shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing? 1 day ago:
Solid explanation. I’d only add that I see the word in fiction used to describe Europeans and Americans as expats if they’ve been overseas for years and not even working. Seems to be people who eventually mean to return home.
- Comment on You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined. 1 day ago:
Can we get The Black Sun while we’re at it?
- Comment on Actor Chris Pratt produces faith-based film about military chaplains 3 days ago:
Yep, that’s mostly what I meant. It’s a meaningless adjective but since the source is a Christian outfit, they had to shoe horn it in.
- Comment on Actor Chris Pratt produces faith-based film about military chaplains 3 days ago:
faith-based film
Hell does that even mean?! And of course they have to point out that he’s an actor and a Christian.
The whole article doesn’t amount to a paragraph and lemmy acting like it’s Xtian propaganda.
- Comment on Actor Chris Pratt produces faith-based film about military chaplains 3 days ago:
It’s about a military chaplain. That’s it. Look at the source. The headline is pure spin.
- Comment on Can you scale down a firearm to make an identical looking firearm that fires a different round? 3 days ago:
I have an easily swapable bolt that let’s my AR-15 shoot .22LR. Pretty nifty, though not quite as accurate since the bullet is .003 thinner.
- Comment on Is "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy considered a good book? 4 days ago:
The other books are far more plot and character focused, less exacting military stuff. If you like RSR, you might like the following books even more. It’s an outlier, but not too far, from his other books.
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 5 days ago:
Is the question time sensitive?
- Comment on why do most celebrities/influencers & some normal people have those fake-looking teeth? 6 days ago:
My dentist made me a silicone mold for $70. All I have to buy is cheap whitener off Amazon.
- Comment on That funny feeling 1 week ago:
Friend came limping over one day. Our other friend watched him rolling around in agony for almost 20 minutes.
“Dude! You can stretch it and it goes away instantly!”
- Comment on Best country of Chile 🇨🇱 1 week ago:
Played around with Chile on Google Maps. Fascinating geography! I’d love to get in there and camp for a month, but it’s damned lonely looking in most places. From the driest place on Earth to jungles, wild place.
- Comment on Lionsgate CEO on Borderlands bombing at the box-office: "Everything that could go wrong did go wrong" 1 week ago:
“The success of our financial models doesn’t take the place of also getting the creative right,”
I read it as saying they didn’t take the creative angle correctly and that was part of the failure despite happy looking financial models.
- Comment on They're doing a January 6th 1 week ago:
“What are they infected with?”
“RAGE!”
- Comment on Anon watches a scary movie with his gf 1 week ago:
- Comment on For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? 1 week ago:
I’m armed, and competent with arms.
- Comment on Feral Science 1 week ago:
I was very prepared. Just too dumb to turn around when I should have, bulled ahead.
- Comment on Feral Science 1 week ago:
Gf and I passed a young guy kayaking the river one day. Dude’s wearing summer street-wear, standing at bank up to his knees with a net. He was researching turtle populations. Funky thing is, we have no idea how he got where he was.
- Comment on Feral Science 1 week ago:
LOL, that was me last week. Got myself trapped in a swamp at the hiking trail, limped back covered in slime from the waist down.
- Comment on Trump’s Crowds Are Dwindling as His Campaign Winds Down | The former president likes to talk about the attendance at his rallies, but empty seats and early exits have grown more common. 1 week ago:
See that pic at top? Went to a rodeo in the boondocks last month, not 1,000 people in that town. Crowd was exactly the same size.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 1 week ago:
Bombing the snot out of civilians was sorta de rigueur in WWII. If you want to get on your high horse, the Tokyo fire bombings were far, far worse. That sort of thing doesn’t go well for people in bamboo and paper houses.
And then you had the Imperial Army, who was so over the top even Nazis were like, “Maybe tone it down a bit?” So maybe chill on American “war crimes”, unless you have the stomach to read about Japan’s actions.
Funny thing about bombing civilians in the European Theatre, it was all a bit of a mistake. A German mission was a tad lost and bombed London. So Churchill said, “Oh yeah? Well fuck you too!”
- Comment on The most powerful brain on Twitter 1 week ago:
That last bullet was my first laugh of the day.
- Comment on Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years 1 week ago:
Y’all realize this is a bubble, right? I almost feel sorry for these investors, gonna have their ass handed to them in the coming decade.
- Comment on Capsaicin 2 weeks ago:
We mammals, and only we mammals, have nerve receptors capsaicin triggers. Birds don’t have such receptors. They happily chow peppers and poop the whole seeds all over.
Meanwhile, we mammals, who are supposed to hate the heat because we grind the seeds to death, have happily bred hotter and hotter peppers and spread them all over the planet.
I know of no such evolutionary win-win as peppers have pulled off. Genius.
- Comment on If Trump wins the election thru fraud how can the democrats refute it and prove they won? Or will it just be like another Jan 6 and four years of whining like Trump? 2 weeks ago:
You are very confused regarding the rank and file vs. officers.
- Comment on If I threaten a politician to kill them like Trump did to Liz Cheney could I be arrested? If so how come Trump hasn't been arrested for it? 2 weeks ago:
Simple, because he didn’t make a direct threat, didn’t direct anyone else either. Hell, he didn’t even call for her death. Trump’s using the mob boss language he learned in NYC.
“I think OP should have 9 guns pointed in his face for posting this.”
See how that works? All I said was that you should be threatened. Didn’t threaten action myself nor direct anyone else to action.
Speech like this is clearly stochastic terrorism, but the US really doesn’t have laws around it. I would hope there’s an incitement angle to this, IANAL, but our strong 1A rights make it sticky.
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
Damn. I really want one, but I already have a Colt .45 and the weight is the same.
Speaking of hogs, I’m outside all the time in NW Florida and have never seen one or evidence of them. OK, two came to my house, apparently lost, but I’ve never seen them in the wild. Horror of mine as a sounder would level my camp in the boonies.
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on That chicken's name? Joe Rogan 2 weeks ago:
Thought about this today! I was sitting by a rainy creek and a couple of turkeys landed nearby. “That’s a turkey! They’re tiny!”
(Don’t think we have the big honkers the Yankees have. They’re small and drab down here, at least I’ve never seen a big, colorful one.)
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
I have a .45 Hi-Point carbine. Flawless operation, had never malfunctioned, weighs 10-pounds, impossible to clean. Along with other… odd design choices.
Hi-Points are what you get by giving a group a very smart engineers a list of things the product needs to do. A group of engineers that has never seen an actual gun.
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 2 weeks ago:
It’s like “female”. Nothing wrong with it per se, especially in a biological conversation, but it’s more used with animals.