Alright, let's say someone did want to throw things at Mardi gras to hurt people
The cheapest mechanical broad heads I can find (which aren't this model) are about $16 for 10. Granted I didn't look too hard, it could be there are cheaper ones out there, but most that I can find cost about that much or more for maybe 3-6 heads, so that's probably pretty close to the bottom of the barrel.
For that same money, you could have easily gotten hundreds of razor blades, nails, broken bottles, all kinds of little throwable sharp and pointy objects, and caused a lot more chaos.
And you found one. That doesn't exactly scream that someone was throwing these around the parade route intending to cause harm, they probably would have thrown a few of them, and if they were you probably would have heard about it.
At the very least, you found it with the rubber band still on it they probably would have at least removed that before throwing it if that was their plan. Some cheaper broadhead are designed so that that band will break or be cut when it enters a deer allowing it to open up, just tossing one into a crowd wouldn't exactly guarantee that it would open.
More likely, I'm thinking someone's box of archery equipment got knocked over in their car/truck, a stray broadhead got away from them were cleaning up and fell out onto the ground.
Or maybe they threw it out for one reason or another and their trash can got knocked over
Or it worked its way loose from an arrow while they were carrying gear to or from their car and fell off.
Never attribute to malice what can be equally explained by incompetence.
I don't know if "celebs moisturize with children's foreskin" is totally detached from reality.
Now it probably isn't what a lot of the people who get worked up about this are thinking, but there are beauty treatments and products out there that do in fact use ingredients that are sometimes derived from infant foreskins.
My dad retired a few years ago, he spent basically his whole life driving to work and anywhere else he needed to go himself.
Where we live, senior citizens can get a pass so they don't have to pay bus or train fare.
So now he takes the bus everywhere, sometimes he basically just goes and rides it for fun, doesn't really even go anywhere in particular, just gets on a bus and rides around for a bit, gets off at some random stop, and waits around for a bus going back the way he came from.
Weird hobby, but I guess it beats collecting stamps.
So I think that makes a pretty compelling case. If you make it free, people will use it
Basically he doesn't want to end up on tv doing something stupid being out of his mind. He is thinking proactively to put up road block just the option to get a gun?
"unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance".
So a legal prescription to opioids shouldn't be a disqualifier, unless you become "addicted" which could maybe be up to some interpretation, but if you stick to what your prescribed it would be pretty hard for anyone to prove an addiction
Weed is in a weird place, and I'm not 100% up on the latest stuff with that and how rescheduling will change things, but since it's still schedule I, as far as the feds are concerned there is basically no legal use for marijuana so pretty much any use is a disqualifier. I don't know how rigorously they check that against people who have medical cards.
A friend of mine, T, lent another guy, E, some money. Not a huge amount, but fairly significant for a high schooler, something like $50
E decides he's not gonna pay T back, so like mature, responsible high school dudes, they decide they're going to meet up at the park after school and fight over this.
T is not a big dude, and doesn't really expect to win this fight, so he goes and gets his friend, M, to come along, not to participate, just to watch over things and make sure he doesn't get killed. M is well equipped for this job being over 6ft tall and built like a brick shithouse. Nice dude.
E, apparently, also had some friends coming along with this, and they show up after school dressed like some kind of school shooters, wearing fatigues and trench coats and shit
And more importantly, sporting weapons- sharpened screwdrivers, a baseball bat, etc.
M does his job, and takes those from them, throws them in his backpack, with a jacket or something covering the protruding end of the bat.
Of course word of this whole shit show gets around, the school got wind of it, and had called the police.
So as this whole group is walking off of school grounds, cops show up and start rounding them up.
M of course gets nabbed being the one with baseball bat sticking out of his bag, as do E and his friends.
T, however, lucks the fuck out, because his older cousin happens to be driving by just as the cops are showing up, and gets him into her car, assuring the police that he was with her and not involved in this. Miraculously none of the other parties rat him out, so while the police managed to piece together that there was one other person involved, they never figured out who he was.
M gets sent of to an alternative school for a year, and is allowed to return after that on the condition that he joins the football team. Our football team did not win a single game our senior year.
The others get various similar punishments- suspensions, alternative schools, etc.
One of E's friends, on being informed by the cops that this was over $50, flipped out a little, possibly flipped a table, and sat down and calmly told the cops that he had been misinformed, and that E had told him it was over significantly more than that.
The really wild part though, is how the high school rumor mill exaggerated this, there was a version of the story I heard where M attacked a cop with a samurai and tried to escape on a motorcycle.
It should also be noted that these guys all actually remained on relatively good terms after this.
