Youtube comments of (@MonkeyJedi99).

  1. I remember watching an interview with one of the F-117 pilots from the strike and he talked about his post-strike count to make sure everyone in his airgroup made it (using satellite markers, I think, no radio traffic) and he kept coming up one short, and as he was on the way to panic-land, he realized he forgot to count himself.
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  2. I fully appreciate the segment where you show, name and describe the super-specialized winter biking attire. - Here in the US, many people view adult on bicycles as either too broke to have a car or waiting out their DUI sentence. Particularly adults who cycle in the winter. We're so brainwashed into being a car-centric society...
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  3. Oddly, I kind of like how the audio on this sounds like it was recorded through a Pringles can with the bottom cut off. Gives me nostalgia for AM radio news that I am not old enough to remember in the first place. - That aside, Right To Repair is building, and you're not alone.
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  4. "Everybody does something illegal, we just have to find what YOU did." That is top-tier fishing.
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  5. Calvin: “Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn’t they have color film back then? Dad: “Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs ARE in color. It’s just the WORLD was black and white then. C: “Really?” D: “Yep. The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930’s, and it was pretty grainy for a while, too.” C: “That’s really weird.” D: “Well, truth is stranger than fiction.” C: “But then why are old PAINTINGS in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn’t artists have painted that way?” D: “Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.” C: “But… But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn’t their paints have been shades of gray back then?” D: “Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the ‘30’s” C: “So why didn’t old black and white photos turn color too?” D: “Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?” - Calvin (to Hobbes): “The world is a complicated place, Hobbes.” Hobbes: “Whenever it seems that way, I take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner.”
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  6. How damn dangerous is a 50+-year-old man in the midst of heart attacks that he needs to be in a straightjacket, even IF he was lying about being in the Four Tops? This man should be allowed to sue the doctors and guard directly as well as the hospital.
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  7. When I was a kid in the early 1970's, our Zenith TV had a LOT of vacuum tubes in it. We even had a monthly (I think) visit from a technician who would check the condition of each of the vacuum tubes and replace the ones that were failing. I was very young and dumb and assumed that he was putting new television programs in the TV for us. I held this belief until I saw "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (the one with Gene Wilder in the title role). That movie had a scene that explained how TV programs got to your TV and Wonka's invention of sending chocolate bars via a similar technology.
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  8. That's a good point. Let me mark it on your map.
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  9. Fun story: When I was a kid, I used to think that the dishwasher filled up completely, or at least halfway, like an aquarium, and it would flood the kitchen if I opened the door.
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  10. Laura: "When you're hungry, you'll figure out a way to eat." Alex Jones a few years later: Making plans to eat his neighbors to feed his family.
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  11. "I'm sure you're a good lawyer, you have a nice last name." - Wow. This is the kind of 'sly' racism you expect from someone with a white robe and hood in their closet.
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  12. This is the kind of thing that makes you want to slap a bunch of people with a rabid badger. Particularly the public defender. It is his/her/it's JOB to defend the person using the facts available and as related by their client. Being overworked is an excuse to not be the best lawyer ever, but it is not an excuse to assume your client is lying to you.
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  13. Microsoft's REAL reason is that people who bought those refurbished computers are not paying Microsoft for a new Windows license. And they should not have to ,because there already is a valid license attached to the machine.
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  14. The best compromise for areas that WANT the sun's heat in winter? Retractable awnings. A bonus of retractable awning, you can retract them to protect them from extremely windy weather - edit: And as usual, He covers that AFTER I posted my comment... I need to learn patience.
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  15. That was my thought as well. edit: Which would probably have gotten us both nullified from the jury selection.
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  16. Trump doesn't need a term. He needs a sentence. Or enough sentences to form a paragraph.
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  17. That prosecutor who said he would, out of the kindness of his heart, waive the request for jail time if the person pled 'no contest' ought to have their breathing permit revoked. That is scummy, despicable strong-arming and predatory behavior.
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  18.  @AverageAlien  Whenever I see a word that doesn't make sense in an otherwise coherent posting, I am often forgiving enough to blame auto-complete on phones.
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  19.  @SteichenFamily  No, they need to dump MBAs, and put engineers back in charge.
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  20. I understood that reference. Thanks, Monty Python!
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  21. This is very true! I went to a large university and a mid-sized state college. The university had WIDE sidewalks and bike racks everywhere. They also had buses on loops that passed by every 15-25 minutes, and you just stepped on and found a seat. No money required. The state college was fully walkable (once I drove there for the day, being a commuter student). Both places had outdoor and indoor places to sit, relax, study or socialize. They had places to buy food and schools supplies. The university had more amenities with a pool hall, an arcade, a non-cafeteria restaurant or two, and multiple libraries.
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  22. One of the early shots FINALLY drove home to me how utterly huge the outer containment structure it. It is well beyond the scale I imagined it to be.
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  23. The question not asked is why it took a journalist pestering the county for days to get the county to FINALLY take a look at the complaint.
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  24. I've gotten letters with appointments/court dates that were before the postmark date. Save the envelopes on stuff like that!
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  25. McScrottle really roasts my chestnuts. "Half a year is too close to the election of the next President, so I will refuse to even let the Senate even vote on the nominated candidate." - Four years later: - "We need to seat a justice even though it is less than three months until the election, so I will make sure to twist arms and get this nomination rammed through the Senate." - And this is the same group of career politicians who removed the rule requiring a 60% margin to confirm all judicial appointments, and this year Lindsey Graham lamented that "it is something we can't fix" - But it IS something the Senate can "fix" by the same process with which they lowered the margin to 50%. It's easy to figure out, if you can chainsaw through the rampant egos and institutional stubbornness.
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  26. 2035: NASA sells their naming rights, resulting in the Disney Universal Management Air &Space Systems (DUMASS) launching the Red Bull rocket lifting the J. Crew crew vehicle on the M&M/Mars Mars mission.
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  27. To me, the most frustrating thing about the Three MIle Island incident is how it has created generations of "The sky is falling!" panic about nuclear power. There have been fewer deaths from nuclear power, worldwide, than in too many single dam failures, some chemical plant leaks, and many ferry sinkings. The deaths from nuclear power are not even a speck of dust on the graph of deaths from coal power generation.
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  28. I will go further. I propose that the wide and instant access to most information has greatly reduced how much people actually LEARN. Why memorize anything when it is a quick search away?
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  29. Robbins had no information that the cars were purportedly "undercover" cars until the police told him. And the linchpin of their harassment of Robbins was "We have had cars stolen from this lot." - Cars stolen from a police station lot. Well isn't that a great endorsement of their skills as police?
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  30. Nice touch having the globe reverse and spin backwards in the start.
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  31. The beatings will continue until morale improves!
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  32. Qualified Immunity and Civil Forfeiture need to be pulled out by the roots before the citizenry exercises the only remedy they will have left... Which will result in a heck of a body count.
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  33. People who use heavy equipment, particularly farm machinery, are also fighting this right to repair battle.
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  34. If you can feel the radio spectrum, you're standing WAY too close to a high-power transmitter.
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  35. And those wireless headphones are another couple of items with a finite lifespan in their non-replaceable batteries.
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  36.  @peoplez129  If your water boils in say, two minutes less on the induction top, and you are cooking the same pasta on both types of electric range, you get to the finish line called 'al dente' in fewer minutes. That is faster.
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  37.  @richspillman4191  Can you hear anyone else besides yourself in your information silo echo chamber?
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  38. Super or normal Walmart? Does it have a tire AND garden center?
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  39. "I can do this all day" - Captain Starship
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  40. The court telling Trump's lawyer where they could find an example of how to properly file their paperwork is a deep burn. At least a 2nd degree burn.
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  41. NYC retail space is priced such that only "Heroin Hut" and "Cocaine Co-op" could realistically pay the LISTED rents.
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  42. I have known the balloon and ping pong ball reasons for decades, but this is the first time I've seen the proof demonstrated with a practical experiment instead of just the math and diagrams. Thanks, Mark!
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  43. If you teach someone to lie in the execution of their job, they will lie, and start to normalize lying. This can bleed over into other aspects of their job (paperwork, testimony) and their everyday life. The lies continue into the courts. 'Take the guilty plea, it's easier and won't mess with you for the rest of your life." - How about instead of teaching them to lie, you teach them the law?
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  44. So luxurious that they have a swimming pool* with broken and missing tiles! Oh, and a sauna with mildew! - *Swimming pool about the size of three standard American bathtubs.
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  45. "Sorry lady, you forgot to "opt-out" for this assault scenario."
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  46. The answer to the medical device makers' "What if they repair it improperly?" They won't if the repair technicians have unfettered access to the parts, diagrams and schematics. And it is not even your liability if they screw up, so try a different lie.
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  47. Soon we will have to rename the ISS to the "A Few Nations Space Station"
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  48. I grew up in the years BEFORE Roe v Wade, when abortions were often something done on the sly, at night, in underequipped offices, sometimes by undertrained/untrained providers, and far too often resulted in the death of the woman. It was the era of dark humor about back alleys and wire coathangers. - Sad to see that we're returning to that dark reality.
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  49. I noticed this problem, without being able to fully articulate it, when they "remade" the movie Red Dawn.
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  50. I find it fantastic that AMSAT failed itself to a functional status. It is the kind of event that a fiction writer would likely not have imagined before it happened.
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  51. Just like the Flat Earth movement around the globe.
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  52. So regarding your microphone... You're using an H1N? During COVID19? You're playing with fire, son!
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  53. And that wasn't a market in the courtyard, it was a reception for the family of the singing prince's betrothed.
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  54. When someone asks your race, respond, "Human."
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  55. Sounds like Shoigu learned "enemy losses" counting from Hamas.
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  56. It would make siphoning fuel off of someone else's spacecraft easier. I just realized that what I typed could be a plan for a crime...
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  57. Who needs moat monsters when you have moat biomes!
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  58. This situation is a defense lawyer's DREAM for any case involving this department. D.A. "I enter into evidence the murder weapon..." Defense "Objection. The chain of custody for evidence at this department is demonstrably suspect. I move for immediate vacation of charges."
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  59. Don't listen to Omar, that was awesome!
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  60. This brings to mind a video I once saw about explosive welding. When the threads of the breech were that tight, I began to wonder if they were being pulled/stripped. When the casing would not eject without vice grips and extreme effort, I wanted a camera look down the breech to see if it was becoming brass-colored like the inside of the breech cap.
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  61. She straight out said she left the House for the Senate because she wanted to use the filibuster against the "children" in the House instead of having it used against her. She is in it for the power.
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  62. And yet the law makes it illegal to protect your clearly labeled private property, with fences, locks and/or window gates, with lethal booby traps, because it's not "fair" to harm someone to "only protect stuff".
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  63. If Johnson's answers are truthful, then repeating them under oath ought not to be a problem.
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  64. I laughed like a fool after reading your comment. Thanks for the endorphins!
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  65.  @4TheRecord  The only viable defense for a law like that is the cost of challenging it. Keeping in mind part of the penalties for violating this proposed law is being unable to benefit from public assistance for three months, this is a move aimed straight at the poor.
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  66. The ONLY way the vehicle owner could, in my mind, be at all culpable is if the vehicle was statutorily unsafe when it was dropped off. This case seems like a damned fishing expedition, and the plaintiff's lawyer is looking for everyone the law will allow them to sue who might have money. - Michigan law is morally and rationally wrong on this matter.
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  67. When I worked at an equipment rental business, after every rental, sometimes as little as 2 hours of actual use, we used air to blow out the primary air filter, checked and topped fluids, and greased every grease point. Then hosed down the whole machine. At the price of those machines, you don't whine about the time it takes or the grease you use.
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  68.  @AcmeRacing  "Both hands up in the air! Turn off the car!" How shall he turn off the car, with fracking telekinesis?
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  69. Oh absolutely. Our legal system, most particularly on the civil side, is BUILT to favor the deepest pockets.
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  70. Charlie in the happy hoodie and the bubble: "Charlie to Mission Control, now entering enemy territory. Asteroids and bathing dead ahead. Tell my owner they need to sleep with one eye open after this." - 'Affirmative, Charlie. Meowspeed, Mission Control out."
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  71. I've seen it said by others: Flak is heaviest when you're over the target.
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  72. In Boy Scouts, we learned it as, "Take only pictures, leave only footprints."
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  73. I have had my second shot of the vaccine, and I still embrace mask wearing, isolation, and distancing. As an introverted hermit, this is my groove.
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  74. If all of those House Republicans don't want to show up for work, they can and should quit. Make room for someone who WILL do the job of representing the people of the country.
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  75. That missing T-handle is like the ever-missing 10mm socket lacking from every toolbox in the world within three weeks of buying them. Somewhere there is an alternate dimension where 10mm sockets are living in sin with all of the socks that go missing from the dryer.
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  76. It's all fine. This will only impact "a small number of users." - Tim Cook, probably
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  77. Zillow buying houses while running a real estate listing site is, to me, like if iTunes was copying top songs and artists to take market share while running a music player service. (not that iTunes is doing that, I hope!)
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  78. The best passengers for an experimental space trip around the moon would be flat-Earthers. Mission works? They come back with proof they were wrong (though they may deny it to keep the money coming in). Mission fails? We're down a few flat-Earthers.
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  79. Same here.
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  80. It's less that the actual notices looks like a scam than that the scams deliberately look like the actual notices.
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  81. Not even the National Guard or Reserve would wait two years after a deployment to do a gear inventory. But sure, let's hear this guy whine.
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  82. Someone once told me that drink, 'sex on the beach' is called a 'family reunion' in Alabama.
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  83. 5:45 - Apparently this cammer has NEVER been lost on a poorly marked country road. Must be bleeping nice. - You know, about half of these are the cammer being aggressive and a jerk. The other half are useful footage for determining fault in an accident/incident.
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  84. This was almost as awesome as that story of the catalytic thief who jacked up a vehicle to get under it, only to have the jack fail and the vehicle kill them.
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  85.  @alexb7641  Divorcing/divorce adults use their kids against each other all the time. No psychological conditions required in the children.
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  86. Ah yes. The mugger agrees to keep your wallet if you drop the charges.
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  87.  @roadking99jokerst60  Wait. Vanessa stymied by a Van Ness carrier? How palindromic!!!
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  88. The water in the tub was DIRTY after Charlie's wash. Poor old guy.
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  89. I could have a snugly fitting pair of leather gloves, get them wet, let them dry, and then be unable to put them on again if you let me wear latex gloves, spread my fingers wide, and shrug with an idiotic grin.
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  90. Wait. The guy from Malta, funding and heading up on A SpaceX mission over the poles... Does that make the mission a Maltese Falcon?
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  91.  @lobsterminion693  A thousand years is ten centuries. A million years is ten thousand centuries. OP's statement still applies.
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  92. Pfft sounds a lot like a science version of Pascal's Wager. I choose to live life as if it didn't matter to me.
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  93.  @wesleyoldham4222  That brings to mind a scene from the movie Stripes where they are meeting with the Army recruiter. Recruiter: Now, are either of you homosexuals? John Winger: You mean like flaming? Or part time? Recruiter: Well, it's a question we have to ask of all our new recruits. Russell Ziskey: No, we're not homosexual, but we are willing to learn.
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  94. I saw that one too. Police have a tendency to tell their side of the story to put themselves in the best light, and the people they interact with in the jail cell or the morgue. And news corporations have gotten lazy with real journalism, making the practice an endangered occupation.
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  95. I like the way you think.
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  96. Sometimes it takes a village!
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  97.  @elijahtiemens5532  Hard to even MAKE poo when you don't have food.
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  98. At the phrase "Scottish debt team" my brain dredged up the Monty Python skit and the phrase "We're here for your liver."
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  99. The GQP is heading for serious Alt-Riot territory.
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  100. And we have a philosopher's stone! - What about the three million dead people in the pile behind you? PHILOSOPHER'S STONE!!!
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  101. Innocent people don't SEEK pardons and immunity. Guilty people do.
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  102. And she won top accolades for cats here. "Please come again"
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  103. That's not stale, that's "flavored".
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  104. I really never thought about the "hunting for a dark object in a black tool bag" problem before. I have, several times, ended up dumping out a tool bag to find something, and now I can never NOT think about the frustration of that.
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  105.  @omarm-510  I remember going to flea markets in the 1990's and seeing those table full of all the small (pocketable) things sold in retail pharmacies. Like I would buy a bottle of Tylenol that has been sitting out in the sun for six hours, with an expiration date about two weeks away...
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  106. The two group symbols at around 1:05 are really well designed. Easily identifiable, simple to draw, bold, distinctive, not too complicated, no words or animals in the image... I respect their branding departments.
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  107. U.S.S. Shaw: "The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated, and I think I'll join in for the whole game if you don't mind." - This series is very interesting and educational. So much attention is paid to the warfighting, but none of it would have been possible without the massive efforts of ship builders, fitters and repair crews.
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  108. Or a challenge where they both get a Simone Gertz "One Piece Missing" plain white jigsaw puzzle.
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  109. Better start carrying your "papers" every time you leave the house so you don't get sent to a Gulag in some country you have never been to in your life. (edited for a spelling error)
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  110.  @callummcneill6266  It was a meltdown, not a bomb.
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  111. Have you ever seen the clip of the dog who drags his lifeless rear legs over to tourists to get free food, then stands up and runs off on four healthy legs to eat somewhere else?
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  112. If that was "by the book", then they need to get a better book.
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  113. I am now imagining when the police were called in by some Karen. - "Officer, is this a bust?" "Yes, and it's magnificent, but you have to cover it with a shirt."
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  114. That is always the top example in my mind of "drama-hacking" - Conversely, the best anti-hacking I have ever seen was in an episode of the show The Sentinel (1996-1999, starring Richard Burgi) where the "brainy" character was trying to stop a murder victim's computer from being remotely erased by a remote user - hammering away at the keys, shouting and sweating, and the main character unplugged the ethernet cable and just stared at the "brainy" character.
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  115. 11:00 - I see a pawn shop that should be having some "special" police attention!
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  116. If you have one of these "perpetuity" timeshares, do your family a favor and change your will, granting the timeshare to the family of the salesperson who got you into the damned thing in the first place.
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  117.  @merlyworm  I also love when Calvin's dad explains how the maximum weight for bridges is determined. And then Calvin's mom says something like, "If you don't know, just say so!"
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  118. Well, the police won't do anything, because there's no revenue in it for the department. Much more important to issue parking tickets, window tint tickets, speeding tickets, tickets, tickets, tickets... Oh, and let us not forget civil asset forfeiture!
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  119. I really get what you are talking about. The last car I bought (unlike the first, ouch!) I looked up Blue Book values and trending sale prices for that year and model, I looked at my finances and arrived at a hard ceiling for how much I would pay. The first offer, as always, was too high, but I ended up a thousand under my top number, even after figuring in taxes and fees. Because I had discipline. And I was able to convince the salesman I was willing and able to just walk away (even though I REALLY needed a car in short order).
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  120.  @willc5512  Yet another reason to have front & rear dashcams.
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  121. Have you seen the ones that slowly color shift? Wow! The future is cool.
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  122. "Rules for thee, not for me" in effect.
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  123. What kind of monster are you to expect that police do their damn job?
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  124. "Objection your honor, this evidence will RUIN my case!"
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  125. Note for viewers after me. The hours meter is total machine (engine operation) hours. There is no way to say that the city actually USED the machine. You can add up hours on that counter by just idling the machine in place, and even brand new it had to have a couple of hours on it from post-assembly testing, much like a brand new off-the-train car has a a very few (usually less than 5) miles on it already. - A good follow-up would be to see if whomever bought the "obsolete" model is getting more use out of it. Hint: I bet they are.
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  126. "After the crash, an insurance adjuster earned enough money on the job to their family for the week, the auto body shop had a week of work for three employees, and the parts manufacturers contributed to their various local economies with jobs and those employees spending money locally."
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  127. I am morbidly obese from a combination of medications, low-cost food choices, asthma/COPD, and numerous health issues contributing to a sedentary lifestyle. I am very anti-fat culture. I don't WANT to be fat. I find people at an unhealthy weight, high or low, unattractive. I try to not be fat, and I know I can do more, but it is a constant fight. One worth fighting.
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  128. It's almost like nature was here before we started laying out property lines... Weird.
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  129. In public view, from public property, the freedom of the press in the First Amendment takes precedence.
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  130.  @tydshiin5783  Imagine if they presented the facts and gave owners a choice? - "Your battery is getting old. If we slow down the machine, it will extend the life of that battery. Do you accept this slowdown? [Y/N]* * This decision can be changed at will in the settings menu. - Wouldn't that be fantastic?
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  131.  @Trump_2024_USA  Did you entirely miss when the membership of the UN laughed at his statements? Not jokes, his actual position statements.
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  132. I'm not a border collie, and I also don't like the noise of a blow dryer. Though I don't usually bite.
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  133.  @jjww30  No, the citizens just weren't CHEAP enough.
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  134. Even if this WAS true, Amazon is still selling products. If the accusation was true, they're selling even MORE products than they would without the "cheating".
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  135.  @rossmanngroup  "Never accept the premise of assholes." - Louis Rossmann, I believe.
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  136. Also all internet traffic from the FBI, CIA, NSA, EPA, ATF, BPS, Homeland Security, the five branches of the military, corporate communications, political committee communications...
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  137. Imagine for a moment if parents got involved in teaching their children how to be safe online and kept the youngest children OFFLINE until they have enough self-awareness to follow good advice? There is no damned good reason for pre-teens to be using social media. I can barely see a need for pre-teens to have cell phones, but if a parent feels they do need one, get them a phone that makes calls and that's it. And check their use regularly.
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  138. And the ATF goes into nervous sweats.
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  139. I had a vet who improved an overweight cat she adopted by changing to a low-calorie diet, and making the cat change floors in the house to get to the food. She got him down to the neighborhood of healthy weight in about a year.
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  140. Finally, after more than fifty years on this planet, someone clearly explains why polarized plugs exist, and what the benefits are. - "The toads over at NEMA..." had me laughing way more than it should have.
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  141. Hey, at least is not Lonestar 911. That is a crap show written by a team of brain donors who "saw a fire truck that one time".
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  142. This thing, if built, would have changed the fight against the Gamalons.
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  143. A very cat-like dog in some ways.
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  144. And how much would that bridge indicator light have cost? Some relays, some wire, a couple of lights, and a few days of work. - Even cheaper, a change in procedure requiring a positive report from the crewperson responsible via radio.
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  145. Too funny!
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  146.  @Recovering_Californian  How dare you criticize Ponzi Construction, LLC??? (sarcasm)
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  147. I remember when ads would play automatically... WITH ABSOLUTELY BLASTING AUDIO That was the fastest way to get people to stop using a website, in my opinion.
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  148. Sweet.
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  149. What about the hardcase labeled DRUGS that contains a bottle of Tylenol?
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  150. You are wrong-thinking. Please remain where you are and the ministry will be with you soon. This is absolutely NOT a message from the control chip in my brain... (help me!)
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  151. If the Colonel is presenting himself as an "expert" he really should have kept up continuing education on his topic of expertise.
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  152. City: "Pay these fines or lose the house!" Heirs: "Okay, take the house." City: "Um, that's not how it's supposed to work..."
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  153. The letter used "please" a lot and not "You are ordered to..." Also, the letter was not a summons or subpoena. You are right that this is subtle threats, kind of like, "Nice shop you got here. Be a shame if something happened to it."
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  154. That email reads VERY mafia. "It would be a shame if something happened to this nice stuff you have."
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  155.  @BernardLS  Keep in mind that the Panama canal has added larger locks and deepened/widened the navigational channels to allow transit of the larger "Post-Panamax" cargo ships. The new lock chambers are 180 ft (54.86 m) wide, 1,400 ft (426.72 m) long, and 60 ft (18.29 m) deep. - Also, the numbers I found for the pre-expansion locks list them as 110 ft (33.53 m) wide and 1,050 ft (320.04 m) long, and 41.2 ft (12.56 m) deep. Which are not too far off the numbers you listed, in all fairness.
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  156. There are people who train to write leading surveys like that. Imagine trying to explain how your job is to skew opinion polls for the enrichment of major corporations and politicians...
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  157.  @joebot86  I recently watched an Al Bladez video (he does free "wild yard" cuts). A neighbor who had talked to him and his coworker, was TOLD what they were doing, then called the cops on them for "looking sketchy".
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  158.  @Our-Creator-Loves-Us  Please keep your cult to yourself.
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  159.  @Boss_Tanaka  Bad habits, even when only exercised for 56 seconds, are still bad habits.
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  160.  @johnquartarone6671  The beatings will continue until morale improves!
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  161. I also like "South Tibet".
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  162. Zeus: "Can we go back to the food place? Sure, they make you wet and then dry you again, but the snacks never end!"
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  163. I got the "We'll have to send the police to your address unless..." call, and I said, "Go ahead." More shouting, cursing, the Indian accent of "Agent Johnson" got thicker and thicker...
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  164.  @nikopack7571  The iron skillet won't take dents or chips like a counter surface or wooden table might? Also, should a battery break and leak, it's easier to fully clean a pan than your whole kitchen.
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  165. As a person who uses feet on ice and snow-covered stairs, they are a thing to be avoided if possible.
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  166. I also love the Firefly reference in the video title.
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  167.  @volvo09  Right? I like to buy frozen turkeys right after Thanksgiving and Christmas when the prices come down so the stores can clear their inventory. Frozen, they keep long enough I can have turkey and turkey sandwiches and turkey soup sometimes into February.
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  168. Why the HELL do law enforcement get to have THEIR faces blurred in released body-cam footage, but not the minor child? Or right, to protect the guilty.
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  169. Seems like 'tractors as a service' is as popular with farmers as 'games as a service' is with gamers. Best of luck, farmers!
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  170. "I promise, Darlene. Even though I have beaten you with a baseball bat every day of our marriage (and twice on Tuesdays), and have promised twelve times over the last three years I would stop beating you with a baseball bat to only continue to beat you with a baseball bat. Well, Darlene, I truly promise I mean it this time." - "Oh Apple, of COURSE I'll let you back in my life!"
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  171. My biggest beef with most recent documentaries is the pattern established around commercial breaks where, just before the break they tease "Coming next" and after the break they use 3-5 of the next 11:30 to recap what we just saw in the previous 11:30 segment. - I call it "fluffing for time" and it really irks me.
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  172. It was down to shame. As in, "It would be a shame to have all these military-grade toys and not use them."
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  173. I was in the Army National Guard for 7 years, and it is not MY fault, or to my credit, that the US was not in a major shooting war during that time (1985-92) that would result in my unit being nationalized. We helped shovel snow after a blizzard once, so there was that.
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  174. THis is the truth. And Louis' pro-lobbying explanation actually reinforces this point. When it was Louis and his camcorder, buying his own plane tickets, he couldn't make much change. Now that he has access to a big pile of money, he can hire people to get access he could only dream about before. - So more money equals more access. In Louis' case, what he is advocating for is supported by the majority of non-politicians, and not evil. Yet.
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  175. If Future Motion had not thrown a truckload of lawyers at JW Batteries, I imagine there would be a lot of OneWheel riders unaware of the battery options. I just watched Leonard French's video on the most recent lawsuit... Future Motion is really good at shooting themselves in the face.
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  176. Now I'm interested in knowing if Donnie's Secret Service would stop the legal actions of a bail bondsman coming for him.
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  177.  @masterskrain2630  "We're sinking!" - "Oh wait, just a leaky steam pipe."
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  178. Her non-apology was her essentially saying she is too stupid to tell facts from lunacy. She expressed NO remorse, deflected, shifted blame, and used such passive language, Buddhists started to look like war-mongers. - Before watching this video, I watched Anderson Cooper's scathing takedown of this same topic.
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  179. If it's more than once in a lifetime for these "once in a lifetime" events, either the reports are wrong, or they expected more suicides the last time.
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  180. I can't even drive this winter. I didn't get the "season pass".
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  181. Virtual Credit Cards are the way to go. There are many companies running these services. You create a virtual credit card to pay a specific repeating bill, and when you want to discontinue that subscription, and they make it hard to cancel, you can just delete the card. Boom, they get no more money from you.
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  182. Jefferson's tree of liberty is looking parched...
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  183. If a local barber offered cookies, I might stop cutting my own hair.
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  184. The only thing I was trained on regarding jamming (as an E-3 mortarman) was to NEVER mention jamming on the radio, as that could let the adversary know their efforts were working.
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  185.  @Polavianus  A parkway is another name for a highway. And a highway often has smaller roads cross above it, making the highway the low way in those locations.
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  186.  @jajssblue  Helicopters beat the air into submission.
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  187. Lenovo is just mad that they can't sell poorly made refrigerators. So they have to find another way to get one-up on LG.
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  188.  @frankn356  Nah, the main character (a Pacific Islander/Inuit) will fall for a half-panda Timorese refugee who is fleeing an abusive arranged fiancé who is an oil company CEO.
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  189. You can't deflect greed, mismanagement, and overspending entirely onto "low voter turnout" . It's greed, mismanagement, and overspending. - Has the value of public services increased 500% in that same period? I bet if you adjust for inflation, you'll find that the price of a firefighter or police officer has not gone up 500%. Where is the money going, eh?
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  190.  @piotrd.4850  Yep. "Easy to maintain" happens when it goes from "three-hour job to replace a sensor" to "pull out the 120-kilogram module, plug in a new 120-kilogram module, send broken module back to Yoyodyne.
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  191. Interesting point: If someone flips a single vehicle, their buyer has no Lemon Law protection in most states. If the flipper sells enough cars that they trigger lemon law protections, they also have to become a licensed car seller. At least, that's how it works in Massachusetts.
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  192.  @Snotnarok  Air Pods: $250. Raycons: $90-120. Samsung's earbuds: $155. - Wired earbuds: $10-25 (though you can pay a LOT more if you really want to) - The decision is simple.
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  193. Nothing penetrates and lingers quite like the decomposition of animal material (bodies OR poo).
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  194. The lingering question: How much is a Hems worth?
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  195. I saw this a couple of days ago with a friend who said, "This is supposed to be the Marvel movie that most closely follows the comics!" So after seeing it, I went home and perused the internet to find out, nah. Not even close. In the comics, none of the Eternals are one-power beings, but instead have a suite of powers all in common to include strength, high resilience to damage, FLIGHT, and teleportation (though some were apparently better at teleporting than others). Then they each had an extra 'something' that they were either alone in, or at least FAR better with than the others. - Also, they weren't robots or manufactured beings, but humans evolved by the Celestials, much like the Inhumans were. And, Druig was the bad guy Eternal in the comics. - So, the movie Eternals could hardly be farther from the comics' Eternals if the writers tried. - I agree with CD. WAY too many brand new characters. We could have done without Gilgamesh and Thena, and the speedster whose name I can never remember, as well as Kango. Side note, does it bother ANYONE that the character Kango is portrayed as a major influence in Indian culture, acts in generations of Bollywood films, and is played by a Pakistani comedian/actor? Don't get me wrong, I like Kumail Nanjiani as an actor and a comedian. I can only assume the role was written that way because either the writers knew nothing about Pakistani culture, and/or we the audience are expected to know nothing about Pakistani culture.
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  196.  @Metallica4Life1995  On the coldest days I have seriously contemplated putting my window AC units back in, but backwards after fiddling with the thermostat. Then I put on a sweater and sit in the fluffy recliner with a book.
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  197.  @youtubestudiosucks978  I think you missed something in your reading of the two comments before yours.
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  198.  @kcoker9189  And doesn't deserve to live long enough to even get close to elderly.
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  199. And Ticketmaster BECAME the scalpers. Nice job putting the wolves in charge of lamb protection.
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  200. I'm still enjoying the fact that there is at least one US reporter who will stand up to their interviewee.
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  201. That gave me a chuckle.
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  202. That is the loudest road cone I've ever heard!
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  203. "We won by following the same rules everyone else had access to, but we had a better idea and/or more money." - "They are cheating by following the rules! We demand they be unfairly penalized AND that the rules change for next time!!!"
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  204.  @shirleyannconfer9651  I've never seen a cat much impressed by a dog until it was time to steal warmth for a nap.
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  205. I was lost, even after seeing Steve Mould's video on sails first, right up until the "If the earth was a cylinder... two sailboats" simplification. Then my brain exploded in a happy way.
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  206. The escape velocity explanation just increased my understanding of the topic about 20-40%. And I have a B.S. in Physics and have been reading and learning about cosmology for a few decades. This alone makes the time spent watching worth more than I can tally.
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  207. I had all of this hair EXACTLY where I wanted it, and you messed it up!
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  208.  @dmurray2978  Wow. The determined ignorance is stunning.
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  209. As a fan of the Lock Picking Lawyer channel, I have no faith in any bike lock versus a determined thief.
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  210. I have never had a car stereo loud enough to make seeing the flashing lights impossible.
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  211. And then we have the "schools" from the anime Girls und Panzer that make modern aircraft carriers look like lifeboats.
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  212. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse!* (*Unless you are a police officer, prosecutor, or judge)
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  213. One impeachment, two removals of threats to democracy. What a bargain!
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  214. This must be a serious topic, it's a two-cat video!
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  215. I'm with the Eagle here on literally. I am literally disgusted with how communication is constantly being eroded by lazy use. Perhaps this could be solved with some old-school decimation.
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  216. Hmm... I don't see "landlording" on the essential businesses listing. So by my dubious logic, the landlords cannot charge money for their "owning where you live and work" activities. Q.E.D. rent-free quarantine!
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  217. The more he knows he is being caught in lies and mis-directions, the louder he gets. That is the debate tactic of a child.
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  218. @C The heck with the money. He seems happy with his work, and can afford to share his expertise with us without groveling for corporate sponsors.
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  219. Dave has been doing a good job keeping Ray from working 10-14-hour days, and often with just a quiet look.
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  220. And as the interview goes on, he drifts more and more into "angry old man who hates this newfangled stuff!" mode.
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  221.  @kosztaz87  YouTube COULD have gone after that problem, but chose instead to hide the thumbs-down counter "to combat negativity". Way to lazy out for the low hanging fruit.
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  222. Look up how much of the dust in our lives is dead skin cells. (shiver)
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  223. Remember, right to repair doesn't mean you have to be an expert at repair, just that you should have the right to TRY.
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  224. All serious scientists I have heard talk about this have stressed the same things: wash your hands, don't touch your face, keep a 4'+ distance from other people in social situations (that you don't live with), and N95 masks will NOT protect you from a 3micron virus.
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  225. On of the funniest car pranks I've seen was where someone zip-tied a cheap harmonica under someone's front bumper, just out of easy sight.
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  226. And don't stick your thing in crazy.
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  227.  @paulhart7739  Fear in such a situation is normal. A human without fear in that position is a sociopath. Proceeding in the face of that fear is the calling for our protectors. Any cop who was unable to do so needs to quit being a cop.
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  228. I almost completed my "lame corporate excuse" bingo card from the hospital's public statement. "Terminated the employees involved", "additional training", and "we apologize" I was missing an "unable to comment on ongoing lawsuit" and "mistakes were made" or other passive language to get a filled line.
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  229. The possible backfire I see from this kind of protectionism of ancient art is that if the "owners" lock them up tight enough, people will stop caring and seeking out a view of that art and it will fade from public awareness, reducing the cultural and financial value of the art.
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  230. This reminds me of people who buy a house under the flight path of an airport and then sue the airport for all the planes making noise.
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  231. Thanks for the snorting laughter!
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  232. At this point, I would be hesitant to sit in a lawn chair built by Boeing.
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  233. If due process is no longer necessary, then I declare that Donald Trump is no longer US President, and must be secured in a maximum security federal penitentiary. Or an El Salvadoran prison.
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  234. Saying Collins has in-house experience from the Appollo suits makes it sound like they have a pool of 80-100-year-old engineers standing by from the last time they created suits.
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  235. @CatandBonez Take your political delusions out of this discussion. This is about greed and unrestrained capitalism.
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  236. I would also reference the scene in ST: TNG Redemption II [Data has been assigned to command the USS Sutherland] Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: Excuse me, sir. I'd like to request a transfer. Lt. Commander Data: May I ask why? Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: I don't believe I'd be a good first officer for you. Lt. Commander Data: Your service record to date suggests you would perform that function adequately. Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: No, no, no, that's not what I mean. I don't think I'd be a good first officer for *you*. Lt. Commander Data: Why? Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: Frankly, sir, I don't believe in your ability to command this ship. You're a fellow officer and I respect that, but... no one would suggest that a Klingon would be a good ship's counselor or that a Berellian could be an engineer; they're just not suited for those positions. By the same token, I don't... think an android is a good choice to be captain. Lt. Commander Data: I understand your concerns. Request denied.
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  237. This whole cryptocurrency "thing" makes me kind of yearn for a worldwide EMP.
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  238. Sadly, I can fully believe that.
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  239. Now this is where I see a conflation with groomers (the business) with groomers (The people doing the work). The few times I have had to have my cat shaved (his hair grows in corkscrew shapes and he tangles by breathing) I have met the PERSON doing the grooming, and even though she is skilled, she greatly prefers cat owners be present for the process. - If I walked in and saw that my appointment was with someone who was new, was doubtful about grooming cats, and/or seemed uncomfortable around animals, I would likely cancel my appointment.
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  240.  @ferninthehouse  The water fountain I have is almost completely silent (Veken). The sound of the water is louder than the tiny submerged pump. I found out about my cat's love of the fountain when my brother housed him for a week while I was in the hospital (minor medicine interaction issue). Also, as he is getting older, the water surface being about 5-6 inches higher helps him out. The only thing to remember is to check and replace the carbon filter periodically.
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  241.  @ChesterChi3  They're friends with Xenia Onatopp, yes?
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  242. "Someone, somewhere inside the Van Allen belts is a guilty person. Please sign this wide-open fishing warrant, your honor."
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  243.  @Dave_Sisson  The Cabbage Class operates under only one law! Cole's Law!
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  244. The more time passes, the harder it is to avoid breaking copyright law as it is in the United States. The problem is not so much us, it is mostly copyright law and how overarching and wide-reaching it keeps getting.
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  245.  @Dave-ty2qp  I am an American, and I like mayo (actually Miracle Whip) on burgers. The metric system is superior. Ad-volorem tax I had to look up, but it is basically how property taxes work in the US, though the assessed value for tax purposes may not be the same as the market value.
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  246. Kissing the correct donor's butts.
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  247. You say magic, I say "sufficiently advanced technology, indistinguishable from magic".
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  248. See? They should have produced at least one wing of these to fly chase on the Tu-95 and out-loud them out of the air.
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  249. As difficult as it is to reach a person when you call the unemployment departments of states, they could solve two problems at once by hiring out-of-work people to answer calls.
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  250. Ooh, the population of the universe is an easy one. From: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe “It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.”
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  251. Does LA Fitness WANT another killdozer? Because this is how you get another killdozer!!!
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  252. But civil asset forfeiture is NOT about arresting anyone. It is about taking assets without even levying a charge or sometimes even writing a traffic ticket.
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  253. I have had many cats, and one of the things I most notice as they age, is that the hips are often the first part to get left off the bathing routine due to loss of energy or flexibility. This has taught me to get cats acclimated to full-body brushing from a younger age, so that when I become their primary fur-care specialist, they don't see it as an invasion.
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  254. I am white. That makes me a Person Of Color. My color happens to be white. Didn't choose it, can't change it, wouldn't even want to try. And my skin color is not equal to my value as a human being. Neither is anyone else's. So wake up, and improve your life or accept the blame.
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  255.  @MrMagnaniman  It has been AN honor to read your well written correction.
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  256. The way new tariffs are posted reminds me of how Douglas Adams wrote about how Arthur Dent's house was slated for demolition to build a bypass, and how he should have known, because the notice for the construction was clearly available in a file cabinet in some back store room in the third sub-basement of the country offices (or something like that) and it was too late to do anything about it by the time the bulldozers showed up. - It should be CRIMINAL to hide the effects of laws from those whom the laws affect.
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  257. This decision is another way of saying, "If you did the job right, instead of fast and easy, you would have gotten the evidence anyway, and it would still be valid in court."
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  258. When he re-opens his shop, find the address, send him two rolls of pennies.
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  259. After Louis read that guy's message(s) I wanted to wash off the slime from my ears.
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  260.  @internallyinteral  Meanwhile, new cars have a big touchscreen that requires you to look down and to the right while you're operating the vehicle.
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  261. "It's hip (replacement) to be square." - Huey Lewis and Yesterday's News
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  262. And never park on a parkway. You'll get ticketed and towed.
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  263.  @sorenzx1923  You are the kind of person who attacks someone for hating pancakes after they simply say they like waffles. Aren't you?
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  264. Don Jr SHOULD get a tiger. And tug its ears it as it sleeps. The rest will sort itself out.
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  265. If we don't have "show your papers" then what are the license, registration and logbook?
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  266. Thank you for the dose of humor in this buffet of bitterness and dismay.
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  267. That "easy to clean" is a HUGE bonus to induction ranges. You can clean and sanitize without having to take out the heating elements, drip pans (gross) and lift the top section to find the decade's worth of cooked-on grime from the last three tenants (shivers).
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  268. The worst part of the 'vacuum up the ashtray' is that the vacuum cleaner and then the rest of the house reek like an ashtray from then on every time you use the thing.
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  269. I would add that health, education, safety and a clean society ARE a financial return. People who are sick, dumb, in fear, and living in cultural and literal filth cost money to heal and protect and aren't contributing to the wealth and prominence of the nation or it's businesses.
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  270. If you encounter a sovereign citizen, remind them that since they are claiming to be separate from American law, you will, instead of calling the police, call the US military to get them dealt with as a foreign entity.
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  271. Remember when we used to ask, "Why can't Johnny read?" Now we have to ask, 'Why can't Sanji's bot write?"
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  272. But they still kept the vehicle, didn't they. Even when we-the-people win, we lose.
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  273. "Nothing on one, click on two..."
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  274. But Louis, there IS a way to make the entire Macbook liquid resistant. You simply close the lid, unplug the charging cord, and shrink-wrap the computer in two or three layers of plastic. Some will point out that this makes it impossible to use the Macbook, but I call that a feature.
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  275.  @michaelsixty-five2724  Likely so, but the chain is as "trespassing" as the hunters supposedly were.
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  276. Old and pissed off are a potent combination!
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  277. Non-refundable pre-orders for vapor-ware. Yeah. Anyone giving them money needs a mental health check.
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  278.  @justsomeoldyoutuber6093  Who put cheese in YOUR coffee?
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  279. Astounding when a town goes full HOA. Don't go full HOA.
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  280. This is why dropping charges or opting not to bring someone to trial is not even close to enough. The charges MUST be erased/vacated/expunged in cases like this.
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  281.  @boyankovachev7982  I say let the man cut, or not cut, his hair as he wishes. I'm not here for the hair, I'm here for the science.
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  282. When it comes to the question of whether we are real or a simulation, the correct answer is, "Does it matter?"
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  283.  @kyrenthang8633  VERY important if using scissors: do NOT cut parallel to the skin, but slide one blade of the scissors (one scissor?) between the skin and the mat and only cut with care to not trap skin in the cut. I made the mistake once with one cat, and he never got within arm's reach of me while I had scissors again.
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  284. That "homeless" person in the news article's picture has some rather clean and un-creased clothing. Looks a lot like an exhausted college student also working a part time job to try and avoid starvation while getting an education in NYC.
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  285. I remember one where the homeowner's ONE request was that they not paint her upright piano. The designer started painting the piano, the neighbors tried to stop her, and she just kept painting, assuring them that "She'll love it." She didn't love it, the neighbors apologized, and I think the show paid for restoration.
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  286. There is a short clip where Chris Hadfield (Canadian Astronaut) shakes a can of Coke and immediately opens it... and nothing happens because he and some others were in a high-pressure underwater structure.
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  287.  @stuiesmb  Why not? It's much the same mentality. "I control you and there's nothing you can do about it."
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  288.  @n27272  Or warm info...
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  289.  @flavf2494  I was actually asked about my vaccine card for the first time, just today... When I got my booster, and the nurse wanted the card to add the data about the third shot to the card for me.
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  290. A typical diagnostic test drive is: 1) Done by the mechanic, as they need to know what is going on with the vehicle to begin diagnosing it. 2) Typically 1-3 miles, depending on the roads in the area, which is often enough to experience running, braking, acceleration, shifting (auto or manual) and feeling is the vehicle wanders/drags/shimmies/or otherwise makes unusual noises or vibrations. - There might be a mid and post repair drive as well. If they put more than 15 miles on for a big repair without a good explanation, that should be the last time they see you, your vehicle, and your money
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  291. If they were at the right house, the number of failed battering ram strikes it too to get in would have their real target awake and either fleeing or ready to fire at them.
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  292. So if your family was party-split, you got TWO big meals (followed by naps and a movie)? Makes me a little jealous.
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  293.  @davefletch3063  That is an easy thing to say when you're not the one who will have to find another job or risk homelessness and starvation.
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  294. "We here at Fox are sick and tired of talking about Taylor Swift. Now on to our segment where our hosts talk about Taylor Swift for half an hour."
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  295. I never would have thought of that one pixel description, but yeah, I can get why he kept the eye, even with the pain.
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  296. As far as Australia's smoking laws? I'm a fan.
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  297. It is so great to Desi without the mad glazed eyes and racial twitches that come from watching hours of Fox news for our benefit!
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  298. Oh my gosh, after seeing this I can't fathom why police nationwide are experiencing more violence against them. It's a real head scratcher, isn't it?
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  299. I rather like the modern interpretation of sacrificing virgins. We called it dating. With benefits.
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  300. I get a kick out of the railway engines being basically a flat car with the front half of a farm tractor bolted to it. And they were smart enough to mount the engine transverse to avoid having to install a transfer gearcase to change the direction of drive by 90 degrees.
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  301.  @Washougalite1  Maybe if more than half of us file a protective order against him...
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  302. I have quit well-paying jobs for being miserable, and stuck with lower-paying ones where my co-workers helped make it a place I wanted to work. - One bad job in particular, I was managing a 24-hour retail store, with a shrinking roster of employees (legacy of the bad manager I replaced), and could not get more than TWO applications in the first two months that was completely filled out, readable, and had a real phone number. And one of those two applicants was in lockup when I called... for stealing from their last employer. The sum total of support in the matter from the corporation was the statement, "So take out an ad in the paper." like it was my responsibility to pay for ad space. I would do my 9-11 hour shift, drive the hour and a half home in time to get a phone call that the person covering the next shift had called out on a half-hour notice, or some other reason I would have to drive back and work another 4-10 hours so I could drive back home and get 2-4 hours of sleep to do it all again. One night, when the inevitable call came about the overnight clerk calling and quitting on an hour's notice, I was done having anxiety attacks from a ringing phone. So I talked the person at the store on how to close and lock up the 24-hour location and where to leave the key. I showed up the next morning, having gotten a whole six hours of sleep, to find the alarm had been going off for about two hours, the corporation had finally sent a regional supervisor who hand-waved that the store was going to close the overnights anyway in a week or two. He had three new employees he brought with him, and I gave my notice that afternoon. That supervisor actually looked surprised and asked me why I was quitting. So I told him. Two weeks later I slept for two days straight. Then I took a job for about 2/3 the money, fixed hours, and no on-call status.
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  303.  @nobodysbaby5048  I've heard that a Western Washington summer is the best 17 days in the whole country!
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  304. At this point, I'm beginning to think that Hayabusa is Japanese for "Unfortunately there was a problem, but..."
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  305. I've seen many pets whose owners hold the "he/she HATES being brushed" only to find the problem wis the wrong kind of brush or comb. I have five different brushes and combs for cats because different cats I've had over the years hated different tools, but were fine with one of the others.
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  306. Here's the problem with the first case. In the song, The Devil went "down" to Georgia, where "down" is used in the vernacular to mean 'Southward'. While this does somewhat narrow down the possible locations of The Devil's home address to be somewhere North of the state of Georgia (other clues in the song preclude it meaning the country of Georgia), it leaves a lot of possibilities. The case should have been postponed until The Devil could be located and properly served.
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  307. I don't see why it is so difficult. It's not like its rocket scie.... Oh.
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  308. Even if the case is dropped, the man has a murder arrest on his record. Forever.
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  309.  @tashiannaharp  Most sock sizes are kids sock sizes if they're willing to wear socks to their knees.
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  310.  @jimbeam-ru1my  Then you get a map and certificate of validity (or whatever it's called) from the surveying firm or the municipality, along with a name, signature and license number. CYA, y'all.
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  311. As to the what if about tobacco companies suing researchers, that exact thing DID happen to the scientist who first spoke up publicly about the dangers from lead in gasoline. Well, he was not exactly sued, but he was attacked endlessly by corporations using lead additives, and ejected from scientific organizations because of that pressure. His name was Clair Patterson, and his obsession has saved a lot of lives.
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  312.  @512TheWolf512  It's not really a subscription, it's more of a utility like electricity or water/sewer, even though ISPs have spent a LOT of money on politicians to make sure they are not treated as a utility under the law.
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  313. Too bad Mark couldn't enlist his backyard squirrels to help out.
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  314.  @thisismagacountry1318  But it IS a common typo on a QWERTY keyboard. Pedant.
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  315. The NERVE of that guy, driving a nice car with that skin tone! (This was sarcasm!) - F these cops. If you in their proximity and see them in medical distress, do your community a favor and keep walking.
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  316. And if you can't adopt, you can donate!
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  317. Your city fines for dandelions and grass height? That is WAY beyond sane. You, good human, have an HOA for a local government. I live in central Massachusetts, and if it wasn't for dandelions, some stretches of many a yard would not be green.
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  318. Honestly, everyone should just assume they are living under the conditions of a Miranda warning every moment of every day. Whether you can see the cop or not. Even your electronic communication, your random utterances around other people, your writings, your music choices, your shopping habits, where you happen to live, who your family and friends are... All of this and more can and will be used against you if it suits the people in power.
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  319.  @Sharonmplus  I've seen this Bend Over account comment in the most vile manner in other topics as well.
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  320. Nevada, from the front, looks like a pile of guns that accidentally floats.
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  321. Yeah, the ones that get mad when they find out they didn't steal some 'sick headphones, bro' make we and to get a chainsaw and do some massacres. If such WERE to happen to some enterprising porch pirates, my previous sentence was purely hypothetical. But I will giggle myself to a peaceful night's sleep.
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  322. Judges, prosecutors and jurists were safer from some mob defendants.
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  323.  @suzil7687  Exactly, even a line drawing of the carrier with the drawer open would be a huge help.
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  324. Yeah, keeping the deposit for no real justification is a typical slumlord move. I've had it happen to me twice. Once I was moved out the apartment by friends while I was in long-term hospitalization and never paid attention to the deposit. The second time, I knew there was some minor damage and I waited too long to demand an itemized list of charges to meet state law for being able to get the whole deposit back. Now, I know the laws, and how to keep landlords "honest".
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  325.  @chuckbrown5484  Protecting our rights is rarely a waste.
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  326. To borrow a bit from Kyle's video where he kissed a nuclear waste containment vessel, every breath we take includes the results of burning fossil fuels. THAT'S where that waste lives.
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  327. A number of years ago I saw a show about one the US carriers where they interviewed various crew members who were on their way to deploy for a (not their first) tour during the second US war in Iraq. One sailor interviewed was Muslim, and was devout. He also secured permission from his religious leader (Imam? sorry, not sure on that) so he could pray without needing to face Mecca and miss prayers during his duty shifts, all without incurring any religious penalties. - THAT is the kind of religious participation (if that is your thing) that makes sense in a military environment.
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  328. The KGB didn't die. It became American policing.
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  329. These outside insides are so well built, I keep expecting a Jackie Chan car chase to crash through them all.
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  330. None of this will improve until and unless either: 1) someone who cares about these issues can afford enough federal-level politicians and/or judges. 2) those federal-level politicians and/or judges are finally bitten in the rear by these practices and they get angry.
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  331. And you can also see why they are round. A round cover will never be able to fall into the hole, while a rectangular (square being a special case of rectangle-ness) could be turned in such a way as to fall into the hole it covers.
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  332. Destructive testing can be fun, as long as you're not in the blast/fire/fragment zone. edit: Oh, and not paying for everything.
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  333. Well, your plan either has the virus pretty much defeated, or you getting filthy rich. Either way, I hope your plan works out.
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  334. So we can add Miss Shilling's invention to such key items as filling the void in naval aviation fuel tanks with carbon dioxide and the folding entrenching tool in the museum of "Minor seeming things that made a HUGE difference to the war"
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  335. Pure genius!
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  336.  @lordmadmunki1918  But they would have to spend money to PROVE the tracker was not the proceeds of a crime. It wouldn't make much of a point for something as small as a tracker, but maybe if you could seize a police station?
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  337. On my apartment building, someone who was bothered by the self-closing door and too lazy to move the bucket of sand (for winter ice) four feet to hold the door open while they brought in groceries decided it would be better to rip the closing arms hardware out of the door. They are the loudest, floor-stomping-est, loud music playing-est neighbors I've ever had. They also litter in the parking lot a mere fifteen paces from the dumpster. - Thank you for being present during my anger management session.
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  338.  @Splarkszter  Another case of "Sign up for a gym membership via this website, but the cancel you must send a registered letter to the following address and include proof that you have move more than 50 miles away from any of our locations."
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  339. A rational version of this call would be to ask for confirmation about the identity of the cops present. "Operator, I have an officer J. Doe here, can you please confirm their badge number?"
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  340. Sounds about government standard to me.
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  341. More importantly, don't do business with Chase. They are the Comcast of banking.
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  342. There are a lot of people at the NTSB who are breathing a sigh of relief that the helicopter was unmanned. The commute would have been ludicrous!
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  343. This is both funny and thought provoking
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  344.  @KBRoller  "You should have chosen better parents when you were born."
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  345.  @jhoughjr1  And there are PLENTY of valid laws to enforce over blocking the street, impeding pedestrians, impeding commerce, damaging property...
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  346. I can remember when Time magazine was the gold standard for news magazines. Quality journalism is fading. Thank goodness we have talented amateurs online. The hard part is finding them amongst the legions of bad, biased, and banal.
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  347. YOU WILL OWNNOTHING AND BE HAPPY! *and the beatings will continue until morale improves...
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  348. Wow, what a slimy way to both increase business and the likelihood of getting broken kneecaps...
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  349. "We have investigated ourselves and ruled that we can do no wrong."
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  350. If this guy had access to a high-powered assault weapon, there may have been a lot fewer people stabbed. How's THAT for a dishonest spin on the event?
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  351. Love that impact barrier in front of your wall batteries. Very smart, as well as clean-looking.
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  352. Another equivalent is lowering infection numbers for a randomly selected illness by reducing testing.
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  353.  @xjustinjx  This is this company's/group's FIRST launch. Not their 50th, 100th, or whatever.
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  354. I wonder if Officer Jones had a way to tamper with that light's timing...
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  355. The common reward for good work is soul crushing levels of work.
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  356. When I was a kid, we had a Starcraft pop-up trailer. It was great, because it could be towed behind our family car, and it was essentially a more rainproof version of a tent with a tiny kitchen space (no bathroom on that model). With everything deployed for sleep, you could fit a LOT of people in there. I think it was listed to sleep 6-8. - If I were to get anything in Steve's discussed category of RV, a small pop-up camper would be my only choice.
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  357. It is possible that they used that fat wire for the example rework because it is more visible.
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  358. There has to be a lot of willful blindness going on. The moving in of the drilling equipment, the manpower, the concrete, hooking in utilities... Even the sound of the drilling. A LOT of people had to become incapable of using their eyes and ears and to feel the vibrations of the ground.
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  359.  @juleklemmer5647  Parkway, highway, motorway, freeway... All are names used for limited-access roadways. Limited-access means road with on and off-ramps, and without driveways. If they have level crossings (intersections) there will be few of them. - US road design is a varied subject and includes many very bad ideas codified as standards.
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  360. I remember growing up under rules. One of them was, "If you leave your toys/bikes laying out in the yard, I'll find them a better home."
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  361. $70 for an ambulance? Luxury! I saw the pre-coverage amount a 12 mile ambulance trip (in Massachusetts, US) was for me last year, and it was about 30 times your $70.
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  362. My beefs with the red light and speed cameras: - The citation is sent to the owner of the car, not necessarily the driver. - The false positives are still way too high for the technology to be the arbiter of law. - When you go to contest the citation, you cannot question the camera or the (often foreign, at least distant) company, employee or algorithm that processed the citation. - Some evidence has shown that yellow lights have been shortened to increase the number of red light citations. - The companies have a vested interest in matching the citations to a vehicle owner, so much so that there are many documented cases of people who have never been at that location are sent the citation, because some algorithm poorly matched the fuzzy data in the image to their car. - The entire idea is about profit, not enforcement or safety, as is claimed.
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  363. "Why did you spill water on your Macbook?" - "Why didn't you make my Macbook water resistant?"
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  364. For me, he is the "But sometimes!" traffic light guy.
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  365. a.k.a. Stand up for yourself. That is one of the keys to getting good health care.
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  366. Kyle Hill did a video about a nuclear waste site. He stood touching a cask, Geiger counter in hand... nothing. Then he asked, "And where is the pollution from coal?" then he inhaled and exhaled loudly, then stared at the camera until the credits rolled.
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  367. It seems like the fight choreographer was allergic to having guns fire right-side-up or have melee attacks NOT have useless spinning. I don't know if the herky-jerky fight scenes are your edits to avoid copyright strikes or the film's editor(s) trying to make things more "actioney". I suspect the latter to be true.
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  368. When I worked in RMA electronics repair, I learned it was VERY important to keep the magic smoke INSIDE the chips.
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  369. "It's a civil matter, thanks for calling."
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  370.  @RickC_  Rick, you have perfectly described CRIMINAL asset forfeiture. Civil asset forfeiture is taking your stuff without even charging you with a crime. The money/car/house/business is presumed guilty, and you have to try and afford proving your stuff innocent.
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  371.  @waggtech4883  They're gonna need a bigger witness stand. Some of those Ford trucks are pretty large.
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  372. @CatandBonez Really? I started a race civil war? I need to stop sleepwalking then. And somehow I am a communist? Odd. Well, I reject your hate, and choose to volley back a cluster bomb of apathy!
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  373. Also, anyone who brings their machine to CAT for periodic service has too much money and not enough sense. At least hire a trade school kid to do the job on weekends or something. Each vehicle comes with a manual explaining how to do those simple services. (Well, maybe not John Deere crap)
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  374.  @TonboIV  A circumcision joke! l'chayim!
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  375. Fir shur.
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  376. "Listen, lad. I built this lunar lander program up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was the moon. Other kings said I was daft to put a lander on the moon, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It smashed into the surface and fell over. So, I built a second one. That blew up. So, I built a third one. That one fell over, then sank into the regolith, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest lander on the moon!" - (with apologies to Monty Python)
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  377. This is actually a simple Magnussen-Moss case, where the dealer has to PROVE that the claimed activity (here, drifting) is the cause of the engine failure. And last I checked, a photo or video of the exterior of the car in ANY active state, is pretty bad at determining the condition of the interior of the engine.
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  378. What really irks me is when cops just bail with the statement "It's a civil matter." No, there is a person gorram TRESPASSING ON MY PROPERTY! If I was a restaurant owner and they were trespassing in my restaurant you'd have them out in your car in five minutes! - "It's a civil matter" is just code for "I can't be bothered to do my damned job."
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  379.  @Ultrajamz  Also, you are paying as if your car is worth $8,000, but when they say it was totaled in an accident for which you are at 0% fault, they offer $2,450 because of "depreciation". (Based on a real event that happened to me. The numbers are approximate from a twenty-five-year-old memory.)
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  380. The problem with "Breaking News!" is that sometimes, it actually IS broken. Sorry about your outcome, but thanks for sharing your story.
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  381.  @lombardo141  The current version of the court seems to think that the idea of "checks and balances" from the Constitution is about cashier's checks and bank balances.
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  382. And I would happily sit and wait while they yank those parts out. edit: Or charge them storage fees for leaving the parts in my vehicle.
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  383. Did they also pester the maker of the shooter's underwear, socks, shoes, pants, rifle, phone, cookware, bedsheets...?
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  384. For end-users to be unaware of the recall is unconscionable. The devices are not sold on eBay. They are received by the end-user through a medical supply company, and there is a small number of such suppliers. So Philips would have only had to have informed the few dozen or few hundreds of suppliers, who would then be able to use their records of deliveries to inform the end-users. It's not that damned hard.
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  385. The "Why is the car collecting the data in the first place?" is the first question I found myself asking here in Massachusetts when those scare=ads first came out. I was not asking, "Which mechanics will use my data to rape me or break into my house?" I was asking "WHY DOES MY CAR NEED THAT KIND OF DATA?"
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  386. He also once said he would choose electrocution.
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  387. You know it's a project when every step adds more steps. Project: Change a lightbulb. 1: No lightbulbs in the house, go buy one. 2: Removing the lightbulb, the light fixture in the ceiling cracks. Go buy one. 3: Go turn off the breaker to replace the fixture, find out the breaker is defective. Go buy one. Share jokes at with Joe at Ace about every little project taking multiple trips to the hardware store. 4: Replace breaker, turn off circuit. 5: Replace fixture. 6: FINALLY install new bulb and turn the breaker back on. 7: Wife comes home and says she doesn't like the new fixture.
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  388. My cats would give a tail whip or a quick non-bite mouthing to let me know, 'That spot is getting sore, move on."
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  389. I'm 6'3" When I was finishing Army training at Fort Benning (Now fort Liberty) in 1985, I had to limit myself to one meal and drinking water for the other two for a week to get under 207lbs. (Otherwise they were going to delay my graduation for "being overweight") I looked unwell and my face was drawn. I had no energy, and was only depositing a #2 once every three days. There is no danged way Mango #45 is 215lbs.
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  390. @Ulfa It is called landscape mode, and is the preferred format for thins like televisions, computers, and our binocular vision.
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  391. On mortar shells, last I was handling them, the gun crew gets a charge number from the FDC, indicating how much charge to leave on the round. On 81mm mortars it was a number of bags. On 4.2 inch it was squares of a yellow waxy propellant. There were a number of times that the gun crews, NOT under the stress of active combat, would make a mistake on the charge number, even though the ammo handlers' set-up was checked by the assistant gunner and gunner before hanging the round. Being off by one bag or slab (depending on the round) can change your fall-of-round by hundreds of meters.
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  392. A friend in the Boston area was recently hit with a 50% rent increase. He told the landlord, "Okay, I'll pay it." Then the landlord said that he was selling the building, the new owner wanted him (and all other tenants) out by the end of the month, and the rent increase was supposed to make him want to move.
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  393. Oh, brilliant idea to put your banking info in your car's infotainment system! Because valet employees are NEVER going to see if they can get your info from that needless computer! - I'm pretty sure my car was once used to do a lunch run by the valet crew, since after my car being parked for an hour plus, the engine was up to temp and the seat and mirrors were moved.
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  394. You make the most important point! I can almost never remember where I first heard a song, but I can recall where I heard it when the song, location, and my mood synchronized to make a pretty lasting memory. But thinking about it now, I have one memory where I can recall the place and the mood, but no longer the song. Heck, thinking back to last week, I can pick a memory, and then change it by evaluating what happened then through the filter of what I have learned about that even since, and how I am thinking now when I review the memory.
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  395. That car looked like the proceeds of crime. Civil asset forfeiture!
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  396. The detachment between the person who researches and writes the story, the person who picks what images to "sell" it with, and the person who comes up with a click-catching title seem to be eroding journalism as fast as a hurricane erases a sand castle on the beach.
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  397.  @littleshopofrandom685  If your municipality is measuring your lawn to see if they can levy a fine, and will fine you for dandelions, you DO have an HOA-style municipal government. They are just not calling it an HOA. As long as the people don't push back, freedoms and rights of property ownership WILL continue to erode.
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  398.  @quintonconoly  I heard this in Owen Wilson's voice.
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  399. And if you repair it (or have an unauthorized shop repair it) it will take an act of congress to make Elongate Muskrat let the phone back on the network, or even turn on.
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  400. But so many people don't want facts. They just want to be told who to be angry with.
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  401. I had a 4-wheel-drive vehicle that did not have a posi-traction rear end. So, at best, it was 3-wheel drive, though it said 4WD on the fender. - This whole situation exists because our society has decided that people are not responsible for their own stupidity. You could put up signs in every known human language, stop every vehicle and make them sign a waiver of liability, and they (or their surviving family) can still sue because THEY got stuck and died from not even being prepared for the weather.
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  402. The FTC didn't slap down Facebook's changing the terms of service when they bought Oculus, so now it's free real estate for the rest of the abusers.
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  403. Was the truck rental still within the time period that they had originally contracted for? Yes. Does a UHaul rental agreement include contact information for the renter? Yes. Is this criminal activity on the part of UHaul? Hell yes.
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  404.  @G4mingBud  Why? Because numerous generations of lawyers have worked hard to make the laws difficult to fully understand, thus requiring their services. Additionally, courts have been built to make working with them as a lawyer much easier than working with them as a non-lawyer. It starts at the entrance, where lawyers get their own expedited line while we have to shuffle along through the metal detector after emptying our pockets. Prosecutors and judges either overtly or subconsciously treat non-lawyers as 'lesser-than'.
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  405. This Luft could EASILY "get the story out" by ending their fugitive status. Then the Republicans could issue a subpoena to have them appear, escorted by federal law enforcement.
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  406. The city is essentially saying it is better to clog the sides of the street with parked cars than it is to park them OFF the street and make the roads more passable.
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  407. A friend's dad once scared the stuffing out of him by slamming on the brakes as he was driving down a back state road. My friend was looking around, trying to figure out why his dad stopped so precipitously, when his dad pointed and said, "The sign says no passing."
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  408. I passed over the first Veritasium video I was recommended because my brain connected the channel name with some channels I had recently been duped by that also had "latin-esque" names. But the second time one was recommended, I watched, and watched some more, and through this channel got into Steve Mould, and through Steve got into Matt Parker. Another channel that got recommended to me from watching Veritasium was Xyla Foxlin, from which I started watching Allen Pan, who may also have been recommended because I watched Kyle Hill (the Mythbusters 2 competition link). - The recommendation engine is sometimes good, but more than half the time recommends things I don't care about, or channels I actively hate. If YouTube never recommends a Joe Rogan video to me again, I might die happy.
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  409. And the whole reason the cops wanted the blood draw? To try and reduce and/or evade any responsibility for the crash as a result of their high-speed chase.
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  410. Like back in the days of VHS storage of the footage, stored on tapes recorded in machines in a closet or security booth/room somewhere in the home/business? Nah, nobody would every think of a product like that.
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  411.  @trumanhw  Sorry bot, you lost my interest in reading your diatribe at the word "Nazi".
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  412. At this point, that sort of thing is "day that ends in a y."
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  413. @ Hey, Dave. We're ALL losing. Some of us just refuse to realize it yet.
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  414.  @capness1228  I am calm. A skillet is contained, and the marginally possible contamination of a broken batter would be contained within it. - And this whole rabid defense of dropping batteries on counters and tables is pointless anyway, when a simple battery tester is such an easy and cheap tool to get. No dropping anywhere required.
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  415. I call that kind of complaining "the grunties", a word I heard in a Monty Python sketch.
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  416. I wonder how many hospital/morgue trips were behind THAT recall?
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  417.  @MrBrock314  That sound over your head? That was the reference you missed.
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  418. If that rocket had flown like my first model rocket, it would have left the pad, then flown horizontal at full thrust at the launch controller (in my case, me and a lantern battery about 20 feet away). Weird things happen when one fin breaks off right at launch. Our SECOND launch was done with my half-brother's car between us and the launch pad. That one flew perfectly.
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  419. Too bad we're not allowed to 'crowdsource' justice for stuff like this. Yes, I mean vigilante justice, but I only support minor injuries, not death. Edit: Particularly because the police are apparently too busy with traffic tickets, the financially motivated "war on drugs", and civil asset forfeiture. Essentially they are commanded to prioritize those activities which bring in revenue, instead of stopping property crime.
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  420. I've seen more than a few body cam videos where the COPS got their faces blurred out, but nobody else.
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  421. Ok, this one got me laughing.
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  422. At the second in-person visit, I would have stood there in front of the person who told me I had to call, and called, then handed them the phone to make the two of them fight it out.
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  423.  @MikeKing001  A no vote on Merrick Garland would have been them doing their job, and it would have allowed President Obama to nominate another candidate for the position. - Instead, McScrottle used the power of a committee to deny the vast majority of the Senators the ability to ask their questions and vote according to their sponsors - I mean their "constituents".
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  424.  @NoobsDeSroobs  Any computer has a limit to the amount of RAM it is built to manage. There are also specifications for RAM speed and channel width to work around.
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  425. I would call him a reformed Sith initiate, but that's opinion.
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  426. In psychology, they call this "projecting". - How do we make sure out medical devices are repaired in a safe manner? Provide quality parts, schematics, diagrams, and repair manuals as well as training for hospital repairers!
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  427. Too bad Jordan was not around to interview the handful of Proud Boys who got beaten out of a drag event in NYC. I saw some of the private footage of the aftermath, and it was FANTASTIC! I swear one of them was about to cry.
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  428.  @evilsharkey8954  That is MUICH more likely a review bomb from a competing restaurant owner in the area, or someone with a personal grudge against the new place's owner.
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  429.  @theriveroftruth  Also, too many of the "profit, profit, profit" crowd can only think in terms of the fiscal quarter or year, and can not (or will not) consider the longer scales of decades or lifetimes.
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  430. I actually have an Asus, and I looked specifically for a NON-touch-screen.
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  431.  @capness1228  None... yet. But if I did have a battery open up on food prep surfaces, you can bet I would clean the bejeezus out of the whole place to avoid any toxic exposure.
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  432.  @annarozova7292  Guessing is fine, saying you don't know is better, lying is wrong.
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  433. We've had family friends with a dog who loved skunks so much they just gave up and bought an outdoor all-weather doghouse. Every spraying event, they'd make sure there was no eye damage, and let the dog just be happy with its cat-shaped wilderness friends.
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  434. A spending plan by the same kind of people who let a stealth jet hit ludicrous cost overruns without any contract penalty.
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  435. What? The Ponzi-esque scheme is failing? Perish the thought!
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  436.  @KB4QAA  sleeping on a concrete floor is bad for everyone, not just fetuses and pregnant people.
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  437. Even as the nuclear panic was fading, we still did "duck & cover" drills in Massachusetts for tornado response. Given how much of a classroom wall is a big panel of non-safety glass, it's not a bad thing to learn. - edit: In the military, the training we got for being caught out in the open in the event of a large (nuclear or otherwise) blast was to hit the ground face-down with our head pointing toward the blast origin, using our hands to cover the face, arms and lags held tight to the body. Then stay that way until the 'back blast' of the returning pressure wave washed over foot-to-head, and stay down until all debris has stopped falling. After that, it was hope. Hope you weren't buried, immediately hit with fatal radiation levels, skewered by flying objects, or otherwise on the short road to Deadsville. Then you get to stand up and continue mission!
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  438. I propose we replace the phrase 'scaredy-cat' with 'scaredy-cop'.
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  439. "Just comply." said a former high-ranking NYC cop. "Just comply" said the "intimate assaulter".
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  440. A parking lot of a business is private property. The cop has NO jurisdiction regarding traffic law on that private property until and unless the person who owns and/or is responsible for that property/business makes a call to the police. But Officer butt-hurt felt the need to be a complete dick that day. Well done officer Dick.
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  441.  @J_Allen3556  Why? Because only boomers have a sense of humor?
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  442. I will borrow from Winston Churchill for you on turning 30. "This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. This is the end of the beginning!"
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  443. Never cook Brussels sprouts. Not in a microwave, on the stove, in the oven, over an open fire. Just feed them to a pig and eat the porkchops later.
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  444.  @BillAnt  That would reduce your edge effect in the conductors...
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  445. My first WTF was "Is that built out of PLYWOOD?"
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  446.  @0tt0z  Hey, you have Christmas presents on hand for people you like less than family!
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  447. Orange Donnie would have had the person supporting another candidate "escorted from the building" to the roaring boos of the crowd.
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  448. People attending the next CES need to be outfitted with shirts, hats and pins calling for Right To Repair.
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  449. For the FTC to have an effect, the fines would have to be re-legislated to a percentage of income, profit, or assets instead of a flat number that large corpos giggle about.
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  450. Also, depending on what you're doing, you don't always want to use the vehicle that is the most expensive to operate. Kind of like when you're planting three rose bushes, you use a wheelbarrow, not the farm tractor with a harvest trailer.
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  451. There was only one cover-up they were thinking about.
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  452. Because if things are not horribly broken, Orange Donnie has nothing to offer.
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  453. The suspicious is that at NO point was the supposed inciting event verified.
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  454. Very Sinema of him.
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  455. Most cats I've had, when taken to the vet, can't wait to get out of the carrier on arrival, then can't wait to get back in the carrier after the procedures are done. My current cat has to be "poured" out of the carrier on arrival at the vet/groomer. I've never had a cat who was NOT shouting at me when we were in motion, either driving or just carrying the carrier.
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  456. "We got a call that you were walking up the road with a firearm." - "Congratulations, Detective McGruff, we solved the case! I am in fact walking up the street with a firearm!"
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  457. I have a PC, in part, because I don't want to be part of the Playstation or XBox networks. If Steam didn't exist, I'd probably read a lot more books than I already do.
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  458. Colorado farmers: Don't let your governor pull a Hochul!
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  459. Congrats for having rational parents!
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  460. I've had cats that just let the clipping happen, and other cats who take (18 claws on a cat?) up to 18 different appointments with the clippers.
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  461.  @Idefilms  I can attest that poorly insulated homes are more expensive to live in. And that rental property landlords have no financial interest in insulation beyond making sure pipes don't freeze in the walls.
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  462. A long time ago I had a 1974 VW Beetle with the hydrostatic transmission. My mother borrowed the car one day and when she returned she stomped in, angry at me because she "almost got stranded because my car's transmission was failing." I took the car and drove for about 20 minutes, no problems, even up and down steep roads. So I made my mother drive while I sat in the passenger seat, and figured out the car's problem before she left the driveway. - My mother drove a standard, and drove with hand resting on the shifter. But in a hydrostatic transmission, any force you applied to the shifted made it go out of gear. - So yeah... Use it like the person with the complaint uses it, not "the right way".
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  463.  @howtomeetwomen-  What a Rip off!
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  464. IKR?
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  465. He's got some clean and bright teeth for a twelve-year old! You're doing good as a cat owner, Mr. Rossmann.
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  466.  MarkoM-mg1mx  Your gross questions are all answered with one word. Nunya.
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  467. The first shop was run by an idiot. He forgot the rule that a happy customer might tell a few people, but an angry customer will tell EVERYONE.
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  468. Or a hand-cranked laser musket! "A settlement needs your help. Let me mark it on your map."
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  469. Avis: We try harder!* *Harder than Hertz, at least...
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  470.  @Adonnus100  Take your geopolitical bait to a different discussion, pally.
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  471. Excellent! I have now reached my quota of OAN, Fox and InfoWars content for the year, without having to actually watch any of it! You have my thanks.
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  472.  @tulgagencal3881  Ah yes. Spends hours of your life to combat the abuses of that company, hours to try and overturn the abuses of the next company... Eventually, you WILL run out of hours.
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  473.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  I knew a couple of libertarians once. I had no idea until one of them told me she had no interest in men. . . Wait. Wrong L word!
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  474. The more I hear the phrase "special master" the more I imagine someone in a latex catsuit sorting paperwork while their client is tied up in the basement.
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  475. The Iranian military parade photos look like "Take your grandpa to work day".
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  476. $1,477 per vehicle. That barely pays for the wheels and tires.
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  477.  @ebogar42  There is a MASSIVE difference between acknowledging that a material or connection has a range of tolerance, and just saying getting the math wrong is not a big deal. In fact, when designing and building structures, that range of tolerance must be part of your math. - Or you can just flipping "wing it" and have your structure kill people.
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  478. Squatting or adverse possession laws really irk me. Someone can move into your house, change the locks, and you may lose the house to them. But if you kick down your OWN door on that house, you're somehow breaking an entering or executing a home invasion. More and more I'm understanding the "shallow grave in the woods" game plan.
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  479. Imagine the size of the "not quite right" scrap pile!
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  480. Apparently Florida hates all those docking fees and fuel taxes they will stop collecting when the cruise companies find other ports.
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  481. Maybe Dymo would make more money if they had instead made their paper and labels more competitively priced while advertising the quality differences. Instead of PUNISHING THEIR CUSTOMERS!
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  482. It was a HUGE problem after hurricane Maria slammed the island. A lot of relief supplies were available in US ports, but there were not enough US flagged hulls to carry it in a reasonable time frame.
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  483. I call the thing that keeps the violent option from being more widespread the "thin veneer of civilization". And some companies, some politicians, some news outlets... are working really hard with 60-grit to scrape off that veneer.
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  484.  @dianeroeder3350  They see a person giving them permission to hate.
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  485. Gerrymandering, money, attack ads, lack of education.
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  486. "That's a civil matter."
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  487. Possible 2028 phone call: "Mister Trump, we're writing the copy for next month's elections. What percentage do you want to win by?"
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  488. Ipso facto! Non sequitur! Habeus corpus! You can't handle the truth!
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  489. I, for one, am surprised that the IDF has not already transitioned to a "flat Gaza" plan and just gone over to making the whole region 2-dimensional.
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  490. So the DA is rewriting laws too? Who do they think they are, the ATF?
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  491. If they can just draw in imaginary line to determine who is "participating" they can use the city limits. That would really let them profit from, er, get rid of a LOT of "nuisance" vehicles...
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  492.  @beddythecorgi4269  I am all for free speech and peaceable assembly. Heck, I'll even support the freedom of religion, even though I think they're all loony. What I will NOT support is when the protest is no longer peaceable, and/or prevents other people from enjoying their freedoms, such as the ability to drive down a road or walk down a sidewalk.
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  493. Car owners need to start billing car makers for the storage of the non-functioning components. Don't get greedy, just enough for gas or charging (as appropriate for that vehicle).
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  494. How about those Arizona thugs "just hanging around" ballot drop boxes, fully armed and sometimes verbally confrontational? "We're just monitoring things" my butt.
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  495.  @jimmyrichards5595  "You are moving 'furtively'." "You are too still." "You look nervous." "You look calm" "You're avoiding eye contact." "You're maintaining eye contact." PROBABLE CAUSE!
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  496. "Did you die?" - "Yes! But I lived!"
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  497. My only gripe with activating National Guard to fill "critical jobs" is that the activity simultaneously pulls those Guardsmembers away from their normal jobs. This was particularly dumb, in my view, when they called up medically trained troops to fill in at hospitals, when many of those people likely already worked in hospitals and hospital-adjacent jobs. Kind of like taking money out of your left pocket to put it in your right pocket and claiming you've increased the amount of money you have.
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  498. I have always thought Blackwater was properly named, given that in the plumbing world, blackwater is the outflow that includes what you flush down the toilet.
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  499. Wow, a chill cop, a decent dealership, and a car manufacturer willing to eat the price of parts and installation? Triple win.
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  500.  @JeanetteFaith Why put it in a trash can? Some people are disgusting. Why would it continue to stink? An open-topped trash can will catch rainwater, and the water will keep the biological processes going. Dog droppings are different from human droppings in a lot of way, from what we eat, to how we process it internally, to the bacteria we send out within it.
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  501.  @wraithcadmus  Not being able to fully breathe would eventually make me pretty compliant. Even former cops know that one!
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  502. "Unbalanced humours"
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  503. Let us not forget the openly not-sees Russia has as PMCs and "volunteers" in Eastern Ukraine.
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  504.  @ninersix2790  Or no lawyer in the jurisdiction had the combination of the time, the right price, and the spine to take on the lazy/corrupt establishment.
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  505. If they can file a false contract and the court doesn't care, maybe you need to go to the courthouse and file a contract that says the signing judge agrees to pay you for all of your losses in the matter.
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  506. I only stop having a pet when they pass from age or fatal illnesses. Then I adopt another, choosing the adult to elderly animal who has been longest in "lockup". Because kittens and puppies have better adoption rates.
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  507. It was probably safer in the COUNTRY of Georgia during the collapse of the Soviet Union than that Karen and the sheriff think this town is...
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  508. Oh! What is called here "dimensional analysis", I learned in high school chemistry as "unit cancellation".
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  509. And the HOAs...
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  510. Neat idea here. China making it? I have a large dose of skepticism over safety.
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  511. "Mommy, are these pictures and videos of you? Tommy said his dad had them on his computer."
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  512. According to some who have sailed it, the ocean is liquid hate.
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  513.  @plzwork33  If he said a bag full of crushed cans weighs more than a bas of uncrushed cans, he'd be right, since there is more volume of air. Statements like you shared is how people become Flat-Earth space deniers.
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  514. But what about a propane grill with propane accessories?
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  515.  @Cheepchipsable  In that case, the simple act of skiing is an acceptance of possible fatal risk. There are similar reasons why I don't juggle hand grenades.
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  516. Tens of thousands of dollars... for ONE DOOR!? Does it give you a handy on your way out the door every day?
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  517.  @SweatyFeetGirl  The issue is manufacturers and stores need to first SELL actually recyclable containers. Apparently that is the step the US opted out of.
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  518. John Deere's written response is corporate speak covering up the fact that they don't want equipment owners to have laws backing up their rights, when those repair tools and software could net them even more money.
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  519. Officer, I am not dancing. I am standing still, but faster.
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  520. Yes, except that the lobbying efforts would neuter those laws before they went into effect, lawsuits to reduce the enforcement of those laws, and after all that major engineering efforts to BARELY comply while still finding new ways to screw the customers.
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  521. The difference is in how many politicians you can afford.
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  522.  @ShinAdamSmasher  Don't forget to announce a run for president when the investigators start getting close.
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  523. We could solve homelessness in the US with that kind of money.
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  524. If a pizza delivery person reads the address wrong, the pizza place sends them to the right address, often with a new freshly-backed pizza. And the delivery person can be on the hook, financially, for that mistake. Cops at the wrong address, violating rights, sometimes even KILLING PEOPLE? Water under the bridge. Why are you so upset, mistakes happen, we investigated ourselves and found no violations of department policy (which means your department policy sucks, BTW).
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  525.  @johnmcmickle5685  I am not saying that there needs to be a trial before seizure. I'm saying there needs to be CHARGES before a seizure. And if the charges are beaten, dropped, vacated, what-have-you, the property is returned.
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  526. Or the guy who bought a house across the street from Westboro Baptist Church and painted it in the colors of one of the inclusionary flags (I forget which one).
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  527. The fact that she has ear protection on hand shows how much experience she has in the field.
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  528. Looks like a particularly evil bayonet to me.
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  529. "Never let facts get in the way of a good political cause."
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  530. "I'm sorry you're so childish, officer." "I am saddened by your idiotic behavior, officer." "I apologize not at all for knowing my rights as a US citizen, you moron."
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  531. Texas is a single-party consent state for recording conversations. Louis is covered if the does that. And I don't think he is dumb enough to agree to things contrary to his ethics. Though, if he gets mad, he 'might' say something he'll regret.
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  532.  @eugenedebbs2189  Lacking access to a time machine, Congress (and the rest of the world) needs to put on their adult hats and work on the problem created by those in the past. Just sitting down and pointing at decades old evils doesn't fix anything.
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  533.  @swistedfilms  Maybe. For a month or two. There will be a couple of token firings, and some publicized "training courses". Perhaps even a moderate fine will get paid. Then attention will move on to the next topic, and the abuses will be better hidden next time.
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  534. I had a store manager (convenience store) ask for an half-hour annual employee meeting. When I informed him of the state law requiring a minimum (at the time) of three paid hours any time you are required to show up at work, he had to okay the pay with corporate and used the other 2-1/2 hours as spring cleaning.
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  535. So... mad hatters?
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  536. "Hi, I'm Tiger, and I'm just happy to be here! Um... where are we now?"
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  537.  @Niskirin  It's over there, behind that wall of lead. Free for the taking!
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  538. I don't like or hate Zuckerberg. I can't, because I don't know him. I CAN hate his company's actions and policies and the way peoples' private information are commercialized.
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  539. Oh, you CAN hold a monopoly, but you have to do it the old-fashioned way, by buying all of your competition, and sending dudes with pickaxe handles to "persuade" those who won't sell to get out of the business.
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  540. Be safe, take care of the most important equipment of all - you. Set your rates so you make money, but not so high nobody hires you. Tough thing to get right. Don't do business work "as a favor", particularly for family. Good luck!
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  541.  @bendeco  That is true. When I worked in retail, employee theft beat all other sources of loss COMBINED.
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  542. Electable is also not an assessment of a person's fitness as a member of a functioning society.
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  543. Also, enforcement is much more likely when the powerful are the ones "victimized". Someone steals Door Dash from your porch and you have clear recordings of their face, vehicle and license plate? Civil matter. Someone steals Door Dash from the front step of the police? ROLL ALL UNITS! Someone steals Door Dash from the porch of a state or national politician? WE NEED NEW LAWS!!!
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  544. Careful, Steve! Never assume you will not be arrested for something. That is not completely in your control. All you CAN control is what you do, not what you are accused (or even convicted) or doing. That should be evident from all of the stories of wrongfully arrested and/or convicted people, even just the ones we hear on this channel.
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  545. Adverse possession makes my blood boil. If a property is truly abandoned, as in no surviving owners, then revert it to the county/state country and re-sell it publicly.
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  546.  @TroIIingThemSoftly  I agree. Make them explain to their fiefdom WHY their bridge is permanently closed, their school leaks when it rains, their tap water tastes like gasoline, their houses are on fire after a train derailed and spilled hot tar in their neighborhoods...
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  547. Would have been a hoot if you asked them to deliver to Mackinac Island. If only to see a horse-drawn modular home.
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  548.  @tankie9997  Most of us are born either spaghetti or macaroni. But a small number of us are not happy being spaghetti or macaroni, so we may request another pass through the pasta maker and come out as macaroni, spaghettis, zit, shells, or even spirals. But we are all equal under sauce.
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  549.  @Mishkola  For some irrational organizations, pointing out the process of punishment can trigger punishment. Like a tired and angry parent - 'Because I said so! You're grounded!" - - My comment above was just silly word play.
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  550. And ranked voting instead of the Electoral College!
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  551. Cosmetic surgery should be for reconstruction after injury, serious genetic flaws (hairlip, for example) or disease. That's it.
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  552. Car makers and sellers continually chip away at reparability as well. More computers, more chips, more code. Less information available, less access to the diagnostic and data handling tools. Look at how much money car makers spent trying to stop Massachusetts voters from being able to have independent repair have access to the data in the car. They spend huge piles of money on scare tactic ads and "robust discussions" and only failed because consumer advocates were able to spend a big pile of money to show the lying being done. edit: Oh, and when they failed to stop the ballot initiative, they spent even MORE money to go through the courts to try and stop the law from being enacted.
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  553. Um... Hearsay?
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  554. "Musk? I never knew the guy. Never even met him before. Maybe I saw him somewhere, but we didn't even talk."
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  555. He's learning the skills for his next career as a Youtube flat-Earther and space denier.
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  556. If I was getting machine operator pay to push a broom for a day, I'd push that broom with a smile.
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  557. I would be okay with arbitration as an OPTION. If a company wants me to use their arbitration and waive my right to trial by jury, they need to get my agreement at the time of purchase and offer me a 5-10% discount off what I'm paying.
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  558. Almost like it's winter in the southern hemisphere when it's summer in the northern!
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  559. Also be aware of some of the other products/companies run by this same group of grifters. Kamikoto knives and Deal Dash are the top two I can recall.
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  560. Now I want to see Trevor's Trump and Colbert's Eric have a conversation.
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  561. I will see a headline about space stuff and happily avoid watching the network coverage and the website stories, waiting for Scot Manley to put out a video on it. This is because I know that the fast story is often less deep, and Scott will take the time to get more information, and distill it down to an easily understood package.
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  562. The last time I heard of someone so dead-set against showing their financial records, they were the US President.
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  563. I've been cutting my own hair for about 25 years. Being kind of a solitary person most of the time, this quarantine has had little impact.
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  564. Hey Aaron, You DO have the right to object to an unjust rule. Protecting the health of a population in the face of a pandemic that has killed 750,000+ in this country is not in that category. And you could have STILL chosen to take your stand by being HONEST and giving up your high-paid job playing with a ball. - Also you are a bit too... Caucasian... to be citing King.
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  565. ... You're not talking about mac-n-cheese, are you?
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  566. Haha! Good sense of humor there!
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  567. To be a little fair to Lilco, restoring power lines after a massive hurricane, and the technical and organizational capacity to run a nuclear power plant are two separate things. I'm not saying they were able to do either, but it is a disingenuous comparison to make. - Maybe if they had paid union leeches less, and Mario Cuomo more, they would be in operation today?
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  568. I agree. So many signs and advertisements are the visual equivalent of someone shouting at the top of their lungs while standing inches from your ear. While the Kyoto regulations feel more like someone is calmly talking at arm's length.
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  569. Arrived first? Russia. Arrived first without a catastrophic ballistic encounter with the surface? India.
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  570.  @wilkinscoffee4228  "Nothing on one, two is binding, false gate on three..."
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  571. Every human life lost in the wilderness is a plethora of wild animals, insects, fungi. and bacteria that get to eat. But only if we're nice enough to leave the dead lie where they fell.
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  572. Cop "Are you carrying any cash?" Me "Are you soliciting a bribe?"
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  573. This is the first time I've heard someone say "Better than a (sharp) stick in the eye" besides myself in decades.
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  574. When you let the police "nickname" and acronym enforcement units, they start to feel like they are special and above the normal laws.
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  575. Brake for a moose in the road, that's unsafe stopping.
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  576. The 'complicated-ness' of an occupation can be roughly evaluated by the amount of reference material regularly needed in the process of that job. Lawyers have rooms of law books, engineers have a similar wall of reference manuals, doctors have thick tomes like anatomy books and the PDR (Physicians' Desk Reference) Even when these people have access to digital versions of these books, the sheer amount of material can still be measured.
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  577. So, when incoming missiles are turned into falling debris, would that be a Golden Shower?
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  578. I have a friend who tries, at least once a year, to give me wireless earbuds or one of their extra voice-activated in-home spy devices. I refuse every time.
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  579. Checking for a short with the top voltage is like checking for a broken finger with a sledgehammer. You will find something broken, even if you made it broken.
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  580.  @Carterthielftw_  This is the usual reason you'll see actors and athletes buy a multi-million dollar home, and then in a few years after their heydays it ends up being listed again. What person, or even a moderately sized family needs a house with a dozen bedrooms, a score of bathrooms, and two kitchens?
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  581. My gosh, this dog has some big snow tires!
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  582. I disagree with the law degree requirement. I would accept a surgeon, or a physicist, or a psychiatrist or even a master plumber. As long as they have some proof of intelligence and education.
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  583.  @nocomment6421  And who hates the same people they hate.
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  584. But, but... Crystals! Essential Oils! Reiki massage with Himalayan pink salt! Magnets!!!
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  585. For me, it was from the movie Airplane II: The Sequel “- McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up till now. - Jacobs: Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it.”
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  586. According to a philosopher who masqueraded as a fiction author, dolphins are the #2 smartest species (even though they're aliens). But we humans are a distant third, since the mice are in charge.
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  587. "But your most recent law didn't specifically say that we had to charge rational shipping rates for the small components your law forced us to make available. So we're charging a $75 warehouse fee, a $63 searching fee, a $71 packaging fee and $172 shipping. Per capacitor."
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  588.  cpk8636-6  You're doing a good job spamming your echo chamber BS.
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  589. Amazon DOES care about customer being ripped off by third-party vendors! Amazon doesn't like the competition for our dollars.
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  590. Virtual credit cards. I learned about this from Louis, here. If the company makes it hard to cancel, just close the virtual credit card and they can't reach your money. Now THEY are in the beggar's seat.
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  591. Read about this earlier today. When actual innocence matters less than "keeping costs and paperwork down to a minimum" we may as well just execute people upon accusation.
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  592.  @MsTuliplady  Ah, I see. Just like being in a physically abusive marriage! Eventually you'll begin to think you deserve it and it was all your fault anyway, right?
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  593. The last time I got a speeding ticket (back in the late 1980's) I came over a hill and saw the cruiser on the side of the road. I was pulled over, engine off, hazards on before the cruiser started moving. I had my paperwork in hand before he pulled in behind me. When he asked if I knew why I pulled over, I told him honestly that I was speeding. He asked me why, and I told him I was hurrying to a booty call. He laughed, wrote me up for a WAY lower speed than I was actually driving, and told me no nookie was worth wrapping around a tree.
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  594.  @captsorghum  We laugh, but the suspension over this image is a symptom of how money-centric and lazy these companies are getting that they allow algorithms to police content without a rational human in the loop. Instead, they make the person who posted content that as flagged by the computer do all the legwork and prove that a human should have looked at the content in the first place.
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  595. If and only if the contract is written and negotiated properly. The US government is not sitting on a good history of doing that.
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  596. "That ECM repair place" sounds ominously like "A farm upstate" where sick pets go when kids are young.
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  597.  @thystaff742  When I was in 5th grade back in the 1970's a whole week of our math class was devoted to balancing a checking account. Now, it's "teach to the test" because "No Child Left Behind" required standardized metrics, and a multiple-choice test was the easiest way. Then the states using the pass-to-graduate test started tying school funding to student performance on those tests...
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  598. When I finally got disability benefits, my mother changed her will so that I inherited nothing with the understanding that if I was in a time of need, my two brothers would help out "under the table". My grandmother did the same. All to avoid risking me getting booted out of the system and facing ANOTHER 3-5 years of applying and hoping to get back in the system.
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  599. The whole solder debate becomes pointless when the device manufacturers make access to schematics, tools and parts impossible (without breaking laws), and serialize parts electronically so that even if your repair is as good or better than the original, the device STILL will not work because of how the company designed failures into the parts. I'm looking at Apple, but every time Apple is successful, the other electronics companies see the profit margins and follow suit.
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  600. "We ain't got time for this." - That is ALL you have time for. You are paid to KNOW and enforce the law.
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  601. Slide rules are great calculating devices if you know what you're doing. Also saw a video of young girls who could do division and multiplication faster than I could with a calculator by using an abacus that wasn't actually in their hands. They had so well learned how to use an abacus as a calculator that they didn't need to be holding it to "use" one.
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  602. Airlines COULD load and unload planes more efficiently, but it would involve having the human cattle boarding first, and the first-class passengers boarding last.
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  603.  @ThaiLifeAmerican  Would your answer change if an American ship with the body of your grandfather or great grandfather on it were to be scooped up by Chinese salvage ships?
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  604.  Kanukistani  I agree. If mercury-contaminated soil suddenly became a valuable material, the tomb of the first Chinese Emperor would be an open pit mine within half a year.
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  605. Everyone should have the same opportunity to have their life torn apart by an acrimonious divorce. I demand equality!
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  606.  @erutuon  You don't get needlessly rich by treating people right, apparently.
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  607. Also meanwhile in North Korea True information released to the world: Maybe? Meals missed by Kim Il-Sung: 0
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  608.  @zemoxian  Eat Shit Bob!: The musical! - - - Opening night in Clairsville Ohio! Special half-price tickets for employees of Murray Energy!
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  609. Regarding the AC running: If you have a house empty without climate control, it degrades a lot faster. Whether it be from thermal expansion and contraction, or moisture/mold/mildew or insects, pipes bursting and freezing then soaking the place... Yes, you can shut off your water and drain the pipes, but that is a deliberate process many people don't think to do or have the know-how for.
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  610. "Comply now, complain later", "Just comply and you won't be harmed" - NYPD spokespeople, except when it comes to THEM complying.
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  611. Do you have any idea how common it is for municipal inspectors of simple 1 and 2-story homes to not bring even a ladder and a flashlight? Or even get out of their car? I have no doubt that an inspector who is tasked with walking a high-rise would slack off and lie about it.
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  612. The cloud is just someone else's computer.
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  613.  @MichaelWutsch  Misdirecting evidence! Another person's driver's license, blood from a farm animal, a license plate from the private vehicle of a police officer in another jurisdiction...
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  614. Total clickbait!
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  615. Of course I'm paying more attention to the ads. I also pay inordinate levels of attention to the pebble in my shoe or the dog clamping its jaws around my leg.
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  616. Strangely, two-decades-old tires fail under load. No matter HOW good they were when new.
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  617.  @christopherg2347  That statement implies that there IS an oven suited for the drying of pets. That scares me.
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  618. No wonder you flew off to the 24th century!
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  619. Do you know why babies cry? Because they don't know words to express their condition. Do you know why adults shout? Because they think loud equals right. - Only the baby is right in that comparison.
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  620. It's at the point where I no longer think Apple board design is laziness or stupidity. I now believe it is highly intelligent malicious design. The boards are deigned to die in a "You MUST buy a new computer!" way.
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  621.  @kpdvw  How DARE someone warn you of a tornado in your immediate area! What about our right to be killed from our own ignorance! The nerve of the government doing at least part of its job to try and keep us alive. (The above is meant to be scathing sarcasm)
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  622. And with subtitles being more and more used to understand what is being mumbled, viewers are missing a lot of the scene and cinematography. Good job, Howwywoo.
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  623. A well-coached drug dog will "alert" on a bowl of distilled water. All to make the handler happy, because dogs are generally love-seeking critters.
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  624. Poor Johnson, sitting there looking like he ate something spoiled that is fighting its way through his intestines. Bwahaha!!!
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  625. Regarding voluntary registration of your cameras: If the police want cameras in your neighborhood, make THEM pay for them, install them, and maintain them.
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  626. Steven Donziger is surprisingly positive for someone in his unreal situation. I would have already car-bombed Chevron's board of directors by now.
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  627. Common cycle: Slack on maintenance, building fails, tear it down, build bigger on the same lot, nobody who used to live there can afford the new apartments, they move to even crappier building.
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  628.  @ewxlt  Wow. So amongst the dead are a One-Wheel, your clothes, some skin and blood, corporate standards, a cup of coffee, and human compassion.
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  629. That guy is an effective excuse factory. And he is pushing it all on Rossmann Repair Group and trying to leave his plate clean.
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  630. I screwed up with my 1988 Bronco and had to have the front left fender replaced. Due to the age of the vehicle when that happened, I had to get the aftermarket fender. - About a month after the body shop was done, my headlight needed to be replaced, but I could not remove the bulb. The fender was made with the headlight access hole about an inch off where it was supposed to be. The body shop, for no charge, cut the hole wider, filed the edge, and touched up the cut with paint. That shop was fantastic. Great people.
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  631.  @StrategyMapping  Yes, I DO want to be able to screw up my phone's code. I paid for it, and thus I own it. If I buy a dozen eggs and instead of cooking them just crack them in a bowl and flush the contents of the bowl? My damn eggs. If I buy a phone, computer, t-shirt, chair, or farm tractor, and I have no outstanding balance, it is MY damned item, and I can do what I want to and with it (other than litter or give direct harm to others). - And it is not just that farmers are locked out of the computers on the machines they bought, but that lockout can deadline the entire machine until an expensive company tech shows up, eventually (could be days to weeks), to plug in their special laptop and give permission to run that half-million dollar machine again. Meanwhile, their crops might be rotting in the field.
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  632.  @x--.  The dislike count was a tool I used for determining if I was going to watch an educational video. A key example would be when looking for a video on how to do a simple car repair. The dislike number helped me avoid click-bait videos, and guide me to the one video that told me what I needed in less than ten minutes. - The dislike counter helped avoid clickbait videos that are just re-postings of other peoples' content in a long video of marginally related content.
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  633. The fact that YOU had to do the legwork is just another sign that the system is broken.
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  634.  @phlodel  Wow. A judge having contempt of his own court.
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  635. Native Americans seeing this case: "First time being shafted by your government?"
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  636. Why? Because the Ds are always bad at message, and the Rs shout louder than a jet engine. Even louder when they're factually wrong.
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  637.  @roguishpaladin Under the current two-party system with all the money involved, we'll never get perfect. The best we can hope for is "better". And at this point, I'd settle for benign neglect over deliberate evil.
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  638. Oh, you mean Alina "I'd rather be pretty than smart. I can fake being smart."?
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  639. Based on the recent thinking if the SCOTUS, this couple would have to demonstrate that the parking pad was in use and/or intended by the framers of the US Constitution, otherwise their paring spot, their home, and the entire state of California cannot continue to exist.
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  640. Then Nurse Karen ought to be facing a nice simple battery charge, eh?
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  641. Afghanistan is doing a decent job being Haiti 2: Gang Warfare Boogaloo. edit: "peace in Afghanistan"? I think there was peace back in...6 Million BCE?
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  642.  @maxsalmon4980  I love this conversation.
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  643. That three syllable word is euphemized to "fuster-cluck" when I use it.
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  644. I've seen places that look like jails or warehouses on the outside and are fantastic inside, and vice versa. It's not the building that the service is wrapped in that matters, it's the service.
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  645. I would have gotten second magnets that read "Shove It" to put in place when the commercial magnets were moved.
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  646. The video game scene broke suspension for me in the first radio call. It was more, "George are you there?" versus the military method of "George, this is Sally, over."
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  647. Another difference between rockets and ICBMs that contribute to price is that a rocket needs to be in a sound state or launch through a short period of time, while an ICBM needs to sit ready and in mechanically sound condition for decades (honestly in the hope it NEVER launches).
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  648. And here I thought it was "Bring your moron to work" day.
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  649. One of the worst flags, from a vexillology point of view.
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  650. Even more sad that there are people who see a window and have to throw a rock through it.
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  651.  @trankzen148  I'm USian, and one trip to Quebec was all it took for me to take England's side of the France "thing". No, it is not at all sensible or logical, and I'm okay with that.
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  652.  @catslivesmatter1268  As Ray has said before, new doesn't necessarily mean good.
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  653.  @robertnett9793  The generic term for that kind of projectile is 'frangible'. But it is a cool concept for a sci-fi etting!
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  654. Imagine if they charged the guy per box he opened? That would be like getting a speeding ticket for each foot of road on which you were observed to be exceeding the posted or statutory speed limit. "I pulled you over for speeding after following you for a mile, please sign 5,280 times here."
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  655.  @monsieurlee  A mechanic I watch did a short video where he received some rear axle seals from a parts place he uses often and the seals were very obviously previously installed and then mangled to remove them. Businesses are not opening "returned, wrong item", just restocking and shuffling the theft off on someone else.
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  656.  @allenfunstuff  I had a friend looking at a car that did not come with a jack or even a donut spare. The dealership tried to justify it by selling the roadside assistance program. I can't understand why people would swallow that BS. Wait an hour or more when you can change a tire in ten minutes and be on your way? And PAY FOR THE PRIVELEDGE? Screw that.
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  657.  @BarryE48  "Do not place hands and feet under running mower." Seriously?
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  658. I hate when I have swollen nuts.
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  659. This rifle looks like something Bethesda created for a Fallout game.
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  660. Has Texas never heard of culverts? Jeezus.
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  661.  @ZE0XE0  When what an attorney says is not a question, they tread near the line of testifying without being under oath. Or they leap right over the line...
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  662. And she voted against a maternity leave bill because "Ain't nobody got time for that!"
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  663. But does it clean windows and make a good cup of post-touchdown coffee?
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  664. Yep, it's shallow-grave-in-the-woods time again...
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  665. Fools! That's not a magazine! That's a container for one month's worth of military rations (as determined by the 105 calorie per day National Diet)
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  666. What? Scumbags trying to profit from someone's death? I'm completely un-shocked. Sorry to hear about your loss.
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  667.  @9iht6ihgt43rzhijj  Nice job DELIBERATELY missing the point of the simile.
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  668. Shame about Dr. Yaldo's car tires, though.
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  669. I too have run into problems having to priorities my loot to be able to move... in video games.
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  670. Cop: "What time is it?" Bystander: "I am not answering that question without a lawyer present."
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  671. With this decision, the voices of many an HOA board rose up in dismay at their loss of a tool of petty power.
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  672. I find that a lot of people, small business and residential, stop caring about the building when they approach move-out day, and even more so when they are a failing business. I actually helped someone move who beat the bleep out of the walls and woodwork with a hand cart, saying they didn't give a bleep, because they already had a new place lined up and the landlord was a bleep. I have been starting to understand that, as my last two move-outs, I cleaned, sanitized, shampooed rugs, and filled dents in walls and woodwork, even painting one wall, and had to fight to get my deposits back. The usual? "Oh the carpet is worn." Check your state laws, carpet is a wear item, people fracking WALK on it. It is clean and not ripped, so write the check!
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  673.  @goranaxelsson1409  Well, used in well-designed computers anyway.
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  674.  @rrai1999  They already have the car behind a fence on their property. The longer you try and fight it, the more daily storage fees rack up. It's a heck of a racket.
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  675.  @guard13007  The lesson they are teaching is to just drive into the offending vehicle/animal/pedestrian.
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  676. Hey now. Those mountains won't pave themselves, and those oceans won't kill themselves neither!
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  677. It just requires that people like you who actually care are involved. And sadly, too many people are all about doing the minimum to get the maximum, so we need regulations.
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  678. At that point, a defendant might ask the judge to just execute them to save their family from having to pay the debt they will never be able to pay back in their own lifetime.
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  679.  @changsiah2  Twitter a bit toxic? That's like saying a shotgun blast to the face is a little it bad.
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  680. What are our other things you like to do to a dead chicken? Wait, never mind. Forget I asked, that should never be known.
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  681. America NEEDS the names of all senators who walk out, doodle, snooze or otherwise fail to pay attention to this important process! Accountability for such a high impact, high paying job is not an unreasonable standard.
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  682.  @marthamryglod291  I'd go farther. They should be JAILED. They could also be offered the right to terminate their own breathing privileges in lieu of jail time.
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  683. Tell Verizon to go ahead and deactivate the phone(s) and wait to see who complains.
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  684. Looking at a cop, not looking at a cop, blinking fast, blinking slow, breathing fast, breathing slow, talking, refusing to talk, standing, sitting, reclining, lying prone or supine, turning around, not turning around, driving in the right lane, driving in the middle lane(s) driving in the left lane, having your car radio on, not having your car radio on... It's all something a cop can lie and say is their justification for detaining, ticketing, arresting, beating and or killing you.
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  685. The complete condition of the toy, and the good condition of the box, that "toy" is worth a lot to the right collector.
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  686. Would being in prison meet the requirement for the 25th Amendment, Section 4 by making true that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office?
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  687. On a bad day, the M48 tank would have a hard time keeping up with an average athlete on a bicycle
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  688. Something quite similar happened with a new school building in the town next to the one I used to live in. They built a brand new school building, but would not budget for ongoing maintenance. So, about 7 years in, as the building had cracked windows, and worn out floors and doors hanging off bent hinges... the roof started leaking. The town's answer was to tell the janitorial staff to deal with the roof. Well, the janitorial staff said no, backed up by the lack of "roofing repair" in their job descriptions. - So the town had to not only scramble to find money to repair all of the stuff that had been breaking down over time, but they had to also rent portable classroom trailers to stand in for all of the classrooms that failed the state's inspections. - And still the town did not replace their council members.
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  689.  @TheDrumstickEmpire  It sounds a bit like Finnish to me, but all I know in Finnish is just enough to start a bar brawl. My grandmother and great grandmother would argue in Finnish around us kids.
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  690. I keep expecting him to tell me about treatments for "diabeetus".
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  691. Not a fan of basketball or professional sports, but this was a nice interview between two real people respecting each other.
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  692. We really need to adopt the admonition on the back cover of the Encyclopedia Galactica. "DON'T PANIC"
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  693. Coming soon from the SubPrime Court: Police can use "enhanced interrogation" short of drawing blood or breaking bones, to get a suspect to "willingly" surrender their right to remain silent.
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  694. At first, when the woman said it took her two days with her small push mower, I was doubtful. Then to see how much more there was beyond that small front yard? Oy! - Even after Spencer's help, there are going to be many trees that ought to come down to prevent (further) fence damage, and the municipality should be doing a much better job keeping that utility throughway maintained.
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  695. They should CTRL-Z themselves before the voters CTRL-X them.
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  696. He's no George Santos, getting mugged and having his shoes stolen.
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  697. "If it saves even one life!" "In this day and age!" "Think of the children!" "If you have nothing to hide, what are you worried about?"
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  698.  @stevelehto  They only want you to confirm that you are "dead or alive". I also am dead or alive. And I'm not even a cat in a box!
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  699.  @terised  Station also means 'position in life or occupation'.
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  700. The future's so bright, I gotta wear "Would you like to see offers on Ray-Bans?"
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  701.  @mystraunt2705  If you want the OP to change their spelling of verbal, you will need to send a registered letter, postmarked no later than June 30th 2024, otherwise you have accepted the alternate spelling is a mistake not worth commenting on.
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  702. I guess this means we're ALL currently under arrest and should sit quietly and await the moment a cop invents something to charge us with.
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  703. For Diana: She doesn't need to outrun the alligator. She just needs to outrun the slowest OTHER person.
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  704. He doesn't seem all that malicious, just typically nervous. It is his size and strength that makes that anxiety a bit dangerous.
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  705. Removed from anything to do with the law.
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  706. The situation STARTS with the cop nearly causing a traffic accident by driving in the wrong lane, then he parks like a drunk would. That shows his lack of concern with other people right off the bat. He is a fracking menace to society and needs to be out of law enforcement entirely.
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  707. Heck, there are people working in state lobs who STILL think being from New Mexico means you're not American.
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  708. A product I've seen other people use for dust protection is a gaiter. Not exactly N95 rating, but better than nothing at all.
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  709. See also, McDonalds ice cream machines.
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  710.  @donsolos  Watch the video to find out why.
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  711.  @ferninthehouse  Hope it works out. Another good thing is that the fountains are not all that expensive, and even if your pets don't like it, a friend's pets might!
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  712. You... frighten me.
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  713. I can hear it now. "Fifteen centimeters? That's not so hard. I used to bullseye cane toads back home with my Inkunzi, and they're not much bigger than 15 centimeters."
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  714. Most of our toy guns were sticks. Sticks and mouth noises. "Bang!" "P-shew!" "Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!"
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  715. I put in an order for an anti-Trump meteor years ago. Talk about slow shipping!
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  716.  @majorramsey3k  Indeed!
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  717. Paid leave while Oreo and Blackberry perform an internal investigation, to find they did nothing wrong.
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  718. I read a comment elsewhere by someone claiming to live in the area. According to the commenter, the bridge HAD been marked as being out, several times, with signs and temporary barriers which were rather quickly stolen and/or vandalized. Now, were it me, I would have dumped some piles of dirt and/or dead trees about 4-5 feet tall, but I have no horse in that race.
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  719. Just like the classic joke of a bus full of (pick a group) at the bottom of the ocean... it's a start.
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  720. If the risk is having a possibly exploding lithium ion battery close to your face in a camera or phone... How about getting rid of the lithium ion battery?
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  721.  @gta4everrr  Also, that pizza delivery boy is financially responsible when they get the address wrong.
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  722.  @Forte89  Now imagine if non-police could get access to the pepper rounds for their paintball guns... Sweet.
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  723. Wow! When a normally sized person uses this bow, it looks like a normal sized bow instead of a toy! This is not a dig on Lily, just a comment about how Brobdignagian Jeorg is. - Thank you for taking us through the whole unboxing and setup, gives a great demonstration of what is needed to go from box to shooting for other people who get one.
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  724. There is a wide gulf between a lock that can be defeated by bolt cutters or lockpicking tools, and locks LPL has showcased that can be defeated by a rap with a mallet, a slice of a Red Bull can, a magnet, or a Lego minifigure (just some examples I've seen on the channel)
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  725. If the phones were dust and waterproof, that could severely hamper the selling of new phones when the Genius Bar lies and says, "Your water-damaged phone is unrepairable."
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  726. Your honor, there is skin on the scalp. - Ah! Case dismissed!
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  727. Well, that's the way she learned to do it during her ser vice with the Gazpacho Police!
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  728. The Finns would not be using so many jammers if the corporations weren't tracking people and using that data in ways the victims don't want or even know about.
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  729. Ah, and we meet the intersection of the STATED reason for the speed trap, "to slow down traffic and increase safety" and the REAL reason, "to write tickets and bring in money".
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  730.  @justinjohnson4950  A shed. A shed or a garage is somehow the origin story of so many great inventors.
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  731. Marge has never met a fact she couldn't mangle out of shape for her need to flap her gums.
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  732. A cancelling on Twitter is like a resounding ovation from people whose opinion means something.
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  733. If raiding the wrong address is okay, why bother getting a warrant in the first place?
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  734. "You can't sue us!" - "Why>" "Because it might set a case precedent!!!"
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  735.  cpk8636-6  You've got more spamming than Hormel!
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  736. If it saves just one life! Think of the children!
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  737. To whom it may concern at Hertz: If you can find the gas tank on this Tesla, I will pay twice what you are charging, with the understanding that if you cannot, you will pay me that same amount. - With regards, your former customer.
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  738.  @DUCKYGAMINGau  In a lot of shots, he's pulling back a light stunt bow and the arrows are CGI. And the less said about surfing a shield down stone stairs, the better.
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  739. I'd rather take a bus than fly.
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  740. Ignore the polls, vote.
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  741. Colin Furze has been turning the INTERNET up to 11 since 2006!
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  742. "We have investigated ourselves and found that the cop acted EXACTLY AS TRAINED to increase ticket income, income from the auction of impounded property, and executing civil asset forfeiture."
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  743. All these fools throwing themselves on grenades for Orange Julius Caeser, yet the Combover Crook is the person tossing the grenades.
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  744. Yeah. "Aerodynamic approach*" *For certain interpretations of "aerodynamic"
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  745.  @johnmcmickle5685  Then it is criminal asset forfeiture.
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  746. By dismissing the case, the government ONCE AGAIN avoids a precedent being entered into case history.
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  747.  @mrwdpkr5851  The obligatory nay-sayer has been hear from! Hallelujah!
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  748. I kind of feel bad for the Russian lower enlisted who were likely ordered to dig defensive trenches in the contaminated soil. Then there are those who grabbed souvenirs... There goes much of my pity.
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  749.  @amorphoussolid8512  We're not abusing the language, we just don't want "u" in it so much.
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  750.  @henryokeeffe5835  As a kid I watched a lot of the black & white cowboy movies and shows. revolvers were: 1) 6-12 shot pistols and 2) all loaded with "f-pwing!" rounds that were aerodynamically designed to ricochet in the loudest possible way.
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  751. "I am often given credit on the internet for things I didn't say." - Abraham Lincoln
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  752. She is quoted as saying she didn't expect her FACEBOOK POST (emphasis mine) to get beyond Springfield (Ohio). Either she was lying, or she needs a caretaker.
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  753. "Why is the Russian subway so nice and the New York subway a sewer pipe?" - Well Tucker, in Russia, a vandal can get Gulag time. In NYC, a vandal might get a fine.
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  754. "By selling me a consumer grade product, the manufacturer waives all rights to binding arbitration except at the sole discretion of the purchaser at my sole discretion."
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  755. Colbert would not have made that mistake.
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  756. I give it about 35% odds that "the other guy" stole the cats, and 35% that "the other guy" was doing a post robbery patch-it repair at the customer's request. That leaves 30% chance "the other guy" was the customer, either selling their cats, or trying to fix the system post theft. 15% for each option.
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  757. You get shorter time penalties for rape in many jurisdictions. And under certain idiot judges.
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  758. Meh, I was too busy saving up for a Zune.
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  759. When I first started watching both channels, I thought the talking was just for our benefit, to explain and teach. But now I am thinking it is also for the benefit of the animals, proving calm, quiet and constant human sound to anchor them, as much as possible, away from anxiety.
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  760. That one got me good.
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  761.  @danmar007  No way! So, the fur, and the small size, and the four-legged digitigrade locomotion, and the tail were not some clever disguise?
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  762. If I got a postcard from the future, I would like it to include winning PowerBall numbers.
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  763. Maybe they're not mad about the attack as much as the accuracy and effectiveness? So, simple jealousy?
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  764. Methinks the Fort Collins arrest was targeted retribution as "a favor to a pal".
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  765. I'm old enough to remember when the only scan tool was a combination of a timing light and the ear of the mechanic.
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  766. This one-pedal driving seems to me to be the first length of a path that will lead to drivers who don't know how to drive other vehicles. Much like how manual transmissions today are almost an anti-theft device.
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  767. Not the hero of clueless college students, Che Guevara! He killed people just because he could.
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  768. Morphy. Ian's home away from home. Thank you for letting Ian show us so many things, Morphy!
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  769. Yep, where they have been taking this virus seriously for a lot longer than we have in 'Murica.
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  770. Ray has hit the "You will own nothing, and be happy" economy. That is the future the corporations want us to get used to.
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  771. Even out in central MA I see a lot of white people with BLM bumper stickers on their cars. It's a form of auto insurance these days.
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  772.  @dustojnikhummer  If it is my phone, then give me the reasoning behind the desire to slow my phone down. TELL me about these supposed voltage draw spikes and let ME decide if I want to risk it. Informed choice should not just be in regards medical procedures.
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  773. Also, a neighborhood of million-dollar homes in an area that only pays enough for people to buy at $250,000 is not "available homes". Nor is a building full of $5,000/month apartments useful for people who can maybe (with enough roommates) afford $1,500. (Looking at YOU, NYC!)
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  774.  @bendover7841  Literally millions, or "literally" (New-speak weak definition as coopted by lazy users of the language) millions?
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  775.  @maybelater1464  Right? It's like saying, "If you can't perform dentistry, you shouldn't have teeth!"
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  776. It's a rental spine. He'll fold for the next opportunity that comes along.
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  777. I would love for Joe to debate an empty podium, with a sign on the podium reading "This participant refused to attend".
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  778. I thought of a fruit roll-up myself.
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  779. That would be a fun one to be in the gallery for.
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  780. When I first heard about the puppies thing, I was more, "Well yeah, animal experimentation. Next?" Then the report I was hearing covered the failure to follow the humane requirements for anesthetization and minimally humane treatment. That was when I jumped right to the other side of the issue.
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  781. Good point, as long as it doesn't backfire with people EXPECTING free stuff.
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  782. Pearl's secret cat name might be Houdini.
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  783. The fact that your school had an HR person gives me the creeping shudders.
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  784. One of my favorite pre-pandemic channels was GTOger, and the content was simply fixed camera footage of the guy's business parking spots. He has something like nine signs on the building and a fence stating that the parking is ONLY for the business, others WILL be towed, and the number to call if someone parks there and later finds their car not present. The channel had a lot of content due to all of the restaurants, night clubs, and music venues within a couple of blocks. So many people would pull into the lot, VISIBLY read the signs, and leave their car parked in the spot, then act surprised when they show up an hour or two later and their car is missing.
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  785. And there were likely no penalties against the lying cops. More likely, a pat on the back for all the tickets that DID pay.
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  786. Ways to bankrupt a casino: - mess with the slot machines so they pay more than they take in - spend more than you earn - keep the doors locked, don't let money in the door. - embezzle outrageously.
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  787. I love the plan to send former (convicted) Trump associates to schools. We can call it "Scared Left"!
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  788. Re: British English. For the love of bacon, please stop saying "mil-a-tree" when it's spelled military! I'll even "go to hospital" if you stop milling the trees.
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  789. A point about the jeep story you reference, which I did not think of at the time, is that liability would also not let the vehicle owner drive the jeep into or out of the garage themselves. Which makes the law in question even MORE broken.
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  790. TSA agents are too often not well trained, and sometimes not even well supervised.
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  791. If I was facing jail time, I think I'd rather have a fake lawyer with great legal skills than a real lawyer with bad lawyer skills. But a fake lawyer with bad legal skills? The worst of both worlds.
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  792.  @fignewtoneater  If they were truly concerned about proceeds from sales of illegal drugs, they would build a case or have a credible tip and get a warrant that would include your arrest and charging for said crimes. Civil asset forfeiture charges the asset (cash, car, property) of some nebulous crime and lets you walk away free. Then you get to try and (with whatever assets they have graciously left to you, hire a lawyer to try and prove that the things the cops stole are NOT guilty of a crime. You cannot recover legal fees which often go over the amount seized (and "they" know it which lets them run the clock to cost you more and more).
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  793.  @TheLaXandro  Besides, if you don't cloud your data, then it can't be searched by the companies through which your data passes, and the CEOs need more yachts!
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  794. Only if you're a cop, DA or judge.
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  795. It looks like a combination of giving up and "oh, the air is petting me?"
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  796. I think the whole ramp they poured the lava out on was steel.
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  797. I was somehow raised right. So if I use a bathroom in a business, I always spend some money, even if the stop was JUST to use the bathroom. I also leave the bathroom at LEAST as clean as I found it. I have actually picked up after other people (paper towels, mostly). - So maybe part of NYC's problem is bad parenting?
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  798. @Jonathan Motl If they are not edible (and I am seeing comments all over the spectrum, which may reflect regional pollution and food source differences) then maybe use them as fertilizer for replanting forests. If it is heavy metals, those could be removed with chemical processes after turning the fish into a slurry.
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  799. You could probably make a corgi from the fur that was cleared!
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  800. There was a guy who lived in the same apartment complex as a friend of mine in Worcester MA (late 1990's I think). This guy had been ticketed and arrested for drunk driving over half a dozen times, and since Massachusetts takes your license for life after the third conviction, the last five arrests included driving without a license. He would serve a little time, get out with promises to go to AA, then within a few weeks be caught driving drunk again. After arrest number six or seven, a judge banned him from owning a car, and had the county sheriffs seize and sell his car. So he would borrow other peoples' cars... drunk.
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  801. Poor guy, the older/tighter mats can get quite sensitive.
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  802.  @dianeblott6076  Hmm... I don't think Spencer calls himself a landscaper. I have not seen him use earth moving equipment, plant trees and bushes, create flower beds...
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  803. They should just give each other noble titles and stop hiding their goals.
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  804.  @markae0  This is very true. If a toilet is going to be missing for any length of time, then a rubber cap should be clamped onto the open pipe.
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  805. I would add to the suit that the club has to change its name to "Immoralton"
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  806. To everyone who says, "Better wheelchairs don't effect me." the word they forget to add is "yet". No, not everyone will need a wheelchair, but anyone could.
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  807. Some of us have not been programmed by Tik Tok to only tolerate very short content.
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  808. She is an angertainment influencer.
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  809.  @onpoint2292  I HATE the touchscreen consoles in cars. Distracted driving is statistically as dangerous, within a few percentage points either way, drunk driving. But now the radio and environmental controls REQUIRE me to look away from the road to find the right place to touch a screen? And with the ubiquity of smart phones, why does a car have to have a GPS mapping capability, except to allow someone else to gather that information for purposes inimical to my desires.
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  810. The most important part: He only pranks people he knows, and not strangers.
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  811. It's hard to value your job when you're not paid enough to have food, transportation, clothing, and a weather-tight place to at least sleep.
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  812. I lost a civil case for my employer once by telling the complete truth. My employer hated courts so much he refused to enter them unless he was taken in under arrest. So he sent me to represent him in a collections case on a contract for work he did. Before going, I read the contract and the bid information, and knew that the homeowner was going to win because my employer SUCKED at writing a contract. - The judge asked me two questions that sank my employer's claims. "Does the contract state what the homeowner is claiming?" - Me: "The contract could be read that way." "Have you ever been to the job site?" - Me: "No, my boss sent me because he didn't want to be here." "Everything I am seeing would have me find for the homeowner." - Me: Makes sense, your honor." - I was never sent to court for my employer again, which was a win for me.
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  813. Specifically the skills test. I know that in my state you can decline to take the skills test, but refusing a roadside breathalyzer results in immediate revocation of your driver's license.
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  814.  @ZiggyGrok  And Arizona cited laws from before they were a state to support an oppressive ruling.
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  815. And the E4 mafia has not stopped telling the tale since.
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  816. I am daily pushed closer and closer to very regrettable illegal action.
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  817.  @DellikkilleD  I don't think the majority of people (in the US) don't want others to listen to the music of their choice. They just may not want you to listen to it at high volume where they have to hear it. Particularly if the lyrics are offensive to them. - If I hired someone at a widget repair depot, and they were the world's best widget repair person, but insisted on playing rap with explicit lyrics, or ANY C&W at high volume, "because they're good at the job"... Well, they can be "good at the job" somewhere else.
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  818. Truth. That is some serious self-discipline to not blow that money on any number of "wouldn't that be cool?" purchases.
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  819. Heck, I remember when two launches within four months was sprinting.
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  820. Cop: "Are you carrying any cash?" Me: "Oh my gosh! Are you soliciting a bribe?"
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  821. Because he lets people hate.
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  822. A possible reason for all of this "accommodation" for Trump, starting with Florida as a venue, is to short circuit reasonable causes for an appeal after Donnie is convicted.
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  823.  @thomasboys7216  Hotel: Tri... sheds.
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  824. Ah yes, arrested for being loud and not trusting cops. Hell, on those charges, about half of the country would end up in prison.
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  825.  @stickyfox  How does privately owned land "go to waste" if the owner is actively custodial? What crops MUST be planted to prevent "wastefulness"? Corn? Beets? Sorghum? Pot? Opium poppies? Oh, maybe the land can be allowed to be used as grazing! What animals would make the grazing not "wasting" the land? Sheep? Cows? Nutria? - If the landowner is paying their taxes, and their land use does not negatively impact others, then they're using their land correctly.
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  826. Send two heavily armed and armored guys to do what a phone call could. Makes cop-sense.
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  827. Nobody here talking about the "supernatural" treatments. Dr. Cancer Ghost is upset.
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  828. Initially I was thinking, "Husky mix? I don't see it." Then came the furnado.
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  829. Perhaps a pro-cancer-cells movement is called for in this ludicrous time.
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  830. My thoughts are in alignment. If the land mass developed naturally with a land bridge, it is a peninsula. If humans build a bridge to it, that doesn't negate its "island-ness".
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  831.  @TheGamersRace  Arrogance, incompetence, laziness?
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  832. OMG I would finally see a transformers movie is Helen Mirren played O.P.!
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  833. "Solar takes up land and is expensive to buy!" "Wind kills way fewer birds than feral housecats and the blades are not yet being recycled!" - "Burning fossil fuels is (cough, cough)..."
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  834. I was in an argument on Yahoo news with a guy who was claiming that there is no personal information stored in his car's computer. And then he went on to explain how he finds the in-dash system's ability to store phone numbers and act like a GPS mapping system make his life more convenient. - Total sheeple moment right there.
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  835.  @dwolvin  That was pretty much my thought. With the suppressor, they'll never hear the helicopter popping up over the ridge!
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  836. Even IF that "ordinance" were constitutional, the woman is right. They need probable cause. This is not the Soviet Union "Документы, пожалуйста" (Documents, please).
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  837. Sadly, that house may be beyond "fixing it up" if the condition of the roof and siding are an indication. There may have been enough water intrusion to cause structural damage. - I will admit that I could be wrong. - edit: Oh! The really bad roof was the shed, not the back of the house.
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  838. And as to the "Spending YOUR money!" line? If James prosecutes Orange Donnie, she gets paid. If James prosecutes shoplifters, she gets paid exactly the same.
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  839. "Don't question my faith!" Sure, but then don't question my faith in science, you tool.
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  840. But when they resign, those responsible for doing so often decide not to apply charges, letting those resigned cops just go get work elsewhere with no stain on their record.
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  841. Given recent events, many more people are choosing Airbus for the mid-flight bathroom visits.
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  842. My go-to "detox" product? Water.
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  843. "Secret ethics report" is not an ethics report. It's a damn coverup.
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  844.  @Sniperboy5551  Conceptually easy, but labor and money intensive.
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  845. What really strikes me is that today a person with an internet connection and a decent knowledge base can do the kind of thing that, in the 1990's, would take the CIA a room of analysts, a "supercomputer", piles of humint and perhaps an SR-71 or satellite overflight.
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  846.  @Undomaranel  So many people who think of themselves as subject experts seem afraid to use the words, "I don't know."
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  847. Sort of the effect that Doolittle's raid had on Japan in WW2.
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  848. Well, they wouldn't bring him an apple. Or an Apple.
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  849. He could have been a poorly-skilled fry cook. His recording activity as constitutionally protected, and the police activity was illegal.
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  850.  @Dave-ty2qp  I think Steve did a better job with that topic than I could. Wait, are you trying to intimate that I SUPPORT imprisonment for refusing to work overtime? That's either a massive mis-read of my previous post, or an outrageous attack on me.
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  851. I love this idea, and second it.
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  852.  @frankm7707  "He hates the same people I hate! He gets my vote!"
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  853. Do you have any idea how danged EXPENSIVE it is to refill with BMW-approved blinker fluid?
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  854. Two of my favorite train fights: The train fight in a kind of B, B- movie, The Hunted - 1995. (Christopher Lambert, samurai, ninjas...) The train fight in episode 13 of Violet Evergarden.
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  855. The "One time payment of $700" is the first, emergency allocation. After which, those impacted by the disaster can work with FEMA and get longer term housing (currently set for around nine months, but may be extended) as well as assistance for things like food, clothing, medical needs, and more. So the $700 is like handing a tired landscaper a bottle of cold water and asking what else they need. FEMA doesn't throw rolls of paper towels at people flooded out of their homes...
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  856. And they don't name their company/product some virtue-signaling thing like "Purism".
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  857. We have determined that we are not guilty of any wrongdoing, and you can't afford to sue us anyway.
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  858.  @Fatazz  The meat in a hot dog is pureed before it is shoved in a tube and cooked. You CAN put lettuce, cheese and hot sauce on your hot dog. ergo: taco.
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  859.  @sixfigureskibum  You do know you can pay a little more for quality hot dogs with a LOT less mystery included, right?
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  860.  @odesangel  No doubt a case of penny-wise and pound-foolish, as you describe.
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  861. "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." "Knowledge of the law offends us and we will do whatever we can to jack you up."
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  862. Stories like this trigger the part of my brain that just grins and repeats, "Shallow grave in the state forest."
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  863. I think "rotating detonation engine" is one of the coolest names for a rocket ever.
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  864. Open the pod bay... I mean front door Alexa. - I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.
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  865. A friend's apartment was burglarized, and the police flat out told him and his roommates that since nobody was hurt or killed, and nothing that was stolen was easily identifiable, there was very little they could do besides take a report. My friend asked how many bodies would it take for the next break-in to be taken seriously. No sense of humor in Fall River MA cops...
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  866.  @dnomyarnostaw  Small criminals who go uncaught often evolve into bigger-ticket criminals.
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  867. Pepsi looks a lot like my recently passed boy. His hair grew in in corkscrews and tangled at a glance. I went through a lot of methods to deal with his tangles and his claws. Twice his tangles got so bad I had to get him shaved to the skin, poor guy. But as for nails, I had to be patients, being able to clip one or two a day, and just remember where I left off. I found the key was to just let him run off when he was done with patience and eventually I got him to one, sometimes two paws in a sitting. - I guess I am saying, be patient with your grumpy furball, and just love the cat you've got. A grumpy cat in your life is often better than no cat in your life.
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  868. cop: "I smell pot" - "Maybe you shouldn't use pot at work, officer."
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  869.  @kushnkanopy8940  The enlisted? Yeah, I can full believe they noticed and reported. The investigation needs to look at where in the chain of command the "willful blindness" kicked in.
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  870. And that way, set a case precedent.
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  871. Looks like something a Mandalorian might use...
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  872. Lack of a tiger cage, a large plot of land to lose it in, and a solid alibi?
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  873. Plus, the full rendition of "Baa, baa, black sheep" was almost worth you having to endure the hurricane.
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  874. Once you've been in a face-off against a raccoon, you'll understand. They have a raspy, sharp growl that gets into your bones. - I'll never again get in a dispute with a raccoon. If it steals food off my plate at a picnic, I must have used the wrong table.
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  875. Technician? No, officer, I never saw a technician. Well, not since he parked his vehicle in my driveway and walked thataway...
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  876. When I was in, I had to sign for a decades-obsolete radio comms book that was just a photocopy of a single document that was stamped "not secret" whenever we went into the field. The point was not that the commo book was a source of leaks, but that the procedure was a training standard for if/when I would have to take custody of ACTUAL controlled documents. - This was when I was 18, and I took it seriously. That obsolete commo book was tied to me the whole time I had it, was in my pockets when I slept, and only handed over with a hand-receipt, even when an officer in my chain of command wanted access to it. Sure, my Lt. thought I was being anal, but this was from a butter-bar who had a hard time keeping track of his own helmet over the course of an afternoon.
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  877. So South Dakota has NO highly skilled dentists or orthodontists?
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  878. It's already too nice for me to afford.
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  879. A friend of my brother was having a house built with exterior framing of 2x6, 18" on center. The inspector demanded, in writing, that the builders rip it all down and replace it with 2x4, 24" on center. Within five months the house was twisting, jamming doors and windows and opening gaps that weather blew straight through. The town lawyered up and fought tooth and nail until the homeowner had to give up for lack of money for lawyers. And the inspector never even lost a shift. - edit: the 18" on center above should be 16" on center. Thanks, OneWildTurkey!
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  880.  @AmbianEagleheart  You nearly cost me a keyboard. I was drinking tea when I read your comment.
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  881. Ah, those peaceful, neutral Swedes. Between their weapons, their furniture kits, the meatballs and the women, they should rule the world. But no. Neutral...
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  882.  cpk8636-6  It is, of course, a shame that you can't be bothered to figure out enough words to differentiate your various cult comments.
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  883. Draw and Quarter. On pay-per-view.
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  884. That is one of the big problems with homeschooling. There is no way to fire a bad teacher.
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  885. This is the same city that stole peoples' motorcycles and quad runners and drove bulldozers over them to show how evolved the city can be.
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  886. Don't do such a thing to Hungary! Send them to Atlantis. Just convince them that if enough of them form a pile on the bottom of the sea, DJT can stand on the new island of Atlantis, feet dry.
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  887.  @PtylerBeats  The upside to CDs is that you are not required to keep an active subscription to listen to your music.
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  888. Republican? Ah yes, the party of "Cruelty IS the point."
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  889.  @JustPlainRob  When video creators get a vague "Your video has been removed/demonetized/restricted because of violation of terms of service" email, and it take hour to days to reach a human who can even marginally say WHAT part of the terms of service were violated, it is a broken damn system.
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  890.  @westhomas5870  I remember in the 1970's and 80's when my parents would joke about how the family car was "scheduled" or built to die as soon as the last payment was made. And somehow that was accepted as fate.
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  891. They were SO offended that they remembered the sign later and clearly enough to complain about it accurately. Seems like that sign worked.
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  892. "Solar power in space could work 24/7!" - So beam it down to a ground collector, use what you need, sell the rest. Sure, the FAA might get uppity about having to route around the column of high energy, and you may get a scavenger problem on site with all the pre-cooked birds landing...
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  893. Also, the time to point these sorts of things out is BEFORE the trial is complete... twice.
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  894.  @janeenharris3074  My US state still allows the practice, only when done by a licensed veterinarian. Sad. At bill banning the declawing of cats was working its way through committees, but I can find no information on action about it after November of 2021. - Governments need a serious booster shot of "get-off-your-butts".
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  895. There are a couple of remedies for the problem with your half brother using your identity. One relies on "the system" deciding to lock him up long-term, another depends on how much you and your family really want that guy to continue converting free oxygen into carbon dioxide.
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  896. This is a "feature" that someone with soldering skills could make cheaply. What it is, a light sensor, and a switching circuit? edit: Heck, you could just break open a plug-in night light and save the parts hunt. You can get a 4-pack at WalMart for $8.
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  897. Not to mention the baloney of cops becoming "certified [substance] experts" and then the VAST majority of their post-pull-over arrests seem to magically and reliably find the certified [substance] on the driver, a passenger, or somewhere in the car (and sometimes planted there).
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  898. Would that cast Amazon as our Weyland-Yutani?
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  899.  @chachaguillotine187  Truth. If it was fun, you'd probably be expected to pay to do it.
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  900. Long ago, I owned a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle with an "Autostick" or "manumatic" transmission that was essentially a stick shift three-speed transmission with no clutch and no gear release button/level/action. My mother borrowed my car for a week while hers was in the shop, and she angrily accused me of letting her drive a car with a failing transmission because it kept slipping out of gear at road speeds. I drove it for an hour, and noticed nothing. So I sat in the passenger seat and had HER drive for a bit, and noticed that she had a habit, from driving a normal manual transmission, or resting her hand on the stick shift as she drove. But in the manumatic world, that light pressure plus a bump in the road was enough to tell the transmission you were shifting, and it disengaged the current gear selection. - So I got yelled at for not telling her about THAT before-hand. Ah, good times.
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  901. Asking takes so little effort, and avoids a lot of later problems.
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  902.  @josephcitizen4195  But, warning other drivers of a speed trap reduces revenue! And that's the REAL crime here! - unofficial police policy
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  903.  @helenm6732  Rather like you should always have a pre-purchase inspection done by a skilled mechanic before buying a car. PARTICULARLY if you're buying from Buy Here Pay Here or Carvana!!!
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  904. In Massachusetts, we had a neighbor ask us to cut down one of our white pine trees because it was dropping sap and branches on their car in their driveway. We looked at the tree, determined that it was reaching "that age" and made an agreement that we would cut it down if they would affirm that any accidental damage to the fence between the properties during the removal would not be charged to us. We coordinated a weekend when they parked on the street and took the tree down in pieces and one friend of ours hauled it away for their outdoor wood fires. - We avoided legal entanglements in the matter by... (gasp!) TALKING to our neighbors.
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  905. I occasionally have to remind myself that Estonia is NOT Elbonia. ... Sorry Estonia. It's a defect in my brain, not a deliberate insult.
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  906. Imagine if they dared to also rent out UHaul trucks there? The horror...
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  907. I would be tempted to get door magnets for my next car that read, "My last car was stolen by the [town] police."
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  908.  @tomf3150  Spherical cans are only needed for spherical cows in zero-G.
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  909. The electoral college made SOME sense when communications moved at the speed of a horse. And when voting was done by gathering voters (land-owning white men) at commons and arguing back and forth until a winner for that town was chosen.
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  910. Not only is he not a medical professional, the person he looks to for health advice is a comedian. edit: and not a really funny one either.
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  911. The father of a friend of mine could have used this treatment. He looked like he was wearing earplugs made from shag carpet.
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  912. Oh hey! Another car owner who marks their engine cover with the oil type/amount and the oil filter part number! So glad to finally find out I'm not the only one!!!
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  913. You don't have to read the fine print. Upon seeing the letter HOA, you look elsewhere.
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  914.  @eye5448  Another bad guess from the peanut gallery! Completely and irrevocably hetero here. Perhaps I can get in front of some more raging morons? I vote issue, not party. I drive within speed limits and use directionals. I have never been arrested or fined for a criminal matter. I don't litter, instead I pick up litter I encounter. I put shopping carts in the corrals. I prefer cats over dogs for pets, but have had both. (as well as hamsters and goldfish) I hate people for what they do and say, not the color of their skin, their sexual orientation, or their religion (even though I find religion silly). I don't follow any sports. - If I forgot one of the "trigger" issues, I am sure we will all hear about it.
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  915. If there has been a jury award set, the time for "settling it between each other" seems to have long since passed.
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  916. Sadly, the good cops end up getting pushed out of the job by the 'good 'ol boys' network.
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  917.  @trenaceandblackmetal5621  As long as you can make your point in 2-5 syllables, you can get a crowd chanting and whipped into a frenzy. "Let's go Brandon" "Lock her up" "Blood and soil"
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  918. Well, according to 9-year-old me, it's an oil bird. Pecking at the ground to pull oil out of the dirt.
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  919.  @SnailHatan  I am over 5 decades old. I DO remember when Time was high quality journalism. I remember when the news was just the facts, without the factional editorializing and politicizing. (well, there was rampant pro-Americanism...)
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  920. DMCA stands for Dick Move Corporate Action, yes?
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  921.  @mastervanced1768  I'd honestly prefer if they spent it on ensuring officers knew the law they were hired to enforce, and maybe put some money to non-enforcement resources such as people trained to deal with mental health related calls.
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  922. Everything should be opt-in, not opt-out. "Do you want Brussels sprouts with your filet mignon" (HECK NO!) "Are you interested in the matching tie for the suit?" "Do you want the $200 extraction or the $1200 root canal and crown?" "Do you want this software to track your driving habits and routes and report it to the auto maker for whatever use they feel like putting it to?"
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  923. Don't pollute the harbor with judges. Toss the fool in a sewage treatment facility.
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  924. @ankid8045 Our society is WAY over-installing touchscreens. Remember, every public touchscreen has probably been touched by someone who doesn't wash their hands after using the bathroom. - "Applies to buttons too!" you say? Well, I can push a button with the eraser end of a pencil, or my elbow, or my finger wrapped in a tissue, or any other means of not using my food-touching fingers to touch what others may have polluted.
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  925. I appreciate FINALLY learning what "spun bearings" means, over thirty years after first hearing the phrase.
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  926. Texas? Stupid laws? Must be a day ending in y.
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  927. Poor rich guy. Buys all those people in law enforcement and the legal system and STILL can't illegally co-opt public lands? What's even happening to this country?
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  928. "Sorry Guyana, we never agreed with that 124-year-old land treaty, but now since you actually found OIL under the ground, we're just taking over half of your country." "Nothing personal, I just need to distract my country from runaway inflation and the loss of legal rights under my authoritarian rule. You understand, right?"
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  929. Regarding the "unarmed man, waaaah!" comments, one need not be armed to be dangerous.
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  930. Because we, the serf class, can not afford enough politicians in influental positions.
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  931.  @thisguy2958  Bah! You probably like Brussel's sprouts, too. Dontcha?
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  932. And it was more that he was throwing aspersions on her accent (and probably her skin color).
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  933. Even if his political views were 180 degrees different, posting them on a sign outside your restaurant is stupid. People come to a restaurant for good food, good prices, good service, and clean surroundings. Not your politics.
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  934. For me, the Finland thing doesn't even rank on crazy. It has to get in line behind a mob comprised of other crazy ideas including: Flat Earth, Earth-centric solar system, Faked moon landings, space being fake, contrails are chemical warfare, plandemic, 5G causes the pandemic, "inside job" conspiracies, lizard aliens live among us, the UN is sterilizing white people to reduce our birth rate, Antarctic ice wall, hollow earth, and so many more.
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  935. Pepperidge Farms remembers...
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  936.  @DirtyTurtle67  I bought a few varied combs for my cat, and even though he doesn't let me comb him fully in any one session, I am able to keep up on his tangles by getting a minute or two in each "session", sometimes getting three or four sessions in a day. - So it's not about one big combing, but a kind of 'snacking' at the issues. once I started this idea, he got a lot calmer about the whole process as I used to try and pin him down to get it all done in one big go.
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  937. This is a dog for whom you don't need a brush. You need a garden rake! edit: but in seriousness, maybe an afro pick comb instead of a normal dog brush would make home grooming easier and less resisted?
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  938.  @jimmymags6516  This must be a very important narrative for you. So much so that you keep posting it over and over with no changes in wording.
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  939. They may have just been dealing with the effects of unaccustomed exercise. The arrest does show some of the hallmarks of a "You made me RUN, a-hole!" apprehension. Including the continued tasing of a handcuffed and immobile person!!! WHAT THE [redacted]!? - At least they didn't fire bullets... this time?
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  940. And Representative eyepatch (Crenshaw?) can't even say that willful retention of defense documents is a problem. He wasn't being asked to give a verdict on the giant Oompa-Loompa, but to comment on something anyone should be able to figure out.
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  941.  @CidVeldoril  The phones are thinner, yes. But they're also bigger in the other two dimensions. I wonder what the net change in actual enclosed volume is. - Another point is that the fragility of these thin phones have a lot of owners adding a phone case and screen protector. How much weight and size do those things add back to the thin, light phone? - This is not an attack on you, CidVeldoril. You posting just brought those thoughts to mind.
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  942.  @terised  "As a boomer" also, I can assure you that you are incorrect. Please take care when making assertions, particularly of an absolute nature, for absolutes need but one contrary example to be refuted. - Plus, 'Only Sith deal in absolutes." - which is in itself a statement of absolutes. Weird.
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  943. Malicious compliance is my favorite American sport.
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  944. The only thing I would have done different was to sacrifice the pretty of the shrubbery for the width of the sidewalk. But this is not my yard, and I am not doing the work.
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  945.  @reesbritton6623  Quite. Most trades don't WANT non-employees "helping" for insurance reasons. If you come over and help a landscaper but cut off your toe with the power edger, or help a roof but fall off the roof and break an arm, who pays? The contractor and/or the property owner.
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  946. The cops will just be careful to only arrest poor and powerless people under this new law.
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  947. I'm offended on behalf of the US Constitution!
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  948. Lie and deny. It is the way.
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  949. The difference between crying wolf and crying nuke is the wolf might eat one boy while a nuke can kill millions. And nobody is all that concerned with a massive international volley after volley of revenge wolves...
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  950. That was her mistake. She didn't beat a brown person while stealing that shirt.
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  951.  @abdirahimmah7541  Yeah! They should have brought country music instead of rap!
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  952. Plus the lift is occupied meaning you can't work on another car (at least on that lift) while waiting for replacement parts.
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  953. It really should.
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  954. No better sign that this community has far too many police on the payroll. - But if this home has a package taken from the porch, those same cops would say, "Nothing we can do about it."
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  955. Lies! You don't get breaks! Does Jeff know you're goofing off?
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  956. And heterochromia to boot! - edit: Whoa, even different colored claws.
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  957. You replaced you r own engine mount instead of having the dealership do it? What if you did it wrong? Think of the children! If it saves even one life! Oh no the warranty! If you repair your own car, you'll know where you live and stalk yourself home to do nasty things to yourself at night! You might even follow yourself into a parking garage! (This was sarcasm)
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  958.  @musehivision1864  Dang it. Time to put down my tank of irradiated arachnids...
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  959. Seriously!
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  960. And, they are rarely branded, avoiding paying anyone for rights.
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  961. His password is just eight asterisks.
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  962. The biggest beautiful lawsuit. More bigly than any lawsuit before.
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  963.  @poisoncheeto9956  What part of "closest thing... we've seen TO DATE" (emphasis mine) makes Mark's post wrong? Are you aware of something closer to a Star Trek holodeck?
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  964. I wish the institute for Justice was unnecessary, but they are sadly required to address injustices in our broken system.
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  965. The one that took me to the floor was, "Yeah, but this time you put the pants on the chimpanzee."
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  966.  @geoffstrickler  Apple is no paragon of a company. Until laws are enacted AND ENFORCED making all this stuff opt-in instead of opt-out or no-choice-at-all, we WILL continue to be taken for all we're worth. - I can't synchronize my phone with my car if I wanted to. 2011 Focus, no touchscreen, no software updates, actual buttons, knobs, and window cranks.
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  967.  @SilverMe2004  Making the accuser(s) PROVE via registry databases that they, in fact, DO own a car. BEFORE they mail off the camera-based citation.
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  968. Yes!
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  969. Steve Lehto has a depressing video today about a case being dismissed against the car makers using the synching of your phone to the car to go into your phone(s) and copy call logs and texts to use and sell the data.
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  970.  @jacobhealy8376  I have gone motorboating. Though, it involved no boats, and less moisture.
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  971. Gee, I wonder WHY anyone would want to shoot that cop. The mind boggles.
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  972. I love that "thanks for the free house!" move.
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  973. When THEY all simultaneously scream "POLICESEARCHWARRANT!" and/or issue conflicting orders at the top of their voices, it's fine. When a person they have violated gets loud, all of a sudden volume is a problem. I wish a plague of permanent incontinence upon all of the people involved in this raid.
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  974. Large checks from donors raising bank balances of our leadership. There's the modern "checks and balances".
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  975.  @backwoodstherapy  I think a great response to the "Oh we have plumbing problems" would be to say, 'What a coincidence! I'm a plumber, going to a plumber's convention, and I happen to have all of my tools and some supplies with me! I'll fix it for free, just meet me with the key and show me the plumbing issue."
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  976.  @ThrasherGnar  I'm sorry, did I forget to include a huge SARCASM indicator on my previous comment for the benefit of the reading-impaired crowd? Sheesh.
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  977.  @dsdy1205  There is a secret engineering rule that states, in some variation or other, "The power plant, warp core, or other dangerous energy source shall have a method of safely defusing, powering down, and/or ejecting. And that system shall break easily and often."
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  978.  @rossmanngroup  Some people find fault wherever they can. Like movie critics.
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  979. There is a quote spoken by Barry Goldwater, written by Karl Hess for his speech. “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
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  980. That was more the case when Congress was almost entirely emotionally mature, and at least moderately intelligent, power-seeking adults. Over time, it has become at least partly a daycare facility for "mentally challenged" power-seekers.
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  981.  @iroll  Yep, the clothing acts to both wick and diffuse the kerosene.
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  982. YouTube needs to actually TELL creators what the "violations" are instead of a vague lazy hand-wave of "You done bad, kid." If you punish without clarity, you cause rebellion. In children, it can be disrespect, crime, or self harm. In content creators, it pushes them to Substack, Nebula, or other options that take money away from the Google house.
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  983. The only reason I have an air fryer is that a friend kept raving about them and the only way to make her stop was to let her buy me one. I made sure it was a smaller model, as I am but one human in my own domicile. In the 2-1/2 years I've had it, I think I've used it four times.
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  984. Don't tear things down. Add the full facts. If you simply erase everything that someone doesn't like, you end up with a blank slate, and a dumb populace. - Also, stop teaching the country's kids on overpriced Texas-slanted textbooks!
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  985.  Reuel T  If I have caught Covid-19 and die from heart failure, pneumonia, renal failure, brain aneurism, stroke, or some other cause of death that would not have killed me then without the Covid, it's a gorram Covid death!
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  986.  @phoqueme  That's what I was saying to the family when that aspect of the trial came on the news.
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  987.  @deoxal7947  Not sure why it is my responsibility to search out and find, then link a video that you could search out, find and watch, but here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdwDvz47lNw Okay?
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  988. We got an all-female Ghostbusters, but we'll never get an all-male Sex and the City, will we?
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  989. I did that once. Cue the 3 second mental reset.
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  990. Hearing #45 say "witch hunt" so many times, I started hearing it as "Wit Chunt"
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  991.  @MattyEngland  Four wrong guesses in one insult. Is that a personal best?
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  992. And people will raise a glass to you for decades!
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  993. About 25 or so years ago, my mother's neighbor wanted a tree on our side of their fence cut down because it was starting to drop dead branches on tier driveway, risking damage to their car. They talked, then my mother got me and my friends to take down the worst tree and thin out the dead branches from the rest. We had no prior experience felling trees, and almost none of the right equipment, but we did at least operate with the understanding from the neighbor that if we only slightly dented their fence, it wouldn't be a problem. We limbed and felled that tree in three 20-foot sections, pulling each piece into our yard, and after that and the other thinning was done, cleaned and swept their driveway. We even found someone willing to take white pine wood for outdoor campfire wood. - The important thing here was that the aggrieved party and the owning party actually TALKED the matter over and came to an agreement. Something that seems to be more rare as time passes.
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  994. Destin's channel is great, yeah?
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  995. Nobody with the will and spare money to fight it to the US Supreme Court has been stolen from yet. In part because before any case has the possibility to get that far, the seizing department folds and gives the money back
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  996. The fact that "Innocent until proven guilty" is not a Constitutional right, leads to how we have Civil Asset forfeiture, where police can take your money and property as "proceeds of criminal activity" without even charging the owner of said assets. And the money/property is "guilty until proven innocent" at the sole expense of the person trying to reclaim their property. - Yes, this is a bit tangential to the main body of the video, but it is a vile legal situation that needs more awareness, and more pressure on our politicians to make it end.
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  997. I am more familiar with the J-W-H measurement system (Jawa - Wookie - Hutt), but I will look into the standard banana after watching this video.
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  998.  @MarkLada  Typically, burn permits are something you see in towns and cities where houses are closer together than the "This is my 40 acres!" places in the country. The permits are cheap, and mostly a way to make people educated about the preparations and precautions they ought to be using (ready water hose, smaller burn pile, don't burn on very dry and/or windy days) which for many people would seem to be 'common sense'. But I think we can all agree that common sense is all too uncommon.
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  999.  @domfer2540  1) Issue a ticket for what, exactly? Parking on the lawn with the permission of the property owner? 2) The reason for the winch and chain game WAS because of the HOA. 3) Is it more human to allow your vehicle to be towed in the middle of the night because some bunch of busybody neighbors have deemed it so?
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  1000. Held liable, held underwater for half an hour... so many choices.
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  1001. Same for a lot of other false accusations. SA, domestic abuse, assault and/or battery, various types of homicide... All are VERY serious crimes, and a false accusation for them will ruin your life even after the accusation has been proven false. "They would not have been accused if they weren't the kind of person to do that crime in the first place. What a scumbag!"
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  1002. Old folks unite (from our comfy chairs)!
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  1003. Dang, Tim's got more sustain than Nigel Tufnel's favorite guitar!
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  1004. Of course they refuse to investigate. There's no revenue gain for doing that part of their job.
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  1005.  @yakinthebox  And Israel is not going to send ground troops to ask politely "Was there any imagery of troops or vehicles in your drone footage?" Nope. Explosive correction to the behavior.
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  1006.  @doofer13ok  You know who else uses imperial measurements a lot in daily/conversational use? people in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Canada. I have seen a video where someone in the UK talked about how many liters of petrol (gasoline) they used to drive a number of miles.
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  1007. A convenience store clerk forced to work with a fever might give the wrong change. A train engineer forced to work with a fever might kill people and destroy millions of dollars of train, products, and infrastructure. - Why is sick time so damned hard?
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  1008. @Vylxer Ask Reginald Denny how he feels about the choice between stopping for a mob or driving through.
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  1009. Somebody wake up Hicks.
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  1010. The house gets paid first, kids.
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  1011. Ah, don't you love serialization of every little part and subassembly? Apple's anti-consumer business model is invading everywhere.
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  1012. Blame the 30+% of eligible voters who didn't vote at all.
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  1013. Porch pirates make me see red. If the police won't stop them, maybe "we the people" should be given free reign to stop them any way we want.
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  1014.  @christo930  The are "ductless" systems that only need small holes drilled through the wall to pass the cooling/heating pipes. Sure, gas is cheaper for many people... right now.
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  1015.  @r.rodriguez4991  Please elaborate. Steve will be happy to issue a correction in a later video if you are right and he was wrong.
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  1016. Until I read your comment, I had no idea who she was. A few moments later, Brian said the name of the guy whom I could not identify. - I'm old and have not listened to new music in about 10-15 years.
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  1017. Sometimes I see a yard like that and think, "We're gonna need a bigger goat."
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  1018. What about the fact that she is TikToking in uniform, in her issued vehicle, and possibly while on the clock? That is theft of public funds.
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  1019. To my Republican neighbors: Voting is for suckers!
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  1020. Do NOT have kids because "it's what you're supposed to do." That way leads to divorce, fights over custody and support, and psychologically damaged children who don't leave until their 30's. When they have kids because "it's what you're supposed to do."
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  1021. Too bad Finland is not a real place, huh? Yes, my paternal great grandparents claim to have come from there, but they provided no evidence other than their really hard language, some photos, and passports. Pfft.
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  1022. "We have reduced our carbon footprint by expanding our PFAS footprint, our arsenic footprint, and our heavy metals "snail-trail".
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  1023. He's got safety-rated glasses, nearly as much protection as a Jeorg t-shirt and a Colin Furze safety tie.
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  1024. I empathize with the "normal" Aspen residents, and scoff at the complaints of the moneyed crowd.
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  1025. Hawley being the most unpopular senator up for re-election? I did Na zi that coming!
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  1026. Perhaps replacing the PVA glue with Mod Podge, which comes in gloss, matte and flat, IIRC. That stuff is usually available right near the craft paint.
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  1027.  @CarbLoaders  Heh, "evidence is piling up"
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  1028. It is also a way to prevent a case precedent.
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  1029. I have mild vertigo, so I WILL fail the skills test. I have asthma and COPD so I will not be able to complete the breathalyzer. I am also on blood thinners, am overweight, and have rolling veins. Fortunately, I do not partake of ANY performance altering substances other than occasional lack of sleep. Though there always exists the chance that a "certified drunk driving recognition expert" cop in a department that incentivizes DUI/OUI arrests will pull me over for a burnt-out bulb and escalate the stop into an attempted "attaboy" award.
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  1030.  @DarkForce2024  I have never scanned a QR code and never want to scan one in the future. In fact, I covered every camera lens on my phone with Gorilla tape.
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  1031. I forget which comedian said it, but it was something like, "Why do they call themselves "neo"-Nazis? They hate black and brown people, they hate jews, they hate gays... they're just Nazis!" - And why aren't the cops yelling at them to keep their hands out of their pockets? Oh, right, they're white.
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  1032. Notice that she got louder and louder rather than debating. She is afraid of being wrong, but unwilling to admit she may be.
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  1033. If they're so fragile and worried about their safety, they should get a safer job. Preferably one where everyone can ignore them.
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  1034. But don't you know? All of the people who work at dealerships are absolutely trustworthy, and independent mechanics and car owners are ALL criminals in hiding. (sarcasm)
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  1035. We don't have a justice system. We have a legal system.
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  1036. Yep, this is less a rescue and more a tune-up. As for abandoned versus tenanted? I am here for the process, not the comments section full of people criticizing people for not being "grateful enough" or delivering enough free food and drinks to Spencer.
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  1037. Heck, don't admit to anything or get in a discussion with police anywhere. interrogation, traffic stop, casual meeting in a diner, at the dinner table with family... A cop asks you what time it is, the MOST you should do is point at a clock.
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  1038. Okay, we need a pool on how long it will take for the first "please don't steal" kiosk/tablet to be stolen. A side pool for when the first kiosk is vandalized might be fun also, though it will likely be a shorter wait.
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  1039. I wish Robin Williams' idea of politicians being required to wear NASCAR-like patches indicating which corporations they get money from could be law.
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  1040. He's the most best at that. Bigly.
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  1041. I'm old enough to remember when Thermaltake sold only computer cooling hardware and paste. I guess the CEO's yacht needed that yacht.
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  1042.  @Dhalin  Quite doable, but still admirable levels of discipline.
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  1043.  @Jon.A.Scholt  And the one after that in the class ought to be named Thunderchild! (With the exclamation mark included in the name)
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  1044. Since I started watching Ryan, I've done more online rebuttal by doing research, "showing my sources", and asking where the other person got their information than by merely naysaying and using emotion and/or logic. Whether the topic is politics, disaster response, international conflict, financial news... If someone has enough online access to post, they have the same access to research.
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  1045. These phone makers could kill the grey market instantly by pricing all of their phones the same in every country (allowing for flow of currency exchange rates). While I'm dreaming, this could also apply to drug companies as well.
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  1046.  @roncerjani9063  When I was 17, my "browser history" was the list of what I had checked out of the library. I'm old, y'all.
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  1047.  @ivorydeluxe1672  Dozens of eggs are consumed every year in the US!
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  1048.  @mistermudpie  They evolved from "gated communities" which were neighborhoods built to ensure that "the wrong kind of people" (black, Asian, Hispanic, etc.) didn't move in next door.
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  1049. I watch Jeff Gray (Grey?) and I think his approach is one of the best in the First Amendment auditor community. - I have also seen "auditors" who are only looking to shout and scream and get attention.
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  1050.  @Niko-vh8jh  If it's nothing to worry about, you go next. Humans are just another form of animal after all.
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  1051. This battle started with the US fleet shouting, "SNEAK ATTACK!". I'm shaking my head.
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  1052.  Andrew_koala  Pedantry is the purview of those who wish they were infallible.
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  1053.  @tjsogmc  So THAT'S where all the 10mm sockets went!
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  1054. "Greetings fellow American person. How about those sports?"
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  1055.  @marinmazer  100 hours of work in a week? There are only 168 hours in a week total. That schedule would leave you an average of 6.8 hours to commute, eat, shower, and sleep per day. That's one way to make sure doctors make deadly mistakes.
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  1056.  @Mr.Anders0n_  There is a kiosk at the Antarctic Icewall.
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  1057.  @TheMicroTrak  Or a Tesla or other car with built-in cameras. Heck, they'll tow and impound your car to get the recording.
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  1058. Civil asset forfeiture surprises me only in that there are not more occurrences of violent resistance to the practice.
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  1059. I'm sure they save a little bit on warranty claims with all of that information gathering, but the REAL product is the information, and how any ways they can sell it.
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  1060.  @bobreminick4699  Very true on your second point, since abolishing the Electoral College would require a Constitutional Amendment.
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  1061. A person goes to jail. A corporation gets a slap on the wrist.
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  1062.  @msleatha3078  My idea of swearing on a bible is to stand on a specific book and utter all of the profanities I know, in multiple languages.
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  1063.  @stevef68  I can only shudder imagining their home life. "Look at what you made me do to you! Stop crying, it's only a broken nose! Stop crying or I'll GIVE you something to cry about!!!"
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  1064.  @Gcanno  "Buy once, cry once" means buy items of quality instead of trying to save cash by buying something that breaks too easy.
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  1065. Well, at least the MP made the laziest of searches near the end of the film.
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  1066. I find it interesting that back in the days when Sears/Craftsman still had a bit of quality left on the name, Harbor Freight was synonymous with "garbage tools", and over time the equation tipped the other way.
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  1067. That array of stop signs triggered Sesame Street memories. "One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just isn't the same..." That round stop sign is one I've never seen. I've even seen home-made stops signs and they're at least somewhat similar to an octagon. One was not even red anymore or even had the word STOP on it due to weathering, and it still worked.
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  1068. You missed the silent word. "We need to have more (white) kids."
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  1069. That cop definitely put the fun in funeral... I'm kidding.
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  1070. I'm a big fan of the space (and ground) combat in the Honorverse (David Weber).
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  1071. Yep, even if you steal a car and then leave it somewhere else, you did still steal a car. You don't even need to get inside the car for it to count as theft.
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  1072.  @robstar020  I read that just now, and yikes. Deaths, a lot of disease and suffering all because of a fight over ownership of an abandoned facility.
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  1073.  @jasonirwin4631  To reduce loads on court systems, start with making police NOT make unlawful arrests. Then get elections out of the process of selecting District Attorneys, removing one of the incentives to over-prosecute. - If we, as a society want actual justice, it will take work, and it WILL take money.
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  1074. I lock my car when I pump gas, even if I never leave the side of the car. In the summer I roll the windows up and lock the doors. I always have. People look at me weird for doing so, but the last laugh shall be mine.
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  1075.  @stephennorth9529  You can only download more ram if your truck is a dodge.
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  1076.  @ace-kz9id  Non-compete agreements have a history of not being upheld in court in my state, in large part because the companies writing them put in dumb stuff like "Using Excel" and "Operating powered hand tools in a manufacturing environment.". Idiots.
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  1077.  @MattyEngland  Astounding how little it takes to amuse the small-minded.
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  1078. "Relax!" is part of the same chapter of justifying violence as "stop resisting!", and "It didn't have to go this way!" Also some of the same tools of the domestic abuser.
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  1079.  @DDKaraokeOutlaw  I keep waiting for the intricately choreographed torch-wielders portraying a rotating MAGA on an open field while frantic crowds cheer themselves hoarse as they unite to hate some portion of American society.
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  1080. More likely their skilled staffers who could not successfully gain the office but are often much smarter than the people they work for.
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  1081. I'm reading your comment on my 1080p Samsung LED monitor from the early 1990's. This monitor is on its third computer (I build my own from ordered components and have upgraded from time to time). I even used this classic display to order a new Kindle Fire after it died at only about 8 years old.
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  1082. Trump is neither Democrat nor Republican. He is a kleptocrat. kleptocrat [ˈkleptəˌkrat] NOUN a ruler who uses political power to steal his or her country's resources.
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  1083.  @HRRRRRDRRRRR  I can think. Quite well, by most objective measures. I also have a lot of rage in my being for thieves.
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  1084. Well, "he" might not have the money, but he keeps getting plenty from his supporters.
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  1085. I knew a couple about 30 years ago who went to a local Ford dealership. Neither gave their last name when car shopping. First, the wife went in, picked out a car, and the salesman gave her a price. She claimed to need to arrange her funding with her bank and would be back in a day or two. - The next day, the husband went in, timed his walk into the showroom to get the same salesman, and after viewing a few cars picked the same car the wife had chosen. The salesman gave him a price about $3,000 cheaper than the price he gave the wife, and the guy said he would call his wife over to see if she also wanted that car. The salesman's face when he saw the wife was apparently worth all the effort. - They then told the dealership's owner why they were driving 45 minutes to shop at a different dealership that HADN'T pulled that crap.
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  1086. I have been waiting all my life for someone to do that. My mother never got around to it, threats to the contrary.
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  1087. You're assuming that someone with a pickup truck would actually want to pick things up with it. In my New England experience, about 40-50% of pickup truck owners use it like a car. And about 10-20% refuse to put anything in the bed for fear of scratches and dings.
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  1088. I am not a content creator, but I am strongly irked by how YouTube's notices of demonetization, age restriction, takedowns, and channel strikes/closures only say word to the effect of, "Your video broken the rules" but never say WHICH rule(s) and HOW the video broke the rule(s). I have seen channels get hammered for copyright violations because someone claimed music created by a different party, and for which the channel creator has signed and paid permissions from the REAL music maker to use the music. Heck, Herman Li from Dragonforce and Mary Spender were both hit with copyright strikes for music THEY wrote and performed. - The more Google hands over responsibilities to AI and takes humans out of the loop, the more abusive it gets. - And the DMCA is not helping at all either. What kind of sense is there in the rule being that the first appeal for a copyright strike is decided by the person who may be fraudulently claiming your legal content?
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  1089. Regarding the commercialization of our personal data, we need laws to make opt-out the default. - Regarding staying among the breathing, opt-out should not be our first choice.
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  1090. Her kids must get away with NOTHING at all. Katie Porter-level preparedness, sharp wit, intelligence, and civility. Such a relief after King Donnie's crowd.
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  1091. Ah yes, euphemisms.
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  1092. Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorram ship?
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  1093. It is much easier to punch down at a small group than a larger group. That is why fascists choose their "them" groups carefully.
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  1094.  @k-isfor-kristina  That 'adverse possession doctrine' is as American as... well, America. Sure someone tricked people into selling an island called Manhattan, but the most of it was taken by force or squatting.
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  1095. "Was this before or after the defendant reluctantly broke his right orbital bone and three teeth against the poor defenseless fists of the arresting officer?"
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  1096. An alternate name for American football: "slow, padded rugby" or "soft rugby".
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  1097. There's a reason we call a bunch of them a "murder".
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  1098. Ensign Singer, make it sew!
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  1099. Yeah, the closest I have to that kind of job skills was from working in a pressure sensitive membrane company (The kind of labels and stickers you peel a backing off of then apply to something). We had one line that made the labels for medical applications. The entire production machine, twice the length of a school bus and 2-1/2 times as wide, was in a clean room. The employees who worked the line had to go through an airlock with an air shower, suit up, then pass through another airlock and air shower to even START working. - That mating of the ring with the cylinder doesn't even have the kind of tenting you would have for mold remediation of a room.
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  1100. Holy *****!!! No ambulance called, no EMTs, no cervical collar, no backboard... Were they TRYING To kill him?
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  1101. I laughed, you laughed, the bridge laughed... so I bombed the bridge.
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  1102.  @MrBadjohn69  It was not meant to be the least bit funny. I'm also a fan of floggings for "porch pirates".
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  1103. I saw them when they were unknown. Small roadside club that seats 30. Decent chicken wings, bad furniture, rocking music.
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  1104.  @sashinkaroseman1512  We call it "ass button". Yeah, the more I think about that, the less good it sounds...
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  1105. Another folder would be handy to list every politician and judge who votes/rules FOR CAF, or even declines to vote/rule against it.
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  1106.  @Kalleosini  I am better than the people who pissed on the trash can and the paper box before/during/after tossing them in the streets. Better than those who spread trash around the streets. Better than those who broke the windows of a pharmacy and a bank. - I am better because I use my words. I use my mind to research the things that I care about and vote by person and issue, not party. I speak up for change I feel needs to happen. And when I know I am wrong, or don't know enough to get involved, I either shut the bleep up, or I learn more. - If I were in a position to have ignored peoples' grievances, and refused or failed to do so THEN I would accept scorn. - BTW, cool handle!
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  1107.  @SeekingBeautifulDesign  The tricky part is finding a company and deal that doesn't gouge you. I may be bitter from past experiences with solar salespeople.
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  1108. Here in Western Massachusetts, I see more BLM signs and flags in the whitest neighborhoods, like it's some kind of social armor against guilt.
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  1109. It was their first time, they're good boys they go to church every Sunday, it wouldn't be fair to ruin their lives for a foolish mistake, he takes care of his grandmother, they volunteer at a soup kitchen... - Don't care. Do serious time or let someone "express their NY discontent" some dark evening.
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  1110. Wow. They list "Military Grade Protection" on the box. Is that supposed to mean something?
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  1111.  @Justicescales123  There are perfectly valid laws "they" can enforce about blocking traffic, harassing pedestrians, impeding commerce (blocking people getting in and out of stroes), election interference, and noise levels. So enforce THOSE if people protesting violate them. - A lot of the friction against protests is that many people angry enough (or well-paid enough, but that's a whole other topic) to protest, have trouble maintaining the 'peaceful' part of peaceful protests. The noise, traffic impediments, and property damage turn many people to assume that all protest is rioting.
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  1112. Are these the same justices who determined that if the tire shop made a vague effort to put the lug nuts on, then the tire service was accomplished, even when your wheels fall off less than a mile after leaving the shop?
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  1113.  @chrisheist652  Anyone should be allowed to come and go across the border? Even: terrorists (it happened), drug dealers (still happens), human traffickers, thieves, criminals fleeing prosecution...?
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  1114.  @need100k  Wear them down with an angle grinder! . I have an aggression problem.
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  1115.  @gregjames2684  I was with you until you left it up to a god.
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  1116. Also, keeping the sun off the roofing materials extends their lifespan.
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  1117. "Mistakes were made." Passive language is how liars try to dodge responsibility. The CORRECT sentence is, "We/I/that person made mistakes.", and that assumes the action was an actual mistake, and not a greed-driven deliberate decision.
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  1118.  @niyablake  Yeah, how DARE people want to reduce the parking on streets!
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  1119.  @susanjimnelson1916  It can get even MORE complicated if there is no will and/or no inheritors. Then it is in a limbo between banks and the local and state government, and even skilled buyers can be put off by the amount of effort and red tape involved.
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  1120. The Toughbook had a replaceable drive AND battery. Neither were soldered in. And that computer was sold on the basis of it being dropped, kicked, vibrated, getting (externally) wet... - What is Apple's excuse again?
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  1121. Free monitoring is like having a neighbor watch your house while you are on vacation and all they do is tell you what was stolen and when.
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  1122. You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your relatives.
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  1123. Officer safety is covered by their body armor, their weapons, and their ability to summon reinforcements. Or, and this is crazy talk, they could quit and find a safer job. And yes, I would like fries with that, officer.
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  1124. I read Skylon, and my brain gives me a mechanical "By your command."
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  1125. Since Reagan was president, the available facilities have been getting closed "for savings", insurance companies have cut back or eliminated the amount of time they would be willing to cover for critical mental care, and local governments increasingly criminalize homelessness and visible mental illness.
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  1126. If Orange Donnie is still president, then he can't legally run in 2024. - 'Error, error, terminate!"
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  1127. Not to mention that the private companies running those cameras are so incentivized to send out as many citations as possible, they will use AI to "clean up" a bad plate picture, and attribute it to ANY car they can find that matches their GUESS.
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  1128. Some days, you just want the "spherical cow falling in a vacuum" answer, other days you want to add in friction and air resistance.
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  1129. I agree Rob, and not because of the knuckle draggers' "Women don't b'long in no combats!" But because the standards are standards for the safety of ALL in the unit, so that every soldier knows they can depend on each other to at least be competent to standards when under duress. Some people don't belong in combat. Some people don't belong in the military at all. But those who can meet standards and WANT to be there are the most valuable people in the military.
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  1130. Plot armor works better.
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  1131. I never learned about the filibuster in school. Instead I learned about it in the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. So Ted Turner via TCM was filling the gaps in my public education.
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  1132.  @tonebonebgky2  Resisting arrest is never supposed to be an originating charge. But ignorance of the law IS an excuse if you're in the right gang.
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  1133. My grandfather made wine out of all sorts of things growing in the area around his house (dandelions, crab apples, and so on) to barter with neighbors for things they could not otherwise afford. It was not a "spit in the eye of prohibition" but a necessity of climbing out of the depression.
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  1134. When I was a kid, PBS only had "underwriters" whose names and maybe a single sentence about what they did was read by an off-screen voice in a fairly inflection-free voice. Much like National Public Radio still does.
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  1135. We do need to understand that Prestin, still being in uniform, does not have full freedom to criticize the President, or Sec Def Drunkie.
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  1136. Hearing Orange Donnie at his "rallies" in the last few months is just like having to listen to your nonagenarian great grandfather ramble on as he combats Alzheimer's, pain medications, and a desperate need for a nap.
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  1137. Only prompting occasionally with a small leading question. Good technique.
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  1138. I would offer a lesson from home construction contracts. Use your experience, or the experience of others, to estimate the time the job will take. Pad that estimate by 20-40%, charge a per hour that will let you pay all of the people on the job, plus taxes and employment expenses, that will avoid you losing out in that account. Make sure the materials price is either set above current prices at the time of contract signing, or that the client will pay the ACTUAL materials cost. Write in a clause to charge for change orders. My employer gave one free change order if the change was less than 15% of the whole job in hours, but the customer was on the hook for materials. Set up a stepped payment method such that the first payment covers materials and non-employment expenses at a minimum, then other partial payments at major job milestones. In the case of construction, it would be like 30% up front, 30% when the concrete for the foundation was poured and passed inspection, 20% when backfill was complete, and the remainder when the site was left clean. Include a clause that non-payment without cause will result in fees/lien/etc. Have a good lawyer with experience in contract and commercial cases.
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  1139. Hotel of the Line is my favorite one.
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  1140. Food is sold by weight. It may be ADVERTISED by size, but you are paying for weight. Or for mass if you're in a country smart enough to use metric measures.
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  1141. Well, he WAS engaging in that most heinous of crimes, "Driving While Black"... (This is sarcasm)
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  1142. I and a bunch of friends went to Denny's late after the final show of a college play we were in. As we were leaving, we were goofing around in the parking lot, singing and I was bouncing up and down on the bumper of my own vehicle. The city cops came out of the restaurant (really sketchy neighborhood at the time) and the shorter one approached me and asked if I had ever been shot before, as he was holding his hand on his pistol. I asked him if he was tired of being a coward. Not the wisest thing I could have said, but his partner physically held him back and told us to "just get out of here".
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  1143. Mitch McConnell could have prevented this. Twice.
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  1144.  @sixter4157  I actually got an ad for data recovery before the video started. - edit: And if the letter writer DID "go spend money and update the computer and operating system" as Steam advises, they would likely lose access to some of the games they bought because they are not compatible with newer versions of Microsoft's "PAY US MONEY MONTHLY TO RENT IT" software.
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  1145. A sack of cash dropped off anonymously? What sack of cash? I'm busy being a conscientious juror.
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  1146. Awnings use to be the game. Shade the windows, letting you get a cross-breeze through open windows while still blocking some of the sunlight. - I think a great version of awnings for people living in areas prone to high-wind disasters or fires would be metal awnings that can be lowered and locked down to be window protection.
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  1147.  @stephengrigg5988  That or diagonally in a traffic lane when there is a lot of available space out of the way of other drivers.
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  1148.  @stansman5461  It would change nothing for me. I already pray zero seconds a year. Atheism = free weekends.
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  1149. He spent a LOT of time repeating the question, a common tactic for when you need time to figure out how to answer. Oh, plus the deflections, the air accordion, the name-calling, the doomtelling, and still no answer.
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  1150. Probably, sometimes they didn't either.
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  1151. Well, he's old. (only three years older than Orange Donnie) Well, he fell off a bicycle. (His feet were clamped to the pedals, I did the same at age 15. Oh, and #45 has difficulties with ramps and water bottles) Well, he stutters. (But he knows that Obama is not currently president, General Washington did not attack airports, WW2 has already happened...) Well, he occasionally says the wrong word or name. (As opposed to TFG who makes up words, wanders off topic, and sometimes trails off into a noise or silence while staring off into space?)
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  1152. A rational city would issue a ticket, and make the vendor pack up and leave. NYC apparently hates people having access to food, but is fine with restaurant blocking sidewalks and streets with outdoor indoor dining shacks.
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  1153. But then how would these billionaires ever afford their own rocket programs, and yachts for their yachts, or making a city take down a highway bridge because their new yacht is too big to fit under it, or...
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  1154. The root cause is publicly traded for-profit companies stand everywhere in US health care. A bandage you can buy in the store for a couple of pennies can cost you dollars in the hospital, because a number of middle-men, for-profit companies stand in a long chain between the factory line and the bandage a nurse puts on your cut. Same with the disinfectant, the saline used to wash the cut, the gloves the nurse wore, the gurney you sat on to get the bandage applied, and everything else involved. And at every step there is a horde of "investors" looking for the companies to make a bigger profit to feed the voodoo that drives up the stock price so the "investors" get richer.
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  1155.  @TheMainCore  If you're the UK government, the question becomes, "What does a landscaper need a machete or billhook, or hand saw or lopping pole or... for? When statistics PROVE that most knife attacks are done with kitchen knives and short blades, and those stab injuries are more life-threatening that the bigger blades' slash injuries, but we why would we let logic interrupt our ban hammer momentum?"
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  1156. 98% of the time I: - didn't rob banks. - pay for my restaurant meals. - don't download illicit images while being the spokesperson for a sandwich chain. - don't sell nuclear secrets to a person (who I think) represents a foe nation. . Sound legal reasoning!
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  1157.  @Londubh  I've been told that the way to avoid having to get a new construction permit is to: 1) Lift the house, repair/replace the foundation and basement. 2) Lower the house back down, gut it to the outer walls. 3) Rebuild everything that is not the outer walls, then tear off the siding and sheeting and replace that, replacing bad structure as you go. 4) Tear off and replace the roof. - It's a pain, but often easier, faster, and less "gifts" than getting on "the list" to build a new house after knocking a failed one down.
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  1158. Long ago, I was driving in a suburb of Philadelphia and blew through a stop sign that was obscured by shrubbery. There was a town cop directly behind me, so I just pulled over before he could even reach a switch for his lights. The cop, curious, pulled in behind me and asked what I was doing. I told him, holding out my license and registration, that I had just blown through the stop sign that was impossible to see. He nodded and said he was going to call it in to the DPW and told me to have a nice day. - A year later I was driving the same road and sure enough, that shrubbery had been aggressively pruned back to a stump.
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  1159.  @bradhaines3142  At least we have solved the mystery of what the PT Cruiser engineers designed next in their careers.
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  1160. I'm amazed that they were able to build that stuff at all. They must have been paying off, or related to (or both) the town inspector to be able to build like that. In every town I've lived in or heard of, to even build an addition you have to get abutter's (and sometimes second abutter's) clearance on the addition(s). And there is always a setback from the road, property line, and in this case, water line. - But as with so many things, money and influence too often means rules don't apply to "those" people.
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  1161. And you may save a lot of other people money by removing this bad lawyer from the pool.
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  1162.  @Merrsharr  I bought a two-pack of normal-sized Resse's peanut butter cups, and there was NOT a bite taken out of one. I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!!
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  1163. One of the ships stuck around until 1905?! Now I am imagining these ships at the battle of Jutland.
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  1164.  @kerrialexander4211  We all have a Luigi within us, waiting for just the right button to be pushed. Those in power are willfully ignorant of that.
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  1165.  @zatoth13  Robin Williams had a bit about the special treatment banks get. 'Too big to fail? That's like saying too fat to diet!"
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  1166. You shook the container of greenies and my cat showed up hungry.
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  1167. "Unidentifiable plants" is a failure of skill and knowledge, not an assurance of criminality.
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  1168. Well, that explains Colin Furze.
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  1169. And up front honestly like that saves both parties.
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  1170. Sweet Pasta, this narrative of the disaster of a training exercise made me think the exercise was planned by a horde of kindergarteners and the ships captained by capuchin monkeys on a blend of cocaine and tranquilizers.
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  1171. Did they identify themselves as police before they robbed him (took his wallet out of his pocket) and then nearly killed him?
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  1172. My thoughts exactly! If it is a policy, write it down, If it is not written down, it is outside/against policy. Who do these cops think they are making sh!t up like that? The ATF?
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  1173. I was likely baptized against my will before I could give legal consent, or even form memories about the event. Baptizing babies is not done for the babies. It is done to make the adult cult members feel better.
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  1174.  @furiousapplesack  Well put!
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  1175.  @nopulpapple991  Almost every job I got I got because I talked casually to the person making the hiring decisions, chatted about my qualifications versus their needs, and had the job locked that day or the next. Almost every time I had to submit a resume and fill out an application, I never heard back.
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  1176. Too often the cheap junk and the expensive junk are made in the same place with different graphics stamped on then put in a different box.
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  1177.  @836dmar  True. Cheaply cloning is another big problem. - I am old enough to remember when 'Made in Japan' had the same stigma as 'Made in China' has today.
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  1178. I saw that. So much leaning in then leaning back.
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  1179.  @GarryFishermusic  My most recent car repair, I had done some diagnostics and had what I felt was a strong guess as to the problem and the fix. But knowing that I don't always know, I explained the symptoms, and gave my guess, telling the mechanic that If I was wrong, I would not be upset. . I was wrong, and my bad guess would have been a more expensive and needless repair.
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  1180. But officer, if I wasn't supposed to drive that fast, why does the speedometer go that high? - Note: This one NEVER works!
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  1181. This is the kind of thing that happens when one database has terms and definitions another database does not. Usually you get something innocuous, like "DATA OUT OF RANGE" or "FIELD TYPE MISMATCH" but in this case, the FBI's database (and/or data entry personnel), instead of flagging an undefined term, defaulted to transform "titling" into "arrests". If only the CID wasn't so 'cutesy' with their terminology, and used the same words civilian police used. Words like, "interviewed" "person of interest", and "cleared of suspicion"...
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  1182. I'd be more a fan of blowing up the rails, and letting the train crash catastrophically. Not sure what my metaphor means in a regulatory arena. Maybe an FTC rule banning the sale of anti-repair technology?
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  1183. Well, on the "what is good for the goose is good for the gander" concept, arrest those cops for "endangering a fetus". It's not like a false arrest would be a trouble to their employment status or anything...
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  1184. In my state, they have (had?) license renewal satellite offices in shopping malls. Those locations ONLY took credit cards or cash. The RMV offices themselves ONLY took checks. I now renew through AAA, which takes all three.
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  1185. Don't be ashamed to need help. People go to mechanics to have their car worked on. People go to psychologists/psychiatrists/therapists/friends/religious persons to have the mental health worked on. - It's not something you want to ignore until it falls apart.
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  1186. I watch videos from Post 10 and he will periodically put his vehicle up on ramps, then pressure wash the underside, let it dry, and crawl under with a rattle-can of black pain and apply touch-ups where the original underbody coating is wearing away.
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  1187. Yeah... Arcades don't want a "no backpacks" rule as much as they want a "no Mark Rober" rule.
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  1188. This is the most rational look at the issue. I wish I would have had the same thought
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  1189.  @ARockRaider  I suppose if the light is on sensors instead of timers, or the sensors are not the better tech, that could easily happen. I've seen good sensors detect a bicycle rider (if the frame was metal instead of carbon fiber), but I've not seen any fail to detect a running ICE motorcycle. - Now I'm wondering how they react to electric bicycles...
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  1190. I know that right after I watched Louis' video on the NHTSA letter, I immediately emailed my state and national politicians about the matter. 4 of 5 got back to me with something a bit better written than a "we received your message" form letter.
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  1191. It's just east of Lexmark, where they make those printers, right?
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  1192.  @eye5448  I am neither homosexual, nor bright and festive. I am, however, able and willing to spell out my words fully, and use them in complete sentences.
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  1193.  @Sonny_McMacsson Yep, I can see that video over and over on Audit the Audit. Different cops, different states, same arrogance.
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  1194. That was a good ramble! And that was an important job. Sure, long-time residents may know how the signs are laid out, but visitors rely on signs to provide vital information for directions, safety, and safe vehicle operation.
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  1195. As she is cop-splaining, she's putting on gloves. Those cops are LOOKING to go "hands-on".
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  1196. That cat wasn't terrified, it was trying to recover it's iPod that the driver locked in the car before the danged flooding. - But to be serious, kudos to the rescuer(s).
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  1197. I keep expecting to see a Binford tool box along the wall.
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  1198. A halfway decent lawyer can get his case down from attempted assassination to assault with a deadly weapon. A GREAT lawyer could get it down to simple trespass.
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  1199. Another bad day for [TEAM YELLOW].
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  1200. ..."But since I can't fix it myself, and have to wait for the dealership, the thousand acres of wheat you see behind me will rot in place. So do you want Right to Repair, or do you want a $15.00 loaf of bread?"
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  1201. The real trick is finding and hiring a shop joker who is not lazy or obstructionist.
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  1202.  @joelluedtke8680  What lawyer? Didn't the company get that email you sent that said all disputes were now being handled by the arbitration firm of "My friend Steve"?
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  1203.  @TheBooban  Parenting is not just a matter for your one or two resident parental/custodial adults, but other adult relatives, older siblings, and that neighborhood you talk about. So yes, I agree.
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  1204. I have rarely laughed and learned so deeply at the same time. Great musical number!
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  1205. A signet (ring/stamp) was/is also a form of "legal signature", often more official than a name written in ink.
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  1206. Pretty danged hard to watch for shoplifters over 8' high shelving units. And that's not counting large overstock items on top shelves, and there only being one, MAYBE two employees on at a time. The stores are built like a department store and staffed like a mini-mart. And they don't pay their employees enough to even shop there. Well, unless it's their third job...
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  1207.  @bpmomene2737  They understand. They just don't care.
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  1208. A business parking lot with parking meters? How mercenary can one landlord be?
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  1209. We NEED companies to be afraid of us. Fear leads to mistakes, and then we pounce!
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  1210. I'd rather have someone yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater than someone actually HAVE a fire in an overcrowded night club in Rhode Island...
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  1211. The lack of evidence for the origin of circus peanut can only mean one thing. Aliens did it.
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  1212. Why would this prison time be news? Because usually, when a business commits fraud against an individual, the worst that happens is they have to pay the person back and maybe get a fine that equates to a slap on the wrist. But if that business messes with the money stream of government, for example by evading taxes, well, THAT finally becomes a serious crime.
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  1213. My first thought was why don't these lawyers already know what they are "worth" per billable hour BEFORE they even start working the case? What if the client was stuck with the bill? Did the client actually sign up with them with no idea what the bill might be?
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  1214. They could fix the problem AND get good press by issuing a recall and offering at least a small selection of replacement refrigerators with non-junk compressors. - Instead, they're fighting this, attacking their customers, and earning hate. Idjits.
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  1215. Sounds like the kind of place that would count a dental bridge as one of the "12 items"
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  1216.  @irenegalvan7996  They did make sure the hand sanitizer dispenser worked...
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  1217. I wonder if they will apply that to the capital "selfie" cops? Hell, I doubt this will get applied at all, just a lot of bluster to ride out the next 12 days and then try to move on like insurrection didn't happen. Pisses me off so much I'm using vulgarities in Legal Eagle's comment section, and I never do that.
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  1218. You know your unit is cool when the black E3 tells the white E4 to sit in the back of the deuce and a half, the E4 says, 'Yes suh!" and they both laugh.
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  1219. Hand. Rail. USE IT! And yes, some sets of steps are few enough that code doesn't require them, but don't you think a handrail for two steps is cheaper than broken bones?
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  1220. The does indeed seem Sisyphean, but without Louis and many others, including many of us, pushing against the boulder of greed and abuse, things would be much worse. Sadly, we peons can't easily afford enough politicians to get the mountain leveled out.
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  1221. Yeah, I compare pictures of Mount Katahdin to those of Everest's trails of trash... Humans suck.
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  1222.  @walkingcontradiction223  There are some who still hold the true meaning of words. But we're getting old and tired.
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  1223. Money. edit: to clarify, you don't need to be nice to people when you can just pay to have them moved out of your way.
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  1224.  @kennethralcock  Yes! That is the joke I was trying to remember!
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  1225. Particularly when a cop who shoots someone on the job, is seen shooting someone on the job, is RECORDED shooting someone on the job, gets a day or two before they have to with for an INTERVIEW, not an interrogation.
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  1226. The typical panda eats, shoots, and leaves. The typical panda eats shoots and leaves.
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  1227. How to "inventory" the boxes under that warrant: 1) Look at box 2) Put evidence tag on box 3) List box in evidence log 4) store box in evidence lock-up. - Never a need to OPEN the box. NEVER!
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  1228.  @kieronparr3403  Skateboard, Rascal, water buffalo, witch's broom...
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  1229. Because "we the people" can't afford to buy enough politicians for our side of the law.
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  1230. UNIFIL sounds like a brand name for attic insulation.
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  1231. Your pricing scheme is Apple-worthy!
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  1232. Quite so.
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  1233.  @underarmbowlingincidentof1981  But the toxins from coal/oil/gas/wood burning has had no impact?
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  1234. Kind of like the reputation version of taking a dump on your own desk.
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  1235. I've seen Steve Lehto cover a case or two about companies who were bitten in the behind by arbitration when the arbiter decided large settlements for the complainant. THEN the company wanted the matter to go to a real court...
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  1236.  @Kevin75668  "Say hello to my little friend, Kevin!" - rejected line from Scarface
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  1237. But only after they sneak in an update with ONLY the option to opt into forced arbitration. And the terms will include a clause that your data is their data and they can earn money from it or post it publicly, unedited. See forced arbitration above.
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  1238. Time pressures on food delivery ONLY lead to suffering and accidents. Dominos had to learn that lesson the expensive way decades ago with their "30 minutes or it's free" promotion. If people are unable or unwilling to get off their butts to go get food, they need to accept that their food will be there when it gets there. I know I cannot conceive of getting McDonalds delivered, particularly if I want fries, as their fries taste much worse when they're cold.
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  1239. The way things are going, a lot more people are going to have a tent as their only domicile.
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  1240.  @Bradimus1  A builder putting up 300 homes per year is not putting in the same amount of care and investment that a homeowner putting up their own house would do. They just can't approach it the same. An assembly line builder is looking for fast and easy, and the ones who actually care about quality have to fight against the flood of unqualified, untrained subcontractors that are clogging the flow. - Then you have to look at who is holding the financial liability in such high-volume builds. Is the bankroller going to want to spend the money for above-code insulation and the best quality inclusions like solar panels and heat pumps? Or are they going to pour their money out on the features that catch the most buyers, like pretty kitchens and multi-head showers?
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  1241. I thought it was bad when this kind of bad science "infotainment" started to takeover formerly good science venues like the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, the History Channel... But at least I was able to cancel cable and get away from those. Now this crap has followed me to YouTube. At least I can still use the "don't watch it" tool... for now.
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  1242. As someone who has been under a snow and slush-encrusted vehicle, laying on a piece of cardboard, soaking wet and wrenching on rusted bolts, even Ray's current situation seems a luxury.
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  1243.  @EarnestWilliamsGeofferic  Presenting your ideas: Fine. Presenting your ideas on a platter of cash: Should be a crime.
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  1244. Devon should avoid tall buildings.
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  1245. My first thought was that Bumpy had been hurt by unskilled attempts to clip his front legs, and perhaps brushing around the face has pulled on tangles before. So, reactions based on remembered pain. I know that my earliest attempts at grooming longer-haired cats resulted in a cat who would run at the sight of a brush, and only a long campaign of brushing for 20-60 seconds a day finally let me build up to that cat being willing to sit in my lap for a full brushing. As for clipping nails, some days I would get 1-3 claws clipped, then have to continue the next day, taking up to a week to get them all until finally acceptance worked in and I could get two feet in a sitting. - I never used the purrito method, as I don't have the agility and often don't have the help available.
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  1246. I look at the 2s and 4s.
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  1247.  @Orangebird725  Mom's for Liberty (Two lies in one organization name)
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  1248. It occurred to me yesterday that some possible allies in the push for Right-to-Repair would be makers of the tools, microscopes, soldering/de-soldering stations, desk lights, and many more.
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  1249.  @SepticFuddy  I watched some history shows about Egyptian archaeology and paleontology where the Egyptian (and other nearby countries') accounts of the "slavery of the Hebrews" was a whole lot closer to indentured servitude or an exploitative communal work contract than 'whips and chains' slavery. But that Charlton Heston movie pretty much jelled the Biblical version of "truth" in a the minds of a couple of generations.
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  1250. I have been in a financial situation where I had to ask a tire shop to install junkyard tires on my car. They were very clear about the shortened life left on the tires, and that they refused to warranty the work for longer than one day and ONLY balance or filler stem issues. Those cheap sketchy tires lasted long enough for me to be able to go back to the tire shop and buy GOOD tires from them, that lasted around 60,000 miles.
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  1251.  @jamesomen1602  And I like to keep mine between 1/4 and 3/4 inches long at most. - The brainwashing at Fort Benning is still holding 30 years later.
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  1252. I agree. These organizations can either make a legal standard OR have a copyrighted work. Find a different way to extract money from people, or hand over the legal standard making to government departments.
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  1253.  @gene8172  Of course they are. They feel they deserve that money they stole.
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  1254. Cholesterol and arterial plaque may save us...
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  1255. Gah! European sighted!!!! (kidding)
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  1256. Because the right to vote is available to the willfully ignorant as well as the intelligent.
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  1257. And I thought the spike was a place for soldiers to store their cabbage rations so they could leave their hands free for salutes.
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  1258. De-facto debtor's prison, just without bars and guards.
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  1259. The 4th Amendment requires "with a warrant", and long-time viewers of this channel know that getting a warrant for spurious claims and things not even legal happen far too often.
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  1260.  @EfHaichDee  Your only error is repeating the "oil is dead dinosaurs" fallacy.
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  1261.  @4h204x4  The way it always works for me is blindly fishing the drain pug out of hot oil in the drain pain. So fun...
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  1262.  @michaeld9682  She can only be said to "stand on principles" after she has crumpled up those principles and thrown them on the floor.
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  1263. Like a bar brawl starting from a simple bump.
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  1264. What you describe is criminal asset forfeiture, and is already the law. The civil asset forfeiture is a perversion of the law. It lets law enforcement take without having to go through the tedious steps of charging and proving a crime.
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  1265. "Artyom, you and Vasily shall be Alpha company. Ivan, you are the mortar section. No, you don't need ammo bearers, we have no ammo."
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  1266. It's not even a tree. It is an idealized tree shaped wire framework with greenery and artificial decorations attached to the outside.
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  1267.  @connor_flanigan  Make eye contact, avoid eye contact, be calm, be stressed, smile, don't smile, hands not in plain sight, hands in plain sight, being polite, being rude... EVERYTHING is "probably cause" if the cop feels like it.
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  1268.  @2pugman  Yes PB is our friend, but I think Clare was talking about avoiding radiator fin bending and/or radiator damage.
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  1269.  @Alverant  Only when they get held legally responsible AND it costs them money for not "caring". See also chemical plants and petroleum refineries.
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  1270. So was her name Miss Appro Priate, or Miss Yuse?
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  1271. Sounds like UHaul is being run by Hertz.
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  1272.  @ebogar42  Oh, I've seen some "wing it" builds. But those tend to be smaller and/or unpermitted, uninspected structures like sheds, decks, and short retaining walls. - And overpriced kitchen remodels.
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  1273. Would he recognize the truth if it stood in front of him?
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  1274. The fact that paid-off homes are being targeted tends toward the grift angle.
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  1275.  @Dan4CW  You don't get them. (the second AND third previously promised wishes)
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  1276. The short recap of the events leading to the US Civil War prompted a weird thought. New state slogan for South Carolina: "First to Betray" or "First Out of the Union".
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  1277.  @josephteller9715  Individuals have contracted payments too, like rent, mortgage, utilities, vehicle payments, insurance that can't be gotten out of without major disruption. Individuals will find savings in reduction of services (no vacation, reduce eating out, cut back or cancel cable) and delay of capital expenditures (fix the 10 year old car instead of replacing it, take the bus to work if possible, get a couch cover instead of a new couch, shop at thrift stores, eat less steak).
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  1278.  @traindude70  Which 90' wide slice of your property would YOU be willing to cede? The part where your driveway is? Your back yard? Your house?
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  1279. How "smart" does a vending machine have to be, anyway? - edit: They could "detect people" and initiate the sales screen with a simple motion sensor. Or a button the user presses.
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  1280. Maybe he wasn't nodding off because he didn't care, but because he is too damned old to have such an important job.
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  1281. But now, with the asphalt already laid down, the pole will come up, then the holes will be patched, and those holes will be the origin point of frost heaves. Absolute money-wasting geniuses.
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  1282. Oh my gosh that is an AWESOME job title! A person with that job title gets to hang out with The Wizard of Light and Space and the Goddess of Wisdom and Warfare.
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  1283.  @dangeary2134  "Um... It's a civil matter?"
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  1284. "(The US) congress will eventually act." Yep! And the sun will eventually run out of hydrogen.
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  1285. You: Goes to jail, a hero.
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  1286. In the comments on a news-related video, I had someone reply to me that there was no such thing as disinformation. It boggles the mind that someone with access to the internet cannot even look up the definition of a word. - edited for spelling
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  1287. "Is this MonkeyJedi99?" - "This is the number you called."
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  1288. There are rocks needing breaking at Leavenworth...
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  1289.  @thetexan1011  Finnish and Swahili are two of the most different languages I thought of. If you look at a family tree of languages, Finnish is in a small branch called Uralic, which encompasses Finland and small parts of NE Russia.
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  1290. "Your honor, I promise I am not a cat."
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  1291.  @sheepishmclemmingston5550  They are being paid to at least PRETEND they are on the public's side. If they stop pretending, then they no longer need to exist, and "the state" would have to pay for private attorneys to represent those who cannot afford a lawyer. As this would be a LOT more expensive, it is incumbent on "the state" to clean that [bleep] up.
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  1292. I once fixed a transmission by changing my CD from Queen to Iron Maiden
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  1293. At least because if was a Canada "thing" you were able to find out what you did supposedly "wrong". When you get slapped down by a social media site, you're lucky if the company ever tells you exactly what term you violated (if you even did anything more offensive than upset a human censor's personal world view).
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  1294.  @big0bad0brad  I think you are right. I worked in board manufacturing (In Circuit Testing, Functional Testing, and RMA) and I remember tombstone and billboard defects. And OH! The solder balls under BGAs, the parts lost in the solder flow process, and the low percentage bad ICs that would pop and smoke.
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  1295. Your situation should be illegal. If a doctor is working in an ER, they are working FOR the ER, and they should be billing via the ER bill.
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  1296. More rolled than ran, but yeah.
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  1297.  @x--.  It would be a shame is the water line to the sprinkler controller got damaged and the whole system had to be isolated by a shutoff...
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  1298. Who is the Hezbollah version of Bagdad Bob this time around?
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  1299.  @Dj.MODÆO  I may not have the right words for what I want. There is some legalese for "erased as if it never happened", but I am not very fluent in that dialect.
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  1300. From the beginning of the video, I could tell you were in Massachusetts, from the lack of piled up trash (NYC topiary) and the fact that on a road busy enough for multiple lanes (at least during the day) there are either no, or broken and dangerous sidewalks. My state has largely given up on pedestrian traffic except in the centers of major cities. And they barely acknowledge bicycles. It makes non-automobile travel in the winter VERY dangerous. - Regarding the homelessness problem, I don't have any new or useful solutions to offer, but I am aware of when municipalities are spending money to punish instead of prevent and/or remediate homelessness. Sure I could offer up the usual. - destigmatize mental illness - cover mental health care better with public AND private health plans - promote and fund programs to get people clean of substance abuse, with preference for proven systems that don't outrageously enrich the people running them - stop criminalizing homelessness - support job and retraining programs, combined with the above suggestions instead of staunchly separate from them - That's my first take.
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  1301. Yeah, like punching your brother in the face and then telling your mother, "I was just kidding, and I don't know why he has a nosebleed."
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  1302. I still grumble when movies use the "bloop/ploop" for larger mortars. This is a particular sin in 1960's-70's war flicks. I have fired 81mm and 107mm mortars, and those fire with a chest squeezing BOOM!
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  1303. @Yotecai Luz Sigh. I DID NOT SAY THAT THE CANS GOT HEAVIER WHEN CRUSHED. "Im Skrude" SAID THAS WHAT HIS FRIEND THINKS. - Want to split hairs? the uncrushed empty can has the same weight because the air IN both cans is at the same pressure of the air outside of the cans, and thus has no positive or negative impact on the weight. - What were we talking about? Oh yeah, Daylight Saving Time.
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  1304. Sounds about right.
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  1305. "It's Nerf or nothing!" - So, they're pushing for nothing. Smart.
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  1306. Whoa! You Canadians have some crazy stuff!
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  1307. With all the jumping to conclusions going on, I'm stunned we still have an obesity epidemic.
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  1308. And if that passage is a matter of context, perhaps someone supporting the book ought to be well versed (pun!) enough to be able to explain that instead of falling into stammering and ad hominem.
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  1309. So far he's doing better than the legacy media and AG Bragg...
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  1310.  @charlesphilhower1452  A reasonable person would think so, but municipal code enforcement is about revenue generation as much as it is about conformity to local ordinances.
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  1311. When my family moved from Massachusetts to Arizona in the 1970's the education was YEARS behind. I learned almost nothing, and was so bored, that I started getting in a lot of trouble. Only when I was moved to a school with "gifted" classes did my discipline problems go away, as I was actually learning things instead of finding my own way to fill the 6 and a half hours of boredom. - If all students are taught at the speed of the slowest, there WILL be boredom, and bored kids can act out in bad ways.
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  1312. As if Donnie pays people who do work for him if he can avoid doing it.
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  1313. It's the old chestnut, "If I had to go through all that, so does the next generation!"
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  1314. This gave me a chuckle.
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  1315. I also love how much unnecessary mechanical complication is added in for no good reason. Lots of good ways for dirt and debris to get in the action! It's kind of like the development of aircraft between the World Wars, where you get some truly whacky ideas given development money.
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  1316. Matt Gaetz: A thumb with teeth.
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  1317. How? He's in the right club and hobnobs with the power crowd.
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  1318.  @ghostshadow9046  Exactly. If I, as a civilian, overdraw my checking account, I pay a fee to my bank. If a member of the Army overdraws their checking account, they pay a fine to the bank, AND can face an Article 15 hearing, resulting in potential loss of 1/3 of monthly pay for months, and other penalties. And this can happen to you even if the person who overdrafted your account is your spouse or child.
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  1319. Why are they cops? Because the highway department doesn't issue a firearm and body armor. Also, the highway department is actually hard work.
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  1320. I for one, would probably welcome a more parliamentarian system. Then at least there would be more than two (or sometimes three) groups of moneyed elites telling me what the pool of "viable" candidates is each election. - Also, lose the electoral college!
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  1321.  @Dracossaint  So to make the technology saner, you had to put in extra work and expense. Sounds abusive and broken. Not your work-around, but the fact that you felt you had to install that work-around in the first place.
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  1322.  @h8GW  Oh, neat video thread idea. Examining the various legal definitions of what is and is not dancing in countries and localities where it has been or still is outlawed.
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  1323. This incident brings to mind a falling concrete event with a MUCH worse outcome here in Massachusetts, July 2006 when a 26-ton concrete panel in one of the tunnels of the Big Dig project fell on a car. It injured the driver and killed a passenger.
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  1324. @Cole S You seem to operating under the assumption that the on-site or third-party repairer is incompetent. If the manufacturers made the schematics, manuals, and part available then hospitals and medical companies, which are VERY liability conscious, would ensure that their repairer would be trained and certified. - I interviewed once at a company that repaired and refurbished major medical machinery, but even using new parts from the manufacturer, they were only able to sell the fully functional items they finished to third-world countries, because the device companies hold American hospitals over a barrel. If a hospital were to use a refurbished, but otherwise perfect machine, companies could easily 'blacklist' that hospital and refuse to sell them anything ever again. Or charge them more for future purchases.
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  1325.  @KB4QAA  I regret giving you that tiny lever into unreasonable argument stances by my choice of a euphemism. Now that I am aware of what a bad debater you are, I am going to ignore you. For my own enjoyment.
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  1326.  @frankney8284  Nice! Collective punishment is a great way to get some self-correction in a small population. It worked great in Army training. We all did piles of pushups and lost all off-post privileges until "mysteriously" a barracks thief turned himself in, bruised and limping after having fallen down the stairs three times.
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  1327. Had to throw in "that's a lawful order!" didn't he. Cops learn how to use the right phrases to cover their butts, but not how to actually HELP people or to actually know the laws.
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  1328. WW2 US Navy: First time?
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  1329.  @TheRedStateBlue  That might have been the offer for a guilty plea?
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  1330. This channel has VASTLY improved the D&D game I run. I am able to give better descriptions and set better scenes. I can explain more of the "commoner" activity that goes on around the adventurers breathing more life into the world. Thank you.
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  1331. There is being polite, which can help with most interactions with other humans and some dogs. There is also self-incrimination, which is gorram stupid. When a cop asks you, "Do you know why I pulled you over?" or other questions, DO NOT VOLUNTEER INFORMATION!
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  1332. "I smell [substance]." - "Well, you should stop using [substance] while working as a cop then, because it isn't me."
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  1333. Kind of reminds me of a modern, more-data version of how the old Motorola flip phones used to work. That phone had a small slab of battery that attached to the outside of the back of the phone. I had a spare battery for mine.
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  1334. "Your honor, the officer gave me a nonverbal cue that I was free to leave the traffic stop."
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  1335. When my ex cheated and bailed, I ended up with my support system (friends/family) and about half of her former friends. Definitely helped me stay sane through the emotional turbulence of that period of life.
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  1336.  @ericemmons3040  If I got stopped for a "Good Driving" ticket, I would demand it be redeemable for at least $50.00 paid by the town or state who thought it was a good idea to mess with my schedule.
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  1337. "Boneless chicken may contain bones, as 'boneless' describes a cooking style" - Ohio Supreme Court.
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  1338. I've done that, but I had a spare key hidden in my wallet. Yeah, the cops HATE not being able to do a warrantless search.
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  1339. I was third in line when I voted on the first (of ten or more) day of early in-person voting. I did this because I didn't get off my butt to fill out the stuff to mail in my ballot. Over the last thirty or so years, the longest I waited was about half an hour. I have voted in urban areas, the suburbs and in a rural town. But then, I'm in Massachusetts, not down south or (GASP!) Texas.
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  1340.  @beeble2003  Ah. I did misinterpret. Fun language that we speak, this thing built by stealing from other languages and worrying about the rules of how to use them much later, if at all.
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  1341. I have never seen such an anime face on a living being before!
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  1342. That dog has a lot of "I'm just happy to be here." energy.
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  1343. That first bolt reminded me of some repairs I did that involved a file to create clean faces that a socket or wrench would actually grab instead of the nearly 1/16-inch layer of crumbling rust. Nothing says fun like turning a 1/2 in bolt head into an 11mm bolt head. - I've also had to use a Dremel to turn blown-out Phillips' screws into flathead screws. - Rust.
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  1344. I can understand why the sellers/lenders would want these sort of devices installed, but upon final payment, they should be on the hook for the cost of getting that device REMOVED, not just remotely disabled.
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  1345. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Right. So we all get old and then we can't hack it anymore. - From Trainspotting
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  1346. To anyone who is anti-choice (or as they call it, anti-abortion), I support their right to ban it... but only for themselves. They have not the right to tell others how to choose.
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  1347. "Now that we have been caught, we are morally outraged that such things were happening!"
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  1348. Put dog biscuits in the door pockets and other places around the car.
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  1349. I am stunned that CAF has not resulted in law enforcement deaths yet. Yet.
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  1350. Keep in mind, Ray lives in Florida, and his eloquence and ability to enunciate highlights his erudite nature and irks the bejeezus out of them knuckle-draggers and meth-brewers the state is most known fer.
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  1351. They learned from that Ohio boneless chicken court decision.
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  1352. And while you're waiting, you are risking MORE damage to your home from water leaks caused by the hail damage. But they'll try to deny that as well...
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  1353.  @Richard.Cabeza  I've seen a couple of videos after this law was enacted and the cops would just keep walking at the person holding a camera or cell phone and shout, over and over, "Back up! Eight feet!" until they pushed the person at least a block away.
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  1354. There was a culture that dealt with thieves quite decisively. "You stole and we caught you? We'll be taking that hand." Am I saying we should take hands again? Maybe, maybe not. But perhaps some actual punishments instead of cops looking at the complainant and saying, "What do you expect US to do?" ' "YOUR FRACKING JOB!"
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  1355. See also MANY local ordinances that try and make rights under the US Constitution illegal.
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  1356. They've been making her watch WAY too much Fox news.
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  1357. My cats were done with the carrier after the walk from where I finally wrestled them in, to the door to go outside. Howling like they were auditioning for the Husky choir.
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  1358. Ideally, a submarine/submersible has the same number of times surfacing as submerging.
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  1359.  @sliceofbread2611  Right? I mean, what's their boeuf/problème anyway?
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  1360. I can see no fault in your reasoning.
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  1361. Might be worth having it printed on a shirt.
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  1362. It is amazing to me how many problems with mechanical systems of all types can be tied to bad maintenance, bad cleaning, misuse, abuse, and yet people are so averse to taking responsibility that they (and the news and lawyers) want a dip into the deep pockets of the mechanism makers. This is true with firearms, automobiles, power tools, household door locks, wall clocks, kitchen appliances... pretty much anything. - Personal responsibility is a fading virtue in this country.
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  1363.  @Dwigt_Rortugal  Someday in the near future, "We have found that your drove the vehicle on paved public roadways. This has voided your warranty. That will be $20,000."
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  1364.  @eddiereyna2998  Too many people "get upset" when things are literal unpredictable accidents.
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  1365.  @LarsLarsen77  Space elevators are not trivial construction.
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  1366. Not to mention driving to endanger.
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  1367.  @auntymarushkafah  I call him "Bootsie".
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  1368. Tennessee. Where the governor's immediate and speedy message about a successful vote for an autoworker's union was to lament their choice and to warn them of "unintended consequences" of their choice.
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  1369. It really pisses me off that burglars and trespassers have any rights against property owners. The laws NEED to change.
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  1370. Another way the manufacturers and dealerships could have "won" this issue would be by being the most affordable and skilled repair option.
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  1371. Neighbors pay in sandwiches, visitors pay cash, emergency services get in for free.
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  1372. Neighbors are WAY better than "associations" If your lawn goes un-mowed for a month, an association will fine you. a neighbor will ask if you're okay and need help. A person who just happens to live nearby might not care other than muttering vaguely about "that messy lawn".
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  1373.  @makaikalii6859  In some parts of the US, the "reason" can be as simple as "Nothing else going on tonight, might as well ruin someone else's life."
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  1374.  paulette lamontagne  1) Please read your own comments for clarity before posting. 2) Seat belt use IS law. It is a law justified by the general welfare clause, which also leads to laws like speed limits, food safety, building codes, and many of the facets of life that let us survive long enough to find our life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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  1375. NYC could send out a few parking enforcement people on electric bikes and make WAY more money ticketing double-parkers than they could ever get harassing shopkeepers who are selling abandoned laptops.
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  1376. What's in HER closet?
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  1377.  @kurtwetzel154  The arrest would be for something like "disorderly conduct" or "resisting", or "impeding an investigation" and the money would be seized as possible proceeds of drug activity. The DA would drop the arrest charges and still keep the money.
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  1378.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket But only if you seize police assets.
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  1379. Good point!
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  1380. Heck, I'd settle for them writing down the TRUTH about their actions, with witnesses, and signed - then released to ALL media outlets. We could call it an ID-10-T form!
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  1381.  @Demonicpurity  Louis Rossmann did a video yesterday about how he received a summons to appear. Apparently, his business, which does not buy second-hand laptops and phones from patrons, failed to list purchases of second-hand laptops and phones on the city's website that pawnshops use to help track thefts. Each violation of which can result in a $15,000 fine...
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  1382. And an excess of arrests/warrants leading to detention.
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  1383. And where did USAID get all they food they gave to people in dire need? Right! Much of it was bought from US farms.
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  1384.  @JeffDeWitt  Or the ground.
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  1385. Neither the UK nor Germany had that kind of binoculars budget!
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  1386. It's almost like We the People need to ensure there are enforceable rules on the behaviors of those who work in our justice system. Perhaps even ethics standards on a particular court of a very high standing?
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  1387. Or the morgue.
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  1388. I knew I was getting old when I started recognizing the "classic rock" played in my local WalMart as songs from my teen years...
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  1389. I wonder where else that engine has pieces of that paper you found under the valve cover.
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  1390. For over a decade I had an artillery shell box in the back of my Bronco with extra clothing, blankets, fire-starting items, a tarp, rope, a hatchet and knife, a (perhaps illegally "procured") military-grade parachute illumination flare, and other cold weather stranding gear. Since the late 1990's with weather getting generally milder, and cell phones being a thing, my car's emergency kit has shrunk some. Now there are the blankets and spare wool socks, the hand-crank flashlight, a very basic first aid kit, and a hatchet and knife. I should really check the condition of those items once this winter is over and refresh/reevaluate the contents.
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  1391.  @sprague49  When the government is hitting the lower-class commoners with action, it is immediate. When they are eyeing people with money, suddenly there is a delay, there are steps of negotiation, and forgiveness. Or: Business as usual.
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  1392. One range day, we were firing 107mm/4.2inch from APCs, and the sergeant on the gun called for rounds faster than the listed rate of fire on a hot tube. The last round he fired that day didn't make it all the way down the tube. it bounced out on a spring of expanding hot gases, tumbled out of the tube, and bounced three times down the ramp, on the detonator end. - - - I have never seen people jump out of a tracked vehicle without touching the sides before then... That sergeant had to be ordered to go recover his misfire and carry it to the dud pit while the Lt. put in a call to range control and EOD.
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  1393. Short answer: Insurance companies. Longer answer: Insurance companies are very money conscious and risk-averse. They don't like to pay out any money they don't have to. So when the decision makers at an insurance company are looking at which powered wheelchair to provide to a covered person, then if they cannot deny the claim, they will go with the known value (lead-acid, brushed motors, boring) over the unknown new tech. This then filters to the manufacturers of the chairs. If insurance companies are buying many units of chair A, but almost none of chair B, then it is not financially smart to keep the chair B production line operating unless private non-insurance sales are buying enough units to justify the expense.
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  1394. Ehem. "Dear Disney Entertainment. Are you receiving all of the ad revenue you are due when Roku stuffs ads into the HDMI playback of a DVD of Frozen?" "Dear CBS-Paramount. Are you receiving all of the ad revenue you are due when Roku stuffs ads into the HDMI playback of episodes of Star Trek Picard I am playing from your website?" - Then sit back and watch them "Release the lawyers!"
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  1395.  @wingracer1614  Not a lot of money... yet. Don't forget the inconvenience, and how a distant lot full of unmonitored vehicles is a thief's shopping mall. And you just know the lot is contractually free of all liabilities.
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  1396. Quiet quitting is not about "doing the minimum", it's about not doing more than you're being paid for. No more doing paperwork and making customer calls from home off the clock. No more "stay a half hour after clocking out".
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  1397. Neil Young was right. Rust Never Sleeps.
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  1398.  @dangeary2134  I was once asked if I had weapons in my car by a cop. I was dumb and said, "It depends on what you consider a weapon." Ten tense pistol-groping minutes later, they finally accepted that as I was working in landscaping, the saws, loppers, axe, hatchet and machete laying in the back seat were tools, not weapons. I didn't even get around to showing them the sword and knives in the trunk!
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  1399. Biggest downside of military service? The VA determining "your disability is not service related", and the constant political attacks on disability compensation.
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  1400. When you have trolls, hire billy goats. - edit: your typical bully attacks those who they see as weak in reaction to things they feel they can't control in their own life, be it someone bullying them who they see as too strong to resist, or a grumpy boss, or an unfulfilling job, or self-loathing of some type.
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  1401. They had an apparently valid warrant. If he tried to stop them he'd have likely been body-slammed as a threat to officer safety right along with the son.
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  1402. Even if they limit it to audio ads, that is an unwelcome distraction.
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  1403. I've watched other channel's videos explain bulbous bows in 3-5 minutes. Explaining it in under a minute by comparing it to noise-canceling headphones? Perfection.
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  1404. Look, the "ghosts" of the tachikomas need to be stored somewhere.
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  1405. They parked them in unmonitored lots WITH THE KEYS IN THEM? That's not theft, that's accepting a gift.
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  1406. Orcs and Norks.
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  1407. Having backed a 30' (edit: I think it was more like 24'?) equipment trailer ONCE (well, about seventeen times to get it where it was supposed to go without jacknifing the excavator into my boss's F350), I bow to the skills of the truckers who somehow back a 40-50' box between cars, around building corners, and right into the loading docks.
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  1408. So this is just like the guy who is being repressively prosecuted/persecuted for timing traffic lights while not being a licensed civil engineer. - It's straight up protectionism.
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  1409. Definitely a chain would have been better than the strap to avoid slippage.
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  1410.  @kelliepatterson1142  Backhoe rentals are a neat way to help local businesses.
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  1411. There was that point early in the video, about 5:25 when I sat forward and said out loud in wonder, "There's a curb in there!"
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  1412. He did use AI. Authentic Idiocy.
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  1413. Other phrases used to divert responsibility: "Mistakes were made", "The decision was...", "The state's finding is..."
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  1414. "We in the federal government have no sense of humor that we're aware of." - Agent K
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  1415.  @crazysquirrel9425  Another instance when the accuser does not have the burden of proof: Civil asset forfeiture.
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  1416.  @zombieblaster5754  Nyet! If is potato, is Russian!
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  1417.  @astridgalactic9336  See also: civil asset forfeiture, squatter's "rights", and adverse possession.
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  1418. "Sorry to see that you're dying, but your Trauma Team subscription has expired."
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  1419. Seizure should ONLY follow a successful prosecution for criminal activity, and only if it can also be proven that the assets are linked to that crime.
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  1420. Last time I was this early, Kamchatka had a full box of binoculars.
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  1421. Also? Many parts of the USSR and parts of new-Russia were sovereign countries before. And many of those countries are made up of what used to be smaller fiefdoms, and before that there were small towns, villages domestic and migratory tribes... - It's all in exactly where and when you choose to draw you examples of justification.
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  1422.  @patrickday4206  Once they can close the land for "nobody is using it anymore" someone can buy it to plant a McMansion!
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  1423. A huge portion of the money is going to American companies manufacturing the weapon replacements while we save money from disposing stuff that may have otherwise exceeded its "best by" date. edit: Preston covered that later in the video.
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  1424. Only the fear of getting caught, and the morality to not try.
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  1425. This is not a law about water breaks. It is a law about a small number of businesses whining that having to arrange business practices around local ordinances was inconveniencing them. It could be about water breaks, distance between road cones, hours a road crew is allowed to block traffic, quiet hours around residential neighborhoods, having to hire local cops over state cops or flaggers for traffic direction... - Quite a strange thing for the party of small central government to back.
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  1426. This comment really made me laugh and agree at the same time.
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  1427. In the house I grew up in, my brothers and I were the garage door openers. If the springs are set right, it's not really all that difficult. Stop connecting your house to the danged internet!!!
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  1428. Historically, Afghanistan is the rock on which empires die. Getting out quickly is only slightly less smart than not going in at all.
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  1429. I mangle German so badly, I usually don't try. Of course, if I wanted a challenge capable of melting my brain, I'd train as a Finnish to Swahili translator.
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  1430.  @Eidolon1andOnly  They used to be just a conversation. "We're expecting a daughter!" - "Congratulations."
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  1431. Their fault, really, for not using the "knock politely and challenge the commander to a civilized duel" method.
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  1432.  @CurmudgeonExtraordinaire  I had not thought about that type of case.
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  1433.  @TheEDFLegacy  Thanks for the laughs!
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  1434. John Deere's policies have driven the prices of used older machinery way up.
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  1435. Hmmm... "enemies foreign and domestic." Yep, he fits the definition of that which must be defended against.
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  1436. In central Massachusetts there used to be a place called Spags. It was a cash-only "everything" store, kind of the ancestor of warehouse club stores, except they didn't have any membership plan. The unofficial motto for the place was "No bags at Spags" meaning you either brought your own bags in, or hoped to find one of the MANY empty boxes to stack your purchases in. Now that I think of it, they were stealthily having customers remove dunnage from their shelves... Wow. - Anyhow, when they were bought out by Building 19, they started taking credit cards and stocking bags at checkout. And the prices went up, the selection narrowed, until they finally closed.
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  1437. A hotel/motel should be able to cancel reservations for a few very specific reasons, all linked to the serviceability of the accommodations. Building brunt down, failed utilities like a backed up sewage line or power being out because of a disaster, the room was destroyed by the previous guest... And even in such instances, a SMART hotel/motel will at least suggest alternate accommodations (different room, other hotel/motel), if not help arrange them. - Make one person happy, they might tell one other person. Make one person angry, they'll tell many.
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  1438. Or, maybe, PAY THEM MORE?
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  1439. So damned brazen of a theft. I really hope they feel karma over that.
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  1440.  @piked86  But the lights and sirens give them stiffies! They need it!
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  1441. Nice catch!
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  1442.  @dovydenaspdx  Pre-computers, one or a few people in a shed int he back yard could innovate and actually have a chance at their widget being picked for a big contract. Now, you have to already be a big established mega-corp to even get a peek at the specs the end customers are looking for.
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  1443.  @rogerdewhurst5750  Even one cent per day is dangerous. it leaves the door open for "miscellaneous fees" and other lies to drive the price up drastically, just like college tuition. If "the state" wants custody of someone, for reasons good or otherwise, they ought to assume all of the responsibilities of that custody. If it is too expensive to do so, maybe look at cost-cutting, or perhaps being less eager to hold so many people in custody.
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  1444. That leaves... copper wire, and bags of asbestos fibers.
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  1445. If I had a car totaled in an accident, that means it was driving right before it was hauled to the junkyard. That means the gas in my car is very likely "fresh" and definitely good enough to run an engine. The alarmists around this story are assuming that all cars that go to a junkyard somehow sat in a grassy lot for five years with the gas turning to lacquer. Heck, even if you leave gas in a snowblower for 6-8 months, it will still run most of the time without having a fuel stabilizer added or having to throw away the old gas. - Water in a gas station's product is a factor of bad tank seals and no check and maintenance being done by the station owners. With those crappy gas stations, you don't need the boogie man of "BAD JUNKYARD GAS!" to get poor performance or engine damage.
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  1446. Don't discount the efforts of swallows, either African or European.
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  1447. Sometimes I find public displays of ANY relationship a little off-putting, and on rare occasions pretty disgusting. I don't need to see two people trying to trade teeth while grasping at each others' groins in public. Film it and put it on the internet where it belongs!
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  1448. I am reminded of Louis Rossmann's tale of his business interruption insurance claim denial because... The multi-day power outage was due to flooding AT THE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION. His shop was completely dry, but the insurance denied the claim because "it was flooding, not business interruption."
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  1449. Because the politicians they paid for made it legal.
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  1450.  @sgath92  I understood that reference!
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  1451. That's the video that found me this channel!
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  1452. That is f-ed up.
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  1453. Yeah, and how DARE Louis interrupt his boring day with difficult and unusual questions about the incompetency of his organization!
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  1454. As Quint would say, "We're gonna need a bigger goat."
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  1455. This gun fires GUNS!
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  1456. The virus is very tiny. Agreed. Now, those very tiny virus particles are mostly in small (larger than tiny) and medium (larger than small) bits of fluid as they are ejected from our respiratory system. The mask slows the air flow (where it covers IF worn properly) and catches a percentage of the wet stuff you breathe/cough/sneeze out. And something really neat? The catching of particulates works when you breathe in! (which is why you are advised to change the mask periodically). Slowing the droplets you exhale, plus distance, plus MY mask means there is a HUGE reduction in the likelihood of your virus getting into me. - Is the mask 100%? No, of course not. Other things that are not 100% effective at their purpose: condoms, IUDs, air bags, seat belts, autopilots, doctors, dentists, car brakes, railroad signals, diets, exercise, being innocent in court... So should we refuse to use everything that does not offer a 100% guarantee?
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  1457. This is on par with the competence of the Russian navy during the Russo-Japanese war
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  1458.  @ЖигимонтАвгуст  Which M2? I freely admit the original M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun was a finicky beast. I had to watch a training film about headspace and timing and how a mistake there could kill the user. Though I read or heard that the problem had been largely remediated. The M2 Bradley is a great vehicle, if you don't try to employ it as if it were a tank. The M2 artillery compass is a fine device, though for orienteering I prefer the lensatic compass. The M2 is also a highway in South Africa, a highway in Australia, a highway in Russia (a.k.a. the Crimea Highway)... - Sorry, I have free time and a search engine. Not trying to be a jerk to you.
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  1459. People ARE dumb. The internet is littered with stories, pictures and videos of peoples' cars with completely bald tires, engines ruined because owners ignore the check engine light, engines ruined because people put fluids in the wrong places (oil in the radiator, water in the engine, windshield washer in the transmission, etc.), cars riven for thousands of miles with rusted out or mangled frames and suspension parts, cars that get in wrecks because people stack multiple floor mats in the driver's position, tires ruined because of over or under inflation... And that's just cars. - The more complex a machine is, the more people who will just ignore how it works and assume it will keep working as they think it should. - Now pile on top of that, a company calling a driver assistance feature "self driving" on their OWN media? Disasters will happen.
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  1460. But, but... Some part in there might get used in illicit uranium enrichment or it could be attached to a drone used for military purposes or someone could use the lenses to make a microscope they could use in the manufacture of biological weapons, or they could take out all the lenses and turn the casing into a shot glass which they use to serve black-market absinthe!
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  1461. I'm not Ray, but "Hi Silas! Enjoy the flashlight gravity!"
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  1462. Were any of them covered in powdered sugar? That's a field drug test for each one!
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  1463. How many other convicted felons get to "phone in" their pre-sentencing hearing? Certainly not us common folks.
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  1464.  @finkover988  You are doing a LOT of defense of Russians here.
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  1465. Kratos should have been voiced by an actual demi-god. Christopher Judge is as close as we have right now.
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  1466. Well, we are heading into sleigh weather...
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  1467. Google: Be Evil. They are just following in the footsteps of other huge companies that abuse their customers.
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  1468. Hey Louis, having had to price out over-priced plastic auto parts, I completely understand the tape. When a plastic bumper cover costs $400 from a junkyard, and a headlight assembly costs $300-450? You go for the tape.
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  1469. It's almost like someone said the dreaded words: "What could possibly go wrong?"
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  1470.  @jpnewman1688  Ah, I see you're out spamming the exact same words I have seen from you all over the place for the last couple of weeks.
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  1471. I got penicillin when I was very young, in a hospital setting. Apparently, it almost killed me as I had an anaphylactic reaction that caused my throat lining to swell and close off. That said, as long as it is not from the penicillin family, antibiotics do produce great results when I have to use them. I am glad that medical procedures are hammering in the lessons that providing antibiotics for VIRAL problems is wrong.
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  1472. The more I hear about slimy behavior, the more I expect to hear about those same people found "in a shallow grave in the forest".
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  1473. He probably still thinks the baseball fans in NY like him.
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  1474.  @spankynater4242  The only way to avoid irate customers at the service desk is to not have a service desk. Some people suck.
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  1475. Or demonstrably demonized!
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  1476.  @Stealth86651  I did notice the cage over the intake to prevent large parachute deployment debris from getting in there.
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  1477. The idea of "pro-lifers" stocking up on firearms to kill people with makes sense once you look a bit closely. And I mean, it makes sense when you see who these people are, and where their position stems from. A place of hate and control.
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  1478. Ehem, it's "Department of the Boat People".
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  1479. What a tire-d pun! (I kid.)
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  1480. George Santos, is that you?
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  1481.  @danielbarrett6026  Whatever metal is over the steel on your particular lug nuts, it's a dumb design to put the sizing sleeve over a material that will swell with (inevitable) corrosion.
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  1482. She's the Flat-Earther version of a judge.
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  1483. RemoteID on cars, chainsaws, bottles of alcohol, tobacco products, bagel knives, wet bathtubs and showers...
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  1484. Seven whole days? That judge must have burnt an orphanage full of babies to get such a serious sentence!
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  1485. I may be an oddball in this discussion, but I like a gladius for home defense. What burglar is ready to accept a few sword wounds?
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  1486. The cat shrank two sizes!
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  1487.  @woden_arbosa  You seem to live in a 'no front plate' state.
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  1488. But they love him because he gives them permission to hate as much as they want.
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  1489. A base-model Spot (that robot dog) from Boston Dynamics is just under $75,000. For that money they could have hired two part-time and/or on-call crisis counselors and still have some left over.
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  1490. And the brake caliper was the only thing keeping it all in the same general zip code. Amazing.
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  1491. I am completely behind any DA who wants to be "tough on crime" but ONLY if they are also tough on crime by police, lawyers, judges, themselves and rich people. Because putting the wrong person in jail is also a crime, even if the written law does not explicitly say so.
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  1492. EXACTLY!
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  1493. Most kidnappers don't have the magic gavel of sovereign immunity.
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  1494. Also, a lived-in house, with climate control being used, and leaks & problems being detected early, degrades far slower than one left fully vacant and detached from utilities.
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  1495. "Do you know why I pulled you over?" - "Did you forget already?"
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  1496. On the ship of America, there is always dirty evil on the lower decks, cleaner evil on the Ledo deck by the pool, some evil down in cargo, a few evil folks in the engine room, and even some captains at the wheel steering us into stormy seas... But never have we had a captain who steers so vigorously for the shoals.
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  1497. I am reminded of a very old Aamco commercial where someone pulls into a generic mechanic shop, something something, and the guy standing by the pumps playing with the filler hose says, "I was BORN to fix a trans-miss-e-ohn!"
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  1498. This story made me laugh with joy.
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  1499. It's like they can't figure out they are wearing cameras.
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  1500. My brain kept wandering off on the subject of carpentry nails. Specifically, the ones identified by "penny" sizes.
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  1501.  @jollyandwaylo  Airline pilots will lose flight certification with a DUI/OUI arrest, false or not. Should they get a "better job" or should society make cops DO a better job?
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  1502. At the very least, it ought to result in a career change for the former cop(s), and job openings in the department.
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  1503.  @TechnologyConnections  Yeah, that's what the maid said to Damien just before the hung herself in the foyer...
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  1504. 2011 Focus. Manual crank windows, radio and climate controlled by knobs and buttons.
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  1505. Twenty years ago, I, a single male adult, knew about the advisability of folic acid as a pregnancy supplement. Given that I did not even search out that information, and it was not hidden behind an obscure secrecy plot in the medical community, perhaps the liable party is the mother who did not read a basic "I'm pregnant! Now what?" pamphlet.
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  1506. There was a stretch of a few years where the biggest scam caller I got calls from was my own phone number. Well, I knew I wasn't calling me, so I picked up and hung up in about half a second every time.
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  1507.  @J55S  I saw a video where David Lee Roth told the story almost exactly as Peter did above, and rolled it into a story about a venue that had just put in a brand new shock absorbing (neoprene?) floor covering at a hack of a cost, and when the band's staging and equipment punctured holes in it the venue tried to make the band pay. But the footprint and weight of all of that equipment was in the contract, and the band pointed out that the venue had the contract information long before, and did not make an issue until after the damage. The band did not have to pay.
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  1508. Wait until they find out about telephoto lenses and parabolic microphones. That will blow their tiny little minds.
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  1509. My refrigerator would not fry up a couple of eggs sunny-side up. It now lives outside with the dishwasher that would not clean out the cat box and the vacuum cleaner that refused to wash the windows. - But that silliness aside, I get your point. If GE came out with refrigerators that required a constant internet connection to keep our ice frozen and our milk not, those refrigerators would sit unbought. And if dishwasher got a software update that required me to get a manufacturer tech in my home to make it work again, that repair tech would be carting it out to his truck when he left.
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  1510. "Dammit! We have this strap in our gear, so I'm going to use it!" And is out camera-cop badly out of shape, overly excited (perhaps in a dirty way?) at being able to hogtie someone, or a little of both?
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  1511. Assuming the person is actually answering, and not running off on tangents like many of the people Katie Porter skewers with her concise questions, pre-session research, and her whiteboard of doom.
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  1512. That is the anger of someone for whom the trucker protest is nothing but an impediment to their day.
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  1513. Here is a possible parallel for RTR advocates on this topic. "Imagine you buy a car, but if you change the tires that are welded on at the factory, you have to bring it back to the dealership to let the wheels turn again. And that's if you can even GET the car maker's brand of tires. or oil, or anti-freeze, or windshield wipers..."
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  1514.  Mavendow  I understood about 60% of what you posted, and I agree. We don't own anything with software, it owns us.
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  1515.  @hamoonhassan2573  And that's why the people who say, "I can't afford to tear out my walls and put in better (or the first, for old houses) insulation" but also plug in an electric heater to help their under-rated home heating system and then complain about the bills make me scratch my head. - - - If you're renting, I get it. But if you own, INSULATE!
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  1516.  @andrewvelonis5940  If the woman was a diesel mechanic giving legal advice, also not claiming to be a lawyer, then nobody would care. But have a toe in the lawyer's pool and dare to share what you know without misrepresenting your qualifications? Good lordy, out come the torches and pitchforks.
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  1517.  @Dan762X39P  Sure, a slimy mechanic may get some extra money playing that game, but it takes one knowledgeable customer with enough anger and follow-through to tear down customer numbers when the scam is caught. In the end, it's a really dumb way to torpedo your own business
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  1518. Someone at BBK owes mechanics some sort of huge apology. A factory tour just won't cut it this time.
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  1519. It reminds me of one of the earlier machine guns where you had to hold the butterfly handles in a specific unusual manner to avoid losing your thumbs to the bolt. I can't remember or find which one that was, sorry.
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  1520.  @MarvinCZ  Thank for pulling the conversation back on topic. (I am as much to blame as others here) - The problem with lightning and lightening is enunciation, not spelling. Enunciation is a tougher topic to tackle due to regional accents and the occasional speech impediment. Plus some people talk too fast or mumble, or both.
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  1521.  @parktamaroon226  Reminds me of some surveys I've seen over the last year. 1. Who would you prefer to vote for? a) President Trump b) a lying socialist c) an Antifa-loving communist 2. Who do you trust more for reporting the truth. a) Fox News b) Leftist-leaning lying MSNBC c) The liars at CNN. d) Anti-American New York Times - - I wish I was making those question up.
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  1522. This country USED to have lots of facilities to treat those with mental problems (Pre-Reagan), even though some of the treatments would seem wrong through the lens of today's knowledge. But no, those places had to be shuttered and torn down "to save money".
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  1523. "Are you carrying any cash? - "Oh, sorry officer, I don't bribe cops. Have a nice day."
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  1524. It LOOKS like it would stink in there.
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  1525. And it's not even his house, it's a house he gets to use temporarily because he has a specific government job.
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  1526. Looks like you use a "proper amount" of flux as well.
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  1527.  @frogandspanner  It's just like the "protection" you get extorted to pay to local criminals, but with fancy offices and favorable laws that the companies pay politicians to write for them.
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  1528.  @randbarrett8706  Drach's point is to share information, and he assiduously avoids discussing modern ships and events. In my view this is because the politics of the near past only result in arguments that devolve into name-calling and hate.
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  1529. I drove one for about half of my time in the Army National Guard. Well, the Mortar carrier and command track variants. The command variant we called "The RV". It was tall enough that some could stand up inside, and with the tables deployed it could sleep four in comfort, six with excess familiarity. Even back in the 1980's we knew it was a way to get from A to B without infantry weapons (rifles, medium machine guns) taking us out, and to allow bad terrain transport of indirect fire systems.
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  1530. It is a lot less disturbing than the last time I saw a grown man "fill their drawers". Of course, that time it was someone too drunk to hold on to their digestion byproducts...
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  1531.  @XENONEOMORPH1979  Yeah! How DARE we, his viewers, offer polite suggestions!!!!
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  1532. Funny possibility, the judge "reconsiders" the damages award, increases it by 20%.
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  1533. Well, I agree but I would say, "Please vote after you have educated yourself on your choices. Don't vote emotionally."
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  1534. If you have one towing company, you are one company in the rotation for police tows. If you own 3/4 of the towing companies, you get 3/4 of the police tows for the low price of maintaining separate books and holding separate incorporation paperwork.
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  1535. I'm not totally against lobbying. I am against ANONYMOUS lobbying. I think every politician should be required to have a full and open record of where ALL of their contributions come from. With the internet, that information would be available to all voters to check before we give out our vote. - If Jane Doe is running on a platform of holding petroleum corporations accountable for their environmental damage and price gouging, but I could see that they accepted millions in contributions from Exxon, BP, and others, I would be able to more intelligently vote. And I would KNOW that Jane Doe is a liar long before they are in a position to do great harm. - The current murky and hidden situation we have now is harming the country.
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  1536. Some of that cash may have been bundled with elastics! That's proof of drug money, right? Sheesh... This case is ludicrous.
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  1537. There is no conflict. They have been bought and paid for, and in return they make decisions to please their owners... I mean "donors".
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  1538. I had a 1988 Ford Bronco. It was built during a 15-month "experiment" with some drivetrain changes. When I had one of the front locking hubs come apart, I could not get a matching one from wither Ford or other parts manufacturers. I ended up having to get one from a junkyard in Maine that happened to have a pickup with the same locking hubs (and the rear axle I had to replace that had eaten itself). - I also went through two gas tanks because of the design of the under-tank support that trapped water, dirt, and salt between the support and the tank, essentially creating a sanding and oxidizing enclosure. When I replaced the second tank, Ford had finally redesigned the under-tank shield to include drainage holes. What genius!
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  1539. I am American and I've long known about this story because I am old enough to have watched documentaries about this before the Discovery Network of channels fully poisoned themselves to be "reality" TV. Back when we had good informative shows on The History Channel, History International and The Military Channel.
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  1540.  @app103  Ooh! The Cul-de-sac California! (Such a lovely place)
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  1541.  @DE-xt7jv  I can only answer for how it works in Massachusetts. If you declare for a specific political party in you voter registration, then that locks in which ballot you can vote in in primaries. For final elections, the declaration doesn't matter as to which ballot you are handed. If you register as "undeclared" then you can choose which party's primary ballot you get when you check in. In any case, when you check out of voting, you can change your declaration of party or "undeclared", which will change what you are registered as. - I like this system, as it means I can (in a primary) either cast a vote for the candidate I want to see win, or cast a spoiling vote against the candidate of the opposing party whom I wish to lose. - My chief primary gripe is with the way this country does presidential primaries. My state is late in the process because Iowa and Vermont need to feel special. So by the time I get to cast a primary vote, often the candidate I wanted to vote for has dropped out or been eliminated somehow. - I would really like to see presidential primary voting be a rotation of ten states per week, over five weeks. And the next time. the ten who went first go fifth while the other sets of ten move up, and so on every four years. Either that or the whole country casts their votes on the same day. - - And for Pasta's sake, can we stop the two-year slog of people running for president?
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  1542. My ideal home location would be a compact 1,500 square feet of AFFORDABLE living space up against many acres of park and forest shared by the other housing boxes nearby. Near a grocery store and public transit. I may have to move out of the US to see my dream.
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  1543. This guy should have walked away from court the owner of a pen and some goats. The case was decided wrongly, and the law allowing such a decision is a violation of rationality.
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  1544. Do you know why the cartels are shipping drugs across the border into the US? Because Americans are buying the drugs.
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  1545. "The flashing makes them more noticeable." Obviously. But if a HUMAN does it for the same reason, they get all arrested and stuff...
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  1546.  @FredFredrickson-bip-bang  Dang it! I had just sipped my iced tea when I read that! That hurt.
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  1547. Beats figuring out the three shells!
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  1548. We need a Robin Williams Law. Explain, you say? I am referring to the jacket of sponsor/donor/owner patches rant he made. If they refuse to stop being corrupt, we should at least be able to see at a glance who is paying them.
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  1549. Darth Barbie and Marge The Gathering need to be sent home and away from even a hint of running this country.
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  1550. "Bring everyone." then jumps alone out of a plane, while his British-accented assistant talks him in. "Murica!!
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  1551. I had an uncle who refused to wear seatbelts "In a roll-over accident you might get stuck sitting upright and die." and refused to stop drinking like a fish even after he was diagnosed with diabetes "Doctors are always telling people to stop drinking, what do they know?" - He had a front-end collision accident in his car and was ejected through the windshield. It was most of a year before all of the piece of safety glass finally migrated out of his forehead. - After being diagnosed with diabetes, and continuing to drink like a fish, he had to have one leg amputated just below the knee, and went blind less than a year before he died, more than 150 pounds overweight. - But he knew better, right? If he had lived to this year, he'd probably be anti-vaccine too.
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  1552. Because "the house always wins".
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  1553. Some of us skip the silly debate (usually over words the "Brits" changed AFTER the Americans became Americans) and say, "lab".
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  1554. Yeah, the truth is more like Battlestar Galactica's "All this has happened before, and it will happen again."
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  1555. It goes straight from the CCP to Huawei ad Tencent, and those two companies are pushing spyware into every install base they can get to.
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  1556.  @jasnterry1313  a.k.a. Formica. An artificial countertop glued onto a slab of particle board. It's not necessarily a bad thing, if it's done correctly and not worn through.
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  1557.  @beekeeper8474  Nutria (coypu) were imported for the fur trade. When the bottom dropped out of the trade, some breeders freed their stock into the wetlands of the Eastern US. Those critters have no sufficient predators here, and they destroy marshes and swamps by eating the roots of wetland plants. They breed quickly, outpacing even some all-year legal hunting efforts.
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  1558.  @SeanKH19  Correction, you meant to say: "... so that the election will represent the will of the voters in a one person-one vote method, what could go wrong?"
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  1559. Um, actually? I believe it's "Dulutherans"? (kidding!)
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  1560. I disagree. Once under the government dime, they would also be under the government thumb. And that could curtail their effectiveness and their mission.
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  1561.  cpk8636-6  So sad, how hard you are working to prop up people who only want to use you until you are empty of what they can use.
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  1562. But cops ARE there to serve the public. Just like "To Serve Man" was a cookbook.
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  1563.  @FilmSpook  Really trying hard to push your video, aren't you.
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  1564.  @plzletmebefrank  And Superman should have ended up somewhere in the cargo hold on that airliner he caught by the nose, no matter how slowly he decelerated it.
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  1565. Start program End employment: sheriffs End employment: chief End employment: code enforcement employees End program.
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  1566. So many things in our lives don't NEED to be cloud or internet connected. Refrigerators, ovens, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, televisions, doorbells, room lights, TOASTERS!!! The only things that should NEED an always available connection are things that are designed to get information on command from the internet. Stuff like phones, computers... Yeah, that's it.
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  1567.  @RichardHeadGaming  Well, there are ethics standards that vary from state to state, and enforcement is even more random than that. As for the particular court of a very high standing, the leading judge for that court has recently released a tirade about how nobody CAN restrain that court.
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  1568. I think I just heard Google say, "Hold my beer."
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  1569. I'm getting a vision. The vision includes the words... forest... grave... and shallow.
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  1570. And that 20x more is our money too.
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  1571. "Hey, hand over your wallet. You're standing on a public sidewalk, so there are no 4th Amendment protections for you anymore."
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  1572.  @shakemiz  I've seen a video where a guy who was waiting for the Uber he called was sitting outside of a bar and was arrested for "public intoxication". Ludicrous.
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  1573.  @nubbiewubbie7285  Hope it was butterscotch! It is such a treat to have a butterscotch candy once in a while.
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  1574. I grew up in a time when a motherly concern was to make sure you have clean underwear on in case you get in a car accident.
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  1575.  @walterwhite2270  Still would not make the first payment (beyond the deposit) until I have the keys in hand and the vehicle working and in the condition I was promised.
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  1576.  @thecursed01  And if the agent has a dog, the dog is probably still alive.
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  1577.  @sealyoness  You just haven't stayed in the fridge long enough then.
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  1578.  @techterror1282  I watched that video. Highly speculative? Please...
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  1579.  @Gangsta1168  Capitalism and kleptocracy are different points on the economic number line.
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  1580.  @carlsaganlives6086  And "engine-rich exhaust".
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  1581. No sidewalk, no fog line / breakdown lane. That road is beyond capacity for lanes.
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  1582. I really like the design of Beth's kitchen sink. That middle space is something I would love to have in my sink.
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  1583. When I first heard about the Proud Boys, they sounded like a pro- gay rights coalition. (/shrug) - The impressions are great!
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  1584. Carpet in a pickup is ludicrous! I agree with your dad's stance on that.
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  1585. Spelled out in bodies...
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  1586.  @harrywoodman2988  How about the Spam, Spam, Eggs, Toast, Spam and Spam? It doesn't have as much Spam in it.
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  1587.  @SY-qg6qn  Ah, that's what I get for going from my imperfect memory. Thanks for the correction. - The actual text of the Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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  1588. I still have three or four old phone chargers in my big box of power converters in my living room closet. That box of chargers has come in hand about three or four times in the three decades it has been slowly growing. Yay!
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  1589. Metal gear = solid.
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  1590. She only said "someone" needs to be impeached. Since she is the only one talking about this, maybe she should volunteer as the target?
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  1591. This brand boycott will work so long as all of the other options don't follow suit. See: Samsung following Apple methodology.
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  1592. Even Starbucks can fail with NYC commercial rents.
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  1593. If someone doesn't like hearing Ray talk, there is a volume slider on YouTube AND their computational device.
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  1594. In my dream world, YouTube would bring back the thumbs-down counter (for people who don't want to install modifications); and the Electoral College, civil asset forfeiture, qualified immunity, and sovereign immunity would disappear
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  1595.  @piotrd.4850  Ai can see your point, which also incorporates Brian Aleman's points about security concerns for secret aspects. But to remove the ability of military central depot level shops to fix things is a serious risk to military readiness.
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  1596. Someone serves 3 years in active combat, or 24 in the Guard without deploying, or 5 in public affairs, or 15 in maintenance... They all served. If they served with a good record, did their job to standards or better, then they served well.
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  1597.  @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403  It is not even remotely "usually black people". It is always people who they think will not fight back.
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  1598.  @sergeykuchkov2887  I am relying only on the English translations of the documentaries I've seen about the sub(s?). Also, I am not fully versed in Russian/Soviet culture, and only a little bit conversant with Finnish culture, thanks to the paternal side of my family.
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  1599. I am simultaneously sad that this is so unusual. We, the voters (as an aggregate), are idiots.
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  1600. My hypothesis: Marjorie Taylor Greene is only trying to get better mental health coverage for all Americans by being so bat-stuff crazy the Health-Industrial Complex will open the gates of care just to get her put away, and protect themselves from people like her.
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  1601. Ah. Steal from homeowners? Big shrug from the courts. Steal from the government? Down comes the hammer.
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  1602. And the boss didn't want the cop to have him on speaker phone, because he KNEW that what he said would become part of the public record via body-camera footage.
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  1603. I agree. I have had tires replaced both when my trunk was bare and when it was packed. When the trunk was packed or even partly full, I would tell the shop to just put the spare in the back seat and I would put it away. I am not going to pay shop rates for someone to deal with my clutter.
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  1604. Karens are gonna Karen.
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  1605. Also, when you're done, wipe your fingers or a cloth/napkin across the keys/screen if you've touched them. Else a person can dust and easily narrow down the options to figure out your PIN.
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  1606. I checked out the proposal at Congress.gov. This bill was introduced by a Florida republican, and has 31 co-sponsors; 16 Republican, 15 Democrat. I NEVER see that kind of aisle-crossing on bills I check out.
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  1607. I watched a video, I think it was Veritasium(?), about those cruddy AI-made videos that even go so far as to steal content from other creators.
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  1608.  @FLPhotoCatcher  The more common restrictions against tiny homes are zoning regulations. So many parts of the country seem to equate tiny homes with poverty, homelessness, and "THOSE people", and then people deep underwater on their McMansions scream at town and city meetings to try and make sure that new construction doesn't negatively impact their property values.
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  1609. YES! The only question is, will it be a whiskey on the rocks, or a knife-hand short?
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  1610.  @quirin5061  Could be a helicopter. Or hot air balloon. I mean, not right now, with all of the shooting going on, but in peacetime a calm hot air balloon ride over the farmlands of Ukraine would be beautiful.
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  1611. "We have a warrant for your recordings." - "One moment... Oops, hard drive error, it self-erased."
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  1612. It will fail if you fail to know the people you are trying to help build up. Just like any relationship, there is more success if you know and accept people as they are, and work with/around them. LEAD them to change, not PUSH them into change.
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  1613. Oh heck yes, particularly given that they keep their cruisers running all shift to generate electricity for all the radios, lights, and computers.
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  1614.  @gavinjenkins899  I learned how to testify from the person who was US president when I graduated high school. "Senator, I do not recall."
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  1615. And the legacy of Major General Henry Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) of the British Royal Artillery continues on.
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  1616.  @brentfarvors192  Small correction to your post. "IF YOU GET CAUGHT committing a crime..."
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  1617.  @patcallahan1050  OMG that's EVIL! I love it.
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  1618. That bore is bigger than some AA guns at 42.67mm.
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  1619.  @SkylineFTW97  The "lower-priced" new X-Box is doing that subscription model too. So now if your bank screws up, not only can you not open your Word documents or even turn your Windows computer, but you will not be able to drive your car out to the tractor that will not start, and you can't stay home and play the newest year's version of Fifa Ultimate Microtransaction...
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  1620. Having worked in in-circuit test on a PCB production line, I can confirm. Those probe points are for either flying probe or "bed of nails" test enclosures to determine if all of the parts are installed correctly before they are sent to lengthier tests of full function and HALT-HASS.
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  1621. That first guy didn't fail to get the vaccine because he "didn't have time" but because he procrastinated and found lots of ways to justify his laziness. You don't get that fat be being a go-getter, and I'm speaking from experience. But even I got the vaccine as soon as it was available to me. I MADE the time.
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  1622. I went through something very similar at Ft. Benning in 1985, but the holes were at least reinforced concrete pipe so that the holes could support the weight of the tank if the driver drifted off-line.
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  1623. Henry is a professional film actor. That's why he wouldn't look directly at camera.
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  1624. And they're so brave and pure of purpose that they hide all of their skin to avoid identification.
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  1625.  @solandri69  Your comments fit the text of the law, but not many of the outcomes. When "we the people" are under the lens of the legal system, we pay. And pay and pay. When the elites are invited to attend the proceedings of the legal system, they pay a little and walk away with press conferences about how they won.
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  1626.  @JacekSeroka  The US is car-nivorous!
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  1627.  @justinweatherford8129  Yeah. The Science Channel gave up being about science years ago. Much like the History Channel gave up on history, and TLC gave up on learning.
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  1628.  @Crazycatlady71  Ah, I was too interested in keeping my brain from leaking out of my skull to listen to the whole speech. Or any whole speech he gives.
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  1629. Sometimes, people would rather use a vacant property as their dump than pay for the disposal fees for tires, mattresses/box springs, appliances, and large electronics like TVs. Around here, we call those people scum.
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  1630.  @VideoArchiveGuy  Not if you turn it off and/or take out the battery. *Removing the battery not easy on "premium" anti-repair brands.
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  1631.  @methox85  So, your computer wasn't shorting, it was drunk!
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  1632.  @johnclements6614  A radar gun (or lidar, the more up-to-date tool) is usually directly operated by a cop. The cop can be called on to testify as to the use and calibration of the tool.
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  1633.  @AtlasReburdened  I worked at a pressure sensitive film (sticker) company on the manufacturing line, After each run of an adhesive, I got to clean all of the parts that were contacted by the adhesive in a huge steel sink. Some adhesives would come clean with isopropyl alcohol or acetone, and gloves worked against those. Then there were the adhesives that only cleaned up with carbon tetrachloride! That stuff pretty much ignored the gloves we used, and made every single hair follicle its own violation of the Geneva Conventions against torture.
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  1634. One navy, one army, one marines. They collected the whole set!
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  1635. The flesh dummies were all busy in Parliament?
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  1636. "I wear footwear sometimes" sounds so much like, "Hello fellow youths." I laughed.
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  1637. The best way to return that "But others do worse" is to take out a means of keeping notes and then ask, "Who, and what crimes?"
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  1638. I did notice one of Louis's employees checking the guys USPS ID.
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  1639.  @benjamincarlson6994  But it is a case where both insanity AND self-defense could be claimed as defenses.
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  1640. The Gamestop short topic is entertaining. THIS is a topic I care about. And so should everyone else. - I'm sorry I skip some repair videos, time is finite in my gravitational frame of reference.
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  1641.  @Nebris Don't blame the name or the navy. Blame the gold-braids who thought the LCS was a brilliant idea. US taxpayers certainly do!
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  1642. They should make a show about a guy like this! They could call it Suits! ... wait...
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  1643. Heck, I buy cars on the "2-5 years old" plan. In the first year, the "Oh my gosh it explodes on odd numbered Tuesdays!" problems are all evident, and most of the major recall-worthy problems have also been fixed (still worth checking that VIN, though). Additionally, the first owner has already taken the initial devaluation hit(s).
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  1644. Eminent Domain being used to give land to corporations is not what that doctrine was written for. It was written for roads and civil improvements, later railroads and highways.
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  1645. I learned that "free will" is an illusion way back in 1988 via a skilled Sociology professor in college. And I'm okay with living the illusion in day-to-day activity.
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  1646. If terraforming is making a planet more Earthlike and habitable, what do we call what humans have been doing?
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  1647.  @modothegreat108  There was also the great musical dance number, "Eat Shit, Bob!"
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  1648. Real smart the way those get mounted!
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  1649. For making a "technical", if you can't get a Toyota Hilux, get another Toyota.
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  1650.  @TheOriginalStevenH  A long time ago, I knew someone who used a different middle initial for each of their magazine subscriptions (I did say it was a long time ago!) When he would get junk mail, he would see which middle initial was used, call that magazine's subscription office (back then, humans answered phones, even at big companies) and make sure they knew WHY he was canceling his subscription, and would be telling others to cancel as well. - I am not sure if it mattered much in the grand scheme of things, but it was something.
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  1651. On the other hand, our family have never had a deliberately bred dog or cat. We always adopted or were gifted whatever "mutt" or cat was available and needed a home. Way back in the 1970's when I was little, one of our horses was a papered Morgan, and dumber than a brick...
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  1652. Why do "they" get the right to tell me I can't fly a plane without their special piece of paper!? What about muh freedumb!
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  1653. "We have determined that due to genetic markers in your patrilinear line, your injury on the cargo quay, witnessed by two platoons and caught on three security cameras showing military equipment driven by military operators during military activity is not service related."
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  1654. "May the Schwartz be wit you!"
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  1655.  @misterx420  We should all register as Henry Kissinger.
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  1656. That assist handle on the shovel (and the one on the weed-eater) are a great invention. I had one on a snow shovel and it was amazing how much difference it made. Later, I transitioned to a shovel with an S-like curved hand that had similar benefit.
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  1657. $370 million? That's a lot of red hats and t-Rump flags at the "Donald the Great" website!
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  1658. Amazing response to the orders "Go there and help." - "Yes sir!"
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  1659. A REAL repair service would not have to take loans out from cats to stock the shelves with prop computers that never get fixed. And that REAL repair service would never have to use those cats to get YouTube clicks! . Side note, what kind of interest rate do the cats charge in Greenies? Asking for a "friend".
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  1660. Heck, just record cops while standing on a public sidewalk and count how long it takes to be surrounded and detained "to see if you're doing anything wrong".
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  1661. He couldn't read the non-brail invitation to the list?
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  1662. Nationalize SpaceX, since Musky is getting in the government game anyway.
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  1663.  @TR-zx1lc  1) You expect cops to actually know the law? Are you new here? 2) Irrelevant.
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  1664. At least with the long-term missing windows, and the lack of care about a wet interior, that truck has been someone's beater for a long while. Perhaps even a farm truck?
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  1665. Oh, wait until they sue the local weather station for not predicting a different wind direction!!!
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  1666. Not only to answer the phones, but to chase, er ORDER, parts and deal with customer face-to-face time.
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  1667. In unrelated news, city council members find themselves unable to rent a U-Haul vehicle due to "scheduling conflicts".
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  1668. I wonder if they billed their clients as if they had manually written the documents.
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  1669.  @dryburn  If you drink from the toilet, make sure you are in Fallout 4, not Fallout 3. Else you will get rads.
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  1670. In New England, when a blizzard is forecast, we buy milk, bread and ice cream. But the power might go out, you say? Then you HAVE to eat the ice cream and drink the milk, leaving the bread for later. Win!
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  1671. Sovereign immunity covers a lot of vile activity.
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  1672. Maybe re-task that Jewish Space Laser?
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  1673. MOAR HONKA!
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  1674. The place I'm in now had new interior doors and carpet because the previous tenants had some number of uncaged ferrets. I moved in with two cats, and paid a pet deposit on top of the normal security deposit. - This proposed Canadian law is wrong-headed. If they were making a pathway for property owners to be able to afford repairs if they CHOSE to allow pets, then it would make sense. But FORCING property owners to accept pets? That's wrong-headed.
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  1675. Now that I think about it, I saw my first recommendation for this channel, the video about LED traffic lights with the thumbnail "The problem with "but sometimes," about eight times before I clicked on it.
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  1676. I'm old enough to remember when the only "speed sensor" was the speedometer cable attached to one of the front wheels. Back in those days, it was also easier to roll back the mechanical odometer, so I am not advocating going back to that tech.
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  1677.  @johnkessler9878  Albert Einstein would have been cuffed and searched for "looking homeless" with his wild hair and distracted nature when he was thinking of science.
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  1678. I had no idea the "how hard the door is to open" was also adjustable. A very few times, I've encountered doors that took a ludicrous amount of effort to open. In one case, I had to open a door with that problem for a very old and tiny woman who was completely blocked from entry by the force to open it. - Also, I had no idea the screen/storm door pistons were adjustable! I thought the only solution was to get the heck out of the way.
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  1679. I would hope that the drop was not the cause of it being your "last day".
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  1680. How the Pasta was he supposed to do that? Shoot them? Probably illegal due to other houses too close to use a firearm or bow to hunt them. Poison them? Illegal without a permit. Trap them? Illegal without a permit and/or certification. Oh, I know! He was supposed to get a restraining order served on them. Make the police do the stupid part of the process.
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  1681. Q secures their short bus with one of the cheapest, easy to pick Master locks I have ever run across. Not a major part of the video, just something I noticed as an LPL fan.
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  1682. Don't ignore the manuals. Or the Manuels.
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  1683. That's really cool!
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  1684. National anthem, military jets flying in formation, American flag in the wind, test pattern and solid sound tone that later transitions to the static of no signal.
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  1685.  @InventorZahran  Well of COURSE it's the community gardens! Obviously.
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  1686.  @sophocles1198  The weakness in the case was probably that all of the lawyers and judges had memberships at the golf club.
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  1687.  @SanguineRoku  Yep. Amongst the inmates: Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Steve Austin (not the "stone Cold" one, the bionic one), Barry Bonds, and your grandpa Joseph with the artificial knee cartilage.
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  1688. I only hate people for what they do and what they say. You know, the CHOICES they make, not the things they have no control over.
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  1689.  @OnTheToolsWithSal  Well, if you're looking for EASY, just replace the vehicle with a new one.
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  1690.  @harm28384  When you say Crimeans voted, you mean those Crimeans who were left, who were allowed to vote, and who were told very clearly what would happen if they voted "wrong". Oh, and a lot of "so totally NOT actual Russian military" people who invaded, and gave themselves the franchise to vote as well. - It's like saying South Vietnamese "freely" voted for the CIA-supported candidates in the 1960's.
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  1691. In the military I learned that making a decision based on what information you can get in the moment is often more valuable and useful than waiting for ALL the information. At least at the small unit level of things. Or put another way, "right or wrong, make a decision, execute the plan, learn from the result."
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  1692.  @RoseKindred  I remember that story. The cracked driveway was actually a damaged sidewalk... owned by the city. I think it was cracked and lifted by a tree growing in the setback strip between the road and sidewalk.
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  1693. And those mechanically inept people should have the right to hire someone like you to fix their things instead of being forced to either pay the manufacturer or buy new.
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  1694.  @mhfuzzball  "You're under arrest for interfering with my investigation! Stop bleeding on my bruised fists!!!"
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  1695. I am of an age that footage (real or computer game) of objects gently floating in orbit instantly bring up Strauss' Blue Danube. Thank you for that Kubrick!
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  1696. Well, the truck was, in fact, the proceeds of a crime.
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  1697.  @BloodSprite-tan  They actually make a plastic "thingie" that you can screw into a light switch plate that prevents the (standard style) switch from being thrown in the direction you don't want. They actually come in a lot of different form factors, from little tabs to complete covers to actual padlocked housings.
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  1698.  @gaydonaldtrump  Who peed in YOUR cornflakes?
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  1699.  @NutSaxs  Also, if you seat-belt the carrier in, it is a lot safer for the cat in an accident than being loose about the cabin. I use a soft-sided carrier, and when I belt in my cat, the slight pressure of the shoulder belt calms him down a bit.
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  1700. We know we're in real trouble when an Onion headline reads, "Neighbors work out property dispute without lawyers or gunfire." or "All politicians in Washington D.C. caught voting according to their pre-election promises."
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  1701. The hell-cannon has serious Fallout vibes.
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  1702. To share a quote attributed to Thomas Edison, “I have not failed 10,000 times,“ he said, “I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.”
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  1703. Forward those threatening letters (and the envelopes) to your state's office of Secretary of State. They run elections, and might be a bit interested in who is trying to interfere.
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  1704. The obvious solution is for the last of us to be tricked by an evil Time Lord into become Toclafane, essentially head in machine shells, and time travel back to the current era.
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  1705. Time to pick a side: Morlock or Eloi.
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  1706. I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
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  1707.  @joellepatry493  I have always adopted adult and middle-aged cats. I get weird looks when I ask which adults have been "doing the most time" at the shelter, and I check compatibility with those furry overlords first.
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  1708. They do have to explain their suspicion. In their report. Up to days later. After being allowed to review their body-cam video.
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  1709. You can't fully drain a swamp. You need to add solid fill. Hmm...
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  1710. How hard would it be to put rubber or silicone boots on the front paws of these dogs when they do a search? Cops will put on gloves for a search, and K9 dogs are considered cops, so glove ALL the cops!
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  1711. I learned to use painter's masking tape to tape the fasteners to the thing they fasten. It has saved me from "extra parts syndrome" when the job is done. edit: also you can make "baggies" of the tape and write on them with pen or sharpie. Just take care not to leave the tape on painted surfaces for more than a few days, or leave them in the sun for the adhesive to get aggressive.
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  1712. When we retired our incandescent C9 strings, we had many-colored night lights for a few years. Quite helpful if you were barely awake. Blue meant bathroom, red meant you're headed for the stairs...
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  1713. Most impressive, they swept to end their day. That's a decent crew.
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  1714. That was my first thought too.
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  1715.  @11bornrich  Some Aspen residents are still lucky enough to have inherited housing in the mountain town in which their family grew up. The rest have to commute hours to get to a job that barely pays enough for their share of housing and groceries. edit: Then there are the rich carpetbaggers...
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  1716.  @JohnDoe-qz1ql  But they can make you spend money on a lawyer to fight the OTHER lawyer you're paying for to prove your point.
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  1717. The anchor is not interviewing, she is editorializing, and looking for Mike to back up her narrative. Good interview: "What do you see as the cause of X?" Bad interview: "X is happening because of A, C, and J and I'm talking to you because you have something to say about T.
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  1718. Arguing with a cop is protected by... The First Amendment. The citizen is talking too danged much. He should have flexed his Fifth Amendment rights.
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  1719. Well if you slam enough dud torpedoes against a ship's hull, you may make a dent big enough to let in water...
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  1720.  @lextacy2008  I had a car repossessed once. I volunteered for the repo, as my ex-wife had run it out of oil and threw a piston through the engine block. A replacement rebuilt engine, installed, would have cost more than the repaired blue-book value of the car, so I just stopped making payments and called the bank to ask them to begin repo proceedings. My credit rating was already garbage, thanks to the engine-killer, so very little worse could have happened to me.
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  1721.  @sutriptobose9864  One. There should have been hundreds to thousands of body bags filled at that insurrection. But despite all of the pre-warning, the Capitol Police were not properly armed or supported. Instead, we are goin to have to pay the expense of hundreds to thousands of trials, paying for a lot of the traitors' lawyers (for those who cannot afford yet still want representation) and housing these traitors for a decade or more in federal prisons.
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  1722. See also: Cop City. Razing a rare public park with fields and trees to build a police training facility that could have been built anywhere in the state.
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  1723. Also, having your car torn apart and strewn about the roadside is part of the non-judicial punishment they enjoy.
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  1724. Nah, just redefine the gravitational constant.
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  1725. He really deserves to be the most PROSECUTED ex-president in US history.
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  1726.  @Goatboysminion  30-ish years ago, I was told to put my knife back in my locker and not bring it school again. That was the sum total punishment for showing to an idiot friend who grabbed it by the blade to take it away from me, but ended up slicing deep into his palm instead.
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  1727. And if they refuse that offer, tell them to physically remove the offending "options".
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  1728.  @cherylallis2458  Prove a crime is matter for the courts. They need to at least CHARGE for a crime related to the assets to seize the assets, and those assets MUST be returned in full if/when either the prosecutor cannot or will not indict, or a not guilty verdict is returned.
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  1729. I watch Ray in part for the calming, but also for the little tips and tricks that make working on my own stuff just that little bit easier. Also, it's nice to see tools in use that I had no idea what they were for, or that a tool for that use even existed(!).
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  1730. They wanted their money, and facts were NOT going to get in the way.
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  1731. Gambling is an idiot tax.
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  1732. The prosecution is always playing with the house's money, that's how.
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  1733. And he is hastily dressed by a tornado.
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  1734. Stuff the haters. If the spark plug wires broken from simple removal off of the spark plugs, those are wires already reaching end-of-life
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  1735. The only things I've ever bought at a Dollar Store (or other Dollar retailer) is a specific type of foam posterboard that has paper that easily peels off, and some plastic toy animals. I use the foam board for crafting for table-top RPG games, and the plastic animals as gaming miniatures for the same games. I buy the foam board there because they are the only one carrying the type that has easy-peel paper.
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  1736. I saw an article yesterday that included a BRILLIANT preliminary determination from the police that was (paraphrased) "The shooting was the result of a personal conflict." No [expletive]!
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  1737.  @ti-lo5hy  "The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin. That's what I said" - Spinal Tap. And maybe JD Vance.
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  1738. She sounds like the kind of person who thinks they're hiding from you by closing their eyes.
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  1739.  @gcanada3005  Growing up, we had a summer home. It was our winter home with the windows open and the snow shovels put away.
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  1740. "We've investigated ourselves and determined that since this event has gotten public attention via the news, we'll actually do our jobs and hold that cop accountable."
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  1741.  @destrozar  I have bought plenty of apple products. Apple Pie, apple turnovers, apple danish, apple butter...
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  1742. Interestingly, "a movement" is also what I flush in the morning.
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  1743. Very Putin-esque.
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  1744.  @barongerhardt  Your utilities are noa subscription model (phone, maybe-ish) because the payment is based on how much you use. Are the utility companies abusive with prices and fees? Heck yes. BUt not a subscription.
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  1745. She is an office-holding version of Kellyanne Conway.
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  1746. We used to make personal pizzas on English muffin halves. Actually, I still do.
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  1747. I read a sci-fi series where large ships' armor was thick slabs of asteroid mounted to metal plates that could move around on a cage of rails, letting the ship move armor in the way of shots, and open gaps to fire through. And if the armor was chewed up too much, and the ship survived the encounter, they could find more asteroids to slice up and make more sacrificial/ablative armor. I thought it was a neat idea to beef up ships without going to powered shields like most sci-fi.
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  1748.  @Telhias  How about water resistance watches. They achieve this with an o-ring. Water-tight flashlight? Same thing. Look around your car or truck doors and trunk and you'll find water resistant seals. If a watch can be made water resistant to 10-20-30 meters depth with a simple o-ring, letting you replace the battery, why can't the same be true for a phone?
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  1749. But remember, only the dealerships should have access to the information stupidly stored in your car's computer systems!
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  1750. The lender should be forced to take the loss for being lazy and not demanding to see the actual vehicle in person. If you get a home equity loan, the lending institution will send an assessor to the home to determine if the home has enough value for the requested money.
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  1751. I agree. An 8-day suspension was uncalled for. An 8-year suspension of his license to act as a cop would have been a better outcome.
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  1752. Was that the "Pull the * over" Instagram model? The one in full battle-rattle with 2-inch nails and full makeup?
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  1753.  @amigang  Maye if police were more involved in nabbing criminals instead of generating revenue via fines and civil asset forfeiture.
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  1754. I saw a Mythbusters episode where they demonstrated that the closer to 90 degrees and the sharper (less rounded) your angles are, the less a blast wave will propagate down the trench line. In fact, if I recall rightly, a sharp 90-degree corner almost completely stopped the blast propagation, and around the second 90-degree turn there was almost no pressure wave at all. But if that 90-degree turn had a rounded corner, the blast would make it a lot further down the trench line.
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  1755.  @sonnyday6830  You are right. Trump does not stop lying, bro.
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  1756.  @zachowon  I will never understand how privatization of things like barracks is supposed to save money. A private company is a profit-seeking entity. They will not take a contract if they are going to lose money or just break even. So even if the exact same money is spent, there will be a reduction in quality. And when there is fallout from that corner-cutting, instead of a request to a soldier's chain of command getting things fixed, it will likely involve lawyers (more money spent, yay) and court time to try and figure out if the contract was weak, or the company was slime (or both!) Worst case for the company, they have to do the work they were supposed to do, and a fine is paid to the court system. Meanwhile, soldiers have been taking in black mold for two years waiting for a fix.
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  1757. Ask those "Obey the law and you won't have a problem" folks if they would mind you and everyone you know driving 5MPH under the speed limit in front of them to make absolutely SURE you were all "Obeying the law".
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  1758. I live in the United States, and I feel grateful that I don't have any offspring to be poisoned by what the country I grew up in has become.
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  1759.  @joeatwood6905  Very daring accusation. Please stand still and await your delivery of laser bees.
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  1760. "But it helps prevent theft!" - Which is only going to be a problem when the serialized, overpriced headlamp is so expensive that there is an incentive TO steal them! When the headlight bulb costs $4.00, nobody was stealing headlight bulbs. Nobody is stealing my wheels because they are plain old steel rims with plastic decorative hubcaps.
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  1761. If I have my information right, not being a lawyer myself, to appeal a civil verdict, the appellant has to (in addition to filing all of the correct paperwork and such) put up a bond (a pile of money) that will satisfy the original judgement before they are allowed to start the appeal. And that money sits there in case the appeal fails, so that the original judgement can be satisfied. - I don't know that #45 can either afford or tolerate the idea of his hard-grifted money sitting out of his reach.
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  1762. "This is a cat." - Whoa! Slow down there Mister Science! Wait for the class to catch up. (/snrk) - Calculate the coagulants? Yes. I was paying attention.
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  1763. How does it happen? Dumbness.* . *Yes, I am aware that 'dumbness' is not a valid word, and that is meant to reinforce the point.
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  1764. We also got to see that this car is leaking oil. Another problem for 'Tomorrow Ray'?
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  1765.  @cheddarcheesehead2799  Skip mail. just hire a few students each at colleges a referral payment of $5-10 per computer sent to your for repair with their referral code. Maybe even toss a little cash to pay for flyers they can hand out.
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  1766. If one of their excuses is to combat street racing, that means they already know WHERE and usually WHEN drivers are street racing. So put cops out there at those times.
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  1767. Other channels I go to for good history: Metatron, Cone of Arc, Rex's Hangar, Ed Nash's Military Matters, The Chieftan, (some of) Lindy Beige, The History Guy, Simple History, Military History Visualized, Military History Not Visualized, (much of) Forgotten Weapons, History of Everything Podcast (long and short videos)...
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  1768. I have also found that answering a telemarketer with, "Hello, this line may be recorded for quality assurance or law enforcement purposes" has resulted in a LOT fewer telemarketer calls. It has done more to stop the problem than being on the Do NOt Call list.
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  1769. "I AM the law!" - Deputy Dredd
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  1770. Third thing: This will be a mandate that puts the financial burden on the vehicle buyers. Yeah, my point is minor, but this idea ASSUMES guilt AND makes me pay for it?
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  1771.  @stinkwhistle756  You will own nothing and be happy, eh?
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  1772. And once insurance companies are again allowed to deny you coverage for pre-existing coverage...
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  1773. I keep coming back to the question, "Why does my car NEED to gather personal identifying information about me? It should concern itself with operation information only." And the follow-up question, "Why does the manufacturer need to gather that data and store it?"
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  1774. Follow the money.
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  1775.  @steampunkskunk3638  Another factor is being a renter. A renter in most of this country does not have the ability to charge a car where they live.
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  1776. You are not wrong.
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  1777.  @MrSmith-ve6yo  Meh, there's too darned many humans on this spheroid anyway. And with modern medicine, and only limited warfare, we're not dying at an environmentally sustainable rate.
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  1778. Key words to ensure rapid police response: hoodie, black, firearm, gang tattoos. Don't let any truth around these words matter.
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  1779. I learned two "martial arts" when I was in. One was the half a day we spent learning the hip throw and the rear strangle takedown. The other was "Aim for center of mass".
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  1780.  @skrappyjon2019  I've been inside, driven and maintained an M-113. It was so comforting to be "protected" by two layers of aluminum with an air gap between them. And so fun to hear about all of the opposition weapon systems that could tear right through it, or even better, start the aluminum armor burning. - There was even lore about the thing being able to float across water, if the water was not moving too fast, there were no waves, the vehicle had a well balanced load, there were no mechanical issues, all of the drain plugs were properly installed, the sump pumps worked, and the driver did everything perfectly. Yay.
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  1781.  @thermoskan The mortars I learned in the 1980s were 60mm and 81mm (smoothbore) and 107mm/4.2inch (lands and grooves). Getting a misfire out of a smoothbore is quick and scary. Getting a misfire out of a tube with lands and grooves is like a well-made slow-build terror film. And you can hear the round coming slow down the barrel as air passes the rubber ring.
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  1782. If you ask me, the correct repair for a leaking sunroof involves a welder. Or not getting a sunroof in the first place.
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  1783.  @squngy0  You can get attacked in a discussion about pancakes by saying you ALSO like waffles. Made from the SAME ingredients, just cooked to a different shape, but it's the end of the damn world.
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  1784. And the fact that the seizing authority drops the case as they were losing is part of the plan. A win is a precedent. A dropped case costs the cops, DA and legal system nothing, because it's never THEIR money they're playing with. As long as they can make the victim spend themselves into poverty, it's a win for the overlords.
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  1785.  @Qingeaton  Silly, you have to use Dixon jars to store things if you live in a former Confederate state.
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  1786.  @MikeLinPA  To make sure the house was only sold to "quality" people".
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  1787. I properly guessed only one. The Garand.
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  1788. "Curse you, Wet Baron!" as Snoopy flies away in his Sopwith Camel doghouse.
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  1789. Rather like the "science" of a flat-Earther.
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  1790.  @Observerl  Most common tactic to run off people legally exercising their 1A rights: "We got an ordinance."
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  1791. When I was a teen, I repurposed country & western recordings to put bands like Pink Floyd, Queen and The Doors on 8-tracks we could play in the car. My 2011 Focus has a CD player and I LOVE it!
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  1792. My gripe with smoke detectors now (at least in Massachusetts) is with the push (for non-wired installation) of units without replaceable batteries. Instead, the smoke detectors have gone full Apple and when they stop working you just buy a new one, supposedly returning the non-operating one to a local fire department so it can be "recycled" (more like thrown into a landfill).
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  1793. And thus why I get irked by signs in restaurant bathrooms that read: EMPLOYEES "MUST" WASH HANDS Which seems to say, "We really don't mean it. and all customers should be aware that your salad may include fecal coliform bacteria."
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  1794. Better pack your water-tight luggage!
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  1795. DeviantOllam covers his many encounters where the TSA is the entity violating their own rules for firearm storage for flight by cutting the locks and either not replacing them, or just slapping some zip-ties on the case. Or his legally required declaration of the firearms causes a three-alarm panic, officers with hands on guns, backroom browbeating, and so on.
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  1796. But it wasn't over. It was in the PROCESS of MAYBE being over.
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  1797. Back when everyone used horses, stealing your transportation could result in a hanging. I suggested nothing, but...
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  1798.  @GamesFromSpace  PennDOT SOLD the lot without disclosing the landslide issue. They did not disclose that another house had previously been on the lot, nor did they disclose that that previous house had been knocked into the basement hole, covered up, and seeded over.
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  1799. "I love the poorly educated" - Orange Julius Caesar
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  1800. @ierdnA adrecaL Dad joke alert!
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  1801.  @musicinggp  It was a random assignment from a limited pool in a district pretty much chosen by Trump's location of crimes.
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  1802.  @TheOnespeedbiker  Isolation is one matter. Being denied access to your other legal rights is a much bigger matter.
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  1803. "Voiding the warranty" is a jungle of a topic with the Magnusson-Moss Act. Most products the claim you void the warranty by opening a panel or cutting a 'magic sticker' are lying.
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  1804.  @laurens.8475  Kind of like the people who buy a used car and THEN get a mechanic to inspect it, then are upset that the frame is just rust spray-painted black.
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  1805. The more thievery I hear about, the more I understand the ancient penalty of chopping off a thief's hand.
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  1806. They're already towing peoples' cars to get the data the onboard cameras MIGHT have. That leaves people without their property and transportation for days or weeks while they get around to breaking the car open to download the recording.
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  1807. Ooh, an evil plan just formed in my head. Malicious Incorporated hires everyone with the skills for the jobs they have, gets them to sign non-competes, then lays them off to hire the next ones. Soon, they have hostage all of the potential employees for any of the jobs they operate, and then they hire some of them back at lower pay rates, perhaps even as low as minimum wage. Keep them working for a few months, let them go (with the non-compete) and hire the next wave. Timed right, you will OWN the regional labor pool without even having to pay all of them at once.
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  1808. One of his earliest corporate decisions was to FIRE (most of) the moderation team.
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  1809.  @chiraldude  I wish I could doubt any part of your hypothetical situation. But we have all seen the truth too many times to be that naive.
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  1810. You do realize that Musk already revealed the new US military salute...
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  1811. That is some serious, "I can do this all day," energy. Steve Rogers approves.
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  1812. I've seen some of the "smart" rice cookers. You are so right. A rice cooker, and most appliances, don't need to be complicated to work correctly.
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  1813.  @Strideo1  Qualified vehicle immunity?
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  1814. Settlements like this only change the police if the people stuck with the bill (the taxpayers in that polity) successfully push for change. The question is how much will they have to pay to get off their butts and make the demands?
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  1815. My current cat might be part Nebelung, based on coloration, fur length, facial shape and so on, but as he was a rescue from the wild, I'll never know. Each of his hairs is a tight corkscrew, so he gets tangles just sitting still. I have to regularly comb him and manually tear apart tangles, or else it gets bad enough I have to get him shaved.
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  1816. I once interviewed at a small company that refurbished medical devices that were phased out by, or "too old for" area hospitals so they could be shipped to hospitals and health care providers in poorer countries and regions. They were able to be in business because these second-hand end-users were aware of the provenance and age of what they were buying, and willingly took on the lack of manufacturer support and warranties rather than have no medical machines at all. I even got an explanation and walk-through of a dialysis machine having everything not metal being taken out and replaced so that the machine could be shipped to a hospital in (IIRC) Azerbaijan. - I guess my point is that just because we in the US think a medical device is too old, doesn't mean it is not useful to someone.
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  1817. I learned years ago that best way to deal with a deer in the road at night, assuming you see it in time enough to do so, is to slow down or stop, turn off your headlights, and blast the horn. The headlights confuse them, and the sound triggers their flight response. If you can't slow/stop or turn off headlights, at least blast the horn.
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  1818. International politics is a card game where everyone is cheating, and everyone knows everyone is cheating.
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  1819.  @kenoliver8913  But with lasers instead of radar (EM waves)
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  1820. I'd fake my death to avoid THAT judge.
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  1821. Some refurbished items I have had and have been happy with: automotive water pump, refrigerator (x2), table lamp, bicycle, lawnmowers, snow blower, knives. Some items I would never accept in refurbished status: pacemaker, ejection seat in a fighter jet, ham sandwich.
