I’m sure it’s more complex than I’m making it out to be, but each gas in the air has its own freezing/melting boiling/condensation/sublimation points, so I’d imagine you could just kind of take advantage of that

Basically just cool it down to x temperature at y pressure, and all of the carbon dioxide should be solid, the oxygen a liquid and the nitrogen still a gas, and they’ve all sort of separated themselves out. Fish out the dry ice, siphon off the oxygen, and you’re left with nitrogen.

Might need to do a couple more rounds of that on each of those to account for other gases in the mix depending on how pure you need it to be, but in theory I imagine it could be that simple (again in practice I’m sure there’s probably a lot of details I’m missing)

My wife and I keep our heat pretty low, usually 60°F, which is usually pretty damn chilly for indoors

But when you step in from single digits outside, 60° feels downright toasty.

We have a heated mattress pad, keeps all of the heat inside the blankets

Yeah, but you won’t be able to change their mind from the outside. Join one and try to educate them on true freedom from the billionaire capitalist class. Worst case scenario even if they don’t respond you’ll still be training and learning how to work in a group, and you can be a spy and learn their tactics and how to defeat them in the case of a civil war.

You won’t be able to change their minds from the inside either, these types are a lost cause, they’re the most radical true believers. If you try they’re going to be suspicious of you, kick you out, keep you in the dark, maybe even get violent.

Maybe you can be effective as a spy, but who are you spying for, you’ need some kind of group who’s able to act on that intel, if you’re planning to hand it off to the police or something you have to

1. Trust the police to act on it, which is a tall order these days
2. Make sure that you’re toeing the line on legality to make sure that they can act on it and that you won’t land yourself in legal trouble because you, for example, recorded someone without their consent.

So you’re going to need some sort of network already in place before you go into this, maybe you’re lucky enough to have some good cops that you can trust, maybe some journalists you can pass info off to, maybe another militia you’re already involved in. You can’t just throw yourself into a militia and hope you’ll put the pieces together later, they’re going to be watching you, these people are already pretty paranoid, that’s why they’re in a militia to begin with, and if you suddenly vanish once you have your Intel on them, you’ve got a target on your back, and you need someone ready to act on it right away.

If you want to do the militia thing, you should be seeking out one that’s already left-leaning (there are a few) or start your own, which means at some point you’re probably going to have to be that guy with an AR playing at being in a militia until you actually have one.

This is a big oversimplification, but the bacteria that causes tetanus basically lives in the dirt. If dirt can get to it, it can have tetanus on it. And I don’t know many dogs that are above picking things up with their mouth from the ground.

There’s of course the old myth that it’s caused by rust, rust really has nothing to do with it, it just happens that if you leave something made of iron/steel outside, it tends to rust and also get dirty.

The bacteria also lives in the digestive systems of a lot of animals, so if something might have pooped on it, there’s another way for you to be exposed to tetanus, and again a lot of dogs are willing, even eager, to eat poop.And of course there’s no shortage of people and sources that are happy to tell you that basically everything in the world has a bit of poop on it in some form or another.

Also, remember that part about tetanus living in animals’ digestive systems? I hope so, it was only one paragraph ago. That includes humans, there’s a pretty good chance you have tetanus already living in your gut. In your digestive tract it’s not an issue, maybe even beneficial (we still have a lot to learn about our gut microbiomes) it’s only really an issue if it makes its way into your bloodstream/lymphatic system, which it normally can’t do except through a wound.

And deep puncture wounds, like from a dirty needle, rusty nail, or dog’s canine tooth, are kind of the ideal place for tetanus to do its thing, like most bacteria it likes things warm and moist, and your body checks those boxes nicely, and it likes a low-oxygen environment and there’s not a whole lot of airflow at the bottom of a puncture wound.

Doesn’t even need to be single shot

I’m sure that theoretically you could be so surprised by the recoil that you’d somehow cycle the bolt and pull the trigger to fire a second shot, but trying to imagine how that could actually happen only conjures up some pretty wild Rube Goldberg scenarios for me.

So I guess if it’s your first time shooting, don’t do it with any kind of repeating firearm in a room full of mouse traps, ball bearings, umbrellas, boxing gloves, etc.

It’s an extreme outlier, but you guys did just have a very well-publicized mass shooting there barely over a month ago (fuck man, it feels so much longer than that)

And to boot, a random civilian struggled with and took a gun from one of the attackers.

You probably won’t find yourself in that kind of situation, and I certainly hope you never do. But these kinds of things can happen anywhere. I’m quite certain that Ahmed el-Ahmed didn’t have “hold a gun” on his to-do list that day, but nonetheless it happened, however briefly.

And if you ever do find yourself in that kind of situation, it’s best to know how not to hurt yourself or others with that gun you’ve unexpectedly come into possession of.

