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by suzzer99 5y ago
Somehow this is the first time I've seen it despite reading HN for a decade. Such a beautiful article. I'm glad it was reposted.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
Wow this thread just got orphaned into the ether.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
Good to know. Holy cow if they were illegally using live ammo and had previous problems with cold guns not being cold. However I think this is all just based on the original press release the union put out which said "live single rou
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by suzzer99 5y ago
He's one of 7 producers or something. But he's the face of the film and probably could have just paid the film crew out of his own pocket if needed.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
According to the article he accidentally fired the gun while practicing pulling it out of the holster. Maybe more will come out but that seems to be the story at the moment. Yes still people shouldn't have been in the line of fire when
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by suzzer99 5y ago
There are more than that: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-10-22/...
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by suzzer99 5y ago
But that's not what happened according to the article. It says Baldwin was practicing pulling the gun out of the holster. Do you have any sources that say he deliberately fired? A blank has a normal amount of gun powder. Brandon Lee wa
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by suzzer99 5y ago
How is an actor supposed to know the difference between a blank and a dummy round on a specially modified prop gun? That's what the licensed armorer is for. Asking actors to have any responsibility to suss that stuff out seems like a r
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by suzzer99 5y ago
Absolutely. He bears responsibility for the shoddy safety protocols.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
I'm sure some actors do. But a lot of prop guns have been specially modified to only take blanks, or take no bullets at all. It's going to be very hard for an actor to discern the difference between blanks, dummy bullets, and prop
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by suzzer99 5y ago
I see a lot of confusion in the comments here about guns on set. The LA Times has several other good articles that clear most of this up. In a nutshell: 1. Live ammo is never used on set. 2. Sometimes dummy rounds are used to show loading&#
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by suzzer99 5y ago
Blanks can be deadly if you put them up to your head like Jon-Erik Hexum. But a wadding cannot go through one person at some distance and then injure another. Something else was inside that gun that turned into a projectile.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
That's not how it works in movies though. Actors aren't expected to know how to inspect their own firearms. They're given a gun and told whether it's cold or hot.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
There are never live bullets on set. Sometimes they use dummy bullets to show loading, etc. Those dummy bullets can apparently come apart and get lodged in the barrel, and then a blank is loaded behind them.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021... "Productions using operational firearms can opt for those intentionally designed to fire blank cartridges — shell casings loaded with gunpo
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by suzzer99 5y ago
There is no way a wadding can go through one person and into another. Something else must have been inside that gun that turned into a projectile.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
Movie sets never use actual live bullets. But they do use dummy bullets sometimes (to show loading or unloading). And if a piece of one of those is still in the barrel when a blank goes off it becomes a real bullet. That's what happene
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by suzzer99 5y ago
Udemy also has some good classes imo.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
So you're the one.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
The funniest part is that a good chunk of the people who pass along this link in grievance are probably in the group that technically pays no income tax, and don't even realize it.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
VAERS data has been massively misconstrued and reported completely out of context by anti-vaxxers with an agenda and often profit motive for doing so. Here's a good thread about VAERS data and how it's being misused: https:/
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by suzzer99 5y ago
I agree with this. IMO any theory wrt to consciousness has to first and foremost consider that no hard line can be drawn along the continuum from human beings to elephants to ants to yeast cells.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
That Patricia Lee letter is all kinds of shady. What vaccine were the patients given, and how soon before their symptoms? She only waited 7 days between sending a letter to the CDC and getting a law firm who specialized in anti-vaxx causes?
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by suzzer99 5y ago
What's the difference between hyperfocus and flow state?
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by suzzer99 5y ago
FYI - HSA is also basically a SEP IRA you can cash out when you're 65. A lot of people I know never plan to actually spend any of their HSA on healthcare until they're 65. https://www.fidelity.com/viewpoints/w
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by suzzer99 5y ago
I'd be interested in 4 different jobs at 1 day a week for 20% of pay.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
I gave up, and my browser was still semi-borked for a while after clicking back to HN.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
I'm going to guess a value in a hidden form field.
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by suzzer99 5y ago
1. Click View in menu bar 2. Hover over developer menu item 3. Click View Source Three-step process - even more nefarious!
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by suzzer99 5y ago
Of course 97% is nonsense. And $11.7M per family is completely untaxed, something the billionaires pushing for an end to inheritance tax do an amazing job of obfuscating.

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