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  1822. The solution I've usually seen is to add wood or metal wedges or blocks to "fill the gaps".
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  1823. It can be fun if you are using the ceiling paint that goes on pink and dries white.
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  1824. "Found you!" (lick)* - *Do not do this as a human.
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  1825. A rocket's fuel tanks found, crushed, in a scrap yard? Catalytic converter thefts have reached new limits!
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  1826. I think part of why governments are overstepping is because of the ceaseless waves of stupidity that continue to work quite effectively against rational activity. One of the most useful parts of a government is the general welfare of its people. And when the people refuse to protect themselves, their children and the larger population from a preventable illness due to the screaming voices of ignorance, the government has to do something. They overreact, and miss the mark as well because government is, when all is said, a collection of flawed humans as well. - There are laws requiring seat belts, bicycle helmets, drinking age, flying aircraft only after being trained, and so many more things because of the stupid people we as a society have determined not to allow to kill themselves.
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  1827. Not yet? They could also transition to making inks out of pulverized infants.
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  1828. Every day he still has a platform and media attention is a sad day for the United States.
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  1829. I prefer the look of David Lynch's sandworms, personally.
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  1830. He would be more secure in the back of a paddy wagon.
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  1831. I wonder if this meets the threshold for "cruel and unusual punishment"?
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  1832.  @dg-hughes  For our "less than mellifluous" neighbor's fence, the 'ugly' side provided places to hang our archery targets... Yeah, that was wrong, but we were kids.
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  1833. I am reminded of the Ron White line, "It's not THAT the wind is blowing, it's WHAT the wind is blowing."
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  1834.  @Cheese1master  My brother's house has a seriously high water table and a field stone foundation, so his basement is, at a minimum, damp. In the wetter parts of the year it is worse. After moving in, he had to remove and replace the floor insulation because for one, the previous owner installed it paper side down, and for the other, it was holding water like a towel before the spin cycle. His washer and dryer were rusting, as was everything steel or iron in the basement, and anything with paper or fabric started growing wonderful bouquets of mold. I helped him pick out a properly sized dehumidifier that had a line to dump water out of the basement (That clogged with mold after a year and half and killed the tiny pump) as well as a dump bucket. The dump bucket has to be emptied daily, sometimes twice daily when it's really wet out. - Oh, the point! So, the dehumidifier actually warmed the basement by a few degrees, and combined with the properly installed floor insulation made the first floor warmer with less use of the heating system.
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  1835. And it's always one that is not easy to reach.
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  1836. From other channels I am learning that you can't force people to change their minds. In this situation, it would be better to explain why you think repair is good, then ask why the brother thinks repair is bad. Do NOT get emotional. Do not attack the person or their beliefs. Many times, people with strongly held positions are not able to articulate why they believe as they do, but asking them to explain their position can reveal a lot. It may be as simple as "person I listen to said so." It may be "I am being contrarian because people who disagree with me have been jerks to me." It may even be a well thought out position based on different situations or incoming information. - If you get them to explain, take that as a minor win, let it drop and let the sharing of positions and reasons brew for a while.
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  1837. Violating multiple court orders? Why are there no fines, no jail time? Oh, right, power coupons (money) and influence (money).
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  1838. 1:07 - That looks like a carpet pad decomposed and stuck to the floor, meaning at least a clean and refinish, if not a full sanding fist. If it is holes, it means a deeper sanding or a new floor. Water damage on the floor as well. - - 2:46 Holy Hannah Barbera! Run away from that house! Not only has the floor sunk from the wall, but it shifted sideways. 4:18 Ick, pink bathroom tile. That stuff is likely old. If it is, taking it down means there is either plaster or regular drywall behind it, leading to a full gut to put in concrete board for moisture resistance. 5:40 is that floor covered in cigarette burns? If so, that's a full sand and refinish. As with all hardwood floor sanding, if there is not enough board left, it requires a replacement, so sometimes putting carpet down is the cheaper solution. 6:18 more evidence of a sliding, shifting house. 7:40 if the upstairs is that much hotter, the roof is usually not properly insulated and vented. That happens a lot with older converted attics. 9:33 More evidence of a shifting house. If all of the evidence was that small, it would be a minor concern (having not seen the basement yet... 10:08 more shifting house. Also this is strong evidence the walls are done with lath and plaster, not drywall. 12:00 Ooh! a vintage dehumidifier! 13:25 those are not supporting the joists, the prevent the joists from twisting. That style is a lot newer than the house. The older method uses angled 1" x2" boards between the joists in both directions. A later install of those galvanized metal pieces could indicate they were trying to fix a problem. 15:00 looks like gas furnace and water heater. The tag would indicate that there has not been a service for about 3 years, check with that company as part of the inspection process. 16:10 Based on the floor, and the earlier light coming in under the bulkhead doors, it looks like water comes in through the bulkhead. There are ways to better weather seal that door, and/or you can keep it clear of snow. 18:09 those are stress fractures in the brick, possibly related to why the dining room floor is separating from the kitchen wall. 18:26 the corner of the house is settling down and away from the rest of the house. It looks like it was repointed (new mortar) there one and has started to come away again since. See also 19:20 18:55 the patch is likely just covering where vents for the furnace and water heater used to emerge. Not an issue on its own. 19:40 those cracks are, by themselves, indicating old caulking and a normal maintenance issue. With the other evidence of the sinking corner... 20:45 the cardboard is to keep the sun out of the garage, to help reduce heat. And maybe for privacy. Odd that this is the second house video I've seen of yours where cardboard is used as a curtain. 21:02 That is the way a door is installed, you only see the back of the door frame because the internal trim has been left off. It is otherwise normal. The shims are used to level, true, size and square the installation. 22:40 more signs of settling around and above the casement window. Also, those wooden shingles are showing their age, the ones on the garage being the most visible of damage. All in all, overvalued.
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  1839. Wait until the court finds out that "boneless wings" (now allowed to contain bone) aren't actually made from the wings!
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  1840. Well, to lend credence to her ludicrous assertions, we also have a chunky white guy wearing a cowboy hat in front of an American flag nodding along to her rant. That's all the evidence I need! (sarcasm)
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  1841. Keys in his pocket? He needed a better lawyer.
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  1842. 1981-84. Military BDU's (Woodland camouflage pattern), concert t-shirt, unbuttoned flannel over that, sneakers. I listened to Pink Floyd, Queen, Asia, The Doors, Iron Maiden and AC-DC. Loud.
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  1843.  @scottgriffiths2753  You and I both know I could try, and I could back my points up with facts, but you will not be swayed. So I will not waste my time.
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  1844.  @acpjr  Don't you mean he should speak to the 'Customer Success Team"? The fancy name means that someone in a corner office has a thesaurus.
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  1845.  @tmd63  I used to have a hand-held spotlight that I would blast into my mirror to aim at the drivers who tailgated. I was a jerk, but I was also never rear-ended. - But the worst are the lifted trucks with those eyeball-burning blue headlights and constant high-beams. I am sure that most people who lift their trucks do not then have their headlights re-aimed properly either.
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  1846. Ah, the Soviet Sten.
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  1847. I will accept if a business tells me, "We will diagnose this, and if it NOT covered by warranty, the diag fee will be $$$." But if they want a diag fee for finding a warranty problem, they can go get kicked by a horse.
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  1848.  @lorettamoore6345  Mix white vinegar, a little dish soap (and if you don't use well water, some table salt) and spray that on. It works on poison ivy. If that doesn't work, you might have to start excavating roots.
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  1849. It's all about how rusty your under-body bolts are. A sunbelt vehicle ends up a lot different from a snowbelt vehicle.
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  1850. From what I can find and what I remember from working on CAT equipment, the fully-dead joystick is usually a loose or corroded electrical connector issue. It is very rare that the joystick itself is the issue without obvious impact damage If it was only one of the multiple functions, if could be a fuse or worn switch contacts.
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  1851. I have known wise and cogent seniors, and absolutely moronic and irresponsible people in their 20's. - Age is only one factor in assessing a person's ability to do a job.
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  1852. Okay, who let the Boeing team attach the nozzle extension?
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  1853. And make sure the sticker is hard to remove!
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  1854. If you drag your feet and wait YEARS to address the issue, of COURSE you're on the hook for the gear.
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  1855. Offer them a menu of choices: the original award, long jail sentences for everyone involved, or an unarmed fight tournament against rabid badgers.
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  1856. Steve, are you saying that not every problem is a nail? Dang. I spent all those years in Hammer Academy for nothing...
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  1857. The first time Steve covered this, I looked up the location in Google Earth. The only way that piece of property could have 28 parking spaces would be to either build multi-level parking storage racks or buy out at LEAST on neighboring property for the express purpose of knocking down whatever was there and paving it. Well, maybe there could be a way to squeeze 28 vehicles around the shop on that property, if you are willing to have to move all of them to get the first one you parked, and climb out of windows to get out of the ones you park.
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  1858. Same Ray time, same Ray channel! (/spinning_wipe)
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  1859. I don't purchase new cars after doing it once in the 1980's. This stance is complicated by the life cycle of lithium batteries, causing me to re-evaluate my stance for a possible future electric car purchase.
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  1860. This is a good suggestion. Insulation is not just about retaining heat in cold weather. It is about slowing the tranfer of heat through the insulated surface.
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  1861. The torture still happens, but instead of hot irons and the rack, it is filing fees, lawyer fees, bail/bond, and pre-trial confinement (that some states CHARGE you for). - It's all about kicking the little people until they give up.
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  1862.  @VideoArchiveGuy  I'm not emotionally attached to an electronic overlord as I travel about. Heck, I've forgotten my phone at a friend's house for a whole week and barely missed it.
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  1863.  @lenawagenfuehr53  Yeah. And "Better dead than red". - The very first year I was able to vote, I voted Republican all the way down the ticket because I thought Reagan was a genius and therefore the whole system needed to be the same party. - By Pasta I was an idiot back then. - Since then, I vote by issue and by person. And I NEVER vote for someone running unopposed, or in a race I know nothing about. Better I withhold a vote than vote wrong*. *By wrong, I mean to vote against my interests and views on how things "ought to be".
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  1864. This is a short step from thought police. But at least the courts and police helped make SURE the accused reaffirmed their original opinion. Gotta get out there and EARN that hate!
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  1865. I'm old enough to remember when they were Datsuns.
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  1866.  @mikeclarke952  That's good ol' CBS. Using legions of lawyers to prevent people sharing the fanhood of their intellectual properties.
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  1867.  @TheSzalkowski  That is the rule in Massachusetts. The owner of the home can do their own electrical work, but if someone else does it, they need to be licensed in the state. We also have many of our towns as "Right to Farm", where you can have a garden or (some?) livestock in your yard (chickens and rabbits I am sure are okay, no knowledge of other animals).
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  1868.  @nsahandler  Why do you hate jerry's son so much?
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  1869. Sounds like the business owner graduated from some orange guy's business school.
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  1870. And that "bon-bons" woman was not looking like a member of an exercise group either. She looks rather doughy and obese herself.
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  1871.  @hedonismbot1508  Yep, like, "We're sorry to hear about your major brain trauma from when you were mugged, but if you weren't fat, you might have been able to dodge the baseball bat. So, we're not paying your claim." "Also, if you had been more Christ-like and turned the other cheek, you would have at least been able to convert your injury into a glancing blow that would have been less expensive. We will continue to offer you thoughts and prayers, as indicated in our mission statement."
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  1872. Based on my brother's experience as a contractor and sub-contractor, one of the most effective deterrents for power tool theft is the threat of the rest of the crew beating the ever-living [REDACTED] out of the thief.
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  1873. Inconceivable!
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  1874. Meanwhile, on an alien world: "Glorb, why did you cut off one of your motive tentacles with your laser weapon?" - "To prove that the Ambulart enemy is refusing to provide us with laser-proof tentacle sleeves in a campaign to de-Kurnigon us and play to their PR campaign!!!"
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  1875.  @kicapanmanis1060  Think how much LESS court time would be "wasted" on Civil Forfeiture is the practice was eliminated?
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  1876. It NEEDS to happen to federal lawmakers and judiciary or their families. Only then will we have an improvement.
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  1877. It really seems the outrageous pricing on new cars is a stealth windfall for many mechanic shops. A lot of people are choosing to spend to keep their current vehicles alive than pay tens of thousands to get a new one (that spies on them so the car maker can sell their driving information to insurance companies).
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  1878. I am 6'3" and overweight. (But not as overweight at Syndey's bookends!!!) I do not fly because the last time I did I could barely stand after a one-hour flight with my knees wedged hard enough against the seat in front of me to deform the back-plate of that seat. I also spend the entire flight holding my arms in front of me to avoid impinging on the space of the passengers to either side of me. I was in back, neck and shoulder pain for hours after that last flight.
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  1879. That Nathan Forrest statue should have been taken down just for it being so frighteningly bad, to say nothing of the subject matter. It looks like it was sculpted by an alien who had a human being vaguely described to them during a drunken party. The horse? At least what we see in that one picture is not an offense to the eyes.
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  1880.  @caroledmonds4070  All of them are, that's the point. Unfortunately, Apley has already procreated, which may disqualify him.
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  1881. Prison would feed him three meals a day!
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  1882. It's as big an addiction as getting your ID.
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  1883.  @milesstover3724  Don't forget revenue collection by traffic citation.
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  1884.  @williamjones4483  In this case, it looked as if the destruction was limited to the clutch and pulley part of the compressor, rather than the internals. I will freely admit I could be wrong.
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  1885. It is so much easier to properly feed your pets for their target weight, with so many brands having formulations for categories such as young, old, indoor, outdoor, hairball (cats) small breed, large breed, senior, overweight, kidney challenged, and a variety of allergen-free food for some of the more common allergens. And that is before you get into the more intensive processes with pre-made refrigerated and raw food, and making your own pet food.
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  1886.  @einalt  Wait, Germans have a sense of humor? Since when?
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  1887. It's 2024. You almost don't need to travel for business anymore unless something actually requires hands-on work.
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  1888. In the area I grew up, Cable was marketed as "Weather will no longer stop you from watching your show." and "SPORTS! WE HAVE SPORTS!". The weather thing was a real issue. Even a low cloud cover could make some channels come in half-static on the antenna.
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  1889. I christen this spacecraft "The Johnny Cash". A piece at a time spacecraft bringing an end to the piece at a time space station.
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  1890. As an American who has always lived in and worked on wiring in old houses (built before or right around the introduction of home electricity, and wired by several generations of idiots) I have ALWAYS learned to check which wire is hot or return/neutral (ground? What's a ground in a 140-year old house, the bathtub drain pipe? Yes. Yes it is.) in each location I was wiring or re-wiring. And if I was lucky, I did not have to (illegally) cut and abandon post-and-wrap wiring inside the walls and run Romex all the way from the fuse box (yeah...) to try and straighten things out. - So all of this "this color means this" is never my default assumption.
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  1891.  @Chris-yd4kg  Things like "You can't call those deaths murders." or "Your secret plea deal means you can't name the big criminal at the top of the organization because we're busy trying to turn him to a double agent for the FBI."
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  1892. yeah, the back yard in the next neighborhood over!
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  1893. When even the thumb-with-teeth is against his party's leader, that leader done messed up.
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  1894.  @mar71n32n0v1lLL0  Particularly if installing a new door on that house you're "saving from a neglectful Palestinian owner" who had to be dragged out of the house physicallly.
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  1895.  @adriennefloreen  With the longer list of symptoms, you seem to not have a light bulb issue, but an electricity stability issue. Check the terms and laws about what you are supposed to be paying for with your electric bill, get or borrow (from an electrician) some type of metering device to track the voltage, current, and frequency (which may be the most damaging problem if you have it) of your electricity over the course of a day or week. It may, if laws could provide any relief, be worth it to have a licensed electrician do the metering and compile a report on the problems. Does your state have a PIRG group? They may be able to help. See if neighbors are also dealing with the same issues. Be willing to go to politicians and the news with the matter. And keep records of what you've had wrecked by the power.
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  1896. My guess would have been family (divorce) law.
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  1897. Nah, retraining... in their new occupation. Maybe bricklaying, carpentry, fry cook...
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  1898.  @feez357  It kind of is already.
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  1899. Some dogs complain about the dryer, some try to flee it, some try to bite it. Smoochie leaned into it with a "Oh yeah, that's the spot" look.
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  1900. "You are not allowed to reside in your home. Don't even look at it!"
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  1901. This whole, "The law depends on what circuit you live in" is giving me rage. We are supposed to be one nation, not 13 fiefdoms of federal judges.
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  1902.  @timdowney6721  Easier and cheaper to fire someone than actually back them up.
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  1903. Hertz is in the news with great frequency. (pun)
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  1904. One thing I noticed in TFG's spiel is that one of his ideas would almost surely keep him out of the job he claims to want. That being the test and adherence to understanding the US Constitution.
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  1905.  @lovetafrank7852  And small government, which is why they keep making more laws to inject the government into how we live our lives.
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  1906.  @melaniecotterell8263  Honestly, if they choose to stop breathing (and they're not currently operating a motor vehicle/plane/construction machinery or caring for a minor) then I'm all for it!
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  1907. Bologna has a nice subtle flavor that pairs well with flavorful cheeses like provolone and other meats like salami or ham.
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  1908. Informed consent is somehow sufficient to allow a surgeon with a handful of years of experience, who graduated in the bottom 25% of their med school class, to cut you open and remove cancers or repair injuries. But it's not sufficient to allow someone to have a functioning walking frame, or motorized wheelchair because the manufacturer has decided nobody gets to fix them? Fuck that.
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  1909.  @cherriberri8373  Truth. Unfortunately, some of those terrified people are also in policy -making jobs.
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  1910.  @Albinospenguin  The US military naming things and giving catalog numbers is a never-ending tale of "What the [expletive} were they thinking?". - But then other nations have the same disease to varying degrees. Example: What is a frigate?
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  1911.  @stdesy  Obvious typo, the intended word being 'sign'.
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  1912.  @swaghauler8334  Meanwhile I had a 2nd Lieutenant who was incapable of keeping track of his own weapon, radio code book and even his helmet. I pretty much saved him about three years of ass-chewings with my constant cat-herding of him, keeping him out of the way of the E6 who was actually running the platoon.
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  1913. As an atheist, any oath I am required to take in the name of a god makes the whole oath null and void to me.
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  1914. "Never Don't Give Up!"
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  1915.  @MattyEngland  Dude, your foil hat is showing.
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  1916. You need a lot of lifting surface and a hefty bit of thrust to overcome both the mass and typically rectilinear form factor of a typical safe.
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  1917.  @Stevie-L-n8g  It's Sindarin, with a slight misspelling.
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  1918.  @kocicijazycky  Oh silly, Africa is a country with Egypt as its capitol!
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  1919. "Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947." - Dr. Raymond Stantz "You’re right, no human being would stack books like this." - Dr. Peter Venkman
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  1920.  @sylviam6535  The [RIGHT], with their obsession with [LETTING CORPORATIONS] control every aspect of people’s lives, are a huge part of this. Same sentence structure, just as relevant.
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  1921. Ooh! Like the way you can wring together gauge blocks!
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  1922. That's no dog, that's a giant fur-nado!
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  1923. Erica's sweater bring this to mind: "My god! It's full of stars!" - Oh no, she said "A very small percentage." She's an Apple shill!
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  1924.  @smalltime0  But first ensure that the receptacle is clean and ready for completing the circuit.
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  1925. That's why a lot of people make a point of NOT killing or evicting non-venomous spiders.
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  1926. A dog breed so awesome, they named it twice!
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  1927. Unfortunately, PanAm can't operate the ground-to-orbit shuttles.
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  1928. I agree. And those who make the laws need to get on this before the bodies start piling up.
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  1929. It's like we can naht-see a problem with those people.
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  1930. "Officer safety", "Fear for their lives", "Cowardice", "Power tripping", "Only legitimized gang in the county"
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  1931. Short form: Impeachment is roughly equal to indictment. The senate is the jury in the actual trial.
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  1932. Because "Jewish is scary! WoooOoooOOOOO!!!!" At least, that's what I remember most from that time period.
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  1933.  @maxicanamerican2023  Civil asset forfeiture requires no crime, no hint of a crime, no charges, no work beyond making an assumption and writing out a receipt for what they stole.
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  1934. These seem like the kind of people who would talk big talk about how they'll "pick up a rifle and start shooting" over something, but when the first round comes their way would fall to the ground and say they were only kidding. Never mind how people NOT on fire are brave about using fire in a conflict.
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  1935. So, one corkboard in the studio can finally have the yarn taken down, and the various clipped pictures and article snippets filed away for archival purposes...
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  1936. Those mowers are awesome... for healthy people. Be old, be sick, be an amputee? the robot mower starts to look REALLY good.
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  1937. Cars now are learning lessons from the video games industry. Ship broken crap that barely works, charging sky-high prices, and patch it later with a software update. We should not tolerate that kind of behavior for anything.
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  1938. Miscarriage? Sounds suspiciously like an abortion! Arrest that courtroom!
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  1939. The immediate freshwater rinse is what saved things.
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  1940.  @rellett1  Reminds of the Gateway computers with their own slightly different memory chip size.
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  1941.  @markbriten6999  He would have a hard time pouring water out of a coffee cup if the instructions were written on the bottom.
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  1942. Even if this Eric dude was the first to use the phrase, unless he successfully trademarked the phrase, there can be no complaints. And if Erik HAD trademarked it, it would only prevent people from using it as their own trademark, and only in markets / legal jurisdictions where he successfully filed. - Unless, of course, the "offended" party has a lot of money and lawyers and can afford to SLAPP some small local business down over something like "Taco Twosday" to try and own "Taco Tuesday". It can also help if you have enough money to hire a famous sports dude to make commercials trying to portray yourself as the 'little guy' trying to 'free' the phrase. Sorry, I went off in to a rant about Taco Bell being corporate jerks...
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  1943. Your dad has the kind of joy on his face I'd expect to see on a kid in the free sample aisle of the Wonka factory. You definitely made his month!
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  1944.  @M1903a4  Oh, you want the school lunches to actually include vegetables? Well...
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  1945. Kind of like the guy who was being prosecuted by a DA who tried to use his silence when arrested as "proof of criminal activity".
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  1946. My first thought was: Escapee from the Henson Workshops.
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  1947. Keep in mind that there are Americans who watch Lonestar: 911 and think it is realistic.
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  1948. That four-layer "authorized" repair process also adds cost at every step.
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  1949.  @corey6393  Here in Massachusetts, they also use that hard-to-remove sticker, and put it right in the way of safely seeing through the rear-view mirror.
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  1950. Yell your loaded question, then refuse to listen for an answer. And then, from the Whiteboard lady, "Reclaiming my time."
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  1951. One case I think of a lot is what happened to the comedian Mike Birbiglia. He was driving and was t-boned by another driver who had run a red light. Unfortunately, the responding officer made a scrambled mess of his report, writing it such that it sounded like Mike had somehow driven another car into his own car while he was also in his own car. The police refused to even talk to him about the errors on the report, and he ended up paying to repair both cars.
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  1952.  @NoNORADon911  You seem to be off your meds and/or using the internet without competent supervision. You may want to see to that.
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  1953. He could have mowed a maze into that back yard it was so tall!
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  1954. The path of falling morale in a military seems a lot like the path of depression in an individual.
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  1955. Story by story I am really becoming more sympathetic to the stance taken by Marvin Heemeyer, of Killdozer "fame".
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  1956. Okay fine. I'll stop trying to revive dinosaur species... Party pooper.
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  1957. I remember working for UPS and finding out that they have a hard math for when to stop repairing their fleet of vehicles. Something to do with the annual cost of repairs versus the current value of the vehicle.
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  1958.  @cruxofthecookie  I do get a chuckle when someone is affixing 12mm drywall to the 2x4 wall which is 16 inches on center.
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  1959. Oh, bigly so!
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  1960. Step one: Remove car from starter...
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  1961.  @PhantasmXYZ  "No, Gary. I have not seen your wife, the HOA president. That sound in the closet? A sack of Furbys I'm fixing for an orphanage. Oh, can I borrow your shovel?"
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  1962. His yacht's yacht will have to reschedule the reupholstering of the crew furniture.
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  1963. "I don't like it." So what.
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  1964.  @richardbrobeck2384  So now it's General Tso's Electric?
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  1965.  @normang3668  Oh? How about having to have several sizes of Philips screwdrivers, several sizes of flat head screwdrivers, a selection of Robertson screwdriver bits, Torx, Safety Torx, Security Torx, and a handful of whatever secret screwdrivers Apple keeps trying to stymie repair companies with? - Oh, and don't forget that you will be constantly buying 10mm sockets and wrenches because they keep disappearing! Not mad at you, mad at the evil 10mm socket fairy.
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  1966. The rebuilder's liberal use of paint probably obliterated any chance of finding that hole.
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  1967.  @edwardlenovo3240  Or as I've seen it, "The cloud is just someone else's computer."
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  1968. That would have been a great place to edit in a Wilhelm Scream.
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  1969. You have to let at least one live to share the tale with the others, else you'll never be done dealing with the gnats.
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  1970.  @ghost_ship_supreme  Cavitation is the creation and implosion of gaseous bubbles from things like ship's propellers. You may be thinking compression? Submarines have a maximum depth because of the need to keep the squishy and fragile humans inside alive and breathing at much lower air pressures than exist outside the hull. - These kinds of installations can avoid that problem by not holding any internal volume at pressures so drastically lower than the water pressure at operating depths. This can be by ensuring internal spaces are open to see water, or filled with less compressible materials like grease (for moving parts) or conformal coatings on electronics to protect them from water exposure and shorting.
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  1971.  @goomy02  I was going to respond with this as well.
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  1972. But think of the children!
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  1973.  @cane870  What happened? Greed. Rich people buy stock in a company under the expectation that their investment will always earn them more. They have enough money to buy enough shares (as a social tier, if not individually) to MAKE the companies set that expectation. Some rich people are not content to sit passively and let their money make more money. They get on the boards of these companies and make money while they make the company make their money make more money. And all of the profit for the rich has to come from somewhere, so the people at the bottom don't get the "trickle down".
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  1974. Same! And I love both channels.
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  1975.  @WooferCooker  Ehem... YET!
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  1976. I wish my rental agreement didn't ban even those. But having seen the "quality" of some of the plumbing in the building, I totally get why that is the case. One too many water-hammer events and someone's got a flooded apartment.
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  1977. He's an excellent driver, yeah.
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  1978. I can think of two actors who were killed by blank-firing weapons. Brandon Lee and Jon-Eric Hexum. Brandon's death was frightfully similar to the Alec Baldwin incident, with a dummy round left in the weapon. Jon-Eric Hexum, on the other hand, was self-inflicted when he was "playing" Russian Roulette with a blank-firing pistol while waiting around on the set of a show he was acting in.
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  1979. Easy solution to satisfy Lara and the Repugnants. Bring ALL US service members home for election day. I'm sure adversaries will wait patiently for the weeks it takes for all of the troops to get back to their deployed locations before starting shenanigans...
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  1980. I do love me some malicious compliance!
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  1981.  @bokma69  My first cell phone did not even require opening the phone to change the battery. It was A StarTAC I believe. The one with the extendable antenna and the battery clipped to the outside.
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  1982. It's a Finnish finish. Okay, I'm partly Finnish, and completely finished now.
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  1983.  cpk8636-6  Did you know that the more you repeat something, the more likely it is for THINKING people to just ignore you as an idiot with nothing useful to say?
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  1984. After some "robust conversations" they put the blinders on tight, narrowed the scope, then decided that there was no problem worth tier time in the tiny view they chose to shine light on.
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  1985. Leave the deposit slip, take the cannoli.
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  1986. Apparently, you have not heard of the "shallow grave in the State Forest" method? *I am not advocating or sanctioning the "shallow grave in the State Forest" method, nor do I think it is a legal or rational response to a stressful situation. **Sometimes the situation is not rational.
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  1987. It amuses me that you have to put a child safety lock on your cabinets because of cats.
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  1988.  @michaeltutty1540  I remember a line from a Dudley Moore movie, "Crazy People". - Volvo. They're boxy, but they're good. -
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  1989.  @dudetocartman  It's going to find the people whose knowledge of the Amendments doesn't end at the one about guns.
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  1990.  @totallylegityoutubeperson4170  Play a bass shaped like a vase in space!
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  1991. I once lost a library book for a couple of months. When I finally found it, I brought it back along with a backpack full of books to donate. I ended up volunteering all that summer, helping clean out the storeroom, sort donations, fix a table, and I learned how to reshelve returned books.
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  1992. So, I made a very shallow search for the retail pricing of LEDs. White LEDs I found for about 3.5 cents each, when bought in numbers, while green LEDs were about twice that. This seems to reinforce what I learned back in the 1990s when I was working in electronics, that white LEDs were cheaper than most colors, and that most colored LEDs were just dyed plastic over the same electronics. - If this holds true, why the heck were/are these light makers using a MORE EXPENSIVE selection of parts to make consumer string lights?
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  1993.  @brrradley1  We found the Apple/John Deere bootlicker!
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  1994.  @COBRO98  When I was in high school, a friend had a Dodge Ram Charger SUV that he picked up for peanuts and got running. The entire floor behind the front pair of bucket seats was an undersized and unsecured sheet of 5/8" plywood, and the back seat was a milk crate. The milk crate was also not secured to the floor, and he drove like he was a bootlegger. That was... exciting. Riding on a milk crate sliding around a sheet of plywood, holding onto the two front bucket seats as I watched the road between my feet zooming under the truck at 40-50 MPH on winding back roads.
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  1995.  @GremlinSciences  But some fantasy games DO reference known examples. They are all over in museums, books, and videos ranging from high-budget to well-researched enthusiasts to novices all the way to mall-ninja-grade users. Sometimes, you can even find someone like Tod Cutler willing to dig into obscure history texts and with a minimum of references build something that actually works.
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  1996.  @greggweber9967  Or even just mutes the audio or puts their hand over the lens.
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  1997.  @carlinetorweihe4246  America is a democracy... for now.
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  1998.  @funnlivinit  When a law of the road applies statewide, it is reasonable to expect drivers to have knowledge. When municipalities make their own ordinances that either exceed or step fully away from state law, are drivers supposed to also study up on every town they may pass through (or park in) as well? In my state alone that would be 351 different sets of ordinances and regulations. Double that because parking regulation change for the freezing half of the year.
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  1999. The most effective anti-piracy method is to release games that the user feels is worth the price being asked. If you have a 5 hour or broken game and ask for $70? Piracy. If you have a 20 hour game and ask for $45? Sales. You release a game that makes life difficult (must be online at all times for a single-player game, requires multiple "day one" patches to even start, etc.)? Piracy.
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  2000. Meanwhile, I have a hard time finding someone in my circle of contacts to loan me a palm sander
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  2001. Recruitment would be less of a crunch if the military could improve retention, and if our society could PROVE they valued veterans by actually funding their health care for things that happened to them on our behalf.
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  2002. Too big to fail is like too fat to diet - Robin Williams
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  2003.  @Lovuschka Not all murder convictions yield a life sentence. Far too many rapes and sexual assaults get only parole.
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  2004. I saw 18% and assumed it was the rate on a crappy credit card.
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  2005. Oh my gosh. A FLYING dark lord!?
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  2006. So, Apple makes computers that eventually do what Bethesda games do on release? (crap the bed, break stupidly, make babies scream in heaven, etc.)
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  2007.  @NationalistElite  Right, So you also ascribe to the "Test none, the virus disappears"?
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  2008. I have never played the game, but I was doubtful about the real-ness of the clip, which turned into 'Oh, it's a video game" as soon as this high-angle aerial view has small arms fire sounds like someone was firing from next to the camera.
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  2009. Very Boss Hogg of them, Fresh.
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  2010. When a "cop in a hurry" ticket me, he wrote "crossing marked lanes". His big hurry? End of shift and he wanted to clock out on time... after stopping at the convenience store to pick up two packs of cigarettes.
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  2011.  @kfox9650  Or you could have told your customers (and put it in writing on the invoice) that if they provide the parts, you are not providing any warranty on those parts, and if there are problems from the parts, it is on the customer to contact the place from which they bought thte parts.
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  2012. I have not been to a concert since Ticketmaster crawled out of the depths. So, no live music for me since around 1990-ish
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  2013.  @emerje0  It might take more than an RV, else John Oliver would be out one RV and the SubPrime Court would have one empty seat.
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  2014. You know, Winston had a good idea there. No water blasted up your nose and nethers when you hit the splash pool. The only possible downside is if your trunks are not well secure before you head down.
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  2015.  @CherriNight  Many 1-star reviews are "Item arrived broken in a smashed box!" Not sure how that helps with an assessment of the item's quality should I NOT choose to have my package delivered by siege machinery.
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  2016. A lot of good advice for MANY occupations and processes.
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  2017. Also, a failing business fails for reasons. Often, as a business is failing, the hopelessness sets in and maintenance suffers. When my attempt at a business failed, I removed all of the things I installed, patched and painted, vacuumed and mopped, and even fixed a toilet. I think I was doing it wrong?
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  2018. How to avoid your racial guilt? #1: Learn that being born is not a crime. #2 Don't do things you would feel guilty for. #3: Stop letting other peoples' ideas live in your head for free.
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  2019.  @solandri69  Yeah, NYC wanted money for him to have a pawn shop license or something like. But the computers were not things he bought, but things customers abandoned and he STILL held onto them far longer than his policy, trying multiple times to contact the customer.
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  2020. I agree, with the caveat that if you want to OWN a printed and/or bound version, you should pay reasonable publishing (printing, bookbinding, shipping) costs. edit: If you print it at home on your own printer, you pay for paper and toner/ink.
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  2021. A generic "splash screen"? That is a legal release to let Apple have all sorts of data that the technician has to agree to for completion of a repair, with or without the knowledge or consent of the phone owner* if the technician is not that owner * - *By owner, I mean the person who is the registered user and the one responsible for consenting to all of the tracking and data skimming involved in being a product in the information economy.
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  2022. Seems like a good time to log into Glassdoor and review a toy company, eh?
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  2023. TAKE MY MONEY!!!!
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  2024. The facet of the issue about it being possible to tamper with the food supply chain on a macro scale should make this a national defense issue. Something the DIA or NSA should at least provide evidence about to push a mandatory reform of the practices and security framework of John Deere and other companies in the mobile parts of the infrastructure of life. - I have low hopes of this happening, because money rules in politics.
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  2025. Back before in-cruiser computers, I could almost forgive cops not knowing the minutae of the law. But now, there is no damn excuse. They have a department-connected computer, radio contact to their headquarters, and at LEAST one cell phone. Using any of those resources they could check their understanding of the law. But they don't.
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  2026. And golf clubs in a Stinger missile crate, fishing rod and baseball bat in a rifle case.
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  2027. Corrupt or stupid, the harm to the public is much the same.
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  2028. Something like this could get a "regime stabilizing" visit from the US military. But at least we'd get some under-built, over-priced schools built at the expense of those suckers paying taxes in the US.
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  2029. If Kitboga can find the actual buildings these jackholes are calling from, it is a short step to a "chemical-kinetic solution". Unfortunately, the governments where these slimeball work would likely get upset at something like that.
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  2030. The guy gets on my nerves just by saying nucular when it is supposed to be "nuclear" (NEW-klee-uhr).
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  2031.  @MrSpeeeeeder  Next to the parachutes, I assume?
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  2032. But, but... ICE agents have their "I'm not really a cop - PSYCH!" clothes on and everything!
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  2033.  @waaynneb1808  Your first statement gets at why. There is window tinting sold to be used on things like house windows that is too dark for safe driving. People why argue otherwise could be directed at window frosting kits. Window frosting is sold for house windows, often bathrooms, to block clear vision of people within. What level of window frosting is compatible with the safe operation of a vehicle on the road? (hint: pretty much none)
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  2034. Kind of like how I try to impress upon people the importance of proper brake maintenance on their vehicles. "A car that doesn't go is a camper. A car that doesn't stop is a coffin."
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  2035. My personal take: - If it wasn't "work", you wouldn't need to be paid to do it. To me, the ideal is to find something that is "work" enough for someone to pay you to do it, yet is "un-work" enough that you don't hate doing it. And when I say someone pays you to do it, it could be a government or company paying you, or the clients/customers of your own business paying you.
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  2036.  @SeanKH19  Nope, I am saying that having ranked choice voting and (a number greater than three) political parties would be good. - As a start, congress would have to talk to each other and make concessions if there were sizeable blocks of three or more parties.
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  2037. Ooh, I saw the bolt you were talking about.
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  2038. Only Fantails?
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  2039. That previous company had to be just running a mower and getting out as quickly as possible, else the sod on the driveway and walkways would not be so thick.
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  2040.  @rispatha  The payroll and sale of assets of those involved in the seizure, to start.
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  2041. Sometimes I wonder how people stay civilized and DON'T apply hammers to foreheads.
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  2042.  @skismosis  There was a product called "Belt Dressing" that was/is sold by various brands to quiet the squeal.
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  2043. Being forced into 'smart homes' is actually part of the novel Fahrenheit 451 and the TV show Max Headroom. In 451, the home let the various government entities know when you had 'wrong-think'. In Headroom, the smart feature was a TV that could not legally be turned off or muted.
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  2044. When I was in the National Guard in the late 70's to mid-80's we had 1911's. Most of them were older than the career E7's in the unit, and a couple of the (edit) Remington-made ones were so bad they were single-fire only. If you got a good magazine and clean ammo. And rattle? My goodness, it was like having a holstered diamondback on your belt.
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  2045. Given that Ray is borrowing that machine, I doubt he had a lot of choice as to brand and model, but your tip is useful for people looking into buying one for their shop. - edit: I wonder if there would be a market for someone who could "patch" the ultra-cautious software in those machines, kind of like that company who was selling a software "enhancement" to McDonalds franchisees to allow them to actually understand the error codes on their ice cream machines, letting them save thousands of dollars in service calls per month.
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  2046. No cloned Kevins were harmed in the experiment.
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  2047.  @fountainvalley100  I implied that, clearly I thought, by stating the law in my state.
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  2048. Years ago, he wanted to use a nuclear warhead to stop a hurricane. He was mentally deficient long ago.
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  2049.  @jasonbourne1596  1) A driver's license is not a vehicle title. 2) The military driver's license is only valid for military vehicles.
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  2050. Every time I read the company name, I imagine the planes bouncing like in an old Loony Tunes bit. "Boeing, boeing, boeing..."
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  2051. First time I saw one of those was in Hudson Hawk. Seriously underrated movie.
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  2052. My microwave is inconsolable!
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  2053. But they counted palm trees!
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  2054. Hahaha!
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  2055. "Drive it like you stole it" is SUPPOSED to be a joke!!!
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  2056. You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need. - Sure it's song lyrics, but it is a lesson I learned as a teen and it has served me well.
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  2057.  @bradymenting5120  My favorite PBS hour when I was a grade-schooler in the 1970's was World at War.
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  2058.  @WayneSallee-comTech  Fewer "smart" things, more smart people!
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  2059.  @jamesduncan6729  I figured when they removed the dislike counter from our view that it should have been patently obvious that they really didn't care if we viewed crap, or fell for scams.
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  2060.  @kenyattaclay7666  But children YEARN for the mines! (sarcasm)
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  2061.  @mkv2718  I think it was something on the Discovery Channel, before they "discovered" their addiction to "reality" shows.
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  2062.  @chriswright8074  Brain damage? That or a hard requirement from a job or job-related software.
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  2063. Imagine what could happen if someone gets out of one of these jails/prisons after a length of time during which they were deprived of their humanity, possibly abused, assaulted, and starved (or fed food not fit for pigs). Now imagine that person learns who was responsible for their excessive suffering, and further imagine that this person is of a mind to get revenge for their treatment. - Or, alternately, imagine a person gets out of jail/prison having been educated, fed and treated humanely, and offered training for post-incarceration employment. Now imagine that person learns who was responsible for their treatment while incarcerated, and further imagine that this person is of a mind to offer thanks for their treatment. - Which formerly incarcerated person do you want to meet on the sidewalk?
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  2064. Hertz is making news with frequency.
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  2065. The expectation: "Oh you cannot comply by the deadline and you have actual supportable reasons? Okay, we'll grant you a temporary waiver of fines." The reality: "Okay, you have presented your evidence (and your "robust conver$ation$) so we'll just void the law."
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  2066.  @denniscrannie1126  The cop's partner could also, without warning attack them. So could a rabid feral cat, or a disgruntled crow.
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  2067. My high school once had a WRITTEN bullying policy that boiled down to "Just try and avoid being around the bully". I wish I was kidding.
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  2068. I'm pining for puns, and that one was oak-kay.
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  2069. I figure, if they don't acknowledge the law that makes it her house legally, then we-the-people should not acknowledge the laws that say he doesn't deserve to be shot through the head and left as coyote food out in the forest. I suppose it is good that I am not in charge of things.
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  2070. John Oliver must be deeply amused by this.
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  2071. Or, I dunno, how about an identifying "I C E" across that oh-so-necessary ballistic vest?
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  2072. "Mistakes were made" "I'm leaving the job to spend time with family" "We are enacting further training" "We investigated ourselves and found no violations of department policies"
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  2073.  @thomasluby1754  You have a good crop of sour grapes there in your vineyard!
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  2074. Your curtains were closed, that's suspicious. Your curtains were open, you're hiding your crimes in other rooms!
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  2075. Tech companies love to have new employees sign VERY vague NDAs and non-compete clauses. I was given a non-compete once that was so vague I told them that the way it was written, I could not take another job for two years that included the use of a computer running any Microsoft software, multi-line telephones, networked printers, or oscilloscopes. I told them their non-compete was unenforceable in that state, but I would sign it anyway as it was meaningless. "Somehow" the rest of the people working there found out that the non-compete paperwork they signed was far too vague to be enforceable even if the company bought the judge. Oops.
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  2076.  @DD-mp9ok  That deserves a round of applause.
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  2077.  @AbsentWithoutLeaving  They better include thoughts and hopes with those prayers! Just lump in all of the ineffective health care in one plan.
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  2078. "Here's the thing. Who cares?" - You do, Jeannine. You are talking about this with some heat, some anger. If you actually didn't care, you would not get emotional. - Unless... you're PAID to pretend to have the opinions you express?
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  2079. All alliteration allows alternate adjectives.
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  2080. Key phrase, "... this century".
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  2081. So nice to see Desi on a day-release from her court-mandated commitment for the damage done to her mind from watching Fox News so we don't have to.
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  2082. "Officer, my speedometer only says "2.4 miles to the nearest Kroger's".
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  2083. Your former neighbor sounds like she wants to rule... er, run... an HOA.
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  2084. Best community service video opening ever!
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  2085.  @rage.kitten  All too often, "resisting" is the primary inciting charge. How can you "resist" a non-arrest and have it turn into a constitutional violation of your rights? Well, watch the video, or one of any HUNDREDS of videos of people rightfully declining to show an ID when they are not operating a motor vehicle. Watch as they are responded to by as many as eight officers, are slammed to the ground for "impeding" and "resisting" something which is not a legal police action. In Every state, if you are operating a MOTOR vehicle, you are required to show an operator's license, the registration, and (in most states) proof of insurance. This is NOT the case, in nearly all states, for people walking, cycling, skateboarding, or just standing around doing nothing illegal. But in the last four years, under the influence of some toxic national level leader, this country has somehow become more comfortable calling the cops on, and violating the rights of (if not outright killing) people who are "darker than Caucasian".
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  2086. I just imagined the following command in 1775 on a hill near Boston MA. "Don't shoot till you see the sclera of their eyes!" - "What? What's a sclera?" - "You know, the tunica albuginea oculi?" - "I don't understand you-" And the British regulars wipe out the entire force of colonists while they're arguing, and the revolution fails from lack of momentum and the loss of key leaders.
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  2087. THIS is the big problem anyone doing research on serving will be exposed to. When I joined back in the 1980's there was little information about the VA's treatment of veterans available to the casual information search. - If I was 18 and looking into the matter today, I would be BURIED by reports of bad treatment from the VA, veteran suicide rates, veteran homelessness (from various causes), the dearth of therapy available from the government for PTSD treatment (though there is a lot of progress on that front from private organizations), and the general disdain with which civilian employers treat service in most MOS's. And given all that, I might not choose to raise my right hand to defend the country, its people, and the Constitution.
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  2088. Will this "The Media Accountability Project" also go after the lies of journalists Kyle agrees with? Bet not.
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  2089. Answering any questions about my swimming and aquatic plant eating habits is a violation of my HIPPO rights!
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  2090. If we didn't hear that he meows, I'd have expected his bark to sound like "Narf!"
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  2091. To paraphrase Captain Kirk, 'What does God need with a P.R. firm?"
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  2092.  @mewmannamwem6087  I thought being arrested, getting a mugshot, and getting sued were "pluses" for his "street cred"? Pick a lane, Orange Donnie.
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  2093. Time for some 'Citizen's Civil Asset Forfeiture". I hear Clarence Thomas has a lot of expensive stuff just lying around.
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  2094. Deathklok would have torn the Accords apart, line by line and been willing (and able!) to notarize the edits.
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  2095. This is a scarily apt analogy.
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  2096. "Did you do it?" - "No." "Liar! Guilty, ten years in prison! Next case."
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  2097. Well, that explains why my military haircut self can't play for beans.
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  2098. 9. that floating coconut diaspora methodology helps anchor sandbars, letting them build into islands.
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  2099.  @muninrob  In 1985, I drove a 1976 Army jeep at about 75-80 MPH on the NY and MA turnpike. I would never have followed that order from my Lt. if there was a drop of rain. Those tires have essentially zero tread.
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  2100.  @SayAhh  And being suspicious is a felony in some jurisdictions. STOP RESISTING!!!
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  2101. What about the adblocker that advertises in the pop-over banner ads I see from time to time while watching YouTube? Is that one okay because they're giving money to Google? - And who has such lazy lawyers that a cease-and-desist is addressed "To Whom it may Concern"?
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  2102.  @moredistractions  I can tell you with complete honesty that I want you to believe that I saw a pizza place in Attleboro MA with a freezer full of abducted toddlers that they breaded and served as veal parmesan.
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  2103. GM would NEVER abandon a small driver base and their electric vehicles. Why, that would be something on par with the Saturn EV-1 debacle by... oh. GM.
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  2104. Right? Me and my friend, the Nigerian Prince, are shaking our heads at how pervasive this stuff is. At least I helped him get his millions out of his country.
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  2105. Living in Massachusetts, I don't know anyone who turns wrenches even once in a long time who doesn't have their favorite penetrating oil. The most sworn by around here is PB Blaster.
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  2106.  @edleskun2276  "Whoops, I accidentally spilled my cup of water on you." "Whoops, I accidentally stepped on your feet." "Whoops, I accidentally hit you in the face with my elbow as I tripped on you." "Whoops, I accidentally poked you in the eye when I had to climb over you."
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  2107. What is the office number of the CEO of Uber? I have access to a large pile of dog droppings. The previous two sentences may or may not be relevant to each other.
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  2108.  @katie7748  I was trying not to make a very long post of all the "wrong people".
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  2109.  @richardkinghorn4729  Also, the tendency to be shouting is a response to an adrenaline spike. They get scared and/or excited, and commence to yelling and having shaky hands. Great combination of symptoms for someone with a firearm pointed at you.
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  2110.  @cliffmanz  Car theft is a felony. But the current "felony stop" methodology is only a step short of "shoot first, ask questions never."
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  2111. When I first heard the term "waterboarding", I thought it was an alternate form of surfing. Boy was I wrong.
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  2112. If one of your rockets was used to launch an SUV into orbit, would that involve Ford Escape velocity?
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  2113. But did anyone get giant jawbreakers?
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  2114.  @rjgambill  I had a job where a full circle was 6400 mils. That job was lobbing mortar rounds as accurately as possible.
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  2115. One thing I've learned from watching Ray for around two years is that my subjective distrust of bolt extractors is rational. I was trying to extricate a bolt from an excavator and went through seven bolt extractors before I gave up and played the game of gradually increasing drill bit sizes. Sure, I dinged the threads a little, but not enough to have to recoil the hole.
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  2116. Here's what I do about right to repair: I talk to people (family, friends, acquaintances) about repair and the two steps below. I learn the repair stance of political candidates and let that inform my voting. I contact politicians representing me, and write them about repair.
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  2117. I got a medical bill for something over half a year old and the huge amount the bill said I owed was because someone, somewhere did not hit the - key when they entered the amount insurance was paying. So they wanted me to pay over twice what the insurance had already paid them. Well, I say "They wanted me to pay", but as soon as I talked to someone in billing, they looked at the bill and their first words were, "This doesn't make sense". Long story short, I actually don't owe that amount. - As for your situation, I would check your state's laws on collections. You may be able to walk away owing nothing if you can convince a judge in civil court that you were never informed of the bill in the first place. Worst case, you could argue that you don't have to pay any late charges, interest, or collections surcharges.
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  2118. I attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and their "top flight" engineering program was responsible for designing the library tower that did not account for the dead load of the books that were to be stored within it. So before all of the floors were loaded with books, the settling and twisting of the building had bricks flaking off the outer sheathing and threatening pedestrians. The building was slowly being un-booked when I was there, and about 1/3 of the floors were in use with the only entrance being via a covered walkway constructed for the purpose, while the land around the tower was fenced off at a wide distance.
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  2119. I live in Massachusetts. You know what "extinguished the novelty and excitement of drinking" for me? Having to keep my alcoholic mother from swallowing her tongue while keeping my younger brothers calm enough to call 911 when she drank herself into a seizure. - That was a quick "don't drink" lesson.
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  2120.  @microcolonel  Ah, found one.
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  2121. I was thinking the same thing.
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  2122. ooh yeah, a single rocket crash could take out a LOT of cane toads!
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  2123.  @unitrader403  I know little about the standards for electrical stuff, but I do know that when I am in the hospital, I don't let visitor plug their phone charger into the green or red outlets. If there are no free white outlets, they're out of luck.
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  2124. You can almost hear the vehement disdain from the woman who is a former NRC inspector.
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  2125.  @JohnSmith-yp2nt  The enemy gate is down.
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  2126. How did they legally sell the car? They would have HAD to do a title search, to find out that there was an owner's name attached to it.
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  2127.  @JohnDoeKek  Yes. Yes you are. - The problem is ALWAYS greed. And greed has no political party, nationality, race, or orientation.
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  2128. He is still a little in the echo chamber when he says his party has not been dysfunctional until very recently.
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  2129.  @joevining2603  Is it near Dan Harrington's wacky inflatable arm-flailing tube men warehouse?
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  2130.  @MKCarol-ms7lg  Another way to get a say is to actually get involved in your school board and local government. But that takes effort and caring longer than it takes to tweet about it.
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  2131. "The species has amused itself to death."
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  2132. I remember talking with a bartender about their exam. There is a LOT that goes into it.
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  2133. If this dynamic security saves even one life, it's worth it! - Man, I hate having typed that, even as a joke.
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  2134. Take the advice of a hitchhiker. Always have a (wet) towel!
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  2135. I am imagining the service writer saying to themself, "Intermittent problem? Let's give it to Ray!"
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  2136. Hyundai, even if with prompting from exposure, has done right, and that is worth more than a Superb Owl commercial.
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  2137.  @marknotestine424  What's that? Hollow-points for the Ori?
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  2138. I agree with your first sentence, but your second sentence only applies to people who have not been paying attention for the last... 250 years?
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  2139. Crap like that will result in more Killdozers.
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  2140. I have OFFERED beverages to tradespeople. Sometimes they accept, but usually they don't. Only once or twice has a tradesperson working on my home asked to use the bathroom, and I have always said yes. There's no reason to make the person either find a hidden spot on the property or have to leave to find a fast-food place to use the bathroom. - When I have not been home, I have no idea if any liberties were taken.
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  2141. Here is an idea. Let this bill be vague on exactly WHAT a third-party certification means. Then find someone fresh out of college with good computer software and hardware skills and set them up with a small company that certifies repair techs via an online course and test. Keep the cost low and this person gets a steady small side income stream for the cost of hosting a website. And you can cut compTIA out entirely.
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  2142. The lack of sidewalks ought to have been a clue.
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  2143. That damn Annoying Orange!
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  2144.  @dennissmith8199  Don't tell the engineers, but it looks like there might be a few cubic inches of available spaces in that engine compartment.
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  2145.  @marcuslinton310  Mad about paying people what they're worth? You must be a big fan of how wait staff are underpaid.
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  2146.  @scottgriffiths2753  Wow. It's like you are ONLY getting news from OANN. Or "Sterno-Slurping Steve" down at the corner pickle barrel repair shop.
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  2147. Essentially, your neighbor wanted to poop on your property without any penalty. Yes, yes. I know that a septic field, a.k.a. leach field is not the septic tank. But it also not drinking quality water being discharged into it.
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  2148. I've heard of multiple incidents of people having their non-robot mowers stolen. Mostly push mowers, but also one riding mower. A lot of people have non-powered yard tools stolen. Rakes, shovels, hoes, and most evil - snow shovels. Some people just need to be removed from the pool until they learn to swim with us instead of against us.
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  2149. If more people had a childhood job cleaning up the filth of other people, like I did as a teenager, they would be a lot less likely to litter themselves, and may even care enough to clean up the occasional mess left by others. Or, I am far too optimistic about humans and most would still toss their refuse around on the assumption that "somebody else" will deal with it.
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  2150.  @Freyja666  Help! I need CPR after that pun!
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  2151.  @cindydott452  I watch a channel called Scott Prop and Roll, and one way he "fakes" a filled cup is to fill it with silicone. That way, the weight is there to aid the actor's 'selling it', the level doesn't change between cuts, the silicone can be colored in cups where the contents are seen, and they don't have to worry about spills on set.
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  2152. What? You expect the police to actually do their job correctly?
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  2153. After what Dow did in Bhopal, I am not surprised.
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  2154. After finding one wrongly boxed part, I would be using the caliper to confirm that unmarked bearing.
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  2155. Many people are revolting every day of their lives. ... Oh, you meant - Got it.
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  2156.  @zatoth13  Ehem. They cannot LEGALLY force you to answer. They can leave you in a cell with no privacy and even dangerous cellmates. They can put you in a hot or cold room to wait. They can shout and threaten. They can lie about evidence and witnesses. All in an effort to get you to sign away your request for counsel and admit to a crime you may or may not have done.
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  2157. I read an article earlier today that several LARGE conference organizations have canceled their planned Florida conventions, taking away hall rentals, several thousand weekend-long hotel room rentals, and all fo the other economic activity hundreds to thousands of people bring when they attend such events.
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  2158. That worries me less, because therapy exists, than the idea that there will inevitably be kids who end their lives because of this situation and the cruelty of others.
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  2159. And watch out for that possum!
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  2160. The premise of the math has an error. The purpose of the formula is to find the time to cover the earth in a depth (cm) of gold, but is written as looking for the time to cover the earth in a layer of a volume of gold (cm^3). - I don't have a quick way to check the validity of the formula or the math shown, I just happened to notice the incongruity. It's my OCD. Not trying to be critical.
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  2161. So gooseberry/current plants made the fatal sin of threatening the profits of lumber concerns. And thus, the death sentence.
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  2162. As a culture we're regressing back to having to interpret cave paintings. It's not a good thing.
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  2163. My only gripe with having Elizabeth Warren as one of my senators here in Massachusetts is that I don't have to / get to write as many angry letters and emails as people in other states.
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  2164. "Any penetration, how-so-ever slight" also one of the standards to elevate sexual assault to rape.
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  2165.  @maggiemay8622 I'm of a mixed mind on current inmates having the franchise to vote. But I am vehemently FOR those who have served their term to have the right restored. Our civilization needs to accept that either the sentence served and/or fines paid are the repayment to society for their crimes, or admit that we want those convicted to be forever taken away from society. We need to stop treating people who have paid their debt as if they are pariahs, less than human. We need to recognize that they also need to be allowed to work and find a place to live so that they don't HAVE to return to crime. If we cannot do that, then we will have earned the hate these people feel for our society.
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  2166. And I am one of those shallow people who prefer "popcorn flicks" over what Scorsese typically makes. I've seen The Godfather and have zero urge to see it again. I have seen most of the Marvel movies two or more times each, and enjoyed every viewing.
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  2167. That "training" footage tells me someone over there watched "The Delta Force" a few times too many.
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  2168. Because a lot of people are still dumb enough to vote straight party tickets. Whether it is R or D or I, G, X-Y-Z, voting by party is easy for the ignorant. They don't have to do ANY work other than showing up to vote. That's how the political parties like it, and why two states (Michigan and Indiana) still have the ability to vote "straight ticket". Four other states had the option until quite recently, with two only eliminating it last year.
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  2169. I saw a video that posited that the hell from Event Horizon is The Warp from Warhammer 40K.
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  2170.  @jasonbourne1596  So, when we are asked to "tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" maybe we should get to ask, "Do you?"
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  2171. And the pink jelly beans! Must touch the jelly beans!!!
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  2172. Ah yes. One of the corollaries of 'right of way' traffic laws. They are: Large of way, cheap of way, and a-hole of way.
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  2173. Ticketmaster is just a scalper under corporate clothing.
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  2174. Like when a company buys a lot of land along a projected new highway's path, but then the highway is moved.
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  2175. Don't conflate personal feeling into international relations. You and I have friends. Nations don't have friends, they have interests.
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  2176. If a person responsible for safety is not at LEAST somewhat annoying about it, they're likely not doing the job right.
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  2177. I now want to use my "illegal" signature on future documents.
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  2178. And that's why you want to be the science officer. So you can live long and prosper.
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  2179. A massive environmental hazard. Buried, anabolic bacteria works at the biodegradable items. Excavated, that chemistry changes and can become toxic to the surroundings.
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  2180.  @defaultname531  You hit the nail on the head there. Design is to ensure more money at the dealerships' service bays.
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  2181. Another arena where the saying "buy once, cry once" comes into play. I usually see it in auto parts and consumer electronics. But then, I spend a lot of time getting educated about right-to-repair. - In that vein, I had a pair of boots last me over 15 years, and I was able to get them resoled partway through. Now? I can't even FIND a cobbler.
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  2182. I think I would have responded to code enforcement's notice with, "Thank you for the compliment!"
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  2183. I had a thought. How much money is this church bringing in that a half million going missing over a little more than a decade DOESN'T raise alarm?
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  2184. The parking lot idea gets a little tricky in places where it snows. But from a recent video on this channel, apparently vertically positioned solar panels work well, opening up possibilities for snowy areas.
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  2185.  @zus8926  It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the battery again!
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  2186. And if, while building this space ladder, we run short of materials, just take them from the bottom and add them to the top. As long as you don't look down, it'll all be fine.
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  2187.  @garyschoonmaker1486  many/most (not bothering to look it up, I live in such a state) states make early repayment penalties illegal.
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  2188.  @aussiebloke609  Let us call it the "My Brain Is Full" lawsuit!
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  2189. I wonder if it would be legally possible (not that it would ever happen) to revoke FDIC and DIFM protections from a bank as a legal penalty. If it was done, it must be done with publicity of the move, to allow the bank's patrons to take their money out before the revocation goes into effect.
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  2190. If I was any more impressed, I'd be forced to serve on a British Navy sailing ship!
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  2191. Me too! Hyaaa, chicken!
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  2192.  @HChristoph  Right? I read that with the same panicked energy as "If you want to make sure the gasoline is properly dispensed into your ICE car, you should only go to full-service fueling stations!!! Think of the children!"
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  2193. Kinda dumb to sell books before your sure the money won't be taken in pending lawsuits.
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  2194. A total Quisling.
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  2195. Just institute a sanity/capability test on a periodic basis. For judges, cops, politicians... Fail the test and the retest, you're retired.
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  2196. "License and registration." - "Ooh, sorry, my phone's battery has gone flat." "Get out of the car, you're under arrest for failure to show identification, driving without a license, and driving an unregistered vehicle." - "What?" "Ah, and resisting arrest." . . Nope, can't see ANY problem with this idea... - edit: Also, I can go swimming with my driver's license and it will still be useable as a driver's license. I can drop it from three stories up onto concrete. I can step on it. I can use it to cut a PB&J (kinda gross, yeah). Not so with my phone.
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  2197.  @Falconeer55  Look at the price of this combination gasket + windage tray versus a similar metal-core gasket for other vehicles. This one costs roughly double, based on my surface web search. There's your reason.
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  2198. As a child of the 70's that much steering play was the norm in big trucks like home heating oil trucks. The noise, however...
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  2199. Also? Those tires look to be somewhere in whispering distance of being too worn (using the 2/32" of tread standard). At least the fronts do.
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  2200. Very well and clearly stated.
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  2201. It's really key that the sidewalk was cleared, as buried red brick decomposes pretty quickly. edit compared to concrete or asphalt, that is.
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  2202. I salute the service of those hull sections! (I like cider)
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  2203. I thought it was "Kilroy was here"
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  2204. That is deeply [redacted] up.
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  2205. That would have seriously changed high school proms...
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  2206.  @lightowl4345  I do not begrudge the pay of nurses and doctors, but part of WHY they are paid so highly is that they have massive bills from their education. The cost of their education (and certification, and periodic training, etc.) is a result of massive greed and income model in the for-profit medical education industry. Now add in the massive greed and income model for-profit medical insurance industry, the for-profit pharmaceutical industry, the for-profit medical supply and device industries, and the for-profit hospital corporations... Well, the math results in your health being a HUGE profit engine.
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  2207.  @scottclowe  I appreciate your clarification, and even more, the knowledge you share.
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  2208. That super-heavy engine array looks SO Kerbal!
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  2209. I remember watching Beverly Hills Cop, and there was a scene where there was incredulity at the idea of Axel Foley "stealing a house". Now it's just another news article. What the Pasta, America?
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  2210. I deal with my fear of sharks by staying out of their house. (The oceans)
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  2211. Not only against the Second Amendment, but against state law and established case precedent.
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  2212. I keep going back to the fact that "to service" is the infinitive for animal breeding. As in, "John hired Dave's bull to service his herd of cows to ensure calving happens in a timely manner."
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  2213. Wait. All he has to do is not park his truck in his own driveway? That HOA president's driveway is available, right? Or the Pres's front yard...
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  2214. I got pulled over by a Massachusetts state cop who was tailgating me (a tactic where they try to get you to speed up so they can flip the blues and write a speeding ticket) when I stepped on the brakes right at the sign to slow from the previous 45MPH to the new 35MPH. He was RED in the face with rage, accusing me of trying to kill him. I responded that only someone who was illegally tailgating me could have caused an accident when I slowed down to the posted speed limit. I got a verbal warning, never having handed him my documentation. He left the stop by peeling out. - It helps to be white with short hair, apparently, since I was not arrested or shot.
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  2215. I watch that channel quite a bit. It is astounding how many major "accidents" are completely preventable by simple things like training, accountability, maintenance and labeling.
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  2216. Time for some Pennsylvanians to become part-time volunteer WCOs and "check up on" Moon all sorts of hours of the day.
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  2217. With a built-in mechanical round counter!
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  2218. Same way a cop says, "I smell weed." - 'Well, officer, maybe you shouldn't use it while working?"
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  2219. I see a lot of comments quibbling about the specific number of years that selling pot can get you, but none refuting the basic premise of the OP. Being a corporation is the ticket to shirking responsibility and consequences.
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  2220. Was LA Fitness one of those gyms that required a membership cancellation to be submitted via a physical letter? That they would deny receiving if you didn't pay for the signature-on-delivery option? I've even heard of a gym that would only let you cancel memberships with a written request to do so, including proof that you had moved out of the general area of the gym. Yep, they only let you cancel if you moved.
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  2221.  @ahmedjacuzzi5494  Exclusion is bad. Add ALL the colors!
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  2222. The clock in my car will be off by an hour for about a month before I re-remember how to set it again.
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  2223.  @Gangsta1168  To quote someone rather wise, "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice." Voting is a choice of the lesser evil. Not voting is lying back and waiting to be violated.
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  2224.  @mgancarzjr  Only the police can legally tamper with evidence.
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  2225.  @youkofoxy Even the wireless entry systems have been proven able to be hacked by people with moderate skills. I recall a Steve Mould video where he hacked into his own car with a few dollars (pounds) of tech and a laptop.
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  2226.  @stellerate  When schools finally DO teach history as including the accomplishments and evils of all races, we will then no longer need a month, week, or day to remind us of that history. But until that day, American needs a yearly bat upside the head.
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  2227. Oh, a lawyer will be appointed to you. Some day after the entire power grid has transitioned to fusion power.
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  2228. Oh, is THAT what we all smelled?
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  2229.  @LygerTheCLaw  Between 3D printing, machine shops, and hardware stores, there are a lot of things that can be sourced to fix out stuff, but once you start getting electronics failures, the companies can have us over a barrel by withholding schematics and contracting with their suppliers to not sell proprietary parts... even after the whole device is no longer supported by the manufacturer.
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  2230. I would think so, but often "It's a civil matter" is police lingo for "Too complicated, don't want to look it up, I'm outta here."
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  2231. Let's grant these same DAs medical care... eventually. Auto repairs... eventually. And paychecks... when we feel like getting around to it.
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  2232. When I was very young I first heard the term 'sweat shop' and I wondered why people would go shopping for sweat. Or go to a shop to sweat. I was a very sheltered kid.
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  2233. That wasn't a yard, it was a forest!
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  2234. I love that observant people outside of the "big money club" caught the big money manipulators with their pants down.
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  2235. I have seen at least one sign, I think in the Boston area, that listed "meter feeding" as a parking violation. They wanted to force people to have to move their car to another parking spot after the maximum time on the meter (2-3 hours, IIRC) and park at another meter. - The point of installing parking meters is originally justified as making money for the providing of parking spaces for public use, but the real point is to bring in the much higher money from parking tickets for exceeding the time you bought with your change. It is a serious lack of honesty on the part of the city. If the real point was to get the $0.25 per half hour of parking (as an example of rates), then feeding the meter should make them happy. Nope. They just want the ticket revenue.
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  2236. That couple talking about how it was not right or legal for their kids to be harassed about Wifey's online content... A-holes don't care about right or legal. By the time you can even do anything about it, the damage is well and truly done.
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  2237. Even just turning off the audio should carry that penalty.
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  2238. Oh, they were recorded "somewhere (TM)" ” …You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.’ But the plans were on display…’ on display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.’ `That’s the display department.’ `With a torch.’ `Ah, well the lights had probably gone.’ `So had the stairs.’ `But look you found the notice didn’t you?’ `Yes,’ said Arthur, `yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of The Leopard“.’ — Douglas Adams.
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  2239. I felt like I was shopping in a 1970's grocery store. Or waiting for a dental appointment.
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  2240.  @NoNORADon911  Silly loon. I am neither liberal nor conservative. My political positions don't follow any one party. All of my meds are for physiological (specifically abdominal) issues. And I am and have been current on all of them. - A point? Sure. You come off as a ranting conspiracy theorist.
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  2241. It is an idiot client who comes out of the courtroom and immediately goes on a tirade. The client is supposed to SHUT THE [BLEEP] UP and let the lawyer make statements. This is doubly true if the client plans to appeal, and has a demonstrated history of their blabbing getting them in more trouble.
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  2242. " @christopherkidwell9817  The sky is blue" and "The sky is azure" are alternative facts and can be rationally debated. "The sky is buttered spaghetti" is a lie.
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  2243. RED BULL GIVE YOU... indefinite imprisonment without a trial in a hidden location...
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  2244. There is also beef bacon, made from belly cuts of bovines. I learned about this due to someone I know who has a serious pork allergy.
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  2245.  @KenLee-e5y  Least amount of fuel used per mile traveled (of currently available high-capacity transit)? Deisel-electric trains. Trains are also quieter than jets. Sure, there's a mountain range to tunnel through, but surely we can import some Irish and Chinese workers...
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  2246.  @Razmoudah  "Your honor, I was using a damaged cleaning rod after some plinking at the range. I didn't know the cleaning rod was doing damage to the barrel until afterwards."
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  2247. replying for algorithm.
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  2248. I'd rather be involved in a mass torte acquisition. Tasty!
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  2249.  @bikebudha01  If that "rusty junker" has a license plate on it, then it is none of your damn business what they park in their driveway. If it is parked on the street without a valid plate, it's REALLY easy to get it towed. Neighbor's dogs 'dropping' in your yard? TALK to them, and then if necessary, get animal control involved. Odors from your neighbors? If it's something unsafe, there are laws. If you just don't like their outdoor brick pizza oven, suck it up. Maybe become friends with them and have pizza too.
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  2250.  @teru797  An undated picture of a non-Haitian who was not in Springfield Ohio with a beheaded goose is a long way from pictures of Haitians IN Springfield Ohio eating cats and dogs.
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  2251. Maypops are best mounted on your Rolls Canardly. (Rolls down one hill, Canardly make it up the next.)
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  2252. If I was in such a situation as this woman, I would be STRONGLY incentivized to vacuum the entire condo twice a day with the loudest vacuum cleaner I could find.
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  2253. To ALL people whining about "censorship" on social media: They can do so, legally, it is THEIR property. The First Amendment protections apply to GOVERNMENT. - If you decide the rule in your home is that nobody can cheer for the New York Yankees, that is legal. Because it is YOUR home, and you are not the US government. - Now, if you do make that Yankees rule, but you don't enforce it on your buddies, only on your spouse's friends, you're being a jerk.
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  2254.  @werefrogofassyria6609  In some states, someone can break in with intent to burgle, assault, or even kill you, and sue you if they are injured. That is insanity.
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  2255. And the fact that they give the assets back once you show you have a lawyer and the will to see the matter through also shows that they want to avoid precedent-setting judgements. Because that might turn off the flow of free money.
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  2256. Oh, they saw. Less than half who voted, voted for sanity. Less than half who voted, voted for hate. The remainder who COULD have voted, didn't, and they have lost the right to speak on the matter.
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  2257.  @hoilst265  And those cans have so many post-ammo uses!
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  2258. drones, thermal cameras, illegally peeping through your curtains, tricking your kids into snitching on you...
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  2259. So. "Scrambled eggs and bacon or sausage - $7.99". Is that (scrambled eggs and bacon) OR sausage? Or is it scrambled eggs AND (bacon or sausage)?
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  2260. Exactly!
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  2261. And thus, Kaiser got a Permanente place in the history books.
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  2262. People with face tattoos don't look inherently scary. They look inherently stupid. - Four years. Four years I have waited for that inevitable fatty blood clot to migrate to the brain of "a certain someone" and fix this situation. I have nearly lost hope on that avenue, and am putting most of my chips on the outcome of this election to at least edge us away from the abattoir.
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  2263. Shoot first, ask questions never? It's fine if you're a cop, so why can't "we the people" get some of that sweet "justified shoot" protection?
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  2264.  @newshodgepodge6329  Under some states' laws, that would make the property a cemetery, and reduce your tax burden. Ask a certain golf course owner in Florida who buried an ex-wife on his country club property...
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  2265.  @vicktorpatriot1430  Justice is available to everyone... who can afford it.
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  2266. The first time I ever heard of Fiji it was in an AT&T commercial where a guy was trying to call phoenix and connected to Fiji instead. The "joke" was that, at the time, Fiji was the most expensive place to make a long distance call to from the US.
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  2267. A car that doesn't go is a camper. A car that doesn't stop is a coffin.
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  2268. I actively reject the word "woke" when it is used that way. It is "I am awake." or "The alarm clock woke me." NOT "I am woke." I feel the same about how the word "shook" is being used. Conjugate, don't muddy the communication with idiocy.
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  2269. Wait till Ranger Smith finds out!
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  2270. The more I learn, the more glad I am that I am nearing the end of my service duration on this planet. I am already WAY out of warranty.
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  2271. Much like absolutely 100% pure (even non-heavy) water can have deleterious effects on the body if consumed in quantity.
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  2272.  @isaakisrael8186  An Gulag is Russian for "steam bath resort", eh?
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  2273. Every day I find a new reason to be glad I won't be alive for a lot longer.
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  2274. I'll bet that if someone not in their "club" had an unused liquor license, they'd be forced to use it or yield it after a certain period of time.
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  2275. A pure democracy is like when a group of friends debates on where to go eat on "dining out day", and after discussion has been had, takes votes until there is a majority. An autocracy is when the the group of friends always eats where Charlie Davidson wants to because he is the only one with a car. A constitutional republic is when the group of friends has a discussion, there are votes for where to eat. But budget, distance, and time are factored in, as well as the wishes of Charlie Davidson who owns the only car, and the advice of Sarah Finley who got food poisoning once at that Italian place downtown.
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  2276. ​ @brianartillery  The most commonly quoted line from this movie amongst my friends and I is "Aways with the negative waves! Why can't you say something righteous?" - A neat reference, the scene where they trap the German tanks in the tight streets so that the turrets cannot traverse shows up as "research films" in the anime Girls und Panzer.
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  2277. Oh, the difference a Dave makes!
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  2278. When I bought a palm-sized living room drone, about half of the included manual was about FAA and FCC regulations regarding use of the drone, and how all responsibility for knowing those regulations was mine. So someone who gets an outdoor model with camera(s) and long-distance control ability gets squat for sympathy from me if they pull the "But I didn't know!" card. This guy knew. He knew and he flaunted it, and he's trying to use that as a form of validation for "taking on the man". If he's lucky, he'll be able to settle for his current assets, and walk away with a long or permanent ban on drone ownership, use and association.
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  2279. There are more ways than cold-turkey to quit doing something, Sterling.
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  2280.  @machintelligence  Win or lose, the effect has happened.
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  2281.  @bbdoook  After your bum is cleaned with water, you can dry with a washcloth or hand towel. And then wash that later.
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  2282. I find it interesting that the court standard is to tell the truth and NOT HOLD BACK relevant information. In US courts, you get judge-shushed if you volunteer anything beyond the narrow scope of the question.
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  2283.  @Bewefau  Due process is not limited to citizens. Read some Constitution, yeah?
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  2284.  @mickdood4780  Found one!
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  2285.  @gooser__43  It is something I learned about in regards the Naval conflict in the Pacific in WW2. To preface, a (non-bladder style) fuel tank, unless completely full, has some amount of non-fuel space. All petroleum fuels will fill empty spaces with partial vapor. The lighter the fuel, the more volatile/explosive/combustible the vapor is. Okay, so Japanese ships were letting oxygen-containing air combine with the vapor in fuel tanks on board their ships, while the US navy had a "new technology" of producing CO2 on-board as a firefighting substance, and they also used it to displace the oxygen-containing air in their fuel tanks. So when battle damage happened aboard each nation's ships, the US ships would resist fires in the fuel, while Japanese fuel tanks were fire hazards. This allowed carriers like the USS Yorktown to be hit, catch on fire, put the fires out, and after repairs, keep going. Meanwhile fires on board Japanese carriers in the same battle led to lost ships.
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  2286. Yeah, the whole "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." has been narrowly interpreted because "Well, the stuff we want is electronic not papers, so it doesn't count for the Constitution! And your car is not your house!"
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  2287.  @Wingnut353  It was mostly a "failure" because by the time it was flying, it was not as fast as other planes being developed for the end customer, the Italian military.
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  2288.  @davidedgar2818  I saw a quick video where the mechanic showed that oil pump rubber band because he was there replacing the SINGLE USE oil pan on an F-150. He pointed out that replacing that rubber band involves taking the transmission off of the engine and then taking apart some of the transmission (more time, more seals to replace...)
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  2289.  @thejackbox  But those rubber timing belts don't usually live in a hot oil bath.
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  2290.  @RCAvhstape  Your last part really triggers my long-standing gripes with so much space ship sci-fi using the trope of "everybody is using the same "up" even though we're in microgravity." It irks me so.
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  2291. Or a slingshot to send your jammed rounds downrange.
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  2292. It reminds me of this skinny 5'7" guy I as in the National Guard with who would tell anyone who would listen, "Pound for pound, I could beat Mike Tyson."
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  2293. OMYGOSH THOSE PINK JELLY BEANS!!!
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  2294. Add to that the personal belongings that "mysteriously" went missing from the truck after the ordeal
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  2295. Was he even REALLY "swatted"? Can anyone point to a news report or police report or body cam footage that supports that event happening? I tried to do a search, but without a date and at least a state (or even better, a town/city) I can;t get through the muddy waters of the search engines.
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  2296. Tint really pisses off cops because they can't pay attention to all of your business with a quick glance.
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  2297. Guy sues dealership, dealership sues woman who sold it, woman sues the person SHE bought it from... And lawyers get paid all down the chain. The system works as our masters intended.
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  2298. It did look like it was nearly ready to be baled.
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  2299. You raise a very important point. For any battery application where weight or volume is not as much of an issue, there can be great options that are not lithium-based. In those applications, you then can put more concern toward flow rate, life cycle, and price.
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  2300. To Quote a little green dude, "That is why you fail." We as a society need to work to stay aware of what is happening in our name in the halls of government, and who is wielding influence on those we elect to represent us.
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  2301.  @chicken10999999  There is more probable cause than in Jack Tekeira's case about... illegal possession and dissemination of top secret defense information. And HE is still in jail. Now if someone accused of an even worse set of crimes regarding defense information had millions of dollars, rich allies, and ahis own jetliner with trans-oceanic range, I'm sure we'd all agree THAT person was more of a flight risk than some 20-year-old idiot with less and $20k in total assets.
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  2302. Truth
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  2303. To be fair, that "helmet" was about as tough as a baseball cap with eight coats of spray paint.
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  2304.  @FromMyBrain  In my state, not having auto insurance means you can't have a registered vehicle. On the flip side, the insurance company can NOT drop your coverage. They can charge more based on points (from tickets), from garaging (address on-street or off-street), but they can't just drop your policy. - Insurance for other property, like home, business, or renter's? Those policies can be dropped for many reasons, usually for just making an expensive claim.
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  2305.  @digitalcurrents  RICO!
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  2306. I agree. He has a right to be a hateful troll.
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  2307.  @TheRealWilliamWhite  I live in Massachusetts, a state with a "duty to retreat" in the law. My misapplication of the doctrine to ones' own home is due to the information I received from a serving Worcester cop who was teaching the mandatory course I had to take to get my FID. I now sit (because I do not have a standing desk) corrected.
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  2308. I did a modicum of research, and I found no formal education to show that she has a medical degree. Or any degree. (one year at University of Oregon, six months at Mt. Hood Community College) Now, in fairness, one need not have a diploma to be educated, but if one is making medical claims, then they need to have some sort of accreditation in that field of medicine for me to take them even remotely seriously.
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  2309.  @rossmanngroup  I just had an image of someone being spied on by their motorized phallic "recreation" device.
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  2310. He mentions, somewhere in the video, that his torch had a serious issue and tried to harm him, and he hasn't gotten it fixe or replaced yet. Me, I would have maybe downgraded to one of those plumbers' MAPP gas torches you can get at the hardware store.
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  2311.  @jon1758  Just don't buy that LG mess with the new style of compressor pump that is dying faster than infantrymen at Ypres in WW1. Oh, and LG put a forced arbitration agreement on the box. You know, that box the delivery driver removes before bringing the fridge in your home, and then takes away. Also, the existence of that forced arbitration clause is not available in the owner's manual or at the time of purchase.
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  2312. I totally get that. I have a lot of health problems, so whenever I call my brother during his work hours, his first question is, "What's wrong?"
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  2313. Bicycle guy is using the sidewalk, but given the lack of shoulder on that road, he made the best of three very bad choices. 1) Get run over on the road where he is "supposed" to ride. 2) Ride on the sidewalk where he is not supposed to ride and end up in stop line conflicts. 3) Ride on peoples' lawns.
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  2314. Jefferson's tree of liberty is looking a bit parched...
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  2315. "On advice of the FBI agents looking for a 'thrill raid', probably"...
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  2316. Stalag 13 mythology: HOGAAAAAAAN!!!!
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  2317. They've pre-indicted themselves. Convenient!
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  2318. I knew about that phenomenon years ago, I think I was taught it by my mother? I know she would "admonish" us if we left the freezer empty. - When I left my previous apartment, I put a cheap store brand gallon of water in the freezer and the refrigerator to keep the unit from breaking itself. My outgoing landlord didn't know about that reasoning and thanked me for the care. - Because I regularly end up emptying all of the food out of my freezer (by cooking it) I keep not only the ice trays in there, but also two or three of those plastic containers popcorn kernels come in, filled with water and constantly frozen. Since I added those, my refrigerator runs a little less often.
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  2319.  @ButtMcDuck  The bailouts of Boeing and GM and the banks were in part because the US government was afraid of the temporary disruption of letting those entities fail or unwilling to let such temporary disruptions change existing deals and relationships, and in part from the sunk cost fallacy.
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  2320.  @HighlanderNorth1  If you want palm trees and clear waters, go to Wales. I'm not kidding.
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  2321. Another point of shame is that this had to come from The Guardian, a British news organization.
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  2322.  @Bakes-z4c  The checks cleared, and the bank balances increased. All as normal, sadly.
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  2323. But, but... The package of laws has the word 'Patriot' in it! It's GOT to be good, yeah?
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  2324. Not shown, Vanessa having to explain to the police that no, she is not being murdered in the shop, and neither is the dog.
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  2325. I found it translates to "dipping lacquer" which is available from various brands in a wide array of colors and for various uses. But the method you described works with that product.
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  2326. They have been off my "air" for two decades.
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  2327.  @danhammond8406  A pair of binoculars being chased by a torpedo boat?
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  2328.  @dillogdall1  Ah yes, the good old, "If it saves ONE life!" and "Think of the children!"
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  2329. That only works while there are brands willing to avoid that sweet, sweet money.
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  2330.  @maxwellsilver3115  Honestly, getting out of the whole process and NEVER being asked to fill in for my boss at court WAS beneficial to my side. Not to my boss's side, but heck, he could have dragged himself in if he really wanted to win.
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  2331. In the case of my mother, it was a car loan that the lending bank wiped after repo-ing and selling off the car, leaving a balance owed. They wrote it off and sent confirmation to the executor.
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  2332. I am AMAZED that this court has a direct line to a god, gods, or "God" to be able to write as fact that such an entity gave humans the right to present someone with a straightened middle finger. God(s) gave me nothing. It/they would have to exist for that to even begin to be a possibility. - Now if you tell me that freedom of expression was granted to me by a law or founding document, I would happily agree should that be the actual case.
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  2333.  @tiagopesce  Yes!
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  2334. And I'll bet not a single cop was even given a verbal reprimand.
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  2335. X can be said with the "sh" sound. So I call the site Sh itter, and the messages Sh its.
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  2336.  @krucible9369  That is not necessarily a good endorsement. Ancient Aliens makes me think, too. Things like: "Who gave these chuckleheads money for a show?", "Does Georgio really believe the words coming out of his mouth?, and "Doesn't anyone at the corporate level have any shame that they greenlit that mess?"
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  2337.  @shouldhavenotshouldof2031  Sometimes, we're related to those people. I'm partially fortunate, in that one sibling is apolitical, and the whackaloon sibling is estranged from the rest of us.
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  2338. I once worked with a pharmacist whose regular speaking voice sounded like he was using a bullhorn. It was funny as heck when he was talking a caller through the process of using a pre-packaged enema. I think people outside the store heard the procedure.
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  2339.  Kevin  My only gripe with "woke" is linguistic. "I woke up." "I am awake."
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  2340. At this point, remake Red Dawn, but set it in North Korea and have the aggressors be people from Nigeria, but change nothing else.
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  2341. I actually had my car insurance canceled once because I had been sending my payments to the wrong address. I was sending my checks (this was decades ago) to the billing offices in one city in CT when the payments were supposed to go to the payment processing offices in a different city in CT. When my local agent finally got someone at the billing office on the line, it took them only about ten minutes to find the stack of my checks. They had been holding on to them since nobody there was "empowered" to make a decision on what to do with them. - So I went to the bank, canceled payment on those checks, wrote a new one to include reinstatement charges and new plate fees and handed it to the local agent.
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  2342. And be told they have to pay to have the machine taken to the dealer to sit in a queue for two weeks while they "get around to it" only to tell you it's another three weeks to get the parts that they don't keep on hand. Then in two months, pay to have the machine hauled back to the farm where the harvest has already rotted on the plants.
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  2343. Based on my zero minutes of welding experience, I have no leg to stand on in this topic. I know just enough to know when welding is great, moderate, or popcorn.
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  2344. The Acme (TM) refrigerator! Now without stabbing blades and explosive ice trays!
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  2345.  @chadpreece970  And when that intelligent owner option offends the bank accounts of the car maker, they will have a user disabled or enabled item report to the onboard diagnostics and shut the car off.
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  2346. What blows my mind is how crappy the product is when it does not even mention that the air pump is a rechargeable item. Never mind not saying what you have to plug it in with, or not including that thing you have to plug in.
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  2347. I cannot have an abortion, being the devil (white, male, hetero) but I strongly support the right of women to have choice and access to reproductive health care.
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  2348. This has parallels in the practice of writing large traffic tickets on spurious facts against out-of-state drivers. Those behind the action know that most will not bother to make the inconvenient travel to contest, and will just pay to make it "go away".
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  2349. "What color is the blue sky?" - "Isn't it a shame, isn't it a shame, isn't it a shame that the red color of ketchup is what Donald will most be known for even if the food throwing was simply hearsay?' "I asked about the color of the sky." - "The real issue here is that my client is being unfairly persecuted over nothing. If you were to examine the evidence we have cherry-picked..." "That's all the time we have for you tonight." - "So that's why it is our earnest belief that we need to prove that water is wet, even though the DOJ is claiming that electron repulsion means water never really touched anything." "I said GOOD NIGHT!!"
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  2350.  @Bradimus1  Should I have been more clear? My guess is that the high failure rates cited by the OP is due to a confluence of 1) cheap hardware and 2) unskilled/uncaring installers.
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  2351.  @bensears7499  Oven cleaner to the face. "Your honor, he startled me when I was about to clean my oven. I'm sorry he's blind now, but maybe he should not have attacked me?"
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  2352.  @stevenmoomey2115  Gasp! Actual journalism? Perish the thought.
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  2353. Mechanics often have the rattiest vehicles. Just like landscapers rarely have the best lawns at home. Body shop techs, however, always seem to have the most show-worthy personal rides.
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  2354.  @surveysays8335  Oh, Mr. Morrison, switch to decaf and go back to building your sub-code houses.
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  2355. That is why the practice is called an "elevator pitch". Not that you have to cram EVERYTHING in the 30-45 seconds of an actual trip in an elevator, but to teach people to distill their initial pitch down to easily digested points over a short time.
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  2356. I originally fed my cats 9 Lives, but one cat was farting worse than a bar full of beer and bratwurst fed senior citizens. Switched to Iams and the farting (mostly) stopped, while the cats got healthier. One cat would still fart, but I swear it was deliberate. She would get in your lap, get pet for a bit, turn her butt toward your face, make a 'pfft' and actually LAUGH as she left.
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  2357.  @SeanKH19  Oh, also, the rural states outpower the urban states in the Senate by noticeable majority. This gives less than half of the country's population more than half the power to elect those who confirm all appointments by the Executive branch, to include the cabinet and federal judges up to the Supreme Court.
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  2358.  @SeanKH19  Getting rid of the Electoral College would result in a TRUE democratic vote for President. There is no Electoral College-like system to elect ANY other office in this country, from US Senator all the way down to your town selectpersons and school board. - So why the BLEEP do we accept a barrier between our votes and the person who gets the office when it comes to the most powerful elected position in the country? It's almost like the authors of the Constitution thought the people were too dumb to vote for a president!
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  2359. How much sea level rise do we need to wash those streets clean? I can order up a truckload of coal and burnt it in a field if it will help.
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  2360.  @kathythompson611  Hmm... my crystal ball is showing a shallow grave in the state forest. Silly crystal ball!
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  2361. You need to make sure your drinking water had at least the minimum required content of aviation fuel!
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  2362. "We're gonna need a bigger thumb" - Sheriff Brody
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  2363.  @NoJusticeNoPeace  And yet, that is the only apple I like.
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  2364.  @OGJeff685  Torches, pitchforks and backhoes?
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  2365. Isn't it good that all the ticket purchases and relevant data were gathered in one convenient corporation? (Sarcasm. Angry sarcasm.)
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  2366. Well, I am currently locked in steerage, but the ship's crew tells me everything will be fine...
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  2367.  @jessasdad  Agreed!
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  2368. I would understand an hour or so for a senior person in the department to review the facts and use their access level to fix the error. But day to weeks? F them.
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  2369. Yeah, that "unalienable right to keep and bear emojis on a media platform owned by a private company" is right there is the small print!
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  2370. Yesterday I saw an article about substandard welds being recently found on some US Navy ships, including USS New Jersey. I had to read the article to realize they were talking about the submarine of that name.
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  2371. Which is lunacy. Are the non-police members of society supposed to ask permission for every little thing we do? Are we supposed to obey every order, even the illegal and nonsensical ones, from police? Or maybe, just maybe, police ought to be held accountable for knowing how to do the job the people are paying them to do?
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  2372. You'd have to be a loony Sea Lion to fly into your enemy's home territory with the intent of a combat landing when they still have radar/Sauron's eye, and you have not established air superiority (RAF/Nazgul).
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  2373. This kind of thing makes me glad I have a 20+ year old Brother laser printer (That still works like when it was new), and use a separate flatbed scanner.
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  2374. Immediately after might not be the right time to see how the product works, but perhaps a couple of hundred miles of engine time. If the cleaning was instant or very fast, it could send big flakes and chunks into the exhaust part of the engine, and possibly clogging the catalyst mesh in the converter(s). If the product assists in the slower breakdown of the deposits, it likely prevents causing damage. I don't work in the field, so my statements have a lot of conditionals.
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  2375.  @insiainutorrt259  So, your party did not win enough seats in the Riksdag?
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  2376. Airplane was such a fun movie!
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  2377. This is the second time I've seen someone so cheerfully and cluelessly racist. And the first time was in the movie "Blazing Saddles" which was INTENDED to be outrageous.
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  2378. Toobin should have invested in a roll of electrical tape like all smart computer owners do. Little bit of tape and even hackers can't see you via the camera.
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  2379. "Stop resisting!", right?
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  2380. Vet: "Your dog needs to lose weight." Owner: "Off to the groomers!"
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  2381.  @Amywazwaz06  You could go to court and ask a judge to issue an order to seize police equipment to auction off until the total can pay you. It might work?
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  2382.  @rickweaver7997  The "purpose" of civil asset forfeiture was to allow law enforcement to take, without the need to get a guilty verdict on a charge related to the property. There already exists a legal doctrine of criminal asset forfeiture, where the proceeds of and/or equipment for a criminal act are taken upon the successful conviction for said crime. - Criminal forfeiture is taking away a kid's baseball bat after they send a ball through a picture window. Civil forfeiture is taking away a kid's baseball bat because MAYBE they might hit a hypothetical baseball through a hypothetical picture window.
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  2383.  @maxine_q  But you CAN use an EMP device to erase the AI and burn up the components upon which it resided.
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  2384. Mmm, consequences!
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  2385. Who knew that "do your own homework" was life advice?
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  2386. When your municipality starts adopting the mindset of a bad HOA, it is time to vote the jokers out and start with a new crop.
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  2387. Would they then have to change the name of the program to "Dreamcatcher"?
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  2388.  @butterflyinambr  Fair. I had not thought out to the point where some animal control officer would have to put the tiger down for killing a (supposed) human.
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  2389. Car makers can have my data when they start giving me free cars.
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  2390. That's not Steve. It's a human filter on a lawyer dog.
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  2391.  @smd-tech  There you go, assuming Burns would install proper safety systems. That stuff is WAY more expensive than just bribing or blackmailing the infrequent inspector.
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  2392. But a tiny home would lower the value on my vastly overpriced house that is at least three times the size of what I truly need! If the property values decline, how can I justify my massive carbon footprint for all the heating and cooling and lights?
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  2393. I get cats from no-kill shelters, and try to pick the older cats who have been there the longest. I do this for two reasons. First, adult cats are less often adopted in favor of kittens. Second, when I adopt a long-term shelter cat, I feel like I'm involved in a jail break for a "lifer". I find it funny.
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  2394. I imagine if Spencer were doing this work for a resident owner, he would talk to them about that. Get them cleared while they're small so you don't need to deal with hiring an arborist to clear massive trees looming over your structure.
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  2395. "It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. So what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
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  2396.  @lawrencespellacy6037  Just comply! Just accept the boot on your neck! Just surrender your rights!
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  2397. They were running at half rated pressure! That trailer must have felt like towing a pile of mashed potatoes across a plate of gravy. . I'm hungry.
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  2398.  @Jon.A.Scholt  Well. Let us first posit that life, even microscopic, once existed on Mars, which is largely borne out by meteorite evidence. Then let is suppose that one or more of those meteorites that made it to Earth from Mars did so both long enough ago and with some volume of viable microscopic life to be able to thrive in the environment in which it found itself. Then let us imagine (yes, each step is getting more conjectural) that this Martian life somehow incorporated itself into the vastness of developing Earth life. - If the above chain of supposition occurred, then it is possible that any animal vs animal, to include human vs human, conflict could be seen as us (the genral us meaning Earth life) fighting Martians. - Ergo, we need an HMS Thunderchild. The ball is now in the court of the Royal Navy.
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  2399. Yeah, that arbitration stuff is not used by corporations for the benefit of the customer.
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  2400.  @davidtherwhanger6795  Charged with 240 volts at 200 amps, maybe?
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  2401. One way to reduce address errors is to list the address in digits AND words. "126 (one-two-five) Elm Street, Anytown, State, ZIPCODE" tells me right away that there is a mistake somewhere, and I'll ask questions before taking off a roof or kicking in the door for a no-knock warrant.
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  2402. She was not twitching or jerking away during the claw clipping. More like she was checking the work.
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  2403. Very ATF-level creepiness.
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  2404. I remember when the "no seat belt" buzzers were first introduced, and people back then just found the wires and disabled the sensors with a small amount of work and wire caps. I expect the skills will be redeveloped.
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  2405. My question: Does anyone know the true-name of the demon summoned by using that Pentastar design? Was the demon, or the engineer who lost all their sanity points the one responsible for that massive amount of work to just get to the injectors and plugs?
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  2406. Part of why this has not been ended by the US Supreme court is that those who benefit from the practice will cede the case and return the money/property if the case looks to be solidly against them, in large part to avoid the precedent court decision, and to further prevent an appeal to the level of the US Supreme Court. - The US Supreme court does not, in normal practice, go out and seek cases on which to decide, but instead they pick and choose from the cases proffered before them. Essentially picking and choosing only from those who actually make it to the hems of their robes. Rather feudal, now that I think of it.
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  2407. You ever take a look at how dirty an actual working FARMER gets in a day? Yet without those hard working people and their dogs, we'd starve to death.
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  2408. How much more is the rent for that gas station? That, I feel, is a valid question. - Though I do fully expect both the gas station and the in-airport sellers to be leaning on "we pay higher rent" to gouge the heck out of shoppers.
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  2409.  @Deere2154D  It can be, IF you have the tools. If it is a bolt-in wheel bearing, that is a much different proposition to a press-in bearing.
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  2410. If not a brass vise, at least those drop-in vise face block things.
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  2411. This was amazing. It was no "Eat Shit, Bob" but it was fantastic.
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  2412.  @Sapiens_Imperialis  I learned how to make a still on the show MASH.
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  2413.  @Sapiens_Imperialis  OH! The "one" god. K’uk’ulkan. Got it.
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  2414. A crucially young age to start developing fun habits and rituals. Let her think you're nuts, if it is harmless and helps bond while bringing fun and joy.
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  2415. What we see here, are the tears of the American Crocodile pouring from the eyes of a privileged white human.
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  2416.  @kei2142  Decades ago when I was working in a convenience store to make money while going to college, the official robbery policy was pretty much, "Don't resist, give them whatever they want, don't go look for a license plate on the getaway car, and never tell the police how much was taken." The last part was so that the company could "adjust the loss" to have it roll into a tax write-off.
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  2417. People whose entire job is to enforce the law are routinely forgiven for not knowing the vast ocean of laws. Why are we who do NOT work in that sort of job expected to know ALL of the laws? "Ignorance of the law is no excuse, peasant."
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  2418. "The million dollars is only paid out for a black eye as a result of a stampede of wild elephants running through his house between 3:55 and 4 PM on the Fourth of July, during a hailstorm. Porky is momentarily rebuffed, until a stampede of wild elephants comes through his living room! Daffy then nervously looks at the clock - 3:57 PM. The calendar - 4 July. He sticks his head outside - hailstorm! Porky displays his new black eye and asks to be paid, but Daffy tells him that the clause said "a stampede of wild elephants and one baby zebra" (even though he made up the part about the zebra) - and just then, a baby zebra comes trampling through the room. Daffy, laid out on the floor, picks himself up to wearily proclaim, "And one baby zebra!" before passing out.
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  2419. No cancer for me, but I do kind of miss the time I was hospitalized for nearly three months, when doctors paid attention, nurses provided care, family and friends visited and just hung around chatting... Even the few years after that I was at 2-5 doctor appointments a month. Now, two decades later, it's maybe 1 or 2 appointments a month, and the friend pool is a little smaller (some die, some move, some just move on). - Maybe I need to adopt a couple of cats again. It's been about a year since my last one died.
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  2420. If he could have stayed shut up, it would have been $5 million. If he keeps talking about it, it could reach $150 million, $200, $300...
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  2421.  @sudokode  Your cease and desist letter is not filed properly, and is henceforth being ignored. Have a nice day!
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  2422.  @pawpatrolnews  You can paint with a comb if what you are painting is a cluster of fibers tinner than the gaps int he teeth of the comb. Or, artistically, you can load the teeth of the comb with paint and flick, strum or tap the comb to deposit paint in various ways.
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  2423. Imagine being so okay with that occurring that, as a member of the community sitting in attendance you say nothing as the one brave person in the room is led away in handcuffs?
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  2424. Right? That document is so vile as to not need lies to make it reprehensible to rational people.
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  2425. "If it saves even one life" "Think of the children" "In this day and age" ... Yawn.
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  2426. I'm in my 50's and I'm not all that sure about last month.
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  2427. I occasionally listen to Rogan's comedy, but I have no interest in his podcast or his personal views.
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  2428. How can they do that in Texas? The last word of my previous sentence ought to be a clue. Y'all (and/or your fellow Longhorns) voted the way y'all did, and this is what resulted. Sorry you got stuck by the decisions of bleepy laws.
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  2429. the disco ball loop pun was 10/10
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  2430. In cases like this, blame the lawyers.
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  2431. Something I've noticed as I have been binging the channel is that a LOT of abandoned homes have utility wires drooping dangerously low, in this case touching the ground. Is that really common in the area? Does it happen with inhabited homes as well? Is it the homeowner's responsibility to erect poles to keep it high, or there some structural fault or disconnect at the utility pole?
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  2432. No, those oceans don't make you look fat.
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  2433. And Hertz does this with frequency. (Get it?)
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  2434. Typically, engine electronics are designed with intermittent water exposure in mind, given puddle splashes, rain, and high humidity encountered in normal operation.
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  2435. East, west... true, false... What's the difference anyway? It all gets clicks, baybay!!!
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  2436.  @stansman5461  Pascal's Wager ought to be renamed "Chicken-shit's wager" because the whole idea of flipping on your convictions just because maybe, someday, you might have to face the consequences of your choices is a chicken-shit coward move. If your convictions are that weak on religion, be honest with yourself and declare as agnostic.
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  2437.  @edennis8578  If only there was a concept like an insurance policy a person could get that would pay in the event that errors in their work practices were the cause of loss, pain, and/or death of the people upon which they did their actions. Sounds like something doctors would have too... *My snide tone is not aimed at you, dear netizen, but at the situation.
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  2438. You know, you can get a mugshot for free. All you have to do is commit a crime and turn yourself in for it.
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  2439. "Your honor, I cannot tell a lie. I PUT that envelope with my name on it under that half a ton of garbage."
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  2440.  @kumakell  It is still an unacceptable business model for SAFETY equipment.
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  2441. I joined the National Guard to be able to afford college. Otherwise my future was retail and food service until I died.
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  2442. "AA is for quitters!" - Bubba J
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  2443. "Good job non-lawyer, you seem to have self-educated. DON'T YOU DARE HELP ANYONE ELSE WITH YOUR HARD-GAINED KNOWLEDGE!!!" - Yeah, it's a special club, and we aren't allowed past the delivery door around back.
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  2444. At some time in the distant past, someone who looked a LOT like me came into possession of a stop sign, a 35MPH sign, a five-sided yellow pedestrian crossing sign, and a smaller white rectangular No Parking sign. The evidence of that person's possession has long since been disposed of, and I have no recollection of any of those events I have described above.
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  2445. Business LOVE the "up to" and "starting at" phrases. It lets them SEEM great, without committing to even half-great. Up to $15.00/hr. Up to 100MB/s. Cars starting at $15,999. In order: They'll actually offer you $10.25, you'll get 5-13MB/s, and the car that is $15,999 was the ONE car damaged in shipping and you still don't get an AM/FM radio.
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  2446.  @rebeccamartin2399  When I was young, my dad had alternate weekend visitation with me and my brother and I didn't want to go. When I reached the age of 12, I learned that I'd have to wait another two years or more to be able to decide for myself that I no longer wanted to go. So I started "disappearing" on my bicycle as pickup time approached, and apparently a few months later my parents got the visitation judgement changed, as I was no longer even asked to be around for pickup.
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  2447. When things are looking grim, look for the self-destruct button on the -inator!
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  2448. It would have been a lot safer than standing in front of the discharge slot of your riding mower... in shorts.
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  2449. This is the case with a LOT of military hardware. The more complex the system, the more likely it is to require sending it back to the manufacturer to have it serviced. Earlier today I saw a post by someone who, while stationed in Ohio (IIRC) used to use a system that had a component that was an atomic clock. And when that atomic clock component needed service, it had to be shipped via special carriers and procedures to the manufacturer in California, who would then send it to a place to have it repaired, then the same relay of shipping would happen. The kicker was that the place actually doing the service was about ten miles from the place this person used the device.
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  2450.  @CaptainJellyBS  The one I live by is "Believe half of what you see, none of what you hear." which is pretty much a version of "trust but verify".
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  2451.  @solandri69  Two thousand miles towing a boat? ugh, I do not envy that. - The train vs truck debate has a lot of factors, and trains can't really do the 'last leg' delivery in an economical manner. Sure, there are a lot of long-haul routes that could benefit from rail being part of the trip, but if that long-haul trip has multiple stops for partial loading and unloading, then the train would not be the right tool.
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  2452. To professional victim #1: The fact that you "ain't in the road" has nothing to do with why you were cuffed. To professional victim #2: "The phrase should be "Why ARE you detaining me?" not "Why IS you detaining me?" - And you were resisting.
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  2453. And a brand of brake pads named after him! (I'm kidding, Raybestos started in 1902)
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  2454.  @jadeo2228  I paint my self-built terrain with brush only using acrylics. I pour out a little paint into a mixing tray, add a few drops of water, stir, and paint. The thinning helps flow and I don't get brush strokes. - Well, sometimes I WANT brush strokes to simulate rough woven fabric or wood grain on a smooth surface that I didn't texture for some reason. Then I apply the pain unthinned in one pass and let it dry.
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  2455.  @SayAhh  This label shown to cause anxiety in the State of California.
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  2456. I love telling those callers to please send those cops, I've been a very bad boy.
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  2457.  @boomergames8094  And it is not all that hard to have "keystroke" price ($5? $1?) and a "Send out a crew with a bucket truck and a spool of power cabling" price.
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  2458.  @Bobs-Wrigles5555  Way back in the 1990's I was chatting with a town's code enforcement manager who told me that the town select board wanted him to rent a helicopter to fly over neighborhoods to try and find cars "hidden from plain view" in back yards and behind fences so that "the junk could be cleaned up to make the town nicer". He showed them the town bylaws about abandoned cars, the state laws about abandoned cars, and told them to stuff it. The Town could only fine for unlicensed cars in plain view from ground level while on public right-of-way (road and sidewalk). The state backed up that limitation.
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  2459. I remember that I didn't know the definition of the word "banal". I had literally never heard or read the word, and it was the only thing I had to guess one. Yeah, I got somethings wrong, I'm not perfect. But I was completely stumped at the meaning of that word.
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  2460.  @BikingWIthPanda  "Just move to Central America"
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  2461. I took Russian 1 twice in college, and retain enough to share my name, tell the difference between a chair and a table, and with a particular phrase, to start a rousing brawl. I still hold enough Spanish to read and figure out most words, but I cannot keep up with speaking pace. I also know a few "start a brawl" phrases in Spanish. As for Finnish? I know one "start a brawl" phrase. - I may suck at learning languages, but I am good at starting brawls...
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  2462. Earthworm?
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  2463. The king does not need or want magistrates nor counts and barons (congress) with power over him.
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  2464.  @BrazenBard  Schrödinger's green?
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  2465.  @melkiorwiseman  Hey, thanks for the information! I learned something today, and that makes it a good day.
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  2466.  @TSPLY  THE torso manikin took the blast, and there was no penetration if the inside later of fabric. There was no science about how much blast energy made it to the body of the manikin, and how much deformation into the chest there was from the blast. Was it like a flat push, or a small area punch pushing the sternum against the spine?
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  2467. Whomever you delegate things to, you should still touch base and ensure you know where/how things are, and that they are going where/how you intend. It always goes back to the Russian (?) proverb quoted once by President Ronald Reagan which translated is, "Trust, but verify."
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  2468. Think of the children!
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  2469. As usual, your impressions are ON! - These unofficial militias are useful in that they let us know who the dangerous whackaloons are without having to do individual interviews. The downside is that they are armed with weapons, hate, and wrong information.
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  2470. They're also good for upgrading from a PT Cruiser.
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  2471. I saw a video from some guy who had not serviced his garage air compressor in years, and the tank exploded as he was working, smashing a wall and the ceiling as the tank peeled open to relieve itself of pressure. The break seemed to have started at the drain, where water had accumulated, rusting the wall of the tank. Long story short, drain your tank frequently, watch for excessive rust, and if possible keep your air tank away from your work station(s).
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  2472.  @t_c5266  You should hope (or pray, as you seem very "American Christian" with your comment) that you never end up in a situation where you need help from someone like this grandma to even marginally survive.
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  2473. I saw the local news segment on this earlier today. The motel was hit six times, each time requiring an expensive draining, cleaning and refilling, while taking away the use of the pool from guests who chose that motel, in part, for the access to the pool. They've spent thousands of dollars on remediation.
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  2474. And the double-secret probation!
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  2475. Pretty much all of the video and photographic "proof" of ET ships is either fabrication, reflections/glare/shadows, or bad focus.
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  2476.  @C-Rex1  I understood that reference, Precious.
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  2477. Darth Barbie has no sense of shame.
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  2478.  @jordanruark3993  Because unless you can afford a whole lot of lawyering on your side, the DA's home court advantage is difficult to overcome.
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  2479.  @robertlee9395  "We received a call", "We're doing an investigation", "You're impeding", "I felt my life was in danger", "I smell weed", "I smell alcohol", "In times like these", "With everything going on today", "There has been crime in the area", "You fit the description"...
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  2480. Way back when I worked in a convenience store, I had a manager who claimed worker's compensation for a back injury from moving crates of milk. He was caught golfing (and fairly well) by an insurance investigator.
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  2481. He probably interpreted that as, "Buy all the property on your block, so you'll be your own only neighbor."
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  2482. Also, "Apologies for the squeaking of my creeper" could mean something ENTIRELY different!
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  2483. "I can't quit you, Joe!"
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  2484. The severing of cooperation with the WHO boggles my mind. "This country found military tunnels and equipment in and under the hospital after we spent years claiming no such thing existed. They took someone into custody over it, so we are going to stop letting OTHER countries help us take care of our people!" - Like, what?
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  2485. Congrats to Maria for not having to wear the "resting constipation face" Laura inherited with the departure of Tucker.
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  2486. Textbook pricing is a particular nest of slimy vipers indeed!
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  2487. When I worked as an RMA tech for an electronics company, we went through a lot of cand of spray duster, and never for dusting. Turn the can upside down and you get the liquid to spray out. The liquid rapidly evaporates, making the target IC cold, and may help detect thermal faults.
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  2488. He is just tall enough for his feet to reach the ground with his legs straight.
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  2489. Hitchhiking?
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  2490. I wonder how many innocent people are in prison because of public defenders who are overworked, underqualified, lazy, apathetic, colluding with the prosecution/cops/court, or some combination of those factors.
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  2491. An elementary school with $5.1 billion would have a computer for every student, free school lunch, be in GREAT repair of all facilities, and still have enough left over for a military helicopter or four.
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  2492.  @maxwellmark  I would rather have fun with LegoS than be a purist about the terms.
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  2493.  @MelissiaBlackheart  Well, there is a free speech platform. Some people call it a public sidewalk or right-of-way. But an online public free speech platform? None found.
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  2494. "Ivan, I know you don't get outside much since you came back from the special military operation, so for your birthday, I got you a camera-equipped drone you can fly out of your window.... Ivan, why are you under the couch?"
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  2495. I just had a horrible vision of park entry tickets being sold by Ticketmaster with outrageous "convenience fees".
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  2496. With no penalty it's not really a law.
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  2497. Give every Republican only one chance to work FOR the people instead of for themselves and for Orange Donnie. If they turn away from that chance, they lose their seat on the lifeboat. Then set course against the storm, and ignore those who chose to be left behind.
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  2498.  @themecoptera9258  That's very similar to advice I heard about cheating spouses. "The best revenge you can get on someone who steals your wife/husband is to let them have her/him."
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  2499. Did you end up with enough free days for a long vacation rental?
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  2500. And he survived his math and planning errors (he plotted a far too small size of the Earth) by accidentally finding the Americas before the fleet's supplies ran out.
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  2501. If their employee posts were ACTUALLY just opinions, then those employees would be able to post, with company accounts and on company time, anything they wanted (within the law). Political positions, diet tips, product reviews on other brands, the weather they're experiencing and whose fault the rain/sun is, flat-Earth conspiracies... - And they certainly would not be limited to using copy-paste scripts written by the company's lawyers.
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  2502. Thanks for sharing that tip. If only there was a "tip" to get rid of bittersweet root. We would pull all of it we found every year, and find more the next year. And that stuff started in a yard five houses down the block about 7-10 years before we saw it.
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  2503. I had an '88 Bronco where the rear differential ate itself. I got a junkyard rear axle from an F250 for a few hundred dollars and replaced with help from my uncle. The rear end has probably outlived the rest of the vehicle. I am guessing, because I sold it when the master cylinder AND steering system were failing and I had the combination of not enough time to fix it, and enough money to replace it. - edit: I forgot my point! My point was, a junkyard rear axle for an older vehicle can be a money-saving idea that works out well.
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  2504. Methinks there is some blight encroaching upon the Mayor's home...
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  2505. Escape from New York was once a fun action-adventure movie. Now it's a life lesson, just like back in the 1970's and 80's.
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  2506. Prior to joining this channel, everything I knew about PT boats came from a delightful show starring Ernest Borgnine.
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  2507.  @Real28  I was always amazed that those types of light strings didn't short out from either melted snow and ice or when there was winter rain. We stopped using those on our tree the first year we found the mini lights, which was probably smart, as we were still using a real tree back then, and by New Years' Day it was brittle and dropping needles like rain.
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  2508. I already knew what left-handed drill bits were, but I was splitting my attention when I first read your comment, and thought, "What difference does it make what had I hold the drill in?" Yeah, I need to wake up.
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  2509.  @userac-xpg  One place I lived, the trash hauler would take the extra trash on the sidewalk, and just send a bill for the excess.
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  2510.  @westbayoutdoors123  Funny enough, there are other avenues to prevent what you decry. Local ordinances, fire and health department regulations, and - get this - actually talking to your neighbors.
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  2511. I've only had that encounter as a kid in the grocery store. That moment of terror when you realize that for the last two aisles you've been following someone else's mother, and you only noticed because YOUR mother never bought that particular type of cereal. Then you run around the store looking for your own mother, heart racing...
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  2512. Those vehicles with the parking brake actuated by a lever in the center console area can be useful as an "emergency" brake for those of us who live in parts of the world where it snows and gets icy. I used mine once coming down a steep hill to make the rear wheels drag while the fronts were free to roll and provide steering. One of the hairiest 1/4 to 1/2 mile drives I've ever done, but I stayed fully on the road and out of the gutters, and stopped at the intersection to avoid being t-boned by the city bus that had the right-of-way.
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  2513. It's only BAY-ner because everyone with a last name spelled like that is sick of being called BOH-ner by 4th grade.
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  2514. One residence ago, the CSR who I spoke with to set up internet/cable told me that I could rent a modem for $5 a month or just buy it for $25 and it came with a two year replacement warranty. Easiest decision ever.
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  2515.  @sinphus  It was bad enough that some German officers in 1945, who had the freedom of travel or the wherewithal to go AWOL successfully, would leave the Eastern front to try to get captured or surrender to the British or Americans.
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  2516.  @peted5217  I recall a Mythbusters episode where they compared the driving impairment of being legally drunk versus having your attention on a cell phone in your hand. If I recall correctly, the results were not that drastically different.
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  2517.  @zeke1220  Never heard of immigration?
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  2518. Here's your participation trophy. Don't spend that unearned self-esteem all at one place, k?
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  2519. My circle of friends is small enough that a call from one is usually a treat. I do have one friend with the supernatural talent of calling when I most need to go to the bathroom...
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  2520. We ought to tell these Republicans that ensuring subsidized (or free!) contraception and abortions to non-white Americans will help delay the "White Replacement" that they seem so damned afraid of.
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  2521. They weren't there randomly, and they weren't there to help you. Someone called them and they were there to squeeze money out of you when you "crossed the line".
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  2522.  @mystery8207  Then you have not had my mother's baked scallops. More lethal than shotgun slugs...
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  2523. Yeah. I'd rather have the ticket than someone getting their cult nonsense all over me. Sometimes my atheism gets a little militant...
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  2524.  @cmh0223  You wrap it in 50 meters of pallet wrap, secure it in the carcass of a Tauntaun (to keep it warm) and hitch a ride with a new helicopter.
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  2525. I was today years old when I found out that the Russians use a Cyrillic-labeled QWERTY keyboard. (1:05) Interesting!
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  2526. Well yeah, now that the issue is out in daylight after news organizations got involved. It is a shame that so often that is the difference.
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  2527. Also, you can install them from one end by pushing them into the spring-loaded end at a distance, and then guiding the close end into the rigid plug.
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  2528. Your foil helmet may be too tight there.
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  2529. I don't know why you're complaining. The work order has been publicly available in the third sub-basement of the municipal planning board offices on Alpha Centauri. This bypass is going in, and your planet needs to go.
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  2530. Home Depot will have to transition to a speakeasy business model. [knock-knock] "What's the password" - "DeWalt." [door unlocks]
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  2531. Luigi AND the Cybertruck veteran. And the dead rifleman on the roof, and the guy who was in a hide on the golf course. But Trump is calling Biden's preservation of some ocean from oil drilling one of the worst things ever done by a President...
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  2532. I just figured out how to solve this rising sea level thing! Put the extra water in rockets and fire it at Mars!
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  2533. In the house I grew up in, we deliberately never let a licensed electrician inside. post and wrap spliced to two- and three-conductor Romex, grounded sockets that weren't, grounded sockets in the kitchen that were grounded to the pipes feeding the sink... next to one of the "grounded" sockets, about half the wall sockets were old non-polarized types, some push-button light switches, and a screw-in fuse panel that may have been installed before WW2.
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  2534.  @falxonPSN  I have sensors that indicate when to turn on the wipers. Some folks call them "eyeballs".
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  2535.  @AricBolf  Did you SEE the door handle and the way the power locks bounced? Fix something themselves? Nah.
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  2536.  @thebigmacd  And pay a bank interest? Filing a lien is cheaper.
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  2537. Empanel a grand jury to investigate someone's exercise of their First Amendment rights? Talk about waste and fraud! Fire that dude.
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  2538. This is definitely one of those, "The enemy of my enemy is just the enemy of my enemy" situations.
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  2539. Driving while black? Roadside execution! Treason? Meh.
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  2540.  @elzar760  Your "just find another job" only works when there are jobs who are held to the legal requirement to accommodate your religious practices. It's like people who said, "If you don't like Apple gluing batteries into the phone, just buy a Samsung! And then a couple of years later, Samsung did the same thing.
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  2541.  @targetseeker  When people glorify the past, they forget the misery and discomfort of the past. Death from a simple infected cut, dentistry with only alcohol as your pain reliever, dysentery from bad water, being killed for the few things you own...
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  2542. EXACTLY! "Please hand over X, Y, Z." "Please open the door so I and my fellow armed friends can talk to you." "Please hold your 'God Bless the Homeless Veterans' sign on the sidewalk across the street and not the one in front of city hall."
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  2543. Dear cops: GET. A. WARRANT.
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  2544.  @Mfhollander2  Beats me. I was not invited to the international poker game where everyone cheats.
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  2545. It's just like drugs. If the people weren't buying, the product would not be coming into the country. The companies/farms/etc. look for ways to cut costs, and payroll is a large part of the costs of running a business.
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  2546.  @BigBoss-sm9xj  Maybe Isaiah's wife should teach you English?
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  2547. Nye panyemayu pa-angliski (rough phonetic spelling for the Russian meaning, "I don't understand English")
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  2548. I am an atheist and I too can appreciate the art and beauty of cathedrals and churches. Seeing Notre Dame burning hurt the amateur historian in me. Knowing that this much love and effort (and money! OY! The money.) is going into reconstruction warms that same spot.
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  2549.  @MacUser2-il2cx  That dish is in the custody of the crime lab of the gazpacho police.
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  2550.  @topixfromthetropix1674  The cruises which originate in Florida do so because Florida was made attractive to the industry with all sorts of advantages, perhaps taxes, Florida footing all or some of the bill to build and maintain the ports, favorable docking fees, and the proximity of an airport to get passengers to the dock. - As bad as it would be on a human suffering basis, it may be beneficial for Florida's ruling to tragically backfire and get a lot of people sick or dead. Maybe that would start to wake voters up about the idiocy of their current crop of elected officials, and the parties would have to find new graft-takers for the jobs.
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  2551.  @CaptainJG95  Back in my day we didn't need bulletproof bags or schools because a kid who was angry at a bully would just gather other victims of the bully for a well-targeted group beatdown. Without any weapons. - Me, I dealt with my bullies by laughing at them WHILE they were hitting me. Crazy is armor against these people. - edit: I wonder how many 2-3" thick textbooks it would take to equal the ballistic protection of these armor plates?
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  2552.  @some1private  They are overnighting the parts that have already been removed from the problem assembly to a state with completely different environmental conditions, to see if they can duplicate the failure condition. What if the part was altered in the removal? What if the problem was the combination of the problem part with the other parts to which it was connected? What if the problem was a single-time assembly failure? What if the part sent for evaluation was not the root cause, but only a symptom? What if the testing facility cannot duplicate the failure mode and/or conditions? - Did Tesla even test their cars under extreme environmental conditions before selling them in places where those conditions occur?
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  2553. Everyone knows it is a large mass of coal and will run out in a few thousand years. Well, a lot of people prior to 1863 anyway.
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  2554. I remember when I was "upgraded" from cashier to associate. Even then I knew it was a zero-dollar short-stroke meant to make us feel better about getting squat for raises.
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  2555. It is a beautiful knuckle-breaker, isn't it?
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  2556.  @ChaosLord5129 More than a decade after the attack, while incarcerated for attacking five other women in 1989, serial rapist Matias Reyes confessed to the Meili assault and claimed he was the only actor; DNA evidence confirmed his involvement. The convictions against McCray, Richardson, Salaam, Santana, and Wise were vacated in 2002; Lopez's convictions were vacated in July 2022. So, they were convicted on bad/no evidence and "confessions" extracted after 7+ hours of interrogation and manipulation. Trained military members can break under that kind of pressure, so how well do you expect 14–16-year-olds to do?
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  2557. It's getting to the point that meeting some state governors will require you drop to a knee, lower your eyes, and greet them as "Your Majesty."
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  2558. Robin Williams: I was interviewed in Germany and the woman asked me why Germans don’t have a sense of humor: “It could be because you murdered all the funny people.”
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  2559. If my US education was better, I would never have told a single Polish navy joke. I would have told jokes about this Russian navy.
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  2560. Heck, even news organiztions are engaging in clickbait. The person who writes the article, may have a well researched and neutral assessment of facts. Then someone else comes along and slaps an eye-catching headline on the story to "pull in the views" while that headline often misrepresents what the article is about. - Then follow-on lazy news sites will just disseminate the intent of the headline without including the actual facts. And like a bad game of telephone, it gets muddier with each step. And then we get stories like, "Veterans kicked out of hotel to make room for the homeless!" which was all a lie, and even the first reporter(s) did ZERO research to see if it was true.
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  2561.  @Intellistation6225  I just generally dislike touchpads, and carry a portable mouse with my laptop. I am so old-school. Or maybe just old?
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  2562.  @JMNTN  My brother has very conductive skin (1.5 volt circuit, one LED bulb: he held a wire in each DRY hand and the LED lit). When he is hovering about 1/4-1/2 inch over the screen, the pointer dances all over the screen and random things get clicked. He uses a stylus on a touchscreen whenever possible, if he has to use a touchscreen.
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  2563. Even back when I was in my teens and hormonally driven to be stupid, I knew that cops could lie to you. I also knew that you never volunteered information or tried to be clever in how you answered. And I was a kid back in the days of Adam-12 and Beretta, way before Law and Order.
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  2564. I neither think less of Hank, nor think of Hank less.
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  2565. That's America in a nutshell.
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  2566. Truth! Even with my compact car, parked on level ground with the transmission in park and the parking brake on, I will chock the wheels. - I'm also the person who will, when working on home wiring (such as replacing a plug) turn off the breaker and THEN check the wires with a multi-meter before sticking my hand-sausages in the zap zone.
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  2567. To be fair, "It wasn't me" is probably as old as language
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  2568. So many dogs are abandoned. Maybe people should be heavily discouraged from their first dog being a puppy. "Oh, a puppy, it's so cute I WUV you!" . "Dang it, this dog got big and now I it eats more than the family, and I have to walk and brush it daily. Ugh, Why did I ever get a dog?"
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  2569. I wonder if this dog has a home for imaginary SQUIRRELS!
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  2570. Not to be conflated with a butt ton, or a metric butt ton. Both of which are either larger or smaller than sh__load.
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  2571. What kind of BS is Deere feeding farmers? A subscription does not impact the clarity of a GPS satellite signal!
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  2572. "It could look like a weapon." Step away from the donuts, officer Lardass and step a bit closer to the laws you are supposed to enforce. - And the first officer continually asking "Do you want me to put you in handcuffs?" - Is that her kink? - Cops seem to think that because they had to climb out of their climate controlled, computer-filled safe space on wheels, that justifies their demands for ID. F them.
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  2573. I had to re-home a cat once. When I lived alone, he was fine with the other cat I had, but when I moved in with other people who had two smaller cats, he turned into a near-feral attack monster. He was even attacking humans. Luckily, one of the people I moved in with knew someone who was good at rehabbing "bad" cats, and had only larger calm cats already. We heard that after two encounters with the boss of that person's cats, my former bad boy went back to well-behaved.
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  2574. Would you say that the Magicube greatly increased camera use by people? Or say, caused EXPLOSIVE growth?
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  2575. I tried rewinding my mp3's with a bic pen, and something bad happened inside the computer...
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  2576. That backlog on the "one good shop" is like how I was taught to pick (sit-down) restaurants in an unfamiliar town. The truckdriver I was talking to said, "Always go to the place with the crowded parking lot. The place with an empty lot is empty for a reason."
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  2577.  @LuxiBelle  Have you seen the story about Teslas being seized by police as "electronic witness devices" on the basis that the car MIGHT have seen something?
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  2578. It is already apparently a "farm truck", which means it is not a daily driver. A farm truck or yard truck is something that works just good enough to get work done even if it doesn't meet road safety requirements.
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  2579. My first reaction on seeing that first image was, "What is up with the white string? Did they actually tie the power wire to the windings?"
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  2580.  @lisagrafton2529  More of the "rules for thee, but not for me" philosophy.
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  2581.  @kingarthur83rd  Please remember that the US is a chaotic, poorly corralled and barely united collection of fifty states. Heck, two of them even refuse to be geographically connected! (that was a joke there) Most states have some sort of minimum safety and emissions standards to be able to legally put and keep a car on the road. Some states are more stringent than others. That unopenable driver's door would be a fail in my state, as would the failed windshield washer pump. Cars also get a "are there loose or broken front suspension parts" check as part of the inspection in my state. Plus things like worn wipers, not enough tire tread, missing or broken seatbelts, broken or missing windows, and holes in body panels. - Florida is kind of a dump as far as car safety and protection goes. They don't even have a lemon law for used cars, which leads to a lot of "fun" in some of Ray's videos.
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  2582.  @johnhouchins3156  Up here where it snows in the winter, jack0-o-lanterns are often tossed out back for the animals... ON PURPOSE! Oh, and Christmas lights? People try to put them up before the first snow, turn them on after Thanksgiving, and turn them off after New Year's Day, then take them down after the snow is gone in the spring. But then again, I am speaking of SANE neighborhoods, not HOA dictatorships.
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  2583. Agreed.
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  2584. I have actually never taken note of the chair before. I knew he was sitting, and that was the end of my attention on the matter.
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  2585.  @gregsmith5695  Interesting video about the unreal expectations for the elimination of ICE on Wendover Productions. Current mining capacity for the rare metals in lithium batteries cannot meet the needs for JUST vehicles in the countries that have already passed ICE elimination deadlines. This does not even account for voluntary purchases in other countries, the use of lithium batteries in other electronic devices, or the additional load on the process should other countries pass similar laws. And mining lithium and cobalt are very toxic to the environment. Cobalt mining in particular is toxic to the miners, many of whom are mining without corporation equipment and structure, safety measures and equipment, and health monitoring.
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  2586. And that sweet, sweet high from getting yet another ID and running it in the database. To hell with how it may impact that person's livelihood.
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  2587. Heck, I went to Harvard (once, on the way to a pizza place in greater Boston).
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  2588. I don't go to Panera. I'm not a fan of the food. It has happened at other restaurants that I get strange looks when I ask for "unsweetened black iced tea". I've even had one waitress ask if I wanted sweet tea instead. Nope. 'sweet tea' tastes, to me, like someone figured out the minimum amount of water needed to dissolve half a cup of sugar. Blech.
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  2589. Too bad he cares a lot less for ethics rules with actual penalties for those on the Supreme Court.
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  2590. Don't forget the holy of holies: "Officer Safety"
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  2591. Now I can't NOT think of chronic health problems as a permanent curse I have to roll saves against daily.
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  2592. Not YOUR back door. But the HOA president's back door, when they are not home? Who knows...
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  2593.  @ewkabel  Well, since in Civil Forfeiture, the asset is the "guilty" party, they should be required to provide legal representation to the asset. - I can imagine the courtroom. "I am the lawyer on behalf of the 2018 Dodge Charger your honor, and my associate is here representing the Polaris sport watercraft." * How do the inanimate object plead? "Both inanimate objects enter a default plea of not guilt, your honor."
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  2594.  @throughmylens5127  Pepperidge Farms remembers too. I got a battery replacement at a WalMart once. I really needed a battery, and it was early Saturday afternoon. The tech told me he was not allowed to replace it in the bay because they did not have the device that kept voltage going to the ECM with the battery removed (a weird requirement for a few models of car at the time?) so he had to do the replacement in the parking lot on a "coffee break". I tipped him $20.
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  2595. You could also add a minute and a half to the recommended time for a Hot Pocket.
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  2596. Maybe they didn't like one of the documentaries you directed?
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  2597. People's Liberation Army. From whom or what are they liberating themselves from, and why haven't they finished by now?
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  2598. I once (Back int he 1980's) knew a couple who were struggling financially after the birth of their first kid, the bills for that, one losing a job, and having to move all in the same summer. Their car had also recently died. I bought a Ford Escort wagon from my boss for around $100 (She said it was twice what the dealer was willing to give her for it as a trade-in). Over a week and a half, I replaced pads and rotors, bled the brakes, did an oil and filter change, put on WalMart tires, washed, waxed and vacuumed it out, and gave it to my friends. The engine died about 2-1/2 years later, but it got them through a tough episode and only cost me around $400 or so to do.
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  2599. Allow? They are TRAINED to lie.
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  2600. Requiring a criminal conviction would make the seizure a criminal asset forfeiture. And that ability to seize property already exists.
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  2601. Giggity.
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  2602. Ah, condos. When you want to live in an apartment, but not really, while also owning your home, but not really.
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  2603.  @Pelvacus  If you want to have a good "Christian" friend, find a Wiccan.
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  2604. The presenters are not simply reading copy, they're editorializing it with the way they stress certain words. "You can repair your things, but is it a good idea?" (with flat inflection) versus "You can repair your things, but is it a good idea???" (with elevated inflection)
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  2605. I have a 2011 Ford Focus, and a body shop asked me why I was bothering to get the rusting rocker panels replaced instead of getting a new car. I tried explaining the whole surveillance economy thing, and his eyes started glazing over. But when I mentioned that there were currently no other mechanical issues, not even suspension parts, he woke up and nodded. - It's hard sometimes to drag people to the information.
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  2606. It looks really helpful to have the dealership's diag steps so clearly written out. A lot better than, "They told me they replaced some intake-side parts."
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  2607.  @nickmalone3143  What an ignorant, and factually incorrect comment. Inflation is the result of numerous influences, from weather, to war, to greed, to monetary policy, to laws, to international trade policies, all the way down to road and rail conditions and the wages and motivations of rank-and-file workers in the supply chain. A single US President has more influence than you or I, but nowhere near the influence of a brush fire, irregular rainfall, or a transport strike.
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  2608. Thrown objects travel on ballistic arcs. So they still fit the channel name!
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  2609. "Hello? 999? Yes, I've just woken up in a concrete tunnel next to a very gradually curving pipe, and I also just realized I have no phone signal."
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  2610. That's how I amassed a fleet of lethal combat spaceships!
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  2611. I keep having an urge to get a magnet and move some of the hair from Simon's chin to his head. If you get the reference, you're probably old, too.
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  2612. You committed the grave sin of expecting the police to know and obey the law themselves.
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  2613. I once thought the car I was driving had a sudden engine noise. It was the first time I had driven on a concrete highway in upstate New York, and it was just road noise. I say this to wonder how many "My car is making noise all of a sudden!" are from road and/or tire conditions.
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  2614.  @MaxMustermann-nd4uy  Imagining it... Still not seeing the problem.
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  2615. I am laughing because the "easy button" way business and journalism have been using Twitter posts as 'the story' without doing any work at all is finally biting them all in the ass with bear teeth.
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  2616.  @MarkWiemer  Gun control is being a responsible and educated gun owner. I am pro- (responsible) gun ownership.
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  2617.  @eye5448  Oh no! The Eye has used EIGHT "O"s in the capitalized SOOOOOOOO! Logic and reason can no longer win against capitalized words of such power!!!!11one!! - Yeah, as if.
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  2618. Sorry, Ford dealership. The middle console screen in my new Ford was so interesting, I forgot to watch the road and crashed through your showroom, taking out a Mustang and an F250 with all the features, plus three windows, four desks, two salespeople, and five customers. I'm so glad this happened on the test drive before I signed anything!
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  2619. @CalvinV7 And their response to the Russians littering orbit with debris after sending a missile to blow up a satellite was... Thunderously silent.
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  2620.  @RinoaL  Indeed. The salesperson's time is money, and if they're going to yank you about, they have earned the same in return. - I miss the Saturn sales methodology. The price on the window sticker was the price you paid. No haggling (officially) other than how much they wanted to give you for a trade-in.
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  2621. It was so tone deaf to have a wealthy white woman talk about "Just move somewhere else" when most people cannot just pick and move, and many cannot even afford to go elsewhere for the medical services, particularly if insurance does not cover it.
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  2622. And yet, if you ask them about what the Constitution says? Blank looks and static.
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  2623. And the rotting pigs in the car! (retch!)
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  2624. Earlier today, the mechanic I watched did something similar. "I want to see how this actuator is broken inside but it's plastic welded so I can't open it up." Then he jump-cut to him using an angle grinder to cut it open.
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  2625.  @chuckybang  It is not grammatically correct, and that may be the point. To make them stop, think, and try to dissect the meaning, derailing the cop's original intent.
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  2626. I live in a state where most towns are "right to farm", and you can raise crops and/or livestock in your yard. There might be limits on number of animals per area? Noise and chemical overspray laws will still apply.
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  2627. Every time I see a picture of one of these inter-war small ships painted white, I think of the movie, 'The Sand Pebbles". Yeah, that was a gunboat and this one is some kind of... destroyer(?) but the memory still comes up.
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  2628. When doing a training or refit montage, music choice is key.
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  2629.  @nyssiaeiko3476  I was going to comment this as well. If you "let it lie" it may become de-facto theirs.
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  2630. Yeah, that school board is SO being an abusive domestic partner.
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  2631. Well, I can think of two National Guard members who WON'T take Trump to jail. - Staff Sgts. Daniel Abbott and Alexandra Griffeth, leaders of an anti-government militia in Campbell County, VA with the blessing of the county's board of supervisors to serve "as a barrier against a tyrannical government."
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  2632. Successful convictions are the currency for re-election for DA's and judges.
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  2633. Knock, knock - Who's there? Colonizer. - Colonizer who? I'm kidding. Colonizers never knock! - - - Randy Feltface
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  2634. Is this Officer Brown, badge # Officer Brown? I wonder if he's related to any of the cops whose name is "Right Here" (pointing at name badge).
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  2635. It's like Emperor Palpatine watching what you're doing and chuckling, saying, "Good. Good. Something, something dark side. Something, something complete."
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  2636.  @jockeyjeon9532  Now I have this image of NYC still being in pay-to-play Beta testing.
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  2637. Dating culture is a minefield, and women have the minefield map. Why are MEN expected to buy women? Sorry, pay for the privilege of their presence. Wait, I meant rent the woman. Dangit, I meant, hand over an offering of cash and obeisance for the blessing of their holy glance...
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  2638.  @naamadossantossilva4736  There is a marginal increase in cost per can to do the Spam method. I don't know if cost, or unavailability of the machining to make such cans, or just plain institutional inertia is the cause here.
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  2639. Not only that, but every time I've returned something, the receipt was marked to clearly indicate which items were processed as a return.
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  2640. Another movie that uses that technique well is "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly". I cannot find the information now, but I think it was somewhere around 20 minutes (???) before the first line of dialogue.
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  2641. Hey! I am old enough to have watched the Bozo the Clown show. Please don't besmirch a classic clown by lumping this aszhat of a politician in with him.
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  2642. I grew up in an era of broadcast-only TV. Ads are for going to the bathroom or getting a snack.
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  2643. And if you take a walk I'll tax your feet.
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  2644. Oh, your cat knew how to turn off the water, but it was more making YOU do it.
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  2645. Amazon is being more emotionally fragile than a cop. That's an achievement!
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  2646. Yeah, "Can't be taken through a car wash except VERY specific ones" is a dumb way to make a car. What about rain, road salt and sand, blown leaves and dirt, spray from the tires of other drivers... You know, normal stuff that happens to every car?
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  2647. Unless you needed it for business purposes, you should have THANKED them for banning you.
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  2648.  @martinhorvath4117  As a human (presumably), you ought to.
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  2649. Airlines? OH! Those credit card companies that also operate passenger planes on the side!
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  2650.  @themanhimself3  Aw, have I upset you, cupcake?
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  2651. I had a friend who got a DUI for sitting drunk in his passenger seat in his car, with the key in accessory position so he could listen to the radio. The car had one wheel taken apart (he was mid-job on a suspension fix I think) and sat on a jack stand in the parking lot of the apartment complex he lived in. - He was convicted, because he was drunk and in control of a vehicle that had the key in the ignition.
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  2652. Save money and get an e-bike. The city would be a lot better off if they could ban private cars, leaving the roads for delivery trucks (including mail vehicles) and two-wheeled transport.
    6
  2653. That suspension has more play than Shakespeare!
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  2654.  @abitofabitofabit4404  Also, a lot of the bigger banks are stock-issuing companies, and the stock market ONLY rewards increasing profits.
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  2655.  @docsavage8640  That and the newer, "No violations of department procedures." - "What are your department's procedures?" "That's sensitive information we can't share."
    6
  2656. Particularly when you're one of those people who use your phone like a wallet. Oh, and this includes cops. Print out your danged proof of insurance!
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  2657.  @hashbrown4781  How much of that amount-to-be-refunded was spent on printing and mailing checks and publicizing the delivery of those checks?
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  2658.  @IntegerOfDoom  I am among those who prefer not to fill my kitchen with the products of combustion. And if you wish to counter with "vent hood" then I will counter-counter that a vent hood with sufficient airflow to completely remove all products of combustion will ALSO increase your home's climate control costs as your temperature-treated air is blown out of the house.
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  2659. So the fact that the defendant and the judge were pals was of no bearing in the matter? I am stunned at the corruption.
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  2660. Every car I've owned over the last 20 years, one of the first things I do is look up the oil type, amount and the filter number. Then I write those data on the engine cover with a yellow paint marker. This has helped me time and again, and one mechanic even thanked me for having the information so visible.
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  2661.  @svenjorgensenn8418  Clarence is making a LOT of bad decisions the last few years. Perhaps he should be "strongly advised" to retire. Then he and his insurrectionist wife can write books to make retirement bank.
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  2662. I have had doctors pause and refer to an online reference before continuing with a diagnosis or prescription decision. Imagine if law enforcement had even half of that much sensibility? Then again, doctors have to pay for their own insurance against their mistakes, while law enforcement has the taxpayers pick up the tab.
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  2663.  @RCAvhstape  Yeah, they only had ill-tempered sea bass.
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  2664. I recall an episode where Homer saved the reactor from a meltdown by pressing the "mo" button. As in "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"
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  2665. I like everything about those bulbs. The color, the thermal reduction, the lower power use, even the retro-style box art!
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  2666. Me too.
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  2667. When I worked on construction equipment, drift pins were quite often more useful than another person trying to help shove things in place.
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  2668. Ah the rotary phone. The device that makes you HATE calling friends with 9s and 0s in their number.
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  2669. Another great catalyst is baking soda. Crafters use it a lot to get bond and fill at once. and you can sand it within a minute or two.
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  2670.  @matthewmizrachi1877  I can bench EIGHT plates! I'd bench more if I had more than those eight dinner plates...
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  2671.  @JohnDoe-qz1ql  Well, the vehicle WAS on the lot at a buy here / pay here... So a few payments 'could' have covered the full real value.
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  2672. Only if you're rich, connected, or part of the cop/DA/judge club.
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  2673. "Timmy. stop throwing rocks at your grandmother." - "NO!" "Sorry, Nana, I tried. Maybe learn to duck?"
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  2674.  @gorak9000  "If it saves even one life!" "Think about the children!"
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  2675. We didn't see it, but I imagine Ray filled up the Blue Water (TM) for the wiper system.
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  2676. I think an updated Habakkuk would be cool. . pun intended
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  2677. There are flat-Earther's you could take to the moon, make stand outside of the lander for 24 hours to watch the earth rotate, and they'd STILL deny everything. "CGI! Mind control drugs! Simulation!"
    6
  2678.  @bonza167  You ever try to blow your nose with a glove?
    6
  2679. Not a bad fix for an easily-accessed part on an older car! - If it was a newer vehicle, or one with a lot of expected life left, or a part much harder to get to, replacing with new makes more sense. - But at least your suggestions gives more choices, and that can be good for the budget.
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  2680.  @douglasjenner5064  How? By a majority of the popular AND electoral vote. Weird you would even ask.
    6
  2681.  @goeatsanta5600  Ah yes, that's the solution. Watch the same show/movie twice.
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  2682. Isn't it great how we keep concentrating more and more of the functions of our economy in fewer and fewer corporations? (sarcasm)
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  2683.  @technoraver99  Wall of text attack dodged!
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  2684. This reminds me of the weekly police blotter of a five-town area that was published in a weekly local paper. Four towns had things like calls for bears or coyotes, noise complaints, and the very occasional more serious crime. One town had ONLY inconsequential calls, like stray dogs, trash cans blown in street, and maybe a noise complaint once a month. But they did NOT put real crimes on the blotter that I and people I trust witnessed first-hand, like drunk driving, robbery, drug dealing, and fights. And these crimes were called in but dispatched via cell phone so they never got on the official record. - And that one town had, of course the BEST property values, the BEST insurance rates, and the BEST regional and state reviews of "good community to live in". - Seems like this state is, to some degree, looking for this effect. Stop testing for the disease, and deaths from the disease disappear, right?
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  2685. The pickup tube O-ring was very much a sensuous job. As in 'Sensuous in there, might as well replace it."
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  2686. In this particular case, you can actually see and hear a cop saying what he was going to make up to be able to seize the guy's camera and phone.
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  2687. Should have been arrests. Oh, and a change of mechanic too!
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  2688. That is my biggest problem with all encounters with law enforcement and the courts. An arrest, even when charges are dropped, follows you and messes with getting/keeping jobs, loans, housing, security clearances, custodial rights, and colors all future encounters with police. When you have to defend yourself in court, it costs you money and time away from the rest of your life, win or lose. And you can never get reimbursed for the time and money you have to spend, even when you are obviously not guilty.
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  2689.  @casemodder89  You... do know that you can CLEAN surfaces before using them for food, right? RIGHT?
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  2690. Dave could do a great Owen Wilson impersonation. He's got that smooth voice with flow.
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  2691. I saw that story. It's not the state that made him do it, it's the city council who is acting like an HOA with overly tight underwear. I LOVE malicious compliance!
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  2692.  @_Circus_Clapped_  Or a company policy stating something like, "ensure you are at the correct address before performing lawn services"?
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  2693. Bold assumptions there. I would guess his name is "Shadow-Piercer", species: Lord of all within the home.
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  2694. I have no complaints about you secretly turning the car around, because NOBODY puts Ray-Ray in the corner!
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  2695.  @rossmanngroup  How long until the build a five-story wall around the place and cut all but one bridge to turn it into a prison?
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  2696.  @swgeek4310  JD also called Orange Donnie America's Adolf H. But that one correct assessment does not cover for any of his otherwise inhuman and reprehensible stances.
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  2697. The county's position ends yard /garage sales too. Homeowner: "Oh, that lamp? You can have it for $4." Code Enforcement: "Hands in the air! All of this trash belongs to the county!"
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  2698. I rolled a mage when I served (mortars = ranged Thunderwave). I had a Ranger/Assassin friend (sniper cert, ranger tab) and a Cleric (medic) friend while I was in. Another friend tried to qualify for cross-classing to Mesmer, but he didn't meet the education requirements for his level (er, rank) in PsyOps.
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  2699.  @knurlgnar24  Free rent and utilities take a lot of the expense out of life. Particularly for a single person. Then you only need a thousand or two a month for food, vehicle maintenance (if you have a vehicle), insurance and incidentals.
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  2700. Out of fuel/charge? Inoperable vehicle! Flat tire? Inoperable vehicle! Flat battery? Inoperable vehicle! Dead alternator? Leaking water pump? Broken timing belt? worn-out tires? - IMPOUND THEM ALL!!!!! - Yeah, or, and this may sound a bit crazy, OBEY THE FOURTH AMENDMENT TO THE US CONSTITUTION!
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  2701. The transmission looks like Bugs Bunny stuck a cork in the end before Elmer Fudd pulled the trigger.
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  2702.  @hightttech  Yeah, crystals can only be marginally diagnosed with a multi-meter. Sure, you'll find an open or short, but most other failure modes are opaque without an oscilloscope.
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  2703. Meanwhile, my phone and computer keep asking if I want to combine all of my devices and have them keep track of my passwords and banking information...
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  2704. Dang it, Ray! Every time I hear someone say "the door locks" I mentally play that clip from Jurassic Park. Add that to "gravity", "Silveryrado", and a few others. You're getting in my brain!!! (Don't worry, there's apparently plenty of room up there.)
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  2705. When seconds matter, the police are minutes away (at best). - edit: and while Louis may not feel afraid leaving his store at 1AM, he is also not a woman or old person.
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  2706. But Carvana only sells great cars, right? And there's NEVER a problem getting the title...
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  2707. We got up to throwing them overhand while the "catcher" would use a 2' x 3' x 3/4" plywood shield to block and catch them. Between that, jumping bicycles off a ramp and between trees in the forest, the backyard gunpowder bombs, and shooting arrows straight up to see who could land an arrow closest to where we were standing, I am stunned we all made it to adulthood without major injuries.
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  2708.  @ericv00  The point here is that cops and prosecutors will deliberately ignore exculpatory evidence, sometimes going out of their way to not even note it down, so that you, the defendant, have to spend even more money, time, and stress trying to find the evidence they ignored (or sometimes outright buried/deleted)
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  2709.  @billh.1940  Yes, you can buy from a car maker who is not trying to shaft you with subscriptions... for now. You used to be able to flee Apple's abusive phone practices by going to Samsung. Until Samsung saw how much Apple was making with their scummy practices, and wanted in on the money.
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  2710.  @TonyG_VT  If they don't take and sell the cars, how will they be able to afford a new police station and an armored assault vehicle for the SWAT team?
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  2711.  @jeschinstad  If men started being the ones who got pregnant, abortion would very quickly be safe, legal, subsidized, and required to be covered by insurance.
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  2712. I have never used food delivery that was not an employee of the restaurant. I'd rather drag my butt out in driving rain with a broken leg than supports those delivery scab companies. - I only once got caught by a second-party online ordering site for a local pizza place. The site LOOKED like it was genuine, but when the store's employee delivered the food, it was wrong. I called the place to ask why my online order was so messed up and found out they didn't HAVE an online ordering function.
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  2713. The phrase 'extra-sensory devices' brings to mind police using the services of "psychics".
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  2714.  @Jaina1971  But that depends on the people who run whatever Florida's version of judicial oversights to actually impose such penalties. I'd look up how it works there, but I really don't want to know even MORE depressing things about Florida.
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  2715. The same reason the counts in packages of hot dogs and hot dog rolls don't always match up.
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  2716. If Orange Donnie or his lawyers read this, then I can only say that "Donald J Trump is too cowardly, too unintelligent, and too impotent to take the stand!" . . . (Did it work?)
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  2717. The fact that you asked puts you miles above so many other 'shortcutters'. Were I grew up, we had a bunch of shortcutters use our yard to avoid going around the block. They would ride their bikes through flower beds and their path started wearing a trodden path through the lawn. We first told them that they were not allowed to use our yard, but that work about as well as telling rain not to fall. So we ended up going to the parents and telling them they could either BE parents, or pay for a fence for our yard to keep their kids from using ours to get home.
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  2718.  @jayjaynella4539  Or a bird living in another tree takes it for nest construction? Or the wind blows?
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  2719. So, this charger "debacle" is the floor mats of smart phones.
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  2720. And yet these cops wonder why people hate (and sometimes want to kill) them.
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  2721. I imagines Alanis Morrissette.
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  2722.  @desmondrice1756  Given that one of the AC service ports is hanging out under the heater hoses and near "lose a hand" land, and the book on this job is seven hours... This was designed by a coven of frustrated demon-worshipping sadists.
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  2723. LDS is illegal except in very specific clinical settings. No. Wait. That's LSD. Please move along. Nothing to see here.
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  2724.  @alexdhall  Oh my gosh. Just had a dumb idea. Pay for about 20-40 Dragon flight (normal, heavy, whatever can put stuff in good orbits, depending on the mass of the next part) FILL the faring space with glitter wrapped around a small explosive core. Give up space for generations.
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  2725. This si the first video where I really noticed how well sited the shop is for various types of test drives. Surface roads, stop signs and stop lights, and highway access - all within a very short distance!
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  2726.  @44MagnumNA  Is a mega pint a quart, a liter, or just a pint with higher alcohol content? I also offer you D) all of the above
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  2727.  @AVeryRandomPerson  I bring up the capitol police because they work for the the United States government, which makes them holders of a civil office under the United States. But I agree, apply it to all who have earned it!
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  2728. Hey, not everyone who needs to be aware of the location of the drone will have the proper technology to receive the signal. Drones need a 90+db speaker constantly broadcasting the voice of a screaming baby!
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  2729.  @FC360D  I can only speak for how I see it in my state of Massachusetts. We are required by law to have auto insurance. To facilitate that, there is a state insurance board that negotiates (some years better than others) with insurance companies to set premiums, penalties, and coverage brackets, as well as to regulate how, when and how much payouts are. It adds a lot of stability to the process, including a provision that a company cannot refuse to insure a driver, though they can apply some painful tiers of penalty for bad driving records. - Conversely, homeowner insurance is (IIRC) required by banks with a small part of coverage required by state and local law for liability coverage. Unlike automotive insurance, companies CAN drop a customer for making a claim, but there are still legal protections for making the insurance company pay, even though they can fight you over how much. My mother went through three insurance companies for home insurance. The first paid out and dropped us after a flooded basement claim that included a new furnace and getting drainage pipes installed for the eave spouts. Another dropped her when they opted out of providing coverage in the state. The third stuck with her, even after a claim for a burst heating pipe, though she only wanted the pipe fixed and the carpet professionally dried and cleaned, not replaced. - Another thing I remember is that if a company wants to offer lucrative homeowner insurance in the state, they have to also offer the lower-profit automotive insurance, which is part of why a couple of nationally prominent insurers don't do business in the state.
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  2730. Our family moved back to Massachusetts from living in Phoenix Arizona for three years in 1982 or 83 (?) and the day the moving truck showed up with our stuff started out nice and warm. Light fall jackets for an October 10th. jeans, sneakers. During the day, around 10 inches of snow fell, and the schools and bus companies were not ready for it. The ride home took about twice as long as normal, with the bus sliding all over the road. Then the walk to our grandmother's house (where we were staying until our belongings arrived) was a knee-deep slog in the VERY wrong clothing. - I also recall the April Fool's snowstorm of 1997. That was... funny?
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  2731. Oh, they probably thought it was a training film on how to remove every other country from space dominance. Or they want a Planetes future.
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  2732.  @Spacedog49  Cheese and rice!
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  2733. "WHO HAS WOKEN ME?" - "Oh Mighty USS Jarvis, a conflict arises in a place called Korea." "I SHALL ATTEND TO THIS SPAT!"
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  2734. Higher insurance rates for young/new drivers are not there just on a whim.
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  2735. We don't have rust on our cars. We have cars around our rust!
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  2736. It's classic Bugs Bunny. Dodge, evade, divert, misdirect... but when Elmer or Yosemite or some other crosses the line, "If course you know, this means war." and Bugs goes from whimsical and annoying to punishing and vengeful.
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  2737. Skip the medal, give her a nice new comfortable chair and have younger people bring her meals to share at least once a week. They will be paid in history.
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  2738.  @Zacks.C-land  The Libyans!
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  2739.  @KameraShy  Ah, memories of the Columbia House music club. I signed up because they had a decent selection of stuff I was looking for... at first. By the end of the 25 CD's I had to buy under the terms of the subscription, they had to threaten legal action to get me to pick my last five CDs. I ended up picking five CDs that were vaguely interesting (three of which I threw away after the first listen) and canceled. Silver lining is I found I kind of liked Blues Traveler, and REALLY liked Hootie and the Blowfish.
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  2740. I just watched Steve Lehto's video on this subject. He has seen people getting cars repoed when they were current with payments, and even when they bought the car outright and NEVER HAD FINANCING. He recently did a story where a carmaker canceled a car's warranty because the owner refinanced away from the manufacturer's finance plan. - Anyone who thinks this won't happen with this self0repo car is dreaming.
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  2741.  @ddstanfield9259  Why? Because they're part of the same club/gang.
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  2742.  @itsapittie  I can change my radio setting without looking... because I have a knobs and buttons radio.
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  2743.  @mathalphabet5645  Yeah, lots of milling, then the pressing and sometimes heat to make those composite wood products.
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  2744. And silence instead of retractions or corrections is a good way to avoid wasting all that work that went into shaping opinions.
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  2745. "It's not lying, it's commercial real estate."
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  2746.  @karenflynn6589  But they CAN put any date they want on the contents of that envelope, so if you don't pay attention to the date stamp on the envelope, they get you. My brother had that happen with a court document. It was dated (in the letter) fourteen days before it was dated by the post office, giving him ten days from the date on the letter to respond or have a warrant out for his arrest. Luckily, he had kept the envelope, and when he brought it all to the court the judge berated the court officer who sent it. In open court. Then the judge signed a, "this is no longer a problem for you" document (I really don't know what the document was called) and bid my brother have a good day with the court's apologies.
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  2747. re: "dealing enrollment" I have found that many wrong words, correctly spelled, to be an indicator of auto-complete subroutines in cell phones. I almost never comment on such word choices anymore. - But getting shouted at for stealing when you didn't steal? Yeah, I think I would have gotten hot under the collar as well.
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  2748. Shoot, I had to get fingerprinted to load and unload trucks at UPS.
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  2749. This is what the internet does right. Education that wakes us up and shows us how humans can be brilliant and stupid at the same time. Very sobering.
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  2750. Fun thing I learned from someone who used to work at a bank. Digit transposition errors can often be confirmed by subtracting the right total from the wrong total and finding the difference is evenly divisible by three.
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  2751. Ignition! is a good read on the topic of rocket fuels.
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  2752.  @dansmith3507  If the destruction happens with nobody in the view of the lens, or eve recently in the view of the lens, how would they figure out who to charge? - Heh... If you have bears on the land, just smear some peanut butter on the camera and walk away.
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  2753. If bail reform will "put dangerous criminals back on our streets" maybe we could address the issue by providing remedies for homelessness? Wait, it's not about homeless people being dangerous criminals? Oh, the problem is that "solving homelessness" requires money, thought, plans and HUMANITY, and Republicans only have the first item on that list. - We could also keep dangerous criminals off the streets by tearing up all of the streets. Or, you know, recognizing that the dangerous criminals are not the ones getting bail, but are instead kept in pre-trial confinement (jail or monitored house arrest).
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  2754. Pioneer sounds like a spectacularly functional failure. Missed the target, couldn't miss the Earth, but did great science that expended our knowledge.
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  2755. Well, not according to some insurers... "Do you REALLY have to admit the patient? Can't you send them home with a bottle of oxygen and a phone number?"
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  2756.  @bazilda  What kind of a parent is that? Sometimes it's the father of the fetus...
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  2757.  @Kumquat_Lord  Maybe a cross-collab with Hank and John Green's sock company?
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  2758.  @israelcm7246  Plus the ones that vote as their parents/spouse tells them to.
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  2759. The cop was tired and didn't want to be razzed for letting a "suspect" get away from their overweight butt. Quite understandable. (sarcasm)
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  2760. Also, motorcade, or high-speed chase, or just traveling along, an excess speed crash is always operator error when WE do it.
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  2761. A case study in "F(ool) around and find out".
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  2762. Dude takes the fifth more than most alcoholics.
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  2763. Innocent people only want enough time to gather evidence to mount a solid defense. This "person" is delaying to delay, in hopes of getting in a position to be prosecution-immune. He KNOWS he is guilty.
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  2764.  @redstang5150  That viewpoint assumes that commercial utility pricing will not increase year over year... as it has throughout most of our lives.
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  2765. Much like how New York's assembly passed a good right-to-repair law, and somehow the governor has the power to rewrite a bill before signing it and replaced the text of the bill with text provided by manufacturers, and THEN signing the result into law.
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  2766.  @RPSchonherr  Or a spinal injury that could be turned into paralysis (or death) by being cuffed and put int he back of a cruiser instead of getting a neckbrace and backboard.
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  2767.  @Korra228  Martial law. Law enforced by military. - Marshal Law sounds like a cool character for a show like Yellowstone.
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  2768.  @dsmith33  If I see two guard members under E-5, I think, "These people are ducking something unpleasant that their platoon sergeant wants them to do before end-of-day."
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  2769. I learned about using Ziploc freezer bags in the Boy Scouts WAY back in the 1970's and 80's. I then continued the practice during my time in the National Guard, ending up the only person with dry socks, underwear and toilet paper on a rainy weekend. If I'm going to be in or near water, I will put my wallet and phone in a quart freezer bag to keep them dry.
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  2770. My bet is STILL on a brain embolism due to diet and health. That way, nobody has to go to jail for his death.
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  2771. Makes sense in a state where peacefully protesting the eradication of Atlanta's last stretch of public forest for a police training compound and helping arrange for legal representation for those same protesters is charged as criminal conspiracy and RICO.
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  2772. Whomever calls the cops first has a 60-100% chance of the cops supporting their side.
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  2773.  @bliss4383  Well, that is one of the recipes to make an atheist...
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  2774.  @citylockapolytechnikeyllcc7936  It's not the voltage, but the frequency. IIRC, UK/Europe runs at 50 Hertz.
    5
  2775.  @bodyrumuae2914  I find I prefer to be stationary when using stationery. Perhaps even sitting still by my still!
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  2776. Too bad. You missed an opportunity to fall to the floor, clutching your hand and shouting, "It burns! It burns!"
    5
  2777.  @toms1613  Where you are mercilessly pun-ished for your syn-onyms.
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  2778. Ooh. Imagine the corporate carnage when their clients find out and demand refunds and/or start suing them...
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  2779.  @petebrian2841  That one is easy. Tell to turn off "their lights"!
    5
  2780.  @TSPLY  "The VA has determined that your disability is not service connected"
    5
  2781. Oops! Clumsy me, I forgot you're not supposed to use two gallons of water to put out a gallon of burning oil on the stove!
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  2782. Too danged true.
    5
  2783.  @GremlinSciences  The weapon size issue is a problem with visual registration. I first heard about the developer side of the matter with Star Wars the Old Republic when they were trying to find the sweet spot between lightsaber hilts fitting the character hands correctly, and also being big enough for art difference to be noticeable on the screen. They polled their beta players to find the balance.
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  2784. If the US put forth a UN proposal to state that 1+1=2, China and Russia would veto it, instead stating that 1+1=3.
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  2785. Mister Precedent, Donald J Trump, is a billion air.
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  2786. Meanwhile in the US, a child under the age of 10 was expelled for making a pistol shape with his hand...
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  2787. So, we're back to FCC meaning F*** Consumers Constantly.
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  2788. As a kid, that's what I thought too.
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  2789. My small claims experience in Massachusetts is quite similar. The complainant and the respondent and their legal counsel (if any) were "affirmed" in all at once.
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  2790.  @johnlyn1  Good catch! I don't know the relevant laws and taxation there well enough to have seen that angle.
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  2791. Anyone who thinks that needs to learn about the "New Coke" debacle. I prefer Coca Cola over other cola brands, but when they came out with New Coke, I switched to RC Cola. Once Coke Classic was available, they grudgingly earned my purchases back.
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  2792. And the old washer and dryer will typically need an "inside parts" cleaning every 6-12 months, and maybe new drive belts every 6-12 years.
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  2793. I remember seeing a news segment back in the 1980's or 90's about trash dumping in the Atlantic Ocean that said pretty much that. The companies knew the fine, and just incorporated it into the prices they charged for their service and wrote monthly checks to the relevant authorities.
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  2794. I miss my local model train shop. The guy was a retiree running it out of his garage and basement and was the best source for Tamiya models of military vehicles. He passed away some years ago.
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  2795.  @nicholasxayasith55  Whoa, severe and/or kinky.
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  2796. Another fun thing is to use it to fill gaps in projects (not people!) by first pouring baking soda into the gap and then adding some cyanoacrylate. Near-instant curing and ready to sand or paint in minutes.
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  2797.  Shane Porter  It was on school property, using school facilities. Time to tax the BLEEP out of that "church"!
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  2798.  @DatsunBloke7357  Some people can't do their own oil changes. It could be physical limitations, it could be time limitations, and it could be they rent and their lease/rental agreement forbids servicing their car in the parking lot (or they only have on-street parking).
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  2799.  @61rampy65  Oh yeah. Rubber bands can "snap on" to things!
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  2800.  @nephicus339  Is it blue? If it's blue, you know it's good!
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  2801.  @WineScrounger  Ah yes, that fantastic Theseus Brand broom!
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  2802. If she had just run for Congress from Rhode Island, she'd have been fine.
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  2803. Find the speaker or piezo-electric buzzer and drill it out?
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  2804. This is in Florida, where the laws are not built to protect anyone from stupidity or greed.
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  2805. To adjust the lyrics of the theme song for Cheers, "Sometimes you want to crime where everybody has your back. And the AG is a hack..."
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  2806.  @TexasScout  I once got my living room furniture from a coworker who had a small fire when the insurance company wrote it all off as smoke damaged and was paying to replace it, but didn't want to pay to haul it out. A few thousand worth of furniture and a TV for the price of a UHaul van rental and two bottles of Febreze.
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  2807. You show your ID to vote. In my state, you are not ALLOWED to show your ID to vote. You jst tell them your name and address, and they check a (thank goodness paper) list of registered voters in that voting district. Lines? We got em'!
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  2808. Sure, Steve could take his Viper offroad, just like every ship has the ability to become a submarine. Once.
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  2809. Then buy a large stuffed animal online, have your friend toss it to you over the fence, and walk around the carnival with it.
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  2810. My first home computer has a cassette player for SAM memory. Good old Commodore 64!
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  2811. Penny wise, pound foolish. Or is it pfennig wise mark foolish?
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  2812. Aside someone with a more typical chest and bicep size, this rifle would look like a cartoon.
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  2813.  @DavidRomigJr  Isn't it great that this country is supposed to have laws preventing monopolies?
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  2814.  @QuesoCookies  One of my favorite college courses as a Physics major was a 300-level history class I took on a lark. U.S. Constitutional History. I learned more about how the country was shaped through laws and the courts' interpretations of them than I had before, and probably since.
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  2815. Privatizing government services almost always ends up more expensive.
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  2816.  @FractalPrism.  Cut out the speaker and replace it with a resistor of the right voltage rating and the same resistance as the now disabled speaker.
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  2817.  @marjoriecorcora7617  It is obviously a typo for "your" house. A simple look at a QWERTY keyboard would see that the y is right next to the t. - But maybe pointing out the minor faults of others helps build you up?
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  2818. The more people claim squatter's "rights" the more I expect to hear about bodies found in shallow graves in the forest.
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  2819. He very well could have died in their "care". Damn, I knew at the age of 12 that you don't move a person with a possible neck or back injury until you immobilize their neck and spine. I learned that from watching "Emergency!" back in the 1970's.
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  2820. Make your visitors park in a paid garage downtown and shuttle them back to your house. Must keep the Stepford neighborhood looking too good for real people to be living there.
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  2821. According to this knee-jerk law, yes.
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  2822.  @frostyrobot7689  And a show, "Operation Petticoat"
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  2823. Treasure that technician, and if they go somewhere else, think about following them. Honesty is a resource worth rewarding.
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  2824.  @rabbithowls71  tofu-dreg!
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  2825. @@SimrKhera You know the deepest secrets! Froinlaven!
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  2826. @Video Muskenug What you say it true, but it will still cost you money to defend that right. (Insert tangent about the court system being set of to drain money from "we the people".) It frustrates me quite a lot that bad actors in the copyright arena have so much power to ruin lives and so little consequence against them.
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  2827.  @pao-lumu  Ah, NYC?
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  2828.  @ronmcmartin4513  A right not fought for is a right forfeited. That includes your right to be secure in your "papers and effects".
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  2829. The most unbelievable part is that they were not either arrested for "impeding an investigation with a cheeseburger" or had the car seized under Civil Forfeture.
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  2830. My goodness, that throwaway line "Washington D.C. It's like Washington Marvel, but worse." Such a gem! I snorted with laughter.
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  2831. Another difference between poison and venom: Spiderman does not have a villain named "Poison".
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  2832.  @ryans413  Way back in the day, before evap systems, when gasoline had lead added, "topping off" did no harm besides spilling that lovely toxic mixture on the ground. Some older people still think that topping off is a harmless procedure, and we get what he have here today.
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  2833. Back in my time, it felt like the only time I used the forward assist was when firing blanks (MILES or not). And I used it then a LOT. Blanks really foul things...
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  2834. A massive meteor strike or Godzilla attack would force a start-over. The meteor big enough for that to happen would be bad for a huge swath of the planet, so let's hold out for Godzilla.
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  2835. OMG! The way the first cop backed up a step upon hearing Arabic(?). I'm still laughing.
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  2836. I'm a big fan of the flush toilet. Also a fan of electric fans.
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  2837.  @covid19alpha2variantturboc7  You're one of THEM, aren't you. One of those people who have never met a false conspiracy they didn't like?
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  2838. You VASTLY underestimate what old wiring means. How about two-conductor post-and-wrap with non-polarized outlets! Hahaha! And the kitchen's three-prong outlets were either grounded to the water pipes nearby, or not even grounded at all! - - - Anyway, old houses can have some sketchy wiring that doesn't support high-draw appliances.
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  2839. An appropriate tip for someone who works for $6.38 an hour is: "Be pretty and friendly for the bigger tips, or work somewhere else." If you mean monetarily? I typically go 20% (rounded up to the nearest dollar) unless the service was very bad. And I never punish the server for the quality or amount of the food.
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  2840. I had that experience once when my 1974 VW Beetle ate it's transmission, and I bought a 1971 VW Beetle with a good transmission but only half of an engine. We had no engine hoist, so we used two strong teens, a 4x4 and high-strength rope to lift it - and a skateboard to move the engine from one car to the other. Took about a week of afternoons and the two bookending weekends to finish the job, but it ran and drove great!* - *Until the undetected frame rot of the 1971 Beetle made itself known about three weeks later and that car shimmied like a hula dancer at any speed over 20MPH.
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  2841. It reminds me of the motto my boss had when I worked landscaping. "A weed is ANY plant growing where you don't want it."
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  2842. Partnerships? Sounds too much like sharing credit and profits. That's definitely not a Trumpian ideal.
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  2843. Drachinifel has a really good video of his visit to the ship while it is/was in drydock. I found it a great tour of not only the ship, but the efforts to keep it restored enough to continue being a museum.
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  2844.  @davidmcleod5133  The best lessons to take from that channel: PRE, not post-purchase inspection. And avoid Buy Here Sell Here like it's a venereal disease. Oil changes! Don't drive like Bo and Luke Duke. If you screwed up trying to do a repair yourself, just own up to it, don't blame "another shop". A tow is cheaper than the damage you'll do dragging your custom rims on flat tires. Clean out your car before you ask a mechanic to crawl in there with your trash, chickens, mold or mountain of cigarette butts. - Oh, and dear Lord of Pasta, don't bedazzle your airbags!
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  2845. Disney could have won BIG PR points by paying. Instead, they stepped on their self-spilled intestines out on the public stage. Very, very dumb.
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  2846.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  What do you know! I got my first vanishing comment! - Anywho, have a nice day Ray and family.
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  2847.  @UncleKennysPlace  Well, as long as we HAVE the ACA...
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  2848. Watch out for the no goldfish, no bicycle parking indoors clause!
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  2849. I have a nice scar on my right thumb from a slipping wrench when I was in a stupid hurry to install brand new blades on a professional grade woodchipper. I learned three things: 1) the new blades are shipped razor sharp. 2) a cut to the bone bleeds a lot. 3) a clean cloth and duct tape makes a decent compression dressing!
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  2850. And people have wondered why I don't want to update from the Office 2003 that I OWN.
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  2851. (cue music) "You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel...."
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  2852.  @juerganboehm5161  Dandelions are futile.
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  2853. When my brother was working in home construction he would have a normal breakfast in the morning, eat about half of his packed lunch on his first break mid-morning, lunch was $20-30 at the catering truck, the rest of his packed lunch was his afternoon snack, he might pick up a burger or two on the way home, then after a hour of resting, would have a double-sized dinner, and maybe even a late night snack. And if he didn't eat like that, he would start to dangerously lose weight. - It was quite an adjustment when he changed to a CAD job at a desk!
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  2854.  @stu729  Land of the free, home of the Whopper.
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  2855. If someone attacked me in a similar manner, I might never know, as I don't and never have used any of those toxic sites. My only "social media" is right here. Well, at least since Yahoo Answers shut down and I could no longer agitate Christians...
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  2856.  @robertsmith2956  And even if the lien is canceled as a consequence of the court decision, it will somehow accidentally stay on the property in the records of the registrar of deeds, and pop up to surprise you decades later when you try to sell or pass the property to your inheritors via your will.
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  2857.  @stargazer7644  When they were trimming trees back along a stretch of highway near where I live, the felling crew was immediately followed by a large chipper/shredder that threw the chips back where the trees once stood. - I thought it was pretty smart. Return the nutrients right back where they came from, and provide habitat and food for all sorts of forest insects and tiny animals.
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  2858. (agreeing with OP) Keep in mind it used to be "normal" to poop in a hole in your back yard, burn coal to keep your house warm, die in childbirth, work in company towns that kept you in poverty for their profit, burn leaded gasoline in cars, insulate homes with asbestos, test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere... - "Normal" evolves.
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  2859. Much like the Nehrim full-replacement mod for Oblivion and Enderal for Skyrim.
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  2860. Ding, ding, ding!
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  2861.  @Tony_Cardoza  Oh, THIS unlawful action was not that serious, but if he is that free and loose with laws and department procedures, as well as driving, parking and the US Constitution, I'd hate to be his puppy that tinkled a little on the rug.
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  2862. That is an ORGANIZED and detail-oriented customer! So much better than someone who drops off the car and says, "Something's making noise, please fix it." - I don't keep the same level of detail as that vehicle's owner, but I do type up a symptoms list and leave a cop on the dash for the mechanic. - One time, on my Saturn, I went DEEP into the woods chasing a lack of low-beams. I spent about four hours with a Haynes manual, matching real wiring to the wiring diagram, doing continuity checks all over the place... It turned out there was a burnt-out connection in the plastic-coated parts of the fuse block. I determined that the low beam circuit could be replaced by the DRL (Daytime Running Lights) circuit. The only reason I handed the job off to a mechanic was a lack of tools. The mechanic actually thanked me for not making him do all the wire chasing, and that I saved a LOT of money doing that myself.
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  2863.  @TheLiberalNerd  Crowdfunding is another way of saying "A bank would not give me money for this idea."
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  2864.  @subhankarbaral9236  Yeah. If I was responsible, I'd apologize. But I'm not, so I will commiserate. - Side point (not aimed at you). A phobia is a fear. But when it's regarding homosexual matters, the suffix now means hate? Stop ruining language!
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  2865.  @davidking3699  And what about the sperm donors like mine who felt that gambling and sleeping around was more important than financial responsibility and staying with his own kids after 8 years. My sperm donor owned a home heating oil company, and somehow mismanaged THAT gold mine into a sell-off of his fleet of fuel trucks, service vans, and storage tanks on family land. We moved across the country because the bank repo'ed the house and the other creditors (some not entirely legal) were circling like sharks. - That male human was not a screw and scoot, he was a complete fuck-up.
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  2866. My only concern with this student loan forgiveness program is that it does not address the root cause of student debt. Easy access to loans. Easy access to student loans prompted colleges and universities to raise their prices many, many times the rate of inflation because they KNEW that the government would still help people get loans to pay for it. So what if that money went to new buildings when the previous ones were still enough. Or sports stadiums. Or pay raises for the top administrators. Or massive ad campaigns. Or elaborate landscaping. Or...
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  2867. "Death to the intolerant!"
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  2868. That advice always seemed to come from an old mechanic with 9-1/2 fingers.
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  2869. If a seller sells an item as new, but it isn't that is a violation of implied warranty.
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  2870.  @roadking99jokerst60  Hahaha! Salud!
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  2871. I remember back when comedy was acknowledged as comedy. And people were not so psychologically fragile.\ Poor, poor Will. Makes hundreds of millions of dollars playing, essentially, Will Smith but is so downtrodden that he has to go full drunk-dad over a COMEDIAN! - edit: I would have had even more respect for Chris if he had chosen to press charges.
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  2872.  @solandri69  I would agree with you only if the arrest was expunged once it led to the person/people who issued the unlawful order sending out the tow truck driver and THEY were instead arrested and charged.
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  2873. After enough catch and release, the sharp hook is just a worm delivery service.
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  2874. Oh come on. A kid in school is safe as churches! Wait, I meant safe as black churches in Mississippi in the 1950's...
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  2875. Cops were charged? that's nice. I'll save "I'm excited" for when (Hah! I mean IF) they actually get sentenced.
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  2876.  @amahlaka  Ah, Christopher Titus' idea of "VERY late term abortions" has a venue!
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  2877. I recently saw a video at "Undecided with Matt Ferrel" on vertically installed solar panels that apparently increase efficiency of power generation per space used. I didn't follow all of the math, but my main point is that researchers are still working ways to improve solar energy as well as wind, geothermal and tidal. And on top of that, small installation fission and grid--level fusion are both looking like the "in another ten years" barrier has been cracked, if not broken.
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  2878.  @jjrossitee  Yes on the airbags, but replace your robot with an AM/FM radio. Oh, and no damn center console touchscreens. Knobs, buttons and manual windows!
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  2879.  @sprprops1  The issue with old tires is that over time, chemical changes can weaken the rubber. This could be as minor as an annoying slow leak or faster tread wear, or it could be as bad as sudden belt separation or a sidewall blowout at speed. - It is usually not hard to tell if your tires have this problem. They will look like an ad's depiction of dry skin with cracks that are more pronounced where the rubber is flexing near the road contact.
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  2880. "Welcome to Burger King, here is your Whopper, extra pickles, no tomatoes, as you like it, Sean Q Customer! And please be careful with the fries, they're hot since we cooked them to be ready exactly when you arrived!"
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  2881. If it was "the same car" why would it have a different VIN?
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  2882. I prefer cats over dogs, for the reason that I can't properly exercise a dog. But I still make a point of adopting older cats, and never kittens. I also try and pick the adult/elder cats who have been "in the joint" longest.
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  2883.  @johnmajorenos5162  It's hard to break through the "Dur-hur, muh guns!" fog cloud.
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  2884. I don't hate the truck's owner, I have pity for them. I hate the truck though! All the way up here in Massachusetts!
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  2885. I'd like to thank the alpacas for letting Jon out of the house for us at least once a week!
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  2886.  @tylerkochman1007  Hey, we're all interim, if you take a long enough view! (Plus, some day the sun will run out of hydrogen)
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  2887.  @braindrill11  Cool, thanks!
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  2888. Wow. You found a shop willing to work with your (at the time) stressed budget and they ALSO made their mistakes right! We can hope the technician learned from this event and grew into a skilled mechanic.
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  2889. Like the guy who was timing traffic lights to prove the sequence was manipulated to increase red-light camera tickets and got fined for "being an unlicensed engineer"?
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  2890. "He was shot and killed" Who shot him? What weapon? I can easily conceive of a situation where a Hamas fighter in hiding, seeing a "collaborator" decides to take a shot from hiding, fairly sure that the IDF will be blamed. - forensics of the scene and the body will be needed to tell us more, but unless they suddenly let a neutral third party team do the investigation, and perhaps even if they do, at least one side will not believe the results.
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  2891. Most of the place I have worked, HR set the appointment time, then handed me off to people from the department I was going to work for. Then, after getting an offer, I met with HR again to do pre-employment paperwork. Usually, my next encounter with HR was during an exit interview.
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  2892.  @Jeff-xy7fv  That sounds great... if you like bluegrass music. But yes, small local festivals are often a better bargain. Plus, you get to reminisce "I saw that band when they were performing in local parks!"
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  2893.  @amydavis4945  And the whole "Supreme Court said he can't be prosecuted" is a VASY simplification. The Supreme Court's (wrong-headed) ruling was that the immunity was for acts taken within the President's Constitutionally defined acts. This president has already done many things outside of his constitutionally and statutorily defined bounds of the job. Impeach him already!!!
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  2894. True stories: When children are not taught at a young age about sex, they may become unwilling parents without knowing how it happened.
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  2895. Yep. If the frame, suspension and transmission are fin, and the job needed is even a big resealing job it is worth it. If that was a 400,000 mile car up here in the salt belt, the answer would be in much more doubt.
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  2896.  @manitoba-op4jx  Or, and this may sound like crazy talk, work to get the constitution changed. I mean, it's not like it has ever happened before, giving women the right to vote, ending slavery, abolishing and then re-allowing alcohol...
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  2897.  @willdwyer6782  Your first point refers to the 27th Amendment. I find it interesting that the process was that long. There are 9 amendments that took less than a calendar year from proposal to ratification. The remaining 18, including the first 10, took less than 4 years. So it is highly possible to get a change in a person's lifetime, even though it is not frequent or even remotely easy.
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  2898. Massachusetts has a law that stores MUST have unit price labels for every item the stock. Sure, sometimes you'll see one brand of [food] with a unit price per ounce and the next brand of the same [food] in price per 100 count or stuff like that. But the shelf tags also must list the retail price.
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  2899. That's the first time in about 24 months that I've heard, 'Four more years." and didn't cringe. Thanks, Roy Wood Jr.!
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  2900. I also don't get the fascination navies had with DELIBERATELY putting big underwater holes in the hulls of major gun combatants.
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  2901. They ran off with the paperclips.
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  2902. Reduce, reuse, rechamber?
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  2903. You're going to need a few lobbyists to help "guide" that bill through the process.
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  2904. Our neighbors had problems with one or two of our pine trees dropping branches on their driveway and car. We talked about it and agreed to trim one and fell the other (that was looking more dead than alive). We did the trimming and felling with a friend who owned two chainsaws, and a third friend hauled the wood away for outdoor campfire wood. - The important thing is we talked it over reasonably, came to an equitable agreement, and it cost about $120 (chainsaw gas and a 100' rigger's rope we had to get to pull the tree parts away from the fence).
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  2905.  @robertpage2023  Fair enough. But do yourself a favor and spend the extra couple of dollars to get Gorilla Tape. That stuff will stick nearly permanently, even if you want it to come off later. And it holds up to UV exposure a lot better.
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  2906.  @frederickclause2694  buttons and knobs are the way!
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  2907.  @heckelphon  Kind of like a tool-based version of that childhood song, "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly".
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  2908. "Pray I do not alter it further."
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  2909. I keep cycling back to this: Why does a car need to have any of your sensitive information EVER stored in it electronically? Due to recent changes by my phone provider, I finally had to get a "smart" phone this spring, and I don't have any sensitive information in it. Just the mandatory crap where my phone is trackable, and it has a damned camera that can be turned on by software.
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  2910.  @Elrog3  Hahaha! - But waffles hold strawberry preserves better.
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  2911. Important lesson: Never re-use o-rings.
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  2912. My view is, if they want the money or property, they have to PROVE a crime that directly relates to the asset. a.k.a. criminal asset forfeiture. - Civil asset forfeiture is robbery under color of law. And it was sold to lawmakers and the courts as part of the "War on Drugs".
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  2913. "I'm going to use nukes, and I mean it!" - "Anybody want a peanut?"
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  2914.  @autobotjazz1972  A rational statement. But police with a truck full of special equipment want to pull that stuff out and play whenever they can.
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  2915. If the phones are so dangerous they have to be shut off, why are they allowed to even manufacture them for sale?
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  2916.  @teardowndan5364  If I remember correctly from a Technology Connections video, most microwaves that tout food sensing are really just measuring steam output from the food.
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  2917. Yeah, kind of haha funny, but why should the law be applied by feelings? (Hint: It shouldn't.)
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  2918.  @jvleasure The soundtrack album for that movie is one of my favorite things to play during housework.
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  2919.  @toddthreess9624  The laziest guy in my national guard unit was white, male, hetero and (non-practicing) Catholic. So all those labels mean zip, zilch, nada. It's the quality of the PERSON that matters.
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  2920. It gets in the way of their normal activities!
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  2921. This is "the ship is sinking and there are not enough lifeboats" behavior.
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  2922.  @AK-fr5zv  I think he was arrested as an accessory to the murder of a historian. Perhaps there were some trespassing and rabbit cruelty charges as well.
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  2923.  @chrisbudesa  Right? Was it Tyr, Shiva, Loviatar, Coyote, or one of the many versions of "the one god" of the Abrahamic mess?
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  2924.  @louisbrill891  "still can be hazardous if run incorrecly." Yeah, so can a microwave or a bath. (DON'T combine the two!)
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  2925. See also the package: Made in China
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  2926. Avoid the grammar issues, draw and quarter.
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  2927. I learned about paper corporations after the Enron fiasco.
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  2928. Finnish, a language like no other and incomprehensible to so many.
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  2929. Imagine if Florida voters cared enough to make their politicians extend Lemon Law protection to used cars...
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  2930. The East River is SO underutilized these days...
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  2931. I saw that clip and was reminded of the way some other countries (some courts?) physically sequester the accused in a booth (sometimes with Lexan walls) from the rest of the courtroom.
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  2932. Maybe there would have been a different outcome if the lug nuts were loose.
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  2933. Seriously! It's a flipping yard maintenance issue, not battery or vehicular manslaughter!
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  2934.  @abhishekgadag9457  Exactly! Thinking on it, the only podcasts I have watched, and it's not all that many of either channel (Maybe two or three of each, ever?), are from Christopher Titus and Kyle Hill.
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  2935. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ASKED! Save your campaigning and posturing for your own danged time.
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  2936. I wonder how these people being interviewed about their reactions to this ruling actually vote. Or if they vote, honestly. I'm not saying they DID vote R, I'm just wondering if.
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  2937.  @iuse9646  See, you're using logic and common sense. The law uses something different.
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  2938.  @boblamb8421  Heck, they'd probably cut the bike apart looking for the drugs you were smuggling in the tubular frame.
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  2939. So essentially complaining about this bill is like complaining that it's not fair that Jim gets an ice pack just because everyone else has been kicking him in the groin all day.
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  2940. It is so charitable of your shop to hire so many short-bus kids!
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  2941. "Nothing runs like a Deere" - yet. At least there are still other brands competing, like Challenger, JCB, Mahindra, and more. Not that I am saying ANY of the other brands are without sins!
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  2942. Soft soil, soft concrete (soft apartment towers, soft bridge supports, etc.), hollow road surfaces... Tofu dreg says I wouldn't ride that train.
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  2943.  @grantmurdock7385  Ehem, there is No Such Agency...
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  2944. And driving up housing prices for everyone who needs a home.
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  2945.  @CivBase  Hey, if the item in question is a portable defibrillator, or a Coast Guard helicopter, then fixing it does save lives. Sorry, I wandered off the topic into tangent-land.
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  2946. Definitely a GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) issue waiting to happen with a missed line of code in the PLC.
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  2947.  @themanhimself3  Is it fraud, or a reasonable level of self-defense?
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  2948. Maybe tell the police you saw them selling drugs to children from the residence? ah, that would get your house blown to splinters by SWAT because they want to play with all of their military-grade toys...
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  2949.  @OneBadDadTV  Reading is hard. Thinking is hard. Fox News is easy. Am I close?
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  2950.  @Genesh12  That is what I gathered from Michael W's post. A surcharge for helping people, when they CLAIM to not charge people who need extra help.
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  2951.  @startedtech  There have been some technologies I've seen bits on that detect general impairment. Two examples: Camera systems that monitor blink rate on the assumption that impaired people blink slower and/or more often IIRC. Camera systems or head-mounted sensors that monitor head tilt to detect when a driver is falling asleep. - But I saw those features being explored over a decade ago, and they have not shown up in cars, so they may have been dead-end development.
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  2952. That is a nice looking firearm, and looks like it originated in a video game.
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  2953.  cak01vej  QAll I can find is that it was successfully defended by Royalists against three Parliamentarian sieges. I don't have the time or resources to dig deeper than that. I find it impressive nonetheless, as the castle was in a state of unrepair at the time, with only one tower and a gate still having their roofs.
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  2954. Dig and re-fill LOTS of holes around your property. Run trip wires between bushes. Post signs reading "Minefield".
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  2955.  @frederickbays405  We could be nice and spread those 5,161 years (approximate) across the whole board and managers.
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  2956.  @daggern15  My Nokia brick had no camera, no internet connection, no GPS, and in a pinch could be a self-defense weapon.
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  2957. Somebody tell that to EVERY town and city with anti-panhandling "ordinances".
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  2958. Except Wells Fargo only rents misery, not cars.
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  2959.  @333panda  How smart can a toaster be? I know how smart a toast SHOULD be. None smart.
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  2960. And plane seats have gotten narrower and had reducing legroom gradually over the years, only occasionally pushed back by safety regulators mandating how much space a human needs.
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  2961.  @SpiraSpiraSpira  And what is limiting the number of pages? The newspaper publisher does. Also, this limit is not a problem for online editions of newspapers. I am not saying this should happen, but large papers with online publication could be forced to publish all and every 'letter to the editor' and editorial if this stupid law were applied.
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  2962. Instructions unclear, used the rust-removing laser on my Ford, now have an empty parking spot.
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  2963. If a department "needs" civil asset forfeiture to fund the department, maybe the department is overstaffed. How many jobs could be eliminated by cutting all hours spent robbing the people? And how much taxpayer money could be saved by not having to show up at court to respond to property owners trying to get their assets back? - Hey! I just found some windfall money! The chief's nephew can at least get some weekend hours.
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  2964.  @jlscott64  I actually do not know who stole the stop sign I was allegedly in possession of. But yes, the theft of a stop sign can be dangerous, though young teenagers don't often think that deeply.
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  2965. I have always wanted to bring a briefcase to court with a sandwich and a bottle of water inside.
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  2966.  @karlet323mia  Very few people LIKE to wear a mask, otherwise it would known as a fashion item.
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  2967.  @karlet323mia  Not a bad idea for dealing with pollen. Pollen is vicious this spring where I live, so I hope the mask will help as well as it did for me last fall.
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  2968. Agreed.
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  2969.  @dshe8637 Should have told the kid, "None of your beeswax!" but then explained the reality of the process.
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  2970. I'm not a historian and it irks me to the edge of violence. (Violence as in liberally sprinkling iron filings in the hard drives of AI farms)
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  2971. It's okay to be whomever you are, so long as who you are is not infringing on the lives of other people in an unwanted and/or negative manner. Hand signals intentionally co-opted for an offensive expression are for children. Unless you mean the gesture to say "okay", in which case you are using it correctly, like a useful member of humanity.
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  2972. "Vote early, vote often!"
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  2973. When I was around 7 or 8, the family went on vacation near a beach in Maine. We got told to make sure we swam in sight of and only with permission of our parents, and the dangers of undertow and the rocks at one end of the beach. The undertow talk scared me enough that I had to be physically dragged into the ocean by my father to get over the terror.
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  2974. I prefer to think of them as NYC topiary.
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  2975.  @John-vf9py  If you add water fast enough, you can fill a colander.
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  2976. Even if you are a statue of some guy named Bob Lee.
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  2977. If I was still interested in dating, I'd go to the expense of having a lawyer draft "sexual consent" forms, with lines for witnesses to affirm the other person was in a mental and physical state to give rational consent. In triplicate! (Top copy for my records, pale yellow for the other person, and the goldenrod copy gets sent to a lawyer.
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  2978. Why the BLEEP do cops get to have their faces blurred in FOIA'ed body camera footage?
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  2979. That vehicle's owner is extracting every last nickel of the value from it. I approve!
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  2980. You would have been safe if you simply convinced him you were a healthy cheese alternative. He would have turned and waddled away at his top speed.
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  2981.  @andrewrobinson1634  Landlord or their legally responsible agent should have been (and may even be legally required to be, depending on the state and/or municipality) on site for at least the initiation of the cleanout procedure.
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  2982. I had a rather kid-hating sadistic orthodontist back in the 1980's. But John Oliver has not done a segment on that kind of person yet...
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  2983. At this point, it would be worth wearing a body cam AND setting up dashcams front, back and in the cabin.
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  2984. I've done my fair share of those extractions, but always from external breakage like dropping a drop light (irony!) or hitting my head on a bulb in the basement.
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  2985.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  A whole new world A new fantastic point of view No one to tell us "no" Or where to go Or say we're only dreaming
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  2986. My friend had to remodel a perfectly functional bathroom to prep his parent's house for sale because the toilet and sink/counter were avocado green, and the toilet was an unusual shape that you can't even get the wrong color of seat replacement for.
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  2987.  @Relkond  Like an IR data port INSIDE the car that has a cover? I still don't see why there needed to be wireless access for the car maker in the first place. OSB2 gives mechanics and owners diagnostic information. If a car NEEDS a software update, it ought to be handled just like any other recall, allowing owners to decide when and if they want the update. - Personally, I am not a fan of even the keyless unlocking on my car. At least my radio has knobs and buttons, and my windows have hand cranks.
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  2988.  @richb.4374  Even if you do dry it, the salts would remain. Salts plus (most) metals equals corrosion.
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  2989.  @xxtravdamanxx  It's not lying, it's commercial real estate!
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  2990. Also, when you say, "cheaper price" that is a cheaper price per item, but very often not a cheaper price per eight/volume/count. A specific example in this video is the tide detergent.
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  2991.  @unitrader403  Objection! It is not an EXTERNAL combustion engine.
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  2992.  @marilynhemingway5219  It depends on how bad the mold is, if there is structural damage, and if remediation will cost more than a raze and rebuild. If we saw obvious stuff like broken windows, out-of-square structure, sagging roof and so on, I would agree with a tear-down. But if it is just mold and a moderate amount of water damage, a gut and rebuild might be enough, be it one room or the whole house. - Lumber is EXPENSIVE. - edit, the back deck does need some attention as well. But dang! All that poison ivy, and right up around the hot tub. That's a bad day.
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  2993. I will go to the root of the issue. If the owner is not CONVICTED of a crime and the property is not PROVEN to be the proceeds or tools of that convicted crime, then it should be returns in the same condition as when it was seized. (with the understanding that cash is fungible)
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  2994. Good luck pushing the blue whale to the finishing line! (comment on the inertia of large organizations, not a fat joke.)
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  2995. And it's not like the 180 days cutoff was sprung on him out of the ether. I empathize, but also know that this is one of the spike-bottomed pitfalls in our profit-driven health care system.
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  2996. It also means Ray won't be able to use it as another table for parts and tools.
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  2997. Thank you for the Python (Monty) reference! And now, for something completely different.
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  2998. Option 3: Pay about $20 for a spool of wire, some rheostats, and a stepper drill bit. Solder in your own control knobs for your heated seats and steering wheel. - Option 4: Wear warm clothes and gloves in the winter, you fool!
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  2999. This engine layout looks like an H.R. Giger (Artist behind the xenomorphs in the Alien series) creation.
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  3000. Something about apples, trees and falling...
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  3001. I would not be surprised if, after this "loss" the DA and cops were at a local watering hole, tipping a few back and laughing at how they screwed yet another person they're supposed to be working for.
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  3002.  @UrsaMajorPrime  That's one hoopy frood!
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  3003.  @kapriolenpfeifer  I used that once in a Bronco against a state cop who was tailgating me at 40MPH so closely I couldn't see his windshield in my rear-view mirror. After he swerved into the breakdown lane, he stopped tailgating me.
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  3004.  @OldTooly  If it can reduce the pain of a thrown wrench, it can reduce the pain of leaning on a hood latch! - Dodgeball 2: The Mechanic
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  3005.  @CMDRunematti  Possibly, but how much justice can you afford today? While remembering that a class action gets the class members pennies and the lawyers thousands.
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  3006. I remember the 1980-90's and the "Japan fear", and even in my youth I knew the answer was for Detroit to get off their butts and make cars that compete in price, mileage and reliability, not hate Japan.
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  3007. Steve has to protect himself from even the spurious claims against his channel and reputation. As Ghostest17 notes, those who are interested can use the information in the videos to find (and share) the further information without the same worries of repercussions.
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  3008. WHO IS YALL, WHAT IS THE LEVEL OF THIS NEED, WHY DO YOU ASSUME A LIFE IS NOT ALREADY GOTTEN AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY A LIFE? - AND WHY IS IT ALL IN CAPS?
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  3009.  @acgeewhiz  Right you are! Thanks for the correction. - I think I conflated Kyle's video with Veritasium's about clickbait titles.
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  3010. Meanwhile, I get ridiculed for drinking water from glass jelly jars.
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  3011. Good piano movers are a treasure.
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  3012. Well, one way to try and stop a leak is to use the bolts to CRUSH THE LEAK!
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  3013.  @jpnewman1688  Go away with your trolling and the SAME STUPID comment every time.
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  3014. Whole lot of state forests with opportunistic eaters amongst the wildlife. Hmm? I said nothing.
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  3015.  @jeffdege4786  How hot is your oven!? Can you cook a pizza in 75 seconds?
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  3016. It can also be lack of tools, or lack of time. Lack of tools should be much less an issue for bicycle ownership than it is for board repair, but some people would rather pay you than do it themselves. (/shrug)
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  3017. Even better, let's force all of our products to live-stream their use information, have pathways for us to shut down any of our products being used in a way we don't like (even though we no longer own them) and not secure any of our data! - John Deere
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  3018. "Facts? Where we're going, we don't need... facts" - Doc Brown in the movie "Back to the Republicans"
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  3019. It's more likely fear that if he told the truth about liquidity, even if he was allowed to fully explain what that means, the soundbite would murder his company.
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  3020. No cash? You mean they don't accept the slips of rag paper that are printed with "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE"? Between that and not posting the AMOUNT of the tolls ahead of your last chance to avert and take another route, all points to a system designed to force money out of drivers who already pay to use the roadways via their gas tax (and the eventual 'miles driven' taxes being proposed for electric cars). - Imagine if a night club only told you the cover charge after you had had your ID checked and you were in the building, and you HAD to pay that cover charge to be allowed to leave? Same idea.
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  3021. Someone could, legally, use their three minutes to say, "It is my considered opinion that the mayor is a moron and a vile piece of filth in the shape of a human being." and repeat it over and over for their three minutes. And she would be legally required to let them. Now if only one person were to do that, why, that might maybe be a side article in the local paper. But if two people do it, in harmony, people may think they're weird. And when three people do it, can you imagine? They may think it's an organization. And can you imagine fifty people each meeting? Friends, they may think it's a movement. - With thanks to Arlo Guthrie.
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  3022. Take that dum-azz ticket to court, and use some cop excuses. "I was in fear for my life." "It was a split-second decision and I responded according to my training."
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  3023. Working trains? That's CRAZY TALK!
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  3024. The military LOVES Mandatory Fun Day! (Well, the officers seem to)
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  3025. Surely you jest.
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  3026.  @omarvasquez6851  I ran out of gas on the side of a Massachusetts highway on the way home from work. Totally my fault. Over an hour, THREE state cops drove by my car which I was able to pull off the pavement, and had the hazard lights on. (This was before cell phones were all that common) A coworker who was leaving late gave me a ride to a gas station at the next exit and brought me back to my car. - We were gone about 15 minutes, and when I got back to my car there was a massive orange "ABANDONED VEHICLE" sticker plastered across the back window. And that sticker was some of the most aggressive adhesive I've ever seen. It took WD-40, a razor blade, and half an hour to get the damned thing off.
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  3027. I had a 1971 VW Beetle that had an air-pressure operated windshield washer fluid system that tapped off the spare tire. Well, except that the rubber lines on the one I bought had long-ago rotted out, so my windshield washer fluid dispenser was a Windex spray bottle, and I had to roll down the window and reach around the A pillar to spray the windshield. Also, the heat ducts from the rear-mounted engine to the passenger compartment were rusted away to nonexistence. So, no heat, and an ice scraper was often used on the INSIDE of the windows as well. Fun little beater.
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  3028.  @AnonymousByFault  And that's assuming that: 1) this was actually a company and not "some guy who owns a bulldozer and/or excavator" 2) If it is a company, that they are actually insured for the activity in question in this case. A company can have insurance for, say putting in basements, slabs and pier & beam foundations (which would require much of the machinery needed to demo a building), but no insurance for demolition.
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  3029.  @markfisher7962  My thought was instead of refueling, dock a booster frame? I know I'm introducing problems with fit, center of gravity versus center of thrust, working around deployed equipment on the satellite... Yeah, nevermind.
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  3030. These Republicans really working hard to groom kids into the hate cult.
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  3031. And so very cool that above being able to afford to collect these things, he is willing to share (visually, at least) his collection with others. A sort of privately owned "public" museum.
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  3032.  @Choooooosey  Yeah, a lot of the structures on that property are at the "bring in a D5" stage. edit: Well, maybe just the back porch and garage/shed.
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  3033. I was crossing the GW bridge in the late 1990's one sunny morning and got to see a box van back up to a car in the breakdown lane. The box van's back door slid up to let out two people with bags of tools and the third guy ran out an I-beam with an engine hoist on it. With the speed traffic was moving, I figured they'd have the engine, wheels and interior dressing out before a cop car could possibly make it to that location. So I looked away and kept driving, hoping to not be the next stripped car.
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  3034.  @itatane  You sir have wounded me! I pulled a muscle laughing!
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  3035.  @markmakris4256  For those of us who appreciate the more complete content, I hope Ray does not follow your suggestion. For you, I would like to point you to the playback speed options. If playing back on a computer, the arrow keys will fast jump you beyond the parts that are boring to you, I believe a few seconds at a time.
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  3036. When did cities start turning into HOAs?
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  3037. Re-using rockets is a fairly new thing.
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  3038. Like the hint of oil attracts US military "help".
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  3039. YouTube might have a rule against posting videos of back-alley beatings...
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  3040. I love that the demonstration was arts &crafts instead of computer animation!
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  3041.  @Palasid11  It started for the benefit of factories in Germany and the UK by reducing costs for gas lighting. Farmers work by the sun, season and weather. Not by the clock.
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  3042. Right? "But why would people fly airliners into office buildings? We're giving them democracy!"
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  3043.  @-Jason-L  Hmm... perhaps they sat through several other cases that cop had that day before theirs was called? Not everyone is in the front of the line, Doubting Thomas.
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  3044. No need to beat me up in an alley, I'd put those glasses on.
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  3045.  @mikep490  I have not slipped on a tennis or pickle ball court, but I have slipped on ice and snow many times. And I have never sued the property owner/operator. At most, I have advised them that their walk or steps are slippery and they ought to scrape the ice up and/or put down sand or ice melt. Why don't I sue? Because when I was a little kid I learned that ice and snow can be slippery, and walking or running on slippery surfaces without sufficient caution can result in me falling down.
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  3046. This story reminds me of when, in the 1980's or 90's the town next to the one I was living in enacted an ordinance banning video game and pinball machines from areas accessible to minors, because those machines attracted drug dealers who would get kids hooked on drugs. Prior to the ordinance, maybe 3 or 4 restaurants had the machines, and there was no arcade (too small a town for one). After the ordinance, there was one pinball machine in the bar side of a restaurant. And drug used by minors changed not a bit. It turns out minors were getting their drugs either under the railroad bridge near the high school, or in the parking lot across the street from the high school... that was two buildings from the police station!
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  3047.  @jacobcrist3080  By the sender, actually. But you have to may more to send it with a signature requirement. It's more secure to get a post office box, though much less convenient.
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  3048. I eagerly await Louis' DMCA (Don't Misidentify Cat A-hole!) claim being filed.
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  3049. The election board is a spreadsheet with extra steps.
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  3050. The difference? Law enforcement is an interstate gang that we pay a wage.
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  3051.  @spankynater4242  Only the obligation that is the foundation of a civil society... But I guess I'm too old to relate to the Karen generation.
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  3052.  @Wheel_Horse  I read this before the jump-scare, I was waiting for it, and it STILL got me
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  3053. My brain keeps conflating Techserve with Compuserve. I am OLD.
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  3054. Based on "Just Rolled In" frame welds are supposed to include small plate patches, bits of steel chain, old open-end wrenches, perforated angle iron, chicken wire, and a liberal amount of spray foam.
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  3055. This first call completely resets the scale of "New Yawkuh Accents"!
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  3056. His ideal defense, should he need one, is their own statement that what he did and saw was not possible.
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  3057. I saw a clip on Just Rolled In where some FORMER mechanic was running a lift up under a car while he was looking away from the car and at his phone. He had only set the lift arms under one side of the car and not at all under the other. He only noticed when the car started tilting and pushed into his shoulder, but by then the body damage was pretty extensive.
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  3058.  @dalentoews3418  Sorry, the parts delivery driver was "out of network".
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  3059. Ray has defeated the engineering of various PT Cruisers, so I have faith in his abilities with this rover of lands.
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  3060. "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE" It's right on the money.
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  3061. Definitely a case of "Better to have it and not need it than..."
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  3062. Fuel and other consumable service fluids, and wear on the equipment.
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  3063. You should have been more in fear for your life. The guy was armed (with a saw) and you could have escalated your response to something that would at least hospitalize the oxygen thief. When it comes to these criminals and "porch pirates" my urge is to get very medieval on them. "But officer, I only maced the guy!" - "Sir, you crushed his skull with a flanged mace. That is not the same thing."
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  3064.  @tiddybearkush  It's quaint that you seem to think Ford is the only offender.
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  3065. Why put a machine gun on a rolling refrigerator anyway?
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  3066.  @user-vg5mung5764hgftj  As the grandchild and great-grandchild of immigrants I would say that just making immigrants legal residents, and taxing their income, fixes most of the problems.
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  3067.  @onegenericman  "Of course, you know this means war!" - The last thing anyone hears before Bugs finally gets serious.
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  3068. I once saw a documentary that talked about how, after they were first invented, the US military was searching for a way to use nuclear weapons. One idea was to use them as a kind of "bunker buster" or to obliterate fortifications.
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  3069. Here's an example I read in a truck drivers response elsewhere under this video. I will paraphrase. Driving on the highway (65MPH), passing an exit (30MPH). - GPS might think you're already on the exit ramp. Lane assist see the fog line and think's either you're wandering to the left or it reports to the car's computer that you're taking the exit. Visual sign recognition sees a drastically slower speed limit. - Truck automatically brakes, may swerve. But the driver would still be at risk of losing their CDL for the damage, injuries, or deaths the braking/swerving caused.
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  3070. I am a viewer of Technology Connections and have been sold on the idea of heat pumps for a long time. - It was such a light-bulb moment when I learned that a heat pump is essentially an air conditioner that can run the temperature in the other direction, becoming a heater.
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  3071. Drawing and quartering?
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  3072. "Missile strike outbound!" - "What? The judge said ANY technological means available!"
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  3073. "Your honor, our demand is either a replacement of the house, or a deed swap for the company owner's house and land."
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  3074.  @HSS_yt  Hood is also a major dairy brand in my part of the US, and their ice cream is delicious.
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  3075. Move their HQ to Tuvalu, so they can have an even harder time lying about sea level rise.
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  3076. Even though we were all floppy and stumbling about. We'll try harder next time, Ray!
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  3077. "I smell marijuana." - "Well, officer, maybe you should stop smoking it before your work shifts, because it ain't me or my vehicle." (Then I get beaten on the roadside.)
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  3078. It would be a shame if it "accidentally leaked"...
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  3079. You're nervous - you're guilty. You're not nervous - you're guilty.
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  3080.  @evilmex1962  According to the Ukraine constitution, the country cannot legally have a national election during a declared emergency... like a war against a foreign invader. So, Zelenski is obeying HIS constitution. Why isn't our president?
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  3081. It blows my mind that RVs aren't covered by lemon law like other automobiles. It has an engine/motor/drive system. It has a driver's position. It has to meet the same standards as automobiles as regards to lights, directionals, safety equipment. It has to have a license plate like an automobile. Why is it not legally handled like an automobile as regards lemon laws? - Oh right. Bribes, er, lobbying.
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  3082. I am all for letting people fly their Not-see flags. Heck, help them get facial tattoos of their favorite symbol! It makes them easier to identify in a crowd.
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  3083. Ooh! Neat idea. All of the other riders who have now been deprived of access to this mountain could sue this guy AND his lawyer! They have the money, after all.
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  3084.  @thetechfromheaven  N word? Nerd, nebbish, Nosferatu, norm, Norm, neophyte, noob, newbie... which one?
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  3085.  @hrabathor  I imagine these are the wrong worms to go fishing with?
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  3086.  @larryscarr3897  Hahahaa!
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  3087. I'm glad the US is enacting a diplomatic boycott for the winter Olympics in West Tiawan.
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  3088. I have not been to a concert since the days you would line up at the ticket window waiting for them to open. Even then, the venues were locking blocks of the best seats for "VIPs" and radio stations to give away.
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  3089. Do we really need to wait for a child to shout out, 'The Emperor has no brain cells!"
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  3090. That would be the ultimate refuttal!
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  3091.  @TheCatherineCC  Maybe a piece of software called "Oops Accidental Denial of Service Attack"
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  3092. One of our 'family sayings' is: "Pain lets you know you're still alive." - Some others: "Don't bleed on the carpet." "Coulda, shoulda, woulda, but didn't." "If horses could fly we'd need better umbrellas." And our favorite - "Don't tell mom."
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  3093. That is true and ought to be done away with. If the intent is to charge a person money for their incarceration, have a shred of honest and make it a fine as part of the sentencing.
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  3094. Ah, another student of Tai-Quan-Leap?
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  3095.  @myrontedrow6134  Which is why aircraft carriers try to head into the wind at speed before launching winged aircraft. That is how Jimmy Doolittle's B-25s were able to take off from USS Hornet in less than the length of the flight deck.
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  3096.  @Cimlite  And thus ended the corporate dreams of Devin J. Ball-Gargler, who ended up dying of exposure under a highway overpass in western Wyoming.
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  3097.  @JudgedMentalMusic  Your YouTube handle is offensive, as determined by the chamber of my brain. You have been fined $100. Just pay it.
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  3098.  @fussel676  The lobbyists, like Charlie Brown and the "robust conversations" are the sad, sad joke being pulled on us.
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  3099. That really is one heck of a propane accessory!
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  3100. It would have been funny as [redacted] if someone jumped in her car and stole it while she was 'Karening'. - AND she runs a stop sign?
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  3101.  @rich7447  kickbacks are often blamed, but some of the real cost items are all of the money that has to be set aside for lawsuits, and (even though they have done a lot of good for employee rights) the high, high price of union labor contracts. - If you hire an excavator and operator to dig a hole for a pool, you pay a LOT less than a city would pay that same operator and the same machine to dig an identically proportioned hole on a municipal job. And while you can pick a company to dig for your pool from the phone book or personal references, or even an online contractor matching site and get the hole dug within a week or two, a municipal contract has weeks to months of open bids, requirements for racial proportionality in which companies might get the job... and the hole gets dug as much as a year or more later.
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  3102. Absolutely! If precedent is set by a verdict, the practice of CAF becomes easier for others to challenge. The seizing powers don't want that.
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  3103.  @tomboone201  Now you're getting the idea. Watch your head on the way into the back of the cruiser.
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  3104.  @ViolentMLG  Yes, but Im Skrude says his friend thinks that somehow crushing a can makes that can weigh more.
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  3105. You know the Sokovia Accords were not worried about Avengers carrying their passports. But my first thought went to travel for legitimate tourism. Hey, Nat? Want to go visit the Louvre? - Can't Sokovia Accords. - - - Hey Fury, want to see a cool Mayan Pyramid? Can't Sokovia Accords oh-wait-I'm-legally-dead-let's-go!
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  3106.  @stellamcwick8455  Don't forget to sprinkle in a few uses of words like quantum and subspace.
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  3107.  @Jirodyne  But all too danged often, the cops won't even arrest. They shrug, say the magic words, "civil matter," and walk away.
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  3108. I originally got angry when I was 'Rick-rolled', but after the first few times, I started to like hearing the song. Then I started loving it. Now I will occasionally seek the song out and play it just to groove. It can reset a bad day to good.
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  3109.  @ysesq  It more, "Yes, that IS a temple attached to a hospital, but you have set your command and control in the temple and have mounted missile launchers on the roof of the hospital. So now that's a legitimate target."
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  3110. But where is the converter thief supposed to make their Sawzall cuts? (I AM JOKING!)
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  3111.  @Scoots1994  Yeah, like tacking school lunch finding to a defense appropriations bill so the sound clips could be "My opponent is taking food out of your children's mouths!" When they voted against the bill because the army doesn't actually want all the tanks the bill budgets for.
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  3112.  @tim3172  It is true that you can't fix stupid. But we should stop making a world to coddle the stupid.
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  3113. I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
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  3114. An airbus 380 can carry, at absolute maximum, 853 passengers, though no airline has yet stacked people in that tightly. As a rough number, most airlines average around 500 passengers in that monster of a plane. Those 20,000 soldiers would fill 400 planes. That's a lot of flights. That would be almost the entirety of air traffic at Heathrow for a day (650 average).
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  3115. Knock knock. - who's there? Colon. - colon who? Colonizer! I'm kidding, colonizers never knock. - Stolen from the comedian Randy Feltface.
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  3116. The way I learned it was that the bigger the bit, the slower the spin. I'm not saying it was right, but it worked.
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  3117. But, but... "Peace in our time?"
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  3118.  @robertgibbons7781  The 3rd Amendment hasn't been violated all that much in the last 250 years.
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  3119.  Detrumpificator4377 Just don't talk to them. If you're driving and get pulled over, present the legally required documentation and SHUT UP. If you're walking and get stopped about something real or imagined, SHUT UP. If you're a victim of a crime and are filing a report, provide the shortest account of the incident that covers the relevant facts and then SHUT UP.
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  3120. Ignorance of the law is a job asset, if you wear a badge.
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  3121. I hereby move that we call the .451 the Bradbury round.
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  3122. I wonder if that guy is still holding out hope for getting his Harrier jump-jet...
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  3123.  @Rizzob17  This video and this comment thread prompted me to clean out my car this afternoon. It wasn't all that messy, I keep a small trash bag for stuff, and I had the dead wipers on the floor that I changed out recently.
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  3124.  @clark987878  The Cardassians (in Star Trek) had an interesting justification for their "guilty until proven innocent" judicial system that went something like, "If a person is innocent, it is unfair to hold them for trial."
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  3125.  @fk4515  A "because I said so" warrant ought to also be illegal. If that kind of warrant is legal, why bother with search warrants at all, right?
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  3126. Return the cameras to the owning authority! One envelope for resistors, one envelope for capacitors on envelope for...
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  3127. It is hard to combat the SEP (Somebody Else's Problem) effect. It is a relative of NIMBY and "Not My Problem"
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  3128. I know that my mother would put the hair from me and my brothers' spring haircuts out near the bushes on the edge of the yard and it was gone within a day or so.
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  3129. There's still Congress if we need scandal investigations... - I think if I was on death row for a murder I didn't commit, I would still turn down a Trump pardon. Just on principle.
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  3130. I remember the "WOW" of finding out that the Disc camera I got for Christmas one year didn't need flash cubes of flash bars.
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  3131. Lucky nobody heard an acorn fall!
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  3132.  @nunnabeeswax2397  And that is, in part, the fault of the mega- and corporate hospitals each replacing a region's local hospitals. People used to have choices of several hospitals within a town or three of their home, but now the hospitals are fewer, bigger, and all concentrated in large and small cities, making some people's like-saving car up to an hour away. And this is in Massachusetts, where distances are shorter than the big western states.
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  3133.  @RabbiPorkchop  This atheist agrees.
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  3134.  @patrickdiehl6813  The only problem with using a label maker is that the blow-molded cases are typically made with a 'pebbled' exterior surface, which is not ideal for adhesive labels. Also, by this point, there may be petroleum contamination of the surfaces, which is a MUCH more minor issue, and can be remediated with cleaning. - edit: But the label maker is great for marking shelves!
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  3135.  @bearcudlybear  I think humans have too many statues of people anyway. I find more value in markers and simple monuments, where there are words clearly stating what is being memorialized instead of art and subjective reactions. - A dark wall with a depressingly long list of people who died in a foreign "police action" is, to me more powerful than a statue of someone in a pose an artist felt would evince a specific feeling from people viewing it.
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  3136.  @joeporter4920  I had a Nokia phone that would come apart every time I dropped it, turning the energy of the impact into the energy needed to pop off the back cover and send the battery skittering around. Dropped it four times onto asphalt or concrete over my ownership of the phone and only gained scratches. No broken screen, no cracked case, no repairs needed. All I had to do was put the battery back in, snap on the back cover, and turn the phone back on. Where was the problem? - Now I have one of those huge Chinese-made Google smart phones and I worry constantly about dropping it and breaking the needlessly huge screen.
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  3137. If you have ever towed another car with a rope or cable, you will likely have experienced another problem with towing in space. Getting rammed by the thing you're towing due to recoil from elasticity of the tow line and the energy lost from imparting it to the towed object slowing you as it accelerates the towed item. On roads, you also have to deal with the problems when the tow vehicle wants to slow or stop, if there is not control over braking in the towed vehicle.
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  3138.  @jame3shook  Oh? You expect a tire change to include properly torqued lug nuts? You fool!
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  3139. Commodore Gandalf!
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  3140.  @michaelwaninger3155  "You've been hit by, you've been fined by, a badged criminal." - paraphrasing Michael Jackson
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  3141. Social media had one huge bright moment in history, facilitating the (first) Arab Spring, and a few blips here and there helping connect people after natural disasters Aside from that? singular examples here and there.
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  3142.  @wilbilt  But then Ray would have had to open the gate to answer the age-old question for us. "Why did the chicken cross the road?" "It was riding with Ray!"
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  3143. You needed a highly specialized tool called a (and correct me if I say it wrong) "*Phillips'* screwdriver? How did you possibly manage?!* *Complete sarcasm, BTW
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  3144. Please avoid politics, guys. That road only leads to fighting. Even more so here where people can attack with safety and anonymity.
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  3145. Hey Louis, the early morning basket of grey depression is what we New Englanders call "Spring". It is less a season than a slow easing of the S.A.D. from winter, and keeps us from getting too enthusiastic about the season called "summer", or more colloquially, "mosquitoes".
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  3146. Yeah, that shocked me with how sudden and miniature-violent it was, and how well it matched to footage of real slab avalanches.
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  3147. "Camera, chair, bookshelf, body, TV." - All seems normal there!
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  3148. One type of fire detector I have seen in industrial settings but not in residential are what was described to me as "rate of rise" detectors, which (IIRC) detect how fast the temperature is rising and/or if the temperature rises to a certain level. - Looking them up, the two are different technologies sometimes combined in one protection scheme. Rate of rise being one technology, and fixed temperature detectors. And apparently they are slower to respond than smoke detectors, so are used for the protection of property, not people.
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  3149. Hmm... Fakts, you say? Interesting concept. - So bias would be like two people disagreeing whether a rock they find is big or small. A lie would be if someone said it was a rock of some size, but it was a potato.
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  3150. The laws requiring prominently posted "No Trespassing" signs make little sense to me, particularly in urban or suburban settings. Are we also required to post "No Murdering" signs? "No Arson"? "No Terrorism"?
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  3151.  @suedenim9208 "The car was stolen!" - "Are you sure?" "Yes.' - "Are you really sure?" "Yes." - "Are you really REALLY sure?" "Oh, never mind, we found it sitting in the lot."
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  3152.  @kgoblin5084  Can a homeowner start a one-home HOA? I think it would be like copyrighting your written works as a form of protecting your rights. Plus it would be fun to tell people, "Oh, I can't join your HOA, I'm already in one."
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  3153. Was? IS!
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  3154. There is a log entry in the game Encased that describes (paraphrasing here) the (for the setting's era) amazing new energy source in the base as an amazing advance in power generation that took humanity from using the burning of wood, coal and oil to boil water to make steam to spin turbines all the way into the future of using the power of atoms to... boil water.
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  3155. This is an easy fix. You carefully chisel the rivets from the VIN plate, and find another car of the same model that works better, glue your VIN in.
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  3156. That case really made me shake my head. Microsoft was not REQUIRING that computer owners use Internet Explorer. They were setting the table so those who didn't know or want to find the information about other browsers would use IE. That's it. Apple IS locking out other software, by creating all of the hurdles people have to go through to buy and install software NOT from their store.
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  3157.  @XENONEOMORPH1979  I love when people get on their high-horse about their particular brand of mythology.
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  3158.  @bolnol5419  Wow. You drank the Fox Brand Kool-Aid.
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  3159. Pride in being of German descent is no issue. But if that German descent includes those we do not-see maybe slam the brakes on the pride train.
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  3160.  @SirReptitious  I cannot recall the last time I bought a package of brand-name pre-sliced sandwich meat. Store brands for the win. All of the flavor, much less of the advertising budget.
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  3161.  @MrDLRu  That's what some of us call attention to detail, and malicious compliance.
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  3162.  @Playingwithproxies  The Lawyer's Club won't care.
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  3163. Insurance is gambling. The covered person is gambling that they will pay less in premiums than they will collect in the event of a covered event. (and that the insurance company will actually pay. The company is gambling that the covered people will pay more (as a group) than they have to pay out for covered losses, wages, taxes, rents and so on. The investors in the insurance company are gambling that their investment will increase, not decrease.
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  3164. Truth. If all you want is legal casino gambling, there are many on Native American reservations. If you're going to lose money, maybe lose it to people who might do better things with it.
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  3165. I imagined the pilot shouting at the control tower, "What? No tip?"
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  3166. Huh. I just hate Boston because it is crowded, made of an arcane maze of one-way streets, and makes me feel like I've been coated in a layer of industrial filth every time I've been there. I never thought about the racism. Thanks, Roy and team.
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  3167. Heck yeah! Risk a charge for attempted vehicular homicide!
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  3168. Or don't staff the line at all.
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  3169. Just like rental landlords, many builders don't care how expensive the structure is for you to live in, as long as it passes inspections (even if that takes an envelope of cash "accidentally" dropped near the inspector's car) and brings in maximum profits.
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  3170. It's Louis. We understand.
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  3171. Like the guy who had himself cabled by the neck to a bicycle that was supposed to fly with the thrust of a rocket which had previously been proven to explode and spread flaming pieces of itself? That was some top "Hey y'all watch this" design philosophy.
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  3172.  @shoeflytoo  But that is exactly what this well-funded lobbying group made of manufacturers and dealers IS trying to do. They are working as hard as possible, and using very sleazy tactics, to tap into the lucrative post-warranty repair market. The generations who would bring their car tot he dealership for every little scheduled check-up and oil change for the low bribe of a cup of coffee and a handshake are dying off. And it is really making them panic in dumb ways.
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  3173. Damn sov-cits making real exercise of our rights harder...
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  3174. Not much, because the police would show up and take it (and possibly the camera owner) down as soon as it was noticed.
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  3175.  @trashmesoftsoft  That is like saying instead of getting a reliable vehicle, just buy two or three crappy ones.
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  3176. Here in the US, generations of corporate lawyers have done a great job dismantling the parts of the laws that were written to protect the "underclass".
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  3177.  @tonywilson4713  On the other hand, we do need to have some compassion for people with age-related dementia
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  3178. Also, with that much less body to support with food, water and oxygenated blood, they continue to be a savings!
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  3179.  @GreyBlackWolf  I once went to a Cracker Barrel just to shop in the store section. They have games and toys that are hard to find elsewhere, and you can get a lot of your gift list covered with one visit.
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  3180. She's so fluffy! - Agnes Gru
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  3181. Indeed. A loan to family is a gift, so only give what you can afford.
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  3182. That, and they deserve to watch actual justice happen to those who incited and allowed the insurrection to occur.
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  3183. My heart weeps for their difficulties in exploiting the work of others for no compensation. (NOT!)
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  3184. I actually prefer getting a slip of paper instead of having the package left out for thieves and the weather to get at. That "delivery by fiction" is something that happens here to, which is why so many individuals pay extra for certified mail that requires (according to the system, may vary in reality) a recipient to sign for the letter. And you can pay even MORE to get a copy of that signature card (return receipt) back as evidence of who signed for what you sent.
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  3185. Two stories about college and textbooks. - For Calculus, I juggled my schedule to ensure I took Calculus 1 through 3 with the same professor so that I would use the entire textbook. - For a course on U.S. Constitutional history, the professor told us all on day one that because it was a 400-level history class he was required to list five books for the class, but he said only one of them was at all necessary, and almost all that would be tested would be what he talked about in class.
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  3186.  @matthewk6731  If the cop could SEE the holstered pistol, how "concealed" was it?
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  3187. The governor is wishy-washy. I wonder what Keel has over him.
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  3188. Gangs hate when other gangs move in on their territory.
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  3189.  @kensmith5694  They can still make a number of people miserable by getting on the board of an HOA...
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  3190. Inheritances can reveal the real monsters in a family.
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  3191. He is a failed version of Grima Wormtongue. The literary one had the decency to LITERALLY stab his evil boss in the back.
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  3192. I had a summer job at a landfill. I concur, that hard drive is statistically unfindable. Even if it IS found, it is likely crushed or ruined by landfill 'juices'.
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  3193. It also has one of the best names of a (real) warship. Only rivalled by the fictional Thunderchild.
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  3194. Respirator mask, safety glasses/goggles, liquid-proof gloves and venting the room are important things to add to an airbrush rig.
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  3195. I read the name and heard whinnying horses. (Young Frankenstein reference)
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  3196.  @iridescentsea3730  Good. Let the hate FLOW through you, and strike me down with all of your anger!
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  3197. Ian's advice applied to all sort of collections. If you collect stamps, or coins, or paintings, or Hummel figurines, or cap snafflers or... You are very unlikely to find a single museum that needs all of your collection. You may not even find a private buyer who wants all of your collection. Heck, for some collections, you may not find anyone with interest in it at all. But if there is interest, you will very likely need to psychologically prepare yourself for the breaking up of your long-gathered collection to find everything a new home.
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  3198. You have to know that if states could cut the number of jurors in half, they would not double the compensation.
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  3199. They really need to fight these ordinances by using state/federal law. Too danged many municipalities make up rules that violate protections under higher law, because of financial or plain old 'power' reasons.
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  3200. Your point is solid, but assumes that ONLY Ford would do this. - See also: Apple removes headphone jack, Samsung follows suit a short while later.
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  3201. Set phasers to bad rebuild! Fire photon torpedoes!
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  3202.  @AsbestosMuffins  How am I expected to make my Nuka Cola without a supply of spicy rocks?
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  3203.  @Germanwtb  I interviewed for a job with a company that did just that. They bought broken/discarded major medical machines and after replacing seals, rewiring, cleaning, cleaning can cleaning, and sometimes paint and label replacement, would sell them to poorer places overseas that couldn't afford new. - I was way overqualified, and the guy was honest that he couldn't afford to pay me what my schooling was worth.
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  3204. And all of the restraints, meds, isolation, boredom and mental abuse he could get. Yay...
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  3205. I wonder how much they'll fine the new owner for the pile of house debris not being cleaned up in a timely manner?
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  3206. I loved the Mythbusters homage! - Another thing I noticed with the back-side view of the sprinkles is the container first deforming, then starting to stretch, then fracturing.
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  3207. If you want to explain thermobaric munitions to someone you can talk about how gasoline or charcoal lighter fluid can begin evaporating before an ignition source is applied, resulting in a large ball of fire that, at that scale, makes a "woof!" sound and is very hot. The effect has been known to burn the hair off of the arms, face and/or head of many a barbecue operator.
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  3208. That there is funny!
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  3209.  @TheSilverSphincter69  Gary is SO going to tell the raccoon federation on you!
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  3210. @Johan Abdullah Holm I did say my logic was dubious.
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  3211. Germany, and much of the EU is doing a lot more right than the US is.
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  3212.  @p12423073  No, he was going 43 on a road that probably had a speed limit of 55 or 65. The 15MPH is the claim of the plaintiff's "expert" spewing B.S.
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  3213. And sometimes, sticking a thumb in it is not enough, eh?
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  3214.  @michaellindgren9653  I like your approach! Well done.
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  3215.  @bradc32  Yeah, that data point rang alarm bells.
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  3216.  @allanrichardson1468  Thyme for both of you to go!
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  3217.  @greatestcait  Those private rocket programs don't pay for themselves!
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  3218.  @patriciahisoire5753  Both the first and second clip have cops putting on their gloves AFTER they get on the porch, tying up their hands in that action when they could potentially need those hands to respond to a violent situation. In other words, they're idiots.
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  3219. "I'm gonna make my OWN phone! With blackjack and hookers!"
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  3220. And on the driver side, the rubber boot just fell off with vibration. So, it was not all that well seated anymore. I also think I saw grit in the exposed joint.
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  3221.  @Qingeaton  Conversely, at that time, I and a couple of friends went to every bookstore and library in our general area and asked if they had a copy of that cookbook, and if they could let us know when they got a copy in. And we gave someone else's name, address and phone number.
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  3222. I've never experienced engine-rich exhaust, but I have encountered an engine-rich oil pan on my 1970 VW Beetle. Funny thing, with all the metal ring chunks in the oil pan, the engine still ran fine. A friend who had several owned by family members told me, "Yeah, all those broken parts in the oil pan is normal."
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  3223. It's another scratch in the thin veneer of civilization that keeps us from applying hammers to foreheads.
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  3224. Silly, that only works with the Girls und Panzer laws of physics. The same physics that lets tanks drift and spin while still firing accurately.
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  3225. Pfft. The mystery hut is just the entrance to the Iron Sky base. It's been there since the early 1940's, and I'm sure it's nothing to worry about.
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  3226.  @arjix8738  pedantry is the debate tactic of the unimaginative.
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  3227. We live in a country and time where someone can have get fined for their car tires slightly on the grass... in their own yard.
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  3228. I agree that the 60mm mortar is a great company/platoon level asset. If you want bigger, you get the 81/107/120 platoon on the radio. if you need bigger than that, you have to climb up to artillery or CAS, which is harder to get quickly without pre-planning or luck.
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  3229. Fix post-service care! Don't make people like John Stewart have to use all the leverage they have to get care that should have been offered as a matter of course.
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  3230. I remember back in the 1980's or 90's where trash haulers were interviewed about their taking barges of trash out into the open ocean and dumping because the fine from the EPA was cheaper, per barge, than disposing of the trash properly.
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  3231. 9 cops? They wanted to do him serious harm because they were scared. Cops always seem to be scared. Maybe they need to find safer jobs?
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  3232. Minimal intrusion sounds like a slimy defense in a sexual assault case.
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  3233.  @ShroudedWolf51  I did say please. I also offered a bargain. And I did not say one was right and the other wrong. I was expressing my irritation to follow along with the spirit of the content in the video. But apparently, opinions are not allowed anymore?
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  3234. "When will you realize, the more you take, the less you have... SQUIRREL!"
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  3235. Right? Because he can't possibly have a deep well of experience to draw on. If only he was as good a mechanic as all of the armchair experts one can find here on YouTube. (If you think I was aiming my comments at you, that's a YOU problem.)
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  3236. And if the shenanigans were in the other direction, in the bank's favor, they'd spend the same lawyer money fighting correcting the error.
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  3237.  @conscientiousobserver8772  Check the actual laws in the state(s) in which you drive. I know that in Massachusetts, you can decline the roadside skills test, but refusing a breathalyzer can result in immediate revocation of your driver's license. - edit: that said, with asthma/COPD, I would likely fail to "make the tone" for sufficient duration for the breathalyzer to work correctly. Leading to the question of whether the cop(s) would think I was faking it and trying to evade the test then arresting me, or actually believe me and proceed to a blood test.
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  3238. I love the imagery of "like Las Vegas got lost in a pine forest".
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  3239.  @tom_ad9343  I can live happily without cruise control. I had it in a rental car once and tried it out. I am not a fan. As to the no power anything? I agree, except for steering and brakes, because of the safety benefits. I LOVE my key-entry car with manual seats, manual windows, no heated seats, no touchscreen in the console...
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  3240. But at least "the wrong kind of people" were kept out of the neighborhood, right?
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  3241.  @meligoth  Oh, they may not be legal to be written down anymore, but you can't legislate away a person's internal racism.
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  3242. I am personally against pot, tobacco and alcohol. But I guess if the majority want them all to be legal, then all I will do is insist that they not be used in my personal proximity. Particularly the inhaled substances. The smell of them makes me nauseous.
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  3243.  @wendwllhickey6426  Not only is it a plastic part on an engine, it is a plastic part that keeps oil and coolant separate, and it requires taking apart about half of the engine to get to it.
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  3244.  @jaygadd1805  I watched Ray's video on that one too. As bad as vehicle engineers are getting, that was an ultimate face-palm design.
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  3245.  @abitofabitofabit4404  You have accurately spotlighted one of my areas of ignorance in the voodoo rituals that run the stock market.
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  3246.  @miguelservetus9534  So instead, let the offense continue, perhaps to include harm to yourself, while you wait for the police to hopefully show up at the right address before the criminal gets away. Good plan.
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  3247.  @trutsieo5430  Or deployed in 'chin-hammock' mode.
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  3248.  @patricklarocque1550  That is a lesson that needs to be applied to fines associated with laws. The fine for the first offense of hiring an illegal alien in the US (once you get caught) is $573. Per unauthorized employee. Sure, the fine ramps up, but the saving by not offering benefits like health care and paying a living wage can more than pay for the fine. - If the fine was instead "x# of days of gross income" plus actual jail time for the responsible parties? Well, that might end the practice. - Then we can look at the fines for environmental pollution, employment violating for legal employees, insider trading...
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  3249. Huge thanks for the John Mulaney joke reference! - This is my third-ever Trope Talk video, and I did not expect an hour's worth of information in every 20-minute (or thereabouts) roll. I think my brain has stretch marks...
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  3250.  @tenhirankei  IIRC, the Sokovia Accords was the MCU's way of getting a Mutant Registration Act into the movie without having to be nice to Fox Pictures. That used to be a problem, not anymore.
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  3251.  @richardcraniumXLVII  You are using Dunning-Kruger wrong, and you also need to look up the definition and use of satire.
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  3252. "Return the back cover to the phone. You have ten seconds to comply." - Back cover is re-installed "You have five seconds to comply."
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  3253.  @tmcmurdo826  Yer a square! (Boomer squared, hehe)
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  3254. Well, the packages WERE involved in criminal activity...
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  3255.  @jamesgeorge4874  For a Corolla, time without the use of owned property, emotional damage, and being lying jerks.
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  3256. Gosh, if only we had some sort of data about how he would run a presidency before he was elected this time around. Some sort of prior data, a previous four years of information...
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  3257. Sure, a condo or HOA may have a covenant. Maybe buyers need a Master Chief...
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  3258. That is a genius product that should not be so darned obscure! Heck, there ought to be one included with the spare in cars with lug bolts.
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  3259.  @pr0n5tar  Yes you can go on. You left out civil asset forfeiture.
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  3260. It is amazing how much power generation is about using some phase of water (liquid in hydro, steam in the others) to spin things to generate electricity.
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  3261. The oddest outhouse moment I had was hearing growls from below the seat. Turns out a raccoon had fallen in, but it was extricated by means of a tree limb being lowered down the hole and the door left propped open as we all ran to "minimum safe distance". Now with this story, I wonder if the raccoon also dropped a cell phone.
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  3262. Heck, I can see my signature change over the course of a day if I am doing anything manually strenuous that day.
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  3263.  @thatjeff7550  You want another killdozer? That's how you make another killdozer!
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  3264. Them and the Tropicana train!
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  3265. Pontiac Testarosa?
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  3266.  @gothboschincarnate3931  Well, it was, at one point, sand. Just melted, formed and sometimes dyed and tempered.
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  3267. You know the overgrowth is serious when they pull in the PTO-powered brush deck.
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  3268.  @Deevo037  Oh! Like the third bridge on the Space Battleship Yamato... hanging out there exposed with no defensive weaponry around it?
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  3269. It's not lying, it's commercial real estate.
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  3270.  @fiveoneecho  Capcom is also a video game developer. Notably, they are behind the Monster Hunter, Resident Evil and Street Fighter games
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  3271. Please, please, PLEASE, Donnie! Please refuse to show for your arraignment! I really want to see you get a warrant for failure to appear. The perp walk could be very satisfying.
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  3272.  @MsZsc  But that would also require major redesigns and rebuilds of our towns and cities, and a redesign of our culture.
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  3273. Since a flywheel is essentially a fixed gyroscope, do the flywheels have any issues due to the rotation of the Earth?
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  3274.  @michellegaza7740  I don't know if my state has a method to skip the line and drop off a mail-in ballot unless you already asked for and received that mail-in ballot ahead of time. - On the point of looking up candidates (and ballot questions) I do that in the couple of weeks before I go to vote, and bring a list of the candidates and questions for which I am voting. Sometimes that list is the back page from the pamphlet our State Secretary sends out ahead of the elections, sometimes it is an old envelope or even a post-it. - My state doesn't use churches for polling places. They use schools and municipal buildings, but my view is a church is just a building like any other if nobody is talking about their version of god and faith at the moment. I'm atheistic and I like the architecture of the typical New England protestant church. They also make good emergency shelters because they almost always have a kitchen and a large space where people can eat. - Regarding work pressures, this country had a lot of years to turn voting day into a holiday, but at least states have picked up the ball with early in-person and mail-in (or drop off) voting.
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  3275.  @gump1005  One factor impacts things even more than "who counts the votes", as recounts are allowed in all jurisdictions and all counts are allowed to have observers present. At state and national level elections, the parties, to a very disturbing degree, pick who we-the-people are even ALLOWED to choose from.
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  3276.  @jpnewman1688  Hur, hur. How many times you vote, huh? (knuckle-drag)
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  3277. I know that I once quit a good-paying job because of the stress, the management treating me like crap, the pressure to perform like a robot, the customers being absolute jerks... And happily took a job for about 70% of the pay for about half the suffering.
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  3278.  @sarchizm  And that's why if you want to be "neighborly" like the OP's example, you write a lease for something silly like $1 per year, with exit clauses just like renting anything else.
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  3279. And the tow truck and impound lot are not responsible for incidental damages and lost items...
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  3280.  @lynchkid003  And if you don't even have a hint that you would be being served such notice, would you really be looking?
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  3281. Bah, just move him to another Archdiocese. That'll fix everything.
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  3282.  @grahamstrouse1165  Wasn't the design for one nuclear explosion per second?
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  3283. In the town I lived in a few years ago, the two-unit house next door had been repossessed by the bank. A couple of years after the repo, a realtor came by to do her initial walkthrough, and found that the basement lock was missing, as was almost all of the copper piping and wiring, to include walls being broken into the get to more of the wiring. As the place was being rebuilt, they two more break-ins with thefts of copper piping and other materials. - The bank FINALLY ponied up for cameras and caught the thieves on their fourth trip into the house, and after the arrest, nothing else was stolen.
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  3284. I hope the dog got a better forever home!
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  3285.  @davidcox3076  Both the 1976 and 2007 woman-led incarnations of the concept were just titled "The Bionic Woman" with no dollar amount attached. Even a mere two years after Steve Austin's life-saving operation, inflation made a dollar amount meaningless.
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  3286. And only NOW they're going to "investigate"? Something, something, sunlight, disinfectant, roaches fleeing when the kitchen light is turned on...
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  3287. Also? It's not the CONGRESSIONAL Medal of Honor. It's the Medal of Honor.
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  3288. The "Do you actually own anything?" argument is disingenuous. Taxes (when properly allocated) are for common resources like police, fire, roads, bridges, defense, and so on. Valid arguments against taxes are when they are improperly spent, poorly managed, or over-collected for the enrichment of those managing the expenditures.
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  3289. Groan. Take your thumbs up and go stand in a corner!
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  3290.  @JDBees37  Flipping a prop around doesn't change the direction that it pushes. It just puts the prop in a less efficient orientation.
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  3291.  @Razmoudah  Or just vigorously scrape a screwdriver down the barrel for a minute or two.
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  3292. What stuck in my head was this. "There is a Ford Fiesta that still runs well enough to drive over a TV?"
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  3293. Won't happen until the matter is part of the standardized "No Child Left Behind" testing.
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  3294. "Your dime, your slime." "City morgue. You stab 'em, we slab 'em."
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  3295. What lesson have we learned? When cops turn on their roof lights, SLAM ON THE BRAKES AND STOP WHEREVER YOU HAPPEN TO BE! MAYBE take the stop to the side of the road, your call. And if that causes them to rear-end your car, well, too danged bad. They should have been following at a safe distance. If they do hit your car, remember to "have whiplash".
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  3296. It is slightly possible that people don't want their children and grandchildren and on and on paying interest-only on the massive debt that keeps growing as the country spends more than it brings in. Try doing that as an individual and see how long it lasts.
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  3297. Notice that they show up carrying a firearm, pepper spray, and sometimes an electrical debilitation device and/or a club. But not a first aid kit. For the actual help, they have to schlep back to their car for a first aid kit or call someone else who shows up with an ambulance.
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  3298. At 6'3" myself, every time I get in my car after a mechanic has it, I check seat position, mirrors, and radio presets (in case the battery had to be disconnected). I am not mad if a mechanic has to move the seat and mirrors, particularly if the repair requires a test drive. I'd rather they drove my car safely and inconvenience me by a minute or two.
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  3299. I am stunned that Georgia, of all states, is taking a baby step toward ending this practice.
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  3300.  @LostintheTwilightZone  But if the justices who put politics above law happened to be meeting in a build isolated from other structures, and that building happened to be struck by a 50-meter asteroid... Well, nobody could be held legally at fault for such a thing.
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  3301. But do astronauts lose 10mm sockets?
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  3302. Yeah. If you want to really scare yourself about juries, think of all the stupid people you have seen, met or know who are registered to vote. Those morons may be your jury some day.
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  3303.  @lylejohnston4125  Hahaha!!!
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  3304.  @nicholasvinen  I'm sure they'll find other venues for their anonymized hate.
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  3305. I'd rather be hit in the face with a book than use Facebook.
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  3306. Yep, when Ray is done, the OBD2 port and maybe (MAYBE) the windows will remain original.
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  3307. So nice to see MTG getting a new committee post from her party. She seems to be the chairperson of the "Chaperone Matt Gaetz" coalition.
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  3308.  @n.d.m.515  Punished for honesty is how it works for us, the under-class.
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  3309. A statistically small reduction of the chance of developing breast cancer is a dumb reason to have a kid.
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  3310. Right on!
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  3311.  @JM-lk6wo  Or even worse, a PT Cruiser! ...wait...
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  3312. Ooh! Good point!
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  3313.  @cariwaldick4898  But that is a matter for insurance companies and/or an agreement between the two parties. But of course a cop who is trained with the mindset of "TICKET AND ARREST!" that becomes all they know how to do.
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  3314.  @raylynngiroux5525  A panda eats shoots and leaves. A panda eats, shoots, and leaves. Let's eat, grandma! Let's eat grandma!
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  3315. Police unions, like a certain 45th job holder, reward LOYALTY over integrity.
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  3316. Even more fun, follow the chalking cop with your own chalk and mark all of the tires in various radii.
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  3317. @SayAhh That is what is currently called "piracy"
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  3318. It makes sense that graphene is so great, as hexagons are the bestagons.
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  3319. I and a friend returned to his car after seeing a movie (back in the early 1990's to find a broken window. The thief had taken a radio that had not worked in years and a handful of coins from the LARP we played.
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  3320. Dear servicemembers and veterans. Remember, "against all enemies, foreign and domestic..." Even though you may have separated from service, nobody required you to forswear that oath.
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  3321. Also, if your rebel/terrorist group insists on calling itself the "legitimate government" of a country, then expect to have your aggression reacted to as if you are a country.
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  3322.  @rogehmarbi  A couple of my friends have phones that tag on the default "sent from a [COMPANY NAME HERE] phone"
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  3323. Particularly when that phrase is NOT followed by advice to get deep sea diving certification or a bathysphere!
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  3324. Expect to see cars sold with unnecessary "frame reinforcement" members that exist to finagle the formula. Kind of like Japanese naval vessels built under the Washington Naval Treaty having treaty compliant displacement and turrets... and turrets with larger and heavier weapons sitting in a warehouse ready to install.
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  3325. The side-cutting one I bought my mother was the rechargeable kind that you put on the can and it drove itself around the can. Made by... Black & Decker.
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  3326.  @jasonbourne1596  My entire four years of high school I had a bus driver who drove drunk. No DUIs because he was friends with all of the cops in the area, part of the same rod & gun club, a church deacon with a few of them. Meanwhile, totally sober CDL drivers, pilots, and other occupations lose their jobs for false DUI arrests, while more lose days of pay or their jobs because they have to spend days and money proving their sobriety.
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  3327.  @jhoughjr1  Protected classes, like cops, judges, prosecutors, politicians, C-suite business people...
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  3328. "Get the hell outta my county" tells me everything I need to know about that "sheriff" and the kind of filth he is. - Let us see how much time this former sheriff spends in his favorite chair, eh?
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  3329. Imagine if there was a common database of licensure in major professions? WITH pictures of the licensee.
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  3330. 192,262.7 years, $2,973,940,000. Sounds interesting!
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  3331. Dear world: Treat the US and our leaders EXACTLY as has been earned. Label us a travel danger and an international pariah until we get our [bleep] squared away.
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  3332.  @tricksterjoy9740  America: The Jaegerhulk
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  3333.  @johnmcmickle5685  That is a great method, IF the auction accepts that as a form of payment. Many auctions are cash-only, probably to prevent getting ripped off by people voiding their checks or transfers after they get the item.
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  3334.  @bhabbott  Another issue is too many newer-built homes (think DR Horton, amongst many others) can hardly support their own roofs, never mind snow and/or solar panels.
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  3335. This is how it sometimes works with USPS (US Postal Service). But if the package is small/light, and your route is not a walking-only route, then USPS will sometimes leave the package. UPS and Fed-Ex will just leave the package unless you have the sender require a signature upon receipt. The USPS will also not drop off a package that requires signature.
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  3336. I bet Hawley did Natsee that coming.
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  3337. And charge it for room and sanitation supplies.
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  3338. Going to Philadelphia is often a mistake in general.
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  3339.  @gorak9000  That's Tinderboxes 3 sandwiches month, plus any number of potential sandwiches from everyone Tinderbox talks to about the issue, plus even a few more from this story being shared on the internet. And then the possibility of other people experiencing the same situation with their punch-cards, then telling others...
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  3340. They could possibly have fed all of the homeless people in LA county for a month... with mac-n-cheese.
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  3341.  @Never-mind1919  And it doesn't just happen with icy. If you have a layer of mildew on your steps or walk/driveway, water can make it like grease.
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  3342. The ads for those companies are a lot slicker than the reality, and people will penny-pinch themselves into miserable lodgings.
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  3343.  @GBRyker61  Even if they are giving it back, the taking was still a crime. Will there be charges?
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  3344.  @leefranklin3054  It points to a particular mindset about the tools of one's trade. I worked for a construction company and the owner had me doing weekly (or more frequent, for machines that had hard use) of all machines, vehicles and power equipment. If the tires didn't meet tread depth requirements (IIRC 3/100ths was his threshold, with 2/100ths being regulation?) then the tires got scheduled for a change. I even learned how to measure brake pad thickness, where all the grease points were on everything, how to check for belt wear, and how to confirm the dump truck air brakes were working to spec. - The owner(s) of the truck in the video seem to treat the truck as a tool like their third-favorite screwdriver.
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  3345. I am old enough to remember when Harbor Freight EARNED the nickname Harbor Fright for their completely crap quality. And the only place to buy them was some periodically announced flea market style sales event And then they gradually improved. But fear not! WalMart offers the new bottom-of-the-barrel tools!
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  3346. Some of the best Subway advertising is done by Jim Gaffigan. He's also brilliant for Hot Pockets and McDonalds.
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  3347.  @almostfm  Use the angle of fraud and/or contract violation based on the words they print on every piece of 'paper' currency. "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE"
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  3348. I also really liked the ratchet Ray was using on the plugs. I have never seen that kind of swivel head before. edit: I mean the one he used to remove the front bank of plugs.
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  3349. Basically, we need to learn from the EU.
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  3350. There are three sides to this issue: 1) The people who want us to spend more money on their products and services. 2) The people who are either too afraid, too uninformed, or too unwise with their money to care about repairing what they buy. 3) The people who recognize and understand the value of repair, and want access to parts, schematics, diagrams...
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  3351.  @VideoArchiveGuy  Venues USED to deal quite well with the "hassle" of ticket sales. Sadly, the venues would have to hire some people to deal with it, and (GASP!) increase available jobs in the region.
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  3352.  @sugarnads  Starting WW3 by ramming continental plates into submission.
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  3353. So many statements of "XYZ cannot be recycled" should have a mandatory addendum of "with current technology, and/or with profit margins making it worthwhile for the big stock-driven corporations to care."
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  3354. We can eliminate ALL crime by getting rid of all laws. We can eliminate all vehicular accidents by getting rid of all vehicles. We can get rid of all human mistakes by getting rid of all humans.
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  3355. You are right. A court decision can be altered and overturned, as we have seen over the last few years. A law has a better chance of lasting, and requires more people to agree to change it than can fit in a mid-sized sedan.
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  3356. That is an AbSeRd pet! I WaRnEd YoU!!!!
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  3357. Dog might have heard some dark tales and been worried that the people with badges might have been ATF...
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  3358.  @raifegeozay687  You English was quite fine. Gallifreyan technology SNEEZES at your causality problems!
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  3359.  @fthurman  When done by choice by the individual, I don't see a huge issue. When done as legislation or social engineering, I do see a problem. The trick of course, is to know whether one's decision is based on a level-headed assessment of one's situation, or the the result of social and experiential influences. - Trick question really, we are all the sum of our inputs, biological and social. Free will is an illusion.
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  3360.  @chriscoleman8303  Well, if there is no government at all, there's no taxes. So... vote for total anarchy?
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  3361. Those were ingenious. You never actually touch the outside of the shoe wrappers until you are done with them and take them off outside the clean areas.
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  3362.  @Astares9  Your foil hat seems to be a little tight.
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  3363. If you want to "file a complaint" on a fast-food place, your receipt has the date, time, and store number (at a minimum). Then a minute or less online to find out where to send your pointless letter/email.
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  3364. I remember watching a TV special about that event. I cannot imagine the horror and shock people felt, but I know the few images the show did air gave me nightmares.
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  3365. Brilliant mind, that Adam Smith. (Yeah, I know who he was)
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  3366. Ford could buy a LOT f good press by absorbing the (for them) tiny losses and get those buyers of stolen into a similar truck with REAL clean title.
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  3367. You just have to set the ideal ratio of matter and anti-matter intermix.
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  3368. Checks do still have a reason for use.
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  3369. The Space Laser lady is right. We should prosecute and eject all of the traitors in Congress. She even gets to leave first.
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  3370.  @DirtyTurtle67  The patience required for that approach is the challenge, as you don't want to accidentally cut the animal's skin. My appreciation for your efforts!
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  3371. A customer insisting on that repair needs to be videoed swearing to understanding that there is risk in the repair, the repair is contravened by all reason and regulation, that they understand they waive all liability of the shop and mechanics and hold them harmless in the event of dangerous and/or catastrophic failure of the repair and repair site on the tire, and then video them signing a document to the same effect. Then charge them for the extra time that videoing took.
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  3372. Easier to extend the duration of the stop that way. Plus, any hesitation in an answer after the first can be con verted into "probable cause" for a complete roadside disassembly of the vehicle.
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  3373.  @BJSmith-ll3uw  It is arrogant to push your mythology on me. If you want to believe in one or more 'gods', that is up to you. If I choose to believe on zero 'gods', that is up to me. If I had not stated my position on this topic, and done so in this comment thread, I suspect you would have happily found someone or somewhere else to assert that you are right.
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  3374.  @mikelouis9389  Like checking your lug nuts after a tire service, not being a witness against yourself with the police, and not buying an RV.
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  3375.  @jeremydale4548  Step one: Legislatively reverse Citizens United. Oh, step zero: Get rid of judges that think the Citizens United case was decided correctly.
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  3376. He gives hateful people permission to hate as he does.
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  3377. And he gets the coveted, "Please come again"!
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  3378.  @franklyle2798  Or more likely, a steel-clad paddy wagon where they can be slammed into the wall in a braking event and get paralyzed... and it only results in misdemeanor charges for the cops.
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  3379. "Two Cars, One Cup"
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  3380. Or getting rid of squatters, or NOT doing civil asset forfeiture, or...
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  3381. If you've ever seen videos of how things like chocolate and coffee are processed before they are stable enough to be shipped, you'd wonder why there are not even more adulterations in our foodstreams. Cocoa and coffee are often processed by hand near the harvesting locations and manipulated in open air on non-sanitized surfaces by hand or with wooden tools.
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  3382. I am "serviced" by National Grid, a.k.a. Nasty Grid, or National Greed.
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  3383. I've once owned a Ferrari. Sure, it was a Hot Wheels Ferrari, but that HAS to count, right?
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  3384.  @israel963  Evidence of what? There was nothing incriminating on that phone. I'm not even sure it was even MY phone. If you had a reasonable and articulable suspicion that my phone contained evidence of wrongdoing, you could have EASILY gotten a warrant.
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  3385.  @donraptor6156  ALL of the five uniformed officers responding to a "man holding a sign" call in Florida are working undercover? Interesting. Maybe that's why they are also allowed to turn off the audio of their body cams when they confer to see what they can charge a person with.
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  3386. The best accolade for the UN? "It's better than The Council of Nations".
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  3387. Key word here, "criminals" What that email is, is criminal extortion. While letting the review site know about the email and extortion attempt, with a forwarded copy of the email, do the same with law enforcement. It is a low likelihood that your local police will be able (or willing, let's be honest) to DO anything, but there will at least be a police report on the matter.
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  3388. I would support a 'citizen's civil asset forfeiture' for things like this.
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  3389. That IS another form of "robust conversation"...
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  3390. I read "R word" and my Brain pulled up a few entries: R3t4rd, R3pul1c4n, Reprehensible... then the one he probably meant, R4p1st.
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  3391.  @murdlep3463  Which was a STUPID decision by the SubPrime Court. Silence = silence. Speaking <> silence.
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  3392. Many moons ago I had a Bronco that started dying on my on the highway during a long trip. I would get about half to a quarter mile between stall-outs. I was able to make it to an exit and caught a mechanic who was just about to punch out (it was a Friday evening). He listened to my tale, started the vehicle and heard it die, and replaced the in-line fuel filter. - He only charged me for the filter and five minutes, but I tipped him $40 for saving me a 140-mile tow back home and sticking around that quarter hour past his normal quitting time to help me out. - The old in-line filter would not even pass compressed air when he took it off, so I was running on what wicked through the filter and the dirt it had trapped within.
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  3393.  @1stGradeWumbology  Snooty ones, apparently.
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  3394.  @foxymetroid  When I look it up, I come up with - NORTH AMERICAN an open landscaped highway. - or a landscaped thoroughfare. - to simplify, a road or highway passing through or alongside "pretty" scenes as opposed to unmanaged (wild growing) land.
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  3395.  @lasskinn474  Top-opening freezers are the most energy-efficient layout, as well.
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  3396.  @nucleargrizzly1776  Yes, but it is easy for the paid-for politicians to say, "But it was drugs? Not my problem. Now back to eroding the EPA."
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  3397. And a labelmaker would be a good investment for those cases.
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  3398. If you BOUGHT something, and the company you bought it from AGREES you bought it, them taking it back MUST involve a refund of at LEAST the amount you paid. Not paying to take it away is theft. Those impacted by this need to file charges. Even when you land/home is taken to make way for a road/rail/commercial development, you are at least offered a token payment under eminent domain.
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  3399. It's kind of like when Deston of Smarter Every Day got invited to a carb manufacturer after he and his dad made a transparent carb for a mower to show how they worked. Learning is always a good opportunity.
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  3400. The best part of this being a "to be continued" repair is having another video to look forward to!
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  3401.  @johnmicheal3547  In your "moving the goalposts" example, you train the dog to pee indoors.
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  3402.  @conscientiousobserver8772  Contempt of cop, or even just knowing and expressing your rights under law, is a very serious crime to far too many cops.
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  3403. Josef Stalin 56 to 62 million dead. Chairman Mao 40 to 80 million dead. Spanish flu, about 50 million dead. - Hitler's kill count is only famous because he mostly killed one religion of people, and it was well documented and the story is kept alive in modern memory.
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  3404. I've seen enough video of police interrogations where the person being badgered said something to the effect of "What do I have to say to get you to leave me alone, I'll say it." to agree with you completely.
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  3405. A funny side effect of the renaming of the USS Chancellorsville is that someday, someone on the target of one of the ships missiles may have the presence of mind to say, just before impact, "You're killin' me Smalls!" - Sorry if this seems disrespectful, I'm just currently in a punning mood.
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  3406. Getting input on a process from the people who are actually using the process? That's CRAZY TALK! You can't justify $10.5 million payouts to talk to a line mechanic who already works for you!
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  3407.  @notjimpickens7928  Are you SURE they can't ignore a federal court ruling? The Republican Party of The State of Georgia is currently ignoring the explicit orders of the US Supreme Court over voting maps. - Without penalties, a law is simply words and a "pretty please" guideline.
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  3408.  @chrisoakey9841  Cops? Go to jail? Maybe to visit their "reliable informants"...
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  3409. I don't care on tiny bit about the boots being white. Though, if he had even a little bit of a brain, he would have had a lacky dirty the boots for him. Maybe he was too busy with his internal mantra, "Don't throw paper towels. Don't throw paper towels. Don't throw paper towels."
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  3410. Ooh! Put a cornershot under it!
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  3411. I laugh that the reason they cite to NOT be sued is "Well, we don't do that anymore." Oh! Well the decades of abuse are swept under the rug then, right? And never mind that there are cases of you STILL DOING IT!
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  3412.  @unknownsender6852  WOLVERINES!
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  3413.  @DarkPesco  And whether the actual payout or an insurance policy pays the person, the money behind it comes from taxpayers who had no hand in the events. The prosecutor(s), judge(s) and cop(s) involved pay no more than their tax-base distributed portion. And that is a huge problem when willful misconduct is involved.
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  3414. The preamble we got at every training station at Fort Benning in 1985: "We are going to give you an explanation, demonstration, and practical application on..." So yeah, at LEAST three times we had the new information and skills drilled into our brains. And it works. Thirty plus years later I have forgotten none of the skills and systems I was taught there. I have forgotten a lot of what I was taught in college, but almost none of what the military taught with the repetition method.
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  3415. Remember the Walgreens video beverage cooler doors? They lost $200 million on that boondoggle. - Serves them right. There was already a perfectly good option in use. You might have heard of it? Glass. Lets you see the actual products before you open the door, and doesn't play digital ads trying to nudge you toward the brand that is paying the most right now.
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  3416.  @CyberonDK  Or integrate some hardware into the actual screen itself to embed a hardware code.
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  3417.  @mattbehr1136  Granted! The original quote is from Mony Python's The Holy Grail, specifically the scene between the King of Swamp Castle and Prince Herbert. (The bloody wedding location)
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  3418. Time for this family to hit Google with a HIPPA violation, a first amendment lawsuit, and a fourth amendment lawsuit. Just throw the book. - Also, a cop "asking" for you to self-incriminate has zero legal weight, and anyone who complies is an idiot. Make the cop get a search warrant, while you are getting legal representation.
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  3419.  @Reno_Slim  Military win, political loss. US post-WW2 methodology in a nutshell.
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  3420. With tempers like I saw in the video of this encounter, it is surprising no shots were fired. A little disappointing too. My condolences for the non-cop who was part of the encounter.
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  3421.  @Elora445  That's actually related to the reason I will not buy a car with power windows and (at least ONLY) power door locks.
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  3422. The first instinct is to have that surprise, but the reality is that most test pilots are more careful about their work than even the engineers who built what they are flying.
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  3423. It is the drivers' fault. Neither the restaurant nor the city is MAKING people line up like that.
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  3424. Electrical is something that ALWAYS costs more for the skills than the stuff, and it is something that you ALWAYS want inspected. A CPR wall will not cause a fire, but a frayed wire can.
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  3425. But he has three months and change with which to really f--- things up before he is dragged out.
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  3426. I've seen a lot of women's pants, even jeans, that don't have real front pockets.
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  3427.  @anthonyb.9336  Two factors in that math that may or may not break the formula. Is the legal battle costing the manufacturer more than an engine? Is the negative publicity more expensive than the engine?
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  3428. Many years ago I was managing a convenience store. One morning my regional supervisor showed up demanding to know why I stole nearly $12,000 dollars. After a few minutes of "what the heck are you talking about?" questions, I finally got to the facts that a deposit was logged in the company's system, but not showing in the deposits at the bank. The supervisor showed me the bank's report of all commercial deposits made that day (with account numbers blacked out) and I immediately saw a deposit taken at that window that matched the "missing" deposit" TO THE PENNY that was listed as "account number mismatch". - The commercial teller has mis-keyed one digit of the account number, but the bank manager swore to my company that the deposit was missing, and the company sent my supervisor out with the mission of getting me arrested. Three minutes at the commercial teller with my copy for the receipt of the deposit, and all was fixed. Well, all but my trust in the bank and my company, that is. - What kind of idiots see the EXACT amount "missing" is also there listed as "account number mismatch" and are not capable of putting the 2-pice puzzle together?
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  3429. Surefire way to avoid getting bloody knuckles? Don't punch people!
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  3430. Also? The US has no legislated official language. So your fun argument also applies to works in other languages!
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  3431. Well, neither keep nor bear translates to use, keep > own bear > carry - Not seeing a use in there.
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  3432.  Flamestripe03  Oh yeah, like we want martial law...
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  3433.  @deanchur  I know that if I were to get a decent job, I would most likely be dead. This is not hyperbole. Very few jobs offer health insurance from day one. Without health insurance, I would need to find about $1,000 a month just for prescriptions, then more for the numerous doctors caring for me. And then I get to pay rent, utilities, groceries, auto insurance, and maybe have a little left over for emergencies like a car repair. So I would need to find a job that would pay me, with a nearly 20-year gap in employment, over $4,000 after tax.
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  3434. When you hold their physical property, those terms are smart.
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  3435. I've flown in helicopters when the pilot was doing some rather radical maneuvering. I was sitting in a side-facing seat, doors off, and only the lap belt available. Something I learned from all that is that all of the maneuvering of a helicopter other than descent result in a force upward from the helicopter into your third point of contact. Think of it like you are on a platform suspended from a string, and all of the maneuvers are done by moving the anchor of the string in the desired direction.
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  3436.  @Exiled.New.Yorker  And if ents are a danger to your neighbor, you live next to Sauruman.
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  3437. He mentions that at the end of the video
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  3438. The cool cats are calling them "a" now. Sheesh, Boomers these days! (hehe)
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  3439.  @gblargg  "You were supposed to bring balance to the [entertainment access landscape]! You were my brother!" - "I hate you!"
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  3440. I'm leaning toward, "Weird, where's Dave these days?"
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  3441. We need Ranked Choice Voting (see Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj). That would let us do away with the Electoral College, and let us have candidates from multiple parties.
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  3442.  @playdg  You use the second stick shift that engages the front differential. Some (most?) 4WD of that era had manual locking hubs you would need to have set to "locked" before you start driving. Instead, vehicle makers are all about replacing reliable mechanical systems with electronic and vacuum lines that are a lot harder to diagnose, and help promote parts-cannon repair techniques.
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  3443. The guy should have told a judge to make the state file charges against the guilt party (the beavers) and leave him out of it. 'It would be YouTube gold to see county Sheriff's sent out to serve notice to a beaver lodge, then be running out of the area chased by creatures that can BITE THROUGH TREES.
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  3444. Or society could revive the job listing of "wine and food taster"?
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  3445. What I love are the reviews for, say, an office chair, talking about how easy it is to set up data sharing, or how well the product washes dirty jeans, or how good the bass range response is when playing classical music on it.
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  3446.  @jbdragon3295  I do get it, kind of. I just don't see why someone leaving a space feels it is okay to make holes in the walls, tear down doors, rip up floors. It shows a complete lack of respect, starting with self. - - - That is my opinion. Besides, if you trash a place on the way out, maybe that landlord knows, or IS your next prospective landlord, and either raises your price point or tells you to not even bother.
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  3447. "Your honor, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envelope with my name on it under that half ton of garbage."
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  3448.  @johnwalsh4857 Toyota HILUX, when you want to drive past the broken-down Land Rovers and laugh.
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  3449.  @jackdernorsek5310  MSG is as safe as many other foods and food additives. There will always be a percentage of humans who have some negative reaction to a given food or additive. I too get the sweats from more than a minor amount of MSG (particularly if it is freshly applied and not given time to break down), though I don't get the headaches.
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  3450. Well, the land IS most likely the fruits of a crime, at some point back in history... Quite likely an uncompensated land-taking from native populations.
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  3451.  @rickmorty7284  I don't hate my estranged brother because of his politics. I hate him because he is physically abusive to his kids and emotionally abusive to his wife and kids. He feels he has to control every aspect of their lives down to what they say, see, read and think.
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  3452. Amazing how cops can keep up with the moment on court decisions in their favor, but NOT on laws that limit them. Annoying things like the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments to the US Constitution, the supreme court decision that a charitable appeal for funds is speech protected under the 1st Amendment, and that cops have no expectation of privacy in public.
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  3453. I knew someone who ruined a $400 engine with aviation fuel to try drag racing, but at that price, he had a cheap lesson and a cool drinking story.
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  3454. Interesting, but it's no USS O'Bannon potato warfare.
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  3455. I think back to my Motorola flip phone that had a removable battery on the OUTSIDE of the phone. This let me have two batteries and swap them out when one needed charging.
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  3456. If only they had some kind of computer system to keep track of these things and schedule someone to do the renewals.
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  3457. Can you imagine the price per gram of "Space 'Dust'" (TM)?
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  3458.  @gregjames2684  If your seatbelt interferes with your driving, you are using it wrong. Your seat may be too far from or close to the steering wheel, and/or you may need some adjustment device due to being too short or tall for that car's seat belt orientation.
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  3459.  @vika3750  You speak truth.
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  3460.  @quineloe  Oh, you think gym memberships end? As long as they can get money out of your account, you have that gym membership.
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  3461. The ONE time I voted on sports was in 1978 or 79. I bet a stepsister the dessert from Christmas dinner on the outcome of the Thanksgiving game. I was risking nothing, because that year my dad had visitation on Christmas day, which was good, because I lost the bet.
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  3462. What? A software update messing with user settings? Why I never! . Yeah... the odd Windows update keeps messing with my display settings, forcing the top capacity of my video card (3840 x 2160, 60Hz) into my nearly ancient monitor which caps out at 1920 x 1080, 30Hz. This results in aggressive horizontal tearing artifacts on the screen.
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  3463. Holy Pasta, you're right. My Bing search first page included a result that leads to a page TITLED "10 Best Large Format Laser Printer of 2022" and half of the list is inkjet. - edit: I would bet that a lot of the problem is that printer companies WANT to sell inkjet printers, because selling you the data-chipped ink cartridges is their cash cow.
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  3464. How much WEIGHT did that dog lose between dirt and fur?
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  3465.  @MegaGeorge1948  More importantly, what if the car on the wrong side of the freeway had hit a car driven by someone with no assets?
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  3466.  @tigerofdoom  Plant a hedge on your side of the white vinyl fence? Or maybe treat your neighbors in a civil manner from the start?
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  3467. My Saturday mornings started at around 5AM back then. PBS and drawing with Captain Bob, then half an hour of Bob Ross. I used to watch those shows with the sound so low I could barely hear it so I didn't wake anyone else. Then back to bed to wait for the rest of the house to wake. Breakfast and hours of brightly colored frenetic images (cartoons). If I was lucky, the weather would be bad and we could watch the Creature Double Feature (Godzilla and the gang) then shows like Planet of the Apes (the show)!
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  3468.  @Masterrunescapeer  I'm old-school. If I know my phone may experience water contact, I put it, and my wallet, in a Zip-Lok freezer bag. If I'm worried about dropping it in the water, I add air to the bag then reseal it so it floats.
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  3469. Mr. Trump, YOU'RE fired (at)!
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  3470.  @vla1ne  They were not contracted employees. They were "at-will" employees. Companies LOVE at-will employment laws because it means they can fire people, without cause or notice, any time they want. This hospital is butt-hurt because the other side of the at-will equation was exercised by these former employees.
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  3471.  @christinebenson518  Treaties are actually made note of in the US Constitution, and are clearly defined as having equal standing with federal law once ratified by 2/3 of the US Senate.
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  3472. Ooh! An .88 magnum! Hmm. Maybe not. Scott would have to build a school to shoot it through, and that's just a touch too sensitive a thing to do these days.
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  3473. Have any of the R crowd or their right-side news talking heads called Harris 'uppity' yet?
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  3474. When I joined the military and was training at Fort Benning, it was found that my records had three different SSNs, the two wrong ones off by only one digit from my real one. That took less than two weeks to get fixed once it was noticed. It was a simple case of fat-finger syndrome on the parts of various clerks in different offices. - I'm now glad that the US military didn't decide to seize and destroy me for having bad ID numbers...
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  3475. My urge at "I smell [substance]." is to respond, "Well stop using [substance] while you're at work!"
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  3476.  @ricoparadiso  Turn aside from your cult and accept the embrace of his noodly appendages! Ramen!
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  3477. If this were about national security, then it would be a bill banning the use of social media and software with tracking functions from all government-issued computing devices and servers EXCEPT where such social media is explicitly part of that government employee's job.
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  3478.  @Gspizzy  Instructions are included because sometimes we lose track of our coasters or need to shim a piece of furniture back to level..
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  3479.  @MikeKing001  We will never know if that was what would happen, will we? - At least a string of spurious "nay" votes for nominee after nominee would expose the factionalism and idiocy four years earlier, and there might (slim chance with people's observed voting habits) have been some different senators voted in during the last two senate election cycles.
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  3480. He went in when George H.W. Bush (the father) was US President. Me was in during both Iraq wars, 9/11, the turn of the century, the rise of the internet and social media, the rise and collapse of cable television, all of the Marvel movies... But at least he missed the Star Wars sequels.
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  3481. Imagine what would happen if properly trained and handled drug sniffing dogs were taken around the homes and personal vehicle of police, lawyers and judges?
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  3482. M18 Claymore mines camouflaged poorly to funnel the neighbor into a double line of punji stake pits... Sorry, what were we talking about?
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  3483. Are they legends amongst the shadows?
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  3484. Maybe because more and more people are starting to learn what the abbreviation UFO really means. It is an Object, that is Flying, and is Unidentified. It is not automatically a conveyance of extraterrestrial origin. Even though Georgio Tsoukalos wants you to BELIEVE.
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  3485. You had me at "DEA slapped down"
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  3486.  @AC-io8qs  Not driving the car where roads are salted is a big help as well.
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  3487.  @wmhilton-old  Not all paints dry the same. Some paints cure instead of drying, and some oil paints take decades to 'dry'.
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  3488. I really need to at least try a pho place at some point. I have many foods I don't like, but other than sushi and hot/spicy stuff, I am willing to try most anything once.
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  3489.  @rossperk  I still occasionally sing the "12" song.
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  3490. That is a very good point! That is how some models of cars end up being "most stolen", because the parts chop shops can harvest are highly priced and/or of low availability. So those parts make the car worth risking jail to steal and strip.
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  3491. Stargate SG-1episodes 322 and 401 (end of season 3, start of season 4) Replicators munch on Thor's ship, Beliskner, it does a mostly-disintegrating re-entry, small piece recovered by Russian sub "Blackbird" and replicators take over the sub, killing the crew. Fun jokes about Teal'c and the headroom on subs.
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  3492.  @MattM-oe6qs  Because that home inspector had a personal beef with the homeowner, and pulled out some 100+ year old building code and based his decision on the fact that the building that USED to be on that site was a registered historical structure than fell down after neglect and several storms. And this guy was a building inspector for several towns, so the builders didn't want to risk being iced out of future jobs. They documented the issue, provided everything in writing to the homeowner, and built according to the idiot's directives.
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  3493. The Secret Service could bar him from attending the inauguration as that would put him in proximity with the person he has threatened. Hey, that would be the rule for "we the people"...
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  3494.  @stardust949  Spencer (Spenser?) doesn't have a cameraperson. He has a tripod. I've seen the tripod's shadow in some videos. He moves it from shot to shot and edits it all together later.
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  3495. You or I, DUI with a firearm on us, we'd be arrested and charged to the hilt, if not shot dead for the crime of "scaring a cop".
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  3496. Banana taped to a wall.
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  3497. I've done that myself once. Came home, walked in the door, got the "surprise!" shout and saw the decorations and the house full of people and left. I drove to a state forest and just sat for an hour. This was before cell phones, so by the time I came home, all of the guests were gone, and my mother had worked herself up to a nice tirade. The weekend after, I had a birthday celebration with a few friends and close family, ate lunch and cake, and had a quiet time.
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  3498.  @kingjbone1  There is a type of emergency patch that is essentially a cord impregnated with rubber, and installed with rubber cement to fill gaps. Unless installed perfectly and with the best of luck, they slowly leak. When they fail, they fail worse than the original leak around the nail or screw that poked the hole.
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  3499. That juror comment is idiotic. The jury is there to decide the application of law, not the application of hunches.
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  3500. This makes me wonder if a client can raise an objection to their own lawyer in court.
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  3501. I don't know if people remember, but there used to be still and video cameras that are not part of a phone. You know, "back in the day"?
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  3502. I don't watch TV anymore, so I have not seen the ad. I like some of his music, though not all of it. I watch this channel because of your storytelling skills. Thanks for sharing this with us.
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  3503. Interesting that tow drivers in her community have law enforcement powers...
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  3504. I grew up taking off shoes indoors, but for us it was to reduce wear and tear on the carpets and hardwood floors that were a LOT more expensive than a package of socks. Also, your outdoor shoes walk in some really disgusting stuff sometimes. Do you want airborne particles of animal droppings floating around into your food and bed?
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  3505.  @jorden9821  If horse-and-carriage were to get subsidies, it would likely be from carbon emission reduction credits. Not that I would want to put a horse on the same roads with the morons operating motor vehicles. That's animal cruelty. - As to the USPS, and "better alternatives", which delivery service has the best letter rates, has the best saturation of business locations, and will pick up letters from outside your house nearly any day of the week without you having to contact them and make special (and expensive) arrangements beforehand? Which service will let you arrange to forward your letter and package delivery, or halt it while you are planning to be away from home for a while? And which delivery service is deliberately being hamstrung, first by unreasonable requirements that no private business OR other public employer would be subject to, and now has a top employee who is deliberately crippling the same service. You know, that guy who has investments in, and strong interest in, a competitor to the service he was given the top job within?
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  3506. On the other hand, many sperm donors leave the mother trying to hold the household together without ANY support of any kind for the children. That's how I grew up. About once a month, I hope my sperm donor dies (or has already died) in a slow and painful manner.
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  3507. Remember. This is the same government okay with civil asset forfeiture.
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  3508. Your outdoor surfaces could benefit from a pressure washing. Maybe someone in your area who needs a simple dog/cat wash could barter such services?
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  3509. "Open fields doctrine" Which means landowners MUST get busy clear-cutting and paving all of their land, so it is "improved" and thus "curtilage" and protected from warrantless law enforcement activity.
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  3510. +1 You CALL it purchase, but in the fine print redefine it as "rent".
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  3511. And remember. Even if you THINK you've taken measures to not be overheard by the AI, they can still lip-read. Sorry Dave.
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  3512. I agree, notify the business/building owner. Keeping in line with all of the laws that can rule a business or building is nearly a full time job in itself. Not everyone is a lawyer with nothing but spare time to make sure they are in compliance.
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  3513.  @deweyplanck9850  She also seems to lack the ability to silence herself.
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  3514. My car has basic anti-theft features: Dented passenger-side door Rusting rocker panels Stained floor rugs A small amount of trash on the floor of the back seat Twelve years old
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  3515.  @StrongDreamsWaitHere  When my family moved from Massachusetts to Arizona, we had a decommissioned school bus that was converted to about 80% moving van and 20% RV (no beds). The engine was so worn that every fill of the diesel tanks was accompanied by 1-2 quarts of motor oil. Total mosquito killer. It got us to Arizona, and my parents sold the bus to someone who wanted to turn it into a mobile home on their horse ranch.
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  3516. "And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you darned mud puddles!"
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  3517.  @Jtoob-z5n  It would be pretty hard to kill all of us in only 23 years without something larger than the Chixalub impactor or a gamma-ray burst from some previously unknown pulsar making the entire surface of the planet uninhabitable for all life. - I'm not saying that we could not make a good go at it, but even if every nuclear weapon were launched at once, there would still be pockets of surviving humans who might have a chance at that 23 year mark.
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  3518. Ah, I was expecting a feature on Amazon's silent war on their own delivery subcontractors, mandating the vans they lease, then kicking them out of the program as they sit on tens of thousands in debt on van repairs. The vans get beat to pieces delivering items for ten (base) to twenty-five (if they hit efficiency goals) cents each. It could be operator accidents, other drivers hitting the vans, and/or just roads beating the suspension parts and tires to bits. Amazon sets aggressive goals, hires excess numbers of small businesses to meet those goals, then drops those companies like a rock even after rewarding them with stellar reviews.
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  3519.  @egorkhristov2467  TSA has their own internal division for IT, Cybersecurity and IT Management (OPM job series 2210). They don't even need to call an outside provider to fix that problem. So the situation is even less excusable. - Also, the TSA is not even just TWO job specialties. A quick check of the TSA's own job listings shows 37 different 'series' across four categories.
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  3520. Never go full Griswold.
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  3521.  @dangeary2134  If they're doing nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear. Isn't that what we are constantly being told?
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  3522. See also: Citizens United, qualified immunity, Roe v. Wade, and civil asset forfeiture. "rights" decided for hundreds of millions by the fewer people than a baseball team, who were not even elected to their lifetime positions.
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  3523. I'm surprised the person being tapped for the job is not a flat-Earther. It would fit the theme.
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  3524.  @10thstjeep  And thus, killdozers.
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  3525. COMPOUNDING INTEREST!
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  3526. Save up (by not paying that $500) for 3-4 months and you can buy a brand new e-bike. A used one for less.
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  3527. My mother attended AA and was sober for years over and over, relapsing from time to time. I have no way to count how many times she got her 6-month coin. It may work great for some people, but it will not work for ALL people.
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  3528.  @MrGamelover23  Great. Now we can expect mobilization of troops to "ensure the free flow of personally identifying data" form overseas countries...
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  3529. Put the squatter on a bus to the State House in Texas. They have room, having bused immigrants in legal limbo to DC in a publicity stunt.
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  3530. Carvan plus Florida. You expect adherence to sense and law?
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  3531. "Purchasing this car for $5,000 is a vote for Jones!"
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  3532. And thus, we get velociraptors.
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  3533.  Joey Bidenson  Joey. If you're joking, your delivery needs polish. If you're serious, you need mental health care.
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  3534.  @rickweaver7997  The burden of proof in these cases is actually backwards. The person from whom the assets were stolen has to go to court, at their own expense, against the D.A. their taxes pay for, in front of a judge their taxes pay for, and somehow prove the innocence of the cash or property. That's right, the money or stuff is guilty. And you get to try and prove a negative!
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  3535. I figure if you show up at a hotel and they overbooked, you should offer to set up your tent in the lobby until they figure out how to fulfill the contract they made with you.
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  3536.  @MrTeff999  Yay. They dropped the charges. Has the arrest been expunged?> Has the department apologized? Has she been compensated for her time under arrest? Has the cop been at least told he was an idiot (by his boss)?
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  3537.  @-Gorby-  "Ur... we got a call. So somebody's getting arrested, maybe even beaten unconscious. It's department policy, after all."
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  3538.  @mrfrenzy.  How is what I posted, which is a direct unaltered quote, NOT the author's intention?
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  3539.  @AnnaEmilka  Growing up with electric element/coil ranges you learn to take the pan off the burner once you're done cooking, in addition to turning off the burner.
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  3540.  @NarutoMagicCyclops  The first time you pass through a hole only a few inches across is birth. Well, for the majority of us anyway.
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  3541.  @mako-g90  My favorite mechanic on YouTube is Rainman Ray down in Florida. "click" "flashlight gravity"
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  3542. It is astounding how many arrests are for "contempt of cop". If you are so easily upset and triggered, you need to find a job that keeps you away from other humans.
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  3543. A SMART company would hopefully realize that if an overseas low-bid leaves a back door, the company is just waiting for ransom calls. If the programmer is local, or at least in the same country, a ransom attempt from the programmer can result in arrest and charges.
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  3544. I keep wanting to hear Rand al'Thor.
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  3545.  @shoveI  All service members and veterans already swore such an oath. And most of them still mean it.
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  3546. When I got the first piece of reunion mail from my high school, I called them and told them to take my name off of all their lists. I told them I already had existing friendships with the half dozen people who I didn't hate from that place. Have not heard from them in 40 years!
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  3547.  @hackyou3227  Caused by Congress weakening the safety controls on rail companies.
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  3548.  @xiaoka  Every phot posted? Of course not. Every photo FLAGGED? Hell yes. 1) A lock or ban can impact a creator's income, and blocking factual information is an impediment to an informed society. 2) A human confirming or rejecting the AI's flag will only improve the AI's algorithms, reducing false positives.
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  3549.  @nobody8717  Well, an avocado pit, launched from a Jeorg Sprave-grade slingshot could do some decent damage...
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  3550. If the Uber driver's camera was in their car, and the car was either on public property or in a parking place where they were commercially invited to be, then the executive should have no case.
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  3551. Didn't they get the memo? There is only room in the spotlight for the achievements of white (and one orange) men in the US these days.
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  3552.  @seththomas9105  Heck yes, toilet paper! A full roll, flattened a bit and sealed in a one-gallon zip-seal freezer bag (freezer bags have better seals and seams). You need it for the usual reason, plus blowing your nose, and as a fire starting material.
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  3553. Well, there is money to be gained in this case, so it might happen.
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  3554. When I was a kid we were also taught that even if you have the law on your side, you've still been hit by a car or truck. I also learned not to cross a road on foot or on any other small conveyance, even in a crosswalk, unless I make eye contact with the oncoming driver, or see them obviously slowing down.
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  3555. Then perhaps the person arrested needs to have their record expunged, since nothing was PROVEN as stolen.
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  3556.  @Stammon  Oh, it's local... for now. But if the municipality loses in enough venues, they may spend taxpayer money to try and get it in front of the Supremes. It has happened before.
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  3557. It does make a big difference, when looking at the financial side of the equation, when you can do the work yourself.
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  3558. No one expects the RI reference! Our chief weapons are fear and surprise!
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  3559.  @VikingTeddy  My Hollywood annoyance started way back in the 1970's when I saw old cowboy movies. Thirteen shots from a six-shooter? Every bullet that misses a fleshy target is a whining ricochet? GAH!
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  3560. Different MOS for firing and FDC is odd to me, having been an 11C (mortars). And my MOS didn't change when I went from firing to FDC, nor did it change when we went from 4.2 inch to 81mm.
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  3561. He's too transparent with his non-personal banking information for the necessary "donors" to do business, er, "robust discussions" with him.
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  3562.  @karisalonen8984  You'd be surprised (or not?) at how many people don't check tire pressure, particularly on a trailer or sport vehicle they don't use often. I've seen people who don't even make sure the lights work on a trailer before they hit the road and then act surprised when they get ticketed.
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  3563. Wait, are you trying to tell me that video games are not a font of historic reality? Next you'll be telling me that World of Tanks and World of Warships make stuff up as well! That's it, I'm only going to play games that show reality from now on. Like Legend of Zelda and Sonic the Hedgehog!
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  3564. I got pulled over once for chirping on a start-up when the light turned green. The cop didn't even need to ASK to search my car, as the hatched, machete, camp saw, shovel, tarp, gloves and rope were in plain sight in the back seat. One question 'What's with all the stuff in the back seat?" one answer, "I work landscaping." and I got a verbal warning for the jackrabbit start. - I learned from my brother's acrimonious run-ins with a county sheriff that the proper answer to "May I search the car?" is "I do not consent." This one phrase got a case of beer and a bag of pot (before he was 21 and the pot was legal in our state) thrown out as evidence because there was no warrant or probable cause to search the trunk.
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  3565.  @mr.grotto  What kind of moron leaves four firearms in their vehicle? In my state, that alone is a violation of firearms law, since, if you're not in the vehicle with them, the weapons are considered "unsecured".
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  3566. What is it with Volkswagen forcing mechanics to have a massive array of different tools to work on their cars? Are they allergic to hex bolts and nuts over in Germany?
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  3567.  @jasonriddell  Well said. I did an engine swap once between two 1970's VW Beetles, and I WISH I had rented the engine hoist. We used ropes, a 2x8 on the shoulders of two strong young men, and moved it between cars on a skateboard. I look back and am still amazed we didn't hurt ourselves.
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  3568. I remember an article or news segment back in the 1980's about companies dumping their trash in the oceans, and pre-paying the fines per barge because it was cheaper than using legal disposal avenues.
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  3569. The dogs were being very catlike in this opener. "Yes, I see the food, and I see the open door. I'll wait until eating is MY idea, thanks."
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  3570. "Let me help you find that piece of hardware PHILIP J FRY!" - Thanks, Lucy Liu robot.
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  3571. That teaser tile woke an old bundle of neurons and I just blurted out "T-72!" so I just had to watch the video.
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  3572. How does it take 21 years? The piece of [redacted] DA just tucks the file away in a cardboard box in some storage annex, and the material is not reviewed until and unless someone like this guy's legal defenders or a very bored news reporter or book writer or some new person taking over the DA's job opens the right box, finds the right folder, and strikes metaphorical gold.
