You know that fat British guy that someone is posting shorts of on Youtube/Tiktok? “I was working for a company and their main product wasn’t selling. They asked me if they should lower the price, I told them ‘no, make your entry level product more shit.’ So they took their entry level product and added roofing nails to the seat cushions. Overnight, sales of their main product skyrocketed because no one was buying their entry level anymore.” That guy? He said he likes Samsung’s folding phone because “I’m old and my vision is failing, so I like the larger screen of the Fold. But you can’t sell that, because it’s not cool to sell products for the old and infirm.”

Hershey’s does not taste like shit.

It tastes like vomit. Get your facts straight.

Wisconsin famously deleted a Korean gun emplacement and the hill it sat on.

It’s like DVDs. DVDs looked great in 2002, compared to VHS or even broadcast TV, your new 32 inch “big screen” never looked as good playing a DVD over S-video. That same DVD in that same player attached by HDMI to a 45 inch 4k LCD looks grainy and horrid.

I think you’ll find that community is exactly that. I forget which it is, I’ve long since blocked it.

They’re imagining the community (the subreddit) as a space one enters by navigating to the community’s main page, and “leaving” it is going to do other things.

A major difference I noticed with Lemmy from my time on Reddit is communities aren’t quite as rabid about strict adherence to their topic or gimmick. r/whatisthisthing banned me for seven days once for elaborating what an E6B flight computer is for. Because “This community is for IDENTIFYING the thing, not DISCUSSING the thing!” Not…so much of that around here.

I suspect getting pissed off is the point.

One of the rules of that community is “post before you leave.” People put “rule” in the post to indicate they’re complying with that rule.

16 inches is the maximum diameter of the shell. They’re about as big around as a man’s chest. There’s video on Youtube of a man squeezing down the barrel of one of these guns.

“Caliber” in naval guns actually refers to the length of the barrel in multiples of its bore. USS North Carolina’s main guns are 16 inch, 45 caliber. Which means they’re 45*16 inches =720 inches / 12 inches to a foot = 60 feet long. The Iowa class’ guns are 16 inch 50 caliber, they’re about 7 feet longer.

They’re about 0.95 curators tall.

There are three ways to answer that, which boil down to “no, no, kinda yeah.”

1. These almost perfectly aren’t “blanks.” In small arms, a “blank” is a cartridge with primer and propellant but no projectile. Makes the gun go bang but throws nothing. The shells in the picture above are projectiles with no propellant or primer. No “cartridge” of any description is used, the propellant is stored separately in cylindrical 110 pound bags, 6 of which are required to fire the gun.

2. The black shells on the left of the image are armor piercing shells, the green ones on the right are “high capacity” aka maximum kaboom. They do carry a number of inert shells that are filled with sand instead of high explosives, those are for training, but they are painted blue. Again not “blank” because a projectile is fired, but they don’t explode on impact, they just land with the force of a Corolla going mach 1.2.

3. Because this is on the tour route of a museum ship, these shells have either had their bursting charges removed to render them inert, or they are fiberglass replicas.

USS North Carolina hasn’t really published much media to the internet, but the USS New Jersey museum has a very good Youtube channel. Head over there and my main main Ryan will tell you all about it. Compared to North Carolina, New Jersey is a couple years younger, a bit larger, and had a longer career. North Carolina is a WWII museum, New Jersey is mostly in her Gulf War trim.

I’ve read stories from marines in Vietnam calling in artillery strikes which were sometimes delivered by New Jersey. “We don’t target coordinates; we target grid squares.”

My cat walking back and forth across my pillow wanting food, the selfish little quadruped.

Dellow Felegates:

I somehow doubt that.

My last desktop PC has been retasked as an HTPC. The CPU in it requires a graphics card for the system to POST, it’s currently mounted in a SFF case with barely room for two 2.5" drives, so it would either make for a shitty, difficult to service, bulky for what it does, power inefficient NAS, or I’d have to buy a new case and CPU.

My current machine is in an mATX mini-tower, there’s room for hard disks and the 7700X has integrated graphics so I could haul the GPU out, but it’s still kind of bulky for what you’d get.

So I’m gonna keep my Synology in service for a little while longer, then build a NAS from scratch selecting components that would be good for that purpose.

Do NOT mention Nicole.

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It is my understanding that this is a byproduct of Google’s company culture. Google hires software engineers, they’re incentivized to invent something of their own. They do so. They get promoted. There isn’t room in their company structure for anything to be maintained, maintaining someone else’s project isn’t a path to promotion. So Play Wallet is now Android Pay is now Google Pay is being sunset.

Oh, and Google is an American corporation, so anything that doesn’t promise infinite exponential growth in revenue or unprecedented opportunities for cruelty is shot in the head as worthless.

That’s a Tonk. Siamese and Tonkinese are just motor mouths.

Those are where the money comes from, re adsense. Remember, Google is a B2B company, they sell public attention to advertisers.