There is a whole youtube rabbit hole you can go down showing videos of miniature versions of larger (larger caliber) guns. The smallest I saw was “replica” Civil War Navy revolver that the whole gun was about 6cm long. It was a functional gun that had a powder charge with a projectile.
If you’re talking about actually scaling, like a CAD drawing, then no.
If you’re talking most of the appearance and function, then yes! There is a scale model of a Browning M2 machine gun (which normally fires 50 cal ammo) that fires 22lr instead. It will set you back about $20,000.
Space Center Houston is a really enjoyable attraction for history and spaceflight. Stand next to a full sized Saturn V rocket (on its side so you can walk it end to end). Go inside the Shuttle Carrier 747 plane! Much more to see too. Spaceflight is inspiring!
It probably the fact that the industry is getting flooded with people who think working in IT is a easy get rich job.
It certainly was 20-25 years ago. Zero formal education besides high school would land you a job 5 times the minimum wage working mostly in air conditioned comfort. Upward mobility was built in, and many of us have leveraged that for even higher paying positions with the gained experience and continued learning of the tech on our own.
No, I just don’t want them in my life.
This part we agree on.
but if you backflip on the top of a tall building, I don’t know you anymore.
The list of things that people can do that I wouldn’t want them in my life is nearly infinitely long, but I guess I don’t call that a list of “things I vehemently hate”.
Just randomly thought: I also hate people who seek thrills and extremely “unique” experiences. Like those who own pet chimpanzees, try various drugs to get high, or risk their lives for TikTok.
The pet chimpanzees thing I get. Its a wild animal and shouldn’t be a pet.
However all the other stuff is only affecting that person doing it. Why do you care what they do to themselves (as long as no one else is involved without their own consent)? How is your life negatively affected if those other people do those things to themselves? Do you want those other people having a say in what you do that doesn’t affect anyone else?
Son, that’s the cost of a new roof.
Depending on their circumstances, they might already have the new roof too. Or more likely they bought the vehicle with a minimal down payment and stretched the loan across 80 months.
I can go to a cafe where I’m waited on and served decent food for $20.
How much do you tip on you cafe meal on top of that $20?
What specific traits or habits do people close to you recognize that would reveal an impostor trying to mimic you?
They ask me what specific things would reveal themselves when they mimic me. Thats probably a red flag.
Nobody’s demanding they wear a mask
Which country are we talking about. In the USA there were absolutely mask mandates.
“They’re wearing a mask
to stop the spread of disease,because they are sheep and I feel a need to react to this person’s wearing of a mask to prove to everyone else within eyesight I am not sheep lest they question my superiority."
FTFY, they don’t see the mask as preventing disease that needs to be prevented. They see COVID as a mild inconvenience. An inconvenience that isn’t worth doing anything to prevent it, and they get upset when anyone tells them they should care about it (even if its just for other people’s sake).
Masks are a highly-visible sign of compassion. It’s a sign that you don’t want others to suffer due to your own actions, especially if you’re suffering already.
I agree with this.
So when a person who has no compassion (but doesn’t want to admit they have no compassion) sees a mask, they feel the need to defend themselves and attack the mask.
I don’t agree with this. There is no self awareness of lack of empathy in this group. Its not like they’re recognizing masking as an empathetic action, and choose to act counter to telegraphy the don’t care about empathy.
Instead, they (wrongly) see mask mandates as some kind of subjugation (even though it isn’t). They build the narrative that “COVID is just like the flu” so no freedoms should be impinged. Personal exceptionalism demands they rail against anyone or anything demanding their obedience or compliance. They see the demand of not hurting others with the spread of disease as an infringement on their freedom.
The result of their actions is a lack of empathy, but I don’t think that is their goal and they even have any awareness about anyone else’s needs except their own.
He said all this kind of nonsense the last time he ran.
And he violated all kinds of laws when in office and after his term ended.
I think there is a high likelihood we will see President Vance before the end of this second Trump term. I can’t really tell which is worse.
Yes but all that money is part of the marketing arm of his portfolio under the legal entity Lisa’s Castle LLC, which is incorporated in the Seychelles, and all funds still on deposit in Seychelles Commercial Bank. As long as he doesn’t repatriate more than $13,850 back to his home in New York City, he stays within the legal bounds of not having to pay income tax.
Lets be real. The Punisher is a vigilante mass murder. He’s not a monster that doesn’t pay his taxes to support a free and fair society.
Possibly not a crime.
TIL The Punisher’s annual income is below the Standard Deduction (in 2023 that’s $13,850).
I wonder if all those “alpha males” that put the Punisher Logo on their trucks know that he lives below the poverty line.
FYI, Passive Matrix doesn’t mean monochrome. Passive Matrix were color too. If you’re actually looking for a reflective monochrome LCD, you probably want STN aka Supertwist LCD.
I’m not aware of any STN smartphones. Others have already rightly posted eink is likely a better fit for what you want.
To my complete lack of surprise, Russia is seems to be a freer country for free software developers than the United States.
What does the United States have to do with this? Since when is Finland part of the United States? Linus Torvalds is Finnish.
Someday soon I’m sure we’ll get that paperless office.
This one I’ve seen pretty darn realized. My last “in office” job was more than 5 years ago, but while there were printers available they were not used often. Nobody would hand you a piece of paper with any exception you’d have to keep it safe or for any period of time, and even then you’d also have a digital copy sent to you. Then and now, I still keep an notepad, but its only for things I need to remember for less than 24 hours or that get entered electronically very shortly after.
This was a fortune 100 company too, not some Mom-and-pop office.
The appetite for 7nm ICs may be greater than the domestic ability to supply. Just because they can make 10,000 may not mean they can make 10,000,000.