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“MAYBE IT’S NOT MY WEEKEND, BUT IT’S GONNA BE MY YEAR” I scream at 12 am with tears streaming down my face and a bottle of champagne in my hand. it has not been my year yet. it’s not even a weekend today is Thursday
This is all too accurate for you bud
Just in case anyone overseas was wondering how the Vegas shooter had access to high powered assault rifles… There is no justifiable reason any human being should have access to this kind of fire power unless your an actual soldier in the military. Humans are dumb emotional creatures, we do not get to have these. Fuck off if you disagree ✌🏽
I don’t see any assault rifles in there.
I am curious though, how can something both be an “assault rifle” and “high powered”? By definition Assault Rifles only use intermediate cartridges. Does “intermediate powered” no sound scary enough for you?
Op deactivated lol..
You’d still have to go through a background check to get these too 😂
> Humans are dumb emotional creatures,
As you have clearly demonstrated.
OMG you can buy things at stores!!! What an atrocity!!!!!
“we do not get to have these”
Who the fuck is you? God?
liberal: guns are designed to end human life we don’t get to have them
liberal: abortions on demand now for everybody
you know that ain’t gonna work on them cuz fetuses ain’t human life so ending their existence isn’t a problem.
The more hilarious contradiction is the vegan who refuses to eat eggs, but is in favor of freer access to abortions.
Well, the left has always bitterly clung to their flaming hypocrisy.
^^^
The fuck does is a high powered rifle anyways? If it’s truly a thing why have I never seen a low powered rifle. And who the fuck wants use a low powered weapon for self defense or hunting?
Investigator : “Sir why did you shoot him 9 times?”
Survivor of an armed robbery : “I had a low powered weapon and wasn’t powerful enough to stop him with one round.”
This with
This
Makes it a Hi Power rifle
When you give
To six rangers.
You get
??
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@dieselsnwhiskey
I thought this was gonna be stupid till I scrolled down lol
I can’t stop thinking about crocodiles for some reason so here’s some cool pictures I found of probably the second largest one in captivity, his name is Utan:
isn’t he beautiful
listen to the SOUND when he bites
and that’s not even a real power bite, that’s mostly just heavy bone falling on heavy bone from his jaws and the air rushing out from between them
2000 pounds of Good Boy
you get me
I honestly expected like 5 notes, what HAPPENED here
More tags on this ridiculous post:
Wait, thats the 2nd biggest crocodile? Then what does the biggest one look like?
That would be Cassius, a very old Saltwater crocodile who is estimated to be around 114 years old and lives at Marineland Melanesia in Green Island, Australia. His official measurement is 5.48 meters, which makes him the largest in captivity currently. Because Utan is only slightly smaller and much younger, (only in his 50s), he will likely break Cassius’ record eventually. But for now, Cassius holds the title:
He is NOT, however, either the largest crocodile ever captured in Australia OR the largest ever in captivity.
A slightly larger crocodile has been reported (though not yet comfirmed) to have been captured at 5.58 meters.
And while the famous Brutus of the Adelaide River was estimated to be just slightly larger than Cassius at 5.5m, he was driven out of his territory by a younger and even larger crocodile, who as a result has been given the name, The Dominator. He is estimated to be just over 6m.
This is Brutus, with an appropriate caption:
It is believed that he lost that arm in a fight with a Bull Shark.
The Bull Shark lost.
THIS is the crocodile who kicked him out. The Dominator:
And that’s STILL not the biggest.
The largest living crocodile ever reliably measured was Lolong, who for the 1.5 years between his capture and his death was the largest crocodile ever held in captivity, at a whopping 6.17 meters (20 feet 3 inches) and 1075 kg (2,370 lbs). He had been feeding on both humans and very large livestock in the Bunawan creek in Agusan del Sur in the Philippines. It took 100 people all night to drag him to shore during his capture.
And here’s why:
Also, to prevent credit from getting buried on a separate reblog, I have been informed that the above image of the crocodile with the cartoon eyes and halo was made by @rashkah! (And it is wonderful and I would like to thank him for its existence, because it perfectly captures my feelings about terrifying giant primordial reptiles.)
