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The alternative is catastrophic and widespread violence

Make no mistake, the response to general strikes will also be catastrophic and widespread violence once it starts actually impacting the bottom line. The distinction will be where it starts and who it's directed against first. So you'd better be ready for that, too.

I am disqualified from the first criteria (unless Trump's recent declaration is indeed canon), however:

Has he stuck his dick in other women? Is he going to stick it in you, too? Same difference, right? Or maybe fingers are a better example, since nobody's going to wear gloves or stick a rubber on their digits for that. Insist it's been cleaned, no matter what it is. And put a jimmy hat on it if necessary for the object in question (and you can stick a condom on most dildos/vibrators, too).

People will get hung up on the toys because, "eww, weird" and not realize that "weird" is actually the root of their objection.

I don't want to treat phone numbers as an ID, but for some reason my customers will give their phone number to me online far more willingly than they'll cough up their email address, which is baffling only until you realize:

• Most people are technologically incompetent and are intimidated by the avalanche of crap they get in their email, and
• They never answer their phones anyway, so who cares?

I actually offer the option, because I don't give a rat's ass how people ignore me when I try to contact them. But when they place an order I at least need to be able to prove that I tried.

God people are stupid

And, we have a winner!

Words to live by: Don't step in the marketing.

The inevitable howling from Karens when their children get ahold of a 64 ounce Big Gulp of the stuff notwithstanding, the main issue is that fountain availability would pull back the curtain on the supposed value of energy drinks. These are no more expensive than Coke or Pepsi or Sprite for their bottlers to produce, but they've successfully bamboozled the public into believing that a Monster or a Red Bull or whatever is "worth" 4-6x more per ounce than a normal soda. This is obviously bullshit, but if you were able to dispense it at the same rate and the same price as normal soda the jig would be up and the energy drink brands, not to mention the convenience stores selling most of them, would have an absolute cow.

That was me!

I think. Your link doesn't appear to go to the comment in question, or else I am blind. (Either is possible.) I just finished a large drawer shell print with my X-Max 3 mere minutes ago, in fact.

TL;DR: Because Saving Private Ryan is a movie, and meanwhile reality is reality.

Whether or not a helmet can stop a bullet (and manage protect its wearer in the process) depends an awful lot on how much energy it has to dissipate, i.e. how fast the bullet was traveling and how much it weighs.

Rifle bullets travel very fast. This has not changed appreciably between WWII and today, although contrary to expectation it was more common to have front line soldiers issued with full power battle rifles back in WWII which were actually more powerful than the intermediate cartridge rifles most often issued to them today. Military rifles nowadays actually commonly fire a much lighter bullet than in the past. (Yes, there are exceptions. That's not really the point.)

There is no such thing as any kind of metal helmet that can protect the wearer against a rifle bullet that is a square hit and within the rifle's optimally effective range. You can play with ceramics like are used in plate carriers that protect the torso, or weird high tech aramid fibers, etc. but the long and short of it is that such a thing would be too bulky and heavy to feasibly wear on your head. A bog standard 7.62x39 round, i.e. that fired from an AK pattern rifle commonly found all over the world, delivers around 1000 ft-lb of energy at impact within 100 yards. Even if you could magically stop it somehow it would ring your bell like you wouldn't believe. We're talking unconsciousness, fractured skull, brain damage.

And to put it into perspective, the 7.92x57 round fired by the types of rifles likely to be issued to the Germans during WWII was even more powerful than this, developing around 2,900 ft-lb at the muzzle (I can't find a figure for at 100 yards offhand, but just subtract a couple of percent). Yes, that's around three times more powerful. You are therefore much less likely in reality to be happy about being shot in the dome with a WWII battle rifle with a primitive WWII helmet versus a modern helmet and a modern intermediate power cartridge.

A steel helmet stands a greater chance of deflecting a pistol round which is slower and carries considerably less energy. 9x19 round at 100 yards is packing more like 250 ft-lb of energy, a quarter as much as the 7.62, and is also shaped with a much wider cross section and a less pointy nose so it's less likely to penetrate hard objects.

Any garden variety lid would be much more useful at deflecting a shot that was a glancing blow, or that was fired from a very long way away, and/or has ricocheted off of something and thus lost much of its energy. Not to mention fragments of whatever it hit -- bits of brick or doorframe or glass or whatever it was the enemy's bullet hit near you that was not you. And shrapnel, and gumpf raining down on your head from nearby explosions, etc. Helmets are designed to maximize their effectiveness based on what we understand and can build (and, yes, what the lowest bidder can manufacture) but are not and never have been expected to shrug off a straight-on headshot from an enemy's rifle because this is a fool's errand.

Yeah, I argued against that at the beginning and I got downvoted into the dirt. Curious.

It would probably work on Musk. I'll bet you his ego is that fragile.

It's so you can't wind up crashing anything into the print. There is only a finite amount you can move the print head back towards the plate (or the plate back towards the head; however your printer works) before you run the risk of hitting the print with some mechanical component. Be it the X/Y axis gantry, the housing around the print head, or anything else. Sure, you could theoretically tune this maximum value to be whatever your particular combination of width/depth/height of toolhead enclosure is, and its offset from the gantry, etc., etc. but 100% effective avoidance pathing is difficult and, in the event your print bed is mostly filled, potentially impossible.

So it's safest to just not do that. It can always be assumed the nozzle can move around at or one layer above the current print height without hitting anything. Below that level is increasingly risky.

Did you use chlorates, saltpeter, or potassium permanganate?

You could assemble a working pipe shotgun out of hardware store parts without even leaving the hardware store if you were clever enough.

I can think of no compelling reason whatsoever to have my printer exposed to the outside internet. If I have to get at it remotely that's what my VPN is for.

I had the Samsung notification whistle down pat back in the S3/S4/S5 era. Everyone had that as their default and it was so easy to fuck with people.

A God of War live service game? Who the fuck signed off on that? I'm glad the article was able to zero in on the blistering stupidity of such a thing.

'Member when Kyle's Mom freaked the fuck out and tried to ban Pokémon Red and Blue because they "depicted gambling" in the game corner, which had no links to the outside world and could not be fed with real money in any capacity, was completely contained within the monochrome screen on your Gameboy, and could be save scummed anyway? Pepperidge Farm 'members.

My, how far the bullshit has come.

Anyway, 16 is sure a funny way to spell 18. Why the hell is the age requirement 16 when you can't buy a lottery ticket until you're 18 and in most places you can't enter a casino until you're 21? It's the same thing.

Lootboxes is gambling. So are gacha pulls, and doubly so for both of the above when they can be fueled with real world money. People who are not adults should not be enabled to gamble.

It gets worse. If you have "smart features and personalization" turned off for your Gmail account, which I do, you can't even ask Gemini anything. Not even to get the inevitably wrong answer.

But this still doesn't remove the damn button for it from the corner of your screen.

It involves reading this book.

P.s. don't ask us about

• rocks
• troll’s with sticks
• All sorts of dragons
• Mrs. Cake
• Huje green things with teeth
• Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows
• Rains of spaniel’s
• fog
• Mrs. Cake

Ah, yes. "Weather." And totally not because of snipers, drones, rotten eggs, tomatoes, hecklers, or Mrs. Cake.