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Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)

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This woman has a strong ground game 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


They could save the tax payers a lots of money in gasoline driving back and forth all day by just opening up police sub stations in every Walmart in the country.


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^ J.J. thinks this fight is Dyno-no-mite!
 
This woman has a strong ground game 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


And that’s several generations now that act just like that whenever they get an opportunity.
 
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If you read up on that, you'll find a guy in Winchester's employ, a a plant superintendent named B. Tyler Henry, redesigned that rifle for Oliver. Had a falling out and left to start his own company.
I thought he worked for Volcanic? But you are right, my history in "gun development" is pretty lacking.
 
I think "back then" it worked a bit differently. I think a lot of these inventers at the time worked on their own. They might have gotten funding from people like JP Morgan and such, but not "really" a company per se.

I generally really like history, but I really don't know much about how "inventions" are done back then. When making the cotton gin did Whitney work for someone, or what he on his own. Bonus fact he made the first revolvers for Colt.....

I think they got funding from other big business guys, hay I have this idea for a repeating gun, the Volcanic gun company makes a few but it really does not go anywhere, falls apart and the gamble does not pay off. They try again, this time a guy that does Shirts buys in and the next thing you know we have Winchester, he foot the bill and took the risk.

I think this is the way it should work. Winchester gambled and won, and "put" or "allowed", whatever people that knew what they are doing run the show.

I need to read up more on this part of history.
IIRC Edison had set up exactly what you described. He was getting funding and partially funded it himself. He set up a warehouse for research and paid people to work on their ideas for a lion share when they worked out.
It works the same way today. Ask the guy working for 3M that invented the glue that did not work. Well it kinda works and now millions use it every day when they use a post-it note. He was actually using it a way to stick pieces of paper with notes on his "cubicle" while trying to make a super glue.
 
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I think "back then" it worked a bit differently. I think a lot of these inventers at the time worked on their own. They might have gotten funding from people like JP Morgan and such, but not "really" a company per se.

I generally really like history, but I really don't know much about how "inventions" are done back then. When making the cotton gin did Whitney work for someone, or what he on his own. Bonus fact he made the first revolvers for Colt.....

I think they got funding from other big business guys, hay I have this idea for a repeating gun, the Volcanic gun company makes a few but it really does not go anywhere, falls apart and the gamble does not pay off. They try again, this time a guy that does Shirts buys in and the next thing you know we have Winchester, he foot the bill and took the risk.

I think this is the way it should work. Winchester gambled and won, and "put" or "allowed", whatever people that knew what they are doing run the show.

I need to read up more on this part of history.

While in prison and working in secret in the prison machine shop, David Marshall Williams developed the high pressure floating chamber and a short stroke piston design used in many firearms, including the M1 Carbine. His designs where used by Colt, Remington, Winchester and the US Ordinance Department.

US Patent - Inertia Operated Bolt Lock - David M Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Marshall_Williams

Jimmy Stewart starred in "Carbine Williams" about David Marshall Williams development of a rifle while in prison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbine_Williams



 
repost, but such an odd thing to say.

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Read Facing Violence by Rory Miller and pay attention to "othering"
Sites like this one portraits groups as less than human, every liberal is a devil worshiping pedo who want to castrate children and make America communist. Or liberal sites that paint every conservative as ignorant hate filled bigots that use religion, vapid denial of facts and a self serving white nationalist definition of patriotism that ignores history as an excuse to force their vision of utopia through violence on others.
It is not a far jump for someone who is seeking to do violence against "others" to decide any person who acts or looks different is a child rapist.
I think there are just as many people being accused of pedophilia who are not, as people claiming to be Navy SEALs who are not. Is that the rhetoric today, you can't just disagree, the person must be something horrible.
Seriously- that book should be required reading.
 
Imagine being a grown ass adult and thinking this "prank" was not gonna get your ass kicked...

Hopefully that fucker is braindead and won't be subjecting anyone to any more "pranks"

Sadly it will take their body to turn cold before they'll learn. That recent jackass in VA who got shot by the food delivery driver said in an interview that he would "probably" keep doing pranks like that again. :rolleyes: