• atro_city
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    83 months ago

    The USAians will put a gun on and into anything, won’t they?

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        Shit, that’s why my Glock 17 wouldn’t fit?? How many times do we have to go over the rules, longer barrel lengths to the back of the line so the average folk have a chance.

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      3 months ago

      Looks kinda like a slightly modified ammo canister. Like this one.

      The one I just showed is a .50 caliber round can, which I would guess is close to the size of bullets the machine gun fired.

  • @[email protected]
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    13 months ago

    Just watched Number 24, which is about Nazi resistance in Norway.

    It was wonderful to see them planning and carrying out acts of sabotage by bicycle.

  • @[email protected]
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    203 months ago

    A fixie without brakes? With that weight on the handle bar? With the most awkward stance because of that huge metal column piercing the riders sternum?

    They really didn’t like their soldiers, didn’t they?

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        23 months ago

        I’m curious if the pedals even had a sprocket on that thing so the wheels could spin without the pedals spinning. That would give it a means to slow down, though it wouldn’t be comfortable. You’d have to spread your legs to coast and it would take some skill to get your feet back on the pedals without banging up your legs.

        • merde alorsOP
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          23 months ago

          may be

          but the pioneers of fitting the freewheel to the safety bicycle were Linley and Biggs Ltd who fitted a freewheel from the summer of 1894, in part to assist the operation of their 2-speed ‘Protean’ gear.

          By 1899 there was widespread adoption in UK bicycle manufacture of the freewheel, usually combined with the back-pedal brake, and conversions were offered to existing bicycles.

          In 1899 the same system in the USA was known as the “coaster brake”, which let riders brake by pedaling backwards and included the freewheel mechanism. At the turn of the century, bicycle manufacturers within Europe and America included the freewheel mechanism in a majority of their bicycles but now the freewheel was incorporated in the rear sprocket of a bicycle unlike Van Anden’s initial design.

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        63 months ago

        this reminds me of gta vice city. I used to enable the cheat that allowed cars to fly. One problem: once the car was off the ground it lost traction and all power.

        solution: spawn a tank, turn the turret backwards, and use recoil as the airborne thrust.

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    73 months ago

    If you ever have the chance to visit the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, during the educational talk they discuss why the Dutch army wasn’t able to resist the German tanks. They show this picture, and at least on our tour said it was ok to laugh.

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      33 months ago

      Amusing…but their web page goes into the more serious reasons. The main one being that the Nazis were going to carpet-bomb Dutch cities if they didn’t surrender.