I buy and play a bunch of old games from an EBay seller who sends both the original disc and a disc with a copy of the game that loads dosbox stuff or whatever else to make it work easily on a modern system without fiddling around. It's pretty great.
I have a bunch of strategy and sim games.
I worked at a Panera a long time ago on closing shift and we had an agreement with a local food bank who would send over a car to collect bread. Usually the car got filled up and we were allowed to take as much as we could carry of the rest. Only anything leftover after that was thrown away.
Common striker pistols are liked for the consistency of their triggers and the easy manual of arms. Beretta M9s are perfectly safe, but their double action first trigger pulls are tremendously heavy. Additionally the all metal framed M9s while durable are very large and heavy for what they do and they lack some more amenities like out of the box optics compatibility. Replacing them made sense, and replacing them with a polymer striker handgun which is lighter, easier to train, and has modern features made sense. Choosing the Sig over the other designs didn't make sense.
Striker pistols really aren't any more or less inherently safe than other designs. The tradeoff for consistency with most striker pistols is that the triggers tend to be somewhat "mushy" with part of the trigger pull always tensioning the spring for the striker before releasing. The designs just can't hit the lightness of single action pulls. It's a downside, but a minor one especially for a combat pistol.
The Sig design "solved" this problem by making a striker design where the spring is always fully tensioned, which cuts down on what the trigger pull is doing. I think the best theory on the problems revolve around that. In this design rather than the trigger pull first tensioning and then releasing the spring, all it does is release it. This means if the internal parts holding the spring back slip out of position (say due to bad production quality) the spring releases just as if the trigger had been pulled and fired a round. Apparently even the manual safety isn't preventing this because all the safety is doing is preventing the trigger from moving but it isn't actually blocking the striker internally.
The last book I read was Monstrous Regiment, a Discworld book that had somehow slipped past me.
It was pretty good. It's more or less a stand alone book in the setting with some minor cameos by established characters. There is one conceit that the book runs on, which you'll likely catch onto early, but it manages to mix up how it uses that conceit to keep it fresh enough. The ending big action set piece is contrived even for Discworld action, but the book really isn't about the action anyway so it gets a pass. B+ book, one of the lesser Discworld books which still puts it way above most other books.
I bought GamePass just for Outer Worlds because everyone pointing out that’s it’s from the team that made “New Vegas”.
I did a whole review of this game, and one of the first things I tackled was that it is absolutely not from the New Vegas team in terms of writing or design leadership. I completely blame the marketing for setting wrong expectations by creating that connection.
It is a good game, but going in wrongly thinking (due to misleading marketing) that it is New Vegas In Space is going to leave you frustrated.
It's very strange to me that the apparent reason for the pistols going off is in the unique fire control design (combined with bad execution or QC), which is only designed the way it is to give a very slightly improved trigger pull compared to other SAOs. The military has a tradition of not really caring about trigger pull quality for general issue arms, but suddenly for a new pistol this design was selected.
Israeli carry has, I've heard, been proposed within some commands. That would work as a bandaid solution, but it isn't fixing the core issue of something mechanically wrong with the guns which is not just a problem limited to Air Force MPs.
Sig has top to bottom dropped the ball and I agree the best solution would be reverting to M9s and/or choosing from a variety of other options, but unfortunately I don't think that will happen with as much sunk cost there has been into Sig contracts.
I had seen studies that say that training or even just daily walks can highly improve mood, but I had never heard that they fully cure depression.
The solution people are commonly offering helps then, even if it isn't a silver bullet. If a silver bullet existed that instantly and universally cured depression I'm sure people would offer that instead. People are offering the best they can to a stranger.
Despite the fact that not all people are capable of doing both.
If you go online and ask strangers, you're going to get general advice. If you have a paragraph of reasons why you can't do both, either, or a modification of the advice of exercise and therapist then I feel for you but aggressively rejecting generally helpful advice while looking for some other solution is putting the responsibility on random strangers to come up with something.
I'll add that while some people may not be able to do some of the common advice, I privately suspect that at least a healthy percent of the time that resistance to the advice isn't coming from inability to do it, or in the case of the exercise part to follow the spirit of the advice by being more active. If you truly have a chemical imbalance, a therapist is the person who can help and is qualified to talk about drug solutions.
Short of telling you to see that therapist to get actual professional help, and doing exercise which while it might only a partial solution is something that you can do right away, what exactly do you want of random people?
These are ~ 19-25 yr olds.
Millennials
Hm.
They cannot even comprehend that when your machine goes down for whatever reason, you can’t just walk out of the plant and sit in your car for 20 mins waiting on maintenance.
These are ~ 19-25 yr olds. Adults. I ask them to grab a wrench (THE ONLY WRENCH WE HAVE) out of drawer, they have absolutely no idea which tool they’re looking for.
I'm sorry, does your factory ask operators in non-maintenance positions to do maintenance work? I don't know what kind of plant this is, but in every one that I've seen that's a big no-no for so many reasons. If a system needs to be reset or cleared out in a way the operators are trained on, that's one thing. The moment it starts involving a wrench, that operator better be standing back.
Then, they go on one of the lines, we say "don’t put your hand in the machine while it’s running, bad things will happen.
Sounds like a lack of safety guards and light barriers to me. An operator should not be easily able to stick their hand into a running production system.
I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all.
Das nice clouds.