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  • Safe firearm storage may reduce blood lead levels in children

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  • Yeah, that's basically the gist of it, jacket a hard, dense penetrator in a softer metal so it doesn't damage the barrel

    But there's some edge cases like with m855 "green tip" 5.56 ammo which has a steel core inside a lead bullet and copper jacket, but generally isn't considered "armor piercing" even though it does penetrate armor slightly better than most other standard 5.56 rounds

    So I'm gonna hedge me bets and say there may be a case where a tungsten bullet may not be considered armor piercing but I don't know the specifics of where that line would be drawn.

  • Safe firearm storage may reduce blood lead levels in children

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  • I don't know about tungsten bullets, but I have heard of tungsten shot.

    You could probably jacket a tungsten bullet in a softer metal like copper to mitigate the damage to the barrel, but I feel like that's also gonna run up against armor piercing regulations

  • Safe firearm storage may reduce blood lead levels in children

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  • The bullets are lead-free, but usually the primers still contain lead which is a big, maybe the biggest, part of lead exposure with firearms, and it can be pretty hard to find ammo with lead-free primers, it also can get pricey, and by a lot of accounts they're less reliable than lead-based primers, so that's something to be taken into account.

    Lead exposure from the ammo itself is usually pretty minimal, a lot of bullets are jacketed in copper so under normal handling you're not really going to come in contact with much if any lead. There will probably be some fouling in the barrel, but that's mostly contained in the barrel and unless you're cleaning your gun on the same towel you use to wash your face thats pretty easily contained with some basic precautions like wearing gloves and such (not that all, honestly probably not most gun owners take those precautions seriously)

    But when the primer detonates it's putting out a lot of aerosolized lead compounds that kind of get all over the place because it's basically getting sprayed around you- on your hands, on your clothes, the outside of your gun, your range bag, you're inhaling it, etc.

    So keeping your gun and shooting gear in a safe or something helps to keep that contained so it's not getting transferred from your gun and range bag to wherever you set it down.

  • A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never Happen

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  • I used to drive an Isuzu Trooper. I got rear-ended which totaled my car. Theoretically it was repairable, but when your car is old enough to vote it doesn't take much damage for it to get totaled.

    There was other damage, but one thing that still pisses me off is that a few hundred bucks of that calculation was my spare tire cover, which had some cracks after the accident, and the insurance company would not let that drop.

    It was a plastic shell that is mostly just decorative that covered the spare bolted to the back of my vehicle. I didn't care that it was cracked, it in no way affected the safety of my vehicle, I would have happily driven that car for another decade with it being cracked, if they slapped 5¢ worth of epoxy on it I would have been more than satisfied, or hurry they could have just thrown the damn thing away and I guess my spare would get a little dirtier that it would if it was covered.

    But they had to include that in the repair cost estimate, and since it was kind of an uncommon older car, replacement spare tire covers were scarce and pricey and added a few hundred bucks onto the estimate.

    I don't know if that was the thing that pushed me over the edge to a total loss but it certainly didn't help

    I had a perfectly mechanically sound vehicle that was paid off, and could possibly still be on the road today, and instead I got stuck with a couple years of car payments on a car I liked less than that one.

  • Microsoft is letting you kill Bing in Windows 11 Search, after years of forcing it on every PC

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  • I'm admittedly in a bit of a bubble, but right now my PC gamer friends are a pretty even split between windows and Linux. Know anyone with a steam deck? They're gaming on Linux.

    No, it's not quite as user-friendly as windows, and it takes a couple extra steps to get things running, especially if you're playing non-steam games, but that's one-time setup stuff then you're golden. Most games are able to run fine on Linux these days, by some measures more PC games may actually work on Linux than in Windows because sometimes new versions of Windows have broken compatibility issues with older games.

    There's edge-cases to be sure, like some stuff with kernel-level anticheat have issues, but the state of that constantly improving, even the game devs are improving Linux support from their end in a lot of cases.

    Anecdotally, I've had some cases where games are even running better for me on Linux than they did on Windows. Part of that is that most of the main components of my computer are pushing 15 years old, but I think that alone is a pretty big endorsement for Linux gaming that in some cases it can keep your rig relevant for longer.

  • DNA Research Shows Your Muscles ‘Remember’ How Strong and Fit You Once Were

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  • When I was about 17 I started training for my first backpacking trip. First shakedown hike I loaded my pack up with about 40 or 50lbs, and I think I lasted about 5 minutes before I went back to my car to lighten my load because I was dying carrying it.