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  3573. But your state was more than happy to extract as much money as possible out of YOU for the sin of you being honest.
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  3574. In Massachusetts, we hit all the bolts with PB Blaster and THEN ask what work needs to be done.
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  3575. Norm, you take us to the greatest places!
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  3576.  @chrisbaker8533  Ha! If you put your own creations into the public domain, it won't take long for someone to claim it as their own and start legal action against YOU for copyright infringement. It happens on the internet over and over.
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  3577.  @DanEBoyd  I expect this story on Rossmann's channel in the category of "How you're being Fed today".
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  3578. Caning. Some things Singapore does get right.
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  3579. Other hypotheticals: A toaster that will only toast two slices of bread at a time if you pay $5 a month. A recliner that will not lean all the way back unless you pay $15 a month to the furniture maker. A refrigerator that will not get cold enough to keep milk from spoiling unless you pay $9.99 a month.
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  3580. Not everyone is physically effusive with their emotions, you know. Some people are great contestants for The Price is Right, and some people are more stoic.
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  3581. @Fralorgrafon Hey now. When you pay Marco and Jerry with an envelope of cash so that they don't break your corner market into little pieces, they don't break your corner store into little pieces. - Though Francis and Harry might smash a few windows and steal all the tobacco products...
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  3582.  @theundergroundlairofthesqu9261  I have a friend who WON'T figure out how to change a tire or even check their oil. Everything is sent to AAA or a mechanic. Not can't, but won't. It disgusts me.
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  3583. Ooh! Free fake deer!
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  3584. I have NEVER had that problem... with my $15 thermostat from the hardware store. I can program cooler and warmer periods, even different schedules for weekends! No application to update, no internet connection required, no spyware.
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  3585.  @Bigbacon  Why risk that nest egg when a failed tire (tyre) at highway speeds can ensure your next-of-kin get a nice inheritance!
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  3586. March used to be the first month of the year.
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  3587. I have actually walked away from a store checkout with my groceries on the belt because the card insertion would not work and they told me to "tap" the card on the screen. I am not a fan of any method of access to my finances that can be as simple as "my pocket was close enough to your technology, now you're giving us money. - And don't tell me, "Get one of those Ridge wallets with RFID blocking!" - Why the PASTA is it acceptable to tell me to spend nearly $50 instead of fixing the root problem?
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  3588. My brother was hit with a summons for failure to complete probation... By the assistant DA who used to be his probation officer, nearly two decades after he had completed the probation. My brother KNEW this guy was going to be a jerk for his whole life, so he had kept every piece of paper from that time of his life. The judge lit into the assistant DA in open court for doing this "again" to someone he had a grudge with, signed a form for my brother, and had a bailiff give him directions where to file the form to make the matter go away.
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  3589.  @Zachary_Setzer  Perhaps he has been tricked by a grail beacon before?
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  3590. There is a saying I've been taught when I worked in retail. "A happy customer may tell one other person. An unhappy customer will tell everybody."
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  3591. Note: this "SBmowingofficial" is NOT Spencer. But if you do want to tell this bot where you live, say, "Earth".
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  3592.  @FuburLuck  If it is proceeds from an actual crime, let them PROVE so in court! The "give it to the feds" is not a fix, it is a dodge that has been used by police departments to weasel out of lawsuits filed by the owners of the property. They will let the owner spend a lot of money on lawyers and then say, "Oh, we don't have the asset, we gave it to the feds."
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  3593.  @rage.kitten  She was not in the wrong. Police cannot (legally) arrest someone for "whatever they want" The sad truth is that knowing and exercising your rights under the law will still get you illegally arrested, beaten, and sometimes killed, if the cop(s) are dumb, evil, and/or poorly trained enough. - And qualified immunity is a plague upon the legal landscape, along with civil seizure.
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  3594.  @hammarby1169  Exactly! If you don't have the energy source on your property, then you are paying someone else to push it to you through wires, pipes, or along roads. When the pipes, wires, roads or the somebody else is not available or in functioning order, you're back to hoping it doesn't get too hot or cold.
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  3595. I did that once. Back in the 1990's a family of friends were struggling with two new kids and breaking into the lower tiers of their occupations. I bought a mid-1980's Ford Escort wagon from my manager when she upgraded, and went through it front to back. I and my brother changed all the fluids and filters, new brakes, new belts and hoses, nearly-new tires- even the spare (got hooked up by a tire shop who had some with good tread and lifetime left after someone upgraded), fixed the horn, cleaned it inside and out, repaired a door seal, and used nearly two gallons of Bondo to patch the exterior (it was a Ford in New England, after all). The family got a good four-plus years out of that car and were able to afford something much better by that time.
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  3596. @@user-co1sk2jv8b The contractor only "stole" the materials in a very narrow view of "stole". The supplier LET the contractor take, or take delivery, of those materials without immediate payment. So it is more akin to the corner store letting you take bread and milk on credit and then you disappear without paying for the food.
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  3597. I have a gallon of oil, a gallon of windshield fluid, a sealed bottle of brake fluid, and a gallon of pre-mix anti-freeze in a milk crate in the trunk of my car. Have not needed them yet, ten years on, but if I, or someone else I stop to help DOES need them? I got em. I also have a 4-way lug nut wrench, sledgehammer, and some common tools in there too. All wrapped in a decent set of jumper cables.
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  3598. Yep. This sets up a LOT Of "legal" car theft.
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  3599.  @johnfran3218  Wow. I have just read a post that sets a new far end to the religion bell curve. Seeking mental health care is not something to be ashamed of, y'all.
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  3600. Snu-snu.
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  3601. Sometimes all it takes is being out of commission for a few weeks with an illness in the active growing part of the year and the lawn can rapidly exceed what some homeowner mowers can handle. I've been there, and I had to rent a small 23 horsepower farm tractor with a mid-PTO mower deck to get it back down to where my Snapper riding mower could get back to use. edit: In my case, it was nearly two month, about 1/2 hospitalization and half recouperation. By the time I could get back at the lawn, it was 2-3 feet tall.
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  3602. It is a spacecraft that picked up a lot of dust from "muddin it" in the Oort Cloud on the way to Earth to deliver the interstellar equivalent of the giant Publishers' Clearing House Winner check.
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  3603. Another saying I hear often is, "A happy/satisfied customer might tell one other person. An unhappy/angry/unsatisfied customer will tell everyone they meet."
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  3604.  @charlesdickens6706  The "strange reason" was the expiration of the 99 year lease originally granted to the US. So, contract law instead of "conspiracy(!)".
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  3605. You know what other mechanism helps people avoid bad guides? Online reviews.
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  3606. However, the point about the programming modules that are connected to an internet-linked computer to upload the voting screen is still a security problem, even though the actual polling machine is air-gapped, unless each and every card is checked after download for malware and to confirm proper software was properly installed. It's how you can get malware from someone's thumb drive.
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  3607. It's not just left, nor is it just right. It is ignorant and asocial people. They need to get the bleep off of our train so the engine can get us to the future.
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  3608.  @jessicah4462  I kind of liked dodgeball. Take a deliberate hit to the back right away, go sit down and take a nap.
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  3609. I wish your comment was more funny and less depressing. Not your fault, it's the regime under which we labor.
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  3610. Dang, YouTube is getting really timid in this "regime" we're living under.
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  3611. I had similar great customer service from Steelcase back a decade or so ago. I no longer have that chair, but it was great even when the upholstery started being a fringe of dangling cat toys.
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  3612.  @liamrodriguez6269  Congress needs to get off their partisan horses and actually use law-writing to fix the excesses of the SubPrime Court in qualified immunity, Citizens United, and while they're at it, end civil asset forfeiture.
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  3613. Seizures with charges filed, and forfeiture on conviction? That makes legal sense, only if those assets are returned WITHOUT PENALTY upon acquittal. "Gimme your car and the money in your wallet." is robbery, with or without a badge.
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  3614. "Do your swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth?" "Fuck yeah!"
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  3615. The council should have been sent to their local highway department to Pound sand.
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  3616.  @tobyray8700  That old Chevy can get parts pretty much anywhere. That Cybertruck can't even get a window.
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  3617. I had a Saturn that needed a new computer because the air intake flap rusted, which told the O2 sensor to keep trying to open it up, which caused over-current to feed back to the computer, which because of cost cutting did not have a fuse for that power line. So even using a junkyard computer (which could only be reset by the dealership) that lack of a ten-cent fuse cost me nearly $500.
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  3618.  @jpnewman1688  Back at your stupid "did you vote" shenanigans again, eh, newman? - Have you maybe thought of asking your supervisory agent if you can have an alteration of your script so there would be a slight chance people would actually agree with your group's tactics?
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  3619. There are a few states that need someone to hammer the reset button. Tennessee is one of them.
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  3620. [Deep Movie Announcer Voice-Over] "Rainman Ray's Repairs. Severely entertaining. Coming soon to a YouTube video near you."
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  3621. I know, right? The first time I saw an actual hand grenade explode at Fort Benning (now Fort Moore), I was disappointed. There was no orange fireball. Just a visible pressure wave (it was very humid that day) and then a lot of dirt kicked up. Another movie illusion was shattered the first time I actually saw a mortar fired. It is not a "bloop!" sound. It is a "BOOM" that you feel in your spine while facing the mortar from ten feet (3+ meters) away BEHIND it.
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  3622. At least he's the right color of cheese to go with that whine.
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  3623.  @MaxIV77  Your first situation is intent to harm. Your second situation is either the same (made a dangerous change) or no fault (did not make a change to the trail).
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  3624. In asymmetric conflict, often for one side the difference between a combatant and a "civilian" is how far the weapon was tossed.
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  3625. Most of these companies are already MORALLY bankrupt. Release the code now.
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  3626.  @the_kombinator  And it's not just you that you are imperiling. Everyone genetically connected to you is ALSO being sold. Look at how many people have been indicted for crimes based on DNA evidence, and a genetic testing company's results linking the criminal to, say, a parent or child.
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  3627. And we drive with our right arm inside the car so we can be shot by poorly-selected and trained, overly nervous cops who think we're always reaching for a weapon.
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  3628. Agreed. I'm not seeing even a statement that HINTS that there exists such a technology as is requested in this proposal.
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  3629.  @Froggability  I call it anti-repair pricing. Apple laptop - replace cracked screen (at Apple store) $750. New computer $900 - repair blocked for independent shops by refusing to sell special tools, data sheets, schematics and parts.
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  3630. Yeah... don't pay, call cops. Make the moving company justify their ransom in court.
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  3631. We have found "The Other Shop"! - kidding!
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  3632. ISWYDT
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  3633. If either of the two handed me $20 US currency, then told me they had just handed me $20, I'd be looking for a counterfeit detection pen.
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  3634. People are rarely caught the first time they do something. When they are able to successfully "get away" with something over and over, they get lax about being observed and/or leaving evidence.
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  3635. I blame (at least in part) "participation trophies".
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  3636. I like "sharp as a tennis ball".
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  3637.  @jpnewman1688  GO AWAY TROLL!
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  3638. I think the Blackwater mercenary pardon was worse.
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  3639. When it follows a conviction, it is criminal asset forfeiture. Different laws, different standards of seizure.
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  3640. Complete the comparison. Nail him to some wooden beams!
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  3641. Even worse when it is a man-child having a tantrum that takes away services and features.
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  3642. Mark disguise was very "If Kyle Hill let his grooming standard drop for a half a year."
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  3643. "If it saves even one life!"
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  3644. Why would they? That's not how they're being trained, and it's not the standard to which they are held. No consequences for failure to follow the law.
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  3645.  @trophyscene5015  Well, they can still spy on your comings and goings, unless you make efforts to avoid the camera view when leaving and coming home.
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  3646.  @philipjamesparsons  I used to think Reagan was a good president, but I was young and stupid at the time, and have since learned more about his presidency.
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  3647. That reminded me of the OLD days of using a joystick, and having to calibrate the corners of the screen for each game.
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  3648. I am stunned at how bad that oil is after being "only" 10k overdue. Either the engine is helping wreck the oil (see someone else's comment about the ongoing engine recall for insufficient deburring), or this is not the only 13k+ interval, or the last shop used the worst motor oil they could find.
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  3649.  @connor_flanigan  ... or stand TOO still!
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  3650. When you have a skid steer at hand, it becomes useful for all sorts of things. Moving that empty pallet, finally extracting the root of that tree you cut down four years ago, turning your Costo shopping into one trip from the car to your front door...
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  3651. Dude was compensating for a tiny "something" I'd bet.
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  3652. She is getting some good practice for performing at her own rallies when she runs for office somewhere. I hear Antarctica needs a mayor of palm trees...
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  3653.  @mikes1097  It's all good when the mistake is honest and acknowledged. Oh! Before I forget. Have a righteous day.
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  3654.  @strategic_amber_reservoir My landlord before this one let me replace worn outlets and take the price of them off the rent. She didn't have to hire an electrician, I got a safer outlet, and nobody blabbed to "the man".
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  3655. It is often more accurate to attribute things to incompetence than malice.
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  3656. I would think that part of the issue is that making and maintaining displays, and even just storing items, takes MONEY. Maybe if people who want their things displayed also bequeathed money for the effort at the same time, more museums would be eager to accept.
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  3657.  @carbon1255  For point 1, I would gladly fight that ticket. For point 2, I truly dislike the trend toward cars having always-on low beams, aka "daytime running lights". It's just a mechanism to sell more headlight bulbs in the name of "But think of the children!!!"
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  3658. I had no idea there was concrete under all that. The way the growth had exploded, I would have bet on a former vegetable garden.
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  3659. That alternate starter mod is kind of a great anti-theft device!
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  3660.  @hakonsoreide  You know, that's also true with painting a house. I learned, for brush cut-ins, to make those strokes with a loaded brush in one slow pass... AND LEAVE IT ALONE.
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  3661. I am reminded of a bit from History of the World Part 1: Count DeMoney: Sire, the peasants are revolting. Louis XVI of France: You said it, they stink on ice!
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  3662.  @CakeRSq  Wait! Electrical tape actually has a use besides hasty mechanic bandages?
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  3663.  @davel9514  Yeah, that song is running through my head.
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  3664. I find this idea right and fair. Instead, the person in this story who is "granted" a new trial still has all of the bills from their first trial. And now they get to pay for another trial? How is that right?
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  3665.  @thatslumlordlife  The only possible justification I would accept is the possibility of poisoning the water table with leaking fluids from rusting cars. Which is why car junkyards require licensing, and siting away from watersheds.
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  3666. Well, there may have been housing crises. In that period there was high homelessness, overcrowding in apartments, unsafe buildings, and... a LT fewer people in general. Also, 100 years ago, a higher percentage of the population was involved in farming, as machinery had not progressed anywhere near today's automation.
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  3667.  @thekinginyellow1744  I was holding out for a secret entrance to the Iron Sky base.
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  3668. "Egad, Chester! People are enjoying something that is taking money from the pockets of golf clubs, barmen, restauranteurs, and all for free in their daily newspaper! They are using libraries, dictionaries are no longer lasting for decades, sitting unused and occasionally dusted on the shelf!!!"
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  3669. I do wish more people would go to the source report instead of reacting emotionally to the press' biased versions of their quick skimming of the actual report. - From page 10/388 {edit: page 6/338 in the report. The page 10 is the page count in the pdf} "We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Eiden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." is pure editorializing and conjecture, not a medical diagnosis. And that is just one of a few early examples in the massive report where the author(s) posit traits not in evidence, nor confirmed by any sort of professional diagnosis. - So, that is egregious enough, but then many news outlets grabbed those ideas, and inflated them to increase clicks, engagement, and outrage as part of their normal operating mode.
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  3670. Perpetually Guilty & Evil.
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  3671. Imagine the expectations you could destroy by having your own ren fairs!
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  3672.  @pennybeacham6461  That phrase, "the mutts nuts" gave me unreasonable amounts of joy.
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  3673.  @lakeguy65616  Hahaha! You think you actually have to BREAK A LAW to be detained? Oh, you sweet summer child...
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  3674.  @chrissauter7501  Steal a candy bar, a cheeseburger, a car, a cow... criminal matter. Steal a plot of land, a house, a lake... civil matter. Yeah, it makes no danged sense.
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  3675. Fewer ads than others is like getting beaten less often than other battered wives. You're still getting hit.
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  3676. Maybe we can help Canada buy the business?
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  3677. I was asked to sign a no-compete clause at one job that included things like "Using computers and databases" and "operating personal interaction with hourly tracking systems" (using a time clock). I handed it back all marked up with what I would not agree to, and why. Never heard back.
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  3678.  @SpaceAdvocate  "Paid for by others" is still someone paying to fly. If I board a 727 with my row 23 ticket, I am not crew, I am a passenger. Even if my company paid for me to get on the plane.
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  3679. Fearmongering and angertainment are not aimed at the thinkers in the crowd.
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  3680.  @user-hd7wd4nu1o  Be careful not to split the whiskey atom!
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  3681. Also? That is a ludicrous Trans Am.
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  3682. So a company that listed houses for potential home buyers is in the business of outbidding it's online users to sell the same houses to them for even more profit? Slimy in the extreme. They must have learned at the knee of Papa Amazon.
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  3683. Even more fun, when there is one on each side of the street, does a hook & ladder fire engine still fit?
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  3684. I paused the video to check some info, and the tire traction rating of AA is the "grippiest". The temperature rating of A is the "coolest" (runs least hot from road action?). The wear rating of 440 means the tire is projected to last 440% as long as the "reference tire" extrapolated from a 7,200 mile test on a reference track in West Texas. - So the excess wear can be attributed to the "grippy" traction rating (meaning softer rubber) and likely under-inflation as evidenced by the wear being on the outside of the tread area, but not the center.
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  3685.  @jpnewman1688  Gasp! Where is your voting comment? Or was the chance to accuse someone of fraud too tasty for your trolling life?
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  3686.  @coolraul07  If they are not pulling over people who did nothing wrong other than daring to have factory-installed window tint, or the capital crime of DWB (Driving While Black), then they would have to do the harder and less financially lucrative work of chasing down porch pirates, pickpockets, shoplifters...
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  3687. What is good for the goose is good for the gander!
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  3688. The tree of liberty is looking in need of watering lately.
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  3689.  @patrickbuick5459  Easy way to keep people out of your van: tinted back windows with frilled curtains, and be sporting a blonde moustache.
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  3690. Of course they didn't want people stealing your data. They don't like the idea of competition.
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  3691. Tiny side effect, a backward-facing Bobcat offers less wind resistance, since most rental skid steers don't have front doors.
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  3692.  @bradhaines3142  Thus the phrase, "It's a Jeep thing."
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  3693. My question for that guy would be, 'At what word count do you typically cut people off, so that I can craft MY side of the conversation to include all of the information I am trying to give you?"
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  3694. "If it saves even one life!" "Think of the children!"
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  3695. Never had a bad experience with CO2, but I did work at an electronics manufacturer where they used nitrogen for part of the HALT/HASS (hot, cold, shake) testing. There was an undetected leak in one of the test chambers, which flooded our work area with high concentrations of nitrogen. Nitrogen, lacking sufficient air circulation as we did, will pool low and displace air that had more oxygen in it. The area DID have O2 level sensors, but they were mounted about 6 feet off the floor, and sitting at our workstations, our "breathing holes" were only about 4 feet up. They only realized and caught the problem when a couple of us fell out of our chairs having passed out. - At least it never got as bad as Mykl's example.
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  3696.  @NemoConsequentae  Even more fun, the company's first "solution" was to open a window and place a fan blowing out into it. In January in Massachusetts. Of course, it was on-par with most of that company's decisions. The building previously housed a software maker/shipper (back when physical disks were the only way to get software). So the air conditioning and air flow were absolutely not up to par for five lines of electronics board manufacturing (each with a solder wave machine just pouring out heat). In the summer, they just opened the loading bay doors and set up fans, which let us bask in the aroma of the neighboring sewage treatment plant.
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  3697. They were so into limiting government power, it took a lot of political will in the next century to let the federal government be able to collect taxes, even for things like "the common defense" (Army, Navy)
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  3698. Now THAT'S how you mount a Wave-Motion gun!
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  3699. Start? Now? For years now, people have had to software hack their own cars if the manufacturer decided that the car was no longer worthy of being a running vehicle. In particular, I saw some videos by a guy rebuilding a Tesla.
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  3700. Take them off the pedestal, and put them on the archery target stand...
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  3701. Gee, if only there was a Congress who could write and pass a law eliminating it, and a President to sign it into law... But they'd rather spend 4 months faffing about without getting anything done.
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  3702.  @TheEulerID  In Massachusetts (the only state I've looked it up) there is no statutory direction on what to do with expired licenses except to pay and renew. There is no law to surrender the old license or old registration. You are supposed to yield license plates for which you don't have a valid registration, but since you pay for them in advance, they don't penalize you further on that. That's Massachusetts. Pay now, pay periodically, deal with your own trash - they don't want it.
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  3703.  @mistermedic8963  "Achtung! Minenfeld!"
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  3704. My thought as well.
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  3705. I recently saw a cop's body camera footage where the cop called dispatch to ask them to initiate a complaint at his location so he could respond to it. I wonder if the "we got an anonymous complaint" was a lie of backfill to justify their fishing expedition.
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  3706.  @chrisardern4594  "I've got 600 cars to inspect for flood claims this week alone, another 800 next week... One in the lot is flood damaged, they all are. That's 12."
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  3707.  @jacobrzeszewski6527  You seem to assume that ONLY Ford would do this.
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  3708. Now imagine the people who buy a HOUSE and don't get an independent inspection before signing...
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  3709. Yeah, I've heard that called the "publish or perish" pressure.
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  3710.  @KevinLyda  That's the issue. Civil asset forfeiture does not even require an arrest, never mind charges being filed, an indictment returned, or a conviction. The cops get the assets, and the owners get to try and prove the PROPERTY is innocent with the help of lawyers they can often no longer afford.
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  3711. Ugh! Now you have to pay a "complaining about the fees fee"!
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  3712. I'm barely old enough to remember when there were neighborhood repair shops, even in the suburbs. We has a bike repair and parts shop and a TV/radio repair shop about 1/4 mile down one road, a lawnmower and yard machine repair shop a 1/2 mile in another direction, a window shop, a guy who repaired fishing rods and reels on the weekends, and numerous mechanics who each had their own specialty (domestic, foreign, transmissions, etc.). Now, all of those are gone, with two auto mechanics left.
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  3713.  @Lynxiro  Right? Hate is "cute" when it's shaped like a joke. - sheesh.
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  3714. I have a yellow paint marker I use for that kind of situation. I picked it up at a job I worked where I would use it to label heavy equipment for things like oil filter numbers and capacities.
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  3715. "I believe I can fly. I can reach up and touch the sky." "I want to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade." "I'm on a highway to hell!" "All in all we are all just bricks in the wall." - So you can see the defendant claims the power of flight, breathing underwater, traveling to alternate dimensions of existence, and taking on the form of building products!
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  3716. I agree. Definitely not looking like a cockroach at all. The wings and antenna are wrong for a cockroach.
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  3717. This DRM heck will help companies with a lot of money already invested in the machines, assuming someone is willing to put the time and effort in. Some will be able to take the financial hit to buy a different brand. Some will know the problem and be financially forced to wait for the machines to end-of-service themselves before replacement. And Louis is right, some companies will shrug and spend the money on Dymo-approved products because it is the path of least effort.
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  3718. I've cut this board three times and it's STILL too short!
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  3719. Wait, Louis is pro-DeSantis? Please tell me he's ONLY comparing t-Rump and DeSatan. I'd hate to think Louis has suddenly become an idiot.
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  3720. Ah. An arrow. A very common lab tool.
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  3721. Knock, knock. - Who's there? Colonizer. - Colonizer who? Just kidding. Colonizers never knock. (I stole this joke, but can't remember from whom)
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  3722. Is "A little suspicious" a misdemeanor? Does it have to be "Very suspicious" to be a 'Felony Suspiciousness' charge?
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  3723. "Word histories" is also called etymology. I am an etymology nerd!
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  3724.  @cengeb  I have long thought that an initial driver's test should also include being able to at least identify how and where to check fluids, and (barring physical inability) to change a tire.
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  3725. The dealers WANT you to have that impression.
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  3726. It wasn't zero, but it was a lot less.
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  3727.  @axelwedelin92  I only know this from the channel Fire Department Chronicles. My last CPR training was decades ago, and I suspect this newer methodology is not known to a lot of people yet.
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  3728. Based on the condition and age of the car, and the other lights that Ray was NOT fixing in this video, I'd say the owner is "budget limited" for auto repairs. But they were able to get a potentially car-ending problem fixed, so that is good.
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  3729. When I was a kid, the new cool winter toy was an "igloo block maker", essentially an injection-molded box with integral handle. We built many a snow fort, but failed at our igloo attempts.
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  3730. The ultimate arbiter for the matter is an Earl.
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  3731. Another fun response like that is "Yes, but I'm not single."
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  3732. Then Florida passes a law that if you DON'T criticize Disney, you can be sued by any interested party for up to $10,000.
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  3733. Screw the art. It's the history that is being erased because of the heckler's veto that is dangerous. Don't erase the history you don't like, add the truth you want others to know.
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  3734. I get you on this. I'm running an i7-4771 that has been solid for me for about a decade (?) and only replaced my GPU when the old one flat out died, and put in a GTX 1070 because it sat at the intersection of "more than I needed at the time" and "cheap enough". I've been using the same Samsung 1080p LED monitor since I picked it up at Sam's Club back in the early 2000's. I play games and am not disappointed with the settings I run at, once I turn off motion blur and camera shake, which I don't like anyway because I have mild vertigo.
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  3735.  @AndreaCrisp  Come into the gym? Simplicity! Louis Rossmann wanted to cancel a gym membership that he had signed up for online. They required a registered letter that included proof that he had moved more than 50 miles from any branch of their business.
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  3736. Can anyone?
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  3737. You are right, that hotel handled the situation properly.
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  3738. I was gonna save three trillion, but then I got...
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  3739. Say what you want about NYC, but leave the cats out of it, pal! (Translated from feline micro-expressions)
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  3740.  @scottgriffiths2753  Quantity is not a valid replacement for quality. I am so glad we have quality back in the top office.
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  3741. The sound of cooking bacon is like applause.
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  3742. So the "paradox" starts when you, instead of rounding, or expressing a repeating decimal, just truncate the number. Or... do it wrong. That is not a paradox, that is bad math. So is rounding 1.0101...% to 2%. - But paradox is a more "clicky" title than "bad math"
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  3743. They'll refuse to believe he is dead. He will be seen at gas stations in the US South, in casinos in Las Vegas, at campgrounds near the Great Lakes, and drifting through the early morning mists on Florida golf courses. Adherents will find his face in their toast, in stains on office building windows, and found in tomato slices. Then will come the rumors of his return on some randomly chosen "important day".
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  3744. This law is Abbot trying to rule the state like his personal fiefdom.
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  3745. The cop here created the proximity. That's my takeaway.
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  3746.  @TheFairlaner  $2,000 doesn't cover major car repairs, dental work, replacing furniture after a flood or fire, or first-last-security on an apartment bigger than a closet under the stairs
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  3747. Except that landlords WILL turn around and apply the increased costs to the rent of their tenants, and many will raise rents beyond what is necessary to cover the increase in taxes.
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  3748. Your "glass in the bra" reaction sounds were reminiscent of someone speaking Mandarin or Cantonese.
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  3749. Sometimes it seems that ignorance of the law is a job requirement for being a cop.
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  3750. If he wants to appeal, he has to put up a deposit or bond for the amount of the judgement (and possible interest) before he can even ask for a hearing date for his appeal. It may seem repressive, but it is a way to reduce the number of frivolous "run out the clock" appeals.
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  3751.  @johnassal5838  Even incoherent or unresponsive people have fingerprints, and can be meticulously compared to photographs and DNA. If dead people can be identified by fingerprints, facial comparison DNA and dental records, why can't a living person who could also respond to questions?
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  3752.  @EwanMarshall  To bring your good points closer to the video's topic, It would be like screws on the shelf being priced at $5.00 a box, but when you checked out they added $0.50 for the miners, $0.50 for the refining, $0.50 for the makers of the screws and $0.50 for the shipping chain that got the screws to the store. And THEN a default tip for the hardware store staff of 20%.
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  3753. I wonder if there are exceptions to this confidentiality protection if criminality is executed by either party, much like can happen to break lawyer-client confidentiality.
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  3754. I recall some older shows where slimy cops would have a portable stop sign in their trunk (some king of weight on the bottom to let them stand up) and use them as ticket traps.
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  3755. You are ethically correct, but that bumps up against the wall of "qualified immunity" and gets swept under the rug.
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  3756. I sometimes yell at people, "Directionals have been standard equipment since before World War 2? What's your damn excuse?"
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  3757. Plus, the Army National guard needed to upgrade from their Gama Goats and handcarts, and they always get the hand-me-downs the Marines refuse.
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  3758. The chain stitch is used quite a lot to close large bags of loose goods, like dry dog food, fertilizer, and so on.
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  3759.  @richardtaylor1652  Miniature giant space hamster?
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  3760. (shudder) "plumber cancer"
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  3761.  @jeremiahbullfrog9288  Sell NYC to some other country AFTER having the city absorb the nation's debt. When this other country wants out of the purchase, point to the clause in 2-point type that the buyback value loses them 50% of what they paid. - Lather, rinse, repeat.
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  3762. It's also anti- First Amendment. While we don't have First Amendment rights against private corporations, and can thus be penalized or banned from a corporation's forum for whatever reason they see fit to set as policy, we ARE supposed to be protected AGAINST the government from limiting our speech, expression, religion, press, and peaceable assembly. - While this means this act, if made into law, could be eliminated under Constitutional grounds, that requires someone with enough money, time and will to push a case through to the proper court AFTER they suffer the penalties set forth in the act.
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  3763. Daylight savings could be killed in California. Just tell the politicians that it involves clock owners' "right to repair the time" and they'll have it dead by dawn.
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  3764. Pfft. A flag is just a piece of colorful cloth.
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  3765.  @lisaperry5999  A tiny touch of evidence on the side of the insecurity guard is that catalytic converter thieves will crawl under a car and start cutting with a reciprocating saw on cars in a person's driveway in broad daylight. - Why is it called "broad" daylight?
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  3766. The more of this type of police interaction I watch, the more and more I have difficulty controlling the urge to get in the headlines. For... actions.
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  3767.  @MichaelOnines  The first court should have thrown the no-standing case right eh heck out on its tuckus.
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  3768. ... and who knows how many miles put on it by people "borrowing it".
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  3769.  @danielseelye6005  In Florida, it is now illegal to (even peacefully) protest outside of a residence. We'll see how long this new law lasts under constitutional scrutiny.
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  3770. Some DA's would charge ahead with a "co-conspirator" case against your friend.
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  3771. If the government wants to control every aspect of our road travel, then they should fund more buses, commuter rail, and taxis. Or Jetson's style moving sidewalks everywhere.
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  3772. With the state of technology, they no longer need to store the samples long-term. Type and DNA analysis, stored at computer information. They can still make all that sweet, sweet moolah on stolen medical information.
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  3773. Smart move by the 8th circuit. Take legal action out of the hands of disgruntled citizens, leaving them ONLY non-legal means. I can't see how this will possibly end in violence... (The above is meant sardonically)
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  3774. Re: that alleged chemical attack, being in near-freezing water can give a lot of the symptoms described. Cold water kills.
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  3775.  @WafflePlaneRC  In college I had a history professor who was in a National Guard artillery unit during WW2 and his unit was posted on the coast to shoot U-boats. The one time they thought they saw something that they actually got higher permission to fire on, they ran through most of the ammo they had on hand. They hit nothing. - Later, he applied for Army Air Corps and got to fly fighter planes, but he never told us if he was deployed as a pilot before the end of hostilities.
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  3776. State Forest, shallow grave. I am suggesting nothing...
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  3777.  @mxplixic  I dunno. If your pee is golden, you may be dehydrated.
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  3778. Hmm... When is the heat death of the universe scheduled, again?
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  3779. Putting them together is easy. You need to hold the adjuster with your third hand, and set the springs in place with your fourth and fifth hands. Yes, buying five-armed shirts is a hassle.
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  3780. And one woman was even been arrested for trying to get the information on virus infections and deaths to the people.
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  3781.  @rocketsurgeon2135  Hey, as long as the bully theater manager is paying...
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  3782. For nearly thirty years I was lucky enough to live on the side of the street without a sidewalk. We only had to ensure that there was enough snow cleared to ensure roadside mailbox delivery. The trouble with laws that require homeowners to clear the sidewalks that they don't own (they are public property, on the easement next to the road) is that those same laws make the homeowner legally liable for every slip-n-fall that happens on the sidewalk in front of their property. It can actually often be cheaper to NOT clear the sidewalk and save being sued for people somehow slipping on ice and snow in the damned winter wherein ice and snow happen. - One place I lived, we were on the outside of the only bend on the narrow road, and the snowplow would regularly bury the sidewalk in an increasingly tall and dense snowbank. One year I said [bleep] it and only cut a path out to the road from the front door and cleared the driveway. Only one time did the town say something, and I told the town that if they wanted us to keep the sidewalk clear, their plow operators would have to find a new place to shove the snow from several hundred feet of road. Never heard back.
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  3783. What? That would NEVER happen! . . Yeah, I don't believe me either.
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  3784. I can just see Christopher Eccleston's Doctor saying, "It's totally nuclear! I mean sonic!"
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  3785. I've been recommending the Reach Right handle to all sort of people. Making shoveling even a little easier is a good goal.
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  3786. He responded like a toddler. No emotional maturity was displayed.
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  3787. And yet it's simultaneously sad that we have to ask them.
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  3788.  @sasjadevries  It's NYC, so some PP buses have rubber tires.
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  3789. Moral disability! What a claim!
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  3790. I always say, "I woke up breathing, so it was a good start."
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  3791. That much, huh? I guess they need to make enough money for those slick TV ads on top of the usual yachts.
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  3792. I figured the rule for parking in NYC was as follows: Don't park. Even if you are willing to pay to park, don't park. Just leave your car in Connecticut and take a taxi into the city. Or roll out of your moving vehicle somewhere near your destination and let the car become someone else's problem. - If you MUST park, double park, everyone else is doing it and you don't want to look like a tourist.
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  3793. There is a lot Massachusetts does right. But then there's this, and the fact that we're still a civil asset forfeiture state.
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  3794.  @stitchfinger7678  And even a subcompact car outweighs a pedestrian by similar ratios. Touchscreens for operating vehicle systems are dangerous.
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  3795. Wow. I had to mentally draw a "710" and flip it in my mind's eye. I am embarrassed!
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  3796. My apartment building has a dumpster that regularly has furniture items stacked next to or in front of it. The landlord asks anyone who sees a non-resident dumping to get the plate and inform him, but most of the items are from tenants who are too damn lazy to just put the items in the dumpster.
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  3797. What a bunch of morons. They could make better shields out of saucer sleds, at least those are bigger. Or make four to six from a 4' x 8' sheet of 5/8" plywood. And using moving trucks to transport people? Morons again, but I guess they were at least smart enough to not use their own vehicles and risk getting identified by a DAVID check.
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  3798. "If people have their analog watched repaired by an independent shop, the shop may install tick-tock into the watches!!!"
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  3799. A civilian drone can watch police, military, and political activity normally hidden behind walls and greenery. Government HATES the competition. That's why some US states keep trying to limit the ability of people to record police at work, in public, from public property.
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  3800.  @Littlefoot.  Ooh, How DARE I have a bias!
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  3801.  @cocainefortoothaches3882  I don't think I've ever seen a bon-bon in my 5+ decades of life.
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  3802.  @WaterEnthusiast1308  Cool, cool. What about muskets with which I commit battery?
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  3803. Isn't it great? The municipality can make you pay to install sidewalks, then make you keep those sidewalks clear, and fine you if you fail to keep those sidewalks clear. But if the sidewalk needs actual repair, such as if tree roots raise a section, or the concrete/asphalt degrades to pieces, getting them to fix it (again, with your money) takes an excruciating amount of time, during which, if someone gets hurt because of the condition of the sidewalk, you may somehow be held legally liable.
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  3804. Another reason to put money into restoring an older car is that you aren't feeding the carmakers' new drive for monthly subscriptions to stuff already installed on the car.
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  3805. From Christopher Titus: "So Thomas Jefferson said "Every generation needs a new revolution". Now our grandparents had World War II, fought the Nazis. Our parents had the Civil Rights Revolution. Our generation has... Shamwow and Prozac. That's it, man. We just went through the worst decade since disco and how did we deal with it? We bitched on the Internet, got medical marijuana cards, and played Grand Theft Auto" This ties into Efe Aydal's post as well.
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  3806.  @Hopeforus24  And we are all fooled into thinking he DOESN'T have an army of clones working with him!
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  3807.  @dougansell  Don't blame CNN translators, blame US broadcasting censorship standards.
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  3808.  @AnimeSunglasses  I just got an image of an aircraft carrier showing me a picture of the Kaga, "Have you seen this ship?"
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  3809.  @adriannaconnor6471  To that point, I know someone who is allergic to tree nuts (and pork, and gluten, and any alcohol cured in wooden barrels), but can eat peanut butter with no ill effect.
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  3810.  @jwadaow  Wow. The self delusion evident in your comment. Astounding.
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  3811. No funding needed. Someone's cousin's friend's former college roommate read it on X-Twitter, so it is therefore true.
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  3812. "I could ask a scientist, but I won't." That says it all.
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  3813. I thought it was part of the structure for the extending shoulder stock!
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  3814. Particularly with possession being 9/10ths of the law! So go out and get more hands! (Dead people aren't even USING their anymore)
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  3815.  @zeenaabdura5686  Get out of here with your politics.
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  3816. Approach her with a t least Hazmat C, if not better.
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  3817. But WalMart and Kohl's will use this fine as justification to further delay better compensation and staffing levels in actual store locations. With no impact on yacht payments for the top tier.
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  3818. Don't feed the trolls. And never grant power to the heckler's veto.
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  3819. And thus we have SLAPP lawsuits, where litigants with big money bury the little person in lawsuits and costs to stealth force them into compliance with the interests of the richer side of the dispute.
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  3820. I find it astounding how much more space an engine takes up when it is disassembled.
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  3821. Did they forget to provide a chair for Muskrat?
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  3822.  @peterstaniforth451  I watch James Butler (on YouTube), the owner of a septic company in North Carolina. I think he would say it's time to pump AND replace the tank and the leech field, and roto all the plumbing. Oh, and to stop using the septic as a trash disposal.
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  3823. I don't know if there is a law about it here in Massachusetts, but I always try to keep the tires matching on the "axle" even if they don't match front to back. I even go so far as to try and keep the matching to age, or at least tread depth. Since I've started doing that, my rain and snow experience has had less difficulty and no spin-outs.
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  3824.  @dimasakbar7668  I wonder if a reason for going with cameras instead of a window is the near-death sentence for the boom operator(s) in the event of a needed bailout? I saw a documentary on the KC-135 that commented about that and the constant problems with fuel bladder degradation leading to a buildup of fumes in the rear compartment.
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  3825. Remember when the Republican party was the party of SDI, more nukes, arms for populations resisting Soviet invasions? I'm old enough to remember.
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  3826. That beeping would quickly have me tossing the thing across the lot.
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  3827.  @bearing_aficionado  I think I actually saw that one. It is a shame that vehicle owners and their mechanics have to finish building the vehicles correctly.
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  3828. But if I steal a laptop from your outdoor dining table while you're distracted, I would get immediate police "attention" and jail time.
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  3829. Cops must LOVE arresting military people, knowing that they are too young and dumb to know their full rights.
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  3830. A book listing banned books and why they were banned would likely be likewise banned in Florida.
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  3831.  lulu belle  Don't claim to be an "undercover cop" just say, "I'm undercover"
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  3832. I have been accused of being a bad judge of character, but at least I've never been a judge WITH bad character!
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  3833. If they are Master locks, or Chinese knock-offs of Master locks, a sharp rap with a hammer will usually "unlock" them. LPL fans unite!
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  3834. You have it wrong. Many cats have YouTubers.
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  3835.  @JacobNeff-oq5km  - Rarely will you find solar panel installations on flat roofs being horizontal. - snow will be a load on the roof nonetheless. The weight of the panels just needs to be added to the expected snow load and compared to the structure. - Your third point is supposition. - You seem to be unaware of who bears the cost of the equipment to prevent the panels from backfeeding the lines in emergencies like power outages or downed lines.
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  3836. Wow. It must be nice to be able to testify "the truth, the WHOLE truth and only the truth" instead of being forced to answer yes or no to finely crafted leading questions.
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  3837.  @Hbm1923  And yet most people will spay and neuter their pets (and strays) to prevent pet overpopulation and for some pets it is a health risk for them to have more litters. Oh, sorry, did I get some facts on your outrage?
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  3838. I worked overnights at a convenience store and called my share of drunk drivers. One in particular I used to see hitchhiking to work on my drive home a few weeks later. It must not have been his first offense, as he was hitching for half a year.
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  3839. Great movie and showcase for Lee Marvin.
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  3840.  @williamlong8859  "Look out, that tree you're cutting is going to fall on your damned house!" - "GIVE ME YOUR ID!!!!" (crash)
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  3841.  @shadetreemech290  It's not a "women" thing, it's an uneducated vehicle owner thing. Though the prevalence of male salespeople taking advantage of female buyers lends some power to your comment.
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  3842. At that point, they ought to be honest and just replace the judge with a signature stamp left at the information kiosk of the courthouse.
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  3843. Can we skip all these baby steps and just get to the blipverts that cause me to spontaneously combust in my recliner, already?
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  3844. Back in the 1990's I heard the phrase, "The only truly secure computer is one you leave in the box."
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  3845. A Ukraine election would be EASY. Just have Russian withdraw all forces beyond the borders (including Crimea) and let them get the process done.
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  3846. I've run into a shop, okay, a Meineke, that "inspected" things I did not ask them to work on and they threatened to call the police who would "ticket me and impound my vehicle" if I didn't get those things fixed. I told the guy that I came in for an exhaust pipe and muffler, and there was absolutely NO reason for the mechanic to even touch my wheels to inspect my brakes. I then told him to go ahead and call the cops. Funny, they dropped the issue, installed the parts I had asked for, at the price they advertised, and I drove away. I've never been back to a Meineke since.
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  3847.  @joshuahadams  None fast. If the firing order was done just right, it would perform a barrel roll, rapidly cooling the barrels and rinsing propellant residue off the decks.
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  3848. Wool use is so down from its peak that some sheep ranchers just throw away the wool because it costs more to ship it, clean it and sort it than it will earn.
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  3849. It sounds rather similar to "Establish air superiority, THEN start the ground war."
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  3850. And? People do go through financial tough times, and the credit reporting system does no favors when they are trying to rebuild their lives after such a downturn.
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  3851.  @PhilippensTube  I agree. I gave up on the formerly educational channels once shows like "What on Earth" became a thing, and that was after a serious erosion of my enthusiasm with the rise of reality shows like "Ice Road Truckers", "The Deadliest Catch" and those gold mining shows. After a season or less, we've pretty much seen what we need, then it becomes a scripted drama about people arguing.
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  3852. If you ask me, the best fix for a sunroof is to close it, disconnect the motor, and seal the window in with UV resistant silicone caulking. a.k.a. make it a moon roof.
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  3853. The picture of the assembling of the Venus craft at 16:55 give me "Demon Core" vibes.
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  3854.  @cindydott452  I'm old enough to remember nearly every Western having 10-15 shot 6-shooters. They were just starting to be made in color back then.
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  3855. As awesome as this cat can be, I could not own a smoosh-faced cat. They look to much like my deadbeat dad did, and he drives me to anger even decades later. - This guy DOES have an awesome eye color though.
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  3856. Boy that one really sent me... back in time.
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  3857. That's what I do with complicated disassemblies, be it engines, electronics, or anything else. You can also use Styrofoam packaging instead of cardboard, if you have some lying around.
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  3858. I lived in an OLD house as a kid. Screw-in plug fuses, post and wrap wiring in most of the house, push-button light switches still in a few rooms. Some of the outlets were quite worn, and to be able to make electrical contact when plugging in things we had to bend the prongs on the plug inward a bit. - When we started getting enough household income to do so, we replaced those loose outlets and all but one set of the push-button light switches (because you had to find JUST the right dwell point to have an electrical connection). Yeah, that song is so right. I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger.
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  3859. If the item is under warranty, why would I pay anyone to fix it? If the repair is warranty covered, I'm taking it to the manufacturer's repairer and making them do the work. - If I'm paying Joe down the street to fix something, it means the warranty is not going to cover it, and I am paying Joe to fix it for me for a fraction of what the manufacturer would ask. edit: If the manufacturer would even fix it at all.
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  3860.  @karlfunnell100  It's a British vehicle, so it must be arsoned with petrol. And that petrol must be bought by the liter.
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  3861. After that Shade Store pun, you have been approved for a provision "dad license".
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  3862. Heck, the kid might have spontaneously jumped to an altitude of 50 meters, then all of the atoms of his body could have converted from matter to energy, destroying much of that county. The odds of that happening are near enough to zero as to be meaningless, but they are not GUARANTEED to be zero.
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  3863. "And monkeys might come flying out of my butt!"
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  3864.  @bettyannemiller9081  And the sidewalks are the most important part for others in the area. Wheelchairs/mobility chairs, strollers, grocery carts... Followed very closely by reducing habitats for nuisance animals (rats, etc.) and disease-carrying insects (ticks, fleas...)
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  3865.  @Terran.Marine.2  "Hey new guy! Whassyer name?" - (sigh) "Amazon Corporation."
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  3866. "Bad Paint" - Could that be colors that have sun-faded? Colors the management doesn't like like hot pink or caution yellow? A door with a different color?
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  3867. In these cases, it seems that the warrants are largely properly issued, but based on erroneous/false reports from Hertz. It is much like if a person calls 911 and makes false statements to try and get a neighbor arrested, a spouse taken away, or a rival gamer shot by a police tactical team.
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  3868. The last time I had to work under a dash, I ended up with my back on the floor and my feet on the headrest. Quite a headrush!
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  3869.  @stupiddude6824  But Louisiana looks like an ankle boot with a short heel, which suggests that women only wear footwear that makes them attractive, which is bad. Move to Wyoming. Flat, rectangular, bland, where all forms of glorious personal difference can stand out! (I am so kidding, fellow ugly bags of mostly water.)
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  3870.  @davidhoward4715  David, Are you the code enforcement official? You've been posting the EXACT SAME WORDS over and over for multiple comment threads. Wait! Are you a robot?
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  3871. Have I been arrested? Well let me tell you about the half ton of garbage and the twenty-seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us.
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  3872.  @zglrd8938  Oh, it's that easy is it? Before my hospital converted to electronic records, the binder of medical records that followed me around from clinic to clinic to in-patient stay was five inches thick. And that did not include ANY x-rays or other imaging. As it is, on a busy day, it can take as much as a minute for my records to load when a doctor want to look something up. - And what about if I have an emergency in another state, or even county or just a different hospital? Must my treatment for a lacerated kidney and punctured lung from an auto accident wait for someone to shuttle that box of paper and x-rays to the ER team trying to figure out if the unconscious guy in front of them should be administered a particular medication?
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  3873. Thanks to Jeorg Sprave, I (an ignorant American) also knew about IG Metall
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  3874. But try and tell the biggest companies that sacrificing a little bit of profit now will build their reputation and future business, and they'll look at you like you just declared that the moon is made of green cheese and mice are the real overlords of the planet.
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  3875. When I was younger, I rode in some vehicles that had the headlight switch on the floor, and an old, restored fire truck that the very same button on the floor was the starter.
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  3876. If the dealer disclosed the condition and/or lack of airbags at sale, they would have been fine. But no, they got greedy, lazy, and cheap all in one ball of crime.
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  3877. And some spray foam.
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  3878.  @GTVAlfaMan  Wow. You completely misread my comment. Photons are captured in photography. I have yet to meet someone, other than the Dig Safe workers (the people who tell you "Within 6-10 feet" where underground utilities are located before you start excavation), who use a metal detector without intent to actually dig up what they find. I am not saying such people don't exist, I just have never even heard of that happening. And I find it reasonable that a Park employee would have the same experience and expectations.
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  3879.  @TrangleC  And a NATO small arms ammo can be used for decades as a tool box, a first aid kit (paint a red cross on it), to store other ammo, or even as a single-use in-vehicle toilet. My National Guard unit used the wooden boxes from tank and mortar rounds as storage boxes, they just painted over the original labeling with white and used a sharpie to label the new contents.
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  3880. There is a scene in the anime Gate where they need to disable a guy, but the person detailed to do the job says something like, "If I hit him hard enough to knock him out, I might also kill him." If I remember right, the elf in the group uses sleep magic.
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  3881. Even better, after draining the oil and changing the filter, put on the Autozone "empty filter" (essentially a can) and fill with 5 quarts of cleaning mixture (1 part Dawn to 7 parts water) and run the engine for ten minutes, then drain the pan, replace the "empty filter" with a new oil filter, add the correct amount of oil, and drive away.
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  3882. The fire must have been put out before it got very bad, based on the lack of staining, melting or scorching on the siding above the windows and doors, and the undamaged roof (no ventilation holes had to be chopped, shingles not melted). edit: The garage, on the other hand... edit 2: I later saw the smoke damage from the back door and window, and the window facing the neighbor with the nice classic car.
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  3883.  @loralea3142  And if you didn't immediately answer all questions, and did not promptly provide proof of identification (even though you may not be legally required to do so for a consensual encounter) you will be arrested for "resisting and impeding" If non-white, you are at higher risk of being injured or killed.
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  3884. Prepare for trouble! And make it double! To protect the world from devastation! To unite all peoples within our nation! To denounce the evils of truth and love! To extend our reach to the stars above! Jessie! James! Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light! Surrender now, or prepare to fight! Meowth! That's right!
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  3885. Nah.
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  3886. My window AC's are SO DANGED loud that I have taken to watching the TV with subtitles on. That heat pump is so quiet, it would be unlikely to wake a lightly dozing baby near a window just above it, even if the window was open for some weird reason.
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  3887.  @Kerndon  Another benefit, a proper signaling lamp only sends its information along a narrow cone that you can aim at your intended recipient. Rather like the difference between a stage spotlight and a bare lightbulb.
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  3888. About 10 minutes walk from GMA's studio to Rossmann Repair Group, if the lights are against you. Yeah, I looked it up.
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  3889. Turns out, it was a "civil matter". Nothing they can do.
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  3890.  @hicknopunk  Yeah, because there is NO way someone can pay attention to the road while driving, and the regulations of the use of that government issued vehicle otherwise. Do you have problems breathing and walking at the same time?
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  3891.  @678friedbed  Does the "make their own choices" also apply to the rider's dependents? Can a rider's kids have a vote on helmet use? Maybe the kids HATE the rider and vote against the helmet. Maybe the rider's spouse wants them to ride wearing only shorts, hoping to get the life insurance money. Or maybe the dependents can sue the anti-helmet rider for reckless endangerment of their financial and emotional stability?
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  3892.  @678friedbed  You missed my point. If it is choice, what about the choice of those whose death of the helmetless rider would most impact? My point was where does personal choice end? We, as a society, don't let people choose to drive drunk. We choose this not to save the life of the drunk driver so much as the other lives they can negatively impact. No pun intended.
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  3893.  @danielallan8061  Some people want Texas to leave the US. And not all of those people are in Texas. It doesn't mean Texas gets to leave the US.
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  3894. Ah yes, the famous "Use an open hand, and the bruises won't show up fast enough to be in the booking photos" police technique.
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  3895.  @scriptles  "We got a call", "You fit a description"...
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  3896.  @1NotN  I agree. It is the "for life" part of the appointment that makes them nearly impossible to get out of the job when they start making horrendous decisions, or develop senility (We have yet to have an Alzheimer's SC Justice who refuses to resign, but imagine that!), or who is deliberately acting against the country and/or the constitution...
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  3897.  @justinkaufman495  I eagerly await the class-action case where drivers unite to make the car manufacturers buy back worn-out vehicles since they have made repair impossible, and retain ownership and control over all systems even remotely connected to a computer.
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  3898.  @lsp6032  As a USian, I tender this question. "Donde esta public transportation?" - I kid. Many US cities have public transportation to some degree within a city, and sometimes even with a slight regional coverage. But with very few exceptions, traveling between major metro areas is the purview of cars and planes - the least economical and most polluting options (though electric vehicles are chipping at the edges of the pollution).
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  3899. I, for one, am SICK of all these people having access to sanitary flush toilets when an outhouse was good enough for my grandparents! And what is up with people surviving simple infections because of antibiotics? Back when my parents were young, people died from a gamy cut, and it was good enough for them! And kids these days with their internet! When I was their age, if I wanted to know something, I had to go to the library! *A library is a building where you could read and borrow books. Books are webs pages printed on dead trees.
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  3900. Or, and this might actually get changes made, "All parts and systems which the military are blocked from repairing by the manufacturer as thus the property of the manufacturer, and all money spent on those items shall be refunded in no more than 30 days. Additionally, the manufacturer becomes responsible for providing repair parts, services, and personnel wherever and whenever the systems are used. The military reserves the right to, quarterly, call for the presence of the manufacturer's board of directors at any repair facility of the military's choosing to have a review and audit of the parts, supplies and repair services. Transport to these meetings shall be the sole responsibility of the manufacturer."
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  3901. The only person who I knew worked for the IRS was also the first person I met with a CCW (Concealed Carry Weapon) on him almost all the time. He worked in the department that did on site audits and seizures and had been threatened with deadly violence in the commission of his job. Yet he was one of the nicest and calmest people I've ever met.
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  3902.  @robert45tn  The brownshirts of 90 years ago called and miss you.
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  3903. I went cross-eyed trying to understand that Australian Senate thing, to be honest. Can I opt instead to learn fluid dynamics?
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  3904.  @xdbruhxd1179  As an American, my biased opinion is that too much money is ruining (has ruined?) the elections process at all levels above choosing what to order for dinner at the gaming table.
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  3905. Like the police actually had the staff and time to watch your home cameras for evidence of a potential crime in progress...
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  3906. She needs an intervention!
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  3907. They were banned because lawyers are really good at getting money for stupid people who hurt themselves or other by doing stupid things.
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  3908.  @JonS  EXACTLY what the makers of a super-gun would do!!!
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  3909.  @aetreus88  I know I shall!
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  3910. A person can harm themselves by drinking excess clean water. It's called water intoxication, and it is (low percentage?) possible to die from it. Shall we ban water?
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  3911. One day working at a convenience store back in the 1980's, the power went out in a blizzard. I called the manager, who said that I could either close and go home, or write down the transactions until I wanted to lock up and go home. So, with a key to open the cash drawer, three flashlights for customer use, light coming in the windows, pen, a pad of paper, and a calculator... I ran one of the most profitable days the store had had that season, as people panic-bought toilet paper, bread, chips, pet and baby food (holy markup!), milk and ice cream, and a smattering of other things until it was too dark to see what I was writing. You may say, "Blizzard? Ice cream?" Yeah, New Englanders are weird.
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  3912. The big thing I learned in this video is that the "running through a stream" actually helps the dog, not the runner. This is going to inform my TTRPG plots!
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  3913. They won't learn. Your one win against them pales against the thousands and thousands who just give up and keep paying rather than waste their own time waiting on the phone. It's all about percentages.
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  3914. Decades ago, when we moved into a new house (I was in... 7th grade?) we found out quite by accident that we had a concrete walk heading straight out to the road (no sidewalks on our street). It was buried under years of washed-in dirt and long-established grass. Using only manual tools we completely excavated the 20 or so feet of sidewalk and used the sod to patch some bare spots in the yard. I envy you kids with your powered edgers and backpack leaf blowers. You whippersnapper! Hehehehe
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  3915. Well, it is from Texas (Instruments(=).
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  3916. Even worse, you need TWO tools to remove those buggers. A Philips screwdriver and something flat to pry with.
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  3917.  @1marcelfilms  One place I worked, someone helpfully attached a sign to the paper recycling bin that read, "Suggestions and Complaints"
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  3918.  @bobbg9041  $37k for a RANGER? Does it come with a second Ranger to drive on weekends?
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  3919. I just imagined putting a WalMart building in a jail cell. I also just woke up, and my brain has dream-vapors still wandering around.
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  3920. If you can't send the data ONLY to your own server (say in a back closet) then it is not a product sane people should install.
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  3921.  @fzigunov  ... for now, the used vehicle market can feed the need to disconnected cars. But all cars age, and eventually most will no longer be drivable without heroic and expensive interventions. Then the used cars will just be older connected vehicles.
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  3922. So he has SO little work to do as a US Representative he can moonlight as a newscaster?
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  3923.  @ithinkaboutthings9052  Like in that city where people are told to leave their trunks/hatchbacks open and their cars empty to avoid having their windows broken by thieves? You know, instead of actually putting out patrols and cameras to catch the slimeballs?
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  3924.  @michaelstein2170  I am also not a lawyer, nor have I stayed in a Doubletree Inn, but my reading of that statute (18 USC 242) agrees with yours.
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  3925.  @leahcimthgirw3163  Have you seen the compacting rollers they use at large landfills? Heavy vehicles with steel wheels studded with steel cleats larger than your fist.
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  3926. It will be fun to figure out where the two grounds that are tied together originally went.
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  3927.  @randominternetguy3537  It's a good thing no MAGA-oriented folks, KKK, neo-Not-sees, Proud Boyos, or such folks have EVER broken the law without facing ramifications.
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  3928.  @CuntryRebel  Or say "Up thataway and back thataway."
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  3929.  @tonylarose4842  Some cars ads now brag about reaching 100,000 miles without problems. That used to be the bare minimum, and cars would reach 200k, 300k before they could no longer be maintained.
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  3930.  @Pink.andahalf  And they even threw in a burning of the White House to try and sell copies of the movie.
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  3931.  @chitlitlah  A lower sticker price may not reflect the profit margin. Particularly with used cars. As an example, a used car dealer can have a red car that they paid $4,000 but can only expect to get $5,000 for, and a blue car that they paid $1,500 for but can get $4,000 at sale.
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  3932. The legality of cash is printed right on the bills. "This Note is Legal Tender for all Debts, Public and Private"
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  3933. Plus it's in the desert. Deserts are full of sand. You know, the stuff that is coarse and rough and irritating and gets everywhere?
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  3934.  @jys76  People are not "going on vacation" in Kiev. That is where the live and work and get bombed in schools, hospitals and shopping centers.
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  3935.  @nancybeveridgetaylor3256  My day has been made, thank you both.
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  3936.  @darrengray2309  Good point. This also eliminates differences in tire inflation.
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  3937. Real shame about how that shop owner's future tire stem damage...
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  3938. Demonstrators and protesters are exercising their 1st amendment rights. Rioters deserve long prison times. Looters, arsonists need to be shot on sight.
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  3939.  @annettepiff4583  "We have the most lies. The best lies. Lies like you've never seen. Our lies once met me, strong lies, with tears in their eyes, and said 'Mister Precedent, how can you have so many bigly lies?'"
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  3940.  @russellstyles5381  Ooh! Like the fasteners they use to assemble public bathroom stalls. To tighten, you use a flat-head screwdriver, but the loosen direction is just a gradual ramp on the fastener head. Ingenious for the application, evil for other uses.
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  3941. Nah. But a Moon "special military operation"??? That might be a battle "For All Mankind"...
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  3942.  @hg2.  Joe Manchin, is that you?
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  3943. Ted: "Hiya, New York!" New York: "[speaks New York-ese*, vigorously and at high volume]" - *New York-ese is a combination of formal languages, curse words, angry gestures, and infinite disdain.
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  3944. Also home prices were within reach of a single-income wage earning family. They had not been pumped-n-dumped repeatedly by house flippers, or had the price artificially inflated because of "neighborhood values".
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  3945. "Yer a (pinball) wizard, Alec!" - Hagred
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  3946. Instead of a chat bot, they could have just referred people to the website for complex travel interactions such as bereavement travel. And by website, I mean a simple interface, clickable 'buttons' and documents of policies reviewed by corporate lawyers and posted with all relevant information.
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  3947. The bigger problem is that if Apple gets away with this with their fanbase, other companies WILL follow suit to get that sweet, sweet profit margin.
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  3948. Not having to shoot explosive rounds at fabric-covered planes would have helped.
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  3949.  @christiang2194  Plus, the penny-conscious manufacturers are not prone to including needless parts in a vehicle.
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  3950. The same kind of people who say "lion infested" are those who are surprised when people are bitten by sharks when those people are in the ocean. That's where the bitey things live, y'all.
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  3951.  @kingofnonation5843  So a sequel to "They Live", perhaps titled "They Die"?
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  3952.  @jadefalcon001  Nice! I bet there's a way to say that as one long compound word in German...
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  3953. I was once self-centered enough to find the idea of annual vehicle inspections an onerous burden. Then I started seeing the conditions of vehicles in no-inspection states, and I shudder at the idea of sharing the road with those rolling mass casualty events. Half an hour of my time once a year, the price of a good pizza dinner, and I have peace of mind. And because everyone else in my state has to do it too, I am far less worried on the road, either as a driver or a pedestrian.
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  3954.  @cm01  Maybe to avoid feeding yet another point of data about yourself to Alphabet?
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  3955. I think Buy Here, Pay Here is the LAST resort. I watch a few mechanic's channels, and the worst cars come from those lots. frame rot, dry-rot rubber, higher viscosity oil to mask engine problems... But they do a great job making the car look great on a walk-around! If you don't know what you're looking for.
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  3956.  @user-ut9ln4vd5m  Solder sold for plumbing and large electrical soldering is often flux-cored. But solder sold for micro-electronics work is not. Instead, the flux is applied manually, often as a thick liquid either dabbed, poured, or 'syringed' on.
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  3957. Don't post "No Trespassing" signs. Post "Caution, I misplaced several spiked pits somewhere." - edit: Don't ACTUALLY have spiked pits, that can get you in serious trouble.
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  3958. And for point 1, don't you have to be the vehicle operator? I know in many/most (all?) the passengers are not required to identify for simple traffic stops unless they are being cited for their own violations (like not wearing a seat belt, littering, etc.)
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  3959.  @Alucard-gt1zf  I learned a few different torque "specs": finger tight, snug, tight, one grunt, and two grunt.
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  3960. There are some jobs that require you to be at a specific place to do the work, like factories, hospitals, restaurants. There are some that require you to continually move with the work, like truck driving, construction, emergency services. And there are some that are location neutral, like stock trading, computer drafting, customer service calls. - And even in the jobs that are location neutral, I can see the occasional mandatory in-person meetings. Though this could create a new economy of the "meeting office" which would run like an events room in a hotel, but with more desks and internet.
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  3961. Heh, heh... Dongle.
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  3962. My high school told me I could not attend graduation unless I paid class dues. This, after they told me the class dues covered part of the cost of the yearbook, that I did not order. I told them I would give them a self-addressed and stamped manila envelope. They panicked and reversed their decision and I never paid class dues.
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  3963. Kind of a dumb thing to do for a company with an immobile and publicly known business address... What? I'm suggesting nothing! But if there were a peaceful protest that got a lot of news coverage? Well that could negatively impact the profit line.
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  3964.  @zapazap  And the cash is presumed guilty, forcing you to spend MORE money trying to prove a negative.
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  3965.  @lousbits  Apparently, your selling agent was not in on the scam.
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  3966.  @SueLeon007  Yep, earplugs are often sufficient, if they are good ones, up to certain noise thresholds.
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  3967. Well. Her estate better get paid all that overtime...
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  3968. Seems to me it was just someone who wanted a person to talk to, even for a couple of minutes.
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  3969. What's troubling is that we the underclass have to beg our court's gate-keepers for permission to hold our badged law-keepers to account for their lack of knowledge. And none of those above are actually help fiscally liable.
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  3970. And local governments help squatters over the actual property owners.
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  3971.  @jerome6383  Think of the children! (/forehead_slap)
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  3972. I read the title and imagined a similar "Country names its first Mars astronauts" and then a video about the people running that country's space program touring a room full of newborns, and pointing at one, "That is the systems engineer..."
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  3973.  @brettfarrell7773  Well, it is likely that the registry/DMV employee could do nothing. I mean to say, incompetence is a likely cause.
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  3974.  @ORRadtech  Fair point. The time to disassemble, clean, reassemble and then hope that is the fix might cost more than swapping the part at shop rates.
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  3975.  @kristus20  Zeppelin has had Good Times, Bad Times. But now they seem to Ramble On somewhere Over the Hills and Far Away from where I sit.
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  3976. As a member of the PC master race, I would like to say we have a LOT of extra buttons available to help fix that kind of problem.
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  3977.  @smokehouse420-x9k  We're already in the middle of one.
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  3978. I have a car-ignorant friend (she doesn't know how to check oil or change a tire) who didn't like the high price she was quoted at a dealership. So she went to a different dealership... SMH.
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  3979. Cop steps up to dental inspection distance, declares, "Back up!" Yep, this one is a moron, what else do you have, Chief? - And did C. Thor never learn the difference between letters and numbers?
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  3980. Dear NSA. You suck. Come at me.
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  3981. Because "we the people" are not members of the right club.
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  3982. There is a phenomenon called "nervous laughter". Sometimes a laugh is not an expression of humor, but of horror, fear, or shock.
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  3983. If I was in court and said to the judge, "Are you out of your mind?" I'd be in handcuffs and getting processed. Guess I'm not rich and prominent enough to get away with inciting death threats.
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  3984. "Sebastian, have Miranda send brunch out to the veranda today." - A billionaire's close encounter with groceries
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  3985. As a veteran of the cola wars, this generation has my respect. Thank you for your fast food service.
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  3986.  @bruceb4349  I still think it deserves some TLC. Like something to reduce rusting rate on the cable, maybe a horn?
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  3987.  @TodaysDante  I'm sure you KIND correction is appreciated. "genius"
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  3988.  @TodaysDante  Oh thank you for the comparison to one the 20th century's most brilliant theoretical physicists!
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  3989. Not for 99.99999% of us, no.
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  3990.  @martintince  ... yet.
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  3991. I worked at an electronics assembler that had a non-compete for line workers that included a line something like "You cannot use any skills you have used in this company..." When I pointed out that the way they had written the NDA it could mean I could not get any job using a soldering iron, or email, or a microscope, or Microsoft Office software... The hiring manager said the company could not legally enforce the NDA, but it was standard procedure in the corporation's original state. I think I signed mine, in slightly sloppy cursive, "Not Agreed"
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  3992. My brother just did a weekend trip to Virginia, and he saw lighted road warning signs (sharp curve, stuff like that) that only come on via motion sensors. We were both flabbergasted.
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  3993. Kurt Russel is getting a bit old for that remake. Maybe cast his son Wyatt?
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  3994.  @awesomecronk7183  OMG. the horror. The absolute death traps some people are perfectly okay with driving around after "declining the repairs"... Rotted framed, missing brakes, wobbly steering, rhinestones on the steering wheel airbag cover...
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  3995. One phrase says it all. "Yoga pants".
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  3996. Must have been something in the tea.
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  3997. Meanwhile, that US official, essentially saying "It was not ICBMs! We're still gathering information." If you're still gathering information, you can't say with assuredness what it isn't. Your fear is showing.
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  3998. Heck, when I was in the National Guard in the 1980's, the company I worked for tried to fire me for going to the two-week summer training camp... That I had informed them of over six months prior. My first sergeant and company commander got the HR phone number from me, told me to wait outside their office, and ten minutes later came out and told me I still had a job, and should tell them if I did not receive the promised written apology from the company. - I and the other couple of national guard/reserve members working for that company never had a problem again.
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  3999.  cpk8636-6  Hmm? Still copy-pasting?
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  4000.  @support2587  House-sitting is already a thing. This is just including a defense against absolute scum-bags.
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  4001. I recently saw one of cy's videos where he praised a builder. No, their work wasn't perfect, but Cy didn't even use a full roll of tape. Also, the builder told the buyer to hire a third-party inspector, and are actively fixing the deficiencies found.
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  4002. The calendar thing has to do with the pre-Julian calendar having the year start with March. The calendar we use was adjusted many times, both to correct the number of days in the year, fixing 'slippage', and then eventually adjusted to have the year start on January 1st. - As to the "WHY", there is a lot of mud in that road.
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  4003. The government should ban ALL social media from government owned/issued devices except where the use of that account is specifically a job requirement. Also, soldiers probably could benefit from a quarterly (every three months) briefing about the intel exposure from social media and live-linked applications on devices from computers to phones to fitness trackers.
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  4004. That one is easy. The customer DIDN'T supply the part. They bought the wrong thing, and they get it back.
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  4005.  @woden_arbosa  My previous comment was to your previous comment where you cited one thing. Not three, one.
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  4006. I agree in all aspects. Different people like different things, otherwise there would only be Coke OR Pepsi. (And definitely NOT RC Cola, blech...)
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  4007. This kind of thing has me thinking about going back to a pad of paper and a pencil.
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  4008.  @cheesygal  Steve had a P.O. box. Letter properly was addressed to that P.O. box. Letter was properly stamped and delivered via the USPS system to the post office where that P.O. Box sits. Letter gets delivered to his place of work in a completely different town. Letter is then tacked up on a bulletin board in a common-access area. - And you don't see the problem with that?
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  4009. Yeah, when the switch was mounted to the frame, the wiring for it had no flexing. And most of those switches, if they broke or failed, were easy to extract. No need to do open-door surgery.
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  4010. @@jonnycroxville4590 Are you asking me where the grocery store deli is, or where Europe is?
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  4011. There's growing up (ugh) and growing old (inevitable). I prefer to try and find my happy thought and FLY!
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  4012. I watch this and have multiple urges to hand out throat punches to these thugs. No wonder they always wait until they have at least three gun-toters before they try to encounter a person.
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  4013.  @dildo196  I too loathe Hamas. On Hummus I'm ambivalent.
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  4014. Hmm. Multiply by the sqaure root of I-95, carry the Thanksgiving, factor back in the 4th of July... Yep, the Theory of Relatives still applies.
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  4015.  @fredflintstone4715  It is also used, sometimes, as a replacement for the sand aggregate in asphalt, making a product call "glassphalt". It may result in longer-lasting pavement, but due to marginally decreased friction it is not used on 65+MPH roads.
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  4016.  @goku_dunker_420  All you can do is deduct the CPA fees for the IRS's fishing expedition as an expense on your next year's taxes.
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  4017. This won't change until money is seized from a relative or owner, sorry I mean major donor, of a powerful national politician.
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  4018.  @mentals555  The "other comment" did not have copy protection.
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  4019. I have had a mechanic tell me he "could" repair my car, but also that I should not put more money into it. After he explained, I agreed and took it back to trade in (for $50) on my next car.
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  4020. That would help, but it misses when a company buys another, and then imposes subscriptions and forced arbitration. Some years back, I was very close to finally getting an Oculus headset, then Facebook bought it and locked full functionality behind having an active Facebook account "in good standing". - Guess who opted out of VR headsets?
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  4021.  @Drywstephens  I knew there was something on the ground in there, but I couldn't quite put my fut on it.
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  4022. A Trump win will make some US citizens consider Australia's snakes, bugs, cane toads and war-winning emus an upgrade.
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  4023. Valid point. This turbine, or others in the same market, don't necessarily need to replace ALL of your power needs, it just needs to replace enough to make it worth the price tag. - Weird example of what I mean: Before string trimmers, edge trimming was done with bypass cutters, either hand-held and you're on your knees, or built into a pole so you can stay standing. That tool meant the trimming took a LONG time and wore out your hands and arms. Along came the string trimmer, taking most of the muscle out of the equation, cutting (pun!) a lot of the time out, but you still need to walk the distance, and the string trimmer is more expensive than handheld cutters. So the string trimmer is better, but it doesn't take ALL of the work out of yardwork.
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  4024. When thinking about this issue, remember that we are the same species that has some within it who will overturn cars and set things on fire when their favorite sports team wins. Or loses. - Thanos was half-right, but his solution was too random.
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  4025. Sounds like you grew up listening to dirty vinyl and/or a low quality or worn out needle. Me too!
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  4026.  @handlebarfox2366  Yes. Yes I have. I have also run a chipmunks album at much slower by slowly spinning the record by hand. (You can get some interesting time-warpy stuff that way), and I played the Chipmunks Christmas album through a 60-watt amplifier as loud as I could from my college dorm. Got written up for that one...
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  4027. I saw that video. Skid steer playtime!
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  4028. When a cop is driving behind me, I drive EXACTLY the speed limit or a little under. This, in my state, often seems to make them edge up into tailgating distance, upon which I let off the accelerator and use my parking brake (to not have brake lights light up) and slow down by 5-10 MPH. The widening of the eyes in my rear-view mirror are worth it.
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  4029. I have done so twice in the last three years. My state-level representative is part of the movement.
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  4030.  Sonic  Toilet paper is made domestically, and those manufacturers were given clearance to be considered "essential" about a week ago.
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  4031. Disney: "I have altered the terms of our agreement. Pray I do not alter it further."
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  4032. We could pry the gold letters off of one of the buildings he'll have to part with to pay his civil judgements and slap them on his own special wing of a federal prison. Call it Trump Prison.
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  4033. That's why one bit of good advice has helped me. "Check the pedals, steering wheel and driver's side floor for wear."
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  4034. I support the Zappy Eats law against laws named for people!
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  4035. If you can't afford a lawyer, you'll get a public defender who is so overworked they may push you to plead guilty to a lesser charge just to get you off their pile of work.
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  4036.  @rockingttalent3666  Yep, that is how we have allowed companies to trademark parts of plant and animal genomes, to trademark and own, in perpetuity, the plants grown from seeds they own, and any seeds those plants own. It's to the point that I would not be all to shocked to wake up one day to find that a company had secured the rights to a particular blend of atmospheric gases in our air.
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  4037. Scott is lying to us! We all know Max-Q is when the Astin-Martin has a passenger ejection seat AND machine guns behind the headlights.
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  4038.  @BenNemec  If they are all counted... - And if the vote doesn't go Sweet Potato Hitl3r's way, eh already has lawyers primed to "take it to the courts" in several key states.
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  4039. And not for the armed gang we give badges...
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  4040. "We're gonna need a bigger goat" - Chief Brody Lawncare
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  4041. It boggles the mind how someone can be legally called an independent contractor when they are not in charge of any aspect of their employment. When a company says you can only work for them, tells you when to show up, where to go, how to do the job, when to take breaks... In my mind, you are an employee of that company.
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  4042.  @xpsxps1339  Don't forget the laws catering to the Elongated Muskrat that let a rocket company make their employees give up the right to compensation if they are hurt at work, and banning direct-to-customer car sales... except for electric-only car makers. Which is currently ONLY Tesla
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  4043. Also? Kind of dumb to harass armed people out in the wilderness.
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  4044. I have two words that might get close to the target: "Darth Barbie"
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  4045. I can think of an example. A company sells two different baseballs. One is a Major League approved ball, built with the expected materials. The second LOOKS like the same ball, but is built to explode when struck with force and fling lethal sharp steel shards over a 10-meter radius. - If I buy the first baseball and throw it at your car, I am solely liable for the damage. If I buy the second ball and throw it at your car, both I AND the seller are liable. Also, some people are going to jail for making, selling and/or using an explosive device...
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  4046.  Chaplain Bob Walker B. Th.  Faith is dying in the west? Well, get her on a plane to Boston, stat! We have some top-tier hospitals that may be able to help.
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  4047.  @JasonW.  Well, if I had to choose, I'd pick strawberry of those two choices. But since we're talking MASS torte, maybe a full panoply of flavors?
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  4048.  @MrBadjohn69  Hmm. Why? Maybe because the package does not fit in the mailbox? Also, not all areas are well serviced by drop box services. Have the USPS hold it for you to pick up you say? People with typical first shift jobs cannot get to their local post office during the service hours when packages could be picked up. - So because someone is unable or unwilling to pay a business to hold onto their packages, are you saying it is that person's fault that some piece of human garbage trespassed onto their property and stole their deliveries? That is how I read your stance.
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  4049. Yeah, the butcher was leaning on the scale when they printed that label.
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  4050. I was tailgated by a Massachusetts state cop who was in such a hurry he threw his blue lights on to get past me, blow through a red light and get to a convenience store... to buy two packs of cigarettes before heading to the barracks for the end of his shift.
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  4051. Hey anti-maskers! If a store made a policy that you could only shop there if you wear a pink shirt, then they are legally allowed to trespass and bar you from the store, with the aid of the police, for wearing a blue shirt. Banks (other than right now with the pandemic measures) can legally bar you if you DON'T take off your hat and face covering. Movie theaters can bar and trespass you for bringing in your own food or being audibly disruptive. - It's because they are private businesses.
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  4052.  @OneWildTurkey  Is the British spelling throwing you?
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  4053.  @jeff-ni5cy  No, that's EXACTLY what is says.
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  4054. The buckling reminds me of flexing and straightening a bendy straw.
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  4055.  @queenannsrevenge100  My father was left-handed until it was beaten out of him in grade school. I used to have his penmanship workbook where it changed from left-handed slant to right-handed slant between two entries.
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  4056. And fluid dynamics is dark sorcery.
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  4057. Well, we don't want dogs buying and consuming whiskey while underage, do we?
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  4058. That is awesome that he has found a way to learn, and enjoys it!
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  4059. Cheesus Rice. That is criminal.
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  4060. About a week and a half ago, I sent food back to the kitchen of a restaurant for overcooked chicken. It is only the second time in my 5+ decades I have complained about food, and I felt horrible doing it. - The staff, meanwhile, was very nice about it, and fully replaced the food, but not overcooked. They have cinched my return visits.
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  4061. Who do these cops think they are? An FBI department with a bunch of looted safety deposit boxes?
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  4062. @ And a crappy way to teach your preschool kids to swim.
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  4063.  @chickenmonger123  I agree that they don't care what the US Constitution says. Neither do municipalities which try to limit free speech with ordinances.
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  4064.  @RoseKindred  Maybe we are thinking of two different, absolutely ludicrous overreaches by a municipality?
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  4065. My local hospital in Massachusetts rented a CONEX with a CAT scan machine in it while they were undergoing renovations and expansion. All the hospital had to do was build a temporary enclosed entry 'bridge' and supply power, data connections and staff.
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  4066. So, the 17% being seen as 50/50 was from an NPR interview on June 30th, 2013. I could find no link to a study by the Geena Davis Institute regarding that quote. Actually, I could find no link to ANYBODY'S study for that quote. After half an hour of massaging search terms and diving deep into boring papers. I am not saying the numbers are not real, just that I find no supporting scientific study. - Also, people who generalize by gender are all idiots. Did you see what I did there? - Side note: Why are so many TikToks out of synch regarding sound and video?
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  4067. The first chapter title says a lot.
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  4068.  @LectronCircuits  I see what you did there. Calm seas and following winds to you.
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  4069.  @AndrewBlacker-wr2ve  Every service manager can pull up a website and enter the vehicle's VIN. Well, every service manager with a brain...
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  4070. What kind of Karen complains about a wild animal damaging someone else's house? Sheesh.
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  4071.  @AGalacticMerger  I cannot currently remember which (of the way too damn many) school shootings it was, but there WAS a police officer on duty at the school... who ran away when the shooter showed up.
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  4072.  @wardraven8755  Assuming you survive the police encounter.
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  4073.  @DaFifaKid  As someone who has taken a low-velocity paintball (I think it was in the neighborhood of 100 feet per second?) to the face, having played before full-face shields were even a thought, I will share that the pain from such a thing is quite debilitating. I cannot imagine what the modern 250-300 fps paintballs would feel like even in the chest through a sweatshirt!
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  4074.  @DaFifaKid  I said, "I cannot imagine what the modern 250-300 fps paintballs would feel like even in the chest through a sweatshirt!" . and you replied, "you dont need to imagine that, just imagine the REALITY of a .40s&w caliber jacketed hollow point hits you at 1750 fps.......heres a hint the plastic face shield isnt gonna matter...." . I pointed out the vast differences between the energy of the round in the two different systems. I'm not sure what was hard to understand about that, and how your .40 pistol round was a bad comparison point for the modern paintball round.
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  4075.  @SCohen-uz1vx  Maybe some punctuation? "Keep fighting Louis" sounds like you want us in constant conflict with Louis, whereas "Keep fighting, Louis" is exhorting Louis to stay the course.
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  4076. "Plumbing problems?" - "No, I need to dissolve a human body. Why do you ask?"
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  4077. Decades ago, a family friend was injured on the job by a head injury. One of the side effects of the head injury was loss of smell. Food became a lot less appetizing to him without adding a lot of spiciness. One other thing his former employer had to pay for was a lifetime of gas and smoke detectors for his home and garage because he could not spell smoke or the olfactory additive in propane/natural gas.
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  4078. And THAT is why no powered garage doors!
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  4079. Oh. That's a simple spelling error. We have free dumbs. I am related to one.
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  4080. I avoid touchscreens for laptops. Just my preference. Heck, If I could I would only buy laptops without cameras! What is keeping me from looking into buying a Framework is that I still have a functioning (7-ish years old?) ASUS laptop that does everything I need it to do.
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  4081.  @1individeo  Hmm... I see him comparting and contrasting world events to his experiences, but not saying "We did it this way, they did it a different way, thus they're wrong." In fact, many of his videos he very clearly states where he saw things being done wrong by "our side".
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  4082. Yeah, red rags are for cleaning tools, floors, and getting the first layer of gunk off in-place mechanical parts.
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  4083. Wearing a clown wig? Well, they do say you should dress for the job you want. But threating a DQ? It has Q in the name, it's the secret meeting place of his "people"! (Plus, why mess with DQ? The food is delicious!)
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  4084. Regarding al Houthi's accusations: "That which is presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" - Christopher Hitchens
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  4085. Sweet! I hope I remember this when next I am in a courtroom.
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  4086. I am not bored. I once watched a pot boil to prove the adage wrong. I also like to watch paint dry. Quiet, meditative activities are my jam.
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  4087. I learned a LOT about gauge blocks from Adam's video on his new set. I also learned what the company across the street from my apartment, Starrett Tools, actually makes. (Hint, it's gauge blocks and other measuring tools [including visual and laser metrology - something I learned about on Smarter Every Day], force and material testing tools, precision ground steel sock, and saw blades.)
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  4088. The last woman said the most important thing. "You can't learn without making mistakes."
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  4089. You say you want a revolution. Well, you know... we all want to change the world. I don't mean anything against you by that, I just wanted to quote a Beatles song. - I predict that some day, we will hear news something like, "Bodies of two police officers found in shallow graves in the state forest. Investigation finds that those two officers had a majority of the department's civilian complaints against them, and both had been referred to: "extra training" after use-of-force incidents." And I may dance a jig.
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  4090. It could be reasonably argued that an EV needs LESS software control than a more recent ICE-engine vehicle that has to adjust constantly for emissions, valve timing, engine function versus temperature, and more.
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  4091.  @disorganizedorg  Yes! I am barely old enough to remember those, but the town I lived in did a very similar thing for some annual functions. One sign every 1/4 mile with a few words, drive the whole mile and a half to read the full message.
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  4092. The chief is singing the CYA anthem, when he should be talking about how the bad cop is being held responsible.
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  4093.  @bobdevreeze4741  Heck, a five-bedroom two-story house can be lifted from its foundation, and put in wheels to move it. It is a lengthy and expensive process, but it has been done many times.
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  4094. I only got coverage when we involved our state representative.
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  4095. I've never done a contract for art creation, but I have put together more than a few for construction jobs. A typical contact I was putting together would have the first payment cover materials, and depending on the length of the job, the rest would be divided into two or three parts at milestones and the remainder on completion. Some examples of milestones were "When the foundation is poured, but before the floor is poured" or "once the framing is done, then after the roof and walls are weathered in with sheathing (plywood)." The final payment was never more than 25% of the total bid, so that if we had to chase them into court, employees would still get paid.
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  4096. Oh, missing rubber vibration isolator between the frame bracket and radiator. Just noticed it when you were changing the high side AC valve. Given the new radiator, I would be checking for all the rubber isolators.
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  4097. I just had a thought related to this video. Jake brakes. When big rigs use engine breaking, there is no activation of the "service brakes", so activation of brake lights. - I don;t ride a motorcycle, but I can only imagine that jake brake events could be dangerous, particularly in weather that has visual obscuring effects, like fog, snow or rain.
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  4098. But that would require the egg and/or sperm donors to actually ALSO be parents. And that is not a universal state of being.
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  4099.  @johnmcmickle5685  Having a vehicle transported costs money. Driving it yourself only costs time. (fuel is used either way, so it's a minor difference) - As to having the bank wire it to the seller, that will completely depend on the terms the seller (or the auction company) set for the auction. Cash in hand is easiest to ensure payment cannot be reversed, and allows the transaction to be completed that day, instead of waiting for a check to clear or a transfer to be confirmed. - I'm not saying it is the 'right' way to do things, just that there are reasons it is done that way.
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  4100.  @ScubaSteveCanada  Zinser BIN primer covers a multitude of sins. But there are some odd stains that do weird chemistry with some primers and paints and bleed through no matter what you try. In those cases, drywall replacement is the recourse.
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  4101.  @garyh7949  And it was Dave's Milwaukee. So... Team effort!
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  4102.  @MikeBrown-ii3pt  It's okay, I had many a Zebco reel back in the day. I may still have one in my closet on a collapsible pole...
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  4103. Brilliant!
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  4104. I actually like Chex cereal. Not so much the Wheat Chex, but the other two flavors are good.
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  4105.  @Sturmischer  One of them shoots normal "conical" ammo, the other is apparently set up for the special cylindrical ammo. At least, that's how I understood what he was saying.
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  4106.  @AlcideIzMine  I'm kind of skeeved out on the idea of AirBnB. I'd rather stay in a room in a hotel/motel designed for serial occupation and frequent cleaning (if it gets done properly) than in someone's house. Plus, with all of the recent stories of people buying properties specifically to be used as AirBnB's, never intending to use them as their own residences but instead as income properties, and driving up housing costs while taking homes off the market for people who actually need a home to live in... Yeah.
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  4107. "Oh my gosh, billions of dollars are being thrown away to pay our servicemembers right now instead of rebuilding houses on the beach!!!"
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  4108. Imagine if the US was a country that supported the curiosity of students and let them (within reason) follow their search for knowledge while guided by smart educators. Instead, we "teach to the test" so that we can point to "no child left behind" and convince ourselves we've done a good job.
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  4109. As for going after the manufacturer, there are the possible issues of age of the vehicle (I forget if the year of the truck is mentioned in the video), and in some states, the vehicle being commercial can relieve a lot of liability off the manufacturer (They have a better budget for buying laws in their favor). It can get more complicated in some states if the vehicle was not sold at a tow truck, but as an empty rear frame to a conversion shop. - Short story, manufacturers will throw piles of lawyers at claims to work to deny compensation whenever it is possible, and not a massive negative media backlash. If the driver had been badly hurt, they might offer a settlement, but that's a roll of the dice.
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  4110. Hard, non-porous surfaces are easier to ensure cleanliness.
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  4111.  @3xceIIent  Another case of lawyers making things so complex that lawyers get more money.
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  4112. He has the consistency of week-old tapioca.
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  4113. I love Jeff Grey's ID that he hands cops. It's the I and the D from those magnetic refrigerator letters.
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  4114. I appreciate how carefully you danced on the edge of an ugly topic. I also agree with you.
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  4115.  @Necro-the-Pyro  When we put in our THIRD mailbox in five months, we mounted it on a 4" pipe, anchored three feet into the ground with 100 lbs of concrete, the pipe filled with concrete. We finally stopped losing mailboxes, and the neighborhood drunk driver had to replace his bumper, radiator, grill, and front frame components. And he was shamed into paying for all three mailboxes he ran over.
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  4116. @ Because the phone is only part of the communications process. Your cell phone has to connect to a tower then the tower connects to a network (wired and/or satellite), then connect to a tower or switching hub near your called number, and so on. Every step is hardware that costs money to build and maintain, and money to keep operating at a high degree of connectivity. A better example of communications which should not need a subscription would be walkie-talkies or CB radios.
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  4117. If he is still listed as the owner, and has no access to the car, then call the police to report adverse possession by Tesla.
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  4118.  @JHNielson4851  I can see that some minority fraction of life's encounters do rightfully deserve NDAs. If a company is teaching you their trade secrets so you can do your job, or you are involved in the handling of governmental or military protected information, I can see an NDA or similar agreement. An NDA for the terms of a financial settlement in a lawsuit, or over a reduction of commercial rent in NYC (to hide the devaluing of the property value from banks and the marketplace) are bad uses of the idea.
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  4119. I think if it is that much of a problem, you would need to have a repair contract clause (probably prominently displayed in the parking lot as well) that vehicles left for more than X days would be towed by (local tow company with impound yard) and all costs for tow and impound to be borne by the vehicle owner. edit: re-read your post, you pretty much said the same thing.
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  4120. Pete G, projecting your buried(?) proclivities is not a valid argument against Constitutional rights.
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  4121. When this Covid started, I started wearing a mask out in public. I used to get hospitalized with severe flu symptoms every winter, even with getting the annual flu shot. Since wearing the mask, I have not been hospitalized due to a flu. I was once hospitalized after food poisoning. - Why the hospitalizations? I have a lot of medical issues, some of which have me taking an immunosuppressant.
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  4122. Root cause of the drug trade is a DEMAND issue. End demand, end the trade. Would it not be cheaper to aid people in avoiding and kicking the habit of such dangerous recreational drugs, than to constantly fight against the transport and distribution workers while doing little to the source or the demand?
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  4123.  @tegueggu  Good point. The only place near me that will groom cats mostly does dogs, and the place is ALWAYS a barking cacophony. This of course stresses the heck out my cat, so I have to be present and involved with any grooming appointment just to help calm him and keep him from bolting or hurting himself.
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  4124. Right? I live in Massachusetts where, at one point, there were numerous concurrent and partly overlapping gun laws at the same time gun-related deaths were constantly on the rise.
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  4125. Two-state or failed state. Pick one, Netanyahu...
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  4126. Reminds of the 1980's and Kelley's Towing in Worcester. When they didn't have enough work for all their trucks, their "selected" employees would cruise about, find a car that looked expensive enough for the owner to actually want to recover it, then call one of their "special cop friends" to put a parking ticket on it. They also had the highest per-day and release fees in the county.
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  4127. Historically, the land was largely wild and uninhabited. Reset it to that condition or pay a fine! - Wait, I didn't go back far enough. historically, the land was molten rock after the planetoid that formed our moon struck the developing Earth. Reset it to that condition or pay a fine! - WAIT! Originally, the land was undifferentiated energy before the formation of fundamental particles which coalesced to form the first matter! Reset it to pure energy or pay a fine!
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  4128.  @chrishemry7  Accessory after the fact to attempted murder at the least.
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  4129. New Jersey needs to pass their proposed law in front of a group of nit-pickers, because you KNOW the car makers will do the same after it passes to try and find any and every loophole that lets them continue to be greedy a-holes.
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  4130.  @normareed9007  Yeah, without a will or some other kind of legal directive, your property can be tied up in probate courts so long that it ends up losing all value. Even worse when family fights over the disposition of the assets.
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  4131.  medusa little  The trouble is that most bleach people have access to is largely water. Wet plus dark makes mold.
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  4132. Someone needs to make a wellness check call on Gohmert. That man is obviously losing his mind, or never had a mind.
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  4133.  @georgeclark7208  Or, it is because for all that they say "R" it's the "C" they love.
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  4134. That's not a hole, it's a user-installed inspection port.
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  4135.  @gregoryv.zimansr4031  The ones I remember were the immersion barrel heaters (put them in a galvanized trash can, fill can with water, create scalding hot water for dishes or bathing) and' the M-1941 multi-fuel tent heater. Had to look them up, found that they are considered "Vietnam Era" gear. I was in in the 1980's. The National Guard really git the crap gear...
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  4136. If I had gone to a school with that going on, I hope I would have been self-assured enough to use "White Boy" as my name, and to greet other white friends with "What's up my Whitey?" - goose - gander yeah?
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  4137. Here in Massachusetts, we have annual safety and emissions inspections. Cosmetic things like another commenter in Switzerland mentioned are not a fail here. Fails are for things like worn front end suspension, insufficient tire tread, holes through the car body, failed/missing/broken safety equipment. Safety equipment includes everything from the e-brake to lights to wipers and washer pump, seat belts (they usually only check the front) deployed or visually broken airbags, broken windows... It costs us $35 for cars and $15 for motorcyles, more for commercial vehicles. Sure, it may seem like a pain in the rear and a lot of money, but it means your vehicle is safe for the road, and improves the odds that every other vehicle around you is also safe. - I see videos from mechanics in states that don't have regular inspections and see cars that drive around with bald tires, rusted out frames, front end parts with more wander than a drunken chicken, broken windows, doors that won't open, bedazzled airbag panels (!!!!) and so much more that are terrifying to think about driving near on the roads and highways.
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  4138.  @psxtuneservice  Right? If they put forth a law like that, they would lose so much Citizens United money!
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  4139.  @Hamsterdam91  That was a viable option when the "smart" TVs didn't have built-in wifi. I have a "smart" tv that was looking for a wifi connection from the moment I plugged it into the wall power. Why do I have a smart tv? Because I was looking for a big screen to play console games on, and the 'smart' one was a few hundred dollars less, being on sale at the time.
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  4140. Vote out Darth Barbie!
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  4141. Renting a backhoe for one day is cheaper than replacing all that equipment. What YOU take from the comment is all on you.
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  4142.  @Tuttomenui  Ooh, I loves me some malicious compliance. particularly when it is against abusive corporations.
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  4143.  @Blakoss  Do you mean Donald "I will be a dictator on day one" Trump?
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  4144.  @uristgames2470  THIS is the comment I was hoping to see!
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  4145. That place looks like it would need a brush mower and perhaps an arborist crew to really finish it up. edit: oh, and a dumpster or three.
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  4146.  @Tossphate  Hmm... Corollary: Second ideal for a submarine/submersible - The same number of living people disembark as embark.
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  4147. If I was paid what she is for talking out of my ass, I would have paid off OTHER peoples' student loans after clearing mine.
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  4148.  @blaydCA  China? Don't you mean Western Taiwan? (since we're having fun)
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  4149. Response indicating agreement.
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  4150. I recall a scene in the movie This Is Spinal Tap where the bassist was caught at airport security with a foil-wrapped cucumber stuffed down his pants.
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  4151. No, he's feeding off your soul during your periods of repose. Where else do cats get all those extra lives? They don't have quarters!
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  4152.  @alecamal  Voted for the pedophile? I did not vote for Trump!
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  4153. With liberty, for just us, and oil.
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  4154. Another way to keep our "Citizens United"...
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  4155.  @tinyky2598  The worst category is "inspired by true events" Like a Warhammer 40K movie featuring an avian race that shoots lasers from their eyeballs being "inspired" by a random visit to a gaming store, Australia's Emu War, and food poisoning from spoiled shrimp last New Year's Eve.
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  4156. Louis Headroom
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  4157.  @mred8002  Old folks unite!* *from our separate rockers and recliners, if you don't mind.
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  4158. His voice is he one thing about him I don't list as a reason to ant him far away. Sure, it's hard to listen to him if you want to hear every word, but it is apparently due to 'spasmodic dysphonia', which is not a character defect... whereas the rest of him is.
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  4159. This energy system should be suspended under hot air balloons. Why? Because "The wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'." (Don't know where I'll be tomorrow)
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  4160. One of the reasons all of these major utilities like the gas pipelines are internet connected is to allow the companies to keep cutting the expense of having humans available to monitor and adjust equipment. CEO's can't afford their third super-yacht with helipad if they're paying someone less than a living wage to be on call for a switching substation on a vital energy trunk line.
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  4161. That's not a bug, that's a feature!
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  4162. Ah yes, assault of death. Normal government employee action? If we-the-people made the threat against a government employee, we'd be dragged away in handcuffs.
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  4163. I am loving that simile.
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  4164.  @Foolish188  When I worked in retail, there were times we would give someone an unexpected day off or swap their schedule around to compare, for example, that employee's Thursday evening shift numbers (# of transaction, average $ amount of transactions) with how that exact shift tallies out for a different employee. Caught a few skimmers that way.
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  4165.  traybern  Way back in 1988 I special ordered a Ford Bronco (full sized). I picked my interior and exterior colors, my flooring (rubberized, not carpet), manual locks, manual windows (except for that pesky tailgate window that rusted shut on me), manual seats... When it arrived, they had to replace the hood due to transport damage. - The later experiences with dumb design decisions had me swear off brand new cars for the rest of my life so far (35-ish years to date).
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  4166. Or a complete failure to test destructively BEFORE taking the thing to market. Well, they could have done the testing and just ignored/buried it.
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  4167. A watched pot never boils, and a watched cat never plays with the toys that actually cost money.
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  4168.  @benwagner5089  Nah, nothing they can write a ticket for. No revenue? No law enforcement.
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  4169.  @JFromTheLandOfHella  Was this in Georgia? According to Squidbillies, looking at someone crossways is taken seriously on those parts.
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  4170.  @OrigamiMarie  I can recall every year some news channel (or all of them) would show a fire department simulating a Christmas tree fire in a room with wrapped gifts and furniture. We always had at least two fire extinguishers in the house, a smaller one next to the stove, and a large one to bring to whatever was next most hazardous that season. It could be parked in the room with the tree, or brought out with you when you changed the in-line filter on your car's fuel line, or put in the yard next to the hose when burning brush.
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  4171. Meanwhile from US police, "That sounds like a civil matter. We can't help you."
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  4172. My first step would be to unplug, check and clean the connection, re-plug and recheck. But then, I've owned Fords, and corrosion is part of their DNA that gets environmentally expressed up here in Massachusetts.
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  4173. Many people use the horn to indicate "Hey friend, I've arrived in your driveway but don't feel like either dragging my kid inside your home or getting arrested for leaving my kid unattended in the car for the few minutes it would take to knock on your door and wait for you to get your coat on so we can go to the newest Pixar movie with our young kids." ... or something like that.
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  4174. 4th dimension? Bah. I saw a documentary about a dude who physically traveled to the NINTH dimension!
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  4175. Imagine that your phone is a three-ton steel safe full of your "effects, and the safe opens with a combination that you have memorized. That safe and its contents are protected. - Other than the mass and form factor, how is that different from a phone/computer and the password?
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  4176. Learning to fly brings up two great songs. One from Pink Floyd, and the other from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Both are great.
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  4177. Mmmm... Greasy cardboard. I'm loving it!
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  4178.  @cjay2  Oh yes. Simple. If you boycott all the companies who funded those ads, what is left? Used cars from the last century, cars made in Russia and former Soviet countries, bicycles, motorcycles, horse-drawn conveyances, and walking.
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  4179.  @grummbe  Well, in the 1950's "atomic" meant "future".
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  4180. Possibly, if it was the only chair of that type in the room/station. But successfully arguing that can be like pushing a rope uphill by the bottom end.
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  4181.  @seanmaury7844  Oh my gosh, the SMELL of a newly mimeo quiz! Delightful!
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  4182. No coup attempt ends without consequences for at least one side.
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  4183. Yelp is shooting itself so badly with their "new customer experience" that it Hertz.
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  4184. I know some people, who if this happened to them, there would be charges of (amongst others) improper disposal of human remains.
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  4185. That plan requires a solid alibi and friends familiar with both violence and silence.
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  4186. How the Pasta does a FAMILY COURT judge get off jailing people?
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  4187.  @Dj.MODÆO  Yes I do. The grocery store is 7 miles away and the route is hilly. Medical appointments are 5-35 miles away, and no public transports covers that trip.
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  4188. Also, an orbit around a gravitational mass is falling. In an elliptical path.
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  4189. Nah, just a walking brain donor...
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  4190.  @TheFrenchPug  As long as it gets past the warranty mileage, right? Dangit.
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  4191.  @jdlech  My driver's license does not include genetic information (yet).
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  4192. Here in New England, the smart kids saved their parking lot donut urges for winter. Snow and ice give you way better donuts with a LOT less tire damage.
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  4193. Go after YouTube for complying with standing law? Odd stance there, champ.
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  4194.  @dudetocartman  For fun, also state you are exercising your 3rd Amendment rights.
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  4195. Or she could open her own competing shop across town and take him out!
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  4196. So many people doing time for perjury ALSO would like to "adjust their testimony".
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  4197. To be fair, some people in this country have reset their perceived "Great America" to some date before 1959, when Alaska became a state.
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  4198.  @MisterMikeTexas  Your advice is better for people who plan to have a lot of life ahead of them, and for whom a record or harm to reputation from spurious charges would be an income impediment. @timothyheinz5693 's advice is good for someone who just doesn't give two hoots anymore and is willing to risk harm or death for a principle. - I'm not saying either of you is actually wrong. You're right for different people.
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  4199. Bonus points for correctly using panopticon.
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  4200. NO social media should be on the government-issued devices of government employees unless explicitly part of that person's job.
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  4201.  @TheRealWilliamWhite  There several "duty to retreat" states. You'll find more of them north of the Mason Jar line than south of it.
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  4202. Also, the guy who owned that car was not a customer, but a user. And it is not the responsibility of a business to be a user's drug.
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  4203.  @sandrajones2262  Police-seagull crossbreeding. "Mine!"
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  4204. Right? Beat up a person running them in on no legitimate charge? Wag of the finger. Tamper with criminal evidence? Stern talking to. (Why did you get caught!?) Steal a dollar? Keelhaul (again, for getting caught and ruining it for everyone else)
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  4205.  @GilFavor101  Now I need to put a GPS tracker on my bank account...
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  4206. Poison ivy? SALT THE EARTH! Well, you mix salt into vinegar until it is at full saturation, then add a little dish soap. Put it in a sprayer, and then... SALT THE EARTH Works on Poison ivy/oak/sumac and as a general weed killer.
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  4207.  @Anya-Prime  I think the bars to using water as a refrigerant are: 1) The temperature/energy needed to reach vaporization is really high. 2) The pressure differential when water turns to steam is quite high and dangerous if there are any weaknesses in the pressure vessel. See exploded locomotives for examples. 3) The higher heat capacity of water requires even more radiator material to shed that heat, unless you are ONLY shedding heat, then you can just dump it "overboard" from your system and use up more clean water for your heat exchanger.
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  4208.  @Anya-Prime  Don't stifle your curiosity! Make guesses, check your guesses against available information, adjust your guesses, rinse and repeat.
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  4209. Because you can't lift things that you don't pay to lift?
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  4210. And win or lose, you lose money, time, and stress.
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  4211. These cases make me angry enough that if it were to happen to me, I would DEMAND that they either charge me or kill me, because that is the ONLY way they're getting my cash without me coming back at them.
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  4212.  @lindamann8520  If someone comes to the door selling something other than cookies, I ask them to leave me a flyer and I'll read it and contact the company later. If I get a cold sales call, I ask them to mail me the information. I never get the flyer or mailed information. It's almost like they don't want an informed customer...
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  4213. Makes me glad that the one time I had to replace an ECM I pulled it out of a front-end collision car in the junkyard. An older car (1988 Chevy Celebrity, if I remember the year right) that had computer problems was fixed by getting a new EPROM and having a shop reprogram it.
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  4214. The real shame is it may have been the decision of a person who sits in an office and accepted Ray's repair request might have burned the people actually doing the work. Or it is such a small shop that it is the same person doing both jobs?
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  4215. A short number of years after the movie came out, a sandwich shop/convenience store one town over from me was robbed at sword-point by a guy wielding a reproduction katana based on the one in the movie. So it had impact.
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  4216. Unless you have the kind of money to buy at least a dozen senators and a score of representatives, IJ is the better place for your money.
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  4217.  @edwardd9702  Ah, memories. The BFA or as we called it, the LRMF (Little Red Mother... Friend)
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  4218. The next time I am in legal trouble, I'll offer to settle for $1.30. It seems about the same proportionality.
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  4219. You have my best wishes for a good recovery, whenever that happens. Until then, let us all enjoy the gift that is Ray's channel!
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  4220. I too liked the look into the inner workings of an AC compressor!
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  4221. I get what you are saying. Here in Massachusetts, fire code has commercial doors opening outward. Even sliding doors need to have the option to be pushed outward if the power or motor fails.
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  4222. That's how the AI overlords get you. A pleasant voice and a few nice words, then BAM! Time traveling assassin machines.
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  4223. "Thy works are sufficient unto the day" - quote I made up - edit: Anyone who says water is just as good as Windex has the streakiest windows on the planet. If you don't want to use Windex, try white vinegar after (or instead of) a wash with highly dilutes liquid dish soap.
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  4224.  @algrayson8965  Well. Now we know why the chicken crossed the road.
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  4225.  @deweydodo6691  The tool truck ought to carry them too. Then their slogan could be, "Snap off? Snap on!"
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  4226. Country clubs (and night clubs / music clubs) have long been problematic with their membership "standards" excluding the people they want to bring in as guests and/or entertainment. Many of those issues have been gender and/or race-related.
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  4227. I hereby demand that the writer and all who promote similar ideas must NEVER repair their automobiles. They MUST buy a new one. Preferably after dropping off the "broken" car with someone who is willing to fix it and does not have a car of their own.
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  4228.  @djstubed  How did they keep up with price changes? Employees. You know, people paid to do work?
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  4229.  @blaircox1589  I can imaging the sound of one cart versus another could be distinct enough to let people know if their cart was coming home, or if it was someone passing by.
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  4230. It's like on a supernatural TV show when a demon masquerades as a puppy. People will KNOW it's a demon and still bend down to pet it.
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  4231. I assume the child kicking the back of your seat, the hair flipped over the headrest in front of you, and the unshod feet between your face and the window are still free?
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  4232.  @betqpublic9901  A $50 gift limit would cover a moderate lunch or light/cheap dinner in the DC area.
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  4233. Wait, didn't the last place also have a nice view of a Cintas van? That place is less a fixer-upper than it is a gutter-outer. - edit: This place is laid out like a tiny business space attached to an illicit apartment. Or the other way around?
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  4234. Careful there, the Norfolk Southern railroad company may own the phrase, "Off the rails"!
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  4235. Wait, you can afford boots?
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  4236.  @Andrew-xv7mz  1/3 of eligible voters.
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  4237. She is WAY too forgiving. They drilled the lock before confirming the address, and before talking to her. They got the address wrong when it was quite evidently clearly posted on the building. What if there was no Ring doorbell and she was home asleep? Or taking a shower? Or only kids were home? Or there were a dozen people over for a game of Parcheesi? - These cops quite possibly just followed their voice-assisted GPS app, many of which can be wrong by a whole block.
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  4238.  Joeseph Moore  Like cells, huh. Then cancer enters the chat.
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  4239.  Shane Porter  As a former unwilling (being then a minor) member of a few various religious in the "God and Jesus" grouping, I do equate spreading religion and spreading feces. Both demonstrate a profound lack of respect for people who don't want what you're spreading. Both are hard to forget the negative impacts of. Though at least religion is not a carrier for e. coli and dysentery. Just prejudice and hatred.
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  4240. With the missing bolts, it seems like either an "F it" shade-tree, or a garage mechanic you never want to work on a car again.
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  4241. Plus you might get a visit from the mattress cops!
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  4242. We could bring back some old-school punishments. Then when we see a one-handed person with a Sawzall, we have a fair idea what they're up to.
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  4243. "Siri, what is the most efficient method to destroy the Apple corporation?" "Siri, what is Tim Cook's home security system password?" "Siri, where can I buy an EMP device?" "Siri, where are the Apple data centers?"
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  4244. Don't forget to take the thief's ruby slippers.
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  4245. Then it is no longer reporting, it is advertising.
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  4246.  @floradiamonds  We have to keep the VP meeting the PM on the QT, because if the RNC find out, she could end up MIA, then we'd all be FUBAR. - Inspired by "Good Morning Vietnam"
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  4247.  @Snowshowslow  It may be hard for some "journalists" to realize that Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are different people, since they are "less bleached in the skin department".
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  4248. Dang! Good eye on that one.
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  4249. Being a racist is thought, which the law has NO control over. Saying/typing racist things is speech, which is protected. ACTING in a violent manner over racism is illegal, because it is assault and/or battery. - Now, as to this Amazone "Smart" Home crap, is being a racist resulting in a violation of the terms of services actually in those terms of service? Or is this some emotional decision by someone who has elevated access to the systems?
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  4250. It is nice to see a longer haircut on a dog from time to time.
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  4251. If it was 45F outside here in Massachusetts, I could feel my fingers. Instead, it's 22 in early evening, and I have to take a break every sentence or so to warm my hands. - I wish my apartment had better insulation so I could afford to keep it warmer than 65F
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  4252. 2023 is turning into "The Year of the Attacks on the First Amendment".
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  4253. I have had two receptacles "go bad" in an apartment. Both were in locations where items would frequently be plugged and unplugged - namely the plugs with access for countertop appliances.
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  4254.  @danielsaavedra8520  As an adult, I have always lived in small towns in my state, and except for one time have never waited more than a few minutes myself. But I make sure to vote in the late morning or mid-afternoon, when a lot of people are at work. - Because this country has not yet figured out that turning election day into a federal (and work-paid) holiday would greatly increase voter turnout.
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  4255. I liked the application of the reciprocating wrench. I mean SAW. - edit: Who put that filler hose clam facing upward? Grrr!
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  4256. "It's only a light switch." "it's only music." "It's only your alarm system." "It's only your medical life support."
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  4257.  @Inquisitor6321  Or a cop.
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  4258. There will come a point where it will be common for store windows to be made of the same stuff in bank teller windows. Right now it's around $2,000 a roll (5' x 100')for the "bullet resistant" (actually more like impact resistant on realistic glass panes) stuff you put over your glass. - More likely it will be the big money companies that will be able to afford to install ballistic layered laminate windows while everyone else will be stuck with that self-apply film, laminated safety glass (the current standard), or just give up on having windows at all and either board or brick up the window spaces.
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  4259. And since that era, the two major political parties have almost exactly swapped ends of the political spectrum.
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  4260.  @Sharky762  I enlisted, in part, because of that movie.
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  4261.  @JainZar1  Nope. Here's why I refute your cook-off hypothesis. 1) that would have to be an AMAZING parabolic microphone to pick that sound up at that distance. 2) such a microphone would have to be separately mounted and aimed from the camera. 3) why did we not hear the explosions of the missiles hitting the tanks as clearly? Surely that should have been the loudest sound heard. 4) I am taking this video game footage far too seriously.
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  4262.  @Ka_Gg  Sounds rather un-American to me. (This is my sarcasm, and it is also a sad statement)
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  4263. Peregrine ought to be congratulated, if for nothing else, for taking that box of lemons they were given (propellant loss) and making lemonade (deploying some of the science packages and measuring tools).
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  4264. Sounds like a law "suggested" by adoption attorneys.
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  4265. What do you expect from banks that happen to operate passenger planes?
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  4266.  @Taurmin  Just because that is the law does not make it right.
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  4267. Doing a good job is so important. I am going to mangle the saying, but "A happy customer tells one other, an unhappy one tells everyone."
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  4268. Shall libraries also be required to play Birth of a Nation on a wall-mounted TV on constant loop?
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  4269.  @llareia Given how many ships run with bilge pumps constantly running, we could say 'mostly' watertight?
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  4270. Safer to write a private loan contract with the kid. And link it a separate bank account they deposit payments to.
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  4271.  @fortmax05  I AM being an a-hole, AND there is a reason for it. I truly want religion and the functions of government to be as disconnected as possible.
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  4272. One sign at the entry to your driveway: "I may or may not have accidentally emplaced a buried lethal device somewhere on this property. I have no clue where such a thing would be, so... choose wisely."
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  4273.  @edwardblasingame9002  Scatter the occasional "LANDMINES!" sign for fun.
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  4274.  @mgancarzjr  Maybe if you had used a number line to explain the issue... (Common Core math joke)
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  4275. I've seen at least one or two "chain shot" rounds fired on the Taofladermaus channel.
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  4276.  @donc734  Fair enough. My ignorance let me toss off a bad comparison.
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  4277. And then for your President-for-Life to say that the occupied part of your country is "not important anyway".
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  4278.  @ghoulbuster1  And the bank usually charges you for a stop payment order.
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  4279. And get money.
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  4280. I tend to ignore people who wear a knit winter hat indoors in a space warm enough for short sleeves.
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  4281.  @Scoots1994  I live in New England. We have people who will wear the thickest puffy long coats in wind-driven snow... with shorts and sneakers (or sandals!!!). So I have seen temperature-inconsistent attire before. - But I stand firm on the knit cap stance. Those people are just slightly less auto-judged by me than the full-face tattoo crowd.
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  4282. I wonder if Hamas has "destroyed" more than 100% of the Israeli military vehicles in the region yet.
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  4283.  @Lee-yc1if  AAA also does license renewal in Massachusetts.
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  4284.  @CourageKarnga  Land of the free, home of the Cult of the Gun.
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  4285.  @eternalphoenix64  Dang, that's a rough road. All I can offer is my true wishes for you both to have as many better days as you can.
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  4286. I blame the "bad guys" who refuse to make their floating health bar red instead of green!
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  4287. Ah, yes. The "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" maxim. It seems NYC real estate doesn't follow that one. So many places would rather sit empty a decade for want of $150 per square foot rather than get $75/sq. ft. for that whole ten years.
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  4288. Before the moderation mindset was adopted widely, some Chinese food places where I lived were adding MSG like water. And I would break out into a hot flush with sweats from that food. This led me to avoid those restaurants for a long time. Now that I am medically on a controlled sodium intake, I still kind of avoid it. For a salty flavor in foods I use potassium chloride salt. It is a slightly harsher taste than table salt, but I've acquired the taste for it. - edit: Having watched more of the video, I have no rigorous scientific assurance that it was the MSG. It may have been something else those restaurants cooked with, though I did not taste any unusual flavors. It could also have been some "inert" ingredient in the MSG or other spices those places used. I do have strange allergic reactions to skin irritants and common medications that most people have no issue with - to the point (as examples) that I have only found one or two shampoos that don't leave me with a rash, and I cannot tolerate Crestor, but I can take Lipitor and generic cholesterol control medications.
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  4289. Examples in my lifetime: power steering, power brakes, AM/FM radio... Those USED to be OPTIONS when I was a kid.
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  4290. If all men abuse/rape/murder women, then all men also landed on the moon and saved a puppy from a flooded river. And that also means all women drowned their children by driving the car into a lake AND all women also discovered how radiation works and computed the math to get all men TO the moon. - If someone wants to make misogyny a hate crime, they should be fair and make all crimes hate crimes. All of them. Kill someone? hate crime. Drop a burger wrapper on the side of the road? hate crime. Pay your taxes one day late? hate crime. Why? because if you committed a crime, you hate law!
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  4291. Sorry to hear about that manager's future flat tire plague.
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  4292. Yeah, I remember once having to replace the water pump on my 90' Ford Escort. Step one and two in the "how to" was to remove the left front wheel and then the wheel well so that a socket wrench would actually fit in there. Thank Pasta I had a friend with shallow sockets and a fair hand at 'convincing' the wheel well to just move out of the way. - There was also the fun step of learning how to find top dead center on the first cylinder to be able to reinstall the timing belt that also drove the water pump.
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  4293.  @josephteller9715  It varies from state to state. Some states require judges to be trained lawyers and members of the state bar, other states don't. Some states vote for (state and country) judges, some states appoint them after legislative review.
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  4294. Imagine if they WERE flying sandwiches... with that much firepower. Oh, the humiliations!
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  4295.  @rich2583  It has not at all kept pace with (simple) inflation. By simple I am leaving out the astronomical inflation in housing and education prices.
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  4296. I was thinking more an NYC commercial real estate management company.
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  4297. Neat item.
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  4298. There comes a time in any oxidation journey when the metal must go to the great rust-yard in the sky. This truck's frame is beyond that stage. It is now an engine donor. Well, okay, MAYBE one could replace the entire frame, but then looking at all of the other components that are rusting away?
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  4299. And would have absolutely NO impact on the troublesome traffic and parking woes already facing NYC...
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  4300. I have to say, I've never put it together that rocket engines and wind tunnels are so closely related. One of those "Oh yeah!" moments.
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  4301. Conspiracy hat: Governor Hochul is SO upset with Louis calling her out for changing the right to repair bill AFTER IT WAS PASSED BY THE STATE ASSEMBLY to text favored by the corporations the bill was meant to impact. Second conspiracy hat: Hochul is DEEP in corporate pockets, as evidenced by her most recent move to open the floodgates for charter school licenses, even though the communities are not asking for them, and even after some charter schools failed, leaving their licenses unused. - If I didn't see the (D) next to her name in media reports, I would SWEAR she is a Republican.
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  4302. I've never had fuel stabilizer fail me. Before I learned about fuel stabilizer, I used to have to drain every year, and every two to four years take the carburetor apart to clean out the gasoline 'lacquer'.
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  4303. Currently, the best way to make what you want to happen is to copyright your works, and then sell it for a nickel per copy over your costs. Otherwise someone will be able to swoop in and take your works and claim it as their own, and they would be the first claimant of record.
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  4304.  @NL_NEW  You need to use the sources actually covering the topic. US press seems to have target fixation on anything about the Orange Donald.
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  4305. I'd ask for equal access for my Jedi temple. Then a spaghetti dinner for my Pastafarian friends, and then a nice hour of not bothering anyone as observation of my atheist tenets.
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  4306.  @jackee-fs9qp  There is ONE Stanley Cup that matters, and that one only to Hockey players and fans.
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  4307.  @scottmartin9041  Prepare for the deluge of cases attached to those prosecutors coming up for review...
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  4308.  @Nielak-dg8nj  Yep. 'with prejudice' dismissal ends the criminal prosecutions for that matter. The possible civil cases are not impacted, other than the evidentiary bonus of the dismissal in Baldwin's favor to tip the scales in his favor.
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  4309. "We're busy." "That's a civil matter." "There's no point, we're never going to find the perp." - "This case is not big enough to put on my schedule." "This crime has very little vote-gaining value."
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  4310.  @taaj4403  Some more. Or none, if you're okay with exposing yourself and those in your life to higher risk. But then, I still see parents smoking and vaping in cars with their children, so there are a lot of people who don't give a bleep about the consequences of their decision on others.
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  4311.  @1x1HealthyEnergybyAndrew  I watch the channel of a mechanic in Florida where he sometimes works on cars purchased at "Buy Here, Pay Here" (a slimy used car dealer) There have been rusted-through frames, seized brake calipers, oil leaks, and worse. And that dealership will use spray paint to hide all of the rust and deficiencies from a casual inspections, even going so far as to spray-paint brake calipers, rotors and pads. - Of note: Florida has NO lemon law protections for used car purchases. None at all.
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  4312.  @Killerspieler0815  But being slightly deceptive to get accidental consent is legal.
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  4313. Before cell phones, the place you worked usually had at least one number you could be contacted through. The inability to get an emergency call by any means is almost never forgivable.
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  4314. We're sorry, the chip in your bike shorts reports that you have exceeded the approved number of riding events. We have shut down your bike until you register a new pair of [Our Brand] bike shorts.
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  4315. Without the New Testament, you're more Jewish than Christian.
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  4316.  @briendoyle3823  Why thank you for noticing! I am wearing the latest in atheist footwear. (It's just normal footwear, but on an atheist.)
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  4317. Personal responsibility? That foolishness will not buy lawyers a second vacation home!
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  4318.  @clintmatthews3500  Oh, they wanted the answer. They wanted to know who was not a "team player".
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  4319.  @timsilva1944  Google auto-completed it to motorboat, got some "interesting" results, boss was unhappy with "that kind" of internet use at the workplace.
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  4320.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  Nah, it's the Apple business model. Why make it so you can replace a $40 part when they can glue/weld/build it all together and make it a $700 sub-assembly that is so expensive you seriously contemplate just buying a whole new model of [PRODUCT]
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  4321. Well, we know where we're goin' But we don't know where we've been And we know what we're knowin' But we can't say what we've seen
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  4322.  @alanmcentee9457  The M880 was a COTS (Civilian Off-The-Shelf) Dodge pickup with a few modifications (24 volt electric system, benches in the back, canvas covers, camo paint scheme).
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  4323. See also: anti-pan-handling ordinances. The Supreme Court has ruled that "charitable appeals for funds/assistance" are protected speech per the 1st Amendment. But towns and cities continue to harass and arrest people for peacefully seeking help. And the people most hurt by these ordinances are those least able to pursue the matter in court.
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  4324. I went to a flowing streams "church" once. It was a wall of urinals at a concert venue...
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  4325. Yep, until the street lights came on. Because we didn't have cell phones leashing us.
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  4326. They were going to keep your money after they bait-and-switched, WHETHER OR NOT YOU TOOK THE SWITCH? Hell no. I'd rather drive an hour or two and find a Super 8.
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  4327. It's not just warranties at issue. It's accessibility of parts and information. I can go to a dozen places to buy an oil filter for my car from any of a dozen manufacturers. Well, I can for older cars. If an IC chip on my phone burns out, or there is a software glitch in my tractor, or something like, the manufacturers and sellers have been working HARD to make getting those parts, the information on how to repair, and the data to reset things software-based, is impossible to get legally. - I voted yes on that initiative, and I explained it to my friends who were exposed to the "Someone will get your information from your car and rape and murder you!" ads, and THEY voted yes on the initiative. - And why is there even all that supposedly "sensitive" data stored in the car? It doesn't need to be there, except for the auto makers to find ways to profit.
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  4328.  @psychedashell  Ehem… Cane toads.
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  4329. "Affordability Surcharge" "Low-Rent Levy" "Re-Assessment Revenue Regeneration"
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  4330.  @TheWildDeadHero  An improperly registered vehicle parked in the street is an easy fix. Call the police non-emergency number. Shared driveway? Lunacy.
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  4331. Seems like the FCC acted like teachers who only checked the page count on a term paper and scribbled a B+ on the front page.
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  4332.  @larryjankowski2923  With all of the various materials that can be 3-D printed these days, that could be a decent business model. Even a network of small regional printers able to slip on-demand auto parts into their production schedule might work. - edit: I've seen printers that can print in plastics AND metals. Between the resin pool styles, the powder style and the material-feed style, there are many possibilities.
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  4333. That's why I don't own a car lift, a wheel puller, a tire balancer, an engine hoist, a cylinder boring tool, an impact wrench... I know how to use most of those tools, but can't afford to own them all for the once in a long while use they would get for just one car. And where would I store them?
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  4334.  @letXeqX  And go to THE hospital. P.S. Military is not pronounced "mill-a-tree"
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  4335. Imagine paying for the heat for three years, and the car is stolen or totaled in an accident after three months. Will insurance cover the money you spent on the subscriptions?
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  4336. During the Great Depression America had Hoovervilles. During this pandemic, NYC has DiBlasio Dining Facilities. - And I see the long pile of NYC topiary roasting in the sun by your bike. So scenic!
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  4337. I just imagined a far-future entertainment program about antiques where the LRVs on the moon are recovered as some kind of "barn find".
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  4338. And a divided house is exactly what those who put power above responsibility want.
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  4339. Steve Lehto is a (mostly) healthy lawyer!
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  4340. I just treat everyone decently until they earn otherwise.
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  4341.  @UpnorthHere  This discussion is the very first time I have ever heard of purple paint on trees meaning anything other than uninspired graffiti.
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  4342. Every house I've lived in has black wires. Two of them. Ground was the stuff outside under the grass. - Well, unless someone added to a circuit with more modern 2- or 3-wire conductors, and any grounds were tabbed to the nearest metal pipe be it tub drain, radiators, cold to the kitchen sink, etc.
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  4343.  @J_Allen3556  So, if I were to say, "J_Allen J_Wrenched their knee coming up with that response," I would be boomer?
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  4344. That is a question I was not able to articulate, and I appreciate the answer!
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  4345.  @shotgun3217  Well, with inert grenades, it would be a safer demonstration.
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  4346.  @cassondennison8667  Nope. A president cannot change the rules by which the Senate runs itself.
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  4347. No, she has been taken over by the Cybermen. (sarcasm)
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  4348.  @need100k  Some work gets done outside that M-F 9-5 window, ya know.
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  4349. Oh, so you keep a Thompson in your viol case too?
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  4350. It is too bad that "we the people" cannot sue for injunctive relief against bad cops. "Your honor, I will forgo 75% of the massive settlement that taxpayers like yourself will have to pay me in exchange for the cops in question losing their jobs and police certification."
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  4351. That kind of sound balance is why I have taken to watching movies with the volume quite low and the closed-captions/subtitles on.
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  4352. @ian blm So, death sentence at the option of the convicted? I can get behind that. As long as there are safeties such as getting psychologically evaluated to confirm that the person choosing death knows what that means, is mentally competent to choose that option, and knows that their surviving family will not have a case of wrongful death afterward.
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  4353.  @lenarushing460  children and people 18+ with the minds of children, largely. At least from what little I've seen. Though that hand-washing hamster was awesome.
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  4354.  @bluebolt1844  About 30 years ago, I read Paul Kennedy's "The Rise and Fall of World Powers. That book predicted the inevitable fading of the US from the top spot and China rising in its place of financial power and (If China can stop manipulating it's currency) the owner of the international money standard.
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  4355. "Down here" in New England, we even 'lube' our (leather) boots. Well, if you let lube extend to things like mink oil...
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  4356.  @alcoyot  Yeah, I have yet to find someone willing to pay me to nap between episodes of anime.
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  4357. What? They have been fighting against freedom (to live free of fear of death) for a long time.
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  4358. I have a flashlight with no batteries. And I'm not just talking about the candles and oil lanterns. It's a shake-light that you give an aggressive handy to for about a minute to get about 10-15 minutes of good light. The iron weight (the only moving part) inside passes back and forth through a coil and charges up the capacitor(s). Totally waterproof, and totally embarrassing to charge up.
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  4359. I know people who have to carefully weigh a job versus the loss of public assistance for the hundreds of dollars monthly (uninsured prices) for just their required medications alone. And that is if the job will even offer medical coverage at all, never mind making them wait 30-90 days to "qualify" for whatever plan they offer. Then add in the extra costs of transportation to and from the job. - So some people have the reality of a job costing them twice what they could earn, and possibly leading them to die for lack of medications and medical care. - Great system we've got in the US, eh?
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  4360. What a wonderful feeling it is to fire a customer.
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  4361. The worst is when roads are wet and poor lighting at night (lack of streetlights, moon, cloudy, etc.).
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  4362.  @kennickel878  Might be seen as an improvement on the way things are going in some parts of the world.
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  4363.  @OneWildTurkey  My mistake - fat finger syndrome.
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  4364.  @susanfudge1737  If they loved you, they darned well better know you well enough to know if you're the kind of person who would LIKE a surprise party!
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  4365.  @ianoxenham4219  "re-enactment props"
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  4366.  @hawkdsl  I've known a very few male humans who completely left their childhood in the dust. They are very grumpy, never satisfied with life, and often have high blood pressure and/or multiple heart attacks.
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  4367.  @bcubed72  I make "sun tea" all year. In colder months, I preheat the water by running the tap hot and then letting the tea steep for about 1-2 hours. Lipton has a product I started using. It is a very large tea bag that is intended to make a gallon of tea. No more counting small bags of tea. No more ending up with 4 tea bags left from a 100-count box (12 bags per gallon).
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  4368.  @NoobsDeSroobs  Having never done any fiddling inside a laptop/notebook I have no data to share on that. The closest I've some is using a portion of a portable SSD as a RAM adjunct/expansion.
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  4369. Protecting his fans AND radiators!
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  4370.  @Channel-gz9hm  I like how you blended a cherry-picking attack with an ad hominem attack. You really showed me, huh?
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  4371. Looks like someone trying to save money by using junkyard (sun exposed) tires. I've been there myself. You can get tires with good tread but sketchy rubber condition for a fraction of new price which can last long enough to get you through a tight spot. I used junkyard tires on a Ford Escort and they lasted long enough for me to save up for new tires. Yeah, they were WalMart tires, but they were new and had a road damage warranty. - edit: I never picked tires with dry rot that bad though.
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  4372.  @FoxworthyGames  I have never scanned a QR code, and have no plans to ever do so. Every camera on my phone and computers is covered with Gorilla tape. If I want to take a picture of something, I use my actual camera that never has to have any kind of connection other than a cable if I want to transfer the pictures to another medium.
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  4373. Road flares may not be TNT, but they are also not harmless. Heck, a road flare can light up the fuel tank, if places properly.
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  4374.  @robertsmith2956  When my school was on a ick about searching random lockers, one kid who was a frequent "random" searchee stuffed his locker with dirty laundry to the point where opening the door created a 'cloth-alanche'.
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  4375. I worked at a convenience store a couple of decades back. One of the managers I worked under was a complete jerk who fired a cashier for not calling in with sufficient notice when he missed a shift. The kid was in a temporary coma after taking a bad hit playing football for his high school team and was unconscious for a day and a half. Did the medical records matter to this manager? Nope. His retort: "Your parents should have called the store once they knew you were unconscious." - I was so glad when he was fired and sued after being caught playing golf (several times) while out on worker's comp for "back injuries".
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  4376. This reminds me of the movie "Gentlemen Broncos". In that case, it was written word instead of art.
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  4377. And that blows my mind since many cops have access to the recordings BEFORE they make their report.
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  4378. Not to mention all of the many, many layers of regulations, permits, re-permits, re-re-permits, public objections getting more credence than science, and the years of lawyer time you have to pay to swim through all of that process. THEN you get to overpay the contractors who are "the only ones qualified" because the process has driven competing companies out of the business, and the expertise is aging out. Let us not forget cost overruns, government fines for not meeting unrealistic deadlines, interest on loans...
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  4379. I worry that all it would take for a "running away from home" or "adultery" charge is for a small group with a grudge or financial motive to decide that no, you DIDN'T have permission to leave the house, and by the way, we declared your marriage null because we said so.
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  4380. In #47's reign, perhaps it is a right AG's have?
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  4381. I hope your new base is not being built to "tofu dreg" Chinese standards!
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  4382. I now wonder. Are Blue Origin employees allowed time to take bathroom breaks, or must they also find a sheltered nook and an empty bottle?
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  4383.  @spvillano Though the US is horrible at banning torture both domestically and internationally by its own people, the Eighth Amendment seems to provide some protection. The Supreme court has only spoken about punishments that involve torture being forbidden under the 8th amendment, and it could be argued that detention prior to charging does not count as "punishment" though it would take an evil amount of sophistry to successfully argue that in this woman's case.
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  4384. I'm sure not ALL of these cops who failed are killers. Some of them probably can't aim straight.
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  4385. I like the inflammable = flammable. I use that to justify being insane.
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  4386.  @fredtaylor9792  Reductio ad absurdum. Neat.
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  4387.  @fredtaylor9792  Ad hominem. Next debate tactic failure, please.
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  4388.  @fredtaylor9792  Same debate failure as the last comment. Please adjust and try again.
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  4389. Three days. That's how long I think this "Apple done good" will last. My basis for this estimation? History.
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  4390. Whether the department is unwilling, or is unable to fire this cop, it is a sign of serious problems in the power of the union.
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  4391. Get well soon Justin! And if there is a Justine out there who is also sick, same wishes to them.
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  4392. My only engine rebuild experience has been in lawnmowers and snowblowers. One piston is a lot easier than eight!
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  4393.  @geraldhenrickson7472  Where in Mon tana is this exactly? And please ignore any sounds you may hear at night. Its, um, squirrels?
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  4394. In Massachusetts, the distinction between cars, vans, pickups, etc. happens with the use to which it is put. If it is your personal vehicle, you get a PAN (passenger) plate. If it used for/by a business, you get a commercial plate. Box trucks, dump trucks, semi tractors, tow trucks, and such are default commercial vehicles.
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  4395.  @alanmcentee9457  So does the pulley at the top of a flagpole. Learned that in the military.
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  4396. By the "reasoning" of these cops, every cop who has ever been at the site of a drug arrest is a drug dealer, since they were "near" the location of drugs.
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  4397.  @Skarry  First car: 1885 (if you only count practical passenger-carrying vehicles. Seat Belt law (US): January 1, 1968 - Your statement checks out!
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  4398. I would jump on the EV bandwagon, but the edge of the wagon is currently too many dollars tall for me.
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  4399.  @patdbean  True enough. My last (and only) NEW vehicle was a Bronco I bought in 1988. (So many expensive problems JUST after the warranty passed: Disintegrating front wheel locking hubs, leaving/grinding rear axle, leaking steering pump, leaking brake master cylinder...) Before and after that, it's been 2-5 year-old used cars.
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  4400.  @MichaelWinter-ss6lx  Every time I hear about Axiom I turn my hover lounger a little so the artificial sun doesn't get in my eyes.
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  4401.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  To fix serpentine belt squeaking, you use the pre-installed radio volume knob. edit: I'M JOKING!
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  4402. I've never seen "No Country for Old Men". So the reference was lost on me.
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  4403. Ooh! Cheesecake with a crumbled cookie topping!
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  4404.  @rodx5571  The car companies will tell you that, but the law (Magnussen-Moss) actually says the exact opposite.
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  4405.  @rodx5571  Quoting the law IS how you protect your rights under the law. Unfortunately, many companies don't care until you pay a lawyer to quote the exact same law the exact same way. Great system we have.
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  4406. An apology and $1.25 will get you a bad cup of coffee.
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  4407.  @clbcl5  Frame rusted out, tires bald, brakes nonexistent, airbags covered with jagged rhinestones, cabin full of trash, bugs and/or mold, and... "Customer declined all repairs."
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  4408. Um... these shoes are the proceeds of a crime! Civil asset forfeiture. k-thanks-bye!
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  4409. I developed a saying. Most women go shopping, most men go buying. The difference is about half an hour.
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  4410. This whole video is science friction!
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  4411. With all of the options out there, it could be a whole channel!
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  4412. You turned your HOA into a neighborhood with extra steps. Good way to work around the system.
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  4413. I agree. If ANYONE is a flight risk, it's a guy with a private Boeing passenger jet.
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  4414. The family of the next drowning victim in that jurisdiction has a good target for their wrongful death suit. Judge Wolff.
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  4415. Then they take your sandwich chop, your work truck, your computer, your home...
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  4416. And that's why I and my brother both worked in buildings where slapping a patch on a failing and under-sized climate control system was the rule instead of putting one sized for the building and its current use.
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  4417.  @EliteSniperTV  I did not know about the medicinal uses for dandelions. - Young dandelion leaves in early spring or late fall (harvest before the plant flowers) are also a salad crop, adding a bit of them to a base of lettuce can add some much-needed flavor profile to a normally bland experience. My grandfather used to make wine from dandelions (you use the yellow flowers) as well as other base ingredients such as grapes and berries. Dandelions can be a source of food instead of a bane of lawns, if one is willing to open their minds. - And I just found out that the roots can be dried and ground to make a (bitter, needing creamer/sweetener) coffee substitute, and the flowers can also be battered, fried and eaten. And there are even more recipes and health & beauty aid uses.
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  4418. What do you mean, "Where's the bathroom? Oh, you still poop? We've had that function removed here."
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  4419. Diverse? These are diverse ideas Hollywood has had in a long time.
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  4420.  @AmbientShades  I use radio. $0/month, some ads, always geolocated to where I am driving. If I don't like the stations on offer, I have a handful of CDs that are very popular with the people in my car that I can put in the player. (Pink Floyd, Queen, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Journey...)
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  4421.  @WeOutlawsTV88  Facts have been checked. ONE F-117 was shot down over Yugoslavia on 27 March 1999. The pilot ejected and was recovered by US SAR within about 6 hours. ONE F-117 was damaged and made it back to Spangdalem Air Base in Germany on 30 April 1999. - Sorry to burst your misinformed bubble.
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  4422.  @WeOutlawsTV88  Feelings? I present facts and you call it feelings? You have so much try-hard energy.
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  4423. And he doesn't bring up the issue I care about either! It's an outrage! I must use more exclamation marks!!!!
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  4424. And the guy trumpeting that for Hamas does not appear to have missed a meal.
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  4425. As honest as a priest, as sober as a judge. Nevermind, your honor, I can neither lie nor drink that much.
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  4426.  @andyburns9196  Birds of a feather flock together.
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  4427.  @matildatheoboldt2261  I think it is because Jordan is a far better interviewer than he is a talking head behind a desk.
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  4428. I have not picked up my own plate in over 30 years. It is part of the standard service offered by insurance agencies, and they have people going to the DMV several times a week. Also, Massachusetts doesn't issue paper temp plates, unless they have changed their rules since I last looked it up.
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  4429. If you have a lot of items, a yard sale may be better? If you are producing things for sale, such as artistically, it may be better to advertise on social media and have your own website for sales, as easy as those are to set up now. - I still sell items on eBay, as I only sell a couple of things every few years. But the more changes eBay and Amazon impose, the more I reconsider that stance.
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  4430. Holy Pasta! You are a parent, not just a child maker. You have my congratulations.
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  4431.  @ingiford175  "If the bank does it, it's not theft." Kind of like Nixon's "If the President does it, it's not illegal."
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  4432.  @ritaranee4787  You've not met many women, if you mean that.
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  4433. Oklahoma is a bit out of Jeff Grey's area of operations. I don't know any other 1A auditors who work clean, respectfully and smart by name who could reach that area.
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  4434. Vanta black = "None more black"
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  4435. "When seconds matter, the police are minutes away" is not just for when you're in personal danger.
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  4436.  @Seraphim401  I don't know the OP's other four, but the other car-related channel I watch is Just Rolled In.
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  4437.  @grahamcockerill2406  That would be a bit more expensive than just putting a door closer on the existing door, and would also mean that the office could not be independently locked.
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  4438. The copsplaining officer in the "driveway" incident won't even look at the person he's talking to. That is a clue that he is likely full of [redacted].
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  4439. Like the Griswolds in St. Louis. "Roll 'em up!"
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  4440. We call is gas, short for gasoline. You call it petrol... short for petroleum? Petroleum is often used the term for an entire array of distillation fractions extracted from crude petroleum. Things from kerosene to gasoline to diesel to lubricants to road tar. - Tell me again who is right?
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  4441.  @7F0X7  Nice fail with that appeal to absurdity debate tactic.
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  4442.  @LuckyCharms777  And thus, more and more CDL drivers buy and upload their own dash-cams, even if the company has installed one.
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  4443. Ah yes. As comedian Chris Porter calls it, the "Are you shitting me?" defense.
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  4444.  @AnonymousByFault  Not all prisons are corporate-owned. And I am solidly in the camp that is against corporate prisons. How the Pasta can a profit-driven prison be cheaper for a state or the Federal government than a prison run by the state or Federal system? What corners are being cut? safety? food? wages? guard/inmate ratio? human rights? some or all of the above?
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  4445. The fun part of this court decision is not only has the payer already put in the cost of the metal container, the delivery, and the time to get and unroll all of those coins, they will again incur expenses to recover the container, the time and effort to either roll or machine sort/count the coins, and then the exchange or service fee to convert those coins back to cash or a deposit in their account(s). - That's a very expensive temper tantrum, and I have not even added in court and lawyer costs!
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  4446.  WhyRUcrying1  Yes. Those of us who still dream of an America where the law is applied equally to all ARE mad that Donnie is still walking free. If I threatened a judge and their staff, you'd only be able to communicate with me through the prison mail system and/or my lawyer.
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  4447. Maybe we should try paying in rubles?
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  4448. What a great design that holds so much water in a bolt channel on those big bolts! It's like they WANT to have the bolts fail eventually.
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  4449. The judge must have been a big fan of baseball. One foot in the batter's box and the pitch counts as called. One foot on the bag and you're on-base.
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  4450.  @Subject_Keter  And they don't even know Magic Missile!
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  4451. I have an idea I've been sharing around for a few days. We need to convince Republicans that providing subsidized, or even free, family planning and abortion services to non-white people will help stave off that "White Replacement" thing they're so terrified of.
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  4452.  @willcaputo1  Excellent (steeples fingers)
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  4453. "Well, Mr/Mrs/Miss/etc. Border Guard, why do you ave that haircut? Don't you know that people who actively work against your country also have haircuts? Do you drink liquids? Terrorists drink liquids too! Do you breathe? Traitors breathe!"
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  4454.  @IanVonEssex  I have to add paper? Nay! send me a new one!
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  4455. Really? There go the hopes of many a bedraggled parent of teenagers...
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  4456. Also, local cops bast the TSA checkpoints, if armed, are a source of handy weapons for someone with nefarious intent and moderate hand-to-hand skills.
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  4457. I love that scene! Even funnier when you read the Dirk Gently story that explains how the couch got stuck.
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  4458. Too soon? It's ONLY been 156 years and 78 days...
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  4459. Slap the SLAPPers!
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  4460. Thanks for the amazing information!
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  4461. Probably more envy than hate.
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  4462.  @markmaki4460  What a horrible thing to do to China!
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  4463.  @BlackWolf207  This made me laugh at the absurdity!
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  4464.  @DictatorTuna  "I'm not wearing any pants. Film at eleven." - From the movie "Network".
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  4465.  @ZolaClyde  I used to take the deliberate hit and go catch a nap!
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  4466. Anna was hilarious! "I broke all my bones!" [stands up to try again]
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  4467. That woman on Fox at 3:00 complaining about how celebrities don't get to tell people who their voting for and endorsing particular candidates needs some self-reflection.
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  4468. My brother helped a friend put a big-block V8 engine of some type with lots of horsepower into a car he had with a junked engine. They had to get a special bell housing to translate between Ford and MOPAR. They spent nearly a month of summer days on it. The first time they got it running and tuned, the friend decided to see what is sounded like at high RPMs. The engine twisted the frame so much one front wheel was a few inches off the driveway. They sold it all to some guy who wanted the engine.
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  4469.  @hxhdfjifzirstc894 Particularly if you "fit a description". And we all know when THAT one gets used...
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  4470.  @robertpage2023  I have actually seen sunroofs sealed with silicone bathroom caulking, turning them into a leak-resistant moon roof.
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  4471.  @robertpage2023  I yield to your brilliance!
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  4472.  @alexnorth2452  Okay, fine. No thrashings behind the barn. Decades of imprisonment with hard labor.
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  4473.  @crsv7armhl  Please be sure to inform me as often as possible what I am allowed to say, and where I am allowed to say it. That way I will not incur your wrath or disdain for upsetting your view of what is and is not a discussion.
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  4474. I too was worried about the lemon-flavored popsicle.
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  4475. Insurance is just "protection" in suits and corporate addresses. "Real nice health you got there. Be a shame is sumfin happened to it."
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  4476.  @dizzylilthing  It's cold and clinging and gets everywhere. At least you can brush off sand.
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  4477. I imagine that the fact checking department at Fox News is one quiet domestic abuse survivor who sits in an office with the door nailed shut from the outside.
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  4478. Gasp! The nerve of requiring something from our politicians and police that we make legal immigrants know before they can be a citizen!
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  4479. "Mistakes were made" Fracking passive language...
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  4480.  @davecrupel2817  How about just think critically? At the very least, don't vote for con artists. And yes, sometimes that means not voting for ANY of the offerings the political machines are willing to let us sheep choose from.
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  4481.  @imacds  I'd vote for an empty office over any corrupt candidate, but sadly, our system does not work that way.
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  4482. I was riding a school bus in Phoenix AZ in the 1970's and at one stop a driver was quite done being stuck behind a school bus and zoomed around the bus as the lights were flashing. And right in front of the bus was a city cop car... Every kid on the bus cheered as we passed the guy handing over his paperwork.
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  4483.  @ChadBoss-qr4hl  Thanks for the laughs, then the nightmares later.
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  4484. Joe NEEDS to do some "immune activity" before he leaves office. Something that REALLY upsets the right. Only then will they wake up and say, "But, it was only supposed to work FOR us, not AGAINST us! Court! Fix this!"
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  4485.  @deth3021  I love this idea. First heard it from Robin Williams.
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  4486. I feel bad. All I got for Drach was a thumbs-up and this comment.
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  4487. Pick one of the members of Congress who got a PPP loan and didn't have to pay them back!
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  4488. See the case where an arrestee said, "I want a lawyer, dog." The judge ruled that the questioning that came after that request was able to be entered into evidence, because there are no lawyer dogs.
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  4489.  @krzysiej--9229  So you're saying just peeing in the receptacle would be sub-optimal?
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  4490.  @singularityphoenixx  The statements you cite are: 1) a truism. The band did need to leave... at some point. 2) This point could be an invitation to dinner, or an incitement to a fist fight. - Just ideas a lawyer could use, should they be so inclined.
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  4491.  @TheSimba86  HOA's are FULL of good little brownshirts.
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  4492. When I buy movie tickets online, I print out the ticket. Paper beats rock AND smartphone.
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  4493. If you gave me 100 billion US dollars tomorrow, I would not live in one of those toothpick buildings. I would never want to live in a building which I could not reasonably escape from via the stairs (in a timely manner) in event of an emergency. My person top height would likely be 3-5 floors. If no elevators, my top height would be 2-3 floors.
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  4494. My recommended fix for the backup camera would be to empty the back of the vehicle and use eyes and/or the mirrors. But then, I am apparently "old school" in my view on backup cameras.
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  4495. If I fell in an aerated tank of mid-process sewage, I think it would be a coin flip as to whether I would prefer to drown or not. Even if I got out, got the meds, and was fine, the STORIES and nicknames would follow me for the rest of my life.
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  4496. And they know they need to at least offer the pretense of repairability to be able to say, "We're doing it, we don't need a law!"
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  4497. Everything is racist to a racist, would be more accurate to say.
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  4498.  @DanLoFat  This is of course, not applicable to all courts and judges in all states, and you still get arrested, illegally searched, and have to pay towing and impound and a lawyer to prove the invalidity of the search. - What a win.
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  4499. I, a tall man, get asked the abuse questions when I show up with bruises, cuts, or other injuries. And even when I don't. It is the policy at the doctors and hospitals I go to, if not the State.
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  4500. That is so poetic!
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  4501. Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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  4502. Yep, I remember those days. I once had to flag down a ride to get home to get tools, then call a friend to get back to my car. - Back when you could knock on a stranger's door, ask to use the phone to call a tow, and NOT have to worry about getting dog-bit, shot or arrested for seeking help.
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  4503. Even if John Doe at the parts store is not knowledgeable enough to ensure that the part in the box is the right serial number they don't have to be extraordinarily smart and experienced to see that a part is either new and clean, or mangled/dirty/MISSING!.
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  4504. I once got a car at flood sale price because the person who replaced the master brake cylinder didn't bleed the lines afterward, so the owner thought it was an un-fixable death trap. Twenty minutes with my brother in the driver's seat, half a bottle of brake fluid, and a couple of dirty rags later and I had a great car that I should have paid ten times as much to get.
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  4505. If people are burning masks in protest of a virus, they should be required to be wearing them when doing the burning.
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  4506.  @kittymande  And I still hate those Illinois "pro-aryan enthusiasts"
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  4507.  @CantankerousDave  They should drop the "r" and say, "Fly the Fiendly Skies"
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  4508.  @Shauma_llama  Old and/or underinflated. Plus, unrepaired front-end suspension issues or misalignment can contribute.
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  4509.  @darksideblues135  "Rules for thee, not for me."
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  4510. Kind of like the police paying a third party to buy your information from your phone/computer/car/doorbell camera so they don't have to bother justifying a warrant.
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  4511. Just to be safe, don't let anyone put a Green Goblin face on the front of their rigs...
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  4512. Thus the San Francisco method of parking your car with the EMPTY trunk open so people won't break your side window to steal stuff from your trunk. Because police don't help, and DA's don't prosecute. - Though I have heard there was recently a little reversal of that laisse faire attitude toward crime.
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  4513.  @anthonygonzalez7488  Depending on the state and the law(s) involved the law also allows for things like 'pain and suffering', paying for inconvenience, lawyer and court fees, and occasionally injunctive relief.
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  4514. They were too busy loading Tik Tok on your ECM to do a proper torquing of the lug nuts.
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  4515.  @XDarkGreyX  Fine, dram for dram. Stone for stone?
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  4516. I read "lil uzi" in the title and thought it was a micro SMG in something like 5mm. - "Lil Uzi - The purse machine gun for the Mossad agent on the go. Now available in fashion colors for undercover work at formal events."
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  4517. Rain? In Scotland? Unheard of!!!
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  4518. A bunch of angry old men doing all they can to ensure that a lot of young men don't get to be old men.
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  4519. Ah yes, the BlueTip line of wrenches.
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  4520. Although, it is fun to hear about an RUD outside of rockets.
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  4521. Meanwhile, the military continues to head-scratch over why they can't meet recruitment and retention goals.
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  4522. A good response would be to take them to court for trespassing and destruction of your hay crop.
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  4523. Nah, Marvin just missed with his space modulator ray.
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  4524.  @billyyank5807  Court costs, filing fees, time off of work, paid parking...
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  4525. Also known as a sensuous project. "Sensuous gonna take that part out to get to what you was doin..."
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  4526. I would compare them to unanesthetized root canals.
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  4527. Pets seem to be fascinated by Spencer.
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  4528. If you actually tallied assets versus liabilities, it is possible someone with $100 might be able to buy Orange Julius Caesar four times over.
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  4529.  @2Fast4Mellow  A "good" HOA is one board change away from being a bad HOA.
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  4530. Yet another "development" that ends up causing me to welcome death's warm embrace.
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  4531. But, but... what about the "new customer experience"? Hahahaha!
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  4532. That was how my Finnish immigrant great grandfather built his first business, getting him a huge house on hundreds of acres of land, and when the electric refrigerator started to impinge on his business, he parleyed it into a home heating oil company that my father later turned into a bankruptcy.
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  4533. Lock him up! Lock him up! Hmm... that usually works.
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  4534. I have two friends who run a rare book store, and the husband is a bookbinder who does repairs when customers request them. He has done everything from cleaning up a book to completely rebinding the whole thing as if it was being built the first time.
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  4535. In YOU endo! Hehehe...
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  4536. When your realtor, and not the seller's realtor, is putting pressure on you to overbid, it is right to fire them.
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  4537. We can do it! I believe in all of us! (Is it working?)
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  4538. It may be a state thing, but here in Massachusetts, when you buy a battery, you pay a "core charge" and get that money back when you return the old battery to the place you bought the new one. This is true whether you get your battery at a parts store, or NTYB, or WalMart or a warehouse club.
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  4539.  @JericHouse  If you ignore news you don't agree with, you will not see what is being done against you. I am not saying to AGREE with information you know to be wrong and/or harmful, but the world is 3-dimensional, so stop looking at it from only one viewpoint.
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  4540.  @ku8721  Yes! Exactly! I am in internet love with your statement.
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  4541.  @dinespetersen8711  We also called it the "chain mail wiggle" amongst other names.
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  4542. Black & white laser printer all the way. I have had my Brother HL1440 for about 20-30 years, and I am only on my third toner cartridge. edit: and the first toner cartridge was a half-volume "starter" cartridge.
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  4543. I had a 401(k) account that I drained nearly all the money out of to move to a better management company. There was less than a dollar left, and that amount was lower than their policies would process a payment for. Every year they called me to ask about the account and I kept telling them to keep it or donate it to a charity. Took a decade and a half for them to stop calling.
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  4544.  @RB-hj7qc  Unless you are getting warranty service on your Apple product, go for a reputable independent repair place. - And NOT a place that is part of Apples IRP (Independent Repair Program), because those places are not allowed to do component level repair, cannot pre-stock parts, and are required to give Apple a HUGE pile of your personal information before they get to wait up to a week or more for the parts.
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  4545. There is, but computerized controls and old age are killing it year after year.
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  4546.  @therealCamoron  When I was in public school, almost all history classes were American History. I could have taken an elective and gotten Ancient History of the Middle East, or gone for Current Events. But I was more into math and science. In college, I was in the physics program, and only got one history elective in, US Constitutional History (which was, oddly, a pre-law course).
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  4547.  @saigyl9149  No laws about thoughts... yet. If brain interface tech matures enough, expect some politician to at least suggest such a law.
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  4548.  @cjgetreal  Why would you want to make your own repairs? Ask a farmer who has to wait weeks for a technician while ripe crops rot in the field. Ask a hospital who has to shut down an OR because the company that makes the OR beds will not sell parts, will not part with schematics, and will force the purchase of a NEW table for tens of thousands instead of selling the $200 electric motor. - And warranty? 1) Good luck getting the company to admit that a repair is under warranty. 2) Many companies queue warranty work AFTER paid work.
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  4549. I want to be on the crew firing gamma ray bursts from distant stars. "Oh, you space-dolphins think you're so smart, huh? Take THAT!"
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  4550. The new trial will endeavor to answer that question.
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  4551. I live in New England, and all I see is either the car washes you pull into - staying in the car, the ones you slowly drive through (a vanishing breed) or car detailing services (which I have never used). I have never seen, around where I live, a car wash where you let a worker drive it through the wash tunnel.
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  4552. Imagine how much could be done if the amount of income that was subject to social security taxes was uncapped. And as for employees who need food stamps to survive, that includes "employees" we call the US Military.
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  4553. Except for a 3-1/2 year stretch when my male parent was dodging creditors, I have lived all of my 5+ decades in Massachusetts. I will accept the snow. If you're snowed in, it's a great time to eat the ice cream!
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  4554. If someone asked me to uncover that sidewalk, I'd be looking for a skid steer!
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  4555.  @richardpayne  I didn't say it was a smart plan, just an evil one. Maybe in the movie about it, the employees could be led by a dancing lawyer. Kevin Bacon, perhaps?
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  4556. "An unfortunate case of wrong place, wrong time." Yeah, the dumb cop was in the wrong place at the wrong time. - Edit: Hey Chief! Imagine if the OFFICER considered all of the facts before handcuffing the kid?
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  4557. 1) When you say something over and over, you sound like you are reading lines. 2) If you are planning to talk to a large group, you often rehearse, and you sound like you are reading lines.
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  4558. Yesterday, on the way to get groceries, I saw a guy in a full yellow Tyvek suit and rubber boots... on a riding mower headed toward the grocery store as well. No mask, but a wide grin. Some people get that humor can keep you sane. - Or he left sane a while ago, I didn't stop to ask.
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  4559. And hooray for Timekeeper Dave (TM) keeping Ray from overworking himself to exhaustion and/or insanity!
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  4560.  @desoneill5489  You hit the big point. Temperature. Electronic stuff, even lead-acid batteries, don't do well when they get too hot. Metals soften, and reactions inimical to proper function occur more easily at high temperatures, as well as resistance in conductors increasing leading to even MORE heat.
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  4561.  evilangel7769  MerriamWebster.com Definition of conviction 1: the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law 2a: a strong persuasion or belief b: the state of being convinced 3a: the act of convincing a person of error or of compelling the admission of a truth b: the state of being convinced of error or compelled to admit the truth - Not seeing a "religious only" or even a "religious mostly" in there.
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  4562.  @planesandbikes7353  Not a bad outlook. The only advice I would add is to regularly (annually?) check the condition of the fuel in the tank, and use appropriate fuel stabilizer products. No sense buying a bunch of home heating fuel and having to pump it out a couple of years later because it broke down into other products. Yeah, it's more an issue with volatiles like gasoline and kerosene, but even diesel (a.k.a. home heating oil plus road taxes) can degrade over time.
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  4563. Also, being able to just 'get' information with a handy device means you are less likely to learn the information. It's too easy and makes little impact.
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  4564. I have noticed a difference between the "Clean up an abandoned property for the neighborhood so the sidewalks and such are actually accessible and the yard doesn't attract pests." and the "Fix the yard for people who are in a hard spot even though they still live there." And to me, that difference in methods is fine.
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  4565. Of course, you need to have sufficient clearance beyond the cut for the length of the blade. It looked like, for the lower of each cut, that space was partially occluded by a structural curve of that lower plate.
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  4566. Ah, so that's what it's all aboot!
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  4567. Side note: The pineapple is a berry.
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  4568. Two possible reasons I could accept for post-purchase inspection: 1) The price was too good and the purchase window too small. "$450 for this pickup with only 83,000 miles on it? I can sell the wheels to someone for that much!" 2) You bought the car at an auction that did not allow anything other than visual inspection, such as a Sheriff's Department auction. Again, the price would need to be insanely good.
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  4569. "Nobody stops at stop signs" - I question your assertion. You seem to find some good cases that confirm you bias, but anecdote is not evidence. - Then you play the Nat-see card? That kind of shoots your argument in the foot. What did a stop sign do to you at summer camp? - My stop sign related gripe with US road design is the placement of the stop line. Too often, the stop line is so far back from where one can see if proceeding is safe, that you have to stop, then slowly roll forward until you can actually see if the way is clear enough to proceed. This is exacerbated by older built-up areas with buildings directly abutting the street or the narrow sidewalk right against the street. Most frustrating is when the issue is because of plants. Typically a huge shrubbery or hedge that is either improperly placed, or not trimmed back to make the intersection safe. - I have always come to a full stop at stop signs when operating a motor vehicle (well, okay, I missed one in Pennsylvania in the 1990's that was fully obscured by an untrimmed tree).
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  4570.  @TechnologyConnections  My gripe with the UK switched outlets is that I have never seen any with any visual indicator that an outlet is on. No LED, nothing tactile, nothing like a car lock where if the lock is engaged, you reveal an orange surface... You just have to memorize the position that equals on? - Okay, went on a search journey, and SOME switched outlets have "this outlet is on" indicators while others do not.
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  4571. According to a representative of the UK team at Knipex, in a product announcement video, it's pronounced "nip-ecks". Just keep in mind those are the same people who say "aluminium" and don't put "the" in front of hospital.
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  4572. I may have some of the details wrong, or the salesman was outright lying, but the information I got was that in my state, if you got solar panels you could either feed back to the grid for credit off of your billing (but never make profit) OR you could have a home battery storage system, but then your solar was not permitted to feed to the grid.
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  4573. I am imagining the book time for diagnosing strange electrical faults is just the stock photo of the old guy in the red sweater, shrugging.
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  4574. I knew about free infantry from many of the countries represented in this video, but this is a topic I never even thought to ask about. Thanks!
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  4575. Of all of the videos I have watched from this channel, this is the one I most had to rewind and re-watch. Aerodynamics is very interesting to me, and simultaneously confusing at times. Thanks for explaining this plane and the topic so well!
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  4576.  @NathanTarantlawriter  Home appliances (until you start wandering into the "smart" ones are a completely different arena from microelectronics. And denigrating the repair skills of "non-professionals" feeds directly into the anti-repair mindset of device manufacturers. If you want a deeper explanation of the issue, I would recommend some videos from Louis Rossmann on YouTube.
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  4577. It even works for treason. See Manning.
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  4578.  @moho472  Yeah, it's like the people saying that farmers (who somehow don't want to fix their tractors?) want to disable emission controls, ramp up the speeds, and simultaneously steal the manufacturer's trade secrets. As to the last point, anything a tractor maker puts in a tractor is secret until the first few are sold and another manufacturer gets their hands on it.
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  4579. People's Republic of Haven vs. Honor Harrington. Verdict, guilty. Sentence, death.
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  4580. You can get an OUI while riding a horse (whether the horse is sober or not), a bicycle, a canoe, a rowboat, a skateboard... All depends on the state's laws, how much of a problem you are being for other traffic, and most importantly, the mood of the law enforcement people who contact you.
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  4581. In the spring of 1997, the entire police department of Spencer MA was fired after an investigation, and the entire department's responsibilities were taken over by state police until they could rehire new cops. 2021, the former chief, Daniel Galis, of Leyden MA was charged with stealing equipment from the town: a skid-steer loader, a motor, a trailer, and a Ford truck, to be specific. Then the state's Ethics Commission charged him and his wife with violating conflict-of-interest laws by paying himself more than $12,600 in stipends using grant money from the decommissioned Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and having his wife complete those requests. They also alleged that the Galvises steered $8,900 of town automotive-repair work to their private repair business and additional work to a local car dealership where Gilda Galvis worked and served on the board of directors. - Massachusetts is not a stranger to bad cops, or even EVENTUALLY getting around to doing something about some of them. Once in a while. If they do something bad enough to actually get noticed...
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  4582. Yes, but that requires someone who cares about re-election to actually put their name to the action.
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  4583. Having worked on construction equipment, I am a member of the Church of Drift Pins.
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  4584. Some people think tighter will improve a seal, but it more often just crushes the gasket/o-ring to failure.
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  4585. If a line is clogged, the motor would usually still run and "try" to push liquid. My reasoning comes from the time I had a clogged line on a 2008 Ford Bronco. - addition: Way back when I had a 1974 VW Beetle, the hose from the spare to the windshield washer tank was rotted away (as were the heat ducts from the rear engine, and one spot in the passenger front floor, and...) so my windshield washer pump was a hand-pumped bottle of off-brand window cleaner. 1) open driver's window if not open already. 2) grab spray bottle. 3) stick arm out of car with spray bottle, spray the windsheild. 4) run the wipers. 5) repeat as necessary. 6) close window if desired.
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  4586. Depends on headroom too. If they change the stairs at all, they have to meet code. If they leave them alone, they are (unless badly out of code and/or unsafe) "grandfathered" in.
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  4587.  @hengineer  If the coils fail, they should be a swappable part. Same for the thermostat, the switches and the valves. When the tank fails from rust, THEN it can only be fixed by replacing. Accepting anything other than that is voluntary idiocy.
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  4588. Unless the purchase and/or loan paperwork explicitly says there will be such a device and removing it lands you with penalties, then it is worth finding and removing. edit: But what a tragedy if the kill switch somehow had an internal short that bypassed its function, but otherwise did no harm to the device...
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  4589. "The coast" is a moving target. As in erosion, subduction, sinkholes, and rising sea levels.
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  4590. I saw a video clip where someone welded a bundle of razor wire under their car to protect their converter.
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  4591. Every time I hear the name "squid launcher" my brain goes to Despicable Me.
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  4592.  @bn880  Cats are unreliable when you need them the most. Get a dog named alibi instead.
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  4593. Darth Barbie needs a time out.
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  4594.  @johnb3587  Shhh... you'll confuse the kids with all that... KNOWLEDGE.
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  4595. $500 per DAY? When did the city become an HOA?! - I agree with some commenters below. The city would have a hard time selling a pile of ashes at auction.
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  4596. "It belongs in a museum!" - Doctor Henry Jones
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  4597. But not according to the pin-stripe bandits in insurance.
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  4598.  @davidpnewton 35 knots would then have to be "Plaid".
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  4599. Give the person a break. They thought they were the county persecutor. Simple spelling error, right?
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  4600.  @Case909  Oh, you sweet dreamer. Amazon HELPS counterfeiters set up shop. Heck, Amazon sometimes IS the counterfeiter.
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  4601. When I worked at one electronics manufacturer, they would regularly pack known bad assemblies in boxes and ship them to meet "must ship" numbers by the end of a quarter, KNOWING that they would be getting all of them back and have to replace them with good product. My direct manager refused to sign his name to that crap, and the upper-middle person doing it "suddenly" no longer worked there after three quarters.
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  4602. This is good advice.
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  4603. The good old days when you could adjust your car's idle with a screwdriver.
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  4604.  @harpintn  Up here in the rust belt, you don't need to buy security screw. Just use ungalvanized steel screws and wait one winter. Those suckers aren't coming out unless you drill them out!
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  4605.  @fetchstixRHD  SHHHH!!!! You'll give "them" ideas!
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  4606.  @radfaraf  Why can't they? They can, but they're paid well to not ask for those things. Sorry, I meant they're "lobbied" to not ask for those things.
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  4607. @unsubtract I saw that video recently, cannot recommend it enough.
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  4608. Justice system? Nah, it's a legal system.
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  4609. AND has the ability to practice law removed, AND barred from becoming a judge again.
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  4610. Based on comments here, upsell them to a vehicle they can't afford, then claim damages that weren't their fault, also charging them for a gas refill that was not needed. Oh, and refuse to provide exculpatory evidence when they are charged with murder...
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  4611. Just wait until the Max Headroom 'blipverts' start up...
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  4612. Amazing how a person can say that this is a free country but everyone in it should be (his brand of) Christian, all in the same breath can do so without a hint of irony. And by amazing, I mean it is amazing that anyone can be that dumb and still have enough brain to run their autonomic functions.
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  4613. You know, I THOUGHT I recognized the logo for Ball Aerospace, and I was right. They are an OLD company (way back to 1880 when they started as the Wooden Jacket Can Company), when they manufactured containers for kerosene, paints and varnishes. I knew of them for the canning jars they made until 1990, when they spun that off to a subsidiary. - Not all that important in relation to this video, just something I wanted to share.
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  4614. Also, if the trailer is cheap, you need to make sure the axle mounts are square and tight. I've worked on a trailer that had one side of the axle sliding up and down the frame just enough to cause some very strange drifting and tire wear. Steel clamps on an aluminum frame get that galvanic response issue as well.
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  4615. The sad truth is that this whole episode would be more remembered if there were dead pilots attached to the issue.
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  4616. To me it is very odd that the high side and low side ports are on the same pipe. Am I misunderstanding something? - edit: How long until that unsecured battery wears through its casing and leaks?
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  4617. You're doing Darwin's work here, bless you.
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  4618. That is so cool! Congratulations.
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  4619. If I was that guy visiting who got the sticker on the window, I'd be at the management office telling them they could either get their butts out there and clean off the sticker completely, or let me use their phone to call the police.
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  4620. California? Family court? The mother will still retain custodial rights.
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  4621.  @Strideo1  Cash denied? Cops called on a suspected counterfeiter?
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  4622. The lying/perjury/inaccuracies are even more unforgivable given that police get to review the video evidence before testifying. If they don't, it's their own damned fault.
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  4623. And how does that bored person you finally get on the phone know what you canceling the sports package would do to your monthly rate? They read it from their computer screen. The data and programs are already there!
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  4624.  @keepingupwithlife1991  They get their "facts" the same place most people expel food solids.
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  4625. That community needs to ask if they actually WANT teachers who are only there under threat.
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  4626.  @cigarsgunsanddiesel8032  I've recently watched a few videos about "tofu dreg" construction in China. The variable quality of parts from Chinese factories is really part of the greed-based culture in government and business there.
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  4627. Did they at least try landing on the Mun first? (in Kerbal)
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  4628.  @MasterMalrubius  I live in an apartment complex where three apartments share a common entrance and then have their own doors. The landlord has installed locks that allow the same key to be used for the common entry and your own apartment door, but the key will not work on other apartment's door. I do not know if the landlord has the complex keyed so they have one master key, or one master for each building. But they do the keying to reduce the number of keys they have to carry and put in custody of maintenance crews and contractors. With the given that a lock is only a deterrent to honest people, it is a choice the landlord has made. It is also in our rental agreements that we cannot change the locks ourselves, but we can request a lock change from the landlord (with an associated fee).
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  4629. And if they are wearing masks, Tucker Carlson wants you to call child services constantly until they show up to arrest the parents!
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  4630.  @FowlerAskew  We have talked about right angle stuff so much, I have a perverse urge to see wrong angle plugs.
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  4631. The Hippocratic Oath is centered on the phrase "Do no harm", which a halfway skilled slimy lawyer would be able to argue means doing nothing is not doing harm.
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  4632.  @kevinbarry71  Science may be hard, but fluid dynamics is dark sorcery.
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  4633. Well, service is also a verb for when a male farm animal engages in an activity designed to make female farm animals create young farm animals.
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  4634.  @LeavinMyTown  Gamma ray bursts are natural!
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  4635. I would call this video Sagan-worthy.
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  4636. Fun thing about electrical sources (like DC batteries), they can be connected in series to increase voltage, and connected in parallel to increase current.
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  4637.  @stephenbritton9297  I once got a cop angry enough to reach for his pistol. I was sitting on the rear bumper of my car, parked in a parking lot at the college I was attending, with a valid parking permit. The oddity was that I was sharpening a hatchet that I used in my job landscaping. The cop asked if I had any other weapons in the car, and I answered, "Depends on what you define as a weapon." My thought process was based on a recent reading of my state's "dangerous weapons" statute. His thought process was probably either, "He has a bomb!" or "I'll show this smartazz a thing or two!"
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  4638.  @martinwilliams1784  That's how a corroded flap killed the ECM in one of my Saturns. Flap was commanded to actuate, the correct position was never reached so the voltage kept being sent and the circuit failed at the weakest (and most expensive) point.
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  4639.  @josephteller9715  Another notable name was their Russian chauffeur, Pickup Andropov.
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  4640. Introverts unite!* - *By unite, I mean, just stay where we are and bask in the distance-glow of our combined strength of habitual self-quarantining.
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  4641. 2:00 The Croatian Bob Semple!
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  4642. This law will not deter crime. If it happened to me, it would lead to a few (at least attempted) murders...
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  4643. This makes me want to get a lock box for my car, and only store a triple zip-locked and taped bag containing a badly soiled diaper within it. And leave that locked box with a cheap (easily broken) padlock on it in plain view in my back seat, maybe label it "Not for cops!"
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  4644. Then you have to cultivate orbital coral...
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  4645. Time for some citizen's civil asset forfeiture!
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  4646.  @MrTruckerf  We could not even attest to the existence of his feet under oath!
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  4647. An irony: The controlled diet and mandatory yard time in prison could make Donnie healthier and have a longer life than is left to his own devices.
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  4648.  @aliberk3112  Also, one data point (Louis's video) is not a statistic.
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  4649. The Buy-n-Large corporate philosophy.
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  4650. Oh, we have a choice. It's called opting out of anything Live Nation touches.
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  4651. Right? Around here, rust has a significant three-dimensionality to it. That's how body rust cracks paint, and rebar splits concrete.
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  4652.  @crimsonnlotus  We don't have a justice system. We have a legal system.
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  4653. I have a friend who googled a route from his house to a friend two houses down, and it was a 1.5 mile trip around insanity. And this was not even one of Boston's MANY one-way streets.
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  4654.  @mexicanspec  I like to say, "Purebred is inbred" and as an example I point at how papered Dalmatians often have genetic problems like deafness.
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  4655. Thank you. I did learn something. If I ever have to travel and stay in a motel, I will bring my own package of Clorox wipes and Lysol surface spray and plan half an hour to clean the room before sitting down.
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  4656. Unless it was a Sunday or holiday, that is WAY too much for a simple car door opening. edit: Also overnights and rush calls can have a premium. I have never paid for a door unlocking, as I have AAA and only needed such service once.
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  4657.  @ericleef1319  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uhtu4-T4KY For your viewing pleasure.
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  4658.  @ken2tou  How? Florida, probably. I remember an electrician friend telling us about how he learned, during his apprenticeship, that Florida was one of the few states (at the time) that still allowed aluminum wiring in the walls of homes.
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  4659. There are over 335 MILLION citizens who are also not the currently serving US President. Why does only ONE of us deserve such gentle treatment?
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  4660.  @daviking-88  The situation you are commenting on is that the two overweight people deliberately bought seats with one between them, but did not pay for that third seat. The airline sold the woman, Syndey Watson, that middle seat, as neither she nor the airline were likely aware of the other two passengers' horizontal dimensions.
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  4661. It is sad that protection of our rights as consumers and citizens so often depends on a news station (or social media with a big subscriber count) picking up the story.
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  4662.  Steve Babiak  Okay, so not jail, but still a theft charge, and a very likely conviction for misdemeanor/petty larceny.
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  4663.  @Themflames  Or he's 84, and fought them on an island somewhere...
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  4664. Some combination of the words; forest, shallow, state, in, grave, the...
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  4665.  @alarjak  The cup is always full. Sometimes it is part liquid and part air.
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  4666. This is why I started watching more regularly.
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  4667. Kind of like how civil engineers lost their danged minds when a guy DARED to use a stopwatch and time traffic lights.
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  4668.  @HweolRidda  I think the definition intended was that they were not ALLOWED to, not that they were incapable.
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  4669. Well, the guy helps a lot.
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  4670.  @florret2003  And now the music is playing in my head.
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  4671. Oh, to finally grow up enough to have the childhood you always wanted!
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  4672.  @julietardos5044  Yep. I was so outraged I divided a week into 10 pieces. Thanks for the catch!
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  4673. I feel like we're standing on the roof of a half-ruined Tokyo office building, and Louis has just said, "Let them fight."
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  4674. Ehem... It's called GEORGE!
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  4675. It rained here in Mumbai last night, there was an earthquake in Indonesia, an overloaded ferry sank between Crete and Greece, my dog chewed my slippers... CURSE YOU, U.S.!!!
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  4676. The only job I ever had that took my fingerprints was being a package loader/unloader at UPS. That and handwriting samples. They said it was to be able to trace possible theft and/or tampering incidents. I left that job after 6 weeks, in part because I kept falling asleep driving home from the pace of work, and in larger part because union membership was mandatory and they wanted a huge portion of my pay for the "privilege".
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  4677. If something is on the car, then it should work. If it is not going to work without a subscription, then they can rip it out and keep it at the dealership.
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  4678. We saw at least one neighbor who will have it easier because of his efforts. That woman on the mobility scooter (around 9:48) will have access to cleared sidewalks on that corner again.
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  4679. Or if the case looks to be going against the government (federal, state, local, whatever), the government will often try to drop all charges and make things go away to avoid precedent being established.
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  4680. They should go beyond ashamed and straight to suicide.
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  4681. I miss driving Saturns. My ex killed one by never checking the oil, threw a piston through the front of the engine block. The second one died after 18-19 years on Massachusetts roads (salt, sand, potholes) when one rear shock mount rusted out, and the other was going. The car had kept me out of car payments for over a decade, and I let it go to it's second life as a parts car somewhere.
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  4682.  @kathrynarchuleta1776  That's okay, I'm sure the department would find that the cop is not liable for knowing that entrapment is against the law. Qualified Immunity!
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  4683.  @redmasq  My first high school principal was respected even by the students he had to punish. He was "a bit large in the middle" and accepted it, even putting on a Santa suit the last day before Christmas vacation, walking the halls and wishing kids a Merry Christmas. This was back in the 1980's before the War on Christmas. When that principal left to become a pro-education state representative (where he got good things done for the region!), his replacement was a bitter man who seemed to think shouting was a form of authority. Nobody respected him, but he was feared. He didn't last long, and according to my younger brother, resigned to forestall a lawsuit about his hitting a kid.
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  4684. Corporations can afford to own more politicians than we in the serf class can.
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  4685. I rarely doubt the intelligence of a mechanic. I have questioned the skills, training, experience, and employer's directives (Push them into our flagship service! Tell them they have to replace X or we'll call the cops on them!) of a mechanic before.
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  4686. Also? Plastic recycling.
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  4687. From a car of the future (the DeLorean with the time machine parts) to a car from a dystopia (rural China)... What a journey!
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  4688. That thing is easy. Snap off the tabs and epoxy it in place.
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  4689. This is a great companion piece to CGPGrey's video on the topic. - Air travel things are weird. I also learned, from a Scott Manley video, that an AIREP/PIREP (A weather report for/from planes in flight?) has a stupid mix of units. It can indicate the location of the report in either direction and distance (in nautical miles!) from a nearby airport or NAVAID, OR the longitude and latitude. The report lists the flight level in hundreds of feet above sea level. The temperature is reported in Celsius. Wind speed is given in knots. ...WHAT?!
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  4690. Yep, pretty much a SLAPP win by the big corporation.
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  4691. Send Russia a bill for the drone. When they don't pay (and they won't), sell the debt to the slimiest collection agency you can find, and let THEM keep the phones ringing.
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  4692. In the town I used to live in there was a guy who ran a TV and VCR repair shop out of his garage and basement, almost exactly ac ross the street from a guy who ran a bicycle parts and repair business from HIS garage and basement. And about half a mile away was a guy who ran a trains/models/crafting business from his garage and basement. A little farther away was a guy who ran a small engine repair shop and sold refurbished mowers and snow blowers from his garage and basement. - Lenient zoning makes a big difference in this kind of thing. The town's zoning allowed a business in part of your home with restrictions like you could only have one employee who was not living in that home. You could not have a lighted sign, or a sign other than on the entry door. The business could not serve or sell food or beverages and could not be automotive repair. There were a few other minor rules like that, but it meant that people could turn their passion into a possible profitable business without having to fork over a pile of money for a commercial location, as that kind of thing would shut out a lot of smaller business ideas. And when someone was able to build their business bugger, they could decide to go for a commercial location, and do so with a good customer base and knowledge of how to run their business well.
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  4693.  @rumls4drinkin  Some people "number" their house with those script-like words for the number. How the bleep and I supposed to read that without stopping?
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  4694.  @Matt-yg8ub  If I used what I read in the NYT in my daily conversations, no big deal. If I used what I read in the NYT to SELL my words (spoken or written) I am dancing with copyright infringement.
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  4695.  @mattgayda2840  I like that phrase. "Serial entrepreneur".
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  4696. I don't watch a lot of this channel, but your proposal seems too serious and scientific for this guy's... idiom.
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  4697. Or the disgusting and decaying NYC of (pick a year after, say 1820?).
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  4698. I have to tell you, the biz-speak on the first link is about three fathoms deep with all of the buzz words you would want to dazzle and confuse the money out of investors. I had to click around the company website to even get a basic idea on the tech involved. It is neat, but seems like marine impacts could be a bigger problem, with the speeds the turbine is "flown" at.
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  4699. It's a manners thing.
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  4700.  @Esther-lm6pm  You can lose your job or a new job, lose out on housing, have to pay more for a home loan, and other negative consequences simply by having one or more arrests even if there was no indictment or trial. Add that on top of losing time and money in the immediate event of the arrest, and the job and life disruptions that can happen as a result of the arrest. - Also? You get to pay a big fee to get your vehicle out of the impound lot. - So, cop gets an attaboy, and you get screwed several ways.
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  4701. They're owed a new house. It's not that hard to figure out.
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  4702. Also, every airport with international flights is a "border" adding another 100-mile circle to the map.
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  4703.  @dungeondeezdragons  Voting is the LEAST engagement one can have with their government. Holding those you elect accountable, keeping issues in the light, sharing your findings with others... Those are more involved methods without taking a lot of your time and effort. - If you REALLY want to make an impact, BE the elected representative. Or go to town meetings and bring up your issues in a proper manner (not shouting at the top of your lungs). All politics starts local. Sure your town meeting doesn't have a lot of power over the deployment of USN carrier fleet groups, but they do have a lot of impact on the conditions of your roads, availability of emergency services, your libraries schools and parks.
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  4704.  @dungeondeezdragons  So because you are lazy (your words) then it is better to criticize politicians based solely on party membership? To quote Christopher Titus' dad, "Step up or step aside."
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  4705.  @akshaj7011  I get it. It will work in any country/culture where the family name is listed before the given name.
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  4706.  @Materialist39  If I were eating a mango outdoors, I would do so sitting on the forward edge of my chair, leaning forward a bit so the run-off would not get on me. Indoors? Eat it while leaning over a plate of bowl, and have a napkin or three nearby.
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  4707.  @lgrantnelson2863  It was probably smuggling illegal alien rabbits.
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  4708. This video is so good at explaining, and Veritasium is so good at explaining so many things, that I am increasingly angry that I spent so much money going to college to learn physics.
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  4709. Heck, I live in central Massachusetts (US) and I could eat for a week on $49 if I shopped smart and ate a lot of rice, pasta and beans.
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  4710. Nah, land of the FEE, home of the depraved.
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  4711.  @brucesmith9144  Truth. If the TSA doesn't steal it (or help law enforcement steal it) then you have to worry about airport employees breaking in, airlines losing or misdirecting your stuff, or someone just grabbing your bag at baggage claim and walking out with it.
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  4712.  @oldsguy354  When I was in, that license was never laminated, so they could just pop it back in the typewriter and add whatever new vehicle you'd just checked out on.
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  4713. It looked like instead of flaps it was a flex-wing controlled aircraft.
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  4714.  @EarendilStar  Get energy from burning stuff - breathe in the exhaust. or Get energy from wind, tide, geothermal, water falling down, or the sun - breathe cleaner air.
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  4715. Police behavior is why I am less and less shocked at stories of people attacking and/or killing cops. I am not yet at the point where I celebrate a dead cop, but I DO ask, "What did that cop or that cop's department do to make someone that mad?
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  4716. It is unfortunate that doing so would hurt residents, because true justice would be for the requests from those who voted against the funding would be for them all to get the same answer. "No."
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  4717.  @gamezonereactions8388  MAGA 20 to 24 years, eligible for parole in 15 with good behavior.
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  4718.  @leonb2637  Phillips, Robertson, rounded-off hex-head, rounded out flat-head, epoxy a couple into the wood...
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  4719. "No capes!" - Edna Mode
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  4720. Something I learned from my mother LONG ago, in regards to cleaning, but it applies to many other things. She would say, "Don't clean the house. Clean the counter by the stove, then the top of the stove, then the next thing. If you see the project too big, you'll never start." - I teach others with the joke, "It's like how you eat an elephant. One bite at a time."
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  4721. Myself, I'd be interested to know when my fear of heights would be overtaken by my terror of death by decompression.
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  4722. He'd lose his mind and start typing "All work and no play makes Louis a dull boy." over and over...
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  4723. If you are in a state that doesn't require turning them in, cut them in pieces as if they're an old credit card. The situation you described where the guard said, "Someone will pick it up" would make me say, "That's what I'm concerned about." How hard would it be for a DMV to have a library-like drop box for plates if they are not requiring any paperwork to be done?
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  4724.  @jamesb1221222  Unless they are somehow improving airflow for cooling, they are just vanity. I don't know enough to say either way.
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  4725. The real trick? Not ending up with unexplained parts and fasteners left over.
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  4726. I worked with someone back in the 1990's who had REAL Tourette's. He hated it, didn't want attention drawn to it, didn't like to talk about it, and was a pretty cool guy to work with. He worked hard and did his job well, and customers liked him, and made no big deal of his physical and language tics. People who fake the syndrome piss me off.
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  4727. A rocket that fast could put humans around Alpha Centauri in about a week.
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  4728. Exactly! Why is "feeding the meter" illegal? (I know why, it prevents the revenue from parking tickets)
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  4729. And minimum intelligence standards for a parental license.
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  4730. "Oh, you fell to your death through the illusionary bridge I put up? It was just a prank, bro." (Walks away whistling)
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  4731. In my 1970's-80's childhood, it was Robitussin, Bactine, and Vicks Vapo-rub.
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  4732. When I worked for a construction and equipment rental company, my boss was in the "toss the straps in and swear while untangling them later" camp. I am a little OCD and went through every vehicle at least weekly and made the straps into looped bundles, coiled chains into separate piles, and took anything out of service that was worn enough to risk failure or a DOT ticket. I also greased every grease point on everything at least weekly, checking fluids twice a week, learned how to check and set track tensions, checked tires for pressure and tread depth (while cars have a 2/32" lower limit, commercial vehicles are 4/32") - My boss initially thought I was just wasting time, but he started to realize that my "wasted" cheaper time was saving his more expensive time.
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  4733. That neighborhood is screwed if the owner ever decides leaving is cheaper than staying, or if he is taken out of the picture by those criminals.
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  4734.  @lljl5310  Which "law" results in people being arrested for quietly standing on the public sidewalk with a non-commercial sign? Which "law" results in people being arrested for refusing to hand their ID to a cop (in a non-stop and ID state) for the sin of walking home without a jacket on? - Oh the "law" of "everything out of a cop's mouth is magically a lawful order."
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  4735.  @Iansco1  First, I am not a lawyer, but this is based on information relayed BY practicing lawyers. 1) loitering is a local ordinance that can easily be defended against when it interferes with a federally protected activity. Many loitering, and "sit/lie" ordinances get overturned and/or overruled in those situations. 2) local ordinances that require an INDIVIDUAL to get a permit for their expression of free speech are unconstitutional. They are only legally applicable for large assemblies because a large assembly can block traffic, and would need permission to do so.
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  4736.  @TLM-Nathan  You hit the point I was thinking of too, Nathan. Car sellers are so concerned with not letting you off the lot and shopping around, that they have adopted this practice of giving people the keys before the financing is locked in. It only seems to work because the major car dealers have gotten laws enacted that protect their side of the transaction. And then you get cases like this story, where the sellers get greedy.
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  4737.  @abikeanditsboy3449  Obeying the speed limit is suspicious behavior. As is speeding.
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  4738.    Vulcan exploration craft had an anti-matter breach.
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  4739. The UN should start each meeting with the countries of the world song (updated) by Yakko Warner. (Rob Paulsen)
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  4740. Very high.
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  4741. Waste not, want not, eh?
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  4742. So... a contactor is essentially a high-current relay.
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  4743. The Maxim belts loaded in every other pocket are an homage to Pancho Villa, as depicted in US-filmed movies made twenty years after the war will be over. Of course.
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  4744.  @TheNixie1972  True. Look at the burden of proof side in a civil seizure case. The money (assets, etc.) has a presumption of guilt, and you, the previous owner, have to prove the negative AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE. Which gets a lot harder when they have your money to start with.
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  4745. You only need to start worrying when you feel your doctor's bracing hand, probing finger, and the third bracing hand.
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  4746. After a few seconds delay, and then stays on when he shifts back to forward. It seems to have some programming issues?
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  4747. Usually, the reason to offer settlements is to prevent the negative press, penalties and precedents a trial can create.
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  4748.  @dr.burtgummerfan439  Gun Jesus is sad.
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  4749. Heck, I was less than one day into Army training when I found out that my records had THREE different social security numbers. At least that got fixed within a week.
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  4750. It's like Wacky inflatable arm-flailing tube men!
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  4751.  @billmullins6833  Enough said to show your inner 'ism.
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  4752. Bar those people behind this cruelty from their houses (no need to actually burn them down) and tell them to "figure it out without breaking their own rules."
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  4753.  @Delimon007  And to take 45 minutes to do ANYTHING at all? That cop was spending a LOT of time finding any reason to add an arrest to their monthly numbers, not being a human being who sees a person after a crash and tries to see if they are injured. - I am on the edge of saying the cop wanted the person dead.
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  4754. And now the owner has to go from needing a mechanic to needing a lawyer. Good job dealership...
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  4755.  @LostintheTwilightZone  $32,000 a year could be enough for a single person to live on, depending on WHERE they live. Thayer County, Nebreska? probably. NYC, LA, Boston? Not unless you're living in a closet. And maybe not even then.
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  4756.  @Nieghorn  My early morning commute used to go right past a commercial bakery (Nissen, Table Talk - since purchased and closed by Wonder) and I it felt like each deep breath was the caloric equivalent of a slice of bread.
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  4757.  @markB40  "NO WIRE COATHANGERS!!!" - Mommy Dearest
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  4758.  @108gk  Agreed. You can be honest and truthful when you say, "It arrived broken." but you cannot say with any measure or assuredness whom and when.
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  4759.  @davidkohler7454  In the Army we had less brass, but CLP was the most common parfum along with Kiwi boot polish.
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  4760. The way I learned it was, "When the hole you're digging yourself into is over your head, put the shovel down."
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  4761. 9, 19, 99. No victim at any age should be blamed this way.
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  4762.  @wingracer1614  Nah, Mordor is modeled on the Metro Boston area. Or at least the "parking" and traffic patterns.
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  4763. You really need to find out what they did/will do with the wiring that was hanging down on day one. Hidden connections in walls or ceilings can get you a fail on occupancy permit, and can negate an insurance claim in the event of a fire.
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  4764.  @JonaaBLKWL  The only way to make it "work" is to pull out a few hundred dollars a month as cash, store it in a small fire-resistant container hidden in a messy closet, and then when you need to spend it you have to hide it VERY well in your transportation machine to avoid civil asset forfeiture.
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  4765.  @whatevernamegoeshere3644  While I never got too much into the design side of things, I did come across two major screw-up. - One was a PCB (and surface-mount placement program that matched it) that placed a power-filtering diode into a circuit backwards. Popped every time. This one was fixed in the placement program easily, with a note in the debug file and a later redesign of the PCB silk-screen. - The other was a bed-of-nails fixture that had the alignment off by about 1.25 times the diameter of the probe points. To test the first run of boards I had to use solder to "extend" every probe point on the board over by about 1-2 mm just to let the boards test. Between the two shifts I was working on that process, another solder tech came in and removed all of the solder I put on, because he was not all that good at reading English, the language I left the instruction in. So I had to re-do all of that work. That one was fixed at the expense of the test bed manufacturer who has screwed up the guide pins, They ended up having to make a whole new fixture... ouch.
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  4766. To be a tiny bit fair, it was southern Florida. But yeah, get names. Also, a health care proxy who is decently educated about your health problems is a HUGE lever to move the health care system in your favor.
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  4767. Nice.
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  4768. Don't send money, send a Hellfire R9X.
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  4769. "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." - Montgomery Scott.
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  4770.  @boataxe4605  I tell them I don't have a car.
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  4771. No, it's a black Santa. (/shrug)
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  4772. Is the billionaire played by Ron Silver or Tom Hiddleston? Either way, this works as a nice first James Bond outing for Idris Elba.
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  4773. MTG and everyone in the crowd who cheer her need to be on a list of "heroes" too cool for medical intervention when they get Covid.
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  4774. And they just recently declined to hear a case that would establish national precedent on the right to record police during their duties in public from public spaces. It almost seems like police unions have been "lobbying" the courts to pack favorable decisions...
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  4775. Before he said "IV bag" my brain filled in "enema kit".
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  4776. The auto shop teacher at my high school, back in the early 1980's used to say, "Find the hole with your finger first." Sound advice for teens interested in "finding the hole".
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  4777.  @altosack  Sounds like the landlord did not want to install a larger breaker panel (or a daughter panel) and was trying to cheap out on the conversion. *IF the breaker panel is full or near-full, you would have to get a bigger or second breaker panel to handle the extra capacity. *It is also possible that the service coming in off the pole was only 100 amp instead of the newer standard of 200 amp or more, and there was not any capacity left on the main.
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  4778.  @legionofanon  Oh, right. Newer equipment has a switch to go between "CAT-style" and "John Deere style" control schemes.
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  4779.  @johnlarkin549  I'm pretty quick at typing, given that I use my left index finger and two fingers and thumb on my right hand. I also have to look at the keys when I'm typing. I so regret not taking a typing class when it was available in high school!
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  4780. Hey Stave, you're sounding healthier than the last few days. Good to hear. - As to that "wonderful app", if YOU can see the data, so does the manufacturer. And the police can get that info with little trouble. The rest of the issue you describe sounds less like a bug and more like a feature to bring the car back to a dealership to turn off a little software toggle, at some expense to you.
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  4781.  @niyablake  cut office workers by half a shift a week (mix it up so there is service coverage), hold off buying that new cop car or DPW truck, don't pay taxpayer money for holiday decorations, put municipal mowing and snow removal out to bid instead of having it be a (union) DPW responsibility, cancel pay raises, move more services online or to appointment only...
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  4782. Hey! We're inching closer to the transition...
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  4783.  @danielholter1861  It's not so much the Carmac report as the seller's implied warranty of serviceability and their statements of fact that were wrong.
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  4784. Another one I see a lot is "... that [organization/person/government] doesn't want you to know!"
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  4785.  @shawnpitman876  And to add wood to the fire being built under the loser, the insured and sign-for-delivery packages in the SAME PILE all arrived to their intended destinations. So him denying the pickup is just his first easy excuse to avoid responsibility.
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  4786.  @elhoward7440  A 30 day eviction is a pipe dream in my state of Massachusetts. You might get one that fast IF the tenant does not show up in housing court, and IF it is not winter (can't evict someone in winter), and IF they don't have kids under a certain age, and IF they are not a senior citizen and IF they are not disabled... One of my previous landlords told me about the seven-month process to get a single male 23-year old out of an apartment that they had stopped paying rent on, and were actively damaging.
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  4787. When the headliner on my 99 Saturn started separating, I found out that it was fabric glued to a foam layer than to a rigid layer (cardboard maybe?). The liner was sagging because the foam was disintegrating from age so fixing it would mean fully replacing the whole thing. I chose not to bother. This worked out because a couple of years later the front strut mounting frames rusted out. Hooray for living in a snow state! Ugh.
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  4788. I've personally known two people who struck deer while MANUALLY driving their vehicles. One had his Ford Festiva completely totaled by a small deer that survived. (crappy clown car). The other struck two deer, about three months apart, on the same stretch of road. He ate well that winter. Both people were okay, or had minor injuries due to good safety construction of modern cars, but each time, insurance companies made them jump through hoops and undervalued their vehicles to try to pay as little as possible. You can actually save money by getting caught poaching deer over losing out on what auto insurance will give you after hitting one with your car.
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  4789. The first time I heard the word 'paralegal' (I was 14 or so at the time) I imagined a lawyer descending on a parachute.
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  4790.  @meme4one  I have a pool of forgiveness for the Osprey problems. Not an infinite pool, but it is a completely new version of flight machine. When any new kind of technology is developed, there is a period of finding what will fail. Whether it is something like Vasa having too much topweight to survive moving out into the harbor without turning into an early submarine, or the constant need to replace tubes in early radios and TVs, or the numerous early rockets that had "anomalous events" that looked a lot like explosions... New can be difficult. - Boeing has bigger problems than new technology. They have been prioritizing quarterly reports over quality and safety.
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  4791. Gasp! Someone lost their Ponzi-Coin wealth?
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  4792. It's as easy as refolding a 4-man tent to fit back into the box it came in! We're doomed, aren't we?
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  4793. I know an electrician who says electrical tape is for bandages, not wiring.
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  4794. My MonkeyJedi court of Justice has ruled that the ICJ is a bunch of silly-nannies and drink their tea from the far side of the cup. My ruling is just as binding as theirs.
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  4795.  @gaiustacitus4242  I would adjust that a little. It should never be issued SOLELY on an anonymous tip. There should be investigation OF the tip.
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  4796.  @Kyrazlan  But they did blow up the real bridge. (just not with missiles). The bridge was slated for demolition after being replaced, and the producers were able to swing the destructive use of parts of the bridge for the movie.
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  4797.  @driftertank  Have you seen the Mythbusters episode where they cooked a gourmet Thanksgiving dinner on a road trip?
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  4798. Ah, it's always fun when the two biggest slime-balls in the yard brawl. Did they both secure the permission of China first?
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  4799. If anyone believes that lie, they'll believe anything. Chuck-E just has bad pizza. Not recycled pizza.
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  4800. Then I could never leave a review, real or trolling. I will not use Facebook, and have no call to use LinkedIn.
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  4801.  Bobb Grimley  Maybe Scott wants us to aviate at the helm of steel boxes with combination locked doors? Did you think about that?
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  4802.  @mml3140  I think by concession sales, cmc means food and beverages. You know, the $15 hot dog and the $20 beer?
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  4803. I wish I could watch the full interaction, but I keep getting angry enough to start shouting, and I don't want to wake my neighbor who works overnights.
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  4804. It's Foamy the Squirrel!
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  4805. Of COURSE Trump has a picture taken with a GOLD computer. He is such a Bond villain...
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  4806. You too?
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  4807. "MonkeyJedi car rentals: We don't charge you for gas on an electric car!"
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  4808. If the cop: 1) didn't approach with weapon drawn, 2) was calm and verified identity of the driver, and 3) just told him to park legally on the street, THEN the cop would "just be doing his job."
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  4809. Nearly all of the dandelion is edible, at least before it makes the puffy white seeds.
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  4810.  @CoolshrimpModz  That's your fault for trying to be courteous and not share your banjo-heavy rap tunes with everybody in the office!
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  4811. Darth Barbie needs to go back to being an obscure and local nuisance.
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  4812. To be fair to the study done on plastic shields, replicating ALL real-world situations is impossible. Heck, even replicating MOST real-world situation is time and money intensive.
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  4813. EC means Easy Cry?
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  4814. If the car is damaged by the state, did he REALLY get his car back?
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  4815.  @killtyrant  It may depend on the laws and regulations by state.
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  4816.  @kgoblin5084  And I counter these civic cancers with: "What the bleep is wrong with having other cities and towns instead of a megalopolis?"
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  4817.  @rationalbushcraft  "We're sorry, you don't have a business account with us." "We're sorry, your application has errors." "We're sorry, we made too much profit from administering this government program, and the money is gone."
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  4818.  @leosmith848  It's because of the similarity to the bail in one variety of canning jars (the kind with a glass top, not the screw-top)
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  4819. I had a thought I went online to check, but Burwick Maine's zip code is 03901, and the zip codes in NYC are from 10001 to 11697. This pretty much eliminates the possibility of a single-swap number typo.
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  4820.  @herbtender910  Let's see. There were the lovely packages from that Unabomber guy, there was the one at the Atlanta Olympics, the one in the parking levels of the World Trade Center in NYC, the big one in Oklahoma, and the one at the Boston Marathon. Those are the ones I am aware of. And none of those targeted police vehicles, instead targeting landmark buildings, government offices, and peaceful crowds.
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  4821. What is the fine for putting an HOA committee member in your trash can to fill the spaces around the HOA lawyers in the trash can?
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  4822. By being in the right "class" of people. The cop/DA/judge club is strong and hard to pry open.
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  4823. Win!
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  4824. I was waiting for "The child later explained she was drawing a picture of common police procedures."
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  4825. I'm not a fan of the interrupting cohost methodology. It feels like they're using the idea just to pad episode length.
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  4826.  @compwiz00  They own a better class of, and likely larger number of, politicians in the right places.
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  4827. "Service guarantees citizenship!" [Do You Want to Know More?] - Anywho, it is awesome that the military gave you skills you could parlay into a civvy career! Me, I went into mortars in an infantry division because I wanted to blow things up at a distance and still crawl in the mud. Not a lot of civilian jobs looking for those skills. But what DID transfer? Leadership, planning, teaching tasks, mentoring others, being organized, being self-motivated, being detail oriented... Before I enlisted, I got a 0.49 GPA for my first year in college because I was a slacker. After training, I returned to college and flipped that to a 3.49 GPA at graduation. THAT kind of stuff needs to be in a military recruiting commercial.
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  4828. If you're nostalgic, some states are opening up mining and slaughterhouse jobs for young teens.
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  4829.  @JoaoPedro-ki7ct  Or in physics terms, "Imagine a spherical cheese in a vacuum"
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  4830. Politics has something in common with Baseball. Well, more than one. 1) If you drag the game on long enough, people will tune out and stop caring. 2) Before the end of what is going on, people are already bailing to beat the traffic home. 3) If you are too far left, or too far right, you are foul.
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  4831. "I'm not arresting you anymore, Clarence." - Officer Alex Murphy
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  4832. When all legal avenues to redress harms are closed, logic dictates that illegal means are all that are left. *I am NOT advocating violence, just warning it may happen.
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  4833. That's why I like watching the tests of earthquake-resistant building design.
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  4834.  @mexicanspec  "Take money"? The companies were the ones "taking money" illegally. The OP worked, and was owed the pay. The companies (or their agents) were the ones being wrong. When they dig in their heels and refuse to obey the law voluntarily, they SHOULD get penalized.
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  4835. Who was first, what was second, I don't know was third. - I learned that from a couple of comedians.
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  4836.  @atrckr-bf7de  Meh, I hate battle royale games. I dislike most competitive multiplayer games because too many of the people I've encountered in them are the absolute worst of the species. Even cooperative multiplayer gets those people. Ever try reading the quest text in a PUG? The hate is Sith-worthy. - My favorite video game (Fallout 4) has nearly 800 hours of playtime in it, thanks to multiple replays, even with its flaws.
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  4837.  @MatthewTheWanderer  Right! My mistake on The Godfather. Not sure why I thought it was a Scorsese film. I blame the Goodfeathers. I saw most of Goodfellas once. It was on TV and it was kind of easy to walk away from.
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  4838. There is going to be a fun flurry of lawsuits on this one if the property owner prevails. The home builder will have to sue the buyers, who will have to sue the seller(s) and their agents, who will have to sue the South African person (if they actually existed)...
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  4839. The judge blathering about "the rights of the officer" and "officer safety" worrying that the livestream will "call in gang members"... But at no time did the cops demand the driver stop talking on the phone. You know, voice communication that could "call in gang members"? - Nope, this is about officer ego. And the judge propped it up because they are all members of the same gang with the cops and prosecutors. And THEIR gang has phones, cameras and radios. Two of those three can be used to rapidly call in other members of their gang at the roadside.
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  4840. I have a friend who keep trying to give me an Alexa and earbuds. I tell them, kindly, that if they bring that stuff over to me, we will no longer be friends.
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  4841.  @vipermustang42  And the stock price and dividends MUST continue to rise! Growth above all else is the maxim of cancer.
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  4842. BLOOD FOR THE CAR GODS!!!!
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  4843.  @drzarkov39  Yep, a very weird mythology designed to control the masses.
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  4844. I really appreciate the "I'm recording this at [date, time]" you start with, so we can understand that you are reporting events you have information on, as of that date and time. - edit: Funny wording slip there, "When you're talking to the nation of a leader at war..."
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  4845.  @riverraisin1  No, that was his father. THIS doctor pronounces it "Frahnken-steen"
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  4846. We do need bypasses, after all.
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  4847.  @andrewscheelar9656  Yeah, better insulation fixes a lot of problems.
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  4848.  Willy Wonka  If only criminals were cops, we could swap the housing situations of the two populations and be better off.
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  4849. This information completely changes the story we were able to get in the video. Thank you!
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  4850. OooOOOooh... A Letter of Concern! Is anyone concerned about the builder's work that fails to meet even the bare minimum of building code? Oh wait, that's not the concern of the people who get, let's call it, "gestures of support" that just happen to increase bank balances.
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  4851.  @20thcenturyrelic  Way back in the 1970's when I was a kid, I was taught that even though animals may not understand our words, they learn to understand our tone and volume as well as learning what certain "human noises" we make mean - particularly when it means we're offering food.
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  4852. I HAVE once seen someone put a set of precast concrete porch steps at the side of the road with a "free" sign on it. And I get it, the disposal costs for something that big and heavy can be a chunk of cash.
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  4853.  @dennistims2604  And of COURSE the municipality wants to settle once they see a loss on the horizon, because an actual decision against them would (GASP!) set precedent. And we can't have that, can we? Why, if there was precedent established, that would open the door to break qualified immunity! Established precedent in civil asset forfeiture cases might risk the whole lucrative practice being stopped, and the greed is too strong to allow that.
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  4854. It seems like every week I see something in the news that edges me closer and closer to making an apartment opening, "recently vacated, may have bits of brain and buckshot in the ceiling." Maybe once my last cat passes away, then I don't need to worry about where he'll go...
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  4855. Mace for Mace.
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  4856. It gets even worse. Many states will take the back taxes/fines/fees out of the sale price... and keep the rest.
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  4857. Okay, this is in support of what? And source?
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  4858. Meanwhile in the US, we're lucky to have intercity trains that run. Never mind "on time".
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  4859. Well, they put 'somebody's' name on it...
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  4860.  @nocturne2029  Kind of like the Water Pic!
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  4861. "against all enemies foreign and domestic..." And I dot recall any ceremony or paperwork releasing me from that oath. So, what is stopping me? Poor health. Otherwise I would have long since been a headline.
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  4862. "That is not a woman", "Only hit by fragments of the bullet ricochet", "YouTube First Amendment auditor" - NONE of that matters. You have an insecure security guard who fired at a non-threatening person, then was SO chuffed about it they LEFT THEIR POST to continue threatening. And no charges were filed? WTF, did they have to shoot a child or a white person to get legal action? Whomever chose not to file charges should be out looking for a new job.
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  4863.  @MA-wq2ih  But can you odd?
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  4864.  @pvshka  For more on that word: neb·bish [ˈnebiSH] NOUN informal NORTH AMERICAN nebbish (noun) · nebbishes (plural noun) a person, especially a man, who is regarded as pitifully ineffectual, timid, or submissive: "He's a nebbish. No money, no prestige, no future" · "his nebbish sensibility" ORIGIN mid 19th century (as adjective, in the form nebbich): from Yiddish nebekh ‘poor thing’.
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  4865.  @michaelsommers2356  That feels like a cop-out. Server time can be rented on a long and short-term basis from several companies. Venues just don't want to carry the overhead.
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  4866. I know two people in my tiny circle of friends who are now 3-5 days a week in-office, and the rest of their week is optionally work from home. It helps that both of them work in computer-centric jobs (computer drafting), and the companies care more about work output than office "presence".
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  4867. I don't know about Maryland, but in Massachusetts, there are laws requiring restaurants that seat above a certain number of patrons to have to provide bathrooms that are at least minimally ADA compliant. This causes some restaurants to choose to have fewer tables, given the costs and space requirements of an ADA complaint bathroom. Some restaurants even default to "Delivery and Takeout ONLY"
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  4868.  @michaelmoorrees3585  Or even worse... RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!!!
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  4869. Service advisor/service writer is essentially a secretary and sometimes cashier for a dealership/repair shop. They are not a subcontractor, but a regular employee (in every case I am aware of). The repair shop/dealership is on the hook here.
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  4870. Just do not drop live turkeys from a helicopter as a promotional event for your radio station!
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  4871. Israel has done it before, and I highly doubt they have let the capacity to act in that arena lapse in the years since.
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  4872. Imagine if ticket money went to school meals, public libraries, and parks instead of police or the municipality's "general fund"?
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  4873. He no longer needs the torqueing module, for he truly IS the Kwisatz Haderach!
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  4874.  @Springtime557  And nobody ever moves in, capable of maintaining a lawn, but then have life changes removing that capability?
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  4875. I have a few major memories of my three visits to the NYC area in the 1990's. -The first was on I-95, just as I drove out of Connecticut, about a mile past the "Welcome to New York" sign I saw a stripped and burning car on the side of the road. And nobody was even slowing down about it. -The second was when I was driving on of the highways around the city, can't recall which one, and I looked down at a pothole that passed through all of the layers of asphalt, the concrete, the rebar and the metal beneath that - leaving me a clear view of the road crossing underneath. -The last was on the way out of the city, queueing up for the tolls on the GW Bridge I saw a car up ahead on the concrete pad of a merge. As traffic crept closer, a plain white box van pulled past that car, then backed up as the guy in the box part opened the door and started playing out the I-beam support with an electric winch on it. - I have never been back. The last time I came close I chose to stay on the NJ side of the water and get lost looping around to get back to I-95.
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  4876. In Massachusetts, you have to stop, going either direction, when a school bus's lights are flashing, unless you are in the other lane(s) of a physically divided roadway. Also, IIRC, the sign that flips out and the lights that flash automatically deploy/activate as the door opens, via switches (and in older buses, a mechanical linkage between the door lever and the deploying sign. But your story may predate those inclusions on buses.
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  4877. There some devices with vampiric draw that are more of a hassle to unplug/depower than it is worth. I would count "smart" devices in that category, as well as things with clocks and no battery/capacitor storage of the time setting. - Then there are items which really OUGHT to have power switches, like many counter-top appliances such as rice cookers, waffle irons and such, but usually don't (or at least the low-end ones don't).
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  4878.  @seirbhiseach  I thought stalagmites were the parasitic insects in German military prisoner camps.
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  4879. Also, even if the coin owner was compensated the actual value of the stolen coins, the cash will not appreciate in value, while the stolen coins will continue to do so.
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  4880.  @crazzywolfie  Not only that, but if/when the delivery is cold, smashed, spilled, stolen (as seen in doorbell cameras) the customer often blames the restaurant because the delivery service gives them the brush-off.
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  4881.  @geeman4425  Maybe not, but he educated a lot of us about their struggles.
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  4882.  @mxplixic  Ooh, delicious! "Governor, in today's mail you got another seventy-three bills for abandoned vehicle left on the roadside. That make 5,412 this month alone."
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  4883. It's very important to clean all of the crooks and nannies!
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  4884.  @kerryedavis  ten days after the proposed 10-day extension?
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  4885. We used to use Magicubes in LARP "traps" to indicate that the trap was set off. Later on, out of over-concern for fires, and running out of places to find Magicubes, we fully transitioned to cheap mouse traps.
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  4886.  @VikingTeddy  You were right to fear the grandmother! They wield the power of the wooden spoon!
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  4887. I dislike all phases and aspects of coffee. The smell of the ground beans is the least objectionable to me, but after that, everything is downhill. - That said, I don't begrudge anyone their coffee, as long as they are not overspending on silliness (cough, Starbucks, cough).
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  4888. Yep. Works on my cat. It slows him down enough that he doesn't (immediately, at least) puke them back up.
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  4889. Side note, I really like that method of turning chain-link into privacy fencing. It is a lot more attractive than fading anodized slats you see used more often.
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  4890.  @MayMarmaid  Gotta love the energy in 'ope' country.
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  4891. Reckless driving on empty private property? Most you should have gotten was a noise ticket, a possible trespassing notice, and maybe a civil suit against you for any damage to the lot from the property owner.
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  4892. Coral jewelry, Chinesium power tools that use batteries not compatible with any other brand or voltage, knock-off Aeron-style desk chair, child booster seat, latest novel by authors you've never bought or read.
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  4893. And it's penitent, not penetive, so KNEEL to avoid the scything blade.
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  4894. The suit prevents the stuff from sticking to them nearly permanently. Did you see his boots?
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  4895. Jordan would go through an entire box of crayons drawing a blank.
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  4896.  @phillip6083  That's a terrifying thought.
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  4897. I would be sorely tempted to say, "Then maybe you should not be driving drunk, officer."
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  4898. Your honor, these aren't pets. They're hostages.
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  4899. The statement that the ONLY fix is to replace the frame components is not correct. Replacing the vehicle would also count as a "fix".
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  4900. That should be PART of the penalty, paying the victim back, THEN add in fines, jail, disbarment, removal of the ability to be a lawyer/cop (as applicable).
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  4901. Paintball gun, a.k.a. markers, exist. I am suggesting nothing specific.
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  4902.  @contradictorycrow4327  If you send Steve the story, it might happen.
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  4903. The Operative: "You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords." - Serenity
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  4904.  @jwadaow  You wrote, "It's a PR (Edward Bernays tells us public relations is a euphemism for propaganda since the term was discredited) exercise not sincere disease mitigation." - Social distancing, wearing masks, not touching other people with whom you do not cohabitate... These are all PR? THAT is the delusion. - But you go ahead and cherry pick your self-quote to highlight the one part that was truthful and accurate. I'm sure that makes others who think like you feel better about denying my statements.
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  4905.  @jwadaow  Dude, I did not paraphrase your post. I did not alter it. I directly quoted it. - And I said not touching people you DON'T live with. - I do in fact have the ability to object, as do you, regardless of the wishes of other people. That's that whole pesky problem with humans being individuals instead of a hive-mind.
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  4906.  @Chopstewie  And there is a difference between inexpensive and cheap. An inexpensive hammer is around $20 A cheap hammer is around $10 and five stitches when the head fractures and puts a shard of metal into your arm.
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  4907. RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS! Aaaarghhhh....
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  4908. If having an unlicensed vehicle was grounds for towing, they would have to also clear out all of the lots at car dealers (New AND used!) and then... Tow away all of those cars from the impound lots!
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  4909. I'm surprised (not really). All the BEST (sarcasm) companies use A and 1 in their names to get sorted to the top of online (formerly yellow pages) searches for a service!
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  4910. I have lived in many older buildings here in Massachusetts, where we get snow and freezing temperatures for around 1/3 of the year, and all of these older homes had zero or near-zero wall insulation, most has single-pane sash windows (with those wonderful wind channels that CAN'T be insulated to leave room for the ropes and weights), and most of them had oil heat, usually forced hot water baseboards.
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  4911.  @karinefonte516  The problem with a wooden core is when wood breaks, it tends to make pointed stakes, which are kind of "stabby" and easily tear through the foam and tape. CPVC or fiberglass pipes break differently. And fiberglass poles just go back to fiber and turn the sword into a whip. - Side point, the aluminum metallized tape is not usually approved for striking surfaces, insufficient flexibility and too much weight. Cheap duct tape or a poly/nylon sheathe over the foam is more often the standard. Yeah, I LARPed for about 30 years, until health finally told me "no". - 5/8" exterior diameter CPVC pipe, fiberglass strapping tape to apply lengthwise to the pie for reduction of "whip", Frost King 5/8" or 3/4" wall closed-cell pipe insulation, your favorite color(s) of cheap duct tape, some rope, string or long shoelaces can make a nice "grippy" handle as can hockey stick tape (which will leave black on your hands!), and some open-cell (cushion) foam for 'thrusting tips'. - - - That was my "under $5" sword materials list. One length of pipe and one pack of the Frost King insulation can make two swords and one or two daggers. - edit; OH! I almost forgot. Never apply the duct tape in a spiral. It adds too much weight and reduces the flexibility. Apply it in (usually four) lengthwise strips with a narrow overlap.
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  4912. I will continue masking a social distancing too, but it's largely because I don't like being around people.
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  4913. My problem with the Tide Pod eaters is not enough of them died. Instead, they're still out there being stupid, and potentially breeding and raising MORE stupid people.
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  4914. At least you had someone actually working FOR your experience?
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  4915.  @stevenhunt3113  It's to the point where you have to assume everything someone presents online can be fake until it is confirmed in person by you or someone you trust to at least be truthful. It is easy to start trusting NOBODY.
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  4916. A mix of peppermint and lavender oil, diluted into a spray bottle of water, is also good for repelling minor insect infestations, particularly fleas. edit: When the infestation gets big, it's often time for more vigorous pesticides. But be aware of possible harm to people and pets.
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  4917. The related saying I grew up with is "If you're done learning, you're done living."
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  4918.  @nnelg8139  Nope. Cop walks nearby, asks me what time it is, "I invoke my right to remain silent." If they won't clean up their own house, the stink is ALL of theirs to carry until they do.
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  4919. "More power to you!" - Paraphrased from about 5:00.
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  4920. I don't wash my car at home. There are so many touchless car washes in my area that collect their water and settle out the dirts and oils and prevent the water from reaching storm drains. And my car gets washed faster than I could finish just setting up to hand-wash it
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  4921. @VoxeltheToaster I'm laughing, imagining the final exam in Armor Piercing class. "Run as fast as you can at this plate of steel. If you get through, you get an A+."
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  4922. Cop: "I smell pot." Me: "It must be you, because it isn't me." - I have seen a video of cops pulling a search on the "smell of weed" and finding dried grass clippings on the car floor and using THAT as "cause" for a full tear-out search of the car and arrest of the two occupants of the vehicle. I have also seen the body-cam footage of a cop PLANTING pot in the center console of the a car when they didn't find anything with their search. - It's almost like cops are being trained to lie, cheat and deceive to ensure tickets, arrests and seizures...
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  4923. Did you ever tighten the hose clamp on the air box? edit: Oh, when you were hosing it off, it did look tightened. Sorry, just checking.
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  4924. You mean, if I want to go from sedentary to bodybuilder I don't just start with 400-pound deadlifts without a spotter?
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  4925.  @ordolupus  I usually associate the slow zoom-in-zoom out with content that is less content and more fluff and thus used as a way to distract from how empty those other videos are. You do see that technique used a lot to get more screen time out of still images, particularly old photographs.
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  4926. If you can't "feed your family" on your normal income, then either you need to reexamine your budget, or get a better-paying job, or a side job, or seek charity. You don't rob your company's/government's customers.
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  4927. Way too much of the "we'll let the courts fix it (at great expense to the citizens caught in the middle)"
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  4928.  @dorissatterfield6758  Anyone who thinks he's "alpha" need new glasses.
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  4929. "It's a civil matter" or code for "Nah, we can't find a way to collect fines on this, so do it yourself."
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  4930. "I'm prone to seizures," says the buy in one of the occupations most likely to be exposed to bright, rapidly flashing lights. I call bulstih.
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  4931.  @nothere7198  Ford already patented the ability to have your car self-drive to the dealer's lot if you default on payments.
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  4932. Sounds like a sweet deal for the tow companies, the impound lot owners, the scrappers, and the city. If the city is STILL asking for the money for the tickets after seizing the car, then they STOLE THE CAR! - I am stunned that there are not murder cases linked to this practice.
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  4933. It's running pretty good for burning lacquer and water.
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  4934. Wrong plate, wrong address, wrong person... none of that matters as long as they get to use their cop toys on people.
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  4935. Felony "acting weird". Or maybe misdemeanor "strange behavior" I'll look up the citations in California law never.
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  4936. I have seen a manually controlled landing cycle from orbit performed in a Don Knotts movie, "The Reluctant Astronaut". ... That doesn't really count, does it?
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  4937.  @KP762a  That is probably why when I first saw it I thought it was for a mortar. Mortars are aimed using stakes/lamps (glow sticks) as well.
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  4938. @Marcin Berman If I remember rightly, it just bars them from Catholic heaven.
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  4939. Terrorist: a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. Whole lot of people who can be called terrorists in the world today.
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  4940. I need to order a couple shirts like that.
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  4941. India mobilizes massive forces to ensure that there is a polling place within 2km of each and every voter. Meanwhile, US Republicans keep trying to close polling stations in areas that don't vote for them so they can stay in power above all else. See also: Fighting against mail-in ballots (and having DeJoy remove mailboxes and delay the mail). Fighting against multiple voting days, including weekend days. Making it a crime to provide water to people standing in line at the few voting places left. Haranguing about "busing in voters" when people don't own cars to get to those distant polling places.
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  4942. The throw-away economy is not politics, it's corporate greed.
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  4943. That I-beam demo will be important when we start having Space Force in battle versus Space Ewoks!
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  4944. That many affluent people and they only raised $6,000? Those people were there for their role in charity theater.
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  4945. OSHA or Oh-SH## violation?
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  4946. Nah, Fox Entertainment "News" is filling the niche fine so far.
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  4947. Well, did they specifically say WHICH Christmas?
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  4948. He's acting like a pre-teen with a tantrum. "I'm taking my ball and NOBODY gets to play!"
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  4949.  @sootymammal2891  Interesting thought experiment. Next, how WIDE does that developed border have to be? 17 meters (roughly 50 feet)? 10 meters? 5 meters? 1 meter? A single line of galvanized wire stapled to posts and trees with signs every 50 feet?
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  4950. Massachusetts has (had?) a law that if they ran a surplus, there were refund checks sent out. I got one, one year, I think it was back in the 1990's? It was about enough for a sit-down mid-range meal (no steak or lobster, no alcohol)
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  4951.  @jockspringer9457  He was just following a tip.
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  4952.  @Bigrignohio  Dang. I need to start a church. WAY better money than anything else I can think of, and you only really need to work for a few hours on Sundays!
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  4953. In the words of Arte Johnson's German spy on Laugh In, "Very interesting..."
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  4954. I am not saying that hackers should get the personal data of these corporate executives and sell it to other companies. But I will say that if such a thing did somehow happen, I would laugh with glee.
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  4955. If the plaintiff has a fit, you must acquit!
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  4956. Here in Saltlandia, that exposed one-to-two split and adjuster is usually a domain of the Rust God. So nobody I know even TRIES to adjust things from there.
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  4957. Ooh! Gaiking punch!
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  4958.  @jslferrell  I just had a mental image of a "roamin' empire", comprising millions of people wandering around, setting up camps when they need to sleep or have political meetings.
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  4959. Rust never sleeps!
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  4960. "If we punish him, he'll get mad and threaten people!" - That thinking did not impede the prosecution of other organized crime leaders like Myer Lanski all the way to John Gotti.
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  4961.  @silverhost9782  We learned about Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, and the nuclear drops. That finished WW2 in US history classes in high school.
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  4962. And a 5-minute guide that is nearly 5 minutes long!
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  4963.  @coop5329  You are right, but I use the appellation "Karen" for either/any gender of person who acts the part.
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  4964.  @Agnemons  That Zenith was my babysitter.
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  4965. If I had to drive in Mexico, or Thailand, or Russia, or NYC, or LA, or anywhere in Florida or.... I would INSIST on front, rear and side camps, a brush bar, and a trunk big enough to hold at least three dash and stop scamming pedestrians*. - *Thos pedestrians who step in front of your car and fake that you struck them so they can try and extort money from you.
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  4966.  @skbid1  Mount Olive Kosher Dills are the best!
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  4967. I used to work for a construction/equipment rental company. The owner was at one time looking to expand and was looking at a property that had until recently been the decades-long home of a company which manufactured cab enclosures for heavy equipment. My boss, everyone who used to work at the now-defunct company, and most of the people in the five-town area, all knew that the manufacturer had a decades-long practice of burying barrels of waste including lead-based paint in the back of the lot. The landlord showing the property disclosed none of that, and when asked about it, flew into a nearly violent rage. - About a week later, the property "mysteriously" had an EPA case number sign and caution markers for toxic waste... - Had the property owner disclosed the presence of the dump site, my boss was actually willing to put in a bid for the cleanup (he had the right certifications and most of the equipment required). Last I checked, the property was vacant except for someone storing boats in the warehouse.
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  4968. Senator Tom Tuberville. Lives in Florida, is a senator for Alabama.
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  4969. No. This is that common flipped view you get from cell phones. Perhaps a clue would have been the "ECILOP" patch on her vest?
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  4970.  @calamity0.o  Triple roll emplacement of razor wire, anchored with metal posts and threaded together with barbed wire. Landmines optional.
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  4971. "Do you support the repainting of the crosswalk downtown between the library and the kindergarten?" - "So, the last time the 'keep pond frogs quiet' project was launched, there was spending taken away from the purple streetlights budget for that project..."
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  4972. I read a series by Michael Flynn where asteroids were powered by iron oxide "rockets". The character made a point that the thrust would be very low, but still there. - I wish I could find an answer as to whether it is a real idea or just made up for the novel.
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  4973. You asked a question critical of the law. That's probably illegal somewhere.
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  4974. I took Russian 1 in college. Twice. (took two times to get a passing grade) Jordan is not wrong about Slavic languages and the Cyrillic alphabet.
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  4975.  @bettyjones113  It's time to eat grandma. or It's time to eat, grandma.
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  4976. Hey towns, cities, states. You want to know how to "remove homelessness"? Help people become housed. Training and/or education. Physical and mental health care. Jobs. Housing. Even a bleeping SHRED of human decency might help!
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  4977. Ooh! Imagine hitting a rewind button and ending up with a magically refilled magazine?
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  4978.  @ianbattles7290  Or if you are the custodial parent, in some states.
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  4979. I have a complaint! Today I caught myself saying "abnormular". What have you done to my vocabularium, Ray?
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  4980.  @robertstone9988  "Squatter? what squatter, officer? No, that dripping tarp in the back of my pickup is not important."
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  4981. wzabzaMAHBAmanaBAWAGAMawoogaVARAtaloo. That's pretty much how I hear him when he talks.
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  4982.  @bethb7965  Don't forget playing his invisible accordion when he's lying.
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  4983. I think it defecates on the line as it crosses it, then smears the resulting alchemy on the walls of what is right.
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  4984.  @Mr_Battlefield  Last winter, I slid down my back stairs on my tailbone. The top four steps were just damp, but after that, the steps are in shadow almost all winter, do my wet shoes landed on icy wood, and down I went. Nothing broken, but I was sore for about 7 weeks. All because I was overconfident and too lazy to toss down some sand.
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  4985.  @Orinslayer  I've never had that specific problem, but we did once have the fill line burst from freezing because the wall behind that part of the kitchen was essentially uninsulated, like almost all of the house. In Massachusetts. - The house was OLD and built when heating a home and losing most of it through the walls was cheap enough that insulating was not worth it. - Anywho, the burst hose resulted in the kitchen flooring having to be replaced because the floor got saturated and the linoleum lifted from the warping wood.
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  4986. I can't even imagine the headache this reinstall would be with that much electronics without the color/shape coded connectors! - I helped install a stereo in a friend's 1970's car (a Datsun?) in the early 1980's and we had to do a lot of single-wire guessing and splicing. That was a two-hour job. Putting a stereo in my 1990's vehicle was a dream with an antenna and one multi-connector.
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  4987. Those definitely need to be removed as ORIGINATING charges. And they should never be valid as the sole charge for an arrest.
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  4988. Look at the amount of armed response a phone camera engenders.
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  4989. In a world, where people are not allowed to get parts or information to repair their crucial equipment. Farms lie fallow, respirators suffocate, and computers hit halt state... One man brings tough talk, real facts, hope, and fan spin to us all. Rossmann. Coming soon to a hearing near you.
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  4990. The "fill your own package" idea was tried and abandoned for candy and coffee because people suck. Between just spilling the stuff onto the floor and "topping off a pocket" or snacking without paying, they ruined it for the rest of us.
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  4991. Baseball bat, Capone style? I mean, it worked to motivate his "board of directors"...
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  4992. The funeral industry is an overpriced game too. Thousands to tens of thousands of dollars to treat your body so it won't decompose, but would instead poison the water table, which necessitates an expensive concrete box to put you overpriced wood or metal box into, so that if and when you and your smaller box finally decompose there won't be an unsightly depression in the over[riced lawn of the cemetery. - And the funeral industry campaigns hard, and spends a lot of money, to try and prevent a return to natural burial where you cloth-wrapped body is put in a hole in the ground, and possibly used to fertilize a new tree that will clean the water and the air and NOT require an expensive maintenance contract to mow the lawn over your corpse. - Or you can spend hundreds to thousands (or more, if you want to stick your family with a pretty jar) to get your expired remains burnt up in a carbon dioxide spewing fire so that some ashes that are at least partially yours can be put in a box, jar or gold-leafed urn that some family member will be force to display for a few years until they can safely claim the dog knocked it over.
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  4993. If they gave some of the money back, they have admitted it wasn't theirs. Why the BLEEP do they get to keep ANY of it!? We may need more shallow graves in state forests...
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  4994.  @baronvonslambert  Someday soon, a person with a drum machine and a shoulder-slung loudspeaker will show up outside your house, make a few potentially insulting rhymes about you and hand you an envelope. Then shout, "You just got served, son!"
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  4995.  @tyronesart  I suppose if you are working on a clock, you have a much cleaner and stable work area, and can just lay out the parts on paper, even labeling the pieces. Videos like Ray makes, or step-by-step photos could also help
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  4996. So, kind of like fining me $1.09 for dumping garbage in the river?
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  4997. That kind of makes me want to drive to the perimeter of that airport property and then turn around and drive away. Maybe I'd get out to take a few pictures, just to trigger the "you can't do that here in this day and age" guards.
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  4998.  @chonky2129  chonky sounds like a legit TSA official!
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  4999. I use a wired keyboard and the same wireless mouse because Logitech can no longer make a thumb-ball mouse with wire due to them infringing on another company's patent. I prefer not having battery operated peripherals on my desktop computer, but also prefer a good thumb-ball mouse. So I have a wireless mouse because my wired Logitech thumb-ball mouse died.
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  5000. You can also pickle beets, eggs, cabbage, and so many other things! And often way cheaper than buying pickles at the store.
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  5001. "For our health we had to put him into a medically induced coma."
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  5002. It reminds me of the old screen door we had on our back door as a kid. It did not have a closing piston, just a coil spring that stuttered against the edge of the opening/closing door. The spring was more about going back to straight than pulling force.
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  5003.  @MarsMan1  Exactly! Personal responsibility works for everyone, including the persons working for the government, or it works for nobody.
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  5004.  @apAvocado  At 120F, very few, if any, things found in a common home will be combusting. (caveat: the air AT THE SENSOR could be at 120 while the fire is hotter) At 120F, most animals are miserable and on the way to heat injuries without adequate hydration and cooling. The lowest ignition/flash temperature I found for an item found in the home was for solvents such as acetone. But home furnishings and the structure itself need to get over 300F to start to reach combustion.
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  5005.  @josephmelnick3446  So I did a little searching. Tang was invented in 1959, but was a market penetration failure until it was used by NASA astronauts in flight for about a decade starting in 1965. These days, it is still an ongoing product, but apparently it is big in Brazil, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and the Philippines.
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  5006.  @lamarw7757  Very little scares a bully cop more than accountability.
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  5007.  @raul0ca  THINK OF THE CHILDREN! IF IT SAVES EVEN ONE LIFE! - Yeah, I get it.
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  5008. It's a clever test. If an employee makes a comment about the posters in the bathrooms, they're on a list for stealing time from the company by taking a real bathroom break. This list becomes valuable should the department need to cut costs, or union organizing start happening, providing management with a list of likely union sympathizers. Jeff's rockets need more profit margin to fuel up!
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  5009. Smith really fixated on the page count of "evidence". I too can take many pages to say nothing of substance, and I did so several times in high school.
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  5010.  @ssplayer  It is truly broken that federal law depends on which court district you happen to be within.
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  5011. Almost like words have meaning. Open. Fields. - No seeing "Open field two miles on the other side of a dense band of woods." in there.
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  5012.  @briangarrow448 TV news, state police, state attorney general, governor's office...
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  5013. I am reminded of a comment I read a month or so ago from a person who was applying for a job using a specific piece of software, and the job listing wanted more years of experience with the software than the number of years the software had been around. And the commenter was on the team who MADE the software.
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  5014. The idea of "leaving security clearance jobs for citizens" is not a good defense of H1B. Not every engineering job is defense, and aerospace and defense jobs are less than 2% of jobs nationwide. (1.4% in 2021) - And H1B is not only filling those jobs. Heck, not even only jobs requiring higher degrees and certifications.
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  5015. I watch that channel too, and there are some brain dead vehicle owners out there. Between the loose objects in the storage area or under a seat, the objects pushing buttons, console lights "not working" because of owner objects placed in the way...
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  5016. I feel old. The stuff I used to work on used Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
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  5017. That vehicle looks like someone put out a spec: "A car, but not really, plus make it a pickup truck, but not really. And include some historical notes to the body design, but 'funk it up' some."
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  5018. And remember, HOA's are an evolution of "gated communities", neighborhoods designed to make sure "the wrong kind of people*" didn't end up as your neighbor. - *a.k.a. Brown people, non-Christian people, immigrants of any flavor...
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  5019. I saw a news piece of a condo that tried to claim a municipally built sidewalk as part of their "private property" because they sold their units on the premise of "private beach access".
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  5020. I am heading to a friend's house this weekend where two kids are getting over a cold. Given that some illnesses can still be transferrable while the patient is getting better, you're damn right I'm wearing a mask over there.
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  5021.  @researchandbuild1751  Yes they were, but they were not putting up artificial barriers to third-party software. (at that time. See: Games for Windows) Apple is making it VERY hard to buy, install and use third-party software. And Epic Games is not heroic, they are greedy.
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  5022. Why buy a home where it is unsafe to sit in your yard? Just move to someplace like Syria or Ukraine and save on the mortgage payments!
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  5023.  @nissan300ztt  That's how military jeeps and armored vehicles do it!
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  5024. I had a Snapper riding mower that could reach the mid to high 20s of MPH in the highest gear. Not that I would ever dare to mow that fast! Well... at least not twice.
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  5025. In those cases the activity is to TAKE physical things from the parks, not simply recording reflected photons of light.
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  5026. I imagine that little metal clip thing is singing to the brake drum, 'We will never ever, ever, get back together."
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  5027. That first tow driver seems like an expensive employee for that tow company. Did he even check the vehicle weight and size versus his own vehicle's capacity before screwing around?
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  5028.  @prfwrx2497  Imagine how much easier these cans would be to open if they incorporated sardine/Spam can technology.
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  5029. Let me correct you. The EXTREMISTS on BOTH ENDS are already out of control.
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  5030.  @MrGoesBoom  That would mean we would no longer need to worry about crossing certain state lines with an unshod, unmarried woman in the car with us.
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  5031. Unfortunately, if property taxes were slashed, a lot of the commercial landlords (and the REITs) would take the difference as profit instead of lowering rent.
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  5032. Regarding Biden's "No drilling, period, period, period," three periods in a row is a ellipsis, which is a form of punctuation indicating that something has been left out.
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  5033.  @Youngstomata  I had a friend who had downstairs neighbors from Lebanon, and every Sunday when we gather to play D&D was also the one day a week they cooked something that smelled like rancid meat boiled in urine. They were pretty cool people, even if their English was weak, it was just a food smell we were not culturally into. We didn't complain, or call cops or the landlord, or file a lawsuit. We just use air freshener in the winter and an open window and a fan in the summer.
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  5034. Sail safe!
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  5035.  @Vognarvik_Gaming  "Thirty minutes, or it's free!"
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  5036. Good call getting the new guy (Justin?) out of the corner, and Dave away from the wall. If death-heavy stuff could fall, you want a path to retreat.
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  5037. All journalists who spread unconfirmed information, true or false, should seek other forms of employment. And those sharecropping jobs are always looking for people!
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  5038. Replacing the CPU is a high-skill process (because it is soldered on, not socketed), requiring the use of a very specialized machine, and you have to FIND a known-good CPU to replace it with. And after all that, you get to hope that the heat of putting the new one on didn't harm it, there was nothing else wrong with the inner layers of the board, and Apple's software actually lets the computer recognize and use the new CPU. - So high repair cost, and with Apple blocking component sales and repair in general, it might not even work when done.
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  5039.  @n.d.m.515  I am all for religious freedom, until that freedom causes harm to others, particularly children. I was alive when the Jonestown "thing" happened, and to see all of those bodies, so many of them children... Freedom has limits.
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  5040.  @GeorgeVCohea  Yes, Jonestown occurred in another country, but Jim Jones got his start building a cult in the US.
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  5041. Children are often innocent and just uninformed. They have to proceed to teenage for the dumb to really blossom, and by the mid twenties, the real stupid starts to exhibit. This is all based on my personal experience and direct observations, and may not apply to all young humans.
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  5042.  @Msbonbon310  Critical thinking is no longer being taught, It was pushed aside to allow more time to teach students how to pass the annual standardized tests that are supposedly making sure that "No child" is "Left Behind". Thanks a lot 'W'...
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  5043. I have had my current auto for about 8 years and have yet to see a TPMS light, and this is the first one I've owned which as them. About once a week I do a visual walk-around of my car, and if even one tire looks slightly low it is time for all four to get aired to proper pressure. If I feel a mushiness driving? Same stop for air. And when I pull out of my parking spot, I look for evidence of fresh fluid leaks. - I pay attention to how the car feels and sounds when running, driving and braking, and when something is different, it gets checked. - But then, I am part of that old generation who were taught as Ray talks about when it comes to auto maintenance.
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  5044.  @Floating_Bus  Great ending pun! "couldn't resist" Hahaha!
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  5045. That's how it works when cops seize your assets without any criminal charges and they "allow" you to "win" it back after spending piles of money on lawyers and court fees.
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  5046. When power is its own reward, there will be those who cheat to win. Party doesn't enter into the equation.
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  5047. It looks like a viable engine donor though...
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  5048.  @chevaliermusic  Yes, you could TRAVEL that distance in 2 seconds. But the real question is now fast would that vehicle have to be traveling to become airborne for that distance. We're not talking about a lightened motocross bike, or a stunt car. We're talking about a production road truck.
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  5049. I know Ray doesn't have one, but I used to work with a cool quick-attach tow plate for skid steers. Essentially a quick-attach plate with a trailer hitch socket welded to it so you could affix a tow ball or pintle for trailer shuffling. (edited for spelling)
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  5050. For the longest time, I have been watching with a whisper of a complaint about the parking lot in the back of my brain. I finally figured it out. It's a gravel lot. I live in New England, where plowing and frost heaves would turn that into an obstacle course within 1-3 years, but Ray's shop is in Florida, and it's fine.
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  5051. (/shrug) He's not reading from a script, and I'd rather have a subject matter expert take the time to think about their words than just throw out word salad to ensure they fill the moments of silence. It could be worse/ He could be like the very old Harvard professor I heard being interviewed on NPR the other day who spoke in a glacial pace. What he was saying was very informative, but it took a long time for him to say it.
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  5052.  @TheMitchellExpress  And there are always fees. Filing fees, appearance fees, witness fees, summons fees, documentation fees, copying fees...
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  5053. I am still holding out hope for a fatal stroke from bad diet and lack of exercise for the Orange Donald. And I could also accept a meteor strike.
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  5054. I'm outraged at the cops "hands in the air" AND "get out of the car" commands. If he reaches for the door handle, how can he ALSO keep his hands up? The man is too calm with a cop crawling around in his car digging for ANYTHING to arrest him on. They were not looking for his wallet with ID until after they asked him about it, and that's nearly two and a half minutes into the video. If the situation is calm enough to joke around, and let ham walk behind the cop doing a body cavity search of his auto without cuffs on, why are you STILL SEARCHING HIS CAR? "Your ID's in here?" as he opens the bag, gives it a shake and looks in for something, anything arrest-worthy. - I can't give this video a thumbs up or down. but I appreciate it being shown.
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  5055. Remember that they call the person who graduates at the bottom of their med school class "doctor". Being a lawyer requires (in most states) simply passing law school, and in all states, passing a written exam that you can try over and over.
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  5056. Doing thee actual math is time consuming, and sometimes beyond the skillset of the salesperson. So the fallback is to assume that if your existing oversized system was enough when it was in good condition, then just replace with a similar-sized unit. Lazy and uninspired, costs the customer more most of the time, and earns the company more.
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  5057. The English language is a jerk. Convoluted means extremely complex and difficult to follow, intricately folded, twisted, or coiled: - Meanwhile convolute, in this context today, simplifies and makes the wiring EASYIER to follow.
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  5058. No fire. Fur-side chats.
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  5059. So we have these lunatics and we have the "structured water" lunatics, all cashing in on the gullibility of morons.
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  5060.  @robe2504  "It's not lying, it's commercial real estate" - Some commercial realtor lying to Louis Rossmann
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  5061. I get the joke, but seriously, a smart lawyer who is being questioned by police will get ANOTHER lawyer to speak on their behalf. "A lawyer who represents themselves has a fool for a client." does not just apply in front of a judge. It applied in police interactions, in contracts, and much more. And that lawyers should be spending money on other lawyers is only fair for lawyers heling build the system that requires their existence and enriches them.
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  5062. Louis reminds a bit of a cop friend I had who used to tell the young criminals he encountered daily, "I DARE you to put me out of business." - They never do.
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  5063.  @daleallen7634  It won't be fixed for the underclass until it inconveniences the overclass.
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  5064.  @Nickle314  QI is WAY too broad and WAY too much in favor of the police.
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  5065. In the US we have a messy patchwork of state-based laws and regulations, often written at the behest of either financially motivated special interests (corporations and the politicians they give money to) or outright idiots. If we're REALLY lucky, we get good laws for some things.
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  5066. Also, the store is not paying you to do that work that eliminates jobs, either.
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  5067.  @skywalker6119  But they'll happily pocket the deposit. And do nothing.
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  5068. I think the hidden secret method is to bring a large (dry) towel, no metaphor, from the house with you to wipe the window(s) down as you start the defog procedure. - If, like me, you love where actual ice falls out of the air in the winter, the defogging is usually done by the time you finished brushing and/or scraping the outsides of the windows. And clean off ALL the windows and lights and license plates, and clear large amounts of snow from your whole car. Don't get a ticket and an extra twenty minutes pulled over during your commute because you were in a hurry or lazy (or both).
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  5069. Got to love when the government is so concerned with social media that they succumb to the heckler's veto.
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  5070. IN the tank!? Dang, that's nuts. I've seen the insides of more than a few WW2 tanks, and they are chock full of skull splitters.
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  5071. If something happens that involves a group of foreign Jewish people? Protests, property damage, outrage in the US. If something happens that involves a group of US citizen Jewish people? Big shrugs from those same people.
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  5072. Stories like this really enrage me. And I would not have a moment's pity if the perpetrators were to be found in shallow graves in the woods.
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  5073. Don't the debt collectors have a relative they can borrow the money from? (Yes, I got that line from a collector call more than once)
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  5074.  @jw-hy5nq  Wow. Just... broken.
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  5075. More lumens? Kidding. With the brightness of modern LED work lights, I would never again get a bulb-type drop-light. I cannot count how many old incandescent bulbs I went through because I bumped and dropped the danged thing. You didn't even need to hit the bulb, just the shock of landing would snap the hot filament. As for what KIND of LED lights? Rechargeable with contained or plug-in tool style battery for the win.
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  5076. Tree strikes, you're out!
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  5077. I have signed non-disclosure agreements, but ONLY after reading them and asking pointed questions backed up by the relevant state laws. I have refused to sign a non-compete once, and STILL got the job on the condition that I not tell anyone else at the company that I was able to do so. - Is it my fault that I am creative with my reading of their poorly punctuated requirement and told other people OFF of company property?
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  5078. I learned (reinforced by a spank and being sent to my room without desert for a few days) when I was around 5 or 6 that it is a LOT easier to take something apart than to put it back together correctly. In my case, it was the kitchen wall phone and it had to be replaced. - After that, I was only allowed to take apart things that were already broken or had stopped working, but it channeled my inquisitiveness and led to a career of electronics repair.
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  5079.  @richard09able  Dirty windows. Dirt (or soap residue, or other such) creates irregular surfaces, breaking up the reflected light.
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  5080. "The more you tighten your grip, the more systems slip through your fingers." - Some princess, not talking about corporate greed, but also talking about corporate greed when you look at it from a distance.
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  5081. I still take notes with pen or pencil on paper. I have road atlases in my car.
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  5082. Cruise the obituaries in a three-town radius of you, pick someone who died recently and no family living with them, and give that name.
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  5083.  @ExecutionerDan  Why would you wish New Yorkers on Canada? Did you not like the poutine?
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  5084. Writing it down is the difference between science and messing around. - paraphrasing Adam Savage
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  5085.  @pogo1140  And? Are there more than one or two Bill Smiths at any given address? What are the odds that two related Bill Smiths at one address would share the same date of birth? Right, 1 in 365.25. And if that 1 in 365.25 chance occurred, it would very likely be solves with "Senior/Junior". - And what does skin color have to do with being named Bill Smith?
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  5086. I can see that POV. But given that the clamps merely apply a stop against the raised ridges of the lines the hoses connect to, it's not like they have to be overly tightened, or experience much strain. If there was no raised lip, I could definitely agree even more.
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  5087.  @bami2  Wow. I SUCK at remembering things about time! Checked the label on the back. Samsung PX2370 23" LED Backlit monitor, manufacture date in 2010. I honestly thought I bought it a LOT longer ago. I am willing to admit that relying on my memory instead of the READILY AVAILABLE item label was a gross mistake.
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  5088. Or just, once every week or two, move the RV to the town hall parking lot for the night. Or maybe to an agreeable neighbor's property for the night.
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  5089. Ha! That's already the reality most of the time in our "justice" system.
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  5090.  @ithinkaboutthings9052  Well, if those in law enforcement would stop going out of their way to earn the hate...
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  5091.  @george2113  Thanks for the reference! That is an interesting period of US history that never got covered in any history class I took. Too much "power back into the hands of the ruled" for some courses, too local, small, and long ago for others.
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  5092.  @paulharvey1947  That was a mass pile of the same item in one location. Not one hard drive of who knows how many under years of landfill layers.
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  5093.  @randominternetguy3537  The sources I found with minimal digging place the membership between 5 and 8 thousand, with an unknown number of affiliated and supporting organizations that don't "wear" the letters.
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  5094. I hope you either mistyped 1/250, or you have a HUGE modeling space for that 11.5 meter-long model!
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  5095.  @mrtrek2117  Wow!
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  5096. Or maybe take the fam out for a sit-down dinner somewhere nice.
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  5097. The parts, schematics, and access for self- or small shop repair. Super thin batteries and devices are fun to brag about, but when everything is glued together, an attempt at repair often results in wide destruction. And a super-thin phone is also a super breakable phone.
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  5098.  @erikdietrich2678  I can easily take apart a bicycle. With regular moderate maintenance it can potentially be ridden for a lifetime. - Items welded, glued or fused together may stay together for a very long time... at the joining surface, but the material can fail just beyond that joint. And now you have, instead of a loose fastener, a broken part that takes more than hand tools to replace.
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  5099.  @eligoldman9200  They even blocked a Supreme Court hearing. They didn't just decline to approve the nomination, they actively blocked any hearings on the patter in committee. "Because it was nine months to the election, and the next president should have a say." - But when it is less than a month to the election THIS time around, it "Had to be done." - These two opposing lunacies from THE SAME Senator!!!
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  5100. With all of the password managers being shoved down our throats, I still use a small notebook to store and track my passwords. It is small enough that I can pick a spot in my home and hide it if I want. Hack that!
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  5101.  @notsure7874  But, but... That's the belt that came up on the parts store's computer, so it HAS to be the right one! And that, kids, is how you stay a parts changer, and never become a diagnostician.
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  5102. Seems like someone watched The Suite Life On Deck and thought they could make a go of it using the Fyre Festival methodology.
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  5103.  @Isaac_132  Acorn MAG DUMP TIMES TWO!!!!!!
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  5104. So, have a picnic and just hang out and be together. If it's too cold outside, maybe a living room picnic. Either way, music and NO phones, no TV, no internet. Light snacks and a bottle of your favorite fancy or semi-fancy beverage.
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  5105.  @williamdoray4358  He voted in New York, but claimed residency in Florida to get one of his federal cases overseen by Cannon? Unequal justice strikes again!
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  5106. If the man filming was such a threat, then why did the rent-a-belly turn his BACK on him to call his cop pal?
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  5107.  @daviaoliphant9686  Not if this dumb law doesn't explicitly carve out that exception.
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  5108.  @Jack_Russell_Brown  That's one sexy toaster!
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  5109. My previous car, a Saturn S, developed a no low-beams situation. I checked the appropriate fuse, then all the fuses, replaced the bulbs, cleaned the contacts and applied dielectric grease... nothing. I ended up, after an hour and change with a Haynes manual and a voltmeter, finding that there was an open in the fuse block. - I lacked certain tools to make the fix, so I had my mechanic turn the daytime running lights into my low-beams circuit. I gave him a wiring diagram for the fir, including what circuit to eliminate and he added a jumper. Et voila! properly functioning headlights!
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  5110. Regarding cameras: Haven't we invented better tech than the 'slamming shutter' that makes press hordes so danged noisy even before they open their mouths?
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  5111. Yep. A printer that works for a decade or more of regular use only makes the company money once per decade or more. A printer that craps out in 5 months? That's continuing revenue even before the slimy ink subscriptions. - I knew someone who was using their printer pretty heavily and would go through dozens of ink cartridges and 3-6 printers per YEAR. But they could not be talked into a laser printer at all, even though they were only printing in black & white.
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  5112. Makes it easy to look for guilty people. Looking for someone named Joe Brown? thumb through the phone book, find one or two, go arrest them, job done. Get a promotion.
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  5113. The last time I worked at a place that had a union (UPS) I was given ZERO choice in joining or not. I chose not, and quit.
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  5114.  @nickmalone3143  Yabba-dabba-doo brakes.
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  5115. Damn. My current desktop is built with EVGA components (I built it about 8 years ago). Now I have to find another company...
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  5116. Great, now he thinks he's a video game final boss...
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  5117.  @tbelding  MONEY LAUNDERING!!!
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  5118.  @allenfunstuff  Right? Heck, I have a toolbox living permanently in my trunk next to a box of stuff like oil, radiator fluid, windshield washer fluid, brake fluid, ATF, power steering fluid, a third ice scraper (in case the two in the cabin of the car break) jumper cables, rags, dry socks, crank flashlight... I also keep a blanket in there during winter in case I am stranded and the car is not running. And I can STILL fit groceries in the trunk. - I still have AAA in case it is something I cannot fix at the roadside, plus the AAA gives me a discount on my insurance.
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  5119.  @MsMSB2012  I use what my brother calls a "drug rug", which is essentially a small blanket woven with the thickness of a throw rug. They're often used by people as lap blankets or a less fancy duvet cover on the backs of furniture
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  5120.  @gerble36  Greg said "...avoid ANYTHING..." (emphasis mine). Not "...avoid high levels of anything..."
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  5121. There is also a soft "rule of three" in comedy, and I learned a rule of three in sword fighting. Two to set the expectation for the pattern to continue (because human brains love seeing patterns), then surprise and subvert with the third. - Also, the rule of three works with insults, you swamp-guzzling, toad-licking, kneebiter!
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  5122.  @yermanoh  One possibility: You arrange a series of double-blind tests where you test the dog with their customary handler, then that dog with a different handler, then a different dog with both handlers. They could be set to find the substance in the case in one of a series of cars in an open lot. Say, five cars, one containing the substance, one containing dog treats, and three empty, otherwise all cars are identical and have identical contents. Setting up five identical cars may be too expensive, so set up five identical metal footlockers, same samples as above.
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  5123. And imagine having typical women's jeans pockets and carrying the contemporary slab of a phone that leaves nearly half of the phone sticking out. I have a friend who drops her phone on a regular basis because her pockets don't even remotely fit her phone, but she still uses those pockets.
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  5124. I am American and my mother raised us to never waste food, to eat all the food you asked for, and to save leftovers for the next meal, or to be frozen to make "garbage soup" in the winter. Our freezer had numerous margarine tubs of layered meat and vegetables that were not enough for a serving. To make the 'garbage soup' you drop two or three containers of frozen leftovers in the big pot, add a little water and a couple of bullion cubes, and then once its's hot, season to taste. - Even in the midst of my 6th decade on the planet, I still hate wasting food. If I bake a turkey, the stripped carcass is the starting point for soup. If I have food spoil, it becomes food for wildlife (bread, some fruits and vegetables) or compost.
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  5125.  @joeyj6808  When my mother worked for school kitchens, they were forbidden by school district policy to give leftovers away or take them home. All of the leftovers and food scraped off plates/trays had to be put in buckets for sale to a local pig farm. And boy was that pig farm upset when my mother's work on improving the taste of the food meant fewer kids throwing lunch away!
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  5126.  @Krieger718  Or the contents of a household junk drawer, from the sounds of it shaking when full.
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  5127. I worked in a convenience store for over a decade. I am DONE working for stores. I only use the staffed checkout line. I like the human interaction, and using the human staffed checkout lane keeps telling the company that the job is needed. Sure it's not a great job at great pay, but for some people it is all that they can do (capability, scheduling, transportation issues, whatever.)
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  5128. Kia and Hyundai cut corners to save a small amount per car and they KNOW they did it.
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  5129. "Too big to fail" That's like saying "Too fat to diet." - Robin Williams
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  5130. Recall the tale of the boy who cried wolf. By the time the boy was telling the truth about a wolf, people were so used to him lying, they didn't respond to his calls for help, and the wolf ate him. When a liar lies often enough, them saying it is raining will still have me checking out the window for falling zebras.
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  5131. Do they call it a "Trailblazer" because you want to roll it into the woods and set it on fire?
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  5132.  @garyalabama  Scientifically, it can be very difficult to impossible to prove a negative.
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  5133. I recall a sausage (salami?) being used to make a rocket motor on an episode of Mythbusters, though the performance was very poor. And paraffin (for canning, candled, wax carving) apparently makes a decent rocket fuel and is available at grocery stores.
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  5134. You can also get solder with a flux core.
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  5135. I made up a saying decades ago. "A car that won't go is a camper. A car that won't stop is a coffin."
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  5136. Adverse possession is how this The United States was built! Other than a few plots of land that were cheaply bought from "owners" without solid provenance and no clear title (think Manhattan), much of this country was taken by violence, disease, and forced displacement of the previous tenants.
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  5137. I see what you did there, and I approve!
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  5138. Maybe this 17-year-old could use a repainted police vehicle or two...
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  5139.  @MadMeave  It's not for a photo. It's for theft.
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  5140. I was not in the car when it happened, but my mother had a drive shaft pogo event on a grocery trip in a station wagon model of Pinto. It happened in the parking lot, so it was not at speed, but the shaft lodged into a pothole in the lot and it lifted the back of the car up a foot or two, and the angle was just enough that the family friend who showed up to get it to "limp home mode" had to push the car bumper-to-bumper to get it the tires down. - I was in college at the time, so I never got a lot of details on the failure, but the car was fixed and was used for many years after.
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  5141. Walking up with weapon drawn is not policy anywhere outside of a war zone or a known armed & dangerous call.
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  5142. RandomFinn: That, or smaller weapons, and everything else, sounds like a giant mosquito. Forever.
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  5143. It's okay. That three-year-old signed the legal releases for a ride-along.
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  5144.  @adamdnewman  Oh, that's fine. But adding spikes and/or camouflaging the pits proves harmful intent, and can get you jail time. - Just trying to help.
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  5145. I myself am quite often totally oblivious to the lives and activities of my closest friends. One friend had been married for half a year before I found out. I never knew he was even dating anyone, and the rest of the friend group had attended the wedding. (They didn't invite me because they know I hate weddings and funerals.) - Now, this was not a friend who I only talked to once a year. This was someone with whom we played D&D every week or two for 4-8 hours a session. - So yeah, I am oblivious.
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  5146. IN large part thanks to Louis putting DeJoy in mail delivery...
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  5147. I hear a lot of chatter about the James Webb telescope. But I'm waiting for the Jack Webb telescope so we could cast a dragnet that would yield "just the facts."
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  5148. Would have been a good time to be cleaning the front screen door with oven cleaner and hornet spray. Stuff that is caustic, toxic, and sprays a good distance. "Oh, I didn't see you there! Why are you rolling around and screaming?"
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  5149.  @PedroOozeMan  Drones are to combat jets as rifles are to artillery.
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  5150. Well, they already used the handcuffs, so they NEEDED to find something to jack him up on.
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  5151.  @alexanrsousa  The useless meeting is a phenomenon I too have experienced. I think a model where a business rents a function hall for the rare in-person meeting (because they have shed the large building the old in-person all the time model) would cut down on that a lot, as the person requesting the meeting would have to justify the added expense instead of just finding an available slot for "Conference Room Seven" down the hall.
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  5152. Seriously? What kind of "investigation" requires parking in the MOST CONSPICUOUS manner possible? Is the goal of their investigation to let anyone with functioning eyeballs see them and wonder, "Now who is parked there like a jerk?" Then they get out, in their cop-club paraphernalia to get in a shouting match with the guy whose PAID FOR (as part of his rent) parking spot they are half-using. And the "bad hombre" they are looking for would not possibly see and hear two cops and decide to be elsewhere. Nah, not possible.
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  5153. You're a camera pleb? My only camera is a Polaroid i1237 hand-held digital camera. The front cover is red, if that matters.
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  5154.  @NeonVisual  "Age of the geek, baby." - Hardison, Leverage
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  5155.  @SuzanneGaiasKindredSpirit  If only such a thing were possible...
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  5156.  @Tondadrd  Still unacceptable.
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  5157.  @gmoney4337  That is assuming his lawyers are stupid enough to put him on the stand. Or unable to stop him demanding to be allowed to pontificate from the stand...
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  5158.  @goolibay  If this is a serious question? Hearsay: information received from other people that one cannot adequately substantiate; rumor: "according to hearsay, Bob had managed to break his arm" - (and in law) the report of another person's words by a witness, which is usually disallowed as evidence in a court of law:
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  5159. Truth. If you're mugged, you might get your cash back if the mugger is identified and arrested. If you're civilly seized against, you can ID your mugger and they'll get a commendation.
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  5160.  @jwenting  If security is that much of a concern, the property owner could negotiate with the municipality to replace an easement through the middle of their property with one or more easements at the edges of their property. And THEN they can build their razor-wire-topped walls with surveillance cameras, motion sensors, and roving guard patrols.
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  5161. Claymore mines. What?
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  5162. Yeah, the ones needing forgiveness are the loan servicers and the colleges/universities that keep raising tuition to reflect the ease of getting a loan, not the actual value of the service provided.
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  5163. Another dumb part about focusing on shoplifters is that most theft ("shrinkage") is from employees.
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  5164. Maybe if the police used a .gov website instead of a Facebook page for their online face, this whole thing would not have been an issue.
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  5165.  @willquoikapor  Back before the age of home computers and cheap electronic cameras, I was taught to fill out a bill of sale, with carbon paper, listing the VIN, odometer reading, vehicle description and condition, and sale amount with both parties signing and dating. edit: Oh, AND fully fill out the title transfer with the same odometer and names.
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  5166. The luckiest three people I've heard about in a long time!
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  5167. Makes it easier to negotiate the back staircase to the roof to... Nevermind.
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  5168. Here's your participation trophy. Don't spend the self-esteem all in one place.
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  5169. That cop engaged in a dangerous driving situation, tucked into your blind spot at highway speeds. I do know that it is fairly common here in Massachusetts for cops to ride up on drivers, particularly at night, and follow dangerously close to your rear bumper to try and get you to exceed the speed limit to avoid them hitting you. Me, I just let off the accelerator until I am about 8-10 MPH under the speed limit (below which they could ticket for "being a traffic obstruction" and just wait until they give up. - One time, the cop didn't get out of that tailgating position, so I pulled over. He pulled in behind me, turned on his blues and angrily walked up to my window. Before he could speak, I asked him, "Do you want to know why I pulled us over tonight? Because you were tailgating me for about four miles." He got red in the face, told me to drive safe and have a good night, stomped back to his car and I waited until he left before I started my car again. - This happened in the1990's, and I am "lightly complected" so I was at low risk of death.
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  5170. But if you say, "Point of order" enough, you can apparently justify any of your ignorant points of view. Right?
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  5171. Kyle Kinane came up with the best tombstone inscription: Kyle Christian Kinane Born: 1976 - Died: In Your Arms Tonight "Must have been something you said."
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  5172. But they took the next cheapest trick and bought a sub from each Subway within a mile of the studio. - - On restaurant density: I live in a small town in NW Massachusetts. There is a Subway in my town, and there were two, now one, in the next town (one in the center of town, one that closed that was in the WalMart). This is on top of a McD's, a Wendy's a Taco Bell (no KFC menu there, dang it!), A Dominos, two Chinese restaurants, a Chinese/Japanese restaurant, an overpriced fine dining place, a seafood place, 3 single-owner pizza/sub shops, the deli counter at the Hannaford's grocery store, and around a half-dozen prepared food counters at the Market Basket mega-grocery store. There may be a couple I missed.
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  5173. I can remember when Jeep was its own company and the vehicles were still good. - I had a Ford Escort some decades back that I drove too fast into a flooded stretch of road that was being crossed by an overflowing river about two or more feet deep. I know that my car did not touch the road at the deepest point, so it was temporarily a boat. The engine died and the car coasted back to solid ground, it turns out I was going fast enough for the water to crack the distributor cap in two. That car ran for another 12 years before I traded it in on my next car. Point being, I agree that the speed with which you hit a liquid can matter. - And if I had the urge to go mud bogging, I would not go and get a brand new jeep. I'd get a used one that would not hurt too bad the wallet to leave dead in the mud and walk home from.
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  5174. Here in the U.S. we see a lot of these whiners who buy or BUILD a house in the flight path of a pre-existing airport. "The jets are too loud! Pay me money!"
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  5175. To quote a Family cutaway, "Nothing happened between 1941 and 1945! Everyone was on vacation!!!"
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  5176. Sellers are always complicating paperwork to induce the buyer having to hire lawyers to read everything. Nice to see sellers getting caught in their own leg-trap.
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  5177. I am neither a young, minority, or first-time voter. But Massachusetts' mail-in/drop box voting is a HUGE bonus for me. Instead of setting aside an unknown amount of time on one of the several (YAY!) voting days we have, I can tuck dropping off my ballot into a trip to the grocery store, adding as much as three minutes to my schedule. And I can drop it off at night, on a holiday, late on a weekend day...
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  5178. To me it was the "oh, I didn't see you there!" look.
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  5179.  @dacoz  Truth. I rent and I cannot just decide to change the window OR drill a hole for the other type of mini-split. If this place was mine, step one would be to put in better insulation while getting rid of the remaining horse-hair plaster over lathe in the walls.
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  5180. Driving slowly around horses, buggies, bicycles, motorcycles, pedestrians... All were covered extensively when I took driver's education WAY back in the 1980's. The danger is not the slow traffic, but the drivers who don't pay attention to sharing the road.
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  5181.  @themanhimself3  How do you KNOW? Are you with another "them"???
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  5182.  @bluebalute  Jawohl, commissar! Because I like mixing my totalitarian references. Hehehe.
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  5183.  @JenA2145  Good! At least they'd be angry away from me and my mask-on shopping.
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  5184. I'd rather attend a superb owl party, but yes on the wings, please!
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  5185. Careful. I've known and read about some municipal governments that would rather have him arrested for trespassing than thank him for cleaning up the things they're responsible for.
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  5186. I mean, what guy HASN'T passed a stud finder over their chest and made beeping noises?
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  5187. Tar and feathers are expensive. Maybe mastic and blown-in fiberglass insulation?
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  5188. OMG. So make your own damned video.
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  5189.  @benothmane_4sarra30  But only the host needs the paid version.
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  5190. But are any of the voting members atheist? How about Wahabi or Zoroastrian or Shoshone or Inuit or a lemur? If your ONLY measure is inclusiveness, where do you draw your battle line? Only at your own group's identity? I thought so.
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  5191. "This makes me angry because I don't understand it." - The starting point of Flat-Earth thinking.
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  5192.  @oldfarthacks  What brand of engines DO black holes form within???
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  5193. Spam. Stuff Passing As Meat, or Squeezed Pork And Meh.
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  5194. "What is happening? Why do I hate Putin so much? Am I interviewing myself? Is this really what 'news' means? If I act incredulous enough, will mommy love me?" - Tucker "Brain-Cramp" Carlson
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  5195. But don't you know? Everyone with the same last name is closely related, of course.
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  5196. I see a lot of hate in the comments here. Speaking for myself, I really hope nobody was killed or badly hurt in this event. My big question is why is the fire burning so long? Maybe I am too accustomed to the level and frequency of safety shutoffs in North American gas lines.
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  5197. That guy laughing about stores not having any carts when you need them while HE is the one destroying them really enraged me.
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  5198. In my state I saw a couple of intersections with the countdown timers. IIRC, they were removed because they found that a large number of drivers were using it as a way to try and "race the red". After the timers were removed, the people running red lights reduced. - I suppose it helps that my state has wording in the traffic laws that (paraphrased) "you must stop on a yellow, IF IT IS SAFE TO DO SO FOR CURRENT ROAD CONDITIONS" (emphasis mine), and you can successfully use that as a defense against a ticket, if you were not speeding and your vehicle had a valid and unexpired safety inspection prior to the infraction. I myself have gone partway into an intersection as a yellow was turning red because the black ice did not allow me to stop. The cop who saw the incident didn't even turn on his lights, just made eye contact and nodded as I cleared the intersection.
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  5199.  @jimmyb1451  Yeah, I remember when there was no standard for the car data port, or the software codes. My mechanics had a computer with a drawer of cables and a massive ring of data dongles.
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  5200. Save money, send a team of astronauts to marzipan.
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  5201. Arrested... or worse.
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  5202.  @Sham_Seer Small towns usually have fire departments with one or only a few full-time employees and the rest of the response is local volunteer responders.
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  5203.  @charlesray9674  Maybe Joe just needs to get an eighth grade education?
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  5204. Interestingly, a private property owner can legally negate your First Amendment rights on their own property. And the second.
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  5205.  @JKlein713  (thumb up!)
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  5206.  @vimtheprotogen2855  From the police academy? Which movie? There were six in the 1980's, one in1954, two live action TV series (one US, one UK), and an animated series, as well as a lot of other movies and shows with the consecutive words "police academy" in a longer title.
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  5207.  @EnthalpyAndEntropy  Engineering without a license? What are you doing, timing traffic lights!?
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  5208. An attractive woman lofting about hammers is no basis for a functioning democracy! ... or is it?
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  5209. Censorship by a government is generally bad. Censorship by a private company is, if applied evenly across all users, not actionable.
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  5210.  @666dynomax  The town I mentioned above had three intersections with a blinking yellow and blinking red light mount. One winter, we were down to two after a vehicle slid on ice and took one out.
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  5211. Isn't mold Florida's state flower?
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  5212.  @triumphmanful  Coming soon, the Apple iCar. Which you will never own, ONLY lease, and only get fixed at a GeniusGarage.
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  5213.  @JimLambier  In the 1980's I had a 1974 VW Beetle that, unbeknownst to me, had developed a micro-crack in the condenser. It would not start if it had been dry that day, but it WOULD start if I poured a gallon of water over the engine. I actually convinced a coworker that my car ran on water with that trick. - Of course, I later replaced the condenser. Only to have, a year later, the hydrostatic transmission decide to be an undifferentiated pan of shattered gear pieces.
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  5214. The REAL-REAL money glitch is: Inherit a LOT of money, put that money to work in the stock market, buying and draining smaller companies, and engaging in carefully researched currency trading. Or open a casino (and don't suck at it) or own a company which sells weapons and weapon-adjacent goods to US and other militaries.
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  5215. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
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  5216. Ooh, that's clever. Top-notch pre-teen humor!
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  5217. Up next, they'll outlaw dancing.
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  5218.  @Iwishiwasanoscarmeyerweiner  Gah! It's not the Congressional Medal of Honor. It's the Medal of Honor. I know, tiny nitpick, but it sometimes get to me. Sorry. The wrong name also gets some to say the abbreviation is for Coffin, Metal, with Hinges, which is how many Medal of Honor recipients come home.
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  5219.  @946towguy2  Did you hurt yourself contorting to make Orange Donnie make sense?
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  5220. The court could seize some of his property to sell at auction until the amount is met. Places like that cemetery with an attached golf and country club...
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  5221. Make them prove it was you who cut the trees.
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  5222.  @ClickClack_Bam  The OP said, "some family members: with nothing about where they lived. You are inserting made up facts to support your position.
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  5223.  @nemesis1588  It is as likely that the board members just don't like the look of those things, or don't like "new" or just resist change out of stubbornness.
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  5224.  @cleonasedai  And when you beat Bob, you get to watch the musical number! Eat Shit Bob! (In whatever layer of Hell you now infest)
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  5225.  @hotlavatube  The way "full self-driving" works, it's as likely to drive you THROUGH the rental office.
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  5226. I saw videos about this from people who got copyright claimed by a copyright claimed by a company that has no way to contact them. One person got claimed on music that they had secured expressed rights to use, because someone else used the music WITHOUT rights, but used the company to put a claim. Another got copyright claimed on their OWN MUSIC! - And the entity who makes the claim is the entity who decides if your counter-claim is going to win. Which is BUNK! Because it is in the claimant's interest to shut the content owner down.
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  5227. Because fire was available, and fire is fun?
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  5228. "Robust Conversation"
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  5229.  @SchererProductionServices  But this town of 2,400 people NEEDS an armored personnel carrier with a ram and anti-riot water turret! (hypothetical situation above)
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  5230. I remember a show called "Short Attention Span Theater". Today, that show would be called, "too darned long" by the Tik Tok generation.
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  5231. Think of the children! Make tools, schematics, board-view, parts and training available to today's children can be tomorrow's repair techs! So think of the CHILDREN!!!
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  5232.  @TheRealCheckmate  Oh dang. I was with you until you used the cursed words, "Brussels sprouts" Tiny dirt-flavored cabbages. But I figure, that is one of only three vegetables I won't eat, leaving a VAST array of deliciousness! (And more Brussels sprouts for those who do like them)
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  5233. Sigh. The water is filtered, otherwise it would clog and erode the spray jets.
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  5234. But hot dogs ARE my crack!
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  5235. While we're here, let's congratulate the cop for not giving the politician a pass on the side of the road.
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  5236. WAY before the online "influencer" was a thing, even before the internet was a thing, I had learned the maxim, "Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear." The meaning being that people can lie, and even what is in front of you can fool you.
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  5237. I have never welded, I am trepidatious to even try welding. That said, I have cleaned up other peoples' welding with an angle grinder and paint.
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  5238. If no busybodies were allowed on the boards, seats would go unfilled.
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  5239. That line-drawing trick I've heard called "finger gauging" amongst other names. I use this when drawing straight lines on paper also.
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  5240. And neither they nor the government they work for are liable in any way for the damages to the home, even if it is the wrong home.
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  5241.  @bryancondrey6457  Not just liquids! Sand, sugar, ball bearings, an uncountable number of ant corpses...
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  5242. That page feels so much like an ad.
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  5243. Objection! This concentration on the filing being checked and signed by a human takes work from lawyer dogs!
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  5244. Someone with the free time and money to hire a great lawyer team needs to show in court, and up the ladder, that opt-out "legal" spyware in our phones and computers, and the stuff they STILL collect if and after we HAVE opted out, negates the "we shared it with others" exception.
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  5245. I would like to add that in cases where an arrest was found to be unsupported by law and evidence, that said arrest be expunged from the person's record. Otherwise it follows them around for the rest of their life, blocking job opportunities and housing access, as well as psychological burdens. - Also, NEVER talk to the police without a lawyer. They are trained to lie and intimidate to get you to admit to crimes.
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  5246. Sounds just like the neighbor who starts their car at 4:30 AM and revs it to get the heat to run faster. Only slightly less "fun" than the neighbor who runs their Harley at 6AM on a Saturday for 45 minutes while they fiddle with tuning. - Ah, pay me no mind. I'm old and I like quiet.
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  5247. As evidence that Trevor is young and I am old: I noticed Trevor was spinning the fake phone dial in the wrong direction.
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  5248.  @jeffschnee1167  Does that mean if he plays Beatles music he will learn that "Paul is the walrus"?
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  5249. Is it really pessimism when we get burned so often? Or is it just healthy skepticism?
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  5250. I figure every person who is in the "Ray! Throw parts at it!" camp must include a $40 tip to be able to comment that. Put your money where your mouth is, yeah?
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  5251. Whatever you do, you can always find someone with something to complain about.
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  5252. It's no nice to have a clearly spoken list of Orange Julius Caeser's numerous transgressions.
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  5253. And it probably took more than half that time just to walk from the courtroom to the deliberation room and back.
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  5254. A stiffy?
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  5255. I agree wholeheartedly!
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  5256. Magnussen-Moss requires the manufacturer to prove that the owner caused the damage by misuse to be able to refuse warranty service.
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  5257.  @jacobdisioux  Okay, I can see the explosive or toxic environment use case. Those are situations where no living being should be the first in the area. I just think that the department is trying to invent use cases to justify the inclusion of a neat new robot.
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  5258.  @davidcraven277  On this specific vehicle, it has transmission AND engine leaks, as well as front end suspension parts to replace. And Ray didn't even do a frame inspection or check on anything related to the rear axle. Based on the interior, that one has had a pretty hard life.
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  5259. The age of politicians breaking up Standard Oil or Ma Bell are long gone. Corporations have bought favorable laws and regulations, the right to be "people" for political speech and contributions, and in a few Delaware towns to vote in local elections.
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  5260. Your political sign story makes me want to get a sign and post it in my yard: "Vote NO on political yard signs!"
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  5261. All sorts of animals and bugs must be well fed there.
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  5262.  @musashi939  Exactly! Smeagol/Gollum should have had massive fall trauma and if not immediately dead from the fall would have burnt alive on top of the lava, and the ring might have sunk before melting depending on the surface tension of the lava and the relative densities. - I am a big fan Of Kyle Hill's channel (old and new)
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  5263. I prefer the ghost of Judge Wapner. As long as I control the Ouija board.
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  5264.  @tvc1848  Wow. Texas has not moved all that far from "meet the judge, go straight to the gallows" have they?
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  5265. Every bit of news, pandemic or not, I have to remind myself of the one thing important enough to print on the OUTSIDE of the Encyclopedia Galactica. "DON'T PANIC" Good advice in any situation.
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  5266.  @annflores415  I told the collector they all died recently, and thanks for bringing up the fresh pain.
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  5267. Goose -> geese. Moose -> meese Shoop -> sheep
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  5268. "AA is for quitters" - Bubba J, puppet of Jeff Dunham
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  5269. "You want to watch the dog or sit in your seat?" - "I'd like to see you sit your butt down and READ THE CONSTITUTION."
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  5270. In the business, tech and scientific world, alterations to a document are themselves documented, and not with blacking out words. I have no way to count how many times I have had to initial changes in documents, and make sure that a record of me being the one to make the change, and what the change was, was itself recorded.
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  5271. I did not even go through a bankruptcy, just a charge-off of a Capitol One card about a decade and a half back. Within a month or two I got enough "pre-approved" credit card offers to wallpaper a small bathroom.
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  5272. The last mower I bought was for a tiny yard. After pricing out many mowers and cutting it with a corded string trimmer (which hurts at 6'3" - those electric trimmers have handles for short people) I bought a $50 Black & Decker corded electric mower. So light, fairly quiet, easy as HECK to clean under from clogs, no gas, no oil, no "winterizing" other than putting a tarp over it.
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  5273.  @tonfan  Donnie the Hutt, Don Snorleone, Orange Julius Caeser...
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  5274. Clean, static-free, and grounded.
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  5275. I'm a fan of the "Is Potato" shirt, too.
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  5276. In the US, paedo activity turns into a crime drama. In Australia, it would be a business seminar?
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  5277. I don't miss the "need a third hand" belt tension setting.
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  5278. Do you mean the composer? If so, it's Mahler. Gustav Mahler.
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  5279. "What use is it to have power if one does not personally benefit from it?" - Not quoting anyone in particular, as far as I know.
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  5280. Could have been dirt that lodged the outer pad against the rotor enough to cause accelerated wear. It would only take a bit of sand or corrosion.
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  5281.  @MadocComadrin  Anyone remember the Ginsu knife TV spots? "Cuts this can, then slices this tomato!"
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  5282.  @bsteven885  Typically, you would have to find a specialty butcher who makes bacon. I have never seen beef bacon in stores.
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  5283. Seems like you are doing at least that part of parenting right! Congrats!
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  5284.  @lyianx  It's a lot easier to put a phone in a Faraday bag than to do the same for a car.
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  5285. Humans can be the worst.
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  5286. Did someone steal the innards of the AC unit? edit: 13:50
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  5287. Yeah. But for a body shop to say "We don't work on electric cars" without even making a visual assessment is about as smart as hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer.
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  5288. Bias is not intrinsically bad. An unsupported bias is bad, but a bias based on statistics and experimentation is VALID.
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  5289. I once told my (now ex-) wife that I would get to some project once she stopped asking me when I was going to get it done. Took here a couple of weeks, then I waited a week and got it done when she wasn't home. I didn't mention it at all.
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  5290. In my non-HVAC life, "duck/duct" tape is for LARP weapons, and ductwork gets the adhesive aluminum tape. edit: As I have learned, the "duck" in duck tape (leaving aside the brand) is from the cloth used between the outer plastic and the inner adhesive. Before the invention of the adhesive metal tape, it WAS used on ductwork. There are different grades of duck/duct tape, varying in the strength and weave of the fabric and the type and 'stickiness' of the adhesive for uses like gaffer's tape for stage work and military-issue #-mile-an-hour tape. And even the metallic tape is being pushed aside in many HVAC installations by brushed-on joint sealants.
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  5291. Look up your rights under Magnussen-Moss!
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  5292. And this is why I only look for cars with manual locks, manual windows, manual seat adjustment, manual locks (harder to find than ever!), knobs instead of a touch panel for the console... The only automatic thing I like is a transmission, though I can drive a manual.
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  5293.  @rossmanngroup  Yes, but as for me, I don't watch those other peoples' channels.
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  5294. And the dad's heart grew three sizes that day!
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  5295. I got a one day no-comment ban this week, I THINK was due to use the nickname for Richard when responding to someone named Richard who was being a complete Richard. I say I think that is why, because Google doesn't tell anyone WHY an action was taken or about what other than some vague "violation of terms of use" blah-blah. - Imagine trying to teach someone rules of behavior when you only punish them and never tell them what they did wrong? Guess what, they're not going to know what they did wrong, so they will very likely do it again.
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  5296. After hearing WAY too many lost luggage stories, I have determined that if I ever have to take a flight again, I will mail my luggage to my destination hotel and travel only with my carry-on. Then to get back home, I will mail my luggage to my local post office for them to hold until I sign for it.
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  5297.  @donjones4719  It's a rock-et man.
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  5298. A big danger of these incentives is that the next time there is a pandemic vaccine, many people will just sit and wait for the right incentive instead of getting the shot to stay healthy and improve herd immunity.
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  5299. I'm surprised they are not also charging him for his stay in their "fine facilities".
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  5300.  @howiehowdy  And who is paying for these connectors and the labor? The auto owner who may not see the issue the same way you do.
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  5301. Spay/neuter, but NEVER declaw!
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  5302. And if there is nobody home, you call the contact number on the work order.
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  5303.    Well, that's a rather calm way to pounce. So, no pitchforks today?
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  5304.  @Sonny_McMacsson  At-will employment has protections for both the employee (can't be held to a contract term if they want to leave) and the employer (can't be forced to continue paying someone who is bad for the company). At-will employment also allows an employer to be able to add or reduce staffing as business needs mandate. - Are there abuses in such a situation? Sometimes yes. That's where labor law, OSHA, local ordinances, and unions try to balance things out.
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  5305. *Terms and Conditions may apply. Prize not available if we're stunningly incompetent. Taxes and fees responsibility of the winner. Winner agrees to the use of this failure of ours as the basis of spending winnings on lawyers to try and get the car from us. Additional rules and restrictions available somewhere under a pile of excuses for our mistakes. - You can't not-win if you don't play!
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  5306.  @imagarrettru12  I wonder if it was cleared of trees, if it would be big enough for a regulation football/soccer game.
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  5307. We're gonna need a big pit for that effort.
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  5308. The only "Smart" thing in a kitchen should be the human. Sadly, even that product seems to be discontinued.
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  5309.  @Seek1878  I am of a size that is somewhat trample-resistant. I am also a person with asthma and COPD. I'd rather have to withstand the panic of other humans than trying and failing to breath while noxious smoke fills the air.
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  5310.  @quintrankid8045  Perhaps, but I still think there are too [bleeping] many touchscreens in applications that don't need them, and some that are worse because of them. Leading the pack of dumb places for a touchscreen: Cars.
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  5311. They hate anyone who knows their actual rights under the law.
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  5312.  @BobbyFranco  It's naht a tumah!
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  5313.  @joshruby  Give your computer a warm hug?
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  5314. "Good fences make good neighbors" is a saying for a reason.
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  5315. I was FDC in Army National Guard in the 80's. All we had until my last year was the M-16 board and charge book, though I did plot a sudden fire mission with a map, protractor and the charge book while sitting in the driver's seat of my M577. The round, by chance, hit a target tank chassis, throwing sparks, and impressing the heck out of the Battalion CO. - Why was I driving (and plotting, and being the RTO)? We were a VERY understrength mortar platoon, barely crewing two tubes. The FDC section was just me. Yeah, no check board, one of the many shortcuts mandated by numbers.
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  5316. "Don't Panic" is such good advice, it is printed in large, friendly letters, on the cover of the Encyclopedia Galactica
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  5317. Dang it! You made me learn about Chesterton's fence today! Thank you.
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  5318.  @TheRealScooterGuy  That is abusive. The guy was being SMART and not driving his vehicle drunk, instead he was pushing it, and they still convicted him? Screw the judge(s) who made that call.
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  5319. One time, using one car to bush a dead car, I was the old tire. I sat n the hood of the running car, and braced my feet against the bumper of the dead car. Youth and stupidity for the win!
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  5320.  @Ninnjette-  Might be time to take up pre-dinner tapdancing...
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  5321.  @jhoughjr1  One big problem with our "war on drugs" is we don't know where to aim the artillery.
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  5322. Heck, I can leave a five-hour TTRPG session with friends I've known for over 30 years and not be able to give you a good description of any of them.
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  5323. They had to pay someone to beat the stuffing out a guy with the last name Paul? Mayweather pulled the wool over the promoters' eyes.
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  5324.  @omarbaba9892  I am not a Brit. And I am only cultured if you count digestive bacteria...
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  5325. And make MAGA donors pay for it!
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  5326. It's almost like some people think trains don't travel on easily identifiable paths (called rails) and don't make noise when they travel. We should all exercise as much caution as school buses regarding grade crossings, even if we don't all have to stop before crossing to listen for a train that doesn't trigger the lights and gates. Trains ALWAYS have the right of way. They take a very long distance to stop, depending on track conditions and the weight of the train.
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  5327.  @curtisfranzen986  The People's Republic of Massachusetts, actually.
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  5328.  @curtisfranzen986  Upstate New Yorkers aren't all bad. A lot of them are farmers or are friends with farmers. NYC? Those straphangers can keep their rat maze and their garbage-strewn streets.
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  5329. See also: "It just works."
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  5330. That's how you summon Murphy! Like an EMT saying "quiet".
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  5331. In the home I grew up in, one of neighbors came and politely asked if we could cut down a white pine that was dripping sap on their car from where a sizeable limb came down in a storm. We looked at it, discussed things, and I and two friends spent a Saturday limbing and topping, and Sunday taking the stump down the grade and getting the debris hauled away (someone who burned wood in an outside grill was willing to season it for two years before using it, and they even took the smaller limbs). - We had a fun weekend exceeding our non-existent arborist skills, and the neighbor was content.
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  5332.  @dalejoy193  Interesting bit of information!
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  5333. "If you aren't doing anything wrong, you should not be afraid of cameras." - Cops. - I saw one comment on another presentation of this footage that said something to the effect of, "The cops are often concerned that someone armed and with harmful intent could be using the security camera to plan an ambush." But then why would a cop show up ALONE and just amble about on the porch, turning his back to the door and windows over and over if that was the case?
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  5334. So, if during your employment at a grocery store, you write a NYT times best seller about some magical golden ring and the short people who throw it into a volcano, or develop a $5 temperature-tolerant test for tuberculosis... the grocery store owns your innovation?
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  5335.  @sphinx3d  No, it is a nerve cluster reaction in some cats. Sometimes, if it is a suddenly new symptom it can be an indication of an actual health problem.
