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British Webley-Fosbery 1901
Heading into the turn of the century, emerging autoloading pistol technology was buoyed by the development of smokeless powder. Soon armed forces around the world were debating on the merits of adopting these new and fiddly automatic pistols over the proven revolvers. Lt. Col. George Vincent Fosbery VC (1832-1907) sought to blend what he felt was the best feature of an automatic, the fact that each pull is a lighter single action, with the reliability of a revolver. P. Webley & Son of Birmingham took up the challenge with him and ultimately produced this unusual, recoil powered, top break revolver.
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Thoughts on the new ferry map:
-This will reduce crowds at Wall Street because of transferring.
-The Rockaway/Soundview combination is exciting for me since I often take the ferry from Rockaway and have to transfer at Wall Street for stops I no longer will have to (Stuy Cove, 34th, 90th). Still, I worry about crowds on Wall Street if the ferries to Rockaway are already full when they arrive from further north. I suppose this helps a bit, since some customers who usually go to Wall Street will now get on at 90th/34th/Stuy Cove.
-East River split works fine since the two Williamsburg stops are close to each other, but it's going to be real confusing. I wonder if they'll have a boat roatating the route (A route, then B route, etc.)
-Glad they sent the St. George line to Brooklyn, but it should've been Sunset Park, frankly
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I don't know why it's cropped like that, the only 2 sane options are Allman and K&R, everything else is psychotic.
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guns should sound LOUD and PUNCHY and WRECK everything. It makes fights exciting and the hero even more heroic escaping such powerful weapons
GLOWING WASHINGTON POST REVIEW LET'S GO
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A reminder that there is very little innovation in Far-UVC, and a good deal of the inspiration for the innovative design of the Torch 2 came from @froglet80.
Froglet first documented the problem with using reflector-based emitters in the close confines of her shelter and validated 360ΒΊ emission as the path forward. She wrote to us about the frustration of Li-ion batteries not performing well at the extreme temperatures she has to live in. It was her data from running GUV off-the-grid, from solar cells, that let us know what the power limitations we had to work with were.
Froglet is the one who tested LiFePO4 batteries we wanted to move to because of cobalt mining practices and confirmed them as the better option for the people who need what we manufacture the most- those who often don't have the option of going indoors, and if they are indoors, may be in close confines with others unable to accommodate the distance required for traditional Far-UVC. People living in their cars, tents, and shelters. Froglet was the inspiration for making Far-UVC work for them- safe at close range but still powerful enough to offer effective protection. With a bit of luck and enough consumer demand, it will be affordable for them as well. That's the dream at least.
We pay @froglet80 for her work of course- but we're not in a position to get her out of her current situation- not yet at least.
As the holiday season in the US is comes closer, things get tighter and harder for her. It's not charity- she did important technical work for the community, and her observations will help a lot of people. Anything you could send her way to help out would make the world a little more right than it is.
gofundme.com/FundAFrog
Ko-fi.com/Froglet80
The details of the first project she helped us with are here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Rtsβ¦
Thank youππ»ββοΈ
Iβve been chatting with @froglet80. I have some old posts where I said something to the effect that I felt people were missing out on the expertise and knowledge base that exists in the unhoused community- which is certainly the case here. And, as previously mentioned- The pandemic isn't over for anyone until it's over for everyone.
I'm already working on products for the Haves- things like heavy-duty rack-mounted MERV 13 filters in transit cases and studio lighting grip-compatible 222nm Far-UVC . Sure, there's praxis there because the Have's influence the public, and the products they buy will fund mutual aid and R&D, but what about the Have Nots? Their problem is our problem, and there's no pretending there's a way out of this otherwise.
So Auntie Froglet is really doing us a favor here by bringing up our- not their problem-
How do we even begin to make an off-grid home that's a tarp and a frame, "Davos safe", for an affordable price?
Because at some point, we're going to need to. More importantly, anything good enough to work and last there will probably work damn near anywhere.
No- we're not going to spitball half-assed ignorant ideas here that trivialize the problem and ignore the realities of being unhoused. Or at least, I'm not. (You can't imagine how incredibly aggravating it is for marginalized people when designers try to solve problems for them at arms reach while talking over or around them and excluding them from the process.)
What I've done is paid Froglet a small consulting fee to start with; I'm going to send them a package of things to look at and try out so I can get more information on the design criteria we're working with from an expert in the field.
My one request is, if this is a problem you are interested in working on- don't expect free labor. If you want to speculate if something might work, or why it might not, throw a little something Froglet's way first. Our wild guesses are not a blessing from heaven for them- it's labor to patiently educate us.
For me- frankly, anything that is good enough to work reliably in the conditions the unhoused have to live, and potentially affordable, will be a product I'd be proud to sell and most people would want to buy, so this is just good business- not charity.
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going to take a probably indefensible position here and say that it hits even harder because it was basically one of the only ways western pop culture deigned to acknowledge the fall of the Soviet Union
funny watching the computer janitor brain geniuses reinvent Freudian terms like "agentic woman" and "type 2/3 fun" for "phallic woman" and "jouissance"
why listen to so-called "AI" generated country when there's so much raw, emotional, human country music out there?
The #1 country song in America is AI generated.
The artist "Breaking Rust" has 2 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
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nightmare where i was a dead body in my high school's gym and it was a closed mystery and somehow i was like astral projecting to watch everyone accuse each other of killing me.
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we must phase out the rude use of the word 'hag' and replace it with the much more elegant 'onee-san'
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Rising housing costs caused "51% of the total fertility rate decline between the 2000s and 2010s, and 7 percentage points fewer young families in the 2010s."
Cutaway of the SEALION boat operated by SEALS/Special Boat Units:
By @CovertShores
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It's a fully enclosed hull with stealth features, and submerge itself to become very hard to spot.
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Chuck Schumerβs main goal in his life right now isnβt to fortify an opposition party to Donald Trumpβs oligarchical fascism and erosion of democracy but to lay the groundwork for his master plan to make any and all criticism of Israel against the law and a major crime in the U.S.
there's a whole thing about the Emperor being like a dog who caught the car and he's just sorta letting oligarchs and human aristocrats decide the details as he fucks around with his Death Star and this would make sense that officers are told to just fucking buy it themselves
before the rabies or tetanus vaccine, getting bit by a stray dog was often a death sentence. It was not unusual to carry a small caliber pistol so if you were menaced by a possibly rabid dog, you could blast it
vaccinate your pets
