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typical german overengineering

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It's the HK G11 and FN P90. Both guns have a magazine where the cartridges aren't in line with the chamber so each cartridge needs to be rotated before it can chambered. HK decided to commune with ancient clockwork gods to learn the secrets of kraut space magic while FN just went with a curved ramp.

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First proof of leeches jumping captured on video

Video link for anyone interested.

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/science/2024/06/21/jumping-leeches-video-first-time/74169034007/

Better video with almost no editing

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-21/leeches-jumping-video/104007924

Actual paper and video source citation (locked behind many paywalls)

A jumping terrestrial leech from Madagascar
Mai Fahmy, Michael Tessler Biotropica,
DOI: 10.1111/btp.13340

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For anyone curious, I couldn't find an exact statistics but hearing aids in the US cost between $2000 to $8000 per pair with the average costs sitting around $5000-$6000 per pair.

Insurance coverage varies per insurance provider and per state. It looks like many people will end up paying the maximum required by law before insurance takes over which is roughly between $1000-$3000 depending on state.

Not only is a single purchase expensive, you usually have to replace them every 3 to 5 years.

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Denatonium rule

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It's a "conical seed bottle" containing denatonium benzoate. I have no idea why but it's apparently pretty common to display chemicals in them.

It's similar to a pear shaped flask that's used in labs.

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[Jeff Geerling] I'm never buying a Bambu Lab 3D printer again

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Bambu lab a while ago came out with printers and an ecosystem that was very easy to use compared to other printers for the price. However, there were a few red flags like proprietary parts, software which required the cloud, and DRM chips in filament. Bambu lab promised they weren't gonna exploit any of that and that they will keep their printers and ecosystem open and all the red flags were just used to aid in user experience like automatic print settings for DRM chipped filament, easy to swap parts, and cloud monitoring and notifications. Despite the promise, they're still a corporation and thus went against their word and closed off 3rd party slicers and firmwares so you must use their cloud and their software.

You do not own the printers, Bambu does. So now you cannot install third party firmware on your Bambu 3d printer or use a different slicer. Everything you do on your Bambu printer goes through their cloud unless you take countermeasures and use old versions of software and firmware before the lockdown happened and you completely block internet access to the printers.

People saw these big red flags early on and called them out on it saying they're gonna lock down their ecosystem later on but people kept buying into Bambulab since they were so easy to use and got amazing prints out of them.

Tl;Dr, Bambulab released printers and software that were so easy to use for the price but came with many red flags. Bambulab ended up closing down their entire ecosystem so they have full control of the printers and you are at their mercy if you wanna keep using it.

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Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term

I couldn't paste the whole article since it's too long for a single post so I pulled all the main points word for word from the article without the paragraphs explaining them. You can view the full article with the noscript and ublock extensions on Firefox to bypass the paywall.

  • He will indict Biden and his other political enemies
  • He will round up, intern, and deport undocumented immigrants
  • He will send the military to the border
  • He will invade Mexico
  • He will round up the homeless and send the National Guard into cities to fight crime
  • He will ban abortion nationwide
  • He will bring back the death penalty in a big way
  • He will make stuff more expensive by taxing all imported goods
  • He will reevaluate America’s participation in NATO
  • He will roll back all of Biden’s climate progress and reinvest in fossil fuels
  • He will construct “freedom cities” filled with flying cars
  • He will do what he can to flood the nation with guns
  • He will torch the First Amendment by going after non-MAGA media
  • He will legally delegitimize trans Americans
  • He will pardon the Jan. 6 rioters
  • He will gut the federal government and take unprecedented control of what’s left

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Why liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns

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Just a heads up, the whole "you don't have to aim" is a complete myth. Shotgun spread is completely blown out of proportion. It's somewhere around 0.5" to 1" per yard with barrel length, choke, and shot type affecting spread. Unless you're insanely rich and live in a mansion, you'd be within 10 yards so you'd only get 5" to 10" of spread which really isn't much especially since the pellets may not be evenly distributed within that diameter.

For anyone looking to buy a gun, educate yourself first to know what you're getting into and go to the range consistently so you know how to use it. If you don't do both of those, you'd be at risk of hurting yourself or someone else if ever you have to use it in a life or death situation.