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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Feeling’s mutual.

  If you need someone to teach you how to ride a bike, hit me up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright. If that’s what you want to nitpick here

  The average adult (in the US) can ride a bike, whether or not they ever actually do is a different matter, but the majority of us learned how to at some point, and there’s a reason “it’s like riding a bike” is a saying.

  From being able to ride a bike to being able to ride it a reasonably long distance just takes time and work to build up to it, which is what he said.

  Now a lot of people won’t put in that kind of work, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t.

  I’m fat, I won’t sugar-coat that. In a couple weeks when it warms up a bit I’ll hop on my bike, and I’ll probably manage around 5 miles, and by the end of the summer I’ll probably work my way up to around 15 miles, and I’ll still be fat. I do this pretty much every year (and worth noting, I didn’t even learn to ride a bike until I was in my 30s)

  There are parts of the world where damn-near everyone gets around on bikes, they don’t have some sort of unattainable genetic advantage because they grew up in Amsterdam or whatever that gives them some “dormant athleticism” that Americans don’t have, they just ride bikes.

  The average adult can ride a bike. They just don’t or won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He was replying to a comment about e bikes, and concluded his comment talking about them. The whole comment was building up to that fact. Just because every sentence didn’t explicitly mention e-bikes doesn’t mean that they weren’t the point of the entire comment.

  He spent a couple paragraphs talking about his own struggles building up to riding a regular bike and then concluded by basically saying “or you can skip all of that hard work and get an e bike”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you finish reading, he talks about ebikes and strikes helping to fill that gap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If contemporary professional comedians were magically taken to the Paleolichic, they'd probably work much earlier in the day. Back then, there were no Late Night Shows or well-lit comedy clubs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they were bigger on spears though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that kind of illustrates the point though

  There’s a lot of precise grammar rules because the language is a little bit of a clusterfuck (I say that with love, I like the French language and speak a bit myself.) If you were to create a language from scratch, you’d probably choose to make one with much simpler grammar.

  Like most languages, French evolved organically out of other languages. There wasn’t really a point in time where someone said “hey I made a new language, here are the rules, I call it ‘French.’” Instead, for centuries people just kind of picked and chose what parts of Latin, Gaulish, Frankish, etc. that they liked and didn’t like, mashed them together in whatever way felt “right” and eventually French happened.

  Then when some eggheads decided to write down the rules, it was more of a “Ok, here’s all of the weird bullshit most of you are already doing, and there’s kind of a lot of it. It sounds very pretty, but let’s just all agree that thats enough and this is how our language works. Try not to add any more weirdness” (and they’ve been remarkably good at sticking to that, l’Académie Française doesn’t fuck around, which may or may not be a good thing depending on your views)

  You got a lot of words with letters that don’t make sounds or make very different sounds that you might think if you weren’t already familiar with the language’s eccentricities, you got some very common verbs that conjugate in weird ways, you sometimes mash words together with an apostrophe basically because it sounds nice, the Académie Française, when confronted with a new thing, sometimes decides that the terms that most of the rest of the world have decided on for that thing just aren’t “French enough” and goes and makes up a new word for it, etc.

  And again, I like French, I’m not shitting on it, English isn’t any better and the rules are certainly less formalized

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it might be worth re-reading this comment through the lens of the other comment where you dug up the details of the (alleged) actual story. Not too sure which came first due to the edit in the other comment.

  The guy pulled his car over to grab her and lecture her after the incident happened. That’s not ok and shouldn’t be covered under good Samaritan laws. Really that could be grounds for something like assault charges in some jurisdiction. Potentially if she wasn’t a minor she could have even had a decent shot at a self-defense claim if she’d shot him when he grabbed her (this is 'murica after all) he continued to escalate a situation that was already resolved and introduced physical force into circumstances where it wasn’t warranted.

  What you probably pictured (I know it’s what I had in mind) was probably more like someone grabbing a girl to keep her from walking into traffic. That would probably be covered under good Samaritan laws.

  But holding onto her after that to yell at her probably wouldn’t/shouldn’t, that’s uncalled for, though there may be a little more leeway there since it would still sort of been in the heat of the moment. Odds are probably pretty good that she wouldn’t have even pressed the issue since he just potentially saved her life if that were the case.

  As for it being considered a sex offense, I think that’s a case of the laws being poorly-crafted, the insane way we craft laws to “protect the children” (except when the rich and powerful are involved apparently) and the justice system being broken because that aspect of it is kind of bullshit and probably should have been thrown out on appeal. What he did was wrong and I think there should be consequences for that, but I don’t think there’s any reason to think it was wrong in a sexual way unless there are other details to the story that have been glossed over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were the type of person who was willing to give AI the benefit of the doubt and not assume that it was just picking basically random numbers

  There’s a lot of cases where it can be a shorter (by distance) walk than drive, where cars generally have to stick to streets while someone on foot may be able to take some footpaths and cut across lawns and such, or where the road may be one-way for vehicles, or where certain turns may not be allowed, etc.

  I have a few intersections near my father in laws house in NJ in mind, where you can just cross the street on foot, but making the same trip in a car might mean driving half a mile down the road, turning around at a jug handle and driving back to where you started on the other side of the street.

  And I wouldn’t be totally surprised if that’s the case for enough situations in the training data where someone debated walking or driving that the AI assumed that it’s a rule that it will always be further by car than on foot.

  That’s still a dumbass assumption, but I’d at least get it.

  And I’m pretty sure it’s much more likely that it’s just making up numbers out of nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still looking for what to do if I’m alone and something happens.

  You can do abdominal thrusts on yourself, or you can use something like the back of a chair or a railing to rest your fists on and use your body weight to basically perform the same action

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to my advice on your bloody Mary abomination chili

  Around 10 or 15 years ago, I learned this chili recipe from this comic I probably found on Reddit. It has always served me well, and it is the basis for how I make chili today

  To this recipe I also add some chili peppers, usually jalapenos (because otherwise it’s not chili)

  A can of chipotles in adobo

  I’ve tweaked the ratios spice blend a bit to my taste and added a bit of cocoa powder and cinnamon.

  It should probably be noted that I tend to make bigger batch, often working with 2-5lbs of meat (and I prefer coarse ground or something even finely cubed meat as opposed to regular grocery store ground meat)

  I usually have 2 or 3 different cans of beans in mine because I like beans

  I’ll usually do 2 or 3 bell peppers, usually of different colors

  Some bacon, some chorizo

  Screw that “a shot of beer” it gets a whole can. Occasionally wine instead if that’s what I’m drinking while I’m cooking.

  Often some coffee and/or various liquors (whiskey, rum, tequila, Brandy make their way into the mix at some point. Sometimes there’s beef stock involved.

  I also pay really fast and loose about what canned tomato products go into my pot, whole, crushed, diced, sauce, doesn’t matter too much, it’s all gonna cook down into unrecognizable red-brown deliciousness by the time I’m done. Just try to get roughly that sort of ratio of tomato products to beef

  For bonus points, get your cowboy on and do this in a pot hanging from a tripod over a campfire.

  Normally I end up letting this simmer for up to around 6 hours. If it starts looking too thick/dry, add some liquid, usually beer in my case.

  Credit for the original recipe: cookingcomically.com

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s basically what I’m describing.

  I think you just have more of a precise, technical way of describing it probably because you’ve actually professionally worked with color and received some formal training

  Whereas I’m a guy with some self-taught Photoshop skills who paints minis, so my color theory is a little rough and ready.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you absolutely must use bloody mary mix for some reason

  Brown up your beef, saute up some diced onions and crushed garlic and the peppers

  Add it all to a pot, add the bloody Mary mix

  Season with some cumin, and (if needed, some bloody Mary mixes can be pretty heavily seasoned) salt, pepper, garlic & onion powder, chilli powder, maybe some herbs like cilantro, oregano, maybe basil

  Maybe a bit of flour to help thicken it, otherwise you’re gonna need to be very judicious about how much mix you use or it’s gonna take forever and risk the flavor getting weird trying to reduce it down and concentrating the seasoning in the mix.

