drove past a hotel and they had a pretty big digital message board and I glanced over and almost had a fucking stroke while driving because it was just playing this gif
I’M GOING TO LOSE IT IT WASN’T FOR MOTHER’S DAY THEY JUST HAVE THE FUCKING DANCING BABY 24/7
[ID: The video begins with a person showing the package for a padlock. Over the video is a TikTok comment which reads “master lock has a bounty on this mans head”. The person making the video begins narrating: “You won’t believe this lock’s special feature. It’s a Master Lock model 570 maximum pick resistant pad lock. It has 5 pins, including some security pins and, if you look carefully inside the key weight, you can actully see where they put the disappointment.” The video ends with the person jamming a pick into the lock, which opens it instantly. end of ID]
As a lockpicking hobbyist: it really is like that.
I have many padlocks (and other, uh, lockable devices) to which I probably have the keys somewhere but it’s frankly quicker to pick (or in some cases, technically bypass but what most people would still call picking) the lock than find the right key.
And usually yes, that quickly.
And those tiny padlocks, to go on luggage (or, uh, other things that need tiny locks)? No need even for lockpicks, a paperclip will suffice to open it in 0.1s
Now I’m used to seeing this sort of thing as I frequent the lockpickinglawyer’s youtube channel so I am familiar with how Masterlock’s products consistently fail to resist even the most low skill picking. Which is why when I heard the brand “masterlock” and saw the person had a wave rake (a tool for low skill picking) I knew this wouldn’t take long…
I was not expecting the visceral nature of this picking; the single thrust and twist, the casual toss, the verbal disdain, the sense like you just watched something be swiftly gutted.
European countries have some of the most unethical, messed up and environmentally damaging hunting practices, yet they will try to lecture other nations on the subject and tell them they’re not allowed to have trophy hunting. Most African countries manage their wildlife and hunting practices significantly better than we do.
Europeans will also freak out over a 10lb fox in their yard, thinking it’s going to eat their children, but expect rural Africans to live peacefully alongside lions, leopards, elephants, crocodiles, hippos and other extremely dangerous animals.
Maybe Europeans should try fixing our own wildlife issues and stop telling other nations what to do.
In the UK there’s been a lot of panic about foxes attacking children after a handful of incidents where kids were bitten by foxes. However, in all these incidents there was a reasonable explanation. Either;
there was likely something neurologically wrong with the fox (toxoplasmosis, poisoning etc.) that caused it to act unnaturally/aggressively. Poisoning could be easily avoided and toxoplasmosis is mostly spread by outdoor cats, both human-made issues.
the fox had been tamed and used to being hand-fed by people, and this resulted in a child being bitten. This is a human-caused issue that could have been easily avoided.
a child startled/tried to grab at a fox and they bit in self-defense
in the case of babies/toddlers being bitten, the fox was likely attracted to the smell of their dirty nappy and the baby was bit in the process (foxes will raid bins for used nappies). The foxes in these cases were also likely tamed as an untamed fox still would not approach a human of any age.
Some of these incidents also later turned out to have been dog bites, with foxes being blamed to try and spare the dog from being labelled as dangerous. Foxes biting humans is extremely rare and almost always the result of a human-made problem.
A hunting group in the UK then put out the most ridiculous video, where they dressed up a dead piglet as a baby, put it in a pram and played baby crying noises. When a fox tried to go for the dead pig they used it as ‘evidence’ that foxes would hunt babies/children. Yes, really. (They also left out the part where the fox avoided the pig for multiple nights because it was scared off by the baby sounds, and even when it did try to take the pig it was extremely hesitant and skittish).
the passengers on oceangate are dead (they imploded) and they confirmed the debris was from the submersible but the shit that has me fucking losing it is that the logitech controller made it out almost unscathed
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