Ending of the Sixth Sense.
"Grandma says you asked her a question. She says to tell you the answer is 'every day', what was the question, momma?"
"Did I make you proud?"
It's a known risk, and there are guidelines to lessen or prevent lead exposure at the range, but I'd wager most shooters aren't aware.
For example:
Use jacketed or lead free bullets and primers.
Wash your face, arms and hands after using the range.
Change your clothes and shoes after using the range.
Wash your range clothes separately from your families.
Do not eat, drink, or smoke on the range.
Take the same precautions after cleaning your guns.
That being said, the folks at largest risk for this kind of exposure would be those who fire guns the most often, so that population would be the canary in the coal mine so to speak.
https://www.quora.com/How-often-do-police-officers-practice-at-ranges
"How often do police officers practice at ranges?
Most departments require re-qualification training once a year.
My department required shooting three times a year, once with our sidearm, once with our 12 gauge shotguns, and once with our AR 15 carbines.
As for my self, I go to the range 8 to 10 times a year. I am usually accompanied by 5 or 6 of my fellow officers. We are not for the fun, we are training by using the state required shooting plans and we add a little extra to it.
Most officers I know only go to range when required for re-qualification. Not because they don’t want to, shooting off a couple hundreds rounds is an expensive proposition."
Yeah... Might be a reason cops seem dumber than average, and they don't hire the brightest to begin with.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
That reminds me... I'm all out of æbleskivers. :(
Need to do poffertjes next.
450 ml (15.2 oz) Milk
1 packet (7g) instant rise yeast
150 g (5.3 oz) Flour
150 g (5.3 oz) Buckwheat flour
tablespoon of sugar
Pinch of Salt
2 eggs
25 g (1.67 tablespoons) melted butter
Mix the yeast with 50 ml (1.7 oz) of milk and set aside.
Sift the flour into a large bowl. Add sugar and salt and well combine.
Add milk+yeast, 2 eggs, 1/2 the remaining milk. Mix well. Once smooth, add the rest of the milk and melted butter.
Cover and let rise for 1 hour. One more good mix and fill a squeeze bottle 3/4 full.
Oil the pan and cook them like æbleskivers.
I mean, Salesforce is SaaS. They have to log in to Salesforce accounts on Salesforce servers to do the CRM angle, so if the crimes allegedly happened in the SF Cloud, then they would be the provider in that case.
Still nutty to go after them. They don't monitor what each and every client uses SF for.
And birds! ;)
Musk's inability to govern should have become apparent when he fired everyone at Twitter, scrambled to hire them back, and then got caught failing to do basic things like "pay rent".
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/14/twitter-is-being-evicted-from-its-boulder-office-over-unpaid-rent/
That seems insane to me. It's like trying to hold Microsoft liable for providing the operating systems and Outlook. Or Adobe because some of the ads no doubt use Photoshop.
No, for a couple of different reasons:
So your potential dinosaur heritage has nothing to do with where you live now.
Carboniferous Earth:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous
So there's no chance you have any dinosaur DNA. Our family and their famlly evolved long after the split had already happened.
2 cups (8.5 oz.) flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cardamom (optional)
2 cups buttermilk
3 egg yolks
3 egg whites beaten to soft peaks
Whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda and cardamom until well mixed.
Mix in the buttermilk and egg yolks and mix until smooth.
Fold in the egg whites.
Grease or spray an æbleskiver pan and heat over medium heat. When water sizzles, the pan is hot.
Fill each cup 2/3s full and cook for approximately 3 minutes until it expands slightly above the rim of the pan.
Using a skewer, turn them so the cooked side is on top and cook the other side about 3 minutes.
When an inserted skewer comes out clean, they're done, transfer to a wire sheet to cool.
Eat however you'd like pancakes. Cut them open, stuff them with butter and jam, sprinkle powdered sugar on top, syrup, whatever floats your boat.
Batter says it makes 35 to 40, I'm 21 in and there's still a LOT of batter left. edit Cooking #36 to 42 now and it looks like we'll get about 50(!) - Final count - 44(!)
Alternate recipe:
Fill each cup 1/3 full, add whatever filling you'd like, then the remaining 1/3 of batter. Turn and cook as normal.
Cardamom is not part of the orginal recipe, it's my secret ingredient for Swedish pancakes. ;)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/19554773
The Comic Arts LA site has a list of artists and panel schedules.
Poster by Tola Howard.
So after my 2nd heart attack last January, I got really tired of being stuck in the house and only able to go to stores that had their own electric carts.
Too many stores either had no carts at all (chiefly malls) or carts that were unavailable, inoperative, or left unplugged with no charge (grocery stores).
I had essentially been housebound since 2018 when I had the first heart attack. 2019 was one complication after another.
When I got medically cleared to go back to the office, we shut down for Covid... aaand here we are.
