OverReactionGuy
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Have you tried using windowed mode instead of full screen?hi! dunno if it's the right thread, but anyway -
i've finally upgraded my monitor from measly 19' to 32', but now i can't read QQ while on PC because everything is crazy wide now and i have to actually move my head to read full sentences. is there "native" way to squish QQ design? or do i need third party help to do so?
Them alien space invadors ain't gonna shoot themselves you know!At the current rate, Americans - already the most heavily-armed nation in history - will own half-a-billion guns by the end of 2022.
Wait, this background check is only used for firearms? Don't you need background checks for a zillion things these days?For those who are unfamiliar with American gun laws, or with the NICS system, that means there were at least 3.9 million successful purchases of items legally classified as "firearms" under the National Firearms Act of 1934 through federally licensed firearms dealers in the last 30 days.
Wait, this background check is only used for firearms? Don't you need background checks for a zillion things these days?
I see. Interesting.This specific system is only used for firearm purchases, yes. It's not nearly as extensive as other background checks - its function is only to determine if existing law enforcement records would classify the person being checked as a "prohibited person". Depending on demand - and on how complicated law enforcement records on you are - the results can come back in as little as 20 minutes.
Moreover, the system is subject to Constitutional limits due to the protections of the 2nd Amendment. It's a "must issue" system - if the buyer isn't a prohibited person (not a felon, not dishonorably discharged, not an illegal alien, not 'mentally defective', not a fugitive from justice, not a convicted domestic abuser), the sale must go through.
Further, if the NICS does not return a "no" answer within 72 hours, the buyer can take possession of their firearm. They may be required to return it later if and when the results do come back (I'm not clear on the details), but there was some concern at the time of legislation that not putting a maximum time limit on the sale hold could be used as an end-run around the right to keep and bear arms. This way, if the NICS is ever shut down for any reason, the only practical effect is that all firearm sales through licensed dealers will have a 3-day waiting period - but if there was no time limit, shutting the system down would effectively prevent all firearm sales.
Bored
Broke
Besotted By Bitches
What am I even doing
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I was gonna say something about double posting (or quadruple posting?) but why indeed...Lying here questioning my life choices
I kno it's 2020 am nihilism is basically a vibe but rly
What's the point
Like bruh
Idgaf bout anything
I just can't bring myself to care
Bruh
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You know what are two great tastes taste great together? A chocolate brownie dipped in mustard.*
*YMMV
Ew, honey mustard. And you called me a sinner.
Probably that one where a bunch of Twitter accounts were used to post a "gimme ecoins and I'll send double back" that happened recently
I already made a few hundreds bucks from the last dogecoin pump & dump last week (the one that happened because of some tiktok thing going around) so I'm kinda surprised people are falling for the same shit again so quickly.Probably that one where a bunch of Twitter accounts were used to post a "gimme ecoins and I'll send double back" that happened recently
While this isn't wrong, from the perspective of system denizens the distinction between a nova and a red giant phase is mostly academic.
Suddenly by cosmic standards. By human lifespan standard even fastest nova would look like it's taking it sweet time, and it would be unlikely you'll life long enough to see it full potential hitting Earth when it starts. Novas aren't sun explosions that cause instant destruction of entire solar system within seconds. That process takes centuries. It's an instant moment for a billion years old star but not from human perspective
Both events would turn our Solar System into inhabitable hell were no life could ever form. Mercury and Venus will be swallowed by the Red Giant and Earth get so close to that hot dying star that it will make current Venus look like Arctic. Goldilocks Zone will cease to be a thing. Red giant gravitational pull will weaken enough that Outer Planers like Uranus and Saturn will be falling out of orbit. It will take longer than Nova would but end result is same.
TBH really if you've got the kind of system that's prone to produce either a nova or a supernova anyway, it probably wasn't that friendly to life to begin with.While the red-clump Sun will be significantly less massive than the current one, the gas giants will stay in orbit (albeit larger orbit), and some of their moons could be vaguely habitable. The big issue is the stellar wind stripping their atmospheres; red giants' stellar wind is no joke.
And yeah, as AD said novae actually are fast. The months-long light curve doesn't actually represent the fusion power, either; as I understand it, what you're seeing from many lightyears away is not the minutes-long fusion burst itself, but the competing effects of the blue-hot, blasted-off material spreading out (and thus gaining more area to glow from) vs. cooling down (and thus glowing less). If you were in-system, of course, that blast would actually physically strike your planet within hours.
(The rule about supernovae is "however big you think supernovae are, they're bigger than that". Novae aren't quite that big, but they're still big enough to start talking about blast waves in space.)
I don't see anything wrong with the usual setup for novae i.e. close binary. Circumbinary planets are known, and many of them have been in the circumbinary habitable zone (if "habitable zone" even means anything with the whole "subsurface oceans" deal on icy bodies).TBH really if you've got the kind of system that's prone to produce either a nova or a supernova anyway, it probably wasn't that friendly to life to begin with.