating current if they publicly electrocuted an elephant with direct current to demonstrate how dangerous it was. Obviously they knew that both modes are dangerous with that much current, but when has marketing ever been about honesty?
But the whole idea of electrocuting mammals caught on, so there is that!
Explain Washington then
That’s the part before the inverter duh
He had like 30 goddamn dicks…
He’s coming
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He’ll save children, but not the British children
dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️I heard he could not tell a lie; he gnawed down a cherry tree with his wooden teeth and then threw it all the way across the Potomac, then told everybody about it.
This is an impossible feat.
We call it an impossible meatre in Europe
Crossed the Delaware
Australia has AC/DC. Can’t beat that.
That… Explains so many things.
I’m a US electrician who may move to Scotland within a decade. I’ll hook up some mini splits for yall. Just gimme that NHS.
That’s right, a lifestyle trade. Give them a reason to live and the NHS will give you a way to stay alive.
About to move to France, no one has AC there either but EVERYONE is about to buy them in huge numbers. Anyone know what manufacturers have the largest residential AC marketshare? That looks like a Mitsubishi. Definitely going to invest in those companies they’re gonna explode.
I am not a financial advisor
the last time I looked into this I ran into the problem that most of the publicly traded heat pump manufacturers are huge conglomerates that produce just about every appliance under the sun. I don’t want to invest in that. do you have any recommendations?
The Mitsubishi ones are really popular and work well from what I know. But lots of folks make em - it’s just a matter of getting them to make enough of them for 220VAC 50hz or whatever
Japan makes amazing heat pumps and knows how to deal with high humidity and large temp changes. (See Tokyo, winter and summer)
Take it to the next level and just fire off a few rounds from your recliner the aircon
Got to shoot an assault rifle in the army. Would definitely buy one if I could.
The M16 is definitely the best, most fun rifle I’ve ever shot. Hitting a pop-up target 300 feet out in less than 2 seconds is pretty rewarding.
You seem to live in Finland. Owning an AK or AR is highly achievable.
SSTFThe ugliest but most fun fun I’ve ever shot was a 9mm Colt SMG. A factory made kludge to fit 9mm in an AR-15 derivative. The weight and overall design meant that full auto had basically zero recoil.
Most fun assault rifle was the Vz. 58. Less controllable than an any kind of full auto 5.56mm AR-15 derivative, but so fun I didn’t care. And it reloaded with clips.
𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘AC is great, but have you ever had DC?
Put them together and you’ve been, thunderstruck.
You understood! Hahahaha!!
We could use AC over here by now, it gets unbearably hot…but man those fuckers use a solid amount of energy and everything is already expensive as hell…so suffering through the heat it is.
I don’t even care about the cost, it’s so hot and humid. We can deal with that once we live through this
We added solar to our house and it cancels out the cost of AC completely with our modern heat pump. And the state and federal government both gave us massive tax breaks and zero interest loans to install the panels and the heat pumps. Our loan payment total is smaller than our old electric bill
I can only imagine being able to afford an ac unit.
Jo MiranI am at this point considered liberal, but I hace to say that I do like guns. Range shooting is super fun. If I could I would take up competitive Three Gun as a hobby, but I don’t have a course in my area.
Also, I hike with either my 45-70 ammunition rifle or my .45acp pistol with high grain ammo. Why? I live in Wyoming where we are definitely not on the top of the food chain. Even my pistol is liable to just piss off a bear if it really means business.
Yeah, I would definitely carry a .44 magnum in grizzly country.
Man, if you think target shooting is fun, wait until you go skeet or trap shooting! That’s the most fun shooting there is IMO. Give it a try if you haven’t already. I just bought a really nice Franchi over-under 20 gauge specifically for trap and skeet. It would make a great upland game bird gun too, but I don’t really have any interest in that.
LizBear spray is usually a better choice, on account of a whole lot of factors. At the very least you should bring both and issue a warning with bear spray.
I carry bear spray in black bear country. Thankfully I don’t live anywhere near grizzly bears (although they’re talking about reintroducing them here). I thought I remembered reading somewhere that bear spray isn’t very effective against grizzlies.
sn’t very effective against grizzlies
To be fair, neither is a single round fired center of mass unless it’s like a 12.7×99 mm.
Are you familiar with the .45-70 round?
This is sound theoretical advice but I don’t think most people consider the practical implications of it. Bear spray is only effective out to about 20 feet. A bear can run 30 mph. This means that in order to use that bear spray you need to be close enough for that bear to have its paws on you in less than two seconds. I’m not deluded enough to think I have the balls to stand my ground while a 1200 pound grizzly bear is charging me. I’m reaching for the gun before I reach for the spray which makes it largely useless in practice. I still carry it but it’s not particularly reassuring when you put it in context.
The way bear spray works, you create a big cloud of spicy air in between you and the bear and the bear runs into that cloud. The bear very quickly decides to go do something else with it’s life the second it gets a breath of that air. You don’t wait until the bear is close enough to hit directly with with spray, you spray as soon as the bear starts charging or gets too close. It’s manual or operations is very different from pepper spray for people.
Just like you should be well-trained when carrying your gun, you should have had the training on how to properly use bear spray. This concern you’ve voiced suggests you bought a can and assumed you knew how to use it.
Here’s a fairly decent video to start with.
Bear Spray Scenarios & Demonstration
Guns are amazing when they’re collector items made by Holland & Holland to your custom spec. When they’re mass produced crap, they’re not much different from air soft guns at the shooting range. At least air soft guns don’t kill people.
Wow, you’re describing use cases we can all agree are legitimate and you didn’t say anything about being careless or reckless, or trigger happy, nor express an impulse to “mag dump” someone. Yeah, that’ll piss off fellow liberals