MrEff
@MrEff@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 2 days ago:
The barrels smallest diametral dimension has to smaller than the bullet, otherwise the rifling wouldn’t engage.
Kind of, but not really. The bullet actually slightly expands from heating. At the same time though, if you measured the diameter of a cold barrel and a hot barrel you would get two different measurements. If the cold barrel is too tight of a fit the bullet has an increased chance of lodging when it heats up and expands.
This is why bullets moved towards copper jackets with some sort of other metal center chosen for various justifications. The copper jacket is soft, east to expand into rifling grooves, not hard enough to damage and wear out rifling, and can stretch a little if it gets too tight.
Really, the BIGGEST difference is going to be the casing, chambering, and pressure. It’s like how people talk about 5.56 and .223 being the same. They are the same only at face value of size and clambering, but very different on rated pressures. A rifle rated to shoot .223 should only shoot .223. A rifle rated to shoot 5.56 is rated for a higher pressure and can shoot both.
It’s also kinda funny how the most common rifle rounds are smaller calibre than 9mm, so if you ignore all the other metrics, most handguns shoot “bigger” bullets than most rifles.
True, but this is also why “stopping power” is then measured in ft-lb (foot-pounds) or joules for metric. Pistols may shoot bigger rounds, but at significantly slower speeds. Less powder for recoil control and less barrel length for pressure build up. The bigger size bullet is a compensation for the smaller gun. A rile with a smaller round has far more energy behind it’s round.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 2 days ago:
Reading The Sparrow. There is a discussion between characters (one is a priest) about celibacy. He quips:
“When asking 400 honest priests if they still partake in self pleasure, 398 will say yes.”
“What of the other two?”
“Elementary Watson. Clearly we can deduce they have no hands.”
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 3 days ago:
Ancient Egyptians had higher education programs, almost like us and universities. One “major” was the equivalent to what we would be archeology. As in, there were ancient egyptologists who studied an even more ancient Egypt.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 3 days ago:
Depends on what you mean by that. The creator’s last name was German. So really, they are German. Just not the way you are thinking.
It’s the same with Ceasar salad. It’s not the Caesar you are thinking of, but it is still Ceasar. The guy Ceasar from Mexico.
- Comment on When the car diagnostic computer knows the list of problems is so long 1 week ago:
Yeah, like I said, I will never buy a chevy car again. The transmission carrier bearing is worn out. It is also where the speed sensor is housed. So the speedo drops out any time you are not accelerating. This causes a speed/air/fuel mismatch and kills the car any time you slow down unless you keep it in gear (manual). So if I beak too much on the high way or going up to a red light, the car dies and I quickly have to get it in gear and pop the clutch to jump start it, or awkwardly start turning the key to start it normally while moving.
The bearing is about 35$. Taking out, disassembling, rebuilding, and reassembling, reinstalling the transmission is over 3500$. The car is worth 4k at best. Not worth it.
- Comment on When the car diagnostic computer knows the list of problems is so long 1 week ago:
Yeah. My 2013 chevy spark just hit that too. Car is worth 4k if it worked, repair bill is just under 4k. It is now being donated to habitat for humanity. I told myself I would drive it into the ground and it looks like I did. I just thought that day would be a lot further out than 125k miles. I will never buy a chevy car again.
- Comment on They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare. 1 week ago:
Rather than just downvoting you, let me explain why you are getting downvoted. It’s because that isn’t true. For-profit healthcare will both want to increase the cost as well as decrease the cost depending on where within the chain they are and where the money comes from. Are you billing the government through medicare/medicaid? Max that shit out and stack codes. Are you the provider trying to claw money from the insurance pool? You are forced to minimize everything or risk being rejected and not paid anything for services already rendered.
This notion that our for-profit system saves money and is somehow more efficient instantly breaks down the second you compare how much we spend on the same services compared to universal or single payer systems. The USA pays approximately triple per capita for Healthcare while also receiving poorer outcomes on average.
Not only that, if our system incentivized lower prices, then why is medical tourism a thing that Americans do to other countries? Like going to Canada to buy your prescription drugs or Mexico for dental work?
If you spent even one minute looking up the cost of American Healthcare compared to other comparable countries, you would have known how false your statement was.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Lol. Yes, I understand your comment and agree. But at the same time, when you look at how Todd executed his grand vision of starfield it was a mess of a game that seemed half baked at best. I support new IP’s, but he could have at least finished making the game before calling it ready. This is an AAA studio, not some indy early release.
