I have a CM.700 airsoft sniper rifle replica that started slam-firing^[1]^ recently, likely due to a stripped sear. Is there anything that I could do about this, short of buying a specialised trigger box that costs as much as the gun itself?

I was thinking about making my own sear, but I took the trigger box apart in order to see what part could be the sear, and frankly I've still got no clue to this day. Despite taking apart quite a few airsoft guns before, this trigger mechanism is still a mystery to me.

I'm currently away so these images (1) (2) (3) are the best ones I have. The first one is the inside of the trigger box, sans the bar used to connect it to the bolt and outer barrel (it is positioned in between the two bars sticking out of the top of the box). The second image is of the bolt itself and the third image is of the assembled trigger box, showing three bars coming out of it (+ safety lever partially obscured by the bolt handle), and the outer barrel with the bolt inside. The bars sticking out of the trigger box slot into the holes in the outer barrel.

If it is the sear that's being the problem here, would it be possible to somehow mold it back into shape, or would I have to make an entirely new one? Again, I could buy an upgraded trigger box, but my financial situation currently prohibits that, so having a cheap fix would be really nice, even if it would be temporary.

I would greatly appreciate any help.

[1] - The CM.700 is a sniper rifle with a rotating bolt action. The bolt is rotated up, then pulled back. At the apex of the pull, the sear locks, making an audible click. Then the bolt is pushed forwards, chambering a BB, then rotated downwards to lock it and make the gun ready to fire. Slam-firing happens when the sear does not lock back at the end of the pull - releasing the bolt will make it slam back shut. Sometimes the bolt will stay in the pulled-back position, but even a slight disturbance will make it slam again. (Video on reddit showcasing the issue)

I only pay ¥900 ($5.60 / C$7.90) per month for (Japanese) Apple TV while the same subscription is literally $12.99 for Americans and C$17.99 for Canadians per month, like WTF? Regional pricing is also taken into account despite using the exact same streaming service, why is that? There are differences though, mainly in the shows available (different countries share their exclusives that don't exist in the other). Why does it cost "less" in Japan though...

I am a father of two. Wife was working today. It is very warm today, so I wanted to go swimming with my kids. My son was oke. My daughter also wanted to go, but she was on her period. She didn't want to go swimming in this situation. But for her it is also a very warm day. How can she find cooling? Any tips?

For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.

I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don't think he was ever funny not even a little.

His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it's so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.

Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.

Let's say you have a choice: you give billionaires a chance to create a utopia where all humans will be destroyed and the survivors will live worse than in Blade Runner 2049 movie, or you destroy civilization so that it cannot be restored, turning the entire planet into a lifeless desert, and of course you will die yourself?

WWF. Especially during the attitude era. It was like 1998 through 2000 that nearly everyone was into wrestling, especially with what the WWF was doing and some of what WCW was doing with NWO. But, as the years piled on, it seemed like the flaws became more apparent. I look back at that period now and was like "...why did we like this again? and what from it did people want?". Because some people want swearing back, they want buckets of blood back, they want sex appeal back .etc

That was just car-crash television and I learned later that what both promotions were doing back then, were doing whats called hot-shotting. It's a wrestling term where you're booking things in a seemingly appealing matter that audiences want to see. That's what they were doing and it did honestly work for a long time.

If there was anything I'd want out of wrestling anymore these days, is competent booking and for matches to feel like and be big-fight moments. The cat is out of the bag for what wrestling really is, it's just about characters, smoke and mirrors and highly choreographed moves that when they look routine, stand out.

At least some of the video games were still fun.

Alright, so, this is going to sound crazy, but I don't like showering. It has nothing to do with the feeling of being clean (I love cleanliness and order), but just simply because I find it uncomfortable to shower. I have a whole bunch of fancy shampoos, nice-smelling body washes, etc to help encourage me to shower, but it still just feels freaking uncomfortable and annoying. And it's so embarrassing to talk about it because of the stereotypes about people and showering. I end up showering on about an every-other-day or every-two-days basis, and I'd really like reducing that down to every day. I don't like smelling, or desperately trying to avoid people because I'm insecure I stink. I just want to be motivated to shower without having to constantly force myself to do it for the sake of everyone else or picking up the pieces.

By the way, my psychiatrist strongly suspects I'm autistic. I'm being formally evaluated w/ the psychologists and stuff in late July. So that might be a reason why I have such an odd dilemma like this.

So in the fall of last year I hired a contractor to work on the roof of my house and build out a patio. They are a real company and not some randos that just do construction work too. They asked for 60% of the total project as a deposit and the remainder to be paid on completion. I had my parent who lives with my pick out some colors and details as they really wanted a metal roof and such.

The metal roof has proven to really be a massive challenge here. The project has now crossed the 6mo mark and the contractor has not even begun on it. They did work on the patio and a few other ends. As far as why the roof has gone so slow? Between them and others getting sick and unable. At some point they told me that they hired a guy to work on my roof and they took some payment to show up to the job site, but they ghosted. Even the patio work was rather irregular, but it was moving forward.

In late may they asked me to buy the material to do the metal roof and that they would discount it from the final price. At this point I had felt that I had been too generous in giving them space to work and finish the project. So I decide to file a small claims suit since the deposit is still under the limit for them. Oddly enough some days after I submitted the paperwork to have them served to the court they showed up to remove some wood that was in rough shape from some rain. They can be difficult to get in contact with, so I had not bothered to tell them that I planned to sue them, but since they were there I told them as I felt letting them continue hurt my case.