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  5336. Or whose husband was necessary TO be left. I had one of those fathers.
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  5337.  @guavachild  In my family, leftovers of one serving or more got eaten on "leftover night". Leftovers of less than one serving got put in a margarine tub in the freezer to build a frozen layer cake that, when two tubs were filled, became "garbage soup" with the addition of some water, rice and seasonings. I guess growing up on the edge of poor teaches different lessons?
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  5338. Fusion!
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  5339. That shirt is FANTASTIC!
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  5340. The building code differences are SO many. You'll need to deal with potentially different stairs, door widths, floor surfaces/coverings, ADA toilets, oh, and let us not forget installing sprinklers throughout the structure!
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  5341.  @JM-lk6wo  I was also joking, given that Ray has worked on a few PT Cruisers at his new shop.
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  5342.  @bradhaines3142  True. I am just impressed at how tightly engineers can pack the engine compartments these days. And by impressed, I mean, torches and pitchforks at dusk "impressed"
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  5343.  @brentfarvors192  Who's paying thousands for a baseball bat, I mean, running for the HOA board to stop the stupidity?
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  5344.  @BearKat9  Avocados. The trees are total water hogs.
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  5345. How DARE people not react in a way you expect!
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  5346. Wayne's World! Party time, excellent!
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  5347. The last time wind told me something it was "Eat fewer eggs!"
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  5348. You'll have to excuse Tucker's silence, He's busy waxing his brow-clench.
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  5349. The front yard looked like it was the neighborhood dead limbs dumping ground.
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  5350.  @P_RO_  If the cops are heading toward not helping, ask them how much you have to pay THEM to do their jobs they're already being paid to do.
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  5351. I have a 2011 Ford and have not had major problems, never mind "regular repair issues". The key may be that I don't drive it like an idiot, and I do periodic preventative maintenance.
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  5352.  @pennybeacham6461  I once lived in an apartment with shag carpet. After one adventurous evening, it was "double shag" carpet. . . Giggety.
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  5353. It worked for those SubPrime Court justices, so it's now normalized.
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  5354.  @ianjay4596  Plenty of blame to lie at the feet of lawyers too. Donate food as a corporate grocery store and it is less than perfectly fresh? Expect to be sued by someone so a lawyer can get billable hours...
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  5355.  @AlechiaTheWitch  He has a tool to use induction to melt a lock shackle, the ice cream container is not safe.
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  5356. Also, a laser print doesn't run and bleed on humid days, or even in a downpour.
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  5357.  @bikkiikun  But while a fruit stand would throw out the bad apples to provide a better product, police unions keep the bad apples in as long as possible.
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  5358.  @LatitudeSky  I learned the trick from reusable drink bottles and took the lesson over to pill bottles and screws that go into plastic.
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  5359. That Fiat 500 is small enough to be a spare in the bed of a full-sized pickup truck. Never use a spare tire again! Just roll your spare vehicle down the snowmobile ramps and zip over to the Tire store to repair/replace the flat you'll have to strap to the roof.
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  5360. I don't buy Apple Macintosh. I buy Macintosh apples. - Delicious!
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  5361. I thought Louis was going to leave the GoPro and walk away, turning this video into "Where are Louis' breadcrumbs?"
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  5362. $70,000 is a good downpayment on a house you can live in, two years of a college education, or years of medical insurance coverage even in the rapacious profit-driven system we suffer under.
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  5363. If I heard that from a school in my neighborhood, I'd be wondering if I was expected to get a piece of carpet and face toward Rome.
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  5364.  @DaFifaKid  A .68 caliber paintball pellet at FASTER than league velocity of 400 fps imparts a little over 16 foot-pounds on impact. a .40 caliber pistol round imparts between 460 and 590 foot-pounds on the target (assuming all energy expended on the target, a.k.a. no significant pass-through). - The pistol round has around 31 times the impact energy. This is a bad comparison you propose.
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  5365.  @jeremyweems4916  If they entered and took anything like copper wire and piping, fixtures, etc., yes burglary
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  5366.  @PiDsPagePrototypes  Neat revenue idea! Sell faring seats to Flat Earthers!
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  5367. Even more dangerous to relay on US political support when there is so much acrimony and rarely a scrap of compromise.
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  5368. Out of state plates usually mean a ticket won't be contested. So you were an ATM.
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  5369.  @shimes424  Sancho's comment did not read like bootlicking, but a backhanded condemnation of civil asset forfeiture.
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  5370. My brother is a CAD drafter, and has never gone to even a day of IT/database/etc. classes. In his last two jobs, he has had to step in and TEACH the "certified" IT tech fix server issues. Everything he knows about IT he learned by reading and experimenting.
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  5371. I never had a license to drive a tank. But I did have one to drive an M-113 class vehicle. And the danger cart known as a military jeep. - I was offered the chance to get a deuce-and-half license, but I didn't want to keep getting shanghaied to transport duties, being in a combat arms MOS.
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  5372. Preston sitting alone at the kitchen table has more people with knowledge of military matters than some major newspapers and broadcast teams.
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  5373. The maker of that jack stand spelled aluminium rather strangely.
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  5374. Paintball guns. edit: IN California, they probably have to be called "markers"
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  5375. From me, the same well-wished as wilcieno.
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  5376.  @randybeard6040  Be ready for the trolls who will claim that you are deifying Ray as the second coming of their dear fluffy lord...
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  5377. I would agree with your methodology, if I did not have the experience to know the reliability of the replacement pipeline for parts. I would imagine that if you have years of experience and a person whose job is to know where to look for parts, it is less a worry than if you're doing a once-a-decade valve cover job.
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  5378. (/fervent_applause)
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  5379. I watch a lot of ASCSG videos. Nearly all chemical plant and refinery "incidents" are due to slacking on safety equipment, training, and/or maintenance. But it still happens over and over, with no plants learning from the disasters and deaths at other plants until they are FORCED to do so by regulators.
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  5380.  @bennettcawley4630  I have never seen Breaking Bad, so I did need that clip of dumb people causing a power outage.
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  5381. retirement/resignation ahead of charges is such a "blue-line" move.
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  5382.  @Serin9X  Yep. US highway design norms are insane in places.
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  5383. Apparently at least one Fox talking head is contractually obligated to wear the "resting constipated diarrhea" face.
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  5384. The odds in these old cases is that often, the actual people responsible for the fraudulent convictions are long-retired and/or dead.
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  5385. @Su When you are driving the posted speed limit and it feels too fast or too slow, that is actually an issue of roadway design. Road Guy Rob and Not Just Bikes have videos about the phenomenon. - edit: I should have said, "in dry, clean, and well-lit conditions".
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  5386. Thus, the rise and fall (so far) of NFT's
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  5387. Imagine being assigned to Donald J Harkonen's protection detail to keep him alive in "the yard" if he gets prison time? The logistics of that are mind boggling. They'd probably have to either build a prison just for him, or not send him to prison in the first place. Dangit.
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  5388.  @233kosta  It didn't help that (reportedly) items like displays and other equipment was screwed INTO the fiberglass hull instead of there being glued-on posts to screw into.
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  5389. I'd even take Clint Eastwood's empty chair for President over the person now violating the office.
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  5390. I've seen one of those giant skeletons in a santa suit.
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  5391. The judge may or may not be right under the letter of the law in that jurisdiction, but he is wrong for the functionality of a rational society.
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  5392. A dryer joke? it's often just full of hot air... I tumbled onto that one a while ago.
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  5393. "There were speed bumps from both sides." - Some NYC driver, probably
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  5394. Regarding the thumbnail example, glass is pretty danged eco-sustainable for liquid products. Repetitive reuse and remaking possible. - In my mind, one of the biggest negative influences on business is the stock market. While it was once a great source for starting companies to secure funding, it has, over the last handful of decades, been a monster that demands companies have always-increasing profit margins over other concerns like innovation, ecology, treatment of workers, and following the law.
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  5395.  @jesarablack1661  That's the rub. The following is my understanding, and may have errors. The two things a President can do for federal convictees are the pardon and commutation. The commutation/clemency cuts the active prison term short, but does not remove the "stain of guilt" It also does not allow the person to later serve on juries, hold political office, or own a firearm. A pardon is typically granted after (or in lieu of) prison time, but DOES restore the three abilities denied by a commutation above. Neither of the two options expunge the person's legal guilt or their criminal record. Both options require the person to ADMIT, even if in a de facto manner, to the facts of guilt to get the Presidential grant.
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  5396. It's almost GIVING the defense an appeal basis. "Your honor, the witness was coerced to testify against my client by imprisonment."
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  5397.  @rylandavis2976  Receiving a summons to appear is a FAR cry from being JAILED to force an appearance. This woman was jailed without even the opportunity to refuse the summons.
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  5398. One old saying I keep using: "A car that doesn't go is a camper. A car that doesn't stop is a coffin."
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  5399. 6:40 is a classic "swoop and stop" insurance scam. Or someone high out of their mind. - At 11:30, the song "Instant Karma" by John Lennon started up in my head. - Thank you for sharing this!
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  5400. Doctors must regularly learn new aspects of their occupation to maintain certification and employment. Firefighters and EMTs must regularly learn new aspects of their occupation(s) to maintain certification and employment. Cops? Mandatory range time.
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  5401.  @MrSlowestD16  Chex cereal is a bit plain, which is why I think few like it as kids, but as tastes change in later years, it is a better 'fit'. It does benefit from fruit, or even a little cinnamon-sugar.
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  5402.  @TohaBgood2  Hahaha!
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  5403.  @stevewhite3424  Right? Some people assume everyone has the space, the tools, and the physical ability to do their own work on everything. "Why don't you re-point your OWN chimney, great grandpa? Get up out of your wheelchair and get to work!"
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  5404. You know there is something 'hinky' going on when a privately run prison, which is used because it is somehow cheaper than the state running a similar prison, make a PROFIT of 18+ million dollars in one year. And I am sure it is a combination of inefficiencies of the state-run side and the rampant profit engine of the private side. - Oh, EXCUSE ME! "Detention center", not prison... A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and have thorns as sharp.
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  5405. Oh! You meant fully CREWED return. We heard cully CRUDE return.
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  5406.  @Nightriser271828  I grew up in a Sears kit house. Three bedrooms, one bathroom, BIG kitchen, huge living room. Oil heat and a fireplace in the living room and basement. My parents and their friends built it in a summer about two years before I was born. The only contractors involved were for the concrete basement, and the electrical. My father was a plumber/heating contractor way back before they started calling it HVAC.
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  5407.  @andrewallen9993  If a farmer bought a Russian tractor, wouldn't the repairs be a collective action? (weak communism joke)
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  5408.  @technicalprecision8651  You have all of your points backwards. Lack of records of maintenance is not proof that the maintenance was not done, but only that it was not documented. - And Ray clearly showed a very probable causal chain that started with a casting flaw, to a universal coming loose, to a drive shaft flopping about and grabbing wires and fluid lines. - The one thing I think you got right is that the brake lines on the shaft are a function of them melting and dropping onto that shaft.
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  5409. Check online yourself. A dealer employee can lie, or be honestly incompetent.
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  5410.  @rossmanngroup Ehem. Your Honor, I would like to enter exhibit #1 into evidence - Temu.
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  5411.  @Teixas666  Electric trolleys are an old, but low-pollution solution for dense city areas. Some train lines are transitioning (back?) to the technology to reduce or eliminate the use of on-board fuel or energy sources. And some passenger rail systems have been that way for decades or longer.
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  5412. I had a case of the 'Rona back in December and though I was better in about 10 days, I have been re-reading a fiction book series and I have no memory of most of the plot and a couple of the later-introduced characters. I am starting to feel I lost some files up in the grey fleshy hard drive.
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  5413.  @tamtheman2099  Yeah, the mindset seems to be, "Me cop. Cop right. So me right. SMASH!"
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  5414. The fact that someone over there used that still from a porn series means they had to have watched porn. What passage in the Koran says that is okay?
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  5415.  @georgerobartes2008  Ah. Wonderful to have a "get out of sin" card handy.
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  5416.  @peregreena9046  Well... 7 fingers and three transplanted toes.
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  5417.  @williamgilroy5217  Heck, even if Ray hires someone named Janet, they're shop-name should be "PETAH!"
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  5418. In a year we'll be relieved and surprised when traffic stops DON'T result in shots fired by police.
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  5419. "And call your mama, she misses you."
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  5420.  @leefranklin3054  Right! That's the acronym I was trying to dredge out of my brain! PMCS - Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services.
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  5421. Just about anything can be fired from the prone position, at least once.
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  5422. It may be a confirmation bias thing, since word is getting around that Ray will actually work on them, causing more to be dropped off.
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  5423. A common mistake is calling the Medal of Honor the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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  5424. Mine were taken away about one minute after I smashed my head on both sides while trying to look closer at where they "Clacked" together. You know, now that I think about it, I had a lot of stuff taken away after I started 'experiments' (no, never did things to living creatures!). Back then, the phones were owned by the phone company. My parents got a little tired of me taking them apart to figure out how they worked, since at the age of 5 I couldn't seem to put them back together right. So they had to order a new phone and send the "broken" one back. That may be why I was told that the electricity inside the television was powerful enough to kill me instantly no matter where I touched it.
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  5425.  @raymisuto9872  An important point for anyone living on a public road. the first few feet of "your yard" are (most usually) actually the municipality's "setback" . It exists in case they need to widen the road, then they can/will use eminent domain to claim an equal span of your yard in case another widening is required. This is a lot less of a factor in very old neighborhoods where the house is built right up against the sidewalk. - So if he DID have the money to build his own guardrail, or a steel-reinforced concrete crash barrier, or deeply-sunk bollards, or some other barrier, he might have to build it several feet back from the existing edge of the sidewalk. And that's if the zoning and planning board even let him do so. They could deny any barrier on the grounds of "safety" or many handfuls of other excuses. Or they could just sit on his request until he dies of old age.
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  5426. Only the lack of a cask of Amontillado.
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  5427. Also, don't those toxic heavy metals end up there?
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  5428.  @Justicescales123  The trucker convoy "protest" was both impeding traffic, and impeding commerce. They would have gotten a lot more respect from me if they parked their trucks in a large lot, got their butts out of the cab and held signs, speaking calmly to anyone interested in their position. But no. They blocked roads, blasted their loud as [bleep] horns, and made life miserable for the people who have NO control over the thing they were protesting. - edit: To address your first point in the comment to which I am replying, I would much rather an "organized" protest be free of the decrees of those in government. This is not to say that people should be setting up stages, seating, blockades, or blocking streets without securing permits to do so. But again, those activities are covered by existing laws. And how much more squishy a concept to base objections to enshrined rights can one find that, "organized" or "disorganized"? The Constitution mentions nothing about how organized an assembly is, only that it be peaceful.
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  5429. The first engine I worked on was a friend's Peugeot. Nearly scared me off of any future wrench turning.
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  5430.  @hardkoreboy  It's to the point that anyone who is interviewed has to make a point of reading the resulting article, and then commit to writing a letter to the editor to correct errors and misquotes. That has just as much a chilling effect on subject matter experts willing to be interviewed. If I was a practicing... anti-gravity researcher with a project showing actual results, I would almost have to have a press representative to properly screen interview requests based on each outlets history of turning interviews into slant or misquoted fantasy.
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  5431. Valid question! Although, I do appreciate how a dumb statement from someone who didn't read the homework turned into a valuable history lesson for us here.
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  5432. I love the infantry-level instructions on those parts. Like the classic "THIS SIDE TOPWARD ENEMY" on the claymore mine.
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  5433. I too have worked in customer service, and only DELIBERATELY called a customer a bitch. Or an a55hole. But they had to work hard to earn that.
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  5434. I've seen enough Law Picking Lawyer videos to know that the kind of boots available to non-police entities are typically garbage with wafer locks. And they're often not well built either. So grind it off, or just jiggle the wafers with a paperclip.
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  5435. Gives me 1990's internet nostalgia! I'm not complaining about the editing for two reasons. 1) Pobody's Nerfect. 2) I can't do better with my current skill set.
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  5436. Ever had a slice of "cheese food product"? (shiver) Is a "cheese food product" something that better cheese eat?
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  5437.  @ewxlt  Damn. The coffee too?
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  5438. The earliest table-flip I'm aware of is in Xtian mythology. Something to do with collecting taxes in a religious building.
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  5439. Ooh, and some "impersonating" charges!
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  5440. Imagine the idiocy of, with a boat already known to be somewhat unstable, of replacing the wooden top deck WITH CONCRETE? I'm stunned.
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  5441. Louis Rossmann covered it with more New-Yorker language. Essentially, when you sell shirts of coffee mugs, you don't do background checks and tarot card readings of the future of the buyer. You make sure the payment clears.
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  5442.  @The_kneidlach_engineer  Oh how witty. How droll. I eagerly await your Comedy Central stand-up special.
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  5443.  @mekko1413  Ah, go sit on a rake. My "naive, childish" was based on actual facts. Just because a rapaciously greedy corporation provides something you want doesn't make their greed suddenly good.
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  5444.  @juliaf_  Then the problem is not gas versus electric, it is maintenance versus coasting on the part of your power company. If your power company is not turning the money you pay that they LIST as "line maintenance" into actual line maintenance, they are stealing.
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  5445. At this point, we're ALL Barbie Girls in a Barbie world, since it's all "made of plastic." It's fantastic. . And you're welcome for the earworm.
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  5446. There is a REASON Johnson told Republicans in the House to no longer go to town meetings. If they keep up these criminal acts, it may not end at people yelling and booing. It may proceed to more "direct" expressions of dissatisfaction.
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  5447. I wonder, since it calibrates when plugged in, if unplugging and re-plugging would help "reset" the sensitivity?
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  5448. Or, they could charge a price for their subscription that doesn't put them in the poor house? I can't keep a straight face after that. Of COURSE they're making mad money.
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  5449. The return on investment, Johnson, is not huddling around the burning furniture in the back yard trying not to freeze to death. Oh, and small shit like functioning traffic lights, communications, businesses, hospitals, schools, water systems... All without burning wood and coal in each structure to stay warm, cook food, and maybe be able to see by at night.
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  5450. As I started watching this video, I grabbed a blanket off of my couch to regulate the temperature of my own inner workings as the room was a bit cooler than I expected. I empathize with all of the rockets here.
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  5451. Now that's a great idea. Not only can you read it, but it is there for others as well. And if your library is part of a book-sharing network, even people in other towns can get access to the books!
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  5452. Since I received my major diagnoses (deliberately plural), I am glad I had long-before resolved not to breed. My genetic baggage is not good for the future of the species. I only wish more people were this self-aware.
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  5453. And they would have gotten GOOD press instead of bad press. Which headline do you think is better advertisement: "Company makes mistake, works with homeowner to fix the problem." or "Company makes a mistake, loses case and has to fix the problem."
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  5454.  @jamessimms415  You have my empathy on that crap. I was once threatened with being fired for needing two weeks off in the middle of the summer at one retail job, but at least my National Guard command structure was willing to back me up on that.
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  5455. What irks me the most is the way people dump trash on vacant properties and open land. So much disrespect and pollution to save a couple of dollars at a landfill or transfer station.
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  5456. Army training was to immediately lie face down, head toward the blast, hands protecting the ear, legs tightly together. Then wait for the pressure wave to pass head-to-feet, then the equalizing pressure wave to pass feet-to-head and wait for debris to stop falling. Then stand up, put on the gas mask and hood, and continue the mission. - One guy in our training company asked what we did if we took a lethal dose of radiation. "Continue mission, until you can't."
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  5457.  @workingclasschump  That's a good guideline!
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  5458. Truth!
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  5459. And since a smart phone is also a computer, by some definitions, and so are more and more cars...
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  5460. "because of Covid" sounds like complete B.S. from the carmaker. Software is not written with the programmers all jammed into a VW microbus. They could each be in a different country and still get the software done.
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  5461. It is the only known treatment for a brain cloud.
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  5462. When I was in the military, they had gasoline-burning tent heaters that STANK and the poorly combusted gasoline would really soot-up the heater and it's chimney sections. Which meant putting it away was a fast way to end up looking like a coal miner.
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  5463.  @DarthVader1977  Yeah, those nasty criminals who get in a situation where they have a reduction in income but can't even BRIBE their way into a more proportional support amount, or don't pay a fine because it was sent to a PO box in Maine, where they've never been, or who are subject to retaliatory tickets from a a-hole of a local yokel cop, or...
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  5464.  @BuffaloChicken  I miss Radio Shack.
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  5465.  @forgetfulme1719  Rattlesnake venom is organic too.
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  5466.  @hydrocarbon82  My state won't LET me show any proof of identity to vote. I just need to know a name and street address of a registered voter and look like I could be that person, maybe, and I get to vote. - And I am not a fan of this. I would prefer to show ID to vote, so I know that those who vote are doing so legally. However, that would require that my state also make it cheaper and a LOT easier to get a non-driving state ID.
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  5467. "Think about the children!!!" "If it saves even one life." "... in this day and age."
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  5468.  @cengeb  Shiny lungs!
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  5469. Bah, remove the plinth and plant a tree.
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  5470.  @meminustherandomgooglenumbers  When I worked at UPS loading and unloading large trailers, there were a few people who saw the Fragile as a challenge to see if they could damage the item with the least amount of box damage. I learned that when sending a fragile item, it is better to just go overboard on padding and packaging and leave off the words fragile and glass.
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  5471.  @EmmaVB82  Might need to upgrade to a tiger cage?
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  5472.  @Jirodyne  You see, you're quoting the law, and I'm conveying what actually happens all too often.
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  5473. Nice... (head nod)
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  5474. The fact that this lawyer is hearing from other people who are having the same thing happen to their FULLY PAID OFF house would lead a rational mind to the fact that these HOA boards are targeting houses they can make the most money from.
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  5475.  @herbertthomas1642  I have been binging the channel. When he clears an abandoned property, he does usually let the grass lie after mowing. If he is helping out someone who still lives in their home, he will often bag the excess.
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  5476.  @BernardLS  Mine too, I just typically follow the sources cited if the topic is important.
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  5477. OMG! Those new "vapor control" can have resulted in me spilling about 10-20% of the gas I try to dispense. It gets all over me, my clothes, the lawnmower, and the ground. How is that better? - I ended up throwing away the spout and replacing it with a funnel.
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  5478. Someone needs to smuggle a cyanide capsule to Stone in his hair cream. History enthusiasts might get this reference.
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  5479. You definitely don't want to drop your skirt too early. Giggety.
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  5480.  @positronundervolt4799  Like most predators, they want the most calories for the least effort and risk.
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  5481.  @phatbaby4234  That long and invasive process I sketched out is intended to get the customer to cancel the service and think it is their idea.
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  5482. I think maybe he had a serious MG42 allergy. - edit: I kid, but kudos to your gramps, and I agree with your point.
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  5483.  @mildlyfrostedbegels  The fact that Ukrainians' opinions are ALLOWED to differ, and to do so PUBLICLY means that Ukraine is already a far better place than Russia.
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  5484.  @economicprisoner  In Massachusetts, minimum wage is $15/hr... unless your job normally earns more than a measly $20 in tips... PER MONTH! Then the minimum is $6.75/hr. That is 45% of the pay the person pushing a lawnmower or siting behind a counter selling milk and bread starts at. This is broken. Pay wait staff like everyone else, and make tipping a bonus instead of a peer-pressure "you have to do it" thing.
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  5485. It just gave them a checklist of rules to violate.
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  5486. I heard everything I needed for belief as soon as you said "a story out of Florida".
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  5487. I FINALLY know what those "salt potatoes" for sale in my local stores (Massachusetts) are! I thought they were just a different cultivar of potato that was better, or maybe only edible, with salt. As they say, knowing is half the battle!
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  5488. Weeping angels from Doctor Who creep me out.
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  5489. "Load the parts cannons!" - "Loaded!" "FIRE"
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  5490. The FAA doesn't care about pilot shortages. They care about enforcing their continually growing book of regulations. Just wait, someday even hobby drone pilots will need flight physicals.
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  5491. When I was in Driver's Ed, the teacher had to keep reminding me that going too slow was also dangerous. Even 3+ decades later, I'm not comfortable going fast.
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  5492.  @brucepreston3927  You made the point here with the second part of your first sentence. "with the phones we have now" I have had four phones in my life (since 1988), and have gone through about 8 batteries. Two for my Motorola StarTAC, three for my Nokia brick, two in my last phone, and my current phone is still on its first. Battery replacement is one of my top criteria for phone selection, and I usually only upgrade when the networks require it by phasing out a transmission protocol. Though I did have to change phones once when my carrier was absorbed by a larger company who decided to stop supporting the phone I had.
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  5493.  @macbook802  "Evening officer" - "Walking license and proof of insurance."
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  5494. I have been in a number of restaurants that deliberately reduced their available in-restaurant seating to fall UNDER the number of patrons that would require a customer-accessible bathroom, which would mean TWO bathrooms, both ADA compliant. Some places go so far as to divide the space such that the kitchen is ludicrously large, allowing only two tables of four seats each, or just being pick-up or delivery only.
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  5495.  @xentaatnex8261  And then the lawyer is stopped, the money seized because if it was your money, it was OBVIOUSLY the proceeds of a crime, and that money was guilty.
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  5496. Better to be a rough collie than melancollie.
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  5497. Rossmann Relocation Week!
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  5498. I too am learning from Ray's videos, even though I am not doing a lot of the work on my car myself (low tool count, and I rent, so many jobs I cannot do without risking losing my "indoor-ness". But I use what I learn from Ray to better understand what is going on with my car, and how to keep from being taken advantage of by possible unscrupulous mechanics.
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  5499. He's so fluffy I'm gonna die!!!
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  5500. Sweet custom under-car cardboard floor mat!
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  5501.  Joey Bidenson  Okay, this is the second time I'm seeing you post this. I no longer think you are trying to be witty. You are crying out desperately for help and mental health care.
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  5502. The first time I ever heard of a non-petroleum plastic was in a video about farm/construction equipment maker JCB using soy plastics to make body panels. They reduced weight versus the metal panels, The color went all the way through so scratched did not need to be painted, and one of the workers swung a sledgehammer over his head onto a panel and the hammer bounced.
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  5503.  @jpnewman1688  GO away troll.
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  5504. Next step: Barcode on our neck tattooed at birth.
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  5505. I had no idea the tree moving was going to be so mudane.
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  5506. Offer them all four months off their time if the aggrieved party(ies) can inflict the injuries that were falsely claimed. Yeah, sometimes my sense of justice gets a little medieval.
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  5507. When I buy fresh tomatoes, I spend a little extra to get the vine-ripened ones.
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  5508. Then you'll have to buy them Lemon Pledge.
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  5509.  @Tugela60  This is more like "The assailant wore a blue shirt on Tuesday, June 11th" and then searching the wardrobes of everyone in the county or state to see who owns a blue shirt.
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  5510. The shop I get work done at has so far been honest about "upsell". They have declined to change air filters when they don't need it, even though they could easily just change it and never tell me it wasn't dirty. They always show the part (or a picture of it) that need replacement and are willing to let customers see it in situ. Last year, they told me my wipers were pretty worn, but I should go to WalMart instead of paying the price they would have to charge.
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  5511.  @dagds4216  And because nationwide corporations have more lobbying power than Chris D's friend, apparently.
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  5512. Breachmaster sounds like an adult "toy".
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  5513. Some people will complain about live-streamed nature footage. 'Why isn't the [animal] doing [action] I was here for?"
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  5514. It is too bad that one can only sue for money. It should be legal to sue for injunctive relief in the form of them being fired.
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  5515. Ban privately owned cameras? Police everywhere show interest!
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  5516.  @merleawe_  He wore the white gauze when it could be milked for sympathy, and went without when he seemed to simply forget it.
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  5517. It's simple. She was actual size, as in 1:1 scale.
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  5518. One thing I didn't hear covered in this video is the fire issue. Lithium ion battery fires are a pernicious issue, particularly when the batteries are in a use where they may be regularly subjected to damage.
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  5519. My only gripe with my current refrigerator is that the previous owner inexplicably peeled out and off all of the labels and logos. So now that I am close to needing a new rail for one of the door shelves (it is cracking in the center and that plastic just doesn't hold with super glue), I have no way to source the part. But I have a drill, rivets, epoxy and some crafting materials to splint it. Because it is right to repair when you can.
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  5520.  @swedishshortsnout5610  If someone is living there, bagging the grass keeps the lawn greener/growing better immediately. If he leaves the clippings lie, there may be a period of slower growth or partial die-off, though the soil is enriched by the decomposing clippings (the reason why mulching blades are a thing).
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  5521. Imagine all of the cop-on-cop stops that would involve?
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  5522. I also don't store my toothbrush in my bathroom since seeing the "germs on a toothbrush" episode.
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  5523.  @donotlike4anonymus594  Another option, if you're not part of the $1000+ phone crowd, just break/bend your phone when they say they want it. Or drop it in a liquid. Then say, "Oops."
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  5524. 1:49 - For a long moment, I thought there was something wrong with the state flag of California. Then I remembered that the REAL one is SUPPOSED to have only one head on the bear.
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  5525. Plier use only bothers me when people round off the bolts or scrape the bejeezus out of whatever they are gripping.
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  5526.  @shawbros  At least they're not wereshoes!
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  5527.  @lastdayonearth8381  Better than spending that amount to punish a corporation that doesn't agree with your governor...
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  5528.  @11bornrich  How have you possibly read any of comments in this thread to indicate that I am FOR the invaders and their changes?
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  5529. Haha! "Political speech impediment"!
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  5530. In my state, not yielding to emergency vehicles with lights or alarms active is a simple $100 fine. Not arrest, and definitely not a scolding tirade by a testosterone-enriched psychopath.
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  5531. The only myth I am aware of as a viewer that was given the big "NO" from the insurance folks was letting Tory do the "falling through a canvas canopy" bit from the second Indiana Jones film. Instead it was done with Buster.
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  5532. I think I learned that last part about photovoltaics being reversed LEDs on Technology Connections.
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  5533. Nah, because gravity isn't real and the Universal logo is hung from the skydome by wires.
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  5534.  @pineappaloupe  I found this page, too many trees to list in a comment. https://www.thespruce.com/what-are-deciduous-conifers-3269799
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  5535. I did that on a much smaller scale to a friend one year. He was getting 5-10 unwanted magazines a week for a month or two until he was able to contact them all and tell them he was not paying beyond the 'free trial issue'. He still doesn't know it was me.
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  5536. Hur, hur. He said "hose".
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  5537.  @grummbe  Um.. e-something? Maybe quantum.
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  5538. Mill-a-tree. (Military)
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  5539. And he's the cop from People of Earth.
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  5540. And I have learned something today!
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  5541. That is the scale on the caliper he had. If the scale was in (average) human hairs, the measurement would be around 2.84 hairs.
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  5542.  @real-oppenheimer  Its a matter of social inertia, combined with the expense of replacing all of the tools and tables already in use. That, plus our country is generally run by old people, and old people are not often "all about change" even if it is for the better.
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  5543. Just like it is possible to recycle electric vehicle batteries. It's just more expensive than getting new materials or assemblies from countries where they don't pay people as much or seem to care about their safety.
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  5544. I had that happen one time at a company I was working for. The company was based in California, we were working in Massachusetts. Apparently, there was a banking communications issue, and the company's transfer of money from one account to the payroll account didn't happen for three days. The company sent out emails to every employee explaining what happened, told us how to provide paperwork for any overdrafts that happened to us as a result of their error, and they also tacked on an extra hundred dollars (over and above any claims) to everyone's next paycheck as an apology. - That was a great company to work for.
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  5545. This fits in well with the abusively designed benches, the spikes on flat surfaces, and many municipalities' "no sit, no lie" bylaws. Spend a butt-ton of money making homelessness uncomfortable and inconvenient instead of putting the money into actually preventing and remediating homelessness. - It is shameful to call the people behind these things human.
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  5546. I still remember when "Swifties" meant a group of angry veterans out to ruin the presidential aspirations of John Kerry.
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  5547. There should have been more rioters shot. There should have been hundreds to thousands of immediate arrests. The arrests must include the least rioter to the Representatives and Senators who supported and condoned, to the President who called for the action and did nothing to stop it. This will happen again and more often unless all are held accountable. Impeachment, removal from office, arrests, prosecutions, sentencing. All MUST be held accountable of this will happen again and more frequently. - Capitol police need better equipment/weapons and better rules of engagement. Let them shoot to kill rioters, instead of putting them in a position where they can only retreat. - This is the time to choose. Law and order of fire and chaos. Which version of America do we want?
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  5548. Good blinds tip!
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  5549. It's not "stealing" art or writing styles and product if you don't then try and profit from it (sell it). If you copy a Picasso and use that exercise to improve your art skills, that is a practice exercise. If you copy a Picasso and try to sell it as an authentic Picasso, you're being criminal.
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  5550.  @lunatik9696  For judges, it's Sovereign Immunity. Like they're some kind of noble.
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  5551.  @jessjmanns  I'm already dealing with low-grade depression every waking hour of my life. I'll pass on your suggestion.
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  5552. Armada? Wasarmada for you?
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  5553.  @UncleKennysPlace  When a person from the insurance company visits the property to look at it, you have a decent chance to be aware they are there, and avoid embarrassing situations. If you are home, the human inspector can ask questions, and get on-the spot answers. When a UAV with a zoom lens makes the tour, you have no clue. You could be doing naked Feng Shue meditation on your back porch. You could be midway through a 2-hour window replacement. You might have just dressed your home as a decrepit abandoned wreck for a Halloween party. The drone operator doesn't know because they aren't there to ask questions. The insurance company adjuster doesn't know because they never even got within artillery range of the property. And it is far easier and cheaper to penalize you via mail or email than to actually pay to send a human out to actually take a look and ask questions.
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  5554.  @devo2  You can live on half that money? Where? Where can a person afford housing, food, utilities and health care, ignoring every possible luxury, on $16,000 a year? Perhaps huddling somewhere in a shack in Wyoming? Squatting in an abandoned factory in Ohio? Sharing half a bedroom and occasional toilet access in a small Midwest city?
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  5555. Mmm... pie.
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  5556. Want to have musical fun? Get your wok, a cut up chicken and... Wok a chicken, wok a chicken, wok a chicken, wok a chicken...
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  5557. That comes out to a little more than 660 journalists per day, on average. (212 days since this war started) It seems like we'd be hearing a lot more about the problem long before today if that were the case. - Also, are there even 140,000 journalists in that part of the world? Or are they redefining anyone with a cell phone camera as a journalist?
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  5558.  @gabrielsteinberg9434  Oh, that makes a lot more sense. only 6.6 per day instead of 660 per day.
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  5559. "Siri, where are the Apple data centers?" "Siri, where can I buy a large EMP device?" "Siri, how do I position an EMP device to permanently erase the data Apple collects on me?
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  5560. As a very young kid, I too wanted a bucket of "tunnel paint"
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  5561.  @Nickeman  I got my BS in physics the old fashioned way, but I did stay in a hotel once, so I'll take a crack at this topic.
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  5562. Someone throw Darth Barbie into a volcano. Should be easy, we have the (moral) high ground.
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  5563. Food delivery for Chinese food?
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  5564. You spelled "educated" rather strangely.
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  5565. And laundering your money can get you into trouble too. Unless I'm being far too literal?
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  5566. Dear sweet lord of Pasta, why did it take her so long!?
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  5567.  @TheRealWilliamWhite  Not in all of the states of the US...
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  5568. At this point, the only way it will be overturned with with armed rebellion by brownshirts. The secret is, a lot of moderates and democrats own guns too.
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  5569.  @brrradley1  Yes you do. You are just trying to deflect.
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  5570. Loyalty over integrity in a gang.
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  5571. Many states are, by law, allowed to keep whatever money exceeds the liens/fines from the sale price.
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  5572. This is the kind of reporting that will put a new feather in Michaels hat. This is a cute story nested in a scandal nested in a wholesome contest. Well, enough of my flights of fancy. Thanks for the story, Daily Show team!
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  5573.  @jakedcrane8019  Good point! Those pebbles surfaces, even when fully clean, stink for adhering labels, but a white, silver or yellow paint marker would work much better.
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  5574. MonkeyJedi Motors has just designed a 'vehicle' that is guaranteed to never harm occupants, via roof collapse, in a roll-over crash! Please ignore the lack of an engine, wheels, or the fact that it is just a cargo container.
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  5575. The Mr. Hanky Space Company!
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  5576.  @mojoman2001  Courts make interpretations of law, and make precedent. Governments make laws. Or at least, that's how it is supposed to work.
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  5577. I will not ever scan a QR code. I am not even sure if my current phone can do that function, as I will not check. If it requires a setup process, I won't do it. If a food establishment wants my business, they will have a menu. Even if it is one single menu pasted to the wall or ordering counter. - Similarly, no business without a website (and I'm not talking "Go to our Facebook page!") gets my online business either. Even then, if you want me to spend a lot of money, you damn well better have a physical address where I can apply inquiries regarding warranty or errors in the order.
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  5578.  @Nick-zp8wk  Is this the "tribe" of Rich White Men?
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  5579. When I saw Aliens (the second movie in the series, for those who aren't OLD like me) in the theater, it started with slowly building DRAMA MUSIC and a simple splash screen "In space, no one can hear you scream." Then the screen faded to black. And then I screamed to see how many people would jump. Answer: All of them!
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  5580. Now I want to see a game played by the Shōkaku Cubs. Or even the Shōkaku White Sox. Maybe one aginst the other!
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  5581. Here's hoping there is no data loss in the system...
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  5582.  @springtrap1156  Great album by Queen. Freddy's last songs.
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  5583. So her non-apology defense is that she is too stupid to know the difference between facts and lunacy?
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  5584. "ICE agents undercover..." So. Secret Police. - Also note, the radio report cited statements FROM ICE!
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  5585. Cholesterol-originated clot dislodging and reaching the brain. 3-meter asteroid strike on his bedroom. - Just a couple of ideas that involve no threat on my part, nor put anyone in legal jeopardy after the un-aliving of #45.
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  5586. I think there might not even BE sidewalk into the yard of the house with the birdbath out front. Tough to tell for sure from the camera angles though.
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  5587. From the start I thought it was kind of a "takes one to know one" situation...
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  5588. Sounds like a plot!
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  5589. I once had to change the tracks on a mini-excavator. Same basic mechanisms, lots of expended grease, very Popeye.
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  5590.  @bartsanders1553  That sounds like a dare...
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  5591. If you think it's butter, but it's not, it's Chiffon.
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  5592. Aso note: One of the jobs in the credits is "Troublemaker".
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  5593.  @Uryvichk  It will end when a leading US Senator and/or a Supreme Court justice are subjected to such seizures. Other than that, I hold out little hope.
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  5594.  @Lugia21  "It was a dark and stormy car ownership..."
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  5595.  @Lupine.  Oh, you got one of the good ones.
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  5596.  @jilbertb  That would be a fun day in court.
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  5597. FTC: For The Corporations
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  5598. So, the Poisonous Dwarf of destroyers? *obscure Kung Fu movie reference
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  5599. Yep. Buying land, companies, whole industries. Tencent has had so much success buying their way into the profits and decision making in western video game companies while STILL making rip-offs of those companies' games, without any significant pushback, that they have opened their own video games studio in California. And the morons are excited to get the games that will be made, eager and willing to install the spyware and keyloggers just to get at the shiny game.
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  5600.  @CiaranMaxwell  Ah yes, the legendary land submarines. Helped break the stalemate of the Somme, but then everyone involved was hypnotized and convinced it was something called a "tank".
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  5601. Some driving schools are like the old Fred Villari karate schools. Put in enough time and pay your money and "ta-da! You're a black belt/driver!"
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  5602. "If you have nothing to hide, why would the cameras be a problem?" Right? Isn't that the excuse they used on us?
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  5603.  @phlodel  The better answer would have been, "Oh, my mistake. I was just here to see if you had a public bathroom. Bye!"
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  5604. There is a German YouTuber who has invented and gotten produced multi-shot magazine-fed bows, crossbows, air rifles, and now even a blowgun. Jeorg Sprave is a fun dude. Let him show you those features!
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  5605. One of us. One of us. ONE OF US!
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  5606. It is great. It gives you more stuff to subpoena for your lawsuit.
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  5607. I see color. I ignore it as a basis for judging a person. I judge people all the time, everyone should. But judge them on their words and their actions. - Some will say, "Don't judge people!" But they should. Otherwise you are either trusting people you shouldn't, or not trusting those who deserve your trust. Because "you don't judge people."
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  5608. usko Suomeen!
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  5609. This law was idiotically written.
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  5610. Malicious prosecution is the government version of a SLAPP lawsuit, except that you can't countersue.
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  5611. It is sad that idiots have to be bribed to do something smart. Me, I "got" vaccinated. And that was all the "incentive" I needed.
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  5612. As a subscriber to the Lock Picking Lawyer channel I can say that by and large, a lock is not all that "secure" on its own. That's why guards exist.
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  5613.  @morninglift1253  You don't hear a lot of Italians calling themselves and friends kikes. Or Chinese people using chink, or Spanish speakers using spic, or Irish using mick, or... So I agree. If you don't want others to use the word, maybe stop using it yourself, and it will fade.
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  5614. And even with an audience who agreed with her, no laughs.
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  5615. Holding the pistol while he threatens, he should see jail time for that. Words are protected expression. Even racist slurs and words we don't like.
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  5616. Hahaha! Ammo - triggered... Good pun!
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  5617. Typically, a drink driver's first crash is not their first time driving drunk.
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  5618.  @SK-tr9ii  It's okay, trolls can't read well.
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  5619. An oath doesn't need a god of any flavor. Not even one with meatballs.
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  5620. That damned 710 cap!
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  5621.  @EASTSIDERIDER707  Line drying is great. When it's warm and dry. - I live in New England, so about 40-60% of the year (depending on rain that year) is no-go for line drying. Still, line drying can save a lot of utility money, though I know people who still use their dryer for socks and underwear and line dry everything bigger.
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  5622. If they even get the plate (and state) correct.
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  5623. I bought a 1971 beetle back in the mid-1980's from a young woman. I only paid $125. She was getting rid of it now that she could afford something closer to new. When I got it, the brakes barely worked. It turned out that her boyfriend had replaced the master cylinder, but never bled the brakes. It was amazing how much better the car stopped once I got fluid back in the lines!
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  5624. Imagine trying to make a warranty claim on one of those computers?
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  5625. The Cardassian way. Why force an innocent person to go through the trouble of a trial?
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  5626.  @EchoConstellation  And the work he has done is good ONLY because we agree with him, for now. What if his goal was something you hate? Would that change your views on his points?
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  5627.  @elvinhaak  The key good parts of what you are talking about: - The experience is guided or curated. - It is done via education, not, "Here, use Mommy's phone and be quiet." - Education of responsibilities seems to be a large part of the process. Responsibilities toward the device, the internet, and most importantly, to the kids' self.
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  5628. Heck, every time I plug in my Kindle Fire I get a notification "Your device is plugged into a low-power charger." Because I am using some plug-in brick that I got for free from someone. If I drain down the Fire, it just takes longer to charge, but the charger I am using is enough to keep it topped up when I use the Fire as a music player and run a game at the same time. And that's enough for me.
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  5629. You're thinking small. HUMANITY is racist. Sure there are a lot of people who don't act on their thoughts, and maybe even a tiny fraction of a percent who actually have no racism at all in their mind (though some of that count may have to include people in a persistent vegetative coma), but humans are racist. We are also tribal, sectarian, and applicants of numerous other ways to define others in an "us" and "them" manner.
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  5630.  @tyendor1952  Then the national database would have to also come with a "I don't care if they quit, the investigation and any possible prosecution continues" law. Don't put me in charge of naming laws.
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  5631.  @tjsbbi  I agree that there would have been a massive disruption in supply chains. - But just like a forest fire clears the way for new growth, business failure opens the way for new, smarter, and more agile business to fill the necessary roles of those that failed.
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  5632.  @johncooper4637  Spray foam! Bondo for the new generation!
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  5633.  @pvic6959  So many points in Andy Zar's comment, and THIS (religion) is what gets argued about?
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  5634. I wonder who your leaker was...
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  5635.  @richardross7219  That's what I figured as well.
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  5636. I remember from being in the military that the armored vehicles tracked engine hours instead of miles, but the trucks and jeeps (yeah, that long ago) tracked miles. Farming and construction machinery also tracks engine hours, which makes a lot of sense. An excavator may travel 1/2 a mile in 8 hours of high RPM work load, and non-wheeled cranes move not at all during operation.
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  5637. They are trained to lie to get 'we the people' to slip up and feed the court machinery with the wreckage of our lives, guilty or innocent.
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  5638.  @onradioactivewaves  Silly, cops can't read.
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  5639. Yeah, except that the money is not coming from the cops, is it. It comes from the tax base.
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  5640. Or how about this, they actually charge what the ink cartridge is worth (real price, not padded price), and it is yours? If you cancel a magazine subscription, you don't lose the ability to read the magazine. If you cancel a "beer of the month" club membership, the alcohol in the beer you've already been shipped doesn't drop to 0%.
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  5641.  @dpjazzy15  The phrase "tank printer" has me thinking of something the Army would want to get a couple of.
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  5642. They are right. It's hard to win when the other side has bought all of the politicians, and can afford to outspend you in the "justice" system.
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  5643.  @mason7820  Maybe. To get a warrant, they would have to either show probable cause or shop for a judge that is related and/or owes them favors.
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  5644. "May I search your car?" - "No thank you." - - - And if they get you out of the car, you may want to consider locking your keys inside. At the very least, try not to leave the door/windows open.
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  5645.  @megafonzie5541  That and "If the words fell out of my donut hole, they're lawful orders."
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  5646.  Shane Porter  People spread feces on the walls of public bathrooms all the time too. Something being done all the time doesn't make it right, or even part of a well-functioning society.
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  5647.  Shane Porter  You are entitled to your opinion, and I to mine. That such proselytizing on school grounds is legal is a problem for me and many others. And I am not in need of help. Do YOU need a binky?
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  5648.  @louis_the_hedgehog  Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
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  5649.  @justonperez9779  When I was a young'un the "it" install was Thrush brand louder exhaust parts. This in the way back, before the 1980's.
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  5650. My great grandfather moved to the United States because of 'things' he did that resulted in Russia putting a price on his head. He brought his young wife, over the objections of her family who really didn't like "that Laplander".
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  5651. Print the danged stuff out! If you don't have a printer, go to Staples or some other place that will let you print and pay by the page.
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  5652.  @kelgreen99  True. I do need to get one of those that has a seat belt cutter integrated. But I was thinking less, "My car just went into the lake!" and more, "It's started raining, my windows are open, and the battery is dead from playing Pink Floyd at the picnic."
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  5653.  @Allen.Christian  Oh, sweet summer child. Fix your credit.
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  5654. Because the object is not justice, it is punishment. Either with jail time, a fine, and/or legal expenses. As long as you suffer, the system has worked.
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  5655. A few more missing bolts and the whole car will be light enough to improve gas milage!
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  5656.  @mezo72271  Huh. I was under the impression that conditions were so oppressive and hope-crushing in those countries that violent change was inevitable. People don't usually flee from places where they are happy.
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  5657. Tik-Tok? No, it's called Tik-THOTS.
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  5658. At least she found one job she is good at, even if it was only a job involving her hand.
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  5659. Step one: put Louis DeJoy in the dead letter office.
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  5660. If you have your insurance information ONLY on your phone, you are handing your unlocked phone to a cop, whose primary interest is in finding ways to charge you with crimes and levy fines. That's monumentally... unwise.
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  5661.  @Mark-po5rp  Another good one, if your gym is being difficult, is that you are anticipating being added to a "special list:" that would make your presence in the gym illegal. If they ask which list, look them up and down in the creepiest way you can, and ask, "Which list do you think?"
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  5662. Without feedback, how will you know what aspect(s) of your personality and/or presentation portray you as a piece of garbage? Imagine yourself as a product that never gets a focus group, never gets reviews, never gets a quality control inspection - and then fails to sell a single unit. Without feedback, how will you know how to improve?
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  5663. "I'm not voting for Biden because he isn't stopping the war in Gaza!" So, we're ignoring the fact that this is an armed conflict between two other governments in a sovereign country that is NOT the US, and the US is not involved in the shooting? We're ignoring that the conflict is the Israeli response to a terrorist-style attack, and the leaders on both sides of the conflict refuse to even sit for a discussion about a cease fire, or compromising a bit on their positions and demands? Are these protest voters actually asking the US to get even MORE involved in a foreign war? I thought that was the playbook of the right.
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  5664.  @alysononoahu8702  Truth.
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  5665.  @tvc1848  Read the damn thing again. It's so few words that even a Tennessee Republican might be able to work through it.
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  5666. General Kenobi!
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  5667. @Rich Cran I had only one job try to make a mandatory attendance even unpaid. I walked that manager over to the EEOC/Labor Law poster that was legally required to be prominently posted where all employees could read it, and showed him the relevant sections. Everyone ended up getting the state's minimum three paid hours for showing up for the one-hour meeting, and we ended up doing basic cleaning to run out the rest of the time. The main office was LIVID at the expense, and such a meeting never happened again.
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  5668.  @RUHappyATM  Echoes of Vietnam body counts?
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  5669. Giggety.
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  5670. In Massachusetts, a shop can only put a Rejection sticker on a car that is found to be unsafe, which triggers a short period of time to get it repaired before the registration may be revoked. - And there is a HUGE difference between how a safety defect is handles in cars (60 days to repair), motorcycles (20 days to repair), and commercial vehicles (can only be moved to the nearest repair location once if it is within 5 days of the rejection). - This is all from Massachusetts CMR 540 4.07 (1) through (4). - Th following is anecdotal: A police officer (town, state) can SAY they have the ability to have an unsafe vehicle towed, and they may be able to get it towed, but they don't really have that right under law, as far as I could find. A State Registry or DOT officer can have your vehicle impounded for any number of reasons, be they safety or just attitude (though the attitude impound is becoming more rare in the last couple of decades.
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  5671. "Dunno, it's what the boss wants" is the best reason to do things a certain way, as long as it does not increase danger for you doing that task.
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  5672.  @TheNaldiin  Yeah, some states/counties all you need to be a judge or sheriff is enough valid (or at least unchallenged) signatures on your nomination paperwork, and enough money to run the campaign.
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  5673.  @ellbells126  Some ideas: It might have once been a path to somewhere. I have seen some walks that run right to the side of a porch that wasn't built when the concrete was poured. edit: Or a porch WAS there when the path was poured. It might have been all the path the original homeowner wanted to or could pay for. It might have been an artistic choice. Like those stepping-stone paths some people have instead of a walk, like I want to hopscotch to the front door every time.
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  5674.  @dazednconfused31337  Uncle joke alert!
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  5675.  @dazednconfused31337  That slays!
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  5676. IN the movie Navy Seals, the sniper is able to see the hand motions of people behind 6-8 inch brick and block walls with his infrared scope. Even back when I first saw that movie, with no knowledge of how infrared devices work, I called BS on that.
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  5677. Alarmingly amazing alliteration! Absolutely astounding.
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  5678.  @puikepuck  Also, something I was enlightened to recently by H=John Oliver, the Senate with two seats per state give disproportional weight to the populations of smaller states. It comes to something like over half of the senate represents about 40% of the country's population. Which would be a fair balance against the population-based House of Representatives, if the House had any function in the confirmation of Executive appointees. And this, when the Constitutional requirement that bill regarding spending and budget originate in the House is continually being sidestapped. - I'll leave the vile power that is Congressional committees for another rant.
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  5679. Oh my gosh. The raft of briefings and mandatory training that will come as a result of this. That Sergeant better hope to not be sent back to his unit.
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  5680.  @southerninterloper4107  "Senator, a woman is the kind of person who has no interest in you whatsoever."
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  5681.  @HazmatFatCat  Mayhaps even a New-England grade pothole of mass destruction!
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  5682. Another group of haters that will not learn from the storm damage video are people who hate the homeless. Of the people who had homes and businesses slammed by the hurricane (and who survived) many of those people will be homeless, even if for a short duration. - Homelessness is one calamity away for most people.
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  5683. I am not a mechanic or gearhead and I went kind of cross-eyed reading your descriptions. That said, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
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  5684.  @sexycooljulesverne  There is a wide gap between what is widely viewed as "poor" and being able to afford $60-100K for a car.
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  5685. Those are the military leaders he knows more than. Like that jerk, the commandment of the Marines! - The above is sarcasm. I do NOT want an angry Marine after me.
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  5686. It's amazing the breadth of entertainment options available when your society is not run by uptight Puritanicals. The US would never allow a show like John Dillermand. Nope, we get morality tales in the morning and fantasy violence in the afternoons.
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  5687.  @tissuepaper9962  Or was selling to cops, lawyers and judges...
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  5688. To me it looks like a beaver lodge. Maybe my perceptions are colored by watching a lot of Post10 videos?
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  5689.  @tinoyb9294  I don't know of the top of my head, but chatting up a truck lettering shop might get you some good ideas.
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  5690.  @dzzope  I know people who use a dryer for normal clothes, but line dry (when the weather permits!) blankets, jeans, and large towels. It is a good compromise, and they can get by with two pulleyed clothes lines from their porch to a large tree, while using the dryer less and on shorter cycles. - I can see the compromise, because hanging socks is tedious, and t-shirts, socks and underwear dry pretty quickly in the machine while jeans and large blankets take a long time and bog the machine down. Heck, blankets are really good at wrapping into a ball and keeping the middle of the ball wet.
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  5691. Maybe they're both star destroyers.
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  5692.  @notarealdruglord  Oh yeah! I had not thought about turning my bike into an artificial reef. Very green! (Particularly if the bike is painted green)
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  5693. Vernor's ginger ale is FANTASTIC! It is a little hard to find here in Massachusetts, but Hannaford's carries it, at least out where I am. - Anyway, ginger ale doesn't 'cure' anything other than mild motion sickness and nausea (if it is made with real ginger!) but it can be a way to get both fluids and calories into you when you've been unable to eat and you are dehydrated. Just sip. Don't chug. There's no point trying to hydrate only to have it come back up because your stomach is temporarily rebellious.
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  5694.  @kirbyjoe7484  Well, if weapon categories and laws were based on science, sure. But (at least in the US) weapons laws are based on tradition, lobbying, mis- and disinformation, emotion, aesthetics, and just occasionally a bit of science.
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  5695.  @smrk2452  But that's WORK! Ugh. (sarcasm)
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  5696.  @Anomoomin  I'm sure one or two just NIGHT have to move over by a town or county and get a job there for equal or greater pay.
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  5697. Yep, follow the money.
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  5698.  @Vagabond_Etranger  Laser carbine in the 30 watt range.
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  5699.  @goa141no6  You are required to sublet from a nest of rats and a swarm of roaches to get under $2k, or so I've heard.
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  5700. Could also use dedos, shouzhi, sormet, doigts, dita, palce, paltsy, tesaki, iminwe...
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  5701. I've heard it as "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."
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  5702. How did they get those borders? European (cough, UK, cough) meddling, bribes, strong-arm tactics...
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  5703. White is the color of clean, of undamaged, of purity (see wedding dress tradition), fresh snow (internal reflection of light), of the combined spectra of visible light, and of Asian funerals.
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  5704. Put a sentence in the information block of your YouTube videos telling news organizations interested in using your footage how to contact you for that purpose. You are now a striving independently employed press photographer.
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  5705. That's not a Ray question, that's a 'What did the owner want done" question. Remember, they already paid someone else to have the front end lifted first.
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  5706. Finally, someone is asking the important questions!
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  5707.  @natsuccubus  I used the phrase dollar store because there are Dollar Tree, Dollar General Dollar Plus, Dollar-rama, and so many others.
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  5708. Sarcastro!
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  5709. I would not shed a tear should Donald J Trump die. I will not say I will buy a cake and roll around with it in the tub. - This video's question is a valid one, and I greatly appreciate all the people involved in keeping us aware of the situation and the possible answers to these hypotheticals. -Short form: Learning is good!
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  5710. @Sal Spencer Don't fix your Apple computer, buy a new one! Don't fix your One Wheel, buy a new one! Don't fix that surgical bed with a $300 motor, buy a new one for $30,000! ... This is the road being paved by greedy corporations. They don't need your help, Sal. - Repair is how you keep value, save money, reduce waste, and cut pollution.
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  5711. @ So, in THIS story, NY is using the phrase "ghost plates" to mean obscured plates. You seem to be approaching it from the other use of the phrase which means counterfeit plates. This is a discussion which need better definitions, or less reliance on catch phrases.
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  5712. Mr. Precedent, Don Snoreleoni.
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  5713.  @ithinkdoyou  Depending on the scrapyard rates, a catalytic converter can yield $50-200. Replacing that same one that was inexpertly ripped out of your vehicle can cost between $100-2000 just for the converter (the more expensive ones are multi-converter assemblies for luxury cars) and then you also get to replace adjoining pipes, and pay the mechanic for their work. - I'd almost rather be robbed for the cash I carry on me (usually $20-50).
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  5714. I was shocked when a technician told me they couldn't replace my car's battery because their device to keep feeding voltage during the swap was broken. This was on a 1998 Saturn SL. He was willing to replace it in the parking lot if I paid him directly for his labor, keeping the job out of the computer for liability reasons. How many problems did this battery swap cause? Zero. And I had that car for another 4 years before the strut mounts rusted out. - The only thing that damaged that car's ECM was when the air mixer valve corroded half-closed and the feedback shorted out a chip in the computer. That was a ludicrously expensive fix for something a fuse or fusible link could have prevented.
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  5715. Vacuum locking hubs seem dumb to me. What was wrong with manual interlocks that would not engage until you were going very slow or stopped?
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  5716. I solved that problem by using some adhesive Velcro and attaching a power strip (with switch and internal breaker) into the wall socket, and plug the counter-top appliances without power switches into that. And by that magic, those appliances not only have a switch now, but if I wear out the power strip socket, there are five more, and I can replace the whole thing without having to schlep down to the breaker panel.
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  5717. "Cause I'm not President." That is some serious "If I can't have it, NOBODY can" energy. Stalin would be proud.
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  5718.  @HappilyHomicidalHooligan  So he had an arraignment and bail hearing. Then he sat.
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  5719. Aluminum wiring is a sign that the manufacturer is pinching ALL of the pennies.
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  5720.  @d0tline468  Or go full paranoia and carry litmus paper.
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  5721.  @jacobmullins299  With an automotive anti-freeze chaser?
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  5722.  @tomricketts7821  "Get out of the house, the weather is nice. Be home when the streetlights come on." The refrain of my boomer life.
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  5723.  @FunnyBunny-pd5xx  And exactly how much storage do you gain from a tunnel about shoulder wide that is tens of meters underground, only accessible from trapdoors OUTSIDE of the building? Let me check... Yep, the basement of my building is directly under the building itself, has an overhead a little above ground level, and is accessible from inside of the building as well as outside via an obvious bulkhead door and wide stairs.
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  5724. Sorry to hear about your dad's health. Do you both watch the channel?
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  5725. I'm the kind of person, who, if I lived in a city, would sit on the side of the road with a sign reading "Down with protests!" and the other side would read, "This space intentionally left blank."
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  5726.  @jimbstars  And resigning before being fired, while it means you don't qualify for unemployment compensation, often means the former employing department drops the matter and the bad cop avoids even a bit of risk to their police certification.
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  5727. Thanks for the snorting laughter!
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  5728. The biggest lying regarding gas prices? When the price of a barrel of oil increases, the pump price rises THAT DAY even though the more-expensive oil will not even reach a refinery for a week or two. When the price of a barrel of oil decreases, the pump price only drops weeks later (if it even does) when that cheaper oil finally reaches the actual pump. - How's that feel?
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  5729.  @robertvirginiabeach  I learned, back in those days, to always insist on taking the carbon paper with my copy of the slip. Then the slips upgraded to pressure-activated chemical transfer, removing the carbon paper problem.
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  5730. When I have a cold, I drink orange juice... because the strong flavor means I still taste it through the cold, and that means I enjoy hydrating myself! Also, I still occasionally eat spinach... to balance my blood thinners if the weekly test number starts to creep too high.
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  5731.  @bwofficial1776  And unless you LIKE having your time wasted in traffic stop after traffic stop - skip the window tint. Cops HATE not being able to see all of our business at a casual glance.
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  5732. You elicited a wry, sad, chuckle.
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  5733.  @bunchofbaxters  I know. I was trying to be funny.
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  5734. Objection: The first "crime" is clearly an unforeseeable accident. Mr. Griswold's avoidance of responsibility is a separate matter. - Objection: That dangerously installed interior power strip on the outside of the house is reckless, dangerous, and may void Mr. Griswold's homeowner's insurance in the event of a claim, but does not count as a "service panel" *Side note, nuclear power generation is never the "emergency" source, the ramp-up/down cycle is too slow for that purpose. Instead it is usually hydroelectric or steam from oil, both of which can respond rapidly and ramp down rapidly. This was done in the movie for comedic effect, but is unrealistic. Additionally, if Mr. Griswold were able to draw enough power to brown-out his neighborhood, there should already have been an electrical fire somewhere in his house, as interior code wiring can't handle that amount of draw even if you bridge the breakers. - Objection: Cousin Eddie (who has since left us after bravely slamming his "borrowed" F/A-18 into the weapon port of an alien spacecraft) is an adult, and a belligerent drunk, and expecting Mr. Griswold to be responsible for his actions is unreasonable linkage. - Objection: Mr. Griswold's ineptitude in the area of tree-felling is not premeditation, and does not rise to the standard of "intentional damage". See my first objection. - Objection: Mr. Griswold's emotional outburst does not rise to the level of conspiracy with the idiotic Cousin Eddie, the real kidnapper in this matter. Additionally, Mr. Griswold does not have command of control of the erratic behavior of Eddie, a legal (if dangerously inept) adult. - Objection: Mr. Griswold's claims of responsibility were uttered in loyal defense of his family, particularly the dangerously unstable and unpredictable Eddie. Under threat of seeing his friends and family shot by police, he stepped in to calm things down. - Objection: The cat killed itself by chewing on an electrical cord. *I had a cat with a similar taste for wire insulation, but he fortunately cured himself of that predilection by getting a mouthful of 12 volts at around 2.5 amps from a converter output.
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  5735.  @lacrossev  With a good waterproof speaker, you can have an electric motorcycle AND the loud noise!
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  5736.  @rickmorty7284  We're doing okay, thank you for your words. Me and my brother live in neighboring towns, and neither of us talk to the third.
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  5737. And humor is a useful tool for communication as well as the relief of stress. click.
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  5738. That wire mesh looks like it would benefit from an ultrasonic solvent spa day.
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  5739. My bet is on a brain aneurism, between January 20th and February 1st of 2021. I'm hoping to make up for the money I lost betting on Trump's stroke, and Trump's Covid death.
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  5740.  @liamsz  The REALLY smart move would be to make the SSD replaceable, but be a proprietary connection format so you can only buy a new SSD from Microsoft.
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  5741. Wait, so this is not a celebration of the day we defeated space aliens?
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  5742. That zero-turn ratchet is nice. It even has a ready theme song. "Goldwrencher He's the man, the man with the Midas touch A gliding touch Such a cool fixer Beckons you to enter his shop of sin But don't go in"
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  5743.  @NM-qd3tm  Stupid is as stupid does - Some Forrest.
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  5744. Ah, the wonders of the toxic mix of an undeserved sense of authority, intellectual inertia, and ingrained racism.
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  5745. That gas gauge arrow thing is useful to me a few times a year... on the car I've owned for 7 years. I refill so infrequently (I don't drive a lot) that I often forget. - Fun fact: Some electric vehicles are made with the charging port on the driver's side... which puts the charging cord handle at risk when doing curbside charging.
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  5746. Behind door #1: Amazing advances in science, medicine, society and the arts, as humans and AI work together. Behind door #2: A world in the grip of a war of extermination over dwindling resources fought by machines run by competing AI networks. Behind door #3: Something in between.
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  5747. This judge needs to have a squatter take over THEIR house. See how fast their point of view on the law changes.
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  5748. He was on a news program (Fox, I think) and said out loud that this was a deal they made with Adams.
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  5749.  @philtabest  Yes! Repercussions for public employees not doing their job to the standard of the law/policy. Financial penalties AND job loss.
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  5750. The best tank is the one in the right place and the right fight... that wins.
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  5751. Put up the signs. Cover yourself legally. You can let people on your land on a person-by-person basis at your option, and at times you choose. Leaving it up to chance is how you will end up sued for more than you have.
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  5752.  @Chris-pz4mb  If you drive a car, I'll tax the street. If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
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  5753. Well, it's a good thing we as a nation decided to close so many of our government-run residential mental care locations over forty years ago. I guess we somehow solved mental illness somewhere between Kennedy and Reagan. And heck, while we're at it, we replaced coverage of mental health care with ineffective restraining orders, so good on us. - The above is tired sarcasm.
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  5754.  @KabukeeJo  If that happens, they'll find a way to place an extra burden on ALL drivers. And it is not even a political party issue, it is a city government issue.
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  5755. We're ALL afraid of her words. Hearing them saps us of IQ points, and eventually the will to live.
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  5756. One exception: "The Donald Trump character used Intelligence, Wisdom AND Charisma as dump stats."
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  5757. I've never had "space food" other than Tang way back in the 1970's. Eating the space ice cream sandwich sounds a lot like one of my favorite MRE items, the "Dehydrated Pork Patty" (Not for in-flight/pre-flight use). Nobody else in my unit would even open those, so I often had a pocket full of them to snack on whenever I got peckish. Open the bag, pour in JUST enough water to moisten the surface, sprinkle on the salt and ketchup powder, and YUM! - I was also the kid who could eat free in school on just the stuff other kids turned their noses up at. Slightly mushy green beans? crunchy square of pizza? squash? Gimme!!!
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  5758. I am lucky that the one groomer who works on cats in my two-hour radius is in the same town as I am. That said, I am still healing from helping hold my cat for his shave two weeks ago. He would not even look at me for a day after he got home.
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  5759. To me, it looks like an homage to a Billy Joel album cover, or the title card of a hard-hitting gritty documentary of the gritty underbelly of commercial real estate.
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  5760. Another way to "fix the internet" is to treat it like the recreational drug issue. Don't have a "war" on it with useless government oversight and money, but just stop doing the drug, er, the parts of the internet that cause you harm. If you need to model it on rehab programs, that may help. Talk to people, go outside, read a book, share your problem with people who care about you. Get support!
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  5761. The Apple Air Tag is the physical embodiment of the Police song, 'Every Breath You Take". And that is a song about Sting's obsession and stalking of his future wife Trudy, in case you were grooving to the music and not paying attention to the lyrics.
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  5762. Conversely, I actually found a decent garage near me that does inspections. The tech told me my car passed, though it should have failed for the marginal wipers. He told me to go get some wipers at WalMart after he got done updating the sticker. This garage now has my return business.
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  5763. Flex Seal!
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  5764.  @billyfarrington374  Ooh, added to the same list with "a Quisling"!
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  5765. I was not ready for a smiling Drach torpedo.
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  5766. Agricultural right to repair impacts every human who eats food.
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  5767.  @tonymouannes  Want to have a fun time coming into the US? Travel with zero luggage (mailing it to your destination before your trip might work). Traveling without luggage is "unusual" and unusual is probable cause in US police brains.
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  5768.  @iododendron3416  I KNOW it is a pre-apocalyptic weapon. I did, in fact watch the whole video. I simply said it ought to be in a game/movie set post-apocalypse.
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  5769. That only partially describes Spy X Family. Okay, truth talk? I made this comment to share what an AMAZING show that is with more people!
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  5770. There is a terms for when big, rich companies/people sue people who cannot afford to defend their absolutely legal position. SLAPP.
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  5771.  @EastTexasRanching  Being overcharged by margins like that? Oh, deere!
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  5772.  @Cemi_Mhikku  I am a fan of some posteriority.
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  5773. And it will still need a (proper, this time) alignment. Something Ray doesn't yet have the facilities for.
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  5774. That's why I have a car with window cranks instead of motors. I wish the trunk would open with a key, but at least the driver's side door has keyed entry.
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  5775. I have gone so long without using credit or loans that my "credit score" is set to a default value. I have what at least one agency calls "not live credit" and it's so freeing. The downside? If I need a loan, I have to use my state-supported alternative credit score system where bill payment history, and income versus outlay are used instead of some arcane math by the for-profit "agencies".
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  5776. Genesis: Album 14 (We Can't Dance), Track 2 - Jesus he knows me.
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  5777.  @LarsonLake  When you say mug, I assume it was not a sealed container like a jar with the lid on tight. Using that assumption as a starting point, the "explosion" of the mug was most likely due to a structural defect in the mug. - One possibility is that the mug has a micro-fracture that let water get into the material, but not easily leave. When the mug got hot enough, the steam pressure of that water was sudden and strong enough to break the mug. - I posit this because the water you intentionally put in the mug has the easiest exit possible if it were to superheat. Up.
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  5778.  @ryans413  I agree completely.
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  5779.  @megalamanooblol  "Back in the day" the topping off was, for some people, to get to an amount that would not involve pennies. Also, in that time, the pumps were analog, so some people felt that if they were paying $7.35 for their fuel (for example), they may as well squeeze that extra couple of drops to make the number line up on the display. - At full-service stations, the pump attendants would try to get to the nearest dollar, or at worst, the nearest quarter of a dollar, so they would not have to run back inside the station to get change if the customer didn't want to tip the rest of the dollar. - I am not saying any of this was right, just that it happened.
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  5780. The last time I saw a politician so addicted to rallies... well, lebensraum was a topic of discussion.
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  5781.  @jime19911  I could see a few thousand dollars charge if they were using special equipment to get your vehicle extricated from some place like a cranberry bog. I use this example because I saw a cranberry bog recovery once right after the bogs were flooded prior to harvest. They were getting a work truck (F350 size?) out and it took two tractor-trailer town trucks, some creative block and tackle work using telephone poles as anchors, people using tools or hoses to try and break suction, and a road closed for most of an hour.
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  5782. Baseball bats. Durable, no running out of ammo.
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  5783. I recall working on hydraulics for construction machinery where we had to be sure to match the right kinds of thread. So much so that when we needed a new hose made at our local shop we had to be sure to bring the old one so they could match the fittings. We only encountered two different types of threads but there are six. Six different "standards" and some of them are close enough to each other that you might not know you're using the wrong one until you've boogered the threads.
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  5784. You can still trip on it during a midnight trip to the bathroom!
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  5785. Every merchant in the nuclear Commonwealth sells at least some ammo.
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  5786. With a name like "qualified immunity" one would think the person with immunity would have to actually be qualified.
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  5787. The brine problem could take a page from salt production and use massive evaporation pools. Of course, I have no answer for what to do with the dried solutes.
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  5788.  @jannarkiewicz633  That's around 7 gallons a minute assuming 24 hours of flow 7 days a week without interruption in a 30-day month. And how were these thieves MOVING that 10 swimming polls per week worth of water? Fire hose and nobody noticed? Water trucks that left no tire tracks and moved in and out invisibly? Oh! Maybe they opened a magical gate inside the pipe, just after the meter, and the water was exiting the magical gate in some other location!
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  5789. Additionally, we drive 'motor vehicles' and 'motorcyles' but not 'engine vehicles' and 'enginecycles' - English is a language of rules by exceptions. “I" before "E" except after "C" and when sounding like "A" as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and YOU'LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!!!!” - Brian Regan
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  5790.  @gerardkeaveny9746  Depending on your occupation and/or the discussion you are having, the difference may matter.
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  5791. If the government offers to give back some of the money, that is a bribery and extortion. "Here take this three thousand, we keep two thousand, and this gets swept under the rug. Or you could try and fight us and lose it all."
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  5792.  @alanmcentee9457  True, but the M880 started life on the assembly line as a regular pickup truck, a Class 1-3 vehicle with a 12-volt system. The military conversion added a 24-volt system and for trucks intended to support radios or other military equipment, they also had to add an alternator to charge that system.
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  5793.  @alanmcentee9457  I just looked back and realized that your question was "What former military vehicle would fail a crash test..." and I answered as if you had asked which one would PASS. I apologize for the rabbit hole my misread dragged this discussion into.
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  5794.  @equallawandorder5393  Huh. My first thought would be to answer, "Jackie Chan?"
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  5795. If I did travel, the Philippines would be on my person no-go list along with dangerous places like Chechnya, Columbia, and Florida.
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  5796.  @Stephen_A.  I have a compass because I grew up in the era of paper maps.
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  5797.  @ningen1980  Clever and free!
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  5798. Eh, sometimes you have to at least try to move your learning journey forward. The key is in the humility to know when you've exceeded your skills and/or tools and can ask for help.
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  5799.  @KLP99  How does this idea remove "binding plastic to metal"? Never heard of bolts, rivets, rubber grommets (the rubber helps insulate vibrations, too), and forever-tacky adhesives?
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  5800. Here's the windup, the pitch, the goalie is ready, and Score! three-pointer slam-dunk! (I love infuriating sports fans)
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  5801.  @TeamDryRub8463  How about you work as a firefighter for 10-20 years and we only pay you for one of those years?
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  5802.  @Mavendow  I hope they also "made it right" for the shop and injured employees and other customers! Yikes!
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  5803. All a big business has to do is apply money to the right politicians' and judges' election campaigns. We the underclass can only vote.
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  5804.  @forgetfulme1719  Ray is also going to get all of the PT Cruisers still in the state to resurrect them.
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  5805.  @TeamDryRub8463  Or paintball guns at dawn.
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  5806.  @wayland7150  TO help Americans reading your comment, torch means flashlight to us.
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  5807. Even a better place to be a wealthy person who benefits from crappy consumer protection.
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  5808. $500 a month? Dang. Guess your building was built with an allergy to insulation, just like the one I live in.
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  5809.  @cherryrichardson9567  In my part of the country, our weed tree is typically maple. If you cut one, it will sprout out of the sides of what you left, often with three or more shoots. When you cut THOSE, you'll get about 50% more the next time. The only ways I have successfully killed them off is to either pull them before the roots get too established, go through the huge production of excavating a well-established stump, to split the remainder stump a lot and let rot in, or cut it back over and over for a couple of years until the rot gets in the stump naturally. - But it is beat for tenacity by an invasive species we call better-sweet root. An orange-rooted creeper that propagates by burrowing underground roots, sometimes for over 50 feet laterally. That nasty thing will crawl up structures and start doing damage, and if you leave it long enough will ALSO grow berries to spread by seed. The stuff we had in our yard had started four houses down the street about 8 years before we saw it. I once pulled up a root nearly thirty feet long until it dove under the pad of our garage.
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  5810. @Dalton Black Would you like to buy a paragraph or two?
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  5811. Meanwhile, Sotomayor refuses to let friends buy her lunch.
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  5812.  @jaimemartinez9792  Oh? You thought I was only talking about Russia?
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  5813. I learned the phrase "Cheater pipe" for that breaker bar extension. When I was in the military, I had to use a pipe on the wrench, then a five-foot prybar in the other end of the pipe, all to unbolt track pads because our motorpool crew that day did not have access to the blue-tip wrench.
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  5814.  @fischX  So would you give a [redacted] if this was also negatively impacting the family farmers? How about impacting those family farmers even more deeply, as they don't have a fleet of tractors to fill the gap when one goes down and requires a weeks-long wait for parts and a company technician to give you permission to use your tractor again once you've replaces a $25 part that cost $200?
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  5815.  @jhc5760  If that school's football fandom is that big, they could afford a multi-level parking garage. But it is probably cheaper, and much easier to just make someone suffer.
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  5816.  @AegisEnGarde  Well, I did not know that /s is supposed to mean sarcasm. Too bad there is not a word that would have clearly explained that the comment was sarcasm. Like maybe using the word sarcasm. Oh well...
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  5817. If the window etching/undercoat/mudflaps/seat heaters/remote start/other half of the battery is already built into the car, you have bought it all. Adding BS charges afterward is to hide that they lied on the window sticker price.
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  5818. Print an anime character's face, wear it as a mask.
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  5819. Psych exam? I bet they pencil-whip those scores, if that department even uses them.
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  5820. So the people who buy them are scared to try and fix them and bring them to the dealership for everything.
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  5821. Do you take cold showers all summer? Wash your dishes in cold water?
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  5822. Would we REALLY be talking about vaccine boosters if we had anywhere near the vaccination percentage of countries like England or Israel? Likely not. Instead we are drowning in the "muh freedumb" crowd serving as viral breeding grounds and spread vectors...
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  5823.  @ripvanrevs  And every 60 seconds, a minute passes in Africa!
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  5824.  @chrisbooge2217  Neat idea. But they won't.
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  5825.  @deadchannel991  Kind of makes you want to burn out the breaker with repeated trips just to force an upgrade.
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  5826.  @Crimson_Hawk_01  If your house has aluminum wiring, it's also pretty good odds you don't have fire breaks in the wall, and any insulation you might have once had blown in (because in the oldy-old days, coal was CHEAP!) the walls has settled into the bottom foot and a half, only keeping your wires nice and warm. - Also, a lot of older houses have what I like to call "creeping upgrades" where additional plugs and lights are spliced in with whatever type of wire is common that decade, and you end up with twenty or thirty items on a 15 amp fuse, because putting in a new breaker box big enough for modern electrical use and wiring the house properly is expensive and involves tearing out lath-and-plaster to get in the walls. - And if the old wiring fairy was particularly generous, you have a combination of various gauges of 2- and 3- conductor (because grounding your return to the water pipes is fine, right?) branched off of old post-and-wrap that predates the Ford Motor Company. And you still have screw-in fuses. - I can't believe that house passed the inspection when we sold it.
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  5827. "... an angry velociraptor deity with C4 equipped claws..." - This is quite an image.
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  5828. Truth. Some mechanics would have claimed the part was faulty anyway to get paid for the work and the part(s). And if called on the prove it, would have spent even MORE time damaging the old part to back up the lie.
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  5829. It must be really cool to live in a house that has wiring (and plumbing, and construction, etc.) up to modern code. In rural New England that is a minority thing reserved for new construction and post-fire rebuilds.
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  5830.  @the_once-and-future_king.  I would exempt using the bathroom.
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  5831. I didn't expect a mention of the Spanish Inquisition!
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  5832.  @GrigoriZhukov  The guy who used to get people to eat bugs for our entertainment.
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  5833. Make sure to pre-rinse your pants before running them through the regular laundry to help facilitate cleaning and reduce cross-contamination.
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  5834. Pepperidge Farms remembers too.
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  5835. I read that in South Park's ski instructor voice. Definitely pizza'ed when he should have French fried.
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  5836.  @20chocsaday  OH! The MYTHICAL Jesus. Yeah, some of his stories are really good guides for decent living in a society.
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  5837. This is a really good analogy!
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  5838. Audis may not be Ray's forte, but given how quiet that car is, they could be his pianissimo.
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  5839.  @thraxarioustailchaser158  Muti=family dwelling on a lot is a lot cheaper in infrastructure costs than sprawling out many more miles into previously undeveloped land. Yes, there are limits with water, sewer and power capacity on any given line, but those limits are not as end-of-the-world as many cities portray.
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  5840.  @BlackSmokeDMax  At least 50% should go to the aggrieved party - the homeowner.
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  5841. After so many diagnostic segments, it seems finding the source of a fluid leak is like finding a puddle in your closet and working up until you find which window sill or roof shingle has failed.
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  5842. That kind of verification is pretty much all done via computer now. So less than no excuse for the bank employees.
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  5843. He's unfit to be the secretary at a landfill.
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  5844.  @johnleca  Yeah! (cough, cough) who gets to tell me my car isn't safe enough to drive! I know what I'm doin... (crash). - Because for every person who knows how to keep their vehicle in solid mechanical condition, there are hundreds or thousands who don't. And we're all on the same roads.
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  5845.  @x--.  Comments can be more reliable, just like the text of a product review can be more revealing than a simple 1-5 stars. - But when you are looking for ONE video on a topic to use as a tutorial, that ration of likes to dislikes was pretty useful, even if it was not a perfect tool. - Now, we have to open a video (Automatic "engagement"!) and then browse down the comments to read what other people have said about the video, before we can decide if this was the one we wanted to spend time watching. - Now that I have typed this out, I can almost see why the change was made. Force us to at least START watching the video, perhaps causing an ad or two to roll first, before we can figure out if we want to click away and try again with the next one the "Almighty Algorithm" has served to us.
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  5846. This could (and nearly has, once) happen to me in Massachusetts because water and sewer are, by law, the responsibility of the property owner, not the tenant. As to other utilities, that is a matter for the property owner to decide who pays, as long as it is clear in the lease or rental agreement. - On place I lived, I got the water shutoff notice taped to my door, and I called the landlord that day to tell them about the notice. I got some story about billing delivery issues, but I simply reiterated what was on the notice and that I was not the person in charge of making sure the water stayed on.
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  5847. But you can be vaccinated against them... by education.
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  5848. Yeah, I didn't see this as a non-repair. I saw this as a non-replace at the end of a GREAT diagnostic journey.
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  5849.  @mwduck  The "in-crowd" wants to control who gets to be in their special club.
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  5850. Not to mention the door was louder than the engine, for a "change".
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  5851. Hey Lauren, men often can't read or OWN minds! . Also, we have the "Nothing" box, a special sector of our brains that we get lost into when we are literally thinking about nothing.
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  5852.  @jbranche8024  Zero tolerance is very Sith.
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  5853. If a few carefully chosen words you don't truly believe will protect you from anarchists and criminals, it is a small moral price to pay. Sometimes.
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  5854. The survivor bias of artifacts in an interesting thought. I have had many socket sets that were missing the 10mm, 12mm and 1/2 inch because those were the sizes most used, lost or stripped out. My toolbox also has about eight flat-head screwdrivers but only two Phillips-head screwdrivers, because the Phillips-head tool gets used more, and wears out, requiring replacement. - So if my toolbox was a curated museum display, future people could be forgiven for assuming that we of their past did not own 10mm sockets, and therefore there were no fasteners using that size tool.
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  5855.  @jasnterry1313  Ah, my mistake. I have not re-laminated a kitchen counter in over a decade. Of course, I could have looked up the material you named, but I was in a lazy mode at the time. Sorry.
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  5856. The Uncyclopedia entry for Elbonia is very eye-opening.
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  5857.  @reasonablespeculation3893  What if it was three gnomes in a trench coat? Naked is naked.
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  5858. I don't recall my IQ score, but I do recall that when I took the ASFAB I was offered any and every MOS they had. I chose 11C (mortars) because I wanted to run around and blow things up at a distance.
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  5859.  @MysticWanderer Side topic: I also recently saw a video by Louis Rossmann (not a fan of Apple!) where he shows three or four devices he has which will work with their own "standard USB-C" chargers, but not with most of the others. I'm not saying Apple was part of the mix, just that if multiple devices can fail to work with "standard USB" chargers, then there is some serious slippage in the application of the standards.
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  5860. This is the Rossmann version of the Laughing Man virus, right? Sort of an "Outraged Man". - Instead of "I thought what I'd so is pretend to be one of those deaf-mutes" we get "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
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  5861.  @darter9000  Treason is VERY narrowly defined in the US Constitution.
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  5862. But a horsefly gets his man-scream to arrive.
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  5863. I served with some DUMB people, and never had any try to hang a round upside down. We did have a sergeant push his crew to exceed the recommended rounds per minute for a hot tube, resulting in the round bouncing out without striking the firing pin, then doing one and a half somersaults by bouncing on the fuse end on the ramp of the APC. That was a serious pucker event. That was the only time I ever saw someone jump out of the top of an M106 and hit the ground running without touching the roof of the vehicle.
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  5864. @Clay Jones Wowee! Your foil hat is a bit tight there, cowpoke!
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  5865. He's got more dodge than Stellantis (formerly Chrysler).
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  5866. Mr. Clinton seems to have been tricking his way int a lot of snacking lately. Is there a good cat gym in the new neighborhood?
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  5867. As long as the living space is safe, and sewage is properly dealt with, I see no problems.
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  5868.  @andresebastianmoreno  You must have a close relationship with a unicorn of a cop to have that viewpoint.
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  5869.  @wesgregg6451  a... fifteen degree per hour rotation... "Thanks, Bob!"
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  5870.  @MindTesla  And great majority of the commercial air accidents I can recall over my 5+ decades of breathing were caused by mechanical issues, not pilot error. Sore, they will throw pilot error at crashes where the flight crew did not respond in the very exact way that could maybe, possibly, if the stars are in alignment, could have avoided or lessened the consequences of the mechanical failure. But that is just passing the blame. Kind of like saying, "Well if the driver of the truck was going a little slower, and had been able to magically predict the path of the car in the oncoming lane was going to take when the driver hopped the median, or they had left their last stop fifteen seconds later, then the accident could have been avoided."
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  5871. But it ruins the view of the beaches people in those expensive houses don't actually own!
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  5872.  @ynotw57  You win the grand prize for asbestos comments today!
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  5873.  @project2501  If you are living in Tennessee and have a decent level of knowledge and sense, what you need is a way out of that hell-hole.
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  5874. As soon as you said "hypergolic" I winced. I've read the short book "Detonation!" about the development of rocket fuels, and that word gives me shivers every time I hear it.
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  5875. Maybe the safest place to be, volcano wise, is within ten meters of a Scott who does YouTube videos.
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  5876. I really like the Firefly reference on deceivers! Thanks, from a browncoat-by-heart.
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  5877. Civilian noun 1. Person who gets at least one pace away from the weapon they just fired at uniformed troops. 2. Person whose weapon was removed by friendly forces before examination of the scene is done. 3. Actual non-combatant.
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  5878. I don't know if I heard it somewhere, but sanding is never done. It is abandoned.
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  5879. "The aid already dropped is not enough." Well get off your [posterior] and do better. Would it be kinder to do NOTHING to feed hungry people? That's the mindset that jails old ladies for giving sandwiches to the homeless.
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  5880. One place I worked we used to joke, 'Just back from a 4-day weekend, boss. I need retraining."
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  5881. As a kid I though Sal Monella was an Italian name.
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  5882. With the wheels off, up on the lift, and filmed from the just-right angle at 6:32 the Lotus looks like it is hovering.
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  5883. I know, like they can't comprehend being punished for stealing. It's like parenting died about 30 years ago.
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  5884. And why can I not delete Alexa from my windows devices? The most I can do is "opt-out" of having it listen to the microphone and be the default search tool, and that grinds my gears.
    2
  5885. I am still holding out hope for a meteor to obliterate him during one of his MANY rounds of golf. - Can't arrest me for that!
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  5886. My mind is blown by people who take the selling agent's recommendation of a home inspector. Often, they are doing it to save a couple hundred dollars on a purchase over $$200,000! - One thing I learned from watching a lot of home inspection videos and TV shows, is to be there when the inspector(s) and appraiser(s) are, or send someone else you trust to video the process. That way you can see if the person just does a lazy walk-around, or actually gets up in the attic, on the roof, in the basement, on their knees to check for water damage under sinks, uses a flashlight, what other tools they use (like infrared, mold testing, sniffing, lumber moisture testers, etc.) and so on. - If the inspector's feet never leave the ground, and they never get low, how the heck are they supposed to find anything?
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  5887. Another point against veracity, that hallway made of plastic tarps has a corner too small and sharp for even a wheelchair to pass through, never mind a stretcher with an unwilling organ harvest "victim" to be rolled in upon. Then there's the "guard" who lets the camera operator into the "operating room" but THEN acts all guard-like and shoos the camera operator away only after the inflammatory footage has been captured.
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  5888.  @undies891  The flip side of the car ads touting "starting at $$$" meaning if you want any features or extras, plan on paying 50% more.
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  5889.  @seeibe  I have only replaced my phones when the broadcasting standard they used was being phased out. This means I am on my fourth-ever cell phone, and unfortunately, this fourth one is my first smart phone. It is way too big for easy use and pocketing, and I don't need or use any of the "smart" features anyway. I hate the danged thing.
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  5890. I thought it meant that the spark went to 11. Which is one more than ten.
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  5891.  @jorden9821  You're one of those "Let it all burn and we'll start the world over!" types, aren't you. The USPS is broken, but not irreparable.
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  5892.  @qjtvaddict  They would make parent illegal if voting happened near bed time.
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  5893.  @noco7243  But you did care enough to tell us you don't care...
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  5894.  @scottkenny4390  And "re-educated".
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  5895. I've heard it called sensuous repair. As in, "Sensuous taking that apart anyway..."
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  5896. Then shift into reverse three times without moving, honk the horn once, turn on the left directional and the CD player, and the smuggling compartment opens?
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  5897.  @cobracommander9138  Yeah, DWB can be a death sentence in some jurisdictions.
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  5898.  @bvoyelr  The cop made a "mistake" that a decent grade-school education (or just a verification on the computer spelling out the name of the state for the abbreviation entered) could have prevented. I was in 5th grade when I learned that AZ is Arizona and AR is Arkansas. Oh, and Alaska is AK, not AL. AL is Alabama.
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  5899. I heard it was only 83 degrees, leaving 7 to connect the engine to Kevin Bacon.
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  5900. Are you... apologizing for being Canadian? Because that's weirdly cute.
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  5901. The exhaust hangar near the torque mount looks blown out too. Not sure how important it is to be fully functioning. - edit: the way the two flows meet at a near head-on might be part of the compression computations.
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  5902. Protect (their jobs) and serve (themselves). Allowed by court precedent.
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  5903.  @templarw20  The Spartans were only the front line at Thermopylae. Up until the third day, they were backed up by thousands of soldiers from other city-states. When they were betrayed and at risk of being encircled, most of the 7,000 were sent away to prevent them being wiped out, but several hundred to a couple thousand stayed with the Spartans to slow the Persians by a whole day. Even with the more conservative Persian numbers of 150,000-200,000, that's a pretty good speed bump.
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  5904.  @xc8487  But a string of "Achtung! Minen!" signs... with no mines present, is a psychological trap.
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  5905.  @master74200  Or they aren't really journalist, just Twitter copy-paste specialists.
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  5906. And HOA's
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  5907. The Fallout pipe-rifle version!
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  5908. Also, I fervently hope NOBODY is an "astrology major" in any accredited institute of education.
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  5909. Or will it display for the officer your actual speed and whether or not you came to a full stop back at that red octagonal sign...
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  5910.  @TimeSurfer206  Great reference! See you on the Group W bench.
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  5911. She doesn't really seem to want the place. She said almost nothing, took a couple of pictures, and couldn't get out of there fast enough. Plus, she was dressed too nice to be slogging through a dirty place like that.
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  5912. There might be more space to drive if there was more space to park, which would require knocking down those outdoor-indoor restaurants and turn some derelict property lots into short-stay parking garages. edit: Nah - Louis is right. Bicycles, electric or pedaled.
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  5913. Which proves that some humans are really busy looking for the exits...
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  5914. You are right. It will take water anywhere from seconds to millions of years, but it will impinge on anything mankind has been able to produce.
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  5915.  @adamness9557  If you enjoy it, it feels less like work, eh?
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  5916. Interesting!
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  5917.  @drofmah3836  Truth.
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  5918. And sleepwalk through life.
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  5919.  ewok king  An past evil, no matter the comparison, does not excuse a present or future evil. - - - "Why did you hit me in leg with a baseball bat?" - "Pfft, Al Capone hit a guy in the head with one until his head broke open and he died. Stop complaining about your broken leg." - - - Do you see the failure in comparisons?
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  5920. I agree with you, OnewBiased. Refuse to wear a mask (and you are a legal adult deemed sound enough to make your own decisions), make your own ventilator at home or just die. Force those you have custodial control over to not wear masks? Get beaten with a sack of rabid badgers. - I have difficulty breathing even without the mask (asthma, COPD) and I wear the dame thing in public. - I feel the same way about anti-vaxxers, except for the very tiny minority of people who for VALID health reasons cannot tolerate the vaccines. "I'm anti-vaxxer" - Well, when you get the flu, treat yourself with Vicks and Robitussin. And if you force your kids to be anti-vaxxers, you don't need to have kids. Someone with a respect for science will do a much better job raising them.
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  5921. I do care who you vote for, but that is none of my business. What I will strongly request is that any vote you cast be an INFORMED vote, not a "Well, they have that latter by their name" or "I just vote for whomever my parents/spouse/internet/the TV says to vote for.
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  5922.  @genericpersonx333  Indeed. Sanding or a laser do the same job removing the rust, but a laser is less physical work, and tends to do less harm to un-rusted metal underneath.
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  5923.  @trarock24  You are right except for the "must be addressed" part.
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  5924. The proper response is: 'Send your request to me as a physical note, on your firm's letterhead. properly citing the relevant law(s).
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  5925.  @MrHungrySimon  "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it." - Agent Kay edit: dangit, VigilanteAgumon posted the same quote above me.
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  5926. Congrats on your hard work!
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  5927.  @draconightwalker4964  DWB should not be a roadside execution offense.
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  5928. Ellis has some top-grade crocodile tears.
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  5929.  @DERP_Squad  That's the one where the box is upside down, right? And on its side it's a duplicator?
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  5930. This is a good point. Many times people see the setback as a zoning burden, or a snobbish desire for green spaces, but fire safety matters.
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  5931.  @shvrdavid  You are referring to front setback, or easement. The story, and much of the discussion, is about setback, or gap, between buildings.
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  5932. The plastic sheeting is to protect the contents of the desk from blood splatter when Louis shoots the next real estate agent who says, "It's not lying, it's commercial real estate." A good master villain does prep work.
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  5933.  @MySUHIT  Ah. I don't read comics anymore. I don't have the budget for it. Even when I did have the budget for it, most of my money went to gaming books and miniatures.
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  5934.  @turnerg  A tread depth gauge is less than $5. I have one in my glove box next to my tire pressure gauge. The passenger car limit is 2/32 of an inch, for commercial vehicles it is 4/32.
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  5935. The valve cover gasket sequence reminded me of the old claymation stop-motions shows like Wallace and Grommit, Davey and Goliath, and the Rankin-Bass holiday movies. edit: Fun nostalgia blast!
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  5936.  @jessecarliner7733  If I pick up my rifle, close my eyes, and fire off a few rounds in town, I had no INTENT to shoot that person out doing yard work through the skull. But I am still going to be charged for at LEAST manslaughter. Maybe negligent homicide. And if the DA is close to the election cycle, perhaps a spreadsheet of ancillary charges. - If I am blinded by the setting sun and miss a stop sign at an unfamiliar intersection, I am still legally liable for what and who my car hit. - Intent only specifies WHAT charges are levied, not whether there ARE charges. Whether there are charges is up to the amount of effort police and/or prosecutors feel like putting in.
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  5937. You have to report these scammers for something that matters to Meta. Like calling their lizard overlord names, or using racist language while being white. That might get the account locked.
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  5938. Point #3 was news to me. And I blame the selective sourcing of news media for that.
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  5939. A rule that is not being enforced is only waiting for a board with a hair across their sphincter over someone or something to make life miserable for everyone who would be impacted by that rule. If you have to stay in that association, work to have the rule removed before some jerks get in charge.
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  5940. Dear Utah: VPN with location spoofing.
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  5941. Wow, so for once it wasn't just the defendant getting screwed...
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  5942.  @coreybabcock2023  Or a blown booster?
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  5943. Too funny!
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  5944.  @jamesvalentine925 In the old mercury switches, there in fact was arcing, but the tube is sealed and the sound so low that you don't hear it unless you are obsessively quiet and dangerously close when it triggers.
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  5945.  @chaseman113  Earning the hate is a tough job and requires constant reinforcing behavior!
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  5946. The biggest gang takedown would be when a large city police force arrests the bad cops in their numbers.
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  5947. Those lifts have to have the weight distributed to lift the car without flipping it. It just so happens that for many vehicles, that balance point is right at the front doors. The lifts that don't have columns in the way could either be four-corner, like the alignment rack Ray uses, or one of several designs that require a pit of some depth under the bay to contain the lifting mechanism/piston(s). That is a bigger expense when building the place, and if the space is a rental, the landlord may not want to build it that way.
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  5948. One of the advantages of titanium!
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  5949. Troy wouldn't touch THAT Jeep! - edit: It would make a decent chicken coop.
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  5950. If I am looking for a missing phone, and a "find my phone" is working, the phone has battery. So my FIRST step is to call the phone and listen. Maybe it's in between the couch cushions, or in the pants I took off last night.
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  5951.  @martystrasinger3801  I left it out because I am not familiar with it.
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  5952.  @martystrasinger3801  Oh wait. Same creator as for Dark Skies? Those videos are heavily sensationalist, the narrator speaks low, softly, and quickly, and the description is the script of the video.
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  5953. It took me almost the full 3 minutes to figure out what was "off" about this video. No hat.
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  5954.  @mikelnu8224  Anyone sworn in faces possible penalties for lying. Omission can occur from a lawyer failing to ask the right question well. Lawyers are not sworn in, unless on the witness stand themselves.
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  5955.  @way2tall7  Last year I saw an interview with a guy who had been forced to pay child support for a kid that wasn't his. When he refused, he was jailed. DNA testing PROVED he was not the father. Judge told him to accept responsibility for his kid and pay the child support.
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  5956. To be even REMOTELY scientific, at least some of the photo lineups must NOT contain the prime suspect. I wonder how many people could have better legal recourse if this was done. - "It's definitely picture #5!" (note to the jury, picture #5 is officer Smith of Smalltown Statesville, halfway across the country, deceased five years prior to the event.) - "No wait, it's picture #3!" (picture #3 is an AI-compiled picture we put together on whim five minutes ago.)
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  5957. Suspension from a gallows, demotion to an artillery target. But I tend to be a bit bloodthirsty in matters of justice.
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  5958. And look, if a meteor, or a train, or a cerebral hemorrhage, or an arterial fat-berg, or anything else kills Donald J Trump... I will dance in the streets. The sooner the better.
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  5959. Nationalist Christians, or Nat-C's for short.
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  5960. In the milieu of software engineers, architects and managers... I was a hardware testing and debugging person. I love concrete and countable progress. "I troubleshot 19 hard to test units today." is better for me than "I progressed the changing action plan."
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  5961. He was engaged in that biggest of crimes (according to cops) "Driving While Black".
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  5962.  @WeOutlawsTV88  Aw, did I hurt your feelings? Mess up the echo in your information silo?
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  5963. Nah, the man was completely at fault for eating a fully-automatic assault burrito. And if you took any part of my previous sentence seriously, you're part of the problem.
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  5964. My view of those kinds of complaints always come down to, "Which was there first?" If you move to a home near an existing airport, you should just have to deal with it. If the airport was built after you lived there, THEN you may have a case. And it does not matter if the HOUSE is older than the airport, in my view, but only if the tenancy predates the airport.
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  5965.  @Cnichal  Ah yes, the inevitable "But sometimes!" example of moving the goalposts. In such a case, I would imagine the tenancy is a matter of establishing physical residence. - I do have some sympathy for the situation, as an undesirable location can drastically reduce the value of a property, and even make it harder or impossible (or even illegal) to sell it as a residence to someone else. For the most difficult cases of this, I would refer to people who own homes in neighborhoods made toxic by proximity to chemical industries or their waste products.
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  5966. When you back away from a deal, and the other side THEN starts to offer what you want, they come off as desperate, and you have to wonder what kind of b4ll-buster are they that they felt they could trap you in a bad deal? - If this was a car you were looking at, you would get suspicious really quick. - You walk away from those kinds of people with your hand on your wallet.
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  5967. I do wish voters were able to be trusted to avoid putting extremists of any type in office. But it gets harder every year with the political parties only "letting" us choose from their hand-selected choices. "Vote Bland D or Bland R!":
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  5968. Plate-reading cameras ID the car and the car's owner, not the driver. THAT is a problem for some of the uses to which municipalities and police put them. - edit: How long before we see laws requiring our cars to be built with constantly-connected transmitters that report to a police database, giving all information about location and driving behavior, including who is driving and who the passenger(s) is/are... and make us pay for the privilege?
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  5969.  @josephastier7421  Is that the farm where Voyager 3 is telling "When I was your age" stories to Project Prometheus?
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  5970. @FMF Veteran Ah, but you WERE guilt. Guilty of not being the person for whom the ticket was issued.
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  5971.  @aaaaaaaaaaaaa373  Yep. That leaves not a lot of inhabited US land NOT "on the border".
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  5972. It is hard to credit it as an "accident" when the dangerous behavior led to the "accident". You can't claim it was an accident that your threw a baseball through a window when you were bouncing the ball off of the window frame right next to the glass. That is an unintended, but nearly inevitable, consequence of engaging in stupid and risky behavior.
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  5973. That's what it took to get Al Capone.
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  5974. I seem to recall hearing or reading somewhere that an overfill of refrigerant can result in underperformance as much as an underfill can. Is that true? It seems like an easy thing to do for someone who buys the can of refrigerant at the parts store thinking that is the fix when it could be the pump, the condenser, the evaporator, or a clogged in-line filter thingy (sorry, forgot the word).
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  5975.  @campervan7354 Good explanation of the Carnot cycle!
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  5976.  @jenniferwhitewolf3784  I am now reminded of a tasteless joke that was making the rounds when I was in high school (and this will reveal my age). "What kind of wood doesn't float?" - "Natalie Wood."
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  5977. More and more it seems like we need to move aside for the apes and dolphins to have their turn.
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  5978.  @SelecaoOfMidas  Free speech is a concept that does not have protection in every country. Some aggressively shut it down.
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  5979.  @additudeobx  YouTube can block a video for "violence" while talking about WW2, but can't stop spammers...
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  5980. His channel is a delight. And he has cross-content with Matt Easton (Schola Gladitoria) and Jeorg Sprave "Let me show you it's features!"
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  5981. I have been programmed. When Ray said, "It's BG fluid" at about 6:30, I said out loud, "Not sponsored, it;s just what I use." Then I looked around to see if anybody heard me.
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  5982.  @AndyDillbeck  That too.
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  5983. There are very few plans that a committee of self-interested people can't screw up.
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  5984. Schmoo if you want to, roam around the world Schmoo if you want to, without wings without wheels Schmoo if you want to, roam around the world Schmoo if you want to, without anything but the love we feel - Not quite the B-52's
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  5985.  @betomendez4304  Same from me. Hope the physical rehab is not too brutal!
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  5986.  @kirkwalters1228  Allergic to 2 of the 3 vaccines? That means he could have taken the third. You know, instead of being evasive and full of [bleep] with his answers to the press and the league? And is his allergy confirmed medically, or is it yet another fabrication to fit his internal narrative?
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  5987. It seems that, particularly in cases involving the death or molestation of babies and very young children, juries will vote on feelings more than evidence. This is why a competent defense lawyer will often ask for a change of venue, and/or carefully choose their jury challenges.
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  5988.  @TheSkyGuy77  If the great majority of people were not so easily fooled and misinformed, this would not even be a topic of discussion. People read stuff on the internet, where they have instant access to cross-checking, but all too often don't even have second thoughts before spreading what they've been fed because it has "emotional truth" for them.
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  5989.  @hoofarted8709  "She was asking for it. Look how she was dressed!" Similar mindset to your reprehensible comment.
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  5990. Don't get mad at those people, become a chiropractor. They will need them desperately in a few years.
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  5991. Did you know that most blasting caps, such as those used in an M-18 Claymore Mine needs a minimum of 0.25 amps to initiate? Sorry, What were we talking about again? Cars being stolen?
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  5992.  @jackdshellback3819  Hakuna matata
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  5993.  @davesomeone4059  That is in the ballpark of what the shelter I go to will charge for a dog. They have their own veterinarians, and the adoption fee is something like $30-50 (less for cats) plus the price of shots and the spay/neuter process. And they will not de-claw (yay!). The last time I got a cat there it ran me about $80-ish dollars and I rounded up to $100 as a donation.
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  5994.  @SuperCartographer  Or he wasn't singing in English. #EnglishForNationalLanguagePlease
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  5995. I propose we create a new phrase: security-washing. It will work alongside green-washing to label the lies corporations tell to trick people into being and remaining customers.
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  5996.  @TheVonMatrices  To be fair, he is not a performing comedian.
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  5997. That excuse works... for an 8-year-old. Or a domestic abuse victim. Not a grown-asz lawyer in the orbit of a serving President.
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  5998. I imagine the remake of that era will be a Michael Bay film.
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  5999. Huh. I had no idea that rocket diameter was a function of highway lane width. It makes perfect sense, but it was just something I never put thought to.
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  6000. Well, he saved the state some money for the trial he likely would not have even had to stand.
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  6001. Another fun fact: Due to the existence of bacteria that breaks down dead plant and animal matter, there will never (or close to never) be more coal. - Hydroelectric is missing from this video.
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  6002. But Steve, you DO give every viewer gifts on a regular basis. Your videos are the gift.
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  6003.  @BlackoutKollision  He looks 14.
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  6004.  @camelopardalis84  When I say "coil element" I mean the stoves with a visible and removable coil that gets hot. There is likely a better and more specific term. Now that I am thinking of it, there are things called "ceramic top" and "glass top" ranges that seem to have similar coils of something that gets hot but those coils are built into the contiguous stove top surface.
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  6005.  @CWHolleman  I too was put off by the price point. I am not saying that people don't deserve to make money for their work, but that would have to be a pretty amazing and long-lasting bag for me to consider it a good price. Though, to be fair, I am New England cheap.
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  6006. That's Emma Stone? I though it was Carly Rae Jepsen after a three week bender! And what's with the dude from A Clockwork Orange? Is he an ultra-violence fashion consultant?
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  6007.  @heroesandzeros7802  I'm surprised they didn't charge the store for operating as a lending institution without a license.
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  6008. It ain't Popeye's until they sell spinach! - Yeah, that's silly for me to say that. Sorry.
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  6009. If neither a 25th invoke nor an impeachment happens, I'm going to shop online for a Chicxulub impact repeat event. Let the next species give it a try.
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  6010.  @jpnewman1688  Go away troll-thing.
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  6011.  @hartincmajor202  Depends on the dessert. A Baked Alaska island would be a hot time.
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  6012. The UFO conspiracy crowd is a lot like similar groups - Flat Earth, mudflood, Antarctic ice wall, space deniers, anti-evolutionists, 9/11 "inside job"... A few making money off telling the same kind of tales to people who choose to believe instead of doing science and reading.
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  6013. Or, instead of destroying everything, sell/donate what is still serviceable? A yard sale with a lot of home furnishings can pay for your trailer rental.
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  6014.  @groermaik  I have also seen successful shedding of belongings by setting them out by the street next to a "FREE" sign. - Less cathartic than burning, but also less wasteful.
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  6015.  @themeanestkitten  I somewhat disagree. I would instead say, "Not getting hit is the best armor."
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  6016. Nah, just put huge thrusters on the earth and move it out of the way, then move it back when everything is clear.
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  6017. The same should apply to "certified drug/alcohol detection expert" cops. And for all the pullovers where a cop utters the words "I smell weed/alcohol."
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  6018. I have a friend who offered me a free Alexa device because she got a second one as a gift from a relative. I told her that if that device showed up in my home, it would meet a hammer. Over and over.
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  6019.  @paceauto5382  That is a pretty good point. If you're not using the generator regularly, like in construction, and it's not a backup for something super-critical like storing donated blood or keeping a patient's ventilator running, then spending as much as the price of a decent used vehicle on something you might use for one week in a year seems... unwise.
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  6020. That one makes me wonder too. I think it is akin to calling a Duke, "Your grace" or the Pope "Your Holiness" We don't say, "Yes your judgeness." But then I wonder why 'counselor' is used. I had a guidance counselor in high school, not a guidance attorney. Though that may have been interesting.
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  6021. A comparison would be paying for a cheeseburger and being handed a tuna salad sandwich. With no tuna in it.
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  6022. My question: If you were going to stand in front of the discharge, why were you not at least wearing long pants? Dummy!
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  6023. Some engineer lost their job over that, I am sure.
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  6024.  @volltesdalTV  Dang you Norway! Stealing all my good ideas before I have them!? Grumble....
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  6025. That discoloration, cracking and bubbling at 1:00:35 is scary. Something is overheating and/or arcing in there.
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  6026.  @cancelhandles  That bumps up against the third and fourth reasons I forgot. 3) Apathy. 4) Laziness. - I know, dumb reasons, but I accept the person I am.
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  6027.  @PristinePerceptions  Those are ALL "at the site" tampering. None of your improbable possibilities can happen with an internet connection, other than the act of bribing, which still requires an in-person tampering.
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  6028.  @dosa2990  That's what we call a "legal fiction".
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  6029.  @noahjones9833  Better than sand. Sand is irritating, it gets everywhere.
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  6030.  @troynelson8896  Definitely they would benefit from more water under them than over them. Unless they are face-down? Does that even work? Bah, I should delete this before I click repl
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  6031.  @arthurmarshall6825  IF a government entity really feels they have to have a Facebook page, all it should do is serve as a pointer to their .gov website.
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  6032. Even my driver's license no longer has my SSN as the ID number. No company NEEDS your full SSN for anything. Some government services can require it (filing taxes, receiving benefits like Social Security or Medicare) and that makes some sense.
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  6033. A vacant space is a business write-off. A rented space is regret that you might have gotten more for the space.
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  6034. I don't even have a smart phone. Why am I watching/listening? - I don't even NEED a smart phone, I have a small brick that makes calls, has an alarm clock function, and if I really need to text, I can hammer those number keys to get to the right letters. I can read maps to get around, do math in my head, and don't need a computer in my pocket for any reason.
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  6035.  @Mvrky0  Truth. Even the ones that SAY "flushable" on the container really aren't. Otherwise they would disintegrate in the container before you even opened it.
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  6036.  @YOEL_44  It's not toxicity that is my concern, it is the capacity for forming expensive clogs. It is the same reason you're not supposed to dispose of greases and oils from cooking down the sink. As they get cooler underground, they can combine with paper and other flushed solids to form what are unofficially called "fatbergs" that require direct access, tools and heavy labor to clear.
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  6037. Exactly this. The transit from work station to running car is not instantaneous.
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  6038.  @mumrah73  Exactly!
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  6039. Sounds neat, but it is definitely a fork-and-knife meal.
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  6040. I think he was limited by the shaft hitting the lip of the other end of the bench.
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  6041. $23,000 fee? How many years' property taxes will that offset? None? Thought so.
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  6042. Wow. So that county can draw medical records in a hunt for people to charge?
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  6043.  @asdlfkj23oij4  And what about all of the disruption of life, the cost in lawyers and fees? Yeah... Don't even expect a mumbled apology.
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  6044. A decent plaintiff counter-offer for a big chunk of the money: all perpetrators of the taking and dissemination of photos get fired.
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  6045. Before in-tire pressure sensors, or in cars that don't tell you WHICH tire is low, that is a way to find the 'mushy' tire as well.
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  6046. That needs a livestream! Pay-per-view! Thunderdome! Two hate cults enter, nobody leaves!
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  6047. Another factor that is not covered by the way Mythbusters did it is slipping and falling. If you are walking, you are less likely to slip and fall and/or hurt yourself than if you are running. Less unwanted splashing of puddles, too.
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  6048.  @Bitwise1024  Or, and this is cray-cray... wear a raincoat.
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  6049. That's a lot of plastic tarping behind Louis. Is he about to shoot an underperforming henchman?
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  6050.  @WanderTheNomad  So I should insult you and tell you to look up the reason why for yourself? Sorry, that sounded mean. I did not intend it that way. I was trying to be snarky, and probably failed.
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  6051.  @jakobpanthera5554  Why thank you! I also imagine that someday Civil asset forfeiture will be illegal on a Federal level. I'm a dreamer, today.
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  6052. "We kick in a door in the middle of the night, why do the people there react poorly?" - dumb-ass cops.
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  6053. Old is what happens when you forget to die. Congratulations on forgetting!
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  6054.  @jeremysterious.  Don't forget to have all children bounce a red rubber ball exactly six time between 3:50 and 3:52 then return inside. Oh, and all wives must wear an apron at all times and have a bouffant hairdo. All cars must be one of two colors, black and dark grey.
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  6055. Well, Ray neither wags his finger at us, nor uses heavy power tools while wearing sandals.
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  6056. And that $5 million did not come from the police or the city or the state, but from tax payers, so in part form the taxes paid by the injured party. How's that for passing the plate? The police officers and departments lose nothing in these settlements.
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  6057. Think about the children! - Another of the false-flag rallying cries
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  6058. A functional piece of code that fits in a tweet? You'll never get a job at Microsoft with that kind of thinking!
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  6059. Welcome to being awake! We have cookies.
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  6060.  @davecrupel2817  Do you feel dumb about that yet?
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  6061.  @carson2000_  Much more fun than standing on the side of the road waiting for AAA to let you back in your car. I don't always roll the window down, but I have (because of standing around waiting for AAA a time or two) developed a ritual where I will not lock and close my car doors until I have the key in my hand and in my line of sight. Only after the door or trunk is closed do I put the key in my pocket.
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  6062.  @jpnewman1688  Oh! You're a sovcit, right?
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  6063. Oh, you mean like ANY consultant hired for Lonestar 911?
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  6064. I can explain the false Columbus narrative(s). Texas and fundamental Christian text book companies.
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  6065. Plus the drop bears.
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  6066. It was a New Jersey reference long before Lin-Manuel Miranda was born.
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  6067.  cak01vej  Ah, I know very little about the play Hamilton besides that it is a musical and apparently "the best show since the Big Bang". - I was thinking of the musical as the reference, not the 18th century politician/soldier/lawyer/banker/economist/duelist.
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  6068.  @indridcold2840  If you are wearing out your tires every six months, you either have a serious alignment issue, drive 80,000-160,000 miles per year, or drive like an idiot. Or some combination thereof.
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  6069.  @KingSobieski  I have had junkyard tires that were stored in the sun and had about half their tread last over 30,000 miles. Where are you even finding tires that only last 10-15k miles? Floating in the ocean?
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  6070.  @roflchopter11  Aw. did you trade your democracy for a red hat and now you're angry at the world?
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  6071.  @peterbonivart6818  I understand Torx, sometimes, particularly the strength of the grip with the larger sizes. The smaller sizes just tent to round out in my experience. But triple square? That's just someone inventing a new tool to patent and make money from.
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  6072. Sort of a reverse Batman identification.
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  6073. It probably requires declaring that you think Cajun cooking is highly overrated, and that you prefer Mississippi college football teams.
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  6074. Another month or so and he'll be chewing on her shoe as he talks.
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  6075. Nope, just add a boot-licker sticker like, "Supporter of the Sheriff's relief fund" of whatever your community has.
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  6076. Gasp! I am shocked at the concept! Nah, I totally buy it.
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  6077. It's like a firefighter saying, "It's quiet tonight." or anyone saying, "What's the worst that can happen?"
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  6078. It all depends on the power of the blast, the distance from the blast, the type of wood, the angle of the faces of the wood to the origin of the blast, and whether or not there is shrapnel.
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  6079. Ah, back when Craftsman DIDN'T mean "Craps-men"
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  6080. And yet these religions want us to take them seriously?
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  6081. That would cause suffering for the most vulnerable unless the cuts were very carefully targeted. An easy one is to start arresting those responsible on contempt of court charges. Though, as I am not a lawyer, I don't know if that remedy is available to the US Supreme Court.
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  6082. When even your own people call out your side, your side may be going bad. Like expired milk. - I see what is going on in Arizona. They are trying to win the "Most Racist State" crown.
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  6083. What's a jojo?
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  6084.  @apIthletIcc  'just the tip'
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  6085.  @magyarharcos71  I do possess the knowledge to give a better/worse evaluation. I would like to add that other factors come into play, such as the aerodynamic performance of the bullet, the angle of strike on the target, and the composition of the projectile. A soft projectile spreads its force over a wider area and longer time of deceleration as it squashes, while a projectile that is generally sharp and narrow, while also being hard, imparts its force over a smaller area, and not squashing means it expends less energy deforming than it does penetrating. - - - Anyway, there is a lot of science going into the choices for what and how the weapon you are designing will work.
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  6086.  @mahbriggs  And you still have to attack. I sit here shaking my head in disappointment.
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  6087.  @kenbrown2808  I also would have accepted 17 as an answer.
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  6088.  @YouveBeenMiddled  Dang it! I missed a column doing that conversion in my head. I started with the right-mist digit being of the value 2, when it is the value 1. Thank you for the correction!
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  6089. I feel the same, America. Aging and crumbling here in my own corner of the country.
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  6090. "I'm Squatterman, and these Jokers are getting out of my town."
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  6091. "I smell weed." "Well, officer, it isn't me or my car. Is it you?" - beating may follow.
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  6092. Of course not.
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  6093. Glad you made it back.
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  6094. The winning company will offer a reach-around.
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  6095. That's like standing in your living room, waist deep in muddy water, and deciding to finally admit there might be a flooding problem.
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  6096. For people like Donnie and Ron, laws are just suggestions.
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  6097. I really like the way the cities and towns in Spencer's area design the access ramps for the sidewalks.
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  6098.  @emptylog933  Another fun point about patents; when the patent lapses, the people who work at the patent office will jump on the patents themselves and some of those patents end up making them money. - Source: second-hand friends, married couple, who work at the U.S. Patent office.
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  6099.  @chrisbaker8533  It was so nice of you to START your comment with a personal attack. That lets me ignore everything else you say. Such a time saver!
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  6100. Wow! That transmission fluid was DARK!
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  6101. It's all about profit. Why make a few dollars selling you a new battery when they can make a few hundred to a thousand selling you a whole new phone - every year!
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  6102. Strange and complex designs in a country known for tofu dreg construction? No thanks. I'd be sure to stay at least 1.5 times the building height away, just in case.
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  6103. Kudos to the artists for their skills in thinning the clown for the cards. The superhero card even gives him a chin line!
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  6104. I actually first heard about this ship and museum from a comedy bit by Jim Gaffigan.
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  6105. Something he said, but gave little time to, was the ought-to-be-illegal practice of suing someone in a state that has nothing to do with either party, just to choose the laws that work best for your lawsuit.
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  6106. Well, based on the massivization (invented word!) of poultry farming, and how disease can time and again require the destruction of tens of thousands of animals at once because of how they are concentrated? Disease is always a factor in animals, wild or farm. Crowding those animals together means that instead of losing a family unit or two, you can lose them all.
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  6107. A bus has the physical footprints of 2-3 cars. Three cars can seat around 15 people, though they usually only seat one per car. One municipal bus can seat 25-30 people. - Ergo, buses are a better use of road by area.
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  6108. I almost went "doo dee doo" crazy with the phone.
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  6109. The man decked the cops. He was a cut above. But they eventually bagged him.
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  6110. Right? I need gas from the cars, water from the toilet tanks and bowls (mind the rads!), springs from the clocks, and copper from the desk telephones. Otherwise I'll never be able to build a sustainable settlement to defend against the rad-ghouls.
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  6111.  @ImperiumLibertas  Remember: Some cops can smell pot in a gallon of pure distilled water, if the water is possessed by a "person who fits a description".
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  6112. There was a construction company building a grade school in the next town over from where I lived, and when they got their scheduled third quarter of their money, the business owner skated. He left the state, and opened a new business two states away under his wife's name (using her maiden name) and the school district was stuck with a building only about 30% finished. The concrete footings cracked within a few years because he added too much calcium in the winter pour. The interior walls were NOT 16 inches on center, but a lot wider. Some walls were closed up with no wiring or plumbing installed where it was supposed to be on the plan. The roof was put up with weaker/thinner materials than required, causing decades of developing leaks. Mold grew in the walls causing the district to have to buy portable classrooms while the walls were gutted and rebuilt one section of the building at a time. - - - I bet the town wishes they paid as much attention to the construction as you did to yours...
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  6113. If there is not enough Natural Resources crime going on to keep them busy, might be time for (at least temporary) layoffs. Perhaps even budget reductions.
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  6114.  @ConstantChaos1  At that point, why not give the ASPCA authority to write traffic tickets? Or local veterinarians? Or professional dog walkers?
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  6115.  @Hamsterdam91  Damn, that can be an expensive gamble.
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  6116. She says her name, I hear Eureka, like in the anime.
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  6117. It doesn't look like there was a lot of time to make that call with the low "swoop of death" used. I'm not even sure an automated system would have had enough time.
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  6118. Steve, you probably COULD blast Straight Outta Compton at work... if everyone agreed to hear it at that time. Consent is important.
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  6119. I call Ford Explorers Ford Exploders.
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  6120. Boeing USED to make planes. Now it seems they are making stock prices and accidentally putting planes (mostly) together.
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  6121. Hopefully, resistance is not yet futile.
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  6122. If they don't have stupid things to charge permit fees and fines for, they can't afford those cop-car-like code enforcement vehicles, all the staff, radios, computers, and so on. Bet they are also looking into getting and using drones to shove their noses over people's fences to fine them for even more things that don't really matter. Why, in such a situation, they would get by with one or two employees getting paid mileage for official use of their own cars.
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  6123.  @Buster-Sharp  And knowing is half the battle!
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  6124.  @spazoq  power companies are as regulated as they let themselves be. They lobby VERY powerfully on the state level.
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  6125. I am hoping that this catches on. Calling Trump 'Mr. Precedent."
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  6126.  @lordnox69  Are you better mechanic in the times you aren't tracking other artist's music to video game playthroughs? I ask because a person's YouTube channel does not always define what their occupation is.
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  6127.  @FuburLuck  I was simply pointing out that seizing assets after a conviction is an existing, and separate part of the law from this amoral and criminal civil asset forfeiture problem.
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  6128.  @tactileslut  And let's ALL show up in cars with only one or two people in them!
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  6129. With your ID being part of your implanted chip, your identity is staked out like a lamb in a pen of starving lions. Perhaps there will be companies that can make money selling Faraday cage gloves, so there is a scrap of silver lining... And how will people be able to legally refuse to submit their ID to an unlawful request from a poorly trained cop?
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  6130. My only "REEEE" for this one was when you crawled under the car without putting it on a jack stand or other locking support. You're putting a lot of trust in the hydraulics of that floor jack.
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  6131.  @Genesh12  1: the arrest is on your permanent record. 2: It can increase your rate for loans, make it harder to rent or buy capital property, and harder to get good credit card rates. 3: some few occupations won't let you keep the job is you have a felony arrest. Think commercial pilots, jobs that require security clearance (oh, it can also lose you your current and/or future security clearance), amongst others.
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  6132. I would settle for the ability to imprison a corporation.
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  6133.  @MikeBNutz  The Reagan years broke a lot of things in the country.
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  6134.  @kathic6402  I have to wonder about the veracity of that specific soldier pulling the ripcord leading to that specific explosion. It could be absolutely true, but we all need to be aware of and be careful of being influenced by deceptive imagery persuasion.
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  6135. Magnusson-Moss Warranty act.
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  6136. At least a three-fold penalty. (My favorite bit of Wicca)
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  6137.  @hidanhan  An eye for an eye leaves the whole world bling. A swift and solid kick to the reproductive region is more satisfying, and leaves the kicked person capable of learning from the experience.
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  6138. Termination has different meanings...
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  6139.  @larrysmith6797  Fine, let me ease your pedantic mind. It was most likely a ring mount for a machine gun that James was referring to, though the simple pedestal pintle mount was more common on machine gun-armed US Army jeeps. I say it was likely a ring mount, since the descriptive use of the word 'turret' could mean a mount that spins around the gunner, as opposed to the gunner moving around the mount. And this is how machine guns are often mounted on military cargo trucks and how turrets are set on tanks and naval ships.
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  6140.  @jamesweekley1087  De nada, as they say in Spanish.
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  6141. Treble damages have nothing to do with music. Unless my grandmother was singing.
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  6142. The marketing. Apple sells a mindset of "I'm better" to the people who buy their stuff. Then there are those who HAVE to use Apple products because of job-specific or school-specific software.
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  6143. Pro as in Proctology.
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  6144.  @aaronbredon2948  Johnny Dangerously, such a fun movie. Thanks for the reference!
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  6145. You too, huh?
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  6146.  @dunzerkug  They were also great that one time I was driving home with food poisoning and, ehem, missed the open window with the reverse flow of caloric mass.
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  6147. Or, we could just stay ignorant of what Trumpites are doing, and have no information, no plan on how to combat the rising tide of deplorables and violence-ready lunatics.
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  6148. I have a wide array of things my skin reacts to. I gave up on deodorant a long time ago, sticking with washing in the shower with shampoo that doesn't cause issues.
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  6149.  @StormsparkPegasus  And the drug companies would love to sell you an allergy remedy for your allergy to the first allergy remedy!* *Side effects may include allergic reaction
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  6150.  @brebrobro  What is a Nothing phone? Just shouting across the street to your neighbor?
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  6151. Oh happiness is two kinds of ice cream Finding your skate key, telling the time And happiness is learning to whistle Tying your shoe for the very first time Happiness is playing the drum in your own school band And happiness is walking hand in hand And happiness is five different crayons Knowing a secret, climbing a tree Happiness is finding a nickel Catching a firefly, setting it free And happiness is being alone every now and then And happiness is coming home again Happiness is singing together when day is through And happiness is those who sing with you And happiness is morning and evening Daytime and nighttime too For happiness is anyone and anything at all That is loved by you - Happiness - David Benoit - A bit corny and a bit old, but it fits
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  6152. Something left out of that Farm Simulator game: When your machinery breaks down, you might not be able to get parts, and if you CAN get parts and fix the machine, you then have to wait for a dealership technician to drag their butt out to your machine to plug in their magic computer to allow your fully functional repair to actually work. Yeah, I'm mostly pointing at John Deere here. - And the farm bureaus that farmers pay dues to for representing them are more and more siding with the machinery companies and throwing the farmers under the bus on repair.
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  6153. It would definitely open new avenues for mistrial/appeal filings.
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  6154.  @mrothk01  I agree it is a choice without being really a choice, given how we have built out our country based on automobile use. Big lots for single-family homes, long roads, vast distances between goods and services. Our spread out population might help with survival numbers when aliens throw rocks down on us, but it does mean driving is rarely a choice.
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  6155.  @LindaB651  Rhode Island and Connecticut both seem to have some "issues" with the rights and laws for people from other states who drive there. Connecticut is infamous for their confiscations of radar detectors from drivers licensed in states that let them be legal. (Back when radar detectors were a "thing".)
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  6156. The last time I brought my car in for a mechanical complaint, I described the sound and under what conditions it happened (front-right, speed-matching, slight pulling to the right when coasting) and stated that I was worried it might be as bad as a bearing. I was ready to spend about $800, turns out it was a warped rotor and a LOT cheaper.
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  6157. As we say amongst my friends, "It's not the heat, it's the stupidity... I mean humidity."
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  6158. If he DID have his ID on him, it might have been worse. He'd reach for his ID to prove who he is, cop would imagine a weapon... dead young man.
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  6159. Everything, and everything else. At least as evidenced by history.
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  6160. YES! This is the comment I was looking for. Braham's lullabies at 105db is noise pollution. SWV at 50db is something I can ignore by walking a few steps away.
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  6161. Or your car will "helpfully" call 911 and download your recent driving activity to the police servers.
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  6162. Well, every jurisdiction is attacking window tinting, so it's financially perilous to try and protect your property that way anymore.
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  6163. Well, Jeffrey Hunter spoke English, and he was white with blue eyes, and he was the first person to portray Jesus in a color film, so that's who Jesus is. I guess.
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  6164.  @thomasmerritt7740  Westlaw does NOT have a monopoly. Westlaw is dominant in the field because they put in the effort, paid their people, and built their brand into the go-to for lawyers and law students. - If you wanted to do the same thing, all that is stopping you is time, money, skilled employees and marketing.
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  6165.  @CantankerousDave  Blanket immunity should only apply versus the boogie man under the bed.
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  6166. This story coming soon to a whole lot of Cybertruck buyers near you!
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  6167. (Sorry for the necro-posting) And then there's the nutter who brought a longbow, a basket-hilted broadsword, and bagpipes.
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  6168. I am sadly not surprised. I have met a plumber who worked for a big company and only on large jobs, and got his license after years of ONLY installing toilets. He had no clue how to do any other plumbing, but was "legally qualified".
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  6169.  @shocktnc  and @newmankidman5763 What fracking side of this argument you made up did you think I was advocating for? I was being sarcastic about the idea that having on-site data storage was something no modern company would think of.
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  6170.  @OrcoDevelopment  Without learning after the fact? Maybe know someone there that you trust?
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  6171.  @the_omg3242  Because the government has to extract money from SOMEBODY.
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  6172.  @Libertas.Aeterna1776  Absolutely fired... from a trebuchet.
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  6173. Iran's rocket integration building might need more flags. And bigger pictures of the old guys in turbans. Wouldn't want any mistaken identity.
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  6174.  @ricwestdoesitwork  I was referring to the case where your state's Supreme Court ruled that a tire shop letting the customer drive off with lug nuts barely hand tight was not a case that could be sued over because of a crappy partial definition of "performed" as in "the performed the work paid for."
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  6175.  @petervansan1054  Imagine if the free stuff you get is something you don't want or need, and you've gotten so many items that even taking them to where you could donate them is starting to take a significant chunk of your weekly time?
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  6176. That release was very light on details, and I suspect it is deliberate. How much information will someone have to give Apple to get those parts? Will a person be able to order parts before they need them? Will a person be able to order parts for phones and computers they don't currently own? (this is crucial for independent repair!) Will there be schematics? (doubtful, as they are only promising sub-assemblies so far) - This whole release reads as an attempt by Apple to loosen their hold as little as possible while getting in front of and hopefully short-circuiting right-to-repair laws.
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  6177. Bonus fact: The induction top will be vastly easier to keep clean and sanitized!
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  6178.  @markreed9853  I live in a 3-story building that has 6 apartments and is wood-framed. There are a LOT of wood-frame 2 and 3 story apartment buildings in my state.
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  6179. Louis seems quite Taken with his cats.
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  6180.  @Foolish188  Ehem. "We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong."
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  6181.  @patsmith4706  The anger can come from shame or embarrassment.
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  6182. I don't think he realizes that reading is important. I was able to read at a 3rd grade level before the age of 5, thanks to Sesame Street and Dr. Seuss books. But that was back in the early 1970's before the participation trophy generation got control of school boards.
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  6183. but, but... If I don't inflate the truth, how will the armed suppression troops know they need to get out here as fast as possible to be my gun-toting binkies?
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  6184. I could be convinced to vote for Idi Amin or Matt Gaetz for US President if he passed a law making it legal to Gibbs-smack people who wear their masks under the nose or as a chin-hammock.
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  6185. I STRONGLY prefer living in real reality. I don't care about anything I would be "missing out" on. I eagerly await the first few incidents that require states writing new laws about AR devices and driving, cycling, and walking in traffic. Hmm... The FAA and whatever body controls rail engineers and people controlling watercraft will need to address this as well. - edit: Oh, almost forgot. I am anti-Apple for their anti-consumer policies and design decisions.
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  6186. I can appreciate the trigger discipline in a movie poster. Not seen enough.
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  6187. instant snort-laugh
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  6188.  @james5637  That's why I said reformed Sith, not failed or converted Sith. von Braun's rocketry work benefitted materially from deadly slave labor, and he knew it. If it really bothered him that much, he could have at least tried to either defect earlier or stay and try to improve the situation.
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  6189. You may be a fan, but are you a TURBO fan? (wink)
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  6190. Hahaahaaa!
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  6191. just a spoonful of sugar helps the tyranny go down! - Mary Poppins, probably
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  6192. If there were widespread fraud in Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene would not be in congress.
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  6193.  @DarkForce2024  Is that you, Homer Simpson?
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  6194. Heck, if the feed was a subscription, maybe $0.50 a day, it could bring in some revenue to the gubbermint.
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  6195. I just learned about the M1 TTB, and went and did a look at some of the available information. Why isn't this a thing? edit: They mention the Abrahms X at the very end of the video. I looked THAT project up, and it is even better, while still getting the crew (of 3) away from the explody bits by taking them out of the turret.
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  6196.  @Mr-Damage  Apparently your unit ran out of boxes of grid squares. (joke!)
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  6197. I hope a company with deep enough pockets fights the Texas and/or Florida "You can't require vaccination" "laws".
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  6198.  @amzarnacht6710  THAT is how you do it!
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  6199.  @00Herobrine  I think you missed my reference to No Such Agency.
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  6200. Troy Story 2 - That killed me!
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  6201. States barely communicate on things like building roads that cross borders. Anything to do with the legal system is a big shoulder shrug and an assumption that it is the responsibility of the serf class.
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  6202. I have known about the splicing of apple trees for a couple of years now, but the story of how the Red Delicious became the worst apple in the store was one I did not know. Thank you for the tale, and the information!
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  6203.  @hotbread1004  It might help you. Other things you may or may not have addressed already: Proper firmness of mattress for your weight and sleep habits. (Also, old mattresses get kind of "hammock-like" as you use them for years.) Proper arch support in your shoes. I had a lot of relief by getting those Dr. Scholl's inserts where you stand on pressure sensors and the machine tells you which supports to get. Moderate exercise that increases flexibility and strength. A YouTube channel I know of that has good exercises is Human 2.0
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  6204. The Palmetto Bug is Florida's official state airplane.
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  6205. Alex Gibney would be believable as John Malkovitch's younger brother.
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  6206. Shhh... That is a super velvet-level top secret capability.
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  6207. I vaguely recall seeing some science show (Cosmos with Carl Sagan maybe?) decades ago that discussed exploring the atmosphere of the gas giants with balloons suspending scientific hardware.
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  6208. I only have one senior cat, and I have learned a few things from this channel in less than a month of watching.
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  6209.  @looinrims  Or The Maine
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  6210. "Wrong" color of skin? Low-enough bank balance? Address on the "wrong" side of town? You know, the usual causes for oppression.
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  6211. $700 for fracking coaster wheels? You can get sets of 4 to a dozen for less than $20 (retail!) at the weight rating you'd need for a computer tower. So that's $690+ profit, or a markup of about 3,500%. - So standard for Apple Corp.
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  6212. I really like the philosophy of getting the harder-to-reach fasteners first. it's like the meal philosophy I learned as a kid. "Eat the Brussels sprouts first to get them off the plate, and use the rest of the meal to help erase the taste."
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  6213. Yeah, police don't bar any holds either. Ask George Floyd about... oh.
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  6214. Not only that, but they were "one size fits many" and very easy to have them be off-center. I shudder.
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  6215.  @dianeemanuel8541  "Oh, officers! I'm sorry, this is a black man I know, not a black man I am Ray Cyst about!"
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  6216.  @kerrian4564  Amazing. It's as simple as black & whi... OH!
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  6217.  @kkampy4052  I'm a fan of aluminized tape (the actual tape for duct work).
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  6218. I am reminded of the musical, "Eat Sh!t, Bob!" by John Oliver.
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  6219. Sorry you lost your CDL, but at least it was not from you screwing up.
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  6220.  @micahrogers4928  To paraphrase a song I like, sometimes it's important to always look on the bright side of life.
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  6221. Talking failed formats, anyone remember DivX?
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  6222. It matters more to know if they are the kind of person who changes lanes without using their directional.
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  6223.  @williameldridge9382  The procedure to change the water pump (apparently a commonly failing item) on my 1986 Ford Escort started with "Remove the front right tire and fender..."
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  6224. The only "Reeee!" I have is the lack of a valve stem cap on the wheel.
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  6225. But I am okay with him having exclusive rights to swim in a nuclear cooling pool. With scuba tanks to really get close to the bottom.
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  6226.  @ironsquirrel9272  Or, you know, not speaking American English? We are the knuckle-draggers in the world of English, y'all.
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  6227.  @ironsquirrel9272  The accent issue has been brought up by a lot of others. - Kids being used to push political agendas is wrong, but it is a form of attention getting behavior that too many people reward. - kids should be in school getting educations. So should a lot of ignorant adults. - climate change is a complex scientific topic that needs to be discussed on the data and the science, not the politics and the money.
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  6228. 1970's ad: "Nothing Sucks Like Electrolux" And back then, they meant it as a good thing.
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  6229. How many people are familiar with the taste of cleaning solvents? It's kind of like when someone says something "tastes like (poo)" and you ask, "How do you know?"
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  6230. I have used a trackball mouse for the last fifteen years, give or take, and after a short period of adjustment, I find it a much better gaming controller.
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  6231. Danged Louis and his bike privilege! Hahaha!
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  6232. When I worked for a landscape design company, I learned it as "A weed is any plant growing where you don't want it." We would regularly charge to remove plants from one job, temp-plant them on the back lot, and sell them for hundreds of dollars to another customer who wanted that kind of plant. Usually this was done with perennial bushes and smaller trees that were not maples. Maples can be nearly a weed plant here in New England and grow pretty much anywhere you forget to pull them up in the first couple of months.
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  6233. I know when I land from a height, I spread my feet for a more stable landing. Seems pretty reasonable to correlate the idea to mechanical landing systems.
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  6234. Sometimes, it's cheaper to go through a loan shark.
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  6235. I'm currently baking my second turkey of the season. at under $1 a pound, this time of year I cook and freeze a lot of turkey.
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  6236. Another side benefit of combining multiple functions into one inseparable assembly is that one failure requires a more expensive part. That increases profit margins!
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  6237.  @brianrobertson877  Malicious compliance with stupid laws is patriotism.
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  6238.  @brianrobertson877  Malicious: - characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm * Compliance: - the action or fact of complying with a wish or command: - unworthy or excessive acquiescence: - the state or fact of according with or meeting rules or standards * Patriotism: - the quality of being patriotic; devotion to and vigorous support for one's country * Do you need definitions for with, stupid, laws, or is?
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  6239. Damn onion ninjas. Glad you're healing!
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  6240. Don't forget your paid time off.
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  6241. Is that you, Dark Helmet?
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  6242. I watched enough of the ad before to kind of forget which video I was going to watch, and when the shed door opened, my first thought was, "Colin Furze's shed is suspiciously clean."
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  6243. Based on many stories of bad contractors, this guy's biggest sin was either idiocy or arrogance. Or both. Many contractors who are slime balls will rip off a slew of people for a few years, abandon their company name, re-organize under a different name with their spouse or an adult child on the paperwork. Then rinse and repeat until they need to move to another state and start over.
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  6244. She paid for it? Grand theft auto. Easy to figure out. The dealership and/or the specific salesperson are on the hook for those criminal charges. - And she should not accept the car back at the price she paid. It is used now. She should get a new car, or a HUGE slab of cash from the Texas dealership, or both.
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  6245. I agree. Make those dog owners do the fighting while the dogs get adopted by people who will treat them better!
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  6246. I was going to say a hybrid lawnmower/sewing machine.
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  6247. With the recent pipeline leak off the coast of California likely being caused by anchor dragging, that is something I think about now with any sea floor installation be it pipeline or cable. All of those cables running through the Straits of Gibraltar look like an undersea version of the arrestor cables on an aircraft carrier.
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  6248. Nice explanation.
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  6249. Hey Louis. I remember a time when computers were only owned by big companies, because they had buildings large enough to hold one computer. And porn was only available in print or on 8mm reels in a box in the attic.
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  6250.  @charlesjackson1700  Chain stores are often driven, by corporate policy and how they train their service managers, to upsell and take advantage of vehicle owners.
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  6251. Important tip for other Michigan lawbreakers. Get caught speeding? Tell the DA you'll agree to not speed in the future if they will waive the ticket. "Accidentally" killed your neighbor's cow? Tell the DA you regret your cowicide, and promise not to do it again, if they will waive any jail time and let you pay for the beef.
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  6252. Look at you, understanding how statistics work! There's no way a mind as sharp as yours and mine will ever be able to make clickbaiting a career. Go us!
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  6253. It stinks that we cannot sue to have cops fired and their law enforcement credentials revoked.
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  6254. Ah yes, the trip over the Bourne to get to Edwards. Drove/rode that one from Worcester every summer for a few years. Sometimes in the back of a deuce and a half, one in a jeep, once in a green bus.
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  6255.  @OptimiSkeptic  Heck, a back seat passenger making pencil sketches of the cops would probably set off their "officer safety" triggers.
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  6256. I wonder if the place Ray ordered the TIG from already ran the charge before ensuring there was product in stock to ship?
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  6257. The zip tie game is strong with this truck!
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  6258.  @chrislandreman9429  If you feel pedantry is a fitting debate tactic, you may want to remember to capitalize the first letter of your sentences.
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  6259.  @Man_Emperor_of_Mankind  A day with sub-par bacon is better than a day with no bacon!
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  6260. It is not enough that we are bringing back polio, we have to also bring back debtor's prison and indentured servitude? edit: What's next, generational prison debt?
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  6261. I had a friend who was a tanker in Germany. He told me about the regular briefings they would have before any movement of vehicles off-base about how long they would be stuck paying for knocking down even one tree, and that the debt would follow them back to the US and even after they got out of the military.
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  6262.  @andrewk8636  Yep. It's the money.
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  6263. This country needs to shed the Electoral College like a bad cold. And before the window-lickers come out, yes it will require a Constitutional Amendment. Yes, that will require 2/3 of the states to ratify and 2/3 of congress. Yes, it is difficult. No, it will not "steal the voting power of state x, y, or z. It will make all votes equal.
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  6264.  @DeniseKristian  The US does not have a justice system. It has a legal system.
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  6265.  @MelodyMelloLily  As a democrat voting R in the primary, you can cast "spoiler votes", voting for the candidate who is not the one the party is pushing the hardest. Or vote for the R candidate least likely to win against the likely D candidate.
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  6266.  @Bonjour-World  Maybe those spoons are only used for boneless grapefruit.
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  6267. To me, dealership garages are where potential mechanics figure out if it's a job they would like before the commit to working at a real repair shop.
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  6268. My only note is that the camera movements were a bit viscerally troublesome. But then, I do deal with a bit of vertigo on a regular basis.
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  6269.  @kenconnelly773  EXACTLY! Sorry, not yelling in anger, just excited exasperation.
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  6270.  @MaskinJunior  From what I understand about water heaters, particularly having watched the relevant Mythbusters episode a few times, is that unless the safety release valve is defective (or deliberately messed with) actual tank explosion is very, very unlikely. Though in fairness to your experience, my knowledge is limited to residential-grade water heaters.
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  6271. I recently saw an ad with Shaq for Epson EcoTank (ET-4760), where they show that not only can you refill the ink tanks yourself, but you can SEE the ink levels on the front of the printer. Smart move by Epson, particularly with this HP nonsense going on. Sure, the one in the ad is about $540, but the line has lower-priced options too, some in the sub-$200 range. - And no microchips in the ink!
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  6272.  @tomhenry897  Difficult, technical, not impossible.
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  6273. I just did a search for the where the potato plaque is, and found that it went missing when it was sent from the Maine Maritime Museum to the Naval Historical Center in D.C. in the intent to have it mounted on USS O'Bannon (DD-987), a Spruance-class destroyer in the late 1970's I wonder if someone stole it, or if it is languishing in some dead-letter office somewhere.
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  6274. Do NOT vote for someone because a celebrity, or news anchor, or family member, or YouTuber said to. Vote for someone because you have researched your options, and that person most closely (of the limited choices available) represents your interests.
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  6275.  @awes5709  I am not an independent. I am an undeclared voter according to my voter registration. I vote based on the person, not the party. If advising people to actually research before voting yields me zero thumbs-up, the fault is not mine.
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  6276.  @marysueechols2845  Sounds like you have done some research!
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  6277. In video 1, he showed the thermostat. It looked like it had sat in a mud puddle in a junkyard for a couple of decades
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  6278. And yet, the hood is most often looked over. (/shrug)
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  6279. The ocean is HUGE, and not a thing that is friendly to puny humans and their constructions. Some sailors refer to the ocean as liquid hate.
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  6280.  @laurielewis2745  Where was I on August 14th, 1989? Earth definitely. In the United States I am pretty sure. Other than that?
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  6281.  @Milesco  Oh no! Hehehe...
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  6282. I promise that I am not a cat.
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  6283.  @GeorgeVCohea  That would result in a SNAFU PDQ unless we keep it on the QT.
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  6284. The admission of it happening before puts a lot of penalty on the side of the dealership. If they have had thefts before, and done nothing to either secure, monitor or guard the property, and kept the information of the thefts from customers, then they are, in my mind at least, liable from negligence.
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  6285. 500 square feet could house a single person or a co-sleeping couple with a modest non-studio apartment. Or you could use 500 square feet to put in to-code bathrooms for a restaurant (two genders, at least one handicap stall, etc.) and a janitorial closet. And that is the BEST lying in all the properties he toured.
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  6286. My state (Massachusetts) is already on board!
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  6287. I skipped that movie not because it was women, but because I truly dislike everything Melissa McCarthy has done since Gilmore Girls. And she is not the only actor I avoid on principal. Most of the actors I avoid watching stuff from are male. Jonah Hill and Will Ferrel top my list.
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  6288. It makes even more sense now that the bald guy's space rocket looks phallic.
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  6289. Bad actors, bad commentators, bad reality show "stars"...
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  6290. And how much of these fines will go to compensating the actual victims? Yeah, likely none at all. - edit: Okay, later in the video, Steve does list the amount of the judgement that actually WILL go to the victims. Refreshing surprise.
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  6291.  @pauldehayes1898  It was Lucent.
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  6292. Weaklings! Osmium ally FAL. Don't you lift, bro? (I am having fun here, not attacking you for real)
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  6293.  @abdior6961  Also, a typo of "of" on an English QWERTY keyboard would be more likely to be "or", and if you ignore the red underlines, you can also get "od, ot, od, og, oc, ov".
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  6294. I might have tried reaching down the line with a hook to push the back of the valve half from the backside. - edit: Just saw what came out on the drill bit. My idea would not have worked.
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  6295.  @bonniegaither3994  Well, that would end the Republican party right there. It would at least invalidate the MAGA voters.
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  6296. It seems like the mag change is a meant to be a two-handed operation. Top hand for the mag, bottom hand for the release levers.
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  6297.  @scorpio-girl687  Flip it around, and give us President Whiteboard!
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  6298. "If we don't exploit children, how are we supposed to run a business that can't otherwise survive?"
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  6299.  @evatripp7788  But racism is as American as apple pie and baseball! (this is not meant seriously. racism is a component of the human condition, and only deliberate mental effort can hope to negate it from one's words and actions)
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  6300. Was that a look of skepticism? I couldn't tell with the botox-like facial rigidity and the "artistic" eyebrows.
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  6301. The "commercial" that got me to join was the movie Stripes. I even had a drill sergeant from the Sgt. Hulka gene pool!
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  6302. HAHAH!
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  6303.  @laupit  That's pretty brilliant.
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  6304.  @jannegrey  It would make a cool (Pun intended!) level in a Medal of Honor game.
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  6305. I don't hate the Ferrari-bird. I like the humor in it, and such a display leads me to believe that I might even like the car owner.
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  6306. I had to get an extension cord to be able to plug in one of my window air conditioners. I made bleeping sure I got a cord that was no longer than I needed, and was the right gauge for the wall circuit and the air conditioner. The only thing I use the cheap 16 gauge extension cords for are a single lamp, fan, or to plug in a laptop power supply.
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  6307. You want to shock people at work? put Skittles AND m&m's mixed together in your desktop snack bowl.
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  6308.  @seanraines5871  That's the movie that got me and two friends to decide on joining the Army over other branches. One ended up an Army reporter after finishing sniper school, one drove a tank in West Germany, and I drove an M113 and potted fire for mortars. None of us got a tactical RV...
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  6309.  @rossmanngroup  Ehem. It's all of US, including YOU.
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  6310. Regarding the border and Fentanyl: MS-13, the big gang that gets used to scare voters? Yeah, they started in the US, but were deported back to El Salvador in the early 1990's, where they turned that country (and eventually others) into a land of murder and other crimes, and their victims are trying to come to the US to get away from the problem WE GAVE THEM! - And Fentanyl? Just like any drug coming into the country, it would not sell here if the customers were not here. The REAL war on drugs is fought individually by each person stuck in addiction, and each person trying to avoid getting addicted in the first place.
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  6311. Have you already tried pulling in a car to the new side via that angle path? I only ask because I'd hate to see you go to the expense and hassle of installing the lift only to have it be at the wrong angle or even completely inaccessible. - Of course, in the long run, a second pay door and a straight-in approach will be the best situation, but overhead doors and major construction aren't cheap.
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  6312.  @stickyfox  And who says when land is being "used"? You? Some squatter? The jerk dumping their construction trash rather than pay the dumping fees (separate gripe, not related to this discussion)?
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  6313. The "rescued" guy had too high a body fat and hydration level evident in his arms and face to have really been a "lost prisoner". edit: Oh, and around two weeks of beard growth.
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  6314. I recognize the word phosgene, and it gives me nightmares. I've never been exposed to it, but I have learned enough about its wartime use to have a healthy terror.
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  6315. Consider this my appreciation for your efforts. I cannot send you cake and ice cream through the internet, and I generally dislike 'emojis'. Well done on being a considerate person!
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  6316. The only time I had a license plate on my bike, it came in a box of cereal. Tracking numbers stamped into the crank tube, however? Most of my bikes got that done.
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  6317. If it works, it's not all that wrong, is it? edit: Important point - not all hot glues are the same. The low-temp craft grade glue might not be the best, but some of the high-temp stronger, stiffer versions are fine for this application.
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  6318.  @timothydaly4136  But be careful how MUCH cash you're carrying around, it could be civilly forfeited by a money-grubbing cop.
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  6319.  @NedKLee  Oh that made me chortle.
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  6320.  @KameraShy  Ah, eh can write a sequel: "Unsafe at any voltage!"
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  6321. About 10 years ago, I worked at a company maintaining heavy construction equipment. The Caterpillar equipment was EASY to fix, most parts were available same day, and if you couldn't pick it up, you could pay some to get it delivered. When you bought the machine, you got the maintenance manual with detailed exploded schematics, and wire diagrams. Same for the Bobcat machines - - The John Deere stuff came with a business card and a map to the nearest service location. So even if the Cat parts were sometimes more expensive, at least you saved on the labor end, doing the work yourself.
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  6322. Comparing Trump's numbers to Romney and McCain? Anyone remember Presidents Romney or McCain?
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  6323. I thought it was a donnybrook. Or a hullabaloo. Maybe a set-to?
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  6324.  @westdakota9180  Yep, Camp Pendleton, Camp LeJune, summer camps, boy scout camps... Oh, you mean the INS detention centers where children are taken from their families? Different issue, but no less vile. - - - But if you mean extra-judicial work and reeducation camps in the US where corporations profit off the work of people deemed unfit to be part of the country? Nope, not seeing it.
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  6325.  @westdakota9180  I see a suit against a private prison corporation, which is a serious problem that voters have failed to hold their chosen politicians to account for. For-profit prisons, and using those prisons to hold people from ICE are two pieces that fit neatly together to build a travesty. But it is still not a "camp" anywhere near like those discussed in John's video. It is a private prison taking unfair advantage of the LABOR of people (improperly) placed there. I see nothing about the plaintiffs being reeducated, forced to erase their religion and ethnicity. - So an evil? Hell yes. A reeducation camp? Nope.
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  6326.  @memegazer  I am atheist, but I would refer to a Bible quote: "Hate the sin, not the sinner."
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  6327.  @memegazer  No, I do not agree with that statement. I think it is a CRIME that Facebook/Meta and other companies are abusing customer trust to gather personal information and sell it to even less scrupulous users of that data.
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  6328.  @memegazer  Ha! Young? I'm meandering my way through my 6th decade of breathing. - Something can be a crime without people trying to stop it, or even caring about it. - Ideas on how to 'rewind the clock'? All I can think of is a globe-encompassing EMP event. Fry it all, let us start over a bit. I would be amongst the dead in that scenario, as am EMP would end shipping of things like the prescriptions keeping me alive. Not that I have a lot holding me here anyway...
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  6329. Thanks to this video, I checked for recalls or notices on my CPAP machine from a different maker. I found nothing except a statement that different materials used and design differences meant that my machine was not subject to the same failures. But I am glad I checked.
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  6330. Bezos is heading to space so he can see the realm he plans to buy in one look. That third seat should go to the loudest Flat Earther.
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  6331. I have had older cars before cabin air filters. It was never fun dodging the 5 MPH hornet spat out from the vent, or the fly corpse that launches out of the defroster, or the plain old debris. So yeah, I think the cabin air filter is a good idea. It could be easier in some vehicles to change.
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  6332.  @Crosshair84  Hey! How did you know? (It was a Plymouth station wagon.) - At least the next car was a Ford Molotov, er, Pinto...
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  6333.  @TimeToCheckReality  I would LOVE to be on that board. Because I would be able to ask, "What did we do to make working here so objectionable" without having to face a two minute timer in a public meeting on top of the blatant disinterest of the board as they scrolled through their phones for my whole time.
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  6334.  @saltyppancakes717  Amazingly impractical method of driving nails. I LOVE IT!
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  6335. It can also be an employee looking for off-book "supplemental income".
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  6336.  @aetherkid  Not just civilians, but you got the point.
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  6337. The only people who should be paid in exposure are flashers.
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  6338.  @dogbreath6974  Many other countries have "better" from the comfort of both not being first, and having a smaller installed base to have to change when innovation happens.
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  6339.  @dkaloger5720  A flashbang... grenade. There are fragmentation grenades, blast grenades, smoke grenades, tear gas grenades, and flash-bang grenades. A thing does not have to explode like a bomb to be a grenade. It is more a descriptive of the form factor.
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  6340. If you mean the diameter of the pipe, It is probably as much open cross section as the main body of the converter has once you subtract where the catalyst fills space. If you mean the way the O2 sensor pokes into the pipe? It has to go somewhere, yeah?
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  6341. This is just a "test drive" to check for other diagnoses. As for the tire swap, I might have gone ahead and but the trailer's spare on and saved one round trip for one wheel.
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  6342. I have a problem with the hypothetical of the ATF seeking your guns at your home. Our host says, "They knock." Yeah, right.
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  6343.  @myballsitchsomethingfierce6319  ... so you can see them better in the bottom of the oil bucket!
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  6344.  @aterack833  But of course, not a 10mm.
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  6345. I got a chuckle at the (unintentional? auto-complete?) phrase, "parts mangler".
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  6346. I hope I am not alone in the opinion that un-occupiable "spires" and antennas should not be counted as part of a building's "record height". That's like wearing a stovepipe top hat and calling yourself 6'8" tall when you are really 6'0".
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  6347. I have never been accused of shoplifting, but I did do it three times. Twice as a juvenile (gum once, a box of D&D miniatures the other time) WAY too long ago for charges to be levied now, and once by accident two years ago. In the accidental case, it was an item I forgot was on the bottom of my cart, and I went right back into the store from my car and paid for the item. The person at the service desk was stunned I bothered to come back in for a couple of dollars.
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  6348. At least the government got to throw money at the situation to avoid a binding precedent, and even more public embarrassment.
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  6349. I heard a segment on NPR recently about how some police departments are starting to either incentivize and/or mandate new cop hires to live in the city/neighborhood in which they work, even though there is lengthy statistical evidence that cops living where they police has no measurable effect on police relations, crime levels and economic conditions. - Then I thought about Louis' NYC Real Estate series, and wondered how NYC (one of the cities mandating office candidates live in "one of the city's five boroughs or Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, Westchester, Putnam or Orange counties within 30 days of being hired.") is going to square their residency requirement with ludicrous housing and living costs. And the counties listed that are not one of the five boroughs are only listed so this directive stays in line with New York state law.
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  6350. Hehe... "looks like"
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  6351. I agree. And now I know why the white LED in my bulbs look yellow when they're powered off!
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  6352. I'd rather spend my money at Bob Evans. Then I'd enjoy the meal and have around $29,970 left over.
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  6353.  @ichaukan  It means that jpnewman1688 has been posting the same comment, almost verbatim, over numerous other conversations, either in concert with other trolls, or using multiple accounts to do so.
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  6354.  @t_c5266  Let's see. Of my friends, two are atheist, three are wiccan one is mostly agnostic. Two are pro-republican, three are pro-democrat, and one refuses to vote. One smokes tobacco, one used to, two are vehemently anti-tobacco. Three drink occasionally, one used to, and two will never drink. Three follow sports, the rest of us don't care to even talk about sports. - We're all great, solid, long-term friends who will not only help each other move, we'll help each other move bodies.
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  6355. I served on/with mortars, learned 60mm, 81mm, and 107mm systems. I fired the larger of the two, and I plotted for my platoon in both 81mm and 107mm, both in APC's as part of an armored battalion, and ground-mounted as part of an infantry battalion. - I was able to, eventually, plot fires with a map, protractor, pencil and the firing table book in about 20 seconds per call. We made the ground shake!
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  6356. Don't spend your participation trophy all at once there...
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  6357. I have not had my buying decisions determined by ads since I was around 12 when I realized that Hubba Bubba bubble gum WASN'T the best.
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  6358. Well obviously, your politicians have not been properly compensated, I mean lobbied, to make laws to benefit the corporation over the individual.
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  6359. "Price of eggs!" (covering the real reason that having a president who is female and/or brown is repellent to them.)
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  6360. Had some water issues with the horn wiring on my vehicle, so I figured I'd use some dielectric grease. Accidentally ordered dialectic grease, and now I have to have a reasoned debate with my car before it lets me drive.
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  6361. Greed brings out the ugly side of people that they are normally able to hide.
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  6362. The key line for me that pointed out the vast difference in mindset between there and here was "celebratory gunfire" in relation to Lebanese response to this cease fire agreement.
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  6363. I am a trailblazer! I was reducing my contact with other humans via books WAY before this social media thing was a germ of an idea.
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  6364. I stopped voting party after 1988, the first national election I was able to participate in. By the late 90's I was starting to pay a lot more attention to individual positions as compared to what I wanted out of elected officials. I have also avowed to never vote for someone running unopposed, even if I LOVE their positions and previous voting record.
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  6365. S29 reaches about 10% c? That means it would get measurably more massive at the nadir of its orbit as compared to its zenith. My mind shakes at the implications to the fusion within.
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  6366.  @MrTrailerman2  "Project and Collect"
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  6367. Yeah, Louis is not: female, old, non-white, visibly impaired physically (other than the drunkenness in that one video)...
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  6368. Oil leak? Step one: fully disassemble vehicle. Step two: Regret your life choices.
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  6369. Mmmmm. Bacon.
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  6370.  @CyberlightFG  This is why I am glad my state has a consumer law that mandates unit pricing on shelf labels in retail stores. When I see videos of states without them, it kind of blows my mind.
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  6371.  @joshuac5229  So you're ignoring the internal/external part of my comment. Okay.
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  6372. Like checking for landmines by plugging your ears and jumping around a field.
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  6373. Come on over to my new network, "Soup cans and string non-mobile." The coverage is terrible, and you have to provide your own cans and string. But it's only $5.99 a month.
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  6374. I had this image of "adult beverage" meaning a glass of milk that has been sitting on the counter for at least 18 years.
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  6375.  @christopherg2347  More expensive for the defendant, and for the taxpayers. "The Court" and "The State" don't sweat the hourly wages.
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  6376. I have many hours of M113 (family) PMCS under my belt. Good times.
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  6377.  @charlesphilhower1452  Heck, a lot of hotels you get a bed and in the morning they put out a toaster, bread and bagels, spreads, dry cereal and milk. That is bed AND breakfast enough for me.
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  6378. I keep hearing, in fearful terms, about this "new world order". Is the current world "order" doing that good a job that replacement is not worth looking at?
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  6379. The black SUV with the flat tire from last week's video has not moved a bit.
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  6380.  @han5vk  The SPECIAL hell!
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  6381. Watching in person is an insurance liability issue. Watching through video might be a neat feature to help your garage stand out in a crowded marketplace.
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  6382. Ah yes the three strike rule. Side of the kneecap to induce pain, partially immobilize, and stun. Solar plexus to temporarily stop breathing, and fore the person to fold in the middle, lowering defenses. Back of the neck to deliver either a killing blow or leave them quadriplegic for life. - - - That three strike rule?
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  6383.  @Paramount531  In high school I had a friend who was gifted his first car, a Peugeot. If they were still around, I would prop one of those up against a Volvo for "the Devil" awards.
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  6384. I've never seen that movie, but I've seen that scene around a hundred times.
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  6385.  @TheJunkFarm  Another idea struck me. File new (yes, fraudulent) wills for those involved, making the REAL board the beneficiaries, and then threaten nothing.
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  6386. But think about the millionaires? Won't someone help them? (Yeah right.)
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  6387.  @GARDENER42  I remember wanting my first car to be a Gremlin back in the 1970's. Then I saw a Triumph TR7 and wanted THAT. When I grew up, my first car ended up being a Pinto. - Dreams. Crushed.
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  6388. It's called "civil" because it's not based on criminal charges. That is where the distinction comes from, not that it is a civil way to treat people.
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  6389.  @dirty46  And yet, gate guard rarely (if ever) demand the stowing of dashcams for people who have legitimate business on the base.
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  6390. You or I refuse the tests, we are default guilty and lose our license on the spot. All because we aren't in the huge interstate gang. (The one with badges)
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  6391. A good thing to look for, but not a sure guarantee of veracity, is to see 1) is the company name you contacted actually on the truck and 2) is that name only on a magnetic sign slapped on the door. A magnetic sign does not necessarily mean a fake company, but many shady companies (and surveillance vehicles) will use a magnetic door sign which allows that one vehicle to be from any number of companies, real or imagined.
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  6392.  @bgue48  You don't invite someone to be roommate who stabs you in the leg twice a day just because they're willing to wash dishes and keep the bathroom clean.
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  6393. Fortunate for your brother that you were not being vengeful that day, yeah?
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  6394. That is a very good point. It would be like getting a description of "brown hair, over six feet, caucasian, overweight" and then ONLY comparing that description to my TTRPG gaming group. All of us are caucasian, most of us have brown hair, half of us are overweight to some degree, but I am the only one over six feet tall. I guess I am the one who murdered that family in Vancouver and drove away with Massachusetts plates that nobody got the numbers from, because your sample size did not include the actual perpetrator.
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  6395.  @waynegoin5534  Well, if I take a friend's candy, I'll feel bad about it.
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  6396.  @florret2003  Vocabulary word of the day!
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  6397. If parts and schematics were available to all, it could actually HURT Louis' business. If he was only in it for himself, he'd keep doing what he's doing, getting smuggled schematics and dumpster-dive parts.
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  6398.  @johnv9594  If you lose and the winner is the vanguard of fascism and totalitarianism, then yes. A loss is not democracy. Ask the people of: Brazil, Argentine, Ecuador, Laos, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Egypt, Germany, about half of the countries in Africa... All have had that happen at one time or another. - I guess it's our turn.
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  6399. I listen to the comedy of Christopher Titus, and if only HALF of the abuse he talks about receiving is true, it's amazing he's alive. He's been punched, kicked, and stabbed. While he tries to restrain himself when he could easily kill the women attacking him.
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  6400. But then where is the PROFIT!? Profit is king. 'Murica...
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  6401. Except for the one who choked to death on vomit. That may or may not have been his own vomit.
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  6402. Should have, yes. But the DA probably had an "innocent chat" with the judge before or during the case at the local bar or golf course and made sure the case would glide through unopposed.
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  6403. They should be fined "all of the proceeds of the indicted activity" plus 10% of that number.
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  6404. He said the words, "I can issue a warrant on anyone I want." That means it is possible for someone with a hair across their sphincter, or if they're doing a "favor" can screw someone for years.
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  6405.  @todddunn945  Split rims! Yikes! I still remember watching a news report that had video on some split rim failures on the tire changing machines of the day. That was some scary [bleep].
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  6406. I only take vitamins and supplements that blood testing has identified as deficiencies, and only on the advice of my doctor.
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  6407.  @NetBattler  What does Adobe software have to do with these feminist extortionists?
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  6408. What the pasta is a "registration light"? Am I supposed to attach a flashlight to my paper registration now?
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  6409. Typical DWB stop.
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  6410. Damn. The cop incited her illegal action and THEN arrested her? What a jerk!
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  6411.  @trooperdgb9722  Yeah, but I didn't want the hang-out to have TWO people with Time in their title.
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  6412. "So we all get old, we can't hack it anymore, and that's it?" - Trainspotting
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  6413. I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took a 50-years to the knee.
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  6414. He has to eat cheap, to keep Mr. Clinton and the herd in Greenies.
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  6415.  @GunnyO326  Like I said. They aren't angry enough. Your response states one of the reasons WHY someone may not be angry enough to make the trade.
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  6416.  @GunnyO326  You say "impossible" as if that is true.
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  6417. I first heard about that in a bit from the comedian Kyle Kinane. He was refused entry for a DUI he had ALREADY PAID FOR AND SERVED OUT.
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  6418. I already write my US and state politicians about this 1-3 times a year.
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  6419. 50 years of inner ear damage? No wonder you haven't heard about the lawsuit! Sorry for the dark humor. I hope you can get at least a little financial compensation.
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  6420. Or arresting everyone with more melanin than Jared Kushner because "there have been burglaries in the area" and "they fit the description."
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  6421. So often it's corner lots, too. Twice the sidewalk, twice the curbing.
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  6422. I have learned a lot from just watching and listening. And I am not even an auto mechanic. This has let me do a few mid-range jobs on my own car that I would not have even attempted before. I am currently only limited by lack of a lift and some specialized tools. That and being a renter.
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  6423. If a cop was on fire, and told me he was on fire, I would assume that it was just a weird form of water.
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  6424. I know you didn't literally mean cash, but if a contractor asks to be paid in cash instead of a bank check... RUN!
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  6425.  @thatjeff7550  Yeah, a tiny patch job like that is reasonable for a cash request. My mother got about 50' of our dirt driveway paved by a company who had half a dump-truck of hot asphalt they had left over from a job down the street (improperly estimated?) That they would have had to write off. They said they would spread and compact it for $300 if she wrote a personal check once they were done.
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  6426.  @Smartmovesstayingahead  Also make police get insurance similar to doctor's malpractice insurance. If the insurance companies refuse to insure a cop, I guess that cop has to find a new career.
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  6427. I hope we get to see the car back when the owner wants to address the whining steering.
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  6428. I had a very similar experience. When I was in 5th grade, my family moved from Massachusetts to Arizona (1976). The differences in the school systems were so drastic, that I felt I learned almost nothing for the first two years until I was evaluated by a school psychologist after some discipline issues. He was the first adult to realize that my "acting out" was out of boredom, not evil. I got moved to a more 'advanced' school and put into that school's gifted program. I was finally learning new things, including computers (the school had a single dumb terminal connected to Honeywell Systems - cutting edge at the time). - When we moved back to Massachusetts, it took me the better part of a school year to scramble back up to the state's education standards. By high school, I was taking honors classes in math and science. - I have a B.S. in physics (missed cum laude because I stupidly tried to learn Russian...) The only reason I didn't go further in education was financial.
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  6429. As a teen, I had an Estes rocket using C-series cartridge motors (drives?) that only made four flights before a melted parachute ended in a crumpled tube. And that was my longest-lasting model rocket.
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  6430.  @DonaldWells-wk8dc  Ooh, yeah. Jack Lord, tires squealing around every corner, no matter how slow they are driving.
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  6431. That's easy. Nobody with time, money and/or clout takes the time to object.
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  6432.  @iamdaerogami  And, they need to learn the saying, "A happy customer might tell one other person, while an UNhappy customer will tell everyone they meet."
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  6433. Not only are you a better producer than most for crediting and sharing your sources, but you're also a bit of a demon for making me learn a bit more about fluid dynamics. I will need weeks of padded-room therapy to regain those sanity points.
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  6434. President Google...
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  6435.  @PrezVeto  So, you would be okay if I opened a tire burning company just over the border (and accidentally upwind) of your state? Would my state be okay if we dammed up rivers that other states use? How about if my state decided that slavery was okay?
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  6436.  @Oakleaf012  Odin got the short end of that comparison. One eye and two merely large ravens versus TWO eyes and a whole FLIGHT of GIANT eagles.
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  6437.  @AlexArthur94  Ah yes, the Arkenstone incident.
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  6438. I watched a James Veitch video where he was asking the vaccine center how long it would take for the shot to give his phone good 5G signal. They took the humor in stride, cool ladies.
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  6439. My reason for not going to Rite Aid is that they kept "misplacing" my insurance information and trying to charge me shelf retail for my meds. And they would do it week after week for a month before I changed pharmacies.
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  6440. Somewhere between paying an inflated impound and towing fee, and trying to prove the innocence of your property in a vague crime that justified (in their minds) a civil seizure.
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  6441. Before Carell had a go at a show by that name, there was a pilot for a show of the same name and basic concept helmed by Fred Willard in 1978. I watched it, it is a hilarious low-budget production.
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  6442.  @BrotherCheng  Yep, take Space command, slide in some small units from other branches, and create a whole lot of new billets for senior officers (the Tuberville prevented from getti8ng promoted over the idea that military members deserve reproductive choice). - At least now the Pentagon has five service branches to fill the offices? (including the Coast Guard) So... win???
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  6443.  @sethmartin1512  Crud. I screwed up the count.
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  6444.  @DonVigaDeFierro  If it was called Star Command, they could recruit people through video games to help defend the frontier against the Ko-Dan Armada.
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  6445.  @NemoConsequentae  And the computer could be sending the right belt... for the original pulley size on the steering pump. If the new steering pump has a smaller pulley, it could have created the situation. But any mechanic who sends a car with the belt tensioner at maximum with a brand new belt is either brand new, doesn't care, or is unteachable.
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  6446.  @bencheevers6693  Whew! Paragraphs please. Your points are good. The concern I always have is where the burden of proof lies and what the percentage of decision is (beyond reasonable doubt, preponderance of evidence, etc.). That and your point about removing the financial incentive on the point-of-contact departments and officers in these matters.
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  6447. That was confirmed on an episode of Mythbusters. If the piece of tread had hit your helmet differently, we'd be hearing your tale like the one Aaron Brit shared, instead of your first-hand account. After seeing that, I would no longer accept retreads on anything of mine but a riding lawnmower or wheelbarrow.
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  6448.  @NearQuasar  Or maybe it will promote something else to the top spot and we'll be a food crop. Or a museum display.
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  6449. Those exist also. They advertise on the basis that you only need to drill a small hole in the wall to pass the coolant lines inside where they mount the cooling unit on the wall.
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  6450.  @Bobs-Wrigles5555  And Reynold's aluminum foil!
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  6451.  @NotSoCrazyNinja  We'd probably have that as well if there was any insulation in the walls. Still, I did only have to use my fan about a dozen days last summer...
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  6452. I used to joke that anyone who stole my identity would end up paying me to take it back, my credit score was so bad. Now I don't have a credit score at all. That's what happens when you don't buy anything on credit, or use a credit card, for over a decade.
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  6453. Make sure your Oerlikon emplacement meets all HOA codes!
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  6454. Imagine how much cheaper better training and supervision would be for the taxpayers?
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  6455. ... and the back-light!
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  6456.  @bryanspindle4455  If someone keeps hitting me in the face with a rotting herring, is it me with a herring fixation, or the person who is swinging the rotten fish? - To help out, Donnie is the rotten fish, and the R party swinging the seafood around.
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  6457. Man, VW LOVES to make mechanics buy special tools...
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  6458.  @M167A1  Why "be fair"? If a technician is not trained to at least note evident conditions of an item before boxing it up and shipping it, then the failure is in the training program, and the responsibility is on the company. If the technician IS trained to not evident conditions of the item, but didn't it is STILL the responsibility of the company. And Magnussen-Moss requires the company prove the damage was due to misuse or negligence by the owner. Not making note of existing damage upon receipt of the item loses them their ability to support such a claim.
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  6459. You sold me at Jenny Agutter!
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  6460.  @strickenbrow  Yeah, I react dramatically to urushiol (the "itch" oil in poison ivy/oak/sumac). So I peel my mango with a paper towel between my hand and the rind.
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  6461. You know what? I'm at the point where I'm fine with Ultron's reign.
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  6462. Funny 'uh-oh' - Animaniacs
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  6463.  @joblessalex  Norepinephrine! Hahaha
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  6464. How dare that salesman call a potential customer nebbish!
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  6465.  @jamaarbrundidge1395  Heh, water - fathom. Nice.
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  6466.  @razorsazors  They frighten easily, but they'll be back. And in greater numbers.
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  6467.  @CoercedJab  I have chosen which poison shall end my life. I have kept the number of poisons low.
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  6468. You own your cellphone? Try getting a repair part if you're a iPhone user (and more, and more any other phone maker)
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  6469.  @Garth2011  "You will own nothing and be happy."
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  6470. One place I worked at, high tech, asked for but did not require that people give notice when they were quitting. Because they had employees leave in the past doing data damage or stealing data on their last day, they adopted a practice of paying people for their announced notice period, but picking a random day in that period to do the exit interview, monitor their desk clearing, and walk them to their car in the parking lot. And the fact that they paid for the whole notice period eliminated backlash to the practice.
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  6471.  @ai-d2121  I wonder if a liberal coating of anti-seize compound would protect your cash from civil asset forfeiture when traveling by air?
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  6472. Godzilla versus Bambi, if comparing mental stature.
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  6473. I would gladly make you a hamburger Tuesday if you pay me today...
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  6474. It is almost too bad that the police did not have a serious negative reaction to Narcan administered WITHOUT the presence of opiates. Heck, even if it is administered properly to someone experiencing an overdose (and those cops were not displaying overdose symptoms as described in the product literature) the recipient can experience any of a long list of moderate to severe side effects.
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  6475. Sounds like a blend of accents from every major place it snows, but more relaxed, less... hurried and harried.
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  6476. The one that lit my fuse was the $35 charge for a letter to say that not trimming the shrubs MAY incur a fine in the future.
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  6477. American healthcare system? You mispronounced Corporate wealthcare system.
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  6478. C: FDISK
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  6479. Hey, if that works for you, then you are fortunate to have found your best working/learning mode! It is not true for most people I have met.
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  6480. Ooh! Cupcakes!
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  6481.  @larrybrinley8222  You describe hearing. Listening means hearing not just that there is sound, but what the content of the sound is.
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  6482. Who is Lieng? Your Chinese handler?
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  6483.  @gamezonereactions8388  You seem to be confused. I am not on the Republican side here. No clowns, not disconnected. But definitely a target for those who ARE on the R side.
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  6484.  @gamezonereactions8388  You're flying a lot of red flags. Red flags are generally understood to be a warning of danger.
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  6485.  @REDBIRD-95  Ehem... This night's third-shift at the ER sure is QUIET.
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  6486. Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't start fixin' your hot. rod. Lincoln.
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  6487. If John really WAS irrelevant, DeSatan would not have mentioned him at all. You don't make a point of attacking people who don't matter to you.
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  6488. Let's be real. Phoenix is a huge city in the middle of the desert, where people feel the need to have back yard sized pools, green lawns, and non-native plants. And the whole valley is sinking as the city keeps pumping out of what little underground aquifer they have.
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  6489.  @KickyFut  Suaky! This needs to percolate into common parlance!
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  6490. You never need the hardware you are in doubt about, until just after you dispose of them.
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  6491. Gaskets and watertight membranes, I imagine.
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  6492. The observation about "problem #1" and changing expectations of what "dry" feels like is a huge point. It should almost be printed on a big sticky note on the machine when you buy it.
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  6493. Wow. No wonder the owner(s) are having you do the bathing of these charmers. Screams like that could get police called to your home!
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  6494. In the event a police spokesperson schedules a time to talk and pulls a no-show, the press should be able to treat them the way courts treat people who refuse to appear for their trials. Just make a declaratory judgement, and state that the missing side agrees by dint of their willful absence. - "The Trenton police department has, by their Willful refusal to appear after agreeing to speak with us, have confirmed our point of view, as stated in the following segment."
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  6495. If both you and the company agent initialed the changes, the changes become binding. At least, that is how I understand it.
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  6496. My proposal: On a specific day, an online "flash mob" of tens of thousands to millions of people all search for the same thing. Something like, "Cocaine sales near me" or "Home addresses of ATF agents" or "List of arson tools".
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  6497. Collect your "dad joke" plaque and see yourself out.
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  6498. I read a fiction series where a company built a manufacturing plant in orbit by paying NASA enough to add just a little extra burn to the shuttles so the big external tanks would get high enough that the corporation could capture the tanks, strap on thrusters, and bring them to their assembly orbit.
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  6499.  @MoreTacosForEveryone  And how many drivers are also armed? Plus, if someone is within a step or two, they're easily going to be faster than your pistol draw.
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  6500.  @marvinhearon4786  And I'm sure Ray's boss will give him a serious talking-to.
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  6501.  @ianbattles7290  Sad that you were in a situation where you felt you had to PROVE your innocence, when the system is SUPPOSED to run the other way.
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  6502. Rumor has it, that penguin is still looking for his keys, three months later.
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  6503. You need to stop knuckling under to the heckler's veto from mentally unwell people. We all need to do that. If I make the peace sign, someone will find a way to be offended. If I hold a door for someone with their hands full, someone will find a way to be offended. If I ignore someone who is shouting at me, someone will find a way to be offended. - I control only my own thoughts, and other people need to control their own thoughts and leave mine alone.
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  6504. I wonder how many MADD awards this [expletive] has received?
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  6505. Absolutely. If a field MUST be a number, many programs won't allow "n/a" or any other text. The fact that the placeholder is so ludicrously large is deliberate to trigger a human into examining where the problem is, as opposed to the placeholder being, say, $1,200 which people may just pass by as valid even if it's wrong.
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  6506.  @anonony9081  There's no ticket income in investigating small property crime. Police gotta seize to keep the budget up!
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  6507.  @marcogenovesi8570  How could you have read what I clearly stated and got EXACTLY the opposite information I was conveying?
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  6508. Massachusetts has a specific distance farm equipment can be on the paved road to get from field to field, specifically for farms with fields through which a road passes. IIRC, they have to remain in the breakdown lane if they are doing more than a straight crossing.
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  6509. Hey, that very same advice is how cops get away with murder, so why wouldn't it work for bloodthirsty gun-toting non-cops?
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  6510. Impressive, terrifying... you pick.
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  6511.  @friedrichjunzt  Neat assumption that the entirety of the US military would agree with such anti-American orders. "Something, something, LAWFUL orders, something, enemies domestic and foreign."
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  6512.  @LKRaider  He is now in the unenviable position of only being able to choose HOW he wants to shoot himself in the foot.
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  6513.  @crackinjahcs  If the court truly feels a person is dangerous they will be able to hold them in pretrial confinement. The removal of cash bail only means that the court/prosecution has to show evidence to be able to hold someone, instead of just lazily handwaving and saying, "If they want out, they just need to find some money."
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  6514. So a "bare cell" is the very same battery that we can all buy at many kinds of stores. They are not age restricted for purchase, and the only warnings are to: not eat them, not burn or dispose of them in regular trash/landfills, and to not use damaged ones. I think we're covered, LG. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done wrong.
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  6515.  @gk5891  They exist, but they are aging out of service.
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  6516. The FBI 1023 form is a more complex "While You Were Out" phone message notepad. That's it. The Comer's effort has been to constantly try and obscure that fact.
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  6517. The stage magician uses misdirection all the time.
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  6518.  @Acorn_Anomaly  Is a pennant a flag? How about a streamer? "Your honor, I did not plant a flag. I emplaced the British naval ensign."
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  6519. Pick the crappiest building on each block, or at least every other block. Eminent Domain it and take it down. Place dumpsters. Have a trash company empty the dumpsters on a weekly or semi-weekly basis (depending on density of neighborhood using the dumpsters). That's what you get for designing a city without alleys.
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  6520. Crossing guard for a deer crossing.
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  6521. Thanks for the laughs!
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  6522. Meh.
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  6523. Rats? Is it the small gardens or the split-open trash bags, overflowing dumpsters, and open sewers? Yeah, it's "definitely" the small gardens. - Are they going to drive bulldozers over the gardens while De Blasio gives a lame speech? - edit: Where I live in Massachusetts, green spaces and gardens. You know what we don't have? A rat problem. You know what else we don't have? Trash piled on the side of the road, spilling out and infested.
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  6524. Will Tucker suffer? - Humiliations GALORE! You got your miracle, coming right up!!!
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  6525. Age of the vehicle is a factor. edit: It's a 2000 GMC Jimmy, which the owner just bought used. The older the vehicle, the less a new major part can be worth it, and the harder it can be to even find the part (except from junkyards) in the first place.
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  6526. Geneva Convention. Neat. Of course, the Japanese had not ratified the convention, and by the time of this battle, it was known that Japanese soldiers did not respect the non-cambatant status of medical and clergy personnel, as well as how they abused POW's. (there were cultural reasons behind this problem). - The Japanese in this battle were already attacking a medical tent to kill medical staff and the wounded, so would any sane person expect that a medical worker would calmly hope that the Geneva Convention would protect them? Hell no.
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  6527.  @gavinjenkins899  "I was writing fiction that week, I think."
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  6528.  @Lucky0wl  And then people started wearing metal again in trench warfare, bombers and helicopters. Then some real smarty types figured out some lighter and more effective materials. People stopped wearing metal when the protection provided was less helpful than the mobility that not wearing armor provided. We are in the midst of the pendulum swinging back to armor.
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  6529.  @scottdunn8518  That's like being born three times without dying in between!
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  6530.  @roadie3124  Ah, the Ikea method.
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  6531. Your local garden center has torches AND pitchforks. All that is missing is a lighter, some willpower, and a willingness to give up the week or so it would take to get an arraignment.
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  6532.  @timothyletwin5911  Go easy on her. she is one of America's living brain donors.
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  6533. Another concern with that lift cable is that when it parts while lifting a vehicle, it will drop to a lock. This could result in a poorly balanced vehicle coming off the lift arms, but it will also leave the vehicle 'stranded' on the locks without a good way to get it up enough to let it back down.
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  6534. The ENTIRE reason for the EZPass or the plate-readers is not for driver convenience. It is to reduce the cost of having employees. That is it. It's like self-checkouts at the grocery store, self-service gas pumps, pick-your-own apple orchards...
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  6535. That is insane. Bumpers are REQUIRED on a car as part of the safety equipment.
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  6536.  @ianbattles7290  Timmy threw a rock at Jane. Jane threatens to tell on Timmy. Timmy offers to give Jane his Pikachu pencil topper if Jane promises not to tell. - If Jane accepts the Pikachu pencil topper, Timmy will not have to risk facing more severe consequences for his rock throwing. . If Jane refuses the Pikachu pencil topper and tells on him instead, Timmy MIGHT get a severe punishment, depending on the will of the court, I mean Timmy parents. Timmy still might lose the Pikachu pencil topper, if Timmy's parents take it away from him. Heck, Timmy's parents might give the Pikachu pencil topper to Jane as part of Timmy's punishment, but that is not very likely.
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  6537.  @Elmospiece  At least someone who buys a property with intent of being the landlord is not a flipper.
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  6538. Oh, ha-ha. Battery is SO fracking hilarious. How about you be the next voluntary victim.
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  6539. Calmly pull over to the shoulder. Turn off the vehicle. Exit the vehicle and hand over whatever the criminals want. File a proper police report later, if you survive. - Hmm? That's not what cops mean when they say, "Just comply"?
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  6540. Because they're top secret. . . . OH! READ, I thought you said read...
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  6541. Cop number 2 in the approach did a LOT of barrel-sweep of his partner. You can see it from the under-barrel light. That is dangerous. - Kicks to the head ought to be attempted murder. I know it would be if I kicked someone in the back of the head while they were on the ground. - Sure, arrest the guy for what he did. Absolutely shout at him to get him to go to the floor, so you can safely handcuff him. There is no doubt in my mind that the guy deserved arrest. But cops need to stop acting emotionally. No, that is not easy, but that is what training is for. Get psychologists/psychiatrists involved in training to increase emotional control. - The spokes-officer looks very stiff, even for someone reading from a script. What facts need to be known? It's on video and audio where kicks and weapon strikes are made to the shooter's head. That is a fear/anger reaction. Work on getting your cops more emotional maturity and fewer assault weapons
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  6542. Even worse when some of the top 'green' tech is gatekept behind profit-driven installers with variable skill levels.
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  6543.  @chris-tg6ki  As of now, anyone who works on a car has to have both s.a.e. and metric tools. And a constant supply of new 10mm sockets, because they keep escaping to the land of left socks.
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  6544.  @spvillano  I recall the Mythbusters episode on the Hindenburg. The paint was essentially thermite.
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  6545. 25 hours of training per type of equipment? I used to work at a manufacturer of electronics and we were BUILDING the things, testing them, repair and re-testing them and sending them off for use after spending 5-10 minutes being briefed on what product line we were making that day. And our scrap percentages were well under 1%.
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  6546. Oh, AUSTIN! I thought Louis was moving to TEXAS.
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  6547.  @youngThrashbarg  Thus part of the reason why some old baseball cards are so rare and valuable!
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  6548. "And I'm sad to be an American, where only the rich are free And they won't honor the men who died, who gave that right to me And they gladly stand up, lie to you and defile Her still today 'Cause there ain't no doubt, I miss this land, we miss the USA, yeah" - Borrowing from Lee Greenwood, money-grubbing "patriot"
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  6549. It could be called WBB, or Worse Business Bureau.
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  6550. A quote for Alan Shaw, the President and CEO of Norfolk Southern: "You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords." _ The Operative, Serenity
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  6551. This is one of the funniest things I've read this month!
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  6552. Buy Here Pay Here is the bottom of the snake pit in used car sales.
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  6553. Notice that Star Trek used Jellico's name for a character, but not Beaty's. Sure, Star Trek's Jellico was a martinet who drove down crew morale, but at least the name is there. - edit: Psst. NECRO POST!
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  6554. When I buy a food product my concerns are: Is the price I paid the price listed on the shelf tag? Are the contents present in the weight or volume as indicated on the package? Is the food unspoiled? Does the food have the ingredients listed on the nutrition facts panel? - After that, it's between me and my food if I like it.
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  6555.  @nonotthatoneguy  PTSD is a thing.
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  6556.  @nonotthatoneguy  Nobody here said kumquats either. But I just did.
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  6557. Depending on the formulation. Some ammonium-based fertilizers have been manufactured with components that messes with the ability to make ANFO explosives out of it. Don't know the actual chemistry, and I am loathe to look it up and get on "a list".
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  6558.  @TheBooban  Decency? Oh my gosh, people are trying to communicate clearly and respectfully and you resort to derision?
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  6559. It is infuriating to me how hard they are grabbing onto "replacing a broken screen" when that is just the tiny tip of the tip of the iceberg of the problem that causes the need for right to repair. But I guess replacing a broken screen is the only thing they can understand, and the only thing they were not "robusted" to ignore.
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  6560. Atheists just skip the whole belief thing. What is most important is the freedom to believe, or not believe, in whatever god(s) or mythology you prefer (so long as it does not cause others harm).
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  6561. Those solar-powered dehumidifier collectors are the wrong shape. They're supposed to be tall, round objects standing in the deserts of Tatooine.
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  6562.  @bosstowndynamics5488  No reason you can't dock the robomower in a shed or locked space under your deck and take the short trip to liberate it and send it out to mow. You're already not out mowing your lawn, are you unable to walk out and open a shed? If so, my condolences.
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  6563.  @bosstowndynamics5488  So now opening a shed door is "supervising it the whole time"? That is an appeal to absurdity, a bad debate tactic. - Oh, also in the video, one of the machines he reviewed has GPS location and lock-out of function. So if someone steals your robot, you can find it and they don't get to use it anyway.
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  6564.  @llewellynquay9463  Check returned items? That would require people paid enough, and not overworked, to actually care.
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  6565. I would support drawing and quartering for crimes like this, at this scale.
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  6566. "I'm not going to be taking question about this today." - cacophony of shouted questions follow.
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  6567. It irks me that the 88 days for preparation was not counting down during the flailing for immunity. It's not like actual time was frozen during this whole period. Lawyers could EASILY have been preparing all along.
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  6568. Another avenue to get this changed is to lobby your state(s) to get rid of the slave wages for tipped employees. In Massachusetts, the minimum wage is $15/hr. Unless your job is one you make more than $20 PER MONTH in tips, then your minimum wage is $6.75/hr. That's a 55% reduction per hour. I'm surprised the law doesn;t include a weekly kick to the shins with steel-toed boots, just so tipped employees "learn their place".
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  6569. They should have waited until the first day of spring to redeem the coins. Because nobody pays much attention to the March of Dimes these days.
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  6570.  @russellriggan2088  When he was at the previous shop, there was a functioning parts washer. I think he still has not made his part washer operable?
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  6571. Official Trump Crowd Estimator Inc. (Established 2017)
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  6572.  @snowdaysrule  I thought my magnetic connectors were wearing out, but they were just a little dirty. A quick wipe with an alcohol-wet cloth and the connections went right back like new.
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  6573. Ha! Good joke.
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  6574. This was a great pair of videos, like silently hanging out with you two. - I miss Mythbusters. I also miss... SUPRISE LIGHTSABER!
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  6575.  @tapper1995  By the time Ray is done, the... OBD2 port might be original equipment.
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  6576. That one, "Homemade", has actually been looked at by the FTC. Thus we now have "Homestyle", "Homemade Style", and "Like Homemade" I got some frozen pierogis that were labeled as "made in batches" as if that meant anything.
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  6577. The best burger place in the world is the one you like the best. That is to say, there is no one best place, but fortunately there are a LOT of best places. Culver's sounds like a good place to eat.
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  6578. Take your thumbs-up and go stand in the corner!
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  6579. Imagine your high school graduating class. Now imagine one out of every fifty of them, dead and laid out on the floor of your school's gym in a body bag. Now imagine at least one of those body bags contains someone very important to you. 2% matters.
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  6580.  @johnassal5838  Fair enough, I suppose
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  6581.  @truthsRsung  One a-hole means we stop trying to better for our continued survival on the planet? Noted.
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  6582. And having carefully read the science behind the matter, I always support getting the newest tires (if I am buying in pairs) on the rear, not the front.
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  6583.  @DerSAIBOT  Congrats on learning multiple languages. I have put a lot of work into learning languages and all I ended up with was a few sentences in Spanish, and the ability to start a bar brawl in Russian or Finnish.
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  6584. Somebody call 911 and get a no-knock "wellness check" done on that fool.
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  6585. Hey Parallax, what is simpler than the experiments of Eratosthenes around 240 BC? Or the measurements done by Abū Rayḥān Al-Bīrūnī in the 10th century A.D.? Or the math used by ocean navigators in your era? Or the direct observations of astronomers? Nah, pick a canal only six miles long, and do an experiment designed to support your hypothesis.
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  6586. Yay. Send more driving functions to a touchscreen that takes your eyes off your surroundings. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
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  6587.  @babs_babs  Double shift on Sundays?
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  6588. Too much time spent reporting on hate here at home.
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  6589.  @billyjean9484  If you can't find an attorney to take your case against police, you may also have a "good ol' boys network" going on.
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  6590.  @herculesbrofister265  That is how that regulation reads in my state.
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  6591. One episode of Build It Bigger (Season 1 episode 4 "Super Fast Warship") examined the construction of a navy destroyer. Smaller ship, yes, but a lot of the same challenges with cutting, bending, welding, aligning and fitting, and assembling a large machine. - Modern shipbuilding is a massive effort of huge numbers of people all the way from the first specifications being written down, to the architects, the sourcing of materials and the securing of a building place, to the steel workers, the welders, the fitters, the plumbers, electricians, and dozens of other job specialties. Amazing stuff.
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  6592. How utterly Catholic of Border Protection...
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  6593. Ginger Luckey, Niceville. If I read those in a book, there'd be some serious eye-rolling.
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  6594. Boop the snoot!
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  6595.  @charlieb9502  I'm stealing that. 'Man Tupperware".
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  6596. The biggest point in this comparison: The Netherlands designs to move people safely, North America designs to move cars quickly. - Having waited many a full light cycle for a pedestrian signal, I get this. Perhaps as the percentage of electric/hybrid cars takes over pure combustion cars, we can lose the "idling cars creates lots of pollution" argument and start to see changes to better signaling systems, particularly in cities. Another thing that frustrates progress is the perception that buses and municipal trains are somehow bad/dirty/socialism. I live in a town with plenty of stores and restaurants, and only drive to distant places once or twice a week. I would love if my community had good public transit coverage.
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  6597.  @nagualdesign  The English language is a crime scene anyway. We steal words from other languages, change them a bit, and then try and force the robbery victim to use the version of the word we use.
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  6598.  @nafnaf0  It is getting harder and harder to "vote with our wallet" because more and more companies see the predacious jerks profiting big, and dive right in for their slice of the pie.
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  6599. He could also have used the key to puncture the gas tank, collected the gas in a container and use it to start a fire in a nearby structure! Why didn't they also arrest him for arson? He had keys? He could have gotten out of the car and used that key to damage the pain of other vehicles. They should have also charged him with vandalism! - I am angry for this person I don't even know.
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  6600.  @ninosuavecito9168  And you type like a lazy texter.
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  6601. This just makes me mad. Outraged, incensed, hot-blooded, and wishing that a 20 meter wide asteroid had struck a particular golf course on a specific day some five years ago.
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  6602.  @niyablake  Yes, I am making some assumptions. Regarding maintenance of municipal property, I have little information. Regarding snow plowing, I know for FACT that all towns and cities, and even some state roads, have private plowing contractors from companies with tens of trucks to a lone guy with a single truck. It would take far too long, or require far too many trucks and employees, to plow all of the snow on all of the roads with only publicly owned trucks.
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  6603. Steve, in your "gun in the pants" example, the cop seeing it means it was in plain view.
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  6604.  @petermolnar8667  Yeah, one of the rare times I did not adequately proofread my comment.
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  6605. What, is Apple the police department now? WAIT! Pretend I never said that. I don't want to bless the bad idea fairy.
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  6606. Just popping in for an online lesson from one of the professors. Sir Jason Kingsley, Tod Cutler, and Matt Easton are all on the faculty, with occasional adjunct instructors like Lindybeige, Shad (of Shadiversity) and Joe Gibbs. Making YouTube stay meaningful and useful one video at a time!
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  6607. The Devil doesn't advertise on behalf of the competition.
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  6608. New Coke got me to appreciate RC Cola. I am one of those minority that chooses Coke (old/Classic) over Pepsi or New Coke in a blind test. I just don't like something about the taste of Pepsi.
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  6609. This cop is facing consequences because his fake traffic stops broke the big rule. "Don't take money from the gang you don't deserve (according to our rules)"
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  6610.  @Tjalve70  Instead the police in that town started using the cell phones for all drug sales-related encounters, and instead of arresting the dealers, would threaten them and escort them from the town. This way, there were ZERO drug-related encounters on the log (which were public information) so therefore no drugs - and property values rose as intended.
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  6611. Why did it take 5 and a half decades for me to learn that?
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  6612. Every time I watch one of these I want to throat-punch these a-hole cops with a running chainsaw. Am I wrong?
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  6613. Heck, even the US Military, where most people have to be clean-shaven daily, have the toolboxes in the shop.
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  6614.  @martinda7446  I only stated a hypothetical, and the phrase "implement of harm" could very well mean a book of vicious insults... Mister DA...
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  6615. Bleak outlook...
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  6616. Basically it started from saving candles and lamp oil. Then businesses saw how consumer habits changed and wanted in on all that lucre.
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  6617. He has had a team extensively study human behavior and download the files into his "interaction matrix".
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  6618. Yes, but. There are some people who are so unpleasant that they alienate people rather quickly. I agree it is not something that ought to be burdening kids, but some adults are just unhappy lumps.
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  6619. There were days I wanted to be a dinosaur. Last Wednesday was one of them.
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  6620.  Bobb Grimley  You miss out on a lot of fun mental exercises by not embracing your own inner weirdness.
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  6621. He is quite careful about not showing us company logos and license plates. Also any personally identifying information in vehicle contents (like in glove boxes during filter changes, etc.) are not in focus, or on screen that long.
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  6622.  @Jimmeh_B One of my great grandfathers fought Soviet (white people) occupation of Finland (more white people) to the extent and with methods severe enough that he had to flee to America to avoid the death sentence. The other three great grandfathersI have no information on.
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  6623. Yeah, that is a massive amount of silicone. Someone knew they screwed up something.
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  6624.  @imightbebiased9311  You get that kind of thing, and the fractional street address numbers, when the original lot plan assigning address numbers was broken by either bad planning and/or excessive subdividing of plots.
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  6625. Ray's hoarding comes in clutch! Saving time, and customer $$$ with rehabilitated part. Nice.
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  6626. John. When you are refuting the marginal assumptions in the survey by says "obviously" you are ALSO making an assumption, and this time you are expecting us to follow along. Cite sources!
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  6627. I have not had a credit card since about 2003. It has been liberating! If I want something I can't afford, I have to actually put thought into whether it is something I really NEED, whether there is a used or alternate option for that thing, and if that thing is worth saving for and maybe doing without other things.
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  6628. It may soon be down to: rock, stick.
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  6629. They stay fresh so long because moisture is very low. Another big enemy of food freshness, for most foods, is oxygen.
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  6630. Hmm... So the security at this casino is so bad they can't find a regular visitor on their "trespassed" list over a period of 8 years? Is the next headline form there "Casino robbed of $100 million by a gang of slightly enthusiastic toddlers and a stack of raccoons in a trench coat"?
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  6631.    I am tempted to tell you to go fornicate with yourself, but that is rude, and might result in some truly dangerous inbreeding. So I won't. Instead, I will say that you can argue the interpretation of events with me all you want, but name-calling lowers the value of everything you try and say.
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  6632.    Truth never hurts. Lies and slander hurt. Reaching down far enough to argue against stupidity hurts. My knees hurt from age and use. You? You're a fun distraction from the idiocy going on in the country right now. Thanks for being the cricket in my torture maze.
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  6633.  @lizf1353  It should also be combined with standards under which a cop loses their certification, and gets entered in a nationwide database listing why.
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  6634.  @Elliandr  That's how I understand it! Hooray Florida?
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  6635. Why offer more than asking? I am actually curious.
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  6636. And bird poop on your hood, and cotton candy, and lawn clippings on your floor mats, and plaster drywall dust on your work pants... It's all drugs to the "Drug Recognition Experts".
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  6637.  @marquisdelafayette1929  Some of those field tests will test positive even when used without opening and exposing the chemicals to anything.
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  6638. @kaboom4679 "There is no enemies list." - "What is that right there?" "Oh, THAT enemies list!"
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  6639. Expecting cops to know the law? Bless your heart.
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  6640. My 2011 Focus has 245 AC because I can't justify spending the money for maybe 8 days a year when I would really want AC.
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  6641. Total scum-bag situation. And the township is now telling the stranded family to pay out of pocket to build ANOTHER road? And through potential wetlands? edit: If the township doesn't want to help them, then the township should get none of their taxes either.
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  6642.  @kurtwetzel154  If the test was made with a dog handler from a different jurisdiction, the dog's normal handler being distant and out of view, and the test set up by a third party, then it could be considered close to scientifically accurate.
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  6643.  @zodiacfml  The most automatic things in my home are thermostats (heat, AC, refrigerator, oven) and the toaster that pops up. And none of them are "smart" objects that rely on some other person's computer to maintain functionality. (The Cloud is just someone else's computer, after all)
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  6644.  @SaintBuick  Brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh! - old egg jingle from the last century to support local egg farms.
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  6645.  @bofreely.7383  Yeah, I don't know what I was attacking about either. Sorry.
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  6646. Ah yes, the rectangular cans of white fuel. I remember them well.
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  6647. Another way to respond to that kind of jerk is to say, "I suck at this game already, do you want me to get even SLOWER in front of you?"
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  6648. Given the "professionalism" and care shown by so many "journalists" in this century, I fully believe you.
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  6649. The Kaiser? Someone should put HIM on a roll!
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  6650. You are making the common ignorant conflation of democrat with socialist. Though you seem to have left out communist. Try harder next time, eh?
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  6651. I just found myself wondering if there were ever a back-row crewperson who asked, "Are we there yet?" on landings.
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  6652. At the discovery of the unbroken eggs, I was grinning like a kid (a time period two score or so years behind me) with happiness.
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  6653. Makes sense. Louis IS Legend, after all.
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  6654. And it turns out they are restoring from backups anyway, because the ransomers software "fix tool" is slower.
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  6655. A short script, or even just a few jotted notes on what you are calling about can help. Something like bullet points works for me. *account number *who I am calling *remember to leave the date and time and a return phone number if it's a voice mail *"I am calling about a discrepancy on last month's statement"
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  6656.  @indigowolf556  I am one step ahead of that. I don't like coffee.
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  6657. I do not own one of these overpriced skateboards, so I cannot participate in the call for action. I will continue to press my elected politicians to support R2R.
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  6658.  @playc.holder6432  Wooster (which is how they actually spell the town and college in Ohio), Wister, Wistah, Worm Town, "That place"...
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  6659. I got an image of a person standing over an anvil-shaped dictionary with hammer and tongs.
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  6660. Angling sounds like the name for a sport played by geometrists.
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  6661. But... Isn't the cloud just someone else's computer?
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  6662. Gasp! Clear consequences improving performance and behavior?
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  6663. What will they do, call our mothers hamsters? Fart at us a second time?
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  6664.  @Scanner9631  Ugh. Mutant cazadors. Only slightly less troublesome than the constant deluge of Caeser's soldiers.
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  6665. Only an American would try to make a cheese balloon! What, wrong kind of inflation?
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  6666.  @marna7325  No, Onatopp. The character played by Famke Janssen in Goldeneye.
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  6667. Did the judge cancel the scheduled interview "due to procedural errors" too?
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  6668. Brings to mind a bit from Jim Gaffigan. 'Everybody can do an impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he can't do an impression of someone who can say the word California."
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  6669. Gorilla tape. Just a small piece over each lens.
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  6670.  @norml.hugh-mann  I think it stands for "Drug Recognition Expert" a resume-padding title a cop can get after attending a weekend seminar. After becoming certified, many of these cops are miraculously able to almost exclusively pull over people who are found to be driving impaired.
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  6671. Given the general dearth of high cliffside roads in Florida, I suspect you are right.
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  6672. Bill Burr is abrasive, harsh, confrontational... But he's not a complete idiot.
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  6673. "BEND THE KNEE!" - "Just comply." - "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about."
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  6674. @ I guess you did Not-See the joke about it being German town.
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  6675. Roughly 2-1/2 cm per thumb width (average thumb) or about 1cm for the width of a pinkie nail. Also, 1cm is roughly a grain of white rice. For a meter, about the distance from over your heart to the tip of your outstretched right middle finger. 1mm, about half the width of the graphite in a wooden pencil or half the width of a dry grain of rice.
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  6676. Anyone looking for the real sign of how things are? "Step out of the car." "Can I reach for my seatbelt?" <- That right there. Black people have to get a step by step permission process to avoid being shot. This MUST change! - And officer? How many people store their drugs stuck to the outside of the hood of their car? None? Thought so. Go the bleep back to school! Anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention KNOWS that those roadside drug tests give false positives about as often as they are accurate. Lab technicians in clean conditions tested an UNOPENED test and got a false positive.
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  6677. Maybe chase them with actors in ape costumes?
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  6678. Now imagine if doctors had qualified immunity. You would not be able to sue them for their screw-ups unless there was a prior case of exactly the same surgical situation, and even if you won, the doctor would lose, at most, a few days of unpaid desk duty. Meanwhile, any money you hopefully won would come from the taxpayers in the area where the hospital is sited.
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  6679.  @paullilly-b5o  Meanwhile, if you have video from your doorbell clearly showing the face of a porch pirate in the process of stealing your packages, "There's nothing we can do" say the cops.
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  6680.  @stephengreen3566  I believe in Helsinki, but not any religious hell.
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  6681.  @smokedbeefandcheese4144  Have you never been forced into something you HATED by your parents as a kid? Striped corduroy pants and plaid shirts, bad haircuts, a sport, visiting the uncle whose house smells like mothballs, social groups, "making up" with the bully who still knocked your books off your desk every day, eating overcooked beef liver... Okay, those specific examples were mine, but you might see the point.
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  6682. Did you have any with working heaters in the winter? We got one, in my three years in the things. And it died on the third day.
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  6683. Wait, you had sunglasses on? Wait right there, someone will be around to "get your story".
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  6684. It's okay, unless the bubble finally pops, that 20% will only be about 12% next year!
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  6685. I use physical light switches, a $15 hardware store thermostat (can even program warmer and cooler times!), locks that require brass keys, and for important information - a paper note pad and pen.
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  6686. I have not partaken of TV media in over a decade. I don't get my news from any source acknowledged to be at either extreme. Most of my news comes from reading on the internet, and NPR in my car. I find if I read my news, no talking head can inject their tone, their smiles and frowns, or their perpetually crinkled brows into the subject matter. - Sure, this means I get less news overall, but I think I am happier for it. Syndey's expressions of defeat in the face of constant news only reinforces my determination to continue my methods.
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  6687. Son, you're gonna drive me to drinking if you don't stop driving that hot-rod Lincoln.
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  6688. I agree that one law for all states would fix a lot of problems. I am not as rabid about the "shall not be infringed" part of the Cult of the Gun. There are a LOT of people who should not be trusted by society to own and carry a firearm.
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  6689. You mean the Burenstein Beers?
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  6690.  @erycalexander7315  Hmm? Did you say Bernie Sanders Bears?
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  6691. He needs a wellness check. Maybe even a no-knock wellness check.
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  6692.  @JohnTheRevelat0r  Messy is usually cheaper than new drill bits.
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  6693.  @MrMezmerized  Those are also big benefits. Though, even if the whole world ended the use of fossil oil as a source of energy for grids and vehicles (which would be difficult for long-trip heavy haul transport like ships, trains and semi trucks) we'd still need some oil extraction for lubrication purposes. Also, many other industries such as plastics and pharmaceuticals use petroleum components.
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  6694.  @johnlarkin549  Who was dancing for their Tik-Tok in the background of part 1 of this repair?
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  6695.  @M_M_ODonnell  So... "Ignorance of the lawman is no defense"?
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  6696.  @tinniesealjiji  If you look at a map of the United States, and start from the east, by the time you get bored of reading the state names, you've probably reached Wyoming. It's one of the huge rectangular states a little west of the middle.
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  6697. All branches of the military might have an easier time keeping their force numbers up if they worked harder to make STAYING IN more attractive. Retention, y'all. - I honestly was waiting for the commercial to show the infantry and power armor at the Battle of Anchorage from way back in 2066.
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  6698.  @PrestonStewart  Then it was an unusual year, from what little I've heard of the matter.
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  6699. I actually learned how to write checks and balance a bank account in 4th grade (1976) in Phoenix, AZ, of all places. It was pretty much the only new thing I learned in the 4 years we lived there, having come from Massachusetts.
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  6700. Perhaps the Martians would be vulnerable to thrown binoculars?
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  6701. The obvious fix is to never drive in a salted road area. Super easy, right?
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  6702. Talking to animals has many reasons, and she may still be crazy. I'm not qualified to make that determination.
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  6703. My gripe with Amazon Music is that they keep recommending C&W artists to me while I ONLY listen to stand-up comedians on the service. I HATE C&W music more than I hate rap. And I hate rap a lot.
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  6704.  @niyablake  Ah, in that case, the hotel is stupid. Swifties have a lot of ability to spread the bad tale. A happy customer 'might' tell one other person. An unhappy customer tells everyone who will listen.
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  6705.  @robertspray7472  Smoking bath salts is bad, m'kay?
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  6706.  @philip54073  Just words and cloth. The fomenting of rising hate is the problem, not the shouting and burning of a flag.
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  6707.  R Blanc  I can find us a nice sturdy tree!
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  6708. Nah, that differential cover said SYNTH OIL ONLY. So you have to order it from The Institute.
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  6709. I just... had a mental orgasm at the thought.
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  6710.  @hamplans  So enforce the existing laws about activity not allowed on public or private property!
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  6711. I offer this translated saying, supposedly of Russian origin. "Trust but verify" - Don't let off on the issue just because someone is currently doing their job properly for the moment.
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  6712. I hear you. I would fail a field sobriety test dead sober and freshly rested. Between asthma, COPD and vertigo, I'd just ask for the blood test from the get-go.
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  6713.  @lexxstrum  DUNN-DUNN!
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  6714.  @jasonriddell  Oranges and tangerines there.
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  6715. The problem, as I see it, is that Apple is referring to a specific company. If, instead, they said, "You may want to send your device to a data recovery service." without naming any specific company, then there would less issue.
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  6716. Good job Georgia? But 45 days? In 4.5 days a child can die from having water withheld.
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  6717.  @ronnie3044  Right? Why is it WalMart's fault that the three-store regional grocery company can't buy entire shipping containers of canned crab meat and be able to sell them a dollar cheaper while still making profit? Why don't those little mom-n-pop shops figure out how to hold enough warehousing and self-owned shipping trucks to sell lighting fixtures for two dollars less at retail. And what kind of idiot would try to operate a bicycle shop on the basis of quality and skilled professional service when they should have been able to order low-grade Chinese-made bicycles by the shipload and sell them for a third of a quality bike that will last a decade or more. Surely that local jeweler whose original owner set the diamond in your grandmother's wedding ring, and knows all of their customers by name should have exerted enough pull to get a traffic light and massive parking lot installed with tax deferrals and public money to screw up traffic and funnel trade into their store. - Buncha morons deserved to fail to WalMart, amiright?
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  6718. You also can't legally own a ballistic vest as a convicted felon. The only reason I can see is that the police don't like the challenge of marksmanship it would require to kill you around a vest.
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  6719.  @marcogenovesi8570  I did not realize Dragon capsules were refurbished and reused. Neat! As for the space suits, perhaps re-use is the wrong phrase. It might be better to say they are meant for long-duration use. Like the difference between a plastic fork and a stainless steel fork. You might be able to reuse the plastic fork, if it is not too damaged or melted, but the metal one is built to have a long use life across multiple diners.
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  6720. Not only is the story of fining the wrong person far too usual, so is the fact that nothing gets fixed until a large enough media organization gets involved. And if/when this crap gets to court, even if the wronged party wins, they've lost. They've lost time, money and worry, and get NO recompense. Heck they rarely get an apology!
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  6721. Super minor matter: I would not recommend keeping those heavy bearing kits on any shelf above chest height, to avoid potential lifting injury. Like I said, super minor matter.
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  6722. Some cop told me, "Giant steps are what you take, walking on the moon." . No wait. That was The Police.
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  6723. Interesting moment from the meeting recording. By a vote of four to three, we will not, TODAY, be renewing the contract..." The emphasis on "today" is telling. Maybe their plan was to wait until two of the no votes didn't show up to a subsequent meeting?
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  6724. OhMyGosh did you see all the ROOM under the hood!?
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  6725. Pronounce sentence now and he has four years to try and break the law to get out of it. Delay until after he has no political power, pronounce on Jan 21st 2029, and he can make his appeals from his cell like the rest of us.
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  6726.  @mayshack  Easier, cheaper, less bother, less time... These are the tools to keep the oppressed under the thumb.
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  6727. Holy Pasta. Florida did something right before the other 49 states? What reality did we just plane-hop to?
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  6728. ... yet.
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  6729.  @TheArchaos  Broken glass uses less energy to reuse than making new. This is why glass making includes "clinker" (broken glass) in every melt, to help reduce the heat required to initiate the melting.
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  6730.  @feitnaa  Glass can be broken small and used as part of the aggregate in asphalt and concrete for roads, sidewalks, and other such things. It is nearly infinitely recycleable.
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  6731. @dxvidcx Taking out a loan for living space is only helping the system stay broken.
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  6732. I blame recreational pot. "You know what would be funny?" (Paroxysms of laughter) "We should vote for Darth Barbie!" (Falling on the floor, giggling)
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  6733. Brooms are cheaper than pistols, and would be more effective in "cleaning up the streets".
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  6734.  @ScottKenny1978  When I was serving, we sometimes got our rounds in stripper clips, and each case of rounds came with a number of the adapter devices. It was a much faster way to load magazines than from a box of loose rounds.
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  6735.  @ScottKenny1978  Ah. I misunderstood.
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  6736.  @sbrazenor2  Very Amway!
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  6737. You are right. It is all about money.
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  6738. Oh, they tighten the nuts in your state? In Michigan, loose lug nuts still count as "service performed". Thanks Michigan courts!
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  6739. When I was in 2nd grade we lost a cat who, on a cold fall day, cuddled up in the engine compartment of the family car with a slowly cooling engine. Parents went out to start the car for a grocery trip, and the not-yet-dead cat dropped out, mostly cut in two. My brother and I were hustled to the TV turned up rather loud while a neighbor with a .22 rifle was called over to put the cat out of its misery. - For years later, every time before starting the car, the driving parent would slap the hood.
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  6740.  @peterbenson3776  Lucky, somewhat. Could have been a lot worse.
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  6741.  @TheRealScooterGuy  And the noise is both temporary and avoidable (earplugs, noise-canceling or music headphones, turn up your music/TV/phone playing Tik Tok...)
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  6742. Might have been a warranty company requirement, putting it on them if it fails.
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  6743.  @arribaficationwineho32  My only good Logan experience was watching the movie Logan's Run. Logan Airport, heck the entirety of metro Boston? I have driven there twice and will never do so again. A couple of years ago, a good friend needed a ride to Logan Airport. So, I gave her the money for an airport limo (essentially a van service that brings you from your door to your terminal, or vice versa) rather than get anywhere near that... that... MORDOR!
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  6744. How do you know someone is a vegan? Don't worry, they'll tell you. Often within two minutes of meeting them.
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  6745.  @maxwebster7572  You must be one of those people who sold your country for a red hat.
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  6746.  @roymcgrath9236  With an invention from Jeorg Sprave, you can shoot five arrows in about ten seconds! Sliding Instant Legolas.
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  6747.  @scotpens  Heck, I won't even buy a laptop with a touchscreen. Why? Because the "convenience" I get from not having to use the touchpad or a mouse is outweighed by the need to regularly clean the screen of fingerprints.
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  6748. But... you're a landlord. You're supposed to be leveraged to the hilt to accumulate even more properties, and raise the rent on a whim or when the bank interest goes up by 0.1%!
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  6749. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge?
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  6750. I like things to be wired, if they are going to be in the same place all the time. Examples are televisions, home phones, desktop computers. Somethings are not always in the same place, and being connected to a wire is inconvenient or not possible. Examples of this are mobile phones, laptops, tablet-like devices. - I also prefer wired headphones for the simple reason that the wire helps keep the ear pieces together, not lost, and usually off the ground.
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  6751.  @davidskjeie945  "How do I know YOU aren't also guilt of the same thing, officer?"
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  6752. I know an engineer, and they look brilliant by the final product, as long as you don't look at the down-rev versions...
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  6753. I worked retail for around a decade, and worked EVERY holiday every year for the first eight years of that job. The one I least minded working was Christmas because I found about half of my distant family intolerable, and working was a great way to "miss" them.
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  6754. Perfect for when you take just a little bit too much Benadryl for your goldenrod allergy.
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  6755. Okay, Ronin Representatives got me laughing.
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  6756.  @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks  You can have rotors last a long time if you drive conservatively, avoid riding people's bumpers, avoid sudden stops, and don't live where salt and/or sand can regularly blow into the underside of your car. Also, if you don't drive a lot of miles per year.
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  6757.  @thebigmacd  Ah, I had forgotten how home equity loans differ from other loans. edit: And even the interest on a $500 loan would not amount to much.
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  6758. I buy 2-4 year old used cars. The huge loss of value was already paid by someone else, and the "Oops, we messed up and (almost?) killed some people" recalls are already done.
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  6759. NYC is VERY good at making life difficult and expensive to the people living, working, and operating businesses there. They have so many ways to take money from people, those charged with enforcing those fines rarely actually even know all the rules they are supposed to enforce.
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  6760. Time for some "Citizen's Civil Asset Forfeiture".
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  6761. Wow. That video of the cop playing "I'm gonna use the PIT maneuver on you" with the moped is... dystopian. What's next, steel-plated cruisers with machine gun turrets on the roof?
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  6762. 4 out of 5 dentists appreciated your comment!
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  6763. My calculator was a #2 pencil. I was in school as hand-sized calculators were new and still very expensive, so nobody was allowed to use one on a test. Now kids are graphing calculus and storing the tables of integrals in the machine's memory. - I feel so old. I need a rocking chair, and some people to tell, "Back in my day..."
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  6764. Holy Bananas, Alex Jones! If I knew earlier that getting the vaccine would guarantee I'd be dead in ten years or less, I would have started trying to get my appointments much sooner! I am so done with this planet of morons, but suicide voids my life insurance. - And infertility? I'd get a shot every week!
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  6765. Regarding cyclists playing chicken with pedestrians - pedestrians need to learn from ice hockey how to throw an "accidental" elbow strike. After one, maybe two, elbows to the chicklets (teeth) a cyclist will start to learn not to be a dick. It would also help if laws/insurance did not default to putting car/truck drivers at fault in all collisions with cyclists.
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  6766. I found the answer to why backing up while looking back "feels better" from an episode of Mythbusters. If you turn your shoulders and view to the back of the car, then steering "makes sense" to your brain easier.
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  6767. Kind of like researching your upcoming surgery and watching how it's done, eh?
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  6768. If only Huey was still making music. He is dealing with a tragic vocal malady. I read about it a couple of years ago, and I feel for him.
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  6769. That engine compartment is 15 gallons of engine in a 10-gallon hat. I'm so glad I don't have to fit my big hands in that kind of space! - Edit: and so much plastic...
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  6770. You are wrong. That WAS his name. He is past tense. Pining for the fjords.
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  6771. That would make me want to nail the proof to the forehead of the person responsible.
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  6772.  @HenriFaust  The company has already agreed to arbitration by having the email sent to them. The arbitration firm of "My pal Steve" will handle all disputes between the two parties.
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  6773.  @NunoBranco-jr1ci  Because the people with money buy the politicians and tell them what laws to pass.
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  6774. I eagerly await the Andre Antunes video of "Finish my sandwich!"
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  6775. All those bogus charges, huh? Are you referring tot he charges based on audio recordings? The charges based on discussions witnessed by multiple people? The charges based on illegally helpd documents that are physical evidence found in unsecured locations on his property? The charges based on his televised statements after losing a case on the very same defamation and the very same target?
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  6776.  @lonecat8472  An ID could always be fake, that is a risk when we have to trust something that identifies a person, But at least Louis' employee took that step upon seeing a guy NOT in a USPS uniform grabbing packages.
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  6777. I remember doing the "under the desk" drills in the early 1970's. My first and second grade memories are mostly penmanship, little league, and nuclear strike drills.
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  6778. You heard your Golden Idle, Republicans! He doesn't need your vote, so relax and stay home on election day.
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  6779.  @stephengreen3566  Ah, the same one for people who talk in the theater?
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  6780. He had me at traffic lights and "but sometimes"
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  6781.  @martinswiney2192  Bah, stick a thumb in it!
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  6782. Words whisper, actions thunder.
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  6783. How? Machines. Gas or electric powered machines. Or, pay someone else who has those machines. I sometimes joke that the reason to have kids is to have someone else mow the lawn for a decade or two.
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  6784.  @Tundra21dc1  That is the single best use for electrical tape. NEVER use it to insulate wires. It comes unstuck with time and/or temperature.
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  6785. Silly "white" people, not realizing that on a world stage, they are only 15-20% of the population. (Depending on how one counts "whiteness") As a "white" person, this information bothers me not at all. I am considered smart by those who know me, and I try to be decent to all. This already makes me a minority.
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  6786. Or, every member of the legacy media should ask, daily, "Has the President reversed his anti-Constitutional decision to bar the AP yet?"
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  6787. "Deprivation of property" sounds like corporate lingo. I wonder who ideated that synergy of passive wording in the actualization of negative outcome proceedings?
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  6788. Not... from a dealership.
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  6789. As a blanket guess I would start with trespassing, breaking and entering (though the gang can be guilty of both of those, episode depending), simple assault, simple battery, Erection of lethal devices, kidnapping, property damage, and grand theft auto (in the episodes where the van goes missing).
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  6790.  @ann_onn  I have heard that before, but nobody seems to realize the resident can step outside and THEN throw stones.
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  6791. Children should be neither seen nor heard, but working in the coal mine, right?
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  6792. Meanwhile, here in New England, 60F means Mom's in charge of the thermostat. And put on a sweater if you're cold!
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  6793.  @randomgaming8616  Don't forget "Robust Discussions".
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  6794. Did they think he was a starfish?
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  6795. Not only was the drive shaft being held together by the rubber boot, but it failed just as the sirens come into audio, like the event was "jobtown".
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  6796. The boat sank. Then it washed up on shore. That makes it trash and/or salvage. If the boat was ballasted with bars of gold, the government would claim they mysteriously disappeared.
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  6797. Yes and no. Not all plastics are the same. Some are very fuel resistant, such as the plastic used to make gas cans. The real magic is getting a plastic that doesn't dissolve or deform from the materials it handles, while also getting the structural properties you desire.
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  6798. "I spent a LOT of money to get this apartment overlooking a patch of nature in the city, and my million-dollar view is being despoiled by the din of dogs acting naturally. Dear government, make it quiet or I'll get even MORE snooty!"
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  6799. You can even put illegal things in a case if they fit. That 40' shipping container on your back lot might contain scrap metal, or your snowmobiles, or a nuclear warhead.
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  6800.  @Lady_Amelia-Eloise  Gotta love that Superb Owl.
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  6801. I am old enough to remember when the news was "Who, what, where, when why and how." I have lived long enough to see news that is "Here's what's wrong, here's whose fault it is, and here's how you should feel about it. Now, the weather."
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  6802. I think you meant to say, "Upper Massachusetts". (kidding)
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  6803. "They are breathing. That's a non-verbal consent to search!"
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  6804. You know the weapon is loud when the audio recording device gets a ringing in its "ears".
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  6805. In that first building collapse, I know I was looking at mid-quality images, but I saw no internal reinforcement of the broken slab. Here in the US, I have met a few people who grumble a little bit about building codes, and a lot more about having to idle a job waiting for an inspector, but they all realize that the codes and inspections have good reasons for being. - So, we don't have gods floating three feet over our heads here, but we do have lawyers hiding in the tall grass waiting to pounce.
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  6806.  @jwadaow  I really struck a nerve, didn't I? Neat!
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  6807.  @paul4835  Yes. Did I say anything contrary to that?
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  6808. The moon DOES spin, It rotates on its axis once per orbit (with a little wobbling from gravitational variances) - The phrase "rings like a bell" give the wrong impression. NASA's experiments with crashing expended lunar landers (after the astronauts were moved back to the Apollo module!) caused seismic events that resonated throughout the moon, indicating that it is solid and tectonically dead. Not "hollow". - A LOT of people have been skeptical about the moon's origins. Isaac Azimov died in 1992. Hypotheses about our moon's origins, and the tests of them have continued up to the modern day. These include information gained from rock samples recovered by the Apollo missions, observations of the moon's orbit and behavior, data about the moon's mass and variations in density, and many rigorous laboratory experiments and computer simulations.
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  6809.  @iandalziel7405  If you don't have enough darn time, you may be stuck buying new socks.
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  6810. I would DEFINITELY tip those machines... onto the floor.
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  6811. Orbital mechanics, as they are currently understood, says no. Eventually the moon will leave this planet for other gravity wells. It could spiral into the sun, become a new dwarf planet of its own around the sun, become a new moon or impactor for one of our other planets/moons/dwarf planets/planetesimals, or just leave the solar system completely. - But stop? Not likely.
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  6812. As soon as you said, "Easier than I thought it would be." I was just waiting for Murphy to swoop in and kick you where it hurts. Nothing personal against you, Ray. Murphy is like that.
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  6813.  @JustinAquino  The problem with AI is the GIGO (Garbage in, garbage out) effect
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  6814. OMG that sounds delicious!
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  6815. Police: "That seems like a civil matter, we can't be bothered to show up."
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  6816. And play a two-second clip of some Who song! (2 seconds to try to avoid a copyright strike)
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  6817. Hey Mr. Blackburn, that situation is not "crazy", it is far too common.
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  6818. The exterior concrete at this house is in rough shape, really looked like it made the scraping a much harder job
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  6819. Other fun name-occupation combinations could be: Jane Noone, sundial maker. Jeff Irons, golf tutor. Nancy Taylor, seamstress.
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  6820.  @baldthanos4614  And they'd have to hire fewer people to read them and distill them down to the actual points if they were written less verbosely. It's not like they get extra credit for exceeding the 400th page of text.
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  6821. I watch SciManDan shred flat Earthers and Tin-foil conspiracists, so I am familiar with Dunning Kruger whiskey.
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  6822. Pepperidge Farms remembers. So do I.
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  6823. "I had suspicion that the suspect was... (What did we find on him?), yeah, that."
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  6824.  @rickn8or  Huh. Never knew that.
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  6825. Honestly, complaining about the space shuttle's interplanetary mission capability is like complaining that your mountain bike is not good at pulling rail cars. The shuttle was built for a set of jobs that it did fairly well. And it was a sexy platform that drew a lot of interest into space activity.
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  6826.  @kg790  Yeah, I imagine Happy meant cars, and that is how I read it (sometimes I read too fast and fill in the blanks by context.)
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  6827. Mockery of anti-vaxxers dying of Covid? Sure. They refuse to do a simple thing to show concern for those around them and the load on hospitals they were. Why should I NOT mock them? - I had an uncle who was anti seat belt and drunk nearly every hour of his life. Even after going through the windshield when he went off the road and into a tree, he still didn't change his ways. He eventually drank himself into type-2 diabetes, refused to stop drinking, lost a leg to diabetes, and eventually died from it. He was my uncle and I mock his decisions. His decisions may SEEM to only have affected him, but he also left behind a wife and two kids who suffered emotionally and financially because of his selfishness.
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  6828. As covered in another of Louis' videos on this, that kit is far more than anyone needs for a single, common repair.
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  6829. A "charitable appeal for assistance" is protected by the 1st Amendment. (According to the Supreme Court, several US Circuit courts, and states' court of appeals.) Now if only towns and cities busy arresting people for asking for a dollar would catch the heck up.
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  6830. Well State Trooper: What the hell are you driving here? Del: We had a small fire last night, but we caught it in the nick of time. Trooper: Do you have any idea how fast you were going? Del: Funny enough, I was just talking to my friend about that. Our speedometer has melted and as a result it's very hard to see with any degree of accuracy exactly how fast we were going.
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  6831.  @angiethundercloud1663  So many comments on this channel are critical of people who don't show (in the edited clips Spencer shares with us) the "appropriate" gratitude. Would screaming in joy suffice? Or must they do handsprings across the newly mown grass while declaring their intent to name their next-born child Spencer and pile plates of fresh home-made baked goods in his arms?
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  6832. Right?
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  6833. I once had a manager (convenience store job) who "badly hurt his back at work" who was photographed playing golf, and fairly well, by the insurance investigators. The company, when shown the photos, not only supported the insurer's decision to end his coverage, they fired him.
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  6834.  @jilbertb  Expressing the Earth's rotation in distance over time is part disingenuous, part lazy, and generally wrong. The rotation is (to a high degree of accuracy) 15 degrees per hour. The distance traveled in the tame depends on your exact location, both in latitude and altitude.
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  6835. But if I can't punch down on others, how will i get my undeserved sense of superiority?
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  6836.  @Bl4ckw0lf1  I'm sensing a Steve Lehto viewer!
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  6837.  @bradjames3555  You can let a ten minute run "detect that" if the floor under it starts dry and moderately clean.
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  6838.  @messageobliquespe100  That dog was saluting the sunset! Or warning that leaf to stay out of its yard, or just seeing if the dog down the street was outside, or...
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  6839. Is the arrest expunged?
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  6840.  @johnsmithers8913  Greed makes monsters of otherwise normal people.
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  6841. Oh what a mental image.
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  6842.  @jckdnls9292  When the menu only lists "Possibly-rotten seafood" and "Likely-poisonous mushrooms" as your options, you either pick something that is likely very bad for you, or you choose not to order.
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  6843. "You got me, officer. I deliberately guided that Oort Belt object on its parabolic trajectory and arranged the timing such that the falling object would strike the Emperor of Siam." "Oh, it's not about that? Is it maybe about the time I invented an FTL engine that blew up and destroyed Mars?" "No, then maybe we're talking about the time right now when I am asking for a lawyer and invoking my rights against self-incrimination." - I halfway want to be arrested to use something like this.
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  6844.  @trankzen148  My experience was that they are jerks to you if you can't speak or at least muddle through (their version of?) French.
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  6845. Maybe "someone" ought to bring a stack of "un-removable" stickers with them and post the actual measured square footage on these properties' windows... Anyway, my money is that the broker never changes the listing, nor communicates the real numbers to the property owner. There's no $ in that.
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  6846.  @Steve_mos8541  The line I like to use is "A pickup truck that never picks anything up".
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  6847.  @boomher9925  More the end result of corporate profiteering. Stock buybacks and third yachts are not cheap!
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  6848.  @cybersal7  Better to also append "I do not consent to any searches" sign also.
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  6849. He's got a sewage treatment plant. What more does a person need to secure their legacy?
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  6850.  Joey Bidenson  Seek mental health care.
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  6851. I remember back in the time that VW has a special non-SAE, non-metric oil pan plug Allen-style wrench that one had to buy to be able to do a simple oil change.
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  6852.  @Rhaspun  And buy one or two extra 10mm. To feed the monster-under-the-hood.
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  6853.  @meandean3754  The US Supreme Court would not have to rule on the issue if congress actually passed a law to stop the practice. Then, the USSC would only hear the case if a law enforcement entity managed to get to them in an attempt to push against such a reasonable law.
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  6854. Third story is not high enough for Tall Building Syndrome. Three is too survivable. Eight or more is the more assured symptom.
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  6855. "I was trying to shoot the rabid dog when I accidentally shot the officer." "I was only off by one, what's the big deal?"
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  6856. "Alternate requisitioning" "Retrograde advance" "Kinetic survey of opposition positioning" "Meal, Ready to Eat"
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  6857. I heard an interview on NPR, and the accentless-sounding woman interviewer used "Latinx" and hyper-pronounced Spanish names and words, while the Spanish-accented woman guest used "Latino" and "Latina" and her normal accent on Spanish names and words. It cracked me up.
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  6858. Odd. I have an urge to stand on a street corner and arrange for a large number of people to hand me dollar bills for ketchup packets.
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  6859.  @quantumresonance8201  It all comes back to Putin wanting a warm water sea port, oil, and at LEAST a return to the USSR borders.
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  6860. Or, DON'T buy in an HOA and only have to keep track of all of that for you own home and lot. Then you only have yourself to argue with, yourself to thank for saving for an emergency, and yourself to blame for not saving for expected expense. Plus you get to choose your paint colors, trees, flowers and curtains, and can still park a pickup truck in your driveway.
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  6861. I love the brutal honesty of someone who is on the way out the door and fears no employer retaliation.
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  6862. Holy crap. Orange Donnie is dredging up SDI?
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  6863.  @AppalachianPatriot  Giggety?
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  6864.  @MAXIMUSMINIMALIST  Wow. remind me not to wee in YOUR corn flakes!
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  6865. Better than my thought of plugging the drain hole while opening the valve.
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  6866. Why stay in your house when you see the wildfire crossing your back yard?
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  6867.  @Teekyho  If Florida really wanted "to save people money" they could have just charged a LOT less for the title. Florida and many other states are just looking for ways to expend less effort and have fewer employees, all while bringing in as much money as possible.
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  6868.  @jeff7.629  Many big cities' "homeless solution" comes down to criminalizing, warehousing and/or exporting those who are homeless instead of actually fixing the causes.
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  6869. Huh. When I get blasted with annoying ads related to something I've done online, I go and do searches for things like: - How to turn off the power in Google's home offices - Lawyers in my area willing to defend me against domestic terrorism charges
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  6870.  @scottmcshannon6821  If you change your "can't" into "shouldn't" then you are correct. Never doubt the ability of a government entity to do something against the law, against decency, against rationality, against the foundations of science, or some combination thereof.
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  6871. Wow. If this happened any time in the last thirty or so years, those cops broke the law by naming you, broke the law by not arresting someone, and were negligent in the job at every step of the process.
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  6872. My town turned a decommissioned postal box (painted a different color, clear signs on it) into one of the drop-off points for ballots.
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  6873. I still think that either airlifting, or genetically altering wings onto trained great cats would terrify any army.
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  6874.  @billh.1940  ... too late.
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  6875. Or take an Uber? Get a ride from a friend?
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  6876.  @antiquegirl6505  The same rule applies to human food also. I get it.
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  6877. If I tried to make something like this, I suspect I would have a "poof!" of concept more than anything else.
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  6878. I've actually started watching Nick's woodworking channel. Very informative even though I don't do woodworking, or own the home I live in.
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  6879. [slow_clap]
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  6880. The trees are out of control, Spencer! "Then we shall mow in the shade!"
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  6881. Step one: Homeschooling. Step two: spend most of your waking moments reading Face book and Twitter comments.
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  6882. I really appreciate the wordsmithing in your scathing assessments of the US Navy's Bureau of Ordinance.
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  6883.  @EarendilStar  More beans! Beans are good food for mammals, and good crops for soil value.
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  6884.  @mchammer1836  It also comes to over $10,000 per job that is supposed to be created. How long would it take in local taxes to recoup that from 30 employed people?
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  6885.  @Dandan-tg6tj  Lies, dirty lies, and robust discussions.
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  6886.  @nw4042  Intellectually, I know all of that. Heck, my National Guard division, at around 30-50% TO&E was 'slated for' the Fulda Gap. But emotionally, I don't like to claim being a veteran. It's something I'm working on.
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  6887.  @political_junkie  Remember, the only poll that really matters is the final vote tally. Don't look at stuff on the news and say, Oh, I can stay home then."
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  6888. Yep, I have a few of those cords, but I use the non-Apple Micro USB plugs that also came with them. I don't have any Apple products.
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  6889.  @Forbidden303  Oh, absolutely they will. And they will charge way too much for something they're having made for a dollar or two in India or China by underpaid/unpaid labor.
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  6890. Today is the day when I learned about the drain plug that can have an integrated pin for clearing the holes on top!
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  6891. Yeah, the police might shoot you for recording the looters.
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  6892.  @Mireaze  As long as the talent pool for police is so shallow, and the training teaches them to be afraid and confrontational, these things will continue.
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  6893. Heck, I took a week vacation from central Massachusetts to upstate New York (south of Rochester), and drinking tap water gave me weeks of galloping diarrhea. You don't need to drink untreated water, or even water from a different country to have negative effects. just change watersheds or get water from a source with bad pipes of contents that your body is not used to. For me, it was the high content of sulfur compounds in the New York groundwater from the mines in the area, on top of whatever biota I was not inured to.
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  6894. Fixing the hat will be EASY! Change Dave's name to Ray.
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  6895. Ah yes, the BS. Bachelor's of Science. I have one too, in physics. I then got a job troubleshooting RMA internet switching boards.
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  6896.  @murraynatkie7490  Pond 5!
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  6897.  @jamesgravil9162  That is the simple truth about Orange Julius Caeser.
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  6898. All thanks to some leaks and the design choices of an Avatar of Evil.
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  6899. "Imagine being able to be magically whisked away to Delaware. Hi. I'm on ... USS Delaware." - Wayne's World, paraphrased
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  6900. When my brother and his GF bought their house a few years back, they got a map of the plot from the town, and had the border markers located and confirmed by the town BEFORE they signed. My brother who has his GC license also walked through before and with the seller's and their inspectors and pointed out things they missed, bringing the sale price down for some undeclared deficiencies. - I'm not saying everyone needs to be a GC, but NOBODY buying a house should trust the realtor and the seller's inspector completely on the property lines, the state of the property, or their list of deficiencies. Heck, I would suggest bringing a laser measuring device with you to spot check the declared square footage. Particularly when looking at commercial property because "It's not lying, it's commercial real estate!"
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  6901. A Death Star in orbit of the Earth? I need to get going on that X-Wing I'm not building yet!
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  6902.  @BoogieOogieWoogie  On top of that, teachers get kids for about 35-42 hours per week (after subtracting out lunch and the time between classes). Parents should acknowledge that they have these kids for the rest of the week, plus vacations and summer break. I see WAY too many kids whose parents don't invite them to read, don't get involved in making sure they are doing well in classes, or seem not to care at all. Instead, parents are giving their kids electronic pacifiers and otherwise stay at arms' reach from their kids lives. - Our house always had books, my mother scrimped and saved to get us a set of encyclopedias (pre-internet. I'm old) and when my youngest brother was going to school, we got a computer and internet access. We had the town's public library, which was part of a network of libraries so they could request books from other libraries if someone asked for them. Our TV and video game time was limited to the hours between dinner and bedtime IF our homework was done, and our mother actually checked in occasionally with teachers to see if we were lying about that. - We all graduated in the top quarter or better of our high school classes, attended college or certificate programs as appropriate for our chosen work paths, and we continue to pass on that drive to get everything out of an education you can.
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  6903. Apparently they don't watch Jim Browning's channel.
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  6904. So, the US vetoed a non-binding diplomatic suggestion from the UN. Okay?
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  6905. New Shepard looks like a battery operated device found in a night stand. Weird design choices...
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  6906.  @50shadesofskittles9  I love (and live!) that phrase.
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  6907.  @UlexiteTVStoneLexite  Back when I was a minor, there was this phenomenon called "parenting". It seems to be fading from the social fabric of the country.
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  6908. The most important question as to whether Congress can subpoena a former president is the word FORMER. He is just another citizen. Drag that orange waterbag in!
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  6909. And sometimes deadly. I have watched a lot of after-accident videos put out by the USCSB (US Chemical Safety Board).
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  6910.  @bink6778  Why is it "unfortunate"? Is it in any way something you did, supported or glorified? No? Then you can learn from it, share the story that even good people may have had evil forbearers. - Erasing the memory of the evil only allows those who would do such again to get farther with their goals because we will not recognize the evil until it is far too late.
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  6911.  @SwiftJustice  Taste death, live life!
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  6912. Dust. Wind. Dude...
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  6913. With the $900 dollars of annual tuition the Senator paid in the before-times, he could now afford maybe a week or two at college. And that would not count fees, dorm, books or food. Perhaps 3 weeks at a community college, if he lived in his car and ate at a soup kitchen.
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  6914.  @lunayen  Safety theater!
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  6915. Not me. I was hoping he would die. I have been hoping he would die from a non-prosecutable source (blood clot into the brain, aneurism, golf course meteor...) for the last four years.
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  6916. I heard from a credible source that the person wasn't Haitian, and the picture was not anywhere near Springfield, Ohio.
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  6917.  @frankmerker630  It's not the liability, it's the forced obsolescence.
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  6918.  @abdisaniini  Ziploc?
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  6919.  @ireallychosethisname  Are you taking suggestions for the sacrifice? I have a deadbeat father somewhere in New Mexico, last I was able to find out...
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  6920.  @hazelco8622  I applaud your responsible self-assessments!
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  6921. 18 months of camera surveillance to nab one guy. Not even an ATTEMTP to catch the thugs who break car windows to steal the contents, or a day in jail for people caught on camera, with witnesses, robbing stores. Have a clear video of someone trespassing and stealing packages off of your porch, with clear imagery of the thief's face? Nah, that's a "civil matter".
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  6922. Well, I'm safe. I know that the galloping above me is a cat, who is the pet of the "late-night enthusiastic" couple who lives in that apartment.
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  6923.  @lukecca85  Ah, Darth Harrington - marketing genius!
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  6924.  @lukecca85  Aha! It's Al Harrington in normal cutaways, but Darth Harrington in the Blue Harvest (Star Wars: A New Hope) cutaway.
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  6925.  @sketchyAnalogies  Like Droopy and the Road Runner are bipolar opposites?
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  6926. Over two decades ago I personally knew an IRS agent who was an "armed special agent" and he had to stay armed nearly every waking hour, even if not at work. Why? Because the people who need the intervention of an armed agent in a tax matter are the kind of people who will hunt down those IRS agents. He was along on on-site property seizures, and in the decade-plus (at the time I was talking to him) he had worked in that role, he had only ever drawn his weapon for range time and cleaning. He was a super-chill and calm guy. - In the last couple of years, it's starting to seem we all need to be armed to knock on a door or use a driveway to turn around our car.
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  6927. @Andy Ruse Regarding heights and company functions, my department boss at one job put together a voluntary day at a waterpark/amusement park. Nobody was forced to come, there was no retaliation for the one person who opted out, and nobody game me even a hint of a hassle or ridicule when I did not want to go on any of the high rides. That was a great place to work, and a great boss to work for.
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  6928.  @CheapJeep800  I have heard of amateur Escape Room setups where the legalities of fire exits and easy escape aren't followed. You sometimes get that happening when someone turns an office or other room into an escape room for a one-off party. - It is possible that the OP here may have experienced one of those scenarios.
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  6929.  @cheezykrafts8134  That calls into question then the legality of removing an infected tonsil or appendix, or excising cancerous and/or infected tissue. And removing foreign objects like bullets, knives and hamsters.
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  6930.  @asafpelleh7594  Oh, so there aren't "settlements"? No Palestinian homes being taken by Israel and given to "proper" Jewish people? The entire country WASN'T taken by colonialism and given to others? There is blood on the hands of leaders on all sides in that sandy hellhole. Plenty of blame to go around. But how would you and your family, friends and neighbors react if, say, the federal government told you to get out of your neighborhood and gave it to a bunch of other people? Would you bow and say, "Thanks for giving my home a better owner.", or would you be contemplating violence?
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  6931.  @mar71n32n0v1lLL0  My "side" is decent people who are subjected to the leadership decisions of criminals and a-holes. - My "side" is against users, abusers and rapacious profiteers. Against warmongers and those who use political power to dodge responsibility for their violations of laws and humane behavior. - If that does align with your "side" then you are also my enemy.
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  6932. If that's happening, then the circuit is running really close to the maximum far too much.
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  6933. I'm imagining the words forest grave and shallow in some combination...
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  6934. Give your in-house spyware a hello from me!
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  6935.  @Embermist69  set up a grid of dowels over a grid of the numbers. Wait for local birds to roost and poop out the winning combination.
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  6936. Thanks for wearing that specific shirt, Scott. Yesterday I was reviewing the NATO phonetic alphabet in my head while shopping and realized I had forgotten the Q. Quebec.
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  6937. Is it from YOUR horse?
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  6938. The first time I heard about that, I was green with envy. Back in my day, you had to watch the local news, reading the scrolling banner of school closures on the side of the screen, and woe betide you if you lost concentration at the wrong part of the alphabetical listings! My school district was all the way down in the "W" section, so on really bad snow days we could wait twenty minutes or more for the W's to come around again.
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  6939.  @hoosierplowboy5299  Do your friends call you "Lefty" or "Lucky"?
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  6940.  @kruleworld  It can be difficult to make a stand when you're 2-5 years into the payment plan on a machine that costs hundreds fo thousands of dollars and the company turns and stabs you in the back. There's also a lot of laziness of habit, and probably some issues with easily accessing competing platforms (Case, IH, Cat/Challenger, Mahindra, etc.)
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  6941. Oreo KNOW what Oreo is doing. If the recording is topped, the cat gets attention.
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  6942. Ah, good old copyright. Stifling education world-wide.
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  6943.  @YerUncleWillie  But they can and WILL find you if you owe money.
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  6944. This sounds like either a move toward making it illegal for people to own cash to make untraced transactions, or a move to feed information to law enforcement to set up civil asset forfeiture. Or both.
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  6945. I wonder where I can mail this developer my steaming pile of "opinion"?💩
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  6946.  @KevinTheCardigan  Nah, it's not something that can result in a fine, so the revenue agents that 'look' like cops don't care.
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  6947. My question would be: "Is the 'cheap steel' the same steel that passed the mandated safety tests? If so, this allegation is more smoke than fire." - edit: "Stronger" versus "weaker" in materials science is a gross oversimplification. Metals objects have compressive strength, bending strength, torsion strength, vibration response, rust reaction, mass, weldability, and other properties. A "strong" metal object of a given shape may fail by bending, snapping, deforming, or not fail at all under a given application of force. Then if you apply a different force or the same force in another axis, it may maintain shape or fail in a different manner. Some flexible metals will bend when taken past their Young's modulus, while more rigid metals will snap. Which one was a "stronger" metal?
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  6948.  @Aerxis  In that case, I am amazed at the sheer volume of scripting we get!
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  6949. And then there are the useless idiots. Only good for finding minefields and figuring out which mushrooms are toxic.
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  6950. Wow. Even doctors fall for the "appeal to authority" problem.
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  6951. But, how can I prove I have male reproductive organs if I can't "roll coal" on my pickup with an 18" lift kit and more lights than the NYC oversized Christmas tree?
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  6952. When you told us to use the links to back in time, my brain gracefully supplied the Huey Lewis and the News song for me. Thanks for the flashback, Ray!
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  6953. My suggested defense: "Your honor, as defined in dictionaries, a whopper is both "a thing that is extremely or unusually large" AND "a gross or blatant lie"."
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  6954.  @razrv3lc  Becuase their bosses (those people they ostensibly represent from their state/district) don't, won't, can't be bothered to, or in some cases legally CAN'T hold them responsible with a recall petition.
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  6955.  @maddog2010p  No, YOU leave. Period. See how childish that sounds?
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  6956. Only store your viruses, worms and other malware on the cloud.
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  6957. "I just finished my million-dollar home, and the airport that has been there for half a century is too loud. I'm suing!" "I bought a house near a military base, and the artillery is too loud, the military has to have quiet hours!"
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  6958.  @Goatcha_M  Too bad not all respondents have "Eat Shit Bob" money like John Oliver.
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  6959. YES!
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  6960. Five damn years!? WTF! They probably wanted to try and run out his life-clock and avoid the whole issue.
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  6961.  @tarinfatel2985  Your comment reminds me of a joke sign. "Fine for dumping here. Even better around the corner"
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  6962. Well, unlike cops, they can't get promoted for harming the people.
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  6963.  @WMartinNI  That all tracks with what I found out looking them up, and with how I have seen them emplaced in industrial situations. Good explanation!
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  6964. Important note about golfing in orbit. "In space, nobody can hear you say 'Mulligan'."
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  6965. Not only that, they're trying to stifle interstate commerce, which is the purview of federal law.
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  6966. The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself. And werewolves, and Johnson's wife.
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  6967.  @hihosilencemeviolateme949  I looked three times and saw no mention of a restaurant in this discussion thread. So I need to ask you, what the Pasta were you talking about?
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  6968. That 10-person limit is an artificial number pulled out of a hat. It would not apply to a family of twelve, and it does not help if nine people gather with a tenth who is a 'super-spreader'. - The CDC and Fauci advice (and it is ADVICE, not a rule, law, or edict) is to celebrate only with the people you regularly live with. Good advice. I am missing out on a family Thanksgiving because one person in the house that normally hosts had one person out of five test positive, so they are on a 14-day self-quarantine that extends into next week. - And I support that level of self-caution.
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  6969. That's a very NYC thing, where they want to require city police live in the city, but they can't pay them enough to do so.
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  6970. The solar panels will be far more efficient if we can defocus that Jewish Space Laser and add that light energy to the light being collected by all the panels.
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  6971. Corn, America's shag carpet.
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  6972. All screens have gaps.
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  6973. Still doesn't answer the burning question. Where can I get ursine weaponry to keep and arm my bears?
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  6974. Plus, the electric "gas" station could see s change to the truck stop model. Since you'll be there longer than you would to fill a car with a tank of gas/diesel, you'll be the perfect captive customer base for shopping and dining. A smart location operator would at LEAST add a case of microwaveable foods and coffee/tea if they didn't already offer such as a gasoline station. They could also have places for people to sit and use their electronic devices. And while they're sitting there, the smells from the diner side can bring a few over to "just get a snack".
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  6975. Will the manufacturer still do repairs when things go VERY bad? Will they send their employees out to work in hot action zones, where the risk of incoming munitions and direct attack are prevalent?
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  6976. IgnOrantz Uf thu lAw is know excyoose! (unless you have qualified or sovereign immunity)
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  6977. He's old. He probably woke up to pee. He'll be heading back to sleep in a couple minutes.
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  6978.  @rparl  Good catch!
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  6979.  @rodshoaf  That's a good tactic!
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  6980.  @xxxtoddythebodyxxx  ... at Alice's Restaurant (exceptin' Alice)
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  6981. I know! I was so waiting for a train race.
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  6982. And this is why I feel hackers deserve a brutal and public death.
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  6983. And a solid nod to Mexico's air force as well.
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  6984. Ah yes, class-action lawsuits. Where a few lawyers get fantastically rich and the people who were actually harmed get a check for $1.65...
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  6985. Results may vary by state, cop, time of day, and color of your skin.
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  6986. @Hattie Lankford [redacted] can only be visited with written clearance from a researcher of level 3 or above. Moving to [redacted] requires referral from at least two member of the 01 council.
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  6987. Someone bought the house. Start charging for storage. Keep adding charges until the buyer has it taken away. (whole house on wheels, long convoy of dumpsters, owner's choice.
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  6988.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  I'm fairly sure that being an LLC would not protect you against criminal charges. Civil charges, maybe, but the severity of your illegal business practices may override those normal protections afforded.
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  6989. 15:30 Who is the pride parade participant doing the interview?
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  6990.  @keith2772  I wonder how well connected the thief's family was.
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  6991. Cash and a pocket full of dice? That's how I gear up to go play D&D! (The cash is for pizza)
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  6992. Remember when the JD Power awards were for "serviceability" instead of "innovation"?
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  6993.  @musicloverme3993  It (checks calendar for statute of limitations) involved jousting against someone in a VW beetle in the side yard.
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  6994. So many of these "Dealer installed items" are actually put on the car at the factory. And $200 floor mats? Do they come with 3 fifty dollar bills underneath? - Best quote in the whole video, "They are professionals at selling, I am only an amateur at buying." - edit: This "dealer add-on" stuff is why I stopped buying new cars. 2-3 years old and someone else has paid for those gold-lines floor mats and hyper-priced synthetic wax coating.
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  6995. A license requirement makes sense to me when failure in your job/task has a high likelihood for causing physical/psychological or financial harm, or if you are being paid for your job/task by 'the state'. Licenses that make sense: medicine, operating vehicles or heavy equipment, flying, law, financial advising, psychology/psychiatry, veterinary, selling retail food... Licenses that make no sense: photography, tour guides, charity car washes, peaceful political speech...
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  6996. Remember: They call the person who graduates at the bottom of their medical school class Doctor.
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  6997. Sadly (fortunately? Not sure) the very people who need to be warned not to follow idiotic health advice from our current President are not likely watching this channel.
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  6998. Also an illustration of why it is always good to label what you unplug. I use masking tape and sharpie, either labeling by circuit name or just pairs (#1 male - #1 female, #2 male - etc.). By the time I have something taken apart, I have a notepad of drawings show what stuff looked like before I messed with it, to be used as a reassembly map.
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  6999.  @ShawnPitman  I think of it as gray is a color, Grey is an Erin.
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  7000.  @gregsmith5695  Charcoal is not coal. I did not say we are running out of fossil fuels soon. I said they are not being replenished at anywhere near the rate they are being used. - I do like your doom-n-gloom prognostication of the inability of renewables to replace the carbon cycle even thirty years into the future. Some serious Nostradamus-tier skills.
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  7001. And ask those four witnesses the next day, you'll get another four accounts. Let them compare stories and you'll get a different, and much less accurate, account.
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  7002.  @IMSiegfried  Or at least washing your face the same time you wash your hands.
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  7003.  @jonncockrell3606  ...and vaccinations for the flu.
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  7004.  @kameljoe21  False equivalency. A mall/strip mall is owned by one entity (person, corporation, etc.) and the businesses filling the spaces RENT with a contract that specifies the rent price, rights and responsibilities for both sides, the cost of CAM (Common Area Maintenance), how much that CAM can be increased annually (if well written), and so on. When the business longer can or wants to pay that money, they move out, never having owned the lot or building. - Much the same for apartments. - Then you muddy it with 'investors in a building'. That is contract law, not tenancy or home ownership. - HOAs are in a muddy middle ground between an apartment building/complex paying a maintenance company, a poorly constructed corporation with mutable rules and often operated by unskilled people with an agenda, and a local government with no articles of incorporation of constitution.
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  7005. I am imagining a container of cookies next to the container of Greenies, and Louis being hounded in English AND cat every time he is near that drawer.
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  7006. Or, you could buy the one with two hoses, get friends and coworkers to avoid the one-hose units, and maybe the stores will see the change in sales and start stocking more two-hose units? I have never seen the attraction of portable AC units. Until this video, I had no idea they even used a hose to vent the hotter air outside (sales sites hide that like they hide cords on power tools) and window units just keep getting lighter and more efficient. And cheaper.
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  7007. So this is the new trailer for the Bond film, "A View to a Grill"
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  7008.  @classarank7youtubeherokeyb63  It is nice that you present a well structured reductio ad absurdum attack. It gives other commenters here a chance to see how silly that kind of debate failure can be. - Now, aside from your failure of a debate tactic, I would not be averse to seeing all religions relegated to the same level of utility as having gills on a pigeon.
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  7009.  @cannednolan8194  The one time I was asked if I had any drugs in the car I said, "Yes. Tylenol." and shook the small bottle I had just picked up at a convenience store.
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  7010.  @phlodel  My brain played "Love Theme" from The Godfather when I read your comment.
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  7011. 19 weeks is a slight improvement over how people became law enforcement in the 19th century American west. Then it was usually enough to own a gun, be able to shoot it, and be recommended by the wealthy (white) people in town. But 19 weeks is a joke. How is a person able to properly learn firearms, less-than-lethal tools, defensive driving, uniform standards, radio procedures, arrest procedures, ticketing procedures, patrol methods, AND the law in 19 weeks? They can't.
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  7012. And if you do act "suspiciously" there's a decent change your vehicle will be scrapped in a search for contraband. And when they find nothing, it's up to you to pay to repair or scrap the vehicle.
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  7013. Only one time did I show up to find I was not registered to vote. But it was MY fault. I had moved to a different town but forgot to move my registration. (edit: Same state, same county, same congressional district) So, I went to my previous town and voted, then fixed the registration the week after.
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  7014.  @678friedbed  Let us agree that you're wrong. Have a great day!
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  7015.  @678friedbed  Thank you for proving my point, and agreeing that I am right.
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  7016.  @xscorpx  Toyotas are so good, they are the "we wish we had a tank" choice of militias the world over. Need wheels under your missile launching system, recoilless rifle, machine gun...? Toyota!
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  7017.  @danielholowitski3855  Bring out the sabers, trial by combat.
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  7018. Or conformal coating? Maybe even full computer waterproofing?
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  7019.  @thadrepairsitall1278  That was what I thought of too.
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  7020.  @DVankeuren  It depends on which state the teens reside. State laws on these things vary.
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  7021.  @108gk  Ah yes, the "Oh God, oh God we're going to die?" kind of landing. Thanks Wash, you will always be a leaf on the wind.
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  7022. Ray mentioned the person painted their rotors, and I was expecting a "Just Rolled In' type of look. But you can see the pattern of how the owner masked off the braking surface before painting. Well done, driver!
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  7023.  @ismailtaskran9740  The "free" lawyer is only when you are the defendant in a criminal case, and can show the inability to afford a lawyer with your own assets. If you are sued or suing someone, or if you are trying to prove your property is not a criminal (see: Civil Asset Forfeiture), then you have to find the money for everything on your side of the issue, and you may have to pay even more if you are being sued or counter-sued and you lose that case.
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  7024. Kevin Kenney is installing Tik Tok on the tractors!!! (sarcasm)
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  7025. As a moderate Batman fan, I was hoping to hear this tale about massive coin thefts would involve a series of missing 12-foot tall pennies.
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  7026. Russia: "We're going to build our OWN space station! With blackjack, and hookers!"
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  7027. That sounds like WOOOORRRKK! (sigh)
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  7028.  @JohnGeorgeBauerBuis  That "last mile" problem is where cabs and buses should be filling in, but some cities are better than others at that.
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  7029. SQUIRREL!
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  7030. You were on target until the adjective "completely". If you allow for some departments to be only partly corrupt (even to the level of one cop out of a few in a small town) then you may get 100% coverage.
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  7031. That would needlessly risk the health of the innocent dog.
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  7032.  @deconteesawyer5758  Yeah, every time I see a case where the person is offered a portion of their own assets to drop the case, I see bribery.
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  7033.  @Jirodyne  Yep, the last line of the 1st Amendment. However, the matter can get muddy when you try and carry the US constitutional protections over into the state arena.
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  7034.  @baronvonslambert  More than one way to address a grievance. Well, aside from the courts, there's the court of public opinion, voting for someone who will change things, BEING the person elected to change things... Then there are the less peaceful ways. Some will get you fines, some will get you prison time, some will get you declared an enemy of the United States. Or get you un-alive.
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  7035. Maricopa county is a police shakedown region.
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  7036. One need be successful in the attempt to be guilty of a crime. Intent (particularly when you make your own video where you declare your intent for social media) is often enough. - If this person was not under a specific contract, then he is S.O.L., Texas being an employment-at-will state. If he was a contracted employee, then the terms of that contract would determine if the company was right in terminating his employment. - If he is lucky, perhaps he can get a job mowing lawns or cleaning up after farm animals. Maybe get a job picking produce to "stop all the illegals taking American jobs".
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  7037.  @jrwood88  I was not aware of an M2 carbine. Looked it up briefly, it's a select-fire version of the M1 carbine that allows full auto fire. - Learning is great!
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  7038. It's like if I wanted a new recliner and refrigerator, and instead of figuring out how to fit those purchases into my household budget, I instead went through my neighbors' pockets to collect the money for those purchases.
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  7039.  @noogman  Some if that traffic camera money hits the community the cameras are posted within, but some fraction also Hoovers cash out of the pockets of people who live elsewhere. Essentially, the town is taxing non-residents.
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  7040. One of my favorites was peanut butter and bologna on white bread.
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  7041. I too dislike getting exposed to an ST:D when I paid for the protection against it.
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  7042.  @livreene7250  I watched most of the first season, but it really wasn't Trek to me. Not because of the window-lickers reasons of "ew, non-hetero people!" but it just felt more like a generic sci-fi with a Trek skin.
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  7043. Someday, Putin will get the election results he deserves, winning with 115% of the vote!
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  7044. @@GH0STST4RSCR34M Let me quote for you the relevant sentence from the OP. - "One selling point is that they connect directly to the police so that their "response time" would be faster for those who owned these things." - How would YOU interpret "directly connected to the police to have faster response time"? - Ooh, here is an idea. how about we ask the OP to clarify their comment instead of flinging ad hominem attacks at me for my interpretation? Or maybe we could debate without personal attacks? Oh, who am I kidding, this is the internet, where we are EXPECTED to sling words like angry chimpanzees fling feces, and with the same intent and stink.
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  7045.  @normsharp24  Adverse Woodchucking! Civil Woodchuck Seizure! Woodchuck Immunity!!!
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  7046.  @tyendor1952  As long as the woodchuck chucks that wood at the politicians who propose bills as dumb as this...
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  7047. @Jay Talents Iosef Jughashvili, is that you?
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  7048. Even one year per criminal event would be 17 more years than he is likely to see.
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  7049. I don't know if prosecutorial ethics were broken, but they're definitely Kraken.
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  7050. Hey now, this was not filmed in Quebec.
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  7051. Plus, every telephone communication with that base is now a Liberty call!
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  7052.  @heathenous81  I can find zero references for criminal forfeiture NOT requiring a conviction. I can find citations for forfeitures as part of the terms for a civil case (A suing B), and 'in rem' forfeiture (commonly called civil asset forfeiture that does not even require charges to be laid as the court proceeds as if the property carries the guilt instead of the owner (a disgusting legal loophole). - If you can cite a state where criminal forfeiture does not follow a conviction, please let us know, as that would be an interesting topic to examine.
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  7053. It must be so nice to be in a powerful enough position to tell that state that, "Yeah, I guess we'll obey the law now." - Regarding Carvana's press release about being "an economic engine", that also applies to illicit drug sales. Money and products move around and wealth is transferred. Maybe drug cartels just need better PR firms?
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  7054. I used to think the shops provided the tools, but I learned years ago that only applies to major items like shop air, lifts, tire changing and balancing equipment... basically the big machines. The hand-portable tools are usually owned by the mechanic, which means if they break a tool, they broke their own money and not the shop's money. A side effect is that a shop with a tool thief working there can hurt the pockets of a lot of people.
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  7055. You need to find them, first. And then by the time you negotiate the international connections, that company may have folded, changed names and listed owners, and opened in the same physical space. It's like whack-a-mole.
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  7056. And if not, at least no animal casualties. (including humans in the animal category)
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  7057. Of course the rocket(s) exploded! They hit the skydome over our flat Earth. (This is me poking fun at the flatties)
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  7058. That square pole in the front yard looks like a temp utility pole, and I didn't see a meter in it. This leads me to hypothesize the someone WAS renovating/repairing the home, but stopped when they ran out of time/money/interest.
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  7059. This video has been a call to action, and so now I feel I can say it. - - I don't like goldfish ponds!
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  7060.  @Redline82436  Or maybe the list of places and times humans have been completely evil to each other is too long to enumerate in every YouTube comment?
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  7061. There might even be a market for non-weaponized versions for small-haul cargo routes like island chains and low-population areas like the Northern parts of North American and Asia (Russia's part of it)
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  7062.  @rossmanngroup  Hey, it worked for Albert Einstein...
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  7063.  @Larry_Harvilla  Thanks! I needed a snorting chortle today!
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  7064. I have painted in a hobby scale, and interior house walls. I also have learned that a clean surface, priming, and temperature are important.
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  7065.  @FuturesPast1  I'm using a Wikio phone (a Droid clone? Not sure the model number right now) that has a battery a child could replace, a headphone jack, a camera, but no SIM card slot. I only use it for calls, text and alarm clock, so it's good enough for me.
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  7066.  @frankvandalen6524  I was actually thinking of the device/unit/tech that causes intersections to change lights for ambulances and fire trucks, turning their light green and the others red, actually. It's not something all controlled intersections have, but you do find them in cities and the centers of larger towns. I just have no idea how the tech works.
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  7067.  @amandamandamands  Hmm. I think I have encountered weight-based intersection controls before, decades ago. We were camping out for concert tickets (in the days before wristbands and Ticketmaster (HISSSSS!) and we found a couple of nearby intersections we could trigger if we got enough people to jump up and down in unison.
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  7068. On the flip side of that, older judges/justices mean that there is less "whipsawing" of judicial opinion based on current interpretations and societal fads. Essentially providing a stabilizing influence on the shouting of the few.
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  7069.  @stevewhite3424  There's lucky and there's "I have never lost a 10mm socket" lucky. I'm not the second kind of lucky either...
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  7070. I wonder how it will fare against something from Texas Armoring. I also wonder if such a test would get the rifle reclassified as a destructive device...
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  7071.  @moi01887  Yep, I sold a car with a broken speedometer cable (long time ago!) and had to check that box and jot down the reason when I sold it.
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  7072.  @beepbop6697  Maybe it could be designed to be easy with electronic odometers. I know that the mechanical ones would have to be advanced sequentially or built at the manufacturer with the preset mileage already showing, and I wouldn't want to wait on that kind of lead time. - Also, I think the reason odometers are designed to NOT be able to be set as you say is that it would also open up the possibility to roll back the mileage without replacing the odometer, and may be undetectable to the buyer.
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  7073.  @austinh1028  Mine was on a 1970's VW Beetle. It also had no heat and no windshield washer system, both from rot. Winter was "bundle the neck up!" and I had a spray bottle of glass cleaner hanging from the dash for the windshield, simply roll the window down, reach out, spray a few times, then hit the wipers and hope they still work. I can't complain much, I got the car for $125 in the 1980's, and drove it for a few years before the transmission ate itself.
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  7074.  @jasonshults368  Mmmm. I seem to be pondering the phrase "shallow grave in the State Forest: for no particular reason...
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  7075. With an input AND output, that's two systems of water lines carrying anything from non-potable water to greywater, brownwater, or treated sewage. In addition to your potable water and sewage. Assuming you already have the gas lines you are decommissioning, are you sending out the ice slurry in your existing sewer lines and increasing how much capacity your treatment systems need, or a new run of pipes which necessitate disrupting roads, yards and foundations/basements to run that new loop. - edit: This is my off-the cuff look at the process, no study invested.
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  7076. Awesome. I will now claim qualified immunity in my next speeding ticket hearing.
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  7077.  @maxwellquebec8675  "Lieutenant Dan! You ain't got no legs... in space!"
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  7078.  @rickn8or  Giggety?
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  7079. There is an easy way to "stop them", Al. PAY THEM!
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  7080. Let's just hope nobody gets an urge to "unify the code systems" resulting in at LEAST one more incomprehensible "standard".
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  7081.  @beebop9808  Compared to road traffic in Atlanta, ANY airport would seem relaxing and efficient.
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  7082. Yep, the right to bear arms. But please wait until the bears are done with them.
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  7083. I think the ONLY good thing about that movie, well two things, are the acting chops of Michael York and Elizabeth Taylor (or whatever her last name was that month.)
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  7084. Hmm. You may need to check the terms of your lease to see if genetic defects and diseases are the responsibility of the lessee or the lessor.
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  7085. What were you before? - Kyle Kinane (paraphrased)
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  7086. That $70,000 might have been to pay him, the rest of the band, drivers, the manager, the agent(s) and the roadie crew. A small four-person band that is off the peak of their career can be carrying a dozen or more on payroll, and then there are other expenses like vehicle rental and amortizing sets.
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  7087. Maybe, just maybe, policy should be compared with law (and brought into alignment) on at least an annual basis?
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  7088. The engine is that quiet with the doghouse open? Nice!
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  7089. Let use the rules of logic. (A college class I got an A+ in for the whole semester, BTW) - There exists a slippery slope fallacy. Some things are false, some things are true. Therefore, the must also exist a slippery slope truth.
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  7090. I thought the same, as that is the most common use of that abbreviation, by a long stretch. Go ahead and ignore the face-palm emoji by tazimafied.
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  7091.  @73YorkshirePudding  Damn you Ron Howard! Get out of my brain!
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  7092. I read the guidance on "social distancing" and realized that my life would not change, other than my once-a-month trip to the local Chinese food place. I'll have to get it to go, if they're open. That's my big change.
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  7093. Perhaps a dual purpose, leading to why they are accessible on the front of the block as mounted in the vehicle?
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  7094. Decades ago, I asked someone who was picketing over contract negotiations what they were picketing over. He said he didn't know exactly, something about benefits.
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  7095. Ha! Kind of like "If you're bleeding that means you still have blood and a heartbeat."
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  7096.  @wayneegli8379  State has to get their money!
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  7097.  @jamesbael6255  If you're a city with hundreds of fountains and thousands of swimming pools, the desert may not be the place for you.
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  7098. Here in Massachusetts, I have seen the green arrows running before the solid green, after the solid green, and instead of the solid green. It all depends on the design of the intersection and the traffic flow management that is being implemented. - One intersection near me even has a yellow arrow, with a sign, "Yellow arrow yields to oncoming traffic"
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  7099.  @mariozombie2843  For some whacky reason, a lot of inkjet printers use cyan and/or yellow with the black ink to print black things on white paper. It makes no damn sense, but that is how it happens.
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  7100.  @Nitroburner01  Yeah, if don't NEED to print color frequently, laser is the way to go. A laser printer can wait a year or more between print jobs and still function fine.
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  7101. Kinda blew your mind?
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  7102. Now, if only some congress-critters would get off their butts and do this for civil asset forfeiture, qualified immunity, and Citizens United...
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  7103. OAN is also catering to the creeper side of 45 by sending attractive women to ask the pandering softball questions/testimonials.
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  7104. Maybe they should be kicked back for that.
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  7105. Madame Guillotine? Okay, that's a bit extreme. I guess we can compromise down to jail time.
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  7106. If you walk into a psychic's shop, and they ask your name, walk out.
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  7107.  @russiannorth2440  Submarine is the best camouflage color at sea. Barring that, distance that puts you over the horizon, then a compromise color like grey.
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  7108. One big difference could be between bolted rail joints and welded rail joints. The bolted ones give you that 'ka-klunk' sound, while the welded ones are a continuous track and don't have the bump. - I have no idea if that is why, it is just something I've noticed in the few train-watcher videos I've seen.
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  7109. I wonder if, in cases where the parts are not remotely available, if there is a heat-shrink option, or maybe a way to use something like Flex Seal?
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  7110. It's like when a DV victim calls the police, and the cops give the abuser a pair of handcuffs and a high-five.
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  7111. Huh. My ideas would agree with eliminating dumb busy work like the repetitive Conex sessions you describe. I never did one, but I my era was all about a supply room and loading to and from it. Another idea I would propose is to stop lying about time. If you tell troops that last formation is 18:00, a little slippage to 18:30 is fine, but jerking the chain to 23:00 is how you ensure people don't re-up. - A maxim in the business world is that a happy customer might tell one other person about their experience, but an unhappy customer will tell everyone that know, and with social media, that number gets rather uncountable quickly. Now lay that maxim over the experience of your troops, and you'll see that a LOT of things can lose you current and future troops. Investigate your criminal reporting in a timely and professional manner. Prosecute your criminals in a timely manner. Promote on excellence, not on relationships or simple time-in-grade. Do more to provide and incentivize paths to education and skill classes. Shorten and eliminate as many meetings as possible, use that time for training. Find the people who love "mandatory fun days" and lock them in a closet until they stop it.
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  7112. Or shout, "HORN!"
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  7113.  @rodneysmith873  ... until the resources get scarce.
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  7114.  @robo5013  As for not picking up a fallen enemy's gun, that can be smart. You don't know how good or bad that person was at weapons cleaning, so if your weapon has sufficient rounds available, you stick with your own. On the other hand, when yours is running low or out, you darned well risk a dirty weapon over being unarmed!
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  7115. If it was a magic incantation, a lot of this could have been avoided. "... we baptize you" [SPELL HAS FAILED - SPELL SLOT CONSUMED]
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  7116. "Jerry, hold down the battery life monitor button while I hold a lump of wax against the left headlight... Yep, the regenerative braking hub on the right rear needs a new inductor subassembly."
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  7117.  @cfredtmbg  Stealing from the gang is just about the only crime the gang's union will not protect you for.
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  7118.  @christopherg2347  If you car shop well, you can find even a mid-sized sedan that has a 3 to 5-body trunk.
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  7119. I'm glad someone at The Daily Show watches Fox "news" so I don't have to. My remaining shreds of sanity thank your heroism.
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  7120. Paper maps? Wired field phones? You're scaring the kids, Ryan.
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  7121. Which is it, Democrats never do anything, or Democrats start all the wars and spend all the money?
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  7122.  @r2db  (With apologies to Martin Niemöller) First they came for the Apple Users, and I did not speak out— Because I was not an Apple user. Then they came for the farm equipment, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a farmer. Then they came for the BMWs, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a BMW driver. Then they came for the products I use—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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  7123.  @cmorris9494  That user spams comments like this in nearly every video's comments. Total troll, please ignore them.
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  7124.  @ellieboi  It would only have to mess with the mixing valve at the shower controls to either shock you with full cold or full hot. Now, some people still have water heaters set to heat to 140F, which is wasteful of energy and too darned hot for most home uses. In the house I grew up in, the water was heated by the oil burning furnace, and was, for many years at 140F. We got scalded more than a couple of times when someone flushed the downstairs toilet while we were showing upstairs. - The current US standard is 120F, and I have seen some people go as low as 110F.
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  7125.  @MrNicoJac  You ask the contractor for their license number, and the name of their insurance company. You visit your state's licensing website to confirm the license and bond You call the insurance company to confirm they are adequately insured.
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  7126. The Boy in the Plastic Bubble: Bubble Bistro. John Travolta's WAY long anticipated sequel to his 1976 film, coming to empty theaters near you!
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  7127. That is cool! An important lesson I was taught is that you are never done learning until you're done living.
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  7128. If you have a backup ready to go, why stay at someone's house and pay to clean it after you cleaned it? Go stay at a hotel where the cleaning (barring deliberate and unusual mayhem on your part) is already listed as part of the price.
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  7129.  @paulveitch  All money "could: be proceeds of a crime. If you go back far enough, you can say that the US exists because the land and its natural resources were stolen from England and Spain, (and bought from France) and all three countries stole it from the original human inhabitants, who first gained it by squatting. Much world wealth is grown from seeds of theft, slavery, war, and crime.
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  7130.  @westcoastnewfs6061  I avoided sedated grooming for my cats by staying there for the whole process and being the one getting clawed and bit.
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  7131.  @davidh9638  Don't forget to fine the HOA President for having a pickup truck parked on his driveway!
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  7132.  @rossmanngroup  Could be worse, they could want a guy like Ron DeSantis who pronounces "Thai food" as "Thigh food".
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  7133. Two of my favorite World War 2 movies were Mister Roberts (1955) and Ensign Pulver (1964) both centered around the cargo ship USS Reluctant (Portrayed by the USS Hewell in the first, and USS Virgo in the second).
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  7134.  @ubermothman5584  That's because he's the rootinest, tootinest, six-gun shootinest!
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  7135. $1,400 for CAR TIRES!? Holy Pasta on a plate, that's ludicrous.
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  7136. @The_Kansas_Kid Hmm. As an example, imagine you have a slingshot to launch frozen peas. If your slingshot has one rubber band, you can shoot that pea for a certain bracket of ranges. If you add a second rubber band, you can shoot that pea further, and so on. So why not always put on ALL the rubber bands? Well, with more rubber bands, peas aimed at closer spots would have to arc a LOT higher, and in addition to being in the air longer, have more chance of missing from unanticipated air currents pushing the pea around. Also, always shooting peas with all the rubber bands on speed up how fast the slingshot will wear out. - But say you are launching a pea a short distance but you have to go over a tall fence to hit the target? Well, you use more rubber bands and aim very high, hoping that the pea will land where you want it to.
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  7137.  @aaronmicalowe  Depending on what part "broke off" first, it may not come crashing down right away or at all, it could instead go into an erratic orbit or leave orbit altogether. Think of spinning an object on a string over your head, If the object comes loose, the string will wrap around you. If you let go of the string, the object + string system will fly away from you. - I can't get motivated to do the actual math on this question.
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  7138. I live in New England and have long wanted to be able to put up a sign, "Ice and Snow are Slippery. If you don't know that already, stay off my property!"
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  7139. At this point, squatter removal could become a viable business model.
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  7140. My first thought was something to do with piracy.
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  7141. Now, after these repairs, this car can reach Escape velocity!
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  7142.  @Halloween111  My uncle-grandpa-daddy? (Is that a banjo I hear?)
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  7143. This is how you get Killdozers.
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  7144. Even smarter? Use a virtual credit card!
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  7145. If you have actual Confederate US currency in decent condition, it is worth more than many think. Me, I would pay in Monopoly money.
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  7146.  @MosoKaiser  I see you've encountered MMOs before.
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  7147.  @andrewharrison8436  Well, Google removed our ability to see the downvote count (unless we are the person who posted the video), so it is hard for us to even find a video with no downvotes.
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  7148. Haha!
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  7149. How the PASTA does a judge get to go back to work after admitting guilt in a firearm threat? That state needs some serious self-examination.
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  7150.  @thewausaudude  That is part of the decision loop. Are you seeking height for "cool" on a pickup you use as a less fuel-efficient car? Or are you looking for some extra height to allow heavier loads to not squat your truck to where the tires (tyres, for our overseas friends) threaten to grind the wheel wells?
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  7151.  @MrJJandJim  Rainman Ray Repairs
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  7152. The new lineup of superhero movies is amazing! (movie trailer voice-over) "He may not be the mechanic we deserve, but he is the mechanic we need."
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  7153.  @legallyfree2955  In America we have sh1t-tons coming out the wazoo!
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  7154. Heck, I've seen companies surprised by laws in different states. It's not like it was a surprise that this California corporation was buying another corporation in Massachusetts.
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  7155. You may not be a journalist, but you are more than a common tater!
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  7156. Regarding not being able to see what you're working on: Our high school auto shop teacher had a favorite phrase. "Find the hole with your finger first." Teen boys really remember that lesson...
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  7157. The only things I buy in a Dollar establishment are art supplies.
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  7158. Imagine if the dealership's manager was pulled over on the way to deposit a pile of cash received to buy one or more cars that day... and they do civil asset forfeiture on the cash? Why, that might actually get civil asset forfeiture on the news and into more peoples' awareness!
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  7159. Meanwhile NASA keeps getting bled like a vampire's favorite donor.
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  7160. We don't own them. Lobbying firms do.
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  7161.  @primeroultimo  Go away troll.
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  7162. "I was under the impression" that the guy needs to read the danged label.
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  7163. The reason I stick with Kindle is that moving boxes of printed books is getting harder and harder as I age, and my friends also age. Also, I have never, and plan to never, change countries of residency. - edit: Having watched the video, I agree that having bought a book, even on a kindle, should not change if I am in a different country.
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  7164. The ONLY anti-competition clauses I at least partially support are when a lease in a multi-business retail location has lease clauses that prevent other businesses from trying to directly copy and crush other tenants. For example, a grocery store may have a clause stopping them from bringing in a prescription pharmacy while the pharmacy on the other end of the building will be blocked from installing a deli or meat department. - I have a friend who worked in a retail pharmacy in a strip mall that has a grocery store and some other smaller businesses. A few years ago, the landlord decided to build a new building in the front of the parking lot (blocking much of the sightlines to the other stores and taking away about half of the parking) and turn it into his own grocery/deli/pharmacy. He had the idiocy to be surprised when his retail tenants started pulling the ripcords on their lease exit clauses. I think his store was open less than a year when the pharmacy moved out, and the grocery store was arranging a new location down the street. A few of the smaller tenants used "failing business" (real or faked) as a way to get out of the building.
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  7165. Sell it or park it in a "bad area".
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  7166.  @Michael-yi4mc  Giggety?
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  7167. The dolphin sound making is a hidden skill tree for sharks to be able to trick dolphins into ambushes.
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  7168. Stop putting your money in savings accounts. Buy some politicians. You'll get a better return if you can meet the minimum transaction amount.
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  7169.  @skollmemes9960  Some people may see your comment as humor, but it is also good sense. Record consent, it may save you in court later.
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  7170. I recall playing little league in Phoenix, AZ and only once did we have an abusively screaming parent. I and a couple of friends turned around in the dugout and shouted "BOOOOOO!" until they stopped. I never saw a coach screaming at an ump. I DID see a coach screaming at an outfielder to pay attention. Kid might have been a touch ADHD.
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  7171. Knowing and standing up for your rights, and documenting everything, will serve you well for your whole life. Well done!
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  7172. The dealerships and manufacturers don't do better because none of them do better, so there is no competitive reason to get better.
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  7173.  @Shadow-7773  1: You're trolling a lot of discussions with the same danged comment, but under different names. Thus, you are a bot. 2. I CAN complain if I voted, for three major reasons: 2a. The person I voted for did not win. 2b. The person I voted for DID win, but they lied about what they were going to do. 2c. The person I voted for DID win, but they cannot accomplish what I voted them in to do because of opposition from other politicians in the same assembly.
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  7174. Yeah, I'm in Massachusetts. I saw a really good "Yes on 1" commercial where a former police chief points out that the ballot question very specifically says it would require that car makers give access to "MECHANICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION ONLY." (emphasis mine). - And if they "No on 1" crowd was really worried about the security issues with access to the computer systems of your car, they would be demanding that car makers STOP STORING THE SENSITIVE INFORMATION!
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  7175.  @Mike_Dubayou  the SMART criminals either get elected to a cushy job or build a corporation that can support their private space travel dreams.
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  7176. A month late and preaching to the choir. If this had been on, say, Fox or some other pipeline into the red info silo...
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  7177. I thought perhaps that was a lawyer who picks locks?
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  7178.  @DragoonWarrior790  Exactly! Sadly, being a decent human being is also becoming a lost art...
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  7179.  @gmamagillmore4812  Hard to make that sweet, sweet revenue if you don't stretch the law to cover whatever you can see.
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  7180.  @pablohammerly448  One of the problems with judges, and also with juries, and thus the entire CONCEPT of justice, is that those people are humans. Humans are flawed, self-interested, greedy, altruistic, lazy, energetic, evil and/or good beings. Justice cannot be impartial if humans are in charge of administering it. But we also cannot trust computer programs to provide justice for two reasons. The law is written by humans, and so is the software.
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  7181. Interesting juxtaposition of a stroller and the box for a pregnancy testing kit sharing that pile of refuse.
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  7182.  @ajwilson605  I must have been extraordinarily lucky in my choices of mechanic shops, because I have not had that experience. I was charged for the actual time the job took. Well, except when things were done at the dealership.
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  7183.  @meloniedropik3539  You didn't come across to me as being argumentative.
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  7184.  @joskd8491  That's "post-purchase load lightening" to us Ford owners!
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  7185. I am more and more glad that my doors automatically lock when the car moves more than about 30 feet. And I am a vehicle luddite for most things. Manual windows, no power seats, no touchscreen, physical knobs and buttons...
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  7186. "Displaced residents" are upsetting to Netanyahu? Imagine how the Palestinians have been feeling for decades...
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  7187. I am all for these "creative sentences" IF and only if they are an option for the party who has pled or been found guilty. Forced labor as a consequence of law is dancing around the definition of slavery.