  If it’s coming out a bit too tangy and acidic, a bit of sugar or maybe brown sugar can help cut that

  If you can, consider using some fresh or canned tomatoes, or even plain tomato sauce, that’ll probably get you a better texture, but I suspect that if that were an option you could, should, and probably would skip the bloody Mary mix

  I’d also maybe consider adding some bell peppers to the mix to make it a little chunkier. Maybe some corn.

  Maybe some bacon, chorizo, some diced meat in addition to the ground, etc.

  I like to add a beer, but starting with bloody Mary mix that’s probably gonna thin things out a bit too much. Wine and stock would be other options but with the same problem.

  End of the day, chili is a stew, and the origin of stews is pretty much just throwing whatever you have in a pot and letting it simmer, there’s not too much to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a Cincinnati guy, but I have eaten chili there and made my own, and I’m gonna second that

  But I do add some cocoa powder to my regular chili recipe, and people rave about it. Sounds a bit weird, but consider, for a momento the existence of Mexican Mole sauces that often contain chocolate. I’m not adding much, it doesn’t taste chocolatey, but it does add something nice to the whole flavor profile.

  Adding it to Cincinnati style chili wouldn’t be traditional, but I could definitely see it working very well with the flavor profile if you didn’t care about making it authentic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right that paint is kind of its own thing and doesn’t really fit into the RGB or CMYK systems

  But I would say it’s overall still subtractive. The paint and whatever you’re painting on isn’t giving off any light on its own, its just reflecting whatever ambient light there is (which is usually more or less white) and subtracting from that.

  You could maybe argue that it’s more replacive (is that a word?) than additive or subtractive. It just kind of is what it is. It’s just replacing the substrate’s reflectivity with its own since it’s opaque like you said.

  And when you mix paints it tends more towards that grey-brown because like you said it’s not layered, it’s more that each pigment is right there on the surface next to each other reflecting and absorbing their part of white light.

  So if you mixed cyan and magenta paints together, instead of light passing through layers of cyan and magenta until all the red and green are filtered out so that only blue light reaches the white paper and is bounced back to your eye, you’d have cyan piments reflecting blue and green, mixed in right next to magenta pigments reflecting red and blue. So both are reflecting blue and the resulting color will probably look blue-ish, but the cyan is reflecting some green, and the magenta some red, so that pulls the color more towards grey (somewhere between white and black, it cant really get down to true black or true white because some light is always going to be absorbed and some reflected)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right, but I felt like that kind of gets a little too far out of an easy-to-explain model, and decided to kind of push that off into the stuff I said I was going to gloss over because colors are weird

  I suppose it’s sort of more like the pigments are intentionally imperfect to compensate for the also imperfect way that our eyes pick up colors that aren’t exactly red/green/blue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Put another way, let’s say white is 100% of each red, blue and green light, and black is 0% of each. Every other color is made up of different percentages of those three.

  Your monitor is counting up from zero, you just need to add the colors you want.

  On a white canvas you need to subtract from 100.

  Cyan is basically negative red, magenta is negative green, and yellow is negative blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like others have said, it’s about additive vs subtractive color

  And to start off with, probably everything you know about color is probably over simplified, or even outright wrong. Light and color and how your brain interprets that information is pretty complex stuff. Even this explanation is gonna be glossing over things.

  Starting from the basics, white light contains all of the colors of the rainbow.

  Your eyes, however, are mostly only sensitive to red, green, and blue light, most people only have receptors in their eyes (cones) for those 3 colors. They do pick up a little bit from the surrounding parts of the spectrum but not much, and your brain sort of fills in the gaps from there. If your red cones and green cones are both getting stimulated by light, your brain will interpret that as yellow or orange depending on just how much each is picking up.

  So your monitor is starting with no light across all 3 colors (black)

  And then adding light to get the desired colors.

  But if you’re drawing or painting, ou’re starting with a white canvas, not a black monitor, so how do we go about getting the colors we want!