I don’t have a specific video recommendation handy, but I’m sure if you punch “how to safely clear a [pistol/revolver/rifle/shotgun]” into YouTube you’ll get 10,000 good results.

As a general overview though (and bear in mind that there’s countless models of firearms out there, so there’s bound to be some outliers that don’t quite fit into this.)

Step 0. Make sure you are keeping the muzzle pointed in a safe direction and your finger off the trigger at all times.

Step 1. If there’s a removable magazine, remove it.

Step 2. Pull back the slide/cocking handle/bolt/pump/lever, if there’s a round in the chamber, this should eject it. There’s an important reason to do this after removing the magazine, because releasing that mechanism will load the next round from the magazine there is one in there.

Step 3. Repeat that at least 1 more time to make extra sure that another round didn’t get loaded. Keep going until no round ejects. For some guns where the magazine isn’t removable, like some pump action shotguns, it can sometimes be quicker or more convenient to do that repeatedly than to remove the rounds manually.

Step 4. Lock open the action of the firearm and visually confirm that there is no round in the chamber and nothing in the magazine well.

Step 1R. (if you are clearing a Revolver.) Release the cylinder

Step 2R. Press the ejector rod to eject the rounds.

Step 3R. Visually confirm that all of the rounds have ejected.

I’ve been carrying a Samsung Bar around with me for a long time

No USB-C

It’s not the smallest, nor probably the lightest flash drive out there, but it’s smaller than a lot of other ones I’ve had, and i don’t know if the tiny weight difference between most is actually significant enough to really worry about.

I have one of the older models, I’m sure the newer ones are a bit faster with newer tech, and the aesthetics are a little different, but the overall build quality seems to be about the same. Mine has been bounced around on keychains, been thrown in bags and pockets with all manner of other junk, dropped, stepped on, and I’m pretty sure it’s been through the wash once or twice and is still going strong after probably almost a decade.

And I think it’s probably one of the more attractive options out there.

As far as speed, can’t comment on that, never really bothered to look into that aspect, for my needs it’s not really a factor. I’ve run a few programs off of it and recently used it to test and install Linux and found performance to be perfectly acceptable, and the newer models probably would fare better, but if you have really specific needs for speed you’ll have to do your own research on that.

I do keep a little USB A-C dongle in my bag that it usually lives in in case I ever do need to hook it up to my phone or something, but personally that rarely comes up for me. YMMV

Gonna start referring to my extended family as being “negatively charged” then

I mean, we live in a time when 3d printed guns exist, I’m pretty sure having a 3d printer and ordering filament is probably about as likely to get you on a list as ordering some whistles

But whistles are readily available and cheap, without looking too hard I can get a dozen from them at target for less than $5 with lanyards. Leave your phone at home, pay cash, take a bus or park in the next shopping center over or wear a mask like you’re getting over a cold and a baseball cap and you’re about as anonymous as you can get.

Can probably get them even cheaper if you shop around a bit, if you have a party store around you I’ll bet you can get a bunch there for cheap as party favors for a children’s birthday party goody bag or whatever.

I’m a burly, bearded, outdoorsy dude, and you can describe a lot of my friends in a similar way.

Once upon a time, one such friend had a few trees on his property that needed to come down (damaged by storms, emerald ash borer, etc,) so he made a decision to have a “lumberjack day”

The plan was simple, we’d all show up with axes and saws and other implements of destruction and cut down these trees and chop them up to manageable sizes.

We also all kind of had the same idea that we’d show up in flannel shirts and suspenders in hopes that our one friend (coincidentally my now-wife, though we had not yet even begun to think about dating) who was sort of our unofficial group photographer, would show up with our camera, and we could get some cool shots of us being rugged badasses and maybe a group picture.

Sadly, she had to work that day, so no pictures exist.

I decided for this occasion that I wanted a big ol’ double-bit felling axe. It just seemed appropriate.

Now I could have gotten one from a hardware store if I just wanted a prop, but I did want an actual usable axe. Most new axes you can easily get your hands on these days just aren’t that great unless you’re willing to shell out some decent money (they’re not outlandishly expensive, but certainly more than I could afford at the time as a 20-something pizza guy)

Which meant that I’d be looking for a used axe. This was something I’d already been keeping my eye out for at yard sales and flea markets and such but unfortunately I was coming up empty. So with Lumberjack Day fast-approaching, I turned to craigslist.

And sure enough, I found a guy selling axes. Quite a lot of axes in fact, I suspect this guy had been snatching them up from the same flea markets I’d been hunting at before I got a chance. He’d clean them up, hang a new handle if needed, and sell them. His sharpening skills left a bit to be desired, but I’m handy enough with a file and whetstone so that didn’t matter.

