NonWonderDog

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[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Depending on atmospheric conditions bullet contrails can be very visible. Looks real to me.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the criteria are very precise, they’re just only vaguely related to reality.

My favorite is the double-barreled 1911 pistol. It has two triggers, because if it only had one trigger it would be a machine gun (it would fire multiple bullets with one pull of the trigger). But physically it would never work if it didn’t always fire both barrels at exactly the same time, so it only has one slide and both hammers are connected to each other. But because you have to drop two sears with two triggers before it will fire apparently it’s totally legal.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Caught NPR this morning as they brought someone on to tell us:

  • Raisi was the hardest of hard liners
  • He hated America
  • He even opposed the assassination of Suleimani, in an example of how hard-line he was
  • He was actually just a puppet of the supreme leader
  • And everyone in Iran hated him anyway

So I guess it was an assassination then?

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's actually a film from 2020, about film during the cultural revolution.

The magnet links should work without signing up, so in decreasing order of quality:

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6288206

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6071969

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6072852

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Three working torrents at rutracker.org (search "one second 2020").

I found a few Chinese torrents on BT4G searching "一秒钟", but I don't have a way to connect to Chinese peers.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Iskandr and Kinzhal don’t follow that ballistic missile trajectory, though. Neither does ATACMS. These are all semi-ballistic missiles that follow something closer to the "hypersonic glide vehicle" trajectory in your drawing (without the little skim maneuver, though, probably).

The real difference here is range. Things called "hypersonic glide vehicles" are intercontinental. Iskandr is "just" a missile that flys a low trajectory really fast.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worked for Fidel, though?

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

spoiler / Japanese lessonIt’s the Q thing, but it’s pointedly not qqq.

Numbers in Japanese are weird, and have multiple readings. There’s a native Japanese system ("koko" for 9) and a more common Chinese-derived system ("kyuu" for 9), but the number 9 actually has two Chinese-derived readings (the second one being "ku").

Different readings are used in different contexts. "kyuu no [thing]" is always a valid way to say 9 of something, but "ku" is used with some counting words and there are plenty of old-fashioned words and phrases using the native reading ("koko-no-tsu" is a very common way to say "9 [things]" or "9 [years old]").

The Japanese title is 極限脱出 9時間9人9の扉, with the subtitle pronounced "kujikan kunin kyuu no tobira". That’s really the only natural way to write it, so you don’t notice anything weird, but it’s definitely a choice.

The 「の」 particle basically turns the preceeding noun into an adjective, and nouns can be either plural or singular based on context. Taking those together 「9の扉」(kyuu no tobira) means "9 doors", but it can also mean "the 9 door". "The kyuu door."

In contrast, 9時間 (kujikan) and 9人 (kunin) are compound words that unambiguously mean "9 hours" and "9 people".

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Loved these, and played 999 side by side in English and Japanese. Have to say it’s much better in Japanese, though, and

Japanese-version puzzle spoilerthe title pun
is permanently seared into my brain.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where I am in the US I have to go to an asian grocery store and buy a 20 lb bag if I want white rice that isn’t pre-washed and fortified, and even then half the stock is labelled 無洗米.

I don’t understand this dunk at all.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ジョー員

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

PornHub is owned by the same people that own the biggest porn studios in America, and most of the commercial content on PornHub is 3-minute clips intended to sell subscriptions.

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