There used to be a GIMP plugin that changed everything to be like Photoshop, not sure if it still exists.

PhotoGIMP, and yeah it’s still around.

Personally I tend to just use Krita for most photo-shoppy things since I find the interface nicer to use, but I have to admit gimp has been making some solid improvements lately.

No prob! :)

Great little read. The author is very eloquent and concise at explaining the solarpunk ideal, one of the best I’ve seen to quickly get the point across.

I’m not super well versed with diving, but wouldn’t the excess pressure and air just go out the bottom of the helmet? it’s open to the water below, similar to shallow-water helmets, which are used by untrained tourists.

Yes, the meat analog he uses, though not perfect, is the closest to a real-world test that a regular person could reasonably perform themselves.

357 out of a revolver is indeed still too slow, even with lighter bullets. Only in a lever action carbine does 357 start to reach the required power to perform some hydrostatic tearing, since 357 is really able to take advantage of that extra barrel length to increase velocity fairly dramatically.

There was an extremely comprehensive video done on real-world wound ballistics that I was struggling to find for my last comment, but I found it just now, once again thanks to Luckygunner.

He gives a summary of it here, and also made this video as a supplement, but if you’d like to see the absolute last word on firearm wound ballistics, I’d suggest this full documentary featuring Dr. Martin Fackler (but be warned, it has some quite gory NSFW images as examples).

When it comes to pistol calibers, raw kinetic energy isn’t really a factor, they’re just too weak to actually induce any sort of hydro-static shock that could cause a permanent rupturing of nearby tissues, you need much higher velocities or energy to do that that, which only rifle rounds or shotgun slugs can reliably induce.

For pistols, the only mechanism of action they can rely on is the mechanical size of the bullet itself, as the bigger the bullet, the larger the hole, and thus the faster the blood loss. Hollow points are the best method to cause bigger holes.

Ballistic gel is a somewhat deceptive testing media, as it can show a big permanent wound cavity beyond the size of the bullet itself, which isn’t actually how it would perform in real tissue, which is able to stretch much more than ballistic gel due to it being more elastic. What really matters for pistol rounds is being able to expand as much as possible while also maintaining adequate penetration (12" in gel), so that you can reliably penetrate bone and muscle to reach critical organs from any angle. You also want to ensure that the specific hollow point chosen isn’t prone to being plugged by heavy clothing if you live in colder environments.

LuckyGunner provides the best comparison of bullets that I’ve personally seen for every pistol caliber, allowing you to avoid bullets that don’t adequately penetrate, expand, or over-penetrate. Take note of the actual size of the expanded bullet they show, which is what the actual size of the wound itself would be.

All defensive pistol calibers break bone when struck, the xtreme penetrators will simply penetrate further and through more bone than a hollow point. This makes it act similarly to a hardcast (ultra hard lead that doesn’t deform) flatnose bullet, which are also usually only recommended for bear protection.

Over-penetration is an extremely negative trait in personal defense against humans, as it means that the bullet will pass through the target into anything behind them, including innocents who you do not intent to hurt. In self defense rounds you want the bullet to stop inside the first target to avoid endangering anything behind them.

But how do you assess value?

Xtreme Defenders are a good value for bear protection, but are extremely poor value for self-defense, as they are more expensive than a good hollow point while providing less effective wounding characteristics and increased danger to bystanders.

How would it blow up your lungs?

I’m assuming you didn’t watch the video, but this particular helmet design has a completely open bottom. the only thing keeping the water beneath you out is the positive pressure from the air hose. Any excess air flows out the bottom. This is similar to the design of underwater scooters intended for tourists in tropical areas.

it needs weights attached to it to keep it from floating (he attached just enough weight to keep it neutrally buoyant). If it sprung a leak, you would easily be able to remove the helmet either by lifting it up off you, or tilting forward or to the side and sliding it off. it is not strapped to the person at all.

Not OP, but XMPP and Delta chat are good options.