    Worked my way up to doing it no problem over the next few months, and for the next few years I hiked and backpacked pretty regularly. I never exactly got in good shape, I had a gut the whole time but I could carry a heavy backpack 10 or occasionally 20 miles a day up and down mountains no problem.

    I've been a lot more sedentary the last few years just due to being a busy adult with a wonky schedule. I still squeeze in some hikes here or there, but nothing with a heavy pack, and rarely doing more than 10 miles, and usually not going up and down any significant mountains, and I'm definitely not hitting the gym or anything, and I've probably packed on about 50lbs of mostly fat since I was 17.

    But still, a couple months ago I went backpacking with a friend. Didn't really do anything in particular to prepare for it, and I still carried about 40-50lbs in my pack

    And I did just fine. Definitely huffed and puffed a bit more than when I was in my prime backpacking shape, and I was definitely a bit sore and had some blisters after it, but I was able to hit the trail with a heavy pack and almost no prep and I definitely couldn't have done that when I was just starting out at 17 years old despite being generally younger, healthier, and more active back then.

    So to a pretty great extent, my body definitely "remembers" how to backpack.

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  • Unless... it is like for a space suit

    Fun fact, the space suits used in the Apollo program were made by Playtex

  • What's the best food you're had in another country that's not from that country?

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  • I had the best wonton soup I've ever had at some random Chinese restaurant in Montreal

    It had little crispy bit of i think cracklins floating around in it

    All of the food we had in Montreal was great, and this was just some random place we stopped in for a quick bite on our way somewhere

  • McDonald's Introduces AI Drive-Thru System, Sparking Customer Backlash

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  • promptly drove to the chick fil a right next door

    That's... not better, you know that right? The owners of chick fil a have funded some pretty horrendous anti-LGBQT organizations

  • Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centers

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  • Please lead the way and get off of it thene be the change you want to see.

  • What is your absolute favorite joke?

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  • Pretty much anything to get a groan or chuckle out of my wife.

    One time while cutting up an avocado I remarked that they need better prizes, because I always get the same one- a little wooden ball.

    That was of course good for a groan, but it would not be the end of it. I tend to do most of our cooking, and since our kitchen is kind of small my wife is usually in the living room while I am and can't really see what I'm doing

    So now whenever I'm cutting up an avocado I let out a groan of disappointment. And since my wife is a loving, caring sort of person she always asks "what's the matter?"

    To which I reply with an exasperated "Another little wooden ball"

    Going on 10 years, and she falls for in any time.

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    This isn't one I think particularly much of, I wasn't even particularly trying to be funny, but my wife got quite a chuckle out of it, so it ranks. I was doing dishes, while she was again in the other room, I think on the phone with her mother.

    I go to grab a spoon to clean from the rather large pile in the sink, which set off a bit of a chain reaction of dishes and pots shifting around and making a bit of a racket.

    I paused for moment, and just kind of commented out loud to myself "huh, so that was a load-bearing spoon"

    And apparently something about that delivery made my wife crack up.

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    Another time I was dead tired and crashed early, and was apparently not very willing to share the blankets or pillows or something when my wife came to join me.

    Being more asleep than awake, I mumbled that she could pry them from my cold dead hands WHen she tried to get me to give some bedding up for her use.

    Unfortunately for me, my wife is one of those people who is always somehow cold, and so she just applied her icy hands to my body, causing me to exclaim "AAH, COLD DEAD HANDS!"

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    I once showed her a picture of a snake I saw when I was out for a hike. She asked me how big it was, I told her about 2 feet

    Which I also told her is 2 more than most snakes have.

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    I pointed out some geese, and asked if she knows how geese fly in a V-formation, which of course she did. Then I asked if she knew why sometimes one side of the V was longer than the other, she did not

    I informed her that it's because that side has more geese.

  • What is something you are superstitious about?

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  • I haven't really noticed a burst of activity, but it's certainly occured to me if I ever turned to a life of crime that I'd do stuff during that shift change, a couple of the departments we dispatch for definitely take their time with it and there's often a pretty solid block of time where unless something serious is going down you're not getting a quick police response.