And these were, overall, pretty decent, even boring, nerds otherwise. A couple of them have some of the usual sorts of childhood trauma and such (except for T, who has some serious, grade-a childhood trauma, I still see him regularly, he had some rough patches along the way but is in a really good place these days) none of them really ever ended up in any significant trouble again after that.
And the area we lived in was a pretty safe, boring, middle class suburban area. I'm pretty well qualified to say that because I now work at the county 911 center, so I get to see what kind of shit is happening where, and that area of our county has nothing going on. If any one of the towns there has a dozen serious incidents (not counting stuff like noise complaints, traffic stops, parking issues, minor traffic accidents, routine medical emergencies and fire issues, etc) in a week, that's probably going to be one of the busiest weeks of their year.
I was home sick one day, my sister was at school, the phone rings and I answered it. It was an automated message, something about the school being aware of a school shooting threat and that there was no danger at this time.
It was really light on details, I called my mom who worked at another school in the district, she had no clue what was up. I couldn't really find much information, it kind of trickled out over the next couple of days.
A lot of parents went to pick their kids up early, my mom texted my sister to see if she wanted to be picked up she didn't really care, enough kids left early that classes were basically put on hold and they were just goofing off and watching movies and such. There were a bunch of cops and news crews showing up at the school so she figured she was probably about as safe there as anywhere that day.
Anyway, eventually the details started coming out, there was a kid who was planning a shooting, it was still a long way off if it was ever going to happen at all, but he tried to recruit another kid, and that kid turned him in.
The would-be shooter didn't actually go to our school, he was homeschooled. His parents had pulled him out because of bullying a few years prior. He was a few years younger than me, so I don't think I was ever in the same school as him, I think he would have been a freshman when I was a senior.
Now my school didn't exactly have a major bullying issue, it happened a bit, like it does in every school, but I'd be hard-pressed to think of anyone who had it especially bad.
Now this kid was fat, he may have been almost as wide as he was tall, and I'm sure he got plenty of bullying for that, but this is America, we had plenty of kids in our school who were just as fat, and again, no major bullying problems. Hell, I am/was pretty fat myself, and a bit of a weirdo to boot, and I was actually fairly popular in high school.
But apparently the real reason this guy was bullied was because he was just a real racist, misogynistic, homophobic asshole. If anyone deserved to be bullied, it was probably him. He basically was a bully himself, he was just too pathetic for anyone to take him seriously.
And yes, it does sound a lot like I'm describing Eric Cartman.
He did have one gun (that his parents apparently bought him) but no ammo, as well as a bunch of mall ninja swords and such, and a bunch of airsoft and pellet guns. Of course the local police made a big deal of showing off his "arsenal" when they confiscated it. I almost wanted to see his fat ass trying to lug all of that shit into school with him. I doubt he would have made it up the front stairs of the building before getting winded.
But it doesn't end there.
Remember the kid who he tried to recruit who turned him in? He of course got all the congratulations from the mayor and police chief and such that you'd expect. And then he tried to break into the would-be shooters house to steal his Xbox.
And at some point during the various trials and such, the would-be shooters mom got in trouble for trying to smuggle him food while he was in juvie.
If you're into this sort of game, it's really good. I haven't exactly played a ton of similar games to compare it to, but it's pretty hard for me to imagine a game that would do what it does better. I think if it had launched in the state it's currently in it would have absolutely blown peoples minds when it launched a decade ago.
Also since it is, at its core, a decade old game, it runs really well on my computer which is mostly made up of 10+ year old components (and on linux! I did have a little audio stuttering issue that was fixed by just adding a launch option in steam, pretty sure that was just a quirk of my particular hardware)
The story is a little weird, not bad, just maybe not what I would have chosen if I was the writer, and the story is secondary to the building and exploration in this kind of game anyway.
I could nitpick some things about the UI if I really wanted to, and the usual issues with procedurally generated content where you have a big universe to explore but it feels kind of empty (which is also kind of the point) and some of the planets start feeling kind of the same after a while.
I don't know what the existing laws in the UK look like,
In general though, in the US, it's usually legal to film things that are happening in public places, that's part of what's (supposed) to protect us from stuff like filming ICE agents.
Now of course, I'm not saying that it's not important to do something to protect people from creeps recording them and posting them online without their consent
But I also feel like this is the kind of law that needs to be crafted very carefully to make sure that it's not going to infringe on legitimate reasons people may have to record people in public. I could absolutely see Republicans here twisting a law like this that was made with good intentions to go after people for posting videos of ice arrests online.