This chair really gave me my life back. It's $2,200 on Amazon and that's counting paying a little extra for the extended range (20 AH, 17 mile) battery. The chair with the standard 12 AH 13 mile battery is $2,000 and rated for airline/cruise ship travel.
Both batteries are AC 100 – 240 Volt, 50 Hertz, at 1.5 – 5 amperes and charge through a standard 3 prong XLR port. It comes with a standard 24V 2A charger in the box. A 24V 3A charger is available separately.
Maximum speed, 4 miles per hour, maximum incline 6°. Auto brakes at 9° downhill. The control stick is true analog, a slight touch barely moves the chair, fully pushing the stick is full power.
Max power can be set with up and down buttons. 0.8mph, 1.6mph, 2.4mph, 3.2mph, or 4mph
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD6BFM95
Rated to carry 350 lb. which is far better than most electric wheelchairs. It has a feature where it folds and unfolds itself automatically:
https://youtube.com/shorts/q3185mokjZ8
The control stick has a fold and unfold button, hold it until it beeps, then press the horn button and the chair will completely fold or unfold on it's own.
Once folded, it's basically the size of a large suitcase, weighs 67 pounds with the battery, and can be hauled around in the back of most cars or SUVs.
If I reach a point where I'm incapacitated and can't drive myself, there are two options:
or:
2 is also a good feature for when I need to go somewhere that has 1 or 2 steps for entry. Put the chair in manual and push up the steps.
After a year, I've successfully driven on the usual surfaces, but also gravel and dirt. The only thing it couldn't handle was soft, wet, grass and DEEP gravel. The wheels get stuck in the mud.
Only damage it has sustained are small scratches to the bottom of the metal kickplate from repeated folding and unfolding on asphalt. Nothing unexpected.
Replacement parts, including both motors and all the wheels, extra batteries, fast charger, etc. are all available from the manufacturers website:
https://comfygomobility.com/products/iq-7000-electric-wheelchair-replacement-parts
I have yet to be in a situation where I've completely run out of power. The LED display doesn't really give you a good idea of how many miles you have left, it's a gradiated display, so:
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 = 55% - 100% power (17 miles)
🟢🟢🟢🟢 = 35% - 55% (9.35 miles)
🟢🟢🟢 = 20% - 34% (5.78 miles)
🟡🟡 = 12% to 19% (3.23 miles)
🔴 < 12% (2.04 miles)
After running all around 2 floors of an indoor/outdoor mall one day and a Costco the next day, I was still at
🟡🟡
3-year frame, 1-year motor, 1-year battery, and 1-year electronic parts warranty.
4 frame colors and 9 seat cushion colors = 36 different combinations. Clearly black and red is the cool one. :)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22823557
First two episodes have dropped and it pretty much slaps.
Following the continuity of The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker, the Creature Commandos are Amanda Waller's replacement Suicide Squad.
She's told she can't recuit people anymore, so she recruits monsters instead.
Based on the characters from Weird War Tales #93 in 1980:
Frankenstein's Monster, a vampire, and the Wolf Man killing Nazis in WWII. They were later joined by a gorgon.
The animated series updates the lineup... Frankenstein's Monster, Bride of Frankenstein, Weasel (from The Suicide Squad), Doctor Phosphorus (1st appearance Detective Comics #469), G.I. Robot (1st appearance Star Spangled War Stories #101), and mermaid, Dr. Nina Mazursky (1st appearance Flashpoint: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #1).
First two episodes have dropped and it pretty much slaps.
Following the continuity of The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker, the Creature Commandos are Amanda Waller's replacement Suicide Squad.
She's told she can't recuit people anymore, so she recruits monsters instead.
Based on the characters from Weird War Tales #93 in 1980:
Frankenstein's Monster, a vampire, and the Wolf Man killing Nazis in WWII. They were later joined by a gorgon.
The animated series updates the lineup... Frankenstein's Monster, Bride of Frankenstein, Weasel (from The Suicide Squad), Doctor Phosphorus (1st appearance Detective Comics #469), G.I. Robot (1st appearance Star Spangled War Stories #101), and mermaid, Dr. Nina Mazursky (1st appearance Flashpoint: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #1).
Trying out this new cocoa powder. It has 4x the fat compared to Hershey's. 2g per tablespoon compared to 0.5g.
Trying it in my favorite application:
Chocolate Orange Chocolate Chip Cheesecake
Pour the batter in the pan and bake at 200° F for EIGHT DAMN HOURS.
Cool to room temp, 2+ hours.
Flip upside down onto a plate, remove the pan and refrigerate as long as you can stand it. ;) Colder the better.
Flip right side up onto another plate, garnish with candied orange slices, and serve.
Better eat and take a nap. If the world ends, at least you won't be hungry and tired.