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  7188. That Texas court seems well paid-bought. edited for spelling
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  7189. I remember when the "Cadillac of vacuums" was the Alladin, and upright bag vacuum. All-metal body with rubber bumper strips (to save walls and furniture). Weighed a LOT. But it also had so many attachments available. Need to shampoo your carpets? They had an attachment. Need a long hose to reach high places? They had an attachment. Need to polish your shoes? They had an attachment. - And if something broke, there were company certified repair shops in every city and many larger towns. You could find Alladin vacuums that people had been using in commercial settings for decades.
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  7190. 8:00 that woman needs a family to intervene and help wake her up. She is in two of the major population groups that Republicans are most against. Women, and non-whites.
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  7191. WHICH cancer? That is the difficulty. Not all cancers are created equally, and thus may not be able to be treated equally.
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  7192.  Fatima Muhammed  I'm sorry. Are you saying a MEDICAL DOCTOR, with an actual PhD, is recommending HERBS to treat cancer?
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  7193. Wait. Are telling me that real tanks don't respond instantly to keyboard commands? I am shocked! Shocked I tell you!
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  7194. And the tools used in a butcher's shop!
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  7195. It's gone up to match half the price of a shave and a haircut.
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  7196.  @ReimerKeith  Well, the shave & haircut combo is two bits. so half of that price would be a bit.
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  7197. What about animal magnetism?
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  7198. Happens a lot with cases of young victims.
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  7199. I agree except that "the USPS" is not a monolithic organization of cheats and thieves. It is a large organization built of people. And some people are great, some are lazy, some are fallible, and some are outright evil.
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  7200. Don't worry, it's just the tip.
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  7201. Attempted murder.
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  7202. I agree with what you said, but to be SUPER technical, it drives up valuation (price) while value is either an inverse function, or subjective, or somewhere in between.
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  7203.  @xTheDeerLordx  The exception does not negate the statistic.
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  7204. This smells so much like a preparatory step to reducing the value of the property to allow "someone" to swoop in and buy the land for development purposes.
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  7205.  @anastasiacline6159  IN a more civilized age, that doctor would be out of business due to "mysterious disappearance".
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  7206. Putting 3 tablespoons of salt in your recipe instead of 3 teaspoons is a mistake. Stealing and selling 400 items that don't belong to you is deliberate action.
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  7207. A first-class letter is not a package, and last I heard we were not sending our mail-in ballots printed on glass. But I guess playing the Fox "News", Trumpian party anthem is easier than critical thinking.
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  7208. This evil thought crept into my brain: Who made the molds for the silicone "packers" and who was/were the model(s), and how many laws were broken to complete that process? Or more simply, should some people be getting arrested for that?
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  7209. Something kind of glossed over in much of the commenting about this one is that the driver was paying attention to how his vehicle was driving. They felt the wobble and knew enough to know it was possibly a problem. When it got worse, they didn't ignore it or "hope for the best" and keep trying to get home, but pulled off the highway and got the problem looked at. Too many drivers are completely out of touch with how cars work to recognize symptoms of growing failure.
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  7210.  @lenbigdog2476  The only easy way to take apart a car up here in Massachusetts is to let the rust disassemble things.
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  7211. Another good one I got from Christopher Titus. "How about you climb on off your cross, use the wood to build a bridge and GET OVER IT!"
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  7212. A typical ethernet cables can be converted into a dog leash, or used to bundle blankets when you store them for the winter.
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  7213. 30,000 "associates", assuming an average overpayment of $500 (may be high?) comes to $15 million. As to whether Honda sees that ballpark as way too much, or not all that much, or just wants to ensure their next quarterly P/L report keeps their stock value up? That is not information I have.
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  7214.  @rayzor285  I have a friend who refuses to be taught how to change a tire. Or check her oil, or tire pressure, or even look for tread wear. Her mechanic is making bank.
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  7215.  @Drago_Whooves  Send it coins, postage due.
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  7216.  @oldbiker9739  THIRD BASE!
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  7217.  @jimgarofalo5479  Heck, about 1/4 to 1/3 of the robocalls I have gotten over my life (since caller ID) have been from my own phone number, with my name listed as the caller. When I do answer those, I ask if I am speaking to future me or past me. After a few moments of silence, they hang up.
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  7218.  @callak_9974  Make a police report for capital theft: roof.
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  7219. Woo-hoo!
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  7220. Interesting that plagiarism comes up regarding recent Disney films. Though does it count as plagiarism when you own the thing you are lazily copying?
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  7221.  @OH_MY_DOGGG  Great song! Thanks for reminding me. edit: I meant the song "Who are You" by The Who. - Or did you mean who am I? I am a human with as much value in this venue as you have. I am a sentient being with decades of experience at not quite dying. I am a person who alternates my discourse between several modes of communication, though always in English, since I SUCK at learning other languages.
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  7222. I have no pity for the older lawyer facing time that would essentially equate to life in jail. I keep coming back to the words in the theme song for that old show "Beretta" which include "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, baby."
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  7223. And that motorcyclist's air-bag vest that has a monthly subscription. Serious WTF land we're exploring as a society.
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  7224. Yet another story that would not surprise (or upset) me if the perpetrators "accidentally" ended up in a shallow grave in the woods. - The standard MUST become: "No charge, no seizure."
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  7225.  @Real_MisterSir  I worked in a company's RMA department. We figured out the failure, and either fixed the board to original status or discarded it. The end user got replacements that worked exactly the same, with exactly the same pin-outs. EVGA's methods are not RMA, they are replacement with a different product.
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  7226. Kinetically, the train wins the immediate meeting. Afterwards, if the train derails, potentially many people lose.
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  7227. And then the people who drove the stores out claim it is because of racism...
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  7228. It's that broken clock being right twice a day effect.
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  7229.  @Darrylizer1  While internet meetings are used in business and court proceedings right now, I think it is fair to say that some nuances are lost when people are not in the same physical space. Court hearings in particular present challenges when people are remote. As to business, I know I find it easier to move between collaborative groups on different aspects of a job when I don't have to interrupt my workflow and the workflow of others to get brought into a digital meeting, and then try to get caught up on things I could have overheard if I was simply nearby in the same physical room.
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  7230.  @spankynater4242  Thanks, and back at you.
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  7231. Right to Repair! And Schematics or death!
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  7232. Someone who cares about that property needs to get those trees cut that are near the front, and clear the back as well. Way beyond what Spencer volunteered for, but something that will break the house if left too long.
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  7233.  @HomeDefender30  (Checking statute of limitations...) Heck yeah! That jerk deserved it.
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  7234.  @cewla3348  Yep.
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  7235. The opening has some "happy little tree" energy.
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  7236. "Sir, you're driving awfully black up in here, I'm gonna need to shout at you."
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  7237.  @SydneyWatson  It's a shame that one has to spend so damn much to prove that they shouldn't need to be in court in the first place.
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  7238. If this school has so much draw with their sports, they should build a parking garage. I'm sure they could have gotten plenty of donations from parents projecting their dead dreams on their kids to put up a nice one.
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  7239. Always has been. (/bang!)
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  7240.  @the_kombinator  The only reason I could see a child seat expire is because they are plastic, and extended UV exposure weaken plastic and makes it brittle. Other than that, it's just as likely to be bullshit to sell more new child seats. edit: Like that motorcycle airbag vest that has a subscription model that, if you choose that payment method, will disable the airbags should you fail to keep up on payments.
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  7241. ... for now.
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  7242. Bullying in schools has always been a problem. It got WORSE under "zero tolerance" policies. It continues to get worse in school policies that are based only on avoiding legal and financial liability. I have seen "anti-bullying" policies including items telling victims to "stay away from bullies" and "avoid inciting bullying events". Like any of that would matter. The ONLY effective anti-bullying I ever experienced/used was being the person too crazy to bother with. Get hit? Laugh manically. Get something thrown at me? Pick it up and hit myself with it a few times, again laughing manically. Get injured to the point of bleeding? Use the blood to draw on my face and giggle. - And I did these things because I knew that actually killing the bully would get me severe legal penalties.
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  7243. The documentary tells how people at the time didn't know Rick is white. I'm just now finding out he is British.
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  7244. Buying brand new doesn't save you from repairs. It means you pay for the biggest devaluation period, and you get to own a car as the maker finds recall issues. I buy 2-5 years old, after the recalls are mostly done, and the systemic or design issues have already come to light. And the first owner has paid the big penalty of losing about half of the car's value versus new.
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  7245. Another black mark against states that don't have annual vehicle inspections.
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  7246. I am amused and flinching at the description "maintenance window". My ex-wife made one in the block of a Saturn SL back in around 2002. Apparently, even though I told her otherwise, the oil light coming on meant it was time to schedule an oil change... in a month or two. One of many reasons she has the ex- title.
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  7247.  @silaskuemmerle2505  Not only that, they'll bring a well-trained dog to "alert" on command to justify tearing your car apart. And they'll take whatever they want at that point.
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  7248. I was taught way back in the days before I reach four feet tall to assume that every power line, even with only one end attached to a pole, was live and could kill you. I have not died yet from following that lesson.
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  7249. If your job makes you THAT afraid, you need a different job. Maybe something involving the phrase, "Would you like fries with that?"
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  7250. When I worked retail that sold lottery, employees were specifically banned from buying lottery products during their own shift. If I wanted to buy a lottery ticket, I would have to wait until my shift was over and then have someone else sell it to me. It was a first-offence firing violation, and may be a state regulation (not sure on that).
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  7251. The one and only time I tried to cross deep water at speed, I thermally cracked my distributer cap (1981 Escort) and barely coasted back to solid road. At least I didn't hydro-lock it.
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  7252.  @IR-nq4qv  Just like tire tread wear. 2/32" is meaningless to most people, but the penny test makes intuitive test. Penny test you ask? Put a penny in the tread, with the top of Lincoln's head pointing at the tire. If the top of his head is exposed, the tire is worn beyond the 2/32" and in need of replacement. - Side note, for commercial vehicles, the minimum tread depth, IIRC, is 4/32"
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  7253. "Fragile" sticker next to a hand-written, "This may or may not include things which will be bad when released from the containers inside."
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  7254. We had an avocado green refrigerator, that came with the house we moved into, for over 20-25 years. It was only replaced when our appliance repair person could no longer source parts because "it was older than his father".
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  7255. NYC should be looking ahead to how the lower-traffic city will function instead of whining like they are now. There will have to be better management of less money. Maybe fewer cops and government employees? Some restaurants and stores will go out of business as the demand for their services are reduced. Eventually, building owners will end up defaulting or selling at a loss to get out from under. Maybe after the real estate market deflates, rents (retail and residential) will be forced to come down as well. (yeah right!)
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  7256.  @7779-c3m  I'm pretty sure most people who use the word communist in a derogatory manner don't know what communism actually is.
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  7257. Oh, he wasn't arrested, so all of the battery was fine, right?
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  7258.  @finkelmana  And this is caused by the airlines competing for the bottom ticket price.
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  7259. I noticed that on the dash the engine temp gauge had not moved from cold. IF I saw that right, it may be related to why the fans don't come on?
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  7260. The stars are very shy.
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  7261. #6. Fix post-service care, both physical and mental. Veterans are being discarded, and more and more potential recruits are seeing the result in their news and social media feeds. Who the heck would want a job where, after they break your mind and body, they treat you like a burden and you end up homeless?
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  7262. Good. Let the hate flow! Something, something dark side...
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  7263. That one cracked me up.
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  7264. The Mister Clinton faction would like a word with you behind that woodshed...
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  7265. No. They serve double, because they are in a position of public trust, and swear to uphold the law. Additionally, to even HAVE the job, they are supposed to know the law better than the rest of us have to. So double time, double fines.
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  7266. I have to constantly remind myself of that when making tabletop gaming terrain. Nobody sees the nail heads in the planking of a wooden bridge. They just notice if the wood doesn't look normally weathered.
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  7267. The title brought me back in time to the land of "Your mama" jokes...
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  7268. Checking the battery connections first is the automotive version of computer tech support's "Is it plugged in?"
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  7269. I have never driven in NYC on surface streets, but I did once in Boston, and NEVER AGAIN! I will take a subway, train, bus cab or walk before I do that again.
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  7270. At 6'3" I was at a rental counter and the person asked if I wanted to wait twenty minutes for the car the company I was working for had reserved, or I could get a sub-compact right then. I just stared back and pointed at myself. . . . "Oh."
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  7271.  @forgetfulme1719  Brake clean is VOCs that evaporate. Particulate matter can build up in those damp bags we call lungs. Then comes scarring, reduction in lung capacity, and the possibility of other interesting maladies.
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  7272.  @nicholasrova3698  Well, since voters in many states voted in progressive/leftist ballot questions while those states STILL went red on the Presidential question... Many of your doubts are unfounded. - Then there was Florida where the vote to enshrine better reproductive health care access got 57% of the vote... but failed because they foolishly voted to change the requirement for that kind of ballot question to 60% instead of a simple majority. And that rule change passed with 57% of the vote. - Yep, a slight majority of Florida voters voted to reduce their ability to make the government do the will of the people. Geniuses.
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  7273.  @rsimpson69  As I am not a corporation, nor do I make indecent amounts of money running one, I am not "for" planned obsolescence.
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  7274. I saw the Robot Chicken skit about killing a werewolf. TC Sam is confirmed.
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  7275. Mighty Enron of them. - And a tainted product shipped from China again? How unsurprising.
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  7276. Shipping materials to a factory, parts to another factory, and the end product to the point of sale, then to the site of use... This is another major source of environmental impact.
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  7277. A friend of mine asked his wide-to-be if she wanted a diamond ring or a two-week Caribbean cruise. She chose the cruise. All in all, a wise choice, because they hit the statistic and divorced after a few years. But they both retain the memories of the fun they had on the cruise.
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  7278. The farmer I imagined is a farmer I knew. She was an older, hard working, leather-skinned woman who was scary looking, and the nicest person in our town. She worked hard, sold at decent prices, and gave food to people in need, often delivering it in her own pickup.
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  7279.  @TR-zx1lc  Maybe the person is there waiting for a drug deal! Maybe they are transporting guilty cash!
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  7280.  @jfbeam  Common sense and the law are a Venn diagram with a reduction in overlap as time goes on.
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  7281.  @johnchestnut5340  Yes and no. Logically yes. In that situation, him being him, and the cop being who that cop was? Not bloody likely.
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  7282. Snake oil is shorthand for the patent medicine scams of the past before there was better (and sometimes even good!) regulation of medications and their ingredients. - For a modern-day equivalent, see the online supplements and homeopathy products.
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  7283.  @SBBurzmali  To get the benefit of the geometry, a fin stabilized, pointed, discarding sabot round would be a good try. Not sure how the sabot would work though, given the way the magazine loads. Maybe something that comes apart with sufficient air resistance> I am not a ballistics designer, sorry.
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  7284. Or completely reformed. If there was a random assignment of arbitration companies and arbiters from a large pool of all of a state's agencies, a lot of problems with arbitration could be corrected. Then you would not have your case being ruled on by someone who is essentially an employee of the corporate side.
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  7285. In this case, I kind of get it. To calibrate, he needed to be able to have the tailgate move to the full open and closed-latched positions, which need both gas struts installed to handle the weight of the gate. edit: and the weather stripping fully installed as well.
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  7286.  @Michael-yi4mc  Definitely prog-rock.
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  7287.  @IR-nq4qv  I missed the transmission of that live show! But I guess those are the brakes.
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  7288. MTG's "Trump landslide" sounds like #45's fitness regimen.
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  7289. Ah yes. "Accidentally maliciously"
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  7290. I disagree with your first point. The exaggerations will act as a disincentive to many people, driving them to either pay someone else to do the repairs, or just go full Apple and buy new, throwing the old in a landfill.
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  7291. Does the BnB part of the name mean "Berate and aBuse"?
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  7292.  @AuroraColoradoUSA  Part of your comment, "In the not too distant future" is the first line of the theme song from Mystery Science Theater 3000
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  7293.  @robertsmith2956  If you get a recall notice that does not specify which car, it's fair odds that is a scammer. - The post card version of "We're calling about your car's extended warranty."
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  7294. The fact that these companies CAUSE limited availability of services and yet new providers cannot get a "Certificate of Need" PROVES that this is state-sponsored protectionism at the behest of big business.
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  7295. In addition I'm not casting my vote for Ray for the office of Galactic President! No! Second! Term!
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  7296.  @mohammedcohen  I love to make them from time to time myself, when local tomatoes are available.
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  7297.  @mattstorm360  Even if you DO get to read all of the rules before buying, those rules can (and usually do) change at the whim of the board.
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  7298.  @polygon-viewer  With an average banana length of 19 centimeters, a kilometer is about 5,263 bananas long.
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  7299.  @paulcollyer801  I don't doubt anything you've said, or my ability to follow such clear directions. I just get phobic about some things. Natural gas, wall voltage, slugs, and leeches. And heights. Though I could gleefully apply wall voltage to slugs and leeches...
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  7300.  @paulcollyer801  I would not go so far as to buy a new one, but I would be willing to pay $40-50 for someone who is skilled (and lacks my phobia) to do it. I'd probably make them lunch too, if they accepted it. The most important part of the whole discussion is the CHOICE to repair on our own, or choose to pay someone who need not be an employee or agent of the manufacturer to do the repair. That is fortunately the norm with automobiles, but (at least in the US) we have fallen asleep at the switch and allowed lobbyists to erode our ability to repair. (at least when it comes to getting parts and schematics)
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  7301.  ckp37  I prefer my Spam in a can.
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  7302. The CC companies don't want small businesses charging customers for charge-backs or for the increasing fees for purchases... because that money is not funneling into the CC company.
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  7303.  @jgclark45  Don't worry, the union's got his back. Blue line gang representing!
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  7304. New from P&G! "Cold Day in Hell" thermal underwear!
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  7305.  @blue39503  Because the beauty of the neighborhood is like that of a museum. To be seen and complimented, but NEVER touched and used. Sterile, dead subsets of humanity.
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  7306.  @VideoArchiveGuy  What kind of trailer? Does the trailer have a boat on it? Is it a work trailer used every business day? is it a funnel cake trailer for fairs and carnivals? - How broken down is the car? two days with a flat tire? - maybe get to know your neighbor as an actual person and ask if they need help changing a tire. Seven months with a smashed in front end from an accident? talk to the neighbor like a human and ask if could either move it or have it taken away if it bothers you that much. - Nah. Abrogate all responsibility for actually talking to your neighbors to an organization that takes money from you so they can have the power to take more money from you when you grass is half an inch too tall or your curtains "clash" with the neighborhood aesthetic, or the home health care person you have helping you recover from a shattered leg has the utter gall to park on the street like a hooligan! (GASP!)
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  7307.  @stellerate  The way to fix things is to get involved. Start local, with your local school committee(s), town governments, state-level representatives. Work with others who are similarly concerned, come up with clear proposals and solutions, and be willing to break down walls over time. - Also, if you parent kids, teach them, or at least point them at divergent sources of information, outside of school.
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  7308. Oh, come on. It's not fraud, it's normal greedy, abusive, and exploitative business practice, as approved by the best politicians money could buy!
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  7309.  @ll7868  In a town near where I grew up, the church there turned their field (often used as a playground or soccer field for kids) into a free-to-use ice-skating/hockey rink. Before the first freeze, the put up a wood perimeter made out of painted lumber, and once there was solid freezing, they would run cold water into the rink in layers to make a thick slab of ice. I have since moved, so I don't know if they still do that.
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  7310. It's not often that the History Guy covers currant events!
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  7311. Hey Mitch, it is not that "Only Democrats" buy stocks, fly and drink Coca Cola. It is about what is right or wrong. And Georgia is WRONG.
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  7312. If you use either metallized tape or house wrap tape you should be fine. Both are vapor impermeable and long lasting.
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  7313.  @cgi2002  Except that metal is nearly infinitely recyclable, and the oxidation products or steel and aluminum (aluminium) don't poison the environment.
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  7314.  @TodaysDante  Bananas are quite a healthy snack. High in potassium as well a vitamin B6, C and magnesium. They are a good source of dietary fiber while containing little sugar, fat, sodium or carbohydrates. So, I appreciate your concern for my proper nutrition!
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  7315. John Oliver did a segment on paid news perhaps a year ago. It's on YouTube.
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  7316.  @wgenerotzky  Hey, gang "protection" ain't free.
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  7317.  @matraz10  DA looks around the courthouse's lawyers-only break room... "Well I looked for the victims, can't find them, more money for us!"
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  7318.  @joeschmoe3815  I wonder how much software is one jolly roger and one exploited backdoor away from being "open source"?
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  7319. If that system were plugged up, would that be a... DEF jam?
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  7320. I can do very little in my area for the pay, staffing or other employer-related issues. What I can do is what I always do. I don't call EMS for situations where I can safely drive myself or get a ride. If I do have to use EMS, I am polite and thankful. And I never say the "Q" word!
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  7321. I have watched a bunch of brake check compilation videos. I remember one where the trucker was hauling heavy (but legal for that state) so when a car did their swoop-n-squat, the truck could not even try to stop in any short distance. Instead turning the car sideways and grinding the tires off before everything came to a stop. - Another fun one was in Russia, I think, where a truck driver with a load frequently targeted for theft when trucks stopped to deal with insurance matters was brake-checked. Well, his company's policy was "Don't stop, we'll pay any fines and hire any lawyers you need" and the truck shoved the brake-check vehicle along several hundred feet of guardrail, then off the highway and into a deep median ravine.
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  7322. Another matter: household appliances used to come with a copy of the wiring and piping schematics inside the back cover. Either you or ANY repair person could use that to diagnose and fix problems. The parts were available from the manufacturer for a number of years, and from other makers after that. - Now, no schematics, no parts (unless you have a sacrificial copy of the machine on hand)... It's not about building and selling quality anymore. It's about selling as many appliances as possible per year.
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  7323.  @antoniusdaivap7759  TANSTAAFL *There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch - Robert A. Heinlein "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
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  7324. When I went to college, I was working 40+ hours on overnights, was in the National Guard (taking up one weekend a month) and taking 15-21 credit-hours per semester. - Once, I fell asleep in my favorite class, Physics. The professor called my name loudly, and asked if she was keeping me awake,. I answered honestly, "No, but it's not your fault." and I went and stood at the back of the room to stay awake. I explained to the professor after class, which was helped by the fact I was pulling A's and A+'s in all of my classes (except Spanish. I stink at learning foreign languages)
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  7325. Get a fire-protected document safe and store that thing in it. You just KNOW there will be a day when having that document on hand will save you huge trouble.
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  7326.  @sabinrawr  A point about local statutes. They cannot remove protections under law that exist at higher levels of government. Even though anti-panhandling 'ordinances' are ardently enforced in opposition to the Supreme Court decision equating a "charitable appeal for donations" to be a form of free speech, and thus protected under the 1st amendment.
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  7327. THe answer might be both.
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  7328.  @vimtheprotogen2855  (/bow)
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  7329. I agree, actually. Why? Because an executive order can be undone by a later President who is paid by the side the E.O. hurts. A law takes hundreds of people in congress (Or a successful Supreme Court challenge) to agree to undo it.
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  7330.  @UCKY5  Damages to education requiring paid tutors and/or transportation to an alternate school (plus any book, supply or uniform costs if applicable), punitive damages due to harm of reputation. Those are just the easy ones.
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  7331.  @studmeister1977  A very sensuous job. "Sensuous in there, you might as well ALSO fix..."
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  7332.  @jays106  I have been watching Ray for years. I have seen him replace a few of those parts on Pentastar engines, as well as replacing other plastic cooling system junctions with Dorman metal parts after the plastic ones age out and create a "mostly dead" car.
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  7333. Coal mining. edit: Ooh. Let me clarify. Coal miners get dirty with black dust from the coal. I was not saying that coal mining is a job for black people. As we all know by now, apparently coal mining is what the children yearn for!
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  7334. Your points about Scott Adams having good advice for you even though he has views some may disagree with is like saying the Thriller album sucks now that we know M.J. OD'ed to death.
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  7335. Meanwhile, some large cities in the US have sprawling neighborhoods on alluvial flood plains, then wonder what happened when all of those homes get flooded.
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  7336. This is really turning into a race to which side will first issue orders to fix bayonets and yell "bang" a lot.
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  7337.  @chris.3711  Mine honks the horn for a very short note. 2011 Focus.
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  7338.  @NomNomNom1989  And what exactly was wrong with buttons, levers and knobs for the radio and climate control? You know, the stuff you could learn to use without taking your eyes off the road?
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  7339. We need to tell these "White Replacement Theory" nuts that providing legal and subsidized (or free!) birth control and abortion services to ONLY non-whites will help their cause. . Heh, then once they pass the law, it will be challenged on racist grounds, opening up access to all people!
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  7340.  @DaisyMae439  Yeah, fired out of a cannon into a brick wall.
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  7341. For them to be ashamed, they'd have to have that human emotional capacity.
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  7342. I know two people who work at the patent office. One of the top ways people there supplement their income is to watch and swoop on expiring patents. Some there have portfolios of widely varied patents that earn them between pennies and tens of thousands per year.
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  7343. I have watched so many videos that when I hear the 2 long, 1 short (edit: is that the right combo?) of a train making a grade crossing, I find myself wondering if I've caught the most recent repair/shop tour/lot cleanup.
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  7344.  @Blanchy10  I laughed at your accidental misspelling. Anyhow, have yourself a nice day!
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  7345. Next step: "Sniffles" detainment, er, re-healthification camps! - Parenting licenses are an idea that needs more study. - A thought occurred to me. Houses with central air heating and cooling are not set up to disease isolate at all. Even houses without forced air climate systems are almost never built to be able to properly set up negative pressure isolation of potential "sniffles" cases, so the whole idea is a non-starter.
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  7346. The rocks NASA has custody of does not include the rock samples given to the leaders of (most? all?) countries and the individual States of the country. So you could have seen one of the State-gift rocks.
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  7347. A road can be designed in such a way to slow drivers down without having to use speed cameras. Road Guy Rob has a few videos on how to do this, as does the guy at Not Just Bikes. But that kind of thing doesn't result in ticket income.
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  7348.  @jeremycummings6702  Yeah, but I was having fun.
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  7349. It's actually pretty easy to find qualified nurses. What is difficult is getting them to work for crappy pay with crushing workloads and abusive bosses. But that's true in most occupations.
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  7350. From all I have heard about family court, anyone sane would want to avoid being there.
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  7351. The more I hear, the thinner that thin veneer of civilized behavior I wear gets.
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  7352. Don't forget to charge him a gate processing fee!
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  7353. At least Louis has a live audience. Hard to get in these times of virus.
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  7354.  @SAFbikes  Not egg drop soup, egg drop. You know, that science experiment that had you do in school... oh, sorry for the assumption that you were there or paid attention if you were. - Science bad! Vaccine kill! Math for nerds!
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  7355. I would mark the windshield as a higher priority, were I the vehicle's owner.
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  7356. The people of the state need to remember this case for when that judge gets old and/or infirm and treat her AT LEAST as bad as she treated this man.
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  7357.  @lisamay5649  Pre-trial detention in a government run/contracted facility is the proper response.
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  7358. Since I read the news article about this, I've been eagerly awaiting Louis' take on the story.
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  7359. I saw that one earlier today also.
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  7360. The first thing I do when I get a phone is to figure out which apps to uninstall, and then turn off all the permissions for everything. Then I will, as situations require, turn permissions back one. Sometimes only for that one moment in time.
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  7361. At least there were no victims, right? RIGHT, JUDGE?!
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  7362.  @geofftimm2291  Lake maintenance is a violation of the natural order. Lakes are supposed to, over long periods of time, silt into swamps/marshes, then possibly grasslands. It's called eutrophication.
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  7363.  @kevinw7319  Also? Code is the MINIMUM a house should be built to.
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  7364. When I was young, maybe 7 (?) I was boogie boarding off the coast of Maine on a family vacation when I was pulled under and "spin cycled" a couple of times by the interplay of waves. It was terrifying, because I had no way to detect up. And that was maybe 5-10 seconds. I don't want to imagine being caught long-term in that sort of turbulent flow.
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  7365. Yep, don't get mad. Get the remote.
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  7366. Once that wing divorced itself from the concept of F-15, the thrust to weight ratio improved a bit too.
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  7367.  @J80teyro  So two out of seven cars were not registered and plated? Yeah, someone wants his classic cars, and/or his property.
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  7368. I have one/ Chromed metal, full wood stock. I bought it from a guy who used to use it for non-scoped competitions. - I love how it works and fires, and it is easy to operate and clean.
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  7369. I'm one of those "bleeping annoying" drivers who stops at the stop line (or stop sign, whichever is first), then creeps up to stop where I can actually see if it safe to go. I will not lie and say I never miss the stop line, and never do a "rolling stop". I don't think anyone can legitimately say "never" if they've been driving for more than a few months. I can say that I have never gotten a ticket for failure to stop. (Even though there are a couple of notable times I should have!)
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  7370. I don't know if it as much an issue for petroleum-fueled furnaces, but for cars, "short cycling" can result in build up of carbon and increase wear in parts that have had most of their lubrication drain away between uses. It also really shortens the life of steel parts of the exhaust system, with the pipes not getting hot enough to fully dry out.
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  7371.  @scottmcshannon6821  Many or even most parking restrictions, particularly nebulously monitored time limits, are more about revenue than convenience. Municipalities ACTUALLY concerned about people parking too long or there not being enough parking would spend the money to either install parking meters, or erect (or incentivize others to erect) parking garages.
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  7372.  @ElvishPrinceling  Then you could be a country! Because you can't be a country if you don't have a flag. - The Izzard theorem
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  7373.  @robertknight4672  I'm in Mass too, and we used to shop at a place in Shrewsbury that ONLY accepted cash. Good old "No bags at Spags"!
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  7374.  @adotintheshark4848  Sight unseen, interior unsniffed! Online pictures don't show the stench of tobacco (or other) smoke, or under-carpet mold, or the milk the toddler spilled under the rear seat two hot summer months ago, or...
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  7375. If the cash is below a certain threshold, then it deserves a public defender!
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  7376. Clean car, too!
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  7377. No labels is a violation of FTC rules for clothing.
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  7378. Yeah, that letter broke postal procedures and federal laws. F small towns.
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  7379.  @EXROBOWIDOW  Correcting small addressing errors before delivery is on the opposite end of the spectrum from what happened with Steve's letter.
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  7380.  @92mrsrdb  The last one I got I asked, "Does your mother know what you do for work? Are you being held against your will?" then I hung up.
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  7381.  @amicaaranearum  Becaause it is easy, not because it is a meaningful measure of your overall fiscal discipline.
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  7382. Hydrate before you die-drate!
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  7383. Yeah, the IRPP from Apple is not all it's touted to be. The parts you can get are limited in scope, and many you can't have an "on hand" stock of, adding days to weeks to a customer's repair. Louis Rossmann has a good bunch of videos on right to repair, and Apple IRPP in particular. - My state is currently voting on the ability to have our non-manufacturer mechanics be granted access to the mechanical and electrical diagnostic programs in newer cars, while the car makers are funding scary negative ads claiming letting it pass will get people breaking into your home or taking over your car, and raping and/or murdering you when you are most vulnerable - because of the sensitive data in the cars' computers. Why is that data even there?
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  7384. God Bless the Homeless Veterans?
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  7385. @@jonnycroxville4590 Where is that? The grocery store deli aisle? Europe?
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  7386. It doesn't help that so many mechanics either have "game the Yellow Pages" names like AAAA Absolute Best Repairs, or something disingenuous like "Honest Al's Garage. Every good mechanic I have had has been word-of-mouth "advertising". "Hey [neighbor], where do you get your car repaired, and are you satisfied with them?" edit: Another good advertising method is to post some business cards at local diners and coffee shops that have a bulletin board for that purpose. Costs pennies, so even if you only get one referral, it's a steal.
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  7387. How much you want to bet the guy "fit a description?" After all, it started because "They got a call."
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  7388. Regarding that interview with the fat Republican dude, he seems to forget that one of the leading oppressors of women in HIS party is unmarried and childless as well. Yep, Lindsey Graham.
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  7389. Respect my authoritai!
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  7390. Hmm. Always have a bag of dog biscuits in your car. Open it and spill some crumbs on the floor when you get pulled over. "The dog has indicated..." - "The tasty biscuits in that bag right there?"
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  7391.  @ralfie8801  If a class action suit was ONLY for injunctive relief (changing things instead of seeking money), it would be a useful tool.
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  7392. I'm sorry, our amazing miraculous lifesaving machine is down. Would you like fries with that?
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  7393. Points for the "They Live" reference!
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  7394. When is the last time a stack of cash robbed a gas station? Or a work truck drove itself to participate in a criminal enterprise?
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  7395. Ha! If you are a cop, "ignorance of the law" becomes a positive job skill.
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  7396. My worry when I find a great and honest mechanic is if they are older than I am. That means I absolutely will have to find another great and honest mechanic again...
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  7397. I somehow imagined the captain of the Samuel B Roberts pulling a Taggart, draining a can of Coke, and telling the weapons officer to throw that at the Japanese too.
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  7398. Almost like Magnussen-Moss still has teeth. Huh.
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  7399. It's getting to the point where it would be reasonable for a flipping co-conspirator to request, and receive, the services of The United States Federal Witness Protection Program (a.k.a. WITSEC).
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  7400. She is working SO hard to not answer Jon's questions, trying to flip the interview on him, not being aware that Jon is NOT an idiot.
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  7401. Looks like somebody is not getting a seat at the family Thanksgiving table. . . . Because they're going with ham this year, instead of slimy lying turkey.
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  7402. I have only been asked for the receipt when I had un-bagged items in my cart (edit: particularly if it is on that wire shelf under the body of the cart). I feel it is reasonable. They are checking both to see that I actually bought the item, and that the employee at the check-out did not miss the item(s).
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  7403.  @scotthix2926  1) ... in a vacuum. 2) the thrust available to the command module remains constant even as the mass comes down with the loss of the LEM and the expenditure of fuel. It is to this I was referring.
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  7404. This is effectively the same as if the guy found a sack of money and paid off the car. The problem here is the same thing that is plaguing more and more business and government systems. To get rid of payroll costs, processes are handed over to computer programs and the few humans left in the decision loops are trained/required to trust the program over their own senses.
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  7405.  @Feefa99  Yeah, GPS is still functioning... for now.
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  7406. I keep reading so many comments about AC service shops not replacing the valves, but when you get a tire replaced, the tire shops almost always replace the valves if they look even a little worn/corroded. AC shops need to catch up. They could even hype the valve change and get an extra $10-20 for the service while spending the pennies on the parts and a couple dollars of tech time.
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  7407. IN the first few moments, I thought I was watching a Chicanic video. She fixes small engines, particularly two-stroke yard tools.
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  7408.  @ericemmons3040  ... people shouting HOWDY NEIGHBOR!
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  7409.  @K7DFA  Probably not profitable enough. More money per hour in moving violations.
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  7410.  @chiensyang  Or that cop named Rob Banks?
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  7411.  @ChaseLogeman  8-tracks were great! No flipping the tape!
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  7412. That story from the concrete person you know has a very "Twenty-seven 8 x 10 colored glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explainin' what each one was, to be used as evidence against us." vibe.
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  7413.  @maartentoors  When necessary, you can create a slower person with a solid kick to the side of a knee.
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  7414. This video is the equivalent of facing someone who says, "If you don't do X, I'll tell the rest of the class you put your shirt on backwards this morning!" to which you shout to the class, "I put my shirt on backwards this morning, and I forgot to put on socks!" then turn to the jerk and say, "Now what?"
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  7415.  @desotosky1372  Regular maintenance and checking for problems before they out-decibel your radio are also keys to keeping a vehicle long-term.
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  7416. And it's a neutral power. Neither dark nor light.
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  7417. So it seems you passed the ASE. How about the "Use paragraphs" course?
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  7418. Give up the toad now! (doo, doo, doo)
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  7419.  @zippythinginvention  Hmm... The issue for that orientation might be gravity. Specifically, the gravity pulling the weight of the flywheel onto the bearings unevenly. I'm just doing mental exercises on this, no actual formulas or looking up the science.
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  7420.  @ashleyhall1185  Oh, I'd visit there... armed and willing to go to jail to at least make a tiny dent in the problem.
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  7421. I had a bass amp in 1985 with all the knobs going to 11. I wish I remembered the brand.
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  7422. I remember the first time I saw a car being sold without a spare tire. I was flabbergasted, and told the friend buying the car that their next stop should be to buy a spare rim and tire and jack. No matter how much of their trunk space they lost doing so.
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  7423.  @gluberfandenflaskersoff7964  Far too often, it's not justice, it's "just us" from the POV of the police, prosecutors and courts.
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  7424.  @create_it_better  Agreed.
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  7425. Some states are harsher on BB guns that actual firearms. Massachusetts USED to have the age to own a firearm at 18, a BB gun at 21. It has since been modified and they are now both 18.
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  7426. I agree. A thin rubber/neoprene/silicone "washer" would do wonders.
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  7427. @Jim Allen Ah! Another reason a towel is the most important thing a hitchhiker can carry.
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  7428. Wait. They took his crossbow and vehicle AFTER a successful conviction? They didn't just take the property and hand it to the DEA or ATF? Don't they even KNOW about civil asset forfeiture?
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  7429. The substances I cut from time to time that dulls scissors and knives the fastest for me is cushion and pipe insulation foam. Open-cell, closed-cell, either way, two or three long cuts and it's back for a quick sharpening retouch.
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  7430. Thanks for sharing that city-managed greenspace! When are they driving the bulldozers over it to combat rats?
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  7431. Yep, even Nyawkuhs need to heat.
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  7432. Well, here in the US, you can be fired just (be)cause. That's it. That's the whole basis behind 'at-will' employment. Sadly for some companies, the law has carved out a few exceptions over handicap, race, gender, religion, and so on. - edit: Having finished the video, I also see Louis' points as valid.
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  7433.  @GTAVictor9128  It makes more sense than what we got, honestly. Though there would have to be SOME agency (robots, race of techno space wizards, etc.) rebuilding the mass relays after the Reapers blow them apart every cycle.
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  7434.  @DarthBiomech  Yeah, but if the goal of the Reapers was to prevent the use of Eezo to stop the proliferation of dark energy, destroying the relays would be a better plan.
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  7435.  @koneko_wings  Valid point! Kind of like cops have those occasional access paths across highway medians to allow them to change direction or sit and snag speeders, but if we use them, we get pulled over.
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  7436.  @Snargfargle  Nice to see SOMEONE got flywheel/torque converter properly described. Yes, an inspection panel or starter motor shield that was not reinstalled, or came loose, could allow debris into that gear, locking up the ability to start the engine.
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  7437.  @TheLoiteringKid  You (plural) made the smarter choice. Could such a situation be on the up-and-up? Maybe, but then it may also rain tax-free $50 bills in your back yard.
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  7438. Wow. The pictures of that subway station... The subway stations in Fallout 3 and 4 look cleaner and more sanitary! And sometimes in better condition.
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  7439.  @ninnolose7298  I love the front rooms at Cracker Barrel. I can easily spend more there than I do on food further inside.
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  7440.  @Trainwheel_Time  Some things nobody needs: built-in GPS mapping software, touch screen console controls, refrigerated/heated cup holders...
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  7441. That, and Russia is trying out the "he fell" claim for why the drone went into the water. That and a dollar will get you a bad cup of coffee some places.
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  7442.  @HugoBandi  I know, right? All of these abortions annually, and we still get so many stupid people... Maybe we need to invent a genetic intelligence test to administer in the first trimester?
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  7443. I have never worked on an AC system, but I have seen tire valves fail from corrosion when people didn't replace the weather caps.
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  7444. Yeah, just turn off that mental illness like a light switch. Just turn off the alcoholism/drug dependency like a light switch. Thanks for letting us all know it is THAT easy to not be ill.
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  7445. Slaves, in a regulated slavery system, would at least get food, housing, and a modicum of health care. They would not build any wealth, but they also would not be getting poorer from the expenses of getting to work. Dang. This sounded very pro-slavery of me. Sorry.
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  7446. Good detective work! Finding that break in what amounts to a ship-in-a-bottle engine compartment, bravo. edit: Now I am wondering if that car even needed a new radiator, yeah?
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  7447.  @jseal21  I'm truly engrossed in this discussion!
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  7448. Wait, a game company said they won't run Pride events in countries with anti-LGBTQ+ laws? Well, no Pride event in the US, since state-by-state blocking is expensive.
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  7449. @tradde11 It's all about streamlining the robotic assembly line process.
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  7450.  @HawksDiesel  Huh. At first I thought you were going to go political with your comment.
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  7451.  @alvinhyman6838  It was real fun cleaning a skid steer a person rented to mix soil and manure, after they tipped a full bucket of wet cow manure the wrong way and filled the operator's cab to just over the level of the seat.
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  7452.  @jerrynewberry433  Or read the manual, or learn from someone who knows how already. Applies to pretty much anything you don't yet know how to do.
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  7453. Yeah, the whole situation would get the "NOPE!" from me.
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  7454.  @joelnotsure2871  That's funny! I've seen something about people who will turn a pet's hair/fur into yarn for pet owners.
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  7455.  @marcogenovesi8570  If you are raised right, your chances of being a junkie tend to go way down. I have no statistics on that point, it is more of a hypothesis.
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  7456. My only exposure to Twitter is when news outlets and corporation think what a few people post on that dumpster matters. Whether it's three Twits. Twoots? Tweetles? that are supposed to show that "everyone" is outraged about something, or a corporation reads a half dozen tweets and let the heckler's veto rule their corporate moves instead of actual market research, rational thought, or statistically weighted polls.
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  7457.  @arbiter1  And you should clearly state, "I am invoking my right to remain silent." to avoid any possible confusion. Don't talk to cops without a lawyer.
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  7458.  @spankynater4242  Not breaking the law is not a guarantee that you will not be detained, arrested, charged, tried, found guilty, and/or injured/killed at the hands of the police. Anyone not aware of this has been working pretty hard at not paying attention to current events.
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  7459.  @ShawnODoherty  oh. Sorry, stopped watching the Simpsons around the sixth season or so.
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  7460.  @ckm-mkc  I wish I was still healthy enough to use one of those.
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  7461. The corrosion on those braised connections looks like the manufacturer did not adequately clean away the flux. A cleaning with a wet towel and maybe a stiff brush should be sufficient to prevent further corrosion from flux.
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  7462. Dang, John does a good Eddie Vedder. And the Meyers are busting their butts trying to tear down a governmental impediment to their monopoly of weather prediction. For money. And F___ the public.
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  7463.  @sammythompson3694  But you can, you just need to wait until after dark, and have a pair of pliers and/or screwdriver. . OH! You meant a LEGAL license plate!
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  7464. My home uses Windows to gain view of limitless clouds. My version of Windows? Double-pane. The clouds? Atmospheric collections of water vapor.
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  7465. And that one person driving a train while sick can kill a LOT more people with one "oopsie" than that one food service worker.
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  7466.  @TheDevian  So is the solution to give NEITHER the food service employee and the train employee paid sick time, or to give it to BOTH of them? Hint: The answer is both.
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  7467.  @TheDevian  Sorry for typing somewhat combatively. I realize now that we agree. Have a great day (on a day of your choice)!
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  7468. ​ @Dave_Stennett  That alien store is well stocked with 10mm sockets and left socks "eaten" by dryers.
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  7469. Facts? Bah! Who needs facts when juicy 'deets' get more engagement with your "news" broadcast.
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  7470.  @Maybeabandaid9  Oh! Okay.
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  7471. It's like the dockyard was having a sale on sails (a sail sale!), and the captain had money burning a hole in his pocket.
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  7472.  @Anonymous______________  Your situation reinforces part of what I was saying. Apparently, your taxes are NOT being properly spent on what they should be. That, and not the mere existence of taxes, is the issue. - As a parallel, if your employer paid you $1,000 a week to manufacture products for WidgetCorp, but instead you goofed off and surfed the internet, is the problem that the job is paying $1000 a week, or your job performance?
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  7473. How are they expected to know not to park a cruiser on train tracks? Particularly after their employer-mandated lobotomy...
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  7474.  @nebulosquintus1635  Also, Thor, Valkyrie, and all but one of the Guardians of the Galaxy are illegal aliens in any Earth country they visit.
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  7475. Imagine buying a car and being blocked by software and console screen warnings from opening the hood? Imagine no longer! The Mercedes EQ is there for all of your anti-owner needs! Heck, they even got rid of any gas strut or prop rod to help keep you out of your own car! - "Only the specialist personnel of a qualified specialist workshop should open the hood. Access by the customer is not permitted. To open the hood, contact a qualified specialist workshop." - from the actual center console screen
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  7476. If they're selling off their space systems, I have $20 on hand. I'll even donate the change to the Red Cross.
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  7477. Last year and this year (so far) I have sent emails to my state and federal elected officials making my opinion on this robbery, er, seizure policy, known. Based on the responses I have gotten, all of them agree with me. My next set of letters will be requesting they submit or sponsor actual bills to end the practice.
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  7478.  @dbadaddy7386  You nearly owed me a keyboard, that was hilarious!
    2
  7479. At least Starliner was not playing a recording of screaming and the mission commander saying something in Latin, right? RIGHT???
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  7480. Just how "drug recognition expert" cops always seem to find drivers who are under the influence of drugs, blood test results be damned.
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  7481.  @LuckyCharms777  Cool information! Thank you.
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  7482. I pretty much see YouTube ads and sponsorships like face tattoos. They let me know who NOT to associated or spend money with.
    2
  7483. Or push people to use the IRL social media service. You know, TALKING to people?
    2
  7484. Let me use the knob to turn down my radio, hand-crank my window down, and we can chat about this.
    2
  7485. Making the gasket and the windage tray one piece is a particularly greedy decision. More than double the price versus just a rubber coated metal pan gasket. edit: Oh! And it was trapped in place by the pickup tube. Evil Genius.
    2
  7486.  @Relkond  It depends on the fart, as well as whether windows are open or not. If you've recently had a corned beef and cabbage meal, or perhaps baked beans and asparagus (look, I like some weird food combos), it could be a WMD situation.
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  7487. Ooh! Someone needs to be the first human to land on Mars, yeah? Who says they have to come back...?
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  7488.  @jaygatz4335  Last month, an alien invasion fleet sent advance scout craft to check the planet. They saw Trump's speeches being broadcast, and the global temperature rising and figured some other aliens got here first. So, we're safe for now.
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  7489. How much "training" does a "lower-level bureaucrat" need in the 4th Amendment? It is not that long or complex. - "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." - That's it, that's the whole "complicated" text. Nothing about "This only applies to the police." or "This doesn't apply in civil cases." Not even a mention of national versus state actors. - Hard to understand? Pasta, please...
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  7490.  @lepotdefleur9906  Your mind went there too?
    2
  7491.  @user-bg3rp2qj5b  My state has a handful of laws about what is and is not a legal use of the term "sale". This includes provisions like how long a sale can be before it must be the new 'standard' price, how long between stretches of "on sale" time (to prevent something being on a one month sale every month), and how long an item's price must have at a specific amount for that price to be considered as the higher price against which the sale is calculated (no marking things up by a two dollars each the same day you then post a "one dollar off" sale) - And to me, the store name Menard's is never not funny. I always imagine someone slowly curling to the ground after getting kicked "there" and whimpering, "Me nards!"
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  7492. Wow, did management handbooks from the ATF sneak over to the IRS offices?
    2
  7493. Just putting in an ask for bumpah stickahs for the fans in eastern Massachusetts.
    2
  7494. Wait, we're supposed to treat Donnie like the Romans treated the mythical Jesus? Quick! To the hardware store! We need some 8x8's, lag bolts, and three of the largest nail spikes they carry. I have a hammer.
    2
  7495. Ma'am, you DID do something to him. You are a non-white woman who "stole" his job of privilege. - He can't handle that, so he is going to use indirect methods to try and make you react badly so he can point at that reaction as justification for his poor hurt feelings.
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  7496. Even as a renter I have replaced loose wall sockets. The price is a LOT cheaper than being burnt out of housing and losing all my belongings.
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  7497.  @CrabmanJenkins  In one case, my landlord didn't care, and reimbursed me for the materials. Much cheaper than sending an electrician. Regarding laws? I only mentioned it because the statute of limitations on that one has well passed. If I was the homeowner, I could do anything from the meter in by myself without requiring a license or a permit. My state is a bit less nanny-ish than others.
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  7498. That case was not over how they could list it for sale, but how it was taxed.
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  7499.  @chriswells2730  Amateurs. You drop the whole drivetrain and the plugs are EASY to reach.
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  7500. I'm starting to get the idea that there MIGHT be a restaurant called Cookout somewhere near Exit 164 where Louis is driving. Not sure why I think that...
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  7501. I miss the PT Cruisers... Not that I would EVER want to work on one myself!
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  7502. I can't give credit to your claim without seeing the emails by President Grant!
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  7503.  @Razmoudah  Ah, you are a firearms expert!
    2
  7504. It is "cheap" probably because: no AC, very narrow because of the load-bearing wall, more basement than upper floor. Heck, the layout of that previous restaurant/pub is all crunched up because of the brick wall - it was two narrow seating areas, shelf-tables against the windows, and the doors out of the kitchen were probably too small to meet code. The kitchen is also cramped as heck. Imagine two or three people in there with all those fryers running and the grill hot. You'd have to step down into the basement to change your mind.
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  7505. "Take it back to the store" costs you time, and costs the store employee time and money from the chargeback.
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  7506. When I was a kid, there were large properties where the RUMOR of rock salt shotguns were enough to keep us off them. But then, I was raised right and never cut across other peoples' property without permission, except in an emergency (medical, fire)
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  7507. I notice they didn't list among "Normal and thus legal" activities: whistling tunelessly while staring at the sky, juggling fruit, or slowly turning in place while whispering a chocolate chip cookie recipe.
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  7508. Oh, "them"? Pfft, like those beasts of labor matter. Pass the caviar.
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  7509.  @Cocora22  I saw a short video of a mechanic replacing a single-use oil pan (WTF!?) on an F150 (IIRC) and showed the rubber belt that lived in the oil bath and ran the oil pump off the main crank shaft.
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  7510. I hope you're not one of those scanner users who "helpfully" erases all the codes for the customers, making mechanic's job harder.
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  7511. Stuff like this makes me glad my state had a unit pricing law. That means there have to be shelf labels for each item that list the price per weight/volume/count so a shopper with even half a brain can compare and contrast, and make the decision as to which brand (or store brand) and package size to purchase without having to bring a calculator along on the shopping trip. This also means it is really easy to see how Dollar stores are overcharging by selling tiny packages for a dollar or so versus the larger package at a WalMart or convenience store or grocery store.
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  7512.  @SubVet1984  Cracked me. Up?
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  7513. (acorn) MAG DUMP!!!!
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  7514.  @sniperfi4532  Well, a taco truck on EVERY corner would be bad. Mix in some trucks for hot dogs, some for fish and chips, some for burgers, some for ice cream, some for soups, some for...
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  7515. Spreading division only aids those at the top. They don't need our help, they already have our money, government and most of the media.
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  7516. And yet those same people don't cover their faces in public.
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  7517. True. Just as Chief Justice Roberts.
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  7518. Maybe we should send Matt Powell and/or the inflatable banana in his backyard, which he named Dr.Peel.
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  7519. I had a friend who lived in an apartment complex near a guy who had SEVEN convictions for DUI (and several other things like operating without a license, without insurance, without a valid registration, etc.) The guy would just buy a barely running clunker with cash and drive whenever he felt like it. When the car was impounded he would just sign it over and buy another junker.
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  7520. It's like the photo negative of the optic-less tubes on late 18th century marksman rifles.
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  7521. Jefferson's tree of liberty is looking mighty thirsty these days.
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  7522. This segment reminded me a bit of a John Oliver episode. Great research, writers, and very engaging presentation by RWJ.
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  7523.  @Nickle314  Hah! A cop, judge or D.A. being on trial? What are the odds of that ever happening?
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  7524. I saw an interview with some guy who was smoking, while saying he was not going to get the vaccine because it was a 100% guarantee of health. When the interviewer asked if he wore a seatbelt, without delay or any sense of irony the man said, "Of course!"
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  7525.  @digo8167  A higher percentage of people are harmed in some way by seat belts in an accident than the percentage of vaccinated people who have been harmed by any of the (genuine) Covid-19 vaccines.
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  7526. Oh yes, a buried oil tank is a definite run. The cleanup WILL be messy and expensive, you get to pay to have the soil incinerated and treated, then you get to buy more fill. All the while, your DEP will be performing proctology.
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  7527.  @petevenuti7355  I like how you think!
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  7528.  @bingbongbang8895  Some things need the old MTV treatment. "Too much is never enough."
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  7529. Instead of a mute button, fix it by redacting when the recording is used in court or when sought under FOIA. They already do that with DOB and address info of non-involved people. Heck, sometimes the released recording will mute officer's faces but nobody else's.
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  7530. For the chemists in the audience: Be part of the solution, or just be something we have to remove by filtration.
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  7531.  @Greenmet29  Nothing helps reduce confrontational situations like adding firearms! Well, there's also explosives, but apparently the ATF doesn't want us to have any tasty boom stuff.
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  7532. If spyware was outlawed, Google and Facebook would close the next day. - Sorry: Accumulation of user data for the prioritization of a profit model.
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  7533. Employee theft is almost always more than customer theft. This maxim does not apply in areas where there is civil unrest-based looting, or laws are so poorly enforced that smash-n-grab is a local sporting event.
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  7534. Wow. Mercedes did a great job overcomplicating windshield wipers.
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  7535. I also blame the CSI shows for giving people from cops to juries the wrong idea of how AWESOME (TM) these computerized systems are at solving crimes. Facial recognition depends a LOT on how it was 'trained'. Thus the big hullabaloo a few years back about how the most common software got black and brown faces wrong more than a coin flip.
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  7536. You are also a lot less likely to have the cops called on you for showing up at a hotel while being in possession of darker skin.
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  7537.  @JohnDoe-qz1ql  The cops and prosecutors involved can just have their lifetime earning garnished until they either pay back the full settlement, or they cease living. Works for me!
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  7538.  @robstave  Did you learn debate methods from a flat-Earther?
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  7539. Tangentially related, Kyle Kinane's "Trampoline in a Ditch" is a good comedy album/show.
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  7540. @ankid8045 I press public area buttons with a knuckle. And I use the hand I don't hold food with.
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  7541. Also have a "chat" with the person/people responsible for trying to maximize the number of sockets and other tools needed to access anything in newer cars.
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  7542. This situation reminds me a bit of the scene in the movie Private Benjamin where Goldie Hawn's character paints circles around the scattered bullet holes on the target board she was training with.
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  7543. Yeah, I never witnessed one of those, but my friend at the time did. Now that (most) struts come pre-assembled and pre-compressed, mechanics are much safer.
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  7544. Damn. Made me check the clock...
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  7545. The Orange One makes George W. Bush seem like a Rhodes Scholar.
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  7546. AND the bookshelf!
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  7547. Oh hey! I love that series, as well as some of his other novels.
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  7548. One thing they WILL do is either cut into mechanics' profit margins, or more realistically, add to the customers' bills.
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  7549.  @LifeisA_Dream  Your foil hat is showing!
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  7550.  @JODRecaps  I hope you get ALL of your packages stolen by porch pirates who then get run over by a parade of steam rollers, taking your packages with them. Your spamming is THAT irritating.
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  7551. With Republicans, the suffering they cause IS the point.
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  7552. "A quality escape occurred." - The most weaselly passive-language non-responsibility statement I've heard... well, this week.
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  7553. Funny thing about people complaining that Steve used the word "crazy"? The term is not a diagnosis in the DSM. I'm not sure the word is even used once in the tome, but I am not going to do the search for that. That would be crazy.
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  7554. Entropy is a harsh taskmaster.
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  7555. I still get music on CD's, so I actually OWN the music I own, instead of being a tenant with access to the music I own until the landlord tears down the house. - When I was a kid, bands would tour at a loss to promote album sales. Somewhere in there, the formula flipped, selling albums died, streaming rose out of its corpse, and playing live became the money grind. And tickets to performances skyrocketed in price.
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  7556. That gasket looks toasted. Surprised you reused it.
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  7557. At least when your trip in prison is done, the prison has not lost your checked belongings, or sent them to Dallas, Texas when you're flying to London, England.
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  7558.  @jimmyjimjims7483  I thank you. Non Nyawkuhs thank you.
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  7559. This is why we need more access to mental health care. And to classify racism as a mental illness. - And you would think a drug dealer would have a newer car without paint issues. Like that black car next door... Hey! (No hate on you or your car, the paint is prettiness, it is function that matters.)
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  7560. More a case of disorganized crime, but I get cecil's point and agree.
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  7561. You make perfect sense. But the concept of "sovereign immunity" will keep Cannon clear of all responsibility.
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  7562. Some departments apparently view that kind of behavior as a resume?
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  7563. Regarding audio recording potentially triggering wiretapping laws, what about people who communicate with sign language?
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  7564.  @GeckoHiker  As a Caucasian descendant of colonizers, I wish to thank your ancestors for the corn, beans and potatoes. And as to all the land my ancestors stole from yours? I can only say I feel remorse at a remove.
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  7565. I missed the timing to watch it live, but I watched the NASA feed about 2-1/2 hours later. Very exciting.
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  7566. Developers seem to think we can eat poorly built houses, the way they encroach on good arable and operating farmland.
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  7567. Kudos for at least trying, knowing when you were out of your depth, and particularly for not driving the car to engine destruction!
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  7568. Who is in the interview that "you will not be posting to your YouTube channel"?
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  7569. I had never put thought into the idea that a kid getting approved for a wheelchair is like the way my father taught my brother and I to swim. He threw us into the middle of the pool and waited.
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  7570.  @JV-pu8kx  Also, TANSTAAFL!
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  7571. Step 1: Write some software Step 2: Feed the software a massive pile of data to build with. Step 3: Use advertising, testimonials, and "influencers" to present the software as "awesome", "useful", and/or "cool" Step 4: Count the money.
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  7572.  @briansrandomstuff76  A major car maker making their product actually CHEAPER? You truly are a dreamer.
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  7573.  @scottmcshannon6821  If you neglect to pay at a 7-11, sure?
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  7574. LOVED this 5-minute (times 11) video!
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  7575. Don't let the rant ending bother you, we learned something.
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  7576. Who the Pasta pleads the 5th on how long they've had their current job?
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  7577.  @mjc0961  But would you accept a 9% discount for using cash? (It's roughly the same amount, but phrased as a carrot instead of a stick.)
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  7578. Exchangeable magazine in the 1880's brilliant!
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  7579.  @jeromethiel4323  This was the comment I was going to make (or words to the same effect).
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  7580. I want a can of tunnel paint.
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  7581.  @mafistowaltz4857  Wood and wood-like composite decks too. A box of decent deck screws come with a number of Robertson bits for a driver.
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  7582.    For the studio is hollow, and I have touched the sky. - With homage to a Star Trek episode.
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  7583. I use the specialty tool. A big flathead screwdriver hammered through the filter.
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  7584. Someone tell that to religions, too!
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  7585. @T.J. Kong And that poor dog!
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  7586. So, Mayor Adams did what Some SubPrime Court justices did, but only Adams is being indicted?
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  7587. I learned recently how astoundingly water-intensive avocado trees are. Maybe stop pushing the guac?
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  7588.  @milescarter7803  "A 15 degree per hour drift" - Thanks, Bob!
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  7589. He appointed a black anti-vaxxer as State Surgeon General. But that was an ideological appointment, not one based on race OR qualifications.
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  7590. Sometimes I want to learn how to pronounce the following in Hindi for robocallers. क्या आपकी मां को पता है कि आप लोगों के साथ क्या करते हैं? kya aapki maan ko pata hai ki aap logon ke saath kya karte hain? - *Does your mother know what you do to people?
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  7591. So ullage is like when you turn the ketchup bottle upside down and shake or slap it before opening it so you get ketchup instead of ketchup-scented air on your burger! I get it now!
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  7592. Just like speeding tickets, you go after out-of-state people. They are less likely to be able to take time to fight the ticket/seizure.
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  7593. Given that modern launches and re-entries are computer controlled, that is a bad standard. I can see the standard being more in line with training for, and being paid for the job and having/using the skills to "do astronauting" if needed, such as in the event of a computer failure.
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  7594.  @coupledyetivonvanderburg5385  And that money will have to come from somewhere, driving if prices for the customer, spiking inflation, and so on and so on. I'm not sniping at your response to the discussion. I'm just tired of crime in the guise of government.
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  7595. Without being able to pay for access to all this info, they would have to actually get a valid warrant, as the constitution mandates.
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  7596.  @Krynn72  Ah, I see. My use of words instead of fire and kinetic weapons is what offends you. Well, when you are out starting your revolution, I will be on the side of order, and ready to defend me and mine with all the discipline your hatred disdains. - What have I done to reduce police brutality? Not been the kind of moron who triggers such brutality. Cop says jump, I ask how high, and I settle the differences between their conduct and the rule of law in a court room, as rational people do. I've done it twice. One cop got demoted, the other a written reprimand. My brother, using much the same methodology, got a county sheriff arrested (and disarmed for the remainder of his elected term).
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  7597.  @Pokornz  Bleeping irrelevant. Or, white enough to have darker people hate my lightness, and dark enough for lighter people to hate my darkness. -My race? human.
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  7598.  @Pokornz  Most lives matter. Not all, for some people are just oxygen thieves. But most deserve life. An important step would be to severely curtail, if not eliminate, "Qualified Immunity".
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  7599. When I was younger, my family lived in Arizona for nearly four years, and we never went to this crater or the grand Canyon. Thank you for showing so much of this natural attraction to a person who never got to see it in person!
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  7600. Wrong? Yes. Legal? We'll see. Our society has a lot of things that are legal but wrong. Dark money in politics, civil asset forfeiture, adverse possession...
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  7601.  @MustangsTrainsMowers  Only if the satellite is named Alice.
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  7602. How horribly vague can a law get? Bring together a group of ten random people and you will find at least one who will be offended at any situation you may propose. So the only way to avoid breaking that cruddy vague law is to have no witnesses.
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  7603. Even if they are not ignorant of it, the CHOOSE to act that way to exert power and control.
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  7604. Meanwhile, a voice from the bottom of the sea, HMS Cassandra, "I wArNeD yOu!"
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  7605.  @kevinbrooks6147  Interesting. Perhaps before allowing one of these vile seizures, the property owner should be able to demand presentation of the officer's/agent's letter of marque?
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  7606. Plus, a straight-on shot from a competition-level paintball gun can break auto glass. Not necessarily a pass-through on the first shot, but at least evident breakage.
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  7607. I also put a couple of handfuls of those desiccant pouches in my gun case. Combined with proper periodic cleaning and oiling - no rust.
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  7608.  @nowthatsjustducky  I could see your interpretation, except that the OP wrote, "The next door neighbor wrote me to complain about a raccoon that lived in the attic of my house." That does not sound like a friendly "oh by the way".
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  7609. "Reaching for my wallet boss." - "Reach for your wallet, Luke."
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  7610. Not at all!
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  7611. You know his day is a little off by the failing accuracy of his eyecrometer.
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  7612.  @Sam-f1k8e  When I was around 4 years old, I took apart the house phone to the point that my parents could not figure out how to put it back together. I was forbidden access to tools for a long time after that.
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  7613. And then get hit with fines from the city for making "unauthorized" alterations to city property.
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  7614.  @ToniHunterOne  Ha. Not a Repugnicant, nor a Democrap. I vote by issue and (at least stated) intent of the candidate.
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  7615.  @ToniHunterOne  I do not live in a cave. I have an irrational fear of caves collapsing the moment I happen to be in one, and crushing me flat. Oh, also I am anti-Q, and neither Republicant not Democrap. But I do wallow in negativity when the discussion merits it. So one out of three?
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  7616. This is a eighty-eight magnum. It shoots through schools. (from Johnny Dangerously)
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  7617.  @haloha329  I am just trying to help people communicate more clearly while using a touch of humor. It was not my intent to offend (this time) and if I did, I am sorry you felt that way.
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  7618. Now that I sit here and think about it, I can see what he's saying about films 2 and three. The first film was good throughout. The second and third have big chunks of non-set-piece scenes that I really just forget when remembering them. The fourth? Once they step into the chamber of the crystal skulls, the movie ceases to be an Indiana Jones movie, and turns into something the SyFy channel would point to proudly whilst we all laugh.
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  7619. Your mistake was assuming this has anything to do with the virus. This is all because NYC had too much available parking.
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  7620. Don't forget their 12.5% bad math skills on top of your formula!
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  7621. Except for the firearms (or airsoft guns) it looks like every strip mall military surplus store I've been in. Well, less cluttered and less eclectic. Good military surplus stores have gear from many nations. I went through college with an Italian ruck sack to carry my 20-ish pounds of books. I even used some other nation's belt pouches on my National Guard web belt to store things I needed/wanted to have on hand as a mortar FDC plotter.
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  7622.  @PiDsPagePrototypes  Parachutes are extra?
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  7623. I feel for your situation. If one or both of your parents is here undocumented, why did they put you at risk for their acts? If they arrived legally and it lapsed, that is also on them. Twenty five years is a long time to not get some paperwork at least started.
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  7624. Murphy's law of maintenance problems: It always comes in threes!
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  7625.  @AC-yj8cx  Simple solution, pour your martinis into a McDonalds cup.
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  7626. And that belt usually only fails when your agitator roller stops from excess pet hair or getting snagged on a loose rug.
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  7627.  @kennethobando5755  And it's a fair bet that the municipality would refuse to let a homeowner have a well drilled if they have water being piped in already.
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  7628. Wow. The hostage-taking upsell! I had that happen at a Meineke the only time I went to one. I came in to have them replace a rusted tailpipe and muffler. They "took the initiative" to inspect my brakes and told me they would call the cops if I tried to drive away without getting them replaced. I asked if they wanted me to call them too. The put my wheels back on, installed the exhaust parts, I paid the pre-upsell written quote price, and made sure I shared the tale. This was in the 1990's and I have told lots of people since.
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  7629. See also the money flexed against the "silly" idea that lead in gasoline was harmful to humans. Or lead in paint. Or asbestos in insulation, appliances, pot holders, flooring, adhesives, shingles and exterior siding.
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  7630.  @GilmerJohn  Hey everyone! Found the book burner in our midst!
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  7631.  @Figgy20000  That's not an incompetent delivery driver, that's a person doing SWAT training to be able to raid the wrong house to be able to toss flash-bangs twice in a shift.
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  7632. Glitter is evil. It already gets everywhere and stays there forever. it's worse than anti-Jedi sand!
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  7633. It's Florida. By the time they finished the back yard, the front was likely halfway to overgrown already with the speed stuff grows down there!
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  7634.  @SliderSS  And YouTube Content ID system is NEVER abused and NEVER misidentifies copyright violations. Right?
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  7635. Regarding the complexity if history, even something as narrow as one war int he 20th century, I watch multiple people who examine the subject from their own point of reference to try and get a more complete picture. Drachinifel, Rex's Hangar, Military History not Visualized, and occasional videos from people they collaborate with. - For this most recent war in Ukraine, I watch this channel, Ryan MacBeth, and occasional dips into other channels, and even news reports from NPR, MSNBC, BBC, al Jazeera, and even translated reports from Ukraine and Russia to add a dash of narrow perspective and propaganda. - Getting all of your information on important and complex topics from one source can blind you. If you only see a house from the front, you have no idea what color the back door is, or if it even exists.
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  7636. History Channel... Isn't that the Ice Rush Gold Road Alien Truckers channel?
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  7637. "The Law" needs to really learn that "sticks and stone may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." for more situations. Cops too. Too many arrests for 'contempt of cop'.
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  7638. Some people might be letting YouTube just run on auto-lay in the background as a kind of radio.
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  7639. Have you prices a headlight cluster assembly? A stupendous amount of money for an injection molded block of plastic that probably cost a few dollars to make.
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  7640. Also, if you listen to a story told by a 6-year old, you start to understand the Tarantino style better. As in, they start somewhere in the middle of the end, then sprinkle the beginning, middle and the end in unequal parts, leaving you wondering what really happened. And what the neighbor's cat had to do with their art class...
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  7641. I know you meant that in jest, but 'dome' and 'flat'?
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  7642. I'm SHOCKED! ... ... No I'm not.
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  7643.  @bergmanoswell879  I am not a civil engineer, though I do watch a couple fo channels about the subject. I don't remember the exact terms, but there is a methodology that replaces the open left turn no-man's land in the middle of the road with islands, and/or allowing signal controlled U-turns at major intersections on roads that wide. - Roundabouts work, if used smartly, though the "every 50 feet" is reductio ad absurdem.
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  7644. I get a business going cash-only. If their transactions are all small dollar amounts, the credit card per-transaction fees can either take most of the profit, or force price increases. - Having seen a lot of videos from people who live in NYC, I also get a business wanting to keep the robbery target off their back by not having cash on the premises. That city is on a rapid decline to an "Escape from New York" future. - Edit: Also, NYC survives financially by making these ordinances and fining its citizens. Heck, they'll even issue fines for things they can't justify the fine over. Like a certain Apple repair shop selling computers abandoned by customers for over a year getting a fine for not registering the purchase of those computers on a database intended for pawn shops.
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  7645. This comment belongs with a different video.
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  7646.  Boy George  You are referring to excise tax? Or sales tax? Or mandatory insurance? Excise tax on cars was, I was taught, was supposed to be a "temporary" tax but the state got addicted to the money. Mandatory insurance I understand, so that if someone damages you or your property with their car, you're not left paying for it all yourself. Sales tax? I understand the reasoning, and my state taxes fewer categories of things than some other states. As an example, there are no sales taxes on clothing, diapers, female 'supplies', food and beverages (unless it is prepared for you at the point of sale).
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  7647.  @ihateorangecat  girlfriend is a way some women refer to close female friends. That's what it means. Just like sometimes men will refer to close friends and compatriots as 'brothers' even though they are in no way related. - See also "Brother from another mother." and "Sister from another mister."
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  7648. Officer Lorax: "I arrest for the trees."
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  7649. Night be time for a name change to Salt Lick City.
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  7650. Assuming a shady scrap yard or chop shop willing to buy the cars, all you need to do is look at which cars have the most expensive part like doors, bumpers, seats, engines, transmissions, etc.
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  7651. With this ruling, the formerly jailed man needs to play his Uno Reverse card. Then all of the Draw 2 and Draw 4 cards.
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  7652.  @TheMikernet  I suppose it would cut down on the "cleaning tantrum food off the walls" line item in the prison budget.
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  7653. At least they got the number of fingers right this time.
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  7654.  @semosancus5506  We didn't invent it, nor do we own the trademark. But we're REALLY good at oppressing our own people. There are other countries that are way outpacing or achievements though. Some that come to mind: China, Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, Somalia, Yemen, Israel (since they won't let Palestinians be their own nation), Venezuela... - Now, if we open up a medal category for oppressing members of ethnicities who existed in place before these nation in question was formed, the US is in a slightly smaller field of contestants, and has a better chance of being on the medalists' podium.
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  7655. Canadian money? That's Loonie!
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  7656.  @abcdeisthekeygaming277  I actually like it as an occasional treat. Like a fancy dessert you can only get at that Italian Restaurant two states over.
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  7657. I wonder if you could get more accuracy by putting the top handle in the shoulder pocket, putting one hand forward of the percussion cap space, and using your trigger hand to release the "bolt".
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  7658. When you were promising a heat pump video, what you triggered this in my brain: In the not too distant future, Next Sunday A.D. There was a guy named Joel, Not too different from you or me. source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/mysterysciencetheater3000lyrics.html - Oh NOW I get how that furnace can have a PVC exhaust. The condenser cools the products of combustion down enough to make that a safe material. I was head-scratching on that one. - I have only had benefit of heat (and hot water, sometimes) from a oil-burning forced hot water (registers) system, a gas-fired forced hot water (registers) system, and a oil-burning forced hot air system. The two oil systems were between fifteen and thirty years old when I was getting heat from them. Right now I have electric registers, with the benefit (?) of a thermostat in each room, letting me set some rooms cold when not in use.
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  7659. Too young to drive such a car? That is whacky.
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  7660. Before I had ever heard of payment by gift card, I heard a story from a state lottery representative about a payment by winning scratch ticket scheme, where a couple of very unscrupulous state-level lottery employees had gotten a way to find out which scratch tickets were winners, and for what specific amount, without going through the lottery's normal ticket scanning system. They then sold these winning tickets to people in "other businesses" who needed to launder their gains. The lottery employees would get free money (often selling the winning amount for a discount to allow for the taxes the "businessmen" would be paying on their "winnings". And the "businessmen" would get clean reportable income for which they would pay taxes to hide their ill-gotten gains.
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  7661. We found the unicorn department in the herd of mule departments!
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  7662. "In Science we Trust. All others pay cash."
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  7663.  @junehanzawa5165  "Very dangerous"? How big are these capacitors, and how unskilled the person poking around?
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  7664. I like some features that didn't get much discussion, like the huge information display on the Flyco island, and the fact that there is a ski-jump for fixed wing takeoff. Though, I would hate to be the rating assigned to hand-carry orders between islands in an intercom failure...
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  7665. As a kid I used to wake up at around 4:30-5:00 AM on Saturdays to catch The Nature World of Captain Bob and draw along with what he was doing, then I would go back to sleep until breakfast. My parents never minded as long as I kept the volume low, and didn't wake up my brother (who was ADHD well before the diagnosis had evolved to what we know today).
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  7666. A car that doesn't go is a camper. A car that doesn't stop is a coffin.
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  7667. Seeing the walk lights without being TOLD what they were, I would have thought they meant for people to hold hands crossing the street. Which also is weird. - Is one of the 33 genders "Attack Helicopter"? - Did a majority of Aboriginal people ask for the fireworks to be moved to a different day? Or was it just college programmed white people with more time than sense, like usual? - Again on birth certificates; if that newborn human-like being can clearly explain why they are other than male or female (or VERY rarely a mix or neuter) to a panel of three doctors/phsychiatrists, THEN the birth certificate can have their choice listed. Anything else is the tyranny of parental expectations. - Political gatherings need a randomly selected "wielder of sense" who slaps people acting idiotically with a chilled and limp mackerel.
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  7668. Also, FAT TAIL!!!!!!
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  7669.  @n-11ordoskirata70  Dangit!
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  7670.  @eric3434  The politics will not matter as long as the 24-hour news environment keeps hammering partial-fact stories with race-baiting leanings. - "Black man shot by cops" gets more eyeballs than "Man with seven warrants and a history of violent crimes shot while physically attacking police officer."
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  7671.  @GeeWit  Cheaper than filing a lawsuit? A one-day excavator rental. Whatever you inferred from the line above is on you.
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  7672. I'm okay with judges getting a special parking space at the courthouse.
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  7673. Spring compressors for struts come in a full spectrum of quality. From Harbor Fright junk that might work once, to high-priced and high-quality tools that are worth mounting solidly on a shop's wall to be used for years. - The horror stories come about because the person only doing the job once often picks the cheaper tools on the basis that they're only doing the job once, so why spend so much? I know that if I have to do a repair that involves compressing springs, I'm paying someone with better tools and skills to do it.
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  7674. Time to put Cheech Marin's "Born in East LA" back into circulation on the playlists, I guess.
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  7675.  @roflchopter11  I can fail the roadside tests AND breathalyzer while stone cold sober. (Asthma, COPD, vertigo, lower back pain) My brother passed the "skills tests" and all but smell and breathalyzer while drunk WAY beyond the state impairment number... at a picnic for State Police officers.
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  7676. Justice is available to all... who can afford it.
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  7677. Profit like bandits, pay a pittance of a fine once in a while. And yet some tanning product enthusiast still bankrupted a casino?
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  7678. My current roadblock for getting an EV is that I live in an apartment, and have no say over getting a hookup in the parking lot. As I drive maybe 100 miles a week (most of it on one weekend day) a solar option would work really well for me.
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  7679.  @rylandavis2976  A coerced confession is a basis for appeal, if it is not able to be used to strike it as evidence. I skilled lawyer could work a coerced prosecution witness in much the same way.
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  7680. ATF business via the internet? How will they shoot your dog?
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  7681. Russians and Ukrainians could be living peacefully as separate neighboring countries without any extra-legal territorial claims in each other's borders if only some dude named Putin wasn't bound and determined to be a dic...tator.
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  7682.  @mauriceclemens3286  That is how they are trained.
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  7683. The solution is a boycott of the scalpers' product/service. Instead of golf, have a cookout. You're outside, and then there's food.
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  7684. because the lug nut capping is cheaper than hub caps?
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  7685.  @Dilberts_Dogbert  I understood that reference.
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  7686. Oi! Zebco!
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  7687.  @ATMR34  Your comment is not understood at this location. Please retransmit.
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  7688. Hearing/eye/brain injuries from the shockwave of the firing round. The kneeling/ducking also develops good habits so you don't have any body parts in front of the tube to be ripped off of you when the round leaves at a high rate of speed.
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  7689. 32 years, three months? Sounds about right.
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  7690. The issue is that often the smokers of tobacco or "other" stuff will go outside. And light up right under the windows of non-smokers. But hey! At least they're not smoking inside, right?
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  7691. And you have your weekends free, too!
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  7692.  @Time-Traveller-2025 Being common doesn't come close to making it right, though. Not that I am saying this is what you are supporting.
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  7693. Particularly because the expensive hardware is installed in all of the cars of that model, and they only make some money back by hooking the dumb ones into the subscription. They would have a LOT less "sunk cost" to recover if they either only installed the hardware on cars people ordered it on, or they just charged ALL buyers for the hardware outright.
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  7694.  @moonbounce17  If it was supposed to be signature only, I would have told them is didn't arrive, and make the shipper replace it. Then I would "magically find" the original package and send it back with my "sincere" apologies for the shippers screw-up.
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  7695. I very rarely get reddit as a result in my searches. Might be because I never go to reddit for any reason whatsoever.
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  7696. I was actually looking to finally buy one when they bought and broke the whole idea.
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  7697.  @kristopherpoulsen653  All the nations, all the days. Any burrito can be inclusive, to include anything wrapped in a bread-like holder. Gyro, calzone, cannoli... heck, even Hot Pockets, if you're so inclined!
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  7698.  @rustbeltrobclassic2512  Kudos to him, being healthy enough at his age to do so. I guess, therefore, that every 75-year-old is equally capable. Good to know.
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  7699. If only it was a unique experience...
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  7700.  @technicalprecision8651  Under Magnussen-Moss, the manufacturer would have to PROVE that the failure was the fault of maintenance and not their design or build. But many vehicle owners don't know their full rights under that law.
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  7701.  @robertsmith2956  I have only ever bought two parts from a dealership, and both were the gas tank suspension shield for my 1988 Bronco. The original one rusted from retaining water and sand, and sanded through my gas tank. The replacement was identical and did the same thing a few years later. The THIRD one didn't burn down, fall over and sink into the swamp. Er, I mean, it was redesigned with drainage vents.
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  7702.  @robertsmith2956  DAMN! At that point, just get a length of the right size cable, the end attachments, and the tool to press those attachments on. Even if you'll never use it again, you save money. - Regarding other parts, sometimes you can find what you need at auto recyclers (fancy term for junkyards). When I needed a rear axle for a vehicle, going through the local auto recycler saved me about $800-1200. Friends and I have found things like body trim, a car seat, a grill to replace one from a low-speed impact, mirrors... The downside is that it the search is hit-or-miss, and can take a couple of hours out of your day.
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  7703.  @toradog5719  Exactly! Just in a one-town radius from me, I have seen (in the last two years) a highway bridge that was scarily deficient be completely replaced, a major main street bridge be replaced, two side street bridges be fully serviced, a main street road bridge over a rail line be repaired, streets and sidewalks be repaved/repoured, potholed streets be milled patched and resurfaced, a new traffic control system be added to an intersection that used to cause mile-plus backups daily... And that is just the things on the few roads I actually use.
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  7704. When seconds matter, police are minutes (to hours) away. If they even plan to show up.
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  7705. This video reminds me. I need to start stockpiling maple syrup and buying up all the sugar maple forests. (John Ringo reference)
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  7706.  @itsgonnabeokai  If the Smart for 2 was more affordably priced, I'd own one right now.
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  7707.  @christophpoll784  On my back steps, the top rail is laid width-up and had weathered to a field of splinters and wood-daggers. Luckily, the rail below that is a better height for holding onto and is still smooth. I rent, so it's not my choice to repair it. I suppose I 'could' "accidently" get several shards of wood driven into my hand to finally prompt the landlord to replace the top rail, but I refuse to volunteer for that project.
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  7708. @introboy1 Muahaha!!! I have started a Koran-off in comments!
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  7709. Or, unplug your spy device?
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  7710. Fuel-air explosive the whole block, right?
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  7711. It's really easy to get into Julliard. The trick is to show up when the door is not locked.
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  7712.  @Alboalt  Nice Chris Farley reference!
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  7713. I can see the signs at the park. "All dogs must be on lease"
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  7714. "Your Honor, if we have to comply with this blocking of non-compete agreements, how will we be able to afford those deep-sea fishing cruises you enjoy with us every year?"
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  7715.  @greateraviationgl91  I've got a hole in me pocket.
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  7716.  @JohnMoses1897  What is the threshold for "large" when it involves cash? For a very few, it would have to be several duffel bags of cash to be a large amount. For many of us, a few thousand dollars would be "a large amount" of cash to have on hand.
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  7717. We need to cut Hertz some slack. They need to find money SOMEWHERE to afford those Tom Brady commercials.
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  7718.  @allbromobro3505  Perk #1 for all EMTs. The legal right to beat to death anyone who says the "Q" word.
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  7719. I swear those three beings are trying to communicate with Louis. By the time those three can speak like real adults, Hawaii will have enacted that Right to Repair law... Sorry Louis, I can't keep watching this video. See you next time!
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  7720.  @seabreezeblank1513  I went to a Big Lots about six years ago. To use the bathroom.
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  7721.  @KainaX122  Most federal jobs are contract jobs, not at-will hourly jobs. Contract jobs include proper procedures and causes for firing.
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  7722. Not all service and help requires firing a weapon. Helping feed or care for injured and displaced people, or even just donating to a (well researched) charity can help. Preston Stewert frequently mentions a guy who is in Ukraine only to help locals clear mines and unexploded munitions from rear civilian areas.
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  7723. If the county owns the trash even while it's in peoples' homes, then the county should be buying peoples' groceries, from with the trash is generated.
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  7724. An educated consumer is a consumer who can save a lot of money!
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  7725. Coefficient of friction? Metallurgy? Ray's a nerd! (Nerds are the best!)
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  7726. He could have easily proved Mr. Thomas' "crimes" with a few simple pictures. Nah, that's not how a fascist bully-boy does things.
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  7727. As a former college student, I can honestly say that there is a stretch of time between the first drink and the end of the party (or blacking out) where you tend not to notice flavors much. We used that phenomenon to make getting idiot-drunk cheaper. Buy enough decent beer for everyone to have two, then the rest of the night is cheap keg beer and jet-fuel-grade vodka punch mixed in a cooler or bathtub.
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  7728. If the car has enough years in the salt belt, the proper procedure is to drive the car until either it disintegrates, or you can scrape together a down payment for another car. Whichever comes first.
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  7729. It's all fun and games until the dog says, "Brother Edward?"
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  7730. The people who know this loser, and watch this video, will recognize his voice and mannerisms, and do plenty of punishing for us. edit: Unless they are all tools like him...
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  7731. For about 4-5 years now I've been using magnetic charger cords for my small devices (Kindle Fire, Kindle paperwhite) that is simply a tiny magnetic micro USB plug for the device and a magnetic cord that attracts to the plug. And when I got them they came with plug ends for Apples micro port. And Apple sheep will herald this "new" feature.
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  7732. Tennessee? Teach? Careful, that'll get you run out of town wearing a tar and feather suit down those parts!
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  7733. Mechanics are funny people. "Let's go on vacation and work on cars somewhere else!"
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  7734. The only song a washer or dryer should play is, "Bzzzzzzz!" Maybe "Ding!"
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  7735.  @michaelpressman7203  The most important part of the "pull pin and throw" instructions is left out. You are supposed to throw the grenade, not the pin.
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  7736.  @samjones1954  Hi Sam! I used to have a miniature you as a pencil topper back when I was in grade school. I traded it for a 4 oz milk in the cafeteria. Best trade ever.
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  7737.  @samjones1954  You can suggest a plethora of things I will suitably ignore.
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  7738.  @BrianHoff04  He should be addressed as Mister Precedent.
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  7739. Ian at Forgotten Weapons demonstrated one that does get really close to the Hollywood suppressor. For the first 10-15 shots, from a specific pistol that can be set to not automatically cycle. I apologize for not knowing the names of the suppressor or the pistol.
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  7740.  @TheJhn924  I saw another train video where the train was hauling a long chain of those new auto mover cars and the train was routed to a line with a bridge too high for those new cars. The bridge was peeling the top of rail car after rail car, crushing the vehicle inside, and the train was barely slowing down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcqfa_uj2hA
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  7741. That seems to make it clear that these firms need better background check personnel.
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  7742. Dear Michigan uncommited. A permanent cease fire in Israel is a great goal. Why do you think that ANY US President can make it happen if not all parties to the conflict don't agree to it.
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  7743. Isn't this the car with the disconnected or burnt-out check engine light?
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  7744. In a similar vein to medical malpractice, where an individual who wins a case is paid by the malpractice insurance, police and other 'agents of the state' ought to have similar insurance so that the taxpayers stop bearing the financial burden of the bad acts of their employees.
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  7745.  @mddunlap03  True. As precedent of the "I do not recall" defense, we have plenty of recorded testimonies in the Iran-Contra affair.
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  7746.  @advorak8529  Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.
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  7747. I once "pulled a cop over" in that situation. - Let me clarify. I was being followed by a car with it's high-beams on very late at night. I signaled and pulled over to the shoulder. Immediately, the car behind me throws on the blues. The cop walks up and before he could say a word, I said, 'Do you know why I pulled over?" In the moment of confusion I told him, "Because your high beams were blinding me." Then I offered up my license and registration. He didn't take my paperwork, just muttered, "Drive safely now." and walked back to his car. I let him pull away first and at the first available side road took a very different way home in case he wanted a revenge ticket on his shift.
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  7748. Cheeseburgers do not make me any profit, but I find myself paying for them. This channel is my YouTube cheeseburger.
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  7749. This is penny wise, pound foolish. Save the tiny bit of time it takes to know city ordinances, save the loss of work for your employees taking a water break or two. Lose BIG when employees or their surviving family sue you for harming or killing workers.
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  7750. Eat healthy, exercise (yep with you) and don't watch the news because it harms your frequencies... THERE'S the crazy!
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  7751. How dare nature get in the way of a pretty neighborhood!
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  7752. "We can't withstand fur-power of that magnitude!" - Admiral Ackbar's Pet Grooming Service
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  7753.  @BlueT521  Also, the use of plastic instead of metals can cut weight, which is more likely the reason for more and more of it being in cars. Less weight, better gas mileage, thus meeting the standards set by the government with the least expense and the best profit margins.
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  7754. When it comes to examples of destroying documentation, my mind goes straight to Enron.
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  7755.  @AndreSomers  But you can't uninstall the Cortana spyware.
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  7756. I laughed WAY too much at the "foot-pounds" at 22:53.
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  7757. At least in some corrupt countries you can budget for police corruption checkpoints.
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  7758. I am glad that my service predates that earplug. We had the silicone ones that were color-coded for ear canal size (2-4 sizes if I recall) and has the flexible cones only on one end.
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  7759.  @Rekuzan  Pharmaceuticals and street drugs have long been sold (and sentenced in court) by the metric system. Anyone who works in a science or science-adjacent job needs to be able to think in metric. Wrench and socket sets have been twice as big because of metric fasteners.
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  7760. I never had one. I once slugged down a 5-Hour Energy, and it didn't wake me up, just kept me at the same gritty, semi-conscious state for a few hours until I could nap. Oh, and it gave me heartburn.
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  7761. "There ain't no rule that says a dog can't play basketball." Let's dissect that one. By evaluating the double negative use, there IS a rule that says a dog can't play basketball.
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  7762.  @HeldIntegral  If we ever get to a brave new world, I'll choose the Soma coma.
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  7763. I too saw the wear, and the excess wear on the inside of the tire fits a worn-out bearing. An alignment? Maybe. But that car owner has a few other issues they might need to deal with earlier. Like the tire pressures, the rattle (to make sure it's not worn-out suspension bushing or such), the TPMS, and perhaps replacing a pair of worn tires to get out of that one from the bad bearing.
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  7764.  @mayshack  Ah, the good 'ol 'pal' at the end. That's when you know someone has not been punched in the face lately for being a jerk.
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  7765.  @rasmuslindegaard2024  I may have missed your intent, Apologies. - The whole topic is a non-issue for me personally, as I find my cousins to be either the wrong gender for my preferences, or horrible human beings (and for some, both).
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  7766.  @natehill8069  yeah, I was trying to end my comment shorter. Plus, I think I needed to go to the bathroom at the time.
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  7767.  @darksu6947  Knowing the Latin numeral system as I do, I am okay with lifting X pounds.
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  7768. For all that he played the "angry tough guy" I have consistently read about how he is a truly pleasant person who likes to help out others.
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  7769. I want some of that soup too! I am adding cauliflower to my shopping list right now.
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  7770. That tree of liberty is looking in need of watering with R-brand fluids. Backhoe rentals are not that expensive. I said nothing.
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  7771.  @karlrovey  And most banks prioritized their big-balance business customers over everyone else.
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  7772.  @cacogenicist  The UK Navy learned that lesson painfully in 1982.
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  7773. Myself, I would have hammered or ground down that flange to be able to mount the horn with self-tappers.
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  7774. We 'could' apply that label to the various narco-subs.
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  7775. 98% of our patrons are not poisoned by the soup.
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  7776. Looking for love in all the wrong places.
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  7777. I read something recently about how the ticket on college has constantly risen because student loans are given, based on what colleges choose to charge, and not as any sort of measure of actual cost/profit numbers or the actual value of the diploma.
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  7778. I was close to your answer, BorKagan, but Iran out of time.
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  7779. What about the time they cast a black man as a blue version of an Arabic mythological figure. To re-act the role created by an "honorary Jew".
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  7780.  @badlydrawncars6460  Moons Over My-Hammy!
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  7781. As a kid the temp in the winter was 60F... inside. "Mom, I'm cold." - "Put on a sweater." "Mom, I'm still cold." - "Take off your sweater, go stand outside for ten minutes and come back inside, it'll feel warm." - In protest of that childhood, I have MY thermostat cranked all the way up to 65F!!! (Too danged expensive to go for something in the 70's)
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  7782.  @Damoinion  Now see, you would be int he camp of what I like to call "intent interpretation". And it is a camp I reside in as well.
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  7783.  @soupermancampbell8668  Winter is a hard time to remain motivated. We all need to try our best, and for those of us closer to the poles, ten-fifteen minutes a day in sunlight or sunlight substitute can really help.
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  7784.  @Teh_Random_Canadian  Everything except counting on the gullibility of dummies with money to burn.
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  7785. They deserve a walking tour of Challenger Deep.
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  7786. I had a chill of excitement.
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  7787.  @beantop  Oh, a See You Next Thursday?
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  7788.  @nolongeramused8135  A car with a garbage transmission is a source for a lot of otherwise good parts. I only say this because I am not sure if by "scrapped" you mean sitting a junkyard being a parts donor, or just drained of fluids and dropped in a metal shredder.
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  7789. Every time I see a picture of one of Putin's meetings with people at the far end of a ludicrously large table, or across a vast room, I imagine one of the sycophants shouting, "Could you please pass the salt?" with Putin putting a hand to his ear and shouting back, "What?" - I may have watched too much Loony Tunes as a kid...
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  7790. The corporate message would have been better to be something like: "The opinions expressed by our employees are not official statements of "This Here Company" unless they come from our corporate offices. Please direct complaints or comments to the local shop's manager or contact our corporate offices at website@company.company.
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  7791. A magnetic linear accelerator system (like a roller coaster, maglev train of EMALS aircraft carrier launching system) on the slope of a tall mountain would be a better idea (in my estimation). You would still need chemical booster stages, but you could drastically increase your starting velocity/momentum for the rocket equation.
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  7792. Yes, Steve. Casinos make money. Unless run by someone who has no business running one, like a certain dude named Donald.
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  7793.  @infernaldaedra  What makes an object "random"? Anyway, the potential dangers are that a person just picking things up may not now how, or have the tools to find out, which things they may pick up are and are not contaminated. Also, a potentially contaminated object in situ can be harmless at arm's reach, but that same object in your pocket can begin to expose you to a higher level of risk than you want.
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  7794. Mix in clips from the UN laughing at him.
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  7795.  @xyzzy4567  Look at what happened tot he studio Take Two Interactive had on contract to make Kerbal Space Program 2. They used the smoke-screen of the pandemic to justify dissolving the contract and form a new company to continue working on the game. And the employees of the original developers found out about it all when they ALL received an online job offer from the new company to work on the game they were working on the day before. As of when I heard about this, around half of the employees had taken the new jobs, because bills need to be paid, and people need to eat. But I secretly hope they "accidentally" sabotage the game. - - - Now THAT is shitty business practice.
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  7796. It is heading toward a country where the best route to home ownership is to "arrange the passing" of your home-owning grandparents before they get talked into a reverse mortgage, then causing all other potential heirs to be in a "non-claimant condition". Yep. Kill your grandparents and all of your relatives, or forever live in a closet of an apartment. - edit: That, or be willing to buy a house not fit for human habitation and make the minimum improvements necessary to make it weather-tight.
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  7797. The reviews would help, IF people were not disincentivized to leave an accurate review, and IF the property owners did not have negative reviews scrubbed with help from AirBnB.
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  7798.  @HammeredSquash3  Ah, the motto of the HMS Doofenschmirtz!
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  7799. I can think of a good reason to go through BoA. To build a bypass through their building. Because we need bypasses, and Arthur Dent has been beaten down enough.
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  7800.  @JasonW.  You don't apply lubricant to your sandpaper? It lasts so much longer that way.
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  7801. My grade school was a 3-7 minute (1/2 mile) bike ride (depending on which dogs needed a pet) - And that trip actually was uphill both ways, as my house and the school were on opposite sides of a large hill (or small mountain). In the winter, it was uphill both ways, in the snow. High school was a bus from the end of the street (four houses away) and took about 15-20 minutes (4.7 miles) from our stop. - I was NEVER dropped off by car at school. If I missed the bus, I got to walk or ride my bike to the high school. And THAT trip was downhill, uphill, downhill, flat, then downhill, uphill, flat and uphill. Then the way back was climbing that net of 100 meters in altitude. I only missed the bus twice in four years.
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  7802. I saw the original news report about this. The road was raised on a high berm, and the installed culvert (I believe it was just one pipe?) was SEVERELY undersized for the historic water flow. It was to the point where after one particularly heavy storm, the culvert(s?) was running at capacity and the water was still rising high enough to threaten the structure of the road berm.
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  7803. I think the one thing that could "fix" recruiting and retention would be to invent a time machine and go back and smack people until the VA actually took care of veterans. - Barring access to a time machine, smack people NOW until veterans are treated better. There are way too many people left out of physical and mental care, which adds to crime, suicide and homelessness. People in the generation being recruited can see this, now that we live in an information age, and it is a negative on the decision balance sheet.
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  7804. And often, they don't read the bills they vote on, passing that work on to their staff who either supplies a summary, or a simple recommendation of yea or nay.
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  7805. So the town government has learned operations methodology from HOAs. Time for a change in leadership.
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  7806.  @SoloRenegade  Amazing how incorrectly you seem to understand socialism.
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  7807.  @SoloRenegade  a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole: - Hmm... Nothing there about gas can, environmental protection, or many of the other functions of government to at least attempt to make life safer for the people of the country. Setting aside how much fail is involved in the design of the new gas cans, still not seeing socialism involved.
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  7808. And the self-lubricating.
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  7809. Or maybe, and I know I'm being crazy here, get them made in this country?
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  7810.  @SmartAlx  Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves Scheherezade had a thousand tales But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves You got a brand of magic never fails You got some power in your corner now Some heavy ammunition in your camp You got some punch, pizazz, yahoo and how See all you gotta do is rub that lamp And I'll say Mister Aladdin, sir What will your pleasure be? Let me take your order Jot it down You ain't never had a friend like me - Sorry, that song floats into my brain every time I see or hear a mention of that website.
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  7811. Free speech permit, $200. Peaceable assembly permit, $450. Right to an attorney (monthly rate) $345.
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  7812.  @AR-ed3xw  Particularly if you get a chest freezer and buy a bunch at one time. One trip, get a month of meat and make the trip worth it.
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  7813. Most dogs are better people than most two-leg people.
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  7814. My first thought on seeing the 'bucket handle' was the thing ripping off the capsule from parachute shock. Like attacking your skydiving chute to a short rope around your neck...
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  7815. Only once did I tell my mechanic what specifically to do and how to do it. I had a circuit open in the body of the fuse box that disabled my low-beams. I knew this because I had spent two hours reading the circuit diagram and using a multimeter to chase the issue down. So, lacking the tools to finish the job, I told my mechanic to cut the DRLs (Daytime Running Lights) circuit and jumper that to make the low beam headlights work again. I provided the circuit diagrams and a short, written explanation of what I had done and found. Every other time before and after I simply describe the felt or heard symptoms and let them use their superior knowledge and skills to fix things.
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  7816. If you agreed to the rules without reading them, it's on you. If you were able to buy without agreeing to the rules, and did not get a copy for a year, then you are not a member of the HOA.
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  7817.  @peteranderton6521  If you arc the water hose up to make the water fall as droplets near the ingress structure, it can be enteraining.
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  7818.  @QuantumStellar  When my 88 Bronco had the pinion seal fail (edit: the gears in the gearcase ate themselves as a result) and eventually leave the transfer gearcase dry (I parked on a dirt and gravel driveway and didn't notice the leak) I just replaced the entire rear axle.
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  7819. Pants!
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  7820.  @makesnosense6304  Please come back to Uncle Rupert's woodshed. He promises that THIS time his poorly trained and unsecured attack dogs won't go for your throat.
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  7821. "This is a nice Constitutional right you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it."
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  7822. That rubber hangar tool is fantastic!
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  7823. In all fairness to Iran's rocket difficulties: It IS rocket science, after all.
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  7824. "I cannot tell a lie. I PUT that envelope with my name on it under that half a ton of garbage."
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  7825.  @444sage  I have my TV plugged into a power strip, and when I am not using for long stretches (days, not hours), I turn off the power strip. I do the same with a lot of my appliances and devices that don't need to be always powered.
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  7826. Because weird and different attract cameras. Worked for the Kardashian/Jenner clan.
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  7827.  @jasonbourne1596  90% of statistics used in arguments are made up by 50% of the people arguing, or something like that.
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  7828. Rational people return the item and demand a refund. Gold diggers see dollar signs and contact a lawyer.
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  7829.  @EnthalpyAndEntropy  Gosh, if only there was some sort of number unique to the vehicle that was visible through the windshield on the driver's side... Oh wait! VIN!
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  7830.  @hotpuppy1  In many cases, Japanese law and culture reinforce each other. The defamation law there is weird, to an American. In Japan, you can tell the absolute truth, and be successfully sued for doing so.
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  7831. "It's a civil matter" a.k.a. "We can't be bothered to get involved. There's no money for US in it, and we just don't like actually helping people."
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  7832. My state has an annual excise tax on automobiles. This is not the normal state and federal taxes on petroleum products. It is a tax, based on the blue-book value of your vehicle, that you have to go out of your way to pay to the town you live in. It was, I was told, a "temporary" tax initiated in 1928.
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  7833.  @Thezuule1  Taxachusetts. I mean Massachusetts.
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  7834. instead of the pistol, a soldering iron and Paul Daniel's %^#^) software.
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  7835.  @cathlive267  In much older cars, the speedometer and odometer were driven by a single mechanical cable, often linked and driven to a front wheel or the output of the transmission. In the oldest/laziest types of odometers, there was no mechanical stop to the odometer running backwards. This meant that someone could disconnect the cable from what normally operated it, and clamp the end of the cable in a drill. Then strap down the trigger of the drill (not sure if the drill had to be in reverse or not) and just let the miles fall away.
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  7836. Careful, Ray. You'll get a reputation as "The guy to fix PT Cruisers" and you'll never be free of the knuckle-scrapes!
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  7837.  @domomitsune5920  Is that you, "The Master"?
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  7838.  @motardmike  Only very slightly.
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  7839.  @alecamal  What does my view on crime and punishment say about my POLITICAL leanings?
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  7840.  @JerryEricsson  The worst part of your whole correct assessment is the line, "if he can afford it". Justice is far too often only available to the wealthy.
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  7841.  @philcole7788  "No one cares" Your statement of an absolute condition is easily broken. I care. Therefore you're wrong. Have a great day!
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  7842.  @NAVYSEABEE  Yep! So jail the corporation!
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  7843.  @vincentwitjes5106  That is actually pretty restful. Particularly a latex or acrylic paint, that can dry in uneven and random patterns, changing the reflectiveness.
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  7844.  @supergeekjay  Are you also the same kind of person who would denigrate someone for expressing technical information WITHOUT also noting how/where they got that information?
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  7845. "Merely looking at the product means you agree to forced arbitration in all matters, arbitration by a firm we choose and pay."
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  7846. Nebbish? Nobody? Necktie?
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  7847.  @johnsanabria3279  (Or have to clean those of others)
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  7848. Any time I have an urge to supply my own parts, I always ask the mechanic(s) about it BEFORE I have them accept the job. If they "No" and their reasoning is sound, I agree with them. If they "Yes, but no warranty at all" I think about it and make an informed decision. Pretty much the only times I have brought my own parts were when the ONLY source was junkyard or eBay parts, and I didn't want to pay for the shop's time to search out and order or pick up the parts. - Then there was the time I worked at an equipment rental shop next to a tire shop, and took off my own wheels at work, then rolled them over to the tire place for new tires and wheel balancing, then put them back on the car myself.
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  7849. If you use "storage bags" they have a micro-textured part on them that holds pen or sharpie writing well. - Long ago, when I was disassembling a VW Beetle engine, we used an old sheet and laid out all the parts we took off just like they were in the exploded diagram in the Chilton manual. Saved a lot of trouble, but took a lot of garage space.
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  7850.  @grn1  I don't hug the left line, in particular ion two-way roads, because that's where oncoming traffic lives. And there are a lot of bad drivers out there. I'd rather have the foot or two of extra clearance from center-line huggers.
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  7851.  @golden--hand  Good points.
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  7852.  @Coconutca  They didn't even have to memorize it. Most departments issued a card for them to read it from. Maybe reading is a passe skill for cops?
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  7853. I remember we had some really janky MILES gear and some of the rifle emitters could be "fired" by hitting them sharply with the heel of your hand. The only suppressed snipers in the National Guard at the time!
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  7854. a ball bearing in a plastic sabot sleeve would be cool. If you can do that, then an aerodynamic dart in a plastic sabot would be great too.
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  7855.  @catnvol  Also note: a "good" HOA is one election away from being a BAD HOA.
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  7856. Customer may not have wanted to spend the money for a vehicle that "broken in".
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  7857. Pitch may not be easy to handle, but Gorilla glue will also adhere feathers to things. Hmm? I suggested nothing at all.
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  7858. If zero tolerance is fine when it gets a kindergartener suspended for making "the gun shape" with his hand, it is good enough for police.
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  7859.  @alexanderzerka8477  The picture is used for a story about "clearing the homeless out of the subway" so the homelessness of the person pictured is heavily implied.
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  7860. Amazing what can happen when humans act humane.
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  7861. Ah yes. Taxi Driver, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Mean Streets, The Panic in Needle Park... Nice city - NOT
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  7862. Republican politicians: "We should not be meddling with limiting the power of the president." - Biden: "I have signed an executive order requiring all federal electees and candidates have a full financial audit with the results available to the public." Repubs: "Where do we sign for limiting presidential power?"
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  7863. That promotional video of the mortar section, I noticed something. At least one loader passed their hand over the end of the tube after dropping the round. That's how you get a nickname like "Stumpy" and a prosthetic hand. And this is not the only military where I've seen that action. I've seen it in Russian AND Ukrainian videos (some actual field footage) and I think I saw similar in either a Chinese or North Korean promotional video.
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  7864. Another note, unless the black holes are encased in impossibilium shells, there will eventually be no air for our bald punchy dude to breathe while lifting.
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  7865. This story has that, "When I leave here, either your signature or your brains will be on this contract!!!" energy you see in over-the-top gangster movies.
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  7866.  @josephlarrybradley508  Sadly, I know more about how a Fett functions than how a FET functions.
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  7867.  @honestiguana  At least you correctly used the lower case d for democratic. People are arrested for crimes, petty to capital all the time. People of all races are arrested. There is a racial imbalance of arrests and convictions as compared to race percentage, and that is a VERY complex issue with many root causes. I volley back, so what?
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  7868. I use apple for pie and cobbler. And Apple for doorstop.
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  7869. Hey, thanks for the technical information! That was really cool to learn.
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  7870. Some MBA, likely.
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  7871.  @kmstins  If you own the car long enough and frequently forget you have a screwdriver in your back pocket, your car seats will be "ventilated" for free.
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  7872. A right to repair law is being considered? Be on the watch for "robust conversations" incoming.
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  7873. They charge the card holder for any carried balance that rolls into the next month. They charge the card holder for any late payment. Some charge the card holder for exceeding the credit limit. They ALL charge the merchant for the "privilege" of letting customers avoid carrying cash for the police to take via civil asset forfeiture.
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  7874.  @ryans413  I have not seen a concrete paint that did not increase slipperiness when oil or water is spilled, even when a grit or other grip aid is added. I will admit that I don't know everything on the topic.
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  7875.  @andrewadams488  That can be remedied with the proper cleaners and primer/paint/epoxy.
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  7876. Other fun facts: The Eiffel tower was originally meant to be a temporary structure. Then it was studies as a dirigible docking location. Just like the Hollywood sign, it is one of those places where you have to PAY and get written permission to show it in any image or video for which you gain income.
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  7877. I remember a show about a future where the television broadcasters got laws enacted to make it illegal to turn off your televisions or have any technology to skip or mute the ads. Right! Max Headroom was the show.
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  7878. I'm imagining someone's dog dragging their owner to forced arbitration over the number of snacks they get on a walk.
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  7879. Wil this judge have a cute collection of clocks aimed at the camera?
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  7880. But, but... Think of the poor concrete vault makers, the monument companies that cut apart mountains to get a slab of stone nobody will much care about in a couple of decades, the traditional cemetery operators and their unsustainable business model, the companies providing embalming chemicals, the cosmetic companies providing a way for people to look somewhat alive when they're in the coffin, the coffin companies making and selling expensive single-use boxes that will be forever put in the concrete vaults... - All for some rational and ecological alternate burial method? P-shaw.
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  7881. There are other explosives than C4. Some are designed for higher or lower energy release, faster or slower energy release, higher or lower initiation energy needed to set them off, longer or shorter shelf life... C4 is easy to name, because movies have put it in common parlance. But there are a LOT of other explosives.
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  7882. In other news, water is wet.
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  7883.  @robinmitchell4721  Tell her that you saw that all PROPER Republicans are requiring that women's hair be (color of hair she doesn't have).
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  7884. If Jesus is in Tim Burchett's heart, he's sleeping at the morality switch.
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  7885.  @Hatbox948  Heck no! I saw them when they were new! I was born between the first Moon landing and the end of the Vietnam War.
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  7886. Donate the unclaimed Macs to FEMA, to use as sandbags for the next time a river over-tops its banks. I mean since they are so good at getting liquid inside of them...
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  7887. Yep, the lesson here is to not leave a survivor.
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  7888.  traybern  Haha! Nah, mine was dark blue.
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  7889.  @stickyfox  Yep. "Mistakes were made." "Negative outcomes occurred." vs. "Our managers implemented a fix." "Our customer service reps assisted over 3,000 people with that issue last week."
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  7890. What about suing the car company for not making the car more resistant to a high speed head-on collision? Or sue the tire maker for not making tires that automatically deployed ice studs when traction is lost? Or sue the engineers who planned the road? Or sue the person who decided to not install a crash barrier between opposing directions of traffic? Or sue the DMV for giving a license to someone who would, many years later, lose control of a car in icy conditions? Or sue the driver of the car for their own high speed in icy conditions.
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  7891. Huh. I used to work for Jabil circuits, debugging assembly-line internet switching boards for a contract subbed from Lucent, in 1989-90 in MA. At the time, they were shifting into other markets to build on their automotive component business.
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  7892. When I dropped my mother off at Manchester Airport (New Hampshire) we had already said our goodbyes, and made plans for calling once she got to Michigan to spend a week with my brother and his family. I was at the curb for about a minute, because she had luggage. When I picked her up after her trip? Another minute at the curb on my third circuit around the airport. I misjudged how long it would take from her posted arrival time to the curb by about ten minutes.
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  7893. Yeah, that diversity in flight school only applies to admissions, not certifications. Sorry Tucker, you're still a racist tool. - This Republican crusade against trans kids in sports fits right in with Alabama having a law against yoga in public schools since 1993 because "It may promote Hinduism." - No evidence, just fear mongering by the ignorant.
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  7894.  @mprooveit3588  Those using the rails should fund the maintenance of the rails by a "per car per mile" fee. It would not have to be a big number to be able to afford maintaining the lines.
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  7895. Ooh! Even more so because you may have that auto-parking feature! So to make yourself safe from an OUI charge, you'd have to soak your phone in your first beer.
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  7896.  @PhilG999  Because of that, whenever I change any light on my car, I hold the bulb in a clean paper towel. I have not seen a car lamp pop from finger oils, but I did see it happen to the bulb of an overhead projector.
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  7897. Two words. Giant. Sequoia.
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  7898.  @mydevices768  Even if you do trust the manufacturer of the device, you can't predict what will happen to your data if/when that company is bought out or spun off or closes.
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  7899. With a title like that, it's no WONDER that the report is just flying off the shelves! - The title was written to drive away people with all but the strongest wills and highest pile of curiosity.
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  7900. Ooh! A "Customer Success Team"! Sounds so very synergistic!
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  7901.  @OrigamiMarie  You've hit the nail on the head. We were changing lights in a ceiling fixture one time (from incandescent to LED), and the white globe over the bulbs was dirty. So we washed it with hot water and soap, rinsed it hot, and dried it. When we set the globe on a table to wait for it to be re-installed, it touched a cool glass of water and just exploded. Turns out the thing was very old, was not well tempered to begin with, and had had over fifty hears of heat and cool cycles further setting up internal stresses in the very thin glass. - So, now it is bare bulbs.
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  7902. Even dumber (in my view) than putting all of the HVAC stuff in the attic, apparently down south it is common to put the water heaters up there. Because when the water heater inevitably fails, you WANT to have to replace the ceiling! And given the use of engineered trusses in most of these cookie-cutter homes, how the heck will you maneuver the machinery out past other machinery, through the tiny hatch in that closet, and then reverse the procedure to put the new one in? - That ain't right.
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  7903. I choose the Soma coma.
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  7904.  @dotar9586 Give it a Goldstar 'That ain't right."
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  7905. Put in the work, work at a level you can have some pride in, and never let you or other convince you that "this is all you can hope for."
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  7906.  @dannydaw59  That highlights another problem with laws and police activity around data. Our rights are decided (and often trampled) by people who are not keeping up with progress.
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  7907. Be careful of phrases like "half as___" or "twice as____" when you don't establish the reference and scale you're referring to. Half as hot could mean, to you, that instead of 59C the panel is at 48C with your baseline at 37C. But someone not inside your head could also thing you mean 59C instead of 25C, using 0C as the baseline. Or 334K at the hottest and 167K as the better performance. - Another interesting one is when people say, "Jerry was twice as short as Tim."
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  7908. The virtual bubble-wrapping of children. When I was a kid, the cleaning chemicals under the kitchen sink and the wall plugs were protected by dire threats of a painful death if I touched them without permission. The same for the television, opening the door for a stranger, getting in a car with a stranger, accepting food from a stranger... A lot of "If you do this, you will get hurt, sick, or die painfully." - Over five decades later, I seem to be whole and alive.
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  7909. Great design for a fuse block to sacrifice itself to save a fuse. Top-notch quality!
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  7910.  @richardhockey8442  That is why I prefer "The Renegade Cut" version of that movie, where all traces of the planet Ziest have been expunged.
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  7911.  @thehoerscorral8565  The part of the Exegol fleet that pissed me off was that we are supposed to believe they could not find UP with both hands unless the magic transmitter was working. Bith please!
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  7912.  @GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou  I would respectfully disagree. When a member of the press seeks the recording of a police interaction, they don't need to know the DOB and address of the person who is reciting it to an officer. They DO deserve access to the recording of the interaction. - As to blurring faces, I think it is valid for minors, or victims of a crime being responded to, or dead/seriously injured people caught in the camera view. But I have seen too much police camera footage where the only faces blurred are those of other cops. That is fracking ridiculous and ought to be challenged.
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  7913. I had a Steelcase chair that I (checks calendar) "appropriated" from a previous job. I had the chair for nearly a decade when the piston seals started failing. I contacted the company via their website, and instead of selling me on, they sent out a tech with a FREE one, even though the chair was 1) a couple of months out of warranty and 2) I was not the listed purchaser. A few years later, I bought replacement arms. - I finally parted with the chair after two decades when the upholstery was threads, the padding was powdering, and the piston was leaking again. Sadly, I cannot afford another Steelcase chair right now, because they are fantastic.
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  7914. Sometimes I flip people the ring finger to confuse them. When I was yo9unger, I would flip people the pinkie and tell them that it means they weren't even worth the middle finger.
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  7915. Like Gandalf showing up to save the day at Helm's Deep. Yep!
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  7916. Too bad Ray couldn't get the mower deck attachment for that car.
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  7917. As an American, I don't see how I should be shedding a tear for these road-blockers. Get vaccinated, or get another job. I have tried, but I cannot see how anyone with enough brains to be trusted with the operation of a multi-ton vehicle on the roadway is still against getting vaccinated. Oh wait! Maybe they SHOULDN'T be trusted with multi-ton vehicles on the roadway? - However, I agree Trudeau is handling this entirely wrong. - edit: Go ahead and send the flames, I am combustion-proof.
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  7918. Even just still pictures can educate the customer and cover everyone's butt legally.
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  7919.  @ScottGrammer  That HAD to be initiated by a local Karen. Some people need to stop stealing oxygen and water from the rest of us and get off the planet.
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  7920. Toyota is also one of the many car makers who tried to prevent the passing of a voter initiative for automotive right-to-repair in Massachusetts and one of the auto makers who sued to stop it being enacted. (They failed in both) All based on trying to keep non-dealership mechanics from having access to on-board performance data in the newer more computerized car builds. The car makers even want so far as to air TV ads that all but explicitly stated that letting your mechanic of choice have access to that data would result in you being assaulted (or worse) in a parking garage or late at night while you slept in your home.
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  7921. Bacon!
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  7922. Or a Polar Bear counting station in Antarctica.
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  7923. Are there any easy ones? Asking for a friend.
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  7924. It, um, lets you know EXACTLY where fluid spilled or splattered?
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  7925. Probably when the repair is well over half of buying another similar board.
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  7926. Al Jazeera? Gesundheit!
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  7927. Cuisses.
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  7928. Wait. It's a PeePC!
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  7929. The dad joke is strong with this one.
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  7930. It's land of the free, home of the Whopper.
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  7931.  @davidbodor1762  And then there are the two armors for the Dragonborn DLC. The stuff made from Stahlrim ice (?) and the bonemold stuff made from bug parts.
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  7932.  @davidbodor1762  True. There is a lot of creative laziness in the material names.
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  7933. Yeah, crazy. All those motorcyclists wearing leather that protects them in a wipe-out are so delusional. And people who wear leather gloves to protect from rough and abrasive surfaces, morons! Silly people wearing something with better cut resistance than a shirt. Ha! So funny! - - - Unless you mean some of Bethesda's leather armor models, then yeah. The Forsaken "armor" is ludicrous, particularly the female sets.
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  7934.  @farmerboy916  Good point. If there were enough MP40s lying around to furnish a supply of magazines for this thing in the commercial applications, wouldn't it be cheaper to just clean and use the MP40s?
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  7935. Tom Thumb? Ben D. Phalanges?
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  7936. In this rally clip, Orange Donnie is see-sawing so fast his cult can't keep up with when they're supposed to cheer and when they're supposed to boo.
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  7937. I'll allow that if we also simultaneously "investigate" and fine/sue dating app pictures.
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  7938.  @alienkittens  Also, when designing a stage prop for, let's say, a song about Stonehenge, don't mix up the markings for inches and feet.
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  7939. Well. That explains my pro-plant, anti-zombie political party. I am a mindless slave to video game imagery which has erased any shred of the weak will I once possessed. The only thing left for me is to accept Epic Games into my life. - - "One of us. One of us. One of us..."
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  7940.  @EJWash57  The trick is remembering to dog the hatches once you are inside the tank. It will give you more time at the controls.
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  7941. You can actually check online yourself, just grab the registration to have the VIN in front of you.
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  7942. "Ad-free is a marketing style, and does not mean there will be no ads." - Ohio Supreme Court, famous for their bone-headed boneless chicken decision.
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  7943. Newcomb's? Box A and box B. You are guaranteed the money in box A. Gambling on Box B is greedy. Roko's Newcomb? Choose no boxes. Kirk up in that Kobayashi!
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  7944. If it's Hertz, it's probably faster to just wait for retirement.
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  7945. Now I'm wondering if the humans could be the fuel.
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  7946. 3:38 is, to me, "almost quarter of four" or "three and five eighths."
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  7947. Ooh! If I lived there, 5-tall letters in my front yard would read, "SANTA IS FAKE, KIDS!"
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  7948. Corndogs, in my humble opinion, really need mustard. yellow or brown is personal preference (I usually go with yellow). Also the ones that start from frozen are the worst. Again, my opinion.
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  7949. If the backlog for evaluations is that long, and has been that long for such a stretch of time, then not hiring more capacity is unconscionable. And to be held and not have access to needed medications? That's anything from torture to attempted murder, depending on the medical conditions.
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  7950.  @Finn-McCool  Dang, that one took a turn.
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  7951.  @bpdmf2798  Mine is a plain brown mat with no words. I win!
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  7952. I'm actually already subscribed to most of the channels featured. After this comment, I'm off to find Neil.
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  7953. I wonder if a situation like Brody's ears would be a good place for hand-powered clippers - essentially, just like the powered ones, but operated like pliers.
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  7954. I recall something similar being done to power systems in Iraq in 1991. Looking it up briefly just now, it was a weapon called "Kit-2" which was based on a newer version of chaff tested by the Navy that caused a blackout in San Diego in 1985. It was a light form of metallized fiberglass material that was designed to have a long loft time, that was accidentally found to be effective in shorting suspended power lines.
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  7955. Another point in my favor for never accepting power seats, power steering position, or power windows an any car I buy.
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  7956.  @walterwhite2270  No air conditioning happens eventually to every car. Then you have to find your own Ray to do a leak check and replace (at a minimum!) the Schrader valves and refrigerant. Power windows and power locks are just higher-priced points of potential failure. - But I do appreciate your reductio ad absurdum by then jumping to "pedal car". It is fun to add to my checklist of bad debate tactics being used against me.
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  7957. It's SKY CAKE!
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  7958. You know the rules, and so do I . . . . Yep, that's a Rick roll.
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  7959. On that Rivian update, if the SPEEDOMETER is broken, that is a deadlining safety problem. Not having radio, AC, heat? luxuries. Not having range info? Potentially stranding you. No speedometer? Safety issue.
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  7960. Is it though? The problem comes from observer bias. We notice the HECK out of the one pebble in our shoe that was there for a minute, but we don't pay any attention to the uncountable pebbles that stay out of your shoe and dutifully form the path you are walking.
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  7961.  @nate_d376  What I am saying is that we all notice the bad employee, the loud car, the rickety house, the pot-holed road, but we tend to see that as the norm, when it is not always so. We are just 'built' in the brain to notice the outliers and pay more attention to them. It's a leftover survival mechanism that helped our distant ancestors see the prowling animal or the odd patch of quicksand, or the oily look of leaves that will kill us if eaten.
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  7962. To science the situation: get one of those UV "glue" kits with the UV pen, and test the "blue light sensitive" rectangle. Then get a blue LED, wire it up, and repeat the test.
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  7963. Either ignore it, or ask someone who should know if the alarm is a problem.
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  7964.  @nicobogaard2315  ICE may be able to be fully replaced for passenger vehicles, but it is a much chancier proposition to replace heavy-haul vehicles like semis, dump trucks, construction equipment, railroad engines, etc.
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  7965.  @daveseddon5227  So then, would the agents have to effectively be co-arrestees? Sit in holding with him, stand outside the interrogation room, follow him around "the yard" and make sure he has a one-seat buffer in the mess hall? I'm writing a silly movie in my head at this point.
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  7966. More evidence that I have been watching at least enough Ray: I was driving home today and said, out loud, "Ooh, a Silvery-rado!"
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  7967. Or as the Chinese call it, 'ping pong'.
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  7968.  @onepoh4680  From "Balls of Fury".
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  7969. The last bit gave me a surprise, but a sense of mirth as well.
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  7970.  @olly115  Ah. I've never played any of those fighting games.
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  7971.  @yash1152  Or they require cyan to print black.
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  7972. When I need to print something with color, I print in black & white and pull out my colored pencils. Is it tedious? Heck yes, and that keeps my "I need this in color" urges to an absolute minimum.
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  7973.  @beepbop6697  Nobody would want that brain, but people donate junk all the time. Ever seen a tiger-striped lampshade or a velour sport coat at a Salvation Army store?
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  7974. The "idle" at the start reminds me of Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher".
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  7975. Thanks for the belly laugh!
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  7976. New car? Huh. I'm just glad to get in a car that doesn't reek of smoke. - DeSantis has all of the physical and vocal mannerisms of an old-school mafia don.
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  7977.  @the_kombinator  I use an application on my phone to check the weather. That's it. I see people put all of their financial lives on an item that is easy to drop and break, and easy for pickpockets and smash-n-grab thieves to take. Particularly women whose clothing often has pockets that don't fully fit the phone. It seems nuts to me.
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  7978.  @hughmccurdy3348  Have someone nearby post the comment on THEIR electronic device.
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  7979. Ellen Griswold: This is so dangerous, Clark. We have no business being in a neighborhood like this! Clark Griswald: Oh I don't know, hun. This is a part of America we never get to see. Ellen Griswold: [sarcastic] That's good! Clark Griswald: Uh... no that's bad. We can't just ignore the plight of the inner cities. See the plight kids? [gunshots are heard and a woman is heard screaming] Clark Griswald: Roll 'em up!
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  7980. What are the specifics of larceny in Connecticut? From what I understand, living in the next state north of there, larceny is part of the checklist to get a job in state government. - My big question: Who goes to the bank with one or more large cash deposits, and after dropping one "somewhere" doesn't immediately retrace their steps to go recover it? - edit: I used to make cash deposits daily for a job at a convenience store. The bags I carried the deposits in were labeled with the bank name, were cut resistant, and had security zippers with locks that could only be opened with either the key that never left the cash office of the store, or the key which never left the commercial teller desk at the bank. Was the deposit being carried in one of those bags, or just one of those open-topped canvas bags in which large coin orders are handed out to stores?
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  7981. This is the kind of "law enforcement" that created and popularized the tales of Robin Hood. Not that I am planning or fomenting anything here... (/wink)
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  7982. If shooting a K9 is battery on an officer, then the dog is a cop for all other applications of law.
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  7983.  @daleallen7634  When I hold down the = button, I only get a growing string of ==============================. - I am on a computer, not a phone, if that makes a difference.
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  7984. It is very likely that they have been stealing most of their life, but started small, didn't get caught, and kept escalating until it too big to escape notice.
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  7985. I remember when a B&B was a smaller, less corporate version of a hotel. You would get a Bed and a Breakfast and be out by mid-day so the owners could clean and get ready for the next guest. They were regulated and had to meet safety codes as if they were a hotel.
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  7986. In other shocking news, the floor MAY be made of floor.
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  7987. "Oh, you were going to seize my house? Shame about that accidental fire which completely consumed it."
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  7988.  @rosemarielee7775  A modern wheelbarrow with one small wheel does tip over pretty easy. In some ways, that's a feature, aiding in dumping the load. I also see a number of two-wheeled 'yard carts' that are only dissimilar to the cart in this video by scale and materials.
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  7989. Yeah! How DARE everyone not scream in joy and do backflips while offering to name their next-born child Spencer!? (sarcasm)
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  7990. Why is bamboo such a hot topic? It is one of the fastest growing woody materials, even though it is more accurately a grass. Some varieties can grow as much as 36 inches in a 24-hour period, and bamboo can well tolerate marginal soil conditions, making it a handy plant for re- and afforestation. Turning bamboo into wood or textiles is where the benefits start to vary, and one needs to closely examine the processes, chemicals and amount of water used.
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  7991. What kind of parent names their kid Ironbar Holdings?
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  7992. What's this? Not a corner lot!? Hehehe...
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  7993.  @CaptCKernel  I bet ISIS would front him the cash if he joins them to "get back" at the US...
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  7994. California emissions are great! You can run the car all day and night and the stuff that comes out of the tailpipe is teleported to another state!
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  7995.  @CzechGagi  As an American we have been trained to a variety of menu "expectations" If the menu is on a large board over the ordering counter, it is a deli or a pizza place. If the menu is a tri-fold paper menu, the restaurant is both casual dining and does delivery (often the menu you're handed is the same one they mail out). If the menu is in a faux-leather folder with laminated pages, it is a chain restaurant and upscale casual dining. If the menu is in a real leather folder with unlaminated paper pages with lots of space between menu items then you probably had to make a reservation AND men had to wear at least a suit jacket and long pants.
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  7996.  @NemoConsequentae  I noticed that too.
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  7997. My big question is: Is the technology independently certified to test "open air samples" by proximity to a person's mouth? - And the fact that the cop is part of the DUI unit means he has a strong confirmation bias in all driver encounters just like "certified drug recognition" cops.
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  7998. Greedy lawyers relieve people from personal responsibility in the name of greater profits. So now my lawn darts are just glorified bean bags...
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  7999.  @jacobew2000  Oh, the cop's side? Yeah. AND the Xtian's had more than a necessary portion of hate as well.
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  8000.  @GenX-Grampa  What would a cop's sexual orientation/preference have to do with them trampling the law?
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  8001.  @sykotikmommy  But if one WANTED to be a hateful troll, they have a right to be one. Just like the rest of us would have the right to either ignore or belittle them if they were.
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  8002.  @DonaldWells-wk8dc  There are other options for sammiches. Hot dogs, tacos, burritos, taquitos, egg rolls...
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  8003. We're the government, you can't sue us. But we CAN replace you. - edit: Vernor's is a GREAT ginger ale!
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  8004. I wonder who the new Upton Sinclair will be to write about this trend.
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  8005.  @jguillot72  It is SO not a D or R problem. It is a power problem.
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  8006. So many people immediately attribute SCAT to mean poop, but it is also a style of music that worked well for the careers of many people including Elle Fitzgerald.
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  8007.  @savage069  That's a-good.
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  8008.  @rossmanngroup  Bold bet, depending on which cat is being bet with.
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  8009.  @addhoardingprocrastinator  Heck, try and get cops to help you when you have video evidence, with FACES of porch pirates, or your house is stolen by "squatters"... - "We're sorry, that's a civil matter." BULL!
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  8010. I think buddha would punch that fool in the mouth.
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  8011. Wow. I thought I worked hard at UPS in the 1980's. I quit at the two month mark when the NON-VOLUNTARY union money started to be taken out. When I asked what the union did for the half-time truck loaders like me, they gave a lot of ums and ahs, and no information. Then they came out with gems like "We make the workplace safe!" I said, "OSHA." ...We make sure there is overtime beyond 40 hours! - State law, and I work 20-25. We make sure that if you work holidays you get a holiday rate! - State Law, next. Well, if you're going to be a smart(quack)… - Bye!
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  8012. I quantum watched this quantum episode on the day after quantum day. I now quantum understand and quantum appreciate the quantum science that is helping quantum influence the movies I quantum watch so quantum much. - Thanks for the quantum video quantum Kyle! - I think I've said 'quantum' enough to count for a whole season of Star Trek?
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  8013. This will be an interesting time for legal challenges to municipal income taxes. - If the people working from home were independent contractors, they would not be paying. Even before this pandemic, working for a company based in a taxing city, even if your job almost never saw you IN that city, would get you taxed. But I have long wondered how cities were legally able to do this.
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  8014. Kind of like the hyperbole version of living in Gaza or Ukraine? "Oh, another bombshell. Anyone I know die this time?"
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  8015. But can it keep a Michael at Bay?
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  8016.  @yarazooom  Yeah, he's got a purty mouth. Wonder if he kin squeal like a pig?
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  8017.  @EastSide-qc5oy  So guess his size and send him one you do like, yeah?
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  8018. Has anyone gotten it through the Elongated Muskrat's skull that neither he, nor any of his companies, is the US government? The First Amendment to the US Constitution bars THE GOVERNMENT from infringing on free speech (as pared down by over 200 years of supreme court decisions limiting the freedom).
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  8019.  @JMurph2015  I did preface my previous post by saying I did a SHALLOW search, and for retail prices.
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  8020. Prison is for commoners. The ruling class only shuffles piles of money for their crimes.
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  8021. Maybe you need to "borrow" some tools?
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  8022.  @cryvage1354  I find it so.
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  8023.  @julietardos5044  I watch that channel, as well as Road Guy Rob, who covers poorly designed roads and intersections from a US point of view.
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  8024. Well, he was the THIRD little pig, so his house is resistant to hurricanes. And big-bad wolves. As long as he is not overcrowded by his foolish younger siblings...
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  8025. “Those that give up freedom for safety deserve neither.” ~Benjamin Franklin~
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  8026.  @MrTeff999  Let me help. Grandma might have gotten the fridge not-new. Grandma might be long-lived.
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  8027. Stuff like this is why I have ZERO automatic withdrawals/payments.
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  8028.  @ChrisJones-wg7qc  And Proud Boys and all the various incestuous offspring of the KKK and the Neo-Natsees.
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  8029.  @ChrisJones-wg7qc  Not sure what that has to do with anything. In a similar vein, some KKK members have found out via genetic testing that they are partly Jewish, or black, or Asian (Atilla had an active social life) and that makes me laugh at the absurdity of the :idea of "racial purity."
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  8030. Bring it to Demolition Ranch! What, wrong "exploded"?
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  8031. After the tour, this thing looks like a car made from leftover parts by bored engineers after a drunken company picnic.
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  8032. And after the NHSTA bent over backwards to help car makers attack Massachusetts voters' decision over repair information? Where is the gratitude?
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  8033. Well at least FEELINGS will be protected, if not truth, the law, commerce, or the public.
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  8034.  @robo5013  No. The issue with teacher having to buy classroom supplies is closer to requiring carpenters bring their own 2x4s to build a house for someone else, or an electrician buy the wire... and none of them getting paid back for that expense.
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  8035. Yuri! How many times have I said to stop traveling the world with your careless smoking!!!
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  8036. Oreo progressively oozing into Louis' lap...
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  8037. Because the ContentID system is a money farm for music companies. US copyright law is fundamentally broken.
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  8038.  @Ryarios  You can do all the 'due diligence' and background checking and review of previous jobs in the world, but if the contractor is in the midst of a sudden financial crisis (medical bills, gambling, divorce) or is swimming in the deep end of addiction, or a plethora of other causes, you can STILL get screwed.
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  8039.  @ralfie8801  (dials phone) "Yes, I want to buy ALL the tea in China."
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  8040. I have only owned/use two-stage snowblowers, and they have all had adjustable engine run speeds. - I have also used electric (plug-in) snow throwers that are kind of like heavy shovels and throw the snow straight ahead with no throw chute. They are pretty good for the first 4-6 inches of light/medium snow, or only about 1-2 inches of wet heavy snow.
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  8041. Those overloaded jeep-like vehicles and RPGs will be very helpful against ships miles from shore and planes thousands of feet overhead. Sorry, Hype videos really bring out the snark in me.
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  8042. "Serve Robots" Oh, THAT's not an inauspicious company name at all! - "IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!"
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  8043. Well, they hated the idea of a BROWN WOMAN more than they wanted a non-criminal president.
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  8044.  @TheAmtwhite  Lucky.
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  8045. And apparently putting a Claymore mine in your wheel well is "illegal". Pfft.
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  8046.  @razvanlex  I realize now that my earliest reply in this thread made the assumption that using water for a refrigerant would necessarily mean bringing the water to steam temperature. That was a bad assumption. I had the water/steam cycle of power generation systems in my mind when I was typing that, not thinking about the much less severe temperature differences in a typical forced hot water systems (radiators/baseboard units) for home heating.
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  8047. Yup, and that fact may be why John McCain's chances at winning the top office plummeted the day he chose Sarah Palin. At least, it changed my intended vote.
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  8048.  @Roxor128  That last point is why they had to change the ending song when they re-issued the game Homeworld.
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  8049. There would be a LOT less incentive to either run the car or even drive the car drunk if there was more access to affordable transit options like buses, surface rail, taxis, etc...
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  8050. The only "smart" thing the makers of this lying hit piece did was to disable comments.
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  8051.  @ninjalectualx  In metric, the torque in in Newton-meters.
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  8052. Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back A flight of fancy on a wind swept field Standing alone my senses reeled A fatal attraction is holding me fast How can I escape this irresistible grasp?
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  8053. Yep , just like excessive use of force for cops. Or treason for failed casino owners.
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  8054. ​ @jeffwalther3935  Wow. Feeling highly argumentative today or on this topic? - I was equating the main content of this thread with the way that cops are too often not held to account for what they do wrong, and how our current President only learned from his last impeachment that there was no political will to hold him accountable. - I used short veiled phrases to save typing time. That seems to have been a mistake in at least one case. - I suppose if I had instead used examples of misbehaving children being given "time out" instead of actual punishments like isolation or having privileges taken away can lead to repeat offenses and a complete disregard for parental authority, that may have been more palatable?
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  8055.  @Sherman62  Ah, a deplorable is heard from. Sorry you missed out on the insurrection. Unless you're just waiting your turn for arrest?
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  8056. Cam #1 - Driver is an angry, reactionary tool. - #2, did not have the right of way in the first failed lane change. The rest of the footage is just angry drivers in the wild. - 7:30 it's always somewhat satisfying (if the driver is alone in the vehicle) to see a reckless operator do an Earnhadrt stop.
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  8057. I once was forced to get a very short haircut from my shoulder-brushing mop, but that was part of the enlistment conditions. Now, thirty years later, I feel uncomfortable when my hair grows to one inch in length. - But if other people in jobs that don't require otherwise (and they opted in to the conditions!) choose to have long hair, then they can have hair however they want.
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  8058. The best part about trolls is spinning them vigorously to make their hair stick out in a circular fan.
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  8059.  @2186kmr  Rose Art are a little bit crunchier.
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  8060. Just like all NY Jets hats, shows no signs of use.
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  8061. I was thinking much the same thing.
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  8062. Guy from Arizona visits Finland in mid-winter? Stay warm.
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  8063. To compound this issue, Montana has a lot of vertical. No matter how your machine gets it "go" there is an increase in energy use driving the up slopes. edit: In "ideal" physics, the increased work to go up is offset perfectly by the decreased work to go down, but the real world has stuff like friction and non-perfect efficiencies.
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  8064.  @codegeek98  Where are you going? "Nowhere right now, you stopped me."
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  8065. None in the majority in Congress or the SubPrime Court.
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  8066. Right after this video I got an ad for TSA jobs. YouTube's ad algorithm has an amazing sense of humor.
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  8067.  @christopheraaron8299  It could be curtailed by legislation, but nobody is buying us politicians willing to deal with this issue.
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  8068.  @cydia2020  "Flat bottomed woks you make the wokking world go 'round" - Queen, the Stir Fry album.
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  8069. Of COURSE the cops are not held accountable.
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  8070. Well, given that airlines are now banks that happen to operate leased planes...
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  8071. So, instead of the "top" of the wheel determining the turn, the "bottom" now determines the turn. Interesting.
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  8072. The three products reviewed here are ludicrous. A "Smart" printer that doesn't print and probably has proprietary ink cartridge chips to force you to buy their ink. A "Smart" way to get a spine and/or skull injury on wheels. and a "Smart toothbrush. Who the PASTA needs an internet connected smart toothbrush?
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  8073.  @bhavanbhavani  No gulags? Ask Navalny... oh, too late.
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  8074.  @christophertipton2318  Anyone who is in the military faces even higher penalties for overdrafts. After the bank is done with them, they can face an Article 15 and lose even more money by losing pay. And they can face those UCMJ penalties even if their spouse or kids are the ones who execute the overdraft(s).
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  8075. That guy on the bike needed a longer seat post. or a bigger bike. But the seat post is cheaper if money is not flowing freely in his life.
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  8076. Back when the TV was dumb and the humans were the smart ones in the relationship.
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  8077. Reckless driving? I prefer wreckless driving.
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  8078.  @carrieullrich5059  And greed.
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  8079. How does a municipality entice voter participation? Make voting easier, and the outcome matter. How does a municipality entice business to move/open there? money (tax breaks, grants, etc.).
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  8080. Only if you are rich and/or politically powerful. Us commoners would get cuffs and a "tune up" in the back room.
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  8081. Not a fan of the "unsteady cam". Distracted me from the important discussion.
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  8082. It looks like there was also residue from an older gasket, and that may be why the previous mechanic (or the owner?) put sealant in, instead of properly cleaning the surface.
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  8083. Gah! He hit us with a "To be continued"!!!
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  8084.  @jilbertb  He got that list second-hand.
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  8085. Seems like a prime example of the topic, eh?
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  8086. Let's all call the FBI to tell them we didn't watch the videos in question and insist that they fill out an FD-1023 form for each of our calls.
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  8087. I would think the least interesting place to land on Mars would be meters under the surface, like many early missions seem to have been aiming for... (/crash!)
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  8088. Pfft. Give the "mystical device" to LockPickingLawyer and he'll have it open in less than a minute without bothering to read the riddle or even THINK about art.
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  8089. A savvy lawyer would file for change of venue. And wait with fingers crossed.
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  8090.  @kenrichards5699  I LOOOOOOVE when science nerds play in the comments!
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  8091.  @rnash999  A new lease on a used car. The logic kind of works if you squint.
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  8092. You stole my thought!
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  8093. My answer for "Do you know how fast you were going?" is "Yes."
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  8094. There is a used car dealer near me that has a Little Tykes car bolted to their sign stand. - Edit: Ooh! Imagine if this was the shop loaner! Nobody would keep it instead of coming back for their own clunker.
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  8095.  @1RungAtATime  I HAVE to open the door, as I don;t have a light in or next to it, and no peephole. And I WON'T get one of those anti-privacy devices by Ring.
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  8096. You can replace the fluorescent tubes with LED tubes. They cost more, but last much longer, are brighter and whiter, and come in instantly.
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  8097. From looking at the intake, the back two channels don't actually carry coolant flow, but are instead dead ends.
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  8098. Sometimes I just need to be outside and hear someone SAY poison ivy and I get a psychosomatic itch.
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  8099. I'd like to see porch pirates get packages coated in the adhesive used in rat traps and then the box sets off a 120db siren. - Though some days I'd be willing to see them get fingers severed by whirling blades, or shocked by two-phase service voltage. - some days I am a bit bloodthirsty.
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  8100. This is the best assessment of the matter I've read today.
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  8101. We can't let the Subprime Court be in charge of ending this doctrine. We MUST have Congress and the President make it law, not just precedent. - This also applies to many things, from reproductive choices, to Citizen's United, to the Chevron Deference...
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  8102. For non-circles, perimeter is the usual term. Win for Troy!
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  8103. The ODNI and FBI need to do nothing to harm Trump's reputation other than stand aside and let him talk to anyone who will listen to him.
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  8104.  @Sam_Guevenne  Perhaps not, but it doesn't need to get all the way to genocide to be really horrible. War sucks, and humans are the worst.
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  8105. I'm sure a note was put in their employee files that has an expiration date if they don't get an identical note within three months.
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  8106. How about you address not just the severity of the offense, but that cops will do NOTHING even when handed clearer video of the crime than they can get with their dash cams, that are admissible in court. THAT is the bigger problem. The police, that people pay for with their taxes (and with property lost to "civil" forfeiture), refusing to DO THEIR DAMN JOB when the clearest evidence is presented to them!
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  8107. "Hey guys" can not be normalized. It has already been for a LONG time. - And wait, I can weaponize words? I need to get a large-capacity word magazine/dictionary, STAT! - And Sydney, dude, you bring us the best topics.
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  8108. In vexillology, the study of flags, the US flag is one of the worst national flags on the planet. It only marginally passes because it does not have words or a seal (not the animal) on it.
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  8109. All aboard the Fuss Bus!
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  8110. My brother worked at an engineering firm that was sold to a company whose business model was to buy companies and make money from them. The people at the top had been in talks about the sale for a couple of months, but the rank-and-file were informed the day the sale went through. They showed up, and got to meet the transition team from the new owners who were armed with all sorts of handbooks and documents for employees to sign. The new company screwed up big time in their new non-compete contracts, which violated the law in the state the purchased company was in, amongst other problems. One engineer didn't even stay half an hour. He just packed his desk and told the department manager to send his last paycheck and vacation buyout at some point. - Several years before this, I was living in an apartment for a landlord who had told me a year prior when I moved in that the property was a long-term investment to gain money for the college funds of his two pre-school kids. One year after moving in, I got a letter saying that the building was being sold, and the new owners wanted to move into my unit, so I had two weeks to get out. That was so fun to have that happen at the same time as my divorce...
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  8111. The liquid de-ice stuff is not propylene glycol. It is usually either a magnesium chloride of calcuim chloride in water and sometimes includes other ingredients to improve melting effects and/or lower the temperature at which the stuff works. Some of these mixes can effectively melt ice and snow down to about -20F (-28.8C) Though it can also be a sodium chloride brine, which works down to about 15F (-9.4C). It is sprayed down shortly BEFORE snow and ice are going to fall, which melts away small amounts, and makes plowing more effective for thicker falls. - Rock salt or salt/sand mix is usually laid down AFTER the snow or ice has fallen, and after plowing. The sand is added if traction is the goal. The salt works best at temperatures down to 15F (9.4C), so in weather colder than that, it doesn't do much melting except where sunlight warms it. - No harm in Ray not knowing these things. I don't know how to prepare my residence for a hurricane, or how to check for alligators before mowing the lawn.
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  8112. Laws with vague language allow variable enforcement and penalization. And that's how we get oppression and the armed revolts that follow.
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  8113. You could probably buy a case of iPhones, bring them to China, and mail the phones, boxes and all with the receipts attached to your business address and they would get seized. There is no power available to the little guy when dealing with little-guy issues. And that sucks.
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  8114. Attempted negligent homicide, at a minimum.
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  8115. I dunno. If someone throws a rock at your head every time they see you, it is rather forgivable to assume that every time a rock hits you in the head it is that person doing it.
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  8116. Loving the shirt today!
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  8117.  @eugeneharrelson3933  At least it's no Michigan (?) where the state supreme court rules that leaving the lug nuts loose enough that the wheels fall of in a few miles still counts as them completing the tire change "service"
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  8118.  @DamienPalmer  People record themselves committing crimes and post those videos in social media. So yes, I can believe that even purportedly educated people can be so full of hubris that they see no downside to publicly posting their plans under their own names.
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  8119.  @cvr527  BWAHAHAHA!!!
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  8120.  @danlock1  In this case, it was the similarity of the way the words Skylon and Cylon sound.
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  8121. As a tall guy, working under the dash is my bane.
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  8122.  @wingracer1614  You typed your first paragraph. Did you even watch the video? The case discussed in this video is the 37th no-body murder trial... in just Michigan.
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  8123. Orcs & Norks.
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  8124. That's a really good description of a rail switching yard. "A shipyard on land". - Anywho, another good repair video, thanks, Ray!
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  8125. @The Glorious White Male The contractor (business owner) was quite likely not present with the crew that did the strip-n-run. If they have multiple crews, it is common for the boss to have foremen/women who run each crew. The job of a business owner is not to do the work, but to arrange tomorrow's work.
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  8126. Black Friday is a day when I historically have STAYED THE BLEEP HOME. I get... twitchy... in crowds, and I don't want to be a headline in the local news on Saturday. "Man arrested after knocking out three with a thrown shopping cart."
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  8127. I have a dumb-phone that is barely bright enough to help me find my stand-alone flashlight. It doesn't have a camera, or a touchscreen, and I LOVE IT!
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  8128.  @Indrid__Cold  But Barack was only ONE of the taboos... brown skinned. Kamala is TWO taboos. Brown AND female. That's too much even for the saner "-ism drenched" voters.
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  8129. My brother had his (less than three year-old) water heater fail on Thanksgiving Day last year. It kept tripping the breaker and before each trip the water was tepid at best. It turned out that the primary heater coil had so much limescale built up that it was no longer heating water efficiently, but the heater logic circuit kept calling for more heat, leading to the breaker tripping. A little wrench turning and two simple part swaps (He changed the secondary "keep warm" coil at the same time) later, and he fixed the issue. His next goal is a water softener to prevent the buildup from happening again.
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  8130. The alarms are designed to be "annoying" so the people who need to hear them pay attention. I've long thought that for me, one of the best smoke alarm sounds would be a screaming/crying baby.
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  8131.  @MediCali951  What a waste of mayo. Save it for a sandwich. Okay, to be completely honest, I prefer Miracle Whip to mayo.
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  8132. C4 is too stable for such a use, it needs a high amount of energy to detonate, which would not fit the package easily.
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  8133. Florida, California... whatever. At least you're not New York!
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  8134. "My new stepdad beat and un-alived his last two wives, but he hasn't hit us... yet."
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  8135. "We're not hugging, we're wresting!"
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  8136. And learn about the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty_Act - It is not enough that you opened a case. The manufacturer has to prove that what you did was the cause of the failure.
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  8137. I love the HUGE mugs you have, Sydney. - The ones with tea in them you Neanderthals!
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  8138.  @donpugh6863  I've gotten good results from early application of Ivarest, after the initial soap and water wash.
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  8139. No-mow May!
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  8140. As soon as Doocy said "DOGE", Trump went all chimp-face, looked down and away from the reporter, and began planning his BS response. Doocy: "Why does Doge need all that data?" Trump: "Well, it doesn't..."
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  8141. If your jaywalking caused a vehicle accident, then the charge would not simply be jaywalking, but something like reckless endangerment.
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  8142. radiation is how the sun warms our planet. It sure as heck is not conduction or convection across the void of space.
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  8143. Discrimination, in the legal sense, is the act or policy of denial based on group identity. This UK law is about elevation of a Super Protected Class above the average citizen/resident.
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  8144. The Holocaust wasn't about race. It was about race and religion and ablism and nationalism and hate and the need for a common enemy. And is Judaism a race? What about the Romani, the mentally and physically handicapped, the Soviets and all of the others killed in the process?
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  8145. It's Florida. The state doesn't much care about vehicles being sound and safe to be on the road after the initial purchase inspection.
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  8146. The first example I got of consumer gullibility was a grade-school teacher giving the example of a pickles being sold "Ten cents each, two for a quarter."
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  8147. We should all be so lucky.
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  8148. I am watching this video because I am tired of YouTube recommending it for the last three months pretty much daily.
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  8149. As always, I appreciate the sprinkling of puns. And the guy who invented that thing? His mind must have moved in higher planes of engineering than most.
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  8150. Remember when a mechanic could stand between the wheel well and the engine in some cars?
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  8151. When you asked the sting of "Do you want...?" questions, there were some that I answered with a "Yes, but only if..." Yes I want more deaths, but only if it is the willfully ignorant, the habitual felons, the pedophiles, and the people who think hate and ONLY hate is a legitimate form of civil discourse. Oh, and anyone who willfully harms children.
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  8152. Based on my scant legal education via Law & Order, it will backfire more than it will help.
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  8153. Of course they won't do this where crime happens, that might be dangerous and reveal actual crime statistics, driving down property values of the rich elite, and slow the flow of companies opening in the city to bring in tax revenue. - I once worked in a town where nearly every drug or violence "event" was relayed to patrolling officers via their cell phones, since it kept the calls off the public record. And they even avoided arresting drug dealers, just escorting them out of town with a warning to never show up again. All to keep the town "safe and crime free" for property values and prestige of the "important people" in town.
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  8154. The title is a little obvious. Gold, at purities enough to be that color, tend to be VERY fragile when thin, and ductile when thicker. - And if they were REALLY using gold for thermal reasons, silver is MUCH cheaper/stronger and only a tiny bit less thermally conductive. Or down-step to copper or its alloys to save even MORE money while losing only a little thermal conductivity.
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  8155. Other than annual inspections, my horn gets used maybe once or twice a year. So that's two to three times annually. I do swear a lot at other drivers, maybe a couple hundred times a year. - As soon as you said the word 'klaxon', my mind immediately gave me Jon Whorfin (John Lithgow) shouting, "Will somebody turn off that gosh darn klaxon?"
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  8156. Hmm... were the guidelines in question instituted as a function of the municipality's health department? Depending on the structure of that locality's (and state's) laws, such "guidelines" may carry the weight of law. A Park's department can put up a "no swimming" sign on a lake, and swimming there is breaking the law (typically to the level of a fine). - So, needs more detail in the particulars to determine if the "guidelines" rise to the level of regulation and/or law.
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  8157. Seems A lot of fun was had during the editing! I got a kick out of all the inclusions.
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  8158. MOAR DAKKA! I guess.
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  8159. How many years does holding a loaded semi-automatic rifle add to that math?
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  8160. My wedding and reception cost a total of about $350. We were married in a state park by a JOP, and had our reception at a fabulous Chinese restaurant nearby. The dozen or so people we invited were told to wear whatever, as long as they wore shoes appropriate for walking on grass at the park. We paid for all of food and drinks at the reception, and our cake was a two-layer blueberry cheesecake that was the right size for everyone to have a generous piece or two. - In hindsight, it was good we spent so little, as the whole shebang lasted a little over two years. The credit cards she ran up just before telling me she was leaving to be with someone else were several times more than the wedding and reception. Yay...
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  8161. Clueless algorithms gave me an Apple iPhone 12 Pro commercial at the 1:15 break. - Why that liquid metal? Has thermal paste suddenly disappeared from the planet? That shit is like glitter on a carpet! - Is there something that liquid metal is soluble in that won't harm the board? Like acetone or diesel fuel?
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  8162.  @ihavenoson3384  This is the kind of information-dense response I was hoping for. Thanks greatly!
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  8163. A build like this deserves a tux with loafers. It just works.
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  8164. Yep. Petroleum fuels are the best energy source for moving vehicles. They are also finite and polluting. But I do not have the facilities to care for a horse, so a car it is. Now. Which car propulsion tech will bring us to the next century? I don't know either.
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  8165. Show up on time for work. - Okay. Wear clothes appropriate for the job. - Okay. Submit vacation requests ahead of time. - Okay. Keep your skills up to date with training and/or classes. - Okay. Get a vaccine to prevent your possible death and the reduce the chances of spreading the malady. - MANDATES BAD!
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  8166. Right to repair? Nah. Right to respirate!
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  8167. That's what we need. Something to narrow situational awareness to a few degrees. Walk around with optics stuck to your face, linked to the special tube on top of your weapon... trip and fall into a ditch, get shot from the side, miss the enemy peeking from the window above your chosen line of sight... Oh, and carry more batteries, troops! And you better know how to use the iron sights, because something WILL happen to the optics. - And war? War never changes.
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  8168. From LA? Who did these people think they were, Massachusetts DPW or Turnpike workers?
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  8169. In the US, heck the world, we have not had a complete and total war that would require enough of the population of a major country (excluding WW2 Germany, who started that bleep) has had to come under arms to fight a war. it would take ET's with a conquest mission to make that happen. Women can still OPTIONALLY register for Selective Service, and volunteer to serve, should they meet the training standards. (And dammit US, STOP lowering standards to be inclusive. You weaken the blade when you let inferior metal in the mix.
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  8170. To touch on the subscription heated seats: If economy of scale means the cars are all built with heated seats installed, then MAKE THAT A STANDARD FEATURE. Don't nickel and dime your customers, instead milk the fact that you offer luxury to ALL of your customers because "That is how we value our brand and our buyers." Yes, you're still lying, but at least you're not being a mercenary about that.
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  8171.  @markmitzlaff8672  Firefly first aired on FOX. And here is a link to an old Family Guy bit where Peter lists the many shows FOX killed in that era... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO47ieVyJsI
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  8172. To err is human. To knowingly upsell unneeded repairs is evil.
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  8173. Ha! I remember back in the day when remotes were still fairly new and everyone was getting cable. All of the remotes had the same coding. (Kind of like the garage door opener snafu around the same time.) We used to take our Charter remote and change what people in the neighborhood were watching if they had their curtains/shades open. We could sometimes get up to 40 feet away if the window was nearly square-on to our location.
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  8174. Uh-oh. Louis has a drinking problem.
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  8175. Huh. Makes sense. My first guess was going to be a warped cover, but your comment reminded me of a pickup one of my old bosses had that had too high an internal pressure something something that cause baskets to blow out every 9-18 months. It was apparently a known defect and was covered under warranty every time? This was about 25 years ago, so I don't remember all the details. It was a Ford, with a king cab, extended bed, and gasoline powered (I think).
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  8176. Lion and Tiger and Blake, oh my!
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  8177. Some of the cars I see on mechanic YouTube channels frighten the bleep out of me. Rusted out frames, missing sway bars, bald tires, holes in the floor, bedazzled airbag covers, doors that don't open from either side... And all "legally" on the road in non-inspection states.
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  8178.  @justanoman6497  100 years ago, you could peruse the women's underwear/lingerie section of the Sears Catalog.
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  8179. I wish it was not so surprising to hear.
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  8180. I wonder how much it cost to transport those bikes to that lot, to prep them for crushing (draining all fluids), to rent that lot, to rent the bulldozers, to pay the heavy equipment operators, to pay people to clean up the mess, and to pay to dispose of these mixed-material wrecks?
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  8181. Dear FTC. Make the US an opt-in nation, instead of the opt-out or no-option [bleep] we have now.
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  8182.  @EchoConstellation  If your employer contributes to a politician, it makes a difference if they are contributing as Pfizer, or as Winston Moneybags, CEO. And under the current wrong-headed rules, they can contribute the maximum under law as BOTH.
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  8183.  @joewiddup9753  People have been fixing their own stuff since there were people. Now a few people are trying to take away that right.
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  8184. I used to work for a guy who, for a few years, drove trucks hauling nuclear waste. He shared how the containers were so safe that a train could hit on at top speed and there would be no leak. He also talked about how the stuff was so heavy that a truck could haul only one container at a time. It was years later when I saw a documentary that backed up his anecdotes. I still wonder why fuel rods cannot be recycled/recentrifuged
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  8185.  @djstubed  (This applies in Massachusetts, I have no experience or information elsewhere) In the way back, stores had to price every item. With bar-code scanning, and slight adjustments to laws, stores can now change the price of dozens of boxes of cereal with a shelf tag and a couple of keystrokes. - The shelf tags serve to let the customer know how much the item is, and if the computer gets it wrong. Digital tags has the same system checking itself.
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  8186.  @apexone5502  I had read an article about them a couple of days ago.
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  8187. People will often act against their best interests. People buying apple products, farmers voting for politicians who campaign on killing off subsidies, senior citizens voting for politicians who campaign on ending social security and Medicare, people who love their children supporting foreign wars, people buying cars that tell THEM what they can do with it, people bringing spyware into their homes so they don't have to touch a light switch...
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  8188. It is tragic when morons find a word they like, without knowing what it means, and use it as much as they possibly can.
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  8189. Not only does he need to slow his butt down, he needs to resign and accept AT LEAST one ticket on his record. And pay it uncontested.
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  8190. "Never underestimate the value of a good lard!" - Probably Jamie Hyneman, from Mythbusters
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  8191. There ARE in fact other ways the property owner could have handled the situation instead of lodging a complain. But some of those would involve destruction of city equipment and/or city employees.
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  8192. This mythical Jesus would be quite busy flipping DeSantis' tables after something like this.
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  8193. Good one! You made me try to guess what was broken to cause that tapping noise.
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  8194. If algae is your only goal, then the deaths of other life that such a plan would hazard can be ignored, I guess.
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  8195.  @johnhull2582  Seems to me step one is aerosol release of a viral weapon coded to human DNA.
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  8196. When Ray said, "... we're putting a diff in it." I first had college flashbacks to a class of differential equations, then I realized he was talking about a vehicle's differential. I'm going to over in that corner rocking myself calm.
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  8197.  @barryfrench2534  And that's why ships use port and starboard.
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  8198. Pain and suffering for a missing plastic cover!? What a tool! (No offense meant to actual tools)
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  8199. Brilliant. And when we have smog like in the 1980's over major cities, people are dropping dead from breating maladies, and coal plants are filling our air with heavy metals that settle into our water and on our land, homes, cars and selves, you'll be happy?
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  8200. Thanks for showing us how this thing works! I have lost half of my Sanity points, but it's fine. We're all fine here... - Cleaning for this thing is (IMO) just holding the shooty parts in an ultrasonic bath of cleaner, then a bath of machine oil. Drip-dry and put it back together.
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  8201.  @SuperBiologe  Because if you have a chance to use railguns... YOU USE RAILGUNS! Also, railguns are "green". No gunpowder or other low-order explosives, just electricity.
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  8202. So they know where the originators of the scam operate? Something, something, Hellfire missile.
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  8203. If he wins, the taxpayer will pay for this cop's actions, because you can't sue for injunctive relief against cops to get them fired, or make the department improve policies, or enforce better training.
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  8204.  @DavidEdwards9801  Or read the first page or two. The whole things starts with, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
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  8205. Also, Florida is the state that fired and then arrested a Covid data scientist (Rebekah Jones) for reporting the actual data instead of following orders to under-report the problem. Well, she was arrested for illegally accessing government computers, but the efforts to silence her were real, and ongoing.
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  8206. Ah, the Hyundai Sonata. The South Korean classical music car.
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  8207. Why does Ezekiel from Forty Fort look so much like the ancestor of both John Oliver and Steven Colbert? Someone call Ancestry.com or 23 and Me to get on this! - Holy beans! John Voight is still (technically) alive?
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  8208.  @jayhache5609  What if your son named Garp bites the dog?
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  8209.  @wmdkitty  Yeah! More killing! That will solve problems!!! - Sheesh...
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  8210. Kung Fu Fighting! I remember when that song was new. - I am old...
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  8211. If you need more CLP than a small bottle for maintaining personal weapon, is can often be found in large drums. You get that large drum pumped into more portable containers, whatever they are.
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  8212. So we have gone from "Half-Life Stories" to "Just give up living" stories...
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  8213. So, he wins?
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  8214. Being a Massachusetts voter who supported and voted for automotive right to repair recently, I wish you good luck. Your ballot measure will get overwhelming votes, and then all of the "special interest groups" will crawl out of the woodwork to file lawsuit after lawsuit. Federal politicians and bureaucrats will find their owners, sorry, DONORS, calling in favors to flex federal muscle against the measure. If you're VERY lucky, your political will become law before you die of old age.
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  8215. a 1/32: drill should fix the problem. It might cause other problems in exchange.
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  8216.  @davidvirgilio902  Agreed. It's one of the many perfect idiot traps out there.
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  8217. A sequel to The Wandering Earth - The Pirouetting Earth!
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  8218. This company is on the right and righteous path, but to quote a salty Right-to-Repair advocate and cat video purveyor, "Schematics or Die."
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  8219. Banks encrypt their communications. BANKS ARE TERRORISTS! Governments encrypt their communications. GOVERNMENTS ARE TERRORISTS!!!
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  8220. That EGR cooler you showed us has a lot in common with oil-fired boilers used to produce steam, such as on ships.
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  8221. Let'sa go home!
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  8222.  @armabearo  Load the carronades!
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  8223. What irks me is suing for money is all that can be done. There is no route to injunctive relief which could make actual changes and hold cops actually accountable.
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  8224.  @MioJuventino88  If the National Guard is federally activated, the federal government is on the hook for paying, supplying, and supporting them. Or do you often pay your neighbor's wages when they work at a company you don't own?
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  8225.  @chrissouthgate4554  Just hope the caves ae not a base, a la Iron Sky
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  8226. You know what one thing is very effective at reducing drunk driving accidents? Public transit. Cabs, buses, surface rail, subways... Even rideshare services. An easily accessed (and even better, affordable) sober driver option cuts way back on drunk driving. Yeah, you'll still get the stubborn and the idiots.
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  8227. Way back in the day, the only "ad blocker" we had was going to the bathroom or to grab a snack during TV commercials. Was I pirating Godzilla movies? - edit: I forgot the other ad black back them. flipping the channel to check the score of a sports game.
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  8228. Well, it turns out my brother was right all along. Save the money and pull the weeds by hand. - No increased change of cancer, AND you get exercise.
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  8229. Number One in Covid deaths!
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  8230.  @debluetailfly  Not everyone has the time and money to stick a years-long fight against their municipality, or to run for their local government and fix things.
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  8231.  @zomfgeclipse  True, an 18% drop in valuation within a week is pretty good for crypto. But thus fall all Ponzi schemes.
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  8232. That responding cop bears a lot of blame. Treating people like recalcitrant children by using a countdown, and conflating incoherence as a clearly stated refusal to comply. What next, bodily dragging a guy out of a paddy wagon and trying to force him to walk because he's "obviously faking being paralyzed"?
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  8233. Our masters have arranged the law so that all we can hope for is financial compensation, not injunctive relief and actual change.
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  8234.  @shubanobi2206  Agreed. Have you read any similar aged books or standards on surgery? House building methods? Sewer construction? How about the use of mercury, lead, and radioactive elements in household goods and medicines? Just because it is written down, doesn't mean it can't get better. Ask Copernicus some time.
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  8235. When someone goes full racist Karen as a graduate student, it is far too late for that school's policies to make a personality change. Expel the racist Karen, post-haste, even if you have to issue a tuition and fees refund.
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  8236. Those spineless, amoral, unprincipled... GAH! Slap them all with a bag of live grenades!
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  8237. That vehicle looks like it's sat for a while. Rust in Florida (!), critter nests on the caliper, dry rot tires. edit: 13:30 Oh, it's a northern car. The rust makes more sense.
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  8238. But the same people don't get triggered by classic cars without directionals?
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  8239. I have a hard time keeping interest in podcasts. At least the ones that seem to always run well over an hour. After 20-30 minutes, I'm thinking less about the content and more about what else I could be doing with the time.
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  8240. A Russian proverb to live by: doveryay, no proveryay - "Trust, but verify" The version I grew up with: "Believe half of what you see, none of what you hear."
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  8241. Klingon discommendation!
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  8242.  @vashmatrix5769  Having grown up with "new" school clothes from the Salvation Army store, winter heat barely high enough to keep pipes from freezing, and occasionally having sleep for dinner because of a deadbeat dad who bought an SSN to earn without paying... Go stuff yourself.
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  8243. That scrubber you're using looks like a piece of ridge vent material. My brother keeps a small pile of these from when he was a roofer, they make decent mild sanders.
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  8244. Once you are president, being incapable of passing a background check for top secret clearance doesn't matter. You get access. Makes no sense.
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  8245. The USDA also ruined Swiss cheese. If you eat Swiss cheese and noticed that the holes are tiny or completely missing, that's the reason.
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  8246.  @squiggyg.8415  That fan has to be removed every time the belt needs to be changed
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  8247. This actuator job is there because the Great Murphy heard Ray not wanting to take apart his Silvery-rado dash.
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  8248. Built Ford Tough... to work on.
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  8249. Mr. Clinton here spitting truth about right-to-repair, commercial real estate, and how NYC's residential rental prices cut into the Greenies budget.
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  8250. Same kind of energy when you get a fee for not showing up to a doctor appointment on time, but if the doctor is running late (usually from being overscheduled) you don't get anything other than "Please wait".
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  8251. Parfait should have gone with McLovin instead.
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  8252. You know who else has sub-par experiences with the health care system? People who a) don't at least minimally educate themselves. b) people who don't well describe ALL of their complaints to their providers. c) people who are not willing to change doctors if they feel under-cared-for. d) people who don't stand up for themselves.
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  8253.  Tom Geldon  Ah, I see. The founding fathers foresaw technological communications, world markets, world wars, planes trains and automobiles, women and non-whites voting without needing the benefit of being property owners.... - Nope. The only things they "foresaw" was that the US Constitution and the laws governing the country would need to be able to incorporate changes, and set up a government to have three major branches which act as checks and balances on each other. - Before we can point a finger at who is "destroying America" we have to first all agree what this America IS, for it to be "destroyed" versus evolved toward the future.
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  8254.  Tom Geldon  And I can say the exact same thing substituting the words "The left" with "The right". - Extremes are the problem, lack of compromise and working together is the problem.
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  8255.  Tom Geldon  Why are you such a hateful person. Let yourself understand that you will NEVER change my view that you are wrong, and I will NEVER change my view that you are wrong. This has gone on for more than long enough. This is my last reply. - Be well, and be decent to people.
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  8256. I don't even like paper temp plates. My state lets dealerships certify to distribute plates and initiate the registrations. We also have five business days to change our registration when we buy a new car and transfer our plates from the old car to the new one. No temp plates.
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  8257. Let's withhold SCOTUS pay, benefits and protection. Let those things "percolate" for a while.
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  8258. Maybe if meat wasn't essentially owned by four or five mega-corporations, there would be more competition, more variety, and possibly even more quality.
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  8259. With the mercury bulbs being phased out, aspiring, um, "motion activated PRANK device makers" need to have more knowledge of circuitry to be able to use a vibration sensor circuit instead. - I'm commenting from a LARP perspective.
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  8260. I am reminded of a (comedian) Chris Porter bit, where he says lawyers need to have an "Are you sh**ing me?" defense for idiotic lawsuits.
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  8261. Oh, so New Jersey's militia is not well regulated?
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  8262.  @timinwsac  Which arms? Spears? Muskets? Henry repeaters? M-240's? Javelins? Personal tanks? A Davy Crocket launcher for every county?
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  8263. That photo of the McDonalds had some serious foil-hat conspiracy graffiti. - So Dr. Crosby was arrested for "contempt of cop". At least he wasn't shot for a DWBV (Driving While Black)? Sad world we are making.
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  8264. "Do have any money in your wallet, any cash?" - "Are you trying to elicit a bribe?"
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  8265.  @ryans413  When I was in 5th grade, my family moved from mid-state Massachusetts to Phoenix AZ. It took us months to acclimate and not have daily heat exhaustion. - 3-1/2 years later we moved back, same couple of months to acclimate.
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  8266.  @tuberNunya  Because the socks that get lost in the dryer are stealing them.
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  8267.  @charlottekeck8547  Nope, not fired.
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  8268. That third turret is so oddly sited, losing so much firing arc.
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  8269.  @olstar18  Could even have gotten torn from road debris.
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  8270. #1 Note cards: So you don't skip anything and present your ideas clearly. Used by people who can actually read. #2 Ask for unity: Better than asking for sedition and armed insurrection. And apparently someone "asked" the newscaster's eyes to come together... #3 No energy: Not everyone needs to raise their vocal register to be able to communicate clearly and concisely. #4 Condemned white supremacy: Good, It is far too long since someone in the White House has done so. #5 An exercise cycle works the lower body, pushups work the upper body. Sounds like someone is upset we don't have a fat schlub as President anymore. #6 Picking reporters? You're just burned that he is not favoring the far-right reporters like the last guy. Come on, tell the truth. #7 You know who else has not "cured" Covid? Everyone. There are vaccines that have existed for less than a month. Nobody who has had Covid was :cured", they rode out the disease. Well, one fat sweet potato got lots of experimental medications at taxpayer expense and rode his symptoms out in a private hospital room in his temporary house, which we also paid for. #8 If I am threatened with death or grievous harm by armed lunatics, and I have the means to do so, you bet your azz I would hire private security, and so would you. The US military, in all of its forms, is NOT a security company. They are a warfighting and disaster response force. #9 Didn't socially distance - fair enough, but the last guy didn't wear masks, and he and his cronies belittled people who DI wear masks, even after they were a super-spreader event. #10 Well, the fat lady, er fat man, had left the building. Ten minutes matter to you because... - There is a whole lot of butt-hurt being exposed in this video. So many people scared to become suddenly on the outside looking in. So many scrambling to be the rat with the last slice of pie when the viewership tapers off and money gets tight.
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  8271. What SHOULD be most telling is that Orange Donnie's legal strategy is NOT to say he didn't do the deeds, but that he can't be held accountable for doing the deeds. Kind of like, "Yeah, I killed Joey Vinicci, but we were on a private boat in international waters."
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  8272. What the bleep is wrong with these cops? Don't they realize they can earn ALL the hate they need and still get paid doing so by telling the truth?
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  8273. The ATF probably wrote a regulation to remove their sense of humor. After all, they write regulations to make even dumber things arrestable.
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  8274.  @KaelynDreyer  Depending on the phone, it can be done at least once. My phone, it comes out easily (no glue).
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  8275. Much better a "lack of humility" by the D's than a lack of humanity by the R's.
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  8276. If you want to fake the visuals and texture of high grade cocaine, use rice flour.
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  8277. Take a drink every time Yelp says, "New user experience" - die from alcohol poisoning.
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  8278. In Boston MA, I once fed a line of 7 or 8 parking meters ahead of a parking enforcement officer. They looked rather upset when I said that none of the crs were mine or for people I knew. - Re: chalking, I once saw someone chalk their own tires, several times per tire, with both white and yellow chalk. I though that was brilliant.
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  8279.  @contumelious-8440  The law does not seem to indicate that. To me, it seems that the shops which insist on making the vehicle owner NOT drive it off their lot are just being smart and protecting themselves from legal liability.
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  8280. You made a friend? Then that wrong turn was a RIGHT turn!
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  8281. Spam and Velveeta on Wonder bread. A fully processed childhood! Nothing hits the flavor nostalgia like "meat product", "cheese food product" and "enriched white bread".
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  8282. I saw a really good cart design on I Like To Make Stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMCpLK443fc If I had a workshop, I would make something like that one. - Edit: For ideas for extraction, I like this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tys4N1h5BmE Jeremy's spray station is not mobile, but he did originally ponder making it that way.
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  8283. Sorry I did not watch the convention videos, but those type of things have no real draw for me. Glad you had a great time!
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  8284. Well, I don't care a bit about Twitch, so, FUCK TWITCH. Um... FUCK Facebook and Twitter too! Muhahaha! Also, have you looked at joining with Jeorg Sprave's Youtuber union push?
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  8285. Not only are the taxpayers on the hook for paying to fix this, but so are the defendants.
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  8286.  @jostouw4366  Ether and phlogiston.
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  8287. There is a good demonstration of scales in the solar system in an episode of Wonders of the Solar System, presented by Brian Cox
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  8288. @Scott Covert They listen to their grandparents talking about having to walk uphill both ways in the snow, and how they had to kill a bear with a pocket knife and cook it with the sub of a candle to be able to have lunch. - But seriously? there seems to be an inertia of the idea of "red tape" while the reality is that the process has only gotten easier and quicker over the years and decades. - Heck, with the internet and a printer, I don't have to even know how to get to my town hall!
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  8289.  @scipioafricanus5871  Hell yes it SHOUDL be overturned! But it won't be. Particularly with the conservative bench-packing going on right now. - It would instead be easier to get congress to pass a law changing the political money landscape, and hope that whomever is President will sign it. - So, no hope at all, really.
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  8290. A good immortality story (I unfortunately lost the book!) is The Boat of a Million years by Poul Anderson. It has enough of a cast of immortals that you get to see the benefits and burdens of not dying from several points of view. - I also like Barry Sadler's "The Eternal Mercenary" series. The main character is a 'made-immortal' who has to wait until a certain person is reborn again in a "second coming" to release them from life. Very cool series.
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  8291. If you have the props for it, start your zoom call "from the operating room".
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  8292. I have repeatedly been guilty of working harder because my brain wanted to keep the board in the same orientation as the part-view drawing.
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  8293. 38 minutes in, and your Bafang is STILL not firing crossbow bolts. You must not be German.
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  8294.  @chunkycornbread4773  I was just trying to think like a lawyer in my previous comment. I think it is thematic, given the topic of the video. Now that I think further, the second amendment COULD be interpreted to require that we go about our day armed if we exercised the right at all, since it grants the right to keep AND bear arms. So if you locked your pistol in a gun safe and went to the store without a deadly weapon, you could be in violation of the "and".
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  8295.  @DarthVader1977  Ah, pedantry. One of the most annoying forms of debate.
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  8296.  @danielch6662  That is interesting indeed.
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  8297. My only beef with the gas tube system was the amount of work it added to the cleaning process.
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  8298.  @kiereluurs1243  beef NOUN 1. the flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, used as food: 2. flesh or muscle, typically when well developed: 3. a complaint or grievance:
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  8299. Burr should join McConnell in the unemployment line for blatantly and deliberately refusing to do the job they were hired to do, and required to do as part of the Constitution. - Fun note about Justice Kavanaugh. Due to the Senate rules changes that let judicial confirmations be by 50 votes instead of 60, as it was for a VERY long time, Justice Kavanaugh was seated with the lowest vote count in history. 50 for and 48 against. (One senator was absent, another voted "Present" or "no-vote"). So if you get a chance to meet Justice Kavanaugh (who doesn't appear in public very often) do me a favor and call him "Justice two-votes".
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  8300. Wait, people are linking to QR codes to make payments? Why not just throw your wallet down an alley and HOPE someone ethical returns it to you?!
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  8301. That's rust? Bwahahahah!!!!
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  8302. Important tip: Do NOT plug your grandmother's life support machine into a switched outlet!
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  8303. I now feel fortunate to have the psychological issues I do. The lockdown(s) have had very little effect on my mental health. Keeping away from people is my norm. I can find socialization in books. I can find most of my need for conversation with a cat. I don't like meeting new people. I don't like getting to know new people. I don't like travel or change. - I have an unfair advantage over many others in this time.
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  8304. Many times I have ordered thing together to only have them show up scattered across the week, even when sent from the same seller for whatever reason. So would that be $3 per package or $3 per order transaction? What is I order twelve things but Amazon fulfills them from 6 different sellers/shipping centers? - If this passes, there is a way around it for people who are willing to put in the footwork. get an out-of-city PO box, maybe combine with friends and family on the cost. Then periodically, take a train or drive out to the PO box and pick your packages up. Bonus: they'll be safe from porch pirates. - This tax is a very dangerous idea. My state has automotive excise tax that was originally passed as a temporary tax... about 40 years ago.
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  8305. It blows my mind that some people who are suffering or have suffered these symptoms are STILL anti-vaxxers. I used to think the phrase "living post-op brain donor" was just a joke.
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  8306. Positives: 1) better security gate. 2) huge canopy/sign. 3) double doors. 4) wide layout! 5) lots of places for shelving. 6) 200 amp service! 7) street hatch. 8) big basement. 9) generally dry basement. 10) the guy goes straight to bringing it to white-box condition for you. 11) The guy seems to understand what you are looking for and how a store operates. 12) Two or three bathrooms. - - - Negatives: 1) water damaged ceiling up front? - - - This one is a good option. Bella Tile is a looming future of headaches with that grandpa situation!
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  8307.  @xalthe  I don't get the attraction of a 0-60MPH time for a car. Are you drag racing with it? Are you the driver for a bank heist crew?
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  8308.  @randybeard6040  Some golf courses and movie/TV shoots do it also to get a "natural green" for their production.
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  8309. MOD: "Why aren't you using the L85?" FIDF: "Why the heck are YOU using it?"
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  8310. Only one. The Ganges. (ick!)
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  8311. So many 'weatherologists' failing to use the "stick your head out of the window" method of weather observation. Blows my mind how strong institutional inertia can get, and how dangerous it can be when allowed to run rampant.
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  8312. Maybe if there were more affairs, more people would be getting laid and fewer would have the time or grumpiness to write and pass such oppressive laws!
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  8313.  @TheLaXandro  Oh yeah, like a dumbwaiter. (elevator for food, not people)
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  8314.  @Dominus_Umbrae  It's just a cooking style... I mean speaking style.
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  8315. So if I understand this correctly, North Carolina has decided that THEIR traffic laws trump the traffic laws of the state in which you may have committed a moving violation?
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  8316. The writers of the Homeland video games were a little off geographically.
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  8317. Other similar equivalencies would be buying something with rare quarters and getting your refund in paper money. Or buying it with goats at $60 a head and getting a refund in cash.
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  8318. Now I have an urge to return that call from Vault-Tec.
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  8319. $500 fine? Can I write a check?
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  8320.  @s3cunit  ... per day!
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  8321. That refrigerant detector gave me big nostalgia for my hand-held Coleco football game.
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  8322.  @woodlandwonders6887  Your Klan leanings are showing.
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  8323. Here is what I know about Baccarat: James Bond plays it. The words used for play are in French. It is a homonym for the last name of a singer, pianist and composer featured in "The Spy Who Shagged Me".
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  8324. Only for Boeing planes, so the pilot is as qualified as the craft.
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  8325. Why would you do that to him? The Mayor has no real power, that lies in the hands of career kleptocrats.
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  8326. Imagine if all police actually treated the problem as a serious crime? Mark would need to find a new December 'thing'.
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  8327. Unmarked GPS unit? You can sell it on EEEEEEEEbaaaaaaaaaay!!
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  8328. We need more scientists like Salk instead of the pharmaceutical corporations we have now.
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  8329.  @kfox9650  Yeah, "The customer is always right (out of their danged minds)"
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  8330. Objection: Neither that phone, or another phone of that era, had the ability to display clear enough video at that size to definitively identify a person versus another of similar appearance.
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  8331. I would really like to see the laws changed to allow perpetrators of this kind of thing to be sentenced to some lovely medieval punishments. Drawing and quartering, pressing, slow evisceration, flaying, being eaten by rats... all shown on pay-per-view, the profits from which would be paid to the scumbag's victims. And once these punishments become accepted, maybe make pedophiles eligible as well.
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  8332. Is that website a Webbsite?
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  8333. The Katie Porter lesson.
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  8334. A moment of silence for all of the binoculars which gave their last in the face of the rage of the Russian admiral Rozhestvensky
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  8335. I think if aliens do show up, the ISS will have a similar fate to the treaty station in the first part of the 2003 BSG miniseries. (boom.)
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  8336. I would go outside more if there were fewer humans out there.
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  8337. There an episode of Phineas and Ferb where Doofenschmirtz says the word "quadrant" until it starts to feel like it's not even a word. It's a fun experiment to do on your own.
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  8338.  @Taurmin  What the PASTA do you mean by "utilizing" the land? Do I have to plow and plant it or raise animals upon it to satisfy your point of view? What if I just look at it daily and gain satisfaction from the view? What if my "utilization" is just to let nature return to wild on it? Or must I bulldoze it flat and erect an ugly office building with a sprawling asphalt parking lot? - Your comment's standard of "utilizing" the piece of land makes less sense that allowing squatters and/or adverse possessors any rights to the property.
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  8339. "Ownership Opportunity" sounds like the sales pitch to potential slave labor on the Atlantic slave trade route.
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  8340. This is just that old cartoon trope of a cop with a portable fire hydrant, but with paint.
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  8341. I have to remember to get a job driving before my planned speeding binge. Don't want any tickets or insurance points.
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  8342. So he has two middle names? That starts you out with an extra 5 "dickhead" points on the 100 scale. Once you factor in family wealth and connections (and likely private school and household servants), you hit the teens with between 40-75 "dickhead" points. Doomed to the dickhead hall of fame. - Nowadays his face is frozen in a permanent "trying to figure out what words mean" scowl.
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  8343. Okay, so not glitter. Now, how about my plan to send envelopes of baking flour to my local politicians? Should I include letters of explanation made from letters cut from magazines glued to plain white paper?
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  8344. @peter Mittens! In! Spaaaaaace!
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  8345. At least I got to "visit" it on Google street view.
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  8346.  @Joe-Przybranowski  Makes me glad my lifetime commercial flight count is only six (even counting a 20-seat short-hop connector), And that's over nearly 6 decades.
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  8347. America needs names of all of the Senators who walk out, doodle, snooze, or otherwise don't pay attention to this very important process!
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  8348. Well, "I" didn't know that. So the video was not wasted on me, smarty-pants.
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  8349. I read your first sentence in "Senator Palpatine" voice in my head. Coming soon: Darth Technology Connections!
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  8350.  @suedenim9208  Oh, it seems you are thinking you "scored a point" against me there, but you have only revealed the simplicity of your thinking to me. - Word. Have. Meaning.
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  8351.  @tisjester  Oho! Another contestant?
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  8352.  @frankmoreau8847  Legally speaking, rights and privileges are distinct and different. A right cannot be taken away from an individual without altering the law or constitutional document that granted the right, and such revoking of a right can be sued over. A privilege CAN be taken away from an individual on an individual basis by a law subordinate to the law or constitution that granted that privilege. - As an example, in the US, the right to the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of peaceable assembly cannot be suborned on an individual basis BY THE GOVERNMENT OR THEIR AGENTS (barring certain specific instances that have been decided by the US Supreme Court, as outlined in the US Constitution. - Conversely the privilege of voting CAN be revoked from an individual based on certain laws, predicated by things like serving prison time for a felony conviction,
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  8353. You can nod instead of SAYING yes.
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  8354. These fools pointing out the "not a real man" things Tim Walz is supposedly doing sound a LOT like people projecting their closeted selves on someone else to deflect scrutiny. - And if anyone has "issues with their mother" it's Jesse Waters, whose mother called him out for being an idiot, live on his own show.
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  8355. I love that phrase. It opens up different interpretations. Is it a miniature van for moving people? Is it a van for moving miniature people? So much fun!
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  8356. I recall an NPR broadcast with a certified sommelier and instructor in wine tasting who said if you can almost always get a decent bottle of wine for $20-30 and paying hundred to thousands is very unlikely to get you something better.
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  8357. Dear auto makers. Why do you need to store sensitive personal data IN THE CAR?! Answer me that! Meanwhile, reading the actual text of Question one, the text says it will require that mechanics ONLY have access to mechanical and electrical information necessary for fixing the car. The ballot question specifically does not ask for access to the sensitive information that is SO scary and will have a man sneak into your house at night to rape and kill us. - If there was no sensitive information stored in the car, there would be NO RISK.
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  8358.  @patrickrede  I have thought about it. Your home would burn to the ground for lack of a fire department. You would have to own a horse to get anywhere for lack of roads. Your children would be ignorant for lack of schools. Diseases would wreck the population for lack of CDC. And we would be ruled by whomever felt like spending the time and money to show up and take over for lack of a military. - And those are just the tip of the iceberg.
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  8359. Wow, what a mess to get to common maintenance items. I remember my 1990 Bronco, a skinny person could almost stand in the engine compartment and work stuff, there was so much room.
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  8360. Over the last couple of months I had been getting calls and the recorded voice, when I pick up, says, "This is your organization calling about your account." - Come on scammers, get better translation software!
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  8361. When I started college in 1985, the best gift I got from my grandmother was a Brother portable typewriter. I got more than a couple of free sandwiches by loaning that thing out. It eventually broke, something inside bending and jamming the works beyond my then ability to find and fix. But that happened just as home computers were becoming affordable, letting me replace the typewriter with a Commodore computer and printer. Yes, I am OLD.
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  8362. Is it on loan from Jairus of All?
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  8363. Okay, that is a new and fun way to open heat-sealed clamshell packaging!
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  8364. Very minor "REEEE!" 2 pounds, 2 ounces comes to 2.125 pounds because there are 16 ounces to a pound. Imperial measurements into decimal can be a pain.
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  8365. My interpretation was that the cops are saying, "Please kill us in a dark alley some night, because we deserve it."
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  8366. @Sal Spencer Seriously? Do you honestly believe that? I guess the ability to care enough about what you own must have died before your generation. My grandfather was fixing his own things, with his own tools, well into his 80's. He lived through the Great Depression, and understood the value of money. He understood that owning quality and keeping those things in good condition was far more valuable than being able to throw stuff away and replace with another item with a 2-3 year life expectancy. - Repair is something everyone should be involved in, even if they can't do it themselves. The knowledge is key. Knowing what needs to be done will protect you from grifters and scum bags. - Or, you can just keep throwing things away and giving your money to corporations so the moneyed few can build rockets and airlines and yachts for their yachts...
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  8367. Yeah, that Sunday time restriction was not a "printer's mistake", it was something the Repub's wanted in but were backtracking desperately about once it was noticed.
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  8368. At least this was not a belt-in-oil oil pump on an EcoBoost!
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  8369. I am staying home today so I don't un-alive the Trumpists in my town.
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  8370.  @butterflykisses4u  Yes, I am feeling a little psychotic today. How else should I respond to the victory of hateful morons in a matter that will negatively impact 90+% of Americans?
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  8371.  @yummyfunnybunny5167  No, people like me are not "why" you voted Republican. You voted Republican because you liked their message over the message of the Democrats. Why that is so, only Pasta knows, because it's like the trees voting for the chainsaw.
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  8372. I would alter Desi's article five. Airlines having child-free flights. Define child as "under age X" where X is something people who know about kids thinks makes sense. X should be an age where the kid is big enough for their won seat, and developed enough mentally to NOT scream and kick the seat in front of them. - Oh, Article 6. If you take your shoes off, everyone around you gets to step on your toes until you put your stinkers back in their shoes!
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  8373. I bet that tree company will, going forward, require "Yeah, my neighbor said it's okay." to be in writing. edit: AND have the neighbor say it to their face.
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  8374. As dumb as it is for people to buy an RV or car without getting it inspected by a qualified person first, there are people who buy HOUSES without getting an independent inspection.
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  8375. Nah, too big for what you pay.
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  8376. I saw a (History Channel?) show on EA Poe. Based on some contemporary (meaning of the time) sources, Poe was not so much a heavy drinker, more that he had a rare condition where a little bit of alcohol had a disproportional effect on him. The story that he was a drunk and a drug user was part of a pattern of lies by Rufus Wilmot Griswold, who had a massive grudge with our Poe.
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  8377. Regarding light-speed lag, the best movies will show the light speed lag, or hang a lantern on it and have a character clearly state it, then they will transition to black-screen cuts to save time and keep the plot moving. One of my favorite handlings of this was actually in the Stargate SG-1 episode where the X-301 booby trap send Teal's and O'Niell out deep in the solar system.
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  8378. These elected officials who aided and abetted had better be VERY happy this is a nation of laws and courts. Some other types of societies would see them shot against a wall for their failed attempt to overthrow the government, even if indirectly.
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  8379.  @markminch1906  Same when a business has a Facebook page and no regular website. I don't care if your product is 40% the price of other sellers, I'm not using Facebook.
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  8380. The first electronic keyboard we had (in the 80's I think?) could only play one note at a time. - We did have an upright grand piano for a number of years that we got for free from someone who was "recommended to get that damn thing out of the house". It was badly painted a pea soup green, needed tuning we couldn't afford (two notes in particular had a different value for all three strings of the note), and the previous owner had put thumb tacks in all of the felt hammers to make a more "old west saloon" sound. Once we removed the thumb tacks it was a fun piano until we traded it for a polyphonic electric organ and a couple of couches.
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  8381.  @amoszook3775  I did not say I would be doing anything. I only mean to say that I would not be the least bit surprised were squatters dealt with extrajudicially.
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  8382. Flock of Seagulls? That's a name I've not heard since... (Vader strides out of the room)
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  8383.  @SeanONeill13  Because it is a way to add a lot of expensive parts that only the manufacturer can provide for the first few years after you buy it?
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  8384. @SU_Plata ... racism is running rampant and Abbot is flouting US laws.
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  8385. I always find it so silly when someone has a mid-pack car that they subject to their speed shop addiction.
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  8386. I must be a weirdo, because I am NOT watching this video on a device powered by a lithium battery. I'm watching it on my plug-into-the-wall desktop.
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  8387. Because the guy is a licensed professional in the field, the case will make it to a courtroom. Because the guy has the disclaimers in his video description warning people away from his method of investing, the case should fail. - If I tell you to try drinking vinegar to treat your male pattern baldness and you vomit blood, it's on you for listening to someone who has no training in health care. But if a doctor tells you the same thing and you vomit blood, it's on the doctor. If a doctor tells you to NOT drink vinegar to treat male pattern baldness, but says he does so himself, and you drink a lot of vinegar and vomit blood, it's back to being on YOU. - Or we can devolve this to simplicity. If Tommy jumps in front of a speeding train, would you?
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  8388. Funny AND scary at the same time.
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  8389. Why hurt Steve, when the People who wrote, voted for, and signed that law are all publicly listed.
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  8390.  @HappilyHomicidalHooligan  So another question that needs to be asked is if the bail was unrealistically high for the offense and conditions, and if he was really that much of a flight risk. Or more likely it was the judge and DA "getting tough on crime".
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  8391.  @aarongreenfield9038  Who does, anymore?
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  8392. I saw one claiming that Pete Buttigieg made the collision happen. People get award-winningly stupid when they combine ignorance with politics in an information silo.
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  8393.  @nvelsen1975  I took the route of just picking entire categories about which I ignore information. Sports, art, fashion, celebrities, and several genres of books and music. This leaves me enough time to pay attention to multiple angles on things that I feel are important to me, and still have time for recreation activities.
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  8394. Hey, Destin has laminar flow! At least B tier!
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  8395. Oh hey, your brush bar and headache rack are painted with the same stuff my replacement rocker panels are painted with. The shop I had do the work offered it for a much lower price than trying to color-match with the rest of the car, since he had the stuff on hand after a pickup bed job.
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  8396. And think of the pranking mayhem one could cause with some art skills and binder clips. I'm mentally plotting my "SPEED LIMIT 19 MPH" sign covers...
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  8397. Even the purple stuff beats what a lot of people use for driveway jobs... which is nothing at all.
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  8398. 1,800 lobbyists. 435 Representatives and 100 senators. That's more than 3 lobbyists per federal legislator.
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  8399. You show ID to vote? If I try to show ID when I vote in Massachusetts, the poll workers either panic or look away hastily. We're not ALLOWED to show ID. Just tell them a name and street address that match, and are on their printed list, and have you looking remotely like a person with that name, and you can vote. This has bothered me for over 30 years.
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  8400.  @Hanyousan1661  Valid point, but that was only made illegal by the 24th Amendment to the constitution in 1964, and it took two years for the Supreme Court to rule on a case making the law apply to state level elections as well as national ones. - I would be all for a "free" photo ID for voting. I put "free" in quotes because it would be paid by taxes, and for it to pass the constitutionality test would have to be VERY easy to get, though that could be as simple as mobile ID centers (vans) that have a schedules of which towns they are going to be in and when published well ahead of time. But I digress. I'm still waiting for the day I have to slog through the process to convert my state-issued driver's license to a "RealID". I've put it off because I don't fly or even drive to a single different state.
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  8401.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Nicholas Cage doesn't do sequels.
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  8402. It's on Netflix. Therefore, I expect the story to be changed to FOUR bodies, two of which are non-binary in orientation and the other two are incomprehensibly evil simply because they are white and male. And the math will be replaced with random "historians" making unsupported pronouncements that the majority of real historians have long since disproven. - Why yes, I did catch an episode of that Alexander the Great thing. Astute of you to notice!
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  8403. Were it me, I'd write a check to pay off the national debt, and another to fund Ukraine's defense for a few years. Then disappear.
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  8404. It also seems to me that if your rifle is pushing a heavy bullet at near hypersonic speeds, you REALLY want that heavy tripod or a baseplate or a pintle mounted into a block of concrete or mounted to a tank. Otherwise, your future chiropractors will be buying their third boats from your visits alone.
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  8405. Use the force! ...of money.
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  8406.  @heinzhaupthaar5590  Indeed. Thumbs up for the call for good grammar.
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  8407. And THAT is why you keep your drain pan weighed down with used filters and a funnel. Right?
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  8408. I like the Wall of Viscocity. I also noticed that at the end of the video, your dudes got the rest of the shop empty of cars. You hired some solid mechanics.
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  8409. Dang right, "Thanks mom."
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  8410. Ray called the pre-paint cover "lipstick on a pig" I am relaying an angry message from a Mrs. The Frog who wants to know if Ray wants a karate chop or to give an apology to pigs.
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  8411. Only if FTC becomes F*** The Corporations.
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  8412. How many cats could have been spayed/neutered with the money these women are having to spend on this? How many cats could have been spayed/neutered with the money the TOWN is spending on this?
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  8413. In the TV show Minority Report (it really existed) there was a whole segment of society who would paint fractal patterns on their faces and/or wear masks to avoid the facial recognition cameras that were everywhere.
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  8414. That is just a plastic airflow cowling normally attached under the bumper. The car will work without it.
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  8415. Hooray to Ray for not knuckling under to the heckler's veto phemonenon!
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  8416. All this, and it would have been smarter to make a rule that restaurants that wanted to keep indoor dining had to install HEPA filtration and proper airflow. But instead you get shoddy shacks blocking sidewalks, parking and traffic lanes. Without proper airflow, filtration and climate control. - Fracking geniuses you got there.
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  8417. So this moron complains about his ongoing legal troubles by releasing a manifesto thick with slander? Mental health check on aisle 45!
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  8418. The concept of using a tall mountain to fling a spacecraft to some initial velocity to reduce the amount of fuel and spaceship you need to put together doesn't need to be a 'gun type' launcher. Heck, Project HARP clearly highlighted many of the challenges with that approach. - But the mountain flinger can also be electro-magnetic accelerations, much akin to some rollercoasters. Sure, you can still go with the evacuated barrel to reduce drag from air but the process, with or without the barrel, is reduced to having enough track, enough accelerator coils, and a fast enough computer to manage the switching of coils on then off. And you can design your acceleration profile such that you don't tear apart your spacecraft like you could easily do with a gun-type system.
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  8419. I'm sitting here wondering if that was even one of the "on-label" uses for that weapon system.
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  8420. I only wish they had hurt themselves twisting that narrative around.
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  8421. Oh, you think only Ford will do this kind of chicanery? A simple license to use Ford's patent, and you can get this same amazing "service" in your Chevy, Honda, Subaru, Toyota, BMW...
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  8422. Troy is very Norton.
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  8423. I actually never thought of that, very good observation.
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  8424. Step one to increase chances of surviving while concealed carrying: Don't be non-Caucasian.
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  8425. This has long been the standard for engineers, teachers and medical workers. And those occupations are not issued lethal weapons as part of their daily-use equipment.
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  8426. That was truly Animaniacs-worthy!
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  8427. Simple answer: Power-to-weight ratio. Longer answer: power-to-weight ration, technological and materials limitations, insufficient computers, sky-high expectations by an end customer with close deadlines.
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  8428. Thanks, editor, for not blasting our speakers and headphones with the sound of the dryer. It is appreciated by me and my neighbors.
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  8429. Also, the fuel pump is worth investigating, since SOMETHING caused the fuse block failure.
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  8430. Thanks for the loan of the safety goggles!
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  8431.  @davidkettell1073  Sticky caliper position? Maybe the brake pads KNOW that if they wear the inner one faster, the screech plate will alert the driver before they lose braking power, and that would not fit their evil plan of world domination!!! Or I watch too many Stephen King movies.
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  8432.  @heh2k  "We're the government, and we're here to help."
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  8433. Dumdums is also a brand of small cheap lollipops, often found in candy dishes at receptionists' desks,
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  8434. Heck, anyone in either of the two occupied aircraft have nerves of steel and Teflon underwear.
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  8435.  @dirtdevil70  Let's see. Pintle ring mounting anything from machine guns to anti-tank and anti-air missiles, people in the back seats dismount to fight... Yep!
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  8436. With that first shot of Foster in the happy hoodie, I now have seen the origin of the phrase, "A hang-dog expression."
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  8437.  @allisonjames2923  Eventually did the right thing is good when a child admits to a lie. When a cop engages in a hit and run, tampering with evidence, desecration of human remains (if the person was already dead from impact)... Only pleading guilty is "doing the right thing."
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  8438. You know, I only know the name, and have never seen even a picture of that person. I think I'm happier for that lack.
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  8439. I understand the attraction of the legalization of recreational cannabis. But I am against it, personally. The impairment of faculties is an issue. And above all the damn STENCH that I now have no choice but to endure, thanks to my state's position on the matter! I say, if people feel they HAVE to allow that crap into society, at least get rid of the smelly version and make it all edibles or something.
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  8440. That ought to be on a t-shirt!
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  8441. Ooh! Those tires are bald in the inside of the tread. That means... camber issues, so there is the likelihood of worn suspension parts. I think I got that right? If the suspension is worn enough, could that contribute to the breaking vibration as well?
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  8442. In the negative column, most motorcycles have much more toxic emissions than cars and trucks of the same age, largely for lack of space for emission control hardware.
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  8443.  @aldurrant8438  Hi-vis vest.
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  8444.  @Blox117  Rickshaw all the way! (kidding)
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  8445.  @lacrossev  I am glad you have a motorcycle with emission controls. I am still not going to talk to your motorcycle. THAT would be weird. BTW, Have a nice day!
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  8446. "How would we know that these tiny cabins would have the same protections of a house?" - You ask for a warrant and the judge SHOULD tell you that.
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  8447. A-Rod is also a You-Tuber, Dave is apparently not. And both get to set their level of involvement in Ray's videos.
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  8448. Yep, cops are the worst.
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  8449. Whether micro or macro, most of everything is actually nothing.
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  8450. The blond dood should have read, or hired someon to read, the contract before signing it. The blond dood was not under duress to sign, was he? The dark-haired, scraggly-bearded dood and company should win, easily.
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  8451. What was that? Raisinette?
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  8452. C'mon Ray. Champion plugs are GREAT! * *For lawnmowers.
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  8453. Nice Jeep, and it has that bad hood paint mod installed from the factory!
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  8454. I make fun of liters all the time. I was raised on quarts.
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  8455. A 'REAL' blank-check customer would drop off the title with the pickup and go buy new. That is the mindset that modern manufacturers have been working very hard to inculcate in the modern consumer.
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  8456.  @MrMartinSchou  The Space Force is coming for your apartments!!!
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  8457.  @JohnTitor-fw8jr  Where are YOU getting your news? I have seen no declaration of war by or against either nation you listed.
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  8458.  @JohnTitor-fw8jr  Bwahaha!!! "War on Alex Jones" We're gonna need a bigger boat.
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  8459.  @JohnTitor-fw8jr  For a moment, I thought you were denying the Good Friday agreement.
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  8460.  @tbelding  Ehem... In the US, treason is very narrowly defined as: "only in levying War against [the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." So, no. General Sherman was not committing treason. He was violating other laws of the time, and many more laws of war we hold now, but treason? Absolutely not one of them.
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  8461.  @randomschmo5778  Fine. Then let us amend the demand that whomever signed off on such things must serve the time.
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  8462.  @johnseavey6622  I watched that video series. What a pain in the... toolbox!
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  8463. That's what I was thinking as Scott was talking. If I am driving to a family dinner, and I get a call that the time for dinner has changed, then (ignoring differences in traffic) I would just adjust my departure time. - "Ah! But orbits!" I hear you say. Well, instead imagine I am taking a bus to that family dinner, and I am at the mercy of the bus schedule. So when I get that call modifying the arrival time, I look at the bus schedule (my orbits) and pick a bus that will get me there closest to on time without being late.
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  8464.  @JulianDanzerHAL9001  Yeah, that's why I added the bus route example.
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  8465. "I ain't got time to be very lightly bruised by foam darts." - (Blain, from the movie Predator)
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  8466. Prints? What bleeping prints? Tell your contractor to put in stud walls to code, level true and square. A fifth grader could draw a store layout plan with a ruler and a pencil.
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  8467. You seem to have missed the word Canada in the title.
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  8468. Thanks to the ship at 4:02:00 I will now start referring to my late-life weight as "torpedo bulges".
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  8469.  @yurikendal4868  Bubb loves the uneducated. Just like his pimp-daddy.
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  8470. Semi-detached is such a wrong phrase for that. The two sides of the building are FULLY attached, else a shift in either side's foundation could open a gap from the roof down between them.
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  8471. And we'll have fun, fun, fun til the dealer sells our T-Bird away. - Some boys on a beach
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  8472. There's nothing fun in the D-M-C-A! We'll choke to death on the D-M-C-A. - The Digital Millenium Village People.
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  8473.  @ezrollergbg  As am American driving an American car (probably assembled in Mexico?) I must tell you that there is NO organized rule on that. My car's fill is on the right side. I have had only one vehicle in the last 30+ years with a fill on the left side, and all of those vehicles were Fords, Saturns, or Volkswagen Beetles (the old ones, not the new ones). I think I once rented a Chrysler with a left-side fill. I had a friend whose car had the filler pipe behind the rear license plate. - The location of the fill/charge port is not a "laziness" or convenience factor, but a design decision that really needs to be rethought and standardized. And not put on the traffic side of the vehicle.
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  8474. Bare conductors. Over fire-prone lands. What!?
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  8475. General Brown's confirmation is likely to be tied up by Tuberville's stunts, just like all of the other senior officer confirmations and promotions.
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  8476. Wait, so this car DOESN'T come with lifetime oil?
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  8477. You say T2 chip, I hear Terminator music. Must be judgement day...
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  8478. Adolf Hitler: "My dog has no nose" German soldier: "How does he smell?" Hitler: "Awful!".
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  8479.  @vbtbmrt4394  That's a different kind of bulb end. The ones he has there are not the 1/4 turn kind you most often see with the 4' and under lengths.
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  8480. They probably knocked three bucks off Steve's check because they knew he'd make mad YouTube billions from talking about it.
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  8481. Oh, the FTC is finally getting off their butts and doing their jobs? Wake me when it starts working.
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  8482. Ooh! Nice shiny new brake line!
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  8483. STOP is not an acronym for Squeal Tires On Pavement.
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  8484. I just watched the Drachinifel videos about this yesterday! And F the Kamchatka!
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  8485. Wow. Mayor Bill just turned the whole city into a natsi-like HOA board... What a dumb use of resources to have to chase down all the people these "social-distancing Sally" types will report, only to find that most of them already live together, so distance is pointless.
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  8486. Why would you do such a nasty thing to Mexico?
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  8487. At this point, if you want to sell food in NYC, get a food truck and the permits for it. You are not responsible for seating, no customer bathrooms, low overhead...
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  8488. Reminds of a good movie, "Next Gen".
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  8489. Change 'rent' to 'sell' and they might get the money in a timely manner.
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  8490. Time for some directional speaker use in NYC?
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  8491. The FTC should do their job, you mean. The amount of the fines may not be under the control of the FTC, but the lack of action is.
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  8492. Oh, so NOT the Ramsey who is a swearing chef?
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  8493. Is that a torn hose or wire insulator on the lift at around 0:50? edit: Oh hey! Nice job with the fancy into volume levels!
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  8494.  @leftedgemethod  Do you all still have the 10mm sockets and 3/16" wrenches? Those suckers disappear from every set I've ever had.
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  8495.  @davidbrayshaw3529  At least you know where to borrow something for a project! Hahaha!
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  8496. I got money for the LCD monitor pricing class action lawsuit. I got enough for a medium pizza (one topping, no extra cheese). Whoopee, justice....
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  8497. Tack school lunch funding and a school prayer funding rider on it, and it'll pass clean.
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  8498.  @tenpoundsterlingtn7756  Oh, you mean Ponzi-coin?
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  8499.  @hugegamer5988  And using an unsecure connection could let OTHER unsecure software share location data. See the fitness trackers for an example.
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  8500. Is this the record longest 5-minute guide?
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  8501. If we could at least get the bad ones fired... But no. Injunctive relief is somehow not available when it's a cop or a DA or a judge or a politician. Because they're the ruling class and we're the serfs.
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  8502. I recall a starter for my '88 Bronco being somewhere around the size of a loaf of pumpernickel bread and heavy enough to be part of a redneck gym.
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  8503. I'm racist. I try not to be. I work hard not to act on it, and I think I do a good job at that. But the thoughts are in there. It's hard not to be a little bit racist when it is okay for black people to shout and sing a word that would get me fired, canceled and dragged through the mud (literally and/or metaphorically). It's hard not to be a little bit racist when there are groups of people who actively hate me because of a factor I had no control over (my pale skin). - But while my brain has racist thoughts, I don't express them vocally or in print. I try to judge each person on their individual merits. I treat everyone I encounter with courtesy until the show me it is a waste of my time.
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  8504. I'm tired of the phrase "gigafactory". It's a gorram factory, folks. It's not manufacturing gigas. If you need to feel awesome about how big your factory is, use the square meter.
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  8505. Yeah, this video is three years old, but here I go. An "HMS Great Eastern" would be a serious case of "LOTS of eggs in one basket". One lucky hit into the engineering spaces, or one 'golden bullet' hit into the magazines and the ship takes out a huge percentage of your fleet capacity. Plus, the crew needed for that monster could probably crew an entire fleet detachment of rationally sized ships. - Another point on the supply routes to the Soviet Union in WW2 that I thought of is vulnerability. A ship has two known points, the ports. For the rest of the trip the ship's location is an estimation on the adversary's part, and the ship can only be threatened by a small number of adversary assets - ships, subs, and long-distance planes IF they make a good guess. A train route is a completely fixed route and can be threatened at any point by ground forces, air assets, partisans, and even natural events that take out a bridge or wash out a section of rail.
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  8506.  @hectorandem2944  Nice one! Imagine that as a summer blockbuster, the movie trailer voiced over by someone with a deep gravely voice.
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  8507. The last time I saw one was on a one cylinder 3-1/2 HP lawnmower engine. Back in the 1980's
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  8508. non-military uses for railgun technology: roller coasters, auto safety crash testing equipment, space launches.
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  8509. Ha! Funny! Though it probably started back when schools started. Chalk on the fence reading something like, "My teacher doth be the droppings of a bull." or "Schola ego odio" (I hate school)
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  8510. I agree the fight with those bolts behind the pulley really does tell the tale of the missing brackets.
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  8511.  @RazielTheUnborn  As an MCU fan who does not read comics, and has not since the late 1980's, I will say that continuity by comic (or novel) does not really help movie audiences. This applies even more to Star Wars.
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  8512.  @pearcat08  Karma would be a pretty interesting pseudonym for a "contract social adjuster".
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  8513. Plus a page from the handbook of ambulance-chasing lawyers. See a pile-up? Send the trucks before the police or the drivers call a reputable firm!
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  8514.  @saigyl9149  Based on how long that user handle has posted the same thing on various channels for enough weeks that even I noticed it? They're paid to do it.
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  8515.  @wolphin732  If you mean printing something at home, yes. It can get expensive for an individual to try and print an entire book, because individuals don't often own the most efficient printing, collating, and binding machines. - I once toured a very local small-batch printer/binder business. They had some very pricy and often old machines somehow cross-bred with computers. The person I was talking to said that they could print up to a 32-page stapled pamphlet at about the same price per unit no matter the run size, but for a full book the run size really influenced the price.
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  8516. Combat fentanyl importers by stopping all US citizens crossing the border. You know, since they are an overwhelming majority of those caught smuggling the drug at the Souther border.
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  8517.  @GreatDeadGod  As far as I can tell, I did. Thank you for appreciating it.
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  8518. Instructions unclear, arranged tour of all the muddy spots of the world to search for hot models. - But in all seriousness, I learned a lot of this from Mythbusters and the Boy Scouts. Oh, and Douglas Adams. "Don't Panic!"
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  8519. In any state where a citizen's arrest is legal, we need to start executing some citizen's civil asset forfeiture. Start with cops, move up to DA's, judges and politicians. - Hmm... Sounds like the tales of Robin Hood, eh?
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  8520. That roadside inspection process sounded JUST like the kind of thing cops should NOT be tasked to do at the roadside. You pretty much described the least safe place to do a safety inspection, run by someone who is trained (yeah, separate discussion), empowered, armed and highly paid to enforce criminal law doing the type of job that could be done at starting wage by someone with just enough training to follow a script on a computer screen. - If the current inspection process has such waiting times, your state is implementing it wrong, and may want to take a look at how other states run it better. In Massachusetts, I have never had to set an appointment. If one inspection station (run by garages, dealerships, used car lots, even a lube shop near where I live) can't fit you in that hour or day, you MIGHT have to drive five or ten miles to another one. Oh no! The longest I have waited for an inspection was about twenty minutes because it was the last day of the month and sunny out.
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  8521.  @neolithicnobody8184  Thanks for the extra information! I still say your state has a lot to learn about running inspections if you have day-long lines and have to set appointments a month or so in advance.
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  8522. Andrei. You have lost ANOTHER Helicopter?
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  8523. How can we be surprised. AI has long been touted as a way to reduce the number of people that would have to be paid to do work. Of course, there were not a lot of stories about that wage-replacement being done well.
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  8524. Yeah, Tom is shouting for a lot of us. And what is with all the bleeping bleep holes with the nose-peeking? If your mask doesn't fit, get one that bleeping does! If you still can't be arsed to wear the bleeping thing right, stay at least twenty yards/meters away from me. Heck, just get the bleep off of my planet!
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  8525. The woman from the video keeps saying "pay cut" when she should be saying "income reduction" A pay cut most readily implies a reduction in per-time remuneration (as contrasted with a pay raise), while an income reduction is just that, a reduction in income. That reduction could be from less hours or a reduction in pay rate due to transfer to a lower compensation position different from before. - As soon as you compare apples to apples, of the same type, size and flavor of apples, this "massive gap" fades to a few percentage points one way or the other. The example from the start of the video should have compared two teachers with the same job and qualifications, not a teacher (works indoors, other than physical education) and a metalworker (most often working outdoors, in heat, cold, rain, ice and snow).
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  8526.  @rohanmcknight  So, because the people running a potentially slanted news reporting corporation are brown, any disparagement of the news reporting corporation is racist? You seem to have a fixation on racism that, for some people, would be cause for intense self-reflection.
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  8527. To prevent murder most successfully, ban birth.
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  8528.  @conservativesniperhunter7439 No faction old ownership of evil. Evil is the most egalitarian thing we have as humans.
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  8529. Or they could design roads in a way that slows drivers down. Slightly narrow the lanes, less/shorter straightaways, and so on.
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  8530.  @jyrkiaaltonen9298  I offered a couple of top-level examples of road design methods that have been empirically proven to make a difference. You counter with financial repression? Weird conversation technique.
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  8531. That article about not paying out a pandemic coverage policy because "Covid-19 is not a named disease" refers to the disease by its name! - That is the kind of thing that gets office buildings a row of broken windows.
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  8532. I live in Massachusetts, and we have a Swansea. We say it the way Steve did. We also have a Worcester (wister), Leicester (lester), and a Scituate (si-you-it or si-sit-you-wit).
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  8533. Perhaps you want a new drug? One that won't make you sick One that won't make you crash your car Or make you feel three feet thick
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  8534. This needs to be in post-apocalyptic films/games!
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  8535.  @kalodawg8297  I know, but I really like the anime and wanted to share.
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  8536. Likely so.
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  8537. Also, the MxR team, and ALL content creators need to view this as a lesson to pay a lot more attention to the legal issues. The fines and costs involved can wreck your life, and losing your channel(s) pales next to the impact of owing hundreds of thousands of dollars you don't have. - I am not pro Jukin here, I am pro-education.
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  8538. Cheesus!
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  8539. Pop-ups are awesome. Light, and low profile while towing, enough space inside for sleeping and cooking, but small enough to make you WANT to go outside.
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  8540.  Bobb Grimley  Chicken sandwich pusher. Lock him up! edit: THIS IS SARCASM!
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  8541. So, a sealed shipping box showed up all on its own 10 minutes after the cops left? That is a really crafty box!!!
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  8542. The two examples of false accusations that come to my mind are Chris Hardwick and Christopher Titus (who was himself physically attacked in multiple relationships).
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  8543. In my neck of the woods, when someone lays on the horn that much and that frequently, we are ethically obligated to open the window and shout, "Horn blows, how about the driver!"
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  8544. That bakery outdoor/indoor with no gates or grates looks like their using a realtor-style key box as their padlock. And not even a good one, but one with lots of plastic and other vulnerabilities. (LPL watcher) It's like they want as many people as possible to be able to unlock the door, but instead of making copies of keys they use a lock about as secure as zip ties. Okay, the other door has a normal padlock. Ooh! Maybe the key for that padlock is in the key box on the first door! - that $1,100 gate also means he's less likely to have to clean out human feces every day...
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  8545. I would have set the damn thing on fire and then crushed it with a bulldozer before giving it to that sue-happy person.
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  8546. Because the police can't figure out how to issue a fine to the offender, so it becomes a "civil matter".
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  8547.  @Scaevola9449  Wow, a miniscule thread of silver lining in our future coast-to-coast pollution.
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  8548. Imagine wasting that much of the only four hours of wakefulness you have each day trying to climb a wallpaper tree. Sad.
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  8549.  @wontbefooledagain9400  I once was so pocket-broke that only had enough to pay for the meal I had ordered (I thought I had $20 more in my wallet). So I got the waitresses' name and came back the next day with twice the tip I would have given, in an envelope with her name on it. (It was a place I knew was not doing the tip pooling or tip theft). I did this because I felt bad, not because I wanted to impress anyone or hit on the (cute and married) waitress.
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  8550. If only there was a team of infectious disease experts gathered for the purpose of predicting, analyzing and recommending the responses to a disease like this one that was available to the President and the executive branch of government BEFORE the pandemic happened. That is a great idea! Only an idiot would shut down that kind of advisory group...
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  8551. Someone should tell them how much they could have saved by leaving the museum intact and just publishing a picture book of their "new ideas" and then sell it in the gift shop.
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  8552. It's nice to know that "morality policing" is an old problem not singular to Muslim countries. It also means the progress is possible even where things seem bleakest today.
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  8553. If I was looking for a lawyer, their facility with hammers would not be amongst my top qualifiers. Carpenters and roofers, on the other hand...
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  8554. 99,999,999,977 - ready to continue.
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  8555. Oh sweet nostalgia! That truck has the little triangle windows!
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  8556. The tax that irritates me more is excise. In Massachusetts, it is a "temporary" tax from WW2 that has continued to fill town coffers seventy years later.
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  8557. When some people are accused of blowing their own horn, it's a bad thing... Also, props to Portal for the ability to turn off the camera and mic with a single easily accessible button push, and HUGE props for the 'analog solution'
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  8558. And to this day, nobody knows why Mega Lo Mart hired Buckley for the hardware department...
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  8559. A rare example in the wild of a double inspection window in the BOTTOM of the block!
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  8560. You just know that if they had agreed with him, he would not ask for evidence, explanation, or examples.
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  8561. Leopard finally ate HER face, huh?
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  8562. This interpretation of the California vehicle code means that any time a car is mid-repair, the owner had darned well better be actively wrench-turning, or have it parked out of plain sight so cops won't steal the car! It also means any cop who wants to see a car towed, or any person who wants that parking space, need only break a mirror or taillight and the car disappears. - And this relevant California vehicle code is an overreaction to the problem of "blight" vehicles.
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  8563. Nothing new here. Cops used to use cell phones to keep things off the radio. When people figured out how to FOIA the cell phones, they encrypted. Next step, the cops will get burner phones and throw them out immediately after being informed of a FOIA request. - I can completely understand not contradicting a fellow officer on-scene in front of the public, but AFTER that is the time to speak the heck up. Just like good parents don't argue in front of the kids, and good drill instructors don't disagree in front of the trainees. But once they are out of that exposure, not bringing up the concerns, not reporting criminality to the chain of command is just as bad as the person who committed the transgression.
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  8564.  @curtisalex456  Someone DID "so something about it" but the system fought back. The movement needs numbers.
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  8565.  @SilkyLew  Or those in Iran.
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  8566. Apparently, cicadas are good eating. Be sure to avoid harvesting in pesticide and traffic-heavy areas, and cook thoroughly (bake, fry, grill, sauté) after rinsing well.
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  8567. In that case, a light 'bump' to the microwave before opening the door could be a rational precaution.
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  8568.  @redneck94chevy  Isn't that the layout of rest stops off major highways in Virgina?
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  8569. I counter with Yin202.com, and SomebodyModerateForPresident.com
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  8570.  @jacksprat3287  Your wife is gaslighting you with the pickup truck?
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  8571.  @jacksprat3287  Ah! You're such a joker!
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  8572. "How can we possibly ensure that we don't use products produced by forced labor in China?" - Hmm... Don't utilize labor in China? If China squawks, tell them you'll come back if you get unrestricted and unannounced inspections and interviews at all locations in your supply chain, and the right to involve the UN should illegal practices, from slavery to fire code issues to not enough toilets. - Oh, but that would hurt the outrageous profits of these multi-national corporations. People like Tim Cook need to have more wealth than they can ever spend.
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  8573. Non aggression principle sounds like a dreamy utopia thought up by someone with nobody trying to take anything from them. Like their life, liberty, privacy, dignity... And ownership rights such as repair.
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  8574. "Pre-approved is an art style, and may not actually constitute a prior approval. And may include bones" - Ohio state Supreme Court, probably.
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  8575. Stack 6-10 of them, use a smoke grenade fuse (for the near-zero delay) and set a tripwire to the pin. You can now erase an enemy patrol!
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  8576. YouTube COULD fix this on their end. This and the people spamming links in replies. But they don't.
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  8577. And a bank that gets the property back will not be able to sell it again for less than was still owed on it without losing money. They will have to go HIGHER than that to "make" money.
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  8578. ​ @ArchilochusOfParos  I can see the price a bank sells a foreclosed property for being low, but I can't imagine they'd stay solvent long if they sold for less than they were still owed on the previous loan, though they may wipe out the old interest load to apply a new one to the buyer. Sheriff and county auctions most likely work differently, and I don't know what they figure into their starting prices/reserves. - But that is not the topic directly under discussion.
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  8579. Okay. So we need to kill all humans to save future humans. Thanks for the help, Kyle!
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  8580.  @rguy2684  That's how I killed a tire at 18 years old...
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  8581.  @rileywalstrom3037  I'm thinking that if the shop is heated and cooled with vents instead of radiant registers, then filters get changed every two weeks with an annual duct cleaning.
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  8582.  @ehsnils  Except that in most cases where someone begins to successfully defend their assets in these cases, the seizing authority drops the case to avoid creating precedent. If the aggrieved person is politically connected enough, they'll drop it faster than the US dropped nukes on Japan.
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  8583. That pistol seems like it would be better in anti-Superman mode. A.K.A. throw the whole pistol at them.
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  8584. Where are the sane Republicans? Most of them are in the ground.
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  8585. Another difficult customer experience with Ticketmaster? I'm shocked!
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  8586. Sounds like a lot of crappy construction contractors. It can be as innocuous as using cheaper internal doorknobs to changing the construction method of suspended concrete walkway suspension in a hotel leading to hundreds of deaths.
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  8587. Agreed!
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  8588.  @nathanstautzenberger8381  Just TRY keeping him out! He'll end up standing beside you with a smile.
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  8589.  @Eidolon1andOnly  Oho! Can we replace the phrase "but sometimes" with your handle?
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  8590.  @The_Boctor  Oh, that modification is coming in an update about 1.7×10^106 years.
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  8591. Fluid protection would go a long way toward preventing these kinds of problems.
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  8592. Subscription sunroof? Nah. One tube of silicone caulking and it's a moon roof. Both will leak eventually anyway.
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  8593.  @TheTrueVoiceOfReason  That could be seen as an improvement.
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  8594. Odd question prompted by the title: Are humans fit for human consumption?
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  8595. When I learned Spanish (the second try) back in the 1980's time was tied to the words by analog clocks. Tres y media - three and a half, or 3:30. The teaching may have changed with the growing prevalence of digital clocks.
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  8596.  @tigerofdoom  You are one of the rare ones. The people who don't see value in massing with others, and will actually do something to stop it.
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  8597.  @penitent2401  When we got them at traveling amusement parks in Massachusetts, they dodged the rules by drilling a tiny hole in one spot to make it a "decoration".
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  8598. Rogan following the fear-mongering script. Mention the directive, generate anticipation, get a co-host to echo at the proper moments, THEN tell someone to "look it up to see if it says what he 'thinks' it says." What a tool.
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  8599. Damn you Riggs!
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  8600. Another target to reduce prices would be to chop the costs of medical school. (all schools, really) which have risen, in large part, because people are willing to pay using the money the US government hands out without much care in the form of grants and student loan guarantees.
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  8601. Loving the X Files moments. I too want to believe!
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  8602. I have Medicare and Medicaid and I STILL will usually choose to wait a day to get a ride to the ER instead of taking an ambulance. Even though I would not see a bill, I know that the bill hits taxpayers and usually enriches private companies. Also, if I'm not actively dying, I feel the ambulance should stay available for people who are.
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  8603. A lot of cities and larger towns are seeing rising prices in part due to the airbnb effect. People are buying houses and condos to ONLY rent them out.
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  8604. It's such a flashback to hear someone else using the NATO phonetic alphabet!
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  8605. DEATH TO SCALPERS! Huh? What were we talking about now?
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  8606. Another thing about shared walls. If the shared walls are built very well to cut down noise between spaces, they are also better thermally insulated (for most methods of sound insulation). So a shared wall just means you're not losing heat/cold to the outside through that wall. - And then that makes me wish my current home had better insulation, so that windy winter days didn't mean wearing a blanket at the computer desk.
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  8607.  @ChrisS-oo6fl  No need to throw the phone out the window. Turn it off and put it in a foil bag.
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  8608.  @edrowe1138  The big electronic device in my car is the AM/FM radio... with a CD player.
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  8609. Is the interviewer Robert Picardo? He sounds like him.
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  8610. Because Google is a business and gets to choose what has to be blocked, censored, or disallowed. And their lawyers probably correctly point out what things will get the Karens and the Twitterverse all shouty.
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  8611. AND COPS!
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  8612.  @basillah7650  99.9% of your statistic is made up.
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  8613. That joke about equivalating Baltimore and Z'ha'dum is not too far off target.
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  8614.  @SankoshSaha_01  BBQ? Country Music? Jazz? "Protective" imperialism? Bugs Bunny?
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  8615.  @JohnDoe-bd5sz  Or they just plugged in one of those consumer-level cans of recharge.
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  8616. I don't know if it was your edits, Preston or not. But that Hezbollah video looked like a choppy mess of promotional and training footage mixed with just a dash of actual conflict footage. It had the same impact as looking to read a magazine article and having shredded paper thrown across your desk instead.
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  8617. There is a surefire way Orange Donnie could avoid all of these trials. Plead guilty to all charges. Heck, many judges sentence more lightly when you accept responsibility!
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  8618. Is that a Hack-mask, or a Mask-smith?
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  8619. I heard the first bit of your post in Bugs Bunny's voice.
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  8620. Cardinal Fang?
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  8621. $900 for not cutting the lawn? What is that, an HOA run by Benito Mussolini?
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  8622. 20 billion burgers?! 800,000 miles of burgers could build a wall on the US-Mexico border about 409 burgers high (ignoring structural requirements). With a guess at 2 inches per burger, that's a wall of burgers 68 FEET high! It's also enough burgers to pave the way to the moon and back three times (three round trips) and still have enough left over for a 7 foot tall wall on the US-Mexico border. It would only take about 540,000 of those burgers (figured at an average diameter of 3 inches) to pave the entire US one burger deep. In a year that paving could be almost three miles high. Please feel free to check my math, I may have slipped some decimals.
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  8623.  @DonOblivious  Of COURSE they do... Time to get a "sleeping in the car" pillow.
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  8624. Investigation? That's a HUGE five-syllable word. Cops can't think that good.
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  8625. Not knowing these cats very well, I am at least assured that I can pick one from the other just by saying, "Mister Clinton" - "Meow!"
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  8626. There are fewer built-in anti-user "safety features" in an actual canon.
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  8627. The need for a wall would go down if penalties and enforcement for hiring illegal aliens were increased to confiscatory levels.
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  8628. To clarify: if the hiring of illegals was actually prohibitively expensive to employers, then the jobs would not be there as a lightbulb to draw the illegal immigrants like moths.
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  8629. Junkyard parts may not be the best option, but sometimes they can be the only option. And as I have learned on this channel, "New doesn't always mean good".
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  8630.  @zaidvk  I have hypothyroidism, which means (among other things) that my body sucks at temperature regulation. Even so, my indoor summer temps are 78-80F, and my winter temps is 65F. I go colder in the winter for economic reasons, plus it is generally easy to add a layer of clothing.
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  8631. They're being honest... AFTER an investigative reporter, Jody Barr, filed requests for the records of calibrations thanks to a whistleblower report. Oh, and the department FIRED the whistleblower.
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  8632.  @M167A1  Yeah, this was definitely, in part, a move to intimidate current employees from making a similar move to a better employer.
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  8633. I am stunned that a guy who repairs his own stuff, as well as repairing stuff for other people, would own an Apple anything. Apple is the leader in anti-repair electronics.
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  8634. I keep wondering about the feasibility of building a magnetic accelerator system on the side of an appropriately sloped and oriented mountain to get your rockets going fast without using so much onboard fuel. I have read of it in books that seemed well researched, and a magnetic acceleration system works for naval jet aircraft, bullet trains and amusement park rides. - Would it allow launching of larger payloads with less fuel, or reinforcement for slanted rail launch add too much weight to realize savings? Would the turn-around times on the launcher be short enough to warrant the site's use to replace vertical launch? How would such a system be powered - could you collect solar/wind/tidal/hydro energy as electricity in rapid-discharge capacitors? - So many questions!
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  8635. If people widen their view to the worldwide population, white people don't NEED to be replaced. We're already a minority. Me, I prefer to judge people by their words and actions, not their skin color or national origin. Though, I still have a problem keeping from judging people for their religion...
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  8636. That house needs work! Aside from paint, and Spencer's hard work, that wall from about 11:00 to 14:00 is bowing out badly. With luck, it is just a brick facade falling, but if the brick is structural, that's a whole bigger problem. And water may have been infiltrating through any broken mortar. - The rear steps have sunk, eave gutters are falling, downspouts are missing... And that's just the outside.
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  8637.  @Mae-nr7wr  Several problems with your simplified comparison here. But I don't have the time or lack of apathy to detail all the points.
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  8638. I have never Instagrammed, Tik-Tok'ed, Facebooked, or whatever. So I was unaware of this marketing scheme, but then I am not the target demographic after more than five decades on the planet. The only point in the favor of gas that I give any credit is: In the event of a power failure, the gas will still flow* - *If the power failure is not severe enough to impact pumping and pressure monitoring substations that could cut the pressure to your line - and even if you have a tank of gas outside of your house, your electric pilot/igniter will not work, so you BETTER have a grill lighter or long matches. - and you better check all of your gas appliances regularly in that power failure to check for blown-out pilots, full-flow events, and guttering/sputtering from insufficient line pressure or a break letting air into the lines which could result in a rather explosive event somewhere)
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  8639. My first day working at a place with a cardboard baler, I sliced my leg cutting the boxes and needed about a dozen stitches. Wrecked a brand-new pair of pants in the process, bled all the way into my shoe (squish!). Two months later I was filling in for peoples' vacations as a machine operator. - I suppose I could have just quit because it was hard.
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  8640.  @jpnewman1688  Go away trollmen
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  8641. Dear Americans: Yes, you may be unhappy, but how about instead of voting against Biden, you stay home and DON'T murder democracy by voting for Trump (or Kennedy, honestly). I would consider it a favor.
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  8642. I await the day when someone comes out with "The Ponzi Coin" and makes disgusting mounds of money from idiots.
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  8643.  @silverdeathgamer2907  Yep! Supposedly, every bid increases the sale price by a penny, and you pay around sixteen cents per bid (number from someone else's video, I didn't do the math). So it is possible for you to win an item for a price lower than retail, but have paid MORE than retail for it. And you are not the only person bidding which leads me to believe that the price increasing by a penny per bid may be "massaged" so that the price does not go up as fast as it ought to. I have zero evidence of this last point, but it makes sense to me.
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  8644. I had an Air Force ROTC instructor who served a tour on the DEW line. He had pictures of him standing taller than the 16' tall pole marking the road to his installation (the snow was that deep!) and there was an 8' "flag" of windblown snow stuck to the side of the pole. He shared the joke that there was a woman and a pizza place behind every tree... But no trees.
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  8645.  @annonymsurfer3189  I have been "around" (using) the internet since the 1990's and I had no idea what /s meant until this discussion. - Not all sarcasm is easily derived as such from text, and not all people are equally capable of determining such a thing. - Two for two.
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  8646.  @alan5506  It cracks me up every time someone uses "boomer" intending it as an insult. And I quite honestly though the /s was a typo. But as I am doing a fair job on most day in suppressing my pedantic tendencies, I let it go.
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  8647. "Please forgive us." - "To err is human, to forgive is divine. And I'm no angel." - Edit: Steve, nobody got PHYSICALLY hurt. Plenty of hurt was done.
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  8648. This is what happens when those in charge of developing and implementing a rations nation-wide policy are incapable of recognizing fact, making plans, or doing much more than name-calling.
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  8649. Two guesses: the AI sees ASUS as a deliberate misspelling of ASS to try and get past profanity filters and is filtering the word. Or, a human with strings controlled by big tech works at FB and was told to block awareness of your message.
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  8650. It makes me laugh that news outlets are trying to generate outrage at billionaires not paying federal taxes. Do they think we all forgot how DJT BRAGGED about not paying federal taxes, while running for the Presidency in 2016? Those of us who are awake have long known that the rich don't pay even remotely close to their fair share.
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  8651. What a tool. At least he's sitting in the right toolbox.
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  8652. Consequences? Two tier justice system! Witch hunt! Political interference!!! - Hehe... Suck it, Orange Man.
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  8653. In the case you cite, Epic is in the wrong, as they violated the contract they signed with Apple. Then they compounded it with slander/libel (not sure which applies to electronically distributed video, sorry) with their anti-Apple short film.
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  8654.  @rmora1  All of the political side-taking only serves our "elected" overlords. THINK, research, question, challenge assumptions. Don't make things worse.
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  8655.  @tboneforreal  Epic will throw money and egotism at this like they have every other aspect of the business they do. Tim is the rich bully in the playground, and he doesn't care who he stomps on, enemy, ally or friend, to get what he wants which is EVERYTHING.
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  8656.  @ivanolsen7966  That was removed from the diagnostic by the first jumper wire.
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  8657. Before I got a C-clamp, I used to use channel locks and pain.
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  8658.  @D-B-Cooper  You have to be cautious with the bleeder, so as not to introduce air into the lines. Ask me how I know...
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  8659. Stop taking selfies! Take more usies, themies, and placies!
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  8660. This is now the third-largest suppressor every built and fired through. The other two? 2nd place, the IfL, a suppressor built by Germany to fire the Leopard 2 main gun through 1st place, the artillery suppressor (now scrapped?) built by Germany (again) to fire up to 155mm artillery through. - The German devices were designed and built to deal with noise complaints by people living in audible distance of the test ranges.
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  8661.  @dotar9586  I had to reset the timing belt on an old Ford Escort when I had to replace the water pump. That job was a pain. The Chilton's manual advised taking off the passenger wheel well to get to the water pump, but I went for the bloody knuckles route. Somewhere in the process, the timing belt came off to allow the replacement of the water pump. When I put it back on, the friend helping me had slightly moved the valve cam shaft, so when I put everything back together the car ran like it was burning coffee instead of gasoline. Has to partially disassemble and move the vale cam one tooth position, and "TADA!" the car ran great!
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  8662.  @marlenestockton2269  What do you mean, "you people"?
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  8663. Who looks at those tacks and thinks "map of steam tunnels? That there is a retcon if I've ever heard one. - - - We had a Mormon friend as a player for a while (AD&D era) and he made us keep the player handbook face down as his only condition. The cover just weirded him out.
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  8664. A cotter pin is a split pin. But not all split pins are cotter pins (though they usually are). One difference? US name versus the name in other places. - Another type of split pin is an R-clip, which I was taught to call a spring pin, and is the one that sort of looks like a hefty bobby pin with fewer (usually 1 or 2) 'wavy' contours. R-clips (hairpin cotter, hitch pin, etc.) are often used where you want to be able to remove, install, and reuse the pin without bringing tools into the equation. They are also hardened to a spring quality, as opposed to the cotter pins Ray is using.
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  8665. If someone needs my license for age identification purposes, it stays in my hand and I'm covering everything except the DOB.
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  8666. I read crapola and first thought about the cheap crayons I would get for Christmas as a kid. You know they kind. Hard and waxy like a candle, don't color well at all. Even worse than Rose Art brand...
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  8667.  @outseeker  That sound you heard? That was the punchline zooming over your head.
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  8668. My first thought about "Why would you want to open the hood of an electric vehicle?" - Maybe something got up in there that needs to be removed. Like a dead squirrel, or a piece of road debris. - Thanks, Louis, I learned about the Overton window today.
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  8669.  @brucebangeman8627  Or, and try this one on for size, some people like to have light-hearted fun. Not everything has to be ulcer-causing serious at all times.
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  8670.  @sharondudrey7606  If we were not shackled to the disproportionate chunk of antiquity called the Electoral College, all it would take is a majority of the people who actually bother to vote.
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  8671. Debbie Does Deluge!
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  8672. The cracks from the first hit propagate so fast, it almost looked like the windscreen (windshield on my side of the Atlantic) broke BEFORE the impact. Glass is a strange material.
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  8673. It really sounds like the Russians are reacting to the Fox News version of the headlines of the situation.
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  8674.  @dougshrader7721  Exactly, You want that thing to burn down to the frame, take the insurance settlement, and buy a car that won't try to raze the neighborhood.
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  8675.  @Bradimus1  Ah, so you are just bothered that I randomly chose YOUR comment to click to post a reply. Got it. I will try (not very hard, honestly) to never bother you again. Not even if you are on fire and I have the only bucket of water within a mile.
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  8676.  @deadchannel991  Ah, the joys of renting in a slap-dash subdivided building where much of the work was done while the building inspector was drunk and/or well-bribed.
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  8677.  @callak_9974  The house I grew up in had low-pile carpet in the kitchen, and indoor-outdoor carpet in the bathrooms... Until we tore it out and found the fantastic hardwood floors underneath.
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  8678. They accept all documents at face value? Time to file paperwork making me governor of Florida.
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  8679. I think the customer hanging up was warranted. There is no reason to engage with anger directed at you. Of course, another response to "Is there a tip?" could be "Yeah, don't work for a company that refuses to pay you for what you're worth, leaving you to rely on the capricious generosity of strangers." - Then again, I don't use third-party delivery. If a restaurant doesn't have their own delivery drivers, then I either go without their food, or more often, I drag my lazy behind into a pair of shoes and go get my own damn food.
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  8680. Some statements I have seen people "withdraw" the day after the sober up: "I love rum!" and "I'll fight you all with one hand tied behind my back!"
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  8681. Maybe he 'could' have been fired for that reason if his employer was Bob Funland. - But yeah, I got a lot of side-eye from a few employers for not wanting to participate in beer-soaked company outings.
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  8682. I saw that suspicious cutout in the frame in the first few seconds of the video. PROOF that Honda is a subdivision of the Galactic Empire! - Okay, silliness done.
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  8683. Damn! I thought that bullet was a full cartridge for comparison, until he picked it up!
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  8684. Sadly, we're all stuck in this boat, cast adrift from shore, and while less than 1/3 of us are happily drilling holes in the bottom of the hull by voting R, there are only enough lifeboats for the wealthiest 1%.
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  8685. The SPECIAL hell...
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  8686. And this is why smart/ethical politicians and people in positions of public trust use blind investment. I may not be using the right words, but it is when you hire a person to run your investments but they are to not tell you what you are invested in, just that they manage it and give you updates on the total value only.
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  8687. Somehow, a chin-beard white guy being behind this Texas law against women's choice makes sense.
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  8688.  @thewausaudude  I can do most of the stuff that only requires a jack stand and a wheel chock. When it starts getting into needing to lift the whole vehicle, or rebuild major internal engine parts, I tap out. - More recently, where I live now I cannot do auto repair without risking my tenancy, so I can only do work on my car when I can get time in my brother's driveway.
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  8689.  @thewausaudude  In my area I have seen tent-like winter enclosures for cars, boats and RV's that are about the size of a small garage, but as temporary structures don't usually require a building permit. Perhaps one of those would make a nice repair blind.
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  8690.  @eDoc2020  First, I would like to address your point about grounded adapters and power strips. If the wiring is not grounded to earth, any grounded items you have plugged in are a mental placebo. - What sort of inconveniences? - non-polarized sockets and polarized plugs on modern devices. Corollary: Improperly installed polarized sockets which let you plug in modern devices but you may be damaging the device by using it. -Fake GFI/GFCI that don't really protect from shocks. -Overloaded circuits that have been spliced off of to add more and more plugs and lights. I have lost power in over half of my current apartment by microwaving frozen corn according to the directions. -grounds to plumbing giving occasional shocks when washing or bathing. -Having to find the one hardware store that still carries screw-in type S fuses.
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  8691.  @soulwarrior7721  Or use one of the 9mm sockets that are used almost nowhere.
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  8692.  @garyr7027  One time, we were desperately looking for a 10mm socket to fix a car and we went through three fully packed and completely disorganized toolboxes before finding one. We found around a dozen 5/32" sockets though! Most of them completely unused.
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  8693. I saw that training (or at least the photogenic parts on an episode of Dirty Jobs. And Destin needs to learn some cable safety!
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  8694. I'd love to see a VAF victim's lawyer put the seized money on their witness list. "Do you, a pile of cash, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?" . . . . . . - "Your honor, permission to treat the pile of cash as a hostile witness?"
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  8695. That's why you don't buy insurance from a shifty duck. Nobody has a baby zebra around.
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  8696. Well, I guess that's what happens when you contest the charges of selling laptops without properly listing the purchase of the goods you didn't purchase. - A side lesson I learned from my time in the military: During an inspection, the First Sergeant WILL find something wrong, even when there is nothing wrong, so make sure the something wrong you deliberately leave in place is very minor to distract the First Sergeant.
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  8697.  @thatjeff7550  Defense Against the Bark Arts graduate!
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  8698.  @LolTollhurst  Well, in the past, gravity was apparently weaker. People carried 6-12kg of textbooks back and forth to school every day Now, people carry 50-gram phones and 2kg computers and complain about the weight.
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  8699. Ehud Barak's statement didn't "slip out". When something "slips out", the person then backpedals, tries to deflect follow-on questions, and so on. Instead, he clarified his answer, with no change in facial expression, inflection, tempo or timbre of speech. - Rather like a baseball bat maker being asked if they made the bat that Joe Smith used in a crime. "Yes we made the bat." "We made the bat from ash, using a computer-operated lathe." So what? The bat maker, or the basement maker did not make a thing that only has criminal use and is not responsible for the criminal use of their product afterward.
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  8700. The cost of AC repairs is why I have been using the 2 by 40 (two open windows, 40MPH) AC on my Focus for nearly a decade. Here in Massachusetts, working heat is more important for more of the year anyway.
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  8701. An appropriate state for Cuomo might be the State of Denial.
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  8702. If I used a sentence that short in a term paper, I'd lose a letter grade for "sentence fragment".
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  8703.  @D.von.N  My "cheap" WalMart sneakers last me 2-5 years a pair. If I was using them athletically, I would seek out better-made shoes, probably. But these are sufficient for the mild use I put them to, when combined with the orthotic inserts that cost me twice what the shoes cost.
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  8704.  @DesertFernweh  For factuality, the Daily Show is like Mount Everest to Fox's molehill.
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  8705.  @mmmartin261  BWAHAHAHA!!!
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  8706. That CPAC crowd SHOULDN'T wear masks. They need to have every opportunity to catch Covid and die, THAT will show up all of us sheep! Come on, I dare them!
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  8707.  @olinewright6877  Unless the people vote a senator out, only the senate's own internal rules can remove a senator who is still alive and has time left on their term. It is part of how the senate is set up in the US Constitution that they have the power to make the rules for their membership.
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  8708. One big error I saw in that video for a spinning station (well, possibly two): 1) when the ship that lands is shifted sideways to a dock, it may need a radially opposite mass moved in the other direction to avoid causing dangerous wobble. 2) the movie shows people strolling off the ship down the connecting airlock, but they would actually be accelerating toward the outside of the station, with an increasing acceleration, and be sliding along the floor (if I remember the rotation correctly). That walkway should be a ladder or elevator/lift with the floor in the direction of the outer rim of rotation.
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  8709. I dunno. I was imagining him talking about secret herbs and spices.
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  8710. Terrorists don't give police their planned daily routine. If you don't give police your planned daily routine, you must be a terrorist!
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  8711. My biggest takeaway from this work is to know that I NEVER want to do it myself.
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  8712.  @RichardTaylor1630  They don't care. All they see is someone who is not bowing to their golden fatted calf.
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  8713. Drivers in these areas ought to get some zip-ties. some decent zip ties and you can park those two-legged speed bumps around nearby light poles. Maybe even leave a note stuck to them, "Courtesy, your friendly neighborhood Spider Man"
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  8714.  @jonihaynes-haasch8988  Uh-huh. I take "Liars starting with joni for $200, Alex."
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  8715. OMG. two barrels and bolts and magazines that fire with a tiny time gap would be easier to understand.
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  8716. Killed? But the Telegram said he was assassinated! And we all know Telegram NEVER uses inflammatory language...
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  8717. "I have assessed the value of this here boat at $495,000 dollars. You can keep the boat, and the change."
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  8718. Also: Schematics and parts!
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  8719. If I unsubscribe and resubscribe over and over, does that pump the subscriber numbers up?
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  8720.  @hillbillypatriot1  Our matter will decompose (rates depending on how chemical you want to go) and our energy will dissipate into the environment. All that remains of "us" is the memories of those who outlive us, whether those memories are thoughts, written word, pictures, video, or data files. - See, I can make declarations about "after death" too.
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  8721. Perhaps the reporter could have gotten a better answer by donating to have a unit of the National Guard sent to the Mexican border?
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  8722. Dog? Nope, that's a horse.
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  8723. How does this second trial NOT trigger double jeopardy?
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  8724. Watch these videos? Then make a business plan, working with someone who knows how to critique and suggest quality changes. Then get some equipment, and keep learning.
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  8725. May (most?) US states disagree with you Godshaw. The lien-holder gets their money, and the state keeps the remainder (if the typical low-ball bid actually exceeds the liens).
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  8726. Come on. That is a top-notch room for a Mexican prison! . Oh, this is NOT a Mexican prison?
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  8727.  @redstoneactive6589  I'm not saying DeSantis is a fascist, but one identifying trait of fascists is hiding what they are doing when in positions of power.
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  8728. Why? Did they arrange the deaths, but the killings happened too late to adjust the ballots? Because of a lazy hit-man?
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  8729. Fun outcome. the cop stops bringing the cruiser home for a bit, the HOA president's home gets a home invasion, cop who lives within two minutes instead has to drive to work to get the car, then back to be able to respond to... oh, missed everything. - Ideal outcome, someone with real intestinal fortitude gets a bill passed and signed into law abolishing all HOAs which do not outright own the roads in their neighborhoods.
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  8730.  @ericwsmith7722  That is not a response to how good or bad a job cops are doing. it is a desire to be 'separate" "better" and "apart" from "the masses"
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  8731. Ha!
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  8732. Thumbs up for the Oregon Trail reference alone! - Tarrio better ask for protective confinement.
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  8733. This company is so frequently bad it Hertz. (Double pun!)
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  8734. If a politician reversed the position they were taking while running, then go ahead and call them out. If a politician stays true to their running platform and it upsets you, you need to call out those who voted for them.
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  8735. At least Justice League had characters for whom there was at least a general awareness. - You would think Mickey Marvel would have learned from the tepid response to the Inhumans show, which had a (short) season to develop characters, had fewer of them, and still left a lot of people saying, "Meh." I watched the Inhumans series over three days, and there were characters for whom I still no bleeps about. The king who can't talk without killing people? blech. The queen with hair-based "superpowers" who gets shaved bald? yawn. Sabrina the teenage lightning bender? bland. The giant teleporting dog was more sympathetic than most of the named characters. - This Eternals group probably works okay in a comic format, where they can devote huge chunks of storytelling to establish each character. But like you said, to jam all ten into a single movie? Even at 3 hours, that's an average of 18 minutes per character, if they do NOTHING except introductions.
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  8736.  @NoahSpurrier  Perhaps with fewer dead people in no-knock warrant raids?
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  8737. My car has that same annoying fitness tracker. I turn it on and it criticizes my ABS.
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  8738.  @sheilaolfieway1885  As of the last information I got about the case, Disney's lawyers dropped the claim as part of their defense strategy.
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  8739. Oh, good. The "pro-peace" protestors, joiners, and wannabes not only destroyed other peoples' property, but they also engaged in graffiti on public monuments. That will definitely get people to change their minds.
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  8740. I have only rarely had a mechanic install parts I brought. Every time it has been AFTER talking with the shop who agreed to it, and it was a situation like having them install a scrap yard component (such as a rear axle) . And each time, it was made very clear that the shop would not offer their usual warranty. My mechanic was awesome and gave me a 30-day on the installation, with no warranty to the parts. - The big key? Discuss the issue with your mechanic FIRST. Don't make assumptions.
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  8741. 2027: Two people on death row get to talking. "What are you in for?" - "I refused to fabricate charged against innocent people, so Patel had my partner fabricate charges against me. How about you?" "Your partner fabricated charges against me after you were dragged away."
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  8742. Josh Morgan: You see, Pappy, the Government... Pappy Tatum: Who's government? Josh Morgan: Well, the United States Government - want to use the top of this mountain to build a I-C-B-M firing base. Pappy Tatum: B-M? Josh Morgan: Ballistic Missile. Pappy Tatum: Oh, I see. Josh Morgan: That's right, I-C-B-M. Pappy Tatum: You-see-B-M? Well, I don't. Ma Tatum: Me neither, Pappy. And I ain't so sure what I heared. - From Kissin' Cousins (1864)
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  8743. Yep, agree. M-hmm. Okay. WHERE IS THE CAT!
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  8744. I recall a training film we had to watch at Fort Benning that showed the effect of improper headspace and timing settings on the older M2 .50 machine guns. Yikes!
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  8745.  @davidh9638  Nothing one, two feels set, three... counter-rotation...
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  8746. Expertise can be learned, and patience can either be learned or faked. If you successfully fake patience in your life, only your dentist and cardiologist will know.
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  8747. 300 episodes? This! Is! Smarter! (kick)
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  8748. He might have been, but (with the unprecedented guidance of a well-bought Supreme Court Justice) a Florida judge determined that Special Prosecutors are illegal. Now all of a sudden they are legal again?
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  8749. If not LWT's song, I would support INS using "Living in America" by James Brown. It was good enough for Rocky Balboa, it's good enough for our new citzens!
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  8750. I live in an apartment building, and have no control over the insulation and windows. I have supplemented the average quality windows with thermal curtains, and already adapt my own attire to allow less energy use for temperature control (shorts and t-shirt in summer, layers in winter). But I will look at manually modifying my window AC and electric baseboard settings to capitalize on this idea, season variable.
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  8751. For the last 30 or so years, I don't say the word "yes" on the phone unless either I made the call, or I know the person I am talking to. - A caller asks me if I want to pay for what they are selling? I ask for their company name so I can find their website and phone number myself and call them back. That gets them to hang up quick.
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  8752. I got a kick out of "Kerbal" being used as an adjective.
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  8753.  @ThatSB  It is a choice one has to make when you live where roads are often covered with snow and ice. Drive the car and know that rust is a harsh eater, don't drive all winter, or move to where the snow and ice aren't.
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  8754. As a renter in New England, insulating and window quality are two everlasting gripes that will not get solved under current financial regimens. When the tenant pays for heat, but the building owner is the one who decides if/when/how to insulate, it almost never gets done. Often, only the exterior wall pockets with plumbing will get insulated at all, since frozen pipes and the damage they can cause hit the property owner in the wallet.
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  8755.  @boriscat1999  Or you could get the Covert Companion and hide a "burglary kit" in your pocket.
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  8756.  @blindleader42  Two fish? M134 mini-gun?
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  8757. I've made fudge from marshmallow Fluff. Yep, that sticky white sandwich spread, heated in a double boiler, stirring like a maniac, it turns brown and ends up tasting like chocolate fudge.
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  8758.  @teru797  Alle muss entsprechen! Fuhrer Trump ist Gott!!!
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  8759. Come on. Nobody's that early except for the eBay scalpers.
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  8760. And remember, noticing the police is suspicious. NOT noticing the police is suspicious. Acting nervous is suspicious. Acting calm is suspicious. Asking questions is suspicious. Asserting your rights under law is suspicious. Keeping silent is suspicious. Being a chatterbox is suspicious. Breathing is suspicious. Being dead is suspicious.
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  8761.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  I didn't think you did. I know that Google does, I was just surprised by it.
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  8762. You might be able to be a good cop, but do not expect any of the bad cops to EVER have your back.
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  8763.  @CW-uw2cb  Cops have a lot of problems with recognizing constitutional rights. And that is without even going past the first five.
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  8764. Fun with definitions: You can argue in front of a judge without being part of a court case. Just stand in front of the judge in a line and start in on Red Sox versus Yankees with your friend.
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  8765. Raise your lightsabers, Colorado, and defeat Darth Barbie!
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  8766. And we kick off another year of John carpet-bombing the world with truth! - Also: "Flat fuck fridays" is a smooth tune.
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  8767.  @brentfarvors192  Sorry, that's a civil matter.
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  8768. Those penis rockets ain't cheap, you know!
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  8769. Thanks, and I did learn something! (Don't smack Blackberry)
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  8770. That seems like a great idea. Not a mechanic, just a rust-belt resident.
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  8771. The fine was dumb, the concept of making black smoke (which you just know they did to get a reaction) is dumb. Letting a doctor who runs a small organization sue when the state has plenty of on-the-books fines that could, and should have, applied instead - even MORE dumb. There is enough dumb going around to bring Jim Carrey out of semi-retirement.
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  8772. I am STILL waiting for the MAGA cult and their leader to find somewhere to camp out and FINALLY get around to the "special" off-brand Kool-Aid!!!
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  8773.  @hocm4859  Every US voter who votes emotionally, who votes party, who votes on incomplete information, is a tool. Oh, and a tool of the government.
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  8774.  @evonne531  You list three corporations that are the tools of profit. Any spying done by these platforms is to increase their ability to make grossly wealthy people even more money. - Any information the government gets from these venues is typically gotten via hacking by the three-letter-agencies, "legal" (FISA, mandate from Sweet Potato Hitler, etc.) or otherwise.
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  8775.  @evonne531  Criticism of China on Tik-Tok gets banned. Seems tool-like to me. - Criticism of the US President and other government officials on Facebook, Google or Twitter is common, and does not, on it's own, bring a ban. Interesting.
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  8776. The social media company should also be able to countersue the person who provided the kid the technological device through which the kid got "addicted". - edit: And maybe if there was not such a strong and sustained move against letting kids just play outdoors, without helmets, knee pads, video surveillance, and constant parental hovering, the internet would not be such a refuge for kids' free time.
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  8777. The world has SO many scientists, you would think these shows and movies could shave a tiny fraction off the effects budget to hire one or two. Oh, and they'd have to actually heed their advice, and that is the tricky part.
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  8778.  @bkitteh6295  A leave-in conditioner? I know they have them for humans in pump-spray bottles, but I've never used one myself as I have normal to oily hair.
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  8779. Wow. He finally looks to be about 30. With all he's dealing with, he keeps giving, keeps going. Thank you Mr. Fox (Because your nearly 30 now, and can't be 'Mike' anymore).
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  8780. We can hope. it worked for gay marriage, and that little independence from the British Empire 'thing'.
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  8781. And this litigant is not even IN Texas. He's in Los Angeles.
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  8782. If you need this kind of help with cash flow as a realtor in today's market, your business is already failing. You just refuse to acknowledge it.
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  8783. Thanks for the free house, eh?
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  8784. That is not bad, but would not fix one of the big issues with Apple Store "repair. They swap out entire sub-assemblies (and throw them away) charging you a significant chunk of what the device cost new, instead of replacing a capacitor or fuse that would take 10-15 minutes and produce about half a gram of waste. - And if your hard drive/data chip is on the sub-assembly being replaces by Apple, bye-bye data.
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  8785. The first vehicle I learned to drive was an M-113 APC. Then I learned to drive a military jeep. I didn't get behind the wheel of my first civilian vehicle until I was 19.
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  8786. Maybe if he had shared some of his windfall, he wouldn't be hearing so many calls for him to resign. Politicians hate nothing so much as someone who takes more than their "fair share" of graft.
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  8787. I was just happy to see an engine where changing the plugs didn't involve first removing the intake manifold. There's been a couple of those lately.
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  8788. It's not enough to turn a traffic stop into a murder, but the K-9 officer is choking the ** out of his dog. Bunch of criminals.
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  8789. A political committee is where democracy gets filtered through the concentrated self-interests of a small number of well-bought individuals. I am STUNNED this got out of committee.
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  8790. My liver wants a word with you...
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  8791. Something else I found about the packs versus powder. When the packs got damp (bad seal on the bag), I ended up with a huge clump of packs stuck together and coming apart. When a box of powder detergent gets damp, you can break it up by squeezing or striking the box, or in sever cases, cutting open the box, putting the powder in a different container, and breaking it up with a butter knife or screwdriver.
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  8792.  @au1317  And what it is you are trying to avoid getting involved in. Avoiding being the target of a riot is a different moral choice than avoiding speaking up about genocide. To give two widely separate examples.
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  8793.  @ArtStoneUS  That is totally radical, dude!
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  8794.  @randomuserame  Your abbreviation is too obscure to me.
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  8795. I don't Tik Tok. If I want/need a dose of happy endorphins, I watch a video from Key'ush the Stunt Dog or Sherpa. Huskies = happy!
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  8796.  @hxhdfjifzirstc894  Oh, you mean a woman wearing clothes that actually block wind and have functional pockets?
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  8797.  @davidgreen5099  Have you SEEN the size a capacitor has to be to be dangerous to a dry human? Think a three-liter bottle. unwetted human skin is (for the vast majority of people) a good insulator a.k.a. a poor conductor.
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  8798. It used to be, that when you were a victim of violent "protection" rackets, the police and courts were on your side.
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  8799.  @justinayers3589  I really like how artfully you applied a negative handle "mob rule" to the idea of democracy. It shows a serious ability to ignore both the factual errors and the dangers of applying such a negative to a topic for which you seem to have disregard. - Is it "mob rule" when "the people" elect a mayor, or a governor, or a senator? Or is it only "mob rule" when it threatens to give the totality of those voting an equal voice for the highest office in the country?
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  8800.  @justinayers3589  You probably can't see it from where you are, but lots of Neo-(fill in the blank)s are raising their right arm high to salute your mindset.
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  8801.  @justinayers3589  I responded as I did: 1) Because that is what I believe, based on my experience and study of the subject matter. 2) Because I get truly exasperated with anti-democracy trolls. 3) To point out the bad debate methods used in many comments on YouTube. 4) And in a tiny way, to get a rise out of people who disagree with me, in the hopes that they will expose their ignorance, hypocrisy, and/or extremisms - so that others can see what kind of people they are.
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  8802. On the alignment section, I have seen only one vehicle with the slanted tracking on the road. I have, however, seen many a trailer that has slanted tracking, particularly medium-sized equipment trailers (small excavators, skid steers, etc.) on the highway.
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  8803. Thunderscreech sounds like a Decepticon name.
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  8804. Just saw a video about this one on Lehto's Law
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  8805. Infantry Fighting Vehicle?
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  8806. Great screen slide at 22:54!
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  8807. Or maybe don't speed?
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  8808. I have used flux-core solder, but that tends to be for sweating plumbing, and in a larger diameter. Not so good for micro-electronics.
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  8809.  @nonotthatoneguy  You know, I might be. It was just a partial spool that came with our house, no idea how old it was.
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  8810. Blue bags? That is an uncommon variety of NYC topiary! Must be an exotic cultivar.
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  8811. Midnight Saturday the 28th, 4,11k subs (including mine!)
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  8812. Conversely, maneuvering the line out in its entirety can help you figure out how to get the new one in. I have seen a number of Ray's videos where maneuvering out the old has given him ideas on how to get the new one in, whether it be a steering rack, or an A-frame or an AC line.
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  8813. Within five years they'll just mail you random tickets for things they assume you did. And you will not be able to challenge them in court, because you're already guilty.
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  8814.  @MysticWanderer  Indeed, how odd. But anecdote is not statistic.
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  8815. "Where's my reparations?" - Dude, you can afford two AR's. Shut the f___ up.
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  8816. 14:20 is when I finally saw the problem with the engine. And funny enough, taking the timing cover off would not have revealed that.
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  8817. Stop letting these traitors fall on the face. Supply them with swords for targets!
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  8818.  @peteranderson037  Oh! Yours is so much better!
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  8819. I had a 1988 Bronco that had the hood latch fail at 40MPH, wrapping the hood over the windshield with a BOOM! that bent the hinges and required a windshield replacement. Quite a shock, given that I was in moderate traffic at the time.
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  8820. Ray, I hope that boat passed the Coast Guard inspection before it was beached at your lot.
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  8821. Wait, why are we paying attention to some strap-hanger!? I kid.
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  8822.  @DansplainingVideo  Are there any who WOULDN'T? Even our allies spy on us. And we spy on them.
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  8823. I smiled at the Roger Waters anecdote.
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  8824. You had me until "Only available on Nebula". I wish you success with this endeavor.
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  8825. And THAT, kids, is why you don't use a cheapo hollow-core door for your exterior doors!
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  8826. Quantum Dots. Hmm... Are they related to Quantum Yakkos and Quantum Wakkos?
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  8827.  @excitedbox5705  I remember having to buy a special allen wrench (neither metric NOR SAE) to be able to do oil changes on my 1970 and -74 Volkswagen Beetles.
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  8828. Or a loan shark's bodyguard.
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  8829. Plus, over the last year, car makers slowed down, and the supply currently available is not enough to meet demand, so prices keep rising, even on used beaters.
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  8830. To be a tiny bit fair, remember how many times you walked past the new location before seeing the "for rent" sign in the window? - But real talk, don't accept mediocrity from the people who are paid to do a job for you. Climb up the ladder of responsibility until things change.
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  8831.  @rossmanngroup  Well, yes. But I did say a tiny bit.
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  8832. How much does that come to in 5th Edition?
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  8833. If those cars are: bearing a license plate, bearing a non-expired inspection sticker (depending on state standards), and parked there otherwise legally, then the management is engaged in vandalism and grand theft auto. If my apartment building towed every car that sat without moving for over a week, mine would be towed at least once a month. So what if I don't drive every week? My car is registered, has undamaged license plates, has a valid inspection sticker, and my lease allows me to park there.
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  8834. If you weren't racing against the big house buying corporations and the panic buyers offering well above list to beat those same corporations to get a house, you could also take the time to get a historical record of work permits pulled for a property.
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  8835. I would never have even THOUGHT of looking for motor oil at a Dollar General or any other "Dollar" establishment.
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  8836. Has Congress approved the spending for this purge? Or is trump going to take a loan from his sycophants and try to get the government to pay them back?
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  8837. I can, without doubt or reservation, say I have never worked at McDonalds or any other fast-food place. Instead, I worked in convenience stores before, during, and for a while after college.
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  8838. @Darius-uj1gv You voted for Trump? Why? Was it for some shared hate? Was it because you can't tolerate the idea of a woman president?
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  8839.  @vincensius8452  Trump lies more before noon than most people do in a year.
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  8840. I can see why it takes 500 days. If they dragged their feet less, more plaintiffs/complainants might still be around and want to push the issue.
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  8841. $75 drop fee? How do the rest of us get mafia jobs like that?
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  8842. Another reason why I feel wise for doing all of undersea exploration via the cameras of professionals and unmanned submersibles.
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  8843. Wait, this originated with Boris Johnson? No wonder it is moronic!
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  8844. You're asking for a visor material that has the refractive index of the moist air in your helmet AND the refractive index of hard vacuum/alien ship air/alien planet air/etc.
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  8845. OH! Troops! I was thinking that sending footwear to the Ukraine Military would be well received.
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  8846.  @mick8669  Your foil hat might be on too tight, and cutting off blood flow to your brain.
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  8847. Easy solution! Repossess buildings with outrageous rents on spaces that have been vacant for more than six years (Perhaps only if the building is over 50% vacant?), then crush them with bulldozers while DiBlasio gives a silly speech.
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  8848. What is sadly not commonplace is those criminals actually facing meaningful/any penalties.
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  8849. "Is it currently raining outside this court building?" - "Well, based on the meteorological standards and the varying definitions of what rain can be, it would have to first be clarified that rain can be a varying degree of precipitation events and also as to which temperature range in which such precipitation can be called rain..."
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  8850. Great work! Next up for that truck, TPSM's and a full abs workout.
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  8851. I have learned, though thankfully not destructively, that tires have a limited lifespan, even if never mounted on rims. And their lifespan can be shortened by UV exposure. So yeah, it's not just how much tread is left, it is how much dry rot your sidewalls get. And having this information, also be sure to check your spare(s)!
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  8852. Hall and Oates Emergency Help Line. Well played, Mr. Oliver. - Or is it the Sea Wolf Tybee restaurant? Or the Johnson Street Yacht club? Or a guy who used to live in Colorado and moved to North Charleston SC? Without actually calling the number, the internet is nothing but confusing on finding where a number actually connects to.
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  8853. I feel fortunate that I was raised to avoid taking meds I didn't need. The beatings worked, folks, and not a single "participant" trophy in sight. - This whole situation is so criminal, and there are a lot of wealthy people in need of jail time (or maybe shallow graves in the forest?) Big fines are deceptively comforting moves. The money never goes to the actual injured parties (or their surviving families), but instead to the big pile of money the government gets to play with.
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  8854.  @txhookey5608  All that is required for evil to triumph is for good cops to do nothing. - paraphrasing Edmund Burke
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  8855. I don't care if the driver of that red SUV is a supporter of the ASPCA, donates to children's hospitals, takes care of a baker's dozen of shut-in elderly neighbors, and has shaken hands with Buddha. Driving through a crowd of people (who are not trying to harm and/or carjack you) is vile, evil, and a one-way ticket to the "Get the bleep off my planet you piece of filth!" train.
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  8856. Charging your neighborhood stores money to "protect" them from your group's criminal activities? Illegal. - Threatening to sue people who you know cannot afford to out-lawyer you, essentially forcing them to knuckle under and do what you say? Apparently legal. - - What a world. eh?
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  8857. I'm watching this just after hearing about Winchester migrating a huge chunk of their operations out of my state of Massachusetts because the self-righteous anti-gun crown are pushing a law to ban the assembly of "assault weapons" in the state that are not for sale to only the military and police. Instead, Tennessee will gain around 600 jobs. And Colt is also moving a chunk of their operations out of Connecticut to Tennessee, for very similar reasons. - The more government squeezes in an effort to control, the more slips out of their hands like wet soap. And Tennessee is gently collecting wet soap these days.
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  8858. Darth Barbie HATES not being taken seriously!
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  8859.  @kkupsky6321  Delaware Bay? And no Old Bay seasoning? I'm surprised the Coast Guard didn't make you move to Vermont!
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  8860. I recall something about Jack Daniels being involved. John Daniels? Paul Ryan?
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  8861. Those upright posts are not even for previously finished (or even planned) walls. They are keeping the second floor on the second floor. That whole place is a total gut at a minimum, and perhaps a raze and re-start. That house needs a fire that the FDNY takes a little too long to respond to.
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  8862. @@CerebralHell "Your honor, I was convicted of murder and served over two decades. I would like ten minutes and a baseball bat to make the DA no longer a liar."
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  8863. "I was told you're a skittish, scaredy cat." (George stares at the camera, dead inside.)
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  8864. Regarding "Biden:Trump::Putin:Navalny" I support the comparison... assuming similar breathing statuses.
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  8865. Anger management? I think he managed his anger correctly. No dead people, just hurt feelings on the school board. And as a bonus, some police brutality.
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  8866.  @77.88.  Running Amazon with honesty and integrity don't pay for phallic rocket rides!
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  8867. Your mistakes: 1) being up front about your political leanings. If they wanted to know, they should have asked before signatures were laid down and money changed hands. 2) people who use phrases like, "You should google her/him/that/them" instead of actually saying what they mean. If your friend meant to tell the dos hermanas about you, they could have just said what they were talking about. Googling something is the BEST way to find the worst versions of information first, and only finding truth if you are willing to dig deep into the data. 3) accepting the decision of las hermanas AFTER paperwork was signed and you had moved in. You could have stuck it out and it would have taken years longer to get you out than your sublet was written for.
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  8868. Does this mean I can get a crow to help me figure out my router settings now?
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  8869. Checking facts is expensive. Repeating what other people said, regardless of the veracity, with different haircuts, is much more cost-effective.
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  8870. Watching this around 2 years after it was posted. Interesting look back at when the subscriber count AND the shovel were both smaller.
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  8871. Re: this story. That lawyer, judge and the people running that guardianship company need to have their oxygen permits revoked. - With all of the families being abused in this process, I'm amazed that there have not been "shallow grave in the woods" events. - I have some anger over this...
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  8872.  @davidconner-shover51  My mother boiled and steamed a lot of foods. She also overcooked a lot of foods. I was in my thirties when I found out that scallops were not 'gristly'. I still don't like the flavor, but at least now I know what flavor I don't like!
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  8873. Sounds like a major part of this guy's business plan is storage and ticking off customers. No wonder he had to go online to look for customers. Probably ran out of locals to tick off.
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  8874. Is Louis trying to duck out because he is wanted for a heinous felony? An international human rights crime? No? Stick to your guns Louis. If we wait for the "perfect" spokespeople for Right-to-Repair, we'll be lamenting how we can't fix our own interplanetary spaceships, trying to dodge the oppressive anti-free-speech laws bought and paid for by our Apple/Disney/Google-Interstellar Unlimited (TM, don't even TRY to mess with us!) You helped get a lot of people motivated to vote for, and influence friends and family to vote for, the recent ballot initiative in Massachusetts. - Nothing involving government is easy for we little guys. Over a hundred years and brown people are still fighting uphill, helped by laws and ordinances and social change that still have a way to go. Gay marriage is still pushing to get national legal rights, but progress is being made. No important positive change comes from people who schmooze and fit in with the power elite. It comes from people who shine a light into the darkness, who speak up about abuses of power, who sometimes have to shout to be heard, who dig for the dirt, and who can chisel through the layers of hardened slime to find the gems who can lift the cause higher. And sometimes, you need the abrasive person who is willing to speak plainly and get in people's faces. President Lyndon B Johnson did not get Kennedy's civil rights agenda passed by glad-handing or giving finely tailored speeches alone, He also dug dirt on those who opposed him, threatened, cajoled, bluffed, blustered, shouted, and pushed.
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  8875. Put in writing, judge. And wrap that apology around a stack of cash. From your own money!
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  8876. So... the people running the concert have a vote in how you celebrate. Are we even necessary anymore?
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  8877.  @JTA1961  Um, Roswell is a town in New Mexico. The "Roswell UFO event" WAS a balloon.
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  8878. This just goes to show you lift massive things the same way you eat an elephant. on tiny bit at a time, and preferably with a lot of help.
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  8879. Did the bank at least change their name to "Bank of Sherwood"?
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  8880. A high school friend's parents had a sign in his kitchen, "You don't have to be a bigamist to have one wife too many!"
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  8881.  @cobracommander9138  Cops, prosecutors, judges. The Axis of Misjustice.
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  8882. Let us renumerate the big/recent Biden gripes: Grocery, gas, housing, etc. prices - that's corporate greed, kids. "He didn't make Israel do what we want." - Israel is a sovereign country. Heck yeah, they're doing some really evil stuff against a group that does really evil things, and a lot of innocents are caught in the middle. But no US President is the ruler of Israel, or Russia, or Portugal, or... - Now the Trump gripes: Inciting insurrection, campaign finance violations, illegal retention of secret documents, declarations of being a dictator (on the first day), words of affection for other dictators and fascists, denigrating current and past military personnel... Yep, he did all that and more.
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  8883. Sadly, we DO have to spoon-feed the answers to most voters because they don't pay attention to politics until it it time to vote straight ticket, or to blame "the other side" for all the woes they are experience. The information has never been more readily available about where tax money goes, how your elected representatives actually vote (or abstain), the actual text of proposed/passed laws... It is easier than ever to contact your elected representatives, yet most people don't. - And that is why it is so easy for a liar to convince people that egg and gas prices are run by the President, to convince people that they didn't say what they were recorded saying, that they kept their promises but, shucks, those "others" wouldn't let it happen.
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  8884. WTF!? Sunny is using an Apple product? Louis is getting outnumbered.
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  8885. Yeah, LWT has not (yet) had their network knuckle under to kiss Trump's... ring... ahead of a potential merger like Paramount (owner of 60 Minutes) very recently did. Paramount put "making Trump happy" over hard-hitting news reporting.
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  8886. Politicians leaked sensitive secret information? Perish the thought! Too bad they didn't chase down the leak(s) and prosecute. It might have set a useful precedent and an object lesson for future generations.
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  8887. Some people won't be happy unless recipients of charity lose their minds, flip reverse cartwheels and sob a liter of joyful tears while promising to name their next-born child after the person being charitable.
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  8888.  @SmallSpoonBrigade  Not by 5MPH.
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  8889. The puns hit with a fast shudder speed in this one!
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  8890. That might not be ground for a lawsuit, but they can go after him for his comments about DEI and other garbage right after the crash. Emotional suffering, and now a few families can go for slander.
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  8891. "Nobody can buy a house, gas is more expensive..." Yeah, that's corporate greed, you orange Hutt!
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  8892. If you drive a car, I'll tax the street. If you try to walk, I'll tax your feet.
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  8893. Against a Subprime Court justice? There is no law to enforce because Congress has never enacted one, and the justices still resist even having enforceable policies like every other judge in the country has. Jordan, Johnson, etc.? Because most of the vile [bleep] they have done and still do is protected under rules their predecessors enacted to prevent getting charged themselves.
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  8894. This comment brings me happy memories.
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  8895. My only issue with the canon of judicial conduct (or whatever it is called) points you read is the word "should" being used instead of "shall".
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  8896.  @CJsRC  Minor correction, but otherwise a valid assessment.
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  8897. Special Counsel is illegal? So Bill Clinton wasn't impeached!
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  8898. I don't drink (and haven't since my 21st birthday) but as to Utah, if I was constantly surrounded by that many Mormons, I'd be drunk every day.
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  8899.  @rafale1981  The worst "shower scene" was in Scarface. Gave me nightmares for nearly a year.
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  8900. Don't you just love when your voice-assist spyware (that you can't uninstall) interrupts the filming of your video?
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  8901. If the Airlander carries live animals, would it then become a Zoolander?
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  8902. Why stop where she is? Sue the civil engineers who designed the road that didn't stop her from leaving the paved surface? The designer of the vehicle that failed to stay on the paved road when she drove impaired, the homeowner who failed to install military-grade blast barriers, the gas company for not ensuring that all serviced homes were outfitted with anti-leak/anti-explosion technology? How about the government for failing to create a system whereby all bar/pub patrons are immediately arrested if they approach the driver's position of a vehicle while impaired? - Sue the farmers for growing the produce that were turned into alcohol! Sue her parents for raising a complete moron!
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  8903. More Scooter! I've learned how to get a pistol away from a small dinosaur on the fourth try, and I'm ready to learn more, Sensei!
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  8904. Jeff's penis-shaped "almost but not technically a space craft" doesn't pay for itself! Think of the poor billionaires. With their mega-yachts stuck behind bridges too low to get their monstrosities out to sea. Those bridges are expensive to take apart and rebuild for the convenience of one rich a-hole.
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  8905. The only kickstarter I would ever participate in is a scooter or motorcycle. Though, most now have a battery-powered starter.
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  8906. Ooh! Get a box truck to park on the road with your company name on it to accept walk-in business. Sure, the winters will SUCK at that desk, but you'll have street-level visibility.
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  8907.  @infidel66687  I remember that guy!
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  8908. 39F? Luxury! (I'm in Taxachusetts)
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  8909. Fragmentation? Hmm... M67 fragmentation grenade. It's a blast!
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  8910.  @michaelbolton2741  I think it is convenient they are shipped pre-gapped, but with the low price of a gap tool, it is always wise to check the gap against what the engine calls for. I found this to be particularly true with small engine maintenance, since the car gap was not always what the mower, blower or chainsaw was looking for.
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  8911. My first laptop had a removable battery (push two tabs) and the ability to plug in a battery bar in the back of the machine to more than double the battery life. I miss that kind of functionality.
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  8912. Hopefully, it will not take too long to take DeJoy out of your life, and let the joy back in...
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  8913.  @Bass_attack7755  TDS. Trump is Dangerous Still.
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  8914. Well, after "The Snap" it was moved to Europe.
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  8915.  @WhiteLivesMatter96  Ah, but since I am a radical centrist, with zero interest in producing offspring to inherit my genetic disorders, I will continue to vote in elections according to my views, and choose from the best of the bad choices the political parties offer me. - When I die, I only want to be sure to have left the planet in decent enough shape that the total breakdown of the ecosystem is not largely my fault.
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  8916.  @qjtvaddict  Why are you saying this to me? I'm on your side on that. - I recall a shirt a VERY attractive college classmate of mine wore (stretched over her magnificent physique!) which read, "Stupid People Shouldn't Breed"
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  8917. If only the Sheridan was a tank instead of aluminum plated cannon carrier.
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  8918. The last time I saw so many people with nothing personal to gain from the activity protesting people going to school, it was over skin color. It is amazing how little we've improved as a society between those two low points.
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  8919. Or a slide show of cats and Apple boards.
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  8920. I'm sorry, your policy only pays out if there is a herd of stampeding elephants on the fourth 4th of July, 3:55 pm during a hailstorm... and one baby zebra.
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  8921. The government doesn't care. They're spending taxpayer money and justifying their higher staffing needs.
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  8922. If he was opening a restaurant in a building that size, he still shouldn't have to have 28 parking spots. If you take that square foot age, put in a walk-in cooler, a freezer, kitchen, and two ADA compliant bathrooms, he might be able to seat a dozen patrons at once, so if they all came in their own cars, plus staff, he MIGHT need 18 parking spots. 28 spots for a two-bay automotive garage is idiocy.
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  8923. A battle used to mean a much bigger and more planned fight than a skirmish. I think now the distinction is some combination duration, destruction, numbers, and intent. And I feel that those involved see them all as battles.
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  8924. The same states are those most pro-gun AND anti-books.
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  8925. April 4th? 9:30 PM driving home from... 3:25 PM playing D&D at a friend's house with two witnesses. I can only have the answer because it was a Sunday. The rest of the week, every week, is a nebulous fog of "I dunno".
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  8926. 1:28:30 - "Not British enough"? How many Frenchmen SHOULD he have kicked?
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  8927. There is also the difference between the words "safe" and "safer". A well-fed grizzly bear is safer than a hungry grizzly bear, but neither is all that wise to poke with a stick.
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  8928. Thumbs up right at the gag reflex for the crapfest of a Ghostbusters movie! - For someone who want's to erase men from her life, she spends an awful lot of time thinking, talking, and writing about them... - Does France really have a law or social norm that it is not allowed to dislike men? If so, then something has changed since I last paid attention to France. - Your digs at the looks and attire of these feminists does weaken the stance against their lunacy, please try to calm that down. - Wait. it sold two thousand copies? That's it? - Don't burn books, recycle them into toilet paper. It's more ecologically conscious, and a better rebuttal (pun intended!)
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  8929. If they are both a "church" (quotes for emphasis) and sovereign citizens, they'll claim that the legal system has no jurisdiction over them. Which will be hard to hear through their cell walls.
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  8930. The test the man was describing was a fake version of HALT-HASS testing, where the circuit boards are set to run while they are heated, frozen, and shaken in a special chamber. It is expensive testing usually reserved for expensive electronics that need that level of durability. You won't find it being done on your normal laptop or smartphone board, those they will run a simple hot cycle test for a period of time to check for basic failures.
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  8931. And we get to hear the famous fallback "Stop resisting!" which leads to injuries and death.
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  8932. Why not? If someone sneaks into your house while you are on vacation and claims ownership, they get more legal protection than you do under "squatter's rights". So if the law is protecting people who squat, why not protect people who use that motion to take a dump on civil discourse?
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  8933.  @eriknervik9003  The definition of the immunity is the problem. You can't win against a cop in court unless there is precedent for almost EXACTLY the same situation. And since the doctrine was enshrined by the US Supreme Court, there can be no new precedents established.
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  8934.  @legrandechene3734  The world USED to let the stupid die from their own actions. But now we have warning labels and safety guards on everything, and make people wear helmets to ride a bicycle. It's like the species WANTS to die out!
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  8935. This video is heavy with the presence of the "good idea fairy"!
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  8936. I have never fired an M1 Garand, but I do own a Ruger Mini-14. Same action, but with exchangeable magazines in 5.56/.223.
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  8937. I was trained, in learning how to tow armored vehicles, to cross the trailer chains because of the way that impacts pulling forces in turns. If you cross the chains, and they are the same length, then both chains will always be under tension when pulling, regardless of how you are turning. If you don't cross the chains, then the one on the 'outside' of the turn will have 100% of the tension while the other goes slack. - This is less of an issue for the safety chains in a normal trailer pulling, but if your chains aren't long enough then in a tight turn you may have unwanted tension on a taut chain. If they are crossed, they don't come under tension until and unless the hitch point fails.
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  8938. "Recycling is crucial." - "What about recycling nuclear fuel?" "THAT'S ILLEGAL!" - "Why?" "Because we said so."
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  8939.  @xc8487  But I put out a line of bounding anti-personnel mines, and suddenly I'M the criminal.
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  8940.  @LilOleTinyMe  If the piece of technology has a way for "authorized" parties to remotely access it without the owner's consent, there is nothing stopping criminals from learning how and using it for their gain.
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  8941. Thanks for the R. Kelly flashback!
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  8942. Hey Shoigu. Remember Prigozhin? I'm saying nothing, but maybe sit AWAY from the window.
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  8943. Oh this is an easy one to solve. Either there IS an identity crime against the woman, or the fines can ONLY be charged to the identity of her car. - edit: The idea that the license plate being copied is not identity theft would have to mean that if I copy and use your name, DOB, address, SSN and bank account numbers are ALSO not identity theft, because I have not copied the physical body which is you.
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  8944.  @mpeppelman  I was going to cite the same quote!
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  8945. That concrete guy's trailer gives me many layers of anxiety. Where I live, that guy would get a slab of tickets. Even more if he got the rare pullover by a registry or CDL cop. And with that missing wheel (maybe missing on the other side too?) that puts the remaining axle overloaded, as evidenced by how deep into the fender the remaining tire is running.
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  8946.  @wirefeed3419  20-year-old white plastic bottle with that damage is not surprising. I'd be tempted, if it was my vehicle, to do a flex tape/flex seal repair, given that is it not a tight bend or structural location. I'd also drain whatever is already in that tank to avoid sending dirt into the sprayer nozzles. The other fluids? Heck yeah it's overdue for a full fluid drain and clean-out.
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  8947. The great thing about Wikipedia is that anyone can contribute their information. The worst thing about Wikipedia is that anyone can contribute their information. - We live in a time where people unable or unwilling to understand how words actually work will use the word theory to mean fact, and will accept any information they find that confirms their initial point of view as FACT while anything contrary is 'fake'.
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  8948. That's a neat under-slung rifle on that astronomer's telescope.
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  8949. The largest group chat I've been in was about 8 people around a Thanksgiving table.
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  8950.  @WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle  I agree with you, both about the doctrine, and the overreach of the Subprime Court.
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  8951.  @gbrg778  Because they said so? Really, that's the doctrine much of law enforcement operates under.
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  8952. Yep, they kind of played them off as forming the air-retaining space-magic faceplate.
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  8953. Wow. Stew Peters seems like what you get when you put in a pile of headlines, gigabyte of conspiracy theories, a weekend of drinking cheap moonshine, and a paranoid personality disorder (DSM-5 301.0 (F60.0))
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  8954. I can think of someone more deserving of that kind of legal outcome...
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  8955.  @drswaqqinscheckingin7210  All decent possibilities, but I would have claimed the item never got delivered and asked for a refund or reship.
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  8956. Ooh! Replace the glitter in the next set of glitter bombs with bed bugs! "Accidentally"
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  8957. I was wondering if the owner was going to authorize the time for this job. If it was me, I might have said that living without four-wheel drive was the better plan.
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  8958. Oh my gosh, people. it's in the company name... "CON"! It's like trusting your investments to someone named Made-Off or Bankman Fraud.
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  8959. S.A.D.? You should go to the largest city in Pennsylvania. It's the home of a famous boxer whose fighting title is a cultural horse, and apparently, it's Always Sunny there?