We exchanged some messages, he sent me some pics of what he had, and we arranged a time for me to swing over to his house to buy an axe from him.

So one Sunday morning I swerved over to his house, not thinking to tell anyone where I was going.

From the pictures he sent, I kind of thought he had these axes in a shed or garage.

Instead when I went there and knocked on his front door he invited me inside and told me the axes were in his basement.

I step inside his living room, and this man had no furniture.

We go down into the basement, and every wall and float surface is covered in axes (and some similar hand tools- hammers, hoes, picks, shovels, etc)

I think this may have been some kind of serial killer’s lair.

But, luckily, I did not get axe-murdered that day. Instead I checked out his wares, handed him $60, and walked out with a rather nice vaughan axe that was probably from around the '60s

Took it out to my car, sat there for a minute considering my life choices, and went on my merry way.

Then a week or two later I put that axe to good use at lumberjack day. It’s a good axe, I still have it and find some good excuses to use it from time-to-time.

So anyway, he may possibly be a serial killer, but I do recommend Craigslist Andrew if you ever need to buy a decent used axe at a fair price.

I’d be tempted to fiberglass over it

I drove a Nazi out of a bar that way a few weeks back

My friend works security there and sent me a pic of a guy wearing a shirt with SS lightning bolts on it

Manager wouldn’t let him kick the guy out because he wasn’t otherwise causing an issue, and I wasn’t available to go help cause a scene to give him an excuse, but I was able to queue up every anti-fascist song I could find on there and he up and left within an hour

I consider those touchtunes credits to be money well-spent

Philadelphia English has this fixed with “youse”

I guess there’s also the Pittsburghese “yinz”

Or the southern “y’all”

I work in 911 dispatch, so I frequently have to go back and relisten to calls I’ve taken to see if I heard something correctly

It was very weird at first hearing my own voice played back at me so much, but it’s something you get used to after a while

But even after 7 years on the job, if I think about it my voice on the recording never sounds quite right to me.

It does freeze well, so that’s a good option. Normally I do that, but in this case i actually pulled the shoulder out of my freezer trying to free up some space in there so I kind of didn’t want to fill it right back up.

If you’ve done a whole shoulder on a rotisserie I feel like you’ll appreciate this idea too- I’ve been to a couple parties and done it once myself where we roasted a whole lamb over a fire. I don’t have any pictures handy but look up “lamb al asador” to get an idea of what the setup looked like. If nothing else it’s a hell of a centerpiece to have for a party.

Just as a heads-up, unless you’re cooking for a lot of people or really like leftovers, you may want to look for a smaller cut than a whole shoulder because it is a lot of meat. After feeding my party guests (it wasn’t a huge party, but) and sending most of them home with leftovers, I still had enough left over to have it for lunch every day for the next week.

Yeah, I will admit I dropped the ball on that recently for my new years party. I bought a big thing of pre-sliced deli provolone to keep it simple because I was keeping things low-effort, and it did the job but I really wanted something sharper with it.

Even with some lackluster cheese though people still raved about it.

It was basically a whole day of cooking on paper, but there was maybe about 15 minutes of actual hands-on cooking and prep time, the rest was just letting the pork do its thing in the crock pot while I did other stuff, like panic-cleaning my house before company arrived.

I’m a Philly guy, everyone knows the cheesesteak, and almost anywhere outside of Philly you’re bound to get something that doesn’t really resemble an authentic cheesesteak. People have a lot of weird ideas about what the default toppings, cheese, types of bread, cuts of meat, etc. are supposed to be.

But a Philly style roast pork/pork italiano is a thing of beauty. It’s actually a little wild to me that it hasn’t caught on with the Instagram recipe crowd because it’s the kind of thing that’s actually pretty well-suited to just throwing stuff in a crock pot or pressure cooker.

Basically just a pork shoulder, the usual Italian spices and seasonings- rosemary, oregano, garlic, maybe some fennel seed, red pepper flakes, salt & pepper (usually pretty heavy on the rosemary)

Ideally give it a quick sear, but that’s sort of optional

Throw it in your crockpot with some cooking liquid, I normally do chicken stock, sometimes wine if I’m feeling fancy, maybe some canned tomatoes, perhaps some sliced or chopped onions

Or do it in an oven, I’m not your supervisor.

And cook until done. Some places slice it, others shred it. Do whatever you like.

Serve on a roll (if you’ve seen Philadelphians arguing over cheesesteaks before, this is basically the same debate you’ve seen before, the roll is important, it needs to be sturdy enough to hold up to a massive pile of meat dripping with jus and grease, but not so hard that you have to worry about it cracking in half or have a hard time taking a bite out of it, long or round rolls are both acceptable)

With some roasted hot peppers (usually long hots) and some sauteed broccoli rabe (or sometimes spinach) and provolone cheese