No, but it is important if you're trying to record video of police brutality and such which is where my concerns lie about how these laws could be twisted
Even the UK has started flexing authoritarian lately
It's wild to me that people think this is a new thing for the UK
Maybe it's the parts of the internet I inhabit, but I remember seeing memes about there being CCTV Camera everywhere there going back probably about 20 years
It's not exactly a secret that they don't have the same sort of rights to free speech as the US
A whole house of their parliament is specifically reserved for essentially nepo-babies
Their gun and knife laws are restrictive enough that I'm pretty sure even the most ardent anti-gun nut could probably find something that they think is at least a little excessive if they really looked into it.
Every few years I hear about them trying some new way to restrict who can access what on the Internet.
I haven't heard it much in a while, maybe because of brexit, but for a while it sure as hell seemed to be like a lot of people from the UK were talking about people from countries like Poland in much the same way Americans talk about Mexicans.
It's not exactly an accident that books like 1984 and v for vendetta were written by British authors and set there. Or that punk became so big there.
Look, I'm in the US, I don't have a whole lot of room to be throwing stones here. A lot of my criticism applies to stuff going on here too. But it certainly doesn't surprise me that the UK is skewing pretty fashy these days. That writing has been on the wall for a long time.
The big Lebowski kind of has a sequel in The Jesus Rolls
It's a popular theory that a lot of Tarantino movies take place in the same universe, and other of his movies are movies that exist in that universe, like Kill Bill may be the pilot that Mia Wallace starred in. I don't believe any of that is outright confirmed, but again kind of a sequel if you buy into that theory.
There was a Napoleon dynamite cartoon series made at one point if you want to count that
Forest Gump was based on a book, and there was a sequel book made- Gump & Co, and I never read it myself but I've been told that the sequel book is actually more of a sequel to the movie than to the original book
By most measures, I'm a pretty stereotypically "manly" guy, and you can say pretty much the same thing about most of my male friends.
I've never really felt as though a woman being present in any way impeded anything we were doing. If anything it improved things in a "the more the merrier" kind of way. As long as they're ok with the cigar smoke, fart jokes, having to pee outside, etc. anyone is welcome to participate in our bullshit.
But I do feel like we can get in the way of women bonding and venting it the ways they need and want to. The old "it's not about the nail" kind of thing.
And of course, there's a whole lot of guys who are just dangerous toxic assholes who probably shouldn't be allowed to be around women in general, but trying to figure out which ones can and can't be trusted is a tall order and it's a lot easier to just say "women only."
So I don't really see much point in men-only spaces, but I do see it for women-only spaces.
There's some exceptions, sure, like men who have certain kinds of trauma that involve women may need some safe places to work that out. And it's not that women can't also be dangerous, toxic assholes, but in terms of numbers, severity, and actual risk, things are kind of on a different level than with men, so it's easier to deal with that on a case-by-case basis.
A friend of a friends daughter had him at college but could not longer keep him.
He was a really nice dog, some mystery combination of lab and who-know-what
But she had him in a house with a few roommates who all had different schedules, and this dog had never really been left alone, plus he was in a new environment with new people.
First few days we had him there was always someone home with him. He was great, meshed right into our family.
Then we tried to leave him alone and we discovered this dog had massive separation anxiety. We weren't gone for very long, maybe an hour, he destroyed a beanbag chair, and a bunch of blinds.
We tried crating him, he mangled the crate.
We tried locking him in the basement with some toys and such and this dog busted through the drywall to get out and cause havoc upstairs.
We got him over the summer, summer break was winding down and we knew we wouldn't have the time to work with him on this. It broke our hearts but we had to give him back.
Last we heard, he was actually in training to be some sort of service dog, he was still pretty young and was a very smart well-behaved dog as long as someone was with him, and I feel like a situation like that where he could always be with his human was a great fit for him. I hope it worked out for him.
Look, I know a lot of you Lemmy armchair animal behaviorists have a lot of opinions about crates, so enlighten me, assuming that, like most people who aren't wealthy, we couldn't afford to put our lives on hold to stay home for probably months to work him through these issues, what could we have done?
Allow him to destroy everything in our house and probably injure or kill himself before too long?
And the basement, while not exactly finished, wasn't a totally unfinished space either, and this was a fairly large house, I know people with small rancher houses comparable in square footage to that basement. It wasn't some small, dark, dank dungeon.
This is very much just a MY family thing. But most of my family members cannot stand when I eat kimchi in the house. I love it so I'm not going to stop but gosh, they get so grossed out.
