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  • They have a safety device on the trigger. It amounts to a little plastic piece in the middle of the trigger. Pressing on the trigger from the front causes this piece to slide in, allowing the trigger to be depressed. It doesn’t do much but it would prevent the trigger from being pulled by something scraping it from the side, as might accidentally happen during holstering. It seems like the point of this device is to prevent accidental trigger pulls.

    When you pull back the slide and chamber a round, you also pull back the striker. The gun is then ready to fire. The trigger pull is always the same weight. This doesn’t put the gun into an “extra light trigger pull” setting. After a shot is fired, when the gun cycles, this chambers a new round and pulls the striker back again. There’s no way to have a round chambered but not have the striker pulled back. Glocks don’t have a single action / double action like there is on some other guns, where the first trigger pull takes extra weight because it’s also cocking a hammer.




  • These antigens are mainly significant in regards to blood transfusions.

    People generally don’t create antibodies against antigens that they have on their own cells.

    If someone receives blood containing an antigen that isn’t present on their own cells, and their body has already created antibodies against this “foregin” antigen, this can cause a hemolytic transfusion reaction (the transfused blood cells will rupture in the recipient), which can be fatal.




  • I’m not a person who had previously done much messing around with their phone but I have installed Linux on several computers. I put graphene on my phone nearly a year ago and I recall the process being fairly straightforward. I think I just followed the instructions on their website.

    Maybe it’s not an “any idiot could do it” level of user friendliness but the examples you’ve listed as stumbling blocks aren’t exactly brain-busters.







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    You don’t even have to exercise to lose weight. You just have to eat less food.

    People are terrible at knowing how much food they’ve eaten. Thankfully, there are easy to use calorie trackers for your phone.

    You’re fat because you eat too much.





  • The Tesla definitely has big, “Oh god, what the fuck? Why?” energy.

    I remember in the 90s, upper-middle class people would buy the most god awful stuff because it was sold to them as expensive modern art. (Think Lydia’s parents in Beetlejuice)

    The cybertruck has that same vibe. Its stupid and expensive and somehow that seems to be the appeal.


  • Oh, yeah, I looked at that. I can get a couple hundred watts of panels that will realistically generate about 300 watt hours of power on my balcony on the sunniest days, given that they won’t be mounted at a very good angle. I can have it charge a battery pack that’ll last a few years. Then I get about 90% efficiency if I’m lucky with the inverter. Even at $0.50/kWh, that’s $0.15/day I’m saving or about $50/year if we just assume a cloudless year-round summer. That’ll save me just enough money to buy a new battery when the first one gets old.

    Solar power will get there one day. Its great for many purposes but its still not practical for most apartment dwellers.