    Some of them handle it more efficiently than others, and the size of the town is a pretty big factor too. I've had more than a few callers complain about how long it's taking because they live right by the station, but usually officers aren't just hanging around at the station, they're out on patrol and responding to incidents, shift change is pretty much the one time you're going to find the station full of cops.

  • What is something you are superstitious about?

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  • I work in 911 dispatch, and there's definitely something about full moons.

    It's not that we're busier, or that the calls I get are more serious, but everything is just a little bit off when the moon is full. It's subtle, I don't think it would even be reflected in the types of calls we're entering, but a lot of our callers just get weirder.

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    Classmates, school officials and police asked a court — unsuccessfully — to keep mass shooter away from his dad’s guns

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  • First of all, I'm talking about gun ownership in general. Not necessarily about these specific people and their community.

    Secondly, unless you have the stats to show that not a single hunting license was sold to anyone with a Chula Vista address, you're just making a pointless generalization. Sure, it might be very uncommon, but out of around 280,000 people there I think it's pretty likely that someone there goes hunting.

    Finally, that applies to target shooting and such as well, different guns for different types of shooting.

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  • I can see it adding up a lot faster than you might think.

    Hypothetically, let's say you have 2 or 3 people in your family who are avid hunters, lots of people go hunting with their spouses and/or children. And each of you have, let's say, a deer rifle, a shotgun for turkey and waterfowl, and a .22 for small game. So off the bat that's about 6-9 guns.

    And maybe you started your kid off with a .410 or a 20 gauge shotgun and a smaller .22 rifle for them to learn the fundamentals when they were younger, and when they got older you got a 12ga and a more appropriately-sized rifle for them to use, so there's another couple guns.

    And maybe some of you have different guns for different purposes, maybe you prefer a semi auto shotgun for waterfowl and a pump for upland hunting for whatever reason, or if you live in the suburbs you might be limited to shotgun slugs and straight walled rifle cartridges in the areas you can hunt closer to home so maybe you have a gun that meets those requirements and then another rifle for when you can go hunting in the mountains.

    So you can pretty reasonably have a dozen or so guns in your household from just having a couple people who like to go hunting before you even start talking about carry or home defense guns, dedicated range/target shooting guns, or collecting them, etc.

  • 'I was dumb as a rock': Hardcore MAGA couple ditches Trump after getting 'kick in teeth'

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  • I work for my county, I have coworkers who are proud that they don't vote and don't follow politics

    WE. WORK. FOR. THE. GOVERNMENT! Go up the food chain from us a couple steps and our boss', boss', boss' boss or something along those lines is an elected official! You're basically passing up an opportunity to choose who your boss is, and those elections often end up happening on off years when there's no presidential or other big election going on and even less people turn out to vote, so your vote really counts.

  • Does a PBJ have a defined "up" side?

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  • Maybe you need some visual aids

    This is what most Americans mean when we say "jelly." It's a spreadable preserve similar to jam.

    And this is a gelatin/gelatine dessert, in America it's commonly called "jello" after the brand name, and I believe in what you call "jelly"

    I believe this is a common brand where you are

    So which one were you thinking of when you wrote your comment.

  • Does a PBJ have a defined "up" side?

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  • I think this is something that gets lost in translation sometimes between different English dialects

    When you say "jelly"are you referring to a fruit preserve similar to jam that gets it's gelatinous qualities from pectin

    Or are you referring to a gelatin-based dessert like Jello?

    When most Americans talk about peanut butter & jelly, we're talking about the former.

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  • We'll it would be harder to pick some Democrats from this neighborhood and a bunch of Republicans from that neighborhood if the district size is only one neighborhood

    Also it would allow for more specific representation. Using myself as an example, my district is basically my county plus a couple small parts of some neighboring counties. One end of the county is pretty rural, the other half butts up against a major city and pretty much just bleeds right into it. We have some ridiculously wealthy old money areas, and we have some that look like they were plucked from a movie about gang violence. There's a few towns here that I've legitimately never even had to drive through. It's kind of insane that all of these different areas are being represented by the same person, we have very different and sometimes conflicting concerns. And if I needed to go to my representatives office for any reason, I'd have to drive about an hour to get there because of course she's set up shop at the far end of the county from me.

    Personally, I think the ideal way to draw districts is to kind of have voters do it when they vote. Give them a map, have them select the areas where they live, work, shop, drive through regularly, or have other connections to until they've selected an area with a big enough population to be a district. Then feed those maps into a computer and have it average them all together to generate the new district map.