At this point I have a report from another contractor on the state of the project (before they had randomly shown up), I have recordings of our calls that I am transcribing to make a timeline of our interactions (one party state here in Tx). I think I have set myself up to have a good case to ask for a refund here. Still I noticed that USPS had tried to deliver a letter that required a signature from the contractor, but it was addressed to my parent oddly enough. I am a bit unsure of what to do. My parent feels a bit intimidated for it. I told them to just ignore. Is there some general advise on what else I should do or what that letter could be about?

The summer solstice is coming up, and I always rewatch Midsommar (2019) on that day.

I am often diagusted with the things people throw in the toilet. Tampons, condoms, menstrual pads, baby diapers, colostomy bag seals, underwear...

Walk into a public access bathroom and the filth is just waiting to be witnessed. And the bigger the venue, the higher the chance.

Aren't people aware of what they are doing? The clogs they build in the pipes? Because if they do this outside, then have to do it at home.

p.s

I feel the need to add a clarification of what the three P's are, being:

• pee
• poo
• paper (toilet)

This list is being slowly added to, in real time, and more P's are entering it. Namely:

• puke
• period
• pilosity

I'll update this as I stumble into new P's but I doubt the original mnemonic will recognize updates.

I don't have bangs nor would be able to (stupid curly hair), tried with autism earplugs: got busted somehow.

Bit of a shower thought: Outside of limited circumstances, like interviews or therapy, nobody is really expected to give you honest feedback on how you come across.

This sucks. I've been told I come across as unfriendly once, but I have no idea if I was just nervous and tired at the time. I still cherish that one moment almost 10 years ago when someone told me I was funny in some corporate team building bs.

Now, I could ask friends and family, but I believe they would probably not tell me the full, honest truth. After all, they (hopefully) like me and I would probably avoid being too harsh to everyone but very close people in private.

At the same time, I know plenty of people who really should get some feedback, who probably believe they are funny while everyone is bored and annoyed and hopes they talk a little less and the like.

So, are there socially accepted ways to get feedback on how you come across?

I realize that people are strange, relationships are hard, P!=NP and anime is not real. Still, it would be nice to have.

Was talking about home economics as a school subject in another thread and i realised that for me personally, taking "Food Tech" (cookery gcse) would have impacted me pretty negatively, even though generally speaking GCSEs don't have much of an effect on the rest of your life or education.

So i wonder if anyone else has similar revelations? My post title is also phrased more openly than that, so it doesn't have to be school specific, but i am mainly interested in things from the teenage time period.

Mine is beard pills. Because some days feel like beard days and some don't.

Preface, nothing against those that do.

Its increasingly difficult to ever do fun things with my current friends. Now that I'm to the point where I have the space and the money and time to do pretty much anything I want, no one else has any time to hang out. I get ignored a lot, which I get, they care about their family more. But I'm the type of person who likes to host stuff and do things.

Not a huge deal to me, I'm fine being alone, but its like, man, its really fun hanging out and playing some IRL video games or just cruising or walking around outdoors etc. I guess nobody really has time as they get old though. Or maybe I need to find a younger crowd 😆 I have no idea.

I'm doing 5g of mushrooms tomorrow in silent darkness for the first time. I have no idea what to expect as I've never done it this way, my last dose was 4.5g and I handled it really well and had a beautiful experience out in nature. Also, planning on vaping some DMT powder in the coming weeks and going on my first major trip for the first time.

Which communites mods are over zealous with the ban hammer?

Which ones have bad mods?

For example:

• No warning, just banning
• Constantly berating people for minor rule infringement
• Deleting posts
• No discussion, decision is final
• Having a different opinion

Hello all, I need some advise on a external data storage device/medium. I need to transfer approx 10Gb of files onto an external drive/USB memory at the fastest possible writing speed. This is due to a time sensitive issue that means I cannot leave a standard USB memory stick plugged into the device for long periods of time. Any advice on something that might work? I have tried a "fast" SanDisk USB drive, but it is too slow...Thanks!

To put into perspective: South Korea declared Martial Law during the end of 2024 which was short lived as their citizens were awake, not asleep (a similar thing occurred in 1980 that lasted until 1987) so they know what their parents have been through back then not letting it slide in modern times which was met with stiff resistance & protest from Gen Z Koreans.

Their president was impeached after he enacted it as he's abusing his power via blocking legislators by using both law enforcement and the military averting them from entering their national assembly, including him ordering the arrest of both the judges and supreme court justices whilst illegally declaring martial law (all in which violate their constitution).

I was leaving a comment but it wouldn't upload. Checked the post and it's gone. Checked the person's profile and it's gone too.

I'm pretty ocd so i find it really annoying if the space bar is not exactly in the center. What i meant by "center" is:

• the left and right vertical edges of the space bar must line up (or get pretty close) to the edges of the touchpad. E.g. pretty much all Lenovo laptops.

I had several Macs too and now that i think about it, their touchpad area dont line up with the space bar since.... forever. Instead, they center it by making the touchpad larger, so the edges dont line up with the space bar.

For windows laptop, Asus / MS surfaces also do not have their touchpad / spacebar line up. Gaming laptops are obviously not, because their keyboards need to be bigger to accomodate special keys and sometimes a numpad.

On Android, i usually customize the layout such that the bottom row of the main layout contains no comma or full stop / period. If i want to use those, then i go to the secondary layout.

As a further elaboration: growing up, I absolutely hated pasta salad. I could not and would not eat it. But one day, when I was about 22-23, I was working somewhere that includes meals, since shifts were literally all day for a week (save eight hours for sleeping). The cook made a pasta salad that I could only describe as "orgasmic." I ate that same pasta salad for every meal for the next two days until they finally tossed the leftovers. Ever since then, I have been "converted" to enjoy pasta salad. That one dish completely changed how my body reacts to a food that I already tried several times.