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Another real annoyance is finding lead free air rifle pellets. Especially ones that aren’t crap, and doubly so in any caliber other than .177. Apparently it’s too much to ask to punch paper or perforate soda cans, maybe whack the occasional rat, and not be distributing lead all over the damn place.

No it doesn’t. The shot cup and the charge of shot travel down the barrel as a single contiguous unit. The outer walls of the cup are what contact the barrel. The shot doesn’t appreciably separate from the cup until several feet past the end of the muzzle when the petals of the shot cup are no longer restrained by the barrel. Separation is only able to happen when the cup encounters wind resistance out there in open air, and this is trivially verifiable by firing a bird shot shell at a paper target from only a couple of feet away.

This is all especially so with steel shot, because you definitely don’t want that touching the inside of the barrel. I haven’t cut a buckshot shell apart lately so I suppose it’s possible that there are still commercial loads out there that just utilize a plastic wad with no cup, but birdshot shells certainly don’t.

Edit! It was remarkably difficult to find a slow motion video of this in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1if2QKHWmU4

Not unless you’re oldschooling it hard enough to be using felt or cardboard wads and not a plastic shot cup as found in modern shells. Or unsaboted slugs, I suppose, which definitely contact the barrel. In the former case, you probably already have an impressive handlebar mustache and a large collection of brass shells, a keg of black powder in your basement right next to your keg of whiskey, and you’re touching your shot all the time while you’re handloading anyway.

Shotguns do, however, disseminate their shot all over the countryside when people hunt with them since statistically speaking only a rather small portion of the shot tends to actually hit the target.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen FMJ .22 ammo. The best you can find is “copper washed” or “brass washed” which I guess is electroplated or painted or something with a metal solution that seems like it’s about one molecule thick. It still gets lead marks all over everything.

Shotgun shot is also traditionally just lead, unjacketed, although nobody should be coming into contact with that much except the recipient because it all stays inside the shell. And non-lead shot is mandated for hunting in a lot of places now for obvious environmental reasons, either being steel or tungsten or bismuth or whatever.

You rang?

…Wait, not me?

Yeah, he’s definitely still around because he recently replied to a comment of mine using one of his alt accounts, and did so in order to confirm that said account was one of his alts. How strange.

Hey, I promote my dinkum commercial enterprises on here all the time! Nobody’s shot me for it.

…Yet.

She’s not even a catgirl. Anubis is a friggin’ jackal or, if you must, at minimum has a dog for a head. She’s a puppergirl.

The gloriously awful Action 52 cartridge for the original Nintendo.

I imagine they’re using the eMMC data bus standard, but it’s pants-on-head moronic to use flash chips for what’s supposed to be permanently nonvolatile storage. Flash media is not storage stable if it’s not powered regularly; ask anybody with an old Windows install USB drive that’s more than a couple of years old and they’ll tell you all about it.

If this is so, that also opens up the inevitability of the data in cartridge games decaying and eventually becoming lost forever. Your cartridges would literally rot on the shelf.

Actually come to think of it, I wouldn’t put it past Nintendo to do that deliberately and be salivating at the very thought.

These are ROM, not flash memory. Unless Nintendo is even more unhinged than we give them credit for.

I think before any technical aspects are considered, you need to figure out what to do with the gibbering hordes of idiotic users who seem to be drawn to these sorts of forums as if by powerful magnetism.

I have been led in desperation many times to a Quora thread in my search results. I have never in many years, not even once, arrived at a Quora thread that actually contained the correct answer to the question being asked at the top. It’s useless cesspit and insofar as I can be bothered to determine it always was.

Since there isn’t a no spoilers rule in this community, is this the part where I get to humblebrag about I whooped Groal the Great on my first try? I saw much wailing and gnashing of teeth about him online.

Just don’t ask me how many times his stupid gauntlet got me before I even saw him, nor how many times I threw myself at the First Sinner last night…

I’m also not convinced that the expense of producing the trays and stuffing the bags in this manner is actually cheaper than the cost of just filling it the rest of the way with product and leaving it at that.

Some C-Suite asshole thinks he’s getting it over on everybody with this and isn’t smart enough to realize that this is a Dick Dastardly Stops To Cheat situation.

Re: Lemmings.

How about Magpies?

Taken as a whole from a historical standpoint this is certainly so, current events notwithstanding. I predict a lot of salty people reading your comment are going to studiously ignore the fact that Europe as it stands now has been shaped pretty much purely by thousands of years worth of wars, which required the invention of all kinds of weapons and warfare tactics. And that’s before the European powers took all that on the road in the colonial era.

I find that not acting like a dillhole is usually an effective strategy, also.

You can do it with the Tesseract web UI. Probably others as well, but the default Lemmy web UI is pretty dinkum and seems to be missing quite a few of the more detailed features. You are correct that this information is indeed exposed by the API.

https://t.lemmy.world/modlog?other_person_id=15838010

Now the question is, what are you going to do with this information?

When I was a kid I relied on my bicycle to get around and I was simply too poor to pay anyone to work on it for me. It was all I could do to afford the bike itself in the first place. So with some experimentation and slowly buying (or filching) the tools I learned to do it myself.

I’ve since graduated to motorcycles, but the philosophy is the same.

I’m not broke anymore but that’s not the point. Teaching yourself to be helpless will get you every time. Whenever you say, “I can’t do whatever,” you’ll inevitably prove yourself right. Sometimes you’ll get yourself into a pickle, sure, but more often than not you’ll prevail. And the more you prevail the better you’ll get at it.

That, and nobody legitimate ever asks you to do anything with accounts/passwords/money/banks and ends the message with “warm regards.” Really? That’s right up there with “calvary greetings.”