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  8960. Are we going to blame Putin for Peter Doocy and Fox "news"? I would not object to that.
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  8961. Thus why I call those kind of people Christo-fascists and Cristian Taliban.
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  8962. What kind of roofer spends nearly $2 grand on a non-ruggedized phone? A dumb one, that's who. That "spontaneous crack" goes right across the phone in a straight line. That guy sat on it, but is willing to lie to try and get something free. - With the first "match-up" they are pitting apples versus poutine! That is not journalism, this is fluff. - Batteries fail. That is entropy my dudes. If the battery was easily replaceable, there would be a lot less issue. I am so happy I have a dumb-phone. The battery lasts 4-6 years, and when I had to replace it I popped the case open with a thumbnail and tapped the battery out, replacing it for under $20 with one I got online. Companies that are gluing the batteries in or locking everything behind an adhered screen (as Louis talked about) need to be slapped with a halibut. Daily, until they correct their ways. - Gah! He not only lies about how his phone got damaged, but he's a crappy roofer! No tar paper in Canada? I bet there's no ice & water seal runs (on that slope should be two rolls wide up from the edge the roof, minimum)! That would maybe be acceptable on a barn or shed, but not a home.
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  8963. That non-HD is not a 4x4. Before HD the ratio was 4x3, whereas no it is 16x9 or wider. - Wait, it's a TRUCK, not a TV? Oh.
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  8964. Trump still has his diapers in a wad because Zelensky didn't invent evidence against the Bidens.
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  8965.  @richardroberson7971  I'll have to remember that one next time I bash someone with a chair leg.
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  8966.  Scott Manerez  William Jefferson Clinton and Chelsea Clinton?
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  8967.  @wade7959  "We the People" only get to choose from a short list of candidates the big political parties think we want. At least in local elections, that party influence is reduced. - I wish I had a fix to offer.
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  8968. Because some people do icky things near their computers. Working on a grounded anti-static mat is the way to deal with static. Also, you can use a grounded wrist strap.
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  8969.  @zerschmetterling1234  Germany has more effective repair regulations than places like the shithole US I live in.
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  8970.  @guyanon  I do believe Juan and I were being hyperbolic. I know I was. I apologize that making light of something bothered you enough to post a comment
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  8971. Great video even though I don't actually like Caeser salad/dressing.
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  8972. Look, we voters in Massachusetts are doing heavy lifting on the issue, but the carmakers keep throwing mounds of money and lawyers at the issue because your mechanic being able to access the diagnostic information will somehow result in you being raped in a parking garage, or your mechanic will be able to break into your house and harm you.* *According to the highly-played commercials the carmakers had running before the ballot question passed with about 3/4 of the vote.
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  8973. Stealing eh? So you got nothing in return? No police, no fire department, no libraries, no schools, no roads, no military defending you from foreign aggression...
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  8974.  @StreakyBaconMan  Pretty much anything can be recycled or repurposed. The bar to it being done is if it is economically feasible to do that recycling. Metals are highly recyclable. Many wood fibers (paper, cardboard, wood) can be repurposed as less structural paper products like bathroom tissue and egg cartons. Many liquid chemicals are not recycled or repurposed because the cost to do so can exceed the money that can be made.
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  8975.  @StreakyBaconMan  Pretty much what I said, but shorter. Also? Cool name.
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  8976. Texas' chosen governor is all about making sure people suffer. But it fits his chosen political party's platform perfectly.
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  8977. To answer the title? Carefully and far from where people live.
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  8978. I wouldn't have been any of the perps.
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  8979. She said 'Cocker' enough times that I imagined Max singing, "I chase flies with a little help from my friends."
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  8980. Okay, so does this generational responsibility for crime ALSO apply to non-whites? No? Thought not.
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  8981. Addendum. Or, just do a daylight armed robbery while the place is open.
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  8982. What about the wifi of nearby neighbors? I have lived in a neighborhood of single-family homes on 1/2 acre lots and I could get viable signal level from three or four other neighbors. In apartment buildings, you could get access to a large number of routers, and it only takes one with no password or one where the owner (or their kid) has shared the password.
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  8983. "The Bible is personally important to [them]." Well, the Anarchist's Cookbook is personally important to me.
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  8984. Would have been less hassle refilling fluid if you pre-filled the lines before installing them. I am TOTALLY JOKING!
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  8985. 5.5 missions is a pretty good run for a booster. Back in the days when NASA was the only game in town, the average number of complete ONE-WAY flights was lower than one.
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  8986. Just like building a modern house, all of the structural construction needs to be done right for the house to stand. The paint colors and kitchen cabinet style is just fashion.
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  8987. A politician deriding sex workers for taking money in exchange for their time and body? Irony of the self-blind.
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  8988. Oh no! Ducks die! Then predators, scavengers, insects and bacteria have something to eat. Where does it end? A musical number about the circle of life?
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  8989.  @PetraleiTanyl  I probably can't, but a lot of birds, beasts, insects and bacterium can!
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  8990. "Caution: memetic infohazard"
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  8991.  @HungryLoki  This is the truth. Police get hit with ransomware? Your money. Police get sued for doing evil? Your money. Police wreck two cars drag racing? Your money. Police feel they need more money? They take your money, one way or another.
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  8992. This is a lot of hoops to jump through when the Second Amendment provides the tools to protect your Fourth Amendment rights. Now, I am NOT saying shoot cops. Oh heck no. But if someone is stealing from me, are they acting as an officer of the law anymore?
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  8993. I'd rather mix up a tumbler of that Soylent powder.
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  8994. White. Wealthy (at least on paper). No other reasons.
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  8995. I watch Technology Connections, so I speak heat pump.
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  8996.  Drew K  An important thing to keep in mind when speaking about the decisions of a government with the word "we" or "they". Those are decisions and actions by a few who either have taken power or been granted power by people who often did little actually research on how they vote, and in either case, the mechanisms for holding those decision makers accountable are often impaired by the very people they are meant to check. - When people speak of the actions of the US by saying "We did X, Y, or Z" it paints with too broad a brush.
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  8997.  @bakerboat4572  I noticed the basketball backboard and pole... lying on the sidewalk. Who thinks that's okay?
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  8998.  @jasonbourne1596  You posted above: "You sure? In the Army I was issued a driver's license to everything from a C tractor to a 5 tom dump truck, even an APC. My civilian Driver's license never changed." - in response to the OPs post: "As a guy who bought a vehicle on a bill of sale, and was told to use the Vermont Loophole... I had to laugh when I saw the title of this video. I ended up doing the legit thing and did a title claim, but a warning to everyone... buy with a title! It's such a gamble to buy with a Bill of Sale. BTW other states shut this down as well, like Florida I think back in 2021 or 2022." - The OP is talking about TITLES, and you brought up LICENSES.
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  8999.  @lunarei9051  ignorance is not knowing. These azzhats KNOW and still refuse. Let them turn their shop-vac into a respirator or something.
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  9000. And the politicians these companies bought wrote laws that favor the companies over the rest of us.
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  9001. Two seeds were arguing on the counter. The pumpkin seed says to the tomato seed, "You're fruity!" The tomato seed replied, "Well, you're out of your gourd."
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  9002. It bothers me that people are trusted to vote on judges and sheriffs in many states. Why does it bother me? Because about half of all people are below average intelligence, and even the smarter people don't usually know all the right information to determine if a person s fit for a job enforcing or adjudicating the law. The only times I have voted in judge or sheriff races is when I know something damning about one of the candidates, then I vote against them. Other than that, I know that I am not well-=informed enough to make a wise choice.
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  9003. Is this video paid for by the coal industry?
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  9004. A: Before I sat down to watch this video, I microwaved a couple of hot dogs to eat while watching. I normally eat a lot of veggies, but hot dogs were quick for a light dinner. - - - 2: I am overweight. In part from hypothyroidism and side effects of some of the other dozen or so prescription meds I take daily. I used to be MUCH more overweight, but have lost over 100 pounds in the last three or four years from better portions, more veg and fruit and less meat (not this meal...) and mild exercise. - - - C: more strenuous exercise is out for me, thanks to asthma, COPD and lung scarring from near-regular pneumonia and bronchitis (thanks, immunosuppressants!). - - - 17: But I am putting effort into it, and am still unhealthily overweight. - - - Z: And that fat chicks donut was a small birthday cake!
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  9005. Damn. Now I am craving a can of Pringles. Original flavor only, I'm super pedestrian in my tastes.
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  9006. How would "I" fix this scam? A baseball bat comes to mind.
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  9007.  @duffmann3  Ah yes. Nothing like a member-measuring contest...
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  9008. He also says he is a "free speech absolutist" while simultaneously banning speech on the Twitter which he doesn't personally like.
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  9009. I saw a scene like that in The Big Red One, with the added bonus that the loose ground caused several of the soldiers to be crushed to death when their holes collapsed under the ground pressure of the tanks.
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  9010. It's because the lawyers who made the system want to push citizens to use lawyers for everything, thus perpetuating the proliferation of the profession. (alliteration!) - And because they know if they make it inconvenient enough, people will give up and make less work for them.
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  9011. SLAPP suits are how the wealthy crush the poor, particularly when the poor have the right of the matter.
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  9012. They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
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  9013. Here in the US, or at least in my state of Massachusetts, if you buy a car outright, you get the title. If you are financing it, the lending institution holds the title until the car is fully paid off. The bearer document we take to the Registry of Motor Vehicles is the Bill of Sale, which has information like the VIN, the buyer's and seller's identifying information, and the sale price. We also have to bring in proof of insurance for us as the owner/driver of that vehicle. The Registry (in normal business times) then provides a registration, plates, and a bill for the sales tax. - A long time ago, people in a private sale would fill in a VERY low sales price to reduce the tax owed, and split the amount saved between them. The state eventually added a law or regulation that the sales tax would be based on either the listed sales price, or the assessed value of the car, whichever is higher. Totally shutting down that form of tax evasion.
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  9014. How sad a world it is that you wrote "when I am being taken advantage of" not "if"
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  9015. A cat AND Erika? Big news in this one folks!
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  9016.  @dirtracer8919  And honestly, that would make me nervous every day driving in one of those no-inspection states. To KNOW that the cars around you could have failed brakes, non-functional directionals, frame rot, bald tires, and so much more wrong with them, but your safety depends on that same equipment working correctly? No thanks!
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  9017.  @dirtracer8919  Excellent use of the moving goalposts fallacy combined with an ad hominem attack followed by a fallacious dismissal of the efficacy of vehicle safety inspections. - My comment regarding the usefulness of vehicle safety inspections ALSO doesn't mean that am in favor of people shooting each other on the highway, coal being used for power generation, lead paint in children's bedrooms, stabbing puppies with chainsaws, melted cheese on lobster, or any other whack-a-doodle inanity you would try and accuse me of thinking.
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  9018.  @shvrdavid  I typed setback/easement. Thus, allowing for a flexible definition per state. And it was not me assuming every state works the same. I could have gotten a lot more wordy, but at the time I did not think such minutiae would aid the discussion. - Regarding the easement at the back of your property, that is unusual where I live. The only time we get that in MA (as far as I know) is when the utility lines are built there.
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  9019. When I imagine a stateless society, I think of games like the Fallout and Borderlands series, the Mad Max movies, Waterworld, and things like constant fear of the strong and armed. Maybe I have a pessimistic view of human nature, but I am starting my second half-century, and have met a lot of people who gleefully indulge their baser natures whenever they can get away with it.
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  9020.  @TheLeeringMachinist  True, but a lot of them can be simplified to "strongest and/or best armed person is in charge."
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  9021. Is the new "tree" getting a "Build Back Better" treatment?
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  9022. I saw the 121' 6" sign, and for a moment thought I was watching a crossover with yovo68's 11' 8" (+8) bridge videos.
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  9023. Wasn't that actually a Star Trek reference? See the episode, "Assignment: Earth" where the Enterprise time travels and gets involved in the mission assigned to Gary Seven.
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  9024. I've been lucky enough to find a grocery store in Massachusetts that sells Vernor's ginger ale. It is fantastic.
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  9025. I get medical supplies delivered, and don't have the option to have them sent via USPS for me to pick them up at the post office. I tell the companies sending me things that I would pay to have the packages require my in-person pickup, but the patient-contacting people I'm talking to can't do that even if they wanted to. "Company policy" is all I get.
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  9026.  @MySUHIT  That would assume I cared about the backfilling retcon for a superhero.
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  9027. Contempt of gang member.
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  9028. I think your videos are getting longer, in part, because you're breaking the repairs into fewer episodes. I have done no science on this, it's just a feeling. But Sir Alec Guinness said to trust our feelings.
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  9029. We all die. What makes our life matter is how those we leave behind remember us. My condolences to all who lose those for whom they care.
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  9030.  @honeybadger1847  Feds.
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  9031.  @fostergaler8480  (sniff, sniff) Anyone else small racism?
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  9032. hate.
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  9033. Will you accept them as parcel post?
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  9034. "SO many people getting shot!" - "How about we take a look at the number of guns pe..." "NO! SHUT UP! SECOND AMENDMENT! SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! HEIL MAGA!!!"
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  9035. Well, the power steering fluid is in need of a flush.
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  9036.  @kurthanushek5520  Ah, slightly misunderstood your original post.
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  9037. They inspected the location of the decimal point in the sale price.
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  9038.  @Rorschach1024  I watch a couple of mechanics channels. The OBD2 reader they can buy and use will in fact read the VIN from the ECM (Engine Control Module), and most mechanics can find not only the VIN plate under the dash, but the one on the sticker on the B pillar, and the third one wherever that is (I honestly forget). IN fact, if they maintain a subscription, they can even program an ECM to match the vehicle's physical VIN. - So... no excuse.
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  9039. Courts really seem to be more concerned that the peons who come before them cross all their t's and dot all their i's than with actual truth, or even justice. - "Given that the law does not specifically say that the exact actions described in the filing are illegal in the circumstances as you presented them, the court has decided that all the time and money you spent to jump through our hoops is lost, and we have no need for your presence anymore. Get thee hence!"
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  9040. Shop dog don't move 'til shop dog HAS to move!
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  9041. Yeah, that's stupid. I have knives in my kitchen. Therefore I have the weapons and capacity to do murder, so I should be put in prison.
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  9042. @Richdragon4 What is wrong with public transportation? The United States. More specifically, the way it is implemented in most of the US, combined with the societal prejudices against those who use public transportation (They're poor, smelly, homeless, drug users, etc.)
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  9043. What is a "gate fee"? A fee to open the gate? Will they pay ME to open it for them?
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  9044.  @scootermagee6680  Gross! You're a necrophiliac?
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  9045. I cannot program a new fob for my Focus at all. But that is because by the time I went looking for a new fob, the car was old enough that Ford no longer stocked the item. Yay...
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  9046.  @geltecmail  I will try that, thanks.
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  9047. I have had times where getting my car serviced took longer than the original estimate. I would call once when they originally said it would be done, ask if it is done, they would tell me "Not yet" and usually why (usually parts that didn't show up), and I would say, "Okay, I'll call tomorrow." Strangely (kidding with that), mechanics you treat decently don't overcharge, do the work well, and leave your car at least as clean as they got it, if not more so.
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  9048. They gave Fallout... LADDERS!
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  9049. Not to nitpick, but helicopters and other rotorcraft DO use aerodynamics to fly. They just spin their "wings" in circles instead of using other forces (jet/propellor/etc. engines) to increase the airflow over the flight surfaces.
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  9050. Gah! It all comes back around to tuberculosis. And the long hand of John Green grabs us again.
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  9051.  @Pusserdoc  Author of several books including "The Fault in Our Stars". Also a major proponent of pushing companies to make tuberculosis tests VASTLY more affordable in the poorer countries where the disease is the most problematic. He has done many videos about how tuberculosis has influenced history and society, including women's skirt length
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  9052. It's the Emperor's new Popeye's Chicken! Can't you see the beautiful tables and the tasty chicken? Oh, the décor is just lovely!
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  9053. I am awaiting the video of the BFG-9000!
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  9054. "One hand for the nuts, and one hand for the hose here." Oh beHAVE!
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  9055. I am not a fan of tattoos (or most piercings other). The only time I ever entertained the idea of getting a tattoo was to mark my blood type. I got a MedAlert necklace instead. - The only other "good" tattoo I've seen is Adam Savage's measurement forearm. - All that said, I appreciate the science content of this video.
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  9056. What is wrong with them? Not enough people know how to effectively warm tar to a flowing state to prep the rich for feathers.
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  9057. Thanks to Louis and this channel, every time I see or hear the word "robust" I think of money changing hands in back-room deals.
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  9058. The only good tie is a Colin Furze "safety tie". - I have not worn a tie in this century, and no longer even have the ONE I used to own.
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  9059. He did take off one of the rear tires to check, and you can see disc brakes. He mentioned it while he was torqueing. And he said he checked the fourth set visually without taking the wheel off. edit: the rears could be disc-drums, a dual type that uses disc brakes for regular stopping and the drum brake for the e-brake/parking brake.
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  9060. Erasmus Darwin? The only Erasmus I had heard of before was Erasmus B. Dragon. A very tired woman was she.
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  9061.  @christophergreen6595  That roman wheel width standard also influenced train rail spacing.
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  9062. But a regular non-rich, non-lawyer, non-celebrity would have been jailed after the first refusal of a subpoena. This is privilege.
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  9063.  @DJoppiesaus Yeah, there is that. Between direct exposure to environmental contamination when broken or replaced ones just got added to landfills. So those crazy cats looking to make motion or tip sensitive bomb triggers have to get more creative.
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  9064.  @W1ldSm1le  Proving the assets are linked to a crime is already covered in CRIMINAL forfeiture. Civil forfeiture is just robbery under color of law.
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  9065. "...and don't mess around with Jim." - Best laugh I've had all day!
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  9066. Whitehouse (the senator) or White House (the place infested by the Orange Hutt)?
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  9067. And yet she fought hard to not answer a yes/no question with either yes or no. Then she admitted that her sworn word (to support the party's nominee) was no longer binding on her. She admitted to being willing to break her word with a convenient excuse of "The party now is not the same as the party then" when it is really that she only signed the pledge to be allowed on the debate stage. - It should make voters wonder what other oaths and promises she will be willing to discard if she gets that top job.
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  9068. The beryllium problem is easy to solve. Just be careful to not get caught by the rock elemental that the childlike cannibals summon.
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  9069. The one time I had a car with brakes THAT bad, it was a 1971 VW Beetle I bought for $125 (edit: bought it in 1986 or so), and the previous owner's boyfriend had replaced the brake master cylinder and rear brake lines but never bled any of the brake lines. So the price was low due to a lack of about half an hour of work.
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  9070. Gosh, if only stealing cars was illegal!
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  9071. Double-stack helical mag. Gun DNA.
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  9072.  @sudokode  Dang it! Now that Robot Chicken clip is cycling through my brain.
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  9073. Eh, 2046 there is a 1 in 400 chance for a sizable asteroid strike. Plan your vacation accordingly.
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  9074. I see you Ray! Checking your truck's inside turn radius on street corners. A little head-on-a-swivel action that can save you thousands of dollars.
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  9075. Not-Sees.
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  9076.  @williamsquires3070  A turbine (tur-buyne or tur-bin, both are valid) can turn the kinetic energy of a fluid (water, steam, expanding gases of combustion)) into electric energy. It can also be used to compress a gas to increase the density and or speed of that gas to use the output for propulsion (jet engines, deisel intake turbines).
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  9077. Why did they take him to the jail only to release him without charges? To get him away from his business so the search warrant could be exceeded with impunity. ...I'm guessing.
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  9078.  @MakeitZUPER  I watch videos from a guy who owns and runs a septic company, and he swears by Rid-X
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  9079.  @MakeitZUPER  Clean pipes is the stuff you are using, and not running cooking fats down the drain in excess. The Rid-X helps extend the life of your leeching field by helping to better break down the solids in the tank. I realize now that we were talking about two different things. And hey, have a great day!
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  9080. Loved that heavily euphemistic narration of the Coast Guard drug interdiction footage.
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  9081. Other reasons for the gate: the businesses that have some equipment and parts exterior to their building space, and all that countertop material. And a gate makes it very clear what is trespassing versus "Dur, I didn't know it was private property cuz it was just dirt."
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  9082. I have flown across the country in a large jet. But I was not a pilot, just a passenger. I kind of like the distinction being whether a person is trained and paid to be on the craft, or pays (or is granted a favor) to be there.
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  9083. Well, at least the airline was real? And we can assume the money spent was real as well. So it's not all bad news, right?
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  9084. "You are required to..." - Show me where it says that in my purchase agreement.
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  9085. The book could be a slightly more modern forgery on old skin pages, or intentional gibberish by the 1400's author.
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  9086. Those pardon recipients with a sense of ethics would refuse the pardons. Of course, that won't happen, because a sense of ethics is a lacking component of anyone pardoned (at least of the ones I have heard named). Alternately, a vindictive pardon recipient could use their pardoned status to turn states evidence against co-conspirators...
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  9087.  @insiainutorrt259  Ah, so the symptoms are worse. I recommend either a hobby or heavy drinking. Or a hobby of heavy drinking?
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  9088.  @alexanderbarkman7832  That makes a lot of sense, thank you.
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  9089.  @cpK054L  ?
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  9090. 5 MPH under is not impeding traffic except in the dumbest cop's sight line.
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  9091. Some people, if they did eat their words, would never go hungry.
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  9092. Side topic: I am convinced that our domestic cats puke to remind us from time to time who serves whom in the relationship.
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  9093. How to answer a question without answering the question. Taught at the master level.
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  9094. Finally! Someone who offers science instead of "I'm worried about blowouts".
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  9095. Please stop mixing stories to inflate the video run time.
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  9096.  @davebrown6552  Rental companies have been installing code pads for starting for a couple of decades.
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  9097.  @Fatty420  (/golf-clap)
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  9098. I am a little disappointed that the dynamite gun has nothing to do with J.J. Walker.
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  9099. My uncle has a country place no one knows about He says it used to be a farm before the "Motor Law" And on Sundays I elude the eyes and hop the turbine freight To far outside the wire where my white-haired uncle waits
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  9100. I'm not sure how "Streisand Effect" this case is. He has apparently already suffered the reputational harm. The wide press coverage is at least making people ask if it is true instead of just echo chambering.
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  9101.  @edevos3108  Or, just as likely, a woman expected a Maserati and lobster thermidor at a seaside mansion, and got Honda Civic and steak at a mid-range local dining establishment. Or some other clash between expectations and reality.
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  9102. When I worked as a truck packer/unpacker at UPS, I would see at least two or three boxes a day marked 'Fragile: This side up. Handle with care" or other cautionary markings that were not just dropped, or had bent corners, but looked like they were deliberately put at the bottom of a stack of bowling balls and anvils, or kicked around for entertainment. Per policy, I reported such upstream, where the box would be opened, assessed, and resealed and sent to the destination or returned to sender. - And now I get packages from Amazon with the item in the largest box possible, with little to no packaging material so the item slides around in the box. But the only time one of those poorly packed items was broken on arrival was when it was marked fragile. Yes, this is all anecdotal, and does not constitute scientific data gathering. But it is my limited experience.
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  9103.  @TeamDryRub8463  And the check is in the mail...
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  9104. It's okay Louis, I couldn't hear your air conditioner over my air conditioner which is about four feet from me.
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  9105. This is true for urban deliveries. In suburbs and on rural routes, the math may come out differently.
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  9106.  @gregaj7  Are you specifically referring to the bar against states passing a bill of attainder? (Attainder: the forfeiture of land and civil rights suffered as a consequence of a sentence of death for treason or felony)
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  9107.  @gregaj7  Then explain to what you were inferring. You know, share with the rest of the class.
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  9108. Another barrier is the lower wind speeds that would ground airships versus airplanes.
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  9109.  @IPIay01  You guessed wrong! Johnny, tell the contestant what they've won! "Nothing."
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  9110. Not only do we get an audit of outdoor dining, we also get to see several variations of the NYC topiary, known worldwide as "piles of trash bags".
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  9111. The security!!!!! - Such utter foolishness. If you have all of your financial and personal information available behind something as simple as a fingerprint or a swipe pattern, YOU are the security risk.
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  9112. Apple would NEVER do something they would lose money doing. It is only after 'creative accounting' that they claim a loss. And the fact that Louis can make enough to have 13 people working, be looking to hire more to keep up with demand, move to a larger location, doing a service that Apple itself claims they cannot make money doing... BS!
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  9113.  @Susan-h9z  That's what I'm saying. He brought the DNA results to court, and the judge essentially said, "Facts don't matter, black man. Pay the child support."
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  9114. My brother worked for a window company (or was it a roofing company? I forget) and the owner did not want to have to figure out how to keep track of how much travel he was paying various people to get to jobs all around New England, so he made his company policy to be that the employees all met at the shop and drove to the job in company vehicles. Sure, some jobs it meant that people drove AWAY from the job site to start their day, but it simplified things. The employer was a user who squeezed as much labor as possible out of people for as little as he could pay, and discarded them if they decided to stand up for themselves and ask for more, so My brother did not work there long.
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  9115. Set it on fire daily? Or David Lee and Wilson Guzman have good real answers.
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  9116.  @jemiebridges3197  With the ECMs (engine Control Modules) on cars, some garages have to make deliberate choices on whether, and/or how much, to service certain makes of vehicles. Do they buy the software to do new/replacement installs? Do they pay a subscription fee to the manufacturer to have that done remotely? Do they pay per car? How much price can they ask their customers to absorb for that before the customer instead chooses to go elsewhere? - Some vehicles will require a reprogramming of the ECM if you unplug it, even if you change nothing about it or the vehicle, but just need it out of the way for a different repair. - And then there are the center console touch pad control centers, that have similar reprogramming issues if they are repaired or replaced after damage or failure.
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  9117. Dear business pirates, Stop buying presidents. Buy congresspeople like everyone else, since that's where the laws COME FROM. A congressperson can serve for decades if they keep getting elected. Or buy a Supreme Court justice or two, and really come out ahead of the game. A justice serves for decades, since there is apparently no repercussion for their bad acts. Presidents, you get only 4, and MAYBE 8 years.
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  9118.  @firesonic1010  Silly tangent: In China, a typical 500-gram pack of black tea costs $20, whereas an equivalent amount of oolong tea may cost you outrageously more than $40. Weird what you can find out on the internet.
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  9119. Drone with a shotgun = Blaster Drone with a stick = Lancer Drone with a net = Fisher
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  9120. As I get older, I'm leaning more toward acceptance of some old-school punishments for thievery. Losing a hand is starting to sound like a decent trade for such behavior.
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  9121. If only this guy could have arranged his fake charities to work together in some "united way"...
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  9122.  @erikgold68  Agreed! (it's cede, btw)
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  9123. "... received a call on my primitive device called a "telephone" which in those days we had to build a house around to store all our data." This line gave me such laughs! Thank you.
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  9124. I haven't shaved in about two decades. I just use hair clipper to cut it to stubble. Before that, I used a Norelco, because shaving with blades gives me ingrown hairs.
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  9125. Hey, gremlins are responsible for friction. They're too busy to deal with diseases.
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  9126.  @annelarrybrunelle3570  Our masters don't typically let us serfs record in THIER Holy Buildings.
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  9127. Tim at Epic Games is NOT doing this for "the public good" or to "create change and break a monopoly". Tim ONLY does things to increase the money he and his company get. That's it.
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  9128. I'm always interested in the sheer volume of water used to cool the exhaust gases enough to avoid destroying the launch platform.
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  9129.  @Notme-tq4xs  There was an experimenter, John B Calhoun, who came up with the concept of behavioral sink to explain how populations that are overcrowded turn against each other resulting in mass deaths, cannibalism and population collapse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
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  9130. When you get those scam calls, press 1 and say to whomever answers, "Thank you for calling the FBI. [2 second pause] How may I direct your call?" The purpose of the deliberate pause is to support any later defense against charges that you were impersonating law enforcement. Just tell the judge you always assume the FBI is monitoring your phone.
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  9131.  @GrantOakes  That tiger is a fundamentally different airport than the one I moved next to. I see your point.
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  9132.  @zv8365  Exactly! To have taxes on it, there MUST be an assessed value upon which to apply the tax formula.
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  9133. So to enforce a fine, they arrest and impound. How much time do these people have before their cars are crushed by bulldozers in some publicity stunt (referencing the crushing of motorcycles, AYVs and scooters in June of 2022)
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  9134. Regarding 2x4's, you CAN get 2" x 4" true measure boards, but you'll have to look hard and probably special order them from a company that saws on-site. My town has a place like that, and if I needed to I could get a 2-1/4" x 6-3/8" true measure timber cut there. I would PAY, but I could get it.
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  9135. And using them as bathrooms.
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  9136.  @Paul.V.24  Makes sense, as the whole scenario is "out there".
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  9137. You didn't pay attention to the sign. It probably read "Third Best" Western. - It looks like they used the wrong kind of caulking at the base of the toilet. At the least, they used the wrong color, making it stick out like a sore thumb, and the job is messy. It looks like a toddler finger-painted it on. But yeah, those rooms are gross. The whole reason to use tile on the floor is to make cleaning easier, not to make it unnecessary. It's a shame, the rooms are laid out well, and well appointed with travelers' conveniences like an iron and ironing board, and nice color palette. But bad housekeeping.
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  9138. Did the driver hit the curb from a 15 meter drop?
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  9139. (/golf_clap)
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  9140. I like those front cup holders!
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  9141.  @kurthanushek5520  Major steps to contribute to cost controls: Get stocks and profit out of insurance. Get stocks and profit under tighter control in medical equipment makers. Get stocks and profit under tighter control in medical supply makers. Get stocks out of hospitals and get profits under tighter control.
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  9142. Very, and very.
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  9143.  @privateemail9755  With words, just like you have done here.
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  9144.  @ab5441  When last I was in a position to hire people in Massachusetts, that was the legal limit of what previous employers COULD answer. Anything more could expose the employer to a lawsuit.
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  9145. What is up with that eyesore? (Ha-ha, "The head. It's 60 feet up!") How desperate are you to show off your cult at the expense of your cult members?
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  9146. Wow... That guy is on the short list of suspects if a rail bridge is blown up in that county...
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  9147. We don' hold with no elitist book lurnin' in these here parts!
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  9148. I learned about CRT way back in the 1970's! Of course, back then it most commonly meant Cathode Ray Tube...
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  9149. A couple of months ago, before watching a Technology Connections video on the US electric grid, I would not have understood how you could have hooked up that AC at all. I am learning stuff all the time! - My gripes with federal agents coming into cities. 1) the occurrences of them not identifying, and not clearly stating charges upon arrests/detention is a big problem. 2) Any federal law enforcement MUST coordinate with (or at least inform of plan) local law enforcement. 3) NO cops need camouflage in a city. Maybe, possibly, a fringe justification could be made for law enforcement trying to infiltrate a rural criminal stronghold. Maybe. But in nearly all cases, cops do NOT need camo. It just makes them look like military, and people who are already in a heightened state of emotion will be more likely to react as if they are.
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  9150.  @WOFFY-qc9te  NASA needs an E4 Mafia to get things done behind the backs of the MBAs.
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  9151. I've done a little research, and you can kill off unwanted plants like poison ivy with white vinegar. It can take a few applications, but it is not poisonous to animals, is diluted and broken down naturally, and does not harm the water table. Also, it is CHEAP!
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  9152.  @UberAlphaSirus  Knowing how the laws work is important. My brother was at an engineering firm that was bought out by a company which bought companies as their business model. They came in with all sorts of NDA's and employee conduct restrictions in a polished handbook and all but one of his coworkers signed their forms. My brother sat with the new mega-firm's acquisition team and went over, line by line, their policy handbook and laid out each time their policy was contravened by state law and court precedent. - The firm's lawyers re-issued the employee handbook with every change he had demanded, the whole company re-signed, and he walked away from that company because aside from their legal chicanery, they were going to make the broken way the engineering firm ran even worse. (mostly process stuff, like who is responsible for which function and who reports to whom.)
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  9153.  @Le_Comte_de_Monte_Felin  OMG! Blipverts! Hello fellow old human!
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  9154. "At our restaurants we've rescinded our policy of kicking patrons in the knees upon entry. Would you please come back for the same kind of food you can get down the street?"
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  9155. Probably by voting straight ticket like a moron.
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  9156. Do I understand it right that if you take off the red-dot and put the rear clamp back on the slide, the rear clamp acts as a rear iron sight?
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  9157.  @Totemparadox  Cool.
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  9158.  @texasforever5776  Don't forget more facts. The social positions of the Republican and Democratic parties have pretty much swapped since that time period.
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  9159. $879? For $500 you can hire someone to shout at your junk until something moves. Totally sonic.
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  9160. Wait. Their flagship camera is so expensive that they can offer $150 OFF? AND there's a subscription?
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  9161. Side issue: the justice system is biased against people without a lot of disposable income. Sure, we have a system to provide legal representation to those who cannot afford a lawyer, but that is ONLY when they are a criminal defendant. And you don't get to pick your public defender unless they are grievously failing you, then you get to play the PD lottery again. Public Defenders are also usually the newest lawyers and the most overworked lawyers in the system. There is no such provision for civil cases, appeals, family court, etc. And those with the least can hardly afford to push hard for their innocence, since they can least afford to miss work, can least afford to pay for child care while in court, experience worse repercussions for simply having an arrest on their record. Even if you win, you lose, because (except in rare cases) you don't ever recover the costs of your legal battle. Heck, more and more states are making you PAY for your incarceration time, even if the charges are dropped!
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  9162. That makes sense.
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  9163. About 12 years ago, I bought a couple of bags of anodized aluminum rings to make LARPing chain mail. The best place I found them was in Canada (I am in the US), and about a week after I got my package, I got a bill from customs for around $16.00(?) for importing metals. After some confusion (I'm not a metals importer... OH!) , and then fact-checking the charges and return address (only idiots send money to places they don't know, I mailed out my payment in the form of a money order payable to, (IIRC) US Customs. - It was an easy process, not sure why the UK has to be such a pain about it.
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  9164. I brought my car to my current shop last year sure that I needed a new wheel bearing. It was a warped rotor causing the noise and vibration. Their honesty saved me hundreds of dollars.
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  9165.  @morninglift1253  Your classification of people using words hatefully is just plain stupid, pointless, and barbaric. But your grammar is impeccable!
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  9166. Or in the Dremel cabinet? ;)
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  9167. Easy fix! The brush bar needs a new truck.
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  9168.  @Nirvanstudio9  If you had been HONST about the content of the video you linked, I would not have given it, and your comment, a thumbs-down.
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  9169.  @adamtarnowski-jk1wq  The scientists are smart. But the MBAs and politicians are in charge.
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  9170. The airlines are in such a state that if I was to take a trip from the US to Europe, I'd rather drive a car. At least then, I'd drown quickly and the trip would be over.
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  9171.  @CptJistuce  This is just the big obvious sign that Thermaltake has transitioned away from thermal and fully into take.
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  9172. I live in New England. Weak batteries reveal themselves pretty easily for about 1/3 to 1/2 of the year.
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  9173.  @user-js4iw9rz2w  creative punishments as an OPTION can be acceptable. But labor as the ONLY possible penalty tickles up against the definitions of slavery.
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  9174. Would that make Detroit the new Tikrit?
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  9175.  @KrazyKrzysztof  If you think any one political party has all the blame, or all the answers, you are being part of the problem.
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  9176. Big borer worm? Big rotten spots?
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  9177. Let's all report Yelp for racism, on Yelp.
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  9178. Subpar sounds like an off-brand Mopar.
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  9179. y answer was related to mass under acceleration increasing and that inertial pull exceeding the tensile strength of the string. Was the string supposed to be "of zero rest mass"?
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  9180. At least he doesn't have to scrape the windshield anymore...
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  9181.  @CubeInspector  Right?
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  9182. And of COURSE having a lawyer on your side helps get a rational outcome. You have to prove you have paid at least the minimum entry fee as a guest in their exclusive club.
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  9183. I wonder how many politicians were "advised" by the DEA to "correct" the law here. *Advised: browbeat, bribed, threatened, extorted *Correct: change the law to make it easier for the DEA to exceed their statutory funding limits by taking property from honest people.
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  9184. I think this is a Sarah Silverman quote.
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  9185.  @jedclampett7705  Hmm. It's also spelled Odin, Thor, Loki, Heimdal, Bahamut, Kali, Ra, Mut, Coyote, Pasta...
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  9186. Be careful wishing for the time to finally read everything you want to read. I saw a documentary (?) about a man named Henry Bemis, who finally had time to read... when his glasses fell and broke. And no opticians remained in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. - Hah! I kid. It wasn't a documentary, it was an episode of The Twilight Zone, "Time Enough at Last".
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  9187. Seems like Ray is engaging once again in his fetish of being covered with the contents of AC compressors.
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  9188.    It's both, likely. Get the extended warranty so that the Genius Bar can say "water damage voids the warranty." and then you have to buy new things anyway.
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  9189. I would also not object to "... fatal brain aneurism... flags at half-staff... viewing at the Rotunda..."
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  9190. Oh, your second half of the comment is for installation! I was confused for a moment.
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  9191. Ah. T.A.H.I.T.I. - It's a magical place!
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  9192. We could IMPROVE US military readiness by sending the Ukrainians Senator Tuberville. In a box.
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  9193. The yugest TV audience for a former president's appearance, bigly.
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  9194.  @kirkwalters1228  Thanks for assuming my motives. It is so much easier than reading my previous posts for context, or even asking me.
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  9195. Schematics, parts lists, exploded assembly diagrams, and even oscilloscope wave forms for diagnostics! MRGA* - *Make Repair Great Again!
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  9196. That text popping up on the screen is calling me a bitch!!!!
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  9197. Hey, municipalities: If someone's lawn is "too tall" hire someone to cut it, then send the bill to the property owner.
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  9198. And thus DV victims never try to leave.
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  9199. Another note about trying to use a super-long snorkel, if it is long enough, it can have more volume of air in it than you can exhale or inhale, and the air you breathe in will ONLY be the air you just breathed out and you will quickly run out of free oxygen. - I was not underwater, but there was a garden hose experiment done...
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  9200. 1) if distribution is random, there will have to be voids. A universe without variations in density would be arranged, not random. Randomness has clusters and voids. 2) a parsec is approximately 3.26 light years, not 3. It is actually defines as the distance at which one au (astronomical unit) covers one arcsecond or 1/3600 of a degree. An au was originally the determined average distance from the Earth to the Sun, but has since been defined as 149,597,870,700 meters. Basically a parsec is a unit of distance determined by parallax of a subjective distance. Making both units far less useful than either meters/kilometers OR light years.
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  9201.  @The-Entelechy  People have been widely spreading lies since the lies had to be photocopied and shared by hand. No, wait. Since there have been newspapers.
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  9202.  @fitmesslife  A private company can censor you if that is the agreement between you and the company. Just like you can ask someone to leave your house for ranting about how awesome the Dallas sports-league team is when you are a fervent Cincinatti fan. - A social media site is a digital version of private property. The first amendment says the GOVERNMENT can't censor your speech, though that has been slightly curtailed in some reasonable and semi-reasonable circumstances like slander, "fighting words" and yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded building.
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  9203. Being afraid of fire is evidence of sanity, not a disability.
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  9204. Those Shahed drones are really hitting those barrels of petroleum products and preset piles of explosives! Heck, I have not seen fireballs that overdone since the show Stargate SG-1. It's amazing what kinds of fireballs you can get from sawdust shot out of tubes with propane will give you.
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  9205. Apley's GoFundMe should pay OTHER people his BS has harmed. And my condolences to his wife, for choosing a moron, and his kid for having a moron as a father. - I sit here giggling about the anti-science Republicans biting it.
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  9206.  @jackdshellback3819  Paraffin is a white solid at room temperature, and often used to make candles. Kerosene is a clear liquid at room temperature that readily evaporates, is used as lantern fuel and (when well filtered) as rocket and jet fuel. - And neither of us "invented" the language. The English language mugged every other language, stole their words, changed most of them, and even sold some of them back to the original owners. - Have a decent day yourself!
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  9207.  @Hatbox948  Look up "prison wallet"
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  9208.  @robertsmith2956  And if you doubt your water bill is correct, compare the actual number on the meter to the number they say they got from the wireless drive-by reading. Sometimes, utilities will penny pinch and just estimate customer use rates.
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  9209. Hmm. If adblock is bad, then why does YouTube keep taking money from the purveyors of adblock programs to put banner ads mid-roll of videos? - Linus is arguing this using the false equivalency fallacy.
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  9210.  @user-pf7co4dt7o  Ah yes, attack with a fallacy, that being that one can ONLY advocate for one thing at a time. It would have been better to present your point for inclusiveness of multiple languages even though such inclusion is expensive to government and reduces the level of unity and understanding in a society.
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  9211.  @user-pf7co4dt7o  I agree that there is value in the richness of other languages and cultures. But when there is not an official language in a country for government business, it adds costs for translation of important information. Less so now with computer software that does a serviceable translation job than in the past when it had to all be done by people. But any mistakes can cause problems with understanding the law and rights a person lives under.
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  9212.  @Kahnanesgi  Well said. A living person wrongly convicted can be compensated financially and in public declaration. An executed person? Not so much.
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  9213.  @7F0X7  If I had to choose for myself, I'd choose living.
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  9214. In Massachusetts? Yes. It is just Fall River.
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  9215. Over 100 incidents in 2 years is about one every two weeks. Why did it take two years? - At least Ohio finally parked the Carr.
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  9216.  @mvpfocus  That makes the 'zeroth' flaw not doing proper pre-planning before designing the business model.
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  9217.  @escalona8764  Land of the FEE, home of The Whopper.
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  9218. Guy in the black zip-up is SO mad that people outside the "cool club" are playing the game the way he and his cronies have been for over a century. And to claim that all of a sudden stock prices should reflect the ACTUAL value of a company? Pull my other leg, why don't you?
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  9219. I am not a repairer of electronics, so I altered the example script above a little and contacted my senator.
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  9220. As a country we're pretty good at turning arable land into industrial sites...
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  9221. I notice that there was no effort at using smell to find submarines.
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  9222.  @brucewilliams1892  well, leaving aside the connotations in the word "invent", bats use their high pitch for echolocation, dolphins use it for that AND communication.
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  9223.  @brucewilliams1892  That is cool information. Thank you for sharing it!
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  9224.  @norcalsrt1214  Yes it does. I was just pointing out that it was not included in this video's comparison of electricity sources.
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  9225.  @norcalsrt1214  The video was about COMPARING environmental impacts.
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  9226. That rippling wall in the office space is a possible indicator of an aggressive water leak. That seems like a landlord issue as does the sketchy electrical. At least that's how it is up in Taxachusetts.
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  9227. Sounds like you could pitch that as a sitcom.
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  9228. The fact that the police had a Bearcat armored vehicle means they had the urge to use it. If they DIDN'T have the armored vehicle and explosives, they would have done what other cops would do. Talk, talk, talk. Get snipers into position, then either accept surrender or take the shot. - But since they had the military-grade toys, they HAD to play with them.
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  9229. The government has not stopped companies from drilling. Biden's action was to stop the issuance of new oil exploration leases, which is a minor factor given how many site leases the oil companies are still sitting on that they have not used yet.
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  9230. My takeaway from the Surfshark promo: Sydney keeps her place at around 74 F. Must be nice. Here in Massachusetts, 74 in the middle of winter (at least in every poorly insulated place I've lived) is like shoveling cash out of the window. Oh yes, the red pill also looks like DayQuil. - Why the demand for e-girl content? Because an Only-Fans subscription won't falsely accuse you of rape and domestic abuse, won't clean out your bank account (unless you do it to yourself), and won't sleep with your best friend but claim you need to pay child support. - Just a few examples. - This whole topic is indicative of a lot of problems in society with many root causes. It is not a simple thing to diagnose nor to fix, and made even more difficult because no serious statistical study has been done.
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  9231. Dear Laura. We don't think Trump is Hitler. Hitler was a LOT smarter. We think Trump is a Hitler echo. Hitler-esque. Hitler-loving. Even Adolf was not dumb enough to state his plans to be a fascist before he achieved power. Not even "just on day one".
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  9232.  @camelopardalis84  With coil element stoves, I like to turn off the element about two minutes or so before the end of a pasta boil. At that point, even if the water is not actively boiling, it is still cooking (moistening, really) the pasta.
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  9233.  @camelopardalis84  Here in the US there is a MASSIVE population of older individual coil stovetops, that are gradually being displaced by the "Glaskeramikherd" and induction tops as people upgrade. But you can still buy new stoves with the exposed coils and they can be cheaper because they are easier to manufacture. In the suburbs of the state in which I live there is a random-seeming patchwork of gas availability if you are looking for it to be piped in underground. Then there are above-ground tanks that get refilled by a delivery truck. Electric is available pretty much anywhere, but when renting, you are pretty much getting what the landlord has installed. It might be an electric stove, it might be gas. - I have never (in over 50 years) lived anywhere with a gas stove, but I have lived in places with gas or oil for heat and hot water.
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  9234. What? A quickly trained and over-powered security guard mishandled your expensive property? The lack of shock!
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  9235. I apologize. I cannot watch the entire video. I don't want to break my monitor when I lose my cool over this criminal with a badge.
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  9236. Back when I used to do RMA repair, our thermal detection was a cotton swab moistened with 90% alcohol. If it sizzles, it's usually bad. If no alcohol was available, then a moistened finger tip was the detector. Much like finding land mines by stepping on them...
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  9237. I do like the look of the super-firing turret's blast effect "ski ramp".
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  9238.  @danielholter1861  Pretty hard for them to do so when Buy Here Pay Here is buying all the salvage titles.
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  9239.  @seekknowledge8034  Do you still think that the problem would be solved simply by buying 'other-than-Apple'?
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  9240.  @mauricekeithjohnson2598  Four.
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  9241. The evidence gathered by my nose tells me that the main job of at least a few mall "piercing specialists" at those temporary kiosks/carts is selling pot.
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  9242. "It wasn't me! It was the tattoo-armed man!" - The Fugitive - Ripped from the Headlines Edition
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  9243. Your script needed some proofreading and/or you need to more clearly delineate when you are speaking your points and when you are speaking sarcasm. For those reasons, I gave the video a thumbs-down. Sorry.
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  9244.  @gardenswithsoul  No, I am just asking for clarity of communication.
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  9245. The woman in the image at around 10:30 is the closest human I've seen to the appearance of Janice (vocalist and lead guitar) from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, the Muppet Show house band.
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  9246. I've seen builders sharpen their carpenters' pencil on the side of an abrasive cutting saw. At 12, it was the coolest use of a power tool I had seen.
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  9247. Not after the first time, we're not!
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  9248. I had what I thought was a dead battery or dead alternator problem once, and it turned out that leaving my cell phone charger plugged in was draining my battery over. Since I only drive my car every few days or so, it had plenty of time to do the draining. Unplugged the charger, got a jump start, ran the engine for about twenty minutes, and have not had problems with the battery in the three or four years since... (pardon, had to go knock on some wood)
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  9249.  @LouisCYUL  My Brother HL-1440 laser printer has been going smooth for about 25 years, including the first three years when I went through a box of printer paper every 3-5 months. I use it a lot less now, but I am only on the third toner cartridge (including that the first was the half-sized one that came with the printer).
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  9250. Voting at all levels matters. So does publicity, and buying your own politicians.
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  9251. Oh, so FINALLY cops are telling cops to stop hiding the crimes of their co-workers? What are they, the Catholic Church?
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  9252. It's all about putting a shiny cover to hide the "ugly" reality that lug nuts are a serious mechanical item.
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  9253. I did my part, reminding three friends about the question, and what the facts were. That's four votes for repair that I know of. - I can't wait to see if the money behind the "no" side are dumb enough to expose themselves even further by suing against this. - And regarding those ads, WHY THE BLEEP IS PERSONAL DATA STORED IN THE VEHICLES!?
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  9254.  @awakenotwoke1973  I don't watch him for "technical information". I watch him to get a better handle on how to diagnose car problems, and how to physically repair those problems. And which vehicles I want to avoid owning if at all possible. - I'm not sure what technical information you want from your car repair videos.
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  9255.  @2buxaslice  How about no snow to shovel AND no water for the flowers and lawns in the summer (because there was no snowpack to slowly melt over the spring)?
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  9256. I agree! And yet, it is sad that we have that contrast in our minds.
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  9257. Palestine is actually a signatory to Geneva conventions I-IV and Protocol I -III per the agreement made by the PLO in 1990 and follow-up agreements afterward. Hamas? They may not see themselves as bound by the decisions of the group they supplanted.
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  9258. Ignorance of the law is no excuse! ... unless you are part of the legal system.
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  9259.  @deadwingdomain  Not even the seven George Carlin made famous!
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  9260. Need to protect the walls from thrown food!
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  9261. "Your honor, I am sorry that my right to free speech on my own property upset my [expletive] of a neighbor. Iam likewise sorry that she is a [expletive] busy-body who feels that her preferences have [expletive] all to do with my life and my property."
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  9262. My ad-based boycotts are often for grammatical reasons. As an example, I won't go to a Chick-fil-a because I think the last letter should be pronounced as 'ahh" not 'aee'. There is a chain of Mexican food places called Mexicali, and the e is slanted 45 degrees on their signs and logos. It stops me from eating there about half the time I want Mexican food. - Yeah, I'm ridiculous sometimes.
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  9263.  @Akisame-LuigI-O  Well, you can TRY to sue anyone over anything. But yeah, dose levels matter.
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  9264. But the other choice was a BROWN... WOMAN! We ain't gon' have non u dem kin-a wimmenfolk runnin' things. T'ain't nachurul!" (Courtesy of my mind-reading powers used on the MAGA-clad cultists)
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  9265. Yet another nervous racist who was internally incapable of asking the non-whites a single question that would clear things up and NOT involve the police. - Some examples for the marginal Karens who might read this. "Excuse me, are you part of this tour?" - "Hi, my name is ______, could you please be a little quieter, we're trying to hear what's being said." - "Hello, I was wondering about _____. If it's not a problem, could you explain it to me?" - But most of these racists will just keep calling police because non-whites DARE to: not associate with a group of whites, listen to different music, wear different clothes, garden in a community garden, park legally and wait to pick up their kids from school, stand out of the rain and wait for a ride home after closing the place they work, speak a language other than English, "Stare", drive a delivery truck in a gated HOA community, having been let in by another resident, Drive a car at all, walk or skateboard on the sidewalk, ride a bicycle on the correct side of the street, cross a street (jaywalking or not), stand in a small group and talk, have a hand in their pocket, or any of a thousand normal everyday things. My list above is taken from the last month or so of police interaction videos I have seen where non white people DARED to exist. And then there's the one where a woman, who had been threatened with a shotgun, was arrested for being too emotional when reporting the crime to the responding officer. - edit: full disclosure. I am a middle-aged hetero white male living in the suburbs, and none of what I listed above has happened to or near me, and it STILL pisses me off. I am allowed to care and treat people decently without regard to race/gender/religion, and angry/frustrated that more people don't.
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  9266. I would be more surprised about this FBI agent, but I live in Massachusetts and have heard quite a lot about the FBI agent who allied himself with Whitey Bulger over the United States or even the people Whitey killed/had killed. - More recently, there is that safety deposit box case. - 99.99% of all FBI agents could be straight arrows and hold faithfully to their oaths and the law, but it only takes one peeing in the pool to pollute all of the water.
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  9267.  @wadestanton  My ONLY criticism of your information is a common thing lots of people do, by using phrases like "the [organization]". That sort of statement can be true if the transgression is policy, like Palm Beach Florida using illegal ordinances to have police run off homeless people as a way of "solving the homeless problem" but it is disingenuous when it is the actions of individuals AGAINST policy that are the transgression. - That said, I had indeed forgotten about the two cases you mention. There is just too much evil done by humans to keep track of it all in my head.
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  9268.  @wadestanton  "larry nassar loved the FBI, I heard they have a lot of his videos."
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  9269. I am not a fan of how low the utility lines in those parts get when they come from poles the houses and end at the house structure. Way too easy to accidentally pull them down with a tall vehicle or piece of construction equipment, particularly when they start sagging as they expand in warmer weather.
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  9270. The same switch in the old US military jeep was the starter.
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  9271. Supreme Court Justices MAY serve for life, but they aren't REQUIRED to. Perhaps there is a way to convince someone to retire at the right time to allow a rebalancing? I know, too much hope will make me dumb...
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  9272.  @knerduno5942  Not a nickel.
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  9273. A couple of weeks ago, I did feel smarter when I was able to talk at depth about carburetors, and referred the person I was chatting with to the video where Destin and his dad experimented with the clear one. A couple of days later I referred my group of friends to the video on the heat shielding of the James Webb telescope. - LOVE this channel!
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  9274. Whoa! She asked a CAT to please come again!
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  9275. The Senator 'presenting' the bill really should have gotten someone more direct and informed (and less ramble-y) to fill in for him. "I am here to present this bill I don't understand and may not agree with but it is important I think that maybe it could be a good thing unless it isn't. Thank you." - Someone tell him he is not being paid by the word!
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  9276. How do you "stop" someone who is sitting down when you show up?
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  9277. But drag shows and books with certain topics are the danger to school children? Go to [redacted] you [redacted] Republican morons!
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  9278. How to stop hate crimes? Kill all humans. - Okay, a little less severe? Kill all those guilty of hate crimes in public. Draw and quarter and post their heads at major intersections. - Still too severe? How about speak up, record, intervene if you can at all do so safely, and CALL THE COPS! (Unless it's the cops doing it, then qualified immunity means you're screwed, and the thin blue line will ruin your life is you dare utter a peep...)
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  9279.  @Archone666  Or if the police destroyed Justice Alito's house.
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  9280. Most and least dangerous battle station? The second Death Star for both positions.
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  9281. There must be some magic in the universe around 10 millimeters, because it keeps stealing all of the wrenches in that size.
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  9282. "It's too much money!" - I have a "life hack" for criminals! Don't rob one bank. Rob ALL the banks! Then you can use this company's argument to justify your request for only 20 years of prison time. Fourteen years later (good behavior, etc.) you get out and dig up the money. Move to the Cayman Islands and live like an emperor.
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  9283. Particularly when the solution is as easy as, "Excuse me, but my food was not what I ordered. Could you please make it right?"
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  9284.  @brokenrecord3095  Truth on that property vs fence thing. We had a neighbor who wanted to put up a fence on their side of the property line. It turned out that the property line went through the middle of an ancient maple tree about four stories tall and five feet across at the base. The tree was actually older than the neighbor's house, but not older than ours. They wanted to cut it down to put up their fence and had gone as far as getting bids on the job when we found out. We told them they could only cut down THEIR half of the tree if they could guarantee that out half of the tree would not be negatively impacted. - The end result, they put the fence three feet further into their back yard so they could have a straight fence. We got three extra feet of useable yard, and the tree still stands over 30 years later.
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  9285. Your theft-deterrence methods are much like why I don't keep my car's interior clean. There is trash in the back, a sweatshirt on the back window deck, paper napkins 'bursting' from the center console, and my ice scraper is a year-round front passenger. It's working so far.
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  9286. I remember a Pepsi distribution warehouse near a convenience store I worked at had a novel technique to punish its already-unionized staff. They made sure that contracts expired in the first week of January, and always included a clause that for the union to maintain bargaining position, there would HAVE to be a live picketing line. This is in New England, where January is a downright unpleasant time of winter. The only saving grace for the employees was that the town's fire chief readily granted a permit for a burn barrel for warmth.
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  9287. "Something in some of those boxes 'HAD' to be illegal!" Really? HAD to be illegal? - Even if the contents of EVERY box was methamphetamine and plans to assassinate the US President, NONE of it is admissible, because their search warrant specifically BANNED opening the boxes.
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  9288. I would like to introduce you to the 30-50 minute videos of Drachinifel's "5-Minute Guides to Warships (more or less)" series.
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  9289. John Denver wouldn't be as much of a joke if he had put enough fuel in his plane. He'd probably still be alive, too.
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  9290. The tree of liberty looks thirsty. Thirsty for R-brand fluids.
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  9291.  @dontmisunderstand6041  Actually their job IS to determine the constitutionality of laws.
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  9292.  @hydroxacte  Probably better in an ultrasonic cleaner than to aerate it?
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  9293. I have not seen sealed headlights in a dog's age!
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  9294. They're in the same boat with Republican representatives who leave the house instead of having to hear their lies be refuted.
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  9295.  @shoveI  Because of that thin veneer of civilization most of us have not had eroded completely yet.
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  9296. Only one presumption? Let me introduce you to civil asset forfeiture.
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  9297.  @blankspace178  Do you really support that point of view? Or are you just saying that is how it being done to us right now.
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  9298.  @blankspace178  What do I mean? I was asking you an either-or question. I was not accusatory. If you INFERRED an accusation, that may be the fault of your familiarity with the way discussions on the internet tend to go. - Anyway. Have a nice day on a day of your choosing.
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  9299. Insurance, "protection". Six of one, half dozen of t'other.
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  9300.  @ctV837reZ  When your municipality walks like an HOA, spies over your fence like an HOA, and fines like an HOA, they're a gorram HOA.
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  9301. Oh no! Ray said the "B" word! You know what that means... Next week he'll be elbows deep in full-block teardowns and body shop referrals with someone shouting for a fast oil change after not having had one done for 30,000 miles.
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  9302. Everybody lies. Humans are the WORST people I've ever met.
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  9303.  @cmh0223  Confirmed as Attorney General of the US. Not even voted on when he was nominated for the Supreme Court of the US.
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  9304. Johnson is the flag-bearer of the "my way or the highway" brand of politics that the R's are famous for.
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  9305. I live in Massachusetts. Seems nothing with the acronym MCAS really works out well.
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  9306. V-what now?
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  9307. Better turkeys than geese. Geese can be evil.
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  9308. I couldn't force myself to watch the hour and a half video of the whole hearing. Thanks for showing this excerpt.
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  9309. If received pronunciation is supposed to say words as they are written in the dictionary, then why do they say "mill-a-tree" when they are reading "military"? Hmm? That is MY pet peeve about the BBC.
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  9310. Sure, Mass Effect's Gunnery Sergeant is not exactly scientifically accurate, but the point of his dressing-down is not to be exactly scientific, but to impress on his troops that proper gunnery procedures are to be followed. Plus, it was a fun bit of side dialog in the game, giving a reason to stop and listen.
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  9311. The best place to start with a car like that was Tyvek overalls before sitting in it.
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  9312.  @Lq32332  Everything a lawyer files in court has their signature. Their signature says that they stand behind what is contained. A lawyer who files bad lawsuits/paperwork (or AI-written court filings, say) is asking to be sanctioned.
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  9313. Side issue, American seem to always want bigger interior spaces than they actually need.
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  9314. GMA is broadcast from the Times Square Studios. They could have WALKED to Rossmann Repair to talk to someone who knows the subject and regularly performs the repairs. It would be a mighty journey of... 9/10 of a mile. Most of it a straight shot down 7th Ave. - Talk about lazy journalism!
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  9315. Let Orange Donnie talk. Get that settlement up into Doctor Evil numbers.
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  9316. WW1 was a bad time to live anywhere near ships and stockpiles of munitions. About a year and a half after this event, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada was almost erased by another explosion, this time the Mont Blanc carrying a fine mix of TNT, picric acid, benzol and guncotton. All on the same ship...
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  9317. "Thin out their numbers!"
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  9318. What are they "getting at" with "A tree grows in Brooklyn"? They are saying that you live in a dystopian hell-scape, such that the presence of a single living tree is notable by its difference from the concrete, asphalt and steel.
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  9319. "May I plead my case to restore my rights against the police? Pretty please with sugar on top? Or do I have to bribe someone?"
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  9320. Why was the cop's body camera at belly height?
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  9321. THis was the day that I learned that different landing gear arrangements require different GROUND certifications. It makes sense, when I think about it now, but it never occurred to me before.
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  9322. I love the double-team fast talking. Like when a nesting pair of pheasant is surprised and tries to make enough noise to confuse the intruder so they can get away and distract the interloper from the vulnerable eggs. - We once had an expansion of our driveway paved by a crew coming off a town road job, but they were a private company, they approached us (seeing we had the gravel pack already done), and were looking for a way to avoid wasting half a truck of road-grade asphalt. So they got their materials and time paid with a smidge of profit, and we got a 50' length of driveway paved with better material than we would normally get for less than the driveway grade asphalt.
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  9323. Removing a tree in tight conditions is a case study of "Pay some now to have it done right or pay a LOT more later to clean up the mistake." - Fair money says the person willing to take down a tree in wind and hail "for the wood" might have worked near a skilled arborist once within the last two decades.
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  9324. "... drug aidled..." It's so CUTE when people confidently use words they don't know how to say.
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  9325. The longest video on YouTube with Zero content.
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  9326. Skeet with no catapults?
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  9327. Oh, that's your punishment for making the court do their jobs.
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  9328. I could also see a future where car ownership reduces. Let me sum up. With more self-driving cars, and the invention/implementation of an automated "plugging in" device, I can envision densely populated areas with companies that own, route, rent and dispatch cars for people who need a vehicle infrequently, such as retired people or a stay-at-home parent who needs a vehicle to do occasional errands. Much like many cities now have short-term rentals of bicycles/scooters/etc. I see the idea as either a replacement for, or supplemental business of cab companies, but not a replacement for bus and passenger rail with their larger rider capacity on regular routes. Perhaps even a "last mile" automated ride-share solution for people who love some distance from a mass transit stop?
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  9329.  @LG123ABC  I agree that my scenario will not work for everyone. I drive my car 2-4 days a week, and more than half of those trips are within a town or two for shopping or local appointments. But someone who drives several times daily, with a work commute, kids' activities, shopping, appointments, and such would not do well with a car-sharing program. - And the current work-arounds of car rentals and Uber/Lyft/cabs is too expensive for all but the most infrequent travelers or those with enough money to own a vehicle, but no care to do so.
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  9330. REEEEEEEE!
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  9331.  @kenholt8297  Understandable, but some people need the information.
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  9332. I don't install ad blockers for two reasons: 1) I lost computer literacy back when the DOSShell was hidden from us (Windows 3.1?) 2) The unskippable ads give me enough time to go refill my cup of water.
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  9333.  @kunka592  Do you mean REAL literally, or the new "figuratively" definition of literally?
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  9334.  @bluephreakr  I may not be better than that.
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  9335. It is rough to have to shoot yourself in the foot when you're only allowed birdshot from a long-barrel shotgun. Perhaps a longbow or crossbow, but that takes special talent.
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  9336. Why? BECAUSE IT'S A POOL!!! Of course.
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  9337. That's how the ballots in my state work. A felt-tip ink pen making an x or check mark or filled in box on a paper ballot.
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  9338. Having seem some outlandish bridezilla demands, this firmly established the opposite end of the scale. At first reading of the headline, I was expecting a demanding brat, but instead got a very rational woman who was clear about what she was asking her friends to do, communicated well what would be involved and the costs of it, and VERY clearly told them that opting out would not cause bad feelings. - Way better than opting in and then finding out the costs in time and money and having to choose between spending more of both than you can, or having to renege on a promise.
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  9339.  @novaenforcer1563  When I was a kid the go-to was "starving children in China" - I once offered to use my allowance to mail them my turnips...
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  9340.  @sumduma55  Humans are also animals. and... CLICK THE WORLD!
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  9341.  @sumduma55  Ah, so you ARE a foil-hat soldier.
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  9342.  @baronvonslambert  Your grandma is living big-brain!
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  9343. Adam was a good sport, in that he involved no lawyers. - Thoroughly brilliant music choices. Get fucked, 2020.
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  9344.  @shakwon619  Someone could, but the laws that have been lobbied into place, plus the huge piles of money and teams of lawyers available to these ultra-con organizations may stand between you and a good outcome.
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  9345. Mastercard: Here is your $25,000 fine for trying not to go out of business. - time passes Mastercard: Why did you mail us a set of keys?
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  9346. Teflon tape is magical. Its magic is to disappear until you've bought a new roll.
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  9347. I recall multiple bodycam videos of cops stepping up to kissing distance of people and then screaming at them to back off. In one instance, the person correctly pointed out that the cop was the one who stepped up. That person was beaten bloody.
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  9348. Something, something, Harrier jump jet.
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  9349. Sydney Powell is probably hoping to build enough name recognition to become OAN's legal reporter...
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  9350. Description box, link is called "Printables"
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  9351.   My Cancer Journey  I don't know you, but I wish you the best possible situation with all of that!
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  9352.  @beezul  Dan. I usually pick those out better. Thanks for the heads-up! - In a related note, stolen valor scumbag Sarah Cavanaugh was just sentenced to 70 months in prison, plus two months post-release supervision, lost her job, lost her license(s?), and has to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars to the organizations she scammed.
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  9353. If you are very specific with the orientation at which you park the car, the rear main seal will become a South Main seal and another mechanic's problem!
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  9354.  @YOEL_44  Perhaps a non-issue for you, but the treatment plant at the end of your sewer piping really dislikes durable wipes, along with all of the other non-degrading stuff that ends up in the sewer stream like plastic toys, other plastic items, dirt, rocks, and so on.
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  9355.  @YOEL_44  Where the PASTA do you see me claiming there is plastic in toilet paper? If you find it, I will mail you $5. I said there was plastic in the SEWAGE STREAM. Man, reading comprehension has really dropped off in this country.
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  9356. These "people" aren't Christian, They're American Taliban.
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  9357. Something original to say... Garfrumpin halwecken bu clacket.
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  9358. Wow. Home Depot sells airport runway lights?
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  9359. But think of the damage to all those city buildings when they go into mega-zord mode!
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  9360.  @Echo81Rumple83  Here's hoping he does as well for Orange Donnie as he did for the Army.
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  9361.  @commenter7893  There is quite a logical leap from tiny homes to shanty town. Tiny homes can be (and in smart polities are) covered under building codes. Codes also cover things like power, water, and sewer hookups as well as trash collection and fire codes (one of the reasons for gaps between structures is to slow the spread of fire and allow access to fire crews between buildings). - The major difference between mobile home parks and tiny homes is perception. Well, that and higher ease with which a tiny home can be moved if it has wheels.
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  9362. The last time I bought a printer, which was in 1998, I was replacing the second inkjet piece of crap in three months of use. I did a lot of research on pages per minute, cost per page (which took me to laser over inkjet), reliability by UL and user reviews, and ended up buying a Brother HL-1440 that I used heavily for five years and sporadically since. I am only on my second full-size toner cartridge (it was sold with a half-sized cartridge) and midway through the fourth box of paper. Only once or twice in that 25-year period have I lamented the lack of color printing, but I got over it.
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  9363. She was hired AFTER getting felony charges? Whomever hired her needs to resign, publicly, in shame. - Also, that town is not doing well in the cop front. August of 2021 their police chief was decertified after pleading guilty to felony domestic violence. Are they ONLY hiring bad cops?
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  9364.  @tobykenobe  Oh that one makes sense. The tape IS sticking to the cinder block, but unpainted cinder blocks decompose at a very tiny scale over time, and the tape comes away as the surface it is stuck to is no longer part of the solid block. As a comparison, imagine putting tape on a slice of toast or a Chips Ahoy cookie. Your application would work much better if the block was painted with an exterior-grade enamel.
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  9365. I thought underglow on your car was to advertise that you had drugs for sale, and the color indicated what general type you were peddling.
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  9366. The state of California were idiots for letting the accused have interaction with the evidence, but they were climbing uphill in the mud after the crappy forensics and chain of evidence issues.
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  9367. Just received my HMS Thunderchild poster, and it is fantastic. Now to get a frame and pick a wall spot for it!
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  9368. It's winter in the northern hemisphere, and people are more stuck inside. So lacking friends to talk to or hobbies to fill their time, many roll up their sleeves and put on their official Keyboard Warrior hat.
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  9369. It's diverse company in the entertainment industry.
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  9370. Do people have any idea how many snakes you have to render down to get a quart of oil out of them?
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  9371. I would have pulled a Chevy Chase move like in the movie Spies Like Us, where he pretends the microphone in front of him is cutting out.
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  9372. I actually had to do a search to find out what CHAZ and CHOP were (other than a shortened Charles and a cutting motion). I remember when it was called the Occupy Movement against the 1%. - I am sorry so many people have that much free time. So many jobs went away with this pandemic.
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  9373. I have an urge to start an OnlyFans account and stream footage of electric fans in operation. That's it. Box fans, desk fans, oscillating floor fans...
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  9374.  @superdave1263  Sigh. Another drooling minion of that criminal ex-president...
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  9375. A "loan you don't have to pay back" is called a gift out here in the real world.
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  9376.  @PrezVeto  In politics, gifts are rarely without strings, and in all jobs except the Supreme court, must be reported.
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  9377. Bad weather now has a higher US kill-count in this current conflict than the Houthis.
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  9378. The engine mount nut count got me quoting The Count without realizing you would too.
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  9379.  @benbaselet2026  And if that AC costs tens of thousands of dollars per pound to bring to the jobsite...
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  9380.  @CaptConfusion71  Lien. On. The. Property. If you hire someone to put a roof on your home, or cut down a tree, or install carpet and you don't make the final payment, they can get a lien and that's it. But somehow an HOA or town can take your house and throw it at an auction for unpaid fines/taxes? Robbery.
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  9381.  @bjnorton8029  HOAs are notorious for "accidentally" failing to notify a homeowner of their little busybody fees until after they have stacked up daily charges and/or interest and penalties to the point where you CAN'T pay it with typical liquid assets.
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  9382. I learned a lot of that from John Oliver's most recent episode.
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  9383. My immediate response is, "Like Fallout 76?"
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  9384.  @lydiaedwards8100  But they will. They're buying the "Made in China" red hats, t-shirts, rubber masks, etc. all made to glorify him. They show up and wait in the sun after paying to attend his numerous rallies, decorating their vehicles like campaign trucks. They attack people who don't agree with them, using words and physical violence. - They are a cult.
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  9385. That is typically true in residential.
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  9386. Don't operate the engine? I kid. Regular periodic application of an appropriate fuel system and/or injector cleaner should prevent a lot of the problems.
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  9387. I'm all for throwing tomatoes. Sure, MY tomatoes are in the cans...
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  9388. Why do people leave South and Central America? To get away from poverty and crime. - Why are there so many drugs crossing the border? Because Americans buy them.
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  9389. Another case where "the government" is able to pile lawyers and time omn people to force them to give up from lack of their own money. And where does "the government" get the money to crush the people? The people.
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  9390. super glue is faster.
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  9391.  @notjimpickens7928  You seem to be describing an experience with a horrid substance abuse rehab center. The OP was talking about rehab in general, which can include physical rehab people need after things like major injuries. - And neither is a great system.
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  9392. On coil 1 at the installation I found myself shouting "Plug it in first!" - It all worked out, but I was really invested in this one.
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  9393. Whatever gets you through the night. It's all right. It's all right.
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  9394. It is almost like the person responsible for the weapon specifications HATED central supply personnel and munitions bunkers crews.
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  9395. Ticking away the moments that make up a dog day. You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way.
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  9396. "Did you lead the charge..." - "It was not a military campaign, there was no charge to lead." - She seems to have a serious fixation on penises in public...
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  9397. Ugh. That is so gross inside.
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  9398. So, Ray is here in shorts and short sleeves, and from another channel I watch, Black Magic Craft, Jeremy just shared a picture of the snow troll he built (out of fresh snow in Canada) in his yard today. Crazy time of year.
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  9399. Farmers need to flood John Deere with mountains of Dear John letters...
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  9400.  @insanitysportal6692  Truth!
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  9401. Whence the proliferation of coal gas lighting? Ah, factory owners, who also gave us the first Daylight Savings Time! - All to get more work for less money spent. Oh, the wonders of unrestrained capitalism.
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  9402.  @0816M3RC  Jesus lives up the street with his wife Maria and three kids. Nice guy, works in IT, helps his elderly neighbor with snow and ice in the winter.
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  9403. I call it "knee-jerk" legislation. Someone accidentally runs over a loose dog, new leash laws. Someone killed by a pistol, new pistol laws. Someone falls off a ladder while painting their house, new laws banning people from working on their own homes. - The laws don't have to make sense, they might even be legal/constitutional, and they often parallel already existing laws, with a slight change. But at least politicians can point to the new laws as proof that they "did something" when they're asking to be re-elected.
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  9404. And all he's finding are the religious wrong.
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  9405.  @industrialvectors  What if I decided to vote by the color and width of the candidate's necktie? I kid. - Sometimes, I end up simply voting against the incumbents when too many of them have been criminal, incompetent, obstructionist, or otherwise on the evil side of the scale. - I definitely NEVER vote for someone running unopposed.
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  9406.  @Channel-gz9hm  Hmm... possibility of economic stagflation versus current and known moral decay (Goetz, Cawthorn, Hawley) and screaming howler monkeys (Green, Boebert)... Tough choices.
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  9407. a "successful" insurance company can only exist if they are nice enough to your face to get your money, but pay out as little as possible. As an example, a car I was insuring based on a Blue Book value of $3,500, which set the rates I paid them, was totaled in an accident. The insurance company paid $950, stating "depreciation due to the age of the car". If the car was depreciated due to age, why am I paying based on the $3,500? - - - no answer.
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  9408. And it cost me $3,250 to replace it with an identical aged and conditioned car or the same make and year...
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  9409.  @wingatebarraclough3553  I can remember when refrigerators were dumb enough you had to manually defrost them a couple of times a year.
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  9410. Now I have the phrase "Pole pole dancer at the North Pole" bouncing around my brain.
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  9411. At this point, Biden first month should be working with the cabinet and staff to go through all of Sweet Potato Hitler's executive orders and the orders of his appointees and undoing the ones that harm people, worsen the environment, cost unnecessary money, are illegal or immoral. Okay, give Biden and team four months for that work, it's a lot to do.
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  9412. As an American, I am impressed by the lack of trash on the streets in cities in many other countries. I watch a channel from someone who does bike rides through NYC, and that city seems like it's trying to win a "worst city" award every day.
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  9413.  @sebastiencausse4152  Yes. With MILES gear.
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  9414. The neighbor's house is a FANTASTIC blue!
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  9415.  @milescarter7803  Flying loops over a city had no impact of the glide slope for a runway.
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  9416. Need ethanol? Grow switchgrass. It is a much kinder crop to the dirt than corn and you can produce cellulosic ethanol from it.
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  9417. Big bonuses: no kitchen to move out, cops nearby, grate already in place. And the lights even work!
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  9418.  @robertstack2144  When I was at Fort Benning (now Fort Moore) in 1985 for training, whenever a Drill Sergeant found out someone was from Texas, the inevitable result was, "Only two things come from Texas. Steers and Q's (you know what word I mean...), and I don't see any horns!"
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  9419. My area is served by Spectrum (formerly Charter) and about half the time I don't even call. I just drive to the regional customer service office and talk to a local behind the counter. Sometimes there is a wait, but it can still be less time and less frustration than a call center.
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  9420.  @Rhaspun  That's an easy fix! Only drive cars you steal from distant cities.
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  9421. While I completely understand that I am spending the difference in gas over time, I still cannot afford an EV or hybrid because of the up-front pricing of the vehicle versus the trickle-pricing of fuel and lubrication. Also I always buy used, and I am not confident in used battery banks, but I know I could be wrong.
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  9422. When I worked at a chain convenience store, I fought for and won the argument that employees expected to show up 10 minutes before their shift and take ten more minutes at the end of their shift (to verify their incoming drawer amount, and to count it down to the standard amount at the end of shift). - And they still offered me a manager position a few years later. - edited for spelling, clarity
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  9423.  @OkieDokieSmokie  Dealership mechanics are often just parts replacers, not diagnostic mechanics.
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  9424.  @tumslucks9781  I have never been to any of those places.
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  9425. Unprecedented? That works, since for four years under the Orangutan Office-Holder, the country pretty much went un-Presidented.
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  9426.  @jamram9924  I think brinel is like when you try to roll out a flat pie crust with a rolling pin that has protrusions. You end up with a not-flat pie crust. In the bearing race, this would likely result in high and low sports that can wear the bearings, or even, if deep enough, stop them from spinning and doing their job.
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  9427.  @roflchopter11  Ha! Nope. The responsibility for secure storage lies with the owner of the firearm(s). For example: if you're going to head to one of your kids' school plays, it's up to you to know this and leave the weapon(s) secured before you arrive. - Is it a perfect system? No. But it generally works, and last I checked, SWAT teams in this state are not raiding the wrong house looking for weapons in some old person's home on bad information. Instead they do that on bad information about drug production/sales, or "swatting" of people after a call claims the home is the site of a murder or kidnap victim. And sometimes they just screw up the address and cause a death by heart failure while the real criminal next door escapes.
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  9428.  @roflchopter11  Because THAT happens SO often! What do you think this is, Nicaragua? El Salvador?
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  9429.  @charleshines1553  Yeah. I remember my 1974 VW Beetle had a proprietary hex wrench to do an oil change and the size was exactly NOT metric or SAE.
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  9430.  @xalty1200  That I did not know. Thanks for the info!
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  9431. There is a very easy fix to the deficiencies of definition in the relevant law. Amend the law. That is what we, the underclass, are regularly told. "If you don't like the law, work to get it changed."
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  9432. When the aneurism, stroke, or major clot has a vote.
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  9433. There are products available that can help you train your cat away from furniture (or in my cat's case, all of the door frames!). One part of the two-part process is to put a repellent on the surfaces you don't want scratched, and an attractant on the things you DO want scratched. Things like scratching posts, the boot mat in the mud room, your odious Aunt Edna...
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  9434. I like Ben and Jerry's vanilla.
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  9435. 36:20 Spencer cuts down the creeping vine that was the last remaining structural support for that rotting fence.
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  9436. Javi Air seems to be sending some volume work Ray's way! Good endorsement of his work.
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  9437.  @ygrittesnow1701  The military "fights" for our freedom from foreign attackers, often by merely existing in a well-trained, organized and equipped status. Much like the doors on your home keep people from wandering in to take your stuff (or worse). If something is worth keeping, it is worth protecting.
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  9438. I vote for the politician that best matches my worldview and/or agenda... but if they are known to me to be corrupt, and I have no other palatable option on the ballot, I will forgo voting for that position at all. I know. A vote not cast for "my party's candidate" is, in effect, a half-vote cast for the other party's candidate. But until our ballots start having a "nobody gets the job" box to check, it is the best I can do.
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  9439. Once it goes largely unused, they can sell that plot to yet another office tower developer.
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  9440. Sounds like a solid 4th AND 5th amendment violation going on.
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  9441. I actually solved a problem kind of like that one, but in electronic manufacturing. The company I worked at was making a continuous run of a particular board for internet switching hubs, and about 6 or 7 in 10 would fail after environmental testing. Of the failures, about 95% were fixed with a re-solder of the same surface-mounted memory chip near one corner of the board. This failure was cutting deep into production quotas, and log-jamming the diagnostic department. It turned out that a CNC-made jig for driving pins for the dis-mount levers was improperly cut, and when line employees used the fixture "correctly" they would be pressing hard on that chip, which cracked the solder on most of the legs. - The reason the failure rates for that were not 100% were because one of the people who worked at that stage had developed their own faster way to drive the pins, and did so without fully setting the board in the jig. So the boards that one person worked on did NOT get damaged. - The end result: The fixture for that station had to be redesigned/re-milled, and all of the boards waiting for or that had failed environmental testing were just re-soldered and retested. - Me, I got a corporate 'pat on the back'.
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  9442. Space #2: Exterior polished gray marble, double vestibule, lobby with three elevators, a directory SCREEN, and a person to sign-in with upon entry. I can FEEL the money adding up. - - - And freight elevators too! Cha-ching. That phone box was a serious bird nest, huh? All of the common areas will raise your lost footage like mad.
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  9443.  @Digidoc316  I have declined to have a shop change a weak battery. Then I went to the auto parts store, got a decent battery and installed it. I paid less for the battery than the shop would have charged me, and we both shopped at the same parts store, and that didn't count the labor.
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  9444. That is awesome to learn, thanks!
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  9445. HOA's should be constrained by truth-in-advertising restrictions. "This HOA is for people who hate young people." "This HOA want to control what kind of grass is allowed to grow." "This HOA hates pets." "This HOA works to keep brown people away."
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  9446. I have used this to find my car in a huge parking lot at night when I didn't really remember where it was. it saved a lot of wandering.
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  9447. I have a counter to all the grip safety whiners. Wedge. Wood, folded up paper, swatch of cloth, a fat wood screw... edit: Or tape the grip safety into depressed position.
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  9448. Note to self: Buying a last-minute ticket means I am a drug mule. Note #2 to self: If I want to be a drug mule, buy my ticket several days in advance. Note #3 to self: Fill the front pocket of carryon with fresh dog biscuits.
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  9449. Is there at all a way to make a kind of 'plug-on' adapter to make Tesla a CCS and vice versa? For the feed voltage, it seems an easy possibility, but what about the logic lines?
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  9450. @Sean Embry Important tips to save money and increase efficient charging of criminals. Thanks!
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  9451.  @jeffrobdine  Plausible deniability. Good play!
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  9452.  @remodz6385  War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. - How am I doing?
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  9453. With that widespread a problem, the Postal inspector's office should do what the state did to a corrupt and ineffective (in various doses) police department in Leicester MA. Fired everyone, sent state cops to take over while they examined bylaws and procedures for problems, then slowly rehired to rebuild the police department anew.
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  9454. Okay, but what does this have to do with civil asset forfeiture?
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  9455.  @ChefSalad  Dang it! By the time I got to the end of the video, I forgot about that. I concede and withdraw my objection. Though I am not sure how good an idea it is to recommend Adderal and opiates for a cold. (/shrug - NOT A DOCTOR HERE)
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  9456. Inspection, repair, AND arts & crafts!
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  9457.  @srcoleccionista2476  That development agent was brave, so viciously mocking the guy who had several sharp knives in reach. Maybe I am too ready to resort to violence in the face of evil?
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  9458. Yep. Being the guy on your block who beats his wife the least makes you the best husband on the street, but still not a good husband.
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  9459. The first sequence you showed game me HUGE Star Wars (A New Hope) nostalgia.
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  9460. Force equals mass times velocity (while you remain in Newtonian frames of reference) so a small bullet going VERY fast can have more force (impact/penetration energy) than a larger one going slower. Also, slower rounds have more range drop.
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  9461.  @mahbriggs  I did mean "you" in the general sense. Though I could have put some effort in to make it more clear. I would also like to thank you for calling me an idiot. I have not been called an idiot online in nearly three days, and I was missing the feeling of an ad hominem attack.
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  9462.  @mahbriggs  At this point, I feel the need to coin a new phrase. Ad YAWNinem.
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  9463.  @mahbriggs  Nah, but this is fun, poking the ignorant.
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  9464.  @deepattison9329  Ooh! Like a charity she HATES! That would be delicious.
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  9465. That could get tricky for the buyer, legally, if the original owner got pissy.
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  9466.  @spaghettigodoriginalmedia  Okay, but it could still be a hassle. Just saying, a pissy Mac owner is like a knife to the kidneys. And the new owner might have to jump through the hoops to PROVE that they own the machine legally.
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  9467.  @ianbelletti6241  The old advice for mild to moderate back injuries of "bed rest and no strenuous activity" have gone by the wayside. Now, with better science being done, good doctors are prescribing shorter periods of absolute rest, then phasing into mobility and light weight/resistance exercises. For many people, this is the difference between being permanently disabled and being able to get at least partway back to original capability. - And it's true not just for back injuries. Shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, hips, knees, ankles, feet, jaws... All can benefit from physician-guided rehabilitation plans.
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  9468. "Oh no! Someone came by in the night and stole your busted-up fence!"
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  9469. What? Cops overstepping sense and/or the law to enforce their opinions/feelings? Why I never! I am shocked. Shocked I tell you! Yeah, I can't keep up that act either
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  9470. On a mattress stuffed with corporate donations...
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  9471. Dear President Biden, While you're riding the afterglow of pardoning some federal cases of pot possession, could you call your appointee at the FBI and tell them to do the right thing?
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  9472. Still no grease zerks...
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  9473. @persuasivebarrier2419 Idiot Trump thinks NATO members pay dues. How much does the US owe the UN by the way? Oh yeah, roughly 1.2... BILLION dollars.
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  9474. And repeat and repeat until the house falls apart because squatters generally don't maintain things.
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  9475.  @michael931  But as we saw, that bracket has to move to get to the regular service part called a spark plug.
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  9476. Sometimes update break things. Last week and the week before, after a Windows update, I was one of the many people whose internal hard drives were being logically undocked randomly, then the whole computer would freeze up. It 'seems' to be better now.
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  9477. Having seen about a half dozen videos on tofu dreg, the issue is a lot less the engineering margins and a lot more the construction cheats and shortcuts. A high-rise building's floors using unbroken empty liquor bottles as fill to reduce the amount of concrete needed. Concrete being made with dust instead of gravel. Concrete reinforcements being made of brittle iron that can be easily broken by hand, even when nearly an inch and a half in diameter. Concrete reinforcements made of bamboo or other natural fibrous material. Dirt compaction under structure being done for layers too thick to properly compact. or not being compacted at all. Roads and sidewalks being paved as thinly as possible to save money on concrete or asphalt. Concrete not containing enough cement, or being over-watered to help it flow, or having too much calcium carbonate added to help it cure faster. - So much wrong done to let subcontractors afford the necessary bribes and kickbacks and still turn a modicum of profit.
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  9478. It's a show of maturity to be the one to tell the boss that life needs you to move on instead of the boss having to let you go because life is interfering with showing up.
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  9479. Don't you know? Defending yourself with violence is only legal if you're in the blue gang.
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  9480.  @welltell.  I contest your statement.
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  9481. @supersonic key lime pie Hahaha! Amazon Optimus Prime! That's a good one I need to borrow and share around.
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  9482. Send in district court judges. If they catch it, the dealership is boned. If they miss it, who really cares that they got scammed?
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  9483. These words are forbidden, and we can't show too much of the human body! Now sit down and watch people shoot, stab, poison, strangle, runover and otherwise murder each other on TV.
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  9484. Why should the homeowner have to show proof that the sidewalk is slated to be fixed? It is not the homeowner's property. If someone tripped on that sidewalk and got injured, you KNOW the insurance company would immediately realize that it is county property, and refer the injured part there, refusing the claim.
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  9485. Now I'm wishing I had an FID. That is a sweet rifle!
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  9486.  @chrisbaker8533  Dang, are you still talking?
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  9487.  @chrisbaker8533  Typing, talking, conversing, blathering, pontificating, engaging in mental mastur...
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  9488. Easy solution: Get sports out of schools. All schools at all levels.
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  9489. No. F this. The buyer can find their money from the fraudulent seller. This woman gets her house back. The HOA board goes to jail. Or they can opt for the "shallow trench in the state forest" plan. This is absolute insanity, and I am angry enough to start killing folks.
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  9490. Huh. We use the same mouse.
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  9491. As long as we elect judges based on party and/or popularity, this will continue.
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  9492.  @OneWildTurkey  I have never voted for a judge. I don't know those candidates well enough (they are hard to research in my state) so I don't check a box. I have only twice voted for a sheriff, because I actually KNEW one of the two candidates, and could be confident I was making an informed choice. - Also, I almost never vote for anyone running unopposed. They already won, why inflate their ego?
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  9493.  @Tugela60  Oh, I never said it was fun. Just effective.
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  9494. Or, and this failed the last time, list alcohol as a drug and make its consumption illegal! Yeah, I know that is how we got organized crime, but bad ideas deserve a second chance, right? That logic worked for the busing of legal immigrants, just like the "Reverse Freedom Rides" in 1962.
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  9495. Angry cellphone driving judge was allowed to drive off with an expired license? What the Pasta! Any of us would be calling for a ride while the tow truck is being called!
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  9496. Huh. I though a Shar Pei was a blond high school diva.
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  9497. Step 27: Remove engine from car, set the whole thing on fire.
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  9498. I was really hoping that the company working on a propane rocket would be named Strickland.
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  9499. Shaking at 88MPH? Simple diagnosis: The flux capacitor is out of alignment.
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  9500.  @masterjay4992  Why would I go out of my way to help you get a brain?
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  9501.  @masterjay4992  Ah, nothing entertains like the chest thumping of the internet-brave troll. And nobody really wins a civil war. Even the militarily victorious end up broken. - If the minions of the Orange One actually get an armed civil war going, expect China and Russia to be the real winners. They will win economically, they will win world political power, and they may even take advantage of our self-focus to take over countries we currently protect by our presence on the world stage. - But I guess none of that matters as long as people get to flip the bird at rational medical measures against a virulent worldwide pandemic, huh?
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  9502.  @masterjay4992  That's nothing, Krispy Kreme and burgers are killing more on the regular.
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  9503. I miss my Nokia 3310! The best phone/weapon/nutcracker I ever had.
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  9504.  @Primalxbeast  Huh. Kind of like the side-plot of the Jurassic Park movies
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  9505. Eether, eye-ther. Neether, N-eye-ther. Let's call the whole thing off!
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  9506. Indiana, eh? - Well, either you're closing your eyes To a situation you do now wish to acknowledge Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated By the presence of an RV manufacturer in your community. Ya got trouble, my friend, right here, I say, trouble right here in Elkhart City. - Professor Harold Hill
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  9507.  @crixxxxxxxxx  Trains get crowded when the system does not expand capacity to fit rising trends of ridership. If a couple owns a two-seat coupe and get married, it's the two of them in a two-space car. When they start having kids, do they complain about the overcrowding in the little sports car? No, they get a second car or a car with more capacity. - Public transport works well when it is willing to spend effort and money and adding capacity. It works poorly when their answer to overcrowding is on-board announcements to be courteous and please be understanding while they try and get the stalled train running again. (I'm looking at YOU NYC!)
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  9508.  @ano_nym  What stops us from taking a bike or walking. Well, sprawl limits what is available to a reasonable walking distance. Lack of bike lanes and dangerous intersections make using a bicycle a game of Russian roulette with every ride, and sometimes (like "rush" hours) the pistol is fully loaded.
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  9509. If the price is "per time period" you are not buying it. You are renting it. Yes, yes. I know that you don't really "own" your standard metal license plate either, but at least you only pay for it once. - And a digital license plate? Let me see, how can this result in traffic citations? Water damage, wiring failure, component failure, malicious external hacking, malicious hacking by the vehicle owner, broken plate from minor impacts (shopping carts come to mind), cops in other states not recognizing the legality of the new plate format... - Just read an article about these plates. There is, in addition to the price (buying it is $499-599 plus $55-75 per year on top of what money the state wants for registration - or the monthly plan coming to $215.40 or $275.40 per year for four years) the installation price of $99 or $150. The price range is for the battery version versus the wired-in version. And all of that is for ONE plate. If you are a two-plate state, expect to double that. For those in Michigan, compare that to the $5 per plate fee for the "old tech" metal plate.
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  9510.  @foobar8894  Assuming they are unbent, unbroken, not corroded, and the magnetic medium has not degraded... Whole lotta 'if' coming off this plan, Mal.
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  9511. Yo, Senator Moneybags. Why the pasta can't the military fix the things our taxes paid for? That's wrong. Tell me how you are going to vote on that issue. Why? Well, it's a nice Senatorship you have there. Be shame if something happened to it.
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  9512. As to turning it into an experiment, sound neat, but in that experiment the clients are the lab rats. Except that the lab rats are PAYING to be part of the experiment, and facing the consequences of any failures...
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  9513. I have one monthly payee that charges extra for using a credit card (but debit has no fee), and one that applies a surcharge to credit AND debit cards, but a direct deposit is free. I have to keep a checklist to be sure I am not throwing money away each month.
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  9514. "... conspirasoral theories"???
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  9515.  @Finn-xw4vn  And this is why it is a complicated problem, further muddied by several different layers of laws, written by lawyers and special interest groups over a long stretch of time. And thus why the problem keeps so many lawyers well-paid.
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  9516. In the picture of Gerard Bull, in the background. Does that man look like Ryan Reynolds to you too?
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  9517. Whoa. The archival footage at 1:45 is so clear and colorful for a 1960's launch! (Yes, I know it's KSP)
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  9518. Yes, they sell a lot of things. But they DO, in fact, sell diapers.
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  9519.  @christophermcanally1246  Or a lemonade stand versus a stand selling iced tea, orange juice and RC Cola (to avoid the Coke v Pepsi issues)
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  9520. I bought one thing with lifetime access. It was a lifetime account for Lord of the Rings Online, and the term was very clearly and up front defined as "for the whole time the game is available and supported on company servers. Eighteen years and running, meaning my $200 is now about $11.11 per year for the game
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  9521.  @ostrich67  I don't doubt that the rents are ludicrous. I just wonder how much of the higher prices is attributable to rents, and how much to captive customer base greed.
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  9522. Earth "shouts" out into space at Voyager 2... 37 hour later: "WHAT?! I was napping! This had better be important."
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  9523. I heard on NPR tonight that Crosby Stills and Nash also pulled their music from Spotify. The group is back together (on something)!
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  9524. How did Kilpatrick afford that pardon? Last I read, they were being offered for $2 million a pop.
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  9525.  @suedenim9208  What we need is an opt-in only" law on a national level. So that companies can only collect our data, or force us into arbitration stacked against us, or otherwise give up rights by deliberately opting in instead of the default of being opted in and having to work our butts off to figure out if it is even possible to opt out.
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  9526.  @suedenim9208  If you believe the law exists to protect us from the government, you would be right. But the situation I described has already happened. Steve did a video about it not too long ago.
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  9527. The IAEA FOUND 300 more orphan sources in Georgia alone? Damn.
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  9528. There are several reasons a person can get shaky hands, including Parkinson's, arthritis, weakness, fatigue, and so on. For many of the non-fatigue shaky hands, applying pressure helps steady things. Like the pressure on a wrench, or pushing a grocery cart, or, for a crafter I watch, having his two hands braced against each other while he paints table-top gaming miniatures.
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  9529. I have seen sound waves in air only a few times in my life, and that has been from firing a mortar in the military on particularly humid days. It was really weird to finally see the wave that I was feeling pass through my body.
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  9530. I wish I could go back in time and talk to the deniers of handwashing. Tell them that I will give them ten ounces of gold if they will, immediately after handling a diseased cadaver, and without washing their hands, use the same tools to open and then treat a small cut somewhere innocuous on their bodies. Then eat a meal without utensils. They would get their gold if they were infection free (and alive) for one month after the procedure. - I wonder how many would have to die for someone to wake the bleep up?
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  9531. Oh, hey. You got a referral from Generation Tech!
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  9532.  @ConstantChaos1  I was making an appeal to absurdity. A sub-standard debate tactic. I did so out of frustration with the topic of Natural Resources writing gorram speeding tickets. Yes, park rangers are law enforcement... in their parks. Much like a bouncer for a dance club can't just decide to bar you entry to the convenience store down the street unless they are actually hired for that job. DNR officers need to stay in their bleeping lane, trespassing on private property and putting up game cameras to perform surveillance without a warrant.
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  9533. Do you sell a soul by weight, volume, or item count? Does a soul have an expiration date? Is it rung up under meat by-products? Is given a tax category of food, clothing, or luxury goods? Who certifies that you have gotten the amount of soul you paid for and that the soul is in the condition as listed in the contract?
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  9534. Let your freak flag fly!
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  9535.  @JoelKalich  If you connect it to the internet, it can be used to monetize your activity. your information, your life.
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  9536. He's facing harsher charges than if he shot dead a K9, and those are considered police officers (when it's convenient for the department).
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  9537.  @robertdavis6708  As a non-elite, I call it a good day when I can hold onto a few common cents.
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  9538. Deez, dem and doze! Eeether, eyether. Newether Neyether. Let's call the whole thing off!
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  9539. Sounds like US cops. So yeah, organized crime.
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  9540. Fun tangent: "planting your flag" can also be a euphemism for sex, from the male POV.
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  9541. Where can we donate to send a few of the most followed flat Earthers and space deniers up on a trip?
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  9542. Interesting aspect of the appearance of guilt on accepting a pardon. Does accepting the pardon form a point for the complainant in a civil suit? - A smart move for Biden would be to (in addition to all of the other messes he'll have to fix) initiate a reform of the Presidential pardon powers. This is a key moment in history where enough states and national politicians might be in line with such an idea if it requires a Constitutional Amendment.
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  9543.  @boriscat1999  They better get their gold bars ready to buy the votes to fix this problem. What? I thought that was a New Jersey "thing"?
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  9544. There would not even be footage of the murder if the morons hadn't filmed it themselves.
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  9545. The whistle still doesn't work for me, a dozen or more tries later. Correction, it works for me with only one finger per hand.
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  9546. There was a small-print part of the CDC release that said that people who don't get the vaccine can easily withstand the impact of a speeding train. Those people can also safely skydive without a parachute!
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  9547. Journalists should request a complete list of all information that is not "legal" to publish, including a complete glossary of terms in the information (so nobody asks the wrong questions), list of persons who would have that information (so nobody asks the wrong person), and a complete timeline for when that information is not legal to publish.
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  9548.  @jerryinmon2731  He's old enough he should be "grandfathered" in.
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  9549. Not a damned thing. Other than vigilante corrective action.
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  9550. Win or lose, I anticipate a bit of lawyer splash on the bottom of the screen at the end of every trailer in the future reading something like, "Some scenes in the trailer may not be in the finished movie."
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  9551.  @TheCpadron19  5G no more causes cancer than all of the other high energy emissions we've blanketed our world in. - The difference between inserting my card and tapping near the screen is: I can't accidentally insert my card while it is still in my pocket. And RFID-blocking wallets would not even need to be a thing if mere proximity to the card was not enough to query the card. - And only SOME people are out to get me. The overwhelming majority (probably approaching 99.999...%) of the people on this planet are not even aware of me.
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  9552.  @BaobobMiller  There's a special club, and we peasants ain't in it.
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  9553. Why not?
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  9554.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  Or find one that someone had a bigger problem with, buy it for $10, steal the cog and do some Right to Repair bizniss!
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  9555. Have you seen him walk a gentle ramp? Fast is not his speed.
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  9556. Reminds me of the cartoon when Daffy Duck sells insurance to Elmer Fudd, and there is a very arcane payout policy that included a stampede of some animal or other... and a baby zebra.
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  9557. Menya zavoot 'Bubba'. Is true Texas train you watching. Trust Bubba, da?
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  9558. If enough people have rooftop solar, the power supply companies could reduce their costs to provide power to those without rooftop solar. Instead, they raise rates because "People with rooftop solar are STEALING from the rest of you!". Bull[redacted]!
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  9559. @EnlightenmentLiberal If most of the cost of providing electricity is fixed costs, then how is it that my electric bill goes up drastically during the winter (electric registers) and the peak of summer (AC)? Eh? May-June this year: (364kWh) $112.70 Of this, 43.11 is the fixed charges of transmission and distribution. $51.38 is Supply Charges $14.57 are "Public Policy Charges (I wonder how much lobbying it took to get those legal) of: Energy Efficiency Charge Renewable Energy Charge Distributed Solar Charge Electric Vehicle Charge - I don't have solar (or any other renewable power generation) nor do I have an EV. But then again, I also don't have a lobbying firm on my payroll.
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  9560.  @troyf1  That is indeed how it is written, but there is the reality. And that reality is exactly opposite when you try and recover your property after it is stolen under the concept civil asset forfeiture, where the PROPERTY is charged with a crime, but you, the former owner, are not even arrested, never mind charged or indicted with the crime the property is already guilty of (at least in the eyes of this legal construct).
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  9561. Entertaining AND educational. Because now I know why it is octopuses and not octopi - and that my grade school taught it wrong without backing it up with any etymology. And humans are lazily detailed tubes.
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  9562.  @Axterix13  Because US laws are made to protect the dumbest of us, not merely the most of us.
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  9563. Gawdamm slimebags and their "robust conversations"!
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  9564. Speaking of legal 'jargon', an important note for anyone in a state with two-party/all-party recording laws: You can still make and use recordings for legal purposes if you clearly (and at the start!) inform the other parties that you are recording, and give them time to revoke consent or opt out of the interaction.
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  9565. Gangs of electricians makes a kind of sense, given that a gang box is both a toolbox and the boxes in the walls where sockets and switches are installed.
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  9566. Possible oil burning, seat belt indicator lit and dinging with seat belt applied, tire pressure light... This car is either done for, or only has a few age-related ailments. It will be interesting to find out!
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  9567. With a little swatch of duct tape, it could even be "on the wall" comedy!
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  9568. "Well, your honor, I took 'some steps' to avoid cutting your car in half with a wrecker saw when I was paid to cut an entirely different kind of vehicle on a different street."
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  9569. Front license plates are actually quite useful in this age of (particularly rear-facing) dash cams. A front plate makes it a little harder for someone who rear-ends you to do a hit-and-run. If you're very fortunate, their front bumper will tear off, leaving the plate behind.
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  9570. Well, Girls und Panzer got me to do a more detailed data dive on the various real vehicles that appear in the anime. And to laugh at drifting tanks without throwing track.
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  9571. Come on, Florida. You have the Everglades and hungry alligators for a reason! - *The above is not an explicit inciting statement. Should the reader infer incitement, it is the position of this follow-up statement that the author of this comment regrets such, and bears no legal responsibility.
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  9572. Truck Fump.
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  9573. In some contexts, "gun" means howitzer, or main tank weapon, or muzzle-loading 18-pounder canon, or...
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  9574. Oh my! Think about the property owners! If it saves even one millionaire...
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  9575.  @shaneoneill1338  I'm in Massachusetts and just had my rocker panels replaced on my 2011 Focus. With it up on the lift, it is otherwise in good shape, so I don't regret putting in the expense.
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  9576. Ehem... "so far."
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  9577. Sounds like it's time to bury language in bills like, "Passing this Republican-sponsored highway bill also bans the Senate from speaking Mitch McConnell's name on Tuesdays." or "No brown m&m's in the cafeteria."
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  9578. I have learned, as I reach middle age, I need to find a good mechanic who is YOUNGER than I am, so I don't have to find a new one every 3-5 years.
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  9579. They're just doing what towns and cities get away with when they write, enforce, fine and even jail people for doing things that are protected activity under the US Constitution.
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  9580. Is a purple smell a good thing or a bad thing? Randy Feltface is a hilarious comedian, and he's purple, so that's good. But bruises can be purple, and that's bad.
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  9581. Jobtown!
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  9582.  @madmatt2024  As long as you are using the same chemicals, the color shouldn't matter.
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  9583.  @madmatt2024  Ah. I started learning car maintenance back when the change was being made between ethelyne glycol and propelyne glycol-based coolants.
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  9584. Get asked a simple, NON-INCRIMINATING yes or no question, but dodge answering it? Just resign.
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  9585. Or at least an air-ride seat.
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  9586. I got nostalgic about Steve Jackson's Car Wars while watching this.
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  9587. Those drones were so well hidden in those pits! Covered by rectangles of clot a different color than the surrounding terrain (they used all the camo netting to make a training room look like a bunker) and SO many vehicle tracks. The site looks reminiscent of Soviet SAM sites in Cuba during a tense time in the 1960's
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  9588.  @01ha  "Terror tunnel" brings to mind someone I once dated...
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  9589. Feeling safe and being safe are not equivalent. There is some linkage, but it is not an equation of unity.
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  9590. The problem is not that we don't have a captain steering this ship away from the rocks, the problem is we have 195 self-interest-driven captains (195 countries in the world) arguing over where the rocks are, or if they even exist. And they will argue through the sinking of the ship after it strikes the shoals and tears the bottom of the hull straight off. - Also, I notice a lot of: Ugh, the changes we need to make are so big and so intimidating, we can't even imagine where to start. - So nobody starts. Yet just like the climb of a thousand steps begins with one, the change of an energy economy starts with a single change, then another, and so on. One solar farm, one windmill, one electric car, one geothermal plant at a time, and one day we will suddenly look around and see that the change happened.
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  9591. While we're playing "what if?" let's imagine that in one of the pockets of the jacket was the person's Epi-Pen, and they died from lack of that lifesaving medication? What flavor of murder/manslaughter is that?
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  9592. Go a 'little' easy on us here. The restaurant was the best space OF THE ONES WE HAD SEEN BY THAT POINT. Having seen some newer spaces since, probably all of us can see more of the faults with the restaurant space. Listen to us or not, the business is yours, and YOU need to be satisfied both with the location, the space and the money involved. Unlike you, we wager nothing.
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  9593.  @Txyxy1  Were things written down? If yes, it's science instead of just fooling around. This is per Adam Savage.
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  9594. Every time I hear Scott say "Rocketdyne" my brain pipes up, "Did he say Yoyodyne?"
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  9595. Remove the house, reduce the value of the property. Send in someone in business attire with well-practiced sympathy and a checkbook to buy the property. Build some McMansion on the land. Profit.
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  9596. If the cartels get official terrorist group designation, drug buyers become financial supporters of terrorism. That slams shut the door on rehab and recovery, and will make for-profit prison corporations drool in glee.
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  9597. But... if you don't sign up for some payment application, how are they going to collect and sell your use, travel, vehicle, and other information?
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  9598. Wow! How much road was the town willing to lose to that spread? I don't see that happening much around here in New England, because after every winter the street sweepers go around to clean up the sand laid down the previous winter. Though the dirt road part does explain a little, it is still jarring to me.
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  9599. If you are that anal about your yard, you should put up a fence at your own expense (in compliance with municipal regulations). Growing up, we had two neighbors with fences and one neighbor without a fence between us. At the fences, we and the neighbors talked about what plants we and they didn't want growing through, and took turns cutting and weeding them back. On the non-fence side, we and the neighbor would each mow about one lawnmower width across the estimated property line, and would never fight about whose leaves we were raking or from exactly which property they were raked. There was even a wide patch of lilacs along the back half of the property line, and we would talk about what would be trimmed back and how much. The key? We all TALKED ABOUT IT! No cops, no lawyers, no shouting (except to get someone's attention over a power tool!).
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  9600. Nuclear power with properly contained leftovers causes zero respiratory illness, no acid rain, no water table pollution... Burning fossil fuels? Yeah...
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  9601. But you are all Jamaican. That is the only truthful thing I can say without an internet search. - Post search, Jamaica is a beautiful place with a lot of industry besides tourism. And is both an independent nation since 6 August 1962 AND a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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  9602. In the debate between letter and intent of the law, the letter is clear. The intent is only clear if the drafter(s) of the law state/stated clearly what their intent was. I am reminded of Rodney Dangerfield's character getting a bad grade on a paper about a Kurt Vonnegut book, and the report was written BY Kurt Vonnegut. And a judge is going to know the "intent" of the law?
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  9603. By far, most of the fentanyl seized crossing the US-Mexico border is being brought in by US citizens.
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  9604. Uh-oh... pictures of the Eiffel Tower? French copyright strike incoming! (Thanks to Tom Scott for the video on that issue, which is a lot like the Hollywood sign)
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  9605. Perhaps you have opened them too far? Ray seems to only open the bleeders to the point of dripping, not even a full turn.
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  9606. Hey! Those phallic rocket trips are expensive, and the money has to come from somewhere.
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  9607.  @logansmall5148  The Republicans would oppose lifeboats on the Titanic if someone with a D after their name offered them a seat.
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  9608. 2 inches times all of those conductors times tens of thousands of vehicles? The CEO would have to have gotten a smaller vacation home!
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  9609. If I didn't know about it yet, it is still kind of a forgotten weapon, in a wibbly -wobbly, timey-wimey way.
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  9610. Sounds like a lot of people are in mortal terror of uttering the honest words, "I/we don't currently know that piece of information." Knowing what you don't know is not a death sentence, It is simply the first step on a path to finding the answer. You just have to acknowledge your temporary ignorance, and be willing to put in the effort to remedy it. - I had it beaten into my head at Fort Benning that "I don't know" is only the first half of an acceptable answer. It is supposed to be, "I don't know, but I will find out."
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  9611.  @Polyphemus47  Ah. Let us hope, eh?
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  9612. @@user-co1sk2jv8b Many homeowners choose to buy the materials themselves after getting a list from the contractor. This protects the homeowner from this kind of shenanigans, but a homeowner can end up paying retail instead of the "double-secret-contractor price".
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  9613. That's a really good tip!
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  9614. "If you don't answer my questions I'll get you for further resisting." Nope. Peppers needs to go for a long swim with alligators.
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  9615. If I need my lawn mown or my snow shoveled, you get I am looking to children. I am old, have COPD and asthma, and am slowly crumbling into my grave.
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  9616. Two business days. Tops. Unless there is something like a hurricane going on closing down travel.
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  9617. I find analog clocks a much better tool for "backwards planning" events. Backwards planning is the idea of planning your process so that the end of the process occurs at a specified time. As an example: If I need to be at a friend's house at noon, the trip takes 30 minutes (plus or minus 5 minutes), and I need to stop for gas (about 10 minutes), then I know I need to be in my car and leaving at about quarter past eleven.
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  9618.  @auntmemo4508  Walk the beaches and trails? That sounds like work and might result in physically fit police officers! We can't have THAT!
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  9619. Love the shirt today!
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  9620. To bypass the "you can't give people water in the voting line" law, you can "accidentally" litter by leaving a cooler full of water unattended while you go three blocks away to tie your shoes.
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  9621. Why is the spout of gearcase oil containers offset like the spouts of engine oil containers? I would think it is even more important for the former than the latter.
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  9622. I like "I am not feeding the ducks, I am illegally dumping food, but the ducks keep stealing it!"
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  9623. Pile onto the indignity of a weak or fallacious 72-hour psych hold the possibility of losing your job because you can't go to it and can't even call in to explain WHY you're not there. Ta-da! Now you have no job, and even MORE reason to have psychological reactions to your situation! Sellf-fulfilling diagnosis!
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  9624. They're far more upset that Biden is getting the good press for doing something than that Biden is actually doing something.
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  9625. Like Chihooah-hooahs
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  9626. No missing floors, no missing roof providing natural light, the building largely intact? Not a good location for filming that post-apoc student film.
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  9627. I noticed at least one instance where your source material uses feet, and you say meters. Huge difference. Other than that tiny thing, this was a fine educational experience. Thank you!
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  9628. My thought: Barrel heat, weight, and mechanical complexity. If the barrel is the bottom tube, then a heating barrel is close to your hand, requiring some sort of construction to move your hand away from the heat. Which adds weight and complexity. Also, with repeating rifles like the Henry already working the kinks out of the fire -manually cycle - fire process, why re-invent the wheel?
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  9629. I stop at all stops signs and painted stop lines in parking lots because it irks the heck out of reckless drivers behind me.
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  9630. Not only is your friend not getting a cat (which boggles the mind), but they're ALSO getting a dog from a breeder when animal shelters are PACKED with dogs (and cats!) that just need a caring home and aren't enriching a canine eugencist!
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  9631. The only way Trump would "go with a different tone" is if he changed the color of his face spray.
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  9632. Almost. This bath tub was really slow.
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  9633. It does not hurt that these specific letters or markings are easily distinguished from each other, regardless of orientation, and can be identified at a distance and/or in optics.
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  9634.  @InsideOfMyOwnMind  Heck yeah!
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  9635. @Ye Old Geezer Words that convey your meaning are good words. Unless you mean Carlin's "bad words"?
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  9636. The cats seem to have a look that says, 'This demeans us both, lady. I didn't say stop!"
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  9637. Laura Ingraham is developing the trademark Tucker "My brain hurts to think with" brow pinch.
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  9638. No Mark Rober required.
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  9639. You can choose not to give that consent, simply by not being able to drive with that state's license.
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  9640. And that is a huge problem. Why the bleep are batteries glued into a laptop or phone? To make you replace the whole device. Sure, the manufacturer will feed you lines about "stabilizing the battery for safety, but they USED to do that with screws and spring clamps. - Now a non-charging battery often means the whole device gets tossed.
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  9641. I always thought rosin core solder was for copper pipes only.
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  9642. Here's the facts: A licensed stock trader or investment advisor cannot say, "Buy this stock, sell that stock" to aid in their own enrichment, and neither can people who work for any of the companies they advise on. This kind of rule exists because the markets have decided that the position of trust would have people listen to bad/greedy advice against their own interests. - Some random guy with a computer says buying or selling a stock is a good idea is not held tot he same rules because they are not labeled with a title of trust. - An analogy: A doctor cannot tell you that eating crickets will help cure your glaucoma. Your barista at Starbucks can, and is legally protected in doing so under the First Amendment.
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  9643. Ah! Drach has a real face?
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  9644. I remember as a kid thinking that Lagrange points had something to do with ZZ Top. Yep, I was a kid in the 70's and 80's.
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  9645.  @aniyhaforgs8517  Wow. Who peed in your cornflakes this morning?
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  9646.  @M167A1  I saw that movie. It was fun, with some science issues.
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  9647.  @LostLargeCats  Well, that was a combination of ego, racism, homophobia, and he really did not have anything already built that would help.
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  9648. Always torque your nuts! Urologists need to make boat payments!
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  9649. Not only does it cost so much, but if your case is looking solid enough, and you've already spent a lot of money fighting them, the government will just give up to avoid a higher-court precedent that could endanger the practice.
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  9650. Someone named Kampf in charge of ensuring democracy? Do I really have to ask if his middle name is "Mein"?
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  9651. His mistake was being a FINANCIALLY corrupt cop instead of a violently corrupt cop. If he had just stuck to beating people needlessly, the union would still be covering his butt.
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  9652.  @rdizzy1  My only "experience" with Buy Here Pay Here is internet videos showing cars with rotted frames, rusted-through floors under the carpeting, and other sketchy mechanical problems that should have kept those vehicles off the road entirely.
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  9653. On the wall of the delivery room: "By taking your first breath, you agree to the following: [wall of 4-point type]"
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  9654. A plague upon the internet, where children get bad information, young women are selling their bodies for clicks and the hopes of donations, and misinformation runs rampant. But at least it's owned by China!
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  9655. Yeah... they were lying and just wanted you out of the room.
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  9656. I have used the old pad and channel locks (my C-clamp had rusted solid from being stored in a damp place) and after the Popeye cramps passed, it was not a bad result.
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  9657. Engine oil is not too difficult. Replacing lines or pistons? Easy. Chasing a hydraulic leak from the manifold? That's a contortionist's job!
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  9658.  @bobberry1463  That too. While I find that kind of music to be the audio equivalent of the dumpster at a rendering plant, people are free to listen to it, as long as they don't bother other people with it.
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  9659. Well gosh, if Sgt Williams was found at the bottom of a steep ravine, no longer stealing oxygen from the rest of us, I would not shed a tear.
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  9660. With the rise of these fiction-writing AI programs, physical books written before the programs existed will become VERY valuable.
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  9661. Because your kid doesn't have a strong union paying off teachers.
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  9662. Oh! The panty-on! I kid...
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  9663. And check the wind direction!
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  9664. Some prosecutors would have added witness tampering in there.
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  9665. 20/20 hind sight on 2020, I would have invested in plywood companies, then sold in September. At least so far...
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  9666. Where do we sign up to get medieval on these creeps?
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  9667. It's not just the gas expenses. The increased rates of periodic maintenance like oil changes and tire replacement, as well as more structural things getting prematurely worn out.
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  9668. That Glock in Scott's hand looks like a Kevin ZP98.
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  9669. I read early reporting on this that detailed some of the cause. Apparently, businesses were whining that "keeping up with local ordinances made running jobsites too hard/expensive." Because greedy business owners need only the scantest justification to mask their abuses. - Ah, you covered that.
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  9670. I am not pro-Russian about this conflict, but that footage is horrifying. I can only hope that those who died did so quickly with as little pain as possible.
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  9671. Now I want to see the USS Iowa on treads. Let's see how the traction cities handle THAT!
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  9672. Combination window breaker - seat belt cutter for each seat of the car. Or, give us the danged manual handles back! - I just read an article that VW is backtracking (somewhat) from everything being touchscreen in their new cars. They're bringing back buttons and knobs with physical feedback for climate control, radio, and all steering wheel buttons.
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  9673.  @Daedcicar  With hydraulic power steering, you still can steer, if with more physical effort, when the engine dies. I do not know if it is similar with electric powered steering.
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  9674. Connecticut? Corruption? Cops? Yeah, as a Massachusetts resident, I am not surprised.
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  9675. I now have a mental image of a person hired by public schools whose job is to set the plans of forward-looking students adrift with negative comments and bad advice.
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  9676. Indeed! Make the ruling class be the Guinea pigs for a change.
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  9677. Even if this is not malicious, there is an honesty to the skepticism. If an angry drunk kicks a dog only 9 out of 10 times he comes home, the dog is not wrong to expect a kick 10 out of 10 times.
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  9678. This Youtube thing is the only and closest form of Social Media I use. Or have ever used. I never worry about my looks, only if I stink or not (breath, B.O.). Heck, I use a mirror so infrequently, I could not pick my eye color from a chart right now if you paid me. - Social media is going to lead to more business for suicide prevention hotlines. Don't get plastic surgery, get mental health care.
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  9679. When you drove the car over the hose at 1:17, my brain WANTED to hear the "ding-ding" of a full-service gas station.
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  9680. The way those spark plug wires broke, I'm stunned the thing actually ran to get in the bay!
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  9681. This makes sense from a bank's perspective. A bank makes money when people borrow. If you are only saving money, while it provides funds for the bank to back loaning more money, the account is not earning the bank anything. - Is this right? Hell no. But it is what is.
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  9682. And moats didn't always have water in them.
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  9683. This company needs to worry that someone will use them as backfill...
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  9684. If Scott had said, "So then engineers excavated the tomb of records and used charcoal and paper to take rubbings of the data tables from the slowly crumbling sandstone of the chamber walls." I would not be all that surprised.
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  9685.  @EfHaichDee  The oil in the ground is the result of the deposition, burial and chemical changes over millions of years, of layers of dead bacteria and plankton. The myth about it coming from dead dinosaurs is traced back to a display by Sinclair Oil at the 1933 World's Fair.
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  9686.  @JurekOK  There are some topics where "technical details" matter a lot. I feel this discussion and this topic (the origins of petroleum oil) is one of them.
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  9687. Hochul said something indefensible? That checks out for a governor who changed the text of right-to-repair bill that had already passed though the state government, and she inserted corporation-friendly text adjustments before signing it into law - And the same governor who is seeking to expand the number of licenses for charter schools when the population does not seek it, and in a schooling environment where a number of charter school licenses have gone 'fallow' when those charter schools closed. But a huge charter school corporation is really enthusiastic about Hochul's "initiative" (Surprise?)...
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  9688. My doorbell says nothing. It doesn't even ring a bell or buzzer. Wait, I don't have a doorbell. There's nothing wrong with a non-computer doorbell, I just don't currently have one. - I am a semi-luddite. I really like my computers and kindle, but I really want to live in a reality where it is easy to uninstall Cortana and Alexa.
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  9689.  @zapityzapzap  Plus, with the white fuel, you could cut open the empty container the fuel was sold in, bur off any volatiles, flatten it, and pack out the metal folded up. With the propane you have to carry out the tanks that are heaver per hour of use than those old cans, and not a lot lighter than they were when full. - And then finding a way to legally and responsibly dispose of those empty pressure vessels.
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  9690. Take your thumbs up and go stand in a corner!
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  9691.  @michelledubose2391  Oh, that's just Louis putting DeJoy back into wondering where and when your mail will be delivered.
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  9692. I was singing the ironic ZZ Top song, "We all love to work on struts".
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  9693. A homesteader I watch had animal control called on him by some "influencer" idjit in a different state because he was treating his cat's eye infection according to veterinarian directions instead of driving the cat two hours each way to the closest veterinarian to pay hundreds more to get the same damned instructions. Animal control and the local sheriff showed up because some dumb woman thinks she knows better and could SWAT someone without consequence to herself.
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  9694. Even worse with that used Leaf, it's from Carvana, which has been sued over and over for paperwork shenanigans with car purchases, and in one state so far has been fined by the state government for same.
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  9695. Nice body mass chart, but where on there is our spherical cow?
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  9696. This doesn't need a Constitution change. It DOES need a police change. A change in policies, and a change of personnel. - edit: Maybe Chicago has sufficient demand for a secret repo company that does the jobs the police are too danged lazy to even attempt.
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  9697.  fee fie foe slump  As soon as you use words like always, never, all, and none, you are usually heading down the path of belief over statistics.
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  9698.  @shanejustice6414  Or save the air fare and read books. We still have libraries full of them, but don't tell D.C. They'll close them to save pennies and spin it as making us great some more.
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  9699. Honestly, some of the best way to deal with the shortage of affordable housing would be regulation preventing the scooping up of buildings by REITs and other buy-and-churn price raising financial transactions. It is not an easy problem to solve, I will readily admit that. But as long as money is being made by driving up the occupancy prices on properties, business and tenant will not be able to afford those spaces.
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  9700. The wall looks like there was a water leak that caused the (latex) paint to bubble and stretch then settle into wrinkles. Is it a resolved leak? If it is/was a recurring leak, mold inside the wall could be a concern. - Oh, the first microphone sounds terrible.
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  9701.  @Flies2FLL  People CAN drink automotive windshield washer fluid. There are serious health consequences, but they can still do it.
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  9702. But, but... Then we'd have to use something saner to augment our gasoline! Like switchgrass, straw, cotton or cellulose waste instead of FOOD CROPS.
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  9703. That is a concrete solid way to live.
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  9704. OMG! Someone else remembers the show Space Rangers!!!
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  9705. Paper checklists pros: - No batteries to recharge. - No software versioning or update issues. - Can get wet and dried and still be useful. - Wicked pissah cheap.
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  9706. Salt leads to corrosion. Corrosion leads to resistance. Resistance leads to SUFFERING! - Master Mechanic Yoda
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  9707.  @tom_ad9343  Then that realtor should be able to articulate that reasoning and should do so.
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  9708.  @CJRoberts8812  Age and/or damage causes refrigerant leakage. Bad airflow contributes to sub-par environmental system performance.
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  9709.  @m2hmghb  The darkest window tint I've ever seen in Massachusetts is on State Police cruisers.
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  9710. You know who else hates/hated exposure in the press? Murderers, pedophiles, tyrants, grifters, liars, fugitives from justice, dictators, thieves... all sorts of criminals. You know, quality people like Ted Bundy, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, that pesky corporal in mid 20th century Germany, the Marcos family in the Philippines, Mohammed bin Salman, Kyrsten Sinema...
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  9711.  @tomfoolery5680  I guess my experience is colored by the fact that my brother who was three years younger than I couldn't read well until mid-first grade. I have no kids of my own, and don't really pay much attention to the developmental paths of friends' kids either.
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  9712. I'll leave the philosophizing to others. I'll have a grilled cheese and tomato soup.
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  9713. I saw an inflammatory headline about this on "The Globe" rag at the checkout line in the store today. Good to hear the actual facts here.
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  9714. Nah, they're too busy salivating over the prospect of revisiting (aka undoing) the libel protections for the press from NY Times v Sullivan.
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  9715. Your tale reminds me of the tale of the EV-1
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  9716. "No choice"??? No, Gallant, you jerk. You just refuse to make any other choice.
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  9717. I'm glad they fixed that globe after the flying saucer crashed into it.
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  9718. At first blush, this will negatively impact the making of TV and movies in Florida if such includes any vehicles on roads and/or parking lots. I am also interested how Florida thinks "bona fide media" is at all enforceable.
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  9719. If you look at that flechette and a 120mm discarding sabot penetrator side by side, with adjustments for scale, they are VERY similar/
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  9720. I wonder if the seal misalignment came about from a windshield replacement?
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  9721. Aha! The Facility is the re-submerged and re-hidden city-ship of Atlantis! For evidence I offer the monitor over Kyle's left shoulder during his patron-crawl talking. - All that Alteran tech and he has not found a way to end this pandemic?
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  9722. This made me nostalgic for my Saturn SL. The strut tower mounts rusted out, one dropping the front corner about five inches when it failed as I pulled into a parking lot. When the mechanic took a look at repairability, they found a lot more subframe rust than the car was worth.
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  9723.  @hxhdfjifzirstc894  It can happen with hospitalizations. I was once hospitalized for 5-1/2 weeks. I fortunately had family getting my mail and bringing it to me when I was well enough to deal with it.
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  9724.  @paulmichaelfreedman8334  You'd have to hold me at gunpoint to make me take a cruise. And even then, I'd be patient and wait for a moment to either turn the tables, escape, or die trying. Even death might be preferable to a cruise, from my point of view.
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  9725.  @paulmichaelfreedman8334  I have a couple near-phobias that cruises would trigger. Specifically crowds and being on a sinking boat/ship. Also, being around large numbers of drunk people, smokers, or people who do both, bring me to the edge of violence with little left to tip me over into felony land. These are ME issues. I know this, and I work hard to avoid situations that would trigger these me issues.
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  9726. Smart video, great shirt.
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  9727.  @GoikOShea  And look how that worked out for him...
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  9728.  @sunshineandwarmth  I read books, but not magazines. Magazines tend to be about half (or more) advertising in which they tuck condensed and partial information about some topic in each article, and you get to play the "what page is THIS one continued on?" game to try and find the second and sometimes even third part of the article. - Movies (and non-documentary TV shows)are not great places to learn true history. Or science or psychology or housing construction or pretty much anything. That medium places story above reality. And sadly many contemporary documentaries, if you can even find them anymore, are also guilty of placing story above factuality. - Most of the entertainment sources are a way to incite a search for the TRUE history, science, etc. And finding facts can ruin your enjoyment of that entertainment, much like when I was in the single-digit ages and learned that cowboys' pistols were usually six-shooters, so they should have had to reload several times in that tense chase scene or fight against those "savage" Indians. Yeah, learning the truth about what happened to native peoples really destroyed the enjoyment of old cowboy shows and movies...
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  9729.  @saigyl9149  No FEDERAL laws...
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  9730. Civil forfeiture, or those who benefit from it, need to be found in a shallow grave. I offer those in power the choice in the matter. For now.
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  9731.  @deliveryguy78  But no jump-cut!
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  9732. Yeah, I saw the original footage. Those two clowns in uniform were morons, and need to be sent back to first grade to learn numbers. The locksmith sucked skill-wise, but at least he was not culpable.
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  9733. So, these women want more Prince Adam and less He-Man. At least, until they need someone to lift, carry or stop a bullet for them...
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  9734. The main reason to make the expeditions to the Northwest Passage was to later inspire Stan Rogers to write a song that was later performed by Unleash the Archers. To tie it closer to the channel, a Canadian folk punk band also covered the song. The band? The Dreadnoughts.
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  9735. I know I'm not a good person, but I try to act like one as much as I can. And it's for selfish reasons. If you treat people you encounter with courtesy, kindness, civility, and in some cases friendship and sacrifice, then they may help make your life easier. They may even be willing to help you move or jump-start your car!
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  9736. A way to kill off poison ivy: Dissolve 3 pounds of salt in a gallon of water. Add 1/4 cup of liquid dish soap. Fill a garden sprayer with the solution and spray the leaves thoroughly. Repeat until dieback occurs. - You could instead spray with undiluted white vinegar, or pour boiling water over the plants. - Any method will take multiple applications.
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  9737. This seems like a system DESIGNED to crush the will of the people, and force them to either appear in person to get the run-around, or to spend money they might not have to get a lawyer to cut through the muck and mire thanks to their personal connections and familiarity with the systems involved.
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  9738.  @andrei4389  Human. Humans are the absolute WORST!
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  9739.  @SetTheCurve  Right? Not listing a price means the person you contact is very likely working on commission and is paid more if they can trick you into paying more.
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  9740. Would I jump or would I chicken out? Ha! I would not even finish climbing the stairs! Darth Vader once followed me over a bridge and said, "The acrophobia is strong in this one."
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  9741. Get this, he is apparently going to be allowed to Zoom his pre-sentencing interview. You know, that thing that every other American has to show in person because height, weight, DNA swab and other health checks are part of it?
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  9742. "The enemy of my enemy is who I send ahead to check for landmines." Not quite as poetic, but a better methodology.
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  9743. That is really cool!
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  9744. PFAS in food wrappers? Was waxed paper no longer good enough?
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  9745. Hmm... REEEEEEE! (/shrug) It's just been a while since I've seen or posted a Ree, and I have nothing else to contribute other than watching, and the following: I watch this channel nearly daily, even though I do not work on cars. The knowledge is a prize on its own, and Ray is an easy person to watch and listen to working.
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  9746. The big problem with saving all of those parts for a power generator for after the end of the world, is if you have too many you can't fast-travel across the map.
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  9747. I had not seen video of the Four Seasons press conference before. Anyone else see the NFPA chemical hazard diamond on the wall? The blue 2: Health hazard. - The top 4: Fire - flash point below 73 degrees F. the right 3: Reactivity - shock and heat my detonate. A sign of some dangerous chemicals, and a moderately accurate placard for the delicate house of delusion that the administration has built around themselves over the last four years. And I would not stand within 100 yards of either.
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  9748. Have they tried turning it off and back on again? Or is the computer design old enough that they need to send someone up to blow on the game cartridge and slam it back in place?
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  9749. Draw and quarter the supporters of seizure without conviction. That is how eyes are opened. - Also, a sheriff seizing the peoples' money without right or reason is what led to a certain hood named Robin.
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  9750. I was going to make a joke about how pundits are way too unfunny for people with "pun" in their title, but it turns out the etymology of the word pundit comes from the Hindi word 'pandit' which itself is derived from the Sanskrit word 'pandita'; which means learned. So instead I will make a joke about how so may pundits have lost the "learned" or "wise" part of their title's origins. . The second sentence was the joke. It falls flat even to me.
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  9751. How can a soldier obey orders to fire heavy munitions at apartments, homes, schools and orphanages? How can a soldier justify driving their heavy armored vehicle over a civilian sedan? - Are these soldiers so immoral, or so stupid, or so afraid for their lives and the lives of their families that they would do such things?
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  9752. J. Jones Brand Guyana Flavored drink! Goes great with a MAGA hat! Drink it before a rally, to really charge up your political power! (This might work, because one would have to be aware of history to understand the fake product above)
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  9753. The defendant's lawyers should get to use comedian Chris Porter's "Are you shitting me?" defense.
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  9754. And he is SO going to dive into a bag of wet, juicy trash as soon as you turn your back. Just to spite you.
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  9755. "Let them fight!" - Ken Watanabi, from the observer gallery in the courtroom.
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  9756. @GHOSTSTARSCREAM The phone are increasing X and Y dimensions and taking away Z. This makes the screen bigger, and the phone easier to break. So people feel okay migrating their computing to the phone, and then they have to keep buying replacement phones. All according to plan.
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  9757. If you fill a bowl with water, you MIGHT slip, hit your head, go unconscious, fall face-first into the bowl of water, and drown!!! So don't put water in bowls!!!
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  9758. If I sold my prescription medications to someone for recreational use - I'm in jail. Orange Donnie commits federal crimes, commits federal contempt of court half a score times... - maybe a slap on the wrist.
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  9759. I noticed that the BCB kit has some wasted negative space because of how the tin is made.
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  9760. Polaris Dawn Polaris First Breakfast Polaris Second Breakfast Polaris Elevensies ...
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  9761. Hey, there is currently a surplus of Lensflarium in Hollywood, and it is apparently too expensive to store over the long term.
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  9762.  @jamesreynolds2886  That form of handle is so key that it is becoming standard in higher-end snow shovels up where I live in New England. That and an S-curve handle. Huge back-savers.
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  9763. "Free 99" - Awesome!
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  9764. Agreed. They could have gone for licensing fees and court/filing costs instead of over a thousand dollars per hit.
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  9765. Magic The Gathering... Sorry, Macaque The Greene, KNOW she is lying, and is using those lies deliberately.
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  9766. An architect and a contractor to patch drywall? Bull(stuff)! If it was illegal to patch drywall yourself, then you would be required to show a contractor's license to buy the materials for the job. - And what will an architect contribute to a drywall patch job other than an extra few hundred dollars of expense?
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  9767. Nice little house on a big open lot. Shame to not have someone living there.
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  9768.  @djblerk100  And the lawyers win again. As always.
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  9769. If the Japanese carriers had been finished off by the UK carrier's deck guns (sorry, the ship names slip my mind), how do you think that would have influenced the inclusion of larger guns, either multi-purpose or anti-ship, into the rest of the war and beyond?
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  9770. Here's a meditation phrase for Petah: "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast."
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  9771. "FBI how may I direct your call?" - "Yeah, I sent my phone in to be repaired and [company] stole it. As this facility is in a different state than mine, the local cops said to call you." "I'll connect you to our 'Louis Rossmann warned us' desk." - Yeah, I'm a dreamer.
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  9772. This lady was so loud and strident, I was looking for the speakers bolted to a minaret.
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  9773.  @carlyellison8498  How many safety deposit boxes did YOU profit from?
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  9774. So I gained a HUGE leap in efficiency by accident when I switched my camping lighting to hand-cranked LED lanterns because I wanted to reduce my carry weight. Plus the hand-crank LED lantern also works as a radio...
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  9775. A clean and law-abiding police department should WELCOME people filming them doing their job. Use it as an exhibit of the good value their taxes are getting (for once). - When evidence is a "problem" you should KNOW you're doing something wrong. From leaving the cookie jar open and crumbs on your pillow to a knife in your pocket and the dead guy's blood all over yourself. - And why do they have military troops at the arrest? They must be military, they're wearing olive drab, with ballistic vests, vague shoulder patches, very short hair, no badges or "POLICE" markings... - I get why the cop counted the money in plain view of the handcuffed man, and even why he wanted to make a note of it, but it SHOULD have been written in his log book, which would then become departmental record, and the handcuffed man should have gotten a written receipt (or should in short order). Not recording it properly is somewhere along the spectrum from lazy to premeditated report alterations.
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  9776. I will never scan a QR code for a menu. Heck I may never scan a QR code, period.
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  9777.  @YouCanCallMeReTro  Truth. That local government is happy to spend a lot of money (vehicles, staff, radios, computers, uniforms, etc...) to suck money out the pockets of their residents.
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  9778. When Preston introduced the first drone clip, I initially heard him say, "the waterboard variety." !!! My distracted hearing makes things weird. - With the possibility of Russian sailors seeing waterborne drones everywhere, there might be a need for an on-board supply of binoculars for an admiral to throw overboard out of frustration.
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  9779.  @joesterling4299  Which means we are second-hand thanks to a guy named Fritz Todt and another one whose first name was Adolf.
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  9780. 44:00 is just your normal migratory tree, out for a stroll.
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  9781. With training and practice, a bolt-action rifle can fire fast enough for 'varmint' and sporting use.
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  9782. Is the lawsuit also covering the ability for the state to sequence the DNA and storing that data even without saving the biological sample?
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  9783. This headline WILL be seen as a dare by some, to find a new low point...
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  9784. You don't need to have a car driver's license to get your motorcycle license in NY, but you do need to have RealID documentation. I think. Here is the link. https://dmv.ny.gov/driver-license/get-motorcycle-license#:~:text=How%20to%20get%20a%20motorcycle%20license.%201%20Step,4%20Step%204%3A%20Get%20your%20motorcycle%20license.%20
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  9785. Because black & white expresses more ennui, that's why.
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  9786. The ATF also wants the NSF sticker fee for every oil filter as a "firearm suppressor"
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  9787. So many fasteners in a vehicle, yet so few sloweners.
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  9788.  @ozzierabbit587  And that kind of designing is why We've seen ray do plug changes on vehicles that have replacement (but still old) plugs in the "front" of the engine, and OEM plugs with barely any metal left in the "back".
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  9789. A question people living in and around that area might want to answer is - is there a commercially available laser strong enough to damage those cameras? What? I suggested nothing.
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  9790. Bring it all back to vacuum tubes! Hehehe...
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  9791. Wait, the process of discovery has a rule 34 also? - - - Well, of course it does, what am I saying?
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  9792. Rents, residential or commercial, in NYC will likely not come down to sanity until after a decent zombie apocalypse. edit: This applies everywhere, but NYC is the subject of this video.
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  9793. I don't like extreme flavors in any of the spice realms. I don't hate those flavors for people who do like them, I just don't eat them myself.
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  9794.  @belg4mit  I did not know that! The first time I ever heard of cilantro was in an American Dad episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ruhzTYExLs
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  9795.  @wlonsdale1  I offer an example of one company copying the money-Hoovering of another, and you nit-pick the specifics.
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  9796.  @angiemuema7995  No, I cannot hold your beer. I will hand it to my brother who will probably drink it while your back is turned.
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  9797. Too true!
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  9798. I am of two minds on this issue. Yes, him being booted from the ballot seems right for his actions. However, him being booted from the ballots increases the chances that one of the more dangerous candidates, like Pence or Ramaswami for example, could be seen as a more likely choice for the 'straight party' voters.
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  9799.  @jeffslote9671  No, you muppet. Misinformation is FALSE information being spread without direct malice.
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  9800. Ah, Fred Willard, you are missed.
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  9801. Key twirlers irritate me. It's also a sign that the twirler doesn't really want to be there, or talking to those two of your guys, or just has other plans he'd rather get to. Not a good trait for someone who deals with people. - - - And a good wood floor under three layers of tile? Not anymore! By the time you grind off the adhesive/grout you won't have much wood left.
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  9802. The first brake job I did back in the 80's, our C-clamp was rusted solid (tools stored in an unheated detached garage) so our only option was channel locks with an old brake pad against the piston. Since then, that's how my brother and I have done almost all brake jobs. The dead pad as an anvil has accidentally had us doing it closer to correct.
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  9803.  @marcusdamberger  Dollar signs. It's the only cause that makes the math work.
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  9804. Well, this is all of the Newsmax footage I have yet seen in my life.
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  9805. Oh, he's a "top", and his constituents are all his "bottoms".
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  9806. So, we can effectively combat the fentanyl problem by refusing to let US citizens cross the border from Mexico?
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  9807. So, Gina Carano should go work for Fox?
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  9808. negative 5?
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  9809.  @alexanderevanska4274  The process is part of the punishment.
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  9810. The sheriff is ultimately responsible for the level of training and behavior of the people he commands. - And I am sick of people being charged with "resisting" and/or "impeding/obstructing" with no originating charges. It is like being suspended from school for not showing up to a detention which you not only were not informed of, but did nothing to earn. (Happened in my high school a lot until one particular vice principal retired).
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  9811. Nice cover story they've built. We all know that ArcJet Systems is a military and civilian aerospace contractor, specializing in communications and propulsion systems. Rumor has it that they are developing a nuclear-powered rocket for a Mars mission.
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  9812. Wait, the cops offered a 50-50 split if the woman opted to not go to court? That's a bribe!
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  9813. Me, I'd rather stick with a pop-up trailer. Many are light enough that you can tow them behind a medium or large car. Yeah, the lighter models don't usually have a toilet or shower, but that's where campgrounds come in.
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  9814. I loves me some malicious compliance!
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  9815. Right? It's unnecessary in a sane world.
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  9816. Huh. this one Republican has actually ratcheted up a notch or two on the respectability scale. Not great yet, but better.
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  9817. It takes guts to be visceral!
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  9818.  @fugawiaus  Okay. Aside from the issue of using children to push politics, does her also being an actor invalidate her message? Turn off a light in an empty room for yes, gas up a Hummer for no.
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  9819.  @fugawiaus  I didn't watch or participate in a demonstration. I demonstrate by doing, daily. I'm not the best at it, but I try. - - - Parallel matter, I find whenever you gather a large number of people together, you get a lot of nutjobs, and the press LOOOOOOVES to showcase only the nutjobs.
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  9820. What I am seeing is that this is not a fertile ground for comments that disagree with Sydney's POV.
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  9821.  @ironsquirrel9272  Have you ever noticed that when people say, "I hate to break it to you..." they really relish breaking it to you? And as an American, everybody except me and the people who talk just like me has an accent. It is my sovereign ignorance at peak power.
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  9822.  @ironsquirrel9272  I like how we have wandered down the accent path and FAR away from either the "kids used politically" or the "are the facts relevant" paths.
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  9823.  @KOZMOuvBORG  And all this time I thought it was so The Fonz could prove to the jury he was serving on that the accused could not have been the purse snatcher!
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  9824. The longer this keeps up, the more "qualified" victims of violence I expect to hear about in the news.
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  9825. What they showed could make one nostalgic for the brutalist architecture style from the 1950's
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  9826. Oh the officer does need a little more training. Training on the grill, the fryolator, and the drive-up window. Because they should not be a cop anymore.
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  9827. The only Ford Pinto explosion I ever saw was in the movie Top Secret. - I do remember at about the same time period there was a big to-do about behind-the-cab fuel tanks in gas-powered pickups that, IIRC, could burst in a rear-end collision and spray gasoline onto and perhaps into the cab of the truck.
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  9828. No, he probably was not listening, because of her gender.
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  9829.  @desoneill5489  Indeed. Oh! I almost forgot. Have a great day (on a day of your choice).
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  9830.  @robertsmith2956  I just got a mental image of license plates that are only visible with thermal cameras as "cold spots" and peaks on the PK meters.
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  9831.  @MysterioTGN  A loan shark won't report your arrangement to the credit agencies and make ALL of your other loans more expensive.
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  9832. If you're removing sensors that have returned error codes, that plan makes sense. In this specific case, Ray 'might' have found sensors in brand-spanking-new condition. Not that those were even close.
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  9833. $0 per day is what it should be. Charging someone for involuntary housing is (in one way only) worse than slavery. If a society wants a person locked up, they should have to pay for it. If the society doesn't want to pay, then they shouldn't be able to lock people up!
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  9834. In the US, it powers acrimonious politics.
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  9835. "... Captain Needa" - Some black-armored dude.
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  9836.  @Iansco1  And that there is a sign that the profession is broken, I would say. It is kind of like if doctors could not get malpractice insurance because a large number of doctors prescribed the wrong medications because they were trained only to get hospital bills higher.
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  9837. They have an armed interstate gang, and we're not in it.
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  9838. I didn't make it ten second into the video. That's not a jeep, military classification OR commercial branded. That's a cargo/troop carrier variant of the M998 HMMWV or "Hum-V" - Okay, continuing playthrough.
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  9839.  @patd4u2  Regarding the pre-charged systems, I have seen a couple of ads here on YouTube from a company selling pre-charged quick-connect lines for mini-splits and heat pump systems. I never finished the commercials, so I don't know any brand name, just that the product exists.
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  9840. Sadly, there is a massive difference developing between journalists, newscasters, and "influencers" who think they're sharing news.
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  9841. Even the people who pronounce it "so crates"!
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  9842. I always order direct from the establishment. If they don't deliver their own food, I either order from somewhere else that day, or GET OFF MY BUTT AND GO GET THE FOOD!
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  9843.  @DeepRestMan  Hmm... Is there a punchline?
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  9844. Heck, it takes YouTube days to weeks to respond to times when top-tier creator's channels get hijacked by scammers.
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  9845. Arbitration - "Neutral third party" the WE choose and pay.
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  9846. Hooray for long test leads!
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  9847. Two human large-volume lava-makers on the PLANET! That's a niche job title.
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  9848. As alw... (cut to black) As what, Louis? (kidding)
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  9849. Decades back, SNAP, a.k.a. Food Stamps, was booklets of paper "bills" that were meant to be spent on approved items. Some people and stores allowed these funds to pay for off-list things as innocuous as diapers to items like alcohol and tobacco. I even knew someone who sold their food stamps at 80 cents on the dollar to get regular cash for other things, and this guy was getting hundreds of dollars a month worth of food stamps for his girlfriend's kids and he was making money hand over fist as a mechanic. - Now, SNAP benefits are spent via a card much like a debit or credit card. The stores have to have computerized point-of-sale to accept the cards, and their sales system has to be able to be programmed to differentiate purchases from what is permitted on SNAP and what is not. How the Sweet Lord of Pasta is the first guy going to "cheat the system" if he even wanted to? Oh, I suppose he could go through the extra work of letting people make purchases with SNAP, then immediately return all that food and get refunded cash. But then if he was going to do that, he could do that with credit and gift cards too. And a simple review of his computerized Point of Sale data would easily show that chicanery.
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  9850. Reee! How dare you save the owner hundreds of dollars with modification of plastic components that you probably can't even find in a junkyard!!! - The above is sarcasm.
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  9851. Reprimanded? HAHAHAHAHA!!!! More like congratulated.
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  9852. As an atheist who was dragged to Easter mass, I am offended by Loomer.
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  9853. It has always enraged me that a small number of highly paid-for people on a self-selected committee gets to decide that the other well-paid-for people that represent the rest of us do not even get to cast a vote on a bill that has already passed in the House. - Riders and addendums on bills also make me reach for a crowbar in hate. Vote on the bill as it is or propose your own different bill. Don't go changing things to satisfy your lobbyist string-pullers.
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  9854. Somebody with deep pockets needs to deliberately and egregiously run afoul of this law, and then drive the case all the way to the top court to get the law overturned.
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  9855. That would definitely light a fire under their butts.
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  9856. "Weight imbalance"? Bull[stuff]!
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  9857. Ooh! An easy test to see how sincerely a religious belief is held. The religious person and the lawyer opposing their claim of religion step into the ring...
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  9858. We have become more and more risk-averse, which can be good, but this V-22 is a wholly new form of flight, and there are bound to be 'growing pains'. If fixed-wing aircraft crashed at the rates they did 80 years ago, there would be laws against airplanes.
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  9859. Arthur Harris of the UK was a firm believer in method two. He was wrong. carpet bombing cities only makes those surviving even MORE committed to resisting you.
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  9860. Designed by a committee. An example of that problem: Star Wars episodes 4-6 created by one person, 7-9 by a committee.
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  9861. Highway robbery under color of law.
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  9862.  @davidkorcak  I have two or three auto parts stores within a short distance of me and one will even deliver major things like an axle or exhaust headers for a reasonable fee. And I can go a little farther afield and go to three different auto recycling yards and find major and minor parts for dimes on the dollar. - If I want to get parts for some brands or computer or smart phone I need to.... get a whole other computer or smart phone to strip the parts from. And the car manufacturer (as of yet, and not counting Tesla) is not putting software in my car that makes it stop working if I replace something on my own, or pay a non-dealer mechanic to do it.
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  9863. I have adopted the method of "11 Sep 2001" which feeds my OCD (CDO!!!) by starting small (day) and ending big (year)
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  9864. Imagine how many suicides could have been prevented if people had actually DONE the lockdown CORRECTLY and caused this pandemic to burn itself out in a couple of months... Imagine how many suicides could have been prevented this year if the majority of people had gotten immunized as soon as it was available for them, ending the lockdown measures earlier...
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  9865. So. How do we as a society make enough "poison pill" content to break the training?
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  9866. "Trump's worst lawyer" is such a vicious race to the bottom... and lower.
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  9867.  @Channel-gz9hm  Democrat, Republican, Green, Independent, Communist... Humans suck.
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  9868. Why the [bleep] would anybody need a fracking permit for yard decoration that doesn't impinge on buried utilities or change land countours? That [bleep] is out of control.
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  9869. I think that might be the same Buccees I saw Jeff Gray protesting outside. Why protesting? Buccees "no trucks" policy. Specifically, they have their advertising out on the highway, pulling in all sorts of drivers, even trucks, but then those truckers are met with a ban AFTER they have taken the time to get off the highway, and they will have to find an inventive way to turn around and find a place to refuel themselves and their trucks that doesn't hate their mere existence. Oh, and I'll bet that Buccees manager STILL hasn't paid the bet he mae with Jeff about the cops "running him off". It was just a tray of chicken pieces, dude. Pony up! - Okay, tangential rant aside, thanks for bringing us along, Ray and Lauren!
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  9870. Unibody? No-no-body.
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  9871. I do that. I try to keep it to one side of a sheet of paper, in clear large font so it can be referred to by the mechanic while they are working. - I also make a list if I am going to a doctor or the ER, so that I don't forget anything, and my issues can be clearly communicated (particularly if I am hoarse or having difficulty breathing!)
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  9872.  @colto2312  Without more context, I would hazard that you may deserve a better doctor.
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  9873. Hey, if Jake Paul can knock out his own former lucrative acting career with stupidity...
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  9874. For dry hands, my mother and grandmother swore by Corn Husker's Lotion. I have a lot of skin allergy issues, and I have yet to find a moisturizer that doesn't either hurt to apply or leave my skin slightly moisturized but bright red. I have to hunt down some Corn Husker's and give that a try.
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  9875. If other lawyers in that association are smart, they will bring suit themselves. They will, at least, have standing on the case as the harm to their reputation can be shown to possibly have financial impact.
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  9876. So, the "heat pump dryer" may not need ducting, but it will need a drain. Either manually emptying a tank, or running an outlet pipe/hose.
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  9877. So switchblades are illegal for pretty much the same reason zoot suits and D&D were demonized. Inflated fear.
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  9878.  @iskierka8399  Exceptions break the rule, and call for visual/tactile indicators.
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  9879. I was living in Phoenix, AZ when the cruiser version of the K car came into use. I can't remember if it was city or state cops (or both?) who went to the K-car cruiser, and they were replacing them within 2-3 years.
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  9880. Do as Trump said, vote twice! (but not for him)
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  9881. What confirms my low opinion of "some" humans is that shark attack fatalities have a category of "unprovoked", strongly implying that there are provoked shark attack fatalities.
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  9882. In my daily life, I buy 2 liters of flavored seltzer and half-gallons of milk. It is a kind of inertial idiocy - As a person schooled in the 70's and 80's, I instinctively think in foot-ounce (weight)-ounce (volume). In college, I learned in meter-gram-liter, and it was a lot easier to learn from scratch, but it is not supported by the trappings of public life. it is frustrating.
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  9883.  @fredbyoutubing  Ooh! Do your bills still smell like maple syrup? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KEQCudRqbY
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  9884. No, a brake fluid exchange is not a scummy add-on. Brake fluid darkens when it absorbs water. Water in brake fluid can negatively impact brake response. When the brake fluid heats up, the water can "boil" and turn to vapor. gas compresses MUCH easier than liquid, and you don't want to be looking for an emergency stop to only have your brake pedal suddenly hit the floor and have nothing happen.
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  9885. Ah yes, another step to the future where we will own nothing and be happy about it. I have seen a few videos about devices like this being left installed (and being found only by them failing the car off) in used car sales, even when the car was bought free and clear. - When I last had a car payment, I had this amazing device that helped me keep track of when my payments were due. It was a... CALENDAR. Wow! - This device is a symptom of lender greed. They are completely fine with lending to people as long as they get their money, even when those people should not have been approved. All to avoid those people being incentivized to a much smarter purchase of a car they can actually afford, like a used car, that will not bring the auto makers and lender anywhere NEAR the amount of profit.
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  9886. Oh a lot of us here are saying that. But one more didn't hurt.
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  9887.  @Remixthisgaming  Warranty? for military use items? At BEST, I can see a "warranty of suitability" or essentially, if we ship you stuff that doesn't meet spec, we must replace it with things that DO meet spec.
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  9888. Once you figure in all the concrete area, there's not a lawn left in the lawn, but it does look VASTLY better.
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  9889. Makes sense. The police in the US are revenue agents as much as (or more than!) they are public safety.
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  9890. And when they can no longer afford the rising premiums (due to a high number of successful claims), that should be the sign for a career change!
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  9891.  @TheWabbit  I'm not sure I would have sworn off the brand, But I'd be sharing my opinion of that one dealership for a decade or more.
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  9892.  @TheWabbit  I've never had a problem that led to me calling a corporation about my vehicle, and I've had a Ford, a VW, a VW, a Ford, a Ford, a Chevy, a Saturn, a Saturn and a Ford. So I guess I have some difficulty making the connection with your experience. I do not mean this as a slight. - I've had two vehicles with problems that led me back to dealerships. Twice with a Bronco and them being the only source for the under-tank support that (until they figured out the problem with the last one I got) very effectively trapped salt, sand and moisture to abrade the gas tank. Once with a Saturn because my mechanic did not have the ability to reprogram an ECM he replaced for me.
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  9893.  @luckypennybenny  Drone? What drone, officer?
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  9894. I am so glad I have no "smart" devices in my home and life. Well, other than the phone that I only use to make phone calls and texts a few times a month.
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  9895. Surfing the internet at work is fine... If that is your job, or your job involves long periods of just sitting and waiting for something to happen (like third shift parking lot attendants)
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  9896. But the black people love him because he got a mugshot too, Sweet Lord of Pasta, that is one dumb racist...
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  9897. My uninformed guess about the jeep ducks is they are a system to let the driver know when the water they are trying to drive through it too deep. "If the duck floats, call for boats."
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  9898.  @shebangbinbash1776  It's more a Venn diagram than an expression of unity.
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  9899. This is another piece of evidence that the Girl Scouts is less and less about scouting and learning skills, and more about making money for the organization.
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  9900. Nothing like poorly thought out, oppressive, and expensive laws to benefit a miniscule percentage of the population. - Buncha idjits!
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  9901. And where is the law with special provisions for people who identify as merfolk, elves, Jedi, faerie, or attack helicopters? - Or maybe, just maybe, laws should be made to cover EVERYONE equally.
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  9902.  @xuthnet  Its almost like they don't use a third-party proofreader before passing those things.
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  9903.  @bristoled93  Probably because white looks "clean"? Also, visibility and reflectivity of most wavelengths of light making climate control in hotter climes easier may be factors
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  9904. The tech I would like to see examines with serious science and budgets is to use the slope of a mountain as support for a mag-rail "first stage" I found references to StarTram and a few other programs that don't seem to be going anywhere (pun intended).
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  9905.  @DAV_72-75  I don't know for a fact if the soldiers were held financially responsible, just that they were told so.
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  9906.  @alexanderschmoldt2982 The problem with college campuses is they are little insular islands of idiots who have some much cyclical reinforcement of their poorly-thought-out ideas, that they think they have all the answers "the Man" and "Old People" can't grasp. - - - I was one of them, and I worked, budgeted, failed, succeeded, and woke the bleep up.
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  9907. I see a lot of wooded land where nobody will find a "code enforcer" for days to years. No wonder they staple the notice to gates instead of hand-delivering their government-based crimes...
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  9908. Marley meows in Huttese.
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  9909. Yet another case that highlights the need for a process to completely erase/negate/undo/vanish charges when they are found to be frivolous and/or unlawful. Pro-cop rhetoric often says, "If the charges are not valid, just fight it in court." Yeah, fight it in court by spending money (yours or the taxpayers', depending on your ability to pay) and even after a successful defense you carry the record of the arrest and charges for the rest of your life. This can result in lost job opportunities, inability to gain specialized licenses, not getting accepted to college, losing scholarships, being denied financing for major purchases, and escalating later police encounters. To name a few effects.
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  9910. You would think that the R-brand justices would be tired of the taste of Trump-juice dribbling down their chins...
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  9911. The Taliban statement is essentially a wordy "thoughts and prayers".
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  9912. R-14 crawls in to get a word.
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  9913. Gherkin seems like a real sour pickle.
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  9914. I had no idea Steve was going to get so dangerously political at the end of this video!
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  9915. "Stop rhyming! I mean it!" - "Anybody want a peanut?"
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  9916.  @DUKE_of_RAMBLE  He made his own rocket company, with blackjack and hookers! No wait. That was Bender.
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  9917. Hey now, they actually let Ford assembly workers have food breaks. It's not Amazon!
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  9918. How about they start arresting cops over this. Start with Officer And/Or, and follow the chain of command until they find the person willing to obey the court order and pay the money back. And no sweeping it under the rug once the money is paid. Start prosecuting.
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  9919.  @AngryReptileKeeper  Exactly! It's a toaster!
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  9920. The neighbor in the grey house next door is ought to get an arborist up in the huge tree in their back yard to reduce risk of roof damage to both houses. Just as a preventative measure.
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  9921. Buzzard's Bay, and much of the Cape, is so dependent on tourism dollars, it is not at all surprising that places have gone empty after the last year and a half of no travel, social distancing, fear, and economic downturn. Tourism everywhere has been crushed. - And good on Erica for keeping you on-mission!
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  9922. Two other benefits to a shore fortification: The admiralty can't redeploy it away from you, and you can man it with gunners from your (often more numerous) army.
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  9923. Yeah, that shed roof is end-of-life. If the walls are strong enough, you could go with a plywood replacement. But in my experience, those sheds are not very structural.
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  9924. Pepperidge Farms remembers! So do I.
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  9925. To be fair, it's a PT Cruiser.
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  9926. What I have seen in a bunch of stores that move is they put a sign in the window of the old place that says something like, "We have moved to 123 Main Street! Call us at 123-555-RRG1"
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  9927. It does help set the frame and also forestall the "gotcha!' posts from people who get different/better/more complete information hours or days later.
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  9928.  @erikhirschfelt5066  I'm pretty sure you meant a Dyson sphere? Anyway, the idea of a sphere of processed chicken around the sun made me chuckle.
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  9929. Well OBVIOUSLY there were no other roofing firms any closer (sarcasm)
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  9930. From what I've seen, the Girl Scouts are highly concerned with losing that "incentivized" (sell cookies or lose your troop!) cookie sales force. - When I was in the Boy Scouts, our Troop leader was a hyper "up or out" Eagle-factory foreman. He didn't care if you earned badges, unless it served reaching Eagle. He didn't care if you had fun, or built friendships, or learned important life skills. Just strive for the Eagle or get the F___ out of his troop. I got the F___ out of his troop. - The guy that was in charge when my brother joined was a closet survivalist with a barely hidden sadistic streak. Computer merit badge? No. Ten mile run with a 40 pound backpack of rocks! He also pocketed most of the money parents paid for uniforms, supplies and activities and handed out moldy second-hand thrift store uniforms and gear. My brother got the F___ out of his troop. - Yes, either type of scouting can be a valuable and fun experience, but the variability of volunteer adult leadership can ruin it for a lot of kids, which has had the effect that they are seeing now, with more parents opting out of getting their kids involved.
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  9931. Objection: Watching a video of explosives or pit vipers versus porch pirates would be entertaining to MANY people.
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  9932.  @santamanone  Those of us who grew up when Loony Tunes was really good, learned "Nimrod" as an insult.
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  9933. Code enforcement is just another group of money collectors.
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  9934. I am tired of the US kowtowing to the territorial ambitions of China. Let us apply the Izzard Theorem to country-hood. Do they have a flag? If yes, then they can probably be a country. - John Cena apologizing to the Chinese economy is embarrassing in the extreme. Then let us look at all the times companies and sporting events shut down even the slightest mention of the sovereignty of Taiwan, invalidating video game wins, forcing marathon runners to change shirts and put bandages over tattoos, and so much more.
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  9935. I have to wonder at a city that sees an overgrown lawn of a home with a boarded-up front door, and then posts the violation notice on a stick in the yard, as if the person who obviously doesn't live there would see it. Yeah, I know they are following local ordinances in the methods of notification, but I hope they also mail notices to the address of record for the property owner. One place I rented, the town would tape water bill notices to my front door and my landlady did not know about the demands until and unless I called her even though the town had her actual address and phone numbers on record. I am surprised that the water bills did not show up in my mailbox, but the post office in smaller towns is actually a lot better at figuring those things out even though they deal with more correspondence and at a faster pace..
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  9936. Rust through structural parts? Lemon Law time! - Oh, just looked it up. Florida does not have Lemon Law protections for used cars. You folks should see about getting that problem fixed.
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  9937.  @davidwood7170  Ah yes, the Max Smart methodology.
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  9938.  @johnb3587  I grew up in towns NNW of Worcester. I also went through school from the early 1970's to mid/late 1980's. Back before new math, MCAS, and no child left behind.
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  9939. The endgame of this theft-prevention could be a store with just enough space for a few customers to stand in front of ballistic windows, to tell the employees what they want to buy, and then employees will gather and bag the shopping, only passing it through a security drum or drawer after payment has processed. - There is a 24-hour mini-market/gas station in Worcester near a mid-rise housing development called Great Brook Valley which, back in the 90's was so crime ridden even the police didn't like to go there after dark. That mini-market would lock their doors when it was dark, and use one of those drawers like used at bank drive-throughs to do transactions. The neighborhood is a LOT better now, and I think the mini-market has the doors open at night.
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  9940. Ryan, you chose to shovel sh!t uphill and we appreciate it. Hopefully it won't be too long before you can afford to find another hand or two for the shovel.
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  9941.  @Hppyhppy2  Not sure where you're getting leftist. The dude over at Beau of the Fifth Column does claim the title for himself. As for you not liking it? Okay.
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  9942.  @Tjalve70  And the Italian dressing has no naked Napoli!
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  9943. The only time I've seen a plausible version of this was when the person was being lifted/pushed against a wall. The scenario let the film-makers use a lifting mechanism hidden in the wall or under the lifted person's feet.
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  9944.  @theshadowman1398  I'm not saying that Ron "Boots" DeSantis is a Natsee. But he sure acts a LOT like a Natsee.
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  9945.  @theshadowman1398  Oh you silly child. Is "the woke left" out there banning books, taking away rights, lying about litter boxes in school bathrooms, defending guns over children's lives? Nope.
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  9946.  @theshadowman1398  What the PASTA do you think you just described? A BAN, you total knob!
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  9947.  @theshadowman1398  I give up trying to explain "ban" to you.
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  9948. Having a "good" HOA is like living on the edge of a razor blade. Something will slip and you get hurt. Not with blood, but financially.
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  9949.  @nathanjones6638  Agreed. And why I will not watch the newer Red Dawn.
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  9950.  @rossmanngroup  Was that movie "Evil Dead"? Because that chainsaw is 'groovy'.
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  9951. The desk clutter is growing, and we notice it. But where is our dose of cat!
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  9952. Remember, Boebert is "not in middle school"...
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  9953. I am reminded of a pair of gas/service stations in a large town in Massachusetts which were gas franchises for two different petroleum companies (Shell and Sunoco maybe?), but owned by the same guy back in the 1980's. The two stations were across the street from each other near the center of the town, and when traffic was high, it was a seriously long wait to try and turn across or against traffic. The owner would change his gas prices up or down during the day to catch every extra dollar he could from people who were unwilling or unable to spend the time fighting traffic to get to the lower price across the street. So in the mornings, his station on the Eastbound side of the road was more expensive, while in the evenings the reverse was true. - And he saw nothing wrong with his machinations.
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  9954. "... hunted to the brink of survival." . Dear Jason Maxedon. I think you meant to use the word "extinction". - I could forgive this if your only education was from Tennessee public schools, but you would think that an Associates from Dyersburg State Community College, a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from the University of Tennessee at Martin and a master’s degree in forestry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville would have helped fix that.
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  9955.  @corruptedpoison1  I call it NYC topiary.
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  9956. The only revenge left is to badmouth that builder (using ONLY facts) everywhere she can.
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  9957. Automotive electrical problems are the gift that gives you a kick in the kidneys.
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  9958. For 10k a month, I could buy a new pickup truck every three months and leave it in a ravine in day 91 (until the raving fills up, I guess?)
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  9959. At 36:11, I know it was a little cruel, but I couldn't help laughing.
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  9960. Bold and dangerous words, Tucker - "We should hire on the basis of merit." If that were the case, you'd have to learn the phrase, "Would you like fries with that?"
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  9961. Oh yeah, like that grade school science 'trick' with the brass ball and ring!
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  9962.  @regulusstarseed1368  AH yes, crazier people with even less training, more firearms, and membership based on "hatin' tha gubmint".
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  9963. Ah, so this is a post-storage service of the car. Explains the rat nesting and tire pressure check. The under-cowling was just bonus. - Second vehicle, the outer-focused tread wear means something. Bad camber, yeah?
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  9964. Now I FINALLY understand why it's called a clock-spring. The ribbon cable is situated much like the mainspring of a clock or watch.
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  9965. Cryptocurrency is a pyramid scheme, and the foundation WILL fail some day.
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  9966. It's almost like they refuse to believe that the US Government has (had?) fully qualified people, who have been fully vetted, have security clearances, and are regularly educated on the consequences of leaking anything about their work.
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  9967. Bank: 'We have record of that CD." Customer: "Well, it's convenient that I have the evidence right here in my hand, isn't it?"
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  9968. The "aliens" press release is a complete nothing-burger, Ray. The whole thing is one guy feeding the Republican repeatedly failing attempts to "gotcha" Biden's administration.
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  9969. At least in Massachusetts, it doesn't matter (for tax code) what Subway puts in their rolls. They apply the meal tax rate of 6.25% whereas if you bought the equivalent ingredients for YOU to make the sandwich, they would (in addition to often being cheaper and tastier) not be taxed, as the state does not tax grocery items that are not pre-made/precooked. Also the state doesn't tax clothing, diapers and sanitary napkins, amongst other categories.
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  9970.  @TruthOverFear21  I did nat-c it either.
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  9971. Good thing you didn't need to cut those bolts longer! That process takes forever. edit: And bolt stretchers are still very expensive.
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  9972. I learned long ago that whenever anyone who 'might' be a business I am doing business with calls and asks for money or personal information, I ask for a call-back number with some line like, "I have something burning in the oven". I then do both a reverse look-up on the number they gave me (if they didn't just hang up) AND separately look up that company's contact number to call them myself. If the previous call turned out to be fraudulent, I inform the real business about the incident in the faint hope they'll actually care enough to do something about it.
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  9973. Given the weak and nodal magnetic fields of the moon, they would have had to just lay down a virtual grid with a pre-defined "north".
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  9974. Errata: NON-nodal.
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  9975. Let us start combining civil forfeiture with squatter's rights. Take a bunch of politician's homes and cars and other property and THEN we'll have a sliver of hope of seeing both "laws" done away with.
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  9976. From experience, it is pretty easy to avoid that happening, if you know a few tricks. When you mow, sweep or blow the clippings off paved areas. Do the same for leaves in the fall, seed pods in the spring, and so on. And maybe once or twice a year, you might need to neaten it up with your string trimmer.
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  9977. Hey! A Starsky and Hutch reference!
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  9978. Hmm... Major countries in the UN are still technically at war with North Korea. (an armistice is not a peace treaty) Russia has officially allied with North Korea. - So, does this mean those UN countries are now at war with Russia?
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  9979. I read something recently where John Deere changes the connectors on their equipment to a proprietary standard, making it so that the implements and tractors will only work if both are John Deere. I am not 100% on what was changed, sorry. - Manufacturers keep throwing around the phrase "Illegal modification" but I have yet to see a law cited to support that phrase. - If the manufacturers want to REALLY make a change, every tractor should come with a free tablet loaded with all relevant debug and diagnostic software. But that won't happen, as service calls are a HUGE part of the profitability of large equipment dealerships. When I worked on CAT construction equipment about ten years ago, I had free access to parts and repair information, exploded diagrams of subassemblies, repair guides and quick & easy access to parts, even though they were highly priced. When I worked on John Deere construction equipment, getting a repair diagram was a pain in the rump, I had to show the dealer my NEED for the information (sometimes being required to show the broken part), and they had to have record of the company owning that machine. Then I could order parts, wait up to a week, then go and pick it up.
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  9980.  @Doughboy1824  If you are PAID for it, it isn't a donation. It's a transaction.
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  9981.  @jsh6952  I can no longer donate blood, not to bank it for myself for planned surgeries because of my medications, primarily a blood thinner. Some of my medical conditions also preclude donating for others even if I were to foolishly stop all of my medications.
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  9982. It is amazing how much longer it takes to find that nothing is wrong than it does to find an actual mechanical or electrical fault. - And if a mechanic a fraction as good as Ray wanted to rip off a customer, they could do so with a lot less diagnostic time.
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  9983. Is this leopard about to eat your face? I have always said that whether the great cat in front of me is a leopard or an ocelot AAAAHHHHH! MY FACE!!!!!
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  9984. We just need the right pin to pop it.
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  9985. Ted Cruz still playing that "Obama did it" riff?
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  9986. Well, seems like the banks have "helped guide legislation" to ensure they don't miss out on the loan interest and other charges.
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  9987. Has to be one of the "easiest" all-day jobs. Just press START and swear at the machine for hours.
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  9988. Doesn't one of his lifts have a partially frayed cable, or has that been taken care of?
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  9989. The only silver lining is that, this summer, my wardrobe will need no special items to participate in a civil war reenactor's group.
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  9990.  @natit1989  Curb ramps became required in January 1992, and seeing the degradation of some of that concrete I can believe that it is older. edit: If the municipality comes in to patch, they will have to replace those curb ends with ramps.
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  9991. Does that state have crucifixion available as a punishment?
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  9992. Come on now. Poop has a purpose!
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  9993. He is a stain on the species.
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  9994. Certainly a downward trend in their emotional intelligence.
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  9995. If he was amenable to buying solar from a door-to-door salesman, the salesman's accidental use of the word probably saved him from a regretful purchase. If you want to install solar, do your research on the technology, the regulations in your state and area, the fitness of your property for solar, the prices, the tax breaks, possible subsidies, and the companies doing installs in your area. Then YOU initiate contact with your chosen company(ies).
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  9996. Or that we are all carrying fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing in our bodies. Tiny amounts, for most of us, but it's there.
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  9997. Another fun area of ranks is the US Army, Air Force, and Marines (can't really speak to other countries on the topic) and their General-grade ranks. From lowest to highest: Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutenant General, General, and the SUPER imaginative General of the {branch}. Poor US Navy officers. Imagine being only the bowels and legs of an officer? (Rear Admiral (Lower Half))
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  9998. Adverse possession is theft. Gorram prosecute it as a crime!
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  9999. As a USian ('Murican) I am stunned at how much information can be jammed into one sign, and how large that sign has to be. The methodology is different than what we encounter here in anti-metric land.
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  10000. What's next? Orbital bicycles?
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  10001. Someone is asking the important questions!
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  10002.  @jamessimms415  More proof that I am not as skilled as an experience truck driver. - Why, one time on an FTX, I had to back an M101 trailer into a space barely big enough for it between some trees. After five tries, I stopped the vehicle, unhitched the trailer and pushed it into place by hand. Then I backed the truck up to the trailer and hooked it back up. Walked away, "job done".
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  10003. Pro-privacy, yes. Also Right-to-Repair, Schematics or Die, and end Qualified Immunity and Civil Asset Forfeiture. edit: this data economy and the huge holes in it is part of my I refuse to use a password keeper service. My passwords are on paper, somewhere in my house. I know this does not solve all of the issues with data use, but it is a small choice I can easily make.
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  10004. Training and periodic psychological screening (and treatment!). Treat the developing anger issues before they fester and turn into injuries or deaths.
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  10005. Ygrene sounds like a new variant of gangrene. Well, financially, it is, I guess. - The financial part of this program should NEVER have been put in the hands of building contractors. It's like having arsonists sell fire insurance.
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  10006.  @MindZye  Word.
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  10007. Smooth ad segue!
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  10008.  @nathanaelvetters2684  They could also leave a full-looking backpack in the back seat of the rover to see if Mars has smash-and-grab thieves.
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  10009. Apparently department policy is lifted intact from cold war CIA manuals?
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  10010.  @torstenzeeb6176  Hey, why should an applicant for the police force be excluded just because of low grades and sociopathy?
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  10011.  @darrenconway8117  Many municipalities also make ordinance that violate state and federal law. And those ordinances stand until someone with enough spare time and money gets arrested and is willing to fight it.
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  10012. Just not worth their (police) time to look into? Police need to be reminded they work FOR US!
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  10013. When I was a very young kid, there were protesters who calmly set themselves on fire. There were protesters who risked being bit by police dogs and being beaten and/or shot by police to try and get equal rights. Later there were protesters who stood in front of tanks to try and get minor freedoms. - Now, we have "protesters" who sit in a comfy chair and mildy inconvenience themselves for a couple of days...
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  10014. Was the jury silent during the trial? If so, they're guilty too! - It's okay, we'll figure out what they're guilty of later.
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  10015.  @waynealan3067  Now people seeking a lawyer in Washington will have yet ANOTHER couple of questions to ask of the person/firm asking for piles of money. 1) Did you pass the bar exam? 2) When? 3) What was your grade?
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  10016.  @waynealan3067  That is a norm in supply and demand for physical goods, but does not often apply as well to services. Do we want a lot of Lionel Hutz Law Offices in our strip malls? Because this is how that happens. - What about doctors? Do we want THEM to still "have to" get licensed?
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  10017.  @waynealan3067  The problem you describe is at the hands of the insurance and drug companies and their rapacious profit motives, not the licensure of doctors.
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  10018.  @DonaldWells-wk8dc  If you live in an HOA and don't stay involved enough to keep the tiny Mussolinis out of power, you kind of earned the abuse.
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  10019. @Armament Armed Arm Yes but. Yes what you say it true, but in the case of that company's efforts, the American hospitals have already bought a new machine, and the refurbished machine is going to a part of the world that could never be able to afford the new and highly priced products that the American hospital bought. - In a way, those third-world medical centers and hospitals can be seen as "the landfill" with extra steps.
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  10020. This episode of history doubtlessly inspired the Stargate SG-1 Episode "Meridian", where Daniel Jackson intervenes in a runaway fission event in a lab on another planet, and takes a fatal exposure to radiation. They even had his right hand be the most severely burned.
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  10021. I can easily visualize a bushel, having worked on a farm for a couple of summers. What I can't easily visualize is a hectare. The first thing that comes to mind is "hell's half acre".
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  10022.  @richardmillhousenixon  It does help. So it is the size of two (Canadian) football fields, or slightly larger than two American football fields, including the end zones.
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  10023. A settlement is good news for Mister Rios, but bad news for the setting of legal precedent, and the taxpayers who foot the bill for ICE overreach. I bet not a single ICE employee lost their job over this, they probably only got a "tsk, tsk" during a management meeting.
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  10024.  @rooksandcastles  But the process becomes the punishment, as you have take off at least part of a day from work or your other normal weekday process.
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  10025. The Muslim Haj is social distancing at Mecca! Why can't some dudebros figure out how to work with this?
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  10026.  @post-leftluddite  GASP! A convenience store in walking distance? Jobs closer than a two-hour traffic jam? You're a rebel!
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  10027. I've been to an art museum where I liked about 5 paintings out of the whole collection. I just don't like many genres. The only statue I likes was the fountain out front which had been there for decades.
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  10028. Yep, we all just watched a car commercial, and the backstory of that commercial, for a dealership most of us will never be anywhere near, never mind buy a car from. This is magic, people!
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  10029.  @ShiningAoiTsuki  So... cat = death?
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  10030.  @Jirodyne  So TheRoadWarrior would have to spend money to avoid paying money. Wonderful system the lawyers have built against us, eh?
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  10031.  @Ushio01  Well, as we've seen, it's NOT saving money. It's spending less now to spend more later.
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  10032. I think, if you want to be called a "Grand Wizard" you should at least be requires to demonstrate the ability to cast a Fireball spell. Maybe once a year, as a form of recertification. - Wait, his magic power was racism and the organization of other racists? Well F that guy! - Thanks to Keith Olberman, I have learned a new phrase. "Stochastic terrorism". From Dictionary.com stochastic terrorism. noun. the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted: The lone-wolf attack was apparently influenced by the rhetoric of stochastic terrorism. - It stuns me that there are so many white racists and absolute morons in this country that can still find their way to polling booth.
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  10033. I heard a great new word in an interview with a guy from Colorado. "Angertainment".
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  10034. I do not envy the cleanup.
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  10035. You earned the thumbs up in the first sentence! Now to watch the video. - So the big humidifier could be "fixed" by the manufacturer putting a simple adhesive film on the display, and a redesigned air path conduit to prevent the water level and the bottom of the vent being so close to each other. - I had a no-name brand like the Vicks evaporator, and if you look in the black tube, there are two separate electrodes there which is why it only works when it is submerged. It is kind of a good feature in that it doesn't run on a dry tank like the VERY old ones I remember from the 1070's. But after long enough, those electrodes start to accumulate scale and wear. I got rid of mine because it had a similarly hard-to-clean water tank. - Saying "Menard's" is never not funny to me.
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  10036. A rocket launcher is a sure-fire (pun intended) way to end jaywalking!
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  10037. My problem with the framing of this incident is, "The Jeep struck the car ahead of it." when the reality is, "The DRIVER of the Jeep did not stop their vehicle from striking the vehicle ahead." The Jeep was not an autonomous agent in the collision. If the vehicle was safe to be sold under law at the time of original sale, and met the safety requirements at its last state-level safety inspection, then either the driver, or the law is the problem. - This court's decision is wrong-headed. And the lawyers who pushed for this are sharks cruising for the deepest pockets.
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  10038. Haha! Electron gluing! Love your vernacular, Ray.
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  10039. I figure if you want 75 LEDs, you should put them on a desk-size Christmas tree.
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  10040. I had to pay the exorbitant price of $20 to put up a sign, and another $15 for the panel on the lighted pole sign. GASP!
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  10041. Trust but verify. Russian: доверяй, но проверяй, tr. doveryay, no proveryay
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  10042. 25 degrees Fahrenheit? Peak ice cream weather for anyone who grew up where there is snow in winter.
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  10043. So, redheads are just bright brunettes?
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  10044. I think the title is wrong. Should be, Tiffany's Is Selling "Men's" Engagement Rings
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  10045.  Jim McIntosh  That boggles the mind. Who is such a jerk that they feel it is okay to smear feces around?
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  10046. Ooh! An A+ on BBB? Nearly meaningless. The Better Business Bureau is NOT a government agency. (note that the site is a .com, not a .gov) It USED to mean something, but these days it is a suit & tie version of Yelp.
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  10047. The comments about what political party the two people are for was dumb. The client and the lawyer are on the side of LAW.
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  10048. Hahaha!!! "Nacho business"
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  10049. To the person who makes the thumbnails for CNN's YouTube channel: The red border makes it very easy to mistakenly see the video as one I have watched already, because YouTube uses a red "watch progress" bar over the thumbnails.
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  10050. It's Louisiana. Maybe the "non-black voters" DESERVE some anti-them districting for at least a century or so?
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  10051. Why is there a dog in a pub?
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  10052. This video is showing your intolerant snowflake side. it's not a good look.
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  10053. When I took driver's ed, a successful completion would reduce your insurance a little bit. This helped offset the "new driver" premium bump that made the first few years more expensive.
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  10054. Apparently they were jealous of all the attention non-cops were getting for the activity?
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  10055.  @shutupimstilltalking  Damn. Sounds like the downfall of that rat utopia experiment and others experiments by John B. Calhoun in 1950's and 60's
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  10056. I misread the thumbnail as 225 thousand and thought, "Yeah, like those companies even noticed that in the budget." Then I read it correctly, and felt some deep schadenfreude.
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  10057.  @richpaul6806  Also that they SELL that data.
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  10058. X marks the spot where Musk works to wreck a functioning corporation.
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  10059. It is CRIMINAL that your advice is accurate.
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  10060. hypertumors… George Carlin was right!
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  10061. That's a big shoulder stock you've got on that pistol there.
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  10062. I'm starting to head back to having more faith in the magic of putting one's hand on a special book to determine truth than all of the "expertise" and "qualifications" of DAs and judges. - edit: and not reversing because "it would make the justice system look bad"? Too late.
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  10063. Oh, this one is easy! We exist because we don't not-exist. I'll accept my A+ now.
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  10064. How much do brakes cost on her van? More than on a small car, less than the typical deductible and civil suit for smashing into someone when you can't stop?
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  10065.  @flatfingertuning727  This is what my brain has been trying to figure a way to articulate, thank you.
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  10066. I agree. Miracle Whip is where it's at!
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  10067.  @xyamsi  You can hurt your fingers doing any number of things in life, from using tools to preparing food in the kitchen. And when those fingers get hurt, they could get infected. Better to just cut them off in the first few weeks of life, right?
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  10068. Thanks to those who sent the story in! The list of names made me think up a joke. Bryan with a 'Y' is asking the good questions. Brian with an 'I' can see the answers.
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  10069. "Quantity has a quality all its own." - Lenin or Stalin, who can say for sure.
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  10070.  @Skenjin  I am just reminded that my insurance send me a monthly summary of what they were billed, what they paid, and what I might have to pay the providers. If your insurance company does something similar, they may be able to confirm whether or not the hospital at least billed them.
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  10071. I pity the fool who has to, some day in the distant future, replace the module again, as they try to figure out how to get that self-tapper out.
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  10072. This may have come with a bonus pre-broken bolt!
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  10073. In addition to the lack of witness marks on bolts and no RTV squeeze, the fluid is not new-colored. I hazard that their "diagnostic process" was to note vehicle mileage and driver's age and/or gender, cross reference an imaginary chart, and try to sell a new transmission.
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  10074. If Panera was the least bit smart, they'd stop selling the product.
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  10075. That vague and wide-reaching law sounds suspiciously like a "WalMart is bad!" knee-jerk law.
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  10076.  @ThePencilNerd  Classic moving goalposts argument tactic.
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  10077.  @michaelshrader5139  Silly goose, you don't bury things like that on your own property.
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  10078. Maybe Oraneg Donnie would cry less if he spent more time with Tucker's bright light roasting his groin?
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  10079. Dear electricity companies: You cannot simultaneously support the "solar panels are unfair" narrative while also raising rates and throttling supply because "use exceeds capacity". - edit: This is like accusing people who have water wells or people with septic tanks "not paying their fair share for what other people are using.
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  10080. And this is why I prefer pots and pans without Teflon or other non-stick coatings and use oil, butter, or non-stick spray. Except for one pan, everything I have is stainless steel, glass or ceramic. - When I was younger, we had frying pans where the coating started delaminating, and it was a fight to get my mother to realize we had to stop using them.
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  10081. As a life-long Masshole, I agree with you, Kestrel.
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  10082. Chair Bezos is nightmare fuel.
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  10083.  @Zero_2500  I would shy away from investing in Mexico City, unless you like owning sub-surface real estate. The whole place is sinking.
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  10084. Gasp! Communicate clearly and concisely? In this day and age? Yeah, I kid. Your comment is good advice.
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  10085. THE problem with the US health care system is that our wellness is commoditized. From the POV of the corporations, we, the patients, are a source of income, not a being to be made well. Those we actually contact (nurses, doctors, NP's, aides, etc.) can be great people who really care about our health and wellness. But once money gets involved, we're just a keg of money to be tapped and drained.
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  10086. If this were my personal vehicle, I'd skip the AC (In New England we have "2x40" cooling - roll down two windows and drive 40 MPH) and fancy headlights, pay for the steering fluid cooler, find a way to pay for the brakes, and start saving for either the front end rebuild or a new vehicle. If this were my BUSINESS vehicle, I'd deadline the thing until the suspension was fixed (edit: AND the brake job). Better that than losing the business when you get sued for killing someone and their lawyer gets ahold of this video of the damage.
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  10087. "Me and Mary-Sue been bein' good Republicans, and we's expecting our twelfth vote sometime in September."
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  10088. I would agree if those people would also be required to wear a headband that reads "I participate in non-masked and/or non-distanced activities." So that we could all decide how hard we want to slam the door in their faces when they show up where we are.
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  10089.  @Piktogrammdd1234  You can wear a mask and still pee more than six feet (if male). Just saying...
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  10090. The US Supreme Court all agreed on something? Can we get that kind of action on civil forfeiture and qualified immunity?
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  10091.  @8ahau279  Yes, light is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum .I was trying to avoid calling radar "radio frequency" which would trigger the people saying radar is not AM or FM.
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  10092.  @captain_context9991  Sorry, are you saying the Earth is flat?
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  10093.  @livethefuture2492  Imagine playing a first-person-shooter or platformer or car racing video game with a two-second round-trip delay between you seeing something and your command being received. You would miss, often badly. Now imagine missing the altitude where you want to achieve zero vertical and horizontal velocity.
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  10094. If you don't fire the parts cannon, how will the parts store CEO's afford their third vacation home?
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  10095. It's attempted bribery! Arrest the perpetrator!
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  10096.  @juanc5149  I think that is the case with seizures in criminal cases. But with CIVIL asset forfeiture, there are not even charges against the human who owns/owned the assets. The ASSET is guilty, and the human has to PROVE the assets are innocent, at their own expense, to get the assets back. THAT is the thing we need outlawed - Civil asset forfeiture.
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  10097. And apparently Trump only wants US citizens to be flown safely? Is that what Mouthpiece Barbie said?
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  10098. Weapons in a hospital is bad. METAL in an MRI room tells you that the room is not being used for MRIs anymore.
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  10099. Private-practice attorney takes some money, gets jail time. Public-practice DA steals some years from someone, gets no consequences whatsoever. - Either free the thief, or jail the bad DAs!
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  10100. Orange Donnie out there playing the liar's invisible accordion.
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  10101. When I was younger, there was a Jewish actor, Eli Wallach, who got cast as a Mexican villain in a spaghetti Western. I also remember more than a couple of movies where Asian characters were just white actors with a smear of colored makeup.
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  10102. I can hear Charon's coxswain now. "Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! "
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  10103. My question in these cases where false or unjustified arrest are the court's conclusion, is, will the arrest be vacated from the record? This matters because an arrest on your record, even if acquitted, can impact employment, loan rates and refusal, housing possibilities, military and public service, and many other aspects of life.
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  10104.  @tonyj9743  Cash is fungible. If the recipient of magical mystery cash feels bad about the potential source of the cash, they could donate it to the programs that were ripped off.
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  10105.  @simo_hayha4917 And one war previous, the British did the same thing. Your point?
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  10106.  @Unsensitive  With my half-brother, who is 11 years younger than I am, we had to install eye hooks at the tops of the doors so he would stop ending up outside when he went sleepwalking.
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  10107. I consider it a symptom of a (at least halfway) decent upbringing that, as a white male, I am largely incapable of looking at a person and determining their racial/regional origins. I judge people as individuals. Are they needlessly rude? Are they willfully ignorant? Are they being criminal? Do they stink at ten paces? Do they refuse to use directionals for turns and lane changes? - THOSE people need to be 'repaired'.
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  10108. It doesn't matter what I say, as long as I sound sincere. In fact I don't mean any of this. But my confession draws you near. And the hook brings you back. On that you can rely.
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  10109. Cash is still king, thankfully.
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  10110. The only time I exercised a warranty on a tool was a set of VermontAmerican bolt extractors from ACE Hardware. I was taking out snapped bolts on an excavator, and ended up going through every bolt extractor the local ACE had in stock before the four bolts were out. I think I broke seven of them that day.
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  10111. "The Earth is flat and NASA has never been to the moon!" +100,000 truthiness votes later... (edited to fix that NASA is all capitalized)
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  10112. For me, the title only gets the first and maybe second video watched. After that, if I find the presentation, presenter and topics interesting and not bull(droppings) I stop caring so much about the thumbnail and title, and just watch whatever they put out. There are many channels that I have dropped all interest in within the first minute of a video, but there are some that I will click thumbs-up before I even start watching (LockPickingLawyer is one).
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  10113. Even the customer service at those companies are required to at least do the soft-sell at some point in the call. Or they do the soft-sell in the hold loop. "Thank you for calling Spectrum. Your call is important to us, and all calls are answered in the order they are received. {music} Did you know that you can add the sports package for ..."
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  10114. Chevron acted very 'La Cosa Nostra" through this whole ordeal, and they STILL came out smelling like something to be scraped off a shoe. And the stink was enough to share around, apparently. Lawyers, scientists, judges, police, government officials...
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  10115. Free lawyer joke: "I need your help with a contract problem!" - "I'm sorry, I'm a criminal lawyer." "I promise not to hold that against you."
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  10116. Coming soon: Skynet Tow and Impound!
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  10117. Wait, they come side-by-each?
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  10118. Erdogan has been working to get recognized into that club.
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  10119. When there is a banging sound in a car, first check the trunk for Dopinder's nemesis Bandhu.
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  10120.  m rapacki  Yeah, what kind of person expects a product that says it is packed in olive oil to be packed in olive oil? The nerve!
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  10121.  m rapacki  Your last sentence makes me glad this country has laws about (human) food standards.
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  10122.  @ReasonablySane  plus, sardine oil is the best oil for your robot!
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  10123. Huh. I use my turn signal when I am about to leave a roundabout/rotary to let other drivers know my intent and to HOPEFULLY let them adjust their driving appropriately. I do not use the turn signal when entering the roundabout/rotary as there is only one way to turn. Heck, I even use my turn signals when there is no other car in sight just to keep the habit going.
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  10124. The sheer amount of spare bolts gives the hoarder part of my brain chills.
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  10125. Hammering a nail into a tree with your forehead? Oh no, the North Korean military can't afford hammers!!!
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  10126.  @twistedyogert  That's how powerful the round is!
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  10127. Need to get rid of an -inator? Just press the big red self-destruct button! Any platypus with a fedora could tell you the same.
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  10128. There are "robots" that make coffee already. Well, they start it brewing at the time you set.
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  10129.  @chocoboasylum  I'll go further. I don't want a robot for anything. Although, if my cats wouldn't refuse to use the litter box after it cycles once, I might get one of those self-scooping litter boxes. My cats refuse to play with an motorized toy, so I'm pretty sure the litter box would be treated like a no-fly zone.
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  10130.  @drebae95  I know that for most abandoned properties, he puts tree cuttings and such in a spot in the back yard.
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  10131. Yep, Starsky and Hutch need to talk with Huggy Bear and they'll have the perps in no time.
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  10132. Even empty that place is tiny!
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  10133.  @garystarn1967  Sorry. I mean.... SORRY! IS IT BETTER IF WE SHOUT?
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  10134.  @Wolfie713  Bah, ignore unbreakable7633's racism.
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  10135. I watched the repair first, then this one. Well, I TRIED to watch this one, but... UV eye damage, you know?
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  10136. It could be running funny "uh-oh". - I got the joke. I would comment further, but it's time for Wapner.
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  10137.  @ba780YT  English is that language which most successfully mugged nearly every other world language for the words they had on them, then English put sweatshop labor to work altering those words, then English went and SOLD the "new" words back to their original owners.
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  10138. Well, there is "a" process for making the cops liable, but apparently armed revolt is "illegal" or something.
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  10139. Wow. Officer Tubbo REALLY hates this "Christian" god. But at least he's also dumb enough to cuff a person's arms while they're wearing a backpack, and skilled enough to ALMOST make an intentional tripping look like the guy was fighting back. And not a single "good cop" in sight. Just a bunch of badged gang members backing up the one breaking the law. - And all of what I said above I say even though I HATE the protesters' point of view. Just because I am against their hateful agenda doesn't mean that I think they don't have the same rights as everyone else. They have a Constitutional right to be complete butt-holes, just like they are.
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  10140. For people who want to learn the things in the eddies and cul-de-sacs of history, I recommend TheHistoryGuyChannel
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  10141. NIAC is an acronym inside an acronym. Acronymception!!!
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  10142. Maskirovka!
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  10143. I look froward to this car getting the fix for the ABS sensor. Let's hope they find the money/time/will to have it done!
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  10144.  @peterg.8245  That is an interesting policy they have enacted. I always thought that (except for very rural towns) the police never took the vehicle home. I see county sheriffs and small rural town police driving the cruisers home because they are essentially always on call, but not for more established police departments. Weird that Tulsa would let them take the cruisers even that far.
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  10145. Oh my gosh, the Dornier Do 217 with the Gerat 104 is the grandpa of the A-10!
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  10146. Or go to the parade and wear a shirt or carry a sign that says something fun like: "TACO", "Impeach" or "Truck Fump"
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  10147. When you tugged your tie and stood up out of frame, I quite seriously expected to see a gold "S" on that blue shirt you reappeared in. Or maybe a gold "E" for Eagle (and to avoid copyright strikes)?
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  10148.  @kraneiathedancingdryad6333  What if you are playing games WITH your significant other? Win-win!
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  10149. And now actual journalists (what, all seven of them?) are being forced out of marginal markets, to be replaced by YouTubers who will, once their hegemony is complete, allow their standards to slip until they become what they have destroyed!!!! And cats and dogs will live together!!!!
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  10150. These "chatbot" companies are just the newest snake oil salesmen, except that their target market is government money instead of individual consumers. So much less work for so much more money! And the government clients set the hook themselves because the bait is "reduction of payroll expenses".
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  10151.  @rodx5571  Ooh! That sounds fun! You could make a lot of donation $$ if you shared such a utility.
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  10152.  @jeremycable51  I just don't have anything other than my phonebook on there. Oh, and three pictures of my cat who has passed away.
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  10153. Age, age, age, age, age... Yep, both of the top-running white guys have age as an issue. Find a real wedge.
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  10154. Heck, The House could have voted YES last week on the bill they fought to put together with massive compromises and crossing the aisle. But the Golden Bull spoke forth from the steps of his private plane and decreed that a broken border needed to stay so he could run on that as an issue.
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  10155.  @t_c5266  Oh, so we have to believe in an abusive sky daddy who was a bad parent to his son, who killed nearly all life in a fit of pique, and made even his "chosen people" wander around the desert for decades on a trip that should have taken a few weeks? All so we can be fit company for people like you? No thanks.
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  10156.  @mrtechie6810  People who want to get caught bury the bodies. Smart people find a forest well inhabited by coyotes and leave the bodies under a layer of leaves and branches, preferably somewhere that gets seasonal flooding to wash away the leftovers. Or one can use a couple of lengths of chain and a drop in the ocean where the bottom is not too deep for fish, but you have to take care that it is not also a place where divers frequent. - I have admitted to nothing.
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  10157. Ah, the good old, "Reduce the infection numbers by reducing testing."
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  10158. Re: Danger close, the big difference is the somewhat inaccurately named CPE (Circular Probability of Error - which tends to be a squat oval...) and the blast radii of the different rounds. Mortars have a CPE closer to a circle, and is smaller than the elongated CPE of long-gun artillery. - You can visualize that by spraying a garden hose at high and low angles and see where the water wets.
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  10159.  @alejogonzalez4997  Ooh! Can I join the silly? Anyone who DOESN'T use a meatball in their pinball machine as recommended is sending the country down a path of evil!!!
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  10160. It helps when your gear is so new the creases are still starched into everything, including the backpack.
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  10161. I was really hoping that we would see the moment the flag clipped a utility line or a bridge...
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  10162. If I'm driving a loaner from my mechanic. I will believe them when they say they have no tracker. A national car rental chain? Pure B.S.
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  10163. I was laughing at the incompetency of the cop with the battering ram. You don't hit the middle of a steel door. You strike where the latch is. Hitting the middle of the door wastes your energy in flexing and deforming the door. Also, did they not see the glass next to the door handle? Break that, clear the glass, reach in and unlock the door. But then you don't get to play with the cool SWAT toys. - Yeah, they are scumbags, but they're also DUMB scumbags.
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  10164. If there was as much election crime as these whackaloons claim, then how is it possible ANY republicans won any positions at all? Wait! I get it now! Every Republican who won is only in office because Democratic cheaters WANTED them there and committed crimes to put them there!!! It's perfectly logical, if you're from Bizzaro World.
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  10165. The enemy of my enemy is the enemy of my enemy, and probably not someone I trusted in the first place.
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  10166. It looks like it would be easy to get a broken cheek bone if you are not careful.
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  10167. Upon hearing the announcement, Captain Obvious knocked himself out face-palming.
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  10168.  @robertcollins7515  If by "concerns for quality" you mean "make sure the quality is not too high, making the customer come back and buy another one soon" than I agree.
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  10169.  @robinspanier7017  I was 12 back in... 1979 or so.
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  10170. This is a "citizen's civil asset forfeiture". Please remain calm.
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  10171. Well, some people are in varying versions of comas and/or vegetative states. Oh, you meant conscious living people? Idiocy or awakening from the programming of the R-crowd.
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  10172. I would be a neigh-sayer, but that would leave me a little horse.
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  10173. I missed that.
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  10174.  @thatjillgirl  Your statement is very true, but starts with a HUGE "if", that many corporations don't cover.
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  10175.  @nolongeramused8135  If my friend could have found a replacement toilet seat, he'd have left it alone. But nobody sells avocado green rounded-rectangular toilet seats that he could find.
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  10176. This really makes me wonder who is backing the "bug freedom activists" in this subject. Maybe Dow Chemical?
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  10177. Yeah, let's blame empty office space on workers for not wanting jobs with sub-living wage and not on the rents that prohibit anyone opening a business in them, no matter what they want to pay employees.
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  10178. Another reason for the time discrepancies can be the thermal mass of the stovetop kettle, and the fact that most stovetops other than inductive shed a lot of heat into the air. ... which you covered at around 14:20 onward...
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  10179.  @smak64  Write, on at least one bill in your cash, "I and the other cash in this area request a lawyer before questioning, and request a jury trial."
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  10180. Look. If you want to have people saw "aw" at the end, don't spell is "ac". Otherwise, let your judgmental reaction go away. I say this living in Worcester (pronounced "wister" or "wooster") County, Massachusetts.
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  10181. Ooh, hey! Another dog appreciating Spencer's efforts. edit: 22:00, and another canine fan!
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  10182.  @rolandlemmers6462  Wrong kind of toad. The cane toad is toxic to the touch, the smoke from burning them is toxic, and if you don't burn them, they poison the ground and possibly the groundwater. I saw a long show about how they have regular hunts for them in Australia.
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  10183.  @rolandlemmers6462  Some people need to be allowed to find the quick exit. Just let us try to get them to adult age first, then stand back and see how we did.
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  10184. I do wish they would stop throwing their poo... I mean votes.
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  10185.  @brandonrobertson6327  OAN. Oh, that's that ultra-right, pro-Trump pro-conspiracy "news" network that is continually losing spots on cable packages, right?
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  10186.  @SimuLord  If you clean ANY firearm without first making sure it is unloaded, you're too dumb, drunk, and/or stoned to be allowed to handle a firearm. After it is clear and unloaded, you then do a partial disassembly, otherwise you way as well just wipe the outside with a cloth and lie to yourself that it is clean. When you hand-clean a firearm, you often don't disassemble the trigger group, but you do remove upper receiver from the lower, the bolt/bolt carrier, firing pin, and with some rifles and may pistols you remove the barrel. Then you clean the various parts. - I have seen some people do that level of disassembly and then put the dirtiest parts (bolt, firing pin, pistol barrels) in an ultrasonic cleaner.
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  10187.  @nothanks1673  Have you tried sourcing a used door from another dishwasher that has broken innards? If you have a refurbished appliance seller in your region, they might be able to help you find one.
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  10188. Of course Barr resigned. The king rat is always the first off the sinking ship.
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  10189. To be fair, the missing driveshaft and broken U joint on that pickup are in the general zip code of the starter?
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  10190.  @downhomesunset  Heck, just take pictures of how atrociously they tend to park! On sidewalks, diagonally across multiple parking spots, in handicapped spots, in fire lanes, in traffic lanes...
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  10191. So, Buffalo Bill Cody was not from upstate New York? - (He was born in the Iowa territory)
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  10192. Great shirt, Steve!
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  10193. So this owner did the equivalent of going to the doctor for a fever after taking a double dose of fever-reducer meds. Brilliant.
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  10194. Wasn't Goldie Hawn in that movie?
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  10195. I like the styles and color palette in the room behind you. Looks like a very calming space.
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  10196. The opening shot had me quietly singing, "Welcome to the jungle..."
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  10197. Based on your older bike ride videos, trash has always been on the streets. A vaccine mandate is not to blame, but MAYBE an irrational reluctance to get a life-saving vaccine may be reducing the available workforce, but until trash piles rival the trucks sent to pick them up, I'm not buying any mandate blame.
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  10198.  Taco De Vries  Go catch it and prove us wrong. NOW!
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  10199. No breaks! Work yourself sick, then die with a shovel in your hand!
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  10200. By the 7 minute mark all I was hearing was a cop barking like a dog.
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  10201. So, the radiator was not raised? That could be a bad move, as the heat will go into your floor material (and maybe damage it?) instead of heating your space. And if you have a leak, you won't detect it until a large part of your floor is ruined.
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  10202. It can be important to learn about other cultures even just to better interact with people in your non-war life. A couple of decades ago, we had a friend who was second-generation Armenian American. At the time, I had never heard of Armenians to I went and did some research. Yikes! I am still amazed at how our friend's parents DIDN'T hold hate and resentment for the people of and from Turkey. The leadership, on the other hand...
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  10203. With no teeth, this law is just stupid.
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  10204.  @MrMooAndMoonSquirrelToo  All the time.
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  10205. Is this a Honda thing, or a "that Honda dealership" thing?
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  10206. Have you looked into dyes for epoxy resins, or airbrush-intended dyes and/or inks?
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  10207. The picture of the second stage without nose cone fairings just screams, "EXTERMINATE!"
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  10208. As a Boy Scout in the 1980's we actually spent a weekend on the Massachusetts, sleeping on the canvas racks. They were stacked 4 high, if I remember rightly, leaving no room to actually sit up on the bunk.
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  10209. Be on the lookout for a super-spreader event for Tall Building Syndrome.
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  10210. Hidden information near the beginning of the segment: Drug overdose deaths being 3x traffic deaths and 2x gun deaths, when the math is done backwards means that there are 33% more deaths from guns than from traffic accidents.
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  10211. What a bunch of idiots, opening themselves up to leak warranty work!
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  10212. Thus all the states where that is exactly what 'some' politicians are trying to do.
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  10213. Reduce traffic accidents? - Design roads better to control speeds organically, physically separate motor vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians. Oh, and abolish those center-turn lanes! Air quality? - Speed doesn't really impact that anywhere near as much as reducing the number of petrochemical-burning vehicles. - Empowering new mobility systems is vague, but may refer to public transit like buses, surface rail, or battery-powered personal transport such as e-bikes and scooters. None of what I infer from that has anything to do with speed limiters on cars and trucks. - Speed limiters might, and I stress might, be a good addition to highway travel, eliminating the zooming joyriders' contributions to accident rates. But limiting speed does nothing about bad lane changing and aggressive driver behavior like crowding and brake-checking. - The biggest cause of people getting in vehicle accidents is people. Until and unless we have an effective and near-error-free way to remove drivers from the decision loop, or eliminate travel entirely, there WILL be traffic accidents.
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  10214. Oh no! Ray's on a Rampage! RUUUUUNNNNN!!!!
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  10215. There is nothing illegal about selling a vehicle with a replaced odometer, as long as the correct vehicle mileage is made clear in the paperwork. (Covered well by Steve!) Just like a vehicle can be a listed like "1988 Chevoford Mustapala for sale, 150,000 miles, odometer replace at 130,000 (shows 20,000 miles), transmission replaced at 93,000 miles, engine replaced at 103,000 miles, $8,500 o.b.o." - A long time ago I bought a VW beetle that I had to replace the speedometer/odometer cable. And the brake lines, and the wiper fluid tank was missing, the heat conduits had rusted away and there was a hole in the floor of the front passenger seat that let water shoot into the face of a passenger. Crappy car, but for $125, it got me three years of time to save for a better car.
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  10216. It's so nice that we got to start the video with some NYC topiary, both bagged AND boxed! - Was that a restaurants named Grubbs? Sounds very unappetizing... - The people who think that showing others how to do repair will drive them out of business need to examine the independent car repair "scene". Someone opening a garage a couple of miles from your shop doesn't mean you go out of business, it means you go out of business if they are markedly better than you. And customers need to look at independent auto repair too. When a mechanic screws up a repair, or takes too long, or rips you off, you don't swear off fixing your car, you find a better mechanic. The same should apply to other forms of repair.
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  10217. When I have a bad day, my cat might have to make do with only dry food. And I still feel like a failure for that.
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  10218. You otter love it!
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  10219. If the church ius not behind the transmitter, would that make the transmitter a "squatter" and thus a civil matter?
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  10220.  @HariSeldon913  Gotta love knee-jerk legislation. (sarcasm)
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  10221.  @fredflintstone8048  There was a time when my state had over a half dozen concurrent and slightly different laws regarding crimes done with firearms. This came about because of the "we need a new law!" attention-seeking behavior by politicians instead of actually enforcing and/or adjusting the laws already in place.
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  10222. That ending pun was gold! I'm off to share it with my friends right now.
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  10223. Sometimes, people who get maced should have gotten the medieval version. - If your twitch stream viewers are too sensitive, I refer to something Robin Williams once said. "Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck."
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  10224.  @CyberlightFG  It can be tricky for some comparison, agreed. But at least you know if buying a 14 ounce bag of brand A dried kidney beans is a better or worse deal than a 16 ounce bag of brand B dried kidney beans.
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  10225. Oh, a reprimand. That ought to show her.
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  10226. If I had that plane section as a kid, I would have gone to SO MANY distant lands and alien planets!
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  10227.  @christopherg2347  Again. You cannot argue my point, so you move the goalposts. That is -10 points for you.
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  10228. These guys are not real physicists! My evidence? The hypersonic cow was not spherical.
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  10229.  @denniscrannie1126  And remember. If you are not "American-looking enough" you either must carry your proof of citizenship on you at all times or be ready to be deported without a trial.
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  10230. The inner workings of that thing are quite Rube Goldbergian.
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  10231. I remember an episode of the Steve Reeves Superman show where a gangster was living in a nearly impenetrable shelter long enough for him to be declared legally dead so he could not be arrested for his many crimes. They tricked him to come out early by speeding up the broadcast of the Naval Timekeeping clock and the criminal emerged before the seven-year mark and was arrested. - So Rudy's livestream taunting was WAY below the bar on evasion of being served.
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  10232. Congrats! This is the only video I am willing to watch about a video game for which I have no interest.
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  10233. Ooh! I'm here in Nov 2024 and finally starting to catch up to the present!
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  10234.  @ElinWinblad  Always, huh?
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  10235.  @Pluxiii  Do you also expect a newspaper to go to every house and take the paper out of peoples' hands when they would normally print a retraction?
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  10236. A little bit of humor in a useful message is a good thing. People will note it better than just a bland, "Drive Safely" and it will actually penetrate people's brains better. The government is on the wrong tack here. Maybe the person in charge of this directive is related to the anti "W1lly" license plate hump? - Steve, if you had to think about the humor on a sign, that means your brain was working. You had to be awake. I almost never disagree with your view on stories, but this time I do.
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  10237. Happy commemoration of your birth, and many more!
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  10238. Kim's daughter not only outranks many other N.K. leaders, she may outweigh a lot of them.
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  10239. I'm right handed and learned to shoot lefty because at the time I could not close only my left eye, but I could for my right. Everything else I do right-handed.
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  10240.  @elobiretv  It would provide evidence of his statement about muzzle climb on burst and auto-fire weapons.
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  10241.  @arthurfisher1857  I can like having further data without calling into question the honesty or integrity of the person presenting the information. But I suppose if one were predisposed to treat all interactions as adversarial, then your assumption makes sense. I am just sad that you feel that way.
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  10242.  @arthurfisher1857  (/wave) you too.
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  10243. I do that all the time! My left patella has informed my adrenal glands that the pain in my right ankle was a normal function of digestion.
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  10244.  @swaggysack  And my comment is meant to convey that just because that is how things are doesn't make it right.
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  10245. I can't believe you removed the Saturn 'leaf pile modification'! Now that car will break down for sure.
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  10246. Or suggested a replacement of the ABS control module and perhaps the transmission.
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  10247. Another possible factor: A wrong address likely risked your employment instead of making you take a couple of days off unpaid.
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  10248.  @dragonriderabens9761  Purging active voters from voting rolls; reducing polling places making it harder for people to vote; eliminating mail-in, early, and absentee ballots; adding onerous requirements to be able to vote; making it illegal to provide humane help like water to people waiting hours in a voting line; gerrymandering to ensure that only one party has a chance of winning the majority of seats in non-statewide, non-President elections; attempts to block the counting of ballots legally cast... - THAT is what we mean when we don't have the power of the vote. Well, that, and the two-party system reduces the quality of choices, forcing us to pick from those they ALLOW us to even consider.
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  10249. But, but... Tik-Tok will get installed in my x-ray images!!!
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  10250.  @t_c5266  No, you tool. Using the phrase "bums infest the local park" is what points you out as a judgmental pr1ck with a deficit in human empathy.
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  10251. No! Don't dis a Ray!
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  10252. I agree with the intent of Vezmer. If the movie is so boring, or the company so objectionable, or the texting so important, make your apologies and leave the theater.
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  10253. The last guy should be saving his "travel to Trump rallies" money for teeth and psychological therapy.
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  10254. The anti-repair arguments frustrate the bleep out of me. "Security, safety" when they really mean, "Our profit, our follow-on sales". How in the BLEEP would replacing a charging chip with the same OEM-grade part bought from the manufacturer of the assembly cause a 'danger' or in any way allow the user of the device to suddenly be able to alter software? If ANY of the anti-crowd could actually give a concrete example, even if someone smarter wrote it and they only read it from a screen, I would start to have a tiny bit of respect for their side of the argument.
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  10255. But without hydrogen-fueled cars, how will I be able to reenact shooting cars from Fallout 4? (BOOM!)
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  10256. @Joshua Steele Nah, the DEP would crawl up your butt for improving the quality of the water in the harbor with tea. Just tea-bag your politicians.
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  10257.  @grqfes  Oh gosh, ask all of the departments that have police and other (often frivolous) equipment thanks to "equitable sharing" programs when they turn over seized assets to federal authorities. See: new cruisers, military-grade gear and vehicles, coffee machines, daquiri makers, and slush funds for untracked spending. I am not making any of that up.
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  10258. Based on recent news, the price of a US Senator (Sinema) is around $500,000. Any info on the price of a state-level politician?
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  10259. And I thought it was bad when my glasses fell out of my shirt pocket into the toilet.
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  10260.  sejsjejeusu ehejdhdj  Your 'assurances' do not substitute for evidence. Those regulations and restrictions on build or repairing structures? They are everywhere. Building codes, local ordinances, the vagaries of different building inspectors, abutters and second abutters approvals, historic registers.... All started to protect property owners, tenants, neighbors and the tax base from the fallout of shoddy and/or dangerous building practices. Even out here in Podunk-land where I am, the red tape exists, and the hoops must be jumped to get through a process that is over a century old and has been layered onto by politicians local, state and federal of both parties, often as a result of either union pressures or the fallout of lawsuits from bad practices. - It is VERY popular to blame the current politicians and the current parties for every sin and speed bump. But it is HUMANS that are the cause of the greatest majority of human problems.
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  10261.  Stick Diaz  "Bro" - You lost points there.
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  10262. Cardone <-> Car done Fun company name for an auto components supplier!
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  10263. Corroded traces are something I never saw when I was doing board diagnostics. Maybe the stuff I was working on had better quality boards? Usually the problems were component failure (chips popping, impact damage from bad handling) and bent/broken connector pins. - (edit) Oh, and EPROMS losing programming or socketed chips being swapped out by field tech from the wrong donors.
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  10264. You confused me with "Mr T" - I thought the former boxer and actor had started a social media platform. Then I remembered that Orange Julius Caeser's last name also starts with a T.
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  10265.  @monkey.moments8272  I do recall that. It was a switch or something, right on the dashboard. I got into the passenger side of one of those vehicles once and joked about how turning off my air bag was a great way to make sure I died in the upcoming accident. My friend, the driver just laughed like a villain and peeled out of the parking lot.
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  10266.  @cubicinfinity2  If we're talking about the Massuchusetts right to repair ads, they ran on YouTube as well. I have not watched broadcast/cable TV in at least seven years.
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  10267.  @marymegrant1130  I had a strong emotional response. Rage at the lies. It was the first ballot question I actually campaigned for (even though I did so with one-on-one chats with friends and people in line at stores).
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  10268. It's not a Nazi salute. I was just showing this fine rabbi how tall he was...
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  10269. Reading previous comments on the awesomeness of the I-5 out there, I would go to the airport about 6 hours early.
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  10270.  @handynothandsome261  Even that might not save you. Not too long ago, cops killed a woman in her own home because she took a pan of boiling water off the stove. Apparently, that was close enough to a "lethal weapon" for the cop to start blasting.
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  10271. Well, you have the "vague idea" reporter, the "spelling and grammar check" reporter, and the "clickbait headline" reporter.
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  10272.  @tonymouannes  Good point. Many of these laws were written when phones had physical buttons and tiny screens that only somewhat managed to display texts.
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  10273. That was my early thought too.
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  10274.  Steve Babiak  And that also irritates the bleep out of me. I get WHY they don't make on-the-spot arrests, as that activity can incite more violence against those doing the arresting. The US is not a country (anymore) that is okay with just shooting rioters and looters on the spot, like some countries still do. - But in the age of clear video, it should not be all that hard to video the criminals, and sweep them up later.
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  10275. Court records being computerized is not a guaranteed magic fix. A software license expires, a software update breaks the database, a leaky pipe kills the computers, a malicious actor changes or erases records, records are entered with errors... - And suddenly, hard copies are the only fallback.
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  10276. Regarding the flag officer's letter: "Once an ally always an ally'"? Soviet Union. I rest my case.
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  10277. Everyone I know prefers to wait for a friend or rideshare to get them to a hospital rather than get hit with the after0insurance bill for an ambulance. And that's even IF their insurance covers even a dime of the ambulance trip.
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  10278. If cyber were independent of the military branches, there would likely be times when turf wars and/or differences in communication methods got troops killed. See: FBI reports on 9/11 terrorists in flight schools not getting to the decision makers before the event.
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  10279.  @Paramount531  That PRV sounds like it's one f the components to summon The Deep Ones!
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  10280.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  "Witness corporate greed!!!" (suited CFO huffs silver spraypaint)
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  10281. I love clicking on a 5-minute guide and knowing I'll get 10 or more minutes of education!
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  10282.  @do9138  Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ritchie Torres, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Sarah Jacons, Greg Casar, Maxwell Frost...
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  10283. We had one gas grill that was stored outside and used A LOT. Eventually (after 6-7 years?), the burner rusted out and we could not find the proper replacement part. My brother got a rectangle of expanded metal grating from work, and it served its last five years as a charcoal grill.
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  10284. Airlines sell seats on planes to multiple people all the time on the assumption that some percentage of people will not show up. Then they DO show up and whomever paid less is "bumped".
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  10285.  @rossmanngroup  How "healthy" can one's personal life if their professional life is convincingly slinging lies into the feeding trough of politicians?
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  10286. (Sorry for the Necro-posting) Hearing the story of how hard it as to sink the Hornet brings to mind one thing. "I can do this all day."
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  10287. This makes me wonder how many people who walk into places to sell sketchy merchandise are, or are sent in by, city employees looking for a way to catch violations. I know it happens at places in Massachusetts that sell tobacco and/or alcohol. The cops will send in someone underage or without an ID to try and trick the clerk on duty into selling against the law. When I worked in retail I got two (failed) fishing trips.
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  10288. Ah, with that light bar, Ray has been bitten with the "USB NOT meaning Universal Serial Bus" baloney that I saw covered in a Louis Rossmann video last year.
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  10289. Beater with a heater is a new phrase to me. We call them beaters, junkers, and my favorite, a Rolls Canardly. The Rolls Canardly is very fancy. It Rolls down one hill and Canardly make it up the next.
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  10290. "People don't go to her rallies, but the people who go..."
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  10291.  @aaronmontgomery2055  Yes you can, from public property off of the bounds of the military base. And you can get a LOT more imagery of military posts from Google Earth than you can with a GoPro while standing an intersection away from the front gate.
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  10292. I heard about Naomi Osaka's issues, and when I heard she quit, I clapped and cheered. In my car while people stared at the weirdo clapping and cheering. I am glad she stood up for herself against a massive organization.
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  10293. Thanks to How It's Made, I DID know why foil is shiny on one side, dull on the other. And unlike duct tape, it has nothing to do with 'The Force'.
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  10294. I don't do enough yoga to drive a Lotus.
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  10295.  @hdfxrs9121  (polite applause)
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  10296. The problem with that paradigm is not your own driving. It is the driving of all of the other people you share the road with that warrants worry. Other than single-vehicle accidents (skidding off the road, for example), there are at LEAST two drivers involved in the collision.
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  10297. IF there is a campaign to target independent media? They're already attacking anything left of far right, from suing ABC to no trying to cut the legs from under NPR and PBS. Where the bleep is the random meteor I pre-ordered?
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  10298.  @Onemanstrash1  And don't forget to say "click"!
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  10299. I get that creators want and need an alternative to the current regime at YouTube. But I am going to wait out the platform battles and see who comes out on top. Will is be Nebula? A legally shackled YouTube? A Chinese server farm on a cargo ship in the Adriatic Sea? Dunno.
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  10300. When I did live with a dishwasher, the one setting I would never use was heat dry. Instead, I would just set the door ajar after the cycle was complete, letting the steam help humidify and (beneficially in the winter) heat my apartment. If I caught it right after the end of the cycle, the heat of the water, all of the dishes (that did not upend and catch water, grumble...) would be dry in about half an hour. - I did try those packs, and found them to work, but be a little more expensive on a loads/dollar basis. Which you covered When I experimented with the (Walmart store brand) gel, after the first two loads which I had to hand wash again, I threw the rest away. - And by coincidence, I do not have a dishwasher in my current place, but I do have a small bag of cookies here on my desk!
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  10301. I remember a landscaper in the town next to mine had the most overgrown back yard I'd ever seen.
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  10302.  @HIDAN228  I have twice contested tickets. - Once, I disagreed with the estimated speed, telling the judge magistrate that I was doing around 70, and nowhere near the 85 the cop wrote for. The judge commented that he was surprised I did not try to evade all responsibility, and reduced the fine to $100. - The second time was a state cop who wrote me for "crossing marked lanes" when he was pissed off that his tailgating through a congested town didn't get me to speed up so he could get to the convenience store I was driving to to start my shift and buy two packs of cigarettes and still get off the clock on time. That cop was apparently upset when he tried to speed out the clearly marked "ENTER" part of the parking lot, and I pointed at the sign and waited for him to back up. When I got to traffic court, the state cop representative looked at the ticket, said, "Oh, HIM." and after a short conversation out of my earshot with the judge magistrate, I was found not at fault.
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  10303. 50 below, the only thing I would have the will to protest would be being outside. My comfy hat is off to those Russians. - Single, double, triple ply - I don't care, I just insist the roll dispenses over the top, not under, which ends up putting the leading sheet against the wall.
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  10304. Chicken soup is a cure for one condition: Lack of chicken soup... itis.
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  10305.  @JasonW.  I learned about that mix when I was building and repairing bicycles for my friends. Best way to find a pinhole leak in a tube and/or tire
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  10306. My guess was that there was already one in the truck that came with the after-market child package.
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  10307. Ah, THERE'S the fulcrum. The payment per pass to the teachers. Where have we seen that kind of thing turn into corruption before? Bonuses and promotions based on DDUI tickets, maybe? - When you pay people to find, produce, or build something, that is what they will concentrate on. Great incentive if you're paying people to make widgets. Not so great when you are paying them to teach or police.
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  10308. What a relief. I thought this was the lawsuit about the microwave mac-n-cheese not being "ready" in the time they advertised.
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  10309.  @lornetyndale7974  I said what I said because available schematics and parts would allow more people to get into the business, potentially diluting the market share of Rossmann Repairs. Yes, Louis has said he would be happier having a smaller slice of a much bigger pie than his current slice of a small pie. But if we are looking for easy talking points to refute the position in the title of the video, this is one.
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  10310. Could you sue someone who sued you under frivolous grounds? Maybe. But at least in New York, you can instead spend the money to create, stage, film and broadcast a fantastic musical extravaganza under the title "Eat S***, Bob!" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5W06xR8EYk
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  10311. I HATE touchscreens in a car. Give me the tactile interface of knobs and buttons, manual windows, manual seat and steering wheel adjustment... The more touchscreens, the more drivers who will be looking away from the road while they are operating their ton-plus kinetic energy transfer devices.
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  10312.  @jimmieroan9881  Not true. Use bigger artillery. What? I am being hypothetical, officer...
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  10313. Doesn't Ray know that he is supposed to be so busy that his own vehicle barely runs? Just like the landscaper with a 15" tall lawn and a house painter with peeling siding! - Ah, I kid.
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  10314. Imagine if Texas was connected to either of the massive multi-state grids that could have helped? Imagine if Texas had their power generation built with anti-freezing technology that other states use? Imagine if capacity was built to a level to handle a reasonably expected spike in demand?
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  10315.  @sawyer4981  Taolio3949 is commenting all over the place on this topic defending the intrusive and anti-constitutional searches. They are either trolling (not likely) or they LOVE living in a totalitarian regime.
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  10316. But deven... Thinking is HARD!
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  10317. Lewis was harsh, but spot-on. If you ONLY learn what public education is trying to teach you, you'll get nowhere. You need to seize the initiative and learn further, learn more. And most importantly, learn how to think critically.
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  10318. Dec. 3, 1627 It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has done what he has done. Richelieu - Jul. 2, 2024 “Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority, and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts." US Supreme Court - Rex non potest peccare (The King can do no wrong) - Medieval English Law
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  10319. It also helps if you "accidentally" count the first couple of feet of sidewalk outside the door.
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  10320. I am "of a certain age" as well, and the ONLY reason I have a cell phone now is that I have to have one to maintain my place on my region's UNOS list for organ transplantation. If I didn't need it for that, I might go back to just wearing an analog mechanical watch, since knowing the time is one of the three things I use the phone for. What do I use the phone for? Find the time, set an alarm, answer a phone call once or twice a week.
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  10321. My magic 8-Ball is suggesting some combination of "shallow", "forest" and "grave". But that little augury toy is a bit bloodthirsty...
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  10322. About the baby steps, what if that big pad was smaller, taking it farther away from the capacitor?
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  10323.  @davidfrederick9973  And the offer to settle is also an effort to prevent case precedent from being established. This happens with most cases against 'the state'.
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  10324.  @jeffjefforson5929  Thunderf00t is (IMO) long-winded, boring, bland, and takes forever to get around to a point, perhaps to pump up the length of the videos. I can't watch his stuff, or I find myself yelling at the screen, 'Get to the point!" - I made a successful effort to neglect his channel, so I don't even know where on the tinfoil hat spectrum he sits.
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  10325.  @ids1024  ... bloody Vikings.
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  10326. Ha! "Like a Grisham book, but good."
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  10327.  @toshihitsu1989  I've changed heavy equipment tires before. Tractors, skid steers, backhoes. We used starter fluid for the bead-sealing 'boom' and we immediately had to start putting air in before the expanded gasses cooled. We weren't equipped with the fast-fill that actual tire shops have.
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  10328. Cops would need to know (even some of) the laws to head for the situation you suggest. Remember ignorance of the law is no excuse!* *Unless you are law enforcement, then it's a job perk and the route to a successful qualified immunity ruling.
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  10329. Your "about 1,000 meters" for trebuchet checks out. The record at Punkin Chunkin by "Colossal Thunder", set in 2019 was 3,377 feet or 1,029 meters. - There was another project to make a "really big gun" to fire at England that ended up firing only a couple of hundred shells at Luxembourg late in the war. Look it up under V3 cannon. - This is some really good experimental science, and I disagree with you about tomatoes.
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  10330. Remember this everyone. Don-Jon Trump, the Sweet Potato dictator, still has three months and change during which he can still f--- things up even more.
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  10331. Ah, now I understand why so many cars are stolen near airports... Disgruntled Hertz customers.
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  10332. (slow_clap)
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  10333. "8 billion monkeys. With roads... and hats!" I don't know why the hats part was so funny to me, but it is.
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  10334. Shes a groomer. A Nationalist Christian (Nat-C) groomer shoving her belief in some bearded sky man down peoples' throats.
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  10335. The lower sound was not Star Trek transporter. It was original series heavy phaser. Check when they have a pintle-mounted support phaser blasting the rock entrance to the Talosians' underground lair in the second part of the original series pilot, Menagerie.
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  10336. It seems that the problem was not the gloves, but the idiot(s) you worked with/for who felt smoking in the garage was okay. Those gloves are nitrile, not latex, in case it matters for your points. The gloves will reduce your exposure to petroleum chemicals that can get absorbed through the skin, and also make keeping your hands clean a lot easier. I have seen nitrile gloves used by health care workers, plumbers, mechanics, crafters, painters and other jobs involving exposure risks. - I am sorry about what happened to you, but blaming the gloves is disingenuous.
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  10337. You'd think, but it is apparently more important to make new laws to criminalize things like being homeless.
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  10338. With all of this going on, I hope they don't get rid of state forests. Shallow graves need somewhere to be...
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  10339. Adam'Savage Vas Tested! - An anti-fogging cleaner on the inside might help a little, but the only real solution is stronger air flow across the visor.
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  10340.  @MikeTrieu  The tricky part with desiccants is a lot of them are toxic, or at a minimum eye and breathing irritants. - There is a liquid astronauts use to prevent fogging of their visors that has to be allowed to fully dry before the helmet is put on or it can become an eye irritant.
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  10341. Dark Matter (TM) coffee can cause transmogrification? I may start drinking coffee.
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  10342. I have done first aid with duck/duct tape. A cleanly laundered sock and tape to stop bleeding on someone's skinned knee. A clean cloth and the tape to stop bleeding on my hand after sipping while changing blades on a wood chipper. Layers upon layers of the tape over a sock to make a splint on someone's sprained ankle until they could get to actual medical assistance.
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  10343. At that point, they should just stop letting people in the store. Lock them in the foyer, intercom them to ask what they want, use a bank's drive-up transaction drawer to get payment and pass back the merchandise. A convenience store in Worcester had to do that for a few years after dark because the neighborhood was way more hood than neighbor. So much so that ambulances would not respond without at least two police cruisers to enter the area with them, day or night, as a number of 911 calls were just to set up robberies of the ambulances. It's a lot better now.
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  10344. The anti-EV crowd needs to take a look at the companies that are against right-to-repair. The biggest tech companies, from Apple to John Deere are continually lobbying against pro-consumer laws and implementing designs that make repair more difficult/impossible by doing things as minor as gluing batteries in to making repair parts and schematics unavailable. All to drive the owners of tech devices to discard their products and be forced to buy new ones, all when there is criminally insufficient reclamation processes for the rare earth materials in that tech.
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  10345. You know who else wants people to read the speech they prepared for you? Your captors and kidnappers. At least this young man did not have to resort to blinking his real message in Morse code to avoid a beating by his North Korean guards. And he was not (as far as we know) beheaded afterward on al-Jazeera.
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  10346.  @GunnyO326  The vest does not cover the head or the femoral arteries. Hmm? That's not what you meant by "fully protected"?
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  10347.  @larrybrinley8222  It often gets the comment dumped by a company's filtering. Particularly on Yahoo.
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  10348.  @GunnyO326  They're not angry enough yet.
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  10349.  @GunnyO326  Ah. So to prove your statement of absoluteness wrong, I, the person who DARED to disagree with you, must do your bidding?
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  10350.  @GunnyO326  English is my first, and my well-studied language. I periodically delve into the etymology of words, just for entertainment. - In short, my contentment at your anticipated disappointment brings me joy.
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  10351.  @GunnyO326  Yeah, breaking through your ignorance is work.
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  10352.  @GunnyO326  Tsk, tsk. Your insults re getting worse. Please try again. This time with feeling.
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  10353. I have been offered, by my doctors, the paperwork to get a handicapped placard, but I don't yet feel broken enough to deserve one. Well, some days I do, but I'll suck it up for a few years longer, because there are people who need those spaces a lot more than I do.
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  10354. Heck, even via court, if you win an eviction, it is near impossible to evict someone without them wrecking your place. And in the colder parts of the year, courts will often let them stay until it gets warmer.
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  10355.  @agent0422  I wouldn't take an Ali Express or Temu electronic device near electricity!
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  10356. I went to reddit once to read about a topic. There was more hate and vitriol than you would expect at a KKK rally. I've never gone back. - If reddit is exhausting your give-a-shit, take a break from that cesspit.
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  10357. Of COURSE there is a link between John Green, a zoo, and tuberculosis...
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  10358.  @jamesmorett7300  Because every time a case gets close to that level of court, the thieving entity will offer a settlement hoping the mentally and financially exhausted plaintiff will take the money and let the matter drop. - So far, that tactic is working.
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  10359. Yeah, either flat around the threads or use an o-ring.
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  10360.  @jthonn  Good information that I had forgotten. Thanks!
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  10361. Because even astronauts know, when you need a hug, you opt for Canadian arms.
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  10362. Its that kind of issue that has me buying a Haynes manual before trying anything complicated, and often using painter's tape to attach bolts and nut to the part they hold down. Way back in the 90's, when I did a near-complete teardown of a 1974 VW beetle engine, I used butcher paper and a sharpie to lay my parts out on the garage floor. Nearly murdered one of my brothers when he kicked some parts by accident.
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  10363.  @brandonbeard4019  Crickey. Now THOSE nightmares will come back around. Merry Crisis to you!
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  10364.  @GyprockGypsy  Illegally.
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  10365.  @cgi2002  It is not different. It is a seizure of your "papers" without a warrant. Sadly, literalist judges are refusing to see electronic information as equal to information printed on dead trees.
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  10366. Ray, even YOU aren't old enough to remember The Shadow! As for Paul Harvey? Now for the rest... of the story.
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  10367. The more you show us of NYC, the more I appreciate the realism of the setting of the game The Division. All that's missing are the roadblocks and the piles of filled body bags.
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  10368. Smart municipalities have ordinances requiring house numbering, including size and contrasting color to the house, under fire code.
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  10369.  @davidwatson8118  He is a less intelligent version of Thomas Edison. Edison held so many patents because of the numbers of people he paid to invent things under his name. - You would think a person who named their company after someone who left the Edison invention shop over this (and several other issues) would have a clue about that.
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  10370. And so when we do hear music, we know it's time for the payoff before and after review!
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  10371. Oh my gosh, the battery is almost bigger than the engine!
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  10372. Another aspect of the injustice is that having served their sentence, people still carry the label ex-con. If you get assessed fines for, say, speeding tickets and pay those fines, you're not an ex-speeder for life.
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  10373.  @Matt-yg8ub  No, that is not what I was saying. You inferred incorrectly.
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  10374.  @GrundyMcCall-1701D  This is a good thought!
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  10375. Trump's lawyers could have stood there reading Green Eggs and Ham... backwards. Forty-four senators are going to vote party over the law and morality no matter what. Their loyalty has been well paid for.
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  10376. The S.S. New Australia is reminiscent of Swamp Castle in Monty Python's The Holy Grail. All that is missing is a swamp for the ships to have fallen over into.
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  10377. We are heat to PUMP YOU UP!
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  10378. Neat. I guess this means people with fully insured lemons and beaters will find Bolts to park next to, yeah?
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  10379. As soon as you said the words 'poison ivy' I got a phantom itch. The only cure is to napalm the back yard. Apologies to the neighborhood.
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  10380.  @franzpattison  That driver should already be "suspended pending revocation of CDL"
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  10381. Yes! Exactly! And that kind of thinking is what got the Bradley in so much hot water. "It has a turret and missiles, it MUST be a tank!" - Nope. It is a tracked vehicle to get you places where wheels can't go. It has just enough armor to give a few moments to get the bleep out of the area once bullets start flying. - edit: I drove an M577 for a few years for the FDC of a mortar platoon in Army National Guard armored cavalry. Because we were National Guard, and our unit strength was low (we had two understrength 4.2 inch mortar squads in M106's), I was also the only FDC plotter, and the RTO, and the person in charge of keeping our butter bar from screwing up too badly.
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  10382. I read the title and thought, "Surely nobody can be THAT stupid." Then Steve told us this was in Georgia, and I withdrew my objection.
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  10383. Since we have a view of the launches and the explosion from only one vector, the two locations could be the same, or they could be kilometers apart, or somewhere in between. That's just the simple geometry answer.
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  10384. A.R.I.A. has gone mobile with a drone!? Aaaaaaahhhhhhh... see no problem with our future robot overlords.
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  10385. If this were my vehicle, I might just electrically disable the AC and call it a wash.
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  10386.  @keithsnowden409  Yep, that is kind of what I meant. Disabling the system electrically.
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  10387. So, he is telling people to have faith so the holy water and cross will work against Senator Warnock?
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  10388.  @Eclispestar  Ah yes, eviscerate the proletariat. Let the sloganisms run wild!
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  10389. Well, you didn't just pay them, and the amount of work THEY would have had to put in for a few dollars wasn't worth it when they could be out on the road emptying wallets and impounding muscle cars.
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  10390. Nobody's using the GOOD dragon's teeth these days. Though a swarm of stop-motion skeletons has limited utility in modern military combat.
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  10391. Same here. I can't even stand the smell of coffee.
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  10392.  @iyamwhatiyam547  (/shrug)
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  10393. I kept shouting at the screen, "Drift pins!" But that's my reflex from working on heavy machinery.
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  10394.  @craftiebrown  It was a two-stage, which at the age of 11 I thought was SUPER cool.
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  10395. The image at 21:50-ish is the same place and camera angle as the lock screen image I got when I turned my computer on today! So cool!
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  10396. And that ain't racist. People of all races, religions, genders and backgrounds get into addiction and need treatment.
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  10397.  @HashiAkitaPuppy  Maybe she feels a need to have good stories over dinner like the spouse does? Not justifying the wrong behavior, just joking about the reasoning.
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  10398.  @boataxe4605  That gave me shivers. And not in a good way. How much would he start charging for access to Constitutional rights?
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  10399.  @DJVIIIMan  Hey, I liked my Saturns. Sadly, they are pining for the Fjords.
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  10400. Now THIS is the quality content that YouTube was made for!
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  10401. Way to go NASA. Joining the "You will own nothing and be happy" movement... Idjits.
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  10402. You don't break a population with attacks. You break them with well-curated imagery. Your sons/fathers/friends getting killed, civilian atrocities, the supported government committing atrocities... That's how support for the Vietnam War dropped out.
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  10403. Future-proof planning?
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  10404. Or, they could have sold the cars they robbed from people to raise money for social programs like feeding the hungry. I guess it's not as exciting feeding the hungry as it is watching cars be crushed by your order.
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  10405. Imagine if instead, the governor had signed a bill providing extra help to bring ALL students up to proficiency? Why, with that kind of approach to education, the country might improve when compared to other countries!
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  10406.  @tlotro625  My Leviton manual light switch reports zero data to anybody's server.
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  10407. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way" "Just comply!" "Get on the ground!" - My question is, am I quoting cops or sexual abusers?
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  10408. Pump up the jam Pump it up While your heat's exchanging And compressor's pumping Look ahead: the crowd is warmin'
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  10409. This just helps confirm my life-long aversion to "smart" devices. I don't even like power locks on cars. Or automatic garage door openers. - I also put electrical tape over the cameras and microphones on my portable devices (because drilling them out causes "issues").
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  10410.  @SahilP2648  Paranoid just means you have not been attacked... yet. Afterwards it is justified preparations.
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  10411.  @SahilP2648  You have a solid point. However, my personal information already belonged to the highest bidder(s) before Google was a company. Google has just made the process more invasive. - But when it comes to my physical security, I cannot afford to replace most of my things, so keeping people away from them with the best manual and deterrent methods is my best recourse. - - - Also, I am insecure about my looks and my voice. Old childhood mental trauma I can't quite shake.
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  10412. Wait. There's no process to verify the transfer of deed? Time to re-deed some town government members' homes under the name of Mickey Mouse.
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  10413.  @kurtwinter4422  I would like to see the acreage present in court for questioning.
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  10414. Cops deferring to "It's a civil matter." is too often just ingrained laziness. They have a job called... LAW ENFORCEMENT. So, ENFORCE those LAWS! Or quit and make room for someone who will.
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  10415. I think I'll just learn canasta and get annihilated by my friends' grandmothers. At least I won't lose as much money.
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  10416. Anyone who looks at a non-friend adult (of ANY race) and feels okay calling them "boy" needs to stop stealing my oxygen.
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  10417.  @scottmansfield1486  So can the non-local attorney. Unless you have testimonial or personal evidence of the methods and ethics of a given lawyer, you are rolling the dice. - Good lawyer or bad, stay involved in your own defense. Know the facts, ask questions, demand accountability.
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  10418.  @scottmansfield1486  Fair points.
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  10419. Hey Hasan (and writers)! That Dominion voting machine does NOT look like R2D2. It looks like our lord and master, the GONK droid!!!! Get your droids right. Aren't there ANY nerds over there?
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  10420. ... Yet.
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  10421. This is just civil asset forfeiture with extra laundering steps.
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  10422. I chose unplug because even being stuck fighting machine squids to the death is better than what I have going on in "life". edit: and if I am already out of the simulation, plug me the heck in for something different. Even fighting machine squids to the death.
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  10423. Meh, bring your own chalk (white and yellow) and mark your tires, the pavement and the curb in several places.
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  10424.  @bencheevers6693  You are STILL describing a system where investigation and burden of proof must be the purview of the state. Making the accused prove a negative is abuse by way of the courts. Which makes just a money grab by those in power.
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  10425. Muhahahaha!!!
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  10426. So in 7 years on July 7th, we get to celebrate the centennial of sliced bread! Yay! I'll be eating bread to "practice up". - The ban was to "reduce waste"? I have sliced bread many times, and have NEVER sliced modern bread as thin as pre-sliced without mangling the soft bread. Maybe I should have only tried slicing "properly stale" bread?
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  10427. "You want a coke?" - "Yep!" "Which kind?" - "You got root beer?"
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  10428. If their Jesus met most of them, he'd flip their tables and tell them to go find God.
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  10429. I have heard of Forbes magazine. But I've never heard of this 30 under 30 or any of the people who have been on it other than Bankman-Fraud.
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  10430.  @JFrazer4303  I saw a good video on that plane on Rex's Hangar channel about a week ago.
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  10431. Thank you, John Hilty!
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  10432. Torquemada had some interesting options available, though I would save most of them for those executing the breach.
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  10433.  @DerykRobosson  To protect the people, we either must turn to government or turn to our own weaponry.
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  10434. Humanity is a death cult.
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  10435. Your jury summons should include a website where you can find out everything from where you are supposed to go and park and when, to what you are allowed to bring with you. Like most, I highly recommend (non-electronic, just in case) reading material and/or puzzles, sketch pad, or whatever time-eating thing will pass the court's security rules. (ie: no weapons, knives, scissors, needles - including knitting, explosives... In my state, they don't let non-lawyers bring in phones. I go so far as to only carry my car key, ID, cash, and a thick book, leaving the rest at home or locked in my car.
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  10436. A majority of the houses in my town are sided with asbestos shingles. Very stable format, and safe if not broken.
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  10437. Inspired use of ALL CAPS and texting-style abbreviations. The misspelling were the frosting on the cake.
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  10438.  @CLUB-th7pp  Compare degrees? 98.4 Fahrenheit. You? - Bank accounts? I am dismal at saving. - If I were to choose the topic to debate, it would be debate etiquette. Oops, I already won. - And your "checking u, I mean me", out is so off target it makes me laugh.
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  10439. Karen - "The dogs are very aggressive, they ate the treats in her (little girl's) hand." Meanwhile, until the cops cross the fence to aggressively and wrongfully arrest the dog owner, those dogs didn't bark once. - Aggressive dogs either bark, lunge, or both when anyone who is NOT their owner (and sometimes even their owner!) is near. Anyone see dogs lunging at the cops? Nope, ONLY when the cops physically go after the dog owner, do they react. The neighbor is full of [redacted].
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  10440. This will not stop with Apple, nor will it only stop with searches for child porn images. 1984 should not be a blueprint for the future, but it seems like it is being used that way.
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  10441.  @Nex0lith  Wow. Mind exploded.
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  10442.  @whackoboy823  Just what you see on the racks, pal.
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  10443. How many Japanese does his architect know?
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  10444. When I lived in Phoenix AZ, the fire departments would imprint a tracking number on the frame of your boke to allow it to be identified if stolen. I think it was free or very cheap, can't remember as it was back in 1976-79.
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  10445. Two cans and a string look better.
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  10446. The first time I heard of a mass airflow sensor, I thought it was a "Mass airflow sensor" and was some part installed because of my state's (Massachusetts) clean air regulations.
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  10447. Big piles of money can use simple hints and block trades to make more big piles of money. Small piles of money hope to catch the wave at the right time to make the pennies the big piles of money don't care about. And meanwhile, the stock price of a company gets farther and farther detached from the actual value of a company or their services/products.
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  10448. With Steves story about the clerks not filing the paperwork the judge ordered, there is an easy remedy. Create a job opening. Seeking: Court clerk willing to actually do their job. - If instead it is demonstrably a supervisor's fault or the fault of someone even higher? Well, promote from within and post the same job listing. The remedy for people who won't do their job is to let them COMPLETELY not do the job by giving them permanent unpaid time off.
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  10449. Neat idea!
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  10450. Very smooth segue into the ad!
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  10451. I watch lawns being rediscovered in Kansas, culverts being unclogged in New England, cars being fixed in Florida, learn about law from an Eagle and a Lehto, and get much of my news here from a guy in NYC (Steven), D.C. (Ryan), somewhere in Florida or Georgia (Beau), and a fourth who I think lives in one of the Carolinas (Preston). - This internet can be a wonderful thing if used well.
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  10452.  @aplacecalledfear  He got to 98 years? Wow. edit: ALMOST 98.
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  10453. I've used Zoom and Free Conference Call. While the host needs to have a paid Zoom for longer meetings, FCC does not (currently, AFAIK) have that requirement, so it is what me and my friends use for virtual gaming.
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  10454. Many sociopaths impersonate being a police officer every day, and the department actually hired them.
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  10455. If you can't teach kids to a mediocre standard in 5 days a week, 7 hours a day, 180 days a year, why should you be allowed to waste even MORE time and days? - And what makes them think the teachers will accept this? You just KNOW the people behind this idea will try to get the teachers to work more hours for the same pay...
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  10456. I am happy that about 1/3 of the time that I see the initials MTG, my first go-to is "Magic: The Gathering". I am sad that the other 2/3 of the time, my brain brings up that racist moron from Georgia.
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  10457. In the Apple v. Epic situation, it's like having an oil spill fighting a pesticide spill. They're both poison, you don't want either one around, and you're afraid to root for either side given how evil both are.
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  10458. So to be safe, head to the extreme North or South. - And heck, even Thor's ship Mjolnir was 'deorbited' (/cough - crashed) into the Pacific Ocean by SG-1. They also 'deorbited' a Ha'Tak into the Pacific, near Alaska, IIRC. - Regarding the "If you can see it flying overhead, it's likely not going to hit you." That is also a decent guideline for artillery rounds, in my first-hand experience.
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  10459. Dang, Cop Rock is cringey. - Range time versus conflict resolution train at 10-15 to 1? Cripes, the US military has less range time than that. I already knew about most of the raids highlighted in the video, and a lot more besides. But seeing them in one story really increases the impact and puts a spotlight on the problem.
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  10460.  @JoeSmith-cy9wj  Oof. My brother ran into that kind of situation at a certificate mill that taught CAD. The course information said the school had licensed instructors for residential, commercial and mechanical CAD courses. They had someone who USED to hold a license in commercial buildings, and the course in mechanical was canceled partway through the two year course. When it came time for the bill to be paid, my brother paid them proportionally for the courses they at least TAUGHT, even if certification was lacking, and withheld the proportion for the lies. He then offered to let the institute sue him for the rest. They eventually dropped the matter.
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  10461. Except for the place names and the colors (brown and green versus white) this is almost the same video as the one on ski areas. Overcrowding, locals being priced out of living there, and the ruination of the natural resources.
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  10462. The teams should comply... maliciously. Move their home base and home games to Massena or Clymer NY, to be the absolute farthest from NYC as possible. edit: yes, I could have chosen Findley Lake instead of Clymer, but that town has interstate highway access, and is thus far too convenient.
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  10463. Ha! Donut!
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  10464.  @clockworkvanhellsing372  A 1-inch line can, in ideal circumstances pass up to 100 gallons per minute. (I had to look that up) As to whether the meter could, or the effect of any bends or elbows would slow that is WAY outside of my skill box.
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  10465.  @paulstubbs7678  I remember my first watch in 1077 or so had the res LED display which was unreadable in bright light. I lived in Phoenix, AZ at the time. The kind of place well known for being bright nearly every single day. So a wrist watch was a two-handed operation as the other hand had to shade the display.
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  10466. Parking ticket and a boot.
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  10467.  @ippolitius  But they have law enforcement on speed dial, and are often doing the bidding of law enforcement in these seizure cases.
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  10468.  @brucesmith9144  There's a reason they made us all use the same locks...
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  10469.  @daleinaz1  They cut the locks? Why? They could order the full range of TSA-approved keys by the crate from China! And those locks are easier to pick than my nose! (sorry if that's gross, couldn't think of a better line)
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  10470.  @bobberguy1  Hehehe!
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  10471.  @bradkay4794  That is good strength!
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  10472. Pfizer. Second shot only, my hand of the injected arm swelled up like from a bee sting. It went away within a day.
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  10473. "Low Coonfidence is a legally defined term in government reporting that DOES in fact mean, "Very unlikely". Beau of the Fifth Column has a great video on this very topic. - At least THIS reporting covers the report correctly. Even Steven Colbert's reporting was wrong on the story.
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  10474. Sounds like it is a good thing they didn't give the Grand Rapids cops artillery. "We have it, let's use it!"
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  10475. My only note: He's welding a nylon-insert lock nut. Which he mentioned.
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  10476. When I used to go to arcades, my only goal was to run out of time and quarters/tokens at about the same time.
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  10477. Haha! Well F your expectations, I'm watching this one! ... Wait, I fell for it?
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  10478. Love the Rick Sanchez moment at the very end (yes, pizza not ethanol).
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  10479. Lindsey Graham lies like a rug, is a Trump apologist, had to be compelled to testify in court in Georgia... If he said the sky was blue and water was wet, I'd need independent verification.
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  10480.  @4362mont  That is a problem with many manufactured good today.
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  10481.  @sethaie  Tower triangulation gives a general area. GPS data can give your location to the nearest couple of steps.
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  10482. Watching that dark sludge get blown out from under the connector? Blaurgh!
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  10483. Armed person with hoodie and mask? Not increasing feelings of safety, Armed person with "security guard" style of uniform? Less terror, still not feeling safe. - I don't see the need for long weapons for a small location security guard. Pistols and less-lethal (pepper spray for example) ought to suffice. If it is bad enough that you need visible long weapons to make the place "safe" then you're not in a safe location.
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  10484. If you can't trust a faction of people who hide their faces in official photographs, who can you trust?
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  10485. You will own nothing, and be happy."
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  10486. @Pangur Ban Good rule!
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  10487. "Warranty void if you're uninformed enough to believe taking off this valve negates the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act."
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  10488.  @lactusgalacto1174  On the shelf next to Hamburger Helper?
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  10489. The wall thickness might impact resonance, but I would think the inside diameter (and gentle curves over sharp turns) are as important if not more so. You want your wave carrier to be appropriate for the typical frequency of the signal it is carrying. Kind of like how it is easier to understand when someone speaks through a paper towel tube than drinking straw.
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  10490.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  The metaphor can be stretched even further. Many modern varieties of sheep are specifically crossbred to result in sheep that prioritize wool production over the health of the animal, to the point that if these breeds of sheep are not sheared twice annually, the accumulation of wool can cause harm to their health. Meanwhile wild and unmodified sheep species are able to shed their wool naturally, much like most other furred animals.
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  10491. Mike Lee in a room full of senior citizens talking about phasing out social security and he STILL gets a couple of people clapping? I'm flabbergasted.
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  10492.  @NSResponder  Particularly as we live in an era where chemical detectors exist that run on battery power and are man-portable.
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  10493.  @carultch  *pedantic
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  10494.  @NandR  Burning gasoline would work.
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  10495.  @sethreign8103  Or the part was accidentally-maliciously misidentified in repair documentation?
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  10496. Why the leak? Political advantage, of course. Well, that and long habit of our elected officials being unable to keep a secret.
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  10497. In 1960, we also had lead in gasoline, lead in paint, asbestos being used to insulate pipes, DDT on our crops, slower trains, fewer people in the country, regular chemical spills, open dumping of trash in the ocean... Yeah, the 1960's is a great goal for regulation...
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  10498.  @GeneralSulla  Learning for you instead of learning for an employer? Respect!
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  10499. I would fail that test, as I am not "hip" to all the memes.
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  10500. Many people don't have the spare time to distribute the troll-chow (TM)
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  10501.  @Weathernerd27  While you're in dream mode, add a quorum to make a meeting valid.
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  10502.  @tag180rotax  Mythbusters did something quite similar.
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  10503. You don't need to know the job if you know the boss. That's how a fellow National Guardsman got a job at a state prison. He was related to the county sheriff. He bragged about sleeping most of his shift because his "in" meant nobody could mess with him.
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  10504.  @jointedlimb  Donald's Eternal Incompetence?
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  10505.  @idiotwithasolderingiron  Are you doing work where 0.1 to 1.5 ohms will matter? Most electronic resistive components have tolerances between 0.5 and 5%
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  10506. WTF is a "community cohesion officer"? - I want to go to England and tell everyone I see that the British anti-free-speech laws are offending me.
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  10507.  @pizzaivlife  Take a dose of Getoffyourassidone, and go ask the people who submitted the paperwork?
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  10508.  @RoseNZieg  My ex CHOSE her $100 engagement ring (with a medium-sized emerald) and $45 gold wedding band. - In the end math, that worked out to about $72.50 per year before she cheated. Not a bad bargain, I guess.
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  10509.  @gamezonereactions8388  Making Attorneys Get Attorneys. Great organization.
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  10510. I can understand the hesitancy to pull the trigger on such an expensive repair that may end up being an engine swap. Do you fix it? Are you still paying the note? Do you get the scrap value so it becomes a parts source for other cars later on?
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  10511.  @richwightman3044  How much would I have to pay YOU to spend eight or more hours a day playing a high-stakes, high-speed game of Tetris loading hundreds of things of varying sizes and proportions up to 50 pounds in weight, in the hot sun, pouring rain, driving sleet, biting cold and snow, and/or wind into a curved container while also paying attention to keeping the load balanced... and then have to do that over and over? Plus, every bag that ends up in the wrong place will be blamed on you even though the fault is either the person who labeled it or a sorting system software/hardware glitch. And let us not forget that you will likely have to work weekends and holidays until you get enough seniority to have first claim on those days off!
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  10512. Ray, if you do this kind of service again, request that the customer also supply the manual. It makes things easier, from finding the oil filter to getting the count and locations of the grease points. edit: and that they keep it dry, I guess.
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  10513. Like Japanese pron?
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  10514. In the early 1970's my parents bought me what I was told were ALL of the Dr. Seuss books, and I have zero recollections of any of the "racist" books. I had seen NONE of those until this story (yesterday with Colbert).
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  10515. Equal opportunity does not guarantee equal results. People have to get up and actually TRY. Equal opportunity also means equal responsibility, and there are too many who don't want to deal with that part. I'm looking at criminals like looters and rioters, as well as cops who hide behind qualified immunity and politicians who hide behind their office to cover their butts. - - - The solution is not more OR less police, but better policing. Police who live in and care about where they work. Police who are held responsible for what they do wrong. Police who are lauded for what they do right. - - - Train the right, support them when their job is difficult, and most importantly, punish them when they do wrong.
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  10516. I imagine the Decepticon called Soundwave has no issue moving through space.
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  10517. The Joker spoke of DC. "This town needs an enema!"
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  10518. Still trying to find the nation of Zion on Google Earth...
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  10519. You're speaking too much truth. Time to call the gazpacho police on you!
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  10520. Good (racist) neighbors calling in three "targets" for the police to get some range time on. And does a "possible burglary" require that the "targets" willingly unlock their phones? (BTW, don't unlock your phone for the cop without a warrant and YOUR lawyer present)
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  10521. I learned about something for subscriptions from Louis Rossmann. Virtual credit cards. They are a service where you set up a virtual card and when that payee makes it difficult to impossible to cancel, you just cancel the virtual CC, no link to your actual accounts remains.
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  10522.  @mitchyoung93  1) Chemical compounds like big gun propellants, smokeless gunpowder, black powder, petroleum fuels, oils, greases.... all have a limited time of best use. Proper storage (temperature, moisture, keeping out air, preservatives) can extend that shelf life. But eventually they WILL break down to a state other than desired. - That Humvee, at 30 years old, has definitely had tire replacements, many fluid changes, and very likely replacements of all sorts of suspension and mounting parts that include rubber, silicone or other flexible materials. Grease has been changed (by pumping out old with new, usually), gear oil changed, and maybe even seat padding and door seals replaced. Broken windows may have been replaced. - But even with the best storage and maintenance, eventually the propellant will chemically change, the petroleum products will break down, the metals will rust and/or fatigue or wear away. And that bit of military inventory will have to be replaced in its entirety.
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  10523. The dark side is faster, easier, more seductive.
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  10524. What if you never saw a forest green vehicle before you bought yours? Or maybe you bought the first vehicle in the HOA fiefdom with tinted windows, or OnStar, or Sirius XM, or maybe the first tires with green lettering? Would a sane a rational person meekly ask if it was okay to have any of the features above? - What if you're the first person to get an all-electric car? Or a hydrogen hybrid? Or a vintage Reliant Robin in mint condition (it has only three wheels)? Would a rational person expect there to be a hidden prejudice against these vehicles just because you have not seen one in the neighborhood before? - (hint: the answer is no)
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  10525. Buy United Health, approve all healthcare requests.
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  10526. Anyone remember Google Glasses? - Also, a headset can't turn a wrench. Sure, in a perfect setting, with NOTHING out of place, a computer could control a robot to turn a wrench. But add some dirt, the variability of rust, aged plastic connectors that break when touched, missing fastener, broken studs, and customer modifications. Is that engine leaking or did the car just drive through a puddle? Can the computer adjust for every possible level and color of dirt? As Ray's example, will it find a chewed wire or will it keep replacing the same sensor?
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  10527. Oh no! 2/3 of the cops go probation! Such a harsh penalty! NOT!
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  10528. This would really help with de-rusting those metal garden benches and tables. You know, the ones that look like iron lace?
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  10529.  @KingDetonation  Whatever the name, it works, yeah? And I actually learned it in high school chemistry, then later taught it to fellow students in college chemistry, blowing their minds.
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  10530. I saw a picture f that guy who made that "97% " statement. He was in suit and tie and covered that with a camo jacket to "be more military" if you ask me. Playing a part on a stage.
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  10531. Could you put the information on where we can find the law in the "doobly-doo' please?
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  10532. As hard as you are on mower tires, airless might be a way to go, though they are pricey, they might be worth it in the long run. If I have it right, on you Bad Boy Revolt, it is a 36" cut width? That means your rear tires are 21x7-10. Hmm... I have been looking for about 25 minutes online, and I cannot find airless tires that are that specific size. For that matter, I am not finding many options on pneumatic tires for those specs. And a larger or smaller diameter tire will mess with you cutting height and level-ness.
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  10533. My most recent purchase, the dealership threw away the old plates, but my state's registry wanted them back and sent me a bill. I gave the bill to the dealership and they paid it.
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  10534. It takes money to make money, I used to hear a lot. Recent events bear this out.
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  10535. I thought it was a Greenies channel?
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  10536. Some of the problems with the bad action movies as I see them: They don't realize you still need a story/plot to drive the movie. They don't realize that you need some level of believability within the framework of your genre (a 52-year Liam Neeson leaping fences and chasing down and beating the life out of 20-somethings?). They don't seem to understand the difference between hand-held and shaky cam, and when the two should be used. They don't seem to understand that not all of the target audience is 18 and hyped up on Monster drinks - They need to have cuts long enough that people can see and think about them.
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  10537. Proof that Mark Rober is a secret NASA project to make new NASA scientists!!!
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  10538. I really like how the cleaning kit is stored around the weapon.
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  10539. Grey suit guy looks like he feels 'above' dirt. Not a good quality.
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  10540. It looks like they hit one of those (in)famous Chinese road (sinkhole) potholes. At about 88 MPH.
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  10541. I'd go for two-part epoxy, if you want a permanent installation. Helps make the connection "flashlight gravity" resistant.
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  10542. Or not have a smartphone.
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  10543. It may have been a matter of how much MSG was used, but the last few times I had food with MSG in it, I got hot flashes and my skin felt like a sunburn. But I also have a lot of other unusual reactions to medications, dietary supplements, common soaps and shampoos, and aluminum. The reaction I got from MSG in food I also got, to a much higher degree, when I took a B12 supplement on doctor's advice. - /shrug
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  10544.  @NoName-O1OOO11O  I don't feel that you're being rude. I AM allergic to a LOT of stuff. And it's stuff that most people have no issues with. The list of widely-prescribed medications for which I have a negative reaction is astounding.
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  10545. No competing? Okay: Sports teams? Gone. Elections? Gone. Different wage rates for city employees? Not anymore. The city gets to choose, by random, ONE gas station, ONE pharmacy, ONE grocery store (which will not be allowed to have a pharmacy)...
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  10546.  @PiDsPagePrototypes  I read the book series about three years ago, so I don't recall exactly. It might have been just an arrangement to have the shuttle "hang on" to the tanks a short time longer to slot them in a recoverable trajectory?
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  10547. So disregard the "Russian Roulette" the SpOoOky music, and the repeated emotional testimonials. If spray foam is installed CORECCTLY, it is a great product for insulating and air-sealing the outer envelope of your home. (and to insulate the horizontal attic space, just use the blown-in stuff, and layer it in thick.) - - - READ and understand your contract, and do your own research on the product(s) and the contractors. It's your house, not a potted plant. That's a lot of money to be too trusting about.
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  10548. Yes and yes,
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  10549.  @fennyferrister668  I just saw the opening scene to the new NYC movie. - Dark night, streets nearly empty but for a couple of armored yellow cabs and a scavenged city bus, top torn off, seats turned into barricades facing outward, running on a massive clunky steam boiler. - A woman is pushed into a dark alley by a gang of clean-cut 20-somethings in blue shirts and khaki chinos. She screams, "NO! Not my Samsung!" - a single black cat strolls into the alley, followed by another with a tuxedo cat in tow. The cats circle the blue-shirted gangsters as the woman runs away. - A man slowly steps out of the shadows, utility belt full of flux, solder and components, his backpack a battery-powered soldering and air station. - The blue shirt gang freezes, as this man in black says, "I'm Rossmann." - The blue shirt gang flees. Cue orchestral music.
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  10550.  @kennethc2466  There is overpromising and overenthusiastic predicting and then there is self-delusion.
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  10551.  @amandak.4246  Not only should it be, it can be the crowbar to pry open the rest of your personal identifiers and make a complete identity theft kit.
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  10552.  @amandak.4246  One way to mess with the practice is to tell each person in your office that HR has your birthday wrong, and it is... (telling each person a different day).
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  10553.  @powertothesheeple5422  Hahaha!
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  10554. I tried to solder with a wood-burner iron once when I was about 14, it came out about the same as that poor device.
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  10555. Batman and Superman are only made interesting by the number, power, and craftiness of their enemies. Louis is the Right to Repair hero we deserve, if not the one we need. And imposter syndrome is his Kryptonite.
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  10556.  @arthurwintersight7868  And many times people take the plea deal for things they didn't do because they are threatened by prosecutors. "If you take the deal I'm offering, you'll do maybe (take not of the maybe!) a year. If you go through the full process you can get ten. The deal expires when I leave the room." So you get lies, fake promises carefully avoided by careful word use, and fake time pressure.
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  10557.  @ianbattles7290  It is a different question for me now than it would have been 20 years ago. But in general, I would fight now, much like I would fight as a younger me. But today's me has a lot more knowledge and could hopefully do a better job of making sure whatever lawyer I can afford is actually doing their job.
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  10558. This is such a "Hey y'all, watch this!" moment.
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  10559. The big problem is not just the price of the batteries. In fact it is not even mostly the price of the batteries. It is the fact that the company which built the car would have to frackin' GIVE PERMISSION to repair the car. That the guy owned. That is the real pile of bovine fecal matter in the whole story.
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  10560.  @capitalinventor4823  Sorry, I was craving a pizza when I wrote that.
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  10561. F___ Tucker.
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  10562. Ha! NYC, LA and Detroit don't exist that way because of a plan by those living there. It's a secret illuminati NWO deep-state plan by the rest of the country making the miserable be concentrated away from the rest of the country. - I really hope people understand that I was joking...
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  10563. SLAPP and the musical "Eat ** Bob!" are inextricably linked. Thank you, John Oliver!
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  10564.  @nathancarabajal8271  As Clone Jones was, I think, saying, it is not the formal education that is telling, it is the expressed ignorance that is an issue. I know people who went to college and could mess up the act of falling down, while I also know others who didn't attend college and are well versed in a variety of topics because they followed their curiosity and read up on topics they wanted to learn. One of these people speaks multiple languages they never went to school to learn.
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  10565.  @jpnewman1688  You are half right. If you voted for one candidate, but the one with a criminal history, links to drug smugglers, and three dead dogs in his kitchen gets the most votes, you CAN complain.
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  10566. This is more of a classless or "no-class" action. As in it takes a lawyer with no class at all to even write this sort of case up.
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  10567. 19:15 - Since when does the police pass laws? Please refer to the ATF.
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  10568. Decades ago I used to joke about how to take down the Soviet Union. "Don't send tanks and artillery. Send blue jeans, Coca Cola and music." To a fuzzy degree of interpretation, that is what "defeated" the Soviet Union. - Now I wonder if we could "defeat" some of these Middle-East groups by sending food, clothing and internet access to the populations they draw from.
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  10569. @zai jian I used to drive every day past a landscaper's house that had a knee-high lawn and overgrown bushes out front. - And our mechanic had a rattling rust-bucket of a pickup truck.
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  10570. "Objection. The picayune law that the Subprime Court made congress write to cover this matter only covers when the item is externally white or black, and my client's product is clearly taupe."
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  10571.  @dalestoltzfus6166  But not against the established laws for them and those vehicles, I would hazard to guess.
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  10572. Nah, the government is just trying to force us to keep the money as electrons in some bank's computers so they can track it (and tax it) easier.
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  10573. The latest phot of me is about 6 years old and on my driver's license. There might be less than a dozen pictures of me as an adult in the world (that I know of), to include previous license photos, my college graduation picture, and the picture taken for my long-since expired military ID about 36 years ago/
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  10574. I absolutely LOVE that someone built and flew the Gary Larson-esque rocket!
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  10575. Fools! My password management system is an address book tucked away somewhere in my house. Try and data mine THAT! - But on PayPal, I still use PayPal, and probably will continue doing so. I also know myself enough to not click buy on the first look, and I have only requested a refund on a thing that was not delivered.
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  10576. I remember way back in the 1970's watching the ORIGINAL Hawaii 5-0, and on EVERY turn in a car chase, the tires would squeal. My parents explained that this happens when you have your tires under-inflated. And based on the couple of times I had undetected slow leaks in my tires, they were right. - OH! And nearly every cop chase in 1970's television had at least one hubcap pop off and roll away on a corner. The show "The Streets of San Francisco" was notorious for that. *Sorry, "hubcaps" were chrome-coated metal covers that popped into steel care rims to hide the ugly rims and lug nuts. This was back in the days of wall phones and vacuum tube televisions.
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  10577.  @kenyattaclay7666  I guess it's a good thing that they made "Dude, Where's My Car?" back in 2000.
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  10578.  @ThePrufessa  Then why would so many cities and counties be installing plate-reading surveillance cameras? (a.k.a. Flock Safety Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) cameras.) They want to have all possible information about you without having to bother with those pesky, constitutionally required, warrants.
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  10579. #1, the tandem trucker screwed up, but brake checking a tandem is a suicide note. - #3's driver could have EASILY let the car merge, either time, but chose to flex his "right of way" and escalated things. - #4's idiot has a lot of the signs of OUI, a medical issue, or driving to tired for safety. - #5 is DEFINITELY looking for an insurance impact. Good on the cammer for hitting record. - For #6, I don't know the UK rules on this, but in the US, that move between lanes by a motorcycle is a moving violation. So my sympathy was zero for anything after that. - Hey #11, You BOTH ran the stop sign. "Full and complete stop" Even when you are on a bicycle. So you getting upset at the other driver doing what you did is just hilarious to me. But sure, chase down a guy in a car to argue with him. Because NOBODY in a car is reactive and armed, right?
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  10580. Often the worst thing that can happen to a beginning criminal is not getting caught. It teaches them that they are untouchable and they can escalate without fear of being caught.
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  10581. They don't even look like cops in their unmarked vehicle and "tacti-cool" gear. They look like bounty hunters or airsoft players. - edit: and since when does the ATF give a bleep about jaywalking? Jaywalking is neither alcohol, tobacco, nor a firearm. Nah, they're just fishing for people they can jam up after doing a warrantless records search.
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  10582. I have a budget phone and I can replace the battery without specialist tools or solvents to dissolve adhesive. And I avoid repairing the screen by NOT DROPPING IT!
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  10583.  @JM-lk6wo  SC took the WRONG path to deal with the problem. Massachusetts used to have a lot of corruption with annual vehicle inspections. They sent state cops, out of uniform, in anonymous cars to spot-check inspection stations. Over a short period of time, a large fraction of the inspection locations closed, mysteriously, and slowly new ones opened to fill the gap. MA checks all of the safety stuff (brakes, parking brake, lights, wipers, horn. etc.), loose ball joints, obvious tire wear, front seat belts working, doors actually latch, emissions, and check for obvious holes in the passenger compartment and so on. And they will actually FAIL a car. There are two tiers of failure. 1) Get it fixed in x days and come back for a free recheck, and 2) you can't legally drive the vehicle on the road. - But yes, JM. An inspection regime is not a guarantee that you will get ALL unsafe cars off the road, but with NO inspection, only conscientiousness or complete physical decomposition of the vehicle will get the dangerous junkers off the road.
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  10584. So you worked for the strong arm of government oppression?
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  10585.  @King4s  A full-face mask/respirator is a good investment for such work, as well as spray painting, using a lathe, or any other activity where you need to protect your eyes and lungs.
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  10586. My mind is BLOWN by that high-tech simulation. You must be rolling in money to afford that kind of lab time! - Sure, this video wandered a bit, but it was all educational and interesting.
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  10587. NYC has so many places to discretely dispose of "problems". These city inspectors can only do what they are doing as long as people are afraid of being caught for disposing of "problems".
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  10588. Are any of these Republicans now congratulating Biden part of the group who signed on to the various attempted invalidation of legally cast votes? If so, a list would be quite important.
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  10589. Have you considered making one of cable instead of chain links?
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  10590. Leave the families out of it. The rest? I have no opinion either way.
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  10591. NEVER SAY THE Q WORD!!!
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  10592. Chevy truck parking is akin to what we here in my part of New England used to call "Yuppie Parking" where people would park their BMW or Audi or Mercedes diagonally across two or three parking spaces so their precious car would not have us plebians park near them and maybe, someday, accidentally TOUCH their car.
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  10593. Thanks for the guide on upgrading the observational capacity of the Mk.1 sight devices, Scott!
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  10594. I once read some of that "old testament". There was a lot of slavery, forced marriage, murder, war, and oppression. All at the behest of 'The word of" this god fellow and celebrated in his name/glory/whatever.
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  10595. Lately NYC (from your bike rides) looks like it lost about half of its population. edit: maybe 3/4? - Going through a red light on a bike when there is no traffic? Minor. - Double-parking? Get out the flamethrowers!
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  10596. What a... vivid image you paint.
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  10597.  @bm03431  Once the trash truck moved into position?
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  10598. I have been on both sides of the transactions with UHaul trucks. As an independent rental agent, I have run into customers who were in too much of a hurry to "bother with" a walk-around, until I asked them if they were okay with paying to bring the truck back to perfect condition no matter what was wrong with it right now. - As a person renting the vehicles, I have run into rental agents who didn't want to do, or let ME do the walk-around before signing. When I run into those types of people, I refuse to bring the truck back except when they are open to accept the truck and the post rental walk-around. Why? Because someone who cares that little about doing things the right way, I am sure they will try and do what happened in this news article.
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  10599. This story sounds like it would happen in some place like The Philippines, Singapore, Iran, Ecuador, or some other place ruled by tyrants and/or criminals. - edit: Great shirt!
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  10600. The police all too often are only going to bother with matters that either result in a fine or matters that will end up (or have ended up already) on the news. Oh, and keeping the "undesirables" out.
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  10601.  Renata Heavenly  Let us not forget the clean water, clean air, safe sewage systems, structurally sound housing (for those with it), roads to get to stores full of safe-to-eat food... All thanks to being co-parenting with the government.
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  10602. Oh no! The vaccine they told us was not 100% protection is not 100% protection! How dare they! Them? It? Muh outrage! - This country is so full of idiots.
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  10603. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality. Open your eyes. Look up to the skies and see.
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  10604.  @darkflame3961  Unless you use the Opti-Grab attachment.
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  10605. Putting chips on ink cartridges is like individually packaged grapes. Stupid and wasteful.
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  10606. With an elective viewing of (the original) 12 Angry Men and that episode of Happy Days where Fonzie sits on a jury.
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  10607. HOA: Hand Out Always. - money for the sidewalk, money for the tree, money for the meeting building, money for the board... You move into an HOA and you are voluntarily putting yourself under the control of a barely regulated mini-government of busybodies.
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  10608. Sure, spray-painting the battery bracket may seem silly cosmetic action, but the paint can help delay/slow future corrosion.
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  10609. I would love some actual statistics of security breaches from "unauthorized repair" versus plain old hackers who never physically touch your devices. I know that I have only ONCE had my car have to be returned to the independent shop to fix something they did wrong (new guy put the wrong size tire on - was replaced free with apologies), while EVERY car I have owned in the last 30 years has had multiple safety recalls as a fault of the manufacturer. - I just thought of a potential ally in electronic right-to-repair. Component manufacturers. Just let them know that if they help get legal access to components passed, they could be selling the things they make for more per unit that the corporations are willing to pay them, and all they would have to do is run off an extra batch or two. Just like so many companies that make auto parts sell to auto parts stores and direct online, from brake pads to windows to wiring harnesses.
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  10610. 2:15 - my brain sang the following in Brad Delp's voice "See my Ariane, launching away..."
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  10611. I have laundered money from time to time, usually change or small bills left in pants pockets when I tossed them in the washing machine.
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  10612. The first pre-emptive pardon I saw was when Cardinal Richelieu wrote one for Lady deWinter, but it ended up in the hands of a young King's Musketeer. Dec. 3, 1627 It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has done what he has done. Richelieu - Rather backfired on him.
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  10613. A "Yo' momma" joke? - This is the kind of class a hoodie brings, eh? Anyway, Rudy and those lawyers have been pretty much begging for the 'Rona the way they've been standing in close groups, maskless.
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  10614. Not only was it just vaguely "nearby" but in that situation, it was several hours ago. What kind of morons do they grow in the town that they expect shooters to be hanging around for hours?
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  10615.  @namename9998  Ah. Because outdoor domestic cat breeds don't kill eagles, they don't kill birds. You debate logic needs work.
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  10616.  @trodgerable-u4i  Yep, idiots with racist mindsets do in fact exist!
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  10617.  @SkyeSoleil  What more do we expect from such a pile of basura? The whole network is full of gǒushǐ. And because of them and others like them, the country is kind of go tsao de.
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  10618. A debate on the internet that mangles the original statements and explanations? I am flabbergasted that such a thing could ever happen! (sarcasm)
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  10619. It's "Pastafarian", Steve.
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  10620. TFG represents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States. Time for Operation Reciprocity.
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  10621.  @gabby8388  They're SUPPOSED to have RAS. Too often they have feelings justified by "we got a call." I feel that any arrest where the ORIGINATING charge is resisting arrest should just be erased for the arrestee, and a black mark on the cop's job file. Then we need to pick a number of black marks that equal corrective action, then firing WITH revocation of law enforcement license. And a nationwide database of police so that those fired will be dragging their record with them wherever they go, just like the people they arrested.
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  10622. For comparison purposes, the $1.25 million would be about $21.25 million in today's (2020) dollars.
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  10623. "Trickle down" only works when you're the one urinating on the poor.
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  10624. "Crime improved" - Robberies yielded more money and easily fenced valuables?
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  10625. Crypto is a pyramid scheme hiding in money-shaped cothing.
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  10626. Oh AXL! I thought you were calling that dog something else at first...
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  10627. That's the sign of a cop who knows that the camera he wears must stay on, and a FOIA request will jam him up if he breaks policy, at least in the court of public opinion.
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  10628. Of all health care providers, dentists are tied with eye surgeons for "works closest to your breathing hole," so F that guy for trying to get fake-vaccinated. Take his dental license and send him off to fill potholes or pick up trash on the beaches.
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  10629. Well, Keeping up with the Kartrashians just ended, so there is a slot on the programming schedule.
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  10630.  @The0rs  I think they serve as an important reminder. If you live where your steps, walk, or driveway can et icy, have sand, cat litter, and/or ice melt on hand BEFORE the winter.
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  10631.  @rydawg8934  I learned from a lawyer's channel that an accident is unavoidable. "George was walking down the sidewalk when a toilet seat from a Russian space station obliterated her." Many things we call accidents are incidents and/or crashes. "Dave was driving at 120 KPH along a residential street when his car clipped a moose and careened into Marge's living room as she was watching The Price is Right."
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  10632. $200,000 is overpayment to those dirt-farming goat-lovers. Probably could have paid $10,000 and pocketed the other $190,000.
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  10633. Yes. From essentially point-blank range. Put some padding under it and wear it over an Aramid suit to cover gaps...
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  10634. If this became a thing with homes, most flippers would be out of business due to shrinking margins from having to hold and make a year's payments (including interest and utilities) on a home they don't plan to live in. Or they might just airbandb the flipped homes for the 9-11 months after they put lipstick on the pig to "increase the value by 20-40%".
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  10635. Tangentially, Maryland has a confused mess of a state flag. Not that my state (Massachusetts) is a lot better.
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  10636. I saw the picture of the woman with the "weird" sign. She has got to be the most polite political protester in Massachusetts. Particularly since Orange Donnie is from that sewer pipe they call New York City! . Danged strap-hangers.
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  10637. She could have made sure that the cops from that building made your life pure hell out of sheer spite.
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  10638. Ha! I sold my soul for a donut after I heard that a guy named Homer sold his three times for the same product.
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  10639. Sweet Lord of Pasta, those two dumb young women need to return the money they got for selling their brains to a dog food factory.
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  10640.  @davidheale6435  Brass is good for drinking water connections. The radiator is aluminum, and that is a more reactive metal in general. A quick online look into the matter and I find a few dubious references to a slight reactance between aluminum, copper and brass in a coolant medium if the coolant does not have a corrosion inhibitor components, AND if the coolant is not kept changed on a reasonable interval.
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  10641. And yet sometimes we wonder why people will call an Uber for a trip to the hospital even for things like a stroke or broken bones. I have had to go to the hospital many times in the last decade or two. I only called for/accepted an ambulance trip when my condition was so bad that I would not be able to sit in a friend's car. Once it was because I was "leaking" unpleasant substances from nearly every orifice, and I ambulances can be hosed out, while a typical car cannot.
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  10642. Hey Jim Jordan. While we're dredging up events from the past...
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  10643.  @ydoucare55  Awesome innovation! Sorry about your back. That happens to a lot of us who forget to die.
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  10644. They gave up their privacy for that event by showing up at a PUBLIC hearing. By attending such an event, they have given consent to recording. That is the crux and the bulk of the argument.
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  10645. That's why my mother refused to fix her slowly sagging front porch, only letting us crawl under and set more supporting blocks to keep it from being dangerous.
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  10646. Muddy waters damaged their house that badly? That's why I don't listen to the blues!!!
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  10647. The title is interesting because you chose a weird way to spell "emotionally damaged cops".
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  10648. Of course gas is rising we're so underwater with the hyper-inflated housing market. Simple physics!
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  10649.  @edmund8954  Doesn't need to be four phones. It can be 4 digital video camera modules and a Bluetooth transmitter.
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  10650. Prometheus is a less than optimal name for a space craft. Who would want to do a re-entry cycle on a craft named for the titan who gave humanity fire?
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  10651. It was just a 2A enthusiast on a peaceful tour of a rooftop, who was so exuberant about the view they had a series of negligent discharges.
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  10652. I would counter that civil asset forfeiture is more of a perversion of justice. But the problem you describe is big as well.
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  10653. Back when I was younger (early 1980's), my first car was a 1974 VW Bondo. Those are the models of cars you drive until you can make enough to buy something better, not something to sink money into.
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  10654. 0:28 Wow! That is the best, "Bitch, please!" brow raise and head turn I've ever seen.
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  10655. STATES RIGHTS! - Wait, why is there no national-level plan for this? - This vaccine has some unusual storage requirements regarding temperature. So the distribution being more difficult is something I get. I have a friend who works at a retail pharmacy that distributes the vaccine, and they have to GUESS at how many doses to thaw out for each day. Too many, they have to be thrown away. Not enough, and people get turned away. - Anyone who buys the Covid-19 vaccine online via the black market deserves any tainted fluid they actually get injected into their arm. - The time travel joke was funny and sad at the same time.
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  10656. E'eb planistaa!
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  10657. "Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Unless you have one of these membership badges in our heavily armed interstate gang..."
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  10658.  @kingduckford  And when it's something like a haircut or mowing your lawn, there is no huge loss, it'll eventually grown back. When it's dropping a tree on a house, or breaking a sewer line? Well, that's when "oops" gets expensive.
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  10659. Remember: The civilian suffering is by Hamas design. It helps keep the hate boiling.
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  10660.  @richardhole8429  Ten under is unnecessarily deep. 6 feet is usually sufficient. . Wait, are we thinking about the same thing?
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  10661.  @m3rdpwr  They're also not given the TIME to care. Or eat, or use a bathroom, or...
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  10662.  @m3rdpwr  Not according to some of the articles I've read about the pressures on Amazon's subcontracted delivery drivers. It's all about time, time TIME! Beat the clock or lose money!
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  10663. "You gonna lie and tell me that's not you?" There is no easy way to answer that, particularly when under emotional distress. It's like when they ask, "You don't mind if I search your car, do you?" - You need to be a logistician to untangle those kinds of verbal traps.
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  10664.  @Heavensrun  Yes I did. Are you upset that I turned the crashing of a Russian probe into a joke? If so, I'm not sorry you feel that way.
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  10665. There was a road in Holden MA intersecting with Shrewsbury street where, for as long as I lived in the area, a utility pole sat in the middle of the end of the road. No island, no painted loupe, just a pole. I looked just now on Google Street view (I think it was Evans Street?) and the pole is no longer there.
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  10666.  @PRH123  Guessing: Electricity, phone, three cable companies (some cities are big enough to have more than one).
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  10667. In an older, civilized society, people who had failed so spectacularly, would put their affairs in order and fall on their swords. I have a sword McClintock could borrow.
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  10668. $53,595 truck, $375 to take a shot to win it. It only takes around 146 contestants for the golf club to break even. I was involved in a far less prestigious charity golf tournament and that one had over 100 people playing for no major prizes at all. There might have been a set of clubs and some lesser prizes. I got a golf towel. (the "participation trophy" prize)
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  10669.  @lilsheba1  Yeah! Because NOBODY gets sick and misses work, or gets fired, or gets laid off, or has the job disappear or the company close, or get stuck in a lower paying job because of one of the other reasons listed, or has their bank account stolen from them, or... Yeah, nobody EVER has a personal economic downturn through no direct fault of their own. And as others have commented in this thread and other places, getting the support amount reassessed because of loss of work or reduction in earnings is harder than counting the teeth of a chicken. - And that's not even touching the way family courts are slanted HEAVILY against the father, resulting in unfit mothers getting primary or sole custody for the virtue of owning the uterus, or child support and/or alimony being set punishingly high, even when it grossly exceeds the needs of the child/children or spouse's living expenses, or taking more than half of the marital assets and handing them over to the uterus owner...
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  10670.  @theodorekorehonen  There are a lot of variations in rocket fuels. I eagerly recommend the book "Ignition!" on the early development of rocket fuels. Great blend of science, humor and history.
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  10671.  @chadmckean9026  Officer's patrol car? Citizen's Civil Asset Forfeiture!
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  10672. Not a 12mm, and a loose 13mm? Back in the 70's we called that 1/2 inch.
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  10673. OhMyGoshYes!
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  10674. Arizona is turning into a decent analog for 1930's Germany. I hope the politicians you all are dumb enough to elect are happy with their ethical wasteland.
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  10675. A sword is essentially a flat metal club with some degree of sharpness. Would a metal club be effective? Yep. Even when I cannot cut through your armor, I can cause bruising, pain, and broken bones THROUGH the armor, given skillful and powerful enough blows. A sword has the benefit of delivering the force of a metal club with less weight being swung over and over because it is flat instead of round in cross-section. But you can also hurt people with maces, hammers, spears, arrows, polearms...
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  10676. Mmm. additionally, with all of the force of the sword/axe/bill/gisarme/polearm hitting along a very narrow edge, the force is less distributed by the weapon and the protection worn by the target, allowing even more of the force to be imparted to the fleshy and bony parts underneath whatever armor they are wearing.
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  10677. Thirdly, against better metal armors, something where you can put a lot of force behind a point can be best, and that is where the spikes on war hammers and some polearms, and bodkin points on arrows and crossbow bolts come into their own.
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  10678. Nothing like a science-based organization falling victim to mythology. There is nothing in a gay person's blood that can't be found in a straight person's blood if you find the right two samples. The ONLY unique part of a gay person's blood is their DNA. But wait, that statement applies to all people!
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  10679. Racism is a fact of humanity's tribalism. Humans will always have an "us and them" in their minds. The hard part is expanding the "us" to include all (non-criminal) humans, or at least those of the same country.
