You’d want a flammable liquid so that it floats on the water and spreads more the wetter it is.

Here’s some reading on why https://www.nfpa.org/news-blogs-and-articles/blogs/2024/08/12/what-is-a-class-k-fire-extinguisher

Good luck with your story.

Windows user here, definitely not MAGA (or even American for that matter). This is a wild take to have, and there is a definite “updates Boogeyman” that Lemmy users seem to have about Windows that just isn’t the case if you’re remotely comfortable on computers. I use Windows 10 and turned off the updates, so my computer doesn’t update. There’s no AI features being forced onto me, there’s nothing unexpected being downloaded, there’s no pain involved in my computer experience.

I’m not going to argue that my way is better, and fully understand why someone would choose not to use Windows, but the convenience it offers me in my computer needs (mostly just playing World of Warcraft) is enough for me to stick with it. I am however strongly considering throwing a Linux build onto an old desktop or laptop I have laying around in case Windows ever does get to that point so that it’s an easier swap. Your comment is pretty fuckin wild though I had a good chuckle at that.

I mean, not strictly talking games this year but we’ve had Baldur’s Gate 3, Expedition 33, Hades 2, Fellowship, Little Kitty Big City, Dispatch, Split fiction, Silksong, Black ops 7 (lol jk), Nightreign, Lies of P and plenty more that I probably am not aware of recently. Games haven’t gotten shit lately, games have always been shit. Just like “all music from the 70s was good” is due to only the best standing the test of time, “games were better in the 90s” is because we forgot the absolute garbage that surrounded the gems that still hold up.

It depends on the people’s kid. Your parents kid for example seems like a dickhead.

It only takes about a tenth grade level of understanding physics and chemistry to make a decent device from scratch. With the access Americans have to over the counter explosives (tannerite) and arduinos you only need enough of an education to know how to copy and paste code. Relying on people being uneducated isn’t a good strategy because these things are extremely easy to make. I work with some people that I question whether or not they can read who build effective devices with little to no effort.

I take apart bombs, missiles and other explosive ordnance for a living, and sometimes we have to wrap certain components or fuzes in aluminum foil to lower the effects of RF on them for transport. The general rule I follow is if you could put it underwater and water would get in, then radio frequencies won’t be deadened. So if she wants to be protected then she would have to create a watertight seal around her head and do us all a favor.

Woke is when people fall out of your aircraft and then you kill your own employees

Maybe being the kind of person who refers to it as sloppy 1/80s has something to do with it.

Looked up the site and it seems like they also don’t have Between the Buried and Me or Protest the Hero so it seems like it’s one of those “exclusionary to be pretentious and no other reason” kind of sites

Absolutely, there were many reasons for the decline in writing and I am by no means going to defend D&D or their team as writers, but I don’t envy the situation they were handed.

Everything after season 4 of game of thrones was trash, it just got progressively worse each season as D&D had no accountability material to work with.

I know it’s fashionable to shit on D&D for their lack of writing skills, but they weren’t hired to write, they were hired to adapt and they were decently good at it. George told them he’d have his material completed by the time they’d have to adapt it and he did not, yet I see very little of the blame attributed to the guy who just kind of gave up on finishing his story.

Really? Trump mentioning that most nato members do not meet the required defense spending undermines nato.

As a member of a NATO military that doesn’t meet the targets for spending, I agree this doesn’t undermine NATO, it’s just the truth that we need to start pulling more weight monetarily.

BUT that’s not the point and you missed key details about what he said that absolutely DOES undermine NATO, such as:

“I said: ‘You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?’… ‘No I would not protect you, in fact I would encourage them to do whatever they want. You gotta pay.’”

So you’re showing that you either didn’t read the article, didn’t understand the article or are being willfully ignorant of the article.

That’s nice of you to say. What do you suggest he does about it? I’m so sick of these spineless, yellow-bellied Internet commenters saying that something should be done about it and suggesting precisely fuck all. OFFER A SOLUTION, ALREADY, YOU COWARDS!

Edit: Mocking tone aside, I’m serious, what can Jens realistically do? Kick the USA out of NATO? That’s Trump’s goal anyways. The issues with Trump are an internal American issue that can’t be fixed by Norwegian politicians unfortunately.

Oh absolutely, which is the worrisome part of all of this to me. Someone doesn’t even need to build something good, just good enough.

Funny (but not funny, as it was a tragedy) that you should bring up the OKC bombings as an example of building a good bomb. McVeigh’s bomb didn’t work properly and failed to fully high order, it was just so much ANFO that it didn’t even matter.

They could very likely come up with something very functional, making IEDs, and even cooking your own explosive fillers is exceptionally easy, you really only need a very basic understanding of chemistry and circuitry (like grade 9 or 10 level). If extremists hiding in caves in Afghanistan could make consistent and effective devices with HME, then Joe Redneck with Internet access and over the counter access to Ammonium Nitrate Aluminum (Tannerite, which is legal in most states and often sold at gun stores) can probably do it too.