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  • I don’t own one. Can someone objectively confirm a few things about Glocks? Is the following true?:

    • They don’t really have a “safety”. They have several mechanisms that prevent accidental fire when a finger isn’t on the trigger, but if you have a round in the chamber and pull the trigger, it’s going to fire (which sounds obvious, but I mean it doesn’t have a safety switch like a bb gun usually does)

    • You have to pull back the slide to chamber a round and fire. And once it’s chambered, the trigger just needs a light squeeze to fire (as opposed to a full motion squeeze - in other words, the trigger is partially pulled back once racked and easier to fire)

    If the above is true, these two things in combination seem like an irrisponsible design to me. You are asking for accidental fires like the one that happens recently where a guy pointed a gun at some kids in his driveway and claims “the gun went off”. You should either have a real safety, or it should be harder to squeeze the trigger accidentally.











  • Just rewatched that as well. Some of my favorite parts:

    • It’s set in 2021
    • His brain implanted hard drive holds a whopping 80GB. He uses a “doubler” to increase his capacity to 160GB. The whole plot of the movie is that he loads 320GB in, which leaks into his brain, and he has to get it back out before it kills him.
    • The encryption key to the data is photos of a tube television screen that have to be faxed to the recipient.
    • One futuristic aspect to his hotel room is that the TV wakes him up with a personal message on screen and then he uses it for a video call.
    • The local rebels are a group called the Low-Teks - led by Ice-T. They end up having the highest end tech.
    • The best doctor around is Henry Rollins.