  Well we’re going to put paint or ink on the canvas to absorb the colors we don’t want.

  Back in elementary school art class you probably learned about complementary or opposite colors. Unfortunately the colors you learned were kind of wrong. Close enough for kids mixing finger paints, but not exactly.

  The opposite of red isn’t green it’s cyan.

  The opposite of green isn’t red, its magenta

  But the opposite of blue is in fact yellow, so one out of three is something I guess.

  What does that actually mean though? Well yellow ink absorbs basically all of the blue light while still reflecting red and green.

  Cyan absorbs all the red light, while still reflecting blue and green

  And magenta absorbs all the green light while still reflecting red and blue

  So by mixing and matching those 3 colors, you can dial things down from 100% white light to a mix of red green and blue that your brain can interpret as other colors.

  In theory mixing a bunch of those 3 colors together, you can eventually get down to black, in practice your pigments aren’t perfect, and even if they were it would get expensive to use that much of those 3 pigments which is why most color printers are CMYK, with “K” standing for black for reasons I’ve never bothered to look up and I’m not gonna start now.

  So your monitoring is adding light from 0 up to make the color you need. It’s “additive.”

  And paint is dialing things down from 100 to the desired color. It’s “subtractive.”

  Hopefully that all makes sense, color is weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did this mic come from and how to make it go away? [Android]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried turning off and then on again?

  Fixes way more things than it should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does a person get on the No Gun List without commiting a crime? My brother was diagnosed with BIpolar and others he doesn't even want the option ten year down the road.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The exact wording is if you are an

  “unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance”.

  So a legal prescription to opioids shouldn’t be a disqualifier, unless you become “addicted” which could maybe be up to some interpretation, but if you stick to what your prescribed it would be pretty hard for anyone to prove an addiction

  Weed is in a weird place, and I’m not 100% up on the latest stuff with that and how rescheduling will change things, but since it’s still schedule I, as far as the feds are concerned there is basically no legal use for marijuana so pretty much any use is a disqualifier. I don’t know how rigorously they check that against people who have medical cards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just recently started it for the first time.

  If you’re into this sort of game, it’s really good. I haven’t exactly played a ton of similar games to compare it to, but it’s pretty hard for me to imagine a game that would do what it does better. I think if it had launched in the state it’s currently in it would have absolutely blown peoples minds when it launched a decade ago.

  Also since it is, at its core, a decade old game, it runs really well on my computer which is mostly made up of 10+ year old components (and on linux! I did have a little audio stuttering issue that was fixed by just adding a launch option in steam, pretty sure that was just a quirk of my particular hardware)

  The story is a little weird, not bad, just maybe not what I would have chosen if I was the writer, and the story is secondary to the building and exploration in this kind of game anyway.

  I could nitpick some things about the UI if I really wanted to, and the usual issues with procedurally generated content where you have a big universe to explore but it feels kind of empty (which is also kind of the point) and some of the planets start feeling kind of the same after a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean they’re cool, but they’re not that cool.

  They’re only rad-ish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t exactly go respirator-shopping super often, and I of course have no idea what stores around you stock, but dn my experience, yellow and black are pretty widely available, and I don’t think that I’ve ever personally seen white or green in the wild, but I’ve also never specifically gone shopping for them either, since my main use case is for things like spray paint so I’m mostly concerned with organic solvents fumes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[US] How are so many people able to protest? (Logistically)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no one answer

  People work different schedules, the schedule I personally work has me working slightly more hours than average overall but I have more days off, so I’m free on a lot of weekdays, other people have more flexible schedules or work nights or weekends

  Some people have PTO they can use, some have cool bosses who will just let them take time off whenever they want to, some people are those cool bosses or are self-employed and can set their own schedule

  Some people are unemployed, some are retired (I’ve seen a lot of older folks at some protests near me)

  Others are financially secure enough to be able to take the hit and think little to nothing of it

  Others make sacrifices in order to make it work (if I had to take off without pay, I’d be out a few hundred bucks, it would hurt but I wouldn’t be ruined for it, I might have to skip out on a few things I’d like to do, maybe cut some corners and buy cheaper groceries, cancel a subscription or two, borrow a couple bucks from friends or family, put a couple things on my credit card to pay off later that I otherwise might have paid for outright, or maybe work some overtime before or after it to make up the difference, but nothing I couldn’t recover from fairly quickly.)

  And with some exceptions, not everyone is going to every protest, some may only make it to a couple, some may make it to all or most of them, some may not be able to make it to any but may find other ways to help

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  N95 is probably better than nothing, but for these purposes it’s probably far from good enough

  Most pepper sprays and such are oil based, and n-rated respirators are not oil resistant. For that you really want an R-, or even better P-rated mask for oily mists.

  Disposable masks suitable for that do exist, but more often you’re going to find reusable cartridge-based ones which will have some additional ratings that probably aren’t relevant to specifically pepper spray but could maybe be relevant for other

  White labeled cartridges are suitable for acid cases like chlorine

  Black labeled are suitable for organic vapors like from paint thinners and other solvents

  Yellow are suitable for both

  Green are rated for ammonia and methylamine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s been a few studies on this, and most of the supposed remedies have been found to be little or no more effective than just rinsing with water or saline.

  That said, in theory, I feel like baby shampoo is probably a pretty good bet, it makes sense on paper. Most pepper sprays are oil-based, soap/shampoo is a surfactant so it helps to rinse out those oily substances with water, and baby shampoo in particular is non-irritating to the eyes.

  There’s a few purpose-made products for this, I’ve seen a few recommendations for sudecon wipes from first-responder types. I have no recommendations about how to best get your hands on those sorts of products in case you’re worried about leaving a paper trail.

  For my own personal kit (that I just try to keep well-stacked for any eventuality, I have pepper spray on my dog’s leash so I figured I should know what to do if I even accidentally mace myself) I’ve settled on sterile saline eye wash and baby shampoo. Haven’t had to use it yet, so I can’t attest to the effectiveness, but I figure it’s gotta be better than nothing

  And it makes enough sense on paper that I figure if nothing else maybe I’ll be able to placebo effect myself into believing it did something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know the knife laws in Italy, especially not for the specific part of Italy this occurred in

  But often laws about switchblades and such have to do with carrying them, or occasionally selling them, but often just owning a switchblade and keeping it at home isn’t really an issue

  As far as manufacturing, I again don’t know about the specific regulations, if there’s maybe any kind of licensing or something needed, but I know for a fact that it is either not totally illegal to manufacture a switchblade in Italy, or they are *very * selectively enforcing those laws because there are some very well-known manufacturers of them based there (if I had more disposable income I’ve had my eye on a Frank Beltrame stiletto for a while)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it’s more complex than I’m making it out to be, but each gas in the air has its own freezing/melting boiling/condensation/sublimation points, so I’d imagine you could just kind of take advantage of that

  Basically just cool it down to x temperature at y pressure, and all of the carbon dioxide should be solid, the oxygen a liquid and the nitrogen still a gas, and they’ve all sort of separated themselves out. Fish out the dry ice, siphon off the oxygen, and you’re left with nitrogen.

  Might need to do a couple more rounds of that on each of those to account for other gases in the mix depending on how pure you need it to be, but in theory I imagine it could be that simple (again in practice I’m sure there’s probably a lot of details I’m missing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tips for a Winter Storm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I keep our heat pretty low, usually 60°F, which is usually pretty damn chilly for indoors

  But when you step in from single digits outside, 60° feels downright toasty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tips for a Winter Storm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a heated mattress pad, keeps all of the heat inside the blankets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the four rules of firearm safety⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t even need to be single shot

  I’m sure that theoretically you could be so surprised by the recoil that you’d somehow cycle the bolt and pull the trigger to fire a second shot, but trying to imagine how that could actually happen only conjures up some pretty wild Rube Goldberg scenarios for me.

  So I guess if it’s your first time shooting, don’t do it with any kind of repeating firearm in a room full of mouse traps, ball bearings, umbrellas, boxing gloves, etc.