When Republicans win:
"Elections mean things! We won the election! You have to work with us or you're not being bi-partisan!"
When they lose:
"Yeah, go fuck yourself!"
Better eat and take a nap. If the world ends, at least you won't be hungry and tired.
Ending of the Sixth Sense.
"Grandma says you asked her a question. She says to tell you the answer is 'every day', what was the question, momma?"
"Did I make you proud?"
It's a known risk, and there are guidelines to lessen or prevent lead exposure at the range, but I'd wager most shooters aren't aware.
For example:
Use jacketed or lead free bullets and primers.
Wash your face, arms and hands after using the range.
Change your clothes and shoes after using the range.
Wash your range clothes separately from your families.
Do not eat, drink, or smoke on the range.
Take the same precautions after cleaning your guns.
That being said, the folks at largest risk for this kind of exposure would be those who fire guns the most often, so that population would be the canary in the coal mine so to speak.
https://www.quora.com/How-often-do-police-officers-practice-at-ranges
"How often do police officers practice at ranges?
Most departments require re-qualification training once a year.
My department required shooting three times a year, once with our sidearm, once with our 12 gauge shotguns, and once with our AR 15 carbines.
As for my self, I go to the range 8 to 10 times a year. I am usually accompanied by 5 or 6 of my fellow officers. We are not for the fun, we are training by using the state required shooting plans and we add a little extra to it.
Most officers I know only go to range when required for re-qualification. Not because they don’t want to, shooting off a couple hundreds rounds is an expensive proposition."
Yeah... Might be a reason cops seem dumber than average, and they don't hire the brightest to begin with.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
"Young white men are increasingly conservative, and it’s a really alarming trend" but did they VOTE though?
I think it's less of "Trump turned out the young conservative male vote" than it was "Harris turned off the young liberal vote."
Looking at the 2020 demographics is skewed because of Covid and vote by mail precautions, but let's see what the 18 to 24s were doing there:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1096299/voter-turnout-presidential-elections-by-age-historical/
48% of eligible voters aged 18 to 24 turned out in 2020. Lowest of any of the age demographic. 55% for 25 to 29.
So 2024?
"We estimate that 42% of young voters (+/- 1%), ages 18-29, cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election, a lower youth turnout than in 2020—when our early estimate put youth turnout above 50%—and approximately on par with the 2016 presidential election."
Which makes sense, without the covid restrictions pushing vote by mail, overall participation dropped back to "normal" levels.
That reminds me... I'm all out of æbleskivers. :(
Need to do poffertjes next.
450 ml (15.2 oz) Milk
1 packet (7g) instant rise yeast
150 g (5.3 oz) Flour
150 g (5.3 oz) Buckwheat flour
tablespoon of sugar
Pinch of Salt
2 eggs
25 g (1.67 tablespoons) melted butter
Mix the yeast with 50 ml (1.7 oz) of milk and set aside.
Sift the flour into a large bowl. Add sugar and salt and well combine.
Add milk+yeast, 2 eggs, 1/2 the remaining milk. Mix well. Once smooth, add the rest of the milk and melted butter.
Cover and let rise for 1 hour. One more good mix and fill a squeeze bottle 3/4 full.
Oil the pan and cook them like æbleskivers.
I'd be more worried about tariffs on products made overseas... that could be a 4+ year problem.
I mean, Salesforce is SaaS. They have to log in to Salesforce accounts on Salesforce servers to do the CRM angle, so if the crimes allegedly happened in the SF Cloud, then they would be the provider in that case.
Still nutty to go after them. They don't monitor what each and every client uses SF for.
Waiting for them to start talking about "entitlements".
Do I feel entitled? Well, I've been paying into the system since 1987, shit yeah I feel entitled.
And birds! ;)
So after my 2nd heart attack last January, I got really tired of being stuck in the house and only able to go to stores that had their own electric carts.