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Holy fuck
As far as Brutus is concerned I was led to believe that he lost that arm when relatively young.
Since then Brutus developed a habit of hunting and eating Bull Sharks.
Here’s him with a prey.
And if you thought that you’ll be safe if you just stay out of Australia then think again!
Meet Gustave the Nile Croc.
This crocodile became almost legendary for both it’s size and the habit of hunting both livestock AND humans.
So how big is Gustave?
No one is sure. Since he was NEVER captured.
His estimated size is of at least 5,5m but some give him over 6m.
The terrifying parts are:
1) He is still growing having only about 60 years.
2) Adult crocodiles often perform a gesture of submission to him - something usually done by young crocodiles toward adults - Gustave is just THAT BIG.
3) His sheer size makes it difficult for him to catch agile prey Nile crocs tend to feed on - hence why he developed a habit of hunting either larger prey like Hippopotamus or creatures which are not good at spotting danger in the first place like livestock and humans.
And this is NOT ALL.
Gustave actually has a noticeable scars on his body - he was shot at east 3 times and stabbed with a spear or something similar at one occasion.
He lived to tell the tale - my question is:
What happened to that one dude who attacked Gustave with a spear?
*Crocodile Dundee voice* Mate, that’s not Gustave:
THIS is Gustave:
And he is the PERFECT CROCODILE. He is the perfect example of what I mean when I talk about (as I do) how the morphology of extremely large crocodiles adapts to the changing physics of their bite.
This is a typical adult Nile Crocodile:
And THIS is a god among his kind:
This is it, folks. The Final Form. THIS is what peak performance looks like.
Crocodiles and physics have an interesting relationship. Crocodiles have, by a CONSIDERABLE MARGIN, the strongest bite of any animal on Earth. EVER. Scaled up estimates (based on Nile and Saltwater crocodiles) give the extinct Deinosuchus an estimated bite force MORE THAN DOUBLE the recently updated Tyrannosaurus bite estimates. Living crocodiles have bite forces measured in the range of 5000 pounds per square inch, for an individual around 15-16 feet. It is estimated that modern crocodiles in the range of 18-20 feet would have bit forces around 7-8000 psi or more.
That’s a problem.
Because a crocodile’s skull is only designed to handle so much pressure. Go beyond that limit and the force of impact when those jaws snap shut could literally shatter their own skulls.
But evolution has spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting crocodiles, so PHYSICS ISN’T GOING TO STOP THEM. What ends up happening in the skulls of these extremely large crocodiles is they will increase dramatically in mass to compensate for the increased forces. A crocodile’s skull is almost exclusively solid bone, with only minimal space for nasal passages, a surprisingly advanced brain, and some slightly porous looking framework that helps the bone distribute the force over a larger area. The effect is by far the most pronounced in Nile crocodiles, which most regularly feed on larger prey and need to make use of all that power.
Compare, 26 inch skull:
vs 29 inch skull:
Both of those are Nile crocodile skulls (or rather, replicas thereof).
And just for fun, here are the skulls of completely different (and very extinct species), Deinosuchus:
and Purussaurus:
The bigger the crocodile (within a given species), the more massive the skull needs to be to compensate for that UNBELIEVABLE bit pressure. This is one way to see from a distance whether you are looking at a normal sized crocodile:
and a truly extraordinary individual:
One of the things about Gustave that’s so impressive is how healthy his teeth look. A lot of large crocodiles, in their old age, have very worn down and often missing teeth. They do replace them many times over a lifetime, but when they get very old this slows down. Gustave, at least in every picture taken of him, had teeth that were in very good condition.
Even crocodiles much smaller than Gustave’s reported size (probably similar in size to Dominator or Lolong) tend to have smaller or more worn teeth:
than the pinnacle of his kind:
Lolong! It means Gramps or Grandpa, because he’s a relic of an ancient world where crocs more massive than he was walked the earth. His body is on display somewhere right now though I forgot where.