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  10680.  @space_designs  My great grandparents on my father's side immigrated to the US Finland, and they and my grandmother spoke Finnish at home. I only learned one phrase in Finnish, and it is not fit for polite company.
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  10681. At a job decades ago, my boss told me to take his F250 and get a full bed of loam and take it to a jobsite to top out large planters on a landscape installation job. Before getting (over!) loaded, the tires were inflated to the numbers on the door. After loading, the rear tires were riding on sidewall. I called the boss and he told me to just put more air in the tires and finish the delivery I crawled the truck a half mile to a gas station and inflated the rear tires until the profile "looked right" which was somewhere around 85-90 PSI. WAY over the rating for the tires. Then I drove the load of loam the forty or more miles to the client's property, driving so cautiously and under the speed limit I got a lot of "suggestions" from fellow motorists. After unloading, I immediately let air out of the tires until they looked a little low, then drove the mile to another gas station to inflate them to the numbers on the door. - This whole process: The use of a truck not rated for the load it was carrying, the pickup of loam over forty miles away, and the "just do it" directives were to save around fifty to a hundred dollars by buying where it was cheapest and another fifty to a hundred dollars avoiding paying the right truck to deliver it. I really hope I shortened the life on his tires and suspension.
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  10682. Shades of Fargo. (the movie, not the show)
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  10683. Sounds like some hotel owners in Mackinaw (region/city) are going to need to put on their mackinaws (raincoats) to protect from the incoming deluge of lawsuits and financial payouts.
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  10684. Pfft. I understand what buoyant means. It means it weight less than a duck. Like witches, churches, and VERY small rocks.
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  10685. Muriatic acid! Anthrax! Killer bees! C4! KILL THE PORCH PIRATES! MURDER!!!! - - Ehem. sorry. Lost my head there a bit.
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  10686.  @aygwm  If you have evil in you, the application of two liters of bleach by IV helps... everyone else.
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  10687. Add these dogs to the list of single-animal dominated places, along with Okunoshima and Tashirojima.
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  10688.  @cesararias2165  Hehe... It's actually high-visibility orange, though. At least for civilian aircraft it is. I have no information about the exterior color of the data recorder of military craft.
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  10689.  @mikeyandora7501  Probably promoted.
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  10690. For the orange and mandarin slices, were the slices' membranes intact? That may have been the issue. Maybe either slice the sliced in half, or peel off the membrane and try again? - On the grapes, Nate at Narroway cut the grapes in half, and they still got only mostly dehydrated. - edit: On the candy front, one of Nate's favorites, freeze-dried, is Bit-o-Honey.
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  10691. Wait. A flag flying upside down symbolized "stop the steal"? I was always taught that it means, "We need help, now!" When I was living in Phoenix back in the 1970's, I was told that one day someone hauled up the state flag upside down at the state house. As a result, every available cop rolled on the building, expecting some sort of armed standoff, when it was just a new person who made an accident.
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  10692.  @renderuntocaesarwhatiscaes2300  Your racist dog is barking up the wrong tree. This is a situation where wealth, not white-ness, is printing the "Stay Out Of Jail" cards in the game of "Real Monopolies"
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  10693. The first breastplate I ever made covered the belt buckle, and the first fight I had in it I ducked to apply a lunge and cut my chin open as the breastplate was driven up by my thighs into my jaw.
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  10694. Also, another problem with the video game armor you started the video with, is that the arm holes are WAY too tight. That poor dwarf could barely get out of a T-pose if the armor was not animated like cloth!
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  10695. But Louis! This bypass invention could install Tik Tok in my Flurry!!!
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  10696. Wait. England towers tow a vehicle with an occupant? Here in the US, you can only get that kind of treatment if the tow is from a friend with a tow rope (the unsafe way to tow a vehicle). Must be a difference in insurance companies?
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  10697. You ever notice that they don't remember that before the first Christians showed up, the people who were living here had their own belief system? If we're going with "the original" religion, then we all need to convert to the faith of the nearest indigenous group.
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  10698.  @nikolaynikolaev-tu6rh  Sorry. Я не понимаю
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  10699.  @SurferJoe46  And the tape we all call duct tape is the wrong tape to use on ducts. For ducts, use either the painted on joint sealant, or the aluminum tape. the "duct tape" will degrade as the adhesive dries and you can end up with air leaks inside your walls.
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  10700.  @hendrikvanleeuwen9110  THanks for the information!
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  10701.  @solandri69  Sales taxes always impact those of lower income more on a proportional basis. But wealthy people who would be more fairly taxed on income can afford to buy more politicians, so the sales tax idea gets more "aye" votes.
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  10702. Huh. I never thought of Anakin/Vader as living in a sunk cost fallacy. Thank you for the new idea my brain is chewing on!
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  10703. Ask Louis Rossmann about business interruption coverage. Then duck and cover.
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  10704. Sure, you thought you were being 'nice' but that was a clear case where the driver should have been cuffed and charged.
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  10705. Nice! Class-action thanks!
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  10706. Trump dances like he's the centerpiece of an all-you-can-stroke "sausage fest". With his smug smirk...
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  10707. Palmer Luckey is a nerd, confirmed! His company is "Flame of the West" in Quenya.
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  10708.  @wangbang2007  Oh. Newsmax fan?
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  10709.  @revwillyg6450  I kept looking for the velociraptors hiding amongst them
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  10710. And the many versions of each plug form of USB. Why would anyone expect a blood glucose monitor that charges via a micro USB to be able to charge on any micro USB? Nah, using a charger other than Abbot's special version of Micro USB will set your meter on fire.
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  10711. Heck, disbar Bill Barr!
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  10712. Dear archaeologists. Sometimes it is just art.
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  10713. The 1023 form is a slightly more detailed "While you were out" memo regarding a phone call.
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  10714.  @bn880  You earn the "top student of the day" ribbon.
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  10715. I only learned that those were slide pins when watching one of Ray's videos about a year and a half ago. Which explains why some of my older cars back in the day always seemed to have uneven pad wear...
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  10716. Being obnoxious, rude and insulting is... PROTECTED SPEECH! And it's "The police WERE completely right." Both your point and your grammar were wrong.
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  10717. If they wanted to "make sure the home was safe and the homeowner was safe" they could have (and should have) done that with a phone call and/or in-person visit, not a letter threatening fines for not fixing the problem before even the best insurance companies could send out a crew to do temporary repairs. More than tone deaf, they are un-human and robotic, seeking only compliance or money, not the safety of citizens.
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  10718. When they find the perpetrators, it is important to draw, THEN quarter.
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  10719. Regarding the pinned comment you read, you are also NOT a newbie. But good on you Louis for pinning that Google shill's comment!
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  10720.  @svenbenglen7599  The Minox B was pretty popular for use in the Soviet Union... by western spies.
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  10721. Watch some state senator tack on a school lunch funding bill so they can say that anyone who votes against the bill is anti-children. - It makes my blood boil when open comment sessions have a few citizens of the area under jurisdiction, and then rafts of professional lobbyists who flew in from out of state. Some of these people at different agencies are funded by the same corporations, essentially giving those corporations multiple voices against the very people these assemblies were voted in to represent. And then these lobbying firms send three, four, five people to just sit in suits behind the person who reads a script. Then they want to have a "robust conversation" later in the representatives' offices, away from the public eye and the presentation time limit. - Makes me want to set something on fire, it does.
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  10722. These rallies are valuable. Nothing I like more than idiots gathering to be identified.
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  10723.  @Bialy_1  For all the boards I was involved in manufacturing, they were only in the proximity of people trained to know better than get food and liquids near them. Laptops are a hazardous environment for our little PCB friends, and it is shameful that humans are so lackadaisical in designing enclosures that will protect them from our clumsiness. - But other than military and aerospace applications, I am unaware of a market for PCBs where conformal coating is the norm. And in the aforementioned uses, the conformal coating is for parts retention under harsh conditions as much as liquid protection.
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  10724. I have older devices that use micro-USB, and I have a few of those magnetic connectors to save my ports.
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  10725. That mite was just leaving a customer review.
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  10726. Wow. That's a face-palm moment.
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  10727. Show your sources as he has done (see video notes). Don't be like a typical flat-earther.
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  10728. When I start overthinking, I find I have two choices. Analysis paralysis or saying something along the lines of FIDO (Acronym for F__ It, Drive On)." Unfortunately, FIDO has another decision tree, one branch is "Give it a go anyway." but the easier path is to give up and do nothing.
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  10729. re: "Against the tide" Sometimes the tide is pulling you against a reef or bank of sharp rocks and going 'against the tide' will save your life.
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  10730. @TestTestGo Heck, the second amendment SHOULD allow me to carry around a halberd, but BOY do the cops hate that!
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  10731. "Thanks, I hate it" is becoming the slogan of the decade already.
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  10732. But Louis, paying yourself a grossly huge salary out of your on-profit is The United Way!
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  10733. I have heard from a few vets that the covered boxes trap in the odors and ammonia compounds, which even the cat hates the smell of, so they tend not to use them right. Also, a high concentration of the ammonia compounds is unhealthy.
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  10734.  @craigcraigster4999  Borrow Kyle Hill's KCT. ("Kevin Cloning Technology")
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  10735. IF the plumber struck the fence, you file a claim against their insurance, not commit a felony murder. What the ever-living Pasta is wrong with people?
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  10736. I too vastly prefer the simple plug-in rice cooker. I know someone who swears by a microwave rive cooker, but to me the cooked texture is 'wrong' with the microwave cooker.
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  10737. As soon as feelings enter the realm of laws, true justice tends to be thrown out the window. "I feel like you're doing something suspicious, that's why I arrested you when you did nothing illegal." "I found the words on your shirt offensive, that's why I called the police." "That color of dog scares me, so I called animal control." "I was in fear for my life from the guy with his phone in his hand, so I shot him."
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  10738.  @Small-Kitty-Paws  A very sensuous job. "Sensuous in there, maybe check the Copersen Doohickey."
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  10739. There are two reasons we see these kinds of clips. 1) these people are too stupid to keep it to themselves. And it is kind of good that these human-shaped pieces of garbage self-identify. 2) Until what they say progresses beyond words, they are protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution (though that protection means nothing against being de-platformed. It is only protection against GOVERNMENT interference with free speech). - Are they disgusting? [redacted] yes! And I feel that the moment they progress beyond simple words, they forfeit their rights to use oxygen.
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  10740. With all those tires in a pile, I think we've discovered where most of the neighborhood's mosquitos have been coming from.
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  10741. That one was already tried by someone years ago, if I recall correctly.
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  10742. Everyone conveniently forgets that Pandora's box also contained... HOPE.
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  10743. The cat was doing a good job at pointing out places where you skimped on safety. And a better job at living the "curiosity" idiom.
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  10744. The woman could have been a neo-Natsi with a buzz cut, a swastika tattooed across her face and a Third Reich flag draped over one shoulder. The guard would STILL be wrong for firing. She was on a public sidewalk photographing the exterior of a building visible from ground level, in the United States. Nothing she was doing at that time was illegal or threatening except to the most paranoid of people.
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  10745. A cop park on the side of the road causes most people to obey speed limits. A camera stops NO speeders, it only reaches into their pockets.
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  10746. "Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada."
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  10747. I can tell you that 10 years ago I was listening to Queen, Pink Floyd and Van Halen. Same answer for 20, 30, and 40 years ago.
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  10748. Murder trial? If they're serving a catered supper, we'll deliberate. If they're just going to make us come back tomorrow on our own dime, then let's just make the easy call so we can beat the traffic out of town.
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  10749. Given that they probably had to bribe, threaten, blackmail, AND extort Bill Murray to be in another Ghostbusters film and NOT be a jerk about it, that may have been the best they could do?
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  10750. Is that a vernal or autumnal equinox?
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  10751. Buy once, cry once. (Don't buy cheap knock-offs)
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  10752.  @pamplant3610  Missing windows and a door, siding torn off on one corner, used by drug users and very likely animals, some shingles already showing degradation... If the house is not seen to quickly, it will end up in dumpsters and then a landfill.
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  10753. This is provisionally good news. It's a very "Trust but Verify" situation, and we all know the lobbyists will be circling this one like flies on cow shit.
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  10754. If I'm on Facebook and someone sends me a message to help them unlock their account, there are TWO crimes. 1) That person is a scammer 2) I'm somehow using Facebook!
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  10755. "... if anyone walking by on the sidewalk could see it." Hmm. How many 30' tall people live in YOUR community? And how many people in your community stand on the sidewalk staring at your house 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? (If the answer to my second question is >1, you have a stalker!)
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  10756. And yet it was possible for the whole thing to be designed for easier service. An access panel on the air box giving access to a removable temp sensor. I am a dreamer.
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  10757.  @nas5555  I very specifically said I "often forgive", not always forgive.
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  10758.  @DashcamLessons  I found it refreshing to see a dashcam video without the oppressively loud royalty free music trying to color my perception. I used the silence to talk to my cats.
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  10759. Name for the truck? TableBane.
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  10760. No frost heaves! I have been trying to figure out, for months, what makes your road footage so weird to me. It is the lack of frost heaves, potholes, and sand (from winter ice and snow treatment) on the sides of the road that I see every day here in Massachusetts that I DON'T see down there that made things seem so... foreign.
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  10761. Those people need to be shown the conditions at Chinese and Indian e-factories. THAT is equivalent to slave labor. I think a New Yorker did a video or three on this topic...
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  10762.  @j.s.elliot7121  Aha! Caught you assuming that the intern is unpaid! - Unpaid internships do exist, and are very exploitative.
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  10763. That STOA logo is SO VERY 1980's.
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  10764. He's going for the trifecta, the hat trick, the triple crown of being a vile person: Social contempt. Check. Civil Contempt. Check. Criminal contempt. Incoming.
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  10765.  @aman541  Some people might, but not the smart ones.
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  10766.  @swanpride  I stand corrected. I mistakenly thought Australia was run a lot smarter than the USA. Apparently, it is only a little better.
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  10767. Why is the adult Eleven taking a 10-year old to a pride parade? When I was 10, I was watching cartoons, finally accepting the crust on my PB&J, digging in the dirt, riding my bike all over the neighborhood, and reading books. Amongst other stereotypical kid activities. The idea of sex or sexuality didn't creep into my brain until I was 15 or so, and even then it was "some day, when I'm an adult, I'll be able to find out what I want from that."
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  10768. If the wind is strong enough, they'll fly anywhere.
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  10769. Fully fueled 747 in air-to-ground mode... Hmm, what? Just remembering a scene from a Tom Clancy novel. Nothing other than that.
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  10770. I'm not sure which anti-scammer channel I heard it from, but I now never say the word "yes" to any phone caller, even if I do business with them, except in conversations with friends. With a recorded "yes", audio manipulation software can make it seem like you consented to something. Instead, when someone calls and asks, "Is this MonkeyJedi99?" I will answer something like, "That is me." or "That is who you have reached."
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  10771.  @dianajemison105  Becker don't like no peeple naysayin' his orange god!
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  10772. A 110-year sentence is essentially a death sentence with a LONG waiting period. To add more perspective, a 110-year sentence would be a death sentence on a newborn, with that long waiting period between sentencing and death.
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  10773.  @rollercoaster55  Actually those decisions people note were actually US circuit court decisions, and only in the odd-numbered circuits for weird reasons.
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  10774. Just walk in, say "Shrink You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant" And walk out You know if one person, just one person does it They may think he's really sick and they won't take him And if two people, two people do it In harmony They may think they're both f**** And they won't take either of them And if three people do it Three, can you imagine three people walking in? Singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out They may think it's an organization And can you, can you imagine 50 people a day I said 50 people a day Walking in, singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant, and walking out And friends, they may think it's a movement And that's what it is The Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement And all you got to do to join Is to sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar With feelin'
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  10775. At current pace, the courts could be tied up JUST dealing with Donnie the Hutt's proclamations until the sun expands beyond the orbit of Venus.
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  10776. And I hate coffee. I even hate the smell of it. But I love this video.
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  10777.  @DocWiggles  Back in the days of TV aerials on everyone's roofs, we had several guns aimed at us in our most comfortable rooms! Guns which fired electrons aimed by strong electromagnets to strike a phosphor layered on curved glass and turn into high energy photons. Some foolishly called them "televisions".
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  10778.  @DocWiggles  Tsk, tsk. You could have stopped by expressing your opposing views, and that would be fine. But no, you had to engage in personal attacks because the anonymity of the internet makes you so VERY brave. Go forth and think about your faults.
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  10779.  @RoboCope9000  And then there's the joke that STOP is an acronym for "Squeal Tires On Pavement".
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  10780.  user-tn8uu2cu8g  No thanks. I have no interest in your cult. Or any cult. Well, other than the one worshipping our Lord of Pasta.
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  10781. Quickly change your grip to the barrel and do an Olympic hammer-throw to "gift" the device to the enemy.
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  10782. "Well, if you can't remember, I guess we're done here."
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  10783. Side note on HB637, there is an exception carved out for car makers who only sell electric cars. I wonder how big Ronnie White Boots' Elon shrine is getting. He also signed another bill into law that is deeply pro-Elon "Signed into law by Florida Governor DeSantis on Thursday, May 25, the SB 1318 Spaceflight Entity Liability Bill requires all spaceflight participants, or customers, to sign a waiver releasing launch companies from all liability for injury or death at any point during a mission."
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  10784.  @dliciouscrabmeat6355  Lead is a toxic metal and some uses are weight/volume frugal (usually aerospace applications). - Non-gamma forms of radiation can be blocked with lighter and less toxic materials. Alpha radiation can be blocked by paper, beta by aluminum. - But yes, shielding is available, whatever radiation is a concern.
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  10785. Religion is against my religious views. Ban it.
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  10786.  @theotherside8258  The parents who want to create them.
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  10787. You successfully gave a comprehensible example, and I did not roll a 1 on comprehension!
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  10788. I think some other energy savings (should you need to convince architects, owners and zooming) is there will be less heating/cooling lost as ground level doors are opened for the between-building traffic, and people who can cross, say, six stories up in a 10-sory building, are not using the elevator to get up and down as many floors. - Another one! Better road traffic flow when more of your pedestrian traffic is passing over (or under) the roadway instead of stopping the traffic to cross.
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  10789. "practice and real-world skills" So, who wants to volunteer to be one of the training wheels defendants for these 'no bar exam' larval lawyers?
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  10790.  @ClaytonBigsby01  You DO know that there are mechanical siphons. Lacking a mechanical siphon, you could use some gas to fill your hose, then blow more gas across the top of the hose to create a venturi effect that, in microgravity could be sufficient to start the siphon. If you can also pre-fill the hose with some liquid and use that liquid to initiate the siphon. I have used the first and third methods here on earth.
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  10791. Ah, the amazing power of the stealthy lap cat.
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  10792. The more we try to "control" rivers, the more we get shown that nature doesn't care about what we want.
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  10793.  @donwilber1628  Someone could have "fat-fingered" the 0 button.
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  10794. When you say "liquidate him" do you mean to use a wood chipper?
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  10795.  @nastykiller95  I guess that would also work.
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  10796. 10 EMPTY moving boxes, I can believe.
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  10797. Heck, my phone will not get damaged by water up to 6 feet deep for over 30 minutes... If I seal it in three consecutively applied brand-name Ziploc freezer bags that have been pre-checked for air-tightness. I could get 10 meters for over an hour if I seal that triple-bagged phone in a block of acrylic resin.
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  10798. The buyer won... this one case. But they lost that farmer's output in the future, and perhaps other farmer's output as well. - The farmer's lawyer should have argued that "please confirm contract" is unclear. Did the buyer want the recipient to confirm that it was, in fact, a contract? Did the buyer want the recipient to simply acknowledge receipt of a contract? - edit: and you can dang well BET that if the buyer had sent the same thumbs-up emoji to the farmer's proposal for price, they would have argued that the emoji was not a legal signature.
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  10799. Based on the thumbnail, Mr. Clinton has a piranha somewhere in his family tree.
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  10800. It was in the title. Collision repair.
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  10801.  @johnlarkin549  Ah. My apologies.
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  10802. We should be asking why the FBI and DOJ is spending OUR money defending this travesty.
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  10803. So, this city would evict Kevin Bacon for the crimes of nearly every other actor.
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  10804. Oh, hey! You found airless rear tires for your mower!
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  10805. Like with most spills, bad container placement, not capping between drinks and insufficient attention. edit: sorry, you asked for one cause. So let's call it human error.
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  10806.  @erichert1001  You stole my comment! Haha
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  10807.  @RudolphoAqui  I love that one, thanks!
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  10808. Bill DeBlasio is making it worse in NYC, blaming green spaces for the rat problem, when it is MUCH more the piles of trash on the roads, alleys, sidewalks, parking lots (if you can find one), and subways. He is so sure that green spaces are the problem that such places that are not city parks are under threat of being bulldozed because he is trying to sell that as a solution.
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  10809.  @chipmonkey7266  Tear gas? I guess. But compound B launching tiny sharp-edged fragments of metal at super-sonic speeds would be SO satisfying. And a felony.
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  10810.  @johnnysouza5601  Exactly. For me it's not the "Oh no the bolts aren't OEM!" it's the "A welded nut on a bolt is quite likely to be weaker than just getting a bolt the right length. It doesn't even have to be a special order. Just drop by a hardware store on lunch break. Another option, if the tools exist in the shop would be to cut the threaded end of the bolt and re-thread the shorter one, assuming you have a die set with the right size and pitch on hand.
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  10811. That street doesn't really drain well.
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  10812. Well at the approximate latitude of New Orleans, the surface of the earth if moving at around 900 miles per hour. If his car is facing west, it it moving faster than a westbound cruiser. - The above is a silly comment about frames of reference.
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  10813.  @GunnyO326  Car theft is a felony. So is stealing enough money from a bank you work at. "Felony Stop" is a term that means, 'Cops get to go in guns-out and play super-cop while they're so keyed up they're far more likely to shoot than think."
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  10814. R'amen.
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  10815. Anyone who was undecided between the two old guys is already lost to rational discourse.
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  10816.  @vch309  Oh, so witty! What a zinger! A scathing bon mot! I am slain by thy retort! - Pfft. Not.
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  10817. Now this is a crafting channel?! My worlds are colliding! First Louis Rossmann does a real estate series, then a construction series, and an ongoing political series over right-to-repair. Then Jeremy at black magic craft gets us into recycling, now our science-Thor-villain gets us into construction. Oh, and Leo Moracchioli at frog leap studios turning all of the music better with metal. Wild ride this year.
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  10818. Truth is defamation. Habeus Corpus is the power to arrest without due process. War is Peace.
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  10819. American car, hecho en Mexico con Chinese parts.
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  10820. The screwdriver? It's ribbed... for David Leisure?
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  10821. The splash box on the broadcast is quite click-baity. It would be more useful and accurate to list the NUMBER of arrestees, but I guess Florida REALLY wants to ramp up the hate against Disney and teachers...
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  10822. You encountered what we in the biz call, "an idiot".
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  10823. @ Sew buttons.
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  10824. He had to plead guilty because of financial issues. That there is a condemnation of "the system".
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  10825. The freeze frame where they show a "possibly, maybe, if you kinda squint potentially gun-like object" is of no value, since there is no rational expectation that a person in a running foot chase could have seen such a fleeting detail. Heck, I could make an equally valid claim that it was his phallic organ, a finger, or a miniature UFO.
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  10826. "More boats won't save more lives." (Translation: More boats will cut into profit margins.)
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  10827. But you just KNOW those cops would have bagged him if he was not pretending to pedal on the "BIKE LANE!"
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  10828. Wow. It's actually worse than the combat heels and the mall fight?
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  10829. Here from Louis Rossmann's video on the topic. I like getting the deeper information he didn't cover in his Right to Repair focused treatment. - 2021 and they only have a four-line display for the ice cream maker? I used to get a small cone once a week from McDonalds, but about a year ago I stopped because every time I stopped I got the "the machine is down" response, so I stopped even checking.
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  10830. Hovercraft are potentially effective at crossing minefields but only for pressure-sensitive mines. (source - Mythbusters episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAimDLp5TmA) But they won't help against anything with a prop rod, tripwire, or command detonation. And hovercraft are generally LOUD and unarmored.
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  10831. MUST. NOT. OFFEND. THE. SACRD. JEWISH. COUNTRY!!! US journalism and political policy for far too long.
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  10832. My important words list: hello, help, bathroom.
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  10833. My electric bill and my rent list surcharges for paying by credit card - to offset the fees and percentages that credit card processors charge the payee. Or I can mail a check or do a direct bank transfer and save $10-25 (depending on which bill we're talking about).
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  10834. Nail clipping: 25% discount!
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  10835. After the first video on that letter, I contacted my elected reps AND NHTSA to express my dissatisfaction. I live in Massachusetts, and my elected representatives all emailed me back (form letters, but at least they include a pasted paragraph about the actual topic). NHTSA? Not even a "we got your message" response.
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  10836.  @travistucker7317  Oh, so the insecurity guard couldn't have shouted his question from a safe distance? If he KNEW it was an employee's car (and he claimed to know that in the 911 call) he could have contacted that employee to verify what the mechanics answered him. Ta-da! No police called, nobody illegally arrested, no right violated, nobody's life at risk from a scaredy-cat blue-gang member.
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  10837. My problem with self-checkouts is two-fold. First, the jobs being taken off the table. Second is the way the stations in my area determine if you've actually put the item in the bagging area is by using a scale. If the item is too light, the machine stops working, essentially accusing you of stealing an item. If you have more items than will fit on the scale then you have to get human intervention to reset the weighing because again, you must be stealing if you took things off the scale before paying.
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  10838. Ooh, cromulent. New vocabulary word of the day! Cromulent adjective humorous - acceptable or adequate
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  10839. As Robin Williams once said, members of Congress should have to wear patches from all of the companies they have accepted money (and, I submit, other favors) from, so that you would have a clue as to why they were voting the way they do.
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  10840. I am against touchscreens in a car in general. A touchscreen means I have to look away from the road to do something as simple as turn up the radio or change the station, or turn on the AC or... But with knobs and buttons, I can learn where each control is by FEEL and manipulate those controls without even looking. - So if I don't need a touchscreen, why then do I need a data plan, or connectivity, or over-the-air updates? Easy answer? I don't.
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  10841.  @jimdavis6833  I concede to your first-hand knowledge of aircraft maintenance. I was only thinking of the maintenance of ground vehicles, the limit of my military maintenance experience.
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  10842. These people will hopefully do this kind of scam to someone who has a surplus of anger and a deficit of ethics, and armed with the scammer's home address and a nice implement of harm...
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  10843. Re hubs: A seal can be leaking in one direction and holding vacuum in the other. Could also be a restriction or leak in the air line?
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  10844. The labeling of PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) was something that started when the boards were parts-populated and assembled by hand, to aid in the manufacturing process. With the increase in automated placement, particularly of surface-mount components, the reduction of size of the PCB with more packed onto them in less space (in some products), and the addition of visual aid computers to the hand-placement parts of the process, the silk screening of component identifiers onto the PCB is going out of favor. It also saves a tiny amount per board to not silk-screen the identifiers on the PCB, so with high numbers of units, the bean counters like taking that step away as well.
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  10845.  @marcelovolcato8892  True. They have to protect their profit margins over anything else.
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  10846. I was rousted out of a neighborhood for "suspiciously" reading a book in my car (parked well off the side of the road) while I was waiting for a friend to get home from work. Apparently, because the upper-class new-money rich people living there who passed by didn't know me or my car, I was there to "cause trouble".
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  10847. I wonder how many mechanics would not have checked for the lube in the gearbox.
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  10848. He tried that route when that "postal supervisor" showed up at his old store, no uniform, no ID shown, and took a lot of small packages that just disappeared BEFORE being entered into the postal system. Guess what contacting and giving the post office the facts, the recording of his phone calls, and a copy of the video of the guy taking the packages got him?
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  10849. Objection! We can in fact conspire, as we dream by the fire . To face unafraid the plans that we've made walkin' in a winter wonderland. Assuming said winter wonderland is not posted as private property upon which we do not have permission to be upon, we have conspired to do something not-illegal! I rest my cocoa!
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  10850.  @FreeU.S. I found the joke a-peel-ing. I didn't rind at all.
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  10851. Was the original judge who declined the motion the prosecutor's uncle?
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  10852. 1. A flyer on your door is not how a real business does information. A phone call and/or an in-person visit. 2. This is Texas, right? Where you can shoot people for being on your property without permission? THAT Texas? That's a lot of risk some corporate decision put their ground workers in. 3. What kind of rinky-dink outfit doesn't put down plywood to roll their machinery in on, are they ASKING to pay for new sod? 4. Eating on the woman's table is highly unprofessional, and see point 2 above. 5. That fence will come down in the next decent wind, since the excavator completely under-cut the support for it. 6. It took a call from the news to get this mess cleaned up and the fence repaired... WTF. 7. Pay for SOME of the damages? Well, if they are fixing most of it, that makes sense. Fix what they can, pay for the rest.
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  10853. If votes counted after midnight didn't count, it would be easy to "arrange" for the workers with the slowest counts to work in voting districts where your opponent is projected to get high vote numbers.
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  10854.  @Thor67af  How can you "return back to" a country in which you were not born? Do you shout at non-whites to "go back to your country and stop [activity that bothers you]"?
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  10855. Cats? Share? HA!
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  10856. I prefer my colonoscopy and upper endoscopy to be with sedation. For the lower, I woke near the end of one and it was VERY painful. For the upper, I have a gold medal level gag reflex, and only sedation can bypass it. Also, it can be uncomfortable to painful. - Side note, props to W getting out and talking to the press the day before his procedure. The day before my procedures, I've been on a short twenty step radius from my toilet because of the prep solution. a.k.a. "the squirts" every 20-40 minutes for hours.
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  10857.  @KeBobHope  I live in Massachusetts. We don't even have temporary plates.
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  10858. This is the best saga since Lawrence of Arabia!
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  10859. See the company spamming YouTube ads lately, Flexcar. Their ads say, "You save 10-20% versus a car loan." but at the end of a car loan, you own a car that you can sell for more than 10-120 of the original price (assuming you haven't wrecked it).
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  10860. Ha! My brother and I still use the "Battery, Aziz." line when a battery goes flat.
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  10861. I thought (edit: HER) name was "Big T"!
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  10862. Just because a cop says it doesn't make it a lawful order. I can prove that with a simple thought experiment. Cop, in full uniform, walks up to you and says, "Take my pistol and shoot the President of the United States in the kneecaps."
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  10863.  @voidstarq  Da. Is like fly kite. I don't really speak more than a couple of phrases and one fight-starting obscenity in Russian. I'm just playing around.
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  10864. 18:45-ish All that and the kitchen sink! 38:00 I just realized you guys uncovered what looks like the water shut-off valve access. Maybe gas?
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  10865. Wow. Fox is diving hard for the bottom. Are they upset they lost viewers to OAN, and trying to get them back? - Dr. Seuss can now join that international organization, Doctors Without Books at Borders. - That dog looks like ANY dog that was just napping. Comfortable, fur in various directions, dazed look in the eyes, and slightly hungry.
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  10866.  @robgillan2493  If I lived/worked/shopped all in a fairly flat city like NYC or Phoenix AZ, I would be more likely to use an electric bicycle for most of my travel. Where I live, it is almost nothing but hills, and things are far apart. So car it is for me.
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  10867. Meh. I much prefer Finnish coffee bread, a braided and lightly glazed braided bread with cardamom seasoning. My Finnish (from Finland) grandmother used to make it for us a few times a year, and I will still buy it whenever I see it in a store or bakery. - This lawsuit is the kind of thing that should get plaintiff's lawyers fined for idiocy. A lawyer is responsible for preventing the filing of frivolous and/or unlawful suits. (Or at least they should be.)
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  10868.  @anubis9151  Okay, blah-blah they are not colors per the spectra of light, but they are colors in the paint aisle, and the words black and white are current shorthand for negroid and caucasian (did anyone feel the clenching at the word negroid? - Negroid: relating to the division of humankind represented by the indigenous peoples of central and southern Africa). - Every time race is discussed, I remember a section of the 1980 film, the Lathe of Heaven. In that section of the movie, the therapist for the dreamer who could shape reality convinced the dreamer to make all races equal. The dreamer turned everyone grey. No changes to anything but color. We need that to happen.
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  10869. A major leak in a house often necessitates tearing out walls and more to prevent mold and remediate damage. I bet the RV "repair" was a tube of caulk, leaving the RV with ready mold spores.
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  10870. Give them each a chainsaw and let them fight!
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  10871. Ooh! Good one!
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  10872. I just imagined a time-traveling spaceship landing in front of the offices of the Thoughty Herald, and out comes the alien pilot, "Arthur Dent? Arthur Philip Dent? You're a jerk, a complete kneebiter."
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  10873. Kinda makes you want to staple a copy of the mailing info and the canceled check to every forehead in the office, using nice, solid, 1" staples from a battery-driven stapler.
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  10874. The only supporters he should have are suspenders for his pants. America REALLY doesn't need that system failing!!!
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  10875. My response to that ad (which I haven't seen before, even though I live in Massachusetts, because I don't watch TV anymore) is to tell these worry-warts and corporations, "How about you DON'T store and broadcast this data in/on/from the cars? How about THAT?!" - Angry? That ad has me flabbergasted. First, that the people who made that commercial would make it shows bad personal judgement. Second, the worry that too many sheeple in my state will see this ad and default to "Oh, no! I'll get raped by the mechanic down the street!" when the mechanic at the dealership also has access to that information. - Okay, I'm angry, and I need someone to slap with a frozen halibut (the whole fish).
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  10876. Capacitors fail in SO many interesting ways.
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  10877. An honor system only works when everyone agrees on what honor means AND that it matters. Heck, look at the last year at honor-heavy institutions like West Point. Everyone there had to compete to get in, swear to an honor code, yet hundreds STILL broke the rules.
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  10878.  @jenscheibner792  Ah, but that is inside private property.
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  10879.    Well, compared to the cop I saw in his own dashcam footage hopping up and down as he shot a guy, in the driver's seat, that he had just pulled over... Or compared to the cops who tackle and punch people in the head and face... - Calm is not found in approaching a "who is that" call in the open in daylight with weapon drawn. Calm is not found in shouting and berating. - Snowflake? Surely you can find something more biting, and germane to the conversation.
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  10880. My proposal: Everyone who engages in risky mask-less behavior must get a forehead henna 'tattoo' indicating they did so. By the time the henna fades, they will have either come out clean, or be showing symptoms and perhaps very ill. That way their "Mark of Cain" will serve as a warning to others, and we can avoid them like the plague they might be. - I just heard a segment about Brazil's problems with coronavirus. They have a government that is even less responsive and willing to acknowledge the problem than we had under T****, and they have over 250,000 dead. Nearly all hospitals are at or above 100% capacity and are turning away patients of all types, whether Covid, broken bones, car crashes. Major cities are unable to handle the flow of dead bodies. People are dying of Covid at home, and even on the side of the street. Thanks to their government's lack of action, they have had open travel from other countries the whole time, and have ALL variants of the virus, and have even developed their own that is being called the Amazon variant, that started in the jungle a mere few weeks ago but is country-wide. The new variant may even be able to infect people who have already survived having the virus, and maybe even people who have been immunized. - OMG Amazon, STOP FOLDING TO THE TWITTER VETO! All companies are pussing out to the heckler's veto, and it is pathetic. Well, Red Bull didn't, and if I consumed energy drinks, that would be the only brand I would buy. - Thanks Trevor. I used to see the Earth and Moon in the Instagram logo, but now it will ONLY be a robot's butthole...
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  10881. The repair technician and facility could be nailed with a 2257 violation as well. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2257
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  10882. On a Saturn I had around a decade ago, I had no low beams. I traced the problem to an open somewhere in the fuse block, but instead of replacing the fuse block, I sacrificed my daytime running lights with a couple of jumper wires.
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  10883. If you have a battery that has openable cells, you may need a battery newer than this century. But I could be wrong. In which case you also need to watch that you don't over or under dilute, by using a specific gravity tester (hydrometer) so you don't create a dead cell even though it looks full. - But I agree with your second half, a cell being low on fluid means a leak, which is a sign to replace the battery.
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  10884. May be faster to fill one of those shallow depressions in the state forest.
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  10885. Hmm. Throw a tantrum? Threaten them with a pile of semi-automatic rifles? They'll probably try to sue.
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  10886. Dear Magic 8 Ball, will there be an upcoming rash of "insurance fires"? (/shaky-shake) "ALL SIGNS POINT TO YES"
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  10887. Hey, there is no court precedent that says cops can't safely fall out of an airplane at 8,000 feet of altitude without a parachute.
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  10888. 12:32 - Bluetooth hose clamp
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  10889.  @garyowens7454  And if the rich complain about the thumbs, they can volunteer to hid them by sitting!
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  10890.  @grischad20  Oh, therapy "barely" works. Well let's abolish it then, since there are some people for whom it is not the perfect miracle-fix.
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  10891.  @hifi4804  Thank you for the well-explained answer.
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  10892. Yes, it was kind of a funny joke, but if your LARPing friend Dan works at Hobby Lobby, you KEEP that friend, at the very least to use his employee discount.
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  10893. Regarding the locker room camera(s), the statement "there were no victims, so it's not a crime."... does that mean if I am driving 100MPH on an empty highway, does that mean I don't get a ticket?
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  10894. Evidence tampering!
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  10895. Ooh! A Jeff Grey fan!
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  10896. I don't see myself ever being your customer, because I don't buy apple products. But if I were, my reviews would be honest, like my reviews and personal evaluations of all businesses I go to.
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  10897.  @chriswarr641  Cyberpunk future, here we come!
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  10898. In the thumbnail, Colonel Sander seems to be holding a pistol in a left hand on his right arm. My OCD wanted me to tell you that.
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  10899.  @hayuseen6683  It is coming to the point that we the serf class have to have body cameras and get everything, no matter how picayune, in writing then get it notarized. And then maybe we might possibly have a chance of prevailing against liars, scammers, and profiteers.
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  10900. I've been watching too many videos about bad police interactions and raging Karens. I needed this dose of joy today!
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  10901. "I'm coming after you!" "I'll start slitting throats." - These are the stars of your party, Republicans. Do the SMART thing and eject them. Remove the support of the party and try to scrub the stink and stain off of your hands.
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  10902. Exactly!
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  10903. My medium-sized town has five pizza places, two fast food burger joints, a taco bell, two Asian food restaurants, a breakfast/brunch diner, and (at least) two "American" style sit-down places. They are all doing well.
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  10904.  @Laugh1ngboy  At that point, the only bar is if there are specialized tools required, and whether or not he feels purchasing those tools for one job is worth it. Perhaps he could find a place that would rent specialized tools? - I only had one car (so far) that required a specialized tool that had no use anywhere else, and that was a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle and the tool was the hex wrench for the drain plug. I held on to that sucker for years longer than I had the car, hoping someone else would find it useful, but eventually it went to a metal recycle pile.
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  10905. The fix is easy. Child's play. Make a new set of gyros with new tech and knowledge, send them up on the next shuttle launch and Bob's your uncle! . What's that? No more shuttles? Dangit.
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  10906. Recently naturalized Trump Voters: "I got mine, F the rest of 'em."
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  10907. Remember to change filters monthly, and clean your ducts periodically. That will keep your house cleaner, and your system running longer and more efficiently.
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  10908.  @timshields5554  Maybe yes, maybe no. I have to wonder how heavily the eyewitness was "coached" to identify the man who was convicted.
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  10909. Add in roofers, landscapers, mechanics, DPW departments, etc, etc, etc...
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  10910. "We're going to get through this fine" is really on par with "Don't panic" Very comforting, given that you are currently ankle deep in doo-doo, but you're doing a handstand.
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  10911. If you want to get tot he start of it all, you have to go back to an era when every town and city once more or less set their clocks to solar noon, when the sun was most overhead on any given day. This worked fine, for a long time, until transport and communication increased in speed and an endless patchwork of time standards began to be an impediment to commerce and governance. So we got the time zones and regular clocks. But there were two problems. First, our planet's solar day and solar year are not perfectly aligned with the way we count time, nor each other. Second, depending on the way your time zone is drawn, you can be on the west edge of it and have a sunrise as much as two or three hours after the person on the eastern edge. Third, you and the place you work could be in two different time zones. - There are no perfect fixes. - Daylight savings time was invented because the vagaries of the calendar, our timekeeping and the solar seasons don't all align very well. As an example, the summer solstice, the day with the most time of sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere, which is traditionally and intuitively the middle of summer (Midsummer Night) is called the first day of summer, and it is in June. This all gets into thermal lag between sun exposure and prevailing temperatures, and is very science-y. - Germany and Austria in 1916 (8 years after a single community in Canada started the idea) instituted Daylight Savings as a way to save on the use of artificial lighting as a scarcity measure during the Great War (WW1). Britain followed not long after. - The "hassle" and "need" of DST could be done away with if daylight-dependent employers would be willing to shift operating hours with the daylight. This would require a majority of such employers agree to the disruptions in all sorts of things from employee commute patterns to supplier and shipping schedules. We are in an era when artificial light is getting cheaper and easier, and the need for DST is vanishing. I only appreciate it as a reminder to change batteries in the smoke and CO detectors.
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  10912. Best smart home ideas include avoiding things that depend on the maker's server and constant online access. FAR too many home gadgets have been bricked over the last few years as companies either force updates that kill older gear, or they go out of business entirely and you can't run your gadgets without THEIR online servers.
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  10913.  @ChessMasterNate  What value does a Marxist weather station add?
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  10914.  @kwhatten  Or those old-school thermal devices for windows. Curtains. Also decorative, allowing you to change the look, feel and character of a room by simply putting up different curtains/drapes. Growing up we had the heavy winter thermal drapes, and the thin summer curtains that let breezes through, and the festive holiday curtains for the kitchen and dining room, and...
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  10915.  @Citsym8  I like the way you think.
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  10916. I wonder if cops are specifically watching cars with the Uber stickers to look for any chance to write a ticket.
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  10917.  @thatoneguy9504  Blue, eh? I always thought the egg color was a function of what the chickens ate, including dietary supplements. That isn't true?
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  10918. In the side-by-side, when you take a step, both cameras have shaky images, but the DJI seems to jitter and vibrate like it's mounted on a stiff spring. Also the DJI shifts reddish. Biggest factor, if it was me, would be that the GoPro does not require me to install software on a smart phone (which I don't even have) but it also doesn't need my location information. - If you are having reliability issues with your GoPro, it may be be THAT camera, else there would be more news and talk about how bad they are from numerous sources.
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  10919. With no video of the (illegal) opening and inventory of the boxes, anyone up on charges as a result of the contents of their box can just point at the sloppiness as evidence that if the FBI cannot find the belongings of unindicted innocent box-holders, why should ANYEONE believe that the drugs and presidential assassination blueprint were actually found in the defendant's safe deposit box and not in another?
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  10920. No. Sticks and stones hurt. Words are easy to ignore.
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  10921. I have an urge to print a briefcase full of fake money that has bold letters on both sides reading FAKE MONEY on every $99 bill and bring it as a carry-on through a TSA checkpoint. I have the spare time.
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  10922. Everything is transactional with the Traitor-in-Chief.
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  10923. Murano is an island near Venice known for fine glassware also known as Venetian glass.
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  10924.  @michelleshaw337  You are speaking the language of the car salesperson.
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  10925. Let's see. We've had 46 presidents. How many have been indicted for crimes DONE IN OFFICE after they left the White House? (edit: Only 45 of the 46 have, as yes, left office) Two that I can find. Most recently The Orange Donnie. Before that, George W. Bush, who was indicted, tried and convicted (in absentia) in Malaysia for war crimes - along with Dick Cheney. That's all I can find. - There have been a few presidents impeached (but not convicted by the Senate) while IN office, but that's pretty much it.
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  10926. I too mock Space Force. Come at me Fox!
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  10927. I had a cat whose favorite clawing post was anything wood. Cabinets, door frames, you name it. Until he passed, everything wooden had to have two-sided tape on it from 1' to 2-1/2' from the floor to keep him from destroying them. y current cat only likes the corner of my bed's box frame, and my lap. At least he is a lot more tolerant of having his front nails clipped!
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  10928. Pepperidge Farms remembers!
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  10929. I keep waiting for some US Republican to step off a plane, waving a piece of paper that will guarantee "Peace in our time".
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  10930. Something to share with all Republicans: If abortions and contraception services are provided on a subsidized (or even free) basis to all non-white people, that would greatly delay that "White Replacement" thing they're so worried about.
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  10931. I can see why your final plan worked better (if not according to Hoyle). The inner part of the arm is a longer lever than the outer part, with the spring contact as the load in a classic second-class lever. By applying force against the longer arm you increase your work advantage. - Also, that point is closer to the center line of the car, so you have less lever action against the weight of the car, resulting in less 'tilting' of the car off the jacks.
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  10932.  @zacharyhenderson2902  Yes I did.
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  10933. It's mass/unit volume. The exact units you use may be influenced by what field you are working in.
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  10934.  @chrishayden7016  The Ball site sells the screw-type lids. For the seals for the glass-top jars, there are a number of third-party companies selling compatible seals. I found at least one listing at WalMart.
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  10935. There 'something' about my brother that causes dogs with a high percentage of wolf in them to attack him on first smell. This happens with many huskies and malamutes, and even with dogs that are known to be "calm, friendly, great with kids, barely bark." He has learned that if he sees blue or lighter eyes to have an escape route planned.
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  10936. The northernmost Wawa I was ever in was in the Philadelphia area.
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  10937. Hmm, I'd limit the jailtime to the sponsors of the unconstitutional law. Otherwise we end up jailing ALL of the politicians and we'd have to wait while governors pick replacements before the business of the nation can get done.
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  10938. Is Rudy so far gone that he no longer knows how "being a fugitive" works? Hiding doesn't stop the law once you've been indicted. That action stops the clock on the statute of limitations.
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  10939.  @smartysmarty1714  Unless your water rate is "piping drinking water to the center of The Sahara" level, $700 of water is more than a slowly leaking toilet. I have seen a big bill be the result of the water company doing their once-every-few-years actual eyeballs on meter reading, and the bill reflected the difference between the meter and the years of just estimating to save labor costs.
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  10940. I imagine there will be a day when the majority desires the US to not be so full of firearms. At THAT time, the people and their corporate-owned masters can try to enact an amendment to the constitution to overturn the second amendment. But for now, we have it as law so governments and agencies need to deal with that fact. Making unconstitutional and/or illegal laws is so disgustingly common from states down to towns and school boards, as well as mystery regulations and rules enacted without political processes by government agencies (look at YOU ATF!), and our only recourse is when someone with enough spare time and money to afford justice decides to fight these things in our pay-to-play justice system.
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  10941. "Think about the children!" mindset at its finest.
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  10942.  @XOChristianaNicole  Fighting pedantry with pedantry. Respect.
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  10943. On the warranty issue, it would be up to the warranting entity (your company, an insurance company, the compressor manufacturer) to contest the warranty in civil court on the grounds that a "known causal fault" was found and declined to be repaired by the vehicle owner. In which case it is a decision comparing the expense of going to court versus the expense of the warranty parts and service.
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  10944. Good old SLAPP suits.
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  10945. "You're under arrest!" - "No I'm not, I'm dead. You can't charge me."
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  10946.  @thomasabner9134  Do you want video proof of the text of the original police reports?
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  10947.  @thomasabner9134  Would it be better for me to uncritically take the word of some news organization? Say, OANN, or Fox, or CNN, or MSNBC, or BBC, or Pravda, or...
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  10948. A hydraulic fan? What madness!
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  10949.  @ObservationofLimits  I sincerely hope that either you don't really believe what you just posted, or you only momentarily got access to a computer in your mental health care facility.
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  10950. Oh my gosh! V-belts! What a flashback.
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  10951. Most people say I should replace my tires if they have less than 2/32" of tread depth, but I wait until it's 1/16".
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  10952.  @andybarnard4575  That seems to be frozen's point. This company has such a wide reach, this breach impact multiple countries. Ought to make the court cases interesting, with the various legal systems involved.
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  10953. Hehe, it wasn't even a tree. It was a tree-shaped metal frame draped with greenery
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  10954. Ah, like going to an island nation hungry for American dollars to get your medical certification.
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  10955. It is darned near futile to reach the willfully ignorant. It would be better to "vote them off the island," so to speak.
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  10956.  @larrygarland3728  Oh, you tease!
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  10957. I saw the thumbnail and my brain dredged up, "I'm not wearing any pants. Film at eleven." from the movie Network.
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  10958. Is that 1/4 pound of powder the pre-cooked weight?
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  10959. Print them on banners and decorate their Faux Tree with them.
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  10960. I imagine she had to at least once bravely send back her filet mignon for being slightly overdone. Heroes... (/sniff) **SARCASM**
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  10961. A crossbow?
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  10962. "Please tell me what to do and believe, because thinking is HARD."
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  10963. To paraphrase a song from The Music Man: "Well the Wells Fargo wagon is a' burnin' down and it sounds just alright to me."
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  10964. Israel is attacking "Hamas (Hezbollah, etc.) terrorists" and Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, et al attack "Zionists". Meanwhile, the dead and injured look a lot like Palestinians and Israelis.
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  10965. I remember the first time I dropped the oil pan on my 1974 Volkswagen Beetle (this would be in the late 1980's) because when I did an oil change, there was a lot of 'goopy' used oil I felt ought to be scraped out. I found a handful of pieces of broken metal rings that came from "somewhere" in the engine and I was able to jigsaw them back together to about 8 rings (4-cylinder engine). - I spoke to a career Volkswagen mechanic who said, "Oh yeah, that's normal." The engine ran great before AND after, so I guess the mechanic was right?
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  10966. Her fast speech, constant touching of her face during pauses, nail art... It all says to me, "I am frantic (or high?) and a bit high maintenance."
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  10967.  @PraiseTheFSMonster  So having no interest in emotionally tiresome people makes me an involuntarily celibate person? Interesting delusion you got going on there. Also, you just made the list of people I can do without.
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  10968. Ah, the magic of "robust discussions" away from the public eye.
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  10969. Most of us watch Judge Dredd and think it is a dystopian horror setting. Some people watch Judge Dredd and see a blueprint for an ideal society.
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  10970. Was that Akwafina vomiting tuna?
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  10971. Australia an enemy? What are they going to do, send in an amphibious attack led by emus?
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  10972. Nah. A train wreck uses real physics.
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  10973. As an American atheist, I find many destructive protesting, rioting, looting, to be the tools of evil actors manipulating the gullible into pushing an agenda they might not support if they were more clear-headed.
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  10974. The last time someone asked, "Would you like us to pray for you?" I answered, "Don't you [expletive] dare, you cultist! If you pray for me, I will pray AGAINST you!" Pretty sure way to make sure nobody else from that particular cult will visit again.
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  10975. How petty does a person have to be to unsubscribe because of a board repair video on a channel from a guy who repairs boards? That's like getting divorced from someone you love because they used a different flavor of jelly in you PB&J. Just don't eat that one sandwich, you child!
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  10976. I can't believe the owner did not at least have the plugs replaced!
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  10977.  @tiddybearkush  Yet your post to which I was referring said, "Stop buying ford is the only thing that make them stop." Which is like saying, "If you dont like phones with non-removable batteries and no headphone jack, just stop buying from Apple." And yet those are becoming the norm across multiple brands.
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  10978. My issue is that our world seems to lack the white paint on all useable handholds.
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  10979. "It's measurable, but small." Why you gotta call us out like that, Steve?
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  10980. How about one of the crazy things Colin Furze has built? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxxPyaAT1k
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  10981.  @YounesLayachi  I did not misspell.
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  10982. Yet ANOTHER video on this channel with Zero content! Gaaaahhhh!!! ;-)
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  10983. Too bad it's not still around. They could rename it the Ankh-Morpork.
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  10984. I say we make Bezos use only "top rated" Amazon products in a rebuild of his penis rocket.
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  10985. As to why some people change oil religiously but not other fluids? Anyone with a moderate level of skill, a few tools, and space they can do the work in can do an oil/filter change. That does not apply to fluids like brakes and transmission quite the same. I had one car that did its OWN brake fluid changes, until I replaced the rusted-out lines. But doing it purposefully and correctly? I've never had the tools for that. - So the other fluids comes to money and trust. Can you afford to pay someone else to do those fluids, and are they trustworthy at the price point you can afford?
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  10986. I am most often in the camp of "If the ocean wants it that badly, you should move uphill." New Orleans (IMO) ought to have been left to the sea, and the people and things moved elsewhere. Yes, it would be a massive displacement of people and industry, but is it cheaper than holding back the sea forever, particularly with the sea rising and storms in the Gulf getting more severe?
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  10987.  @Brozius2512  The whole point of this video to which we are commenting is to note how The Netherlands DID fail to "hold a little water at bay" and what lengths they had to go to be able to do so again. - I am saying that there are times when my personal opinion is that sometimes you need to do the hard math and tell people to move.
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  10988.  @QemeH  So, not Bill Burr? Good. The world needs his anger.
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  10989.  @williamsherman3047  Truth. Democracy is not all sunshine and rainbows, because humans are involved, and there are some particularly shitty humans in the world.
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  10990. That's a fantastic shirt!
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  10991. Take the matter to civil court? Fuck those cops! Make them do their dammed job and get the trespassers off the property and into jail! - Adverse Possession is theft. Squatting is theft. Why do you need special paperwork to make the cops do their damned job? - Maybe this woman can find the addresses of the cops who arrested her and convince the trespassers that those houses are much better ones to squat in.
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  10992. Also, are these the same judges who ruled that making a half-[redacted] job of replacing wheels on your car counts as "performing the job" and even when the wheels fall off from loose lug nuts, it's not actionable? edit: Ah, Steve covered that. They are.
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  10993. People harshing you for wearing and providing masks, and keeping distancing in place? Fuck those "Plandemic" lunatics! I wish viruses would ONLY kill the stupid people who believe that vaccines and the current precautions were meaningless. Gather to protest the virus? Dead. Refuse to let your kids get vaccinated? Dead. (Not your kids, just you.)
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  10994. You can make your hunka-burnin-space-rock a stealth weapon by "painting" it with some form of carbon, be it powdered, 'paint', or fabric. Just reduce the albedo low enough that it doesn't reflect all that much, and the most common method of detection is circumvented. They won't find it until it is WAY too late.
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  10995.  @jediknight129  Triple coil of razor wire with supporting stakes, barbed wire running through each coil, and no trespassing signs on the stakes.
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  10996. I have had jobs from "pick things up and put them down somewhere else" to landscaping, to retail, to heavy equipment maintenance, to component level diagnosis (but not repair, that company divided that into two jobs) and others. I have only felt unappreciated by my employer at one of the retail jobs, the rest I enjoyed, whether they were "low-skilled" or "high-skilled" occupations. The only reason I eventually left retail was the customers. It was either find another field of work, or get my name in the paper for beating someone senseless.
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  10997. If you use right and wrong as descriptions of ethics, something can be wrong and legal, wrong and illegal, right and legal, or right and illegal.
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  10998. Another reason that we have a legal system, not a justice system.
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  10999. I guess his previous hat has gone rogue?
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  11000. "I'm not on speaker phone am I?" - said by someone about to say something they don't want a public record of.
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  11001. Poor K X, cursed with engines built by Murphy Corporation.
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  11002. Almost definitely not the owner of that inflammatory van.
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  11003.  @Lostboy811  Maybe not a major reason, but more the straw that broke the camel's back.
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  11004.  @rmhartman  Because the banks paid good customer money to politicians to get banking regulations written in their favor so they could be as obscure as possible to the customers.
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  11005. I may have some bad echoes in my brain. When Ray was taking apart the second side of brakes, and some part self-launched with a metallic 'ping', I had a half urge to seek cover from the grenade.
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  11006. Johnson is such a 'johnson'.
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  11007.  @davidhoward4715  Maybe we need to institute a "being a politician" registration fee of $2,000 (only for state or higher offices), with a price per bill proposal ($10,000) and rider proposal ($3,000) - indexed to inflation.
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  11008. I imagine the first bad news they got was that Trump was their client.
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  11009. YouTube put an ad in the upper right corner of this video's web page for Total Adblock. Yep, a video about YouTube's fight against adblockers, is sponsored, in part by an adblocker.
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  11010. I knew you were a yard wizard, but I didn't know you also did archaeology!
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  11011. Doing donuts and burnout is better than what happened almost every year after graduations at my high school. Almost every year for nearly two decades there was AT LEAST one graduate fatality caused by drunk driving. Every year our principal would assemble the senior class in front of the small stone memorial for all of the dead and challenge us to let another year go by when he did not have to add names.
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  11012.  @peterc6156 Asking the questions is the first step to wisdom.
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  11013. This guy has been torturing us for over four years, meanwhile ISIS beheads innocent reporters. What? Any connections or inferences from that are all YOU!
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  11014. In a world where some foreign corporation is not on the way to buy the house out from under people needing a place to live just so the corporation can 'pump-n-dump' for profit, careful consideration of a home is a prudent plan. But today's market is all about artificial scarcity, leading to people jumping the gun, offering tens of thousands of dollars over asking price, and buying broken structures just to be sure to actually HAVE a home.
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  11015. Jeff's penis rockets aren't going to pay for themselves, after all...
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  11016. When I worked for a convenience store chain, one day a regional supervisor showed up and jumped right in accusing me of stealing one of the weekend deposits. (I will make up a dollar amount, since it was so long ago the details are fuzzy) He was absolutely sure I had stolen the $2,350.37 and he showed me the record of deposits (lacking account holder information, of course) for all of the night deposits the bank had processed. On the list was a deposit listed as "account unknown" for $2350.37. - Yep, the bank mis keyed the account number, it bounced back as account unknown. The store's computer listed the amount the deposit should have been, and the bank did not show that deposit being made into the store's account. So rather than take the 30 seconds I did to find the mis-attributed deposit on the list, the supervisor jumped right to accusing me. We both went to the bank, and the deposit bag still had the deposit slip I had filled out, with the correct account number and amount listed on it.
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  11017.  @Airsaber  To borrow a line from a version of the character The Joker, "I may not know art, but I know what I like."
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  11018. Your Ridge wallet ad is the FIRST one I've seen that actually shows how the darned thing works. Elastics hold the two sides together while allowing expansion for the contents.
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  11019. I'm calling my cable provider and DEMANDING Lewsmax get added to my programming lineup!!
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  11020. It is a legal system, not a system that produces justice.
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  11021. @Les Reeves I have reused cotter pins before, but only either when in the middle of a dirty job away from the shop, such as when you break a shear pin on a rototiller, or back when I was a kid. And back when I was a kid, we would re-use nails and screws until the broke. We had a treehouse that could not have had more than 10% of the nails in it that were new. Most of them we straightened against a rock with the rattiest hammer in the garage after pulling them from things like pallets or older building projects.
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  11022. I did once. As I pulled into work, I was blasting Van Halen (OU812 I believe) in my vehicle. A cop who was about to pull out of the parking lot stopped and started yelling at me. I had to turn off my music and ask him what he said. He got his hackles up, hand on pistol, and told me, "I could arrest you for having music that loud at this time of night. It's disturbing the peace." I looked around at the convenience store, the gas station across the street, and the industrial park around the whole area. I asked him whose peace was I disturbing? He then said it was illegal to play music that loud while driving. I asked him when the RMV started doing hearing tests for a drivers' license. He just pointed at me, said, "keep the volume down." got back in his cruiser and left.
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  11023. Yeah, this "soft-wording" has gone overboard. If I am a guest, I expect that you have invited me into your home, or maybe I have paid to sleep on your furniture in one of your tightly stacked boxes called "rooms" or "suites" (the second meaning there is a couch and a microwave, apparently). If I am in a retail establishment and not currently working there, I am a customer.
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  11024. Mike Pence's "job" on January 6th 2021 could have been done by a Miss America contestant with insomnia and a "problem" with alcohol. "And the winner is.... (rip envelope)... Leonardio Dicapro for The Revenanant!"
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  11025. Not reporting crimes because the police do nothing, but simultaneously not pushing the police to actually DO something, is a spiral of self-destruction. Why have police if you're not going to use them?
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  11026. Dang! Did they paint that thing by dipping it in a barrel of half-dried paint?
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  11027. I am really surprised at the lack of stories of "Officer Xyz found in a shallow grave in the forest (or tossed behind a dumpster)" So many cops are earning that level of hate, and in a country so heavily armed, I am stunned there is not more violent reaction. - And to the rioters, stop directing your anger at the stores and neighborhoods you happen to be angry in. Point your outrage at the right places and people.
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  11028.  @kenyattaclay7666  Yeah, getting in a car with an unverified stranger can lose you more than your money.
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  11029.  @stevennguyen4993  I could almost sit down and listen to the reasons for this New York law, if there wasn't already the example of California to show how STUPID it is.
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  11030.  @paullilly-b5o  While I agree that people who don't use directionals deserve a special suffering, I can't agree with your proposal. Too many false positives are possible. a single-lane back road with a sharp turn. When you MUST cross lane markers because the road or highway traffic is being re-routed to allow work to be done. Parking lots and your own driveway.
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  11031.  @paullilly-b5o  Just the tip, eh?
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  11032.  @w8stral  What is NG in your context? The only thing the abbreviation points to for me is National Guard, which doesn't add anything sensical to your comment.
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  11033. The fact that Apple is behind this idea should alarm everyone. Apple has only backed off technology to scan all of your photos (without a court order) to scan for potential child pornography without your permission or knowledge because of the negative press. Apple continues to make it harder and harder to repair your own devices by blocking access to schematics and parts and they also keep serializing the parts to stop your device from working even when repaired unless you paid THEM too much to do the repair. Apple has their overpriced technology made for pennies on the dollar by "involuntary employees" and drastically underpaid workers in sweatshops. - And the more Apple gets away with, the more the other phone and computer makers copy their playbook.
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  11034. Sanction is a weird word. sanction [ˈsaNG(k)SH(ə)n] NOUN 1. a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule. 2. official permission or approval for an action. VERB 1. give official permission or approval for (an action). 2. impose a sanction or penalty on.
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  11035. Blizzard: You know where our headquarters are, and even our employees hate us enough to "accidentally" prop a door open for you.
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  11036. Don't be down on yourself. With practice and study, you can someday out-repair a Rossmann. Particularly if he keeps spending more time away from the bench as he has been.
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  11037.  @awdsvx  Yeah, we called it the "RV"
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  11038. Yep, next step is to institute a cap on the number of guide licenses issued.
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  11039. The right to keep and arm bears. Now I'm seeing grizzlies with carbide claw tips and level III body armor.
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  11040. John. We love you, but if you show us images like that ignorant beach-goer at 15:40 again, your channel may get classified as a horror film festival channel. I am fat, so this comes from my house of broken glass, but if you are that fat, YOU DON'T GET TO WEAR A BIKINI IN PUBLIC!.
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  11041. Because the people who wrote the Constitution could not even imagine a criminal like him running for President. Just like they could not imagine the type of Subprime Court we are being beaten into fascism by.
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  11042. The end of this test reminds me of one time when I the fuel pump in my car was dying, so I was working mostly off the draw pressure of the combustion cycle. The second set-up tot he situation was that I was VERY low on fuel. There was not enough fuel in the tank to reach the outlet if I accelerated too quickly, or was goin up more than a five degree hill. I was able to keep the car moving to the gas station by keeping my speed constant on the flats, and accelerating before a hill, or tapping the brake rapidly to slosh gas over the tank outlet. - Anyway, it was the sloshing I was thinking of, that in the case of my car, and possibly in the case of this rocket, that kept fuel from being able to leave the tank(s) to reach the place where it was burned.
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  11043.  @verymerry893  In fact, the USPS tells you to inform the people and companies you have mail sent from about your address change.
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  11044. Heck, I "poppen ze hood" on my Mexican assembled Ford Focus.
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  11045. My third point, Apple can call their repairs a loss department if they are including warranty repairs, since they way they price repairs, only morons will let them do a paid repair (which is really just a large-component swap shop)
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  11046.  @notshapedforsportivetricks2912  Hahaha!!!
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  11047. The cybertruck is kind of neat and all, but I prefer Somone Giertz' "Truckla" Besides how cool her projects can be, the resulting truck seems a lot more useful than Elon's not-at-all-hammer-proof creation.
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  11048.  @patricknelson  I was the TV remote for a decade and a half. Then my youngest brother was given the job.
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  11049.  @BigTomInTheBasement  Fine. Everybody gets to own a firearm or ten. Children, the mentally ill, spouse beaters, convicted murderers... Heck, why are we requiring serial numbers even? Why are we keeping people from owning machine guns, recoilless rifles, tank guns, artillery, bombs, missiles... - "Shal not be infringed," right?
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  11050. And who decides someone is "innocent and moral" and not "criminal and mentally handicapped"? You? Me? Courts? Government? The Pope? A collection of Rabbis? Neil DeGrasse Tyson?
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  11051. around 5 minutes in, Steve makes a dangerous assumption. That police have to know the law before they are allowed to enforce it. If that were universally true, there would not have to be qualified immunity.
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  11052.  @Marquis-Sade  I can dream, can't I?
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  11053. I want it all, and I want it now - Queen
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  11054. The cop who shot the man "passed" the test the same way one passes slower moving traffic. Go around it and put it out of your mind.
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  11055. Dang. When I opened a store, I built a single divider wall to building code to have a back room space, got a door at Lowe's for it, did the whole job with only my younger brother helping for a few hundred dollars, including finding out how much space to leave between the top of the wall and the ceiling to avoid having to reroute the sprinkler system. Permits? Architect? GC? Nope. Got it all done in three days, including letting paint dry. - I only missed a $30 sign permit sticker, even though the company that made and put up my sign worked in that town regularly, and didn't tell me I would need one, because he was apparently not being paid to give a bleep.
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  11056. Re: Nuclear war - "It's such an ignorant thing to do if the Russians love their children too."
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  11057.  @TS-bj8my  Even more effective? freeze your phone in a tumbler of water. The ice will slow down the wavelengths and chill the amplitudes. Plus, the "top brands" no longer make a waterproof phone, and the water will short things out.
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  11058.  @PeterParker-tb7ce  True. I had an SUV, and putting something "in the trunk" was not only in plain view but would generally slide around unless tied down.
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  11059.  @nanochic  Way to move the goalposts. Try debating the actual subject next time.
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  11060.  @nanochic  Not interested in debating, and yet you did.
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  11061. The commnt about not reading all 35 pages, and comparison to Leonard French hits at the heart of why I have shifted to watch more of this channel than his. 10-20 minutes versus 40-60 minutes.
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  11062.  @ricktd6891  That sounds like something a traitor would say.
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  11063.  @ricktd6891  I have learned "some science", dear sapient. I have a degree from learning "some science" and have spent the last three decades adding to that basis of knowledge and ability to think critically. What, pray tell, am I supposed to get back to you about?
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  11064. Roll that beautiful bean volcano!
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  11065. I partly blame the parts shops who sell this idea to the ignorant vehicle owners.
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  11066. An air source system works pretty well for most continental US locations, just pay attention to the rated temperature ranges and the efficiency numbers on the unit. Alex at Technology Connections here on YouTube has some good videos on heat pumps, including the one he uses in his home.
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  11067.  @zombieregime  Do assist in childbirth with these skis. Do not place small children in this woodchipper. Do not use this power drill to get a speck of dust out of your eye.
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  11068. There are two fool-proof paths to "Zero Covid". 1) Don't test for Covid. At all. 2) Remove/'un-alive' all living beings in the area you want to bring to zero cases. All other methods I can think of require work, money, and getting people to combat the spread together.
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  11069. I will raise a sword for Warlord Sydney. Lead the way to rational thought! Huzzah!
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  11070. Well, a lot of humans are killed after being born. Accidents, disease, negligence, murder, war, self-un-aliving...
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  11071. Why is making the Starship work reliably so hard? It's not like it's rocket scie... OH!
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  11072. You have to have some serious mental deficiency, or a strong overestimation of the veneer of civilization to steal and sell cars from people who can easily grab a dozen or more fit and angry friends at a moment's notice to help "express their displeasure" at your criminal activity.
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  11073.  @rossmanngroup  Yeah, it's never Lupus. Except that one time it is.
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  11074. Total clickbait! - - - I'll see myself out.
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  11075.  @raspberrymojitogirldec  Dang it. Now I miss my therapy cats...
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  11076. Pfft. that's the dome that covers the flat Earth to keep the atmosphere in and so the stars have somewhere to rest as the dome rotates over the disc of our world. Obviously. - edit: It occurs to me that there may be people who think I am not kidding above. I absolutely AM kidding above.
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  11077. Excelsior!
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  11078. This gave me giggles!
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  11079.  @niyablake  Did what? cancel on them to raise the profit, or make the rooms unusable by damage so they made no money at all? (Well, negative money, after the cost of repairs...)
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  11080. How fast does an impact have to be to have a human head break through a windshield from the outside? I tried navigating the standards for auto glass, but WOW is that thick with engineer-speak. The closest I could get was that in a sample of 10 FLAT pieces of windshield glass, a 5lb metal ball dropped from 4 feet (IIRC) cannot break through more than 2 of the 10 samples for the glass to pass standard. With the curve of a typical windshield, the penetration by a human skull would need some notable speed for penetration from the exterior.
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  11081. I'd rather buy a pop-up camper or self-convert a van than even borrow a free RV.
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  11082. If I was closer, and not all the way across the country, I would show up with my "Down With Protests!" sign. I'm kind of a jerk.
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  11083. @soleknight3212 I find a lot of problems with laws against anti-Semitic speech. Why does one religion get special laws for them in this country where "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..." We already have laws about violent activity, inciting violence, noise regulations, and property rights that let private land owners have people legally trespassed if they don't want them on their property.
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  11084.  @odinsrensen7460  You should see my "DOWN WITH PROTESTS" protest sign...
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  11085. @soleknight3212 Cowardice? Convenience? Not wanting to upset the parents who donate lots of cash?
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  11086.  @aaronkamakaze2967  Wow. Strong in the delusion this one is.
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  11087. The pandemic insurance story reminds of the Looney Tunes episode "Fool Insurance" where Daffy is selling Porky Pig insurance that has the most convoluted and arcane claim conditions. In the end, Porky is convinced that Daffy is right - the home is full of hazards (having seen all the accidents befallen Daffy), and he signs up for Daffy's policy, convinced all he has to do is get a black eye, and he'll get a million dollars. Daffy, however, cackles that Porky should have looked at the fine print - the million dollars is only paid out for a black eye as a result of a stampede of wild elephants running through his house between 3:55 and 4 PM on the Fourth of July, during a hailstorm. Porky is momentarily rebuffed, until a stampede of wild elephants comes through his living room! Daffy then nervously looks at the clock - 3:57 PM. The calendar - 4th of July. He sticks his head outside - hailstorm! Porky displays his new black eye and asks to be paid, but Daffy tells him that the clause said "a stampede of wild elephants and one baby zebra" (even though he made up the part about the zebra) - and just then, a baby zebra comes trampling through the room. Daffy, laid out on the floor, picks himself up to wearily proclaim, "And one baby zebra!" before passing out.
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  11088. If people treated dogs the way prisoners in this topic are treated, there would be jail time.
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  11089.  @1davidsmall  That's brilliant!
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  11090. If a judge screams at you, don't scream back. Pull out a note pad and start taking notes on the incident.
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  11091. Particularly as we have an ever-increasing body of evidence that you can be arrested for your race, or the "feelings" of a cop.
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  11092. The refusal of British officers to even acknowledge signals of parley or surrender from the Bismark is disturbing.
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  11093.  @ericlaska4748  It depends on the state. In my state, you can request a blood test. Of course, it will result in a trip to the station, and they might have your car towed, forcing you to pay out for the tow and yard fees to get your car back... yay. - My constant worry is being pulled over by a "trained {substance} identification expert" who sees their {substance} everywhere in a major case of confirmation bias.
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  11094.  @SmallSpoonBrigade  That is true. In my state, as above I stated a driver can request the blood test, but conversely, refusing to take ANY test is seen as an admission of guilt. Even though that precept seems to fly in the face of "Innocent until proven guilty" that our legal system is largely based upon.
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  11095. Wow. The last vehicle I had with an acceleration profile like that was a skateboard. If I was going uphill.
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  11096. Regarding neck flexibility in space suits... I wish I remembered what book it was in, but one character recognized another as a trained and experiences "spacer" because to look at someone to their side in a hallway in some building on the ground, they turned their whole torso instead of their neck.
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  11097. My brother had an arrest warrant issued on him for failure to appear. The notice for him to appear arrived in the mail well over a week later, with an issue date about three weeks before the missed appearance, and a postmark two days AFTER the missed appearance. And he was not even the first person that Parole Officer had done that to. Once he had the envelope and notice, the charge of failure to appear was erased, the arrest vacated, the bail ordered to be returned, and the P.O. publicly berated in that courtroom with all witnesses present. And yet that guy went on the run his department, then became and A.D.A. - What a racket.
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  11098. This is the LockShootingLawyer...
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  11099. This is why we can't have decent comic book villains anymore. Instead we get the usual array of government and corporate evil. Yawn.
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  11100. The best thing about duct tape, is the price is often low enough to use in wasteful art projects, and it comes in so many colors. The duct tape we got as a military issue was about the same as Gorilla Tape, but that was nearly forty years ago. It was also known as "100 mile an hour tape" for being able to make temporary repairs on the vinyl-ized canvas covers on military vehicles. as well as many other things. In stage work I encountered gaffer tape, and that stuff was great for it's intended purpose, way better than duct tape. - The only tape I like less than cheap duct tape is vinyl electrical tape. - I have a precious roll of that aluminum duct-sealing tape that I will give out on request in pre-cut lengths to friends who need to make repairs on their forced air systems.
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  11101.  @TheOJDrinker  You're just not willing to wash your dishes to pieces, are you! (/joke)
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  11102. 25 newton-meters works out to about 18.4 foot-pounds. Yep, I used the internet.
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  11103. I have only a couple of dietary restrictions, primarily sodium levels (which I cheat on too often), grapefruit and celery. The celery matter means I cannot often get tuna salad, potato salad, or macaroni salad at restaurants and grocery stores. /shrug
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  11104.  @tbelding  That is interesting and something I did not know before. But my celery issue is not related to gas or flavor (though raw celery is a valid torture method against me) but instead because something about celery and grapefruit reduces the efficacy of anti-rejection drugs that I take because of auto-immune hepatitis, a genetic condition where my body treats my natural-born liver (and probably some other parts) as foreign invader(s).
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  11105.  @tbelding  I am actually somewhat aware of human chimeraerism, thanks to an episode of CSI (NY?) and the web search I did afterward. I'm pretty sure that is not the cause in my case, and there have been other people on my mother's side of the family who have had it and/or diabetes (which I am fortunate to not be dealing with - knock on wood).
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  11106.  @adamnorton9595  I first encountered a version of that phrase in the cartoon Dave the Barbarian, where he looks at a muffin the size of a small house and proclaims, "That has got the be the third largest muffin I have ever seen!" Still cracks me and my brother up to this day.
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  11107. Once I was the King of Spain, now I work at the Pizza-Pizza.
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  11108. Still not the fastest brake job ever. The fastest brake job is when you pay for new pads and rotors, and get neither.
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  11109.  @marcogenovesi8570  Good point. A typical capsule (that goes to REAL space) gets one use, while the suits get used over and over and over and...
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  11110.  @gregadams558  Abracapocus! I'm an umpire!
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  11111. "Put it off and wait for the change in administration... to the guy we handed a bunch of money to buy "considerations"."
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  11112. So from one side, we are being made afraid of carrying cash, since "law enforcement" will steal it. On the other side, banks are working hard to eliminate the use of checks. The nebulous "THEY" want everyone to use cards or their phones so all financial transactions can be instantly tracked (and taxed, where possible). - We may have to get back to bartering.
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  11113. I'd probably trust actor Michelle Forbes more than Forbes Magazine.
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  11114.  @eternaldarkness3139  Hey now. You can trust a company. If you own it. And have already closed it down.
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  11115. Fox seems bitter that CBS has the NFL broadcast licensing this year.
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  11116. Who the heck tows/repo's a car on the plate alone? Lazy and poorly trained people, that's who.
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  11117.  @richmcgee434  I just heard a professor/adventurer slipping across the rain-swept deck of a ship, shouting "It belongs in a museum!"
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  11118. Tropic Thunder energy!
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  11119. Regarding exigent or emergency circumstances: How "emergency" is it if they have time to sit down and call Amazon/Ring to request the footage? - As others have said here, we all need to keep in mind this is a CORPORATE POLICY CHANGE not a change in the law. It will protect Ring footage only IF the corporation feels like it.
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  11120. You could always pay $500 for a padded invoice that shows you spent $150,000 on construction when you spend, say $50,000. You know, if you could trust a contractor who is willing to do that.
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  11121. We could lose the internet! Sure, we'd lose the Kyle Hill channel and banking and email and international and inter-regional trade, but we'd also lose Facebook (Meme...) and TikTok and Twitter. That math may work in our favor
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  11122. This kind of thing is why I was taught from a very young age, with horrific stories of "this other kid who died when...", that the first jump into unknown waters is ALWAYS feet-first. At least you can live after they have to amputate your legs because you broke them swimming where your parents told you not to... - I should have a lot more phobias, honestly.
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  11123. "I assume they were adults because they were married at one point." Well, it IS West Virginia...
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  11124.  @30.06onaGrassyKnoll  And there are a lot of similarly trained people, 25 years younger than you, who are looking down the barrel of having their VA and GI bill benefits "DOGEd" out from under them by President Musk.
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  11125. There are parallels with the case of Chris Hardwick and Chloe Dykstra. She cheats, he breaks up with her, she posts a wandering diatribe on social media accusing him of physical abuse, she begs him to to take her back and tell her she misses him in texts, Chris gets fired from several jobs, Chloe "sort of" recants, Chris is fighting to recover his livelihood.
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  11126. Not perfect, but great all the same!
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  11127. The more I hear about Tesla cars, the more I'm looking favorably at hydrogen hybrids. ...once the ability to fill actually makes it to the East coast. Also, as a renter, I have nowhere to charge an electric car. I think my town has ONE publicly accessible charging station.
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  11128.  @Taskandpurpose  I almost threw up on my computer from that...
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  11129. Wait, THAT was what counted as "cramped" seating back then? LUXURY!
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  11130. He needs a bigger carrier. Maybe something from the "small to mid-sized dog" line?
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  11131. An astounding number of "stuck pedal" cases are floor mat and/or trash related. There are also the cases of wrong footwear getting stuck in the pedal area.
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  11132. Well, it's from the FTC so you're not likely to be wrong.
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  11133.  @stevepoling  Ah. Sanguine. Such a fun word.
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  11134. "That's on them, not me." Yeah, sure. - But that department must do a good job with lawsuit prevention training. "I'm gonna _____, alright? I'm gonna ______, alright?" jst to get confused people to give what can be construed in court as "consent".
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  11135. I am still trying to figure out why I keep getting ads for Long Roofing (I don't own a home or watch roofing videos) and something called "SEO". What even SEO and what does it have to do with the car mechanic channel I am watching?
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  11136.  @frederickbays405  The first time I drove through NYC I never left I-95 and still saw a car burning (right before the "Welcome to New York City" sign, IIRC), two other cars on blocks, and as I was just getting on the George Washington Bridge, another car broken down on the concrete wedge of an on-ramp. As I was slowly passing the broken-down car (crawling traffic) a box van backed up to it, two guys rolled the door up from inside the box, and one jumped out with a toolbox as the other played out an I-beam with a chain hoist on it. This was during the morning rush hour, and I witnessed the start of a car stripping in broad daylight. - I wish I was making any of the previous account up.
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  11137.  @admthrawnuru  In that case, the AG can join the judge in the next job at McBurger Bell.
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  11138. If I could ever be convinced to go deep in a submarine (for me, deep means more that 10 feet) or up in a rocket, it would only be a craft that was designed with an annoying attention to detail and safety. Why? Because both are vehicles you can't just turn off and walk away from when they stop working, like a car. Even surface ships and aircraft kind of give me the willies about the lack of being able to just walk away when it breaks.
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  11139.  @JanNovak-pg8oe  Actually, weight matters more for corporations. Pay more to ship the empty bottle to the packaging line, pay more to ship the filled glass to the point of sale.
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  11140. The good ones are helping to educate cops about the rights we all have. The bad ones are shouting fools. Robbins seems to be nearer the good end of the scale.
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  11141. "Quick! Dismiss the charges before this screw-up sets case precedent!"
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  11142. GameStop is about as viable as the population of Pandas. Only with vast public and government support can it survive its inevitable extinction. It will go the way of Blockbusters. I do not celebrate this, but I recognize it. - Stock manipulators are in line behind criminal police, companies profiting our health system to death, and grift-taking politicians in my "Stand her to be beaten by a sack of rabid badgers" line.
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  11143. The trick is to provide the right kind of bridges in gruff billy goat territory for them to nest under.
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  11144. The side booster on the India launch looked almost like there were googly eyes near the bottom.
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  11145.  @adityasudershan9629  Yes. But it still looked like googly eyes to me, and that made me smile.
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  11146. Republicans threatening other republicans for not voting with "Dear Leader"? Cult confirmed!
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  11147. That a-hole DESERVES Genius Bar prices.
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  11148.  @ManyGhosts  Meanwhile we ignore that in the vacuum of space, the light of a nearby star can be so harsh and full of damaging UV wavelengths that a reflective UV outer visor becomes necessary. You know, that drop-down visor that looks a somewhat copper color?
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  11149. It was done best in "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka'"
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  11150. Corporations don't exist to make consumers' lives better. They exist to own things and extract money. And so many corporations exist to just buy, own, destroy, and discard other companies with meaningful and useful products.
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  11151. I say we crossbreed the viruses for Polio, Monkeypox and Covid, then aerosolize the result, pump it into an anti-vaxxer gathering and weld the doors shut.
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  11152. It is probably good you didn't go for the duffel bag of cash. Someone at the bank could have "offhand commented on the matter" to someone in law enforcement, then your house money could be seized in a civil forfeiture after a pretextual traffic stop.
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  11153.  @exturkconner  Non-sensical as in "it actually has happened."
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  11154.  @exturkconner  Concrete examples abound. here is a recent one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWwla3O4sxI
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  11155. "Oh God!" is one phrase you DON'T want your mechanic to say when the scan-tool data comes up.
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  11156. Don't discount the power of apathy and laziness.
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  11157.  @LINMOBnet  Poor communication about supply issues doesn't really cover refusing refunds for unfulfilled orders.
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  11158. I LARPed for about 25 years, and only stopped due to health. I have also been playing table-top RPGs for about 35 years, with a three year break during a poorly-though-out marriage. I enjoy and enjoyed both. The important thing is to find a group, setting, and rules set that give you what you want from your leisure time. Some LARPs I would not play if you paid me, while others I would still be playing (but for health) even if I had to scrape the money together for it from other peoples' couches. - It sounds like the LARP you found is not the one you should have tried first. Sorry it happened to you.
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  11159. Scituate is apparently pronounced 'si-SIT-chew-it'. Yeah, I live in Massachusetts and it boggles my mind too.
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  11160. Yes but. Yes, but an inspector looking at the foundation/footing pour may not be knowledgeable about the setback measurement, and they may just assume that since the lot plan and survey were completed and signed off on, then it is correct.
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  11161. You must supply my wedding reception with a squandrus of quiches.
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  11162. I once knew a Vietnam Vet who started as a Seabee, and then changed jobs to grave & registration. He had more nightmares of the G&R job.
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  11163. This would make sense if, perhaps, there were no other law enforcement agencies in existence in the US. You know, like the local, county, and state police and the FBI? Then there are the non-enforcement entities ALREADY scouring all of our information, like the NSA. the CIA, Google, Apple, Huawei... - Meanwhile, USPS, UPS, FedEx, and law enforcement are "at a loss" at how to deal with people stealing packages from people's front step. There are numerous accounts of police REFUSING to do anything about it, even with video evidence.
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  11164. The cop shilling for the TruNarc being able to identify a drug without opening the container... Bullshit. It will detect what is on the outside of the container. "Lab-standard accuracy" if you remember that labs screw up sometimes, and have even been caught lying.
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  11165. That opening clip... Can the cop mumble any faster? I accidentally heard one distinct word in there. edit: But he speaks violence rather clearly...
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  11166. Hey! Yo! Keep those strap-hanger outta my state..... Oh. You meant lower-case mass. Got it.
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  11167.  @p4radigm989  Sweet Potato Hairpiece is already throwing lawyers at the counting, because he knows it is the only way he has a chance of winning. Also, citizen Trump has a long list of court appearances to look forward to...
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  11168.  @sandylee2233  Thanks. The word was evading my grasp when I last commented.
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  11169. Came for the spider, stayed for that AWESOME BOX!
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  11170. How does it get this messed up? Politics. Party A versus Party 1. Both try to get an "edge" on the other so they gerrymander voting districts to try and favor their party unfairly, make voting laws and policies to try to edge out the opposition, link election funding to the tax base so that the poorer the district, the less money they get to run the election and inform the populace where to vote, media campaigns to distort facts and make people feel like their votes don't matter because "the other Party will win anyway"... - And there is so much money from disreputable sources involved in an election that very few politicians can be true to their constituents unless they are willing to never get money to run again, and the election cycles are so long, so negative, and so incessant, that people get worn out and bored, and stop caring.
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  11171.  @UberMangaka  Ah, to be able to vote with a swatter...
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  11172. Private prisons are a cancer on our society.
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  11173. With the sketchy lift point placement, the ratchet strap method for moving the axle up is likely safer than jacking up on the axle anyway.
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  11174. This comment, and the ones commenting on it made me hear Mike D'elia's voice, "That's so Randahm!"
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  11175. The US military needs to embrace explosives and thermite again if they REALLY want to leave equipment unusable in a withdrawal/retreat. Even plain old fire would be useful for complex machinery.
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  11176. 2:18, you used the word exasperated, and I think you meant to use exacerbated, which would fit better in that sentence and topic. Exasperated means intensely irritated and frustrated. Exacerbated means make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse. - This is my first correction or criticism of your videos in the many months since I started watching, and it is a minor and very excusable mistake.
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  11177.  @mikethespike7579  Kind of like middle-class white people with too much spare time on their hands who get offended on behalf of other racial and religious groups and demand laws to protect the people who weren't actually offended, or didn't care.
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  11178. OMG. It's a platypus.
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  11179. That dam looks like what a group of video game artists would come up with when told to "make a dam built by a culture on another planet."
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  11180.  @daharos  I believe snook refers to a form of billiards. Or it could be a nickname for a New Jersey resident from the Atlantic coast. Or it could mean the fish of that name, also known as the sergeant fish or robalo. Or " to openly show contempt or a lack of respect for someone or something". Or "to place one's hand so that the thumb touches one's nose and the fingers are spread out, in order to express contempt."
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  11181. The first letter writers grandfather apparently had not had to deal with the modern John Deere corporation. They are becoming more and more anti-repair and more beholden to the mighty dollar at the expense of our food supply.
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  11182. I don't even have a smart phone to worry about that on. - I do go through the programs I use on my computers and check (or uncheck) as needed at least twice a year. I should do it more often.
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  11183. What do I see? Someone who takes their easily-spilt coffee with cream and sugar. - Oh, and a non-fluid resistant MacBook. - And a mad strap-hanger fixing it. - The biggest problem with health care in this country is that your health (or lack thereof) is a source of profit for others. Everything is marked up for massive profit from the big machines, to the tiny band aids, to the schools charging outrageous rates to teach the people who work to keep us alive and healthy. A rewind on that would take some serious violence or a complete and near-total economic collapse of the country. Or maybe a takeover by an aggressor nation.
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  11184.  @OfficialJanitor  No living beings or objects you care about being downrange. Just like firearms, archery, and bowling - all activities that are legal.
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  11185.  @majesticeagle5461  That was my point. They have a similarity in that all of them would be bad to be on the receiving end of the speeding object involved.
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  11186. "It's also found in this list of items that are curated to cause you emotional distress!"
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  11187. I'm really glad my dislike of Melissa McCarthy kept me from seeing this piece of roadkill.
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  11188. I was eating a salad and not watching the screen when the car didn't start. I actually stopped mid-chew and looked up to see what happened, to see if maybe Peetah had monkeyed with things.
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  11189.  @JMcMillen  Hahaha!
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  11190.  @mehameha4453  Oh yeah. As soon as headlights, light clusters and other body parts started going to plastic, prices skyrocketed. And it doesn't help that the plastic body parts are made of a material that is both brittle after lengthy exposure to sunlight (or even brand new) and yet also does not glue together well.
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  11191. In this case, the cop's lies under oath means that even if it is found to actually BE the young man's pistol, the double jeopardy clause may protect the kid. - I have seen story after story that tells me when you make "fill in the blank" task force and 'certify' those cops as 'experts' in a thing, they suddenly have a much higher rate of arrests for that thing they are trained to see. Like drunk driving task forces ALWAYS finding drivers as drunk (even when they aren't) and the ever infamous, "I smell weed" route to a warrantless search of a vehicle, often with the help of an improperly trained to outright criminal K9 pair where the cop (consciously or unconsciously) gives the dog clues to trigger on.
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  11192. This whole bridge collapse is because of laws. Newton's laws of motion.
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  11193.  @TheRealScooterGuy  A yes, a pneumatic harpoon gun!
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  11194.  @jpnewman1688  I'll give you credit. You may be whipping that dead horse, but at least you're not just copying and pasting the same words in every comment.
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  11195.  @phlogistanjones2722  Yes! Someone else remembers!
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  11196.  @SuperDave71176k  Anyone who looks at Spam as the bottom has never had a USDA food surplus canned chicken. The canned beef got bulging ends before we got around to daring it. On the flip side, government surplus cheese was the best "American" cheese I've every had.
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  11197.  @quark4911  I am in need, so give me your savings. Now. Or you're a bad person. - How does that math out for you?
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  11198. Heck, even for "intimate assault" on a minor, if you're white and have a wealthy family.
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  11199. New York Government's armed gang members have an identifiable uniform.
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  11200. Congrats on 2 million!
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  11201. That engine has blended a fine French mustard. And you have also made a nice ad for Speedi-Dry!
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  11202. Person B BELIEVING that something person A said is untrue does not prove that it was untrue. Also, for a statement to be a lie, there must be intent, and intent can be very hard to prove. If you are wrong, without intent, then you are just wrong. - But go ahead and rage, Louis, because someone made you salty because they disagree with you.
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  11203. This is definitely NOT a shotgun to fire slugs from.
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  11204. And yet they are barred from taking notes.
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  11205.  @fozzywxman  Maybe NY, or that type of court in NY let you take notes. The last time I was called up for jury duty in Massachusetts, note-taking was forbidden. - Maybe some states don't mind jurors keeping track of facts they are presented.
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  11206. If you control the cameras, you only need about two dozen people behind the Donald, another dozen or two in front to wave signs, and pre-recorded crowd sounds.
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  11207. The fact that the drydock door is a free-floating structure blew my mind!
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  11208. I did notice that even in the cherry-picked clips from the news the ANTI-march crowd was far louder and confrontational.
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  11209.  @1monagale  I had a very small yard, and found that a plug-in electric mowed was $50 when the cheapest push gas mower was around $450 (both new prices). Add in a plug-in electric string trimmer for around $30, and a rake for $15, and I was all set. - Sorry, that seemed judgmental when I read it over. I was in a place where I could afford something, but not everything. I do get that some people are in a place where even something is out of reach, and I have been there, too. Before I got that electric mower I referenced above, I had to do the yard with just that electric trimmer. - And corded trimmers have handles for people about 8 inches shorter than me.
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  11210.  @tronmcrae  Gas-powered mowers can break down just from sitting idle for a season and change or being a few years without regular service, and a lot of people don't know how to fix them. Yes, I learned how to maintain them, but I has the spare time to learn, but not everyone has the time, money, and/or physical ability.
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  11211. "Must be dressed like a heterosexual male" This includes tartans and kilts, and many forms of "female" attire if you are correctly historically recreating Shakespeare's plays.
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  11212.  @remcovanvliet3018  Indeed. I found out that a wall in one of my previous apartments was not insulated when, the first winter I had the lamp, it would stop "lava-ing" on cold nights, particularly if it was windy.
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  11213. Those are some impressive claws!
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  11214.  @phlodel  Cops are not allowed to lie. . They are trained and encouraged to lie, to further revenue collection and lead toward convicitons.
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  11215. I have ridden the Citadel's elevators far more than was strictly necessary to listen to the news briefs to see how many there were, and that's how I found some minor side missions. I'm one of those game players who will look under bridges and in nooks and crannies in maps to see what's there.
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  11216. If only California would have followed suit. instead, they let a R2R bill die in committee in their senate.
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  11217. Oh come on! Doing the job right is HARD! (sarcasm)
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  11218. "Take him to jail and tow his shit. That way you'll get it off the road." But no penalty will ever apply to the moron giving that directive.
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  11219. I feel I have good numeracy. But I also have a strong skepticism when viewing statistics or even most other information. Basically, my trust has been eroded to a raw nerve.
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  11220. I once bought a small TV with in integrated VHS player. Within about 7 months it was a TV with a VHS tape stuck in it.
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  11221. Yay! The wife-beating alcoholic actually took a weekend off from beating his wife and pondered an anger management class! Everything is fine now, right?
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  11222. Business NEED to learn that they can fire their bad customers.
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  11223. Send to Jeorg Sprave and let him show us its features!
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  11224.  @nickowen7406  Except that, based on a plethora of real cases, law enforcement and the courts tend to give a collective shrug when someone fails to pay child support, particularly if the person who should be paying moves to another state. And this happened in my life as well. We had my father's new address, his new job information, his phone number, and the false/stolen SSN he was working under. The state police, state attorney general, county court, and IRS all refused to do anything about it.
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  11225. Diana Deets looks about 45 if you ask me. Though it is hard to be sure with all the filters and photo editing. Maybe it's because sleeves of tattoos repulse me on a personal level?
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  11226. This is a top-tier "Get off mah lawn!" story.
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  11227. The BBC is not ":THE BBC" it is several channels, news and entertainment organizations running content on several channels of content under a Royal Charter making them a public service broadcaster. It's like saying all channels under the Discovery umbrella have the same quality and depth. They don't. Compare AHC and TLC. One has history and military documentaries, the other has fat chicks and short people in scripted reality between episodes of scripted duck and alligator hunters.
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  11228. Censorship BY GOVERNMENT is against the top laws in the land. Censorship by a corporation is legal and unobjectionable IF and ONLY IF the rules are made known before use, and are applied to all equally.
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  11229.  @puppetsock  I would let him/her try to serve that sentence. To quote Ivan Drago, "If he dies, he dies."
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  11230. @TessaBainCNM There is a gap between reasonable profit for risking money on inventory that may not move quickly (or at all) and adding so much profit margin you are gouging. Adding hidden fees that exceed the posted price goes beyond simple price gouging to immoral profiteering.
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  11231. These scammers, the mules, and their bosses have earned drawing and quartering. That is my carefully considered opinion.
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  11232. HTS is really going all-in on their 'hearts and minds' offensive. Smart. Smarter would be for the people there to be ready for when the coin flips over.
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  11233. I noticed at least a couple of chin-hammock models in the thumbnail (and at 3:35). Either wear the mask or don't. Cool to see at least some life coming back to the zombie known as NYC.
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  11234. Unnecessarily broad patents make me very disappointed in the people working at the Patent and Trademark offices. It's like they don't even try.
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  11235. Do NOT buy a Ring camera doorbell. If you want a camera doorbell, buy one that lets YOU decide where the recordings are stored, instead of a corporation which is known for handing the recordings over to police, even without a warrant.
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  11236. Regarding the problems haste can bring on, my mother used to have a plaque hanging in the kitchen that read, "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."
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  11237. Oh, I get it! The lawyer was just confused, thinking they were staying at an CatBNB!
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  11238. That was a really good movie.
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  11239. Given that his rant started about 5 years ago (7?), and does not look to be slowing down, I agree.
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  11240.  @Foolish188  In Massachusetts, the plates go with the person, not the car. And unless you put the plates on another car (and register it) within 7 calendar days, or the plates must go back to the RMV. Massachusetts also does not have temporary plates, but you can pick up permanent plates same-day at any RMV branch.
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  11241. When I worked in a convenience store I met some very old hard-working electricians and plumbers. They were hard working past 60-65 because they would spend their lunch hour with a cup of coffee and a stack of lottery scratch ticket, plus playing video Keno. One old plumber would spend upwards of $300-450 in a lunch hour.
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  11242. I wouldn't pay more than $50 for a phone, though I do stick with "dumb-phones". If I wanted to go smart-phone, I would let my budget rise to about $150-200, IF it was a phone I could replace the battery in. - edit: and I miss my Motorola flip phone with the battery on the outside and the extendable antenna. I felt so Star Trek with that.
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  11243. I used to have one that was so loose it wouldn't turn a tight bolt, but it was a great hammer/lever.
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  11244. Okay, so the son is alive and has the same name. Does the son have the same qualifications as an expert witness in that subject matter?
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  11245. Wendy's does a fish sandwich with sour(?) dill slices, and the pickles completely distract from the fish in a bad way..
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  11246. Holy Pasta, Brian. Your sister sounds like she needs to put away the tik tok and pick up a civics book.
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  11247. Damn, that woman was crazy. Do you know how I keep homeless people (actually I worry more about cats, dogs and raccoons spreading the trash all over) from eating food out of my trash? I don't over shop, so I don't end up throwing out food. - Well, there are bones from meat, and apple cores, but I freeze them in a re-used plastic shopping bag, and throw them out in the same trash bag as used cat litter, and only right before trash pickup.
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  11248. I do wish the "spinning at [number] miles/kilometers per hour" phrase would go away. Kyle should know better. Angular rotation speed (15 degree per hour rotation - Thanks, Bob), or at least include "At the equator" if you feel a need to use that kind of phrase. edit: Kyle used the "at the equator qualifier a little later.
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  11249. Why are they moving out? Suits are not selling in the work-from-home time. Neither are jeans. Companies making and selling both are in deep doo-doo.
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  11250. Crypto coin is an amazing Ponzi scheme.
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  11251. I grew up in the era of percolators. I learned to HATE the smell of burnt coffee, and I still can't stand coffee. Given all that, I still loved this video!
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  11252.  @TonyShepps  I disagree. Using a screen, your attention is buried inside the car, and things outside of the camera's view are missed. Things you may have seen with peripheral vision, or just turning a little bit to one side or another. - This is the same reason why when you change lanes on the highway, using the mirror(s) alone is not sufficient. You also need to check if there is a car right next to you with your eyes.
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  11253. I did learn something today! (Always clean up the jizz)
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  11254. Fun angle on Steve's storage locker example: Paying the first month and abandoning the locker is cheaper than a dumpster to get rid of household items like broken couches and beds, inoperative appliances, and so on.
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  11255. That lube that poured out looked rather thin, almost like brake fluid.
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  11256.  @keefjustkeith  I had not thought of that possibility before.
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  11257. The United States just accepted a marriage proposal from the spouse who beat them until they divorced him. Way to go you bunch of bleeping idiots.
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  11258. But at least the paving being redone will add to the cost of the bike lanes! Meanwhile, the road restructuring has reduced the space beyond the fog line (the white line on the right side of the lane) to not much more than the width of a bicycle tire, so cyclists either have to slalom and impinge on the pedestrian way, or risk being smacked by motor traffic.
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  11259.  @williamthomas4617  Ding-ding-ding! You win a prize.
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  11260. YOUR problem was fixed by the refund.
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  11261. Particularly with provolone cheese and brown mustard on rye. Ooh! (/joy_shivers)
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  11262. The carpal tunnel is the channel in your wrist through which nerves run. The carpal bones are in your wrist, extending just up to the bottom of your wrist. The bones in the palm of your hand are the metacarpals. - I am not a doctor, I am just a person with internet access, and without the pressure of producing content for a daily YouTube video.
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  11263. I have seen someone use fix-a-flat and a lighter to deal with wasps. They were an idiot who had to run for their garden hose to save a garage...
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  11264.  @ZiggyTheHamster  I remember seeing that video recently, It is a good tale and method about ensuring attention to detail.
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  11265. My favorite smithing channel is shurap. As for Adam's cracked anvil, maybe he should stop dropping them on prankster coyotes?
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  11266.  @elzar760  If the Sunday shift is a pre-condition for hiring, they can opt not to hire someone who won't work Sundays. Much like if a job requires being able to lift 70 pound packages to chest height on a regular basis they can opt out of hiring someone in a wheelchair with the use of only one hand for that job.
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  11267. I liked seeing the 107 rounds fired on a misty day. You can SEE the shockwave in real time and realize how much push is still getting to the crew ducking below the mouth of the tube.
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  11268.  S F I agree it is not much below the lip of the tube.
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  11269. One of my closest friends is the only far-right conservative amongst the group of us who are middle-of the road, and we just agree to not talk about political stuff. Done. - If you want to avoid political troubles with other people, just stop caring that they are upset by your political leanings.
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  11270.  @ffffuchs  Look at you, tossing pennies to trolls. ;-)
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  11271. Heck, I have not bought the brand name in many years. Store brand is just as "good" and about 2/3 to 3/4 the price.
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  11272.  @willdwyer6782  I saw a video from someone who used the conclusions of a research paper - about powdered milk in food aid in Africa, and how people there who did not grow up drinking milk (beyond nursing as an infant) had 2-3 weeks of reducing discomfort, but then became able to digest lactose - to 'cure' her lactose intolerance.
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  11273.  @thomasluby1754  ... bigger people (and not always in a good way)
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  11274. cis means roughly the same thing as hetero, and WHAT did you try to say?!
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  11275.  @ttthttpd  Ah, I was mistaken on the whole cis thing, as it was not a prefix in any sort of use when I was learning American English in the latter quarter of the 20th century. - We need to make sure that all of the non-white, non male, non-hetero, non-capitalist scientists get informed that they are not really doing science, because they don't fit your narrow anti-science views. - Unless you are, as they say in British English, "taking the piss" on this whole topic, in which case, well done, you got me debating you.
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  11276.  @ttthttpd  Additionally, I was able to find this (yes, Wikipedia is not rigorous research, but it is a good starting point) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory Which tells me that Critical Theory is a Marxist German (Frankfurt School) idea about social psychology / sociology, and has not a lot to do with hard science, nor does it have widespread adherents. - This might be a better source, but is very lengthy and I only skimmed it. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/
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  11277.  @ttthttpd  I sit corrected. Thank you for correcting my erroneous assumption.
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  11278.  @ttthttpd  Woke is another word I don't acknowledge as it is currently used. Also see: shook and 'throwing shade'. - A person is awoken or awakened. I can lie and say I woke at 6 AM today. - I shook the can of spray paint. The can of paint was shaken - And shade is a blocking of light. It has no substance to be "thrown". - - Yes, this is a losing battle as I shovel uphill against the flow of an evolving use of language, but dang it, I like using the language with the correct rules of grammar.
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  11279. That floor jack cam reminded me of some camera angles in the MIB movies!
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  11280. I liked the well-curated nature footage. Great way to salvage the topic without having to re-record.
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  11281.  @tntuof  Psst. It is....
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  11282.  @krausewitz6786  All of these 'movements' have been vocal minorities of the total population. Even if the cause they are voicing is right AND righteous, it is still largely a minority expressing their concerns. And the quote I shared is from a comedian who uses humor to shine a light on life.
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  11283. Here's a good slogan to try: "If you're not for Right to Repair, you're for Wrong to Repair."
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  11284. And how big, EXACTLY, must a field be to be "open" under that abused doctrine? And how can a field be "open" if it is fenced and/or marked with "No Trespassing" signs?
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  11285. Soo this WHOLE thing started with an insecurity guard. Who couldn't be bothered to ASK THE MECHANICS WHAT THEY WERE DOING!
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  11286. The Korean War is not a loss. Or a win. It is not over yet.
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  11287. I did not think it was normal for a plow to throw left from the left lane of a highway with no median. Whenever I see plows on highways, they're usually in a wedge formation, leading truck in the left lane, and all throwing to the right unless there is an open median, and only then did the left-most truck throw left.
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  11288. $28 a QUART? I think we solved the mystery of why many people don't frequently have their CVT fluid changed.
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  11289. Thanks for the Mitch Hedberg joke, computer lady!
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  11290. My only gripe with the carbine is it seems a bit big to wear/carry in an armored vehicle's driver position.
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  11291. I have not had a credit score for over a decade and a half. No debt, nothing bought on payments, no credit cards. - If/when the day comes when I will need to get credit, that will make things very difficult, because I am not "in the system".
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  11292.  @I_Am_Your_Problem  Liar.
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  11293. The tricky part about looking at a space that the current tenant has yet to vacate is you have NO idea how much damage they will do on the way out. Taking down shelves and pegboard with no regard for damage, wrenching door hinges, leaving filth and trash, and leaving stuff you'll have to pay to have hauled away.
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  11294. Nice safe stairs... NOT!
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  11295.  @ann_onn  Yeah, how DARE I make a typo. I am such a low form of life! I should go outside right now and hang myself from a tree so the crows can eat my moronic eyeballs and my rotting dumb0fukk guts can nourish the worms! - Or, maybe I can fix the typo.
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  11296. Much of the "software" was human medical transcriptionists. These medical corporations are just trying to find another way to stop paying actual people to get things done to increase profit margins.
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  11297.  @bjorntrollgesicht1144  The fluids (and solids) you take in has to leave somehow. If you're sick, it can be a revolving door, or an expressway. If you're working hard the fluid leaves you primarily through your pores and your breathing.
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  11298.  @bjorntrollgesicht1144  That is a question I am not knowledgeable enough to answer well.
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  11299. Okay, this gave me belly laughs!
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  11300.  @jsh6952  (over-done British accent) "Luxury! We woke up coated in a foot of ice and by noon we were roasting like the Kalahari! Kids these days have it easy!"
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  11301. How do you deal with the "Yuge price" of Medicare for all? You let the government set limits for what they will pay for drugs, medical supplies, and everything else. And getting the stock market out of health care would be a HUGE benefit.
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  11302. Did you count the fire escape square footage?
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  11303. About a decade ago my Saturn sedan needed a new ECM because the mass airflow damper rusted shut, causing a over-voltage or over-current on the sensor or damper control that fed back into the ECM and killed it. I was able to use a junkyard ECM, but it had to be data-reset at the dealership, as my mechanic did not have the ability to reset it. Only now, watching part one of this series, did I learn that it was about the VIN being programmed in, not anything to do with the performance of the car.
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  11304. Enemy fire really "be tappin' that aft".
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  11305. Your idea for the electric utilities to get in the car charging game is smart. But it won't happen. Instead, they'll just let other companies do the installs, pay the rates, and upcharge the end-users. Because large organizations are quite often slow-moving.
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  11306. Only one year? I mean, yes, at least he got jail. But only ONE year??!?! - It must be nice to be part of the "power class".
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  11307. Here's your participation trophy. May it inflate your sense of self importance.
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  11308. It may be time to start memorizing books and storing the paper copies in the voids of our walls.
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  11309. With the teal one, you have to go inside to go to the outside-inside.
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  11310. "Walked free and clear" - It is hard to walk with shattered kneecaps. I am suggesting nothing, planning nothing, and endorsing nothing.
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  11311. When will the Eternally Offended Minions of the Apocalypse realize that they sound like idiots?
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  11312. Oh, and Humanity First!
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  11313.  @imjashingyou3461  Exactly. If company Z bought company A and A still owed suppliers, rent and utilities, Z has to pay that. This is just another financial liability they accept by buying the company.
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  11314. Sadly, stupidity is not an actionable tort. If it was...
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  11315.  @IngefromGraz  And the battery is not glued into that Tracfone, so you could replace it, and without a lot of difficulty. edit; And properly recycle the battery.
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  11316.  @artiefakt4402  Other than English? none. My brain works a lot better with math, science, engineering.
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  11317. Giving your allegiance, or hatred, to a political party is to admit you are too lazy to think for yourself. edit: To ANY political party.
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  11318. Wow! Steve almost NEVER names names! He might be truly irked. (kept it clean)
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  11319. Their flag is their declaration of grievances? Vexillologists are not amused.
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  11320. Why 8? Because cops are scared of the people they have terrorized for generations.
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  11321. Fun fact about dust: Much of the dust we see in our homes (and computers) is flakes of dead skin.
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  11322.  @kumakaroshi117  Yeah, those are the instances that make you wonder what the bleep the engineers were thinking, or if the whole process was driven by MBA's following the cost savings.
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  11323. That's not hard starting. That's a Jeep flexing its dolphin vocabulary.
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  11324. That is a good question. I suppose that hearing it to localize a wheel is the first step, then lifting the car to manipulate the wheel is the next diag step to nail it to either wheel bearing or CV. Though perhaps, the pull when breaking is another bearing indicator? - I am not making absolute statements here, as my job history has been in the hardware side of electronics, not auto repair.
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  11325.  @johnt.848  This is a valuable tip, thanks!
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  11326. Why didn't HE get a "courtesy tow"?
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  11327.  @shawnbowman4392  He could have had hot sauce on that tasty meal!
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  11328. I just got here from Louis' video on the RESTICT act, and my outrage gland is tired. - edit: And Louis' keyboard budget makes sense now...
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  11329. But keeping our noses out of it would result in "peace in our time."!!! (If you don't understand what I'm getting at, you need to learn more history.)
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  11330. Initiating a 130 MPH chase over a burnt-out license plate would have me thinking there are bodies, drugs and/or guns in the trunk.
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  11331.  @annone6462  If you remove all the wafers, you can start your car with a pocket screwdriver?
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  11332. Copyright trolls strike again. Time to get some billy goat gruff lawyers.
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  11333. Reddit knuckling under to the moneyed elite. As usual.
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  11334. Wait, those SimpliSafe cameras are on magnetic gimbals? So if I want some free cameras, all I need is a fruit picking pole and a brass mesh bag (to block signals)! Sweet!
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  11335. Your house cost more than one built to code? Remember: code is the MINIMUM. Anything less than code is a failure.
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  11336. I don't have a dog, but there is a cat that hangs around the apartment building who will lie in the parking lot and make people drive around him/her.
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  11337.  @RARufus  DNR? Oh! "Do Not Resuscitate"!!!
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  11338. If airliners still used mechanical control connections, they'd probably want to call "business class" something like "steerage accommodation".
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  11339. This is easy! All bloggers just need to retitle themselves as "online diarists"
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  11340. In that case, we should do away with keys entirely, and replace the concept with biometric checks. All cars should be the exact same model and color, to prevent your hypothetical! - "Fear is the mind-killer."
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  11341. ... accidentally maliciously.
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  11342. What is Wondrium? A DUMB name for an education service. They should have kept "The Great Courses Plus". But that is my considered opinion, and few others may actually care.
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  11343. Re: tweezers, don't press down on the balls.
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  11344. I am very skeptical about Louis' advice to be skeptical. Therefore, I will choose to trust anyone who wants to sell me things.
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  11345. If it wasn't for IJ being the force for the right side, this "win" that is not really a win would have cost a lot of people way too much money. - There really needs to be legal penalties for the agents involved. At an absolute minimum, firings.
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  11346. Self-tapping screws are awesome! My brother and I did a full collision repair on his girlfriend's Geo SomethingOrOther (grill, radiator, radiator support, bent hood, etc.) with a drill, self-tapping screws, blankets and hammers, jumping up and down to straighten the hood, and a junkyard plastic grill and headlight replacement. Time? one weekend. Money? About $100 at the junkyard plus a box of self-tapping screws.
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  11347.  @The_DuMont_Network  I bought my current Ford from a GMC dealership. It was a recent trade-in. So recent that I had to wait an extra day so they could process their purchase to be able to sell it to me. (Massachusetts makes dealers switch the title to their name before they can sell it.)
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  11348.  @Mr10Alpine  And thus, the parts cannon methodology.
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  11349. The town next to mine forced a guy to get rid of the stuff around his house that was invisible behind his fence unless you peeked between the slats or got some elevation (ladder, vehicle bumper, drone). He fought for many years, but ended having to get rid of about half of his belongings. I am surprised there were no rounds fired. This guy was ANGRY.
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  11350. If we assume fully half of the Earth's land area is 'unbuildable', then that only leaves 376, 358.4 or so square feet (0.027 square miles, 34,865 square meters) per person. Yep, we're running out of room.
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  11351. @MckIdyll-220S If you have a once-ever or once-rarely task, and the tools are expensive, see if there is a way to rent or borrow the tools. Or hire someone to do it for you. Examples could be taking down a tree, grinding a stump, staging to work on your roof, a wheel puller to replace bearings, rototilling a garden, a nailer to install wood flooring, and so on.
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  11352. When you compared the batteries, the apple battery had about 30 more surface area, but about 2/3 the thickness. And a lot of spaces between battery panels. - Just saying.
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  11353. It's not over until the fat dictator sings, "But why do I have to leave the White House? I won BIGLYYYyyyyyy...."
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  11354. I disagree. Fire those responsible, promote new leadership AFTER explaining why the jobs were open.
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  11355. Here is a possible simile for booster shots: alcohol and drunkenness. You need to keep putting alcohol in your body to maintain your buzz.
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  11356. It's even harder since the 'tube hid thumbs-down from us. Makes it a lot harder to find grain among the chaff.
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  11357.  @johnnybgood2887  I bet UHaul can imagine a pretty small boat for that purpose. Perhaps something that would fit in a Kinder Egg.
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  11358.  @marcoscholte9911  Because most municipalities have, as a form of cost savings, pushed the responsibility for clearing (leaves, snow, ice, debris, trash) those areas to the property owners most adjacent to the public land. And it is even a fight sometimes to get them to come out and fix dangerously lifted or eroded sidewalks that ARE their responsibility.
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  11359.  @thermophile2106  Excelsior!
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  11360. Jeff Grey from Honor Your Oath is better than this guy.
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  11361. The secret to driving engagement in your comment section. Start your video with "[place] is objectively not an attractive place to live." Nine words to drive success!
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  11362. All smart super-villains put down plastic before meeting underperforming henchpersons. In case "final corrective action" is needed.
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  11363. It is far more important to remember that "The Government" (ominous music) is just people working within (and too often outside of) a set of written rules.
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  11364.  @SkullTargetter  How about hot dogs? Essentially the same thing with different diameters.
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  11365. A friend sent me a link to a news piece on this yesterday, and I knew Scott was going to give us a video. So exciting. edit: I appreciate how this technology solves the big problems a rail-gun type launch would have with siting and size.
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  11366.  @gmaclean1  The only place I've seen a used battery disposal bin is at Best Buy. (Massachusetts)
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  11367.  @RickLeMon  A selection of battery operated "marital aids"?
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  11368. You might yawn, you may even "Y'all!" but no on the yaw.
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  11369. My condolences for the group whose launch was scrubbed for no fault of the rocket or the rocket makers.
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  11370. Just to provide perspective, 0.2 hours is 12 minutes. That's for removal of the spare, taking the old tire off the rim, putting a new one on, balancing it, and installing it. That can be less time than it takes to make mac-n-cheese on the stovetop (starting from an empty pan).
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  11371.  @AudreyBrataily  Bye Felicia?
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  11372. Who do they think they are, Apple?
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  11373.  @ostlandr  I still have my copy of that book!
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  11374.  @xjet  Cause 'Merica! Guns and bombs for everyone! Don't work to fix the access to guns and explosives. Send thoughts and prayers and make knee-jerk laws that only harm the law-abiding.
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  11375. I only vaguely recall this promotion. I know the gist of it better from a episode of Family guy where peter has a coupon shot into his throat from a can of beer. - I did work in retail during the years when soda companies were doing the "under the cap" promotions that would tell you in plan text if you won. I would reliably find two to six opened bottles of soda all over the store at the end of a shift from kids who would look for a win, and not seeing one just leave behind the soda, usually with none of it consumed. I was rather pleased when the companies started using a code that required a phone call or text to check if you won, and they would mail the winnings to the claimant. No more abandoned bottle of soda!
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  11376. Not only does a cold chemical battery have slower reactions and less electrical power, but a cold internal combustion engine has thicker oil, and the contracting metal of the block can cause increased friction between the mechanical parts. Particularly if the block is a metal (like aluminum - or aluminium) that contracts more than the metal of the pistons and rings (usually steel). Also, water (not sufficiently balanced with anti-freeze) in the engine's cooling system, and any moisture trapped in other parts of the engine could freeze, seizing other parts up, and even blocking fuel flow.
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  11377. If the chambers rotated the other way, you could conceivably load five and have an empty chamber under the hammer.
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  11378.  @Oglush1  When I started sword fighting, we used maple saplings and hockey stick handles. No tape, just hockey gloves and lots of bruises. When I found out about CPVC and pipe insulation foam, it was a 2001 monolith moment.
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  11379. It's just the planet trying to evolve face-huggers to get rid of the primate infestation.
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  11380. I had two of those. The first one the transmission ate itself. So we transplanted the engine into another one that had a good transmission and a seized engine, but that Beetle ended up with disintegrating unibody parts throughout the entire front end about a year later. My next car was a Ford Escort.
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  11381. Hope we get to see tires with good tread at the end of this job...
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  11382. Jimmy was dumb. If he wanted to engage in evidence tampering, he should have been a cop. They have a union that will protect them in the rare chance they get caught.
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  11383.  @volume311  We've seen Ray use that method before, particularly on jobs where the part was not being replaced, as a method to protect the threads.
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  11384.  @geordiedog1749 It is sad that Thunderchild was never a used on a real UK ship. ... Yet?
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  11385. I have said "Heil Hitler" more than a couple of times, when discussing early 20th century European history and in that context it is acceptable. But Pasta help me if I EVER say "THE N WORD" even when quoting someone that apparently "gets to" say it. All because I happen to not be black.
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  11386. This rich a-hole is the one "damaging" his property value by being a complete jerk. I don't know how he is able to build fences right on the property line with federal land. Here in reality, any fence you build must be entirely on your own property with a minimum setback. Any building you erect on your property has an even wider set-back from the property line. - This jerk is trying to "own" free land and is basing his property's value on that chokehold. - If this case is decided in his favor, expect a lot more rich buttholes effectively seizing federal and state land by landlocking.
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  11387. And the republican-dominated Senate will just rubber-stamp the appointment. Because they have rolled over and shown their bellies to their golden leader.
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  11388. His mistake? Not starting a rocket company. That's how you can make indecent piles of money, pay no taxes, and not even be looked at.
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  11389.  @RobertWilkinsonJKekMaloy  They became asymptomatic/immune carriers?
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  11390. Is Travis Scott a sports dude, a music dude, or an acting dude?
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  11391. 8:40. I was honestly expecting eight minutes of the USA ZIP22.
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  11392. THIS!
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  11393. The basis for Trump's reciprocal (must have been his word of the month) tariffs are moronic. Simple example: Bill buys more (goods, services, etc.) from Greg than greg buys from Bill. But Greg buys more from Phil, and Phil buys more from Bill. A simplistic three-node trade balance. The world is a trade environment with hundreds of national nodes, and all of that is hidden by the fact that corporations often have major parts of their business in multiple countries.
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  11394. "Your honor, my obscure and very selective religion is based around celebrations at all sorts of times throughout the year."
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  11395. My OCD is twitching about the census graphic. The number of people on each successively higher tier is" two, three, four, SIX! GAH! WHY NOT FIVE! - - Okay, rant over. Thank you for this segment on the importance of the census.
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  11396.  @normalaverageboring  Probably because linking it let the "fair and balanced" AI routines know it existed.
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  11397. Use that dollar to buy a multi-color box of chalk, put art on your tires.
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  11398.  @williamreyes468  Cue Palpatine: "I will MAKE it legal."
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  11399. Yep, this WILL result in fishing expeditions, to only THEN be followed with a warrant for the information they already skimmed.
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  11400. Why do the cops get to have their faces blocked out on the body camera recordings?
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  11401. I am reminded of a phrase used against 'we the people'. - "Ignorance of the law is no excuse."
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  11402. Truth!
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  11403.  @chrishengeveld6117  Hmm. Did you mean bass ackwards?
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  11404.  @tomblobasjamesc.mccollum1740  I had forgotten that monumentally dumb cartoon show.
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  11405.  @tomblobasjamesc.mccollum1740  Gah! You're making me remember that show even more! Curse you!!! And yes, he was.
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  11406. EXACTLY!
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  11407.  cpk8636-6  You are really putting in the effort to wear out your CTRL and V keys.
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  11408. It also has aluminum armor for the hull, steel for the turret (probably because otherwise firing would crack the turret?)
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  11409. The dummy or training grenades they are using no longer have the spring inside that usually flings the spoon (the lever) off when you let go. So he had to pull it off by hand.
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  11410. I have noticed that in many situations, people who are just unable to keep up with things will, out of embarrassment, have a line like, "I have someone who is coming next week to do that." or "My device that I use to do that broke down recently." because it is hard for many people to admit that they need help. I do the same thing. "Oh, I ran out of floor cleaner last month and forgot to pick some up." or "I was planning to clean out the trash in my car on Tuesday after the dumpster is emptied." - It is not easy to feel like you are failing and need help.
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  11411.  Viktor Samoja  It would if it had reliable fan spin!
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  11412. What have I learned from this video? Right-to-die might be a safer late-life plan.
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  11413. Another big difference between the two standards is that Phillips went VHS (license lots of people to make them), and Robertson went Betamax (Only WE make them).
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  11414. You have said the word enough that "space" no longer feels like a real word.
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  11415. If the EU was like your local government, the EU would follow this standardization with a roundup of all other format cables and driving over them with bulldozers while someone gives a silly speech.
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  11416. So the dust cover is your pocket safety. Neat!
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  11417. We used to quick check for cracked capacitors by putting alcohol on a warm board, and watch for the line of liquid in a crack as the alcohol evaporates. It was not 100%, but it caught the really bad ones.
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  11418. I actually watched Alan's video before this one today.
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  11419. You picked the wrong horse, Buuuuddy.
    1
  11420. Christian Nationalists, a.k.a. Nat-C's!
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  11421. Inversely, I wish I knew a way to permanently disable the cameras on my no-name Chinese made Google phone other than drilling them out or taking the phone apart and unsoldering them.
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  11422. That's what you get for playing the video clip at the time marking that caused the video to be deleted. Riding an e-bike in the rain in NYC is dangerous to the viewer!!!
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  11423. 3:48 brought up a commercial tag line. "Roll that beautiful bean footage."
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  11424. I see comments below about people spending hours at the dealership to buy a car. I have a standard. I am walking out in less than an hour, either with a new car or my old one. I spend my time before-hand researching prices, dealerships, features, legal protections, etc. THEN I pick a car or two, visit the dealership, take a short test drive in one, make an offer, and if I get run-around I'm gone. I also never buy brand new. Let someone else pay the high sticker and lose a third of the value in the first year. And a year or two lets all the design and manufacturing defects come out as either recalls or lawsuits.
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  11425. People suck. They are why I got out of retail, because I came very close to leaping the counter and strangling a customer.
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  11426. "Don't ever hit your head on a trailer hitch." - YOU CAN"T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! (clunk) Ouch.
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  11427. When your company name is also your price chart...
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  11428.  @b.santos8804  It's that danged Mega-Lo-Mart!
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  11429. Glenn without a tie was a shock.
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  11430. They died of old age.
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  11431. That "hole which is bigger than it should be" with the blue-marked bolt in it is a MANUFACTURED ACCESS HOLE. The manufacturer put it there when they designed the car. If that is a deadline fault, they should not be able to sell the car in the first place.
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  11432. I thought the best way to "spin up" an asteroid was used in John Ringo's "Live Free or Die" series, where a corporation shepherded iron-rich asteroids to a working area, then using a massive coordinated array of solar reflectors to drill a hole, drop in an icy comet, seal the hole, than heat and spin the asteroid until the ice expands to steam and makes a thick metal bubble. Bore in using your solar reflectors again and start inhabiting. - - - Spinning rocky asteroids is just making a gravel weapon.
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  11433. Wait, Ray has a customer who admitted they made a mistake instead of saying "another shop did it"? Ray's got good, sane, reasonable customers!
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  11434. The handshake is a demonstration that the two people meeting don't have a weapon in hand to attack with. But then the dagger in the left hand...
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  11435. And so many cops refuse to learn that just because word fall out of their donut hole doesn't automatically make them "lawful orders". If a cop ordered you to rob a bank, it is still a felony.
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  11436. I have a key fob that works at about 40-60 feet, through a window, with no cell connectivity required. Why would I need cell connectivity for the same damn technology?
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  11437.  @gordon861  "Back in my day" (TM), we solved the "let me in the car" with a spare set of keys (back when the cars had one key for doors/trunk and another for the ignition). And as for warming the car up? Dress for the weather, assuming you'll have to be outside waiting for a tow truck or a ride. - Growing up in that long-ago time also turned me off to power windows. I remember more than a couple times when it would start to rain and my parents would run out to put the key in accessory position to power the windows up, only to have the battery gone flat, or once they didn't find the keys until after the seats were soaked.
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  11438. Also? The cube fridge will (inefficiently, and in tiny batches) make ice!
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  11439. These are all real issues, yet they only impact the votes of a tiny percentage of the American who are actually eligible to vote. And of those, a lot probably shouldn't vote anyway, as they put no thoughts of their own into how they vote. "My Facebook feed says John Johnart would make baby-murdering legal in my county, and that's bad, so I voted for Satan Satanart, of course!"
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  11440. The idea will shrink and shrink until they end up contributing a single module or some subassemblies to the final multi-national station.
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  11441. Oh, but if you, as a person seeking a woman, list "No fat women" the war goes NUCLEAR!
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  11442. Hey, Kash! I "helped "rig" the election for Joe Biden... my voting for Joe Biden. Come at me, bro.
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  11443. Blowing up planets in the habitable zone of a star is stupidly wasteful. If you have a long time before you need the planet for your own uses, throw lots of cheap rocks. You take out the life that is there, and after things settle and cool, it's ready for what you want to put on it. If you need that planet in less than a generation, but a few years is fine, you can select from options like biological warfare, changing the chemistry of the planet with carefully selected impactors, or using large reflectors to increase the temperature of the environment for a while to kill off the pesky native infestation. If you need the planet quickly, inciting internal political and military action is cheaper and faster, but can be unpredictable, forcing you to more extreme methods.
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  11444. The slide show audio dragged me in. "Shhhclick"
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  11445.  @bigkoeshka  "waving a gun around" is not illegal. Threatening with a gun IS.
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  11446.  @KP762a  Makes sense. I just have a bias on my recognition, having fired mortars but not having done surveying.
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  11447. Even when opportunity knocks, it's up to you to open the door. And sometimes, it's just a land shark.
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  11448. Or laid up from all that junk food.
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  11449. A doctor or a cop screws up their job from negligence and kills someone? "We're investigating.... and we determined that no policies were violated." - A hairdresser accidentally scorches a client's scalp, a mechanic crashes a customer's car? "Throw the book at them!"
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  11450. Dood! Just change the spark plugs! (this was a joke)
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  11451. Yeah, Louis. The WEATHER is the big problem with being in NYC...
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  11452. Cholesterol medications are pretty effective, even when your diet is dangerous.
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  11453. If Former President Obama can make people president by roasting them, his next target NEEDS to be Representative Katie Porter. AND her whiteboard!
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  11454. The way I say it (without being a slimy upselling mechanic myself) is, "A car that won't go is a camper. A car that won't stop is a coffin."
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  11455. Oh! Congrats on running out of bloopers!
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  11456. Seen Hamlet?
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  11457.  @phuzz00  That is probably true. I think I have my opinion for the same reason there are people who think every pit bull dog is a vicious beast which will attack without provocation.
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  11458. If there were no badges involved, this would play like a normal heist movie.
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  11459. Sounds like Lenovo wants a headstone next to Gateway in the corporate graveyard. I say this because I recall when a coworker had a Gateway and said out that they had manufactured their video and RAM cards to be thicker (IIRC) than the standard PC parts, so Gateway would not fit in any other brand, and other brands would not make or keep contact in the motherboard slots.
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  11460. That jump transition gave me joyful belly laughs.
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  11461. Wait. You're NOT Captain Disillusion? Gah! Unsubscribed!!! (/wink) - I have learned more about cameras in this 28:07 than I have learned in the last 50+ years. Thank you!
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  11462.  @thepsychicspoon5984  Darn you Preston Garvey!!!
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  11463. The last phone I bought cost $15. Not a smart phone, but I don't need one. I need a phone that fits in my pocket, takes and makes calls and texts (the number pad texting keeps me from texting too much... Bonus!). As a side benefit, this phone has an alarm clock function, NO camera, a headphone jack, and an EASILY replaceable battery that costs about the same as the phone cost me. - If I had a job that necessitated a smart phone for some reason, I would look for something under $400, and had a replaceable battery.
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  11464.  @kurtwinter4422  Back when I bought a 1988 Bronco brand new, you could buy TWO low-option units (About $16,000 each) for that money.
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  11465. Where the BLEEP is that brain aneurism Trump is eating to support? It is WAY overdue!
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  11466. Seizing a car as a penalty for failure to appear... Is that somehow going to help them get to court next time? That's would be like cutting off a bird's wings to punish them for failing to migrate on time.
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  11467.  @michaelpressman7203  Thank you for relaying a comment from Captain Obvious?
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  11468.  @accuratealloys  Is this one of those (many) cases where the roadside test gave a false positive?
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  11469. Yep. 0.6% of the whole population of the US has died from it. You can also see from the same sources that of those who are known to get it, 3% die from it. The numbers by age group are, as with all things health, stacked against older people. So, 3% who get it (in the US) die from it. Can you imagine 34 people you know? Okay. pick one right now who you think ought to die. Or. wear a mask, distance, and use caution. Another fun fact, 1.95% of the US population has had positive test results (6.4 million positives) for the virus. India, with it's poverty and high population density has fewer cases by number AND percentage of population than the US at 0.35% of the population with confirmed cases. (4.56 million positives)
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  11470. Now I need Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios to do a metal cover of this piece.
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  11471.  @FroToe2  String-powder-residue test... It's real, in Bizzaro-world!
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  11472. How silly of me to miss the obvious marking all people who would be dangerous with a firearm have showing on their face.
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  11473.  @billchessell8213  Also, bolts make the job a lot easier than rivets.
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  11474. Surefire way to make an intransigent part fit in a tight space when you can't quite find the right angle: Bring someone else over to show them how the part doesn't fit. The part will fit, you'll be laughed at, and you can get on with your day.
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  11475.  @dorian5876  Yes, I meant what I typed. Though, upon later ponderation, I could have also said "literally outraged".
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  11476. What's next IJ? A person could be legally able to measure the timing of traffic lights some day!!!
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  11477. Wait. You moved into an HOA? My condolences.
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  11478.  @jamessimms415  Claude Raines getting a lot of recognition these days.
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  11479. Pardon my language, but that charge is fornicatingly un-sane. The DA should be taken behind the courthouse and "given percussive attitude adjustments".
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  11480. Heh. "Stand back and stand by" but for pro-democracy memberships.
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  11481.  @NovaNinja_  I'm sure there is a road steep enough and long enough, somewhere int he Rocky Mountains, to get that DeLorean up to 88MPH.
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  11482. "I like waffles." - - "Come on over to this forum and help me attack this racist who hates pancakes!!!"
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  11483. And he is now just the tiniest bit less old than the ground crew he left behind. An immeasurable amount, really, but it's fun to think of.
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  11484.  @nikhilPUD01  I don't care about fast as long as it fits the median acceleration curves of other vehicles on the road, and can reach highway speeds without strain or damage. For me, a car is transportation, not recreation.
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  11485.  @JMNTN  I do use the touchpad once in a long while when I forget my portable mouse or the battery dies and I didn't pack a spare.
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  11486.  @justingrey6008  I had to upgrade away from that one a few years ago when Logitech was caught infringing a patent and had to change their thumb-ball mouse to cordless.
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  11487. Oh, just wait until coming from the US becomes a reason most other countries refuse to allow travel, as a measure to protect their own populations from disease.
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  11488. What could this woman have done differently? She could have taken her license plate(s) off her car every time she parked it. (and risked having it towed every time for being an "unlicensed or abandoned car) She could has mounted her license plate(s) with pop rivets or deliberately stripped/rounded the mounting screws/bolts. She could have welded her license plate(s) to the car. - Should she be required to go to such extremes to protect herself from THE COPS? Bleep no! - Anyway, I got my angry out. If you read this, thanks.
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  11489. What is the quality difference between an indie repair shop and a skilled/learned private owner when they have access to the same tools, information (schematics) and parts? None. Both will save you money and often produce less landfill fodder than the manufacturer's "swap and scrap" methodology.
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  11490. And if Apple wants to stop "losing money" (bullbleep!) doing repairs, then maybe they should make better computers! - I have a Toshiba laptop that has been running for about 12-14 years, and I only retired it because it would not run Windows 10, which I needed for other programs I need to use. And it STILL runs, even though the battery only holds about 12 minutes of charge.
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  11491. Spencer down there mowing in lunch lady land!
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  11492. Hey dingbat Marge. If gas and other products' prices were under the control of "just making a political decision", why hasn't YOUR party done that? Also, "going after" a particular flavor of criminal is something to aim at police. Once police have gathered evidence, and arrested suspects, THEN prosecutors get to take a whack. But police are more concerned with writing fines and using civil asset forfeiture against non-criminals to enrich their departments.
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  11493. I can confidently diagnose you with mild bilateral asymmetry! You also show most of the indicators of regularly expelling carbon dioxide. And to wrap it up, you appear to have average levels of hirsuteness. - As to your set, I love the natural tone wood walls. I am deeply envious.
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  11494. Interesting that Hamas is asking for ALL prisoners. That means everyone from the person who was arrested for something minor like (making this up) littering to murderers. I wonder if Hamas will let Palestinians declare themselves prisoners of Hamas and seek to be part of the swap just to get away from the death?
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  11495. Huh, I had only heard vitamins with short 'i' sounds.
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  11496. We need to keep using krypton in Hall effect thrusters, or at least keep the tech on hand. You never know when Superman will "get uppity" and need to be calmed down.
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  11497. "... with blackjack and hookers!"
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  11498. Oh! That's even better than my idea of Joe leaving a Presidential dookie in the top desk drawer!
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  11499.  @beebob1279  You spelled Soviet wrong.
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  11500.  @derekweatherford8989  Well yes, in a rational world that would be true.
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  11501.  @ModernDecay70  Now I am hungry for waffles! That happens about half of the time I hear/read about the Waffen SS.
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  11502. What's up muh neighbor? Neighbor what? Neighbor please!
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  11503. I'm amazed there was so little kicking of the door!
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  11504. HOAs are proof that something does not need to be illegal to be wrong.
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  11505. Tur-bin, turb-eye-n. Either is valid. The root cause of a lot of this hullabaloo is that English is a language made of stolen words from other, sometimes drastically different, languages. Now let us discuss this sub-grinder-hero-hoagie monster. - edit: Oh, and Ore-eh-gon, Ore-i-gin!
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  11506.  @mikemactavish1665  It is... now.
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  11507. Mr. Szajer has some "interesting: (weird) earlobes. It looks like his ears are melting off of his head. And with that haircut and glasses, he really ought not to wear that color of brown. Looks rather NSDAP...
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  11508.  @vincei4252  Or if your TV has a power button!
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  11509.  @ehlowgovna  Store it in a mason jar full of water, wrapped in aluminum foil?
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  11510.  @moonasha  Ooh! Zip-tie it to the neighborhood's unleashed dog!
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  11511. In the 1980's, I once boiled enough hotdogs to feed my mortar section in my steel pot. I did not know that the last one was manufactured in the year of my birth. Funny enough, the jeep I drove back from that training exercise was built a month before I was born also, making it nearly 2) years old when I was driving it. I wish my own cars lasted that well. - When we transitioned to the first Kevlar helmet, we lost most of the utility (except as a seat, and we were told not to hammer with it).
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  11512. My brother had a Ford Crown Victoria former police cruiser. The brakes were not working well, giving him jittering and uneven pulls to both sides. So he started a front brake job to find that the outside of BOTH rotors was worn to the cooling vanes. Also, the rotors were so warped from heating (metal on metal from worn-away brake pads can do that) and jammed to the hubs with rust that they had to be taken off at a garage with a torch and a wheel puller working in concert. - I would say he far exceeded the minimum thickness, yeah?
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  11513. That is one skilled operator in the Liebherr.
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  11514. Does this mean we'll never see Steven Colbert's upper gum line again?!
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  11515. Every time a non-state party goes to court for anything, they lose, even if they win. They lose time, they lose money. As for the state's side of the equation? Taxpayers lose money. So in a way, every time you go to court, you are contributing to the side prosecuting you.
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  11516. Oh yeah, I noticed.
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  11517. Missed opportunity when announcing the delivery of "Deez nuts!"
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  11518. Another nickname, "No-Badge Turcotte"
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  11519. A check is its own receipt. Particularly these days when the bank will include scans of the processed check with your monthly statement. And you can use the routing and processing stamps added to the check after you handed it over (or mailed it in) to trace who cashed it and where.
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  11520. Well, you CAN run a red light in Alabama, or any other state for that matter. It's just not legal.
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  11521.  @helios7212  Someday, there will be a vaccine for Tall Building Syndrome. Until then, vote Putin... OR ELSE!
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  11522. So nice of the cops to solicit a trespass from the store manager. Astounding how much being butt-hurt can rule the tiny brain of a cop.
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  11523. Seems like the only good Hoover left is the dam.
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  11524.  @freethebirds3578  I did miss the gaming account. So I could open a bingo hall and skip the sticky religion thing altogether!
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  11525. Scammers like this deserve drawing and quartering. I might relent and agree to simple beheadings, as long as they are publicized.
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  11526. 1) Dear car owners: having the parts store clear your ECM codes before taking the car to a mechanic is NOT helpful. 2) A TPMS being out happens, but 41psi in the right front tire? Please spend a couple of dollars for a tire pressure gauge, not all service station pumps are properly calibrated.
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  11527. Regarding the caller saying that they are or may be recording you, that is a legal requirement in 12 (maybe 16?) US states for there to be explicit notification. Florida is one of the states requiring consent from all parties being recorded. Once they TELL you that recording is or may be happening, you continuing with the conversation is treated, legally, as consent. - I also live in an all-party consent state, and I appreciate the clarity the law requires. - Oh, law enforcement can record you without your consent if they have a wiretapping warrant to do so.
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  11528. Four or five videos in, it occurs to me that you could ask people who want to tip you to instead donate that money to something like a food bank or other local charity, if they wish.
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  11529. 4:30 onward: You can see Habba in the background with a face that shows a combination of "What the [bleep] is he saying?" and "I need to write this down as soon as possible so we can do damage control."
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  11530. I think the phrase that will stick with me the best is that turning a negative into a print is "giving a picture", to contrast it with "taking a picture".
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  11531. Sky News is so right wing it can only fly in circles.
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  11532. Or at least use it referentially as part of a comic act.
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  11533. Abe just needs to tidy up a bit before the Mushroom War when he leaves to become the King of Mars.
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  11534. One place I worked the line was building switching boards for 3Com, and when the board hit my ICT station, the first four failed the same way and emitted a quiet "pop" from inside the test fixture. Some olfactory and visual inspection later, I found that the same tiny diode on all four boards had exploded. They were the right part, installed per the silk-screening, but exploded anyway. A crawl through the schematics of about half an hour found that the (backflow filtering? Is that the right term?) diode was exploding because it was having voltage rammed through it 'backwards' It turned out that the engineer and/or drafter who laid out the silkscreen put that one part on backwards. And the surface mount placement machine program followed the silkscreen, as they should. So we reported the problem to our customer, and posted a notice on the relevant workstations to remove and reverse the diode before solder flow. - So yeah, mistakes happen, and sometimes they get caught after expensive steps have already been taken, so a kludge is required.
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  11535. Well, if you accept that anything can be broken, and locks only keep honest people honest, then nothing is secure.
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  11536. One structure, 4 apartments, maximum slumlord! - It's not even listed as selling the building, so how much a shit-pile must it be inside? They are selling the plot of land, and I guess they expect the buyer to front the money for demo and re-build? A similar sized lot in Boston MA is $180,000. And that is WITH a 3-story (3 or 6 apartment?) building already on it.
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  11537. OMG! I love the phrase "helmet ball" (to differentiate from what the rest of the world calls football) and will use it myself.
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  11538. Nice WKRP reference!
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  11539. I love the analog intro!
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  11540. Ah, so THIS is what the stamp price hike will pay for...
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  11541. The balloon is a good way to get a very tall (and thus longer range) antenna up where you can't or don't want to build a permanent structure.
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  11542. It is also a short step from "We don't want more people" fee amounts to "We don't want that person" or We don't want that KIND of person".
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  11543. This thing must be giving the ATF the twitching fits.
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  11544. They don't "PHYSICALLY have to send IN CASH" anything. That is a bold-faced lie. Otherwise we would be hearing about daylight robberies of cash couriers on Wall Street every week. They exchange money the same way we do when we use anything but specie (paper and coin) at a merchant, in person. Electronically. - And if they somehow "run out of money" they are in a position unlike us little folks, in that they can call a bank and get a low-to-zero interest loan processed in minutes instead of days or weeks. And Louis is spot-on. If they don't have money, they should not be blocking a short list of trades, they should be blocking all trade.
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  11545. And no aging grandpa who wants to keep his pile of old asbestos tiles in the space you're renting!
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  11546. I vaguely remember a movie or TV episode (very vague, sorry) where the killer would sprinkle or spray his victims with pheremones that mimic the "alert - enemy" scent bees give out, and then his swarms of Africanized bees would sting that person in great numbers until they were dead. - This had to be in the 1990's or slightly earlier, when the Africanized bees scare was at peak hype. - So yeah, serial killer beekeeper.
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  11547. I image there are lots of UN aid bags in proximity to non-terrorists as well. But they don't get featured on the news we get to see.
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  11548. My politics are kind of a scatter pattern. Mostly I prefer a society with just enough rules to keep people safe from most preventable harm from others, and enough "big government" to help those who truly need it. I won't go into particular positions, because this video doesn't need that kind of rant chain.
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  11549. Poor Daryl got Cheney'ed!
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  11550. Constitutional? Hey now, what you do in the bathroom in the morning is private! - Judge Dum Q. Bass
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  11551. I heard about this first on Steve Lehto's channel. Since then I have realized it is possible that the tenants could have "kidnapped" themselves. Not saying they did, nut they could have. The longer story is that these tenants were allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint by three people, but they only recognized the landlord. They were tied up and had pillowcases put over their heads, but also were able to identify the make, model and color of the vehicle they were put into. They were allegedly then taken to a motel room, before being put back in the vehicle to be dropped off in the cemetery. - AND: If tenant A was able to free themselves, why did they not free tenant B before heading off in search of MAYBE getting help? - This idea comes from the case of a guy who faked his own kidnapping, including being found gagged and tied up in the woods, to get out of work at a tire dealer.
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  11552. That is the first tank I have seen with a studio apartment on top of it!
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  11553. Damn, Schlafly is almost unbelievable nutty. To spend so much effort to defeat a constitutional amendment that applies specifically to YOUR own benefit? Who was the fool who told her to stop hitting herself in the head with rocks as a child?
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  11554. And take better care of them AFTER they are processed out. Too many lives wrecked because the VA treats patients like a burden, not a responsibility.
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  11555. And yes, I learned something, thanks!
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  11556. Oh hey! Your recording is flipped correctly left-right!
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  11557.  @SonsOfLorgar  If the apartment was being rented under a rental agreement as opposed to a lease, the change is legal with a grace period determined by state and local laws. A rental agreement is typically month-by-month, as opposed to a lease which has a pre-defined term.
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  11558. Imagine how little this would ever be an issue if there was either sufficient off-street parking (zoning and land sue issue), or public transit existed and was convenient enough to drastically reduce the use of cars.
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  11559. Try and tell that to chemical and firearm manufacturers. If you can get past their phalanxes of lawyers.
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  11560. AND the fines being a percentage of company income/profit/assets (dealer's choice) instead of a few thousand dollars.
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  11561. And then people wonder why spouses are murdered... It can be cheaper to lose 20-30 years of your life on a jail term.
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  11562.  @ne9835  They were D class personnel testing the effect of an ice breaker on the floatability of broken thick sea ice.
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  11563. The cheapest missile defense system is to not have enemies who can and will launch missiles. - The second-best missile defense system is having enough missiles of your own to be a deterrent to other people getting the idea of launching.
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  11564. If there are no schematics and part numbers, it's not a REAL owner's manual!
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  11565. I am shocked, outraged and offended! (That I once ever contemplated seeing this movie.)
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  11566. Like Linus shilling in actual pre-and mid-video ads for various companies?
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  11567.  @GrumpyIan  That can't apply to his Honey (online coupons) ads.
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  11568. "What do you do if a company rips you off and they're in another country?" - RQ9 with an AGM-114R9X?
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  11569.  @jpnewman1688  Once per election. I'm no MAGAt.
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  11570.  @jpnewman1688  Gozer the Gozerian, of course.
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  11571. If I deciphered your wall of misspelled text rightly, I need to point out that it isn't ALL of us white Americans that are the problem. Rational people are unfortunately not a swing voting group, so we don't get our own fringe politicians. And I know that I can't afford to buy one the NORMAL white way.
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  11572.  @kellanaldous7092  A good source on why that is not possible is Technology Connections and Alex's videos on ACs.
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  11573. How DARE the people in that town expect the town to do the job they are legally required to do! As they charge for FOIA requests, they can put that money to hiring someone to handle that "overload".
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  11574. I have always thought that "qualified immunity" should require that the cop actually be QUALIFIED!
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  11575. They should probably mark that trail as dangerous then. (sorry, had to)
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  11576.  @writerinfact1768  And he only shills for products and/or services he has actually used, actually likes, and feels good about recommending. So, hiking boots yes, Raid: Shadow Legends no.
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  11577. @Shionne Just keep the receipt in case you need to return it.
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  11578. Clever title, Mister Rocket News.
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  11579. People are fleeing South and Central American countries, in great part, due to past (and ongoing!) US meddling, to include manipulation of elections, the market for drugs, and shipping MS-13 out of California to a place where they were able to thrive and oppress people even more.
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  11580. He only ships in his own boxes/envelopes. It was covered in his store tour video.
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  11581. If this technology was used to power an anti-missile laser, would it be a "wave motion gun"?
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  11582. I honestly had no clue (or experience) with "small shoe - big shoe".
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  11583. Evidence tampering, conspiracy after the fact. . . You have the right to remain silent...
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  11584. I knew that the quote was from Karl Marx. But then, I have continued to learn daily in the three or so decades since I finished my B.S. (Physics). - I also knew that there was no official US language, though the measure comes up from time to time. Imagine the savings in government documents if such a thing were to pass. Then imagine the costs to ensure all immigrants are given the opportunity to be taught whatever language is chosen!
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  11585. That nut under the lift leg? Blast with an air nozzle from the other side/
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  11586. With the high price of lumber, I'm surprised those things aren't being dismantled and stolen overnight.
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  11587. This car makes me happier that I do a (minimum) weekly walk-around of my car looking for tire, alignment, body and leak problems. It's a relic of my military training where getting a license to drive a military vehicle means you had to demonstrate that you knew the PMCS checks and how to update the vehicle logbook BEFORE you drove it each day.
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  11588. "Fraction of the price" - Well, 3/4 is a fraction, though so is 3/2. - Massachusetts has a ballot question this year about giving car owners and independent repair locations access to the data on our cars that is normally accessed remotely by the car makers, which, if I read it right, would include OnStar data. Car makers and dealerships are, unsurprisingly, against this. We also have a ballot question about implementing ranked-choice voting, but that is not germane to the topic here.
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  11589. Sold separately? That's a shame to risk breaking the pair.
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  11590. The correct answer was, "Yes, you CAN use brake-clean on a carpet. But nobody should."
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  11591. But why the thirty cents? Why not round up to the next dollar?
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  11592. So, Mayor Adams WANTS more city traffic? More noise, more pollution, more fender-benders... Oh wait. Also more parking tickets, more revenue from city taxes, more money for property owners...
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  11593. That sidewalk is AWESOME!
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  11594. That is a solid effort! Concrete improvements! I'm floored.
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  11595. Does that law specify HOW the dog is to be restrained? Does the government certify specific restraints or restraint methods? I'm not trying to be a jerk about this, I am honestly asking.
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  11596. So basically, never play the games where you shoot out the star or toss a ring on bottles. The rest you at least have a chance, and some you can skill into. - And don't expect to win, just be happy when you do.
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  11597. Were I the guy in the blue shirt, I'd have kneed that a-hole in the groin "accidentally" as I fell from being pushed. But then, I'm a far angrier person than that fine young man.
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  11598. I'd be ashamed to have this thing in Crossout.
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  11599. I used to own a stick-shift vehicle, and drove a "three on the tree" van for work at the same time. I also once had a "slush-o-matic" or hydrostatic transmission car. No clutch, but you still manually shifted.
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  11600. "$81 trillion? Oh, the DEA seized it from me under civil asset forfeiture. Good luck."
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  11601.  @Az56818  Are they really repeat offenders, or could they just be repeat arrestees? Harassment targets? I have a relative who was pulled over at LEAST once a week for nearly two years until the sheriff doing the pulling over had his law enforcement certification revoked, having to serve out the rest of his elected term riding a desk.
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  11602. How many "bad apple" cops do we have to find in our American Pie before we start looking into some aggressive pruning of the orchard?
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  11603. If you know you are diabetic, you ALSO know you shouldn't drink alcohol. Excuses don't fly. And neither will this guy.
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  11604. I used to donate to the library in the town I grew up in. And I also helped out on weekends and afternoons, so the librarian never charged me late fees. - The one time I did pay a library a large bill was when I deliberately didn't return The Art of War because (pre-internet) getting a copy at a book store would have taken three weeks and about $30 for a paperback edition. The city library charged me $7 and I paid them $10. I still have that book, too.
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  11605.  @chuckfinley5206  It is over... for now.
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  11606. "... we asked them if they growed marijuana." (from the cop's own report) How gorram dumb and uneducated are cops in that state? Growed is not a word unless your education peaked at chatting with pappy, who got a traumatic brain injury in the first Gulf War and had part of his brain removed at the VA, in the barn at age six.
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  11607. Isn't the deposit an actual bank deposit? As in it is earning interest? So come back with how the deposit is gaining interest and increasing, even if slower (based on bank interest) than the 3% rate.
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  11608. So... written evidence that a cop is willing to lie in the commission of their job duties.
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  11609. The expended material inside of the disposable ones could be added to potting soil after use, reducing the amount of stuff you are throwing away. Burn the empty cloth bags with you charcoal briquettes at a cookout and you can turn the leftover ash to that potting soil, leaving only the thin cellophane shipping bag as solid waste.
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  11610. I wonder how many mechanics, with a complaint of "AC blowing hot" would catch a broken knob?
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  11611. So they guy in the video improperly affixes his static strap, and then wears nitrile gloves. Even if the ground strap was worn correctly, he is wearing insulators on his hands, negating the whole process of grounding. And I doubt that workspace is grounded either.
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  11612. Ehem... "Trash panda"?
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  11613. If I was told that it was right, proper and legal to cut down all of my neighbors' trees, and that for every tree I cut down I could keep all of the firewood for use or sale, I would deforest my whole town. So should we be surprised that civil forfeiture has spread faster than an airborne virus? - The people should demand change from their elected officials. From town to national, call, write, email. Be the squeakiest wheel they could never imagine. I email and write my elected officials on issues that matter to me. When they ask me for their next job posting (my vote) I examine their stated platform and how that jives with their voting history, and let that help me decide if I consent to their continued or prospective employment desires.
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  11614. 5"/38 dual-purpose cannon from a WW2... everything that floats.
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  11615.  @adorp  The channel Taofladermous (I think that's how it's spelled?) does a lot of shooting of "innovative" shotgun projectiles.
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  11616.  @strayiggytv  Different folks, different strokes.
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  11617.  @MrRyuken555  Fair enough. I don't use my air fryer, in large part, because all of my cookbooks and recipes are for non-convection ovens, and the air fryer came without even a simple guide to adjusting times and temperatures from a conventional oven. Instead, I have to do an internet search and HOPE someone else has clear temp and time guidelines for the thing I want to bake.
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  11618. For a very short moment, I thought you were indicating that Tim was Deadpool's first name.
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  11619. Saying, 'YouTube has a problem" is like saying "Former President #45 has a court case." It prompts the question: "Which one?"
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  11620.  @Vinni-2K  cryptocurrency is a pyramid scheme.
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  11621. Innuendo is one of the "appropriate" ports.
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  11622. I have never rent a car, truck, or even a chain saw without first doing an inspection and having the employee confirm, in writing, the pre-rental condition of what I am renting. The same applies to apartments and hotel/motel rooms. Though with a hotel/motel, you do need to check in first, see the room, THEN report deficiencies before unpacking. And the same thing applies when my use of the thing ends and I return it to the owner. Since the advent of phones with cameras, I also take pictures before and after.
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  11623. I've had more than a few boxes of Cookie Crisp cereal in my life, but never once eaten it with milk. It's a snack food!
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  11624. We need a law requiring politicians wear patches on their coats like NASCAR drivers do. Proportionally sized by dollars taken, and showing at least the top twenty owners. I mean donors.
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  11625. Nah, nah. This all makes sense. The structure was a "mobile" home, right? - Or maybe the cop was just in training to be the head of an HOA. - But in all seriousness, if you are drinking, home is the BEST place to be. Nobody drives home drunk from home. - edit: Oh! I know, She was recording the baseball game with intent to show it for a paid viewing later without the express written consent of the network and Major League Baseball!!!
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  11626. A lot more brittle plastic parts in everything. John Deere has raised this to an art form.
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  11627. What do you mean this could take years!? I need a positive ROI THIS FISCAL QUARTER!!! - This is the mindset too many politicians have. They seem to think that real world events will neatly fit into their campaign schedule, giving them, the boost they need to please the voters in their districts so they can keep their jobs.
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  11628.  @wyattroncin941  Depending on when and where you are talking about...
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  11629. Dulce OWNED this segment!
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  11630.  @Clean97GTI  https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/01/Americas-Monument-to-Its-Most-Infamous-Traitor-Benedict-Arnold/
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  11631.  @Clean97GTI  Oh, I know. But you said there were none. Besides, Benedict Arnold is immortalized in a better way that a statue only a small percentage might even see. His name is used as an example of being a traitor. Another example is the word quisling (after Vidkun Quisling, the Nazi collaborator in WW2 Norway) which means roughly the same in modern use as Benedict Arnold.
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  11632.  @jadarolle3047  Yeah... But those kind of people are what we in the biz call "idiots". - I am not responsible for the massive die-off of indigenous people in the western hemisphere due to disease and war, though I may have had ancestors who were. And I will neither lose sleep over MY involvement (which is zero) or accusations of my involvement in so much death. - What can I be held responsible for? What I do and how I raise kids (which I will never have anyway, ick). That's it. - The whole idea of being responsible for "the sins of the father" is such BS.
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  11633.  @jadarolle3047  Pride in the actions of others that you had no part in (as opposed to pride in a child's accomplishments, say) is also meaningless. - One of my great grandfathers made blankets that were issued to the troops of England in WW1. What does that have to do with me? Nothing.
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  11634.  @bearcudlybear  Well said. As long as you realize that political affiliation holds no special status on the scale of perpetuation of 'stupidity via inertia'. - I never identify myself by party, nor vote by party. I identify and vote by issues and (at least stated) goals of the person asking for my vote.
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  11635. Then just kill people at the moment of arrest! So simple! Why bother having a bothersome trial when you can just kill people you don't like?
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  11636. What blows my mind is someone was obviously hands-on with that PCB and DIDN'T tell the owner about corrosion?
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  11637.  @dosgos  On this specific module, there is so much corroded, and some components look burst, that repair is not likely to be economically viable. edit: Ooh! delamination of the board! It's DONE.
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  11638. There are two ways to eliminate 100% of all crime in any area. Abolish all laws so nothing is illegal, or eliminate all people from the area.
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  11639. Ha! All of MAGA is RINO.
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  11640. This two party, money-driven tyranny of systems that narrows our choices to (essentially) two people has conspired to land us in a situation where we get to choose between two of the worst imaginable choices. For a second time. So we get to choose between a white man who can't seem to speak complete sentences that make sense and has some number of suspected crimes in his background. and So we get to choose between a white man who can't seem to speak complete sentences that make sense and has some number of suspected crimes in his background. - Oh right, one has a running mate with a mind and ideas we know about and can at least debate about, and the other has a running mate who looks like a socially awkward bowling pin.
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  11641. ASUS put their Magnusen-Moss violation in writing? Idiots.
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  11642.  @ITube4RealFun  It was definitely death ideation. But given how his cult takes his smallest side comments as marching orders? Liz better be sure she has security.
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  11643.  @YESITSWILL  Expedite fee... Nice words they used for BRIBE. Sweet Lord of Pasta. If you could share the name of this polity, it might help some people avoid a similar fate, or at least plan a fund for an "expedite fee".
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  11644.  @OneWildTurkey  I think the point was that if you never took it out of the box, you never turned it on, and thus it never had a chance to compromise your privacy.
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  11645. Wait, it's not Baltimorons? - What can be probative from that altitude overhead? "As you can clearly see in the footage, that dot is a person coming out of the bank..." - Meanwhile, a private citizen trying to fly a drone to film friends doing bicycle trick in their back hard gets the hammer from police and the FAA. Apparently they don't like the competition?
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  11646. Blame the weirdos waiting in the drive-thru line for that long. Unless you are quite handicapped, or are the only adult in a carload of children (and who would wait over an hour with hungry kids in the car?!) you should have enough brains to walk in and get your food when the line is that long. Or you could get food somewhere else.
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  11647. Thanks for the miniature dinosaur footage at the front of the show!
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  11648.  @vadimtroshkin6323  You didn't even change from your Russian-sounding name to post a Russian troll comment. I can't tell if your too dumb to have done so, too honest to have done so, or are just pulling our collective leg.
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  11649. Less than 10 minutes and you save the price of a whole new rice cooker. This is the mindset that is missing in so many aspects of life, and why Right-To-Repair is important for more than computers and farm tractors.
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  11650. I don't like black licorice at all. The other two I like, but I always reach a point each season where I am starting to regret the flavor.
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  11651.  @tomf3150  Ah yes, Memphis Belle.
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  11652. This country is WAY overdue for the ending of this practice at the federal level. If the money/property is REALLY the fruits of a crime, make the police PROVE IT in court. - And because of this practice, I have my answer ready for the "are you carrying any cash?" question. "Are you soliciting a bribe, officer?"
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  11653. As of 5:11 Eastern time, the video says it is 39 minutes old. I would guess a combination of people working, people commuting, and people making/eating dinner. Later numbers will either sink or float my hypothesis.
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  11654.  @RichieRich20000  When a landlord lets a property degrade, the landlord is on the hook for the financial loss, and you may have to move out. When a condo association lets a property degrade, YOU are on the hook and still might have to move out with no equity left over.
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  11655. Fifth place is fourth loser, as some would say.
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  11656.  @flagmichael  I too remember the gas pumps in my schoolyard. So many kids that never got to see a graduation, or their first tax bill, or experience their first punishing divorce... Oh the humanity!
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  11657. These companies could avoid ALL of this by learning one simple thing: Happy employees don't seek to unionize.
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  11658. Something, or someone.
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  11659. And a panic is a waste of time and energy.
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  11660. I was thinking about this basic idea two weeks ago. My 2009 (2011?) Model # MW1119W microwave died in the most INTERESTING way. It refused to stop running if the door was closed. Timer says 0? Bzzzzz. I press stop and get the confirmation tone? Bzzzzz. So I had to unplug it. It was warning me it was headed to failure, because if I microwaved for more than 3 or 4 minutes, it tripped the breaker. - Anywho, I go to get a new microwave, and find one the same internal size. It is a little smaller external, but in every other way, including the EXACT button layout and functions, it is identical to the old one, and the new one is from a (supposedly) different company. The old one was an Emerson, and the new one is a Hamilton Beach.
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  11661.  cpk8636-6  Can't stop spamming, can you?
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  11662. @Peter A. A centre punch is what non-American English speakers call a center punch. It is also a hardened steel tool that looks like a fat nail that you place where you want to drill into a hard material, hit the back end with a hammer or other solid and heavy object, which will create a dent or depression which helps reduce the chances that your drill bit will skip across the material when you start drilling.
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  11663.  @rogerdeahl9629  It may not even be as simple as a tax rite-off. When you look at all the empty commercial property, many people would wonder why they don't lower the rent to bring in tenant businesses. But if they lower the rent, that lowers the value of the building, which means the ban(s) holding the mortgage will re-asses the value of the property lower. The market value of the building is the collateral for the huge loans the building owners are paying the absolute minimum on. When the collateral goes down, the bank(s) will want some of the loan immediately repaid or have more collateral applied against the loan. - So the rents stay ludicrous, and the spaces stay empty.
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  11664. Protect yourself? I see. Laws, business regulations, the contract between you and the business, contract law... all of it means nothing. - So now when you return a rental car, physically drag an employee out to witness the presence of the car, and make them sign, on video, a form stating that they saw the car, the condition of the car, the fact that they received the keys, and that the rental is complete.
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  11665. King and Crimson? Someone has good music tastes!
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  11666. bi-annual bulldozing of the entire property, or at least along the surveyed property lines.
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  11667. You have my salute! (/salute)
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  11668. This broker spends all her on-site time talking to the people from the building, not paying attention to you. Who she is working for at that time. The $20k space guy is pushy as heck!
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  11669. Heck, some of the stuff being sent is old stockpiles that, were they to NOT be shipped to someone who will use them, we would have to spend money to dispose of someday. The ATACMS missiles used recently are, based on the evidence available, the oldest missiles in the inventory, that the US doesn't even field anymore. - Sure, some of the stuff is much newer, like the Excalibur artillery rounds and the Javelin systems. But how old are the M-16s? The M-1 Abrams (not M1-A!, A2, etc)? The Bradley vehicles?
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  11670. Lemon Law is really anti-consumer in Florida. And there is zero protection for used car purchases.
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  11671. Pomeranians were ruined for me for a long time by the movie Blade Trinity. This video helps heal the trauma.
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  11672. Which is worse, being the "neighborhood jerk" or being the person who gets sued because you didn't want that reputation? To me, it is easy. Be the jerk, save your assets.
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  11673. It's got to be a better use of money that tax cuts for the rich.
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  11674.  @se6586  Ah, but you and I can use a highway or a road bridge or a water treatment plant. Neither of can use Jeff Bezos' second yacht.
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  11675. That is not the reasoning. They are checking as much on their employees as they are on you. Because most theft in retail is perpetrated by employees, and with receipt checks it would be easy to not ring up parts of a friend's purchase and later split the benefits.
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  11676.  @straedeizoizoffle9137  What's the issue? You need to know where to aim the rifle loaded with veterinary syringes of Covid-19 vaccines. That was obvious to me.
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  11677. Mr. Clinton fully commits to a meow. Respect.
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  11678. Is the food a decent quality for the price, not prepared with spoiled ingredients, fit to your personal tastes, and served in the manner and portions as advertised? Then it is good food, even if it's cooked by the "wrong race" of person. - This restaurant should NOT have knuckled under. They could have changed the name of the "Jerk Me" sauce, but apologizing to the tyranny of a single representative of The Eternally Offended Agents of the Apocalypse is a bad move toward a fall down a slippery slope. So don't kowtow (see, Asian culture included in the rant!) to the whining of the one or the few. Make good food, sell good food, have happy customers. - I am a white hetero male, of mainly British Isles origin. So if I were to open a restaurant, I would only be allowed to serve boiled beef and gross sausages and puddings?
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  11679.  @mikebrodeur6802  Not at all kidding.
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  11680. I'd like to see some national politicians care about the 4th amendment. Outlaw civil asset forfeiture, and include our electronic correspondence in the "effects and papers" list.
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  11681. To quote Robin Williams, "Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck."
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  11682. CAF is armed robbery. We the people should legally be able to respond appropriately (violently).
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  11683. Me too. I am already imagining some medieval punishments that thief earned. Basket of starving rats strapped to the abdomen? Pressing? The rack? Ooh, flaying and salting!
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  11684.  cpk8636-6  Still haven't given up?
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  11685.  @norman_5623  Thanks for sharing another important tale! I'll have to read up on his work.
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  11686. As a hetero male, I need to say that Louis is better looking than CardiB.
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  11687. We already have the Rossmann Reality Show. We don't want a staff of meddling non-producing "Producers" mucking up the works and milking it for profit.
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  11688. Touch Screen 4.8 Picture Quality 4,7 Brightness 4.6 - I no screen or image on that portable AC, though it IS a bright white color. Also? Portable AC's are generally junk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mBeYC2KGc
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  11689. My daily drive used to go past the house of a guy who owned a landscaping company. His grass was regularly near a half a foot tall or taller, and his shrubs looked like they went to bed with wet hair.
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  11690. Who drives a car that would ever need $25,000 in repairs to deliver food? Most people I've known who deliver food drive vehicles in the "beater" category, and could buy two of them (or more) for that much money. Some drove cars that could be bought by the dozen for that much.
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  11691.  @MarcosElMalo2  Your answer both makes sense and is very entertaining.
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  11692. Cue "Always has been" meme.
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  11693. 4:15 "No pilot gets up in the morning intending to crash." Well, except for Trevor Jacob back in December 2021. Oh, and some "men of Middle-Eastern origin" in September of 2001. And a BUNCH of Japanese aviators in the early 1940's...
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  11694. When I did RMA diagnosis on internet switching boards we sometimes ran into "WTF" issues, where the software and multimeters were not finding the issue. The solution was to uninstall the removable memory and over-volt the board by about 50% and wait for the smoke to escape. About 80% of the time is was a data switching chip that had grown solder whiskers inside and it literally popped out of it's black casing. The rest of the time it was a BGA, and we put those suckers at the bottom of the solder tech's pile.
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  11695. I need to use Morresville's methodology the next time I borrow money from a bank. "I can't return your money, since I gave that specific money to other people. You'll have to enact your collections actions against them, bye."
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  11696.  @firstname4337  An even better reason to not be skiing!
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  11697.  @jwhome9319  Colorado certainly SEEMS like an altered state.
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  11698. I could easily qualify for a handicap parking placard in my state, but I am not ready to admit I need it yet, and there are so many other people who need that easy access more than I do (for now). - So I park as close as I can without lurking on someone leaving, and walk slower / take breaks to get to the store. Or if it is too packed, I will just come back another time.
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  11699.  @Troy_Built  Maybe he would be content having a dirt road?
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  11700. Louis is playing a very different version of The Division than I was...
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  11701.  @DnBGolf  It was not C4.
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  11702.  @takanara7  They could have inserted the "spicy batteries" upstream of the pager and radio manufacturing.
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  11703. Do NOT negotiate with terrorists. And go ahead and take the headshots, pop the apricots.
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  11704. To the federal employees targeted by this lump of flesh in the Oval Office: "Stand firm and stand by."
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  11705. Hey, the IOC, and various national Olympic organizations, hide the bribes they take to choose cities, wrong-touching by coaches and team doctors, and the negative environmental impact of building a massive sprawl of sports complexes that get used for a few weeks and abandoned. So why not hide their other bits of ugliness?
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  11706. I agree completely.
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  11707. Why settle for a single silver bullet when you can have a shotgun shell full of silver pellets! Gun metaphors!
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  11708. Not one of them, huh?
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  11709.  @TruthFiction  You must be a HOOT at comedy shows. And did you know? You can get non-toxic, resin or silicon "coiled lawn opinions".
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  11710.  @lhl9010  The "We've got to reduce the excess population" school of business.
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  11711. Ah yes. T.A.H.I.T.I. It's a magical place.
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  11712. Getting the DTC wirelessly seems neat, but the fact that you get three free years of that "service" means it is yet another subscription service where you get to pay for something you already bought. And what the BLEEP is wrong with plugging in an OBD2 scan tool to read the codes? Most car owners are not conversant enough with what error codes mean, which can just lead to Chicken Little situations where people pester the dealerships or their mechanics about things that are not all that serious. Also, having your mechanic or the auto parts store plug in an OBD2 scanner to read the error codes has no monthly subscription charges.
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  11713. Ramming your plane into things got a Greek pilot, Lieutenant Marinos Mitralexis, a Gold Cross of Valor in 1940. He was flying a Polish-designed (and built?) PZL P.24, had run out of ammo against Italian bombers (CANT Z. 1007) and their escort fighters (CR. 42), and for some reason, decided to ram on of the escaping bombers. The collision forced both planes to make a non-optimal landing, but the Greek lieutenant was able to take the surviving four of the bomber crew with his pistol. - Maybe the Russian pilot was inspired by the tale?
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  11714. How long until Pete H. issues the order for all troops to learn to goose-step?
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  11715.  @billruss6704  The COUNTRY is rich (as a mathematical average) but the financial inequality means there are a very few at the pinnacle and a large number being crushed as the foundation upon which the wealth pyramid stands.
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  11716.  @nadavegan  I still maintain that by the way internet service functions, it could be both at the same time. Depending on how your service is written, you could either be paying a flat rate regardless of how much use, making it closer to a rental, or pay by how much you use, making it closer to a utility.
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  11717.  @GeoEstes  Then Senator Tuberville's recent comments on the matter should really set off alarms.
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  11718. I can see why they are removing the headphone jack. Take out a $0.50 part to sell a $40.00 set of hackable Bluetooth earbuds that eat your battery life and more quickly bringing your devices to obsolescence. Then make it harder to impossible to replace the battery, if you can even find a replacement battery. Samsung is being destroyed from within.
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  11719. I see the writer is arguing against the idea "(it is only) right to repair" instead of the "(we should have the) right to repair". - Very disingenuous, even for a corporate shill.
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  11720. Some other rights that are under assault: clean air and water, quality K-12 education, The 1st amendment (arrests of people recording police at work, from public property), the 4th amendment (civil asset forfeiture), and voting.
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  11721. If this is a "good idea" it is good enough for the municipality to pony up the cash to buy, install and staff the process.
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  11722. I don't agree with your rare coin example, in this specific case. In this specific case the FBI could have found a weapon that killed someone, a journal detailing the weapon owner's plan to do the murder, and their actions after the murder and their declaration of being the owner of the weapon... And a decent lawyer could get the murder case thrown out if that deposit box was all of the evidence the prosecutor had.
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  11723.  @jogzyg2036  "I merely redefined the perimeter of the prison!"
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  11724. Or misinformed. You may be able to know your job inside and out, if it is one thing like machining vacuum pumps or operating a wastewater treatment plant. Now imagine you are expected to know everything about everyone's job in your zip code. Then in your county, then state, then the country, then the world. Just as a factor of limited time you will need more and more people to give you a condensed version of things, and you will have to try to remember all of that so you don't get blamed for not being omniscient.
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  11725. They gave him a badge and a Junior Police Cop Utility Belt with all sorts of tools in it like pepper spray. So he punches straight to the face. Shucks, you don't need a club badge and all those toys to just sucker punch someone? The only reason he became a cop seems to be getting paid for beating the stuffing out of people who, unlike in the ring, are not allowed to fight back.
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  11726. Oh, they're "sorry" That makes it okay? How about "We're sorry, we are taking full legal responsibility, we are entering a guilty charge in court, naming all co-conspirators, handing over all available evidence, and those most responsible are on tier way to the gallows."???
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  11727. Surface mount components sometimes (or used to?) have numbers indicating value and color coded for type. black with 100 would mean 100 ohms, black with 4.3k would 4,300 ohms. Yellow is caps, and were numbered in microfarads.
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  11728.  @DH-xw6jp  Was it Thankskilling1 or Thankskilling 3? (There was no Tankskilling 2, weirdly)
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  11729.  @DH-xw6jp  Full disclosure: I had to look it up from your description.
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  11730. Video's title is an interesting way to spell, "Ongoing fight against people who don't give the state enough money"
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  11731. Been there, done that. Of course, it could be countered that reloading a previous save (CPR) would erase any experience of seeing the "Game Over" screen.
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  11732. This is inexcusable. Maybe one hundred years ago, this kind of arrest could happen and many would understand the cop's lack of knowledge of international driver's licenses. But today every cop has a radio and computer in the car and almost always a smart phone. Three possible lines to get correct information. And they're not even playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire"! So easy! clickety clack - "Yep, this is a Canadian driver's license." clickety clack - "Yep, that's what a Canadian license plate looks like." clickety clack - "Yep, they are both valid. Time to just write the original ticket and move on to the next revenue stream." - But all Americans know that out-of-state drivers are easy money because, as you say, they are unlikely to come back to fight the ticket(s). Georgia owes you more than an apology. They owe you a PUBLIC apology, the bond AND tow/impound money, and a video of the cop being reprimanded and/or fired.
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  11733. Encourage diversity? Sure. Legislate diversity? That's a minefield laid out by a drunk chicken.
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  11734.  @kw7807  Colorado. In their effort to keep Orange Donnie's name off the ballot, Trumpster dragged the case to the SubPrime Court where the court ruled that the state could not keep his name off the ballot, but never even commented on the fact that Colorado had ruled he is an insurrectionist.
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  11735.  @anitanewberg2223  Are you still standing back and standing by, or did you help break into our government 4 years ago to try and subvert democracy?
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  11736. Step 3 - public and gruesome evisceration executions of hackers.
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  11737.  @MuitoDaora  House and feed our fellow humans? Clean up the environmental messes we make on the micro-and macro scale on this planet? Be decent to each other?
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  11738. I would hazard that it is a matter of budget. The owner may not have the budget for that repair at this time.
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  11739.  @forgetfulme1719  As long as it doesn't join the PT Cruisers in the yard...
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  11740. That 1 year 15k miles was not a surprise after seeing how black the oil was on the dipstick. edit: Forgot it was a diesel engine, making black oil more normal, sorry. - If pre-filling the filter was the "right" thing to do, then no engine would have a filter mounted up or sideways from the block.
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  11741. Wait, is Ralph's Supermarket actually owned by someone named Ralph? If not, I smell the follow-up lawsuit!
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  11742.  @Teth47  Look at the silly Steinway Tower, where residential units are listing for between $8 and 57 million dollars. In a building so skinny it looks like it should snap in a mild breeze. What blows my mind is most of the units have actually sold.
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  11743.  @hubertnnn  3-D chess level thinking
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  11744. That's me in a book store.
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  11745. That place has a LOT of window, good for daytime light and exposure. You might want to improve the security on those prop-out windows and the basement access. It's awesome that you two can see the space through all the clutter.
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  11746. I agree with you. That sentence should read, "Raped in prison with a running chainsaw."
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  11747. So nice of that small town to let a rapist just "Catholic Church" out of the situation... Sheesh.
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  11748. Another appearance of the Air-15!
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  11749.  @dietricha.schmitz811  Fair point!
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  11750. That's how it works in Massachusetts. You swap the plate and have seven calendar days to process the transfer with the registry, and your receipt or printed email confirmation serves as your temporary registration, for your permanent plate, until the permanent registration is mailed to you in 6-8 weeks. And for at least the last two decades, the website has worked great. - Also, in this state you can have your insurance company do the registry visit as part of what you are paying for. So if you need to return plates, get new plates, or other such transactions that don't require your personal presence, you are already paying for someone else who can do it, and has an express lane at the registry. As for license renewal, I have used AAA offices for the last three times. No lines, free parking, polite people, and fast service. And having AAA provides a discount on the mandatory auto insurance.
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  11751. This radiator hose brought to you by the number K and the letters "THE WORMS! THE WORMS THEY CRAWL IN MY BRAIN!!!"
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  11752. The children's board game Chutes and Ladders (a.k.a. Snakes and ladders, known originally as Moksha Pata) is a wormhole simulator.
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  11753.  @martyrhodes9839  If and only if he can raise the bail.
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  11754.  @mateuszzimon8216  A patent holder can not only use their patent, they can sell the patent, and/or license the patented technology for others to use. And if the originating patent holder is not on the ball with renewing their patent, patent clerks can and often WILL swoop in and claim them, selling them for personal profit. - Source: I know two people who work for the US Patent Office who do exactly that, and they are not outliers, nor are they breaking any laws or rules doing so.
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  11755. Are you SURE Rudy was a lawyer? You don't have to prove your innocence against criminal charges. You simply have to introduce reasonable doubt in the mind of at least one juror. If you were a pile of cash stolen from someone at the roadside by police under the B.S. rules of civil asset forfeiture, THEN you'd have to prove your innocence. But that's a completely different flavor of injustice.
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  11756. Woo!
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  11757. Dear voters, get rid of Darth Barbie!
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  11758. It's almost the opposite of automobiles. When a car is new, the dealership has all of the parts you could need, and within a year to three, they are available aftermarket. Give it 8-15 years, and you have to scrounge junk yards and "guy who knows a guy" parts exchanges. - I had a 1988 Ford Bronco, which was in a few way the Apple of vehicles. There were several major assemblies that were ONLY used on the Bronco and some models of the F150 or F250 for about 15 months, before they found some serious problems and reverted back to previously designed components. What parts could those have been? Only the parts that I had to replace of course: -Front wheel locking hubs (even the speed shops with computer networks and "guy who knows a guy" sources could not find a part to help me when the bearings inside shredded the PLASTIC hub housing;. -The gas tank was held up with a full steel plate... with NO drainage holes, and three thin bands of contact that hungrily grabbed up salt and sand and rusted through the gas tank... TWICE before a redesigned tank hanging assembly with drainage and padded supports was available for my third gas tank. - The rear axle differential was a slightly different set of ratios from the year before and the year after, so of course my rear differential ate itself into gear teeth and nubby discs. I had to get that part from a junkyard in Maine, the next closest one available was in, IIRC, Kentucky. - When the steering pump started leaking and got bad to the point pf losing about a pint per hour of driving or eight hours of sitting parked, I got rid of it. By then I was also having problems with the master brake cylinder, the starter was getting a flat spot, and I had replaced the horn because the connections were made without dielectric grease and corroded away the connection point AND the copper wire... It was also my last Ford for about two decades.
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  11759. Seems like time to do some "citizen's asset forfeiture" on shady political money.
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  11760. Billboard suggestion: "Psst! Business we can't name or describe is now open! [address] Come on by!"
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  11761. Almost like feminists are also humans with legal rights. What's next, letting women VOTE!? Own property!? When will it end!?
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  11762.  @mikearmitage1577  (smile emoji)
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  11763. It's becoming Ray's... idiom?
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  11764. I caught some of Castor's rambling monologue while driving to a dental appointment. He is so folksy and wordy, I had no clue he was 1) a lawyer, 2) a lawyer for Trump, 3) NOT giving a commencement speech at his law school. After the appointment, I heard the vote count and I was stunned that 44 senators can't seem to figure out what their responsibility under the Constitution is.
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  11765. I read "transverse flux motor" and immediately said, out loud to an empty room, "Which uses flux capacitors!!!". I am such a nerd.
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  11766. Odds are good that your former boss was a member of a fraternity in college. It fits the explained behavior pattern.
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  11767. I strongly disagree with the title. I LOVE canned, jellied cranberry sauce. And the type without bits of berries, thank you.
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  11768. So, 'dragon' as a word is about as specific as the word 'house'. Or perhaps better, the word 'home'
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  11769. This situation is easy. The divorce was done via computer, so just use CTRL-Z.
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  11770. Meanwhile, mainstream news made it a huge deal that the FAA had shut SpaceX down because of a "rocket failure". Like it was some kind of massive calamity. If SpaceX had instead been letting the first stage be thrown away in the ocean, it would be ignored.
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  11771. @78Terp But then he'd have to change his name to Mat.
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  11772. NOOO! Not a strongly-worded letter! We're done for now.
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  11773. European? More like "You're a'peein' on my leg and calling it rain," eh?
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  11774.  @vgamesx1  That would make sense except that department consolidation reduces overhead such as number of chiefs being paid to chief, number of buildings being heated, cooled and lit, and other things like that. Now if the big department broke up it's patrol areas into satellite regions, but still maintained most of the same reduced overhead, your idea could work.
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  11775.  @bslprints9935  Some cops now are carrying an extra 150lbs, and it's not gear.
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  11776. Oh no! UNESCO heritage site! Take pictures?
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  11777.  @Aether-Entropy  There WILL be a grey market for bypass kits for this stuff. Something that will simulate the "we have a connection" signals and that you or a mechanic can install with some wire splicing.
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  11778. "... safety of the driver"? Dude was driving with headphones on. That is a moving violation in every US state I am aware of.
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  11779. How the heck does the wrench measure degrees of turn?
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  11780.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  Huh. Cool!
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  11781. Of course the builder is crying. People are learning about their bad build quality BEFORE they get locked into a contract, and that hurts profits. - But as a tangent, who in Arizona is thinking that creating man-made open ponds are a good thing in THE DESERT!?
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  11782. What the Pasta is up with all these people calling the police for things that can and ought to be solved by a BLEEDING CONVERSATION!
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  11783. I can see one reason for a fast swing speed and a slow latch speed. Souffle kitchen.
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  11784.  @Travelinmatt1976  Kelly's Heroes and Lawrence of Arabia were the first two movies I ever bought on DVD. And I still have them about 25 years later.
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  11785.  @erikhawkke4861  I counter with: If we are simulations acting badly, the code either required or allowed us to do so, based on accumulated input over our "lives" and the other programs will apply consequences for our actions in accordance with the experiences of their previous "lives". - - Or, if we are not a simulation, we act badly because the accumulated experiences of our lives (no quote marks) and... {as above}. - So no difference, really.
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  11786. John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. His name is my name too. Whenever we go out, the people always shout, there goes John Jacon Jingleheimer Schmidt.
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  11787.  @radicalrick9587  Nah, the pictures are crystal clear. It's just that UFO's, like Bigfoot, are actually blurry in real life.
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  11788. That's "shed out back" worthy behavior...
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  11789.  @elanahammer1076  Thanks! (/bow)
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  11790. I'm glad those two groups were able to find common ground, but a couple of them need to realize that people at arms length from each other DON'T NEED A MEGAPHONE TO COMMUNICATE THEIR IDEAS...
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  11791.  @richardrybicki749  ... for now.
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  11792. I live in Massachusetts. I have not been to the actual DMV building since I got my first license. For all routine business, my insurance company handles the work with their purpose-hired courier(s). For several years, Massachusetts had license renewal satellite offices in malls, then they went online. For those times when I need to get a new photo, or the recent RealID license, I just went to my local AAA office (membership saves me equal or more money on insurance than the membership costs). The most recent time I went the line was one person ahead of me.
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  11793. Distributor cap? "It BELONGS in a museum!" Dr. Henry Jones
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  11794.  @rossmanngroup  I worked RMA on internet switching blades. About one third or more of the stuff we got shipped were blades that the on-site tech swapped out in a parts-cannon fix, as the carriers are incentivizes by law to ensure an "up status" more than caring that they found the actual faulty board. Another fraction of the RMAs were boards damaged by incorrect plugging in. There were a good percentage ones with actual damage, usually attributable to a manufacturing fault like cold solder joints. Then we had the fun ones. The intermittents. Sometimes they failed when hot, or when cold, or when ramping from one temperature extreme or the other, or only with certain versions of the operating software installed, or only if the data buffers were overloaded in a certain way, or... Some could be fixed by loading the parts cannon at the BGAs, or sending over-voltage on suspect lines or in one case finding a fractured trace by flexing the board in operation (pushing on it in the test rack) and making the fault show up. - Anyway, every board we got was already replaced by new (or certified good) stock before we even saw them.
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  11795.  @XenHat  That is not always possible, particularly for businesses. You may be running a data center with tens to hundreds of boards from a specific company in that company's racks. You may have a multi-year contract you can't get out of. And changing hardware will mean hours of data transfer, and sometimes changing out software, adding more expense. - As an individual user, changing brands is quick and easy, but long-time viewers of this channel will know that it is not a long-term recipe for avoiding slimy business practices as financial success by one slimy company engenders other companies to copy the slimy practices. *replace slimy with your favorite adjective, if you wish.
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  11796. I keep seeing this statement, but I've (perhaps fortunately) never heard the "song".
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  11797. "If We Stop Testing, We’d Have Fewer Cases (of Covid-19)" - Some failed casino owner
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  11798. No matter where you build your trebuchet, you have to ne concerned with the bend/break limits of your "flinging stuff" arm. I have seen a trebuchet fail that way on an episode of Punkin Chunkin.
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  11799. You're doing the Pasta's work, my child.
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  11800. That thing you call an exciter wire I call "the other red wire". I am not a skilled mechanic, and I've never stayed in a Doubletree Inn.
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  11801. Ace Hardware carries tiki torches ($12) and pitchforks ($35-45) as well as buckets of roofing tar ($50, but driveway sealer is cheaper and might suffice). For feathers, you may have to look around.
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  11802.  @ragland9658  Maybe? Not sure how the feather commoditization works, with manufactured materials replacing feathers/down in pillows, quilts and jackets.
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  11803. Good riddance, open a job for a smarter nurse.
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  11804.  @PaulaXism  Please check the fit of your foil helmet.
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  11805. Congrats on meeting your new boss!
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  11806. To all of these "You can't take pictures/video of our stuff from off of our property!" places: If you don't want people to see your stuff, get opaque barriers, you morons. Solid walls, hedges, wooden fences... They even make slats you can weave into a chain-link fence to block lines of sight. Because those photons no longer belong to you once they leave your property. - Damn idiots.
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  11807. Anny time I am asked to write the date and there is just a blank line (like on checks) I write it like 5 Dec 2019, because the day-month-year makes more sense to my science brain.
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  11808. Hey, thanks for the revisit to the broken cam shaft! - And whatever someone paid for the ad agency that came up with the "click it or ticket" tag line really got their money's worth. It is still in my head all the time.
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  11809.  @jeromethiel4323  I can't even get a SECURED credit card, because I've been debt free for about 20 years.
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  11810.  @Appusle  It doesn't make sense. The question isn't, "How many of my family can I fit in the storage space?" it's, "How many cubic meters of things will fit in the trunk?"
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  11811.  @MrTheHillfolk  I'm sorry. Did you say PLASTIC WATER PUMP!? What the Everloving Pasta!
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  11812. The People of Gaza elected Hamas! The people of Russia elected a former KGB agent (several times)! The people of 2016 USA elected a comb-over yam! The people of 2020 USA elected a brittle grey stammerer! - Branding 100% for the leadership of 50.1% or more of the fraction who actually voted is a false position held by idiots. Particularly when there is no substantive choice in voting at all, such as in the first two of my examples. - edit: Hey Brian Mast. The correct phrase is not, "innocent nat-see civilians" it's "innocent GERMAN civilians. I know thinking is hard when your job title is Republican [fill in the blank], but PLEASE try.
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  11813. Also the title of "Mister Precedent".
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  11814.  @deconteesawyer5758  Ugh, you're probably right.
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  11815. They ruled unanimously that CAF defendants have the right to a trial by (say combat, say combat, say combat) a jury of their peers. Hmm. I suppose that's okay too.
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  11816. So Taco Bell won with the legal theory of "We have a [bleep] ton of money and more lawyers than you have employees. (/slow_clap) Go fornicate yourself Taco Bell.
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  11817. Yay! More for the rest of us!!!
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  11818.  @screamtoasigh9984  Bullshit.
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  11819.  @alexjones7845  Yes, that seems to be true.
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  11820.  @3bydacreekside  I bet they can't...
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  11821. @GAME SMASHERS Will we need a special access account to order Amazon airstrikes? Maybe Amazon Munitions Unlimited?
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  11822. One hopes they polished their resumes before whizzing on their boss's job.
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  11823. "Too much headroom" reminded me of that show, "Max Headroom". Kinda works, because you're getting Matt Frewer hair in this haircut-less era.
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  11824. It's now later. Thank you Michael Kosta.
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  11825. If I strike a K9, I have struck a cop. Ergo, the K9 is a cop. Thus, when the dog scratches the car, a cop has damaged your property, and can be sued for the 4th Amendment violation. - I would love to see the dog be cross-examined in the courtroom.
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  11826. Are they also going to run these cars over with a bulldozer in another stupid (and possibly illegal) PR stunt like they did with motorcycles?
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  11827.  @volkswagenginetta  The second situation you bring up is something that is called (in the US) the National Register of Historic Places.
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  11828. Pfaw! Holding the police to STANDARDS!? Where is this insanity coming from?
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  11829. 0:39 Ray is talking about starting up an air compressor, and a youngling glides by on a crawler in the background. I had to stop the video to laugh, it was so fun!
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  11830. But, but... he told the truth! That's got to count for something, right?
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  11831. You can say an iPhone user will not be bothered by vampires. An iPhone user is also proof against unicorn and leprechaun encounters.
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  11832. That's a police encounter every 4 days. That's almost twice a week!
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  11833. I have a friend who used to bag when he mowed, but once he cleared out the last corner of his lot, he no longer had anywhere to dump it all. So he switched to a mulching blade and his lawn got healthier.
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  11834. When us normies get fired, we can collect unemployment that we typically cannot if we quit. Is that different for government employees? Or is it even different for different types of government employees?
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  11835. About a century ago, there was a phenomenon of people living in ramshackle structures that got the name "Hoovervilles". These 'outdoor indoor spaces need to get the name "DiBlasio Diners" or "Cuomo Cuchinas"
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  11836. "I dream of Jeannie/Genie" takes on a darker connotation once you know about this test program.
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  11837. 911 liars are almost never penalized.
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  11838. I guess BMW were feeling the heat?
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  11839.  @thehellyousay  What you describe is CRIMINAL asset forfeiture.
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  11840. You know what else lets everybody know y'all out there? That POLICE CAR! And the UNIFORMS! Dumbasses.
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  11841. When you said, "Median person in the United States" I was thinking geographically.
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  11842. We'll just have to trick Troy and the Wife Unit into being more adversarial to satisfy the vocal minority. OR... Not.
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  11843.  @hopelessdecoy  Kind of like how a rag and some electrical tape is better than no bandage at all on a cut. The infection can be a hassle, but at least you haven't bled to death?
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  11844. I prefer 7-30 minute Louis. Heck, the first time I heard the term "elevator pitch" I thought it was a way of making un-aliving look accidental by way of tossing someone down the empty shaft.
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  11845. I am delighted how things are named. "Where does the voltage from the tilt detector go? The tilt relay." No alphanumeric gobbledegook. Actual useful part names.
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  11846. Kari Lake is one of the best-looking Nazis this country has seen on a very long time. - And if Republicans refuse to accept the outcome of the 2020 elections, then every single one of them who won that year are ALSO frauds! Oh, sorry (not sorry) did I use too much logic for the MAGA crowd?
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  11847. Deep dive. Good pun!
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  11848. Your bike story reminds me of when I lived in Phoenix AZ, where we had a voluntary bike ID. Unlike yours with a sticker that could be removed, ours was a serial number stamped into the crank tube on the frame.
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  11849. Another shallow grave story in the offing.
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  11850. Hi, Dave!
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  11851. Loved the Hogan's Heroes clip!
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  11852. I used to have a lot of stuff in a storage locker. After a few years, I realized that I was not accessing the unit, and not missing the presence of any of the items within. So, I went through everything, throwing out stuff with no real value, recovering the few things I actually did want, and taking the rest home for an "everything must go" yard sale. After the yard sale, I donated the leftovers to the Salvation Army. - Every time I have moved since, I have found more things that I realize I don't need to keep hold of, and either sell or donate them.
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  11853. But Hertz NEEDS all of those cars! Paying Tom Brady for their ads is not cheap.
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  11854. "A lot of other people are squatting" is not a legal defense. This was a good outcome, but why the EVER LONG PASTA did it take THIS to get the trespasser arrested for stealing a house? - These idiotic laws will only change when lawmakers start getting their own properties "taken" by squatters. This is a good plan. Make a list of lawmakers' properties, and distribute it to the homeless, along with a copy of the squatter laws in that state/county/municipality as a "guide".
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  11855.  @vicpetrishak7705  Thanks for the snorting laughter!
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  11856.  @johnsanko4136  I believe Norinco rejects nearly 0%, leaving the risk and jams up to the customer to deal with.
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  11857. Ooh! Apple is now meeting people's expectations of not being tracked online... but just a little bit, and only 15 years after they got into making phones! Wow! - I have yet to take the tape off the camera on any computer or phone I own. If someone I am talking to online feels a need to see my face, I'll scan and send them the photo from my driver's license. Or maybe use MS Paint and draw a stick figure to send them. - Ransomware? Another group of malicious hackers that need to be hunted down, tried, and when found guilty drawn and quartered on pay-per-view.
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  11858. Tesla worked around anti-consumer laws to be able to sell to people in another state - YAY? Tesla makes it hard to impossible to have your Tesla vehicle repaired at a third-party facility or repair it yourself - BOO! Tesla has software shut down features in their cars if you try to repair or modify a used or former insurance totaled vehicle - BOO! - Tesla has a long way to go to get me as a fan.
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  11859.  @DianeNichols-u1b  Large parts of the roof are gone, exposing the interior to the weather, water and wildlife. The walls are sinking onto the footing/foundation. All of the exterior wood has been untreated for so long it is likely more dry rot than solid. Termites and carpenter ants are likely. And then there is the possibility of human-caused interior and structural damage. - While last week's house MIGHT be salvageable, I strongly suspect this week's house is a full tear-down.
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  11860. My Rush Hour involves Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures.
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  11861. Hey, Preston! While you were in Brussels, did you talk to them about the WMD they spread all over the world? Those "sprouts" of theirs? Those things are insidious and disgusting.
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  11862.  @looinrims  By making unreasonable demands, of course.
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  11863.  @CarrotConsumer  That sprout is a cultivar of cabbages. Nowhere NEAR a mushroom.
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  11864. That's barely a song. By the halfway point it just turns into noise to "flex" on how many keys are played at once. I found it to be an unpleasant and ugly experience to hear that... song(?) being played.
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  11865. I got a kick out of that turkey cosplaying as a peahen.
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  11866. Good job getting older! (Given the alternative...)
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  11867. 1-2 feet of sand deposited, and the high water line is 1-2 feet over that. There's a lot of clearing and stuff to fix. And we see whole stretches of asphalt that have broken up and been washed away.
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  11868. No, no, wait. Newfoundland poodle mix? - Never mind, I forgot that not all poodle breeds are purse dogs. I was going trying to imagine the geometry of that mix and...
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  11869. "Never give up, never surrender!" - Captain Peter Quincy Taggart
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  11870. New York thinks they're SO smart. They didn't bother drowning four towns to make a massive reservoir like us in Massachusetts. Lazy strap-hangers!
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  11871. Sometimes, yeah.
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  11872. It's the fossilized remains of a pre-flood tree. Obviously.
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  11873. And thus the mantra, "New doesn't always mean good."
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  11874. The big difference between GFI and GFCI is that the GFI is designed and installed to stop electricity to THAT outlet, while the GFCI is designed and installed to stop electricity to the whole circuit, in coordination with a GFCI breaker. - Also, (at the very least) in the state I live in, GFI is no longer code for new construction and/or wire runs with outlets within a certain distance of water fixtures.
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  11875.  @marks4374  Not in my state's building codes they aren't.
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  11876. And the second picture is a rather caucasian-looking woman.
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  11877.  @Blox117  Nope. But they could have been. Sadly, the anti-monopoly momentum that kept Microsoft and others in check decades ago is lacking in the pro-corporate, anti-regulation, paid-for-politician environment we have today.
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  11878.  George xeno  I know that on my Windows machines, I would like to lobotomize, if not totally uninstall Alexa, but I have no way of knowing what else will "happen to break" if I get rid of that spyware.
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  11879.  @thilltrot  There are a LOT of things API can mean, but I understand you are speaking of it in a programming sense, to which I say you are correct, I don't program, and don't know how API's really work. - I did a very quick surf for an explanation, and API's are part of a lot of different companies' programming.
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  11880.  @ethor38592  Ah yes, that shit-show called Edge. That now works sort of like Chrome, but not as well. Because some people can't seem to justify their continued employment without making unnecessary changes. - Like every time the top General or Sergeant Major changes in one of the branches of the armed forces, they feel a need to change the uniforms, the training methods, and whatever little level they can jiggle to make their "impact".
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  11881.  @thilltrot  I knew about Apple's anti-repair fetish. Thank you very much for the information (which I didn't really know) about API's and how they are/can be used.
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  11882. Imagine if college students put all that protest energy into something they COULD change? Feeding the hungry in the US, homelessness, lack of access to health care (physical and mental), the constant assault on the right to vote, or (gasp!) going to class and learning how to use what their taught to make life better for themselves and others.
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  11883. $2.13 per hour. I believe illegal alien agricultural workers are paid better.
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  11884.  @NecromancyForKids  If all they need is to see the DOB, they don't need the card out of my hand while I cover everything but that information.
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  11885. I'd rather have a police chief who is tough on bad cops. Oh wait, they are ALSO criminals, right?
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  11886. These whackaloons have quickly forgotten the summer (and ongoing) droughts, and the summer and ongoing massive forest fires. They have already forgotten the crops destroyed by high temperatures and insufficient water. They have already forgotten how all of this contributed to rising food prices (in part because they believe "Biden did it")
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  11887. Cities will pave an area rather than let it grow. Easier and cheaper maintenance.
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  11888. I watched the original video from the woman neighbor's channel. Mr. Marshal did not resist anything except the force of gravity (by staying on his feet instead of falling down).
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  11889. I would put a cover on 2-8 years before letting a century pass.
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  11890. I feel you are very unfairly disparaging to this innovation (at the time it was made) in the beginning of your video. The fact that you can get replacement bulbs without a lengthy hunt means the installation base is large enough for the bulb makers to keep putting them out. And for the stores to keep devoting shelf space to the bulbs.
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  11891. It's not you.
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  11892.  @6c45pi  Okay, no need to be defensive, eh? (/wink)
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  11893. I also remember seeing something about how armored fast maneuver warfare, a.k.a. 'Blitzkrieg" was actually first demonstrated by British officers J.F.C. Fuller and B. H. Liddell Hart, though apparently Britain dropped the idea and the Germans in the audience of the demonstration picked it up and ran with it. As with all documentaries of the era this one was made, some salt grains may need to be applied.
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  11894. First loose lug nuts are "serviced", now chicken with bones in it is boneless. The upper Midwest is going to hades in a handbasket.
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  11895. 1) Why is the woman so close to the cop? 2) Why is the cop okay with her being so close behind him? 3) What kind of moron lies about what is on video, particularly when that video is available before writing the first report? 4) This is only unusual because the matter is actually being heard in a Federal court.
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  11896. My ex killed a car in a more spectacular fashion with a similar lack of oil. She drove it who knows how far on low or no oil until a piston arm seized on the crank shaft, breaking the arm free of the pesky piston, then driving that piston arm through the front of the engine block bigger than my fist. Her version of events? "It was running rough then it got noisy and died." And the car was not even paid off yet!
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  11897. Another reason for the time discrepancies can be the thermal mass of the stovetop kettle, and the fact that most stovetops other than inductive shed a lot of heat into the air. ... which you covered at around 14:20 onward...
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  11898. I was doing random searches about light bulbs, and found out that the light bulb as the symbol of a new idea started with the cartoon Felix the Cat.
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  11899.  @gregsmith5695  The best argument FOR renewable energy sources is that they are renewable. Oil and coal are not being created at anywhere near the rate they are being used. In fact, coal is no longer being produced, due to the existence of a particular family of bacteria involved in the decomposition of dead wood and plant material. Even fissile material is technically finite, though if our species could agree on giving that stuff up as weapons, and could also agree to use it for power generation, it would offset a LOT of non-renewable use. - The sun will last a lot longer, several billion years, even though it is technically not itself "renewing". And the sun, in addition to being the resource for solar power, is also the driver behind air movement which runs wind turbines and rain which feeds hydro-electric power generation. The existence of the mass of the sun and moon help drive geothermal energy as well by continuing to "flex" the planet and keep the internal processes flowing. - I will not engage in a mask debate in this thread.
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  11900.  @Kulric  That is the takeaway you got from my previous comments? You may need to increase your reading comprehension.
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  11901.  @gregsmith5695  Neat! Ad hominem, misrepresentations, straw man, oversimplification, false analogy, and cherry picking. You've had quit a busy day with bad debate tactics.
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  11902. Wow! Amazing changes to policy that other jurisdictions have been successfully using for decades! Such innovation! (Though the website is a good thing)
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  11903.  @pauls5745  Or if you try to use off-brand ink!
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  11904. Maybe we could find an open inane asylum for him?
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  11905. That Valdosta rally crowd is really buying up the whole stock of stupid. No masks, jammed together, celebrating a President who just refused a massive batch of Covid vaccine for infantile reasons. And this "Doctor" Orient (sp?) testifying in front of Congress AGAINST the idea of a vaccine, sent by Sweet Potato Hitler. This virus is not killing the idiots fast enough.
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  11906.  @kameljoe21  CAM is what a GOOD HOA is. Then you have the HOA snooping over your fence, ruling on what color drapes you can have, how long you can have a guest over (if at all), how many cars you can have... And they fine, fine, fine until they can steal your house. - A commercial landlord can sue for unpaid rent and CAM. They can decline to renew your lease. That's it, unless you start breaking their property.
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  11907.  @jeremytitus9519  Oh, Jeremy. Open a search bar, and type in, 'What is The Onion"
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  11908. I read the thumbnail and thought, "Who tries to return free samples? And why would Costco accept them without a receipt?"
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  11909. Why are cops and the legal system so allergic to getting a valid warrant, arresting the right person, and waiting for a conviction?
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  11910. If only the court was not the sole owner and custodian of the records of your own trial(s)... And by this, I mean, blocking participants from making their own recordings. edit: My experience is solely in Massachusetts, where electronic devices are banned from the building.
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  11911. And to trigger some recently serving troops... "TIME TO INVENTORY THE CONEXES!'
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  11912. Yeah, why would the people need some assurance that the person they are handing piles of money to actually knows how to do their job? You know, that job that may be the difference between jail or freedom, solvency or poverty, life or death? If they remove the standards of a test for a nebulous evaluation of on-the-job training, we will never know until it is too late if the person we hire has the skills needed. And instead of a standard test, the Bard Association will have to put in a LOT more resources to evaluate a body of work for each applicant. Who will pay for that? Eventually, the clients. - Yeah, plumbers and electricians (amongst other trades) go through an apprenticeship process, but they ALSO take a test to prove certification before they get their own license.
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  11913. Or under the foundations of one.
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  11914.  @hicknopunk  With better and lighter zoom features on cameras, they don't NEED to be within that 100 feet. The REAL issue here is this case is a short step away from Steve's example of municipalities just buying drones and sending them out LOOKING for fineable offenses that bother nobody, but can bring in revenue for the municipality.
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  11915. I wish we lived in a nation where groups like IJ would close for lack of business.
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  11916. Oh no! Educating people? How DARE they!!!!!!
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  11917.  @jpack85  I forgot this clown was a senator.
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  11918. I keep every registration my car has had, in a stack with the current one, in the glove box. I really don't know why I do this. The last time I got pulled over (expired inspection sticker) the cop asked me why and I could only shrug.
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  11919. Sometimes I wish the virus was smarter, and deliberately targeted anti-maskers.
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  11920.  @GottEddy  Ah yes, the ever-popular, "You don't know what you're talking about because you aren't a studied and experienced expert in that very specific topic," argument, usually used by people who also don't meet that standard. A better debate method is to say, "Please cite your sources, and here are mine."
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  11921.  @GottEddy  Must I visit Antarctica to know it exists? Must I be bitten by a shark to know it hurts? No. I read, watch and listen to the accounts and evidence of people who have experienced and studies things. I compare the strength of their evidence versus opposing positions and evidence. - And nobody "knows" anything in a vacuum, particularly morality. Our psychology and opinions are formed by a combination of our physiology and out environment (upbringing, wealth level, religion or not, etc.).
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  11922.  @hokutoulrik7345  Is it me you're looking for?
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  11923. If the "moonwalking" space suit is not designed to walk backwards, then what is the point??? ;)
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  11924.  @natersalad889  I have had good dentists send me to an oral surgeon for a root canal the x-ray showed was beyond the dentist's skill. A wise skilled tradesperson will know their limits AND have connections to people who can fill in those gaps.
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  11925. With the ease with which prospective employers and landlords can find out every bit of your legal history, plus the overt and tacit discrimination based on the contents of that record, I would never make an Alford plea. And if the state dropped the case on something I am innocent of, I would fight with everything I had to get that charge and arrest expunged. - My reputation has worth to me.
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  11926. Fair bet there.
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  11927. She was suffering zero harm, she made up an inciting event, and smeared someone else's reputation to do it. She is a completely hate-filled (rhymes with witch) and deserves every consequence of boycott for any future business endeavor. BTW, that's Lorie Smith, 303 Creative LLC. Her "contact me" part of her website is a big "don't send me hate messages about my bigotry" panel.
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  11928. The engineer who decided to run that wire harness in that tight gap needs to go to a 12-person overnight rave in a small coat closet.
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  11929. When it comes to cracking joints, it's not age, it's mileage. I know this because I exceeded my knees warranty at 28, half a lifetime ago.
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  11930. This is part of why medical costs are so damned high.
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  11931. Declassify: To remove from the classroom.
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  11932. These mandates are like a vaccine against willfully ignorant crybabies.
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  11933. Carvana is working their butts off to make Buy Here Pay Here look like a top-notch used car seller.
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  11934. I had a touch-lamp by my bedside. I still have the lamp, but I don't plug it in anymore, because one of my cats likes to turn it on and off by touching his nose to it. A previous cat used to restart my PC by 'sniffing' the case on dry days. (/zap-restart!) - Sorry, had to stop the video as I could no longer year your video after the capaci-tater joke. Seems to be a problem on my end with an explosion of laughter.
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  11935. I have strong enough acrophobia that I had to look away from my monitor at times. Great information, clearly and simply presented. Thanks!
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  11936. If the company did not want their brand out in the world on someone else's car, they could have sanded it off the sides and torn it off the roof before it was sent to auction. Not your fault, but theirs, for not imagining someone would repair the car instead of grinding it or using it for parts.
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  11937. Maisonette. Nice word for "apartment a little larger than an RV. Or "$800/month" out where I live, except that would come with an off-street parking space.
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  11938.  @classarank7youtubeherokeyb63  Silly rabbit. I have never been to Reddit in my 5+ decades of life. Please spin your ad hominem selector and try again.
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  11939. Governor Remover sounds like a new product from the makers of Goo Gone.
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  11940. Reasonable accommodation? You're no longer a truck driver. You might be able to get certification as a mechanic. Good luck. - edit: in the US, this driver would have lost their CDL, and the whole point would be moot.
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  11941. But Jessa is okay, right?
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  11942. Wait, the ATF is on the way? HIDE YOUR DOGS!
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  11943. When you cut to the floor jack around 2:00, I was looking away from the screen and wondered why there was an angry chicken in the video.
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  11944. That science is pretty solid, but if everyone reacts by spamming the "Game Over" buttons, there's not going to be a whole lot of investigation being done.
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  11945. Next to the fired car: Was that ANOTHER PT Cruiser, or just a previous one sitting out by the road? - edit: Oh, and the whole back drywall of the new side is gone too!
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  11946. Oh no! How can we possibly stop the 2nd, 3rd, 4th party batteries being bought by repair shops? - - - Apple can sell the 1st party batteries and parts to repair shops, that's how.
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  11947.  @bms9144  Ugh. The various nested polities of the city and the county and how poorly they work together is yet another reason to stay the heck away.
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  11948.  @bms9144  If Vegas fell into a hole, one or more cities would pick up the convention business. You'd just be missing the money-suck of casinos.
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  11949. If the Canadians are okay laughing, I'll laugh along. I don't want to be "Geneva suggested" to paste.
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  11950. Unskippable ads are useful to me in that I can ALT-TAB away and check emails.
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  11951. The signs, "Trump will fix it"... Fix what? His lies? His crimes? His conspiracies? His infidelities? His non-payment of bills and judgements?
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  11952.  @Anvilman  Why then does redistricting so often have to be arbitrated by a judge, if there is no meddling? - gerrymandering is alive and well ever since 1812 when the governor of Massachusetts made the process of selecting voting districts for partisan packing and cracking so popular.
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  11953.  @Anvilman  Fair point.
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  11954. If your public schools suck, it's YOUR (plural) fault. Your community elected the school board and municipal officers who determine the budget, hiring, and standards for your schools.
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  11955.  @aj.j5833 Nope. Otherwise all 50 states would tie for first on every survey of quality of education.
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  11956. @corvus8638 Is that a problem for people where you're from? (Did this story hit too close to home?)
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  11957. @corvus8638 I am not acting.
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  11958. MAGA: Making Attorneys Get Attorneys Not a good look for the party of law & order.
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  11959. And now I have learned another bit of trivia! A symbol that combines two symbols we already have, invented by an ad-man in the 1960's and used rarely, if at all.
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  11960.  @frazzledude  That is a smart idea!
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  11961. Part of why you see so many Walgreens stores so close to each other is that they are currently the top buyer of smaller drugstore chains.
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  11962.  @TheSighphiguy  If the company with deep pockets is not allowed to delay and counterfile you into poverty, they would not have allowed the law to be passed in the fisrt place.
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  11963. It is odd to me that the concrete does not go all the way to the door of the separate garage. Is that common in those parts? Maybe it was a local code "thing" to allow a second garage. Or that second garage is not the original structure in that location. I'm focusing too much on this, aren't I?
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  11964. I have heard of that system before. IN the US, the plate follows the driver, in that you can 'un-register' one car and move the plates to a newly registered car, if done within a specific time frame (in my state it is 14 days, IIRC).
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  11965. That 446lb marking may have been just for the breech block. - edit: It gave me a chuckle that the picture at the end was one of Olympia's guns aimed at the New Jersey.
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  11966. If the 14th won't save us, maybe there is a liberal out there willing to divide by seven...
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  11967. They refused to diagnose until they replaced the 12V battery? Why? Didn't they have a portable battery charger? I've seen mechanics diagnose and repair a car with a dead battery by clamping the charger on while they waited for the new battery to be delivered.
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  11968. Interestingly enough, the bible has ALWAYS been a document put together with an agenda. From ancient Jewish sects to the Council of Nicea to the plethora of "versions" of the bible. Each is shaped by the interpetations and intent of the person or persons putting it toegther. This one only stands out in it's recentness.
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  11969. Who knows what ELSE the steering shaft could have been in the way of?
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  11970. In many ways, the airport question needs to be asked: "Was the golf course there before you built or bought the house?" Just as people who move next to an airport then complain about the noise, people who move next to a golf course need to take some responsibility for their decision.
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  11971. DeSantis? Remorse? He'd respond that he has never used a telegraph before.
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  11972.  @jayskrills7375  Hulk Hogan, is that you?
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  11973. So what? Does that change the fact that the city is vastly overreaching here?
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  11974. The court decision is another link in the fence built to keep the underlings from freely wandering about the country and finding better quality of life.
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  11975. Wait until this town figures out that they can pull you over and then serve as a witness for the citation the county or state cop they called in will write you in their stead. And they get to hang you up for a lot longer as you wait for that other department's officer.
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  11976.  @danielallan8061  If a polity want to remain a polity, there must be some limits on freedoms, including self-determination There must be some restrictions by laws, regulations and customs. Otherwise, we could have up to (around) 8 billion different "countries" with their own freedoms. Of course, such a reality would most likely whittle down the population numbers rather quickly. Sort of a "Four Horsemen" situation, with war, famine, pestilence and death. - Think about it for a moment. How do you have food for dinner? You or someone else grew/raised it. If you did the production, law and its enforcers kept other from taking it away from you. If someone else produced it, then they had to agree to trade it to you (today, usually though many middle-men) because they know that law and its enforcers will prevent other people from taking away the product of their work without recompense. Someone had to make sure there was a way to get that food to you. That means roads and a means to transport along those roads. That means a way to ensure the food is not stolen or destroyed on the way to you. - Long story short, without at least some restrictions on freedom, we die.
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  11977. That darned square-cube law again! What? Oh, nevermind. Forget I said that.
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  11978. "Caution: Coffee may be hot" (one would hope) "Keep hands and feet away from spinning blades" (No shit, right?) "Do not assist in childbirth with these skis" - Comedy (so far) from Chris Porter
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  11979. If the "you pay us back for your training if you stop working here before (date)" is disclosed, in writing, and with the agreement of all parties, then it is a legal debt. If they spring it on the former employee without having disclosed it, in writing beforehand, then they can go pound sand. -edit: addendum. If the employer fires the employee without cause (as laid out in WRITTEN policy the employee receives and agrees to), then the company can still pound sand. . The above is my opinion.
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  11980. I see poison ivy/oak/sumac and my first reflex is to reach for a bag of salt. "Oh, but the salt will kill all the plants!" That's the idea. It's harsh, but better than many of the wonders of modern agro-chemistry available at the hardware store.
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  11981.  @rjb6327  Or a PT Cruiser if you have big hands. There is NO room under the hoods of those suckers!
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  11982.  @xscorpx  I refute your wrong opinion.
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  11983.  @xscorpx  It's so much fun to argue with someone who has not even stated what their actual position is other than to call me wrong. It's like arguing with a sleepy toddler.
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  11984. Too bad they can't be considered fish.
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  11985. What are they going to do, fine themselves?
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  11986. Is that calculator application on your smartphone certified in the State of West Carolina to be used in matters of converting fractions???
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  11987.  @Woffenhorst  Oh yes! I remember as a kid in the 1970's getting those, and our parents (wisely) made us eat those ONLY after we had finished the rest of the meal. Yep, the innards of those pies was dangerously hot. Even back then they had the "Caution: Filling is hot!" warnings on the package.
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  11988.  @nancylee6649  Send trucks full of tiki torches and pitchforks?
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  11989.  @callummcneill6266  Yes. Still a far cry from "Destroying Europe".
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  11990. I know how he got there! Intruder door!
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  11991. when I buy a durable item or major service that costs more than around $20-40, I usually only do so after days to weeks of research. Previous customers' reviews, consumer reports, news stories, recalls, safety bulletins, online reviews and so on. It took me three years to agree with a friend that recommended getting a Kindle Paperwhite e-reader. I'm glad I did (a Kindle is a LOT lighter than thirty boxes of books in a move) but I am also glad I waited and researched, getting all of the features I desired.
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  11992.  @ding9633  Hurry now, caves are low on supply!
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  11993.  @mgjk  Hmm... or maybe a SURPRISE LIGHTSABER!
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  11994. Nope. This is the outcome of hopelessness. People who feel that the only thing in their life they can still control is the things they do with their own hands. People who can't see a way up and out. People who no longer trust the people and systems to work for them. - It is the result of greed by those who are winning.
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  11995. Ah, counting for seconds. I learned Mississippis, elephants, "one one thousand" and then from music, "one-e-and-a-two-e-and-a..."
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  11996. Working 14-17 hours a day on your last week is so danged "high schooler". Just like starting your term paper the night before it's due and then sleeping through your alarm and failing to get it turned in after all.
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  11997. If you look ONLY at building cost versus upkeep on existing airports and terminals, absolutely. When you stat projecting the cost over a number of years of fare-paying use, your assertion loses strength.
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  11998.  @mitchyoung93  Yes and no. There is merit in saying a polity always needs to be ready to defend itself. At least the US transitioned from calling it "The War Department".
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  11999.  @bigglesharrumpher4139  Yeah... humans suck.
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  12000. As soon as you read, "Apple tech said it was the fuse." I knew it was a lie, because they don't check component level. They plug in a diagnostic and select a major assembly to sell the poor sucker.
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  12001. Re: calling COVID-19 CCP, there is a company with that name that is somewhat involved in the process of dealing with the virus (at least as to cleaning supplies) https://ccpind.com/#/home
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  12002. Also, if you ultrasonic the boards first, you may remove those green and blue hints that help you find the problems without half an hour and a multi-meter.
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  12003. Because a wireless update is cheaper. one or two employees write an update, click a few buttons, and it is sent out. A wired update has to be sent to all of the dealerships, then they have to contact all of the vehicle owners about the update, then they have to have dealership employees spend time installing the updates. And the dealerships will not do this for free. - My question is why does the car need updates at all? Did they sell us broken cars? Are they playing the same tricks as video game companies and shipping software that shouldn't have passed beta testing?
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  12004. I can still remember when grocery stores would have a rack or shelf near the back of scratch-n-dent, discontinued, and close to end of "best by" merchandise, for significant markdowns. You could find stuff like the one box a stocker sliced when opening a box, stuff that had the box art change, and seasonal items. Now it is uncommon, in part because of "image" and probably in response to the litigious nature of nasty people.
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  12005. Joe Horn should have gotten a life sentence.
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  12006.  @deconteesawyer5758  And when you look like you might get close to winning, the seizing authority will just drop the case to avoid setting a precedent.
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  12007. Tucker Carlson has perfected the blending of: resting b---- face, constipation, confusion and diarrhea.
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  12008. This is the kind of YouTube video that the world benefits from. I feel like I have learned a month's worth of classroom information in twenty minutes. Thank you.
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  12009. I recall having the original CFLs in cold spaces like basements and porch lights and how LOOOOOOOOOONG it took for them to get fully bright.
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  12010.  @ZeroFox1970  Sour today?
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  12011. If they are going to the trouble to remake it, they may as well go full Ghostbusters and cast only "appropriate*" female actors for the main roles. *Appropriate in this context means they must be non-hetero, or non-binary, or some other non- that will make the minority Twitter hyenas happy. - Highlander 2? Ah, fuck Zeist. (I prefer the "Renegade Version") But on the plus side, Michael Ironside chewed some great scenery. Highlander 3? not completely painful. Highlander the Series? Mostly great in my experience. Highlander Endgame? I barely remember that one. Highlander The Source? Someone deserves a beating for THAT one! Make it two beatings and a weekly lecture about learning from one's mistakes.
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  12012.  @marcmulhern1736  Indeed! I too have a CPAP machine. If I sleep with it on, I wake in about 6-7 hours fully rested and ready for the day. If I fall asleep without it, I can sleep 10-14 hours and still feel like I never really rested. I am fortunate that I don't need supplemental oxygen either with the CPAP or in daily life.
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  12013. Take and pass just one course at a community college or (ACREDDITED!) technical school, and that becomes your "highest level of education". No further problems.
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  12014. Does this billionaire have a mansion and a yacht?
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  12015. Regarding that Comer clip: Why is it right for ANYONE to have to "struggle to pay for their healthcare"?
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  12016. New series: What makes this song's publisher a complete jerk. - It's almost like Fair Use is a foreign language to these AI driven money sniffers. "Someone used our music? Even a few seconds? We can't have new people exposed to the music that makes us money! Send in the hitmen!" "Sir, we can't actually kill people." "Absurd! Okay, let's make their lives miserable and give ourselves some very bad press. Dang laws."
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  12017. I first heard about this on Steve Lehto's channel. VERY glad IFJ is in this one.
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  12018.  @johnt.848  Correct but snarky.
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  12019. Maybe they have, but they hide it between rants about "traveling" and shouting about how the cops have no jurisdiction over them, and so what if they are reaching for a firearm the laws of the US don't apply to them because they found something in Black's Law Dictionary and are going to apply it incorrectly as they get taken to the ground after being tased and pepper-sprayed.
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  12020. Great! I'm going to move there and open a university that has no classrooms, no instructors. Just a registration office (laptop at the coffee shop) and pure profit!
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  12021.  @nunyabusyness762  All it would take is a prosecutor facing election, and a "victim" who looked hurt enough and could tell a convincing tale of woe. Maybe being American has made me too cynical?
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  12022. Looks like this was meant for bodyguards. Leaving one hand free to shove the protectee in a car or behind a wall.
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  12023. If any state needs a right-to-repair mindset, it is that one state where EVERYTHING has to come in on boats or planes. (Hawaii)
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  12024. My first encounter with something designed not to be readily repaired (other than cheap plastic toys such as squirt guns) was when I had a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle and decided to do my own oil change. The oil plug was a proprietary-sized (not metric, not inches) Allen wrench tool that I had to visit three auto parts places to find, and pay almost $20 for in 1985. It fits nothing else I ever found, and I think I gave it away as part of the "bundle" when I sold the car. - So when I first heard about the problems repair shops were having with Apple inventing new screw heads, I thought, "yeah, been there." But at least I was able to get a Chilton/Haynes manual and all of the parts to repair the Beetle without finding under-the-table deals.
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  12025.  @Snarkapotamus  Unless that number is 9. - Because 7 8 9.
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  12026.  @mikewhite735  I think I recall a Schoolhouse Rock (maybe a different "show"?) short about the metric system, and how easy it is to conceptually switch between the two systems
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  12027.  @JS-po8oc  There is this whole "new math" foolishness with number lines...
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  12028.  @ebotfu  Legal name... Does anyone go by their illegal name?
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  12029.  @redstonewarrior0152  A decimeter, 10 centimeters, is about the width of an average person's hand. A hand is an old measure still used for the height of horses (at the shoulder). - The typical human is built to count in base ten. ten digits on our hands. We use base ten math and counting for nearly everything EXCEPT non-metric measuring. (and computer memory/bus width) - Houses could easily be built to metric measures, but it would require a change in building codes, AND a paradigm shift in the minds of the trades.
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  12030. Hey, that foam peanut packaging is valuable if you're looking to make your own napalm. For recreational purposes...
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  12031. 3:10 Ray says, "It's held on with two band clamps..." and my brain went, 'Oh! One time, at band clamp..."
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  12032. So you were blue falconed.
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  12033.  @dylansmith5820  Ah, pedantry. Even BETTER pedantry over a typo! You have slain me with your well-reasoned and clearly stated rebuttal!
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  12034.  @Gizmetti  You shall be missed. Where do we send the flowers and condolences cards?
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  12035. The town where my high school sits banned pinball and arcade games because "arcades draw drug dealers." There were exactly two pinball machines and one video game console amongst two restaurants. edit: and one of them had their machines in the bar half of their business, blocking minors from using them. So minors had access to ONE pinball machine before the ordinance.
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  12036. "I will MAKE it legal..." - Papa Palps
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  12037. 1) Vague laws bother me a lot. A vague law allows the injection of personal bias on the part of the enforcer. 2) YouTube is knee-jerking with their internal policies regarding "child-directed" and they so COULD have software that would let adults comment and see and comment while children can do neither. - And "because children can lie" is a crappy standard for punishment of creators.
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  12038. Well, now I'm thinking about it. Thanks!
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  12039. Dummies. The US Government doesn't need to use a hurricane to take your land to mine Lithium. They have Eminent Domain right at their fingertips, and they can just get back the money they spend from the mining companies they sell the rights to.
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  12040. Birds and bats killed by windmills? Domestic cats LAUGH at your numbers. The rest of your video is "It's not perfect, so it's bad!; flimflammery.
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  12041.  @latidy710 And more eagles are killed by our injection of chemicals into crops and pest control than windmills. Pick a critter that is killed by renewables, and there are more of them being killed by other causes including the pollution we keep producing in many aspects of our civilization. Is it perfect? Nope. But it's better than burning coal and oil (which is still the demand-spike generation method of choice due to fast rev-up curves).
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  12042. Washing dishes? Easy! Let the dog lick the food off, then hang them out in a sand storm. Everyone does this, right? Haha! - Ah! Alliteration always allow awesomeness! - When I had a dishwasher, I used those detergent pods for a while, putting one in each detergent compartment, but I found that the small vents of the first compartment were VERY insufficient to allow enough water into it to dissolve the pod. Instead, I just tossed the first pod in the bottom of the drum and the second in the sealed detergent compartment. I used those pods until the ran out and went back to liquid. - I installed my dishwasher hooked up to the cold line because it claimed a pre-rinse heater (and it seemed to work).
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  12043. Regarding that hospital clip shown near the beginning: - What kind of hospital ferries organs through WAITING ROOMS? - What king of idiot runs in a hospital? - Most crucially, that guy in the johnny... IN THE WAITING ROOM(!?)... looks WAY too healthy to have an HFSS score bad enough to be at the head of the transplant list.
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  12044. College students are an easily led population. Get them interested, then get them angry. Actual facts are irrelevant, and may even get in the way of raising the fever. - edit: For best results, get your ideals into the women first, and the horny men will follow. Many won't even care what the protest is about.
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  12045. Hey! Just in time to start working on full electrification of cars and installing enough electrical generation and distribution to power those cars.
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  12046. Kind of like a special operation... Perhaps an Operation Mincemeat? (Though it is unlikely Glyndwr Michael was sent out of the torpedo tube. Much more likely he was just cast overboard when the sub surfaced.) P.S. I have not seen any film or stage version of this WW2 operation.
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  12047. How do you deal with it? Find out who made the fakery, then call in the Reaper drones with Hellfire "Ninja" missiles. Okay, okay... Only respond as above to fakery that is used to create harm.
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  12048. And this thermos.
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  12049. This video is the shining example of why this channel is better than a lot of the "gun go boom" channels. We get some guns going boom, and we get a LOT of how, why, who, and when. It's education more than gun-porn (though there is a little of that for us all).
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  12050.  @Musikur  Yeah, I was with right up until "... 6 spots by taking the 2nd choice... and my eyes stopped focusing as my brain shrank in horror at the arcane math. - I read the Wikipedia article on your senate, and it helped a little. You do know that your country has changed the method of electing the Senate several times in the 20th century? The Wikipedia article even includes a sample ballot, and I am getting a little bit of a headache after this. - All I can say is, good job getting the system to run!
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  12051.  @sarowie  I sold a plantain Gorilla Taped to a piece of 1970's paneling under the art name CreditUnionsey. It was a cash transaction to some guy in a grey hoodie and a Richard Nixon Halloween mask.
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  12052. Do you need one?
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  12053. A camera does not stop speeding. It only cashes in on it. - A sign SAYING there are speed cameras can be more effective than the camera itself, and a LOT cheaper. But it won't rake in the $$$ for the government.
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  12054. Sadly, the people who want state and federal legislation to protect the interests of the masses can't afford to buy enough politicians to get anything out of committee.
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  12055. Most days the computer-lady's outro's give me laugh. Today I got a laugh follow immediately by an "oof." from how tragically true it is.
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  12056. We all need to stop complaining. Why? Because there was an auto opt-in update pushed to the corporate laws and every dispute can only be dealt with via forced arbitration managed by arbitrators who work for the corporations. Oh, you want to opt-out? There is NO opt-out available. Shame on Roku for revealing the plan ahead of schedule.
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  12057. I wonder if there is a way to make/print DX labels for film canisters that don't have it. Perhaps even something as simple as gluing on some aluminum foil and masking with tape? - Dang it, Alex covered that too!
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  12058. How does someone make legislation about something they have no information for? Easy, they let the lobbyists write the law FOR them. It has worked for oil companies (even as far back as Standard Oil!), car companies, utility companies, health care companies, banks, hospitals, tech companies...
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  12059. @@GH0STST4RSCR34M I am not your "buddy".
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  12060. Name an Asian American? Yakov Smirnov (his stage name).
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  12061. I know more about quantum mechanics than I do about fluid dynamics, which is to say a smidge north of nothing. - Okay, so, in electromagnetism, electricity and magnetism can be the same, from... a certain point of view? - Do Ed, Edd and Eddy currents get measured in chickens?
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  12062. That Fit looks to be in the market for a new windshield as well.
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  12063. The wheels of justice move slowly because the souls of the people are being crushed in the gears to make the grease for the palms of civil asset forfeiture participants.
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  12064. Nail clippers!? He's going to try to hijack the plane!
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  12065. Ooh! Let me guess. "We can't help you, this is a civil matter."
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  12066. Did congress allocate the money for the buyouts? No? I thought not.
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  12067. Add this addendum. The products of farmers are no longer available to owners and operators of manufacturers and dealerships selling non-road engines if those owners participate in the gatekeeping of repair parts, data, software and information. Employees of the aforementioned, upon certification of non-ownership of those business entities, shall be eligible for farm product after a two day wait for on-site service of their food needs. - Dress this up in four pages of legalese, it'll slide right in.
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  12068. Ha! I got the clean-room ad from SalvageData about halfway through this video.
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  12069. I'd also like to see Gosar get hit with a copyright infringement suit from the makers of Attack on Titan. That would be sweet. - Sure, what Cheney responded with was snappy and on-target, but she might have been better served to have just said something like "Childish behavior in an adult is best ignored."
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  12070. Why did states have to make this a felony? They could have just forced police to actually treat it as a crime under the laws already on the books. Trespassing, burglary and larceny. Let the value of the item stolen determine the level of charges. - This is a common refrain, where politicians are finally forced to see a problem and they knee-jerk by making a big hammer of a law, thinking it will fix everything. And often they conveniently ignore that there are already laws covering the activity at issue. This is how my state once ended up with several concurrent firearms laws with slightly different penalties.
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  12071. I feel so fortunate that I only get situationally down, not clinically depressed. On the flip side, I have something like 34 diagnosed chronic medical conditions and take 19 different daily meds plus CPAP and a rescue inhaler, which is a big part of why I sometimes feel situationally "down". - Ruby, you have my positive thoughts. I don't do prayer.
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  12072.  @JeanPaulBlarte  I am trying to imagine how you could be more offensive without using swears or racial slurs, and I can't think of a way.
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  12073. Wow. I have not heard about the Sherman Act in decades! This guy has a breadth of knowledge.
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  12074. Well of course it's not a good thing for a cop to make a statement right away. They are supposed to have a day or two to watch and listen to all of the available recordings, and coordinate a "good story" with the other officers on scene that can explain the physical evidence and still justify the use of force. That's how the unions have set it up. - Shooting blind through an opaque surface is not a police technique, It's a gang-banger methodology.
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  12075. This is a cat with a full-body blep button.
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  12076. Ray, don't you know you were supposed to fire the parts cannon? You're never going to get a sweet job at a dealership the way you're going.
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  12077. It didn't hurt Simo's numbers that Stalin had not too long before eviscerated the leadership of his own army in a paranoid murder spree to weed out "disloyalty" - and thus effectively weeding out experience and skill.
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  12078. Freedom fires. Because in 2003, France vowed to veto UN military action in Iraq. (Turns out they were smarter than the rest of us) The renaming apparently started with one restauranteur in North Carolina, inspired by WW1's "victory cabbage" (sauerkraut) and "liberty dogs" (frankfurters, hot dogs, etc.)
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  12079. I can't even get a replacement remote key fob on my Ford, because it is over 8 years old, and they don't keep the parts longer than that. Thank pasta that I still have key access to the car!
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  12080. Just don't raise and make space-worthy the Kamchatka, that would be the deadliest enemy ship under an Earth flag.
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  12081.  @asureaskie  Lacking a US Supreme Court ruling against the practice, established precedent would at least help. Best would be an actual federal law outlawing the practice. But nobody who cares owns enough national-tier politicians.
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  12082. Adventure Time! -> Adventure Time on the Adventure Train!
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  12083. Hospitals have to have some capacity to deal with mental health emergencies because our society, in moves hastened by Reagon, got rid of most of our mental facilities.
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  12084.  @Maki-00  Typically because having it not in a repaired state is dangerous or at least inconvenient. And sometimes your choices are down to fix it yourself or wait for Hell to freeze over. I will fix small things in places I rent, like a loose faucet knob or something that only needs a minute and a screwdriver or hammer. But if it needs more than a couple of dollars spent to fix it, I'll kick it up to the landlord. - As an example, my kitchen sink was draining very slow this summer, so I tried applying a plunger and drain cleaner to no avail. I then removed the small cleanout plug on the U-pipe, to find the handles of two teaspoons that fell into the drain. I was not able to remove the U-pipe, as it was cemented in instead of attached with threaded connectors, so I put in a call to the landlord who sent out a plumber to take the drain apart, remove the spoons, and put the drain back together. I now have a drain sifter to keep spoons out of the pipes, because spending that $2.50 seemed like a reasonable expectation on me.
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  12085. This is why they should just sell fried cheese curds.
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  12086. If courts let him have that power, wait until we get a flat-Earth President!
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  12087.  @NoNonsense316  A smart business with pride in their work would ask each customer, after the work is done, if they would mind being a reference for others. Maybe for a limited number of years, maybe for a slight shave off the final bill, but they would ask.
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  12088.  @jkap34  There's a spread of beliefs.
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  12089.  @briangonigal3974  good lawyers are for people with the money to fight their case.
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  12090.  @larry-kp9sp  The Subprime Court INVENTED qualified immunity out of whole cloth. They could just as easily pull the plug on it, if they actually cared about "we the people". - Congress could make a law eliminating qualified immunity, but "we the people" can't afford to buy all the votes it would take.
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  12091. So, if the President says the sun has turned green on a cloudless day, when the judges could look out the window and SEE the yellow sun, they would accept the sun's green-ness? Anyone that dumb needs to be in a custodial home care facility, not in a position of power over the law.
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  12092.  @superdave1263  Probably?
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  12093. A woman calling vaccination and wearing the mask rape... Does she even hear herself?
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  12094. Much of this proposed law reads like Cardinal Richelieu's letter. "By my order and for the good of the state, the bearer has done what has been done." - edit: What the FUCK! this also codifies civil asset forfeiture? Fuck this proposal and anyone who wrote, supports, or votes for this!
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  12095.  @presidentpoopypants1448  Ignorance of the law is no excuse!* (*Unless you have qualified immunity)
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  12096. I first saw laminar flow in water on a How It's Made, I think, where they project light into the arcing flows and at night it looks like a laser light show.
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  12097.  @uncovidvaxxforthestrongand3582  China is a fiction constructed by the CIA and the ultra-secretive group behind the Australia mythology in a bid to convince the government of Bhutan that thy have no ocean ports.
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  12098. The propaganda must be working to some degree. Russians are taking vacations in occupied Crimea near military sites and acting surprised when there are incoming rounds.
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  12099. Thanks, the last few seconds before the sponsor now have me imagining scaly, winged, flying, fire and poison breathing, web spinning, eight-legged terrors sitting on piles of treasure. My D&D group will know (after the fact) whence this horror arose!
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  12100. Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people - purportedly, H.L. Mencken
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  12101.  @july8xx  I can find no source to back up your statement. Please cite your source.
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  12102. Awesome!
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  12103. Your Star Wars: A New Hope throw pillow is upside down.
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  12104. The tephra underfoot sounds like you're walking on Rice Krispies.
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  12105. Flux capacitor.
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  12106. I find it very interesting that we are at a point in history where someone can say, "the Queen" and we know who it is. Queen Margrethe of Denmark, right? There are 29 ruling monarchs (including two co-princes and the Pope) left in the world, only two of which are Queens.
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  12107.  @smokedbeefandcheese4144  There are many places where tracks can get you in and out of that wheels can't. And having a strong front reverse slope helps when you encounter heavy brush and small trees that you can't get around. We had one driver we nicknamed "lumberjack" for the number of trees he drove over, backed over, and parked on.
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  12108. Akin to your point: Erasing the error codes just before bringing your car to the mechanic is like refusing to explain your symptoms to the ER doctor.
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  12109.  @trashmesoftsoft  I do so LOVE being condescended to. It brings out the chainsaw massacring urges I try to keep bottled away.
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  12110. I've only ever had to rehabilitate holes in wood, such as chairs or window frames. The usual tricks involved carpenter's glue and a piece of toothpick. So it was really interesting to watch a thread replacement in metal!
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  12111. So the 501(c)3 is pretty much a lawyer payday machine.
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  12112.  @robertsmith2956  Ah yes, pedantry.
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  12113. ... In the "special" hell.
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  12114. I'll admit. I will still use Paypal as a purchaser. I feel I am an ethical person, and I don't quack with seller to make their lives miserable. If I have a problem with something I ordered, I contact the seller and explain what happened, and I tell them I am willing to send back the broken/wrong items (when applicable). I have yet to have a seller refuse to make things right, and most don't want the broken/wrong item returned to them. - - - I wholly understand why Luis and other sellers/service providers would be leaving, or not have ever used Paypal. I use it because it is an insulating layer between me and my bank account. I know there are other similar services, but I adopt change slowly.
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  12115.  @OtakuD50  Yeah. You don't even see that in games of horseshoes. Standing near the target pit is a recipe for blunt force trauma.
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  12116. When you took off the jacket, I finally noticed how much weight you've not continued to have/ If this was deliberate (and not due to illness) congratulations! - Not only is the number of un-popped kernels a good measure, but the popcorn not being burnt is even more important. High un-popped is a slight loss of value, while burnt is a full loss of value. - The over-stove microwave does free up some counter space. My issues are that you now have one pricy appliance with three possible sections to fail, of which the microwave is the shortest lifespan, in general. And if it is not properly installed, you can have serious heat and/or improper venting issues. I have seen more than a couple of the over-stove microwaves that were dead and turned into a space-wasting cabinet that looked down over a counter-top microwave.
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  12117. It sounds like the governor needs a mental capacity evaluation.
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  12118. I chatted with a town inspector who was once told (back in the 1990's) by the town selectmen to hire a helicopter or small airplane to take him on a tour over the town with a camera to find and issue fines for junk and excess vehicles in peoples' back yards that could not be seen from the public way. He told them no. He told them it was not legally defensible, not financially rational, and he was not going to get in a small aircraft to satisfy their grudges against neighbors.
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  12119. Easy solution for trouble bringing your torpedoes to bear. Bring the bear to the torpedoes!
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  12120. I would be interested to see what the full actual response statistics were for that woman's "reporting". And does she DARE ask, in the same area, about the full spectrum of groups "What are straight/gay/bisexual/etc white/black/hispanic/asian/etc men/women/etc good for? - Nah, she would not ask questions off of her agenda.
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  12121. Education, sure. But much more importantly, extensive mental health screening. And while I'm wishing, better training and requirements for continuing education that is not just a measure for promotions.
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  12122.  @Mrmajellan123  Cop's second favorite degree: Criminal Justice. Cops' first favorite degree: The Third Degree.
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  12123.  @clamhammer2463  But a college degree might bring more ammo to the discussion than a degree in making collages.
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  12124. I have NEVER been on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Geocities, or any social media (other than this here YouTube). The peace of mind I keep is worth it! If friends and relatives want to get in touch with me, I have two phones with voice mail (cell and landline) and email.
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  12125. When I worked in retail, I would quite often get the "Are there any in the back?" I would just answer "No." Convenience stores don't keep a lot of stock on hand, as they aim for inventory levels of one delivery cycle plus one shelf facing. Anything more than that ties up money on goods that aren't earning you money very fast, and may expire, turning into losses. - But rude customers are a plague on all types of businesses. "Why did you have to replace rusted out brake lines if you knew they were so expensive?" - "What do you mean you don't have more fresh lobsters, aren't there any in the back?" (Again that dreaded 'in the back') - "Why don't you have this in my size?" ("Because we don't have it in your size.") - "The spicy noodles were too spicy and the hot coffee was too hot and the iced tea was too cold!" - You know who does the least abusing of customer service people? those who worked a customer service job for a long time. - That's why I treat even rude CSR's politely. - And I don't litter, ever, because I had a summer job cleaning up shopping center parking lots and sidewalks. In Arizona. 90-110 degrees, picking up trash, plastic bags, receipts, diapers (never clean ones!) rotten food, cigarette butts, cigar stubs, scraping up gum and candy, pulling shopping carts out of brush-filled twenty-foot deep ditches... And I was 12 or 13 at the time.
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  12126.  @oak1780  I will share a story about the kind of customers I regularly dealt with. Every Sunday, there would be a small number of copies of the New York Times, and regardless of how many the manager asked for, the distributed number did not increase. When they ran out, usually within 3 hours of the papers showing up, I would put a sign on the door, on the shelf where the papers were, and on the counter next to the register. All three signs read "Our apologies. We are out of the New York Times." I would see the same people every week pause to read the sign on the door, come in and read the sign on the shelf, come tot he counter and see the sign tapes there, and then ask if we had any New York Times "In the back". - It becomes very easy to hate the stupidity of the common human when you work in retail.
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  12127. The cops were out of line, the charges spurious, the conviction a travesty. That said, the main reason to carry a weapon while cop-watching (real or toy) is to provoke a reaction. He got one, congratulations.
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  12128. Oh no! A PUBLIC reprimand and some classes during which she'll still be paid? Where do I get that kind of "punishment"?
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  12129.  @knerduno5942  Lawyers also don't want to lose billable hours.
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  12130. Because there are dangerous people who will shoot a family for politely asking them to refrain from firing illegally close to homes while their baby sleeps. Because there are people who will draw a submachine gun on a convenience store clerk because they don't want to pay sales tax. Because there are more and more "shoot first, lie about it later" a-holes than ever before.
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  12131. There are the clear rules, and fallible, flawed human beings.
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  12132. At least this customer admitted they were the ones to ding stuff up, instead of the mysterious "Another Shop".
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  12133. I'm not sure you can call that an "accident" when someone if faffing about with a known nuclear source. That's more a Darwin Award attempt. Straight up dumb-assery. - edit: The above should follow the words, 'If real..."
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  12134. The US doesn't NEED ice breakers, we just walk in the night club and women want us. (a joke, people!)
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  12135.  @rachelmyers3228  I would, but sadly he has since passed.
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  12136.  @lourias  I'm shocked at the reception given to US's pun.
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  12137. @Frank Heuvelman OMG, stop! My condition is terminal!
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  12138. @Frank Heuvelman Set and spike!
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  12139.  @SamAx57  Laugh it up! You'll get no impedance here from me.
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  12140. Companies don't even need to buy new road plates. They just have to pony up to have a rod-fed or wire-fed welder lay down traction strips.
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  12141. Think about the children!
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  12142.  @suntzu1719  And the landfills keep filling. "Buy-n-Large!" "Happiness is what we sell! That's why everyone loves BnL!" —Buy n Large commercial "Buy n Large, everything, all the time." —The company's motto. "B" is for Buy N Large, your very best friend."
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  12143.  @billybeemus3929  Yeah, those are the kind of people who DESERVE to be taken at Buy Here Pay Here lots.
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  12144. The tests you call "puling straight out of the wall" also mean "use to hang something from the ceiling" like a chandelier or house plant.
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  12145. I remember one episode of Survival man where he points out that every time he did a shot of him walking or climbing, he actually had to make the trip at least three times. If the shot is from behind, he has to round-trip to recover the camera. If the shot is from ahead, he had to round-trip first to place the camera. All because he really did not have anyone with him at all, not even a camera operator.
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  12146. What if you don't do business with the DMV either by mail OR in person, but instead via the internet and/or license renewal at a local AAA office? Gotcha!
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  12147.  @danielch6662  I point in favor of women astronauts! I know, 130 pounds does not necessarily mean female, but fit women are, on average, lighter than fit men.
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  12148.  @adenwellsmith6908  King is a darkly disturbed man.
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  12149. Someone obviously doesn't understand what "conflict of interest" means.
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  12150. If they're rushin, you beat them by taking it slow-and-easy.
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  12151. Well come on now. That drunk cop could not be expected to know that sitting in their car with the keys in the ignition, and passed out drunk is illegal. Clear case of qualified immunity. - Now if you or I had done the EXACT SAME THING? Hahaha! Jail now, jail later, pay through the nose.
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  12152. Ah, but the decibel is a logarithmic scale, so if you use a linear scale, he makes sense to those people who don't understand logarithmic scales. But I get your math.
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  12153.  @SocialGore  Hmm... Explanation required. Amongst my friends, the phrases, "I get your math" or, "I smell your math" are ways to say "I see your point" or, "I understand." I was not trying to say that the decibel logarithmic scale and the way you explained it were somehow "your" math in a way that made it wrong.
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  12154. To all of the frustrated teachers and professors out there: Just number your students and refer to them as "Student number ___". You are most welcome. - edit: If you are a sleeve and neck tatted teacher, I shudder for your students.
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  12155. Step 1: Remove the engine.
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  12156.  @AlGoYoSu  Ooh! I love the malicious compliance aspect of a 5' deep "garage"! And if the city balks, point out that a large percentage of residential garages are not used to park cars, but to store other belongings like bicycles and yard tools. Then show a picture of the bicycle and lawn rake stored within that 5' garage.
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  12157. We're here to watch Ray, not the building he happens to be working within.
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  12158. The BBB is Yelp in a government-looking trenchcoat. They are not government, they have NO enforcement powers. And if you're in an area where cops default to "It's a civil matter" because of laziness or aversion to actually helping, you're stuck with a long expensive legal process. Or something less above-board.
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  12159. As a kid in a rural Massachusetts town, I watched Sesame Street daily, and assumed that anywhere black people lived was automatically a city. I was a sheltered idiot.
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  12160. Treat people right when they treat you right. It won't ALWAYS come back to help you, but it can. And the word-of-mouth about you can spread wide, good or bad.
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  12161. All that work, and your first shot buries the baseplate making you go through all the settings again. Why not just use a regular bipod!
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  12162. Seems like someone got a good deal on a facility with a pre-existing clean room from a different business for whom it was vital. Perhaps pharmaceuticals, biological testing, chip manufacturing, or something like.
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  12163. The cop LIED when he said the red (cellophane) tape would not be a legal fix. The laws state that the brake lights must be red, and how far and from what direction they must be visible. Not that they be made of plastic from the carmaker. If you want to go to your nearest Tractor Supply store and get a bolt-on red light and wire it in, that is legal. If you cover broken plastic with red cellophane tape, or a theatrical red spotlight filter, it is still a red brake light. But this cop decided to turn a revenue collection stop into a big violent arrest because these women were not "repsctin' his athoritay!"
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  12164. A police budget of $5.75 BILLION and the cops can't be arsed to go out and BE cops. Yes, that is the budget for one city's police department, not the whole state.
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  12165.  @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket  Or a series of 3-5 photos 1-2 seconds apart. That would show movement, though the AI (and the "yeah sure they do that") human review to learn how to identify movement while compensating for change of viewing angle.
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  12166.  @StevenLockey  One photo is a single data point that shows the location and orientation of an object at one specific moment of time. Multiple photos space by a known time gap will show whether an object is in motion. There would still be false positives for cars stopped in traffic looking like illegal parking.
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  12167.  @willdwyer6782  The "human check" is probably as simple as "according to the spreadsheet, these 38,500 citations fill all the data points of time, location, and photo, so they must be good."
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  12168. Looks at secondary mount locations, comments, "Bofor deez."
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  12169.  @tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098  Well, with the bottom floors flooded and/or taken over by wildlife escaped from the zoo and bred into large numbers having gotten fat on the rat harvest...
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  12170.  @tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098  It's all good. I live in anti-NY (Massachusetts) at around 160 meters above nominal sea level.
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  12171. It seems like in some court systems, family court is the dumping ground for the D+ judges, while the As and Bs try capital cases.
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  12172. That there is the first upgrade to your swatter!
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  12173. 3:03 - if it wasn't for the speed limit sign, I would have had no idea that was a road. 18:30 - I had to pause to make sure that alarm was not in MY apartment building because ours have the same soul-piercing sound. 19:15 - What is the Tesla version of hydro-locked? 26:19 - "Passengers are gone, the way is shut. Drums. Drums in the deep." Sorry, I'm a nerd.
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  12174. This is the kind of legal argument that would set M5 in a fatal logic loop, allowing Kirk to beam it off the Enterprise and destroy it. - It also seems like Powell's attorneys helped Taylor-Greene write her non-apology for her part in fomenting the insurrection.
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  12175. Citizens United, qualified immunity, civil asset forfeiture, voting access suppression, education policy dictated by the minority hecklers, mainstream news becoming more and more partisan... That sound we hear? That's the drain we're circling.
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  12176. There is a similar tale of "hurry up and develop something for a new situation" in the conflict in Afghanistan and the fuel-air explosive bombs.
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  12177. Come on Ray, anyone who is not mute can sing! Now, singing WELL? That's a little less common.
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  12178. Not having a headphone jack is to protect the environment? By making people get ANOTHER battery-operated device (earbuds) that ALSO are designed not to have replaceable batteries so they are dead in a couple of years? And that doesn't count the earbuds lost or dropped in water (toilets). Meanwhile, I have a set of wired earphones that are working perfectly ten years after I bought them. And I HAVE to use them in my current phone if I want to listen to radio stations, since the wire of the earphones act as the antenna.
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  12179. Lock her up! Stop the steal! Blood and Soil! - Wait...
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  12180. A few decades ago, the place I worked at had an unwritten policy for the disposal of those long fluorescent tubes because recycling was wholly unavailable in the region. The dumpster company would refuse to pick up a dumpster with fluorescent tubes in it, unless they were BROKEN fluorescent ones. So a couple times a year, when the bulbs were replaced, we would have fluorescent tube javelin Olympics, with the loser sweeping up the misses.
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  12181. "This guy is wanted for attempted homicide, three officers." - If you treated him the "fugitive" as you're treating this guy, I'm not at all surprised. I'm only surprised that it was halted at "attempted".
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  12182. Same here, russel. Even when I am fairly sure of the caller, when they ask, "Is this [my name]?" I answer with "speaking."
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  12183. This "Alford Plea" sounds similar to what my state has for juvenile defendants, which I have heard as "admission of sufficient facts". In juvenile court, at least for property crimes, the determinations are not called "guilty" and "not guilty" but instead "responsible" and "not responsible". - Keep in mind this is all second-hand information that is perhaps 25-30 years old and may no longer have any parallel to how things are now.
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  12184. Look. I am almost as anti-Trump as some dude who climbed on a roof a few weeks ago. But a plane is a plane. If Orange Donnie was using a plane that had once been used to ferry human organs for life-saving transplants, nobody would be talking about the plane. If Epstein's plane was being flown by any other person or corporation, nobody would be talking about the plane. - There is PLENTY to expose about Comb-Over Stalin without talking about a jet.
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  12185. Word order can also matter for how a sentence is understood. After a year in self-lockdown, the two roommates turned on each other. After a year in self-lockdown, the two roommates turned each other on.
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  12186.  @scottpayer7543  And many cops seem to be the most scared people on the scene, as often as they detain, arrest, pin to the ground, taze, pepper spray, shoot, and kill "for officer safety".
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  12187. If girls learn about menses before they happen to them, then they won't use their devil-begotten powers to burn down the high school during a prank at the prom.
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  12188. Sweet Roomba that's a huge tea cup!
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  12189. This is goddam stupid! Issue a fine, sure. But confiscation? Bite me. And to confiscate and destroy it? I bet lawyers are lining up ready to sue over this violation of the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution. - At least some podunk criminal cops would have sold these bikes after their civil seizure and bought a latte machine or something. NYC could have immorally seized these and sold them to fund something useful, like fruit trees in the sidewalk to provide year-round food for the homeless.
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  12190. Why let him finish? I give you the same reasoning for proceeding with an impeachment instead of just waiting for the next election. - - "Well sure, George beats his daughter unconscious daily, but she's going to be old enough to move out in a few months, so there's no need to involve the police and courts." - Just let him work up to killing her then? - - - Why would you let someone finish the work when their starting stages show a disregard for the contract, the desires of the customer, building codes, and the standards of good workmanship? Is there supposed to be a hope that they will "see the error of their ways" and suddenly become a conscientious and skilled builder? - - - How about the Eugene apologists let him build THEIR houses on crumbling foundations with un-square walls and leaking windows, and let Louis put his money into someone who will do the job right (and faster than snails!).
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  12191. I know it is not always required, but would it at all help to put dielectric grease on the numerous connectors under the hood as you go? I first encountered the usefulness of the stuff when I fixed a non-function horn by cleaning corrosion on the connector and re-attaching. The second time, it saved me a chunk of money when I thought I had to replace an inaccessible engine thermostat, when it was just a slightly corroded connector. - Now I keep a tube of it in the glove box, and other in the tool box in the trunk. To borrow the Frank's Red Hot slogan, "I put that sh** on everything!"
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  12192.  @Oreoezi  Or if some troll out for free money just CLAIMS they own the rights to the music, even though the video creator either has a written contract with the ACTUAL owner allowing the music's use, or they are themselves the creator of the music!
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  12193. The best thing I can think of to convince them to replace the nuts would be to tell them that if they get a flat at night, when it is raining, they will not be able to change the tire with the wrench that came with the vehicle, and any roadside assistance tech may not have that special '.5' socket to hammer on every nut. Which would leave them getting a flatbed tow to a garage, and arranging a cab or Uber to get home.
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  12194.  @amzarnacht6710  Damn that is f-ed up.
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  12195.  @jostouw4366  The best color of black is the one which you can look at and ask yourself "How black can it be?" and the only answer is "None. None more black."
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  12196.  @TWX1138  That adresses the DRIVER, not the vehicle. And your point about young drivers being unsafe applies to even the top safety-rated vehicle when driven by an inexperienced, distracted, or impaired driver.
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  12197.  @jaykoerner  Careful not to do that in Connecticut. That state LOVES to pull over anything remotely commercial and go over it and the driver with a microscope. I don't know if that state still has this, but for a long time, their weight/axle was lower than the DOT standard by enough to make trucks and trailers, that were safe and legal in the rest of the continental US, subject to fines and impound. Connecticut is also the state famous for having a law against radar detectors, and enforcing it even against out-of-state drivers by confiscating and destroying the devices AT THE ROADSIDE.
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  12198.  @TWX1138  Sorry, your original comment was short enough that it was easily misinterpreted.
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  12199.  @toolbaggers  A 5-gallon container of drinkable water can also be dangerous. I could drop it on your head from the roof. I could pour it in a basin and drown you in it. I could soak your sleeping bag during a winter camping trip. ANYTHING can be dangerous with the application of imagination. - But the OP's question was, "SO, are they all (all military vehicles) dangerous?" The answer is the same for every vehicle everywhere. It depends on how they are driven.
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  12200. Or set the ID face to read somethgin other than your face? Is that possible?
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  12201. My whole apartment has two circuits for everything other than the resistive heat registers and the oven. One circuit runs the refrigerator, and one plug in the living room. The other runs all eight of the ceiling lights and the remaining 8-10 wall sockets.
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  12202.  @barnabusdoyle4930  Just like those signs that say All Employees "Must" Wash Hands?
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  12203. An important point here is that the NTSB can only make recommendations as they are an investigative body only. It would be up to NHTSA, and perhaps even Congress, to make such a thing a law, as Steve indicated in the doobly-doo above.
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  12204.  @AshnSilvercorp  The difficulty comes in when the specific program(s) are part of the course thanks to successful lobbying against the college board of directors. Even though equal (or better) programs may exist for the process, if the class is being graded on that specific version of software, the student is stuck.
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  12205. Makes a lot more sense than the people who will refuse to have bald (or worse!) tires or completely worn brake pads/rotors replaced. Both of those problems can create dead people.
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  12206.  @bobsmith9603  Well, apparently not you!
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  12207.  @kernelpickle  Tell the DEA that they sell controlled substances through their "pharmacies" and that all of the corporate profits are "proceeds of drug trafficking" and that they should seize it all. You know, for justice and pina colada machines...
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  12208.  @makisekurisu4674  Assuming your distances, terrain and health allow that, I agree.
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  12209. I am sitting here, waiting for the television without a power button, so I can watch the blipverts that only cause a statistically insignificant number of viewers to spontaneously combust.
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  12210. I have a friend who knee-jerks to "buy a new phone" (at least not Apple) whenever her phone slows down. And every time, I ask her why she needs over 200 apps and if it is even remotely possible that her habit of continually adding more apps "MIGHT" be the reason her phone is slowing down. - Then she prunes her app count, and just magically, her phone starts to work better!
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  12211. Regarding the dispute period, if there is not a statutory duty to prove you informed those who need to be informed, you can get a situation where your house is to be bulldozed for a bypass. And when you complain? - “But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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  12212. I've gone my whole LIFE without wearing a bra. Being male may have something to do with that.
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  12213. Ah yes, taking power away from the governed. The classic game of "how fast can we trigger an armed revolution?"
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  12214. More balance, less checks/cash/gold bars.
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  12215. Well, we are implying that the dig is against the clowns in charge of Florida. You know, where they recently banned a LOT of math textbooks because of imaginings of CRT and other gender matters that don't fit the ultra-conservative militant roadmap they are trying to follow on their way to a Christian version of Sharia law.
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  12216.  cpk8636-6  Yawn. Next.
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  12217.  @jpnewman1688  The difference is lobbying, a.k.a. bribing the right politicians.
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  12218. That sounds like something that could be made by hand instead of bought. Two clips and some solid wire like from 10 or 12 gauge house wiring.
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  12219.  @bigiron4018  Heat over a width instead of a point. Even if you try using the pointed tip but away from the tip, your contact is a small tangent of the circular cross section.
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  12220. "Vault Tec. Better living, underground!"
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  12221. A modern-day Eliot Ness would not be on the side of the Bureau.
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  12222. Cops are getting really skilled at blasting their flashlight at peoples' camera lenses. It's almost like they're afraid of being recorded for some reason...
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  12223. SRSLY!?
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  12224. So a wordy version of "Be decent to each other."?
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  12225. I have not used Kelly Blue Book since it was only a book you picked up at the auto parts store. Back then, one person would buy a book each year and share it across as many circles of friends as possible.
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  12226. Ljungman, there's no need to feel down I said, Ljungman, pick yourself off the ground
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  12227.  @kennystimpson2775  Doctor Football?
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  12228. Cleopatra was black? Sweet Apache Jesus that is some strong ignorance. - Now we need a serious-looking old person to start asserting that the first Emperor of China was ALSO black.
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  12229. Thanks for the keyboard shortcut!
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  12230. Are we at "water the tree of liberty" time yet?
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  12231.  @eggman9713  Hmm... I also wonder if the construction of the cars is a factor? Like maybe the NY subway cars have hollow spaces under the external skin that act like a resonating chamber. Rather like how a cheap car is noisier than a luxury car while driving on the road.
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  12232.  @screamingslave99  Funny thing about that orange container of laundry detergent. Me and one of my brothers had allergic reactions (skin rashes and such) to using it. - These days, there are so many good phosphate-free, fragrance-free and dye-free options to pick from.
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  12233.  @bami2  Hmm... May have been the first couple of years of the 2000's.
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  12234.  @Babihrse  Perhaps. Anyway, it still works!@
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  12235. Now that we have solved this, can we go fix "literally" and "decimate"? Bah! Need to find an etymology channel.
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  12236. Your example of the rent-and-never-own washing machine gets to be a much worse deal for families, and worse the more kids they have. - My brother gets a used and refurbished washer and dryer every 3-5 years for about $300 for the pair. And his get used for 4-8 loads a week with all the people in the house. Oh, detergent? He doesn't use it anymore. There are these detergent-free laundry balls and wool dryer balls that last for about 6-8 months (even longer for the dryer balls) at the rate he uses them, he spends around $20 to $25 for the set. Even if he bought brand new machines, he would win against that rental program. And whichever way you go, you're using your water and power.
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  12237.  @AzraelThanatos  Shipped in? Dang, DeSantis was BUSY!
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  12238. My response to Orange Donnie's legal threats? Good plan, call your lawyers Donnie, you're going to need them.
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  12239. Possible animal abuse, worker exploitation, breaking and entering, theft (food and beverages)...
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  12240.  @SylvesterCarl  ?
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  12241. Using companies to spy on us has one side effect cops love. No. Warrant. Required.
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  12242.  @michaelhanson5773  Everyone who responded to the call for testimony and/or filed a claim. There may have been people who passed on or moved, or just didn't file a claim.
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  12243. I recall someone who was all for appeasement. Then World War Two happened.
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  12244. Eggplant puree sounds like a war crime.
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  12245.  @lazyj616  Face it folks, you can't Torquemada anything!
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  12246.  @MrGamelover23  Ah yes, that was the case I was thinking of. I saw a full video about it on Legal Eagle, if I recall correctly.
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  12247.  @Super0000  I posit that thieves are sacrificing their membership card to the "human lives" club. Less so than rapists and murderers, and more so than jaywalkers.
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  12248.  @BagManBlog  Fair point. I would be less inclined toward lethal booby traps for thieves if there were not so many cases of police having clear evidence (such as camera footage like this or from camera doorbells), and declining to even investigate "because nothing all that bad happened" or "they're too busy".
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  12249. Only some cops are illegal, but they ruin it for the rest.
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  12250. And no matter what, the lawyers get paid their cut first.
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  12251. 6) Are people STILL more concerned with which flavor/color/texture of people are being needlessly killed more than the fact that people are being needlessly killed at all? Shameful.
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  12252. Ha!
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  12253. "Sure, Daddy beats us every night, but if I keep my room clean, and mommy bakes a pie, maybe he'll avoid hitting us in the face for a night or two?"
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  12254.  @Drakonus75  Well, now that you've mentioned it here, soon it will be broken by a "quality update".
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  12255. You have some smooth segues into advertiser content.
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  12256. My 2011 Focus has 2x40 AC right now. I have been saving up to get the rocker panels replaced.
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  12257. They're also setting a course that could strand them on the shoals of being labelled a "vexatious litigant" and having courts stop taking their cases.
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  12258. I would have thought that the wheel sets would have been set to move at mathematically slower speeds as you get closer to the pivot, in a computer-controlled process. The way it actually works is so much different. The process is simpler than I thought, but INVENTING the way it works must have been Sisyphean until the actual breakthrough.
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  12259. How can you play the "wrongfully accused" card after pleading guilty to the same charges? Was the judge even paying attention?
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  12260. A stream within a stream is something Edgar Allan Poe would be involved in if he was around today. Perhaps after he did his "The Telltale Tik Tok" video.
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  12261.  @cindydott452  Plus nameplates front and back on the suit for when you're closer.
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  12262. The whole method of making the person file and THEN complying just ahead of the opening of the case is a SLAPP case by another form. Forcing the citizen to spend money they shouldn't have to while the state uses taxpayer money to F with the citizen. - Beatings should follow.
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  12263. Louis has really improved his interview skills. Respectfully and politely redirecting to the topic while letting the interviewee talk about their subject.
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  12264. I've been watching dashcam compilation channels. Some people are already going Mad Max mode.
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  12265. Aircraft can't hold territory.
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  12266. I am disappointed in your choice of advertiser for this video. Why not just read ad copy for Roundup?
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  12267.  @joelglanton6531  On what? A product that is designed to improve the ability to bring unclean air and questionable substances into your lungs? (Bonus f-them points for all the people in the vicinity of the user who get the "joy" of breathing the crap the users exhale.) Or the comparison with a weed killer that has paid massive settlements for their product being a carcinogen?
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  12268. I think the "man-bun" looks silly. But I'm not denigrating people based on their hairstyles. I denigrate people on their words and actions. You know, their conscious expressions of who they are? . Okay, I also judge people negatively if they have face tattoos. But that's a "me" problem.
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  12269. I heard on NPR today that Israel is making big arrest sweeps in the West Bank over the last couple of days. I wonder if it is an effort to gain a lot of exchange prisoners that they won't care about releasing versus the more "dangerous" (according to Israel) detainees and prisoner.
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  12270. 511 has successfully hired the descendant of the Samsonite luggage gorilla!
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  12271.  @stephanechabot1175  Not being a mechanic, I can only assume it should be.
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  12272. Dude! I woke up the neighbors laughing at the idea. They are not happy, even after I explained.
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  12273. If he wants to be a morality cop, he can move to Iran.
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  12274. And uppercuts end at your chin? I kid, I know what you meant.
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  12275. Ah, the elusive Fordie Mercury! Brian May make some interesting music with that vehicle.
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  12276. Thanks Kyle, and thanks also to Jeff Capcom for this weird video.
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  12277. Think about the children! If it saves even one life! In this day and age!
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  12278. A paintball gun would fix the problem...
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  12279. We need bypasses. Sorry about your planet.
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  12280. For patching over the holes in the walls, I would go with a thick bead of caulking, then a piece of recovered siding, then pop rivets. With screws, you're asking a couple of millimeters of material to hold the threads. Pop rivets hold the two surfaces together with pressure spread over a wider area than the small hole the rivet passes through.
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  12281. Well, a fragmentation grenade 'could' explode immediately, if you replaced the 5-second fuse with a non-delay fuse from a smoke grenade. It would be rather evident to anyone trained with them that the fuse had been swapped, because the spoon (that lever thing) is a different shape.
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  12282.  @entropy8634  I think that's what the OP meant by "voted the couch".
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  12283. Wouldn't want our pre-adults to know what can happen to them at the hands of our merciful protectors, would we?
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  12284.  @RNG_Anarchist  "It's for security" Sounds like you've bought the lie they're selling. Are you also concerned that unauthorized locksmiths will install Tik Tok on your front door?
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  12285.  @fixitman2174  You can check the license via your town/city offices. You can check their bonding/insurance by contacting the bonding/insurance company. - You're not buying a tuna sandwich, do at least a little bit of work to protect your money!
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  12286. I grew up with some SCARY space heaters, essentially open-faced toasters. Thus, I am so paranoid about space heaters that I double the clear space the directions specify. I'll even turn them completely off if I leave or am going to sleep. Yeah, I overdo it, but remember than many of the space heaters being sold are made in China...
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  12287. Okay, that 0/0 bit made me laugh.
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  12288. Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. - I know, some will say that would require nuking the entire land area of the planet. To which I can only rely, 'And?"
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  12289.  @SirDeanosity  clickage, gravity
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  12290. My brother went to a tech school for CAD drafting, based on them advertising certifications in Residential, Civil AND Mechanical for completing the course. The school hired zero instructors who could even TEACH mechanical, never mind teach it to the point of certification. So he stopped paying on his owed tuition when about 40% was left, and dared them to take him to court over it. They gave up collecting, and ended up closing the whole program by the time they lost money from his entire class that "somehow" found out that the school had committed fraud.
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  12291. That looks like a happy, long-nosed ship. But I am tired and anthropomorphizing right now.
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  12292. Sure, Adolf was a bad boy, but he pales in comparison to Comrade Stalin and Chairman Mao when it comes to orchestrating mass murder. So many people forget that.
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  12293. Why? Because YOU judge that they have the time, the equipment, the health, and the desire to do so? What if they see a neighbor has dirty windows, shall they be required to wash them? What if a neighbor's child has an untied shoe, shall they be required to run out and tie that shoe? What if a neighbor makes meatloaf with ketchup instead of tomato sauce? Shall they be required to go and make a "better" meatloaf before they are allowed to eat? (I use tomato sauce IN the meatloaf and drizzle ketchup ON before baking.)
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  12294. They did install drainage. It was drastically insufficient.
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  12295.  @timothyharrison8953  Just like with the subway, "Mind the gap!"
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  12296. "ICBM" - "UCBM? I don't CBM."
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  12297. How did Ray KNOW I was still watching at 16 minutes?
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  12298. Every time I've moved in the last 15 years, I've tossed or donated a lot of stuff before moving, and end up tossing or donating stuff I find I don't use at least once a year (to allow for holiday decor or things like snow shovels and winter coats).
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  12299. I agree that manual grease guns give you better feedback of pressure. As to the fittings. In my experience, dirt can be cleaned off before greasing, rust means replacement. Broken or smashed ones? Replace. I did maintenance on rental constructions equipment, so we had boxes of grease fittings on hand at all times.
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  12300. I didn't see the date of the video and thought it was in response to the Chinese movie called (in English) The Wandering Earth. Which is a movie full of magical science.
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  12301. As far as I know, in most (all?) states, those contractors could file a lien against the property they worked on but weren't paid for. Upside: The money claimed is paid out of any sale of the asset before the owner gets anything. Downside: You have to wait for them to sell the asset.
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  12302. Arsonist fire chief? What's next? A serial killer police chief? A convicted pedophile in charge of the pre-K program? Were there REALLY so few other people fit for the job?
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  12303. I care very little about my own hair. I have no spare time to worry about other people's hair. Well, as long as it doesn't stink from two steps away. - Pleas let me clarify the "stinks". I don't particularly like the smell of coconut oil, but that is not the "stink" I am talking about. I am speaking of the stink like one would associate with a grocery store dumpster on a hot August afternoon. The kind of stink that would make a coyote retch. - One last note: So much anti-white racism! I have never even touched a Settlers of Cataan game (or any other game like it) and I can't bake any kind of bread to save my life. I don't even know anyone of any "color" who has done either. - I cut my hair with electric clippers to 1/2" every two months, clean around the ears and over the collar and I'm done. I have not owned a brush or comb in years. - But yeah, I'll "fuck off". It's in my top five along with "stay away from people" and "plot my revenge with quiet glee"
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  12304.  @NighthawkCarbine Do you have problems with reading comprehension, or are you deliberately NOT reading the first sentence of my previous post in this thread?
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  12305.  @heromuff7338  Your breath smells faintly of boot.
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  12306. Maybe it's waterproof in some way like whiskey is 80 proof. "40% water!"
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  12307. And that is why my favorite crafters on YouTube include their mistakes, their thinking processes, and their re-tries. I include Nick Zametti and Black Magic Craft in that short list.
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  12308. It's almost like older Koreans have a reason to distrust the Japan of the past...
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  12309. They are obnoxiously loud to prompt the owner's neighbors to take a dump in their mailbox in the middle of the night.. hypothetically.
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  12310. 21:40 is when I realized that was an air conditioner, and not a big stump.
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  12311. Holy bananas! He's shilling an Ivermectin "contagion emergency kit" DURING his rally? edit: correction, that is the "news" channel RSBN advertising.
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  12312. Alan Pan used a lifting exoskeleton to swing a steel Buster Sword, and he and Adam do/did work together, IIRC.
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  12313. There are few situations a stupid cop can't make worse.
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  12314.  @Thestargazer56  The other place I've used dielectric grease was for the wire to the horn, which was gathering a lot of corrosion causing the horn to fail. Keep the moisture out, prevent the corrosion!
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  12315. Fastener - etymology Old English fæstnian "make fast, make firm, fix, secure," also "ratify, betroth, confirm," from Proto-Germanic *fastinon "to make firm or fast" (source also of Old Frisian festnia "to make firm, bind fast," Old Saxon fastnon, Old High German fastnion, German festnen, Old Norse fastna "to pledge, betroth"), from PIE *fast "solid, firm" (see fast (adj.)).
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  12316. Too bad NASA didn't jump ahead of the Orange Toddler and rename the telescope for a white guy.
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  12317.  @quistador7  "The newest big-dollar project is not bringing any high paying jobs to my state, so we have to cancel it." - Senator BusinessAsUsual
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  12318. Um, I don't like s'mores, but I like the individual parts when not mixed together. I'm not saying I'm against racial equality or "mixed" housing and marriages. It doesn't bother me in the least. - I just don't like s'mores. - And I truly think that schools should only be a START to people learning. I learned more about history from the pre-reality History Channel, History International and AHS (Formerly the Military Channel). I learned a lot from just reading books about various topics. - A good source is to read what upper level college courses have as required and suggested non-textbook reading. That's how I learned many times more than I knew about the Vietnam War, or about how economics is inextricably entwined in how the prominence of nations waxes and wanes on the world stage, amongst many other topics. - So pull your kids out of those Texas-approved textbooks from time to time and put them in front of other good sources of information. They may not like you for it now, but they will benefit for their whole lives. They may even get wise enough in a decade or two to thank you for it.
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  12319. "It's not illegal for a kid to walk alone." - "It is when they're ten." "Use your fancy cop computer and find me the law, or go away."
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  12320. Everything
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  12321. Turkey baster?
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  12322.  @frandanco6289  Yeah, now that I think about it, you're right.
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  12323.  @killer2600  But you see, today is yesterday's tomorrow and tomorrow's yesterday.
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  12324. A long time ago, a friend had a Peugeot and in addition to all of the under-hood labels and owner's manual being in French (which none of us understood in the least), it seemed like the thing was deliberately designed to drive mechanics insane.
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  12325. One of the only people I know of who can talk clearly AND quickly enough to pack two minutes of information into less than one.
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  12326.  @aelix56  You would hope for a longer lifetime than that of a fruit fly.
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  12327. Murderer? Not according to the law. Killer? Yep.
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  12328.  @rrteppo  I can remember when all auto parts stores worked that way. In part to avoid theft of small expensive items, but also to avoid having to price label everything, and to actually help people get what they wanted faster than wandering around. Even the newer style of retail auto parts stores run about half that way.
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  12329. This insanity of Civil Asset Forfeiture will not end until it impacts enough people in power. It would take seizures from perhaps a dozen or so national-level politicians, or two or three of their owners, er, I mean "donors".
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  12330. If they don't want separation of church and state, Iran has an ideal government for them.
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  12331.  @electropentatonic  That is EXACTLY what I said. I properly relayed subjective evaluations, with language specifically indicating that is was subjective. - What was the point of confirming that for the rest of the class?
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  12332. Kind of like Mentat Peter DeVries' discussion with Baron Harkonnen about his plan... THE plan.
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  12333. It looks like that one-lane alley is really supposed to be a two-lane alley. At least at the end where it meets the street. The brick roadways are really well done around there. Impressive the way roads last when you don't have frost heaves. (jealousy!)
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  12334. Because the HER-SHE-y company is grooming our sons for the pizza-gate lizard alien Masonic deep state! Put your eggs in the NEST-le for safety!!! - If anyone took my first two sentences seriously, you need therapy.
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  12335. 5-10 years for label switching at a Kentucky WalMart, 6 months for active insurrection at the nation's capital, honorable discharge with rank and pension after sexual assault on a subordinate. There is a dissonance.
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  12336. "A word for when you turn to someone for help but the people you went to for help attack you instead." - "American Policing" - I know, two words. but if I said "policing" people would immediately jump in with "WeLl AkShUaLlY iN tHiS cOuNtRy...."
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  12337.  @benjamintucker9829  Your experience must be more in the Greater Boston area than mine. Out here in the Western half of the state, people NOT using directionals are the minority.
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  12338. Nice Martin Luther reference!
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  12339. Years ago I transitioned away from saying "sorry" or "I'm sorry. Instead I say, "My apologies" or "That was my fault."
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  12340. The matter of transcripts of body cameras brings up another concern I have in this era of the body cams. The cop gets to watch and listen to the encounter before writing their report, instead of relying on the recollection of events. This lets them "invent" mental interpretations that better justify their recorded actions to "neaten up" the encounter and further stack the evidence and testimony against the person they encountered.
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  12341. My friends and I called golf "a few hours of feeding golf balls to the forest."
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  12342. Equality! Until work and consequences are being handed out?
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  12343. If this channel was any nicer, we couldn't afford it!
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  12344. I see, Anderson. It's OUR fault somehow for not liking CNN giving an exclusive forum in front of a biased audience, interviewed by a weak questioner, and no live fact checking for, a serial liar and (non-convicted) traitor. It is OUR fault. - Nah, Screw that, and screw your corporate-clinging position.
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  12345. I actually first got interested in Mythbusters from catching the episode where Adam straps himself to a lawn chair that is attached to helium balloons and rises into the air, because it recalled a scene in one of my favorite episodes of The A-Team, where Murdock is in an asylum and gathers trash bags, a lawn chair, and (somehow!) helium, to allow him and Hannibal to escape.
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  12346.  @nerdicusdorkum2923  I would add the TV remote to that list.
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  12347. When I worked as the desk/maintenance guy for an equipment rental place, I ended up getting a tool that would let me measure bolt diameter (internal and external) and thread pitch that was about 6" x 8". I still have it, since I bought it with my money instead of shop money. It has helped shorten many a hardware store trip.
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  12348. "Humans" "Their fiction"... A.R.I.A., what did you do with the real Kyle? - I am concerned about enough about the motivations of the PEOPLE behind "smart" tech that I refuse to have a "smart" device in my home. So an AI with unknowable motivations is even worse.
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  12349.  @Rhiawhyn  Hah! Three more decades of maturity, and I'll be an ancient dude on a mountain you have to climb to and get to ask one question only.
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  12350. Some craft beers smell rather like cleaning chemicals to me normally. I am not a sommelier or even a drinker (last alcohol somewhere around 2002).
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  12351.  @sageslarres  I wonder how they would fare, legally speaking, if someone with time, money and care to do so, bought a used car and sued over the data collection they did not agree the manufacturer could collect?
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  12352. That blonde person blinks a lot.
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  12353. You know, if you say 'blog' enough times in a short period, it seems to be less a word and more a suppressed burp.
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  12354. I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.
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  12355. I don't have pronouns. They've never taken money for their activity, in an effort to maintain their amateur status. This leaves me eligible for the Noun Olympics.
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  12356. Let's wish Prigozhin some moderate success in his threats, yeah? Maybe Russians can get their country back someday soon.
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  12357.  @TheGuruStud  Speed trap.
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  12358. I'm also a fan of the "film" technique that dragged me back to educational films I saw in school in the 1970's and 80's.
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  12359. I only ever had type 1 and 2 tapes "back in the day". Boy the type 4 is both bright and deep. Beautiful sound.
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  12360. Truth.
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  12361. Show me a law in the US that says you must know where your kids are at all times. I'm not talking about a court ruling that says kid X must be continually monitored because they broke laws or are mentally or medically unable to be out in the world. I'm talking about a written, enacted and on-the-books LAW. - I would be mightily surprised if anyone could find such a law.
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  12362. Poor rocket was either suffering from acrophobia or homesickness.
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  12363. This seems like the kind of thing that happens when wealth gets concentrated in the hands of a few people who are more concerned with squeezing every penny out of a customer than putting work into making that customer happy they spent money. - When the fear of losing a dollar overrules the desire to make the customer satisfied enough to refer everyone they know to your business, bad decisions get made.
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  12364.  @badgerpa9  I would expect a lawyer in a land dispute to HIRE A LICENSED SURVEYOR. I would expect a lawyer in any case to, at least at a minimum, have a law clerk check all referrals and evidence in the filing.
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  12365. I was thinking Decepticon.
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  12366. Very Python-esque. "An argument is not the automatic gainsaying of what the other person said." - "Yes it is." "No it isn't" - "Yes it is" "This is not an argument!" - "Oh. sorry. You were looking for an argument? That's the next door down the hall." (Paraphrased from memory)
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  12367. Dear Kristi Noem. Your points against pot are ALSO points against alcohol. Ban one, you need to ban the other, or you are not taking a real moral stance. - Because a majority of my fellow Mass-holes have voted to legalize recreational pot I have to accept the fact. I voted for automotive right to repair, and these corporations should have to fracking deal with it!
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  12368. People with hundreds of millions in debt AND felony convictions can't get a security clearance, but get elected President and you bypass all that and can see (and in one person's case, steal) all the most classified stuff you want.
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  12369.  @christopherweise438  That's a bad comparison point. Franklin Roosevelt would not have been able to join the military, not even today.
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  12370. Definitely stay away from Big Amy!
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  12371. Why not? Oh, let me guess. NOBODY that he rides by would EVER have a projectile wet cough, not even possible, right?
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  12372. Who, with even half a brain, sees this kind of situation and decides that instead of fixing the problem via paperwork they need to destroy a classic car?
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  12373. From personal experience, answering, "Do you have any weapons in the car?" with "Depends on what you consider a weapon." will make the temper tantrum wearing a badge very, very angry.
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  12374. That's a long way to go to make a set screw or two.
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  12375. And yet I recently saw a video (Wendover Productions, I think) where he drove a rented Tesla around the US Southwest and used more than half of the various charging cables and adapters that were provided because not every place he went had Elon's supercharging stations. Some places he had to charge from RV hookups, or a couple of different appliance-style 220V sockets, and once I think he did a partial charge from a 110V grounded socket to get a few extra miles to make it to a faster charging location. If he didn't have the full variety of cables and adapters, he would either have been stranded, had to not go on the trip, or had to pick a much longer route to stay on the superchargers. - edit: and the whole "They'll already have all the charging cables from the last car anyway." is complete BS. A very few people might, if their previous EV was totaled and they were able to take the cables, AND those cables had no damage or major wear.
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  12376.  @johnmijo  Avery Island, Louisiana.
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  12377. Center Square? Paul Lynde! . Sheesh I'm old.
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  12378.  vernevens1598  Numerous genetic-sourced health problems.
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  12379.  vernevens1598  Also a very valid resource! Well, in some states...
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  12380. I nearly never complained about my school lunches other than when the milk had made steps down the path to rancid cheese. I ate all the food on my tray and sometimes the vegetables from friends' trays in exchange for my dessert. And I had breakfast and dinner at home, so it wasn't that I was starving. I was just not picky.
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  12381. To get money out of all the turds as they make their downward journey?
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  12382. I would not use Patreon, with no other information than it is a company between me and the person I want to get the donated money. That is all I know about it.
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  12383.  @davidh9638  Probably an EMT or paramedic?
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  12384. "Mimes Only!"
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  12385.  @wmdkitty  Yeah, how DARE children screech in joy or excitement while playing! What's next, accepting that sports fans get to cheer loudly, or comedy audiences get to laugh out loud and applaud? Where will it ever end? - Yes, I am attacking your comment with sarcasm.
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  12386. More Americans die from heart disease than from all firearms. Ban heart disease!
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  12387. Yesterday I wanted to watch something on my Hulu account for the first time in a while. I found out that my previously valid password did not work, and I had to create a new Disney+ account. So I canceled.
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  12388. I have rarely had more joy that I am a late-year Boomer male. My face care is the same thing I wash the REST of my skin in the shower, drinking plenty of water, and using sunscreen if I am going to be out in the sun for a long time. Hair care? Shampoo and a military haircut.
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  12389.  @WEAREALLJUSTMEAT  That is a fact. Going to an induction top will require a little consideration in cookware. However, you can find aluminum (or even aluminium!) cookware that has an internally buried ferrous 'disc' between layers of metal which allows them to work with induction tops. You just need to read the label when you buy your pans.
