kerrigan778

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[–] kerrigan778 1 points 4 minutes ago

There should be signs all down the street on both sides warning about parking and driveway access from x time to y time as well. I see nothing.

[–] kerrigan778 30 points 4 hours ago

No.

No that's kind of stupid.

The amount of lead exposure from shooting is not particularly high and would be concentrated in a very small number of people who are doing things like firing uncoated bullets A LOT ie. reloaders. Most Americans don't own guns and even the ones that do don't fire them indoors extremely regularly and most indoor ranges have soap intended for lead. The lead exposure we're talking about is pretty tiny especially considering lead effects cognition the most during brain DEVELOPMENT and the amount of leaded gas and lead paint are going to be much, much more significant. People who occupationally encounter lead in things like bullets, such as range workers, armorers, etc, monitor their lead exposure and if they are within safe levels the average guy who goes to an indoor range a handful of times a year certainly is. Also, shooting is expensive, most people aren't shooting thousands of rounds a year, so countries with mandatory service where every 18 year old learns to shoot a rifle, likely using thousands of rounds of rifle ammo for every boy as an early adult would still be a much more statistically significant thing, as anyone who has ever received military training has, simply due to cost, shot more rounds than a very large chunk of any population

[–] kerrigan778 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not positive but ABC described it as "mostly plastic" as opposed to "entirely plastic"

[–] kerrigan778 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

That's what a ghost gun is, the only part of a gun that is tracked is the lower, and often only a fully functional lower.

A ghost gun need not even be 3d printed at all, there was a thriving business for a while in 80-95% lowers that were mostly complete lower kits that just requires some basic machining and assembly, ie. Drill a 1/4" hole here where we marked an x, then put the pieces together.

[–] kerrigan778 12 points 1 day ago

Really shows the degree to which cop unions ARE NOT labor unions.

[–] kerrigan778 15 points 1 day ago

At least he died doing what he loved. Causing people to die.

[–] kerrigan778 19 points 1 day ago

Oh, workers can you stand it? Oh, tell me how you can Will you be a lousy scab Or will you be a man??

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[–] kerrigan778 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] kerrigan778 1 points 3 days ago

Among the greatest books ever written

[–] kerrigan778 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lefty here, yes, that is what we, including George Orwell, have been saying for years.

[–] kerrigan778 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You are being way too hard on yourself, go in, act like nothing really happened which is mostly true, if your boss does demand an explanation of what happened all you need to say is "sorry, I had a panic attack." If any coworker asks about it any of the following answers are acceptable "sorry, I had a panic attack" if you want to embellish whether true or not you can add "I was going through some unrelated stuff at the time and it threw me off," and if necessary "I don't really feel comfortable talking about it" it's fine to embellish a little bit because it is, and I really do mean this, none of their business anyways and if they're worth your time they will respect your boundaries anyways. If anyone gives you an opportunity to laugh it off, take it, add in any of the prior responses if you want.

EDIT: Oh, and next time someone asks you how to spell something repeat calmly after me "oh, sorry don't ask me, I get spelling anxiety" It's totally fine. If it's just general social test anxiety then you can expand the line to "oh, sorry, don't ask me, I get bad anxiety under social pressure" Modify further as needed. Again, you're totally fine.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by kerrigan778 to c/tipofmytongue
 

I don't remember a lot of details but I remember the human race ends up allying itself with a seemingly friendly alien race that agrees to give humanity advanced medicine and technology, but with the goal of slowly wiping out humanity through slowly making the species sterile. It follows a couple that is trying to conceive but has so far been unable to and the overlords keep reassuring them thR everything is fine just keep trying but the woman does digging and figures out what is happening but it's already too late. I think there is a time travel story where humanity is prevented from either coming into contact with the aliens in the first place or is warned away from making the deal.

Thank you thank you, it's driving me crazy.

 
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