Every time I see this post there’s more crocodiles. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
I’m going to banish you to… Oklahoma
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Trust me you don't want to be here, it's November and it was 60 today, it's unnatural
What kind of person just drives around like this?
A gambler
I did for a while after the tire shop broke one of my studs because they over torqued the hell out of my lugnuts, like, I had a breaker bar, with a cheater pipe to undo them, and I argued with them for about a month about whether or not I'd pay to have them fix it because I thought it was bullshit they wanted me to pay because their techs didn't know the 100 ft/lb rule
That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.
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This is really important and let me tell you why.
My mom has an iPhone 6 Plus and hasn’t even had it for a year when one day it suddenly died and would not charge. So she took it to an authorized Apple repair place and they charged her $50 for a diagnostic only to tell her that she would have to buy a brand new phone.
So she decided to go to the AT&T store to talk to our usual guy that upgrades our phones and handles any problems for us. She tells him what’s wrong and he takes her phone to the back only to come out two minutes later, puts her phone on charge and it comes back to life.
She asks him what was wrong with it that he managed to somehow fix when the people at the “authorized apple repair place” couldn’t. And you know what he told her?
“There was just a bit of fuzz in the charging port.”
I FUCKING KNEW IT. Listen, I have a MacBook from college. The charger has died twice, and I had to get a new one. This happened for two years in a row around the same time each year. I’m fucking convinced that their hardware is rigged to “expire” in order to force people to keep buying their shit.
Wait, people are just now learning that Apple has some of the shadiest business practices?
You know this isn’t really just apple, company’s do this all the time, everything is rigged to expire and all they want is your money.
Ohhh no no no, this IS JUST Apple.
All companies want you to buy their new products. None have gone to the lengths that Apple Inc. has gone to make end user repairs as impossible as is legally viable. I have been repairing electronics and computer systems privately, commercially and active duty in the US military for about 30 years.
Apple puts extra effort into special hardware requiring proprietary tools that are only legally produced by their licensed manufacturer and can only be purchased through licensed repair shops if at all.
Companies like iFixit can only exist as profit making companies because they are able to make workaround tools and kits that are still profitable but less of a blatant ripoff than Apple.
Apple has been doing this forever. The way Apple treats consumers is abysmal, and people still eat their products up.
I had a Galaxy S3 for 5 years while my sister went through 3 different Apple phones in that time period.
@elzakitty he’s so cool
FUCK THE SYSTEM
I have all Apple products. A Macbook and an iPhone– Whenever I’ve had to go in for repairs, they SUCK and I’m so glad I’ve had my things covered with their Apple Care. I would be out thousands of dollars if it wasn’t covered.
Anyway, the last time I went in for my laptop about two years ago now… I went in because the lid was misaligned. It came back from ANOTHER repair from them like that. So Apple agreed to fix it and it would take two days. I said okay, and gave them my laptop. Well, a week goes by and I’ve been calling asking about my laptop and they keep saying it’s not ready. I thought that was super weird because a misaligned lid should be a relatively easy fix. At the end of the week, I get the call to go in and get my laptop. It looks okay. The lid is fine. They show me how it opens smoothly and I thank them. I take my laptop and I go home.
When I go home and boot it up EVERYTHING is gone. Just EVERYTHING. I panic. I had years and years of information on that laptop. Pictures, videos, documents, etc. I call them and anyway two hours later I finally get to someone who can give me an explanation: Apple took it upon themselves to not only fix the lid of my laptop, but to also send my laptop to an undisclosed outside repairman who replaced my entire hard drive without telling me or giving me an option to opt out of the “repair”. They made ABSOLUTELY no mention of this to me when I picked it up. They gave me to compensation either for the things I lost.
Luckily, I was able to restore my laptop from a backup I had made months earlier. I lost things, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
Apple is the shadiest company and I hate that my products are from them honestly. I hate that I genuinely ENJOY their products.
I’m gonna just leave this here:
And people think I’m just a baseless apple hater bc I can be.
