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Two thoughts on why it didn't get flagged

1. the seller might be used to selling bulk amounts to distributors so 30 cases isn't unheard of.
2. Since it was on Amazon, there might not have actually been a human in the loop (except the person who packaged it but its not on them to check stuff like that) until the package actually arrives

But idk, I just skimmed the article lol

Amazon has a patent on the "one click purchase" button...

Air behaves like a fluid. "Fluid" doesn't necessarily mean "liquid"

the physics of control surface is the same underwater

That's because air is actually a fluid

The first "real submarine" (I'm considering a "real sub" to be able to operate self sufficiently) was actually made by an American. David Bushnell in 1776. And the first submarine to directly sink another war ship was also built by cowards Americans (Confederate) during the US Civil War.

Nah the Quest 3 (and I'd argue still the 2) is easily the best headset on the market right now.

Nothing else comes close to the features, quality, and most importantly the price.

You can hate meta and Facebook and the zucc all you want but they are doing legitimate really really cool things with VR

I think it's super dependent on the industry and you as a person.

I used to have a fake degree on my resume and I attribute a decent amount of my career success to that. But I am in IT where experience is a lot more important and there's a lot less risk than engineering haha.

But it was just some random bachelors degree from a community college in my home town. I would explain it away as "just some online BS program so I would have a degree on my resume" and that was really all the background checking anyone did. I'm also very charismatic, had a bunch of professional references, and a couple certs so that helps a ton

I don't have it on my resume anymore because I'm at a point in my career where it just frankly doesn't matter, but back when I was just a baby help desk tech it genuinely got me a couple incredible opportunities. I didn't feel bad because the hiring process is such nonsense and employers made candidates jump through so many hoops I just figured it was fair. They lie creatively explain benefits and pay, so we can lie creatively explain our history.

I have to "prime" one of my burners. I'll turn it on the power boil setting for a second or two to let gas out and then back to the ignite setting to spark it

You're confusing a personal and moral decision with an economic one.

A company, the legal entity, is not a person (despite what some people say) and it can't make any moral decisions. For a company the decision between "collaborate" and "stop existing" isn't murky nor is it a hard one. Corporations exist to continue operating and to continue making money. They are machines built to do that one thing.

Now the people who run the company, are different. They are humans and they are capable of making moral decisions.

BMW is also an interesting example because they didn't really make cars before hand. They made one model which was more or less of a failure until they were nationalized by the Nazi party to make aircraft engines and other vehicles. So the people who owned it did decide to jump ship when the company was taken over.

I do sous vide fish and chicken all the time.

But BBQ ribs, that's an idea. Might bum my dad's smoker for an afternoon 🤔

the force awakens

My only issue with TFA isn't the movie itself. It's just that it sets up so much good stuff that the rest of the trilogy just doesn't do fuck all with. There are some really cool story points, some incredible characters, and amazing acting. Then just garbage through the next two.

Rouge One

Yeah this is easily the best star wars movies IMO. It's hectic, and all over the place, and there's a ton of characters, then it just all clicks together in the last little bit of the movie. No spoilers or anything but you absolutely need to watch this. I genuinely can't over recommend this enough, it's a golden movie. Then go watch Andor, its easily the best Star wars TV and there are a couple scenes id nominate for top 10 TV scenes of all time. It's the prequel to Rouge One and goes over Cassian Andor (main character in Rouge One) story.

Solo

I actually really enjoyed Solo. Its not super relevant to the greater star wars saga, and its not the most ground breaking piece of cinema ever. But its fun and enjoyable, just go into it with the idea that its "filler content" for the rest of them.

TL:DR I mostly agree with you

Hmmm. You should send me that recipe, lasagna is exactly the type of thing I'm looking for! I made enchiladas last weekend.

Not too hard (I'm not a good chef), takes too long for a normal night, spends some time in the oven so I can do other chores

Because they fill out the report regardless if there is an issue or not. Also, it was a requirement I was given.

I think it was to give the divers a more simplified form to fill out. Drivers tend to skew a little left on the bell curve so giving them a ton of stuff all at once means they just won't do it at all

Edit: Here's a longer explanation of what the form looks like:

• Name: [text box]
• Truck Number: [text box]
• Are there issues [Boolean toggle]
• Comments [text box]
• Signature

Then if they toggle the "issues" checkbox, it expands to

• What issues: [multi select list]
• Description: [text box]
• Pictures: [photo upload]

God I love this comic. I've used it hundreds of times since he's posted it.

According to NIST, Eastern Time is UTC-4. And currently it is 5:04pm EDT, and in London (a city in GMT/UTC+0) it is 10:04pm. Which is 5 hours ahead (because America is dumb and has daylight savings).

Which is also backed up by your article. Americas/Indianapolis is the one I normally use since I'm in Indiana.

Idk "he was aiming a gun at me" is a pretty good reason to shoot back imo. Now whether or not he was actually doing that is a different story

but the video evidence contradicts that

The video evidence reportedly claims that. As far as I can tell it hasn't been made public yet.

Yes the police shouldn't be trusted, but neither should media being put out the same day. There hasn't been enough time for the media to actually get evidence and view it themselves. Any "facts" you see right now should be held to the same belief.

I mean dude just lost a kid. Right or wrong, people make bad decisions in those situations.

Revenge doesn't make an action justified.

I'm not going to try and defend the police in general here. And I'm not going to defend the police involved with this or the kid or the dad. We do not know enough and there is waaaay too much misinformation being spread about this. Anyone who claims to know the "right" thing to do here is either naive or lying.

But, with all that being said. I am a CCW card holder and I do regularly carry as is my constitutional and legal (in my state) right to do so. I also did the whole CCW course (even though my state has constitutional carry laws), go shooting once or twice a month, and annually attend another CCW focused course hosted by a shooting range in partnership with the state sheriff.

But from what I've heard, the police started chasing the kid who pulled out a gun (a popular theory I've heard online was to dump the weapon). But in that scenario, I can see why the officers would have reacted the way they did. I was taught that if you have to pull a gun on someone the only two de-escalation paths available to you is either them laying face down on the ground, or you killing them. Yes, technically there are other ways, but in a very high stress scenario those things take time and if you pull a gun out you should be 1000000% committed to shooting whatever you have pointed it at.

Like you said, the only thing guns are good at is killing. And no matter how pro-2A and gun loving you are, that's all they will ever be good for.

I don't know. I guess this was a really long wall of text to say "we don't know enough" and "don't pull a gun out while running from the police".

It would be $616,946.77 in today's money.