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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • getting firearms across international lines is a little trickier than shooting dumbfuck CEO’s, though. Not advocating anything; just commenting on availability and transportation of firearms.

    And personally, I’d rather see billionaires sit in prison and watched their assets get nationalized than to see them die, but given the stranglehold money has on justice systems around the world, one of those is a less likely solution than the other…


  • My dad is one of those “worryingly concerned about self-defense” boomers and I got an LED/lithium ion maglite-ish flashlight last year for Christmas.

    It still doubles as a bludgeon and it’s rechargeable and puts out like 5k lumens, so while I didn’t think I needed anything like it, it’s quite handy if you live in the mountains like I do. Nothing scares off a couple coyotes or a bear like just blasting them in the retina with a high-end LED photon cannon (short of an actual shotgun with bean bag rounds like my neighbor uses)


  • It’s a lot heavier than that! The density of steel varies as there are different alloys, but most are in the range of 7.5-9 g/cm^3

    Gold has a density that’s more than double most steel alloys at 19.3 g/cm^3. Of course, that’s assuming we’re taking about pure gold, but still, gold is way more than 10% heavier than steel







  • I wouldn’t have characterized The Princess and the Frog that way. In that movie, the protagonists learn to be happy despite being frogs, not because they are frogs. Being frogs throws them together and forces them to get to know one another, but their happy ending comes once they become human again (and the point of the movie is about working tirelessly to achieve their dreams, not removing themselves from society)

    Edit: why yes, I do have small children and spend far too much time analyzing the themes of animated movies; why do you ask?