Normally the milk is warm or they get fancier and make a bechamel kind of sauce, and maybe add some sugar and/or spices
I had it once in a while growing up, haven't thought about it in years but I do remember liking it a lot, maybe I'll have some as a late night snack when I get home
As for my own weird food thing, when my wife is out of town I often grab myself a jar of pickled pigs feet. Not a common thing in my neck of the woods so I can't always find them. And it's not that my wife wouldn't be upset about me eating them or anything, it's just that I'd probably be cooking actual meals instead of sitting around in my underwear fishing chunks of meat out of a jar
Also depending on when and where in the world you grew up, the Brussels sprouts of today's may be a very different variety than the ones your mom served you as a kid, they're a lot sweeter and less bitter now.
It's always been wild to me that steak houses are seen as sort of a fancy/high-end dining experience
Don't get me wrong, I love a good steak, and steaks can get pricey, so I get it from that angle
But steak isn't hard to do, even the fancy-schmanciest preparations usually aren't exactly complicated.
And the sides are usually pretty damn straightforward as well- baked or mashed potatoes, various vegetables that have basically been just been roasted or sauteed with some fat and seasonings
My wife and I have sort of a "no steakhouses" rule for our date nights. It's not that we wouldn't enjoy the food, but it's also mostly stuff that we could make at home for half the price and not much effort.
I work in 911 dispatch, and apparently we have a couple emu farms in my area, and at least one rich asshole who just has one as a pet.
And one of them manages to get loose maybe once every year or two on average.
So we have a weirdly thorough document about loose emus, the best ways to approach them, the ways they'll attack if they feel threatened, what vets and animal rescues and such are willing to help catch, tranquilize, house, and treat an emu, what to feed them, etc.
And a note that the state game commission will not assist because it's not a native bird.
But what's especially baffling to me in that very often we have no idea where these emu came from, we call around to all of the farms and rich assholes in the area, and they'll all say that their entire flock is accounted for. A couple usually offer to take it off of our hands if no one else claims it. Before I started there was one that was loose for months we kept getting calls about that they were pretty sure was someone's pet because it had approached people looking for food and attention a few times, but no one reported one missing, stepped forward to claim it, and even though it was a pretty big local buzz in that area we didn't even get any tips like "you know, John Smith over on Maple Street used to have an emu but I haven't seen it out in his yard in a while"
A big part of the problem with girl scouts, in my opinion, is that a lot of the time the troops are kind of temporary.
Usually group of girls and their parents (usually moms, who may or may not have any scouting experience of their own) start up a troop, more-or-less from scratch when the girls are brownie or daisy-aged, and then that's pretty much it, they don't really do any ongoing recruitment, it stays just those same girls until they all either quit or age out of the program and then the troop dissolves.
Meanwhile, the (boy scout) troop I came up through is going to be celebrating its 100 year anniversary in a year or two. They have a garage full of troop gear, money in the bank, and decades of institutional knowledge of how to be a scout and how to run a scout program. We had one or two kids whose or father and I think even grandfather had earned their eagle from the same troop, the current scoutmaster was in the troop a couple years before me and his kids are in it now, the one before him was already scoutmaster when I started before his kid was old enough to join and stayed on for a few years after his son aged out, and every year we got a new batch of kids joining, some years more than others sure, but there was always new blood coming in
So there's a lot more continuity and something like generational wealth going on with the BSA. Girl scouts generally need to hit the cookies and fundraising hard because they're often kind of starting from 0 (not that there isn't some valid criticism about how the cookie sales work and how the money is distributed and used, but I don't know enough about that to really go into it)
And as far as recruitment, boy scouts made it really easy to find a troop, there's a website you can go on and find all of the ones near you, so if your kid just suddenly wanted to join, or if you moved and needed to find a new one it was dead simple to look that up. At least at the time when I was in, girl scouts didn't really have anything similar, unless you were already in the know about when and where the existing troops met you were kind of SOL if you wanted to join one. I remember one of our leaders talking about some sort of community event they were trying to put together, they had some representatives from a couple other local organizations and other scout troops and such coming, and they wanted to see if any of the local girl scout troops would want to take part, but he just couldn't get in touch with any of them, couldn't find contact info, when he reached out to their local council they basically stonewalled him
And unfortunately just by the nature of it usually being the moms who are the involved parents with girl scouts as opposed to usually the dads with boy scouts, there's often a bit less outdoorsy knowledge to build on (some of my best hiking/camping/fishing buddies are women, but until I was the one who started inviting them out, a lot of them had never done much that kind of thing, and unfortunately that's not a terribly uncommon situation, whereas guys tend to be more likely to grow up doing that sort of thing with their dads)
All that said, I've known a decent amount of girl scouts, and while a lot of them got stuck with shitty programs, there were a handful that actually probably went harder than we did in boy scouts. The odds aren't exactly in your favor of ending up in one of those girl scout troops, but with the right parents, kids, and resources they actually can put on a really good outdoor program (and their campgrounds are usually really nice as well) they just don't have the systems in place to make sure that all of their troops are able to do that to the same extent boy scouts can.