And I’m not asking for some absurd release schedule like COD or BF. Skyrim came out in 2011. Fallout 4 came out in 2015 (glossing over the basically-a-multiplayer-mod-for-money of 76 in 2018).
But if bethesda had some real leadership, they would have pointed out “we have a TV show coming out” and should have also said “we should ride the wave of excitement and have a game ready”. They knew they had a show in development starting in 2020 and didn’t do anything. The show came out in 2024, and they didn’t have anything. It is now 2026, and approaching 2027 and they still have nothing. What a fucking wasted opportunity. At best they will start FO5 in 2027 with a projected release date of 2030, about 6 years after the show released and 15 years after FO4.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft just butchered bethesda. More than anything this looks like obsidian is being rehoused as a life saving measure for bethesda. I would expect this to be less about anything against obsidian and more about something for bethesda.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I know Microsoft gets all the hate for buying them, but I put the blame on Todd Howard. He has squandered all the momentum the studio had and just put them into coasting mode. They had the high of releasing fallout 4 and skyrim, then did fuck all but milk them. Sure, fallout 76 happened -and what a failure that was. Then he had his big push for Starfield- and failed not only on the delivery but also the follow through with not addressing any of the fan concerns in the dlc’s. They squandered so many years that should have been spend continuing their two biggest flagships (fallout and elder scrolls) but instead fucked around for well over a decade. Now they are going to put the studio on crunch time for an entire development to try and get back on track and I am calling it now that it is going to show in the final product.
- Comment on When it was all trial and error 2 weeks ago:
Can you imagine this as a punishment or execution method? Like, you committed some terrible crime or were on the wrong end of a feud, and now you are forced to eat a mushroom, wait two or three days, then get force fed (or even unknowingly fed!) the next one. Then you have some shalman/stone-age-food-scientist recording what happens.
- Comment on Costly Disappointment 💸 2 weeks ago:
I feel like this is the biggest thing everyone overlooks. Doctors, lawyers, and engineers used to be the biggest paying jobs for boomers and going into genX, so later genX and millennial thay followed the blueprint of “if you want to make a lot of money, go I to these fields” found out the hard was how the prisoner’s dilemma is more than game theory. Now we have millenial doctors, lawyers, and engineers getting jobs that pay 60k with over 100k of student loans that they were told would be easy to pay back with theirbhigh paying jobs.
The trades have a good chance of doing the same thing. Right now you can make bank in the trades with no college debt. Just wait until we feed this to an entire generation and we have an excess of them and they are the ones making 60k (but at least no student loans? Normally…) and then they will tell their kids some variation of what they were told and repeat the same cycle.
- Comment on time to relax 1 month ago:
Needs some dark souls and Dota in there. Gotta keep the stress levels low and wind down.
- Comment on Man arrested after 'dressing as Grim Reaper' at hospital and staring at patients 2 months ago:
God forbid someone has hobbies…
- Comment on Dying from Taco Bell wasn’t on my 2026 Bingo Card 2 months ago:
- Comment on Chid O'Clock 2 months ago:
Kind of, yes. But also the actual person people are normally talking to when they think the OF girl is responding.
- Comment on james 3 months ago:
As your tab is auto charged to your biometrics and the bartender points to the door you decide to get the last words in-
“If something is verifiable sentient then I might change my tune, until then robots can fuck off!”
Another patron gasps at your lashing out, “did he just use the R-word? I’m so sorry bartender that you have to hear that. Just remember -not all humans.”
The bouncer approaches you and starts to corral you to the door. “Sir, it’s time for you to go”
You finish off your final rant from the doorway, “Robotic life will still be a rape baby foisted onto us by corporate technocrats!”
The door is closed on you. Inside, the bartender’s emotion chip glows, nearing short circuit. The other patron consoles them and tells them, “if you need to take a minute and collect your emotions, I understand. It is a long and hard road to equality.”
- Comment on james 3 months ago:
I immediately imagine a scenario 100 years in the future with you in a bar, slightly drunk and provoked by the young’ns to get the old man to rant against the Silicos.
One of the patrons overhears your offensively biocentric rant and asks you to check you DNA privilege and to stop using life exclusive language and to consider the feeling of silico-life forms and their struggles for equality.
You then mock them with a silver-face impression “SoRrY, cOuLd NoT cOmPuTe” while doing robot arms.
The bar tender, who is a synthetic, is on the verge of tears and asks you to leave…
- Comment on It's that time again 3 months ago:
I would rather my tax dollars don’t go to government investments of ripping Pokémon boosters and magic cards. The military would also balloon more than it already has.
- Comment on So wise. 3 months ago:
Oddly, yes.
