Let’s kick it up a notch and get Raytheon working on a helmet-mounted Phalanx that fires .22LR. The old farts at the trap & skeet range are gonna be in for a surprise when I show up with that bad boy.

Load it with Dragon’s Breath shells and add a manual trigger, and it becomes the latest craze for New Year’s parties!

A couple of months ago I wrote a single comment

The modlog shows you were having quite a spat with some mods 5 months ago.

Nothing else

Again, the modlog shows otherwise.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=111123

Why bring this up now, five months later?

Oof, I never knew that.

He deserved better than for Street Fighter to be his last movie.

Ooo, this looks cool. So it’s a self-hosted file management tool that lets you follow other users and share files with them?

Keep your stick on the ice. We’re all pullin’ for ya!

Wow, that’s a beauty!

Apparently it’s in the ballpark of 6 weeks and $100,000. I hope someday I’m in a position to be concerned about the cost and time to have my plane painted.

https://cla.aero/how-much-does-it-cost-to-paint-my-private-jet/

Japanese fighter jet art FTW.

I wish I had a solid source on this. The best I can find is a 6-year-old Reddit comment:

This particular jump with the BT-7 cavalry tank was performed by a tank test pilot Evgeniy Kulchitsky, he mentions in his memoirs that it was a very challenging test to perform (15m height, 42m length of the jump), requiring challenging practice and long preparation. You had to adjust the rotational speed of the tracks mid-air to not outright lose them, assume a (relatively) safe position and then continue to pilot the tank after landing to get it to the shore.

The reason for this testing was to make sure that similar jumps were a viable tactical option (fording rivers at speed, for example) and that both the crew and the tank could manage it and remain effective.

If I say it’s safe to surf this beach, Captain, it’s safe to surf this beach!

We should really open a shelter for sad cases like this. Little tankos like that deserve love and attention like any of us. Maybe we could have some land out back where volunteers could play with them once in a while to keep their spirits up and their barrels warm, especially during the cold seasons.

the scheme remains a thought experiment … too “extreme” to be pursued.

Challenge accepted.

Somebody call Vinci and Bechtel! We’re building some damn dams!

One exists, but the mod is AWOL and the community needs some love. If you (or anyone else here in the comments) wants to take it over and bring it back to life, let me know.

!credibledefense@sh.itjust.works

Minot. Curtis LeMay would have had wet dreams over it.

After digging into it, we banned the two sh.itjust.works accounts mentioned in this post. A quick search of the database did not reveal any similar accounts, though that doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

Beauty Revealed is an 1828 self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge, a watercolor portrait miniature on a piece of ivory.

Goodridge gave the portrait to statesman Daniel Webster, who was a frequent subject and possibly a lover, following the death of his wife; she may have intended to provoke him into marrying her. Although Webster married someone else, his family held onto the portrait until the 1980s …

Imagine holding on to the nude pic that dad’s old crush sent him.

Dad told me about a cable news talking head who was appalled by the YouTube video that discussed the tweet which translated the Telegram post about the interview. And, I gotta tell you, from what I understand it sounds serious.