I'm wondering what exactly counts as a site for these purposes
I've been out of scouting for a long time now so I really don't know how they're working it
But I feel like different patrol areas at a lot of BSA summer camp sites probably offer more privacy and separation than there is at 2 adjacent sites at some non-bsa campgrounds.
I know at the summer camp my troop usually went to, you usually couldn't really see or necessarily even hear what was going on in another patrol's area, even though they were technically all part of the same site.
But at one state park we camped at a few times, we could pretty much see and hear everything that was going on in the adjacent group sites.
Yeah, and I also think that the sort of temporary nature of most girl scout troops also hampers, what I think, was one of the most key parts of the boy scout program- the idea of "boys teaching boys" (I suppose they may phrase it more like "kids teaching kids" now)
The older kids in the troop took a really active role in running the program. Often we'd pretty much just get sort of a list of bullet points from the adult leaders for what we needed to accomplish and it was up to us to figure out how to make it happen, put together a plan, delegate responsibilities, and get the younger kids up to speed, while the adults stood by off to the side somewhere pretty much just making sure we didn't do anything too stupid.
Not all of us were exactly natural-born leaders, but because of that sort of organizational structure we all kind of learned some passable leadership skills.
But without that ongoing recruitment and the kids of different ages being active in the troop together, that kind of youth leadership can't really happen to the same extent
I've also heard some things, and I have no clue how true they are, about their adult leader training being a little excessive, like there's separate classes you're supposed to take before you do pretty much anything, like you need to take the training before you can go on a camping trip, and then there's a second training for if you want to have a campfire, and another if you want to go on a hike, etc. and I believe those are all trainings you would need to pay for
So if that's true (and it may not be, this is half-rememered info from probably about 2 decades ago) that does put a pretty high barrier of entry for a lot of people.
But the thing that makes steel steel is that it contains carbon
Dig iron ore up from the ground, and it's not going to have much if any carbon in it.
And unless you have some crazy particles accelerator/fusion reactor nonsense going on, nothing you do with just hydrogen is going to get carbon into that steel, because there's no carbon in hydrogen either.
Coal, however, is mostly carbon, so using as the heat source naturally tends to add carbon into your iron to make steel.
There's other ways of doing it, but at the end of the day most of them kind of rely on coal in one way or another at some point in the process because it's a really convenient source of carbon.
The next best alternative is probably cutting down a bunch of trees to process into charcoal
Would be really damn cool to be able to suck CO2 out of the air and use that carbon somehow, but to the best of my knowledge no one has figured out any efficient way to do that at scale.
So you know how geese fly in that V-formation to reduce air resistance?
You know how sometimes the one arm of the "V" is longer than the other?
You know why that is?
spoiler
Because that side has more geese.
Best told while you're just out shooting the shit walking around outside when you can point out some geese acting like you're just pointing out another fun nature fact.
Like the other person said I think the question was about the ICE car
But I work in 911 dispatch, so I spend a good chunk of my night getting vehicle descriptions, you would be absolutely amazed at how many have no clue what kind of car they're driving themselves or can't even give a basic description
Me: What kind of vehicle is it?
Caller: I don't know, I'm not really a car-person.
Me: Can you tell if it's a sedan, an SUV, or a pickup truck?
Caller: I don't know, I just told you that I'm not a car-person!
Also a shocking number of people don't know their own address, phone number, what the nearest cross-street is to their house (or even the nearest major road or big intersection,) what municipality they live in (it may be different than the "city" part of their mailing address,) what the address is of their work, whether their car has power locks and power windows (and in fact what that even means,) whether their spouse has any important medical history, where water shut-offs are in their house, the difference between a smoke detector going off and giving a low-battery chirp, etc.
Some of it is stress, but we get it just as much on the boring stuff too (we also handle a lot of the non emergency lines in my county) for things like a parking complaint where there's nothing urgent going on and the caller is cool as a cucumber, they're just completely clueless about anything I'm asking.
People work different schedules, the schedule I personally work has me working slightly more hours than average overall but I have more days off, so I'm free on a lot of weekdays, other people have more flexible schedules or work nights or weekends
Some people have PTO they can use, some have cool bosses who will just let them take time off whenever they want to, some people are those cool bosses or are self-employed and can set their own schedule
Some people are unemployed, some are retired (I've seen a lot of older folks at some protests near me)
Others are financially secure enough to be able to take the hit and think little to nothing of it
Others make sacrifices in order to make it work (if I had to take off without pay, I'd be out a few hundred bucks, it would hurt but I wouldn't be ruined for it, I might have to skip out on a few things I'd like to do, maybe cut some corners and buy cheaper groceries, cancel a subscription or two, borrow a couple bucks from friends or family, put a couple things on my credit card to pay off later that I otherwise might have paid for outright, or maybe work some overtime before or after it to make up the difference, but nothing I couldn't recover from fairly quickly.)