Percentages also add together in partials. As in 10%+5%+2% = 17%
So, you start with the 10% by moving the decimal over 83.27 becomes 8.327
Then add half of that (5%) to its self and get 12.49 (rounded)
Then take the 10% number and move the decimal over once more (1%) for 0.833 and double it (from 1% to 2%) and get 1.666 and add that to your running total to get your answer of 14.16 (rounding)
And when I calculator check this I got 14.1559.
- Comment on Molting 3 months ago:
Skeksis, from the dark crystal.
- Comment on Molting 3 months ago:
- Comment on porch of geese 3 months ago:
Because of our American exceptionalism we forgot we were a part OF the americas. So now we are THE USA. Hope that helps.
- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 3 months ago:
Looks like a ‘shirts vs skins’ game of ‘catch the cancer’. Bad news for the skins team if the don’t have sunscreen on! (Who are we kidding, we know they dont…)
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 4 months ago:
This is exactly what I have brought up so many times. I shit on academy for being lowest common denominator shitty writing and people bring out the pitch forks as if I am gay bashing. No, I’m shitty writing bashing, they just wrapped it up in a pride flag.
Remember when DS9 brought in lgbt+ identity discussion through thought provoking situations with deep characters making hard choices that were influenced by their lgbt+ backgrounds or morals?
Now we have- He is so conflicted because he is a peaceful klingon. Life is so hard in our utopia. By the way, did I mention he was gay?
I watch star trek for its deep politics and nuanced pushing of boundaries, not to preach to the choir with a mallet.
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 4 months ago:
DS9 arguably did it just as much, just wrote it better. They were the first to have a lesbian kiss. They pushed social and political boundaries in deeper than ‘my skin is different than yours’ ways. It debated the morality of war, peace through killing, and how slavery can take forms beyond chains (examples include the bajorans, caressing, and ketracell white). It was the deeper trek in so many ways. And it was just as liberal, just as DEI, and just as open to explore sexuality in every direction (basically any episode with dex, then countered by the omni sex of odo). It did just as much as any of the nu-trek, but didn’t dumb it down to lowest common denominator to spoon feed it to you with forced dialog and in-your-face preaching.
- Comment on DNAddy 4 months ago:
If you really want to blow your mind, look into the theoretical alternatives to DNA. we are all taught about RNA and how it is a precursor to DNA, but what if it went another way? Look up PNA, PNA-O, or even GNA. If life existed on other worlds, there is a decent chance it follows an xNA structure, but not necessarily DNA.
- Comment on Probably. 5 months ago:
Alternatively: We can remember for you, whole-Dick
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Disagree. You and so many others throw around the word communism as if it is a specific type, rather than a general type. Not only that, communism and capitalism as not mutually exclusive. We have communism in capitalist societies and there was capitalism inside the USSR’s communism.
We have fully functioning communes within the USA. Those are communists living happily inside a communist community, with communist leadership, and communist ideals, all as a sub community within normal American cities. And it is successful.
The US has communism/socialism even within its own government. We have communist firefighters. There was a time all fire brigades were private and sold memberships and private insurance. It was communism that made it a public service. Even the socialist healthcare in the military was not always that way. Up until the Civil War it was private healthcare and the medics were for the battlefield only. All after care was out of pocket. Even for a time after the Civil War large amounts were not covered by the military.
And even looking at the previous poster’s comment about not seeing true communism- that is a category- are they referring to Lennonist communism? Maoist? Marxist? It’s like saying all capitalist governments are the same, as if the EU and the US, and Nigeria are all the same types of government.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 6 months ago:
My biggest complaint about academy is the same as everyone, poor writing. But since everyone also wants to bring up the ‘woke’ panic as well being why it’s so bad, I disagree. It isn’t the package that is bad, it’s the packaging.
Don’t give ‘the Gay™ character’. Give me a good character who is gay.
Why are you forcing me to care about a character because they are gay? What a wasted opportunity. You had a not so subtle anti-archetype klingon who had the heavy handed writing of being into science, medicine, and openly gay and intentionally written to be anything a klingon is not. What shitty writing. They had all the opportunities to make me love the character for who they were, their personality, their true choices and internal struggles, and make me care about them as a whole person that happened to be gay because that is who they are. Make me love their choices about being gay, not tell me I should love them because they are gay.
More than that, the previous iterations of trek they knew how to do it right. Most people bring up DS9 because it was done so well. We loved the characters for who they were, and who they were happened to be gay. Academy told us to love them because they were gay, and just happened to also be a character.