Too many stores either had no carts at all (chiefly malls) or carts that were unavailable, inoperative, or left unplugged with no charge (grocery stores).
I had essentially been housebound since 2018 when I had the first heart attack. 2019 was one complication after another.
When I got medically cleared to go back to the office, we shut down for Covid... aaand here we are.
This chair really gave me my life back. It's $2,200 on Amazon and that's counting paying a little extra for the extended range (20 AH, 17 mile) battery. The chair with the standard 12 AH 13 mile battery is $2,000 and rated for airline/cruise ship travel.
Both batteries are AC 100 – 240 Volt, 50 Hertz, at 1.5 – 5 amperes and charge through a standard 3 prong XLR port. It comes with a standard 24V 2A charger in the box. A 24V 3A charger is available separately.
Maximum speed, 4 miles per hour, maximum incline 6°. Auto brakes at 9° downhill. The control stick is true analog, a slight touch barely moves the chair, fully pushing the stick is full power.
Max power can be set with up and down buttons. 0.8mph, 1.6mph, 2.4mph, 3.2mph, or 4mph
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD6BFM95
Rated to carry 350 lb. which is far better than most electric wheelchairs. It has a feature where it folds and unfolds itself automatically:
https://youtube.com/shorts/q3185mokjZ8
The control stick has a fold and unfold button, hold it until it beeps, then press the horn button and the chair will completely fold or unfold on it's own.
Once folded, it's basically the size of a large suitcase, weighs 67 pounds with the battery, and can be hauled around in the back of most cars or SUVs.
If I reach a point where I'm incapacitated and can't drive myself, there are two options:
or:
2 is also a good feature for when I need to go somewhere that has 1 or 2 steps for entry. Put the chair in manual and push up the steps.
After a year, I've successfully driven on the usual surfaces, but also gravel and dirt. The only thing it couldn't handle was soft, wet, grass and DEEP gravel. The wheels get stuck in the mud.
Only damage it has sustained are small scratches to the bottom of the metal kickplate from repeated folding and unfolding on asphalt. Nothing unexpected.
Replacement parts, including both motors and all the wheels, extra batteries, fast charger, etc. are all available from the manufacturers website:
https://comfygomobility.com/products/iq-7000-electric-wheelchair-replacement-parts
I have yet to be in a situation where I've completely run out of power. The LED display doesn't really give you a good idea of how many miles you have left, it's a gradiated display, so:
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 = 55% - 100% power (17 miles)
🟢🟢🟢🟢 = 35% - 55% (9.35 miles)
🟢🟢🟢 = 20% - 34% (5.78 miles)
🟡🟡 = 12% to 19% (3.23 miles)
🔴 < 12% (2.04 miles)
After running all around 2 floors of an indoor/outdoor mall one day and a Costco the next day, I was still at
🟡🟡
3-year frame, 1-year motor, 1-year battery, and 1-year electronic parts warranty.
4 frame colors and 9 seat cushion colors = 36 different combinations. Clearly black and red is the cool one. :)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22823557
First two episodes have dropped and it pretty much slaps.
Following the continuity of The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker, the Creature Commandos are Amanda Waller's replacement Suicide Squad.
She's told she can't recuit people anymore, so she recruits monsters instead.
Based on the characters from Weird War Tales #93 in 1980:
Frankenstein's Monster, a vampire, and the Wolf Man killing Nazis in WWII. They were later joined by a gorgon.
The animated series updates the lineup... Frankenstein's Monster, Bride of Frankenstein, Weasel (from The Suicide Squad), Doctor Phosphorus (1st appearance Detective Comics #469), G.I. Robot (1st appearance Star Spangled War Stories #101), and mermaid, Dr. Nina Mazursky (1st appearance Flashpoint: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #1).
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21917446
Ballot in question:
Mayor:
District 1:
30% lost faith when we prosecuted Trump.
35% lost faith when Trump walked.
Seems to track to me!