So, there is a tiny kernel of truth to the core concept here:

If you repeat a process of microfracturing a bone, letting it heal, doing it again... it can result in either reshaping or strengthening of the bone. It can also result in neither of those things happening.

In rare but real medical procedures you sometimes intentionally break a bone and the set it up to heal in a more proper configuration or orientation, or do this repeatedly to attempt to grow your leg length.

With many forms of martial arts it has been postulated that a lot of the seemingly super human acts of endurance of various kinds are partly possible because of years of microfractures which heal and make the bones stronger over time, along with the rest of the training regimen.

If I remember the evolution of this part of looks maxxing, originally it was people doing like 30 minutes of tapping various parts of their faces to attempt to do this to their facial bones, to extenuate them overtime.

Can't say I've ever seen any actual evidence this is any kind of real medical procedure.

But uh yeah, a good number of people seem to miss the idea of this being light and repetitive.... smashing yourself in the face with a hammer is not going to cause microfractures.

That'll cause much worse fractures. And possibly lots of other serious problems.

Oh well. Choke to death on marshmallows playing chubby bunny, poison yourself with tide pods, create a brain bleed and kill yourself via a hammer to the face. I wonder what the next thing will be.

What do ya'll think, Cat 6 in the Gulf of Mexico later this year, next year, or 2 years out?

For context, yes Cat 6 is not yet a real thing but it has been proposed as basically 192+ mph winds.

https://www.pbsnc.org/blogs/science/do-we-need-a-category-6-for-hurricanes/

It would only work in some kind of magical scenario.

Magic 1) Biden agrees to ... revoke his renomination or whatever.

Magic 2) The Dems can produce an actually good candidate.

Its maybe possible that Biden would step down, as in 1% chance, but they'd just run with Kamala, who would lose.

I mean, to me its been pretty obvious that Biden has been sundowning rapidly for a while now.

Its also been obvious to me that, barring Trump being incarcerated, Biden will lose.

Incarceration for Trump is now looking far less likely.

Yep, duh obviously I think you should vote for not Trump as he is an authoritarian mad man who has now been greenlit by the Court he largely shaped to go from proto fascist to full fascist.

But uh yeah why are people now talking about a very public display of the thing many Biden sceptics have been concerned about for a while now?

Could it be that their previously established fears and warnings have now been proven correct?

Sadly, this also implies that this is the last known survivor, the last tiger.

Wonderful.

The delusional Q Anon 'secret military tribunals any day now' belief now stands a reasonable chance of actually happening.

Johnny Mnemonic Extra.

Happy Canada day from a WA native!

So he just has to order the CIA to do it.

The... the CIA and many other government agencies have a stories history of doing absolutely insane things that are absolutely crimes...

...And many of those things only get brought to light by a whistle lower or leak ot some Watergate level fuckup of being caught in the act, or years or decades of actual investigation later.

There are so many problems with this ruling its mind boggling.

I have seen PLA videos of basically an urban combat live fire on static targets.

You get an absurd amount of keyholing at ranges that between 5 to 10 to 20 meters.

Its possible this particular image is from a longer distance static range, but the keyholing problem seems to be quite widespread, irrespective of range.

As has already been said, something is going seriously wrong with either the guns, bullets or both that are being mass produced for around a year now.

The QBZ family of rifles, both the older bullpup Type 95 and its variants, and the newer Type 191, fire a 5.8 x 42mm round, not the AK 74 'poison bullet'.

While I am sure the PLA has tons of 47s, and 74s still in active use, their efforts to modernize have included introduction of and seemingly wide issuance of the QBZ 95 family since roughly the early 2000s, and more recently the Type 191.

Usually when they do publicity videos or images, they like to show off the QBZ family.

Could keyholing of ... seemingly this magnitude... be the result of basically laughably bad tolerances in internal barrel width, or perhaps the barrels are made of some kind of alloy that expands significantly from heat?

I have only ever seen keyholing in western gun videos from basically burn downs... but even then after a barrel is nearing its end of life by manufacturer specs, its more common to get some kind of failure to feed, significantly decreased precision and only occasional keyholes.

Maybe another possibility is similarly poor quality alloy of some kind used in the cartridge itself?

Combination of all of these things?

I remember seeing a fairly recent video of some kind of PLA MOUT type urban course... and you could see massive keyholing on targets that were like 5 to 10 meters away.

The prevalence of it baffles me. Ive personally dealt with and seen misfires and jams of various kinds at ranges, but I've never even seen a keyhole occur in real life.

In my personal experience, basically no insurance in America is worth anything.

Nothing you would actually need insurance to cover ends up being covered, or, it covers a huge portion of an absurd cost which is only so absurd because of basically a corrupt cost inflation feedback loop between insurers and providers that you end up personally paying prices that are absurd to all but the very well off.

It ends up just being further cost requirements to basically exist, which means if you are poor fuck you, die.

Oh you want to challenge your insurance and force them to actually cover something?

Hire a lawyer! Those are cheap!

Climate change fueled wildfires cause home and rental insurance rates to surge; State Farm solvency in question.

There! Fixed the headline. Journalism is so hard!

It is very obviously satire of the fat acceptance movement.

They just inverted the genders and kept the rest of the analogy and lingo as similar as possible.

Laffy Taffy torso.

I grew up around Seattle and also with y'all.

Of course, a lot of people say 'you guys' and either don't care or have decided that it's gender non deterministic because ya'll is cringe and racist-coded.

Never even heard of y'uys.

Would that be pronounced Yaiz?

???

Anyway, half of those questions I could have answered with half of the options given, as they're all common enough that most people either know what they mean or use them... and then the other half of the questions were basically just one answer.

EDIT: If anyone cares, easiest way in the world to tell someone is a California transplant is that they say 'the 5', not 'I-5'. That is, for the ones who aren't always telling you they are from California.

EDIT 2: Is there some kind of map of where Americans do and do not raise the pitch of the last word or syllable in a sentence? You know, that makes it sound like a statement is actually a question?

Its that weird tonal pattern that I have always found indicates a person is self centered and sheltered. I've known it as 'Valley Girl Accent' since I was a kid, and it only seems to be spreading.

Apparently its called 'High Rising Tone'?

Pack 100 of compsognathus (compsognathii?) says hello.

Not sure how out of date the research is, but in the original Jurassic Park book, there are roaming packs of these things that overwhelm and kill people.

Though the on screen scene of them killing people happens in the second movie, it actually takes place in the first book IIRC... anyway, they're basically depicted as land piranhas.

(Again, IIRC, Jurassic Park the book basically gets set in motion with a family of tourists being eviscerated by a pack of compys... but the first movie dropped this from the story, then when the second movie comes out they basically use this scene as the intro for that, but its on a different island and used to set off an entirely new story?)

Do you have a confession to make?

There are a lot of concepts in mathematics which do not have good real world analogues.

i, the _imaginary number_for figuring out roots, as one example.

I am fairly certain you cannot actually do the mathematics to predict or approximate the size of an atom or subatomic particle without using complex algebra involving i.

It's been a while since I watched the entire series Leonard Susskind has up on youtube explaining the basics of the actual math for quantum mechanics, but yeah I am fairly sure it involves complex numbers.