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I'll try and snag a picture of our 6 foot torque wrench we use, the one i was using when I busted up my arm
Anyway how’s your afternoon, I thought we owned fancy brown sugar and proceeded to fucking destroy my coffee
@dieselsnwhiskey shit like this makes me cry
My well house started on fire today, I think I win @deusphoenix
states that carry bad energy:
ohio
illinois
new jersey
delaware
michigan
north carolina
arkansas
idaho
states that carry weird, but not necessarily bad energy:
iowa
missouri
florida
connecticut
maine
maryland
nevada
addition to bad energy list:
nebraska
a complete diagram of how i feel about the states
uh oklahoma isnt trying its best ever
a correction: wisconsin is definitely not good. its power is so terrible and chaotic that it cannot be perceived by most humans, who simply think that the weird spike in energy they feel upon entering the state is excitement for the upcoming onslaught of cheese curds.
@dieselsnwhiskey Oklahoma = Not Even Trying
Good thing I'm a South Dakotan not an oklahoman
Rules For A Gunfight by Drill Instructor Joe B. Fricks, USMC
1. Forget about knives, bats and fists. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. Bring four times the ammunition you think you could ever need.
2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammunition is cheap – life is expensive. If you shoot inside, buckshot is your friend. A new wall is cheap – funerals are expensive.
3. Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss.
4. If your shooting stance is good, you’re probably not moving fast enough or using cover correctly.
5. Move away from your attacker and go to cover. Distance is your friend. (Bulletproof cover and diagonal or lateral movement are preferred.)
6. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a semi or full-automatic long gun and a friend with a long gun.
7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
8. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and running. Yell “Fire!” Why “Fire”? Cops will come with the Fire Department, sirens often scare off the bad guys, or at least cause then to lose concentration and will…. and who is going to summon help if you yell ”Intruder,” “Glock” or “Winchester?”
9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on “pucker factor” than the inherent accuracy of the gun.
10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
11. Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
12. Have a plan.
13. Have a back-up plan, because the first one won’t work. “No battle plan ever survives 10 seconds past first contact with an enemy.”
14. Use cover or concealment as much as possible, but remember, sheetrock walls and the like stop nothing but your pulse when bullets tear through them.
15. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
16. Don’t drop your guard.
17. Always tactical load and threat scan 360 degrees. Practice reloading one-handed and off-hand shooting. That’s how you live if hit in your “good” side.
18. Watch their hands. Hands kill. Smiles, frowns and other facial expressions don’t (In God we trust. Everyone else keep your hands where I can see them.)
19. Decide NOW to always be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.
20. The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.
21. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet if necessary, because they may want to kill you.
22. Be courteous to everyone, overly friendly to no one.
23. Your number one option for personal security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.
24. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with anything smaller than ”4″.
25. Use a gun that works EVERY TIME. “All skill is in vain when an Angel blows the powder from the flintlock of your musket.” At a practice session, throw your gun into the mud, then make sure it still works. You can clean it later.
26. Practice shooting in the dark, with someone shouting at you, when out of breath, etc.
27. Regardless of whether justified or not, you will feel sad about killing another human being. It is better to be sad than to be room temperature.
28. The only thing you EVER say afterwards is, “He said he was going to kill me. I believed him. I’m sorry, Officer, but I’m very upset now. I can’t say anything more. Please speak with my attorney.”
Finally, Drill Instructor Frick’s Rules For Un-armed Combat.
1: Never be unarmed.
Nuff said
Yes that Pretty much covers it.
SOMEBODY SHARED THIS WITH ME & OUCH IM LAUGHING SO HARD BUT AT THE SAME TIME IM HURT
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are you gonna pick those penne noodles out of the boiling water one by one like a man, or are you gonna use a strainer like some kind of democrat?
@dieselsnwhiskey why did I read this in your voice
Hell if I know, cuz idk what a penne noodle is and a man reaches in and grabs them all at once, not one by one
You wanna know what cosmoline tastes like? Better than anticipated.
We discussed this. Don’t eat cosmoline.
DUDE WHY
I heard if you eat enough Cosmoline you go into a trance like state and see visions of Ian from Forgotten Weapons.
That, or you die. I can’t remember which it was.
Worth the risk
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