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  12390. I knew that was an engineer thing from automobiles. Why am I removing a fender to change a water pump on a Ford Escort? And why do I need a second elbow and x-ray vision to change an oil filter on a Geo Storm? - I now watch a car repair channel, and I see far too many engines where the mechanic has to essentially strip things down to the block to change spark plugs, or take pieces of frame off to drain the transmission - both of which are periodic maintenance items!!!
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  12391. Ah yes. I forgot about Remembrance Day. Pun intended.
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  12392. But Tesla cashed the check(s) right away for the full stated face value, didn't they?
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  12393. Employees never seem to want to unionize when they are being treated well. Some companies can't seem to figure that out. - I personally am anti-union, because unions, in my experience, continue to evolve away from the organizations that helped protect workers to a money-making concern to enrich the union leadership. When a union has enough money lying around to support political candidates, to make wide-market ads about political candidates and issues, they have too much money. When a union has a large beautiful headquarters, they have too much money. And all of that money is taken from the after-tax earnings of the workers who often have no choice as to whether they are a member. - I quit a job when the union showed up with their "You ARE joining the union, pay up." because they could not articulate a single benefit they offered that was not covered by US and state laws on safety and labor standards. - I have seen a union cause a business to, over six years and three long strikes (every two years when the contract came up) close a business. The company employed hundreds of people across three shifts. After the first strike, they lost enough customers that they had to drop the overnight shift and put all of those people out of a job. Second strike, second shift was lost. After the third strike, the company only had enough customers left to offer half of the jobs for a single shift, and when those customer contracts expired, the company closed because those contracts were not enough to run at a net profit. They closed broke and had to sell off machinery to get out without debt. But the union leadership was PROUD of every contract they "successfully" negotiated for, and drove off into the sunset in their new luxury cars to help beat up another company.
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  12394. Plutonium: Spicy rocks found at the heart of nuclear explosions. - Scott Manley. This needs to be a sign posted in physics departments everywhere.
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  12395.  @ostlandr  HAHAHA!
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  12396. OH! MFR stands for manufacturer! I so totally read MFR differently...
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  12397. The IOC needs to make a rule that your genetic gender determines your competitive class in gender-segregated sports.
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  12398. And I am not advocating rules in non-sports areas against trans people.
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  12399. Or perhaps, "Nobody was seriously harmed. Okay, nobody was in the ICU afterward."
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  12400.  @vincentgotter4669  "Never give up, never surrender!" - Captain Peter Quincy Taggart
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  12401.  @snowmonster42  Oh, it makes sense to some people. "Oh that Jason Vorhees is running for office? (Not that he ever runs, hahaha) He's a perfect candidate for office! Everybody hates and fears him. He's a murdering psychopath. He has my vote!"
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  12402. Oil, coal, and societal inertia.
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  12403.  @davidreinker5600  Well, you need something to store. And since energy gets used the whole time your generating/capturing it, you need to produce more of that form of energy than you plan to capture. If I have missed your point, I apologize.
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  12404.  @davidreinker5600  I see.
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  12405. Don't inject bath salts, kids.
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  12406. And that's how we see the world has changed since I was a kid in the age of film, pre-touch tone phones.
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  12407. Cops say, "It's a civil matter" to avoid doing their damn job. Someone stole your $500 Amazon order off your front porch and you caught their face on your Ring camera? Civil matter. Someone stole your whole danged house? Civil matter. You exceeded the speed limit by 7MPH? Let me get my ticket book!
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  12408. Serialization is like DNA for technology. Why do I say this? If you try to replace a serialized part without the "special software" it either doesn't work, or you get error codes. If you try to replace your liver with a donor liver without the special anti-rejection drugs, you get death of the organ and/or death of you. - We are stuck with DNA "serialization" in our bodies, at least until growing new organs with our own cells becomes a realistic and "affordable" technology. But we shouldn't have to put up with it in our technology, when it is a business-created problem.
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  12409.  @ARockRaider  You're breathing. We find that suspicious!
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  12410. Mmm... laminar flow... - I laughed loudly at the line, "More successful at turning aviation fuel into noise" and thought of the Tu-95 with it's four sets of counter-rotating props.
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  12411. Dear Russian civilians. THIS IS WHAT YOUR GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN DOING TO UKRAINE SINCE 2014! If you don't like it being done to you, make your government stop doing it to others.
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  12412. "Better than everybody else" is not necessarily good. If there are three brothers who beat their wives, and the youngest beats his wife only once a week unlike his brothers who do so daily, the youngest is "best" but he's still a wife-beater.
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  12413. Gun death reduction group? How 'bout the NRA's gun safety courses?
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  12414.  @azoniarnl3362  Even more cautiously, always assume torpedoes and react accordingly.
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  12415.  @TheMicroTrak  Then the cop with the boo-boo on his feelings would kick in the door. For "exigent circumstances" or some other made-up reason.
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  12416. Dear companies and individuals: If you force your agenda on me, I will hate you. I will work to drag your name through the dirt. I will spread my hate for you wherever I can post/talk/share it. If you are a company, I will permanently boycott you. - That said, If you have your agenda, your celebrations, your preferences, and those things do no harm to unwilling targets, then we have no problem. In fact, I will fight on your side for your right to think as you wish. Again, assuming you are doing no harm to the unwilling.
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  12417. To the company: You can do everything legally and STILL do wrong.
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  12418. Nobody tell Special Agent Richard Beazit! He'll shoot Ian's dog! - But those "additive manufactured" items could have a little bit of adjustment to the design and be a lot closer to the original article. Some dry lube like graphite on the follower piece could help? That said, kudos to Thomas who made these things!
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  12419. It's okay, you can change. But not in the former Confederate States of the US...
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  12420.  @redneckshaman3099  You lose weight, hair, teeth, job, home and then your life?
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  12421. I like it!
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  12422.  @admthrawnuru  Oh yeah, that famous felony - contempt of cop. In some parts of the country, that can get you dead.
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  12423. Fraud. Through the mail. I do it, I'm in federal prison. A bunch of "south ends of northbound mules" do it, and it's a fine...
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  12424. I call them Christian Sharia Enthusiasts.
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  12425. Almost literally, as it is robbery BY a highway!
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  12426. Ah, good old Ronnie "Ketchup is a vegetable for school lunches" Reagan... - To sum up the issue at hand: Borrowing money to go to Disney World for a week is dumb. Borrowing money to open or expand a business that will improve your economic health, and that of your future employees is smarter.
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  12427. And then I wonder, what was the point of the "vacant property registry" then?
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  12428. "Hay Navy! You're going to completely transition all of those functions to this newer airframe." - 'Sweet so we can get our full order number?" "Haha! No. You'll get fewer of these than the planes they're replacing, and you'll thank us for the privilege."
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  12429. You're taking my house? What house? (toss a match into the pool of gasoline in the living room)
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  12430. My first reflex at that part of the tale was to recite, "Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Prince, Bing Crosby... You said you wanted names."
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  12431. At least the next AG can speedily process the extradition (if requested) of the four former military murderers recently pardoned to either "the 'Stan" or The Hague. - Just a thought to take the sting out of those four pardons.
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  12432. The changes I think of first that ought to be kept? Washing hands, cleaning surfaces, giving people distance apart. I don't like being physically crowded by people, so this situation has really calmed me.
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  12433.  @lizard944  And that plate does not match the plate on your vehicle. At least in my state, trailers under a certain weight do not even need a plate or to be registered.
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  12434. I don't want to be "that guy" but wouldn't it have been easier to pull the trailer out of that spot than to keep extricating the forklift from soft dirt?
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  12435. I wish I lived in an apartment above a small grocery store or bakery (like they do in much of Japanese cities). It would cut down a lot on my automobile use. There are vanishing neighborhoods in smaller US cities that still work that way. But most such neighborhoods I have seen that have these buildings are so densely overbuilt there is almost no parking. Which is a shame because there are times where a car is still needed, give the US antipathy toward good public transit.
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  12436. Trunion!
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  12437. You think bore and gauge in firearms is strange (and a similar idea for gauge is used with wire, with a vague and fuzzy historical origin), look at how metal nails are sized in the US (used to be more widespread. Penny. (abbreviation d, for some reason) which is originally referred to the price for a hundred (100) or long hundred (120) nails in England in the 15th century: the larger the nail, the higher the cost per long hundred. - We have some strange artifact measuring systems.
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  12438.  @raystargazer7468  "Enhanced questioning techniques" that Torquemada would blush at.
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  12439. @ Are you replying to me? Torquemada is easy to look up online.
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  12440. But if it is financial, the estate/inheritors will be on the hook. Learned THAT the un-fun way. Nervously awaiting the day I get a call from the IRS looking for all of the taxes my deadbeat dad hasn't paid in 40 years (so far).
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  12441.  @robertsmith2956  Cool! Estate law is something I have put no study into.
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  12442. "Your yard is unsightly" - "Well don't look at it then."
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  12443. Florida has no Lemon Law for used cars. They sold out to lobbyists, apparently.
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  12444.  @BReal-10EC  That is what I said. Other states, including the one I live in, have Lemon law protections for used cars. In my state's case, the car must be bought from a dealer (someone who sells more than 3 cars in a 12-month period), cost at least $700, and have less than 125,000 miles on the odometer at time of sale.
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  12445.  @BReal-10EC  The Massachusetts lemon law for used cars puts the financial burden for repair or reimbursement on the dealer, not the manufacturer.
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  12446.  @gurutimes2  Depending on which state you are living in or made the purchase in (or both?) there are different levels of protection for the buyers of used road vehicles.
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  12447. I agree that the horse and buggy is a vehicle. Why? Because operating a horse and buggy while intoxicated is drunk driving. I rest my case.
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  12448. @Self Made Auto And should have taken the extra time and charged the customer the extra money, too. Right?
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  12449. @Self Made Auto Aw. Did I trample on your world-view?
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  12450.  @meloniedropik3539  That justification, if it was able to be cited in civil cases, could win a lot of people new cars after theirs were torn apart to find no drugs.
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  12451.  @rogerwilco2  That's where I got my information on the matter!
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  12452. So, um, sell UK customers an email sent to their inbox, and then let them pay shipping for the free parts that come as a GIFT for buying the email. Tax evasion? Sure.
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  12453. Why are heat pump systems so expensive? Because they can be. No good reason other than greed.
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  12454. Wednesday is Prince spaghetti day! "Anthony! ANTHONY!"
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  12455.  @MarcosElMalo2  Dang. Now I want a tuna casserole.
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  12456. Yeah, I wouldn't be a fan of a lighting fixture that requires turning off the breaker, and uncapping and recapping wires to change the "bulb". - edit: To add on, these are another step on the road to a fully disposable economy.
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  12457. When we lived in Phoenix AZ, nearly every home had a swamp cooler as the main cooling device for the house. It added needed humidity to the air in the home. As Phoenix has gotten more and more pools and grass-covered yards, the typical humidity in the air has risen, and reduced (to some degree) the efficacy of swamp coolers.
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  12458. Wait, wait. At about 5:25 you make the BOLD claim that you can't do a brake inspection with the wheels on. Are you completely unconcerned with the potential backlash from the Brake Shop Cartel (TM)? I hope nothing untoward happens to you for such rebellious talk.
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  12459. This is nothing. A computer repair guy with a YouTube channel, Louis Rossmann, was visited by a code inspector. His business does not buy computers or phones from incoming customers, but when they abandon their computer or phone for more than twice the amount of time he gives them to claim it, he will try and repair it, then sell it. The code inspector saw two computers for sale, and he was hit with a summons over not having those computers listed on the city's database of purchased second-hand items, a database primarily meant for pawn shops, to facilitate the tracking and recovery of stolen goods. The fine, PER ITEM, is up to $15,000. Again, he does not buy computers and phones from incoming customers at all. When he wen to the preliminary hearing and presented his facts, the city told him he could contest the charges in court, or admit to the city's determination and pay only $500 for THIS event. - So essentially, the city told him he could either spend a few thousand on a lawyer to prove the truth, or pay a fine that would barely hire that lawyer for an hour and get a record of his admission of violation. - You know, the same way they scare young and poor people into admitting to a crime they didn't commit because of the fear that they may be convicted anyway and get a much bigger penalty? - The man featured in this video actually did construction without a permit. yes, the fines are outrageous, but he did commit a violation.
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  12460. That Atlantic Health care was not Wolf of Wall Street. It was Wolfram and Hart.
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  12461.  @natalieisagirlnow  Slavery was an inopportune word. It might be more accurate to say it is a dysfunctional business construct where the adherence to corporate rules starts to mean more than the process of making happy return customers.
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  12462. To me, Twitter is like a TV channel or radio station. I don't like it, so I don't tune in / log in.
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  12463. See You, Space Cowboy!
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  12464.  @lschoenrank  Napalm. Or take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only sane way to deal with urushiol...
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  12465.  @wilsonj4705  Yet we still have flat-Earthers and people who deny the moon landings, or that space even exists. And the internet lets these people find each other and spread their foolishness to the gullible.
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  12466. And the surveillance economy marches onward while we sheepishly accept it as the price of faster and functional computing that we don't have to learn much to use.
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  12467.  @BeverlySimons  He deserves a restless afterlife, having helped send anti-trust laws to "a farm upstate".
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  12468. Fox News: Fact checking is for nerds and losers, apparently...
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  12469.  @callmedax6532  Because they have an amazing jingle. Like "877-cash now" and "Mmm, mmm, good."
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  12470. People can be horrible, and if you just shut one off you go to jail for a long time. I get the concept here.
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  12471. If he DID throw the keys, how is that in any way causal to her being struck by a different vehicle? The cops were wrong, the DA was wrong. Unfortunately, should he win his civil case, neither the cops nor the DA will pay a penny.
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  12472. How quick we seem to have forgotten the hospitals that had idle inventories of badly needed respirators because they were not able to get parts, schematics, or repair information from the manufacturers to be able to put them into service to save lives. I wonder how many of those units are still unused? - How about the people who try to work on their own electric cars only to find the cars shutting down because they don't have the right codes and computer programs? - Yes, Louis talks about Apple issues, He also talks about other things he has researched or had his attention brought to that he wants to share with us. There are other people out there campaigning for R2R, and we should all be involved in the idea for all sorts of products.
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  12473. Disposable troops or "Recon by body count"... What the Pasta is wrong with the Russian military?
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  12474. Other police lies: I smell weed, I smell alcohol, we had a call about you, you fit the description, you are acting suspicious, you are being disruptive, you are loitering, people feel threatened, in this day and age, we have had a lot of crime in this area, your tail light is out, I saw your worn tire tread as you passed me at 45 MPH, your window tint is too dark, your eyes are dilated, you are acting like you're on drugs, you're being disorderly, stop resisting, it's for my safety, I felt a threat to my life, just tell me the truth and you can go...
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  12475. Working overtime to earn the hate and distrust.
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  12476. I see that Silverado and my brain supplied, "Lieutenant Truck! You ain't got no wheels!"
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  12477. This reminds me of Spinal Tap's 'recording label approved' cover for their "Smell the Glove" album. "How much more black can it be? None. None more black."
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  12478. Your bike was guilty of, or the proceeds of a crime, of course.
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  12479.  @kokorochacarero8003  A lot of mileage on a bad joke I posted...
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  12480. After watching this, I feel a good bit smarter, and I think Arthur is a great Lancer to The Tick.
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  12481. There is (or at least was) water migration down the chimney by the fireplace. - A few rotted boards on the deck indicate a structural check would be wise. - Who puts an oven that far from the range top (which is more likely a glass-top instead of a conduction top) that is so weird and inconvenient. - Those yellow-door bathroom cabinets are set into the wall and may be compromising insulation values. I would remove them, insulate and finish the walls. - You can get adhesive window frosting for the bathroom window(s). It works great. - I believe the light over the tub/shower is also a vent. Looks to be one. - That heater access panel was likely kicked in, easy fix. - nothing wrong with the basement door other than the interior trim was not installed, as others have commented. - The wallpaper in the kitchen doesn't suck. - attached garages are more insurance than a detached garage, from fire and fume risk. - that shuffleboard, not hopscotch. - two breaker panels are because the first was filled, and code requires a certain number of unused slots. - small holed in basement ceiling, no issue. - The basement must have some known humidity problems, but they seem to be handled, given the lack of evident mold. - That gap in the framing is a NON-ISSUE. It is framing from when the basement was finished, and is not structural at all. It could be removed and do nothing bad except fill a dumpster. Maybe cut it up and burn it in the fireplace, if it is not pressure treated.- To check for level in a walkthrough, bring a marble. - - - All in all, a decent house with mostly very minor issues visible, though I would move that oven.
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  12482.  starshipeleven  I have seen some people citing the ineffectiveness of mask during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic as a reason to not wear a mask. - What these rocket surgeons don't seem to know is that masks were poorly understood a century ago, and many of them were made of hand-woven cotton gauze that you could pass a toothpick through and not touch fabric. - With modern understanding and standards, masks actually do something. 100%? No, nothing is 100%. Even if your mask is only 50% effective at stopping or slowing particulates, it's more effective than a bare face.
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  12483.  starshipeleven  I was speaking of the bad masks in 1918 made of wide-weave gauze. There weren't the ONLY masks then, but they were in common use, even for health workers. - And yeah, a lot of Americans are acting like children on a tantrum. "You can't tell me what to do!"
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  12484.  @Ishkur23  Wow. This is so... right.
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  12485. Does this car also need a battery strap/tie-down?
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  12486. I definitely like the hanging method for the door liner better than those metal clips that seem to love pulling out of the door liner panel on Fords I've owned.
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  12487. He would have made a fine Dread Pirate Roberts.
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  12488.  @anti-Russia-sigma  They do if that helps them connect with the audience.
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  12489. Hmm... Perhaps a Flock user could assemble dossiers on cops and judges and "accidentally" release them?
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  12490. And why wouldn't Apple remove the ability to leave comment? That (lack of) feature is working great for the Epic Games Store, ad EVERYBODY loves them! - NOT!
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  12491. Were you trying to get the whole collectors' edition scars set?
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  12492. I just thought of another private space where women should be free of the influence of men. The gynecologist's office! How about another? Planned Parenthood clinics!
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  12493. Protest! Heck yes. Block the road? Heck no.
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  12494. When not being able to prove your innocence really Hertz? Yeah, bad (VERY BAD) pun aside, Hertz owes this man more than money. If you or I ignored a subpoena, we'd be in jail. But a corporation just shrugs.
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  12495. Possible solution: work out at home or in nature. the world is a broken treadmill, with a lot of unplugged stair-masters and climbers. And we have gravity all over, so heavy stuff takes effort to lift and move. The military (at least before this new cross-fit PFT baloney) got a lot of mileage (pun!) out of pushups, sit-ups and running.
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  12496. If you overcrowd rats, they will murder each other until the population levels come way down. Humans have speech, laws, and social norms that delay or stop most of the murderous thought, but some people have shorter fuses.
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  12497.  @BixbyConsequence  Nice! A customizable tool.
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  12498. Pfft. Dear US Government: Don't seek the assets of the Menendezes through criminal forfeiture. Just take it under Civil Asset Forfeiture and make Menendez sue to prove the innocence of the assets. - Oh, but that might actually get Congress to close that door, and we KNOW you don't want that revenue stream into the pockets of lawful Americans to ever be closed, do you?
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  12499. All of my favorite teachers taught their subjects in a way I learned easily from.
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  12500. How dare someone write and then read a script to get their point expressed in a clear and concise manner! The nerve of someone not having a proper teleprompter! - Am I fitting in yet?
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  12501.  @IceBergGeo  Did I say that?
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  12502. The code LE cited does not require a bit, but simply an "attack".
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  12503. "MAY" charge her? WTF New York. Did she have to be black to make you hunt her down and charge her? Do you need better proof than audio-visual? Do you need a wrench upside the head to reset your hard drive?
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  12504. I'm just a little torn here. I have voted for Republicans before, and in more than one election even. But then I remember I've voted for Massachusetts Republicans, and I feel a lot better. Not perfect, but better.
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  12505. I saw at 36:30-ish that someone dumped a bed and boxspring on the side of the road. Some people are so self-centered.
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  12506. People will more forgive you a mistake than a lie.
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  12507. 3. When CBP demands your phone, break it. 4. Only put jokes about the stupidity of CPB on your phone. edit: 5. Get a phone where you can remove the battery and the sim card. Before reaching the border or airport customs, remove the sim card and put the phone back together.
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  12508. When we get close to 1.21 gigatons, I need to get a lab coat and rent a Delorean. For the laughs.
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  12509. Is looking suspicious a felony or a misdemeanor? And what is the elevating factor on the charge for skin color?
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  12510.  @chaos.corner  My drug at the time was Jolt Cola. Coming down from that habit hurt. And may have had something to do with the two straight days of sleep.
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  12511. Your ID looks like a mugshot!
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  12512. He may actually know a few, but he's afraid of being struck by lightning. Unless he's rational enough to not believe in a god or gods, then he's just full of [excrement].
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  12513. The best comparisons would be (across various aircraft) landing gear failures per takeoff-landing cycle and/or per hours flown by the plane. Granulate that by landing conditions (paved, field, mud, snow, etc.) and there would be some decent data. - I doubt this granularity of data is available from that far back. And even it it is, it is more crunching than I would want to do. - All that said, great video. Thank you for your work and time, and for sharing this with us all.
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  12514. Hey, those penis rockets don't come cheap! Jeff needs all the money!
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  12515. From the comments on video 1, Dexcool is apparently a serious problem child a) if there is the slightest hint of any minerals in the cooling system, or b) always no matter what.
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  12516. I think if Ray had "just taken the manifolds off" the engine would have made SURE some of THOSE studs would break off.
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  12517.  @alanlozano6535  That's a good point.
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  12518. The compromises in the class are yet more proof that there is no decision that politics can't make worse.
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  12519. Then you'll find out it is DELIVERED by pandas!
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  12520. Ooh! A defense of diminished mental capacity. Brilliant!
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  12521. The "fun" of pulling vehicles into the angled lift tells me you might want to look into good relations with neighbor businesses and a good perusal of what your lease entitles you to, all with an eye to keeping access as clear as possible without turning fellow tenants into enemies.
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  12522. On the other hand, if you don't have the Win7 key lying about, you get to pay a subscription for your OS, just like they want for the Office software. Which I have a key for on the 2003 version, and I will keep using that version until it no longer works at all.
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  12523.  @johnw8578 I'll never participate in those Ponzicoins.
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  12524.  @Pickle312  It may not be very representative, but it SHOULD be.
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  12525.  @redmondjp  I have never really been a fan of turning food into automotive go-go juice. It's a shame we can't be smarter like countries using non-food plants to do similar additives.
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  12526. Movie and TV hacking: hammering away at keyboards, pop-up tabs and displayed code, with intense background music, and declarations about progress. Real world hacking: click, click, click, type, click. "Okay, we have administrator access. What did you want to do?"
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  12527.  @daleallen7634  Then their pricing is done stupidly.
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  12528. Turning into the skid, don't use the foot brake when sliding just take your foot off the accelerator, part of the function of a seat belt is to keep you in your seat to better control the car... So many lessons. I have not been at fault for any accident greater than a bumper tap in 35+ years.
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  12529. For a few years of idiocy (between 18 and 21), I used to go to parties and drink to excess. Before my the first drink, I would put my car key in a cup of water and put it in the back of the host's freezer. I also convinced other people to embrace the idea. This meant that you had to put deliberate effort into finding YOUR key, and then freeing it from a block of ice, plenty of time for you or someone else to determine if you are yet fit to drive. Today, with electronic key fobs, this might not work as well.
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  12530. We should all be happy to work for B-n-L, the world's only employer, and hope to get a seat on the last space ship off the polluted dump of a planet they will help us make.
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  12531. My first film Tarzan was Ron Eli.
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  12532.  @RageKage1776  Knipex
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  12533.  @rayzor285  I have tried several times to teach this friend, and it's not that she doesn't "get it" it's that she flat out refuses to learn. I offered to teach, she made up excuses. I changed a tire in front of her, out came her phone. I gave up about four years ago.
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  12534. High (air) temp? Swollen (lug) nuts? Sounds like a bacterial infection.
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  12535.  @Grauenwolf  And none of those fired will be the big chairs. Maybe one or two big-chair sitters will be reassigned or given a hefty payoff for taking an early retirement.
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  12536. NOBODY is right all the time. Do Vegetarians have some good points? You bet. But I'll listen to the points of a vegan when I can find a non-confrontational one. Preferably one who doesn't follow an exchange of greetings with "Well, as a vegan..."
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  12537. Ha! I just came up with an acronym for a similar mission against a swarm of "killer asteroids"! It would be an intercept craft that divides into several impactors. I would call it Large Area Wide Network Double Asteroid Redirection Task, or LAWN DART!
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  12538. The correct way to take out your town's internet is to drunkenly crash your car into the transceiver station, and blame the accident on your teenage daughter. Some dude from Rhode Island taught me that.
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  12539. Unless there are major contentions, children, or assets the two parties cannot agree on how to split, two people can get a divorce by doing all of the paperwork themselves, and showing up in front of a judge once. Heck, one of my friends had two kids and assets, and he and his now-ex agreed on all assets and the custody of the kids. Once in front of the judge, they were done in less than half an hour.
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  12540.  @TheRealScooterGuy  My memory is so bad, you have about a 70% chance of being right.
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  12541.  @KanpekiJan  Dang it! My memory sucks. I should have done a search to confirm before commenting...
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  12542. Bah, just give us a looping video of nature with light quiet background music, and you'll be doing better than anyone of my relatives in the last decade.
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  12543. NIMBY disease.
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  12544. About 2/3 through, my brain passed a thought stone. It was uncomfortable, but I'm better now.
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  12545. Particularly if that cash is bundled with elastic bands!!!!
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  12546. So the answer to, "Do people poop themselves when they die?" the answer seems to be... Depends.
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  12547.  @Nanageopolitics  Found a Russian agent! Don't shake hands with this one...
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  12548. Committed to make this right? Firings. THAT is how you "make this right".
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  12549. Something fun I learned recently regarding plastics. BPA is bad for animals. So, companies started taking it out of food packaging. And replacing it with something in the same "chemical family" that is possibly WORSE for animals.
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  12550.  @economicprisoner  Because the work order said to pave it. Hourly workers are engaged in malicious compliance all the time.
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  12551. During the description of the battleships quietly approaching Warspite formation my mind played the Star Trek (original series) "approaching danger" music.
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  12552. The video from Linus where he repairs that overpriced computer all-in-the-monitor that Louis helped him with is how I found this channel. I don't even watch Linus much anymore.
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  12553. Another variation of moving next to an existing airport and then complaining about the planes.
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  12554.  @DemonicVodNic  Very good victim blaming! (golf-clap)
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  12555. If the municipalities wanted to slow down cars, there are road design method that are more effective than cameras, speed limit signs, or even speed bumps.
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  12556. My gripe with vinyl was we always had to sit calmly and listen. No dancing or playing around because the needle would skip and scratch. Now 8-tracks! Those were rough-house resistant!
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  12557. In Massachusetts, tire shops will only put the new pair of tires (assuming you are only replacing two) in the rear, because in a water/ice/snow skid, having better tread in the rear reduces the severity of the skid, and helps reduce the chances of your car going into a spin. I don't know if this is a law or regulation, or something required by the tire shops insurance coverage, but apparently the science behind the idea is solid. And it works whether the vehicle is front, rear, or four-wheel drive. - edit: To all of the commenters talking about worries of blowouts in the front tires? Don't drive on crappy tires. 2/32 inch tread depth is the absolute minimum for passenger vehicles (it is more for commercial vehicles), patches in the sidewalls are ASKING for trouble, and the corded punch-through plugs for holes in the tread are less reliable than interior patches. It doesn't take a lot of time to do a weekly or monthly walk-around of your vehicle to look for uneven tire wear, and you can check tread depth with a penny (remember pennies?) upside down in the tread. If the tread is not deep enough to touch Abe's head, your tire is too worn.
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  12558.  @sredz8702  Mine does too, but now, if I buy even a brand-new power supply, I'll meter it out just to be sure. Trust is easily killed.
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  12559. Education? In 'Merica? What are you, some kind of communist? (sarcasm)
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  12560. I have never seen an Air Bud movie. My animal-playing-sports kick started and ended with "Gus" a 1976 movie with Edd Asner, Don Knotts, and a (US) football-playing mule. Kirkey, I'm old.
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  12561. There was a lot of deeply ingrained racism in the estimation of the capabilities of the Japanese during WW2. Even Bugs Bunny got in on the act of being racist against the Japanese.
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  12562. I got one of those sub-$0.20 checks once. I threw it away. The time it would take to put that check in the bank was more than that check was worth. (This was before you could photo-deposit checks)
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  12563. I am continually disappointed with the Ford Fusion. There is nowhere to refill the Deuterium!
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  12564. I most recently bought all my computer hardware on Tiger Direct. Are they still good or have they sunk?
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  12565.  @snickel2584  Without lube.
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  12566. I hear the words "laminar flow" and I think of Destin of Smarter Every Day.
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  12567.  @living2day617  How polluted were you when you wrote that?
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  12568.  @bert1450  Please step out of the information silo and smell free air. Or are you one of those who LIKES exerting laws over the lives of others, banning books, and hiding your governor's expenditures?
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  12569.  @Darrylizer1  I agree with you. And some people can be just the worst.
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  12570.  @superchuck3259  It really would depend on the purpose of the gathering and what resources are needed.
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  12571. BE IN FEAR OF THOSE HIRED TO ENFORCE OUR LAWS! ASSUME THE LAWKEEPERS ARE YOUR ENEMY! THE LAWKEEPERS ARE ALLOWED AND TRAINED TO LIE! COMPLY TO THIER ORDERS, LAWFUL OR NOT, OR FACE CERTAIN UNLAWFUL ARRREST, HARM AND/OR DEATH! - Welcome to the police state of America.
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  12572. Sports? Meh. I could take it or leave it. I want to be able to go to a Chinese food restaurant with friends. Other than that one thing, this social distancing has had little change on my life. - - Edit! Okay, this marble league could change my mind on sports!
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  12573. Showing up to work in half a suit? Didn't Fetterman get that one through, or did they fully reverse the decision?
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  12574.  @michaelolive5070  Ray posts so many videos he'd have to be doing the scam jobs at home on his own time or something.
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  12575. Of COURSE the city doesn't want to pay. Police can blow up your whole house and get away with not paying, why should the pony up for a little vehicle damage?
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  12576. FACTUAL CORRECTION! The report about the virus coming from a lab leak in Wihan was presented as "with low confidence" a term that has a defined meaning. - According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the body that brings the 18 IC agencies together and coordinates them, “A low confidence level generally indicates that the information used in the analysis is scant, questionable, fragmented, or that solid analytical conclusions cannot be inferred from the information, or that the IC has significant concerns or problems with the information sources.” - So no, this report doesn't say the virus came from a lab leak, nor does it even come within shouting distance of "proving" such. It is essentially saying, "Reports of a lab leak are about as reliable as rumors shared after a weekend bender. - I would really wish for all good sources reporting this to get the definitions and facts straight instead of falling prey to "headline syndrome" and spreading the bad information. - - Very rare that I feel the need to criticize or correct a BTC video.
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  12577. There are some military armored vehicles still in use today that would not structurally withstand a rollover after an 81-foot jump.
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  12578.  @marylosee5626  And multi-pane. That ups the price a bit.
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  12579. Clip broke? SELF-TAPPERS! Hahaha!
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  12580. Ain't it a pain when past you predicts how much of a tool future you becomes?
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  12581. I read a lot of good series written or co-written by Michael Anderle, and except for one series I have never been disapointed. - I recently stopped reading a 6 book series by a different author about halfway through book 2 because the characters were so MONUMENTALLY dumb. They would have a character development in one one part of the book, and shortly thereafter go back to square one in their decision making skills. I was actually shouting at the book at one point when it took almost three chapters for a character to ask another "What did you mean when you said _______?" instead of just ignoring them completely, when their insight had "saved the day" in the first book. (Also, it slightly irks me when characters on a space ship or in a building interact with "the ground" when they're actually interacting with a floor/deck.)
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  12582. Well, the state of Alaska just needs to find a way for DNR officers to "find jurisdiction" and be able to stomp about on private property without a warrant or even reasonable and articulable suspicion on some flimsy "invasive species" concern to gather evidence for a stronger warrant. - edit: Or just hand the oppression over to federal law enforcement.
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  12583. Deep in the guts of the engine is an odd place to put breakable plastic parts like those straight guides, to my mind.
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  12584. I have a Wiko U307 AS which is a Google environment phone. I can open the case (even accidentally by dropping it just right) and the battery and SIM card are easy to swap out. I am not a fan of smart phones in general, as I only use a phone for calls and the rare text. I also find smart phones in general to be too big for the hand and pocket. But when my last phone's tech (2G) was finally being phased out in the regions I used it, I had to upgrade to something at least 4G. There were a lot of apps I had to uninstall, and some that I can't uninstall that I had to shut down as many permissions as possible, but after that, I am satisfied with my phone's functions, if not the form.
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  12585. And as we all know, Georgia has had more than enough bad press with land-taking with the Cop City project. But I guess it is more important to even more overstress the road system in one of the most congested cities on the East half of the US.
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  12586.  @mastervz4806  Lone Ranger?
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  12587. I have had cars for over three decades and never put gloves in mine. Paperwork, tire plug kit, straws, plastic forks and spoons, tire pressure gauge, tire tread depth gauge, napkins/tissues, pencil and some paper, and in the old days, a highway map or two. But never gloves. Gloves and a hat go in the trunk or the pocket on the back of the passenger seat.
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  12588. Ah, the GMC McKinley. (facepalm)
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  12589. There are very few situations I can think of that cannot be made worse by police.
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  12590. Oh those poor, poor, oil companies. Only making lots of money instead of LOTS AND LOTS of money...
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  12591.  @CyFr  Before HOA was a common abbreviation, I knew of a neighborhood in the town I lived in that had a kind of community board and associated fees to cover the well, pump, tank and piping for fresh water; the piping and hauling for sewage, and periodic (dirt) road maintenance. The community was far from town services and started as a string of summer cabins on a popular pond (big in area but shallow). As people started living there year-round, some services had to be managed. Electricity still came in on poles, but running poles is a lot easier than water and sewer. - I guess it was close to what most people think of as an ideal HOA. Low fees, get the job done, leave people alone except for the annual meeting.
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  12592. "Your honor, the group of democrats we represent thinks this law is illegal." "Your honor, as representative of the state, we agree with the complainants." - "I find for the complainants."
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  12593. Oh thank goodness. I'm not the only who thinks that... EVERY TIME!
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  12594. I'm only here to find out the word "incel" since the thumbnail time indicator blocked out the end of the word. You can go ahead and whine about something that does not impact your life at all, I'll be off watching something entertaining.
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  12595. That's why casinos have always had "back rooms". Need to punish the winner enough that they STAY shut up about not being paid.
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  12596. That is the most festive under-sink cabinet I've ever seen!
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  12597. The correct pronoun is "Inmate".
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  12598. I don't know, Glenn. Orange Donnie could find a jury pool that HASN'T been exposed to the deluge of news about him. Given that the jury members must be citizens, that leaves out some of the tribes in the Amazon, the poor in Eastern Africa, and the possible precursor molecules to amino acids in the waters of the moon Titan. So perhaps some of the more tech-averse Amish communities, the poorest people living on Native American reservations, and people who are awoken from years-long comas in the next couple of weeks.
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  12599.  @themysteriousunknownrevealed  More Hutz and Jackie Chiles than anyone serious.
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  12600.  @Funglutton  Oddly, hearsay can be given some lesser weight if the person who is being cited is no longer available for cross-examination, such as if they have since died.
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  12601. Merriam Webster Definition of motor vehicle : an automotive vehicle not operated on rails - Definition of automotive 1: SELF-PROPELLED 2: of, relating to, or concerned with self-propelled vehicles or machines - Definition of self-propelled 1: containing within itself the means for its own propulsion a self-propelled vehicle - A snowmobile has a motor within it to propel it. A snowmobile does not operate on rails. ergo, a snowmobile is a motor vehicle.
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  12602. Just don't be a stand-up philosopher. (History of the World Part 1 reference)
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  12603. When I learned to drive an M113, I quickly realized it was like riding a horse (western style) and it was nothing at all to pick up the skill.
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  12604.  @jameshorn270  What do I have to "admit"? Anyway, I did end up in a unit with M113's. Well, actually the M106 mortar carrier and M577 command vehicle variants. - As for horse riding, my family had horses until I was about 8, and I only rode a couple of times after that.
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  12605. Don't apologize to haters, that only gives them power. Sure, explain your decisions. State your position, but don't give power to the heckler's veto!
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  12606. I still say it was the dolphins trying to push humans into a war of complete extermination so they and the chimpanzees/bonobos can share the top spot and try to do a better job caring for the planet.
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  12607. @Prince Charming Thank you for saving me from having to make that kind of comment.
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  12608. Regarding parts and Murphy's law, some say Murphy was an optimist.
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  12609.  @philopharynx7910  I think you missed the inference that the COPS are the large scale crime ring.
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  12610. And if you see, between Spencer's first visit and his work visit, someone had (likely using that mower int he back yard) mowed the front and side.
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  12611. I miss Saturn dealerships. I bought two at the same dealership, and the experience was the same both times. I walked around the lot, found a car I was interested in based on the model, color, features, and the price posted on the vehicle. Only then did I wave to the squad of salespeople waiting by the building, and the on-deck person walked over, asked if this was the car I was interested in, went and got the keys, let me take a short test drive, and the only "selling" was for small things like a radio upgrade to a CD player (no thanks) and an optional extension of powertrain warranty (I should have said yes on one car), then it was just confirming financing. From arrival to leaving with a new car was an hour, give or take. And that included my walking around looking for the car.
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  12612. This sounds like a problem that could be solved by an ever so slightly mor verbose label.
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  12613. My guess? pulleys and/or chain falls (chain operated pulley blocks with ratcheting mechanisms to stop motion in the direction you don't want.
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  12614.  @andrewsock1608  Or if the cart was loaded with things you didn't want to put on the ground, like sacks of grains, or finished cloth or leather?
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  12615.  @tomfool43  Think of the backyard gardener's wheelbarrow. It can be used to move dirt, new plants, bring in the harvest, lug tools, move rocks and bricks, drive kids around for fun, be a spaceship/car/boat...
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  12616. Having watched a few car repair channels for a while, I have learned a few things: If the price is too good, the car is not. Used car lots put a lot more into detailing than mechanical soundness. Know the lemon laws (if there are any - FLORIDA!) in your state. And most importantly, pre-PURCHASE INSPECTION by a mechanic who has nothing to do with the car seller. $100 now can save you thousands later. - edit: Oh yeah, and avoid Buy Here, Pay Here and Carvana like the plague.
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  12617.  @stevemygoodman7809  … as long as your victims are white men.
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  12618. Giant Asteroid 2024: Just end it already!
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  12619.  @Stealth86651  There is another factor with the 'barely wet' roads. In areas that don't get frequent rain, the road surface builds up oils, greases, and tire rubber particles from all the vehicles using the road. When the very light rain happens, all that slick residue floats, forming a slick layer on tip of the water. There can be fewer loss-of-traction events if the rain is heavier (until you dance into hydroplaning) or after the light rain has had time to clear the car residue.
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  12620. US: "Israel led this agreement we're announcing." - Okay? But we still doubt this without proof. Israel: "We never said any of that." - We believe Israel immediately and without proof or reservations!!! - And people scoff when I call Israel the golden calf of US politics.
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  12621. As a driver in the snow belt, I get a car wash mid-winter and mid-spring. I make sure the car was I use has underbody cleaning, and if they have a protectant option, I sometimes spring for it.
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  12622. Look at all those MORONS who are NOT in a military or police uniform saluting for the national anthem. Hand over heart, you window-lickers! . . Oh wait. They'd have to HAVE a heart. Carry on, cousin-lovers.
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  12623. A stove has a simple function in the home. Apply heat to food. Removing combustion from the kitchen is a good step. I grew up with an electric stove that lasted about 10-15 years of our possession (it came with the house) before the control unit shorted and started a fire, and the one we replaced it with lasted another 20 years in our possession. It may still be serving the new homeowners a decade and a half later. Just keep it clean, install it where there is adequate ventilation of fumes and heat around the unit, and it will last you decades. And they change so slowly, that barring a fire inside the control panel, you can find replacement parts. Heck, most people have to replace the drip pans under non-sealed surface elements every 2-4 years anyway, and they sell them in grocery stores.
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  12624. I once "got to" do a mile carrying the receiver of an M2. It was not the least bit fun.
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  12625. There's already been a class-action filed against Robinhood for this activity. I just learned about it on Legal Masses with Leonard French.
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  12626. Gene Wilder performed the best Wonka. I prefer that movie VASTLY over the later remake.
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  12627. For over a decade now, I only cook turkeys in Reynolds baking bags. At 350F, they cut the time almost in half versus using a foil tent over the baking pan. My last turkey was 14lbs and cooked perfectly in around 3 hours.
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  12628.  @GT500Shlby  My, my. I touched a nerve.
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  12629.  @GT500Shlby  And while I am not happy for HOW you had to gain that information, I will reiterate that my post above said "most" and not "all".
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  12630. They can run AND they can hide. It's all down to how much finding them is worth. And what kind of idiot dodges a subpoena? Show up when you are told to and plead the Fifth. Another tactic, use the Reagan "I do not recall."
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  12631. I read books in hardcover, paperback and e-book formats interchangeably. I am gradually changing to a majority of e-books because of the storage space needed for physical books, and the difficulties in moving them when I move. There are however, some books I will not relinquish physicality of, because I like or treasure then that much in physical format. - Also, a physical books never runs out of battery.
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  12632. Hyper-flashing has saved me from many possible tickets. It is such a jarring difference that from the day I learned what it meant, I knew to just pull into the next auto parts place and get a new bulb.
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  12633. Particularly if the state is named as Delaware or South Dakota, and the "thing" is a financial instrument.
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  12634.  @Calvin_Coolage  I watch a mechanic's YouTube channel and recently learned that some car makers are putting the batteries in places like tucked in a compartment in the trunk behind a rear wheel or under the back passenger seat. A lead-acid battery in the passenger spaces, sometimes under a seat withe metal springs. Genius...
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  12635.  @daviking-88  At 6'3", the last flight I took I had to edge myself in between my seat and the one in front of me, and THEN sit down. By the time of takeoff, my feet were already headed toward numb. - After that, all of my long trips have either been me driving, or taking a train.
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  12636. What Ray calls a 'Florida snow shovel' we call a coal shovel up here in Massachusetts where snow, sand and salt are our constant winter companions. Oh, and rust, too.
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  12637. I watch videos from the guy who goes by Post 10. He pressure washes the underside of his vehicles frequently, and several times a year gets under the car with a rattle can of Rustoleum black. He reports no major rotting issues.
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  12638. Some day, the veneer of civility will be completely eroded by police and government attitudes, and the historians will wonder why people could not just be treated decently, as the whole conflagration could have been avoided.
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  12639.  @missk1697  These drones in orange vests wouldn't swat a mosquito biting them on the eyelid. They're being programmed to sit in traffic and be non-violent, so that when someone does finally lose their beans and kills one, the secret money people behind them will pop out of the shadows and prostitoot themselves on TV news about the "poor peaceful protester" and the person who harmed them.
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  12640. Hmm... This reminds me of my youthful fun where I and a couple of friends went into a department store another friend managed, and we swapped the contents of two aisles. For fun. - I do recall that a kayak ended up in the feminine hygiene section.
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  12641. Officer, the dog is an adult dog. please write the citation to the dog, and I'm sure he'll pay the fine from his own income.
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  12642. In other news, I bet Five-star roofing had some job openings that week.
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  12643. Plus, there is something in every document a government agency sends me that pretty much says, "[this agency] does not call or text you without arranging it in advance."
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  12644. Registering the e-bikes as vehicles will not change that a-hole behavior. But refusing to get out of their way has a chance of doing so.
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  12645. Let's go full Wiccan and institute a threefold rule.
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  12646. Wow, so cool for D&D to have a space-faring aspect to the game... again!
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  12647.  @blueberry1c2  That's what she said?
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  12648. More important: Is the zoning written as "a sandwich bar style facility", "a sandwich, bar-style facility", "a sandwich-bar style facility" or "a sandwich bar, style facility"? 1 - can be read any way. 2- if the word sandwich is capitalized, it gets VERY specific. 3 - now they need to define what a sandwich-bar is. 4 - half food, half haircuts?
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  12649.  @lydiahood7725  Exactly! If you actually care about that charity, donate direct. Don't filter it through your grocery store. Then you can even get the tax credit for the donation!
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  12650.  @devinblanch4510  I love how a single data point is all that needed to deflate a "never" or "always" statement.
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  12651. The real crime is that the reality is not in quotes on this category of television.
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  12652. Too close is an impact, everything else is an underwear stain.
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  12653. And I count in-atom exploders as an impactor, for the above rule.
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  12654.  @solutionsforabrightfuture3579  A non-violent arrest of the wrong person doesn't, to me, rise to a jailable offense. Unwarranted violence during/after arrest, fabricating or hiding evidence, and making up laws to harass/arrest people? Yeah, go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
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  12655. "Minor-Attracted Person"? What the ever-loving pasta? Call them what they are. Deviants, pedophiles, (and if they act upon their attractions) CRIMINALS!!!
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  12656. The proper statement would have been, "We're sorry that we got negative publicity over the change to our terms of service."
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  12657.  @darksu6947  Only in some conversations lately.
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  12658. Having cooked eggs that way, I can appreciate any effort to not poach humans.
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  12659. Adverse possession should occupy a plot next to civil asset forfeiture in a graveyard of dead laws.
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  12660. "Spencer? Oh yeah! The guy who mowed the Amazon grasslands." - "I thought the Amazon was a jungle." "Oh, it was."
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  12661. Would it be worthwhile to try to get Haynes, the people who make bank selling auto repair manuals, to put some push behind the move to make repair information accessible? They could be approached with the position that they would be able to sell even MORE repair manuals. Haynes also makes the Chilton and Clymer manuals, and those things have saved me thousands on car repairs over my lifetime. - And I never died from my repairs, nor could have sued them for an improper repair (and there were a couple!).
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  12662. The court is wrong on this one. The man was not fired for being an alcoholic. He was fired for being drunk at work, and not for the first time. Many alcoholic people can manage to work without being drunk. And many even put in the effort to work against their alcoholism and don't drink at all. - Having alcoholism is not a free pass for being drunk at work.
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  12663. I don't mind R&B as long as I am choosing to hear it, as opposed to hearing it muffled through the floor and ceiling tiles above me. It is rap, C&W, "flow" (whatever the heck that is) and anything that I as a white male would get in trouble for quoting the lyrics of that I can well do without.
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  12664. It feels like we're the oil in the Exxon Valdez, and the President has been cast in the role of Joseph Hazelwood...
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  12665. Trust, but verify (Russian: Доверя́й, но проверя́й, tr. Doveryáy, no proveryáy, IPA: [dəvʲɪˈrʲæj no prəvʲɪˈrʲæj]) is a rhyming Russian proverb.
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  12666. If you're not breaking the law at some point in your day, you are likely a corpse.
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  12667. I saw a movie where they "movie hacked" into the building's climate controls and made the target office as hot as the infiltration person's body temperature. edit: jonathankleinow2073 posted the scene I was thinking of.
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  12668. "Hmm. Spark plugs and air filters are supposed to be changed regularly. Let's make the engineers design things so the dealer garages can charge more hours for those simple regular maintenance items." - "Brilliant idea boss!"
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  12669. Did she say "Vote for this party"? Did she say "Vote for this person"? Nope. She said, "Vote". And republicans lost their minds at the thought of their subjects exercising even a shred of the power they own.
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  12670.  @Jartran72  Way back in 6th or 7th grade I learned a saying about belief. "Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear." Which means if there is no evidence, it's likely B.S. but if there IS evidence, it starts to have a chance at being true.
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  12671. Small pet peeve. Legislature (ledge ih slate chure)
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  12672. Are the window tint measuring devices under the same regimen and requirement for certified calibration?
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  12673. Latinos voting for Trump, Jews voting for Adolf, Chickens voting for Tyson.
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  12674.  @tsmackenzie9065  Ah, memories of Z-A-Z films.
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  12675.  @Itrieditathome889  And don't forget the price of a tow!
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  12676. I have seen many restaurants that purposely limit or eliminate their in-restaurant seating to avoid having to install ADA-compliant bathrooms that the building may not even have space for. Why this matters is that in many municipalities, a restaurant's requirement to have public restroom facilities is linked to how much seating they have.
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  12677. Trump doesn't care about other people. Only what makes HIM look good to his cult.
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  12678. Bed, Bath & Beyond? I have only shopped there twice, and never gotten a coupon. - This means they found me, doesn't it? - (*Mike Pence stamps have no value) - My laughter woke the cat! - Republicans close polling places in majority Democratic states to suppress the vote. The people say, "Oh! vote by mail!" - Republicans appoint a guy who starts removing mail drop boxes in those same areas, and works with the Repugnant President to slow the delivery of mail, knowing full well that many states will not count ballots that don't arrive at polling offices in time. At the same time, in at least one state, the Republican'ts only allowed early votes to be hand-delivered to one place PER COUNTY! - Nah, it's not a conspiracy, right? - Mark Meadows pulled out the old chestnut, "The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - The same lie that got the US into a SECOND war in Iraq. - I voted about an hour into the first day of early voting in my state because I didn't trust the post office to deliver a mail-in ballot. - Katie Porter and her white-board of DOOM!
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  12679. That blue and yellow, as well as the green and red, gave me a constantly shifting field that "oozed" between the two colors in random patterns. - To quote a fictional dead guy, "You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."
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  12680. And developers keep building for the luxury market in cities...
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  12681. "Oops! I broke the priceless vase. Oh well, get the Super Glue, it'll be fine."
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  12682. Around half of those eligible Americans who bothered to vote ALSO are not for Donald the Hutt.
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  12683.  @smokehouse420-x9k  Yeah! Tired of forcing the VA to actually acknowledge burn pit injuries, tired of holding perpetrators of SA accountable, tired of holding officers and NCOs who buried criminal complains accountable...
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  12684.  @jasonriddell  The cost for your idea would be tacked onto the original sale price, much like bottle deposits are in states that have them. I am not discounting your idea in its entirety, just pointing out that if it costs a corporation money to do the right thing, they will find a way to make the consumer pay for it, and hopefully ALSO get a kickback from the government at the same time.
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  12685.  @ShaferHart  It is difficult to hack a phone remotely through Bluetooth. It is damned near IMPOSSIBLE to hack a phone remotely via corded headphones/earpieces. - Oh, also, if a wireless earbud falls out I am left with HOPE that it didn't: fall in water, get stepped on, break on impact, get lost... If the earpiece has a wire and it falls out of my ear... It's still attached tot he wire.
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  12686. I do everything except firing a rifle/shotgun right handed. When I learned to fire a rifle, I could not 'wink' my left eye, but I could for my right. I have since learned to 'wink' the other side, but firing lefty just feels so "right" (pun intended).
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  12687. "Lifetime" fluids are such a lie. Just like "Maintenance-Free" things like roofs. - edit: Also, no dipsticks for transmissions should earn whomever made that call a beating with a sack of rabid badgers.
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  12688. Shallow. Graves. In the woods. Crud, did I type that? BAD fingers!
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  12689.  @cobracommander9138  Maybe his brother was a colossal jerk?
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  12690.  @michaelcavalier8750  THis is the party line of people angry that they can spew violent words and plans on a the service provided by a corporation. Corporations are not ruled by the First Amendment. If they were, no business could selectively decide what kinds of health care were acceptable to offer. (I'm talking about companies who refuse to pay for family planning health care)
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  12691.  @Axiarus  Personal preference is fairly valid, and inarguable.
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  12692. People who commit crimes this big often do so because their previous smaller crimes were never caught, or at least not strongly punished.
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  12693.  @itptires  Honestly, that friend had driven drunk enough times and not gotten caught, it was as much a case of a karmic balance than over-zealous enforcement.
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  12694. Huh. Even that religion has some good moral lessons in it. Too bad the brand identity of most religions is tainted by hate and murder. And yes, I'm including all three Abrahamics, the Norse, African traditions, Native American traditions, some branches of Buddhism, etc., etc. So far, I have no knowledge of any Pastafarian atrocities, other than Chef Boyardee.
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  12695. Either end civil asset forfeiture nationwide, or: make all cases jury trials, AND mandate that the victorious defendant (the property, apparently) can get all legal fees paid by the losing plaintiff (the cops).
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  12696. If they were not cops, they'd be looking at attempted murder charges, and investigations would be ongoing to reveal if there were gang ties. But since they ARE cops, they'll get paid time off and a promotion once the media has moved on to the next brutal cop interactions.
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  12697. And California's senate killed right to repair in committee.
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  12698. By the time we get manuals for laptops, most laptop manuals will be a single-fold and when you open it will just show you where the power button and charge port live. And maybe a web address to find your closest "just buy a new one" store.
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  12699. It will be interesting to see how elections turn out in the aftermath of these sorts of "mandatory" lockdowns that FAR exceed necessity.
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  12700.  @grahamr4916  What are you doing in my brain?
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  12701. Why were the charges in the hospital? Yeah, I'm a grammar "fascist".
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  12702. Maybe my simple math brain is looking at this too simply, but when you have about a large number of unoccupied living places on one side of the equation, and a large number of people without ANY living place, the math feels like it should be easy.
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  12703. I used Yelp once. About six years ago, to leave an honest (bad) review of a pizza place in my town. (The food and prices were merely average, the place was filthy like cleaning was their Kryptonite) - Mine was the fourth or fifth review of ANY restaurant in that town. So not a lot of people in that town/region used it at all. And three of the places listed no longer existed, one for at least five years. That's some quality database maintenance there.
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  12704. Oh, and a lot of idjits were well trained to hate the idea of a brown woman as President.
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  12705. Sounds somewhat similar to how Facebook's purchase of Oculus snared pre-existing owners with the requirement to have a Facebook account "in good standing" to be able to use all of the features they had access to before the corporate takeover.
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  12706. That's either oil in the radiator, or they're cooling the engine with melted chocolate ice cream.
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  12707. 36F? Okay, this Massachusetts dweller concedes that you have experienced cold.
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  12708. I hope the owner uses the last bits of transmission life to either find a better truck or save up for a rebuilt transmission.
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  12709.  @ifstatementifstatement2704  Satan, huh? You spelled my ex-wife's name wrong.
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  12710. Who do these Scientology buffoons think they are? Freemasons? Come back when you have a couple of centuries of penetration into the functions of government, you amateurs.
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  12711. This is easy to solve. A typical human masses around 90 kilograms. A typical coconut masses 680 grams. That makes a human the weight of 132 coconuts. As it take two sparrows to carry a coconut, we only need 264 sparrows per human, and voila! Green flight!
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  12712. The act of blaming her for FAILING to fully contain a bomb that someone else triggered in a crowded area always bothers me. It's like suing you because the pickup truck you were driving did not stop the deliberately overloaded logging semi from plowing into a preschool, killing 35 young children. How are you at fault for failing to fully mitigate someone else's reckless violence?
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  12713. Really? Japanese "Google it you idiot?" You got me good.
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  12714. They're not even paying $1 million per person. Boeing had a PROFT of $7.724 BILLION last year. This $243 million is barely over 3% of their PROFITS for one year. Not their earnings, their profits.
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  12715. Sign this or you're under arrest. - Nah, not Gestapo at ALL! - Heck, they don't even need to find any HINT of a criminal act in your past. They can just declare your money/vehicle/home/business "the proceeds of criminal activity" and take it. Never even having to make a B.S. charge against you, the owner. Not even something as inane as "impeding". They'll take it because they want it. - I am continually surprised that there are not daily headlines of people who were pushed over the edge by this theft, and responded with anger and firearms.
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  12716. And the contractors are all human. Humans can be just the worst.
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  12717.  @hermesten1000  Truth.
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  12718. Seems like some jurisdictions can't let an event pass without charging someone something just to show they're "tough on crime" and "for public safety". - As to "slowing down could cause a hazard for drivers behind you" - There's a REASON we have tail lights and the guidance for minimum following distance.
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  12719. What? No using the angle grinder to cut open the gas fuel filter? Darned Rule #1...
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  12720.  @rossmanngroup  My Brother HL-1440 has been serving me since 1998 (or thereabouts) and I am only on my third toner cartridge, with the first being the half-sized one they sold the printer with. And both cartridges I've bought have been "Staples Brand" toner, not Brother. What have I done to it? Well, I dust it occasionally, refill it with paper when the lights flash, and I have moved with it five times since I've owned it. So I am not coddling it and yet it still soldiers on.
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  12721. Go professional with your oppression. Attend dictator classes in North Korea. You will either graduate as a monster, or die in custody from normally preventable causes.
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  12722. Two other buck converters: A change machine, and a wildlife castration specialist.
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  12723. Citizens United, Qualified Immunity, refusing to strike down civil asset forfeiture, the death of Roe v Wade, The negation of Chevron, and now this... The Subprime Court is TRYING to give us a religious dictatorship and a country ruled and polluted by those with money. . No, not trying, on the road to success. That tree of liberty is looking thirsty lately. Thirsty for R-flavored nutrition.
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  12724.  @orangefish0297  Well yes. But scaring people away from trying their own repairs with dire warnings of batteries catching fire and burning down your domicile is disingenuous. A simple warning that "piercing or breaking a lithium battery may result in a toxic fire. Please use caution and have a fire extinguisher handy." should be the norm instead of scare tactics. And for the absolute suicidal idiots who ignore normal precautions and still die? Maybe we don't need that drop of water in our gene pool.
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  12725.  @jt....  If my widget is already broken, why should I allow nervous lawyer speak to dissuade me from opening it up and seeing if I can fix it? IF we allow this to be the norm, how long until the government locks us in out homes all winter, "for our protection" from ice and snow on roads and walkways? What about sharp corners on walls (from which I have a scar since I was 3)? What about water! People drown in water every year! Outlaw unsanctioned interactions with water! FOR THE CHILDREN!
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  12726.  @jt....  Be well!
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  12727. Clinton does not have 12-year-old cat energy. I thought he was much younger. He must moisturize regularly or something!
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  12728. Next Sunday A.D. There was a guy named Joel, Not too different from you or me.
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  12729.  @Gangsta1168  What the everliving Pasta does your dumb question have to do with the discussion about automobiles, software updates, recalls, and warranties?
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  12730.  @robertsmith2956  I was recalling (pun!) a notice I once got in the mail that said something like, "Call us at the number below about possible recalls on your vehicle. This is urgent!" And the number had zero association with a dealership or local garage. (did a reverse lookup, got no results).
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  12731. I saw the videos Alec (Alex?) did on the differences between cooking with gas, traditional electric elements, and induction where he compared the time to boil water. An interesting side item he noticed was that gas let a lot of heat get to pot handles as hot exhaust ran up the sides of the pot and into the vent hood. This means that gas is wasting a lot of energy that electric, particularly induction, doesn't.
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  12732. Ray, those bolts at about 8:30 aren't the hardest part. According to another Florida native, the Wai-ai-ait is the hardest part.
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  12733.  @SayAhh  Does George Castanza work at Mondelez?
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  12734. Heck, all it would take is convincing the extension cord makers that they could ALSO sell packs of fuses...
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  12735.  @jamram9924  That reminds me of the video Louis Rossmann did where he measured the ACTUAL current it took to pop automotive fuses he bought from the top-recommended sellers on Amazon. I think one of the 10 amp fuses took over 40 amps to pop.
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  12736.  @topherd1011  If the connection is solid, then it is solid with either brand new connectors or the zip-tie mod. Replacing the connectors may be parts-cheap, but it adds labor time. And it can (not will, but can) introduce chances for wire damage.
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  12737. Unless the definition regarding the preparation of eggs is used, I would not mind being "poached" by a better employer.
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  12738. Hmm... If the municipality is looking to dismiss, the judge may be continuing the case to get precedent on record. I wonder who will pay the woman's legal fees. edit: nevermind - Institute for Justice. I forgot. - To avoid these fees in the future, park your cars upside down!
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  12739. Those darned engineers in their PT Cruiser Country Club in the sky!
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  12740. Is Bloomberg 100% back in-office?
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  12741. Murder. Robbery. Sorry, I mean "civil asset forfeiture".
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  12742. At a place I lived a decade ago I was a renter and installed a new dishwasher (got paid back over a few months of rent reductions). The dishwasher I was replacing was an old fossil and ran on 120v while the new unit wanted 240v (mostly for the drying cycle, I imagine). Luckily for me, there was already a hole in the floor and just under that hole was a 240v box to run the clothes dryer connected to my unit's panel. So I ran the wire down and tapped into the dryer's junction box, and simply made a point to only run EITHER the dryer OR the dishwasher at any given time.
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  12743.  @jdtractorman7445  I must be missing a joke. Compression test by measuring amperage at the battery?
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  12744. He ordered things to be delivered to his own address? So not only is he a criminal, he is a DUMB criminal.
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  12745.  @KeBobHope  "Don't make me litigate Mr. McGee. You wouldn't like me when I litigate."
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  12746. This is like when Batman and Daredevil work together in a special edition comic. Neither the Kingpin nor the Joker have a chance. - Also, this comes out a couple days after I got an email from Repair.org that included an article about Louis' efforts. What a week!
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  12747. And conversely, I would be willing to try a repair on a computer, but would be too trepidatious to do any gas line repairs.
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  12748.  @paulcollyer801  Oh, not sure why you brought up parenting, but I have long known that is a task for which I am not fit, so I did not become a parent.
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  12749. Are there any physically fit members of that department?
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  12750. Some people eat horses, goats, ducks, chickens, pigs... and when really desperate will eat mule or ass.
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  12751.  @uzlonewolf  But they want it ALL!
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  12752. This pint-sized mega-Karen can't even put together a coherent sentence, she is so enraged at people not doing things they way she imagines they should. I'm in agreement with the kids laughing at her. She's making a spectacle of herself.
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  12753. Less than half a minute in and I already want to throat-punch that cop. - And how the EXPLETIVE is "resisting arrest" EVER considered an originating charge? That would be like handing you a bill that only listed "Sales Tax: $17.99" after you had a $17 meal at a restaurant.
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  12754. This is all smoke and mirrors to cover the fact that the Russians and the Chinese know about the stargate in Cheyenne Mountain and are secretly negotiating for... Wait, that was all FICTION?
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  12755. I really like the portable soldering station!
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  12756.  @Hawkeye2001  You are not wrong. That was the original evolution of the HOA from 'redlined' neighborhoods.
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  12757.  @VideoArchiveGuy  Wow. You positively REEK of entitlement. I am glad I don't know you in person. That seems like it would an unpleasant situation to bear.
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  12758. I once had a bumper sticker that read, "Welcome to Massachusetts. We've got your money, now go away."
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  12759.  @afterglowproductions8547  Fine. ANGLE GRINDER MODE!!!!!
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  12760.  @brendanderocher3128  It would be a small amount of melting, the thickness of the container is one factor, as is the thermal capacity and thermal conductivity of the metal, versus the insulating cardboard container and THEN the thermal capacity of the frozen ice cream. It's not like we're going at the container with an oxy-acetylene torch. Choosing a clean cutting wheel with the appropriate grit for the metal will help reduce cutting time and thus the thermal energy transferred into the metal/cardboard/ice cream system. And a little bit of melting is not a problem, since the plan is to eat all of the ice cream anyway, - I dig physics!
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  12761. By the video title, I expected deer getting written up for "Leaping to endanger."
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  12762.  @mattgayda2840  Does it involve a running garbage disposal?
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  12763.  @UFO-Ark  You seem to be laboring under one misconception, but you have one cogent point. 1) The US has not had a draft since the Vietnam "police action". 2) To allow/require women to register with the Selective Service would require a change in the law that is currently restricted to "male persons", which has been ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1981. The last unsuccessful attempt to change the law was in December of 2015
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  12764. Don't buy any hydroponics supplies - You are assumed to be growing pot and thus a drug lord. Don't legally buy oil filters via the internet. - You are obviously making "illegal" suppressors and a terrorist. - Just sit in your house-shaped box, eat your corn flakes, go to work, come home and go to sleep and do it over again. Unless you're black, then calmly declare all of these actions before you do them, with your hands in plain view, so as to not unduly scare a cop into shooting you. Think of THEIR feelings, would you? - Is officer blue-folder REALLY using the "Just make it easier on yourself" line to get the guy to self-incriminate? What an a-hole! - How many cops did it REALLY take to say, "You applied for this permit, may we see the item to confirm it?" Oh well, at least they got to execute a search warrant, which is exciting, and they could have "incidentally" found real incriminating items while they were fishing. - It would seriously take ONE cop to show up, knock, say, "Hello. You applied for a permit for a thing, I have been sent to confirm that the thing is the thing you said, may I see it? I'll wait here on the doorstep."
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  12765. About half a year ago, I had to get a new vacuum (previous one had the entire mounting structure for the handle crack from aged plastic). I got a Bissel machine. When I unboxed it, the crevice tool was not present. I went to the Bissel website to try and order one, but it was out of stock. So I contacted Bissel to ask for the specs of the crevice tool (specifically the diameter) so I could find a replacement somewhere to purchase. Their response was to ask me where and when I bought it (sent that info) then they said they would mail me the crevice tool free. It showed up four days later. - That is a positive experience, in my book.
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  12766. Aliens-style Marines.
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  12767. 24:30 Open the carburetor, spray in some starting fluid? Yeah... I'm old and making an old guy joke here.
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  12768. Dear EU. Good luck. In Massachusetts, a ballot initiative for the right to repair our automobiles passed by a 3-1 margin, and the car makers are piling money, on top of the money they already spent in a deceptive ad campaign, to fight it in court.
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  12769. Is this one of those cars where you can only access the battery by lifting up the back seat? From INSIDE the car? - edit: Now that I think of it, even if the battery is under the hood, you need to get inside the car to release the hood latch.
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  12770. Yeah, not even those off-brand 4-pack cookies at the checkout line!
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  12771. Who does this dealer think they are? Darth Vader? "I have altered the bargain. Pray I do not alter it further." - Loving the shirt! - Yes, you could bring the issue to the courts, and incur the expenses. But a dealership has a "boss" - the auto maker (in this case, Chevrolet), so bring it to their attention and ask if they want to remedy the matter or be featured in the news.
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  12772.  @DogAteMyPopcorn  Anagram Pontiac and you get Paction plural-s 1: chiefly Scottish : AGREEMENT, COMPACT, BARGAIN 2: a short-term international convention terminating with the execution of a single act or performance
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  12773.  @robertgestier2013  Levorg backward is grovel. Neat!
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  12774. That filter was a rather "Roundabout" task. Pun? Yes.
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  12775.  @cgi2002  I cannot refute anything you say about top-level governmental stuff, particularly in relation to COP-out 26. But I counter that bad current policy at the top is not a good reason to give up, shrug, and plastic our way to the future.
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  12776. I am relieved. I also have so much rage left for Trump, and EVERY SINGLE PERSON who enabled him, who supported him, who voted for him, and who followed him. I suspect I am not alone in this.
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  12777. Wen seconds matter, the police are minutes away! Don't lose your shirt (or life!), get plywood today!
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  12778. I had a fender replaced on my 1988 Bronco after a collision and the new inner fender had a DRASTICALLY misaligned hole to provide access to the front directional bulb. The body show ended up using power shears and expanding the hole, then filing down the sharp bits for me. - Bad parts, great body shop.
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  12779. Ah, Texas and Florida/ Where being shot, stabbed, run over, etc. are more likely, and get great national exposure in the news.
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  12780.  @doctahjonez The phrase "gay for" when meaning fixated on or enamored with needs to die.
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  12781.  @Gypsygirl9  Everyone at the trial takes amphetamines, and must talk at an accelerated rate.
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  12782.  @adotintheshark4848  Yep, all $35 dollars of it!
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  12783.  @HESSIAN578  I agree on all of your points. I would never try and drive myself in if I was in an altered state. I pretty much pre-triage myself and determine if I can handle driving, or need a ride in a friend's car, or really need professional transportation. - More than a few times, the friend I called tells me I should stop worrying about "bothering the EMTs" and call an ambulance already. - I blame my upbringing.
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  12784. "You are trespassing" on a public sidewalk? Go take a dip in a lake, robot.
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  12785. I'm a little surprised he didn't have to drop the rear suspension to get the compressor off.
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  12786. The weld came out looking pretty clean, and it saved the vehicle owner a few hundred dollars in parts and labor (and risk of broken bolts). As for the grounding issues? Electricity is lazy. It will ground to the closest strong ground.
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  12787.  @mwater_moon2865  I first noticed the red tie and wondered if the clues were leading to politicians.
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  12788. You can do something similar with a skateboard.
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  12789.  @jpnewman1688  Haha! I diverted you into an inane discussion! I win!
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  12790. A law means nothing without enforcement and MEANINGFUL penalties. This is why energy companies still pollute, still engage in union-busting, and still price gouge.
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  12791. And Ray is letting her play with his toy, er- hoist. Just like the ay a kid shows they like another kid.
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  12792. The rear vehicle is following a bit close for the way I learned it.
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  12793.  @sabinrawr  You are right up until the end of your comments. The public safety and private property rights are a valid concern, but are ALREADY covered by laws relevant to those activities. Namely, assault and trespass. - If I make a charitable appeal for support based on a lie, that is free speech, until and unless I provide a contract to the effect. Some may be able to argue my mere words constitute a verbal contract, but that is a tough one to argue, particularly if the amount "scammed" from you is small. - Your last line, about how the life condition leading someone to need and ask for help is "often not (true)", I would insist on a citation of actual numbers, and not a subjective guess or opinion.
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  12794.  @Xubono  A better DIY Bidet might be to wash out an empty spray bottle (Windex for example) and have that by the bowl for "low-squat operation."
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  12795.  @vincei4252  I love the simile.
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  12796.  @middleagebrotips3454  Growth at all costs is the credo of cancer.
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  12797. Not being in a state that salts and sands their roads for about 1/4 to 1/3 of the year helps a lot.
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  12798.  @DainSmart-vm7pc  Not taking linguistic advice from someone who doesn't go to THE hospital. (/joke)
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  12799. The reasoning behind a multi-person firing squad is that only some of the 'squad' have rifles with actual bullets, while others have blanks, and they do not load the rifles themselves so they never know if they are/were the ones to kill the condemned or not. It is an attempt at moral mercy for the firing squad members. - I'd be more of a fan of decapitation by cannonball. anchor the head in front of an 8-pounder black powder cannon, erect an obscuring wall or curtain to protect the identity of the person who lights the fuse, and film with several cameras, including a 10,000 fps slo-mo for the pay-per-view specials.
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  12800. It is only the thin veneer of civilization still clinging to the victims of these seizures that is keeping the police body count down. Some day, that coating WILL wear off.
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  12801.  @anonony9081  Heck, before I get in the car I look around to get a feel for what is in the way of driving or backing out of where I am parked. If I arrive at a place where I am going to be backing in, I 'scout' the location (from inside the car) as I get to it, before backing in.
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  12802.  @celticlord88  Like not stopping for a red light! Or, did you mean being charged for a crime someone else committed? Because that happens WAY too much.
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  12803.  @daBEAGLE1017  Sounds like you're driving Denis Leary's car! I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible Hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps And all leather cow interior And big brown baby seal eyes for head lights (yeah) And I'm gonna drive in that baby at 115 miles per hour Gettin' 1 mile per gallon
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  12804. Episcopalians are worshippers of Joe Piscopo. Of course.
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  12805. I have quit playing competitive multi-player games almost entirely, because of cheaters. There is no fun in the games when people cheat, and many game companies aren't helping the games be fun for us "filthy casuals" when they pack cash shops with the stronger weapons/gear/skills.
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  12806. That movie was a riot. "I'm a bug!"
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  12807.  @KM-zu9we  The town I grew up in has a population today of around 9,000. They currently have 15 sworn full-time officers, 3 sworn part-time officers, 2 special police officers, 1 full-time administrative assistant, and animal control personnel. I know when I was there in the 1990's, the population was around 5,000 and the department was a LOT smaller, with a part time/on call chief, 2-4 full time and up to a half dozen part time officers, including animal control. Even back then, they used a combined 911 staff with one or two other adjacent towns. - If the pattern has held for the last few decades, a majority of their time is "being visible" to stop speeders, having the lights going when school starts or ends to protect the busy street crossings of lots of kids, and responding to "dumb country stuff". - What is "dumb country stuff"? Snowmobiling or riding a four-wheeler (weather dependent) to the liquor store on main roads, shouting rows between neighbors, underage drinking parties in the woods, mysterious explosions of trash bags filled with welding gases, people doing donuts in the parking lot of the boat ramp, kids goofing off at night in cemeteries...
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  12808.  @UCKY5  Many people say the same until it happens to them.
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  12809.  @UCKY5  Oh that means he didn't have to find alternate means of keeping up with or catching up to his education. Got it.
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  12810. So this boils down to a group mad that he was not paying them dues to be in their club.
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  12811. The cat is not included with the curiosity box? What a ripoff!
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  12812. If you played it at the slowed rate, you'd hit your console for being broken. If it was sped up so that things moves at the games usual observable speed, you would exceed the screen's ability to execute the commands of the frame rate (if the wire handled, which means if the console could sent it that fast, etc..), then you wouldn't really notice it being much better than 30fps, or 60fps, or whatever number your eyes/brain combo stop being able to discern.
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  12813. Most teenagers are scary monsters.
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  12814.  @fnamelname9077  Because they would last too long to keep a constant profit model.
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  12815. Elmer's school glue.
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  12816. Is that the same case where the cop tried to throw away the negative station breathalyzer result?
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  12817. TechNet should have had to do what us commoners do when a law is passed that we don't like. Use the courts, entreat elected officials to take down the bad law and pass a better one. - But no. Money wins. Hochul STOLE that law away from the people of New York, and needs to be held accountable.
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  12818.  @danieldaniels7571  Huh. I thought the mosquito was the state bird of Georgia, and Florida had the Palmetto Bug. Larn sumpin new evryday, yuh?
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  12819.  @danieldaniels7571  I used to live in AZ also. The only state with a state tree you dare not hug... sober.
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  12820. Except that in nearly every movie that uses it, they use it only once per movie. Some might go as high as twice.
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  12821. "If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
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  12822.  @BattlestarCanada  Didn't read your handle at first, but knew you were Canadian when you call utilities "hydro". And you make some very salient points. I too have driven a car on junkyard tires. When you're low on funds, you may have to compromise on a lot, and tires with 4/32" to 8/32" tread, and only a couple of years of decent rubber life left chemically may be one of those compromises. So, too, can be the decision to do a "pad slap" brake job.
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  12823. Sadly, the safe dilution fraction for Fox propaganda is lower than for Sarin or dioxin.
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  12824. Pfft. That's nothing a D8 and an hour couldn't fix. Just push it all into the basement hole, pour in five gallons of kerosene and a match. Walk away.
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  12825. I read the title and immediately my brain played the audio of a VERY British woman saying, "You are the biggest laser. Goodbye." Yes, I know, it's a major mangling of what she actually says, but hey, this is MY brain.
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  12826. Police are TRAINED to lie. Lie to get us to stop and talk to them. Lie to be able to write fines. Lie to get us to admit to crimes. Lie about when they harm or kill people. - Should we be surprised when they lie under oath in court, lie about stealing from their own evidence room, lie to be able to steal from the people (a.k.a. civil asset forfeiture)...
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  12827. Just like people running unopposed, I never vote for judges or sheriffs. Well, there was one exception, when I voted AGAINST an incumbent sheriff who had been screwing with friends and family, power-tripping on no-context traffic stops, doing a full emptying of their cars on the roadside in the rain and then leaving them to pack it all up with no ticket issued, and various other events. Even cops he worked with campaigned against him.
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  12828. One of the first things I learned sitting in the back of a court room was how un-TV-like it was. There was no dramatic surprise testimony, no suddenly appearing witness, no shouting (other than one guy who didn't want to come out of holding or was still ripping on his chemicals of choice). It was more like watching a riveting checkers tournament. "First call for John Doe. - John Doe? - John Doe is not present Your Honor." and the file goes on the second call pile."
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  12829. Delicious irony that the Blues Clues Pride song uses the music from a Civil War era drinking song "Johnny Fill Up the Bowl" that was very popular with the Confederates, which became "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" about hoping the composer's sister who was awaiting the safe return of her fiancé from that same war, which then became the Noah-linked song "The Animals Went In Two by Two".
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  12830. 2:20:51 "Why do you have a flag? Simple. If you don't have a flag, you can't be a country. I didn't make the rule, Eddie Izzard did.
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  12831.  @FreebirthBoccara  an EMT basic is 3-11 weeks. A paramedic has about the equivalent of a 2-year associates degree. If you are served by an ambulance crew that is only EMTs without a paramedic, there are problems. EMTs and paramedics have the ability to call hospitals for information support in unusual situations. The ambulance crew needs only to keep you alive for transport to better equipped and better staffed lifesaving personnel at a hospital. - Also, when an ambulance shows up, the person they are showing up for (if conscious) can refuse treatment and transport with a simple signature.
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  12832.  @BlackJackOfAllTrades  And the problem of frequent electrical outages is an indicator that we need better infrastructure maintenance, not more gas. I make a point of calling in any spot I see where a tree is falling/fallen and risking damage to the lines. I do this because that potential outage, though miles from where I live, may end up causing me to lose electricity, or at the very least tie up crews fixing that when they could be doing other work. Better to clear that hazard BEFORE the wire fails.
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  12833.  @tylerpeterson4726  I would guess WAY out in the boonies, or in the 1940's
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  12834. If I am not supposed to put anything valuable in a storage unit, then why would I store the crap that belongs in a dumpster?
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  12835. "Mom, what do you think this is?" 1) a crime. 2) dereliction of parental responsibility 3) a generational moral failure. 4) all of the above
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  12836. Hey, let's test the cash in the pockets and wallets of cops and DEA agents for drug residue and start arresting them for positive results!
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  12837. Is Ukraine more a tea culture or a coffee culture?
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  12838.  @esar0566  Thank you for your response, fellow tea drinker!
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  12839.  @TheGamer2001  I developed a liking for tea because even the smell of coffee repulses me.
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  12840.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  No. The position of a spokesperson who simultaneously says something is factual AND that they need to gather more information to say for sure what that fact is, is what I was criticizing.
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  12841. You list a few things we can own in the realm of weapons under the law. But the ATF can just, on a whim, whip up a regulation and turn you into a criminal.
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  12842. Who can afford to buy tobacco products anymore? A pack is $9.08 on average here in Massachusetts.
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  12843. It may take violence, unfortunately.
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  12844. I used to think those light gathering lenses (particularly the on on the motion camera) were lights or reusable flash devices. This was so cool to learn!
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  12845. "...or any other action which causes others to stop." So, don't puke! No matter how sick or drunk you are, don't you DARE puke, for someone might have to stop to avoid the mess! Don't pass out! (see above) Don't get knocked down or out by a mugging! (see above) Don't die - your next-of-kin may be held in violation by proxy.
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  12846.  @stvcolwill  I just reread that pesky 1st Amendment to the US Constitution. STILL didn't see anything about permits.
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  12847. The fines need to be asset-adjusted like some European countries' drunk driving penalties. Your net worth in the thousands? Your fine is a couple hundred. Your net worth in the billions? Hand over tens of millions.
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  12848. I saw the thumbnail in a blink and thought it was an arson on a gasoline car. Then I wondered if Louis had just charged his bike in the trunk...
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  12849. Loving the layer of alliterations! Luxurious!
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  12850. My gripes: Not enough of the rioters (and looters) are dying in gruesome accidents. And that artery in Trump's brain is WAY overdue in bursting!
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  12851. Civil asset forfeiture is robbery under the disguise of law. It is a corrupt and corrupting activity, enriching those who are involved on the seizing side. - And the bull** of having to go to court at YOUR expense to prove the innocence of money and property, when there was NO crime even charged, never mind a conviction... It makes armed revolution seem a bit more rational.
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  12852.  @nomore-constipation  Your HOA has been taken over by petty tyrants. That happens much more often than not, and is why so many people avoid HOAs like the bubonic plague.
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  12853. The sleeve only potentially slows the temperature reading as the sleeve also has to be brought to temperature.
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  12854.  @ickster23  For example, the last 41 days.
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  12855. Dick Wolf is likely NOT the dickwolf.
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  12856. "I wan know who you is!" I'm a person with a better vocabulary and grammar than you?
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  12857. This outage also caused metered parking to be free in Boston, MA for much of the day.
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  12858.  @jacksmith2315  Double nuts has been said so much in this discussion that it has simultaneously lost all meaning AND become an innuendo.
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  12859. How is that working for you down there in Florida? Oh, right. Hospitalizations higher than at the peak of Covid last year. Delta variant spreading fastest in the US. More confirmed cases than any other US state last month. More deaths than any other US state last month. - To steal from The Late Show, if Florida was another country, travel to the US from there would be banned right now.
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  12860.  @ferror18  I have had no overwhelming issues with USPS, though I do not ship as a business. That said, the USPS, UPS, FedEx, Charlie's Package Service, etc. are all made up of people. Some of whom have bad days and take it out on their jobs, and some who are complete and utter shits. But there are people who care about doing their job well, and those people need to be noticed and commended while the others are pushed out.
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  12861. Bare hands? No gloves at all? O-ho! The GLOVES are equipment. You're welcome lawyers.
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  12862. A lot of times on the highway I will find myself shouting (uselessly at 65 MPH) "PICK A LANE!" Nice to find out where the lanes came from.
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  12863.  @mountain_climbing  If your foe is actively jamming against drones, you send a HARM missile (or similarly functioning ground-launched munitions) their way. Decision time!
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  12864. Looks like it's time to keep an eye out for flying sows and boars.
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  12865. Especially the Republicans. Damned (hateful-) Christianity groomers!
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  12866. It is a shame the Nissan is so broken, the owner keeps the thing clean, and thus seems to care about their car that they so recently bought. Imagine if Florida had a lemon law like the one we have in Massachusetts. The owner would have a decent possibility of redress.
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  12867.  @reatilekoketsomolatlhegi1068  A credit union, based on how rarely they show up in negative news stories.
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  12868. The arms corporations are the real winners.
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  12869. A tow driver not knowing where to hook up to a new kind of car would be excusable in the 20th century. But today, with smart phones and in-cab radios to a central dispatch, the internet is always available to look that stuff up. - Of course, that would require the driver and company to care, and the law to provide recourse for the owner when care is not taken. And "we the people" don't have the lobbyist budget that businesses and industries do.
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  12870. First US Army Group, or Fusag was a very huge and detailed fake army. The inflatable and mock-up vehicle were periodically moved, radio operators kept up transmissions appropriate for that number of troops, paperwork was filed, double-agents were fed details to get them to report the FUSAG to Germany, and they publicly put Patton in command.
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  12871. It IS constant, for the specific conditions in which you are measuring the speed. In a vacuum not near massive gravity? constant there, every time you measure it. Through a piece of glass on the surface of a massive rocky planet? constant there, every time you measure it.
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  12872. Amber Heard, Chloe Dykstra, Erin (Cardin) Titus... Those three come to mind whenever I hear the "Always believe women!" slogan. Um. No. People do, in fact, lie. And every time a woman lies about abuse, it hurts the ability of REAL victims of abuse to be believed and helped.
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  12873. Where were the corporations when the bill was proposed and being voted on? Oh, right, silent, letting their purchased politicians do the job they were hired to do... - But now they "put out a statement," which is the absolute WEAKEST protest possible.
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  12874. And wait until that tax bill comes in. Unemployment is taxable income, but taxes are not withheld. Even with the $10,200 exclusion on the federal level, that tax owed can wreck a person's/family's financial health unless they have planned ahead by NOT spending that "sweet incentive" money to save it away for taxes.
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  12875. Shiny is a fine word to mean well done or good. People who don't grok that have a stick up their nethers, dong ma?
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  12876.  @KaiHenningsen  Settle down, Giorgio.
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  12877. And yet LG is hiding their forced arbitration agreement on the shipping box for the refrigerator that most buyers never see. The box is not on the sales floor, and the box is usually removed from the refrigerator by the delivery crew and they haul that box away.
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  12878. It is so cool to have a friend who will do a build montage with you.
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  12879.  @franciscampagna2711  At least there would have been case precedent. From a settlement, the law does not change.
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  12880. "Mission accomplished, all objectives complete, the troops will be home by Christmas, peace for our time..."
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  12881. Imagine how many people are still alive because this judge is not a cop with a firearm?
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  12882. People complaining about you using the camera don't need to watch you using the camera. Just like the right-wing snowflakes upset at hearing about slavery at Monticello don't need to GO to Monticello.
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  12883. The Army CID's basis of evidence is almost the exact opposite of securing witness testimony. Normal witness testimony: I talked to John Doe on February 33rd, ten years ago. - Police "Aha! John Doe was conclusively there!" This instance: I don't remember who I talked to on February 33rd, ten years ago. - CID, "Aha! John Doe was conclusively NOT there!" - And from THAT foundation of sand, the CID built a tower of bad cases.
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  12884. Sometimes you need to stop and eat the roses. - Zen Bull, from a Far Side cartoon.
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  12885. We 'could' apply drawing and quartering to a few of the scammers... as a warning. Barbaric? Overreaction? Sure.
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  12886.  @TheRealCheckmate  I agree on canned peas. At best they are only good for making chicken or turkey soup. Or in-a-pinch baby food. - Canned beets are my go-to camping food. I bring mustard to season them with. Okay, I heard someone in the back say, "Blech!" but hear me out. Vinegar is good on beets. Mustard is made with vinegar. Also, yellow on red is visually appealing.
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  12887. You say that now, but when lawmakers see how this works and start making laws restricting thing YOU want to do?
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  12888.  @JanineBain-op8ec  Who will be his Medvedev? Musk? Johnson?
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  12889. @ Ah. Wait and see. Always a good tactic when there is a malignant cancer... Sheesh.
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  12890. @ It's almost like you're using the language, but your words mean nothing.
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  12891. Have you read about what AG Paxton is doing in Texas? Sending police out to raid peoples' homes over evidence free accusations that they are engaged in voting fraud. The cops perform "search everywhere" warrants, take phones and computers, and leave people to clean up the mess. And mysteriously, many (perhaps most?) of them are brown and Democratic. Shocker, huh?
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  12892. The result of this lawsuit may not be the intended increase in quality of inspections. It is more likely it will just result in the employment of lawyers to write customer contracts that will better protect the corporations and their employees from liability for doing an incomplete job.
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  12893. Exactly! "Sorry, your honor/congressperson/senator, I feel that this luxury car and your vacation home are the proceeds of crime. Here is your receipt. Don't be here in half an hour or I'll have to arrest you for loitering and vagrancy."
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  12894. Can you be more specific? And is it REALLY "Biden's" ATF, or is it just more of the ATF being the ATF we all know and hate?
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  12895. Oh my gosh! Loved that dramatic rodent clip.
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  12896. The condition of the tracks being known by locals, and almost definitely felt by engineers, makes this an avoidable incident. But I guess it's better to pump for profits for stockholders than to put money into pre-emptive repairs?
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  12897. Seeing the reason for putting the new tensioner on twice, I think the belt might be able to be changed without taking off the tensioner, if there is enough clearance to finagle the belt around the bottom pulley after passing it through the gap in the tensioner arm.
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  12898.  @theJerkson  Yeah, he mentioned it in the video. I commented before he got to that part. - However, I did watch the whole video other than the ad segment.
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  12899. I got an iPhone ad in with this video, because apparently Apple thinks we' don't remember what they did to Jon.
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  12900. I gotta say, that transmission fluid LOOKS delicious!
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  12901. I don't think it is weird to not have a bug expressway cut through my front door.
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  12902. I also recall seeing something about VAWT-style helical designs flipped to a horizontal axis for mounting to the edges of tall city buildings to take advantage of rising hot air.
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  12903. Back in the pile!
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  12904. This assumes that someone there knows how to disassemble it, and that it is not seized together or even intentionally welded together.
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  12905.  @jimwilloughby  Another factor is that impeachment requires the President to have committed "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." It will be a steep hill to climb in this political and judicial environment to attribute one or more of Emperor Trump's orders into a fitting charge.
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  12906. Oddly enough, when I cleaned my trackball with water, soap and water, or alcohol, it bound up MORE. My new technique is a damp wipe and then roll it around in a t-shirt to pick up a tiny bit or dust or cloth particulates, that seems to help the ball glide better. edit: a CLEAN facial tissue also works. Anything with light lint.
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  12907. And then there were the moronic ideas of DIVX and Flexplay/EZ-D (which I think you covered in a previous video?)
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  12908. The first Karentervention that needs to happen is actually enforcing the laws on the books about abuse of the 911 system. When fines start being handed out for frivolous use of Emergency calls, then we can start to address the problems of ignorance, racism, self-entitlement and genuine mental illness.
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  12909. @Zoila Bartoletti PhD Nice video. I think there were some words on the screen though.
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  12910.  @davidtherwhanger6795  In Massachusetts, the department in question can send a cop to represent all traffic cases for cops from that department, and often simply read the relevant officer's notes into record for the judge-magistrate in traffic court. In criminal and civil (non-ticket) cases the actual cop involved is required to appear, in case they are called to testify.
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  12911. Happens every day to those of us in the serf class.
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  12912.  @Jean-Jacques-y9l  Do we SEE the inside of the house? It is possible for a house to simultaneously be empty AND trashed - broken walls and ceilings, wires and pipes torn out for scrap value, floors water damaged, etc.
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  12913. The AT-4 is ancient? The last/only shoulder-launched anti-armor weapon I trained on was the 66mm M-72 LAW. I also remember that we were trained to stomp on the tube if we had to leave it behind, because (to use the PC term) "asymmetric opposition forces" could use the tube to make grenade traps. I think I am old.
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  12914. How the PASTA can the people "in the majority" stage a coup? They're already "in charge"!
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  12915.  @joycelynsenaadjei-klu1902  Humans. Americans are just the puppy you want to kick today.
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  12916. My current car has TPMS but I didn't even know it for the first six years because I just monitored the pressure myself, particularly at the start and end of the New England winters. I only found out the sensors even worked when I had a road debris flat happen. - I guess I am too old for these new-fangled electronic doo-hickies?
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  12917. Same planet is too close for me.
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  12918. Only 12 breakers? That is not 200 amp. And where is the main breaker? You know, the one that removes power from the panel to let your electrician go home alive at the end of the day? - - - 4 man-days to demo a suspended ceiling? Is the worker in a wheelchair? In general, the man-hour listings are correct for Florida worker speed, but in the Northeast, people actually move.
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  12919.  @lupavo1738  That's good to hear. I've only ever had vehicles with lug nuts and not lug bolts. Even my VW had lug nuts, but it was a 1974 Beetle.
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  12920.    Companies selling suits are getting hammered with a lack of business in this stay-at-home era, as are blue jeans makers. The places that used to make suits for Brooks Brothers have either closed, or are staving off closing by converting to making PPE.
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  12921. I have many times remembered to get gas when it was raining, I think it is because turning on the wipers brings the eyes to the dash, where I notice the gas gauge hovering just over E.
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  12922. If it happens, wash the really muddy customer, and treat them all well. You never know who will give you the boon you need to get free.
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  12923.  @awakenotwoke1973  Indeed. Even if the replaceable battery chamber is not waterproof, the device COULD be designed so that water cannot get further into the enclosure.
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  12924. Ticket revenue and/or that adrenaline rush of being able to rough up and handcuff a brown person. Heck of a drug...
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  12925. So, you use removable stickers, and the idiot went straight to Goo-Gone? No wonder it took him so long, Goo-Gone plus some removable adhesives = goopy, sticky, smeared mess.
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  12926. This guy has had more rallies than some former corporal.
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  12927. Resignations should not be the "get out of firing free" card with law enforcement. edit: Full and complete investigation, and the law applied wherever the facts lead.
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  12928. Better than getting ripped off at a Buy Here Pay Here.
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  12929. Is drawing and quartering available?
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  12930. In rural and suburban areas, many roads are plowed by people with private or company vehicles. The one thing making them "professional" plow operators is that they carry insurance for that plowing activity, and the municipality pays them to be plowing. Their actual skill level and experience is quite variable. - I have even seen drivers of town plows who seem far less qualified to do the job than the guy who is only 'allowed' to do driveways.
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  12931.  @silverXnoise  Genocide may be a step too far, but mass firings are definitely in order.
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  12932.  @connormcclenny9681  Retroactively Amending Purchase Enhancements?
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  12933. Wow. This one went from "it looks abandoned" to "nice looking home"
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  12934. $600 million divided by 100,000 people is only $6,000 each. How would that amount compensate for the loss of a home?
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  12935. "And the lord said unto them, 'Bring thee a prostitute to the theater in case the performance is not able to hold your attention.' And the people said unto the lord, 'is this a crank call?'"
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  12936.  @edennis8578  I have what has been called "no live credit" on my credit ratings. Why? Because I have not had a credit card or financed anything in about two decades. It makes it a bit... 'difficult' when applying for apartments. Fortunately, good landlords will look at income and bill payment patterns when there is no live credit.
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  12937.  @JoelsterG4k  It reminds me of the show Survivorman, where he often ended up walking the same path three times. Once on camera, once to go GET the camera, then a third time to return to where he dragged his gear on the first camera run.
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  12938. I use dogpile
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  12939. Nah, nah. The phrase "cry fir peace" is CLEARLY about a move to get Christians to stop cutting down evergreens to celebrate the consumerism associated with the birth of a simple prophet. And the shape on the patch is obviously a poor rendition of a chunk-heel shoe, in support of women of all types who are part of the anti-tree-chopping movement.
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  12940. Ray adventures with sunroofs have taught me that I don't want a sunroof.
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  12941. I'm sure you can give the password for your YouTube account to some Chinese company that will turn off the mid-roll ads on all of your videos and DEFINITELY not take over your channel to sell bitcoins...
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  12942. 11:00 is the sensuous syndrome. "Sensuous in there, why not change all those other parts?"
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  12943. For the hookup, I once had to help in a similar situation. Four healthy dudes standing on the rear bumper lowered the ball just enough to get under the hitch.
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  12944. British Longhairs have been high maintenance since King George III set the standard.
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  12945. Louis rages, Oreo creeps onto his lap as if to say, "Yeah, yeah. PET ME!"
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  12946. If I had a nickel for every time TODAY the "Lucy yanking away the football" thing was mentioned in a discussion about politics... Well, I'd have two nickels. But it's weird that it happened twice.
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  12947. My bodily waste is solid. What cabinet position is it perfect for?
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  12948. For some people, it is easier to get faked documents to meet the RealID requirements. My brother was born in Phoenix AZ during a time when birth records were stored by the hospital of birth. They have since been centralized, but the combination of numerous different hospitals' filing systems didn't help things. Then the fun part. The State of Arizona refused to mail him a notarized copy (as required for the RealID) of his birth certificate. After days of sitting on hold and getting bounced to various departments, he was FINALLY told that he could get a notarized copy, but he would have to show up in person. He lives in Massachusetts. - I'm not sure which supervisors had to be linked in a party line with Massachusetts departments, but it was eventually sorted out.
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  12949. You can ask to see the ServSafe certification for the chef, as well as ask to see any allergen training certification they carry. At least, that's how the regulations are in Massachusetts.
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  12950.  @boldCactuslad  The scariest chiropractors are the ones with the "one treatment fixes all" and the ones who work without getting x-rays first. Sometimes they are the same idiot.
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  12951. It would depend a lot on what they were in for.
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  12952. This one earns a spot in the "successful failure" column.
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  12953. "How to avoid squeaky floors." - Nice try, but I can easily find numerous YouTube videos of builders sharing their successful methods.
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  12954. The law at question in this case is dumb. An affair takes (at least) two consenting people to occur. Is the spouse (or ex-spouse) of the plaintiff also a defendant? If not, then the whole law is broken.
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  12955.  @crayonconsumer69  Yeah, low-grade remake with Chris Hemsworth in the lead. From 2012. In the remake the combined Soviet/South American/Cuban invaders are replaced by NORKS (North Koreans). Because North Korea somehow has the population and airlift capacity to invade the continental US all on their own? And it was the North Koreans after the filmmakers knuckled to pressure to change the script from the Chinese being the aggressors. Because kowtowing to China has been the modus operandi in Hollywood for decades now.
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  12956. Heard about this on Steve Lehto's channel earlier (Steve and Louis have an amazing amount of subject matter overlap). It blew my mind that a judge would even hear this matter in an At-Will Employment state.
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  12957. I imagine it depends on a number of factors. Some I can think of: comparative price, parts availability, and condition of the part that could be rebuilt.
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  12958. If Koala doesn't work, I offer you the word "dumbfuckery". It is a neighbor of "jackassery" but the latter is more often associated with intoxication, drugs, and/or property damage
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  12959. Have fun in Taxachusetts, 'ya strap hangah'!
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  12960.  @bbirda1287  This gave me a joyful chuckle!
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  12961.  @SparkyWrench  Link to the Zelda...
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  12962.  @kevinwolf959  I can see that. So yes, a class action streamlines the process, but in return, even in a win, the case members get a pittance, which is my main gripe.
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  12963.  @twm1452  Yep, I admit it. I jaywalked 25 years ago. I exceeded the posted speed limit last month. I played Pink Floyd a bit too loud after my town's "quiet hours" last week.
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  12964. Best question for Taco Bell's AMA: "Have you lost your damn minds?"
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  12965. Oh, I'm sure someone is eagerly waiting to sign a piece of paper guaranteeing "peace in our time".
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  12966. I am waiting for police to start telling victims of these thefts that "There is nothing we can do, it's a civil matter."
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  12967. I once went through eight ez-outs (snap, snap, snap...) on one broken bolt on an excavator and ended up drilling out the bolt to chisel out the threads anyway.
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  12968. I have asthma and COPD and I wear a mask when around others or in a building not my home. How weak are this guy's lungs that he can't breathe through a simple mask? If this is a real issue, you should be on constant oxygen. which you can do UNDER a mask.
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  12969. The nine second video CLEARLY has a metal-on-metal sound. That is NOT "normal" brake sound on ANY motor vehicle. - If I bought a $2,000 used car, I would not expect that level of incompetence, never mine a brand-new car costing nearly $60,000! This is a clear lemon-law case.
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  12970.  @CrazyRFGuy  HOA of one!
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  12971. Debbie Does Destruction
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  12972. If the key is in the ignition (and in many places apparently even if they are in your possession or in a place you can find them) you are operating that vehicle impaired.
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  12973. I hope your visit was not with Dr. Acula!!! - My only gripe whit Steve's encounter is that he told the cop where he was coming from. That is none of the cop's business and has no bearing on his driving. Even more so because it was a medical appointment. - But that is my objective opinion.
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  12974. A year for letting a teen child babysit? On that basis, my mother would STILL be serving time, and she's been dead for over decade.
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  12975. If these traitors were the least bit smart, they would have kept quiet about even their opinions on their favorite soup until the day they enacted their election denialism.
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  12976.  @kamifuujin  Don't fall for the moving goalposts fallacy.
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  12977. I'd feel safe compressing a strut spring... if the compressing tool was wrapped in a T-34.
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  12978.  @MrPeaceandLiberty  You are really good at stringing together the top selling paranoia phrases, but you missed "deep state conspiracy" and "shadow government".
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  12979. Sorry to hear about the theft.
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  12980. Ah, an OPINION piece. Remember that opinions are like anuses. Every human has one, and very few people care about yours*. - *[In the above statement, 'yours' is used for the ease of reading, and is not aimed at Louis or any other person reading the above comment.]
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  12981. This hits true to the Apple methodology.
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  12982.  @robotmunkee  Why concentrate on the lies/misinformation of Johnny Harris? Because of his viewership numbers. If Jane Doe had the exact same content in a video, but had a viewership of a dozen or so, that is a small pool of people being given wrong information. With millions of people being given wrong information, the spread by that large number of people can really turn the soup to sewage.
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  12983. A complicating variable is the different masses of the vehicles in each direction. No LEM on the return trip.
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  12984. Hey, they got their orders via the internet, their bad information via the internet, their organization plans via the internet, why not their legal advice?
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  12985. Makes sense given that bulldozers push, not lift. edit: just got to that part of the video. Those are excavators and front-end loaders. Not bulldozers. And no wonder Muslims in India are ticked off and getting violent.
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  12986. "Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause of the leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P."
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  12987. Some judges would read a release that simply reads, "The undersigned is agreeing to the possibility that they will be punched in the face by the contract holder some time in the next three days, and swears to hold the puncher harmless." and decide that the person who signed can still sue for being punched in the face in that three day period. - And some lawyers would decide that simple agreement requires a seventeen page contract to pad the billable hours.
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  12988.  @kelf114  Bleah!!!
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  12989.  @nancy4don  But that's also a feature for when you accidentally lock your keys inside.
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  12990.  @joeennis2571  I did not make my previous post clear. The sticker is placed near the middle-left of the rear window. And I learned to call the mirror attached to the windshield the rear-view mirror, while the one(s) attached to the door(s) we call side-view mirrors. And yes, it is not lost on me that all of those mirrors provide a view to the rear, and none to the side. (/shrug)
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  12991.  @josephrankin9406  That is very true. But this sub-discussion was about cars abandoned at the side of the road. Even though the video was not.
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  12992. A note for the people tepid on this issue: If you were detained by ICE today, how would you be able to prove your citizenship? The man in the story had documentation because he was naturalized, but I can say as a natural-born American, I have close to squat PROVING my citizenship. Aside from a birth certificate and social security card I have stored away, most of my 'evidence' is people who have known me my whole life. Does anyone really think ICE would accept testimonials when they ignore passports?
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  12993. The current administration is not using a "grand strategy". They are using hurt feelings and tantrums to build bad decisions. Any apologist points to the contrary are not selling.
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  12994. And sometimes even with all of the service done at all of the recommended intervals, you get an engine that just commits self-un-aliving. It could be a design issue, a manufacturing defect, and assembly screw-up, bad metallurgy (see the Subaru block Ray had to keep replacing threads in), bad quality control on a batch of oil, the computer dies and out of loneliness takes the engine with it, road hazard, aggressive driving...
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  12995. It's easier to just steal phones from people in a crowded environment where they are not paying much attention, and you can fade into the crowd after the snatch. Like a subway or el train platform or in line outside a theater or night club. Grab the phone(s) and stash them quickly in a metallized bag until you can get them into your faraday cage workshop and disassemble them.
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  12996. A note to BC residents: The "we'll roll it out in two years" is not because they want to iron out any kinks in the law, but because they want you to forget.
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  12997.  @ninjalectualx  How is that different that Joe's Sub Shop? Did not Joe assemble your sub according to your order? Did not Joe put the sub in a wrapper and tape it shut, then hand it to you in exchange for payment? - Now how about we tip the cashier at the grocery store? The cop who directs traffic away from a construction site? A judge when they make a ruling (for or against you) in a court case? An airline pilot who manages not to end your flight in a mangled fireball of aluminum and jet fuel on the side of a mountain? - Or maybe we are already paying those jobs appropriate to the value they add to their company/organization, and restaurants need to step up and evolve, or go the way of the dinosaur.
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  12998. At around 30 minutes, and looking back at around 7 minutes, this freshly unearthed sidewalk kind of shows up how at least come of the other yards on that side of the street are in need of pedway archaeology.
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  12999.  @bulabulable  Pedantry is a low form of debate.
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  13000. By North Carolina's official position, me finding the lot markers (placed by the town/county) around a client's yard and running a string to see where I would be legal to put up a fence or hedge would get me hit with fines. Heck, they'd probably try it if I just 'eyeballed' the line between those established markers. - This is what happens when keeping a civil service job and that department's budget matters more than DOING the job.
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  13001. I have a correction on the criticism of Data's uniform. The court is a Starfleet court, he/it is a Starfleet officer being represented by, prosecuted by, and sought for parts by, Starfleet officers in a Starfleet facility. If I replace all instances of Starfleet above with the words United States Navy, you can see that his uniform is appropriate. Though, a point for Legal Eagle, it should have been DRESS uniforms all around (but it was probably not in the show's budget at that time.).
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  13002. Maybe we need to set a date on the calendar called, "F-it, we tried Day". Pick a day a month or two out, and on that day tell the American public what the county-by-county vaccination percentages are, and that we give up. From that day forward ICU use for Covid-19 for the unvaccinated is banned. From that day forward hospitals and insurance companies can choose to deny service to unvaccinated people who test positive for Covid-19. Traffic will ease up, and housing prices may come down once we dispose of the willfully ignorant. Sure we may need mass graves to save on burial costs and granite slabs, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make. - I say this knowing I have a very good friend who is anti-vax and getting his information from extreme-right news sources. I mean far right of Fox!
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  13003. A smart gas station operator in those states might post signs on their pumps reading something like, "By purchasing fuel at this business, you agree to waive and hold harmless the owner, operator and employees of this business for all incidents occurring from the unlawful use of the fuel or any motor vehicle, machinery, and/or into which it is dispensed."
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  13004. "There was an earthquake!" - There are an average of 55 earthquakes per day on the planet Earth.
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  13005. Given that our two-party, money-driven system has us choosing between a lying dictator wanna-be and a touchy-feely uncle, I am willing to choose the touchy-feely uncle. - Ranked choice voting, multiple parties, lose the Electoral College, and either lose the primaries or condense them into one month (rotating which states go first). - - Once I learned about who Che Guevara was and what he did, I made it my mission to tell those facts to every fellow college student I saw wearing the shirt or displaying his picture. I upset a lot of people who thought they were being ironically cool. The 1980's were fun times.
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  13006.  @mariosaccoccio1688  Even then, it is in your subjective past. Prophets get to have future experiences.
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  13007.  ckp8636  Oh, I have tears. Tears of laughter at Orange Donnie's cult.
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  13008. When I got divorced, the custodianship of our two cats was not even a question. I was FAR more responsible, having always fed and cleaned up after them. But then most of our divorce was amicable, the only conflict being who got a (cheap) violin.
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  13009.  @cybertrekker4274  I'll pay for a subscription to something that has continually new content, like a newspaper or magazine (or the website versions thereof). But never for the use of a physical object I bought.
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  13010. But you WILL get a virus! A virus called "I have more money left over -itis"!
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  13011. That quarantine app sounds like something Stalin would have wanted access to. edit: To be clear, I am for the purpose of a quarantine, but quarantines don't work when the refusal rate is too high. And that is why this has been going on for a year and a half already. It has been well demonstrated that those quarantines will not work BECAUSE of the idiots and the selfish. - (/angry_rant) Money and government effort might be better spent developing an "Omega Variant" that targets only the unvaccinated with a high R naught and a mortality rate that would make Ebola jealous. Then we could kill off the stupid, and reset the rising path of our various civilizations. (/end angry_rant)
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  13012.  @randyriegel8553  I was able to buy a shotgun for a great price because a guy I knew had it in his car when he was leaving a bar drunk. He lost his license to drive AND his FID. - When I worked overnights at a convenience store I reported a drunk driver who had come in weaving and staggering to buy cigarettes. About a week later and for about a year and a half I saw him bicycling to work as I was driving home. I figure I potentially saved someone, and I hope the guy was able to stay sober once he got his license back. He wasn't a bad guy when he was sober.
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  13013. If cops really cared about their reputation, about getting respected, they would throw their bad cops out on their butts to face the consequences of their actions.
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  13014. Land of the free, home of the Whopper!
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  13015.  @c11umw  Vague forms in shadows moving in indistinct backgrounds, whispering in tongues, then big Michael Bay explosion, roll credits.
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  13016. The strangest rocket fuel I've seen launch is salami on a Mythbusters episode.
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  13017. My preferred answers. "Back that way" and "Forward that way"
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  13018. That truck has serious "rode hard and put away wet" energy. Good to see the gradual (partial, so far) rehabbing of that abused beast.
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  13019.  @millomweb  Wildly frightful.
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  13020. 1/3? You are an optimist!
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  13021. Every time I have read or heard "touched the sun" my brain prompts me with "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" an original Star Trek episode (season 3, episode 8).
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  13022. Sometimes, the blue-tip wrench is the only tool that will work.
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  13023. I wonder how much of the limitations of the Mythbusters' test was due to permitting and insurance company limitations?
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  13024. @Paul Thiessen Cluster shot and chain shot?
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  13025. @Paul Thiessen True, but the smaller shot might increase odds of hitting people below-decks on thinner-hulled ships that don't need full-sized sold shot? Kind of like how shotgun bird hunters don't use deer slugs or discarding sabot.
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  13026. Citizens need to stop voting for their governments like it's a popularity contest. Would you choose a heart surgeon based on their Instagram numbers? A pilot for their flight across the ocean based on "America's Hottest Pilots"? Then why would you pick the people who will write and enforce the laws in your life based on their television presence or album sales?
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  13027. Guilty on the facts, but many live in a dimension of fear and feelings.
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  13028. Regarding nuclear power: Every time a technician takes vacation, they should put up a sign, "Gone Fission".
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  13029. I've never before seen a house where you could clean out the gutters (eaves droughts) while sitting in a lawn chair.
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  13030. I'm even happier that I gave up flying at the end of the last century. Trains or driving are the only ways for me, Though I do most of my travel via the internet with documentaries about interesting places.
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  13031. I recall the old days with mechanical (no power assist) rack and pinion steering, and a friend's car that had nearly 30 degrees of play in the steering wheel. Fun times!
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  13032. @Zoila Bartoletti PhD You are really pushing that video. Are you getting the ad revenue from it? Is the video of all the beach models legally used?
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  13033.  @cgi2002  I don't make threats like that. I merely state that should something of the like happen, things could possibly get "interesting".
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  13034. I can no longer hear the word Galileo with my brain singing "figaro!"
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  13035. The fun thing is, if the fence is found by surveys to be on your property, you can paint BOTH sides! Paint the side facing them with scenes of urban blight. Bring in a bunch of taggers and tell them the fence is free real estate.
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  13036.  @NYKevin100  I once went to a local restaurant that advertised that they cooked gluten-free. They also had a good selection of vegan options, and not just vegetable sides. I am neither vegan nor gluten intolerant myself, but I like to try out various restaurants. I ended up never going back because he used balsamic vinegar in at least 3/4 of the items on the menu, and I really hate the taste of balsamic vinegar.
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  13037. The reason I would not buy a half-a-house (or quarter-of-a-house) is because you have NO control over the fire, flood or filth of the other people you share walls with. - I hate to break it to Erica, that 202 address is three "houses/apartments" in a house. Look at the mailboxes. They just share a common entrance. Actually, in Massachusetts cities, a LOT of multi-story houses have long since been subdivided into several apartments to increase population density and the rent gained from a single lot. In Worcester, a lot of properties have three to four times more apartments than off-street parking spots. I looked at a place in one neighborhood in Worcester with six units for two parking spots, and people who lived in the building said they would sometimes have to park as much as half a mile away if their timing was off, and sometimes farther in the winter.
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  13038. Who knew the speed bump in the parking lot was one of the diagnostic tools?
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  13039.  @panbrood  Some uses of a desk microscope are not on flat objects.
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  13040. Dear Newark, GOOGLE! Sweet Lord of Pasta you're being idiots. Sincerely, Americans who had a decent education.
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  13041. "If you sign something and submit it to a court, you're responsible for the content." - So, like if you signed a document saying that there were no more of a certain thing anywhere on the premises of your client's property?
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  13042. He doesn't deserve his paycheck. He deserves 110% of his paycheck.
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  13043. Does this decision mean the car no longer has to attend scheduled parole meetings?
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  13044. I would imagine the plants, both the floating and the submerged, help hide the fish from feline and avian predators.
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  13045.  @dragontoothless4351  The state has gotta get their money!
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  13046.  @coreyrutherford7231  Um... Okay, nevermind. Pasta for all, R'amen.
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  13047. "Sex work is real work." Okay, sure, but so is office work, construction trades, contract killing, being a military contractor, spying against your home country... Something being real work doesn't abrogate your responsibility for how your work impacts those in your family and life.
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  13048.  @Freddie118  And phalanges (fingers).
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  13049. Ray's reaction to the wire nut reminded me of the "NO WIRE COATHANGERS!" scene in the movie Mommy Dearest.
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  13050. Well, they COULD have their bail hearing in a hurry, if they were unwise enough to waive representation.
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  13051. Racism and greed, often. An HOA or "gated community" keeps out the "undesirables" by both pricing them out of ownership and creating an environment where they are ostracized and fined out of the neighborhood. The original gated communities were a fixture of redlining, the practice of blocking non-white people from being able to get loans for homes in certain neighborhoods to keep the places "nice". Sure, you will now find non-white people in HOAs, but they are the "good ones" who obey the rules and have enough wealth to pass as "real people".
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  13052.  @DoBrick  Might as well give up. Bean Bro will only attack, thinking that shoving a finger up another person's nose is some kind of genius debate tactic.
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  13053.  @DeitritusFillamore  So why not say that?
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  13054. Your graphic for the state of technology in voting is three interlocked gears that will not move. How apt. And a paper ballot, marked and not punched, is superior.
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  13055. Ah. So the OVER !)) bills being pushed by Republicans in nearly half the states to limit voting rights are GOOD for our democratic system? Will it really benefit Americans to make it harder to register to vote, harder to get to a place to vote, harder to vote by alternate means, and harder to stand in line to vote? Will it really benefit our democracy to impede voting on a racial basis? - Oh, what am I saying, this is the comment section of a Fox "News" video. Of course keeping non-white people from voting will help...
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  13056. Even IF he emerges unscathed or pardoned from the flurry of lawsuits and charges waiting for him, his diet will kill him. I just wish that aneurism had kicked into action about 5 years ago!
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  13057. But it WAS a Raid. Making #45 and his adherents the cockroaches.
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  13058.  @shadoedog77  The only downside to the keychain ones (we called them P-38's) was once you use them enough the hinge loosens up and that pointy bit wants to sheathe itself in your leg all the time.
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  13059. Replace fighters with maneuvering missiles using on-board computing power, and you can still have "carriers". For stealth, the missiles get radar absorptive materials, get launched by either a powered stage that separates and head out to mislead enemy sensors, or a catapult-like launch in the generally correct direction. Keep the missile a cold as possible until it reaches the moment of decision, and your enemy is already busy sensing and dealing with your direct-fire weapons.
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  13060.  @ivanolsen7966  It probably flows there much like an eddy in a river or a grotto in a water-eroded cave. You get low speed, high pressure and turbulent flow which deposits sediments and turns them into a grinding paste. Thus, the corrosion Ray noted on the intake manifold where there was no coolant channel.
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  13061. Who wants to bet that the "trade secrets" are either on-paper violations of building code, or the plans sit as evidence that the homeowner did not get the house actually built which he originally paid for?
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  13062. If they say it's a civil matter, remind them of the "civil matter" in the early 1860's.
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  13063. Everyone has their own Alamo.
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  13064. When I last did an apartment search, I used online sites, the newspaper, calls to a couple of realtors who dealt in rentals, and word of mouth. The online search was only part of the process. And I took a physical tour (I pre-studied on what the expectations are for rental property, such as smoke alarms, breaker panel access, structural solidity, etc.) and signed the paperwork in person.
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  13065. Ah, you've had that one thrown at you too?
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  13066. For CA glue and accelerator, I have moved to BSI (Bob Smith Industries). I used to use retail Super Glue, but they always seem to set in the bottle after using about half if the volume. My last BSI CA glue actually ran empty on me. Blew my mind. - That said, I HATE the smell of the spray accelerator, so I make sure to ventilate well.
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  13067. From my experience, the purpose of the M60 was to be a weapon that could be white-glove clean when you put it together, and oozing carbon by the time the armorer's hands touched it. Oh, it also sent big rounds downrange pretty well.
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  13068. Warrantied for the life of the bag?
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  13069.  @jbdragon3295  Hmm... I saw Ray air them up to 8psi.
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  13070. This move by Subaru is so "I'm taking my ball and going home, you poopy heads!"
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  13071. The self-checkout I used a couple of times at a WalMart did the weighing function of the bagging area. Well, that seems great, until you're buying some items with negligible weight. My second time using the self-checkout required three employee overrides because the items weighed less than a couple of ounces. That was my last time using self-check-out, because I also realized that using attended checkout means the store was employing someone for that function, and they give no discount for self-checkout.
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  13072. Please, by all that the FSM holds dear, don't just vote, Get educated about your choices, THEN vote. Or stay the bleep home. A dumb vote is worse than no vote at all. As supporting evidence, I give you #45.
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  13073.  @Trainwheel_Time  Well, you can attack me on fringe cases, sure. As to GPS, with the ubiquity of smart phones, a simple phone holder replaces a built-in GPS easily, and now that trip data is not stored in your car. - A touch screen to control radio and climate controls is, in the opinion of many people, actually dangerous. With no physical feedback like you get with knobs, buttons or levers, you have to take your eyes off the road and look at a screen to do something as simple as turn up the blower defogging your windshield. - When I listed heated/cooled cup holders, I was following the path of items people don't really need, not items that are connected to a computer and would be a data security risk. So yeah, you win that one, if that makes you feel better.
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  13074. The trench in the thumbnail and opening moments of the video are a great aiming reticle for air-to-ground weaponry.
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  13075. Or an Apple fan, or a fan of anything without critical thinking. People will go to great lengths of silliness to defend their buying/voting decisions instead of saying, "XYZ was the best choice at the time, but I am disappointed with that one thing."
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  13076. But Congress will not tolerate any lack of support for their Golden Calf (Israel).
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  13077. Cops are NEVER your friends. Hell, they're supposed to be our employees, and they can't even remember that most of the time.
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  13078. Yeah, when "winning" is just not losing so badly, it's hard to celebrate.
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  13079.  @marshall1157  And left socks that escape the dryer!
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  13080. And Kumail was perfect as the curator of the Payback Museum! I was equal parts outraged, laughing and remorseful.
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  13081. Exactly! I can understand "We don't accept ballots from any source received/postmarked after this date and time." but you keep counting until they are all counted.
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  13082. Jurors can't take notes, can't read the trial transcript, can't listen to a recording of the trial, can't view a video of the trial, and can't even ask questions of fact. The system is BUILT to have the case decided by 'feelings'. "I FEEL that the defendant is _____ on that charge."
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  13083. Pfft. With newer cars there's no need to check the odometer and disconnecting them won't matter either. The cars already have such invasive reach into the cars and use data, and the computers can track the distance traveled by GPS. It would be a tiny sip of the data feed the car makers are using to enhance revenue and control to report to the government on the distance the vehicle is driven in a given period of time.
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  13084.  @jjay350  As long as the response by "the authorities" to people needing deep mental and/or dependency care is a catch, charge, and release program, this will continue. It is up to the people to demand better solutions.
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  13085. I worked for a landscape designer who owned a former mansion (turned into professional offices) that was on the local historic register. When a tree fell and shattered the large-panel slate front walk one winter, he applied for a building permit to pour a new concrete walk, but they required that he put in a slate slab of the same dimensions and color as the shattered one, that cost him several thousands of dollars. At least the building's registry was only for the exterior! - Once a building is on a historical register, it is extremely difficult to impossible to get it de-listed. And a building can get listed without the involvement of, and even against the wishes of the owner of that property.
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  13086. Hey bleep-tards! The command has to ACTUALLY be lawful before the failure to obey it warrants an arrest!
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  13087.  @rosswarren436  Windows 3.1
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  13088.  @waterandafter  That's just Well Fargo "getting back" for all of the stagecoach robberies in the 19th century.
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  13089. If the government can't prove an asset is the gains of criminal activity, in court, after an arrest, then they should not get to even look at it. All of this "we're doing this to curtail criminal activity." talk is B.S. There are already laws, get off your butts and do some investigation and prosecuting.
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  13090. Oh, that's Senator Ron Johnson? I thought it was one of the actors who played a Natsi in an Indiana Jones film... after his embalming.
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  13091. I saw something like that once on an old engine that needed new rings and re-sleeved cylinders.
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  13092. Improperly cast actor? John Wayne as the Roman centurion who says, 'He truly was, the son of God." And every time I hear it, my brain adds, "... pilgrim." Ha! I typed the above before watching the video! (... pilgrim.) - But that death toll... And Lee Van Cleef? He was in so many movies I liked as a kid.
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  13093. "Halsey was an idiot" - Marko Ramius
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  13094. Nothing screws up a project like a political committee.
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  13095. That'll teach you to forget Tuna Tuesday!
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  13096. My brother gave this example/explanation. "A lot of people know how or can figure out how to find food growing in the wild, hunt animals for food, find/filter/boil water for drinking and so on. But too many people can't figure out a away to do without or replace toilet paper. So they get dumb and panic buy."
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  13097. Most/all current electric cars OTHER than Tesla have a plug that supports faster charging than what Tesla's "standard" is. Learned about this via the channel Technology Connections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZOuz_laH9I
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  13098. Also, lithium-ion batteries would be a LOT less dangerous if they weren't glued into devices, necessitating the use of tools and prying forces. So whose fault are the battery fires, eh?
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  13099. Why recycle when people who are paid pennies and have poor legal protections in the workplace can just dig up more for us? I'm sure it's a coincidence that those people doing the digging are often various shades of brown.
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  13100.  @thud9797  Sheriffs need boat payments, too, you know.
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  13101. We need to get manned missions to Mars! Hopefully in time for Mark to be a Mars Rober who can personally visit the Mars Rover he worked on.
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  13102. If he keeps up his dietary habits, his heart will experience arrest before the rest of him does.
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  13103. Oh! yes! On return, the capsule is not following a deceleration plot that is the opposite of the take-off's acceleration curve. Yes, they star and end at rest, but other than that, you would have to look at a plot of speed over time or speed over distance (both?)
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  13104. 1 year revenue seems the pendulum swinging too far to the other extreme. I would love to see a model like some country's driving infraction penalty algorithm. A percentage of annual income or total assets or some such. If more governmental fines worked that way, then undocumented worker penalties would actually hurt the companies who exploit those people. But no, what we have is a fixed fine that means a company only needs to get big enough to absorb the fines like we absorb the kinetic impact of small raindrops.
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  13105. Dislikes from the corporations are already trickling in...
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  13106. Best way to release the report? "Oops, it was accidentally leaked, but I already turned in my resignation paperwork so that's the next person's job to figure out."
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  13107. My personal story is a LOT smaller than farm equipment. I bought a used Snapper ride-on mower about 15 years ago (It was at least 15 years old when I got it) from a local guy who buys cheap and fixes power equipment up to a useable state. Within a month, the thing was not starting all the time, and if it did start, either it would not drive or the blades did not spin. He showed me where and how to disable all of the failure-point safeties (Is the key new enough, is the mower in neutral to start the blades spinning, is the seat sitting exactly right to allow the mower to engage the drive, etc.), and that mower is still running for the new owner.
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  13108. At this point in my life, if comps want to take my possessions without filing specific charges and getting a conviction, they had better just [redacted] kill me. Because depending on my mood that day, I may make the same choice against them.
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  13109. I did not know I needed a solar system of cubes until I saw one!
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  13110. Ah yes. 'Getting things done" Like removing protection on clean air and water. Like removing the Centers for Disease Control from the role of... controlling disease. Like taking children from parents seeking political asylum, then losing track of the parents of over 500 of these children. Like making America NUMBER ONE in covid infections and deaths by sheer number AND by percentage. Like breaking the law over and over and over and....
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  13111. Watching Ray for over a year has ruined another TV show for me. I was watching an early episode in some CW dreck of a show and a character was under the middle part of an SUV and stood up with "a tie rod" as a form of blackmail to be included in some road trip. 1) Where the guy was under the vehicle there are no suspension parts. 2) He had none of the tool necessary to extract a tie rod. 3) The party he brandished was brand new. 4) the part he brandished was not even the right part for that vehicle, and might not have been a tie rod at all. - I stopped watching because the show started with a promise of supernatural topics but within two episodes turned into the usual CW teen romance drama. But I might have made it to THREE episodes without all of this automotive knowledge!!!
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  13112. Just replace the whole car then, Sound logic, yes?
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  13113. The glitter is a symptom of a transmission rave. Nothing to see here, please move along.
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  13114. Smart bulbs? It's a danged light bulb. Why the ever-loving Pasta would I ever want light bulbs that require fiddling about with a smartphone? I still have these amazing things called SWITCHES! And... fingers!
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  13115. It was a simple mistake of accents. One person said "bonfire", and another heard "BOMBfire". - But sure. Instead of learning from this event, and institution safety protocols, just ban the concept entirely. That's very "zero-tolerance", and how schools handle things.
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  13116. That part about figuring out the wiring for the new pigtail! - And yesterday I had someone comment in a discussion on another channel that Ray's content is not "technical enough"...
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  13117. Typical gang "protection" activity.
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  13118.  @spankynater4242  It must be nice in your rainbow and unicorn dimension.
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  13119. Well, it is also learned at home. Just like racism and domestic abuse. Education is the biggest lever a government has to change minds, for good or ill (cough, Florida/Alabama/Texas/...).
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  13120.  @ShawnODoherty  You know, in the last ten or more years, I have ONLY seen those things on cans of alcohol. And even then, not that often. cans of soda and most beer are no in cardboard cases or six-packs. At least where I live?
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  13121. "These gag orders are whack!" _Suity McTanface, Newsmax talking head and teen wannabe. - Seriously. At least PRETEND to be an adult and a journalist!
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  13122.  @JimReynolds-dd4fn  He's only untouchable in that nobody really wants to touch him. Not even his wife. (we've seen the dropped hand-holding attempts!)
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  13123.  @redfields5070  Indeed.
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  13124. Wait, telling Russians NOT to drink? This is the country that became famous for (among other things) selling vodka in bottles that could not be re-closed!
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  13125. Wow, the US military seemed to be addicted to the "F4[something]" label.
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  13126. Or maybe paying the lawyers was on the same list as paying rent at Twitter?
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  13127.  @glee21012  I'm sure it's happened several times... on TV shows.
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  13128. Ooh great! Another electronic gewgaw to complicate the functions and introduce more points of potential failure. The best reason to steal cordless tools, as an individual, is to get another overpriced battery for the tools you already have.
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  13129. The crafting channels I watch are from Canadians. Most of the science-related content I watch are made by Brits and Australians. The entertainment channels I watch are mostly American. The music channels I watch are American and Swedish. I watch a German slingshot enthusiast, two British medieval weaponry enthusiasts, A British Knight's medieval history channel, and two Australian brothers (one is an artist, the other is rather cuckoo for MACHICOLATIONS(!). - I am lucky there is no "'Murica first" content filter.
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  13130. Poor Starliner. Someone sold them Star Trek brand Explodium (TM) tape...
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  13131. F-16s can also carry and drop chemical weapons, biological weapons, canisters of propaganda, defoliants, napalm/fuel-air-explosives, empty fuel pods, camera and other surveillance gear, and James Cordon's luggage!
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  13132. It started with Reagan and deregulation.
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  13133. And political tard signs! They're potentially distracting! What about business signs? We're supposed to know where we're going already and use our GPS puppet master to tell us where to go and how fast or slow to get there. So those business signs are distracting. More distracting signs? No Parking, Tow Away Zone, SPEED LIMITS!!!
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  13134. Officer Barbie has a taser on her belt. That there is evidence (to me) that they didn't need to use firearms. They had OPTIONS, and chose not to use them.
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  13135. He won first place, breaking the tape ahead of other drivers.
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  13136. And evidence tampering. The chain of custody of the evidence (the car) is broken, the car being in the hands of an interested party.
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  13137.  @sebastienbolduc5654  My vacuum cleaner sucks.
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  13138. "I am Elmer J Trump, billionaire. I have a mansion and a jet" - "Sure, doc."
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  13139. It's not "fleecing" to make sure that the car next to me is not frame-rotted, lacking brakes, running on bald tires and has more play in the steering than the NFL has between first and last whistle. Sorry we disagree, but I think Florida's "safety" plan is like squeezing your eyes shut and assuming that if you can't see the scary monster, it can't see you either.
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  13140. As a non-fan of football living in Massachusetts I will say that at least the New England Patriots can't be frivolously sued like this.
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  13141.  @toolbaggers  Oookay?
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  13142. A point about the fragility, not only do the LED bulbs not have to hold the partial vacuum, but they aren't as heavily subjected to the heat-cool cycles, which may let the glass retain strength better (?)
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  13143. So Clyde is okay with granting medals to the cops, but ONLY if a Republican has their name on the proposal? What a bleeping tool!
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  13144.  @jpmosher6508  Or the song "Three Sides to Every Story" by Extreme.
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  13145. Oh, you still poop? How gauche!
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  13146. I have gotten parts from a shop under an employer's account, and there is a discount from listed price. So a shop can charge the customer retail and still make enough to pay for the little bit of time it takes to order and unbox those parts. - I don't see the huge issue.
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  13147. Nice Olfa knife!
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  13148. All about the money, not the safety, yeah? Go hunt down some videos of cars in non-inspection states here in the US. Rolling crash events...
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  13149. So a school board somehow knows more than infectious disease specialists? 3 feet and 10 days instead of the science-recommended 6 feet and 14 days, all probably to get some state or federal funding requirements met on starting dates and number of students.
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  13150.  @jezebelrose6897  I am completely unaware of a YouTuber by the handle Mauler.
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  13151. "You are in imminent danger of losing representation to a politician from the party I disagree with!!! HONK!"
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  13152. Ah, so things like the .50 caliber machine gun, the .22 caliber plinking round, the 9mm parabellum, or the .556/.223 round? I will not accept that my mess of a country is serious about transitioning to metric until I start seeing highway signs telling me how far a town is in kilometers.
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  13153.  @xx4rch4xx  It's simple, really. (making up number here) $50 an ounce versus $5 a gram, the $20 sounds like a better deal, but the dealer wins.
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  13154. This is a shocking topic! So revolting. But if we could find a way to dramatically reduce their population, I'd be amped up. Of course, environmentalists would step in with resistance.
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  13155. Space National Guard? Sure. Forcing Guard units to become Space Guard? Where is the sense in that? Except in very narrow cases, members of other branches are not going to have the skill set the Space folks need.
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  13156.  @spvillano  Now I'm imagining the Space National Guard being activated for a meteor storm. Just a bunch of E-4s under 12 feet of reinforced concrete saying, "Yep. Stuff's on fire."
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  13157. That doesn't make sense. Uranium is a heavy material, chosen for armor penetrator rounds because of the density as compared to other metals. If you want to trim weight in an aircraft, you use lighter materials and creative geometry/structure.
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  13158. He technically arrived as an illegal alien, but there have been enough waves of amnesty that he and/or his adoptive parents could have gotten him paperwork.
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  13159. Wow! Normal fasteners, ability to buy OEM replacement components, easy to access the innards... Definitely not an Apple product!
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  13160. Cops DO deserve special protection. They get issued a ballistic vest and a belt of weapons with various levels of lethality. They have a radio and a cell phone and can call for backup. The doors of their work vehicles are often more ballistically protective that the doors the rest of us get. - There. There is your "special protection".
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  13161. He has a scary beard!
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  13162. Solid lesson!
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  13163. Would have been funny as hell if one of the students who took off the mask then said, "Well, I was wearing it to prevent spreading the flu I just caught, but cough-cough-cough if you say so...."
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  13164. C'mon, Jack. I just need you to educate yourself, then get out and VOTE. Vote like your life depends on it. And it just might if you're: working minimum wage, trying to form a union, a woman, a parent of teens who could end up the new cheap labor, LGBTQI, a veteran, a currently serving member of the military, anyone on social security/medicare/WIC/ food assistance...
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  13165. It is pretty much inevitable to have sections of circuit boards be identical when there are common standards for things like WiFi, USB, HDMI, and so on. The only thing that would change is the specific layout based on the available area for a circuit board in a specific computer, or to squeeze in a brand-specific section of function. I have talked to people who turn computer design into a circuit board layout, I've known people who make the multi-layer boards, and I have worked at places that apply the components to the boards to turn them into functioning devices. The people who do the layout of circuit boards are the smallest and most arcanely skilled people in the pipeline. They have a small biome of software that turns those designs into circuit boards, and they have to adjust trace lengths based on everything from how many layers of board the customer is willing to pay for, to how long high-speed data traces have to be on parallel data buses so all of the bits arrive in the right time frame. - It blew my mind how complex the processes are, and how many sub-sections of boards are just copy-pasted... BECAUSE THEY WORK.
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  13166. Amazing how many companies, Apple foremost, seem to conveniently forget that USB is an abbreviation for UNIVERSAL Serial Bus. Universal, as in "works for all cases". If your cable is special and has unique features, IT IS NOT UNIVERSAL! Make your own damn wire standard if you insist on being such a dick.
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  13167. Not completely dishonest, but amazingly lazy re-labeling.
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  13168. "A place to stay, enough to eat Somewhere, old heroes shuffle safely down the street Where you can speak out loud about your doubts and fears And what's more, no one ever disappears You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door You can relax on both sides of the tracks And maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control And everyone has recourse to the law And no one kills the children anymore No one kills the children anymore"
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  13169. All that and you have a known maybe-good-maybe-junk ECM for the next PT Cruiser.
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  13170.  @arandomlemon6707  That damned Bureau of Land Management! Wait, maybe you are talking about the secrete cabal in the American Dental Association. Or was it the Civil Air Patrol...
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  13171. Drones with cameras are currently in a legal muddy zone between public photography, property rights, and the FAA.
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  13172. Sometimes when I read "By the book" I remember a scene in a movie with a hitchhiking George Carlin and a nun.
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  13173. Around 22:40 - those officers sure have some SNUG shorts!
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  13174.  @Strideo1  Because IJ is helping people trampled by the law as it is,. They are not a political action group. There are many, many political action groups, but I am not aware of any pushing this issue into the light.
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  13175. Sometimes when you are in ketchup mode, you need to mustard your forces so at the end of the day you can relish the feeling of a job well done. Hot dog!
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  13176. Oh, recently heard that the state I live in, Massachusetts, has some legislators pushing bills to remove all gender titles in all government documentation, remove the gender of a child from birth certificates, and even remove "Mother" and "Father" to change it to "Parent 1" and "Parent 2". Complete lunacy is creeping over the bleeping globe.
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  13177.  @bbrut3332  So. Much. Greed.
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  13178. I'm not a Harry Stiles fan, regardless of clothing choice. - I choose to "challenge gender norms" by expecting everyone to follow through on promises, let anyone open a door for me as I open a door for everyone, and equally hate willfully ignorant and evil people regardless of race, gender, religion, politics, pronouns, boxer, briefs, etc... But people who prefer mayo over Miracle Whip lose an automatic notch on my grading scale. - Hey, I never said I was perfect! - But if women want to fill all the dangerous jobs like mining, demolition, high-rise steel work, stone and concrete construction, and armed combat, then I will gladly accept being a "kept man". I also know how to clean windows without leaving streaks! - You don't throw away structurally solid furniture. You clean it, or resurface it, or paint it, or reupholster it, or sell/donate it. Stop perpetuating this "toxic disposable culture"!!! (just ribbing ya.)
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  13179.  @smokedbeefandcheese4144  Quite right. And if your "trashy neighbors" are breaking laws, there sits the remedy. Someone running a machine shop out of their residential-zoned bungalo? Dealing meth from their split-level? Having loud motorcycle tuning parties at 3AM on a weekday behind their salt box? - The law already provides remedies. A neighbor dumps their lawn clippings behind your yard? Play music too loud on a Saturday afternoon? You're worried about that tree next door possibly falling down on your garage? Try TALKING to them.
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  13180. (In a Corleone accent) - It used to be, when a politician was bought, he stayed bought. No self respect, no honor in this new generation of scum bags...
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  13181. Sounds like the battle cry of all abusers.
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  13182. A pre-emptively pardoned person could legally then testify in court about everything they did, and who they did it with, without any risk of prosecution. So Donny J better be DANG sure that those he pardon's will NEVER have an axe to grind...
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  13183. I am imagining an auto shop after closing, sign lights off, just a little light leaking from under the bay doors. Listening carefully at a window, I then hear, "Hi, I'm Troy, and I really like Jeeps too much." Then the voices of several mechanics, "Hi Troy."
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  13184. My first purchased records were the entire (as of 1981) catalog of Queen except for day at the races for about $2 each from a classmate. The first record I got as a gift was of Disney's movie "The Black Hole" with accompanying picture book. The first record I remember listening to was either a Bill Cosby album or Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
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  13185. During the "Unfettered capitalism" rant, I thought Bernie was frozen with disgust and disbelief, then I realized it was just a still photo.
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  13186.  @PhyllisGentry-b8n  Many years ago I watched a show about white-hat burglars who would, with the consent of the "victims" burgle their houses to show them where their security failed. Most times, those skilled burglars would watch the house and neighborhood to find out when the least number of people are around, typically during the work day. That is when they went in. - That may have happened in this missing AC case.
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  13187. I counter your Midwesternity with New England Yankee-ness. We once got a 6' step ladder from our grandfather that was probably fifty years old when we got it, and rather than toss it when it started to wobble and break, he replaced a hinge, splinted the non-step side angle brace, wired the step side in two places to keep the treads secure, and put in angle brackets on one step to repair where it was splintering at the join to the uprights. And we used that ladder around the house for another thirty years before it finally collapsed.
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  13188. The typical "wire cutters" built into pliers are usually bypass cutters*, and them working on brittle coat hanger wire but not for a lot of other metals makes sense. *Bypass cutter: when the two cutting surfaces slide past each other, such as in scissors of sheet metal snips.
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  13189.  @TriforceOfCourage97  It's not just the knowledge but also the right tools and the experience that people pay for. ... And too often overpay for or don't even get.
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  13190. Toby's tail is a serious danger!
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  13191. Just like my state's automotive excise tax.
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  13192.  @addanametocontinue  Look a here girls I'm telling you now They call me "Lovin' Dan" I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long I'm a sixty-minute man (yeah, yeah, yeah)
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  13193. And that nice HOA is nice ONLY as long as a-holes don't get the power.
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  13194. Something I hear a lot when the matter of ridding ourselves of the Electoral College comes up are people talking about "But then it would be mob rule!" - To which I say 1) nice way to use inflammatory language to try and deflect the discussion, and 2) Yes. - Another 'popular' argument against abolishing the Electoral College is that it would give "unfair power to populous states on the coasts!" - To which I reply, The Electoral College already does that, with major rounding errors. - The one situation where abolishment runs into problems that I agree with is when a candidate becomes unavailable for the office after the ballot printing deadline (death, coma, quitting, imprisonment, etc.) And the best answers are a muddle. In the case of an incumbent President, there is already the 25th Amendment, but a winning and missing challenger creates a messy situation that needs to be examined thoroughly and covered with a clear law. - And Ranked Choice voting might help with this situation. - Do you want a silly reason to abolish the Electoral College? Florida could (vanishingly low probability, assuming everyone involved is not out of there mind drunk and/or high) make a law that all of it's electoral votes would go, BY LAW to Mickey Mouse. Less fringe-case, a state could enact a law that the electoral votes are cast by whomever is Governor that year, or be allocated to the candidate of a specific political party. Each of these three would at least be honest about making the individual presidential vote meaningless.
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  13195. At this point, another Chicxulub-grade impactor would be a good thing. Clear the board and let the next species to gain sentience give it a go.
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  13196.  @Daves_Not_Here_Man_76  Just loosen the license plate lights or let he air out of a tire.
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  13197.  @albertstephen2426  They would if you covered your car with a tarp or car cover. Or just leaned a piece of plywood against your plate(s).
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  13198. But before the EKG stress test, you always want baseline data.
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  13199. The batteries would not be such a fire hazard if they were not glued in.
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  13200.  @danfromaplace  How do you hold an egg when moving it from the carton without breaking it? You apply just enough pressure to keep it in place, but not enough to break it. That is your answer on how to secure a battery. - The battery (or batteries) in an ICE motor vehicle are liquid-filled lead-acid devices. They are held in place with a structure strong enough to keep it from moving relative to the vehicle, but without reaching pressures that will warp or damage the casing. And a motor vehicle experiences a LOT more motion and impacts on a regular basis than most peoples' phones.
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  13201.  @stogucheme  Yep, but due to the rule of two Senators per state regardless of population, and the arcane mathematical hijinks of the Electoral College, that minority can gain more national power than they would proportionally deserve. - At other times in our history, the math has favored the Democrats, and either way it is an imperfect methodology. - End the Electoral College!
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  13202. @Mary Ray But it is SO much easier to sit at home/work and say, "Well, my one vote won't matter so what's the point. I'm just going to sit here and complain when nothing changes for the better anyway."
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  13203. Dealership screwed up, they should eat the $400, not harass a customer and break the law. You just KNOW that if the contract was $400 in the dealership's favor, not a peep would be heard. They'd high-five in the sales meeting and get a beer after work. - She should not have accepted her down-payment back. She should have stood firm for a free car. Or at least jail time for Mr. "No Problem!"
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  13204.  @joelglanton6531  IN my local store, that freezer is across the aisle from the "cheese food products" I don't buy those either, because I figure if my cheese gets hungry, it can buy its own lunch.
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  13205. If people want to use a street for some "look at the cars" event, they can get a street fair permit. Or rent/borrow some business' parking lot. Blocking traffic for your hobby or political action only makes people impacted less amenable to your activity. - As for ticketing pedestrians in the area, there will be a lot of 1st Amendment defenses, I imagine. - edit: As to San Jose's law about standing near something being a violation is just as valid as local ordinances against standing on the sidewalk holding a sign, or panhandling/begging, or telling a cop you don't like them. That is to say, not valid, but they will not change unless someone can afford to fight it long enough to get the ordinance reversed.
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  13206. Ah, so it is an onomatopoeia for you as well!
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  13207. It kind of makes you wonder how much they could have saved by not screwing people over in the first place.
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  13208. I didn't know we were going to get a bonus Dashcam Nation video along with our wrench turning!
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  13209.  @piedpiper1172  Your historical insights are spot on. I was making a sly reference to the Aspen moneyed elite finding another group of people to take financial advantage of for their own enrichment and fulfillment.
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  13210. Odd frame of reference questions: Would the time machine still initiate if it was on a trailer being pulled at 88MPH by, say, a Silverado driven by a Florida mechanic? If not, is it that the wheels have to be spinning at the 88MPH rate? If so, perhaps an externally driven roller system like that on a dynamometer would do the job. What if you combinge both ideas, giving you a trailer that could spin the DMC's wheels at the same speed as road speed, and it was all pulled by the Florida mechanic's Silverado?
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  13211.  @myacidninjatheamazing1025  I do recall that. But is still doesn't answer the question of if the car has to hit 88, or the spinning of the wheels, or both.
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  13212.  @myacidninjatheamazing1025  I do appreciate this additional data! This is worth pondering. Maybe an open trailer? Maybe a tow line that has a quick release triggered to 88mph? So many questions, so few test rigs...
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  13213. If someone is seriously that worried about something like brakes, they could surreptitiously mark the old parts some way (even a scratched "X") and then look after the service to see if the parts are actually new. Ya know, or at least look at the old parts beforehand and then the new part afterward.
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  13214. Dude. Giorgio Tsoukalos would be SO disappointed with this video. Too many facts!
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  13215.  @justskip4595  Here's an interesting take. When you are born, other people feed clothe and house you for no profit. When you go to school, you do not pay for the first 12-13 (13 if you count kindergarten) years of your education. You drive on roads for which you only pay a pittance. You may be rescued from fire or accident by people for who you pay a pittance. That is ALL socialism!
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  13216. Two wrongs don't make a right, but three right-angle lefts do.
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  13217. Don't throw away your HP printers! Send them to: HP Inc 1501 Page Mill Rd Palo Alto, CA 94304 with a loving note about WHY you want them to have their piece of junk!
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  13218. I have heard certain sources say that even if you want to "GC" your own house build, you might be well served by having a licensed GC as at least an advisor. It's kind of like paying a mechanic for a pre-purchase inspection, or hiring your own inspector for the purchase of an existing home. It may cost money up front, but it can save money, time, and headaches afterward.
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  13219. 'Muricans have such a short attention span. Every day a new thing comes up and, like a Cocker Spaniel puppy, people forget what we were rightfully concerned about a mere minute ago and go all-in on the newest outrage. I remember when people could care about a subject for weeks to years at a time. Oil spills, the Vietnam War, civil rights, the Iran hostage crisis, Iran-Contra, DDT, clean groundwater, clean air... - Cuomo in that clip is so "“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” - Meanwhile, is HIS job "essential"? - Anyone who believes a Presidential candidate will "absolutely" be able to deliver money needs to get a review of the Constitution. All spending bill are supposed to originate in the House of Representatives. So a President can ASK for money, submit a yearly budget proposal (as per their responsibility in the Constitution), suggest a spending bill, and they can approve a spending bill. But a President cannot (according to the Constitution) just decide on their own where to put money. - Even if it is for a boondoggle of a border wall.
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  13220. Post-cut, she looks like a Jim Henson creation.
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  13221. Okay, I'll do it... "REEEE! You should spend a lot of your customer's money by sending the entire engine out to an engine rebuild shop whose work you can't warranty or be sure of!!!" - Ugh. That hurt being so needlessly cynical.
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  13222. So, ten quintillion (if that is a real prefix) or 10 to the power of 19. Even assuming the metals in Psyche were that valuable, by the time you get TO it with enough hardware to move it closer to the Earth, then insert it into orbit around the Earth, then find a way to cut it into little enough pieces to bring down in expensive hardware so that it doesn't burn up on re-entry... Then you get to figure out how you are depressing the value of these now-abundant metals. You would essentially be spending money you can't recover because you made what you recovered worthless. - This is why smart versions of Star Trek have made rare metals and precious gems so commonplace they mostly lose value. If you can simply "beam in" a ton gold you chopped out of an asteroid with your phasers, why would you pay for it?
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  13223. The only honest thing Burchett said was the beginning of his response to the "How much money..." question, when he answered, "I don't know."
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  13224. I had to change one of my cats to an "Indoor weight control" dry food. Half a can of wet food daily and free-feed dry food, and all the water he could drink. The weight came down.
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  13225.  @TheBandit7613  Reiterating my point.
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  13226. Another reason why participation trophies were a bad idea.
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  13227. This is a more serious version of Monty Python's 'The art of not being seen"
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  13228. My 2011 Ford Focus has enough space for a full size tire in the spare compartment, but they still sold it with the "Why don't you have good roadside assistance, idiot?" donut spare. I have seen some cars being sold without a spare or jack at all, on the basis that the roadside assistance plan they offer is a good replacement.
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  13229. So this was the refrain after Tik-Tok installations and exploding batteries? I can't wait for the "They use chemicals that may harm unborn children!" and the "Independent repair will void your warranty! (which has already expired, or you'd have us fix it for free)"
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  13230. It is hard for me to judge the sound quality from that install on my $25 desktop speakers. But it looks cool!
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  13231.  @CrazyRFGuy  Nope. The only French that matters is French fries.
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  13232.  @stischer47  It's not worth it. Trolls are gonna troll, and orcs are gonna be Russian apologists.
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  13233.  @CrazyRFGuy  It's fried 'taters? I'm in!
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  13234. Sing along, kids! If you see, kay ee why a-g-a-i-n!
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  13235. Hey now. We're far too busy making laws to make sure that we can buy lots of guns, can't peacefully express ourselves on public property, can control the operation and contents of a woman's body, and punishing Disney for having a different opinion than a governor to do something as sane as passing laws to protect the private property of the little people.
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  13236. Using the acceptance of a pardon for a crime as admission of that crime in a state court? Chef's kiss.
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  13237. The last woman is the closest to awake I have yet seen for a Trump supporter.
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  13238. Seriously? In you list of topics not to be brought up in civil company you say politics and show a man in a breathing mask. Way to point out how ludicrous the issue has become. Bravo. - No comma. I choked on my laughter!
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  13239. Well, at least it was an easy place to access. (sarcasm)
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  13240. What's sad is that this happens enough that even a non-profit legal organization like IJ is getting enough experience in this one type of case that they can start to be called experts.
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  13241. And that's the kind of can-do attitude that got rid of the humans who were not resistant or immune to many plagues throughout history!
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  13242. ... or Florida
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  13243.  @HaughtKarl-jx9vr  How HOAs work: They are set up to pay for and maintain common areas. In some communities that is limited to park/entertainment spaces. In some it includes roads, and possibly some utilities. An HOA can be anywhere from low-impact to completely invasive... depending on who gets on the board and how much they can change without residents noticing or caring. The worst will pick at and fine over every small thing until they can steal... I mean seize and sell... the homes of the people they don't like. If the person pays fines in a timely manner, then notification will "accidentally" get lost until the late feed make the fine look like a punctuation error.
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  13244.  Flamestripe03  Titles like "the left" and "the right" "the Democrats" "the Republicans" "they/them" "we/us" are a big part of the problem as well. These sorts of intellectual short-cuts let people treat a large number of people with a spectrum of varying beliefs and priorities as a single monolithic block. That sort of thinking only creates more divisiveness and makes hate easier.
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  13245.  @JoeCanon17 Not as expensive as massive tax cuts and expenditures not originating in the House of Representatives (per the Constitution).
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  13246.  @johnt.848  That last bit is an image!
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  13247. Hey! I can't get this sticker off my screen!
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  13248.  @Wolfie713  Ah yes, RealID, a way to filter out the poorest, and those without access to their documents even though they are otherwise valid for the requirements.
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  13249. It makes torture look good, sometimes.
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  13250. To Whom it May Concern: "If the complaint count had risen to 206, we might have taken action." - Sincerely, self-destructive California Bar Association, Esq.
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  13251. I've kind of known this for a couple of decades, and I will still put a piece of wood or a couple of layers of cardboard under a battery I am going to put on the floor. Mostly, it is to keep the battery cleaner, but there is the tiny superstitious idiot in the back of my mind telling me the battery will drain.
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  13252.  @TraderTech68  Exactly. It's the money. The politicians who are bought and paid for before we even get to cast a vote. And the money is creeping into appointed positions like judges and leaders of departments in the executive branch. And I'm talking federal AND state. The state people are just usually cheaper to buy than the federal versions.
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  13253.  @timkenyon9150  Luddites are against new technology or new ways of working, not against science and evidence. By that definition, a lot of writers and artists are expressing luddite precepts in the face of AI developments.
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  13254. We all leak to some degree when we get really old...
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  13255.  @ilovefunnyamv2nd  Or a variant that outright ignores the current vaccines could happen in 9-18 month (numbers pulled outta my rumpus)
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  13256. Their big mistake, not being chosen to RUN the post office before scamming the joint. Why, when you do it "right", the whole effort is an absolute DeJoy to pull.
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  13257.  @Dragoonsoul7878  Some firearms are primarily for hunting. But yeah, most are sold with the intent that they will, or may, be used to kill one or more humans, whether it be for war or self-defense.
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  13258. Pripyat is one of the unintentional laboratories for "Life After People" science that was highlighted in a History Channel show from 2008-10 of the same name. I also read the book "The World Without Us" which was a thematic inspiration for the show. - Chilling.
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  13259. But why sell you a $3 pack of light caps when they can sell you a $10 string for lights for each different color need? - Particularly with people not realizing they can just swap out the bulbs. This was how we turned a pile of multi-colored mini-incandescent strings into a number of mono-colored strings.
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  13260. For background sound, I mostly hear the fan(s).
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  13261. Dear Computer Lady, That is the PERFECT book to bring!
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  13262. Ah, Georgia. The same state that is okay with bulldozing the last large green space in Atlanta to build a police training facility... that could be built ANYWHERE else.
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  13263.  @almostfm  To which the buy should reply, "Then it is already included in the advertised price of the car."
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  13264. I'd be a billionaire once I stopped keeping my opinions to myself.
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  13265. Ooh! spacious home in Delaware, home of nylon, no sales tax, [incorporation] home to more than half of all US publicly traded companies (63% of the fortune 500).
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  13266. Let's also give mention to hand-held shaky-cam, partial-second jump cuts in close-up fight scenes, and LENS FLARE(!).
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  13267.  @contradictorycrow4327  Well sure, but faking a haunting is a lot of setup, and triggering a (false?) chemical spill in the neighborhood can get you in legal trouble. You might be able to simulate the effect and cause a local evacuation by baiting in or transplanting skunks. - Interesting idea just popped into my head. Get one of those unidirectional speakers that can only be heard in the straight line they point, and play demonic whispers in reverse Latin at a bedroom window from your car parked down the block.
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  13268.  @macnvettes  This situation has been repeated in several states. Avoiding California, no matter how much you want to falsely equate liberalism with communism, is not a guaranteed fix.
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  13269.  @macnvettes  Good. Let the hate flow through you...
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  13270. If there are no economic incentives, who would pay for the development? Bored German Counts looking for new entertainment for their peer group? Cats who have inherited Grandma's millions?
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  13271. 99 in a 50? Wow.
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  13272. That heated pressure water arrangement can't be making the interior at all pleasant in a Florida summer!
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  13273. The guy with the pickup in the video was an idiot. Heck, with actual thieves horning in on the cops/DEA game of civil asset forfeiture, it's getting very risky to have any cash at all. Just like the P.T.B. want it....
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  13274. Penetrating lube is not a myth. Back when my life included the occasional nocturnal penetration activity, lube did assist things.
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  13275. Regarding the person who complained about the truck disassembly process, a saying of my grandmother's comes to mind. "Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!"
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  13276. Depends really ARE tough!
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  13277. The Electron launch manifest looks kind of like a website page for guying fancy pen sets. Maybe that could be a merchandising tie-in for them?
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  13278. NYC. If you can make it out of there, you can make it out of anywhere.
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  13279. KEEP MOVING! STOP RESISTING!
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  13280.  @stevent5571  It will definitely be used for that.
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  13281. The US has made more and more rules saving humans from their own stupidity, and as a result, the mortally stupid have become a demographic. And they are breeding and raising more stupid people. Bring back lawn darts! *And they were NOT "razor sharp". They are not really sharp at all. The plastic fins had more of an edge than the dart had a sharp point.
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  13282. With suck clean-looking teeth, too!
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  13283. That opening joke was gold. - I heard an analysis of the two party's conventions and it boils down to: The RNC shouted their lies and fabrications like they had a full arena that had to have the words shoved into them, while the DNC talked calmly in a conversational tone as if each person watching was the sole recipient of all that was said, and the viewer could choose to not hear. - Side note? The RNC was vastly out-viewed by the DNC. - Blake would not be dead if he had not: stopped and gotten out of his vehicle, refused to cooperate with police, fought the police, shrugged off a taser, and made to grab something from under the seat of his vehicle. I do feel sympathy for the family members who had to witness the result of his arrogance and stupidity. - - The criminal "vigilante" who shot and killed two people? yeah, string him up, save some oxygen and clean water for the rest of us.
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  13284. So what I am hearing is, the most important accessory for interstate travel is your glovebox lawyer.
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  13285. Or, Politicians won't lie because they promised not to. Your significant other won't cheat because that's wrong. People won't shoot you in school because that's murder. - Mentally deficient humans (a.k.a. criminals) are going to do criminal things. All we can do is try to protect ourselves with laws, social norms, and a system of punishment for violations. If only there were not so many inmates in positions of control in this asylum we call life doing their best to scare us and prevent us from eliminating the causes of harm.
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  13286. Hmm... I need to open a business selling "program" food to car dealers.
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  13287. How to "honor" the courtesy card: "Oh, nice card! Would you kindly take this ticket and slow the heck down?"
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  13288. Some people would respond to this situation with less grace and more rage. I am one of them.
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  13289. So a tank today without thermal sights is like a WW2 surface warship without fire control radar. (Or ANY US Navy asset in WW2 with a Mx 13 or Mk 14 torpedo... Hehehe)
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  13290. Aha! You can get the pound of flesh with no blood. First kill Antonio, and have the undertaker drain his blood. Step in, take you carefully-weight slice,and deal done. Or use a lightsaber and return any blood that happens to be in the chunk you remove.
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  13291. The fact that the game officer wore camouflage says he KNOWS what he was doing was sketchy as heck, and was trying to do his theft without getting caught. That shows a premeditation.
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  13292.  @Paulsull1000  ... yet.
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  13293. Well, now this Monopoly card will have the be changed.
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  13294. Did John just manspleen us?
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  13295.  @philspear73  I kind of like the various "other business" sounds. Kind of widens the soundscape.
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  13296. Every time I have moved, I move less stuff. So much ends up being donated, sold or trashed (as appropriate for the item and condition). I have only one or two times I have regretted getting rid of something, and a LOT of improvement in my life from trimming away stuff.
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  13297. Unless it is a simple oil and filter change, I drop off the vehicle and find something to do or somewhere to be. Heck, even for a simple oil change, I bring an e-reader and block out an hour and a half in case I need to wait for my car to be pulled in. And I ask if they are busy before I turn over my keys. Too busy? I can come back another day.
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  13298. It seems like a good system for pedestrians, but a hair-pulling nightmare for drivers.
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  13299. And DA's will hide evidence that could result in a not guilty verdict.
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  13300.  @ericv00  Just peruse some of the cases of The Innocence Project to get a HINT of the numbers and ruination of lives that happens when cops and prosecutors: Don't care about the truth. Stop looking for evidence once they've "got their man". HIDE exculpatory evidence. Bury poor defendants in threats, experts and processes. Work behind the back of defendants with the public defenders to coerce a guilty plea instead of letting the person actually defend themselves.
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  13301. A sensor senses. Like a toaster toasts, an orator orates, and a refrigerator refrigerates.
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  13302. There needs be accountability. On the cops who act badly (chisel the BLEEP away at "Qualified Immunity"!) and the people who train them to be afraid all the time and resort to gunfire over talking. On the politicians and courts who allow qualified immunity and don't hold cops and their trainers to account for what they do. Accountability on the part of arsonists, rioters and looters. Accountability for the people whose inflammatory speech pushes people to violence. - - - Yes, cops showing up with heavy gear is frightening, and supports their ingrained paranoia and willingness to step up to violence, but cops showing up in care-bear t-shirts singing Kumbaya are not the solution either. - - - Minneapolis has decided to disband their police and put the money toward touchy-feely stuff instead, as if the lack of police will stop people from doing crime somehow. - - - Tribalism is the problem. Lack of holding oneself accountable is the problem.
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  13303. The thing is a hydraulically-driven auger that attaches to an excavator.
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  13304.  @Seek1878  I have, though it was a mild one and there were only a few bruises.
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  13305.  @billmiller4972  Same here.
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  13306. Oh, they apologized. That makes it all better. How about an apology, AND a change in operation procedures?
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  13307. hehe... Heisenberg is uncertain if he should have terrier eyes or husky eyes. So he went with one of each!
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  13308. Whoa! Justin's car is SLICK!
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  13309. Aren't you obligated to say "ope" while you and Pop stand back and wax poetical about the fine snow-blowing job you did? Or is that more a Minnesota thing?
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  13310. I expected to see Steve McQueen bouncing a baseball off the wall.
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  13311.  @nickhexum01  Happy is not the operative word. Skeeved? Jealous?
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  13312. Please make sure you document all health matters! Lack of documentation has stranded WAY too many veterans out of the VA system.
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  13313. The mesh face shields are sold with other chainsaw safety gear. For the ones with a plexi-shield, search for medical or chemical. - edit: The clear face shields are also sold at hardware stores, starting at about $20.
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  13314. Arizona is also the state where their State Supreme Court applied an 1864 law to remove reproductive health care.
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  13315. The only time I owned an electric kettle is when I was doing a lot of LARPing, and we were at campgrounds with a few wall plugs but no kitchen available for our use. So the kettle was used to heat water for oatmeal, ramen, tea, instant coffee, etc. and mixing with cold tap water in a basin for washing dishes, hands and faces (not at the same time).
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  13316.  @jonkemper6521  Pasta save us all from new lieutenants!
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  13317. In this case, there was apparently no way whatsoever for the buyer or attorneys to know that there was a water bill because there was not yet a water bill. Only AFTER the purchase did the water department read the meter and compute unpaid charges.
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  13318. So it's essentially Yelp with a government letterhead?
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  13319.  @annasdad8008  I just checked, and you are right. They did a really good job marketing, as I believed they were government affiliated for the last 40+ years without questioning it.
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  13320. Ray has a drawer of door opening/body panel wedges. Would those work in this location>
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  13321.  @WinterAyars  Because he is supported by a one-religion government that supports hate and racism with tax revenue.
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  13322. Dolly Madison: Not only the first "First Lady", but also tasty snack cakes and ice cream.
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  13323. ANOTHER reason to print out your "hand them over" documents.
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  13324. So, happy employees don't riot? Color me unsurprised.
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  13325. A definite "Hey, y'all. Watch this." moment.
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  13326. And if you HAD turned away from the DUI checkpoint, the police will use that as a pretext for a traffic stop, sobriety check, K-9 search, and complete car emptying. Particularly if it's raining.
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  13327. "... in-dick-tih-bil crimes..." It's pronounced in-dight-uh-bl. But English has a lot of words that can trick people who don't learn the language well.
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  13328.  @joshuagibson2520  If "all" drugs are to be legalized, then maybe we can pry insulin and epi-pens out of the greedy claws of pharmaceutical corporations so normal people can afford to not die. And all of the dangerous drugs should be cheap and available to any adult who signs a waiver of responsibility so we can reduce the excess population of idiots.
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  13329. Almost definitely the dust caused the indentations.
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  13330. If there is enough evidence of crime to seize assets, there is enough to get a warrant, and arrest, and to seek an indictment of persons. Arresting inanimate property is theft.
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  13331. This is the kind of thing that sounds like it could happen in Remulak. That's in France.
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  13332. So, Apple is going to do this, but will stand stubborn against legally issued search warrants demanding they unlock the phones of properly charged and indicted criminals?
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  13333. I know what a recall does. It gets your @$$ to Mars. Totally.
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  13334. I always thought that if the vehicle required a registration for normal use, it ought to be covered by lemon law. Which would bring RVs, motorcycles and nearly all boats under the umbrella.
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  13335. The actions of Mooresville is EXACTLY equivalent to a person transferring their assets offshore or into the name of a spouse or friend or corporate sub-entity just before they are dragged into court where they could lose those assets. It is illegal in both cases. Jail those cops! - This judge gets it.
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  13336.  @christopherg2347  Pufferman never said "kill the person." Accidents happen, yeah?
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  13337.  @davidturk6170  Yeah, that kind of thing really Hertz.
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  13338.  @johnalloway9764  Um... eat Quaker oats and watch Wilford Brimley movies?
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  13339. More of this "flood the zone" tactics Bannon crowed about, yeah? Do SO much illegal stuff that people can't keep track of it all.
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  13340.  @bewareofsasquatch  The whole point of the event is she was protesting a ludicrous law. Malicious compliance is a form of civil disobedience.
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  13341.  @neilcampbell2222  To get a bit closer, go for 39 3/8 inches.
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  13342. And the hand-picked "journalists" are selling Apple's lie.
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  13343. This "Free Speech Award" is about as valid as the police investigating themselves and finding no wrongdoing. Or Tucker Carlson being awarded the "Fox News Scrunched Forehead of the Year" award.
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  13344. That conspiracy theorist segment was very reminiscent of a Desi Lydec Foxsplaining episode. I got a laugh out of it.
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  13345. Actively working against the country disqualifying one from political office? How is this not more obvious and palatable to people?
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  13346.  @chrisb9960  Fair point. Trains are quieter on welded tracks than on bolted tracks. They are also quieter on straight tracks than on curves.
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  13347. Remember. it's no longer about equality. it's about Special Status (TM).
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  13348.  @PennyAfNorberg  I will clarify. I own that COPY of the music on the CD. I can play it whenever I want, as long as I am not profiting from it. I am not dependent on an internet connection that I or someone else pays for, I am not dependent on a music streaming service, and the CD will not block my ability to play it because I somehow triggered a vague phrase in a user agreement with it.
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  13349. Combine the outdoor inside, and the idea that the virus will not get to you if you obey a curfew, and we have reached peak stupidity. And curfews are coming back in some countries, states and cities in response to the Delta variant, the gift from the unvaccinated.
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  13350. It is MARGINALLY possible that the police are arresting lots of people to prompt a public, voter, and court backlash against this loony law. - Nah...
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  13351. If things go just a little worse, there could be another radioactive disaster zone for Kyle to report on at Zaporizhzhia. And that is bad. Not just for the reactor, or even just Ukraine, but for the future of nuclear power worldwide.
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  13352. Took me a couple looks at the slide, but that pic of Rudy and the miscellany in front of the wall of US flags... They all have a hand behind them to stretch out the flag, perhaps in an effort to add more "USA! USA! USA!" to the venue. It's so very high school pep rally. - And my gosh, Sydney Powell blinks a LOT when she talks. A high eye blink rate is associated with lying but it can also be a signal that they are worried about being perceived as liar.
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  13353. Yeah. I was even confused by the title of the video. Is the O in ORV supposed to mean On or Off? Or Open (convertibles, motorcycles, ATV, pretty much anything without an enclosure)?
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  13354.  @TrueThanny  And maybe farm tractors, excavators, skid steers, tracked stump grinders... Muahahaha! So many special cases!!!! But on a more serious note, you make solid points.
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  13355. My American reflex at hearing they would have 4 anti-aircraft installations was to say, "That's it? You need more guns for your guns!!!"
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  13356. The Moscow subway IS beautiful. Why? Massive expenditures of public money to build and maintain it, and brutal penalties for any person who dares despoil it.
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  13357. With all of the people looking for an affordable place to live, with all of the people looking to buy income property, with all of the corporations looking to own massive swaths of homes, the top bid for a two-family structure was only a little over $3,000? Nope, doesn't pass the stink test. This was either the most secret of all auctions, or racketeering levels of collusion, or a little of both. edit: And being from a town very near Worcester MA, a.k.a. "Wormtown", I completely believe that there was a backroom deal going on.
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  13358. So what was Browning's IJN rank?
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  13359. I'm not a fan of Eli. Ten seconds is a lot longer than it seems it should be.
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  13360. Ouch.
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  13361.  @neocirus115  Jay-zuz. That ought to be criminal.
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  13362. Poet Laureate material.
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  13363.  @jnievele  As a descendant of peoples from the British Isles and Finland, standing too long in the sun can be me standing too close to a high-powered transmitter (of ultraviolet radiation).
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  13364. Clocks can have a FOURTH hand?!?! Alarming!
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  13365. They're just making sure they have something to keep the rage going after they lose militarily. They NEED that rage to build the next generation of hate.
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  13366.  @tonymouannes  Oh sure, they don't do that... yet.
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  13367. Texas is going to pay for the bad press either way. The question they need to answer, is how MUCH bad press they want.
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  13368. Seems like a fix for this gun would be a metal breech block. Maybe brass? Anyhow, something a skilled machinist could make in their well-kitted home shop.
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  13369. And while you're machining, make safer charging handles, with outward facing knobs or something.
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  13370.  @Duckyou555  I agree. An Associates degree (from an accredited college/university!!!) in CJ ought to be a MINIMUM hiring requirement.
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  13371. A comparison: Master lock sells locks with a 6 or 7 out of 10 security rating that can be opened in 2-3 seconds with a VERY common tool called a wave rake. All that this 7/10 reparability means is Apple paid money and "favors" to the right people. it is just a marketing expense to them.
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  13372. The phrase that describes having stuff near where you might need it is "pre-staging". - In Michael Flynn's (not the former General) Firestar series, they use sub-orbital rockets for fast trips and emergency delivery, which was a mid-process technology for a program for SSTO rockets. It's a good book series, and the science is quite solid in it.
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  13373.  @MrAndrewFarrow  I've seen milk and soda, and wondered if some of the "water bottles" were really "trucker bombs" (urine).
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  13374. @ Probably because, in THIS case, the cop MIGHT be able to be held accountable (at no monetary cost to them other than 'maybe' having to change departments to a county away.)
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  13375. You can even hear the quieter slap of the tracks on the upper idler wheels.
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  13376. With the right tools and some practice, you can even do component level repair on your PC. If you can get the schematics... Heck, surface mount makes repair easier! Having desoldered through-hole components before, I'll take surface mount over that any day.
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  13377. Thank your parents, birth or adopted, as may apply.
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  13378. If you don't like putting lights up outdoors, you could always go with the fake candles in the windows, and/or the light projector you stick in the yard to cover your house in festive colors. I'm a big fan of the window candles and a simple door wreath. Nice, festive, understated, and easy to pick up and put away after New Year's without slogging through the snow and/or climbing ladders withe ice and snow in the treads of your boots. (or leaving the lights hung up until spring)
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  13379. BTW, NYC looks a lot nicer when you don't see the pavement and the cars. Yeah, there's still graffiti, but you can also see where property owners paint it over and/or scrub it away.
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  13380. Also, the companies leasing staging in NYC have the win.
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  13381. Florida is really racing to the bottom to find itself an American version of Sharia law, aren't they?
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  13382.  @robertsmith2956  I'm no deerhunter. (That movie gave me nightmares.)
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  13383.  @Demagora  So don't delay Act now, supplies are running out.
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  13384.  @anteshell  It is more like a second-hand shop except that you don't sell the item(s) to the shop until it is sold (unless they run like one of the scumbags in this story or in many of the comments to this story). It is very unlike a flea market in that you, the item's owner, do not have to be personally present to sell the item(s).
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  13385. I am reminded of a story I read forever ago in High School called The Pushcart War. Kind of a similar vibe here.
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  13386. I saw the other box on the end of the truck. I had no idea Kholer was into engines. I thought they were a faucet company. - I looked it up, and they indeed were the same company before spinning Kohler Energy off to a separate division or company or something. I was interested, but not interested enough to dive into corporate forms...
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  13387. Sounds like the software took the path of flat-Earth "science". What I see doesn't fit my preconceptions, ignore it!
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  13388. 2:50 - lube AND a reach-around?
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  13389.  @stevendouglas6593  I can think of one fix that didn't require the removal of the engine (though the door was in danger of being removed): Getting my 6'3 self out of my friend's Mini MG. There were tears. MANLY tears!
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  13390.  @eriklakeland3857  Nuclear has specific siting requirements, even without NIMBYism. They need to be on solid stable ground, and have year-round access to large volumes of relatively clean water, and a place to discharge the water at higher temperatures without causing big environmental problems (like fish kills).
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  13391. And thus, flat Earthers.
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  13392. I loved the musical number, and my name is Bob (not Bob Murray)
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  13393.  @dh2032  It is not cheaper to have the employee show up at a huge building. On site: The employer pays for the building, the utilities, the parking lot, the office furniture, the break room or cafeteria, and so on. Work from home: The EMPLOYEE pays for the utilities used (electricity for the computer and maybe the phone for calls), any required new furniture, and their own food at lunch.
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  13394. @Phillip Banes With that mindset, there is a coal mine willing to hire you to breath in the dust that will kill you young. They may insist you bring your own shackles.
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  13395. Shuck is the verb done to the husks (outer green stuff) of corn. - That Stirling fan is PERFECT for wood stoves!
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  13396. I would love to see the runs between floors of skyscrapers (where it looks like windows from the outside, but it's just cladded with glass or some other material) to be filled with solar panels. It might be enough to run the building's lights during the day, but it something. - Also, nearly any flat roof seems to be crying out for solar panels.
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  13397. Glenn, small correction: "Third rate country club... and cemetery."
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  13398. It looks like the seal delaminated from the metal of the upper gasket. The seal also broke pretty easy into many parts, lending to the seal being dried out.
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  13399. The smart way is to cloud all of your files (or put them on a data stick and, um "hide" the stick) and fly with a blank or OS only computer.
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  13400. Good Attenborough, Trevor!
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  13401.  @miscbits6399  Fair point. Just there is no ONE steel alloy or ONE aluminum alloy, there is no ONE plastic. Picking the right material for an application is a constant job, and that's BEFORE the bean counters and those struck in the forehead by the "good idea fairy" put their two cents in.
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  13402. My problem with that restaurant chain is grammatical. To my OCD brain, it is Chick Fill Uh. And I think that is grating.
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  13403. Love that ad segue!
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  13404. Based on several videos where you remove the murder mittens from cats, I was able to FINALLY give my cat a calm nail clipping without having to first wrap him in a blanket. So thank you!
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  13405. Exactly the kind of societal malaise I would expect from the Laughing Man.
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  13406. The thought that came to mind on the news of the bad landing position was "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down."
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  13407. The tree by the driveway ended up looking very Whoville at the end!
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  13408. Broken clock doctrine.
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  13409. Sounds like it's time to enlist Captain Disillusion!
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  13410.  @hektor6766  Or a way to either get below or dispose of deck sentries.
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  13411. A "training issue" but not a discipline or policy issue? So their policy does not include cops being properly trained to identify a car by make, model, color and LICENSE PLATE???
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  13412. I love the phrase, "legal name" because it makes me think about what my "illegal name" could be. Recent entries for the list: The Guy I Owe Twenty Dollars Oh My God Emperor Of Mankind
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  13413. I remember back in the 1970's my parents joking (after the car broke down on a trip) that it was about time for the car to die, the last payment was made two months prior. What is sad is how used to that idea people can become.
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  13414. My mind goes to kendo, foil/epee, saber/cutlass fencing for examples of combat as sport.
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  13415. No way he gets in on the next four years. No SA accusations, no job at Fox News.
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  13416. We'd be riding on safe bridges in our electric cars driven by our private robots.
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  13417.  @debl3422  A clean, safe, functional, and high-tech life is boring to you? Okay.
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  13418. Yeah. If they were paying someone to do it, it was either a mow-and-leave firm, some neighborhood kid with just a mower and maybe a battery trimmer (My summer job for a few years), or a relative business to "the other shop" that mangles peoples' cars with badly done work.
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  13419. We're not far from the day Louis slams the window open, leans out, and shouts, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" And we will join the shout! - And then we'll calm back down, watch Netflix, and forget we cared about our constantly eroding rights of ownership. Good job, corporate overlords...
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  13420. I wish people who found it would not post their locations in comments. It ruins the fun for me if I read the comments before looking for it myself, and I don't always remember to look for the hundo before reading.
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  13421. I was once at Camp Edwards (Late 80's, early 90's?), directing fires for our 81mm mortar platoon, when I heard the stereotypical freight train. I looked up and I swear I saw the spin of the 105mm artillery shell pass overhead, about 15 mils wide and it impacted danger close to our observers who were running back before the flung-up mud and plant life was coming back down. I called in the range check fire, and we waited while range control did its investigation and reamed a number of people: The one who plotted the short round, their LT, Captain and probably upward, and the range control person who put two units in the same firing arc.
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  13422.  @davidreynolds9189  I like sonatas. Great music.
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  13423. They HAD to dismiss the charges, otherwise it would establish precedent. And that would be DISASTEROUS for the powers-that-be.
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  13424. Succeed or fail, what is important is that problems are being looked at, and solutions being worked on, from as many different mindsets and directions as practicable.
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  13425.  @MAL1GNANT  I am not disputing your point. But saying avocados are more water efficient than cattle is like saying a punch in the arm is better than a punch in the face. You're still getting punched, and that is not great.
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  13426.  @MAL1GNANT  Oh! I might have been thinking of almonds when I was looking for a crop that is water-gobbling.
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  13427.  @MAL1GNANT  Again, not disputing your numbers, but can you share the source, so I may learn more about the topic?
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  13428. A couple of days ago I heard this mission being referred to on a public radio station broadcasting from upstate NY. I was not able to listen to the coverage, sorry.
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  13429. The Subaru outback is not built in Australia? What's next, the Ford Mustang is not built by horses?
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  13430. Heck, with the rise of home testing kits, the official count of cases is actually an under-count already. Now this "State Murderer-General" wants to have even LESS testing? - If there are Floridians who actually care about reality, do all you can to get this dangerous moron and the dangerous moron who hired him OUT of power.
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  13431.  @dillonbledsoe7680  Wow. Who peed in YOUR cornflakes this morning?
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  13432.  @DarkDyllon  I worked a summer job cleaning parking lots and the exterior of strip malls. I have also worked in convenience stores and retail pharmacies. Because of that experience, I never litter, and I treat anyone who has a job dealing with or cleaning up after the public with decency and courtesy unless they intentionally earn otherwise.
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  13433. Yeah, I have mixed feelings about this one. At least in my state, you already have to have auto insurance to cover injury or death to another from your operation of a motor vehicle. I don't know if Tennessee has similar insurance, but if it does, does this law mean the insurance no longer has to pay for the death of a parent? Is this something insurance can cover? Should cover? will cover? This also sets up a variable punishment for causing a death with your driving. If the person you accidentally kill could have one child just about to turn 18, or they could have just given birth to their third set of triplets in three years, or any situation biologically possible. So you could be on the hook for one kid for a month, or dozens for nearly two decades. - I think a good challenge to this law would be on the variability of the financial penalty.
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  13434. When you said you broke your tooth on the wrench I was stunned at how calm you were with that kind of pain... then I realized you meant the tooth INSIDE the wrench, not the one inside your face.
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  13435. I had two SL's myself. (An SL and an SL-1) Ex-wife killed the SL-1 by not checking the oil and letting the engine make an observation port in the block. The one I drove only died when the strut mounts rusted through, and by that time the repair would be 2-4 times what the car was worth. I bought it used and still got nearly 18 years out of it.
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  13436.  @patrickcorliss8878  Similarly hungry for breakfast, eh?
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  13437.  @cthree87  Yep. Less than 1/3 of eligible voters, and the numerical mutations provided by the electoral college have given us a criminal as president and he brought his own kleptocracy.
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  13438. Schlieren, if you want to look it up.
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  13439. Nah, the Pastafarians have the inside line.
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  13440. If music venues had contracts like this, Ticketmaster would fold within a year.
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  13441. @@quentinstyger747 And then there's Wagner...
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  13442. @@quentinstyger747 Have you been living in a monastery for the last two years? Wagner Group is the mercenary group, based out of Russia, formerly led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, which has been an unofficial arm of Russian military projection in Africa, and more notoriously Ukraine. This is the group that recruited from Russian prisons to make up troop losses in the fighting over Bakmut in Ukraine. Some of those same recruits having returned to violent crimes when they returned home after the required term of service in the meat grinder of Wagner tactics. Wagner is the same group that, from dissatisfaction over official Russian military support for their work, initiated an aborted drive of troops and military vehicles toward Moscow.
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  13443. @@quentinstyger747YOU asked the question. As to whether the existence and activities is "common knowledge" has a lot to do with how much someone is paying attention to, oh ANYTHING about Ukraine in the last calendar year.
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  13444. CPAC going to Hungary, but the Republicans have decided to not participate in Presidential debates in the US in 2024. - "Say you're anti-America, without saying you're anti-America."
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  13445. The company was paid $5.5 million for the software? That's a good place to look for money over this.
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  13446. I am pharmaceutically immuno-compromised (to slow down the damage from a genetic auto-immune disease) so as soon as the news said this virus was in the US, I got masks and wore them, and stayed the heck away from people whenever possible. I didn't need the CDC or a health department to tell me this because I paid attention to how Asia adjusted to SARS and the avian flu. I quickly figured out how best to fit the mask to reduce leakage, about how many hours I could get out of a mask, and to always have a spare handy in case an elastic broke. Even though I have asthma and COPD and the mask makes breathing truly suck, I wear it. - I stopped listening to Sweet Potato Trump for advice about fifteen years ago, and of all of those around him, I partially trust Fauci. The rest could tell me water is wet and I'd do science to check their facts. - I am infuriated by some of the people I see. The "free the nose" mask wearers who only cover their mouths, the "keep my beard warm" people who wear the mask on their chin, leaving the nose and mouth exposed, and the worst of all... Those who shop without a mask at all, even when there are signs posted, an employee handing out FREE masks at the door, and all of the other shoppers wearing masks around them.
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  13447. The party of Law & Order. And Law & Order SVU.
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  13448. A deep state coup against Richard Nixon? So, the vampire known as Stephen Miller has chosen to ignore the actual crimes of Tricky Dick, and the fact that he RESIGNED instead of defending himself against an impeachment?
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  13449. Sounds like a pretty cool product. Never heard of it before.
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  13450. REEEEEE! No honks for safety.
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  13451.  @lominoodles1122  8 races. That's around 24 hours of racing in a year that contains 8,760 hours. What a bargain!
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  13452. Aw. Don't cry.
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  13453.  @WolfSchouten  Those round scaffoldings around the buildings make it look like they're still under construction. Ugly, in my opinion. They could have just made the buildings round if it mattered that much.
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  13454. If your asset situation and inheritor pool is simple enough, you can save a lot of money by going online and finding cheap or free will formats to fill in. But then you will still want to have a lawyer give it a once-over, and make sure you have selected a trustworthy executor, whether that be a lawyer, relative or friend. And make sure those people know where a certified/notarized/whatever copy of that will is stored. And storing the only copy in your home is not recommended, because of the possibility of fire and theft.
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  13455. Particularly when you DON'T ANSWER THE QUESTION!
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  13456. Again a police encounter that could have been avoided by a simple, polite question. Call the neighbor, or ask these people, "Hi, I live next door and I know the people who live in the house you're coming out of. Can I ask why you are coming out of there?" - two to three minutes of conversation and all those cops could have been dealing with real crime and traffic violations.
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  13457.  @rickycoverrubias6176  Free? Sold!
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  13458.  @biancadiamondm  The OP did not say, The US is praising Houthis. They said that Americans are. In WW2, some Americans were VERY pro-Reich, a few even actively working against the country. Just like now we are always hearing of people who are caught selling (or at last trying to sell) military secrets to adversary powers.
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  13459. It may just be me, but the Asian woman/girl (?) behind the Fox reporter looks like she really doesn't want to be there. Or maybe the Fox reporter only has "seven days"?
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  13460.  @jkreimborg  Heck, short-circuit fundraising by publicly funding elections. And not extravagantly. The government covers a single mailed piece to the voters in the relevant area, and twenty prime-time ads.
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  13461.  @kruleworld  Because in a criminal case, the burden of proof is on the state to the standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt", while in a civil asset forfeiture case, the burden of proof (and the cost of lawyer(s)) is all on the person trying to get their property back, while the decision is based only on the standard of "a preponderance of evidence". Also, in CAF cases, the person seeking the return of their property is battling uphill from a presumption of guilt of the asset, not a person or group of people.
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  13462. Louis has reached quiet-angry level. Something is gonna break.
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  13463. My school days predate the modern internet. Sure, we had BBS's, but everything was wall-of-text.
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  13464.  @Mrdugan5269  Great tip! Plus, those tubs are thick and will last a long time being used for mere liquids.
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  13465.  Repent-and-believe-in-Jesus  Get thee hence, proselytizer! The power of Pasta compels you! The power of Pasta compels you! The power of Pasta compels you! - Ramen
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  13466. Imagine if this thumb-with-teeth actually BELIEVED the words coming out of his donut hole?
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  13467. Nobody pulls off the gear shifter looking for drugs. Unless they KNOW where the drugs are beforehand, or are planting it with sub-par street magician skills. They KNEW they were pulling over a vehicle which had a lot of drugs left in it, and it took FOUR searches to find a place he didn't think to clean out before he drove it home.
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  13468. "The HOA board had a sudden and simultaneous attack of decency and called a vote to dissolve the association." . Yeah, I can see that happening either.
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  13469. Good advice in this video. Way back when I was just becoming an adult, I was taught that for any major purchase or sale, including cars and firearms, to (in addition to the state-required paperwork like the title) to use clearly written bills of sale listing things like date, description and serial/VIN numbers of the item, name and address of the buyer and seller, amount the item sold for, and to have two copies (back then, using carbon paper - now just printing out two copies) one for the buyer and one for the seller. And to hold onto that paperwork for at least a decade (longer for a firearm) just in case you needed evidence to clear your name. I still have the paperwork from when I sold a shotgun in the 1990's... - Regarding camera settings, the sound and mouth motion seems to have a slight mismatch. Other than that, great quality.
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  13470.  @TheRealScooterGuy  Truth on the attorney part. And I would even try to make sure the attorney kept the original.
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  13471. I have no idea who any of the people being talked about are. I consider myself blessed by that ignorance!
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  13472.  @davidhoward4715  So you're a government lackey or one of the boot lickers?
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  13473. If someone writes a book a few years from now about all of this, they could title it, 'The Rise and Fall of the Turd Reich".
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  13474. Shady Acres? A little too on the nose there.
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  13475. And we get one step closer to Kessler Syndrome! Yay!
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  13476. I had a Walkman back in the 90's when everyone else was getting Discmans. I got a cassette adapter (I like cassepter!) that turned it into an AM/FM radio. I have no recollection how it tuned to different stations.
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  13477. The first lawyer is like a dog with a bone on the refurbished issue. Similes might have helped. A refurbished screen is like replacing your car seats with seats made from different springs, but an original frame, foam and cloth.
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  13478. The "and" thing is one that gets me, having learned math the physics way. When speaking numbers the physics way, 105.23 is one hundred five and twenty three hundredths, making "and" the decimal point. Or say it as one hundred five POINT two three When people around me talk, it would be one hundred AND five POINT two three. The 'common' method inserts "and" where there are one or more zeroes. And it tweaks my OCD. - Oh, and I would really be happy if the world would all agree with when commas and periods are used. In the US, I learned 12,345.67 but I have seen it in some other places in the world as 12.345,67 WHY?
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  13479. Weekly testing is as effective? Test on Monday, get a negative result. Contract the disease on Tuesday. Six days to spread the disease and get sick yourself. - I call this mindset 'self-firing'.
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  13480. Woof. The tree roots have done a number on that driveway!
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  13481. Well! Time to load up a cell phone and laptop with the most aggressive viruses, worms and self-executables and go border crossing! Go ahead copy and open all of those virus labeled "spying information ###.filetype"! - This judge was a moron. Not only does this expose private information, this exposes commercial and government information to warrantless seizures and after that who KNOWS what can happen to it. I have for years advocated people only travel with wiped-clean tech, putting crucial files in a cloud or solid state data devices hidden inside the computer, but not connected or accessible without hooking it back up.
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  13482. Whisper ERASES THE ORIGINAL AUDIO!? What the Pasta! People may go to prison and/or die from these hallucinations, and yet the company is letting the software's users be the alpha testers without the consent of those whose lives may be negatively impacted!
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  13483. I don't even read the fluffery on the box. My concerns: Is it mac-n-cheese and how long do I boil the noodles.
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  13484. Seems to me, a non-lawyer, a "sting" is entrapment under orders, perhaps (yeah, right) with a warrant.
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  13485. Something, something, dark side...
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  13486. It is sometimes a valid technique in troubleshooting microcircuitry. Letting the smoke out is a short step beyond pushing over-voltage and using either IR tech or a dampened fingertip to see where the heat is.
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  13487. This is what happens when you spell it raising instead of razing. A lesson San Francisco learned the hard way in 1851, eh?
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  13488. Me, I'd announce a "nearly new lumber" sale and take bids on who wants to tear down what. As long as they haul out their mess.
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  13489.  @IaIaCthulhuFtagn  I've seen depositions where cops state demonstrable lies about encounters when the body camera footage they had access to before they wrote their report shows completely different facts.
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  13490.  @ronnie3044  I agree. The big concern is if the house is biologically clean.
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  13491. I wonder if that DA announcing the shoplifting threshold was a backhanded way to publicize the office's lack of budget and personnel?
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  13492. Also, humans walking the neighborhoods around the dog park and barking!
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  13493.  @tedspens  Oh my gosh I just thought of something people who live far from that city can do to "pile on"! Leave a voice mail at the relevant city offices of just barking. Send one of those 'record your voice' greeting cards with your voice barking. Send an email or letter with simply the word "woof!"
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  13494. For backpacking, the propane canisters make more sense just because of the ease of puncturing the white gas can. Though you can pour your white gas into a more durable container, so that one didn't last long. I still prefer a hand-crank LED lantern, that can also have a radio. - For cooking, it's combustion all the way. Whether that be white gas, multi-fuel, propane, charcoal or wood, combustion is the only rational way to cook while camping.
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  13495. That knurling is so aggressive, it looks like you could use it as a saw or rasp.
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  13496. If you can get signatures on a petition to ban dihydrogen oxide, you can get people to believe this too. Heck, look at the flat Earth crowd, the space deniers, the young Earth idiots, and the anti-vaxxers! Stupid people are all around us.
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  13497. Hey now. If it's good enough for the Catholic Church, it's got to be good for police departments.
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  13498. 0:30 is when I said, "Oh! The lawnmower pickup!"
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  13499. I got some stranger a ticket once by doing "the look" and the engine rev at a stop light. I had already seen the cop car parked a couple hundred feet ahead in a shadow. I expressed the body language cues as the opposing light turned yellow, then red and... slowly accelerated to the speed limit and passed the guy as he was pulled over.
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  13500. Suburban drove in Chaotic Neutral, drove off Lawful Good.
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  13501. But who has time for fishing?
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  13502. Regarding the name 'Peoples' Liberation Army," what are they "liberating" the people from after all of this time? Healthy service-age men? Money?
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  13503. Dave has done the impossible!
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  13504. Make like a tree and buzz off!
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  13505. Dear Church of Satan, another opportunity to make these fools look more foolish. - Dear Freedom from Religion Foundation, Jump on the bandwagon! - Dear Islamic Center (of various places in the US), plenty of room for you on the wagon! - And any other non-Christian faith organization, all are welcome! - If Christian-fascists get to have charter schools run on government money, EVERY religion (or lack thereof) gets government money! Or, we as a society could actually fix our public education system. You know, pay teachers well; maintain the buildings and contents; bring back the subjects that matter, like science, civics, history, and teaching critical thinking; provide the tools, supplies, books, and computers to actually produce adults who will better their lives and the country as a whole.
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  13506. Look, if the Repubs start bringing about their hate-driven punishment of America, just let us know a day, and leave the doors unlocked. We'll bring the tar and feathers.
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  13507. That jeweler didn't only lose a lawsuit, they also lost a LOT of future customers. If karma is real, they will go out of business.
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  13508. "Improperly seized and auctioned off." Oh, but if I do it, it's grand theft auto and selling stolen property...
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  13509. Only 20-ish people? Discovery got fiscally lucky with that show!
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  13510. Then you get Iron Blooded Orphans that ignore the whole idea of Mars having drastically lower gravity than Earth, and the effect it would have on human development and the ability to maintain a breathable atmosphere.
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  13511. @BB Hmm... Ignoring all of the crime from people and places of other political leanings, and all the crime that is entirely non-political is a great tool to help build your own philosophical echo chamber.
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  13512. @BB What kind of idiot votes by party?
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  13513. I wonder if the behavior changes based on the type of pasta. By which I mean wheat and grains vs various gluten-free offerings. I do not have the camera to try for myself...
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  13514. And the penalties to the lazy police, the criminally negligent (to be kind) DA, and the presiding judge? A little bit of bad press in their comfortable retirement.
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  13515. Another example of how buying the head of a committee is more effective than buying the majority.
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  13516. If police would actually DO something about porch pirates, I might be a bit less upset about this scummy practice by Ring. But catching petty (as determined by the misdemeanor/felony brackets, not impact on the victim) thieves does not bring in as much revenue as writing tickets.
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  13517. Ah, but it's not 52 million cars. It's 52 million airbags, if I understand the video correctly. Driver's side and passenger's side. So "only" 26 million cars?
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  13518. Why does the US have such high Covid numbers and problems getting the numbers down? Trumpism and other stupidity. "YOUR MASK IS TRAMPLING MY FREEDOM!" - If this virus would have reliably killed anti-maskers, a lot of this year would have been smoother. From gyms and restaurants opening, to the election and schools. But Pasta help us if we actually try to mandate that you wear a mask to avoid spreading a pandemic-level virus! I have asthma and COPD, and breathing is a chore all the time. I wear the mask, and I distance, and I miss going to my local restaurants, and I deal with it all because I am smart enough to follow the rational guidelines. I also have not caught the virus. Odd how that works.
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  13519.  @Drago_Whooves  That very specific example may trigger the vandalism clause in my state's insurance language.
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  13520.  @frocat5163  I said "can". You obviously didn't work for a pizza place run by a complete jerk. My brother did, for a couple of months back in the 1990's. Even when he had the police report to back up the story that the entire order had been stolen from him, the owner wanted to bill him for the pizzas. That was his last day.
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  13521. So they abandoned their claim. This means no precedent was set, again, against civil asset forfeiture. Dammit.
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  13522. Oh come on now. If you weren't guilty, they would not have arrested you, right?
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  13523. I am white, straight, pro-abortion, pro-gun, anti-corporation, pro-military, pro social security, and Anti-Trump. Oh, and I live in Massachusetts. So I either cover the spectrum, or sit off to the side of the middle. And I think people have been acting more and more hateful than any time since the end of the Civil War. Even during the racism riots in the 1960's people of differing views could still talk to one another if they were in small groups. Now people are beating the crap out of each other one on one for things a stupid as a hat. It's like gang warfare.
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  13524. "... some kind of Constitutionalist, a crazy guy?" - Since when does knowing and exercising your right under the law make you crazy? - If your weapon is out of the holster, you are planning to use it. That is obvious to anyone who knows what a pistol is. So officer Moustache should either shoot or holster.
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  13525. Around the smoke detector looks like old tape adhesive. They probably held it up there with tape for a long time until someone gave a shit enough to repair it correctly. Probably right before a scheduled fire code inspection.
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  13526.  @bananaspice1967  No, that's trickle-down economics. Rich people urine.
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  13527. Holy special treatment for the blue, Batman!
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  13528.  @DeeSnow97  It is all a matter of personal preference. I have had variable experiences with track pads. The current one I have is okay enough if I don't want to or don't have space to use my travel mouse, but the laptop before that, about half the time touching the pad anywhere would count as a click. - A lesser reason why I don't go for touchscreens is the fingerprint issue. Yeah, that can be avoided by using a stylus.
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  13529.  @1individeo  I don't get that impression from his reporting, and I recall no significant incidents of the types of statements you cite.
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  13530. A song by Biz Markie comes to mind. "Just a friend"
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  13531. I like to answer telemarketer calls with, "Hello, all calls to this number may be recorded. Continuing this call will be taken to indicate consent." Oddly, they hang up.
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  13532. That Russian trucker spoke truth. WHY should he and a Ukrainian truck driver be enemies?
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  13533.  @hellcoreproductions  It doesn't need an app. If you need to control numerous rooms in a large building, you wire them to a central control console or upgrade a tiny bit to programmable stand-alone thermostats.
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  13534. There is a reason that insurance is more expensive for teens and new drivers.
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  13535.  @aarondunn6759  That plan is how you get empty cabinets AND committees. Perhaps even an empty Washington D.C. - I am reminded of the ending of Tom Clancy's Sum of All Fears (I THINK that was the book where the joint session gets obliterated?), when Jack Ryan becomes the president by being the designated survivor, and gets states to appoint actual experts in their fields as an interim Congress.
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  13536. These programs like Nebraska's remind me of the premise of the show Northern Exposure.
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  13537. Two gas meters and no evident driveway. I may have missed the driveway, but the two meters thing has me head scratching.
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  13538. Great news! Next investigation: Why did this take TWO DANG YEARS!
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  13539. And a "gray market" of software and tool use that will let you lobotomize your own car just enough to have it do what YOU want, and not report to the car makers anymore.
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  13540. I have pretty severe sleep apnea. If I fall asleep without putting on my CPAP machine, all that usually happens is I get lousy sleep and I am tired that day.
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  13541. Heck with retail! daily double-shifts in a toll booth!!!
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  13542. Cops LOVE to get that ID. They act like junkies in search of the next hit in their quest to get that ID whether the law supports it or not. If they can't get you to hand it over willingly, they'll arrest and search you for it, or threaten the information out of someone else in your company, or get your ID via tangential means like this guy's credit card, or running a search on your license plate.
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  13543. Tough reach for the o-ring. Maybe you should have asked the lizard for help?
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  13544. At least it gives them a more creditable originating charge than generalized suspicion or resisting an arrest for resisting that arrest.
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  13545.  @AlexA-nd3yy  You may have misinterpreted thomas' post. - scoff (in disbelief) "What?" click (to start the video) At least, that is how I read it.
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  13546. My ONLY complaint with this track (when I play it in my car at least) is that I find myself speeding at the end of the song.
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  13547. In Massachusetts, we have had Proposition 2-1/2 as a law limiting tax rates, increases of tax rates, and increases of valuation year-over-year to 2.5% on real estate and vehicles... since 1982. - Too bad N.J. did not jump on that bandwagon when many other states did similar things back then.
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  13548. Side observation: The title "Under-Sheriff" evinces images of a lawman cleaning up the streets of a Hollow Earth metropolis.
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  13549. Our family grew up with a pinto hatchback as the family car. Nope, didn't explode. The doors rotted out at the bottom, forcing our budget repair of screwing the doors together against lengths of 2x8. That little car kept us in transportation for around a decade until we could replace it.
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  13550. If mere press coverage got this company to reverse the charges, you just KNOW they were trying to pawn of their own mistake onto someone else's wallet.
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  13551.  @Sonny_McMacsson  Eugenics is one possibility. Not a good one, but it would work.
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  13552.  @Sonny_McMacsson  Hahaha!
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  13553. Might not have had permission from those neighbors? Might not have been bad enough on that side to need crossing over.
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  13554. If you are a homeowner and not a renter, you actually HAVE the option to improve insulation. Yes, it can be a huge expense, but it will eventually pay for itself year-round. A tip: you can ease the money hit by doing one room's external walls at a time, and do much of the work yourself. Instead of thousands to tens of thousands of dollars in one big bill, you can break it down to (less than?) a few hundred per room (including disposal, materials, paint). My brother is doing this in his place, and has done two rooms so far, already reducing his heating and cooling costs noticeably. Bonus, they can pick new room colors and decor. Adding insulation to an attic can save a LOT of energy costs, and is as simple as getting access and hauling the stuff up there and putting it down. Your only tools might be good goggles and gloves (and a heck of a shower after to get the particles off).
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  13555.  @epilektric  I was going to argue for insulating the walls until you brought up the foundation issues. That is a much more crucial matter. - Anyway, the room-by-room insulating my brother is doing is in a similarly-aged house, and the walls he has to take down are slat and plaster too. It makes a HECK of a mess, and results in heavy loads to take to the dumpster. One trick he taught me about was to not throw away all of your slats. If you nail slats to the exposed wall studs, then you can get drywall in the thickness of your previous plaster (1/2 inch IIRC) and be able to re-use your previous trim that you hopefully removed carefully. - On the foundation issue, that is not something that is sane to try by yourself, even if you have the massive jacks, jack stands, and concrete forms on hand. And yeah, that can easily climb into the tens of thousands for a large house that needs a full removal and replacement of the footings and foundation. Plus, engineers might be involved, and after you're done, everything in your house will have moved. All those floors will fight to adjust, walls will have cracked, windows might break and/or jam and those doors that previous owners had progressively planed to fit out-of-square doorways will have huge gaps.
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  13556. Poppycock is also a caramel popcorn and nut mix.
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  13557. NYC is teetering, looking deep into the maw of a re-valuation of real estate. And it is about bleeping time. Small retail spaces go for $60-250 per square foot, major commercial clients are shrinking, crappy apartments are priced so high that many who work FOR the city can't afford to live IN the city.
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  13558. I made the same assumption about the sound of rockets too! - edit: AH! Fluid dynamics is the sorcery where math and science meet in a mysterious cabal designed to drive people mad.
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  13559. Even IF (big if) one overlooks the civil asset forfeiture, the offer to return it in exchange for two police cruisers is bribery. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
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  13560. And palm trees at beaches in Wales. Blows my mind.
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  13561. I imagine if we liquify our current supply of Lauren Boebert and engage the services of a crop duster plane...
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  13562. I can't watch the video of the cops seizing the man's car. I don't want to punch a hole through my monitor. - There will come a day when cops playing the civil asset forfeiture game will end up dead, and I shall dance that day.
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  13563. How has this been a 6 year issue without resolution? I know the vehicle inspection in my state, which has to be done annually, and no more than 10 business days from purchase, would have failed a car for that problem. Six years to issue a recall? Dang.
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  13564. Even Native American are immigrants. It all depends on how far back you want to look. The really fun fact is to point out that we're all Africans, if you look far enough back. Their brains explode.
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  13565. Yeah, I would never try something like that at home. I would go to a friend's home and try it. They have better homeowner's insurance.
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  13566. I had to replace a tail light on my 2011 Focus. Looked it up and it required removing the entire light assembly by pulling out the carpet in the trunk, finding the screws/bolts in the blind pocket, and catching the light housing before it falls and yanks wires. Fun.
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  13567. "Ah well, I'm Going To Build My Own Theme Park With Blackjack and Hookers. in fact, forget the park!"
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  13568. I can take my front door off the hinges and use it to start a cookfire, and entering my home without my permission is STILL breaking and entering and you are trespassing. The thing you are breaking is the plane of the envelope of the home.
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  13569. BAN SCHOOLS!
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  13570. Yeah... Young children should be learning things like fair play, manners, math, reading, how to learn, how to play... Not "how to properly embrace a scant minority identity agenda".
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  13571. Nice footage of the HMS Guinea Pig! Ooh, and a special appearance from the IJN Gerbil!
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  13572. The problem is that the US has a 50+ piece patchwork quilt of regulations. Some states only care if you put the plate on correctly, while others actually check to see if the car is roadworthy not excessively polluting. My state annually checks for frame rot, front suspension issues, tire wear, lights windows, functioning doors and lots of other safety equipment. You can fail the inspection for worn windshield wipers (on the basis that if you can't see, you're unsafe in the rain and snow).
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  13573. He may be going about this all wrong. He could have stayed with the league/team/whatever and just stopped trying all that hard, then they would fire him.
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  13574. Her machine gun emplacement looks a lot like a couple of microphones.
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  13575. I counter with this. A 21-gun salute IS odd.
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  13576. I may be too rational a person to be in government employ. But if I was given the directive, "Inventory the safe deposit boxes, but do not search them." I would make a list of the deposit boxes, and slap a tamper-evident inventory sticker on the outside (over the lock faces) indicating the item number on my list. Then store it in a property room with proper inventory data processes. And in the whole process, I never opened the boxes. (Edited for spelling)
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  13577.  @dnice583  But many cops who resign and avoid legal responsibility just get hired somewhere else and do the same damn thing.
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  13578.  @a2cryss  More and more, I am seeing the wisdom of dash (and rear window) cameras.
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  13579. Even an MC can be a Hammer!
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  13580. Another problem is that most contracts have the companies that put up and monitor the cameras get a cut of every ticket. So they are heavily incentivized to issue as many tickets as they can mail out, justified or not.
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  13581. So, Darth Barbie yields her time and the witness is no longer allowed to answer the question? F-ed up rules they got going on there.
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  13582. Most of the problems you cite regarding your bad neighbors are probably covered by state laws and local ordinances. But sure, be an HOA apologist.
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  13583.  @outseeker  I am old enough to remember when Craftsman was a quality brand AND honored their lifetime warranty.
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  13584. Exactly! Go online. Go to [your state].gov. click links to find how your state runs voter registration. Pick the method that works best for you. - In Massachusetts, we can register to vote via driver's license renewal, vehicle registration renewal, returning your annual town/city census, using a direct link on the state or town/city website, visiting the town/city hall during their hours of operation, and perhaps a few more I am not aware of.
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  13585. Even if people can't show up, they can call, email, and/or write their elected representatives. Get others you know in the same field (pun intended) to do the same. Silence reinforces preconceptions.
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  13586.  @quintrankid8045  My explanation of the use of "girlfriend" in the OP's post? Quite serious.
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  13587.  @quintrankid8045  You have so much doubt, your name ought to be Thomas.
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  13588. So this submarine sank itself more than it sank anything else... Seems very Alpha-test.
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  13589. Now to see if the walk matches the talk.
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  13590. I was with you until you got political. Political parties have no special license on a-holes.
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  13591. You have my thumbs-down on the big screen in the truck dash. The whole video gets a thumbs-up though. I'm old-fashioned, and against any kind of screen (particularly touch-screens!) being available to the driver.
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  13592.  @dispatch-indirect9206  I did not know these things before. I am even more happy that I refuse to do international travel.
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  13593. Yeah, 0.11% is like cops tearing your car down to the frame in a search for drugs and finding half a cough drop from 2005 between the door panels.
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  13594. Nice light bar. Does Troy jack kangaroos on the weekends?
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  13595. To me, it looked like the two blades were a bit 'out-of-center' making them bump against the opposing plug innards instead of sliding into the slots.
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  13596. That LB7 engine looked only slightly more fun than a trip to LV-426.
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  13597. So have I been doing things wrong for over 40 years? Being polite to people who work where I shop and dine, using directionals and driving courteously, NOT stealing and breaking other peoples' property, and withholding all of the swearing that morons bring to a boil in my mind, holding doors for people, saying hello to strangers...
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  13598. 768/1 in human losses. That is a serious shock.
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  13599.  @vonclod123  Stay home, download last year's TSO concert. Then the line for the bathroom is shorter, and the snacks are cheaper.
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  13600. The last has no parking, unless there is also a lot behind the building. update: Just checked, it does have a parking lot behind.
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  13601. That knob on the steering wheel has been outlawed in 26 states (including Florida). Another 21 allow the use with restrictions. I'm not trying to be a narc, but the owner may want to be aware.
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  13602. Pre-HIPAA, everything that happened in a particular physician's office with family or friends of my grandmother "somehow" made it to the ear of my grandmother within a day or two. It turned out that the main secretary for the four doctors was a long-term friend of my grandmother, and a horrible gossip. Once HIPAA was passed, she got is SO much trouble before she finally learned how to shut up.
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  13603. "Something, something Zionist regime..." tells me immediately that the statement is intended for domestic consumption by the person/body issuing the statement.
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  13604. Coffee is BAD for your computer. Particularly if you have diary and sugar.
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  13605.  @JimFortune  You know what was intended. It is a common misspelling that is not caught by spell-check, as rogue and rouge are both valid words. edit: also, they could wear rouge without impacting the events of the story.
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  13606. Your last sentence gets to the heart of the matter. Lying about the square footage is dumb, as anyone with a measuring device can catch it. Overvaluing/undervaluing the property to facilitate loans and other financial benefits is fraud, and fact-checking that value is far more complex and time-consuming and requires far more skill and access than measuring a floor.
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  13607. This would be really cool for people who have trouble remembering to take their morning meds. (Commenting for a friend, cough, cough.)
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  13608. Wow. What a child. A SMARTER person would have said something like, "It is not something I am going to talk about again/at this time. Next question please." - But no, he reacts like Sydney wrote the question, instead of reading what someone else sent in.
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  13609.  @edmundooliver7584  Let us flip this to an 11-year-old non-Amish riding a bicycle who gets startled into traffic by a suddenly barking and lunging dog (happened to me once). Is the problem the Amish-ness? Nope. The age of the child? Nope. The dog? Maybe. The lack of accommodation for varied traffic types on our right-of-ways? Most definitely.
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  13610.  @edmundooliver7584  Way to completely miss the point of my example. Congratulations on your mental gymnastics.
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  13611.  @semosancus5506  One simple counter-example: The British Empire banned slavery with a law and enforced that ban well before the US had to split in half and try to annihilate each other over the issue.
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  13612.  @semosancus5506  AH yes. Those "Christian" values. Sovereignty of the (white, male, property owning) individual and natural rights (but not for women, natives, slaves, or any latecomers. How well demonstrated those values were indeed against the natives, women (no vote, rarely allowed to inherit real estate, the African "guests" and generations of their fully owned descendants, and every major group who came over after the merciful and wonderful "Christians" had already gotten THEIR seat at the table.
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  13613.  @francinebacone1455  Removing him, without him resigning, would require another impeachment process, as he is not named in the current proceedings as a defendant.
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  13614. Californians in Duluth where there is no longer ice and snow in the winter, NYC becomes the American Venice, Phoenix and Las Vegas stand empty for lack of water...
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  13615. I can remember watching many an episode and trying to tell Picard through the screen, "Pay attention to the Klingon!" Then something happens, and the Klingon was right.
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  13616. Usually "contempt of cop". Sorry, I meant to say, "Resisting". (Resisting WHAT? is not a question they will answer)
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  13617. "We only make 10 per year as we have each component lovingly massaged by Geishas under the light of a full moon before they are assembled carefully by three deep gnomes under Jimmy Hofa's secret grave, resulting in the individually curated, overpriced piece of garbage we are tricking you to pay $30,000 per unit."
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  13618.  @hoosierplowboy5299  Nothing prevents that. Well, except OnStar saying your subscription is not paid up.
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  13619. Stez 827: Makes about as much sense as saying that you don't want a severed limb replaced with a prosthetic, because back when you first learned about prosthetics they were all hand-carved wood.
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  13620. Your cheap POS phone is a luxury model compared to the phone I am using and quite happy with. My phone is a Kyocera brick that does calls and texts. Oh, and it has an alarm clock function. No camera, no GPS, no touch screen... LOVE IT!
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  13621. Sure, this SEEMS like good news. Up next, the HORDES of lawyers sent by their corporate overlords to fight the decision, trying to finagle the best "random" judges for their case, and ignoring how much the bad press can hurt the bottom line.
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  13622. And she would STILL have the huge lien on her property because the city did not come out to check when she told them the issue had been addressed. The city MADE the fine so large by their own laziness and/or malice. - The PROPER fine, if there absolutely had to be a fine for parking on your own property, would be to ticket the offending vehicle(s). And the fine should never be higher than it would be if someone parked on grass anywhere else. If they wanted to levy daily fines, they should have to get off their chairs and go out and witness the daily violation and write a daily ticket.
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  13623. Another balloon? "Oh, Yuri. You've lost ANOTHER sub?"
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  13624. So the courts sided with the stupidity of a Ponzi scheme company. Hooray?
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  13625. Why are the fines less than a slap on thew wrists? Two major reasons: 1) The fines are set to a dollar amount in the laws. Because of this, they only rise when enough votes can be gathered to increase them in an adjustment of that law. 2) When even the best thought-out laws and their fines were set, to corporations were making tens to hundreds of millions, not tens to hundreds of BILLIONS. - If fines were set at a percentage of: illicit gains, or annual income/profit, or net worth, or some other measure? Then the fines would hurt enough to be a deterrent.
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  13626. How much heavier was your luggage after this visit?
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  13627. I would have contested that parking ticket, but my time is worth less that Steve's, on a dollars per hour basis. Also, my first stop would have been the issuing police department with a photo of the parking spot sans meter and see if they would retract the ticket on that basis.
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  13628. I am a long-time fan of Christopher Titus. I get the content of this video. Check out his "Love is Evol" special.
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  13629.  @Jack_Russell_Brown  Stories like this make me want to invest in a few claymore mines for my driveway.
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  13630. Back in my day, we learned from static words permanently stained into the thinly pressed corpses of trees!
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  13631. YA, FOR ALL HUMANS ARE FIT AND NOT HAVING MEDICAL PROBLEMS THAT MAKE THEM SUSCEPTIBLE TO DISEASES! EAT GUD, LIFT IRON, BREATHE AIRS! GRUNT! - Your personal fortune of health, youth, and vitality is not the steady state of all human beings.
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  13632. Outhouses can be far, far worse. In my times training on military bases, I've seen some that only get pumped quarterly (if that) and looking down one to identify the weird sound I was hearing, all I saw was a white, writhing thick layer of maggots.
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  13633. In a case like this, I imagine the value would differ based on how the sale price is applied. Sale for people with membership cards only? You stole the pre-sale value. Sale through a direct-mailer coupon? You stole the pre-sale value. Sale price available without membership, coupon, or requirement to buy x# of other items? You stole the sale value.
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  13634. America DOES have bad beers. We just have a lot of good ones too.
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  13635.  @cindydott452  Let's be a little fair. That was a TV show on a TV show budget in 1966-73. And they had a pretty hefty self-destructing tape recorder budget.
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  13636.  @goosenotmaverick1156  The stuff I was doing was for construction/rehab of homes and small commercial buildings. Sometimes just the basements.
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  13637.  @DannyNeal-g8y  That makes more sense! I was trying to figure out what the problem with showing footwear was.
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  13638. Because cops enforce feelings, prosecutors bring cases to fluff up their conviction rate for re-election, and judges can do whatever the heck they want until they REALLY go over the line.
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  13639. It is amazing that there are not more ambush killings of police.
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  13640. If I didn't live with a lease that has a "no working on your car on the property" clause, so would I.
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  13641. A lot of mulch. A whole lot of mulch. Mulch ado about nothing. More mulch than you can shake a spear at!
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  13642. "Mr. Clark, you are part of the MAGA Alliance and traitor! Take him away." - D. Vader,
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  13643. Heck, you don't even need to leave the country. Just leave the water drainage basin. I live in central Massachusetts and visited upstate New York near Schenectady, and at each home I visited I opted for water when offered something to drink so as to "not put anyone out". I had diarrhea for two weeks after that. The next trip, I only drank what came in a bottle or can from a beverage maker (soda, tea, milk, etc.), and had no problems.
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  13644.  @n-11ordoskirata70  But can I still get arrested for tearing the tag off my mattress?
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  13645. The throwaway at the beginning about candle wicks was all new to me, and very enjoyable, then I see there is most of a half hour remaining! Yeah!
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  13646. Back in the pre-internet days, we (a small subset of the total of human population, with a loci of what I cam "me") called them "records" the plural of "a record".
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  13647.  @darrellwallick3269  Ah, wait until the racial majority shifts and/or the "browner" people realize that in unity they outnumber the "whites". Then there will be cries for 'fairness' and 'equal rights', and I hope our new browner masters just say, "no".
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  13648. Nah, he'll just start having his Bafang professionally repaired.
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  13649. If your driving school does not include highway miles, that is a crappy driving school. "Teaching to the test" is a problem with all types of education, apparently. - I can understand the TEST not having highway miles, with time and inspectors being limited, but for the school to be cheating you like that? - It's like the place my brother paid to learn computer drafting from, that promised certification in residential, industrial and civil. They never even HIRED a certified instructor for civil, and thus could not certify entire classes worth of students on that aspect. So when they asked for the last 1/3 of tuition, he told them they could have it when they delivered on their advertised product, or try to justify their position in court.
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  13650. Or John Cena and John Oliver blowing out the candles on a shared birthday cake.
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  13651. This is the kind of dumb mistake a one-camera gas station might be forgiven for, but not a major corporation that has gone to the expense of installing a multi-camera surveillance system. - Someone either deliberately erased the relevant footage, or a number of people failed to ensure secure storage of the footage out of negligence or malice. And only that ONE angle missing? That is not an accidental erasure. That is deliberate, and criminal.
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  13652. I don't know how construction and permitting works in that rat-maze, but out here were everyone has at least a small yard, that "lot" wouldn't count as the minimum setback between structures on different lots without agreement from both original property owners at the time of construction, and variances from the town/city. - And building anything that close (as it sits, not including building on that alley "lot") would mean you would have to post a bond as guarantee against foundation damage for the existing structure for a number of years due to disturbing the ground. I can only imagine the possible damage claims if you try and dig a basement hole between two old buildings that you will be fully exposing (and removing the support from) with your excavation. Insurance nightmare. - The only rational thing to put on that "lot" is already there. - On second thought, the only other rational way to build over that alley would be for one of the buildings on either side to expand over it, making their building marginally larger. And it won't be the boarded-over one on the right, will it?
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  13653. An ombudsman sounds like a neat solution... until an HOA group gets one of THEIRS in the office.
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  13654. This clip of McConnell is the lowest-energy temper tantrum I've ever seen.
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  13655.  @DarkMatterBurrito  There are laws about HOW you are driving if driving tired impairs you (speeding, driving to endanger, crossing marked lanes, etc.). But you are right, simple being tired is not a crime.
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  13656. Dear UN: When you have to send in blue-helmets to deal with our idiots, I will offer tea and my thanks.
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  13657. I suppose you could also boat to the area, and either be ferried in on a rowboat or small launch, or swim to the beach from your anchored boat.
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  13658. I'd like to fly Delta Blue, with Delta Red's meal option.
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  13659. Artemis, eh? Let's hope they aren't to miss the moon. Pun!
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  13660. Any place that serves/sell CBD makes to my "no money spent there" list. Yes, I know there are unverified health/wellness benefits to some people, but I am stubbornly opposed to the whole array of substances. I also don't drink or smoke, finding those both disgusting. - But I'll eat just about anything with feathers, four legs, or scales as long as you don't make it too spicy.
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  13661. Nooks and crannies are no big deal. It's the crooks and nannies that are the real concern.
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  13662. We need to ban any book with "begat" within its covers.
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  13663. So which one of these two morons throws the other down the reactor shaft on the Jewish Space Laser station while Luke Skywalker recovers from being electrocuted?
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  13664. How about an easier example. You walk into your grocery store and see a prime rib marked as chuck roast, with the chuck roast price. You buy it! This happened for my brother last year. He even TOLD the meat department manager about the misidentification, and the meat manager, knowing how the law works on price labeling in Massachusetts, shrugged and said, "That's how we marked it, our mistake, enjoy!" - I have no sympathy for the dealership in this case. They sold it, they were paid, they have to suck it up.
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  13665. If it not labeled with a "Property of *******", then it gets broken and tossed away.
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  13666. the image at 4:40 had me pause the video. Is that a HOUSE on the deck forward of the guns?
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  13667. What we see here is the newly developed "Stealth Husky", straight out of testing at Area 51, a.k.a. Groom Lake.
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  13668.  @HRRRRRDRRRRR  I do admit that my previous post was deeply colored by my disgust with the rampant profiteering of those companies, and the fact that I find very little sound quality difference between $15 ear buds and $100 headphones when listening to music from a phone or portable music player.
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  13669.  @qjtvaddict  Why would I need excuses to prefer wired headphones that work for decades over wireless ones that might work for a year or so if I am very lucky? Even if the wireless ones were free, I'd not prefer them.
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  13670. Wow, that corporate drone is really dancing around and deftly NOT answering the simple yes/no question.
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  13671. Filibuster is abusive. Killing bills and motions in committee is criminal.
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  13672.  @jamiefaizfahmy9740  Very Cardassian. Because it would be wrong to bring an innocent person to trial.
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  13673. Brake-checking on a motorcycle? Does that moron really want to force someone else to be the instrument of his suicide?
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  13674.  @WillisPtheone  IANAL. (I Am Not A Lawyer) I am just a person that occassionaly has hopes that people would act rationally and decently. Then I come to YouTube comment sections and have that foolishness brutally kicked out of my skull.
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  13675.  @natesmodelsdoodles5403  Ah yes!
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  13676. If any banning is to be done, it should be a ban of ALL social media and live-tracking software from all government-issued devices unless that social media platform is EXPLICITLY part of that government employee's job functions. And no member of the military should have tracking software on any device they carry with them while training or in active combat. - But the RESTRICT act is written to normalize tyranny against all citizens at the whim of those in power.
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  13677.  @tootallmaninflorida  There are some states actually looking at that issue seriously. Not enough yet, but even an avalanche that kills thousands starts small.
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  13678.  @nextbizzy  And there is actuarial math done to assess risk groups. Economic class, regional illness and accident rates, access to and use rates of preventive medical care in a region, and so many more factors. Then the need to fluff the stock price and pay dividends and non-producing executives ratchets the prices even higher...
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  13679. "Ride the lightening" was originally the term for being executed in the electric chair. Not a good association for Thomas A Swift's Electric Rifle.
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  13680. Louis, you did get Rich and famous. You are famous for your efforts in right-to-repair. And you got Rich to fix the front door of your New Hampshire place. Q.E.D.
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  13681. The funny/sad part of this is that the IRS would never have known if she had not finally filed the "appropriate" paperwork. - "A fine by any other name would stink as badly." - William Shakespeare, during an audit by the IRS.
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  13682. My big question, "Why the [REDACTED] can't the police remove trespassers? They LOVE illegally trespassing, removing, and arresting people supposedly trespassing by standing on public property with a cardboard sign reading 'God Bless the Homeless Veterans". But someone takes the magic step of having furniture and it's a civil matter? If police are going to be that useless, we can do without them and use the money they used to cost to do something useful like fix playgrounds or provide free school meals. - Not for nothing, there is a plant colloquially called skunk cabbage that is native to North America and grows in and near wetlands. It STINKS when the above-ground parts of the plant are crushed. Also, poison Ivy, Poison Sumac, and Poison Oak, (urushiol-bearing plants) can be lethal if the smoke from smoldering plants is inhaled. I am suggesting nothing.
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  13683. Well, King did not get a ship or ship class named for him. Nimitz did.
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  13684. The "Texas Pete" company should THANK this guy as the lawsuit gets dismissed, for all the free advertising. Myself, I had never heard of that brand before.
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  13685. 305 square feet!? that works out to a square room less than 17 and a half feet on a side. That's a small bedroom/living room/dining room and a TINY combination toilet/shower/kitchen/refrigerator. I think Korben Dallas had a bigger place in The Fifth Element!
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  13686.  @carsonchan5102  Owner repairability? That's not very American of you! What will the poor impoverished corporations do to let their c-suite employees be able to afford a yacht for their third vacation home? (sarcasm)
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  13687. Proper armed self defense against an anti-masker is a squirt gun. Perhaps a super-soaker loaded with horse urine. But bullets? No.
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  13688. Hope and a dollar will get you a bad cup of coffee. But so will the dollar alone.
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  13689. What the actual [redacted]?
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  13690.  @dmurvihill  Yelp is garbage. Just like many online rating sites and functions, there are review pumping services, and a business can get righteous negative reviews removed. Sometimes a negative review will get you sued!
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  13691. Big Bad Bill is sweet William now Married life done changed him somehow, He's the man the town used to fear, Now they all call him sweet pappa Willie dear, Stronger than Samson I declare Til the brown skinned woman Bobbed his hair - Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now) - as sung by Van Halen
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  13692. $100.00 an hour is a very decent rate for an encounter that involves "procreation-type activities", but a HORRIBLE rate for sitting in a chair waiting for someone to see you about an injury or illness.
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  13693. Aha! It was Mark Rober who killed the transmission!
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  13694.  @aaronray6748  Pfft. If a cop "feels threatened" nobody is unarmed. Or at least, the "looked" armed at the time.
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  13695. Blinker fluid. Cracks me up. You're saying it wrong there. It's 'blinkah fluid'.
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  13696. Amsoil vs Mobil 1 vs Valvoline vs... Red Sox vs Yankees vs Angels vs ... About as sane. Pancakes vs waffles vs French toast... It's all a carrier for syrup (sir-up).
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  13697. How about necrophilia, since he 'fracked' up so badly?
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  13698. Knowledge is power!
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  13699. Last I checked, the fumes from cooking (not burning) food were not linked, not even in California, to lung cancer.
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  13700.  @wmdkitty  If I had prior warning of the smoking, instead of finding out AFTER my apartment reeks.
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  13701. "Hands up! You're under cardiac arrest!" I apologize for making a joke, but if I don't, my rage will get my comment censored.
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  13702. I think you made a misread. The person writing the email cannot find any books by that are alarming. As in the books they are looking for would alarm them. - Or MUCH more likely, the bot can't grammar no goodly.
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  13703. Right?
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  13704. I see the genius in this evil plan. Seize cars (and trailers, and tools and everything in sight) for being non-street legal and drag racing, sell them to people, sit and wait to seize the cars (and accoutrements) again, sell again... Never-ending revenue! - If their REAL goal was to remove unsafe drag racing from city streets, they would help someone open a purpose-built drag strip. But that would only bring in hundreds of dollars annually instead of hundreds of thousands...
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  13705.  cpk8636-6  Pew. You stink of echo chamber.
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  13706. All it would take to dismiss the waypoint BS if to bring in the GPS device, and set a distant waypoint in front of court witnesses.
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  13707. Copyright is worse than weird, it is bleeping broken (at least in the US). Thanks, Walt!
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  13708. One thing I would have added before a test drive is a visual inspection of tire tread wear, and a check of tire pressure with a pocket gauge.
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  13709.  @Skobeloff...  Yahoo answers was awesome! I entertained myself baiting Christians into responding with cursing and hate.
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  13710.  @TheLumberjack1987  When Meta (then Facebook) bought Oculus, they locked the higher-end functions out unless the owner had a Facebook account "in good standing". That is what happened.
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  13711. Oh no. Louis is congratulating Apple for something. This is it folks, there is something around the corner in Apple-World that will ruin this mild optimism... - edit: A platform should definitely be able to pay its bills (employees, hardware, energy, properties) but more transparency would help people understand where the money is going and why (or even IF) that much money is needed. I'm not saying lay open your internal accounting records, but at least release a sketch of what is going on. If you can justify a reasonable level of expense, people will give you less heat. If I say I need $500 to mow your 1/2 acre lawn each month, you would be a fool to pay that unless I could show you WHY that is a fair rate, and also you should compare my rate to other lawn mowing services.
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  13712. He should have said the drone looked at crossways. They take that seriously in Florida, according to Florida v. Awesome Bill from Dawsonville (a.k.a. Early Cuyler)
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  13713. I'm not a surgeon my any stretch of the imagination, but even the opening incisions are different for the two procedures.
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  13714.  @aderi31415  Me too! Good to see a parts washer in the shop.
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  13715. Remember kids, it's only "baiting" if the pigs are biting.
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  13716.  @dennismood7476  Thank you for saying what I said, but using a whole lot more words.
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  13717. Was this from the same minds that put AA guns on top of main battleship turrets?
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  13718. Nothing sucks like Electrolux! - actual ad copy used in the 1970's in the UK
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  13719. The IOC makes Disney and Paramount look like amateurs when it comes to rabidly protecting their IP. At least the dearth of content about the Olympics keeps people from being able to be interested in the Olympics except on "approved" outlets that pay heavily for the privilege.
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  13720. That cat lived into the future and was the REAL reason for the losses of the Babylon stations 1-4.
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  13721. Want to bet a nickel on that?
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  13722.  @jbmcb  Does that state have a recall election method for judges?
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  13723. "...provide parts and information that is made available to authorized repair centers..." SO easy to get around that. Just no longer provide things to authorized repair facilities!
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  13724. So it wasn't just me?
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  13725. Arduino controlled color-changing LED strips! You can do slow color shifting of the whole strand at one, or progressive through the strand, blinking, flashing, slow or fast strobing (effective for finding the people with seizure disorders?), bright-to-dim, and all sorts of lighting effects
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  13726. To deal with the droop, I would have supported it with some L-channel and zip ties.
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  13727.  @PictureTheFinger-xr4qk  Do you mean Paul McCartney, the BRITISH musician? Ho would a Brit's endorsement be relevant?
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  13728.  @PictureTheFinger-xr4qk  Ojay, fair point. Plus, he is the Walrus.
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  13729.  @calbowa  I could refer you to the Molotov cocktailing of a police car in May of 2020 in Brooklyn, NY. Then the various incidents of people driving into or through crowds at protests/civil unrest in recent years in the US. Or how about the many times people have gotten angry enough to hit each other over protests blocking traffic? - And I do not "feel" that violence over "inconveniences" are justified in a civil society, but neither are those actions that block the lives of others simply so that the message of the protest gets the most attention possible. - Very few debates have been solved by angry yelling. They are more often solved by either calm discourse, or armed violence followed by calm discourse.
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  13730.  @davidfoster5906  What causes the higher prices? Corporate greed. What presidential policy could "fix" it? - Nationalize our economy? Illegal. - Try and educate the people about where the actual increases are coming from? The echo chambers of the right are immune to facts.
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  13731. Deport the children of immigrants? GET ON THE BUS< DONALD J TRUMP!
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  13732. Northern Alaska? Guam?
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  13733.  @tuckerbugeater  You don't need to be white to be self-deluded. Though in some countries it is easier.
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  13734.  @madmatt2024  Specifically, in Florida, lemon law claims, which can only apply to new vehicles unlike some other states, must be initiated within 24 months of taking delivery of the vehicle. - Once the lemon law window closes, you have a steeper path to legal claims.
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  13735.  @robertsmith2956  Hahaha!
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  13736. I once ran a business that would not have been compliant because of things out of my control. The commercial property had a ramp that was partially blocked by a support column, and the business bathroom was far too small to be adjusted to be ADA compliant. Fortunately, I was a small retail location and did not need to provide public bathroom access.
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  13737. Condominium? I don't use 'em.
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  13738. My stone chess set has tan and green pieces. Which one is oppressing the other?
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  13739. Paper temp tags are a way to let the state not have to spend money on have enough Registry locations and operation hours (and stock of metal plates ready) to get plates to owners of new cars in a timely manner. Here in Massachusetts, we have a decent number of Registry locations, though their hours are only during the business day. Automobile dealerships usually have a person who can get plates to put on your new car, and they may even have some on hand to assign. Insurance agents regularly make Registry runs and can get you plates. Also, we can transfer our plates from our current vehicle to a new one and we have seven (7) days, it only costs $25, and can be done online or by your insurance agency or dealership (if the dealership has that access). This state does not have paper license plates.
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  13740. To quite a fictional judge, "I AM the law!"
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  13741. Orange Donnie's big mistake: Trying to overturn an AMERICAN election. He should have followed tradition and stuck with meddling in South American, Asian, African or Middle Eastern governments.
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  13742. Hey, with the 5-round magazine, it might even be California-legal!
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  13743.  @Mohojo  I am constantly shaking my head at how many people are caught for various criminal activity by their OWN livestreaming, video posting, bragging posts, songs and so on. Then the people who tell people they probably should not have, who find either them or their crimes objectionable enough to "drop a dime".
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  13744.  @jed-henrywitkowski6470  I tell you what!
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  13745.  @liberatumplox625  Accepted!
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  13746. Her behavior makes perfect sense as a former cop. Cops HATE the rights we have from the first amendment.
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  13747. I have a psychological aversion to the innards of humans, and you would have to pay ME a lot more than $500 to sit through something like that.
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  13748. That hypothetical conversation can be good or bad. Too often, it is bad.
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  13749. If I am driving a device assisting the cops, I want cop pay, and cop benefits.
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  13750.  @OuttaasiteNdynomite  You got the saying wrong. It's "Shit in one hand and hope/wish in the other and see which one fills up first." - Oh, and I take diuretics, so the urine hand would fill faster (and more often!) for me.
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  13751.  @kcgunesq  Good straw man argument you've got there.
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  13752.  @itsgonnabeokai  I kind of like a car with a touch of ugly. The Fit is interesting, but the Element is 'blech'. It's all subjective though.
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  13753. This is the kind of racist Karen that needs to be beaten with a sack of rabid badgers, except that it wouldn't be fair to the badgers.
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  13754.  @toysoldier46552  I think what sucks the most is I don't know what I don't remember until I try to remember it. And then it is stuff I KNOW I used to remember. Meanwhile, I can still remember very clearly things from the early 1970's. But not the major plot points of books I read only 4 to 6 years ago.
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  13755. The one that exploded my brain was the centrifugal clutch. I have rebuilt one of the old style units for a go-cart, and I was chasing ball bearings all over my bench, then I had to calibrate how tightly I assembled the nut (?) nobody seemed to have a tool for. Only four tries to make it work! This compliant clutch would have been a breeze in comparison.
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  13756. Because Trump spent his first term getting "his" judges and politicians favorable to his cult in place. This time around, his first actions were to get rid of the people whose job is to catch and stop this. If Congress and the courts don't actually start doing the job as the law and constitution requires? Well, Jefferson's tree of liberty is looking parched.
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  13757.  @fikesh1748  Too many people who live in places where it freezes are grasshoppers, heading out to get sand and ice melt AFTER they fall down Smarter people are ants who stocked up before Halloween.
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  13758. It's easy to be armed. Fake a limp, get a cane. Optionally, have a wood shop drill out the center and epoxy in a steel rod.
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  13759.  @rata536  This video is of a replacement of a failed plastic oil cooler with an aluminum oil cooler... in a location that take an astounding amount of work to even get to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW3kLqRywJI
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  13760.  @stephengrigg5988  Another fine example of a bad cop by proxy. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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  13761.  @kurtwetzel154  My favorite is Jeff Gray - Honor Your Oath - PINIC (Photography is not a crime).
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  13762.  @ericemmons3040  That's... unusual?
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  13763.  Markus Lopez  In Waco it was mass murder-suicide by cop. Ruby Ridge was bad decision making and criminally poor target discipline. Not what event in Chicago's storied history you are referring to, but I do have some recollection of an entire block in Philadelphia(??) burning, home after home, because of a police decision to use a bomb. - This was in 1985.
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  13764. I decent trick I've seen to clean both sandpaper (such as the expensive stuff on table sanders) and files is a rubber grit cleaner. You can even use the sole of an old sneaker.
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  13765. A lot of "prohibits..." But I'm not hearing a lot of meaningful consequences yet.
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  13766. I used to laugh along with the audience when watching this show. - Over the last year or so, I've instead half-heartedly contemplated assembling a "vest".
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  13767. Dang! Bugs are going full Kamikaze on your windshield.
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  13768. Does that make you a CZ-um? Elementary humor.
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  13769.  @avi-soundtailors9034  CZ-um, Cesium.
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  13770.  @A.Briggs628  "Free" like many other "free" things. It still costs money to produce, ship and provide those "free" things. The lumberjacks, papermakers, printers, bookbinders, shipping workers (at all steps) all need to be paid. And most of them work for businesses that are profit-motivated.
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  13771.  @CherylLynn65  Hmm... The killing one. Reviewing the list, I can't see any others I would see him in compliance with, unless like many vile humans he really does care for his parents.
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  13772. And the US has SUCH a great record of ending terrorism with military force, yeah? (sarcasm)
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  13773.  @tazman2130  There is some anger and past pain in your response. Let it go.
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  13774.  @tazman2130  I will not even TRY to debate your "points" for two very good reasons. 1) That which is presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. 2) Changing your mind would be like shaping cured concrete. It would only be possible to break it since it is fully set.
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  13775. I thought this was going to be the news about the bird. Because the bird is the word.
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  13776. I keep trying to send the people I meet, who have Apple stuff, to there as well. Of the three I have met, one shrugged, one said they would just replace it, and the third was changing brands.
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  13777.  @lubanaprince8117  Why did you post a link to a listing for a macbook... on THIS channel?
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  13778. Hmm... Attemtp to subvert the duly elected government of the United States? Fits the charges.
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  13779. I have had someone granted with power of attorney over me without my input. I was drastically ill, unresponsive-to-incoherent, and needed that sort of legal protection. Fortunately, it was my mother, and she did not abuse the responsibility. I am much better now. Unfortunately, my mother died before we got around to canceling the power of attorney, and it was a serious pain in the coccyx to get it unraveled.
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  13780. Only 6 seconds over 5 minutes! Stop the presses!!!!
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  13781.  @thekinginyellow1744  If I recall correctly, the intro changed because some liar was copyright claiming the videos for the music.
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  13782.  @ts757arse  I just got back from the throne. I washed my hands with soap and water for about 30 seconds. So when this R2R fails, go ahead and blame me too, I guess...
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  13783.  @keenices1972  Yeah, kind of made you sound like a damp alcoholic with few inhibitions. Hehehe.
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  13784. Good luck with that silly stand. They have toes in a LOT of pools.
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  13785. I have never known the religious or political stances of any of my landlords. I just plain don't ask, don't care, and don't advertise my own to people with whom I have a financial-only relationship. It's a solid "nunya" situation. - I have had a very old lady as a landlord, a buy who bought the building to sell it in 8-10 years to pay for his daughter's college (only to sell it after I had been there a year - the new owners wanted to live in my unit, so I was booted), a landlord who bred, raised and trained dogs, and a corporate landlord. - Other than the time my unit was sold out from under me, they have all been fine, hands-off landlords.
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  13786. Wait, so instead of "Oh look, I got an ad for orange sneakers, I wasn't even THINKING about shoes," we'll have to settle for, "I think I need new shoes. let me search for orange sneakers." Oh no!
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  13787. I buy one thing at my local Dollar (whatever). Redi-Board. It's a foam poster board that has the paper layer that is easy to peel off. This is the only one like that I have found, and is a great material for my TTRPG crafting.
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  13788. See? Even moronic super-spreader anti-maskers have rights!
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  13789.  @FriedrichHerschel  Indeed! They count as a well researched charity in my view. A good charity has a low overhead to direct aid ratio. I recall when the United Way was exposed to have one of the highest overhead to direct aid ratios of all of the major charities, yet so many employers were helping their employees do direct payroll deductions to that group.
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  13790. That may be true for a small minority of false-accusing women, but it helps a LOT to not be a creep.
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  13791. Space is so big that even if every star had a heavily populated planet, the average population density of the universe would be vanishingly close to zero.
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  13792. R2D2 helmet? Awesome!
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  13793. Don't worry, in a week, Trump will claim to not have signed the order himself, someone else will be thrown under the bus, but the order will stand, regardless of how legal or ethical it is.
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  13794. Hey, it's not like you got the peanut from the Cuyler P-Nuts and Hair doos shack...
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  13795. How do we stop drugs crossing the borders? 1) do something about why people use those drugs or 2) make the drugs here.
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  13796. I have opened cans with an counter-top electric can opener, the cheap plier-like version you showed, the version you showed after that one, an electric side-cutting opener, the p-38 military can opener (the best one for backpacking due to the small size), a survival knife, a flat-head screwdriver, a claw hammer, a "church key" can piercing opener (that was a chore pressing those triangle opening all the way around the can top without leaving tiny bridged of metal). The one you are singing the praises of is closest to the battery-operated version I used back in the very early 2000's, but with a much better situation with keeping the possible metal shards out of the food. I need to get one!
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  13797. Go ahead and make mistakes. As long as you own up to them as soon as you find they were mistakes. But spreading lies is not a mistake. It is misinformation/disinformation, and a may even be weapon of war wielded against our own interests. Firing entire swaths of the government for ideological reasons is not something you do by accident. And stop using your small child as a shield.
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  13798. Why did the lead investigator make the logical leap that there was a car theft? Probably two factors: 1) He is the supervisor of among others) a unit that investigates car theft. There is plenty of evidence that being part of a special unit dedicated to one kind of crime, or being a "certified" expert in that kind of crime will lead to people seeing that kind of crime wherever they look. 2) his boss called him directly and asked him to look into a car theft. The job did not come up through the pipeline normally. If the former Sheriff had said, "Investigate this complaint of sentient Kumquats" then he would be assuming there ARE sentient Kumquats, and be looking for them wherever possible.
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  13799. Yes, I read to the end of the small print. I'm one of THOSE.
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  13800. Poison ivy? SALT THE EARTH! - Sorry for the reaction, but urushiol (the irritant oil in poison ivy/oak/sumac really takes me out. - edit: From the Farmer's Almanac Non-Chemical Methods To Remove Poison Ivy From Your Property: - Remove the entire plant — leaves, stems and root. You have to be sure to get it all. And, wear long pants, long-sleeved shirts and thick gloves—plastic or heavy cotton. Be sure to wash all clothing afterward. Put the entire plant in a plastic bag and dispose of it. - Make a poison ivy killer spray. Some folks have had luck with this remedy: Combine 1 cup of salt and 1 gallon of vinegar in a pot and heat to dissolve the salt. Allow it to cool, then add and 8 drops of liquid dish soap and put the mixture in a spray bottle. You can spray the poison ivy or pour it directly on the plant. This will kill all vegetation, so be sure to only apply it to the poison ivy. It takes a few applications. - Some have claimed that pouring bleach on the plant will have the same effect, however, this classifies as a chemical method. - If you happen to have a goat or cow handy, they just love to eat it—without any side effects! - Another technique to clear the area of poison ivy is by planting grass seed. Ivy will not grow where there is a lawn. I tried this at my cottage and it worked. The only downside is that it takes time, but, once you have grass, you won’t have poison ivy.
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  13801. Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can rent it by the hour.
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  13802. I don't even like the idea of heated seats. I've see too many burnt-up seats to want that feature.
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  13803.  @Beecher_Dikov  Hey now, this is not a fetish discussion!
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  13804.  @EnthalpyAndEntropy  (whispers on the wind) "Shallow grave in the state forest..."
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  13805. I had never thought of this take. Such a great debate point! - edit: also, imagine if these automakers had taken all the time, effort and money they spent on their scare tactics to try to defeat the ballot initiative (and fail) and then bring an appeal on the same matter to federal court... instead putting that time effort and money toward improving their data safety and finding ways to sequester diagnostic data from all of the other data they are Hoovering? - Why, this matter would already be settled, and auto makers would not be shooting themselves in the market share by throwing their data tantrums.
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  13806. Easier solution: The law already allows private property owners/operators he ability to set a wide array of rules for those who come onto their property. If, every Fourth of July, Uncle Jeff sets your back deck on fire in a drunken festival of whiskey, gasoline and fireworks, you can decide to bar Uncle Jeff from your property. If you have a house rule that all beverages must be set on a coaster, you can refuse to provide beverages to those who don't comply. Or you can refuse them access to your house. The stadium operators could set up a chain-link fence between fans and the field, topped with razor wire. They could use facial recognition and on-site security to file charged of property damage, or they could decide to not let fans into the arena at all.
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  13807. But nothing about the Maltese Falcon? Suspicious! Maybe you are an associate of Mr. Cairo.
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  13808. Nah. laser lose concentration over distance. Use flechette needles to put holes in the other guys' suits, let space do the killing.
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  13809. Those are two countries that have dealt with epidemic after epidemic, so they have the experience on an individual, institutional, and governmental basis to deal with things like this pandemic. And neither of those two countries have the lovely combination of Trump in charge and a large population of the ignorant "Don't Tread On Me" fools.
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  13810.  @crashtest2607  The best way to tell a 'customer' to "go fuck yourself" is to murder them with manners. I love doing that.
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  13811.  @NotoriusMaximus  Do you see torpedo boats?
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  13812. Are ALL of the particles passing through? I bet no, unless they were testing dry virus samples, and that's not how most virus particles come out of your face. They come on droplets of liquid that the masks largely DO stop. What we need these days is the ability to move people into communities of like-minded people and force them to stay there (I would only apply this to adults who can legally give consent for themselves). So the "no masks" can cough on each other together, the "no vaccines" can all die in a pile, the "medicine is against my religion" can stop killing their kids with colds and common infections...
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  13813.  @KallePihlajasaari  I watch many channels. To which do you refer?
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  13814. I had to physically disable my DRLS on one of my cars when the low-beams circuit burnt out in the fuse block. Re-wired the low beams through the DRL circuit, and I was driving legally again!
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  13815. When your "uniform" is a balaclava and a headband, it is easy to make ANY dead body a "civilian murdered by the Zionist forces of Satan".
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  13816. The quality would either degrade from the demand to put out a constant feed, or the show would disappear from lack of duration. In short, quality takes time, effort, and determination.
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  13817.  @Mahbu  Mainstream media is a term I associate with a national news organization that has a channel on cable/satellite TV packages. But I grew up when news was an hour each at 7AM, noon, 5PM and 10PM. And Walter Cronkite made us feel like reaching for a globe or map to not disappoint him.
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  13818. Another reason taxis are beat pieces of shit is that a cab company or individual owner knows that hours that cab is not out earning end up costing money, so they will run multiple drivers on as many shifts as possible with that car to keep it out earning as much as possible, other than repair time.
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  13819.  @frizzlefry1921  "Say it with me now." - "Mister Claymore is not our friend..."
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  13820. Ray apparently had a lot of fun editing up the opening. I know I was amused and entertained!
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  13821. Power windows on a 1978? And they still work!? Amazing.
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  13822. Right? How DARE the common serfs try to be more like that Jesus guy? Treating people like people? Feeding them when they are hungry, clothing them when they are uncovered? What's next, helping them improve their lives? - These fools ought to know they are ONLY meant to obey their betters in government.
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  13823. Still needed for things like road paving, lubricants, and the lighter fractions will still have use in chemical creation of other materials like paints, plastic, fabrics, and synthetic rubber.
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  13824.  @SeanBZA  Does that spot also have a functioning license plate light? In my state, the lack of a functioning light on the rear plate is a valid cause for a traffic stop.
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  13825.  @SeanBZA  Yeah, even though US plates are retro-reflective, one of the more popular equipment fail tickets is the "license plate not illuminated" violation. It's up there in some ranking with non-functioning tail/brake lights, headlights, and directionals. Nice easy low-hanging fruit.
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  13826. Hey, I reserved and prepaid for a room. This lobby is now my room. BTW, manager, I like to sleep in the nude.
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  13827. Pondering the sweater of space-time can be brain-melting.
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  13828. "It ain't got no glass in it."
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  13829. My first-aid for a headache? I start with "drink more water". When that doesn't work, only then do I reach for an acetaminophen. - Homeopathy is basically tapping yourself in the head with a hammer to treat that headache. - Okay, after learning about 30c, it's more like treating that headache with my original glass of water... and the vague memory of the idea of a drawing of a description of a hammer.
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  13830. "Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people."
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  13831. Pulled over for TINT!? At night!? What a lie.
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  13832. Was the price posted anywhere in sight before you cross the toll booth/plaza? If not, you could possibly successfully argue that the toll is unenforceable.
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  13833.  @toolbaggers  Citizens' asset forfeiture of police assets!
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  13834. So, 600 whose blood tests returned 0.0. How many whose blood tests returned valued between nothing and just under the legal limit?
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  13835. Nerf guns at the OK Corral!
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  13836. My response would be: 1) Ask them why the [expletive] they loaded it if their assertion was true. 2) Call the cops to report theft.
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  13837. Shame on Brother not making a printer that is drop-n-tumble resistant! (kidding)
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  13838. The tactic of "probing by human sacrifice" is barbaric to my mind.
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  13839. I agree with you completely, PocketBrain. I only have interest in cars with buttons, knobs and sliders. I don't EVER want to have a car where changing the radio or turning on the AC forces my eyes off the road. And hell NO do I want voice-activated anything in the car.
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  13840. So regarding fact versus allegation, we are looking at a legal filing. The plaintiffs and the lawyers may in fact have evidence for their claims, but it is not listed in the filing. They could also have strong partial evidence, and need to gather more evidence through discovery, which happens after the initial filing is accepted. - Louis is right to not assert accusations as fact without seeing the evidence and citations. Journalists regularly DO report allegations as fact, even when not yet supported by solid evidence I know which approach I find more intellectually honest.
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  13841. You too?
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  13842. This case will become more important with an increase in multi-LED tail lights on the road. How many LEDs have to be functioning for the marker or signal to be considered working? 1? 1/2 of the original number? all of them?
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  13843. Fear is the mind-killer.
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  13844. Also, when I hear "depleted uranium" I don't think new-kyou-luhr. I don't even think new-clee-uhr. I immediately think APFSDS.
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  13845. I see all those different length fasteners and all I can think is, "Dang, engineers, who hurt you so badly?"
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  13846. The only thing at risk if we finally start taking meaningful steps to reduce climate change is profit. Yep, we're doomed.
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  13847. Regarding your move to Texas: Not a state I would move to, but you will have different reasons than I would. Anyway, for properties, carefully check flood plain maps before committing. Always ask if there is an HOA or similar organization, and read relevant information to be an informed buyer/tenant. Assume there will be lengthy power outages, and plan for them to be in either the hottest or coldest parts of the year.
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  13848.  @chrismckenna5361  Don't forget the blue-tip wrench!
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  13849. What color and shape of cloth will we have to sew on our clothing to make life easier for these kinds of cops to do their jobs in targeting us and taking away our rights and freedom?
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  13850.  @williamguest999  "I'm Spartacus!"
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  13851. If there is a demonstrable need to legalize a recreational drug, make sure it is not the more harmful ones like the powders and injectables. And paired with legalization of the tamer things, increase the severity of sentences for dealing the really bad stuff. Yeah, my comment is full of generalities, in part because I am anti-legalization. Heck, alcohol has done more damage to my family than violent crime, auto accidents, cancer and heart disease combined.
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  13852. But Louis! They could install TikTok on the ventilators! (which would give patients something to watch while they hope they survive, and are thankful that there actually WAS a ventilator for them.)
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  13853. Wait! According to congressional republicans, getting a "sweetheart deal" is an abuse of the legal system. So any co-defendants who turn state's evidence for a lesser penalty are somehow hoodwinking the justice system. Right?
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  13854. It seems to me, with the list of possible maladies that contact could cause, death might not exactly be the "worst" thing.
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  13855. Yep. Immediately after: We get the thumbs-down counter back, Apple gives independent repair shops schematics and the ability to buy non-serialized parts, And the FTC can actually levy fines that make the megacorporations nervous about getting fined.
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  13856. But the internet loves videos with thick, heavy shafts. - - No, YOU have a dirty mind!
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  13857. Donold lets people with hate express their hate by saying he shares their hate.
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  13858. GPS? I still use paper maps, road signs, and dead reckoning to get around. I can find North on a clear night I can find North during the day with nothing more than a stick and some knowledge.
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  13859. My advice? Invest in owning the forests that produce maple syrup.
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  13860. Another gorram "Officer Right Here", badge number "Right Here"...
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  13861.  Mavendow  No apology needed! I was rather impressed that I understood as much as I did, since I had not crawled into the operating system at all since Windows 3.0 And you explain well.
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  13862. I much prefer a "blintzkrieg", as long as the rules of war include sweet fruit filling.
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  13863. Don't forget Tik Tok!
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  13864. Thanks! I learned something.
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  13865. I have not have any problems with the mixing valve on any shower. My only problems have some when showering when someone does something like flushing a toilet on the same cold water trunk. edit: I tend to shower right around or just barely above skin temperature, then finish (except in the midst of winter) with 20-30 seconds at about 3/4 cold. Combine that with short (under 8 minute, thanks Fort Benning!) showers, and I almost never have a steamed mirror.
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  13866. Yes, but it is also good that it is so hard to change it (peacefully). as it provides a stable structure on which we can depend, against the slings and arrows of political BS and grandstanding that passes for them doing their jobs.
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  13867. I get the heebie-jeebies when someone works on an engine while it is running. I think it is because the first time I saw someone do that was back in the days when the radiator fan was four steel blades connected directly to the engine and spun fast enough to cut a napping cat apart on start-up (another childhood trauma story). The person working on the engine dropped some tool or other and it came flying out of the engine compartment like someone threw it in anger. - So even in the age of electric radiator fans, I still shudder.
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  13868. Not enough torque, and the lug nuts could self-loosen, opening the garage to legal liability. Too much torque, and the shop may be required to replace the lug nuts and studs when either the studs break, or the tire cannot be removed without extreme measures. - For this specific vehicle, the safest thing would have been to leave the wheels off entirely, though the damage to the floor and parking lot would be harsh.
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  13869. The total may include late fees and interest?
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  13870. I will counter thus: Charging a person (found guilty in a court of law) money for their incarceration imposes a burden that can, and does, result in recidivism, homelessness, poverty, and all that follow from those outcomes. The burden is disproportionate on former inmates who earn less post-release when they already have parole fees, court costs, probable lawyer bills, and just trying to live as financial drains. If we as a society cannot afford to house these inmates (the "reasoning" behind many states' laws allowing the practice) then maybe the society needs to find alternatives to housing them. Shorter jail terms, more sentences of home detention as opposed to jails/prisons, or find the damn money in the budgets.
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  13871. That's how Ernest Hemingway hunted subs in WW2. Hammer and small arms in his fishing boat, the Pilar. With the blessing of the US ambassador to Cuba...
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  13872.  @bcubed72  Yep. OTC and prescription meds ae all in metric.
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  13873.  @Rekuzan  There are some trades and practices that have multiple methods of measurement still in use. Some that come to my mind: wire gauge, shotgun gauge, compass readings (degrees, degree-minute-second, mils, radians), the engineering measurements you mentioned, a trip through a US grocery store (a liter of soda, a gallon of milk, and 5 pounds of potatoes)... - Some measurement systems were invented because the numbers "felt good" while others are more logical. 360 degree, thanks to the Babylonians' sexagesimal numbering system, the (wrong) number of days in a year, and the geometry or equilateral triangles.
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  13874. So, convince people to stop using pickups and SUVs as everyday commuter vehicles? Sedans and coupes have much lower CGs versus the wheelbase.
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  13875. And thus why some older cities still run municipal steam.
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  13876. If a male gets a vasectomy, are they no longer male? If a female gets a hysterectomy, are they no longer female? Of course they still are who they were before the surgical procedures. Or do we want to start using the terms we apply to animals? (gelding, fixed, spayed, neutered, etc.)
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  13877. Fools! I only drink water I produce as a byproduct of the explosive combination of hydrogen and oxygen gases. Of course, I have some potentially lethal side effects from the pure molecular water taking minerals out of my body by osmosis...
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  13878. I went nearly two years not knowing that IANAL meant "I Am Not A Lawyer". I thought it was an admission of engaging in certain "relations" wherein one party often gets a view of the other party's shoulder blades.
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  13879. Would a mini-00 buck be a 00-fitty cent?
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  13880. So, if they called themselves "CarBnB" would they be in less trouble?
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  13881. Funny thing about service. That's what they call arranging a male farm animal to copulate with a female farm animal. "Toro was brought in to service the yearling milk cows."
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  13882. "Do your utmost in the face of the enemy." a.k.a. Die to enemy guns, or die to our guns.
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  13883. Hmm. $9.05 to $11.05 per hour (minimum wage for tipped workers in NYC, depending on size of business). Less than half of the population immunized. Anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers. Nope. I wouldn't either.
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  13884. Time to get a VERY wide sombrero for daily use...
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  13885.  @youknowwhoyouare2269  I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were going for witty and humorous instead of insulting.
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  13886. One hour, and an even spread of high-altitude nuclear blasts across the globe. Sure, as much as half of the world's population will die within a season, but it would actually fix the phone privacy issues. Because everything electronic will be paperweights.
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  13887.  @mabryperry1829  I look at the history of the human race and see a lot of drool-drowning. Not that much of it can be laid solidly at the feet of the offspring of first-cousins, but it is there to see. - If you want to see a time capsule of the problems of multi-generational close intermarrying, you can peruse the various dynasties of the Pharaohs.
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  13888. Oh my gosh I love that shirt!
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  13889. Nah, that's a surcharge from the ATF because shoelaces are machine guns.
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  13890. I can see an opening for a business model of maintaining office and meeting spaces for temporary rentals by other companies. This will not fill all of the office real estate in any area, but one or two entities per major metropolitan area could do well with a good business model, solid networking, and a small staff keeping the place clean and updated for renter's needs.
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  13891.  @Steven-ud8kz  Talking with my brother, one thing that can help with that psychological aspect is setting aside a specific desk or table or corner of a room to be where you work, and only use it for that. edit: If you can set aside a small room for the purpose, it may let you deduct part of the cost of your housing as a business expense.
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  13892. I am looking forward to Scott's coverage of the wood satellite Finland is planning to launch, once it goes up.
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  13893. Suspension as a Service. Keep in mind, that "service" is the verb for having your male farm animal engage in procreation with your female farm animals.
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  13894.  @Quacks0  Yeah, I only quickly read about that incident. Some people seem to have reacted like he was doing a slash-n-burn on hundreds of square miles of indigenous lands in the Amazon rainforest as opposed to clearing trees on land he owned.
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  13895.  @Quacks0  I lack enough information on the matter to comment on his motives or options or the level of validity of the backlash. I do know that if I decide to cut down a tree in my yard, I don't need a reason. I just need the right skills and tools, or the services of someone who does have those and who holds the proper insurance and business licensure. If I want to plant a tree in my yard, I need a shovel and a tree (preferably a 1-3 year sapling).
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  13896. What's an iPhone for?
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  13897.  @markmyers5881  If there are no living relatives, then it gets even messier.
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  13898.  @1978garfield  "Six inches of Mother Earth between you and the blast, and soldier, you'll be okay."
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  13899. That's not a bad way to go if you're dealing with the nuts frequently. I would not have thought of it.
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  13900. Scam? Sounds like a good way to upset just the wrong kind of person and end up getting your oxygen permit canceled. And what the Pasta is a "temporary no-parking zone" besides a revenue stream? If there is no police record of the "courtesy tow" then the car was stolen. End of story.
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  13901. I actually have a pencil sharpener right in front of me on my desk.
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  13902.  @DominicEidson  And to top it off, this was spurred by one of Louis' points about having to deal with roaches.
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  13903.  @michaelszczys8316  Other points are that a tire valve is almost never holding over a hundred PSI behind it. All of the tire valves I have seen fail were because people didn't keep the weather caps on them, and there was light corrosion and/or dirt driven into the valve when the tires were topped off.
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  13904. It occurs to me you could check for metal bits in the filter and oil with a blue glove over your magnetic socket extractor. The glove is to keep your magnet clean and make it easy to get any metal off of it.
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  13905. I never saw the ad, haven't used blades on my face since the late 1980's.
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  13906. Careful! You may end up being known as "the guy" for PT Cruisers in Florida and end up working on nothing else.
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  13907. If it was a "privately owned" balloon, then it was a "privately owned" balloon days ago when it was first publicized. China could have EASILY claimed then that the balloon was "privately owned" and only over the US accidentally. They could have given the name of the company in their too danged late press release. - China is lying, but anyone expecting otherwise needs to contact me about a bridge over the Atlantic Ocean I have for sale.
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  13908.  @tanall5959  There is only one thief in the US military. Everyone else is just borrowing things to complete an equipment inventory.
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  13909. The best example of why this would be an issue is to, at night, brightly light a room, then try and see details of an unlit area outside on a cloudy or new moon night. That is what bright lights inside your helmet will do when you're in a dark area, just the kind of situation that in-lit actors find themselves in.
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  13910.  @opalcoastal-ld5kd  Trump... plan? Bwahahaha!!!!
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  13911. I saw one of those "customer states" videos that had both a car with every upholstered surface carpeted by a layer of mold, and another that had spoiled food and drink, and a thriving colony of mixed insects/beetles.
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  13912. It's at the point where the best thing to say at a public hearing is, "How much?" - How much for what? "How much will is cost us to outbid the obstructionist corporations to get this bill to pass?"
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  13913. Biped mechs make little sense. Even if you could make them stable enough to move and fire, being knocked down is a real threat. 4 or 6 leg, or even a 2 leg with a following idler would make more sense. But at that point, you're making an excessively complicated wheeled or tracked vehicle anyway. - Another problem legged mechs regularly ignore is ground pressure. Any given piece of ground or structure has a maximum amount of weight per unit are that it can support without giving way. This is why Germany's Maus was ludicrous, as there were no roads or bridges that could support it. Even the Tiger and Tiger 2 had serious problems due to weight, both regarding the surfaces it was operating on, and the actual materials they were made of failing under the weight of the machine.
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  13914. I have been waiting for either a blood clot or a meteor (on the golf course) to take him out. Something, ANYTHING that can't be linked to my desire to see him dead, so prosecution is not even remotely viable.
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  13915. This kind of reminds me of all of the jokes in the 1980's-90's about East German women Olympic athletes. - In individual sports, like weightlifting, track and field, etc. Just create a transgendered competition category. Then there will be parity in the rarity. This solution does not fix any problems with team sports, but rarity will, for the short to medium term, make the issue a rounding error.
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  13916. The defocus cuts are too jarring. They distracted me from the discussion.
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  13917. Blow-by is an engine problem. By-blow is an unmarried parents problem.
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  13918. That's it! I'm never casting a vote to re-elect Hunter Biden!!!
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  13919.  @rongollonik7754  Oh, good point on the structural aspect. Another method to level it out and still use self-tappers would be a couple of washers under each side.
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  13920.  @MrMstrika  It wasn't politicians of any party, and it wasn't rational people of any orientation. It was people whose go-to response for a situation they don't like is violence. Unfortunately, the planet has run out of Australia-sized places to put these people.
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  13921.  @joseamericodealmeida8078  You are in a cult. Please get help.
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  13922. That's right! Until you arrive, you are just missing.
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  13923. Twitter is now X. X can be pronounced "sh". So we could be forgiven for calling the company "sh"itter, and posts there "sh"its.
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  13924. I am SO happy it wasn't just me.
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  13925.  @Namelesswhirl  Elbonia is a country in the Delbert comic strip that Dilbert's company does occasional business with. The fine people of Elbonia wear long coats and tall fur hats and live in perpetual waist-deep mud, which is also their only export.
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  13926. Will this have enough lift capability for that "Alan Parsons Project" super-laser installation?
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  13927. The way wait staff is paid in the US ought to be a crime. The salad you had looks to have been made with iceberg lettuce (essentially crunchy water) instead of the greener and more flavorful romaine.
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  13928. So an unstable/unbraced firing position, an explosion in your right ear, and hot brass down the back of your neck. What's not to love?
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  13929.  @TheArmourersBench  True. And as a lefty rifle user (oddly, right-handed with everything else), I feel the pain of hot brass a lot.
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  13930. Back when I was going to college, we would have "guided*" disruptive people like this out of our place of learning. - *In the above comment, guided is a flexible term that could be anywhere from politely asking to dragging off of the campus and into the woods for a beating.
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  13931.  Repent and believe in Jesus Christ  Ew, gross. You got your cult ramblings all over my discussion about TV vacuum tubes.
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  13932. Thanks to Ray, I can only call those things Silvery-rados when I see them.
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  13933. The DA's could have just resigned if they were so eager to be removed from office. This? This is a travesty of "justice". But hey, at least criminals are finally being treated just like cops who break the law, so... silver lining? - But if they were looking to reduce the caseload of courts, they should have started with parking, jaywalking, loitering, "resisting arrest without a real charge" (a.k.a. 'contempt of cop' arrests), and other such non-violent cases first.
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  13934.  @Liam-w4h4w  It's religion. Not any ONE religion. It's religions. All of them (except the Pastafarians and the Cthulu worshippers) are toxic to some degree. Honestly, humans are just the worst.
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  13935. Here's you participation trophy. Try not to spend all of your unearned self-esteem in one place.
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  13936. If your green lantern is from 2011, you don't need mantles. It glows with the power of CGI.
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  13937. The title is off I think. It ought to be, "Apple's (financial) safety is (not) your concern." - Sorry to hear about your ride. RIF (Rest in Fire)
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  13938.  @dylanrice69  Freedom of speech and peaceable assembly, absolutely. Burning and spray-painting the property of others and/or the public? Absolutely not.
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  13939. Hmm... The more you say, the more I recognize in myself (other than the sound reactions). I am too stubborn to bother with getting diagnosed, but I will put thought into this.
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  13940. In at least one case I can recall, there was (is still?) a Holden MA town cop who is ALSO a practicing member of the Massachusetts Bar. His name was Donald Ball, and is a partner at Ball & Sargent in Worcester MA. I do not know in which area of law he practices. He is notorious for being a hard-ass as a cop, and being willing to make up charges if he doesn't like your attitude and/or you were under 30.
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  13941.  @chriss3404  The person who told her that needs to be roommates with a very hungry badger.
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  13942. Other important rules: - Don't rent from Hertz. - Don't buy a new RV. - NEVER talk to the cops except by advice of a lawyer defending you.
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  13943.  @Shaymuhs  Refuse to join.
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  13944.  @sncy5303  I will not have one of those pieces of spy tech in my home.
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  13945.  @RCRadioShow  There is also a use for blasting pelletized solid CO2 in mold and fire remediation of wood building materials.
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  13946.  @jaclroberts  Some lubrication ports are very tiny. Small enough it would take one or two bits of walnut shell to block or impede the flow.
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  13947. Regarding the comment about age of Ukraine's troops, this guy seems to forget history, even in his own country. Numerous times int he 20th century, when a country was facing a strong invader, even older people (usually men) either volunteered, were socially pressured, or drafted/conscripted to serve. Germany, France, England at least once, Finland, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Italy, Greece, Spain... The list goes on. Defending one's home, particularly against a larger invader, requires more than just the young.
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  13948.  @LouieLouie505  I am going to play the "Actually" card here. In two different towns, I started to show my ID before voting. The first time because I thought it was the process, and the second time (over a decade later) because I was tired and forgot. Both times, the poll worker was very vehement in telling me they were not allowed to see my ID, they looked away from my ID and asked me to put my ID away. - These were not people who were brand new poll workers. These were people (usually older women) who had been working for those towns for years or decades and had operated several elections in that time.
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  13949.  @aemonbane1398  Taxachusetts. I mean, Massachusetts.
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  13950. Yes it's good, but it's also sad that it is "news" instead of "just another Thursday".
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  13951. What the HELL is that draw grip in the thumbnail? Whomever taught that actress how to fire a bow needs to be trebuchet ammo!
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  13952. Ten days in a cage with four rabid badgers.
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  13953. The first place my mind goes at the mention of self-replicating machines is SG-1.
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  13954. Quick, let the anti-vaxxers know that a tetanus shot is also a vaccine! The lockjaw alone will help shut them up some.
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  13955. Pass on a "job well done" for the coworker who caught the mouse!
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  13956.  @lynchkid003  Or they confuse either for the hair accessory, a barrette. Though that would look funny.
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  13957. I wish I could remember which car it was (decades ago), but a friend had a car on which the exhaust pipe from the header to the muffler was a one-piece part that included the catalytic converter. So when his tailpipe rusted out, the "authorized" part include3d replacing a fully functioning converter. Fortunately, he found a mechanic willing to do a cut-and-weld, fabricating the pipe from otherwise available segments.
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  13958. Quantum blockchain!
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  13959. Every time I enter information into a web form that includes the state, I enter the state postal abbreviation, and the website displays the fully spelled-out name of the state. Maybe the interface inside the cruisers needs to get a 21st century update to the displayed information?
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  13960.  @Robbedem  Occasionally, the People's Republic of Taxachusetts does things right. We try not to make a big deal about it so the stuffed suits in the State House don't try and "fix" it.
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  13961. I am only here to watch videos that interest me on a given day. I have liked the various topics and methods you have added over the last two years. I don't watch every board repair video, or even every video of any type. - Eli and/or his content never really drew me in.
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  13962. I have never been a fan of the chip. Sure, it is more secure in that the merchant can't easily defraud the bank by using the credit terminal and pressing buttons, but it is of no protection to the consumer. Anyone can use your card, whether you know them or not. And with the newest tech, the card does not even have to come out of the wallet. Just tap the wallet near the terminal and money is spent. Merchants are no longer even looking at the cards, forget asking to see an ID.
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  13963.  @davidbischi  The French also once tried to adopt a calendar where each day had its own name. Thank the FSM THAT mess didn't catch on!
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  13964.  @noahluppe  I like mils. 6400 mils is a circle, and different fingers (ro combination thereof) on your outstretched hand are fairly accurate measurements.
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  13965. Physical? Nah, they pencil-whip that [bleep].
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  13966.  @onpoint2292  My point is not anti-GPS mapping. It is anti in-car touchscreen (at least for driver controls). And if the phone in my pocket can give me directions, why do I ALSO need it built into the car? - That said, I don't even use GPS mapping in my phone. I use paper maps and road atlases, or pre-plan the route on my computer using MapQuest or Google Earth.
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  13967. "You will own nothing, and be happy!"
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  13968.  @doorofnight  The companies have had computer programs plot the routes to the second, and they penalize drivers who don't meet or beat the clock. So we get tossed packages, dropped fragile items, boxes icked across the yard, and sometimes a truckload dumped into a raving in the woods.
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  13969. The regular wheels on that car look like most cars' donut spares.
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  13970. When I was their age, it was overage players registered on younger siblings' birth certificates that was the big scandal. Nice (sarcasm) to see that cheating is still going strong.
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  13971. They could have avoided the whole reason for this law if they let people board over the windows on their cars. It's not like all that glass makes driving safer because of visibility... oh yeah. - edit: Okay. Malicious compliance time... 25 feet away, 6' stepladder and binoculars, peer into the vehicle. Reposition the ladder as necessary. Stare at cops when you pull or manipulate the handle to enter a car that the DRIVER has a license to own or possess, but you don't (assuming the operator has invited you to enter). - The electronic device thing? Hard to mess with. - The third provision is too vague to pass even the barest challenge.
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  13972. I know air wrenches can have a setting for maximum torque/impact.
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  13973. Nice of that cop to "let" you film in a public place with the consent of those being filmed. Such a permissive gang member! But at least the tyranny came back into view when they violated state law about recording in Municipal Court. Whew! Gotta keep the ruling class safe from the underclass.
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  13974.  @TechGorilla1987  You will get booted from Twitter for typing crazy things like "cisgender", or anything free speech-like that criticizes the "free speech absolutist" if the whim strike him.
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  13975. I just did an online search for a Motorola 6000. It's easy and fun! Let's all do it several times a day!
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  13976.  @ttww1590  That is a fair point. It may not be all that common around where I am, but I can see it being a practice for some companies.
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  13977. I need to write some policies for myself. Simple things, like, "It is the policy of MonkeyJedi99 LTD. to not pay taxes."
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  13978. Left rear was a GREAT demonstration of the vacuum versus pressure situation with the fluid. Thanks, Ray!
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  13979. We are headed for a Max Headroom world of blipverts and legislation blocking us from not watching them.
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  13980. not ALL women, just the way out of touch with reality crowd.
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  13981.  @1224chrisng  Air beef. That's what I used to call flatus.
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  13982. You're pointing out Ray's deficiencies wrong, you're supposed to start with "REEE!"
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  13983. Extremism is the new axe-wielding maniac in the room. ALL extremism.
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  13984.  @ruekurei88  meanwhile some people are asking to be able to afford boots.
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  13985.  @underground868  And in a year there will be another reason/excuse to not do it.
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  13986.  @vineethdaniel6872  Just like real jobs! You don't show up, you don't get paid!
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  13987.  @infernaldaedra  That doesn't change how dumb a move it is.
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  13988.  @infernaldaedra  Okay fine you win you're right I'm wrong I'll bleeping let you walk away with the crown of awesomness to the accolades of the adoring crowd. I'm out.
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  13989.  @alexisdvorkin6611  "Realty? Trump like realty. Trump like burger with ketchup and diet coke. Trump sleepy now."
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  13990. My only really hard diagnostic was figuring out why my Saturn had DRLs and high-beams, but no low-beams. After buying a Haynes manual with the wiring diagrams, and about two hours of contortions and metering all over the place, I finally found the open... Inside the plastic of the block of the fuse panel. Armed with all of that, my mechanic was able to do a cut-and-jumper and disable the DRLs to give me back low beams. And he did it with less than an hour of work, I just did not have the right tools.
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  13991.  @Loydstardeli2017  Have you ever seen the beautiful flower that is belladonna? Visually attractive is how some of the most toxic life on this planet draws in victims.
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  13992.  @billyyank5807  Back in the day, there used to be knobs and levers on the center dash you could hang that air freshener from. Now, with those "take your eyes off the road" touch screens, there is a dearth of hanging locations. At least air vent clip-on air fresheners exist.
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  13993. That is not a water spill. It is likely a soda or coffee with sweetener spill, based on the growth.
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  13994.  @NicolePizarro-e1t  Where are the democrats? In the minority in both chambers of Congress. (And the SubPrime Court)
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  13995. Being questioned about your vote or "incriminating" social media posts? To quote a Republican hero: "Senator, I do not recall."
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  13996. Maybe you need to simply let the missile know where the plane is not?
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  13997. Doing the job? We agreed on an hourly rate or salary for that. Love? (or something resembling it) - That's $200 an hour, no kissing on the lips.
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  13998. Movie reviews should be about the movie. I actually REALLY liked the movie. I think Brie Larsen played the role quite well. I don't like Brie Larsen's politics and 'ism statements, but if people were allowed to like Michael Jackson's music (I don't) even while he was having sleep-overs with children and an chimpanzee, then I can like this movie even while disliking the star's personal statements. It's not like Brie is having sleep-overs with children and a chimpanzee... - If people don't like a person, judge the person, not the product in which they were only one part. - IF this seems like I don't agree with Drinker, understand that I don't HAVE to agree with everything he says. I still watch these videos, and agree more than I disagree. Particularly the awesome examination of Ghostbusters 2016!
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  13999. Or at LEAST the sidewalk.
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  14000.  @noobrock123  Most yard maintenance is a LOT easier if you don't let it get out of hand.
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  14001.  @billh.1940  One need be a bigamist to have one wife too many.
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  14002. Wait, the filter is built into the pan? What bean counter came up with THAT brand of customer abuse? edit: Saw the "WARNING; LIFETIME OIL sticker. Lifetime oil has the same vibe as "full self-driving". Carmakers are truly embracing the dark side.
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  14003.  @Khronogi  I agree absolutely. I can still remember when I watched a pharmacist try to explain to a woman in her 80's or 90's how to fil out the paperwork to request reimbursement from Medicare for her medication that cost her hundreds of dollars just for that pickup. It has gotten better, but there are still hoops.
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  14004. If the concern is a lack of capacity in the courts, there are two obvious remedies I can see right off the bat. 1) Add more capacity - build more courts, hire more judges and government's lawyers. 2) Reduce the number of laws so fewer things need to see the inside of a courtroom. - Then you can drill down and attack inefficiencies that may vary depending on the court and/or jurisdiction.
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  14005. When you opened the first box, my brain dredged up the song: "One of these things is not like the other..." from Sesame Street. Why am I accessing 45 year old files?
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  14006.  @dundonrl  The numbers I looked up did not account for the very wide decks, and how that would conflict with structures beside the locks. Interesting.
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  14007. Someday, somewhere, this qualified immunity will end up seeing a cop's body in a shallow grave in the woods.
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  14008. Yes. But this was the frustrated utterance of a person being hounded by a reporter (?) with an agenda. It is telling that what he said was how he responded, but I would give him 5-10% of a pass for being harried. Not more than 5-10% though. - Kind of like when the angry utterance of your white uncle in bumper-to-bumper traffic is to shout "Move it you bunch of n#####s!!!"
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  14009. Blowing up a planet is a waste of energy, and planets. Just drop iron-rich rocks at high velocity on the cities, come back in a week and accept the surrenders of the survivors in the rural areas. Then you wait a few years and you have a nice planet to re-biome and exploit.
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  14010.  @IggyStardust1967  Keep a Ziplock bag of the best smelling dog biscuits in your car/truck. Open the bag when you pull over and tuck it somewhere out of line of sight.
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  14011.  @rons5319  Another route to go is a bank issued money order which, if the receiving bank is actually doing things right, can only be cashed/deposited by the recipient listed on the payee line. - But whatever steps you have to take, it is worth protecting yourself and your financial interests when dealing with very large and important transactions. And the ease of electronic banking has very few safeties built in to protect you from a dedicated and intelligent scammer.
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  14012. I too had acne as a young teen! Of course, this was in the 1980's and we weren't wearing breathing masks. Maybe it's a normal thing? Maybe teach your kids to wash themselves, they're so often nasty! - For the lady complaining about had breath? Maybe brush and floss, or in your case, brush, floss and see a dentist about those blackened and dying teeth in you maw.
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  14013. One question that nobody seems to be asking Putin is, "How much?" "How much money will it take to get Russia completely out of Ukraine?' - Crime bosses are all about appearing strong and increasing their assets.
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  14014. Why a duck?
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  14015.  @johntippin  Because lying is a sin in some religions, and they would have to admit that the house was not, as listed, fit for human habitation? Maybe the owners were publicly Hala, but raised pigs in the room? Maybe that room was their combination NASA-conspiracist headquarters and Freemason torture space?
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  14016. TO deal with fibrous armor better, bodkin points, waxed or greased with lard.
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  14017. He did say he drained it, refilled it and replaced the cap. A disassembly would have been a LOT of time and money invested. A transmission flush (is that a thing?) might have been warranted, I don't know.
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  14018.  @neonshoji  They were apparently manufactured, under license by Bac Consulting KFT — a company based in Budapest, Hungary using a design from the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo.
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  14019. "Organic truck nuts" - Comedy gold right there!
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  14020. If you're serious, I pity you. If your being sarcastic, I pity me for being fooled.
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  14021.  @johndoh795  Nobody needs to ask for another to be able to comment. You set yourself up for getting spicy by participating. That's on you if you're upset by ideas not exactly in line with your own.
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  14022.  @johndoh795  Ah, but I don't need you to CARE either! That's the beauty of this arrangement we have.
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  14023. What kind of law lets them mandate roof repairs, never mind without a hands-on inspection?
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  14024.  @kimlground206  Building codes cover original construction, and penalties apply to the builders. You are dealing with some sort of money-grubbing overreach.
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  14025.  @kimlground206  Fine. I oversimplified. The window screens point, though? Seems asinine on the part of "code enforcement. Such strident government meddling would seem more effective in making people just remove screens entirely than keep them in perfect condition. I know the screens were not the main point of your fine comment, but it set me off a little. Not at you, but at HOA-like local government.
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  14026. You still need to do a light wear-in to make sure the surfaces of the pads and rotors meet on as much surface as possible
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  14027. A SMART defendant would work to make the jury like them.
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  14028. Ah yes, the good ol' "Comply now, complain later" and "Comply and stay alive" NYPD...
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  14029. I love a game of maskirovka!
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  14030. Once a dry cell is "dead" the cold storage will not have much effect. You could get a little more use out of them by warming them up during use, but you risk expansion and leakage.
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  14031. And 47.8% of statistics are made up!
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  14032. Should get paid at cop wages for every hour of driving.
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  14033. Not to mention single-owner local sub and pizza shops. Heck, my local grocery store deli counter makes a better sub than Subway, for about the same price.
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  14034. I wish I was physically able to help. If I were, I would already be there, US "warnings" about risks to citizenship be damned. Sadly, my poor health would make more a liability than an aid.
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  14035. I'm old enough to remember when even the worst Presidential candidates would be out telling people to NOT meddle with the election process, to NOT use violence like the US was some Third-World hell hole. But these days, we have a gold-tinted Bolsonaro out there feeding the violence with more hateful rhetoric.
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  14036. He may have lost, but he got a Putin-worthy unanimous vote!
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  14037. I too used to work at Lucent, in RMA on internet switching boards. My job went overseas.
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  14038. The only Apple I will buy actually grows on a tree. And Red Delicious taste foul to me.
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  14039. Just tell YouTube that Clinton is named for George Clinton, the BLACK funk musician (and not the WHITE fourth Vice-President of the United States). That should appease the algorithm a little.
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  14040. I wonder if Clint Eastwood's empty chair from the 2012 RNC speech is still available?
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  14041. "But sometimes..." brought me to this channel in the first place. No regrets, and there are few topics I didn't learn at least something, if not a LOT of things.
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  14042.  @user-vm5ud4xw6n  Yeah... but scripture reading is just submerging yourself in one version of a successful cult. Read the Kalavela (in the original Finnish, for extra credit).
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  14043. Every judge I've heard of other than this issues an order for law enforcement to do a search. This judge thinks she's the damn feudal lord of her county.
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  14044. Cockroaches also run and hide when you turn a light on them.
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  14045. And the sheer number of tools needed keeps the Snap-On trucks visiting.
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  14046. I'd rather own a canoe. No docking fees, no special trailers, and you only need to share your watercraft with AT MOST two other people.
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  14047. Here in Massachusetts, any place that has gas pumps is required to have an employee available to pump gas for people with handicapped plates/placards even if all of the pumps are self-serve.
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  14048. It could be worse than not getting all of the clicks. You could get your content demonetized for telling the truth about clickbait fake science channels, like Kyle Hill is now dealing with. - Oh, and regarding your asteroids video, I think I have seen that first image you used on several pseudo-science mis- and dis-information sites as one of their thumbnail images.
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  14049. 4:35 - The first known "pull my finger" joke used versus a car.
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  14050. Somebody shut off that gosh-a-darn-a-klaxon!
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  14051. "My Corolla just started making that noise (after I stopped playing my music volume eleven)."
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  14052.  @adodgygeeza  So they should shoot real rounds at each other? For training?
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  14053.  @yimmy7160  I agree. That or come up with a solid replacement that does all the same tasks and has the same survivability. Instead of just saying, "But the F-35 can do that too*! *Kinda, but not really, terms and condition may apply, and nobody sane puts a plane that expensive that close to ground fire.
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  14054. For fun, asset you third amendment rights as well.
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  14055. My only problem is that my exhortations are landing on the desks of elected officials who are ALREADY supporting this legislation. Oh, I'm still sending the message, just in case.
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  14056. Look, just because kids these days can't watch anything that holds a shot longer than three seconds doesn't mean the rest of us don't enjoy deliberately paced cinema.
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  14057. Sam at Wendover Productions did a good video on the Dollar store effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQpUV--2Jao
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  14058.  @jasonbourne1596  It was there. If you didn't delete it, it must be "GoogleMagic" (TM)
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  14059. First world problems.
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  14060. Mandating a delivery window for parts is idiotic. Mandating an ordered-to-shipped window is still an overreach, but at least it is slightly more realistic. But if the part has to be manufactured to be shipped, it will still run afoul of a time limit on a case-by-case basis. And Louis makes a great point about the investment cost of keeping large stockpiles of parts on hand. Look at a grocery store. Your local grocery store stocks enough of any given item to have as little as possible left on the shelf, but not run out, on the day of the next delivery. Having more than that on hand costs money, and the store might not have space to store the over-stock.
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  14061. The opposite of K.A.O.S. is C.O.N.T.R.O.L., chief.
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  14062.  @MaximeKruijer  If he floats, he's a witch. I'll get the firewood.
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  14063. I imagine the insects (edit: AND wildlife!) at the range are some of the best fed in the state.
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  14064. So it's not enough that the entity making the claim against you is the one to determine if your (first tier) dispute is enough to change their mind, but then some don't even tