SARGE

joined 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

There's a couple of these on a trail near me, and although the bollards can just be pulled out of the ground, they used to be padlocked.

Some people who use cargo bikes to shop couldn't get through, so the city removed the locks.

The bollards are still there, but if you need to get through you can just lift it out, mosey on by, and then replace it. The middle one is made out of hollow aluminum I think, so it's a lot lighter than the other solid steel ones. You can still lift those out, just not one handed.

Up until then, the cargo bikes were just hopping off the trail and cycling along next to the trail on the other side of the fence, which was only about 200-300ft long on either side of the bollards.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (4 children)

.... Antarctica doesn't seem to have much in the way of law enforcement, so they likely wouldn't deport him back to us.

Could we Try there?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

I'm confused

Who are "you guys"?

And what does "did gun control laws?" mean exactly?

The thought that nobody on here wants to own firearms or stock up for defense of the people they care about (especially in countries who have recently slid further down the fascism slide) is laughable.

This feels like a "so much for the tolerant left" post.

Lmao "tolerant left" is how we got here.

[–] [email protected] 159 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My first thought was "So we call 'following the law' a loophole now?"

If the law meant a fucking thing, he would have been in prison decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

IMPORTANT PROTIP

Side-arm molotovs, don't throw them over your back like you would a baseball.

Unless you know exactly how to make a watertight molotov, there's the possibility that you drip burning fluid onto yourself if you throw it up and over your body.

By throwing side-arm (around and out to the side, almost like a Frisbee) you fling any liquid away from you.

It's also a good idea to make sure nobody is standing to your side that you could potentially douse in flames.

Happy tossing, and remember to only use this knowledge for educational purposes!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"You are not allowed to use the law to block human trafficking" - A judge in the US

I'm not saying laws are inherently just and good, this just isn't a good look.

On par, though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Honestly, if you mounted some of these on a couple 1kw e-bikes with fat tires and suspension for better off-roading, you could get some nice hit-and-run squads, assuming you could clear or detect area-denial weapons.

Mount an MG on one, a recoil less rifle on another, maybe some form of rocket launcher for heavier armor.

It's not going to take over any countries, but a fast attack force that can clear rough terrain quickly is worth it's weight in gold.

5 bicycle boys vs 10000000 Gen 5 tanks and 27 lions, who wins?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

the average Republican voter does not understand

You can just stop there, and be correct about almost any topic.

I had to explain tax brackets to my mother.

She's got a degree to teach math. And I know she actually went to college since I can remember sitting in the back of her classrooms when she couldn't find a babysitter.

She used to do her own taxes and my grandparents taxes.

But, as a teenager, I had to explain why a potential $2 raise doesn't mean she's losing more money in taxes than the raise is giving her.

She also doesn't believe the welfare cliff exists, despite our family being precariously perched atop it when I was in elementary school.

At this point I think she's just heard the same stupid shit repeated over and over, she doesn't even question it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You joke, buuuuuuut https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-us-nukes-was-00000000-for-20-years/

The USAF has denied this, multiple times.

I do not believe them.

Mainly because I know how people were during the cold war and have no doubt in my mind that the thought process was "nobody will ever access this without a reason, so let's make it super quick and easy or we might be radioactive slag before we finish typing"

The mere fact that it's believable is a problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's a college, so they're too old unless it's his daughter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Who could have done this? What entity or entities could have possibly benefitted from trying to get democratic polling places closed? WHO?

We may never know. Case closed.

If my eyes rolled any harder, they'd pop out the side of my head.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Something tells me that unlike every other role where he makes people jump through hoops every game regardless of how many decades they've voiced the same character, he did not make Hideo Kojima audition for the voice.

I'm not bitter or anything, why do you ask?

view more: ‹ prev next ›