I assumed. I know it’s similar where I live, but for all I know Montana has some strangely restrictive finders keepers law where if you drop your wallet and someone else finds it you can only legally reclaim it via a duel to the death.

Where do you live? That matters, unless you’re just asking from an ethics perspective. I’m not asking you to dox yourself, country/state is plenty.

Assuming you’re Canadian(based off your instance being lemmy.ca) technically speaking you should report in to the police, and they’ll hold it for 6 months. After that if someone hasn’t claimed it you’re free to claim it yourself. At least in Vancouver. Maybe the laws are different in other parts of Canada. Your local police probably have a non-emergency number for pretty much exactly this purpose if you wanna double check.

Realistically, it’s not even $200. Probably keep it for a week or two and then tell the kid the cops couldn’t find the original owner.

Because surprise is important, and if the enemy has precise intelligence on what’s going to happen they can act to make it not happen. Which means that any assumptions your plans make might be outdated or even actively countered.

To quote Sun Tzu, “All warfare is based on deception.” The lengths militaries have historically gone to in order to keep operational security or obfuscate the details of an attack is utterly absurd.

A real world example: In WW2, ahead of the allied invasion of Sicily the British launched Operation Mincemeat. They took the body of a homeless person that had recently died, gave him an entirely fictitious service record/life, and some fake letters heavily implying that the allied invasion of Sicily was a feint and the true invasion was going to be in Greece and Sardinia. Then they took the corpse onto a submarine and let it go where the tide would take it to Spain. The Spanish shared the letters with the Germans, and the Germans then reinforced… all the wrong places. Which made the Allied Invasion of Sicily easier than it potentially could have been.

I needed to hear that, actually. Thanks lol.

I intended to look pretty hard at swapping to Linux this year since they’re stopping security updates for Win10. I guess now I know exactly what flavor of Linux to grab.

I used to be into HP fanfiction and my god I got so tired of hearing about HPMOR. I didn’t hate it, I didn’t feel nearly that strongly. I got a handful of chapters in and put it down, but that’s reasonably normal for me. But my god you could not escape that fic. It’s fans were rabid and it’s detractors were even worse than that. If it could vaguely fit a req, they’d bring it up. And then get three replies about how it doesn’t fit the req and it’s the worst thing since My Immortal within fifteen minutes.

I have no clue about your notstupidquestion but it’s inspired one of my own.

Why are you taking zinc? I was under the impression that intaking zinc is a terrible idea and should be avoided at all cost.

Maybe it’s specifically inhaling it that’s the issue? I’ve always heard this in a metallurgy context: that you should be careful heating up brass/welding galvanized steel etc because the zinc will turn into a fairly toxic gas.

Since I have no clue what argument you’re talking about I definitely can’t provide context.

I think maybe we’re all confused lmao.

But yeah, you summed up the original context pretty well. It was a TikTok trend asking women if they’d rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man. A lot of people, primarily women, basically pointed and said “see how much women don’t trust the average man.” A lot of men pointed at it and said, “see how much women hate men.” And it was a whole gender argument for awhile. I just sort of thought it was all around sad and depressing.

I’m confused, can you provide some context?

I know about the bear vs man thing that went viral for awhile- “Would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man?”, but I haven’t ever seen it in a Lemmy vs Reddit context.

It depends? I’ve honestly never heard of a firearm being irreparably broken- there’s not usually a ton of different parts involved like with a car so repairs are drastically similar.

The amount of use and abuse a gun would need to be broken in some kind of semi-permanent way would be a lot. Generally if you’ve got the money for that amount of ammo, you’re going to have the money to have your gun- which you clearly like- repaired.

If you really just want to get rid of it, though, from my understanding you can take it to any police station (probably call ahead showing up with a gun randomly is a bad idea) and they’ll dispose of it for you.

If you’re asking about the mechanics of it, all you need to legally ‘destroy’ a firearm is an oxy/acetylene torch. The ATF has a nice little guide.

Ah, good advice. Thanks! The first one I spotted had an i5-7500T in it, so I don’t think 7th gen ones will be all that rare.

This is a fantastic idea, thanks. I’ve been intending to set up a media server for awhile now.

“Expelling the Jews” is a mechanic in Crusader Kings 2. And it gets abused like it did historically, too- borrow a shitload of money and then expel the Jews. Suddenly you found free money.

iOS only. Sucks.

Surviving a headshot isn’t particularly likely in any scenario. Helmets are more to stop shrapnel, glancing blows, and- depending on the helmet- maybe pistol rounds. Realistically, a helmet just isn’t stopping a direct shot with a rifle round.

why would you assume it’s safe?

They didn’t assume it was safe? They thought maybe it was and asked to double check…

…no? Why would the judge care if you were old when you were driving drunk?

They’re supposed to keep their lights on under 10000ft. They’re less for the pilots, at least aside from takeoff/landing, and more for other planes.

Idk why that specific configuration was chosen- to pull double duty, I guess? They’re functionally landing lights, but also warning lights if they’re low/in crowded airspace.

I just googled the question, and looked around a bit so it’s possible this is wrong.

It sounds like you’re looking for deep meaningful conversation in the comments of thirst trap posts. Which is wild.

The lack of moving parts also makes SSDs drastically more drop resistant, and just generally less likely to die on you randomly. Not that they can’t, it’s just less common.

It was DUI that resulted in a death, so idk if I’d say that actually makes him crazy.