And with some exceptions, not everyone is going to every protest, some may only make it to a couple, some may make it to all or most of them, some may not be able to make it to any but may find other ways to help
There's been a few studies on this, and most of the supposed remedies have been found to be little or no more effective than just rinsing with water or saline.
That said, in theory, I feel like baby shampoo is probably a pretty good bet, it makes sense on paper. Most pepper sprays are oil-based, soap/shampoo is a surfactant so it helps to rinse out those oily substances with water, and baby shampoo in particular is non-irritating to the eyes.
There's a few purpose-made products for this, I've seen a few recommendations for sudecon wipes from first-responder types. I have no recommendations about how to best get your hands on those sorts of products in case you're worried about leaving a paper trail.
For my own personal kit (that I just try to keep well-stacked for any eventuality, I have pepper spray on my dog's leash so I figured I should know what to do if I even accidentally mace myself) I've settled on sterile saline eye wash and baby shampoo. Haven't had to use it yet, so I can't attest to the effectiveness, but I figure it's gotta be better than nothing
And it makes enough sense on paper that I figure if nothing else maybe I'll be able to placebo effect myself into believing it did something.
Most shoes aren't really built to be resoled these days, they're out there and if they can be they usually make it a selling point of that shoe, they're usually a good bit pricier than other comparable shoes as well, probably gonna be about $250usd at the low end
Coincidentally I actually just sent my hiking boots out to be resoled. I have a pair of Danners, they cost probably around $450 new, and I'm getting their full recrafting service, so new heel counter, shank, resole, goretex lining, and if my shoe had any broken hardware that'd get replaced too, cost I think $260. Just a simple resole would be cheaper of course, and if you have a decent local cobbler they could probably beat that price.
I've had them about 4 years, and at this point the sole is pretty well-worn-out but the uppers are still in pretty good shape. They've been worn pretty close to daily, and have some hard miles on them.
I definitely feel that I've gotten my money's worth, before these I probably got new boots every 2 years or so and usually spent about $200 on a pair, so if these last me another 4 years (and I don't have any reason to think they won't, but there's no guarantee what misadventures my boots might go through in the next 4 years) I'll have even come out a bit ahead on them vs buying cheaper boots.
These are hiking boots, so I'm not exactly keeping them mirror-polished or anything, so care is pretty minimal, clean them with saddle soap once in a while, wipe them down with mink oil or whatever your preferred leather conditioner/waterproofing stuff is a couple times a year (I generally try to do at least twice a year, maybe a bit more frequently if they're getting a lot of hard use- getting really dirty, worn in the winter or near the ocean where they may be getting salty, etc.)
Also not shilling specifically for Danners, I've been very happy with them so far, but there's plenty of other brands out there that are as good or better, and of course everyone has their personal preference. My next pair may or may not be danners, I do have my eye on some boots from higher-end manufacturers if my budget allows.
Another dog definitely isn't in the cards for her unfortunately. She's got some pretty bad dog aggression/reactivity issues from getting into a fight with another dog before we got her. We've gotten her to the point where she's OK with a small handful of dogs, and can more-or-less ignore most of the dogs around our neighborhood from a respectable distance, but it's very much on a case-by-case basis.
As it is now, she's got a lot of access to our dirty laundry and she ignores it, and free access to our bed, so I'm not sure that getting more access to our smell would really help matters. And the things she steals usually aren't things we handle a lot or that would hold our smell. It seems like a lot of it is motivated by what she thinks would be fun to play with
Or things that would just cause the most confusion, although I think that's probably too abstract of a thought for even a smart dog like her, but it's kind of hard to explain why she fished a potato out of a bag to bring up to our bed otherwise.
And again, she's not a particularly destructive dog, for the most part she's not really even chewing on most of the things she takes, but her little acts of theft tend to cause other collateral damage and we really worry about her breaking something glass in the process (which has happened) and getting cut (which so far hasn't thankfully)
We're already leaving the radio on for her (usually NPR, we figure that's mostly a lot of nice, calm, friendly-sounding voices)
And as it is, she has free reign of most of the house, which includes some dirty laundry in the hamper and, more often than I'd like to admit, on the floor of our bedroom which she never seems to pay any attention to whatsoever
And it's always really limited in scope, it's always just one or two things she gets into, not wanton destruction, I can't really know what's going through her head but it feels a lot like she just wants to do something bad while we're not there to tell her "no".
