They don't care as long as they can get in, make a few bucks, and get out. Long-term stability isn't the priority anymore, just quick profits.

• leave your off-hand down at your waist, maintaining defense is for weak bitches

Guns kept in a car usually aren’t required to be locked up if the car itself is locked.

This varies widely from state to state, with different requirements for loaded vs unloaded, concealed carry permits, and accessibility requirements.

There’s not much point having a gun in the car if you have to ask the carjacker to wait nicely while you fetch your gun from its locked container.

So use a quick-access safe mounted in the vehicle or get a concealed carry license and keep it secured in a holster with you. No excuse for leaving it accessible to a child.

I don't think he is saying that an inability to differentiate between foreign languages is racist, but rather that given a random shithead who holds truly racist beliefs, it is unlikely they will be able to recognize differences between Asian languages.

To put it more generically, most people in Set A exhibit Trait B, but having Trait B alone does not mean you are a member of Set A.

PS2 is retro now? Damn, getting old really does sneak up on you.

Same.

It was MySpace.

Some portions of the ASVAB have questions very similar to those you might find on an IQ test, but it is much more broad than just IQ.

The ASVAB tests for aptitude, hence the name, not the ability to step into a job without training. Looks up practice questions for the Mechanical Comprehension portion to see the kinds of questions that might suggest someone could be a good mechanic.

The U.S. army absolutely does provide training to its mechanics, and does not assume people know jack shit coming in. I scored high enough on the MM portion of the ASVAB to be one and don't don't know a damn thing about fixing vehicles.

It's only a matter of time before it's not an option anymore. Every shitty new behavior they put in is an easy-to-use option at first, then a registry setting or policy, then even that goes away and it gets baked in.

Depending on the beam's weight, where it impacts, and what kind of tank it is, here are some possible effects:

1. Absolutely nothing
2. Cause the crew to button up, reducing their visibility
3. Draw the crew out to assess or repair damage, expsoing them to small arms fire
4. Remind the crew that their enemy is active in the area and slow the advance
5. Distract the crew long enough for infantry to employ a more effective weapon, possibly including approach the tank on foot without being seen
6. Main gun barrel impact - deform the barrel enough to disable it
7. Turret impact - disable turret rotation, reducing aiming capability
8. Track impact - mobility kill by damaging roadwheels and/or track, or just getting stuck there
9. Direct side impact - probably nothing
10. Random gear impact - even old tanks have external mounted machine guns, optics, radio antennae, and shit that could be disabled
11. Exposed crew impact - squishy squishy

Of all these possibilities, I think just trying to get the damn thing stuck in the wheels/tracks is the most likely to actually work, even on relatively modern tanks.

Seeing the rest of the thread really contextualizes Linus' anger.

Only seeing the message from Linus makes him look like a dick. But when you see that he's responding to someone deflecting blame and being a shithead to the guy trying to report a problem and provide a suggested fix, the aggressive response seems more justifiable.

Thanks for the insight - jump humping and soaking sound like the kind of bullshit my parents would believe because it was featured in some local news story.

Most "teen trends", especially those related to sex, are just wildly blown out of proportion "stories" based on a couple of people trying something weird, someone else hearing about it, and now suddenly all the teens are doing it.

It reminds me of being in high school when my mom asked me if my girlfriend's jelly bracelets were a sex thing because she heard about girls owing sex acts to guys who can break one.