The useless information thread
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It gives one hope that one may still accomplish something meaningful in life.
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Thanks, Chris. This seemed to me to be improbable AI slop; but no, it's true.
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A massive Canadian study tracking more than 12 million people in Ontario found that diagnoses of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders among 14 to 20-year-olds have risen about 60 percent since the late 1990s. Rates climbed from roughly 63 to nearly 100 cases per 100,000 teens. Diagnoses among adults in their 20s, 30s, and 40s stayed flat or declined.
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Vaccines? Food preservatives? Artificial sweeteners/flavors/colors? Chemicals leeching from the plastics most food comes packaged in these days? We're willingly poisoning ourselves. Nobody wants to be poisoned but nobody wants to make the tough decisions to rid ourselves of these things.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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I, for one will not make the tough decision to rid my body of nicotine.
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Micro-dosing is the key.
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My chocolates inspire me.
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@memento_mori said:
Fog affects ballistics too…so I’m told 🤓Correct, but I am unsure if it affects much at shorter distances. Say <1k yards. 🤷♂️
Roughly .25 - .3 mils at 1k yds, also, I suppose the caliber of the round would greatly determine that. This is fun. Been a minute since I've scratched the surface of Fire Control.Nolite Oblivisci Peniculus Dentes
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@Hawks said:
@memento_mori said:
Fog affects ballistics too…so I’m told 🤓Correct, but I am unsure if it affects much at shorter distances. Say <1k yards. 🤷♂️
Roughly .25 - .3 mils at 1k yds, also, I suppose the caliber of the round would greatly determine that. This is fun. Been a minute since I've scratched the surface of Fire Control.I believe it would be more or less depending on visuals, fog density, weight of moisture and obviously windage. . At a 1000 yards, 36”, under normal non dense fog, is very gratuitous or a shitshot 😳
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Barometric pressure has a greater affect at distances 1k yds + than humidity does.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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Yes, I think barometric pressure has the largest influence overall. Humidity being the least influential but I can't remember, off the top of my head how I used to calculate density. Temp and humidity, I remember, played together.... Or temp and barometric pressure. ... Damn, now I'll have to look through my old ballistic worksheets when I get home.
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@Hawks said:
Yes, I think barometric pressure has the largest influence overall. Humidity being the least influential but I can't remember, off the top of my head how I used to calculate density. Temp and humidity, I remember, played together.... Or temp and barometric pressure. ... Damn, now I'll have to look through my old ballistic worksheets when I get home.My Strelok uses temp and pressure
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African or European?
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Our body odour is specific enough, and our sense of smell accurate enough, that people can pair the sweaty T-shirts of identical twins from a group of strangers' T-shirts
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210621-why-single-people-smell-different
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A gurn or chuck[citation needed] is a distorted facial expression and a verb to describe the action. A typical gurn involves projecting the lower jaw as far forward and up as possible and covering the upper lip with the lower lip.[1]
A typical gurn
The English Dialect Dictionary, compiled by Joseph Wright, defines the word gurn as "to snarl as a dog; to look savage; to distort the countenance," while the Oxford English Dictionary suggests the derivation may originally be Scottish, related to grin. In Northern Ireland, the verb to gurn means "to cry", and crying is often referred to as "gurnin'". Originally the Scottish dialectical usage refers to a person who is complaining. The term gurn may also refer to an involuntary facial muscular contortion experienced as a side-effect of MDMA consumption.[2]Gurning contests
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Gurning contests are a rural English tradition. They are held regularly in some villages, with contestants traditionally framing their faces through a horse collar—known as "gurnin' through a braffin".[3]The World Gurning Championship takes place annually at the Egremont Crab Fair.[4] The fair dates back to 1267, when King Henry III granted it a Royal Charter.[5] The origins of the gurning competition itself are unclear, and it may not be so old, although it was described as an ancient tradition by local newspaper The Cumberland Paquet in 1852.[6]
The most successful gurners are often those with no teeth. This provides greater room to move the jaw further up. In some cases, the elderly or otherwise toothless can perform gurns where their lower lip covers the nostrils. A notable example of this was performed by Jovante Carter, a 22-year-old American man from New Orleans. He held the gurn for 1 minute and 2 seconds, earning a Guinness World Record.[7][8]
Peter Jackman became England's best-known gurner, winning the world championship four times, beginning in 1998 with a face called the "Bela Lugosi". He made numerous TV appearances, including an appearance on They Think It's All Over.[9] He had his teeth removed in 2000 to make his features easier to manoeuvre.[10]
The only male gurner to win the world title 15 times is Tommy Mattinson (UK), who took the top prize at the World Gurning Championship in 1986–87 and then 10 times between 1999 and 2010.[11]
Anne Woods won the women's world title 28 times.[12]
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Researchers from Mystic Aquarium are heading to the icy tundras of Canada to study beluga breath. That’s the white-plume mixture of water cells, proteins and lung fluid that whales exhale when they come up to the surface.
It’s also known as beluga snot.
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