If one is said to ‘wax lyrical’, would this not carry forward to ‘wane gibbous’, meaning to gibber as an ape?

Yeah, precisely.

There are actually quite a lot of regulations, in not all, but a lot of US states, that mandate varying levels of safe storage of firearms.

The problem is that to actually enforce that fully, you’d basically need surprise food inspectors, but for guns… which would probably run into the 4th Amendment… or, you’d have to actually revamp the 2nd Ammendment to mandate that people be required to regularly retake/retest on some kind of firearm safety course… I dunno.

But yeah, an actually responsible gun owner… probably has something like a dedicated sand bucket to point a semi auto weapon into, while they are verifying that its fully unloaded and cleared, juuuuust in case some kind of uncommanded discharge happens when you’re racking the slide to get the (potentially) chambered round out.

And yeah, never sweep anybody (or a place where anybody could be, within a mile) even with a gun you personally just unloaded. Never finger a trigger when you don’t need to. You just don’t do that.

I would at least say its possible the dog discharged the weapon, but it doesn’t matter, the situation where that is a thing that can happen should never have been allowed to arise… and yeah, the situations you describe that lead to an ND occuring are much more likely.

Here’s an attempt at another one.

If you have a short sentence that tells a tale, but has been through a few rounds of ‘telephone’…

… perhaps what you have is a quip of Theseus.

A modern upgrade to the ancient metaphor/philosophical quandary.

Still as apt, but probably more broadly relatable, at least to us veteran navigators that sail the digital seas.

… Maybe a good name for a repair shop or right to repair advocacy org, something with Theseus in it somewhere.

Lol, like a self inflicted ‘aim to wound, not to maim’ kind of injury, to stage a crime or get out of combat… hahaha!

You know I never actually þought about þat, but yeah, I don’t þink I’ve ever actually seen or shot .22lr þat was anything other þan lead.

Presumably somebody does or has at least tried to make a jacketed .22lr? Or maybe þat’s basically why .17hmr and such exist?

Yes, like you here, prominently displaying your lack of understanding of ballistics, to great effect, for no apparent reason.

I mean… yeah… I guess it could have… you could have shot your own pc… as a stunt… to clout farm… on reddit… for… 0 monetary gain… at the loss of thousands of dollars of… pc hardware.

Yep.

That’s… possible.

I guess.

Why is that incredible?

The shot hit a PC.

After going through the walls of at least one house.

Bullets lose a significant amount of velocity when they blow through or get deflected by various materials.

After going some distance, then through a few walls, and then a gaming PC, it is totally possible that a bit of matress and/or pillow could take its remaining velocity down to zero, if it was basically a non rifle or lower velocity round, 9mm, .22lr, 380 acp, something like that.

They also claim that the police are reconstructing the bullet trajectory here, and have supplied pics of the busted pc, and bullet.

Not saying this all means its 100% verified totally true, but its definitely plausible.

Looks like a banged up 9mm or 380 ACP to me, given this is a woman reporting this, and women generally have smaller hands than men. That slug is way too big to be a .22lr though.

RIP, random battlestation, you served the prime directive:

For a gamer to game, they must actually be alive, above all else.

o7

May Theseus grant you new life.

He’s both.

He got lost in the sauce a long time ago, he’s got no real self at this point.

He is the living embodiment of schrodinger’s asshole.

He’s not an enigma. He’s an unlikeable asshat who is far more clever than he is wise.

Yeah, I did know that the OLED variant does have a slightly larger capacity battery and a tweaked bit of the … basically the power management component/system in the mobo… and yeah, it has slightly different internal dimensions and layout in some respects, I’ve had to pick between OLED and LED variants for a few aftermarket upgrade kits I’ve gotten.

I just did not realize the LCD was also touchscreen, derp.

But yes, broadly speaking, very very similar in all other respects.

Oh!

I did not know that.

I mean, that’s why you restructure into a modular studio format during … basically a bankruptcy that just barely has not actually happened yet…

… Its so its easier to concentrate losses and non profitable people and things … and then lop them off.

Its almost certainly part of the ongoing lawsuit Valve is having with New York.

NY AG claims (among other things) that Valve knows their Steam Wallets and Steam Items and giftcards form part of a system which allow the proceeds of alleged gambling to be converted into real world money, and that Valve doesn’t do enough to stop this.

Valve claims they do their best to find and shutdown secondary markets (which are against their TOS) that facilitate that, and well now they’re just pulling the plug on another part of that loop, where all of it has to exist for all of NY AG’s claims to be true.

1] Makes sense, just in general.

2] Makes more sense, when these gift cards are a part of the case they’re currently fighting in New York.

If the gift cards … stop physically existing as potential ‘money’… well then that somewhat weakens the idea that Valve is pemitting the proceeds of alleged gambling to be functionally redeemable as a valuable physical object / semi-money.

Another whole big angle of the New York AG’s case is that Valve has just known the secondary market for Steam Items and Steam Giftcards exists, and has done nothing about it.

They’ve previously countered that they take secondary markets seriously and have put a considerable deal of effort into finding and shutting those down, and well now, if they’re also just pulling the plug on physical cards, that further makes them look like they’re not just belligerently and openly refusing to comply with the law.

‘War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.’

Niko Bellic

Yeah, being in the physically most prominent role, and being in the mentally dominant role… not the same thing.

You could also be a ‘power bottom’, where you’re receiving, but you’re mentally and physically dominant in the encounter.

You could also basically be bullied into being a ‘service bottom’, though I’m not sure that’s a widely used phrase.

Also, if you were doing something like cowgirl, as a service bottom… well you’d physically be on top of them.

You see this is all very straightforward and not at all confusing.

Gotta say I didn’t expect the Butlerian Jihad to happen in my lifetime… huzzah for living in ‘interesting times’, I suppose.

Now that’s gonna fuck with the AI trying to discern the difference between a male nipple and a female nipple.