For XMPP, the Movim client in particular is a good replacement for Discord, since it can do audio/video calls, as well as screenshare, and Discord-like spaces (channels with groups of rooms).

Three Days of the Condor

Excellent 70’s paranoid thriller.

I posted it to !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social a while back, if you want to watch it.

EDIT: Agh, it was taken down from Archive.org. It’s available for free on Pluto though.

I’ve only driven through Columbus Ohio once via highway, so I don’t have a complete picture of it, but all I remember about it is it had the worst highway layout of any I’ve experienced, and it had the ugliest, most souless corporate signage along the road that I’ve ever seen as well.

I also stopped to get some fast food, and immediately had a couple people loudly mock me for wearing a mask after I let them ahead of me while I was looking at the menu.

The place just left me with really bad vibes, honestly.

The only advantage of the non-a models is they use a potentially more durable battery that is less prone to pillowing.

These aren’t really that effective compared to a hollow point. They create a big visual in ballistic gel, but in a more realistic medium they act more like an improved FMJ, but still over penetrate badly (which isn’t a good thing in most cases).

They tend to be recommend as a bear round, where over-penetration is actually valuable and desired.

The same manufacturer actually makes a deeper cut version that doesn’t over penetrate called the xtreme defender, which is generally still worse than a good hollow point in standard calibers, but can be a good option for weaker calibers like .380, where hollow point under-penetrate.

however, for 9mm and above, you’re better off with a standard hollow point, which is more effective and far more affordable than the all-copper xtreme rounds.

Also @sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz @GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world

I post funny animations to !animation@piefed.social sometimes, and there’s !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz for some other fun stuff :D

There’s also !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe.

I’m this close to saying “fuck it” and wasting the next couple of years of my life on a new protocol that no one is gonna use.

This article does a good job exploring the landscape of text chats, and ultimately finds that XMPP is still our best bet, it just needs some spit and polish.

I want to point out that the author of that linked blog, Soatok, actually removed a response in the comments from an OMEMO developer which clarified some things, which personally I think was rather odd/bad faith of them to do. When asked about it, this was their response:

“I’ll make an edit later about the protocol version thing, but I’m not interested in having questions answered. My entire horse in this race is for evangelists to f** off and leave me alone. That’s it. That’s all I want.”

According to the OMEMO developer in his response (you can it read here), there’s nothing really wrong with OMEMO 0.3.0, as the dev considers it a stable standard that clients can safely implement, with newer versions basically being public beta releases toward a stable ‘OMEMO 2’ standard that can eventually replace 0.3.0.

Also @smiletolerantly@awful.systems.

On the second point, Lemmy/piefed have the ability to export your profile to be imported into any other instance. It allows you to keep your subscriptions, favorites posts/comments, and blocked users/communities.

You can find the export and import section in your account settings page.

Pretty much all industrialists, tech-bros, and billionaires will be screeching that the world over, as there’s virtually no place left that isn’t chock full of multinational corporations. I guess they turned out to be the final boss for humanity.

I’m rooting for us pulling through, but it’ll take global grassroots organizing, militant unions, and a shit ton of mutual aid to prevent them from literally killing us all due to their mindless greed and lust for power.

I’ve been following them for a while. They have a solid reputation from what I know, and I think they do a good job of explaining recent climate studies in layman’s terms.

The short version is as the title suggests, warming accelerating pretty dramatically, and based on recent studies we’re fast approaching a hump that if we cross over, would likely result in a runaway situation that could not be fixed on human timescales. It’s getting so bad even business analysis of the issue is suggesting drastic changes, such as not waiting for market forces to transition away from fossil fuels, but instead suggest governments globally super-charge the build-out of renewable energy sources.

What isn’t said in the video: Basically unless we get off capitalism very soon (especially combined with the knowledge from a different study that suggests the atmosphere may become toxic to humans in the later half of this century), we’re potentially looking at mass extinction much sooner than expected if we continue with our current way of life.