And often it's pretty benign with her not even trying to be destructive. She might steal a potato or a pack of ramen and carry it over to the stairs, not even bothering to chew on it, but the collateral damage of her getting into the potatoes might knock a bunch of stuff over and break a glass jar on the floor for example.
The time she got into the vitamins, I'm pretty sure her intentions were probably similar until she realized that the bottle rattled, and then she got curious and wanted to know what was inside.
I don't know the knife laws in Italy, especially not for the specific part of Italy this occurred in
But often laws about switchblades and such have to do with carrying them, or occasionally selling them, but often just owning a switchblade and keeping it at home isn't really an issue
As far as manufacturing, I again don't know about the specific regulations, if there's maybe any kind of licensing or something needed, but I know for a fact that it is either not totally illegal to manufacture a switchblade in Italy, or they are *very * selectively enforcing those laws because there are some very well-known manufacturers of them based there (if I had more disposable income I've had my eye on a Frank Beltrame stiletto for a while)
“The stories told in Japanese manga and anime are incredibly powerful. I often find myself wondering, ‘What is missing in Western comics, and why aren’t they able to achieve the same flavor?’ Also, I think manga has an ‘advantage’ over American comics, which are mostly about superheroes, and that’s where the ...
Even with one piece, it's building to something, there will be an end at some point where the story will be wrapped up and there will be no more one piece, it's not gonna just go on forever (when that ending will be is still debatable but it is allegedly in the final saga now, which could conceivably stretch on for a few more years)
I'm sure it's more complex than I'm making it out to be, but each gas in the air has its own freezing/melting boiling/condensation/sublimation points, so I'd imagine you could just kind of take advantage of that
Basically just cool it down to x temperature at y pressure, and all of the carbon dioxide should be solid, the oxygen a liquid and the nitrogen still a gas, and they've all sort of separated themselves out. Fish out the dry ice, siphon off the oxygen, and you're left with nitrogen.
Might need to do a couple more rounds of that on each of those to account for other gases in the mix depending on how pure you need it to be, but in theory I imagine it could be that simple (again in practice I'm sure there's probably a lot of details I'm missing)
This is referring to all the people who say I own this gun to protect against a tyrannical government. While I agree fighting a tyrannical government is noble Most of those people aren't serious about it and are just LARPing. If you are serious about fighting for your freedom then you'd know that fighting alone will get you ...
Yeah, but you won't be able to change their mind from the outside. Join one and try to educate them on true freedom from the billionaire capitalist class. Worst case scenario even if they don't respond you'll still be training and learning how to work in a group, and you can be a spy and learn their tactics and how to defeat them in the case of a civil war.
You won't be able to change their minds from the inside either, these types are a lost cause, they're the most radical true believers. If you try they're going to be suspicious of you, kick you out, keep you in the dark, maybe even get violent.
Maybe you can be effective as a spy, but who are you spying for, you' need some kind of group who's able to act on that intel, if you're planning to hand it off to the police or something you have to
Trust the police to act on it, which is a tall order these days
Make sure that you're toeing the line on legality to make sure that they can act on it and that you won't land yourself in legal trouble because you, for example, recorded someone without their consent.
So you're going to need some sort of network already in place before you go into this, maybe you're lucky enough to have some good cops that you can trust, maybe some journalists you can pass info off to, maybe another militia you're already involved in. You can't just throw yourself into a militia and hope you'll put the pieces together later, they're going to be watching you, these people are already pretty paranoid, that's why they're in a militia to begin with, and if you suddenly vanish once you have your Intel on them, you've got a target on your back, and you need someone ready to act on it right away.
If you want to do the militia thing, you should be seeking out one that's already left-leaning (there are a few) or start your own, which means at some point you're probably going to have to be that guy with an AR playing at being in a militia until you actually have one.
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This is a big oversimplification, but the bacteria that causes tetanus basically lives in the dirt. If dirt can get to it, it can have tetanus on it. And I don't know many dogs that are above picking things up with their mouth from the ground.
There's of course the old myth that it's caused by rust, rust really has nothing to do with it, it just happens that if you leave something made of iron/steel outside, it tends to rust and also get dirty.
The bacteria also lives in the digestive systems of a lot of animals, so if something might have pooped on it, there's another way for you to be exposed to tetanus, and again a lot of dogs are willing, even eager, to eat poop.And of course there's no shortage of people and sources that are happy to tell you that basically everything in the world has a bit of poop on it in some form or another.
Also, remember that part about tetanus living in animals' digestive systems? I hope so, it was only one paragraph ago. That includes humans, there's a pretty good chance you have tetanus already living in your gut. In your digestive tract it's not an issue, maybe even beneficial (we still have a lot to learn about our gut microbiomes) it's only really an issue if it makes its way into your bloodstream/lymphatic system, which it normally can't do except through a wound.
And deep puncture wounds, like from a dirty needle, rusty nail, or dog's canine tooth, are kind of the ideal place for tetanus to do its thing, like most bacteria it likes things warm and moist, and your body checks those boxes nicely, and it likes a low-oxygen environment and there's not a whole lot of airflow at the bottom of a puncture wound.
What sort of deadly modern arrow head is this?
This was given to me by a friend today, who had visited a recent Mardi Gras parade. His girlfriend found it while randomly scavenging around. ...
What's your pitch for a regional Bigfoot variant?
What is the most ridiculous conspiracy theory?
Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free ( www.nytimes.com )
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Where did this mic come from and how to make it go away? [Android]
How does a person get on the No Gun List without commiting a crime? My brother was diagnosed with BIpolar and others he doesn't even want the option ten year down the road.
Basically he doesn't want to end up on tv doing something stupid being out of his mind. He is thinking proactively to put up road block just the option to get a gun?
What is the weirdest story from your high school?
Best ork books?
Ive been reading some Dan Abnett's stuff and while they are good and all, i came to the conclusion that there arent nearly enough orks ...
No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer ( www.youtube.com )
Call for change in law to tackle covertly-filmed videos of women on nights out ( www.bbc.com )
Covertly filming women on nights out to upload the videos to social media should be made illegal, the Liberal Democrats have said. ...
As a private person doing nothing illegal, is there value to having a VPN?
If so, can you explain the value aside from changing location for streaming?
What are some of the best films that do not yet have a sequel or remake
The first that comes to mind for me is The Breakfast Club and I hope it never does have a sequel or remake ...
I think all pet lovers can relate
Are gender-exclusive groups ever ok?
[All these points apply to sex and to gender, so for ease of reading, I'll just discuss gender] ...
YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They contain vitamin C, improve blood pressure, and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. Radishes contain almost no calories
What's the most destructive your doggo has been?
What’s a food you love that everyone else seems to judge you for?
This is very much just a MY family thing. But most of my family members cannot stand when I eat kimchi in the house. I love it so I'm not going to stop but gosh, they get so grossed out.
What’s a food you hated as a kid but now love?
What’s a dish you make when you want something delicious but absolutely zero effort?
Escaped emu runs through town, predicts '6 more weeks of winter' - UPI.com ( www.upi.com )
Pentagon warns Scouts: Ban girls or we will pull your funding ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
The US government is trying to make coal seem cute. It isn't. | Trump complained that coal needed better PR. Then “Coalie” showed up. ( www.motherjones.com )
Whats your favorite bad joke?
I love to make really bad similes/metaphors like "I have the memory of a fish with very poor memory" or "I'm as tall as a tree thats my height".
St. Peter [Minnesota] police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident ( www.mprnews.org )
[US] How are so many people able to protest? (Logistically)
Excluding walkouts, How do people find time to go to these events? ...
YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo
https://famichiki.jp/@FlockOfCats/115984965100606546
What skills did almost everybody have 50 years ago, but few people have today?
I suppose it would be mostly practical skills, cooking, fixing things. Usually had to be done by people themselves. ...
Transitioning dog back into crate
I have a 6 year old malinois (possibly a mix, she didn't come with paperwork) ...
My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.
Article: https://tg.la7.it/cronaca/bolzano-coltelli-stampante-3d-a-scuola-denunciato-minore-26-01-2026-251562 ...
DC Comics Boss Says Anime & Manga’s Advantage Over Western Comics Lies in Storytelling & Young People’s Desire to Have Something of Their Own - Anime Corner ( animecorner.me )
“The stories told in Japanese manga and anime are incredibly powerful. I often find myself wondering, ‘What is missing in Western comics, and why aren’t they able to achieve the same flavor?’ Also, I think manga has an ‘advantage’ over American comics, which are mostly about superheroes, and that’s where the ...
A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate ( www.anthropocenemagazine.org )
Imaging if this technology could cool a data centre. ...
YSK Tips for a Winter Storm
A lot of people are about to be hit with a big winter storm who are not used to this kind of weather. Here are some tips from a Minnesotan: ...
Unless you're in a militia, owning an AR-15 is just LARPing
This is referring to all the people who say I own this gun to protect against a tyrannical government. While I agree fighting a tyrannical government is noble Most of those people aren't serious about it and are just LARPing. If you are serious about fighting for your freedom then you'd know that fighting alone will get you ...
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