Please don’t, the plastic will almost certainly break after just 1 shot.

If you want to make your own gun, you should use your 3d printer to create parts for a CNC machine, and use that to make the gun.

International waters? Didn’t this happen in Brittain’s EEZ?

• Prisoners dilemma doesn’t work when people are thinking of tomorrow. Once you take into consideration how your actions affect the decisions other people make in the future, it is always better to cooperate. That’s a big assumption from people, but if they don’t, they are not acting rationally in their own interest like in the dilemma.
• I’m pretty sure this comment is not complaining about people driving through the gap, it’s about people who are too absent minded to create a gap in the first place. In that case that’s not prisoners dilemma at all, they don’t get anything from not moving to the side.

In the US perhaps, over here we are proud to dismiss anyone with anxiety regardless of gender, women in particular get instead dismissed with period cramps or potential pregnancies! /s

Sucks to be a marsupial in a placental mammal world.

It existed for decades in times of war and tension.

It is something completely different that they want us to ask for permission in times of peace, which they changed this year.

1. The water is cold.
2. The stove isn’t even on yet.
   – Frog in the pot

Taking a car for a 3km distance is unconscionable when walking or cycling are valid options.

Driving less than the speed limit will not kill you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backchannel_(linguistics)

“I acknowledge that I could interject my own thoughts here, but choose not to. Please continue with that topic, I am interested.”

Of course, doesn’t work as well in online forums.

Although commonly called “Morgenstern” in German, they’re technically called “(Streit-)Flegel”, so “flail” in both English and German.

“Morning star”/“Morgenstern” refers to a spiky ball on a club without any chain.

With tensions between them being at an all time low and presenting as united to the outside being more important than ever, do you think it will be returned to Rome anytime soon?

Funerals are for the living, not the dead. Grieving family members care about the person as a dad, brother or son, not as the hollywood record breaking super scientist.

The hardware store had 100 fender washers, or 1kg, for 1€, so I’ll be using them for a while.

Restaurant fries and drinks.

Was on a really tight budget for a time, so I know I can feed myself for a few Euros a day. Going back to fast food restaurants at all still instils some guilt in me, but there is 1 that has unbelievably good prices and I can still appreciate the convenience at times.

But fries and drinks are just a scam with how big the profit margins are, and not even hard to prepare at home if you’re ordering take out or have it delivered (I also don’t pay for delivery, my bike is free).

It is still an event that is mostly relevant to people living in NYC with little bearing on other US states, despite the media reporting on it as if it was a big deal everywhere. We are just starved for good news.

Most of the other news stories here affect entire countries or regions. I’ll grant you, it is more impactful than Japan sending soldiers to deal with bear attacks, but less than any other world news posts on my page 1. It would probably become world news if he pushes through some of his policies for being unprecedented in the US, though.

The problem is the word “internal”, someone winning a mayoral election should only be relevant to people of that city. World news should have bigger impacts than potential future city guidelines.

Kyoto’s tourism tax may be world news, who is elected its mayor isn’t.

That said, we are so starved for good news from the US that I confess it was of interest to me, a person not in the US. And it was treated as way more than a regular local election by the media.

Because it’s hens and cows that are farmed for their products, veganism is a feminist issue.

Feminism is notoriously concerned with chromosomes rather than personhood. /s

Interesting what’s written here, I actually saw it more often in some Discord server. As far as I know, there it is just for fun and/or homestuck nostalgia, without any deeper meaning behind it.

Just like calling X “twitter” or “the hellsite”, or annotating everything with parenthesis, or using or refusing to use emoji, there does not need to be more of a reason to do something with written language than “I like it that way”. How much stylisation you can inject into your writing before you stop being comprehensible is another question.

Would you say Charlie’s proposal was… shot down?

A AAA-battery to AA-adapter. I randomly had 50 of the smaller ones lying around, so it really came in handy.

Can’t share a link, but there should be dozens of this kind of model on any site. “Can’t”, because the model I grabbed was definitely among the worse ones.