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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. Pulled these out of the yard a few minutes ago...
  2. Aren't the F-22's only air to air kills balloons?
  3. Lol, you didn't even read the article you posted.
  4. I'm of the opinionthat dropping the charges was the right thing to do in these circumstances, but after reading several articles on gun safety on movie sets, they could have easily made a pretty good case against Baldwin. From The Hollywood Reporter: From CNN: From USA Today: There are plenty of other articles out there about gun safety on film sets due to this incident, but they all stress the same basic rules that the people arguing that he should be charged are advocating for. And had Baldwin followed them this incident wouldn't have happened. He has made enough movies involving firearms in his career that he should have known what a proper set's gun safety rules should be. And furthermore, a single action army replica revolver doesn't require doing any sort of manipulations to determine if there is anything in the cylinder or not. Here's a picture of one of mine that is of the same make loaded. And here it is unloaded. You can easily see whether there is anything in the cylinder or not with just a quick glance. There is no manipulation required like there would be on a modern pistol. Given Baldwin's experience as an actor on movies where he handled firearms, he should have at least been knowledgeable about proper procedures to know that something was off based on how things should be handled on set. Ideally, he would have asked why there were "dummy" rounds in the gun that was handed to him and had the armorer remove them and shake them to confirm that they were in fact dummy rounds before continuing to practice his quick draw for the shot. Or he would have asked that they be removed for safety purposes. If he had followed the proper procedures that every armorer has said should be followed in the interviews from the articles I saw he would not have pointed the gun at the cinematographer, cocked the hammer, and pulled the trigger. I think ultimately this case is an indictment of the industry as a whole and a very tragic lesson about cutting production costs and the tragedies it can lead to if proper procedures aren't followed. It has apparently led to a greater gun safety focus in Hollywood, which is a good thing, but it truly sucks that it was at the cost of a life lost.
  5. I'm going to wait until I see the movie before judging him.
  6. Best of luck! A couple of years ago my wife and I took advantage of my company's new policy allowing for four weeks of parental leave for newborn kids up to their first birthday. The policy went into effect the January after our middle child was born, but was retroactive as long as I took the leave before he turned one. So we spent a month touring the western United States with an almost three year old and an almost one year old out of our van (that we had purchased and then subsequently outfitted with stuff like that in mind.) It still remains as one of the best experiences in my life, and I have managed to be decently well traveled in some areas of the world that most folks might read about. Knock it out of the park. This will be one of those experiences that you can tell your grandkids about and inspire them to follow in the same footsteps. Best of luck, we are all rooting for you.
  7. This might be relevant. https://www.ammoland.com/2022/04/update-of-pistol-defenses-against-bears-123-cases-98-effective/#axzz7zkA3Gago
  8. There was a solar thread in cyhmwt I believe where someone got one recently.
  9. Is there no human backup in case the automated system malfunctions?
  10. So is there somebody in mission control just sitting whose sole job is to push a button to blow the whole thing up when things go wrong? I assume it's automated, but they have to have a human backup.
  11. It's Star Wars. They don't always concern themselves with details like that.
  12. So, the last episode was The Spies, yet we only saw one spy...I wonder if that will come back next season? Or maybe in Ahsoka since we know there will be at least one Mandalorian.
  13. That's kinda what I was getting at. I keep hoping the reason that news is slow is because opsec and Ukrain has already made some major objective. But we would be hearing stuff from the Russian side if it were already underway. More likely they are trying to keep their cards close before they begin.
  14. Older movies and rural areas that don't have reliable high speed internet, although Starlink seems to be on track to fix that.
  15. Yeah, every time I open this thread I cross my fingers and hope to find out news that the offense is underway.
  16. There was a holo of Ezra on the Ahsoka trailer.
  17. Meh, some people click on it early in the morning forgetting that it is release day and there might be folks already discussing it. Other people might want to see reactions but avoid spoilers to get themselves hyped up. It doesn't take a lot of effort to add spoiler tags to anything that might be a bit spoilery as a courtesy especially to the first group, but it's not something I would get too worked up over.
  18. Should probably spoiler that stuff this early in the morning.
  19. Whoever said that live action couldn't do Mandalorian battles justice like animation can needs to rethink things a bit.
  20. Well, knowledge of computers and file sizes apparently causes you to download unfathomable amounts of porn.
  21. Yeah, I don't really want to see videos of people dieing either, so I avoid them unless they are videos of Ukrainian drones dropping grenades on Russians.
  22. What happened to just leaving it on the porch in a flaming paper bag? Do people have no decency anymore?
  23. Y'all've never seen one of those retractable leashes that lets your dog wander 20 or 30 feet from you? Some folks will let their pet go as far as it wants to poop.
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