Glocks have three separate safety devices, but they do not have a toggleable safety switch on the outside of the gun, commonly referred to as a “thumb safety”.

You will not be able to make a Glock fire unless you put your finger in the trigger and pull it. They are 100% drop-safe, meaning even if you have the gun loaded and it falls off a table, etc., it will not fire a round (unlike guns in the movies).

This makes Glocks a very appealing self-defense handgun. In a real self-defense shooting scenario, it is unlikely that you will have the time or dexterity to disengage the thumb safety before firing. Assuming you remember to do it at all.

There’s something called the rule of threes in self defense shootings: most encounters happen at 3 yards, last 3 seconds, and 3 rounds are fired. If someone is sprinting at you from 9 feet away, the extra split second of fumbling around with the gun to turn the safety off could make a big difference. Concealed carry instructors will commonly tell students to submerge their hands in a bowl of ice water for a full minute, then attempt to handle their (unloaded) gun and operate the action and thumb safety. It’s nearly impossible. That’s the amount of dexterity you will have in an actual life threatening situation due to the sudden rush of adrenaline.

When carrying a handgun for self defense, we use other factors to mitigate a negligent discharge. For example, your holster must completely cover the trigger when the gun is seated so it cannot be fired when holstered.

I carry a Glock daily for self defense and have never had an issue with the lack of a thumb safety, because I follow the rules of gun safety very strictly.

Hopefully this is an improvement. Seagate hard drives are hot garbage.

If he gets assassinated, they may replace him with a somewhat competent candidate. I think he stands a pretty good chance of losing, let’s keep him in the race until November.

For anyone that thinks Microsoft is going to be in full control of the daily operations of this plant, you are sorely mistaken. The NRC has extremely strict regulations for all power plants, and I can promise you that Three Mile Island will be run to the same standards as any other nuclear power plant in the United States. TMI had design flaws that were heavily studied after the incident, and the findings from those investigations have influenced new legislation to prevent such accidents from happening again. The plant will be entirely overhauled to meet modern safety standards before coming back online, you can’t just chuck some uranium back into the core and flip a switch to turn it back on.

Fuck Nintendo, all my homies hate Nintendo

Judge him all you want but he tells it like it is

That is extremely fair. Most other CEOs aren’t as vocal about their deranged bullshit

Oh, my experience with the service and sales staff has been nothing but excellent. Every Tesla employee I’ve been face-to-face with has been a joy to work with. It’s the decisions made by upper management that I have issues with. They have a habit of cutting small but useful features from their vehicles to save a few bucks per unit, at a detriment to the consumer. Passenger side lumbar support, rain sensors on the windshield, and ultrasonic sensors, for example.

My car has ultrasonics, but that’s the one that really grinds my gears. They decided to haphazardly remove them from new vehicles with no alternative, promising that new software would take care of parking sensors and it would be way better. It took them 9 months to get a completely inferior software alternative to consumers. For nearly a year, your car could autonomously drive itself down the road but not tell you if you’re about to hit something while parking. WTF?

Imagine test driving a vehicle with parking sensors, paying your deposit, then receiving that car later and it’s missing shit. The company doesn’t care, you can either take the car or leave it and forfeit your deposit. That’s the kind of anti-consumer bullshit that’s stopping me from buying another one.

Tl;dr: There are plenty of valid criticisms about Tesla, there’s no need to bring Elon into it or make stuff up imo

I don’t enjoy my Model Y any less after his bullshit picked up. I don’t buy cars based on what I think of the company’s CEO. However, a lot of things Tesla have done in the past couple of years demonstrate that they don’t seem to care about their consumers, and I do not plan on buying another one.

I’ve watched this video myself. There are several topics that all go fairly in-depth. Summarizing the video would be a non-trivial amount of effort and would likely diminish the point the author is trying to make, because it would lose the depth and nuance of the original.

I’m also struggling to understand the animosity towards a video being posted. Is it YouTube specifically, or the fact that it’s a long-form video? Video media has been a communication standard for decades. There are FOSS frontends for YouTube that could alternatively be used if you wish to stay away from Google’s ecosystem.

Tl;dr: I don’t think it’s reasonable to ask OP to summarize a 40 minute video that would greatly water down the original content.

Forget media literacy, a lot of people struggle with traditional literacy today

Half-Life 2

I’m too young to have played the original as a kid, but I have fond memories of coming home from school to play HL2 on my shitty laptop.

I look forward to seeing you one-up them on your own spacewalk

Oh I knew immediately this wasn’t happening in the US, at least at a federal level. Maybe in a more progressive state or city, but that’s why I started looking for a location.

I’m disappointed in how long it took to determine where this is happening. That should be in the title or the post body at the very least.

Incredible

Take a bus, apparently

Cannot dismiss cookie popup and reader view isn’t working for me. I’m sure it’s a fine article, but it’s on a shitty website so I can’t read it.

Why not?

I can think of much better things to do, like keeping a flathead screwdriver handy for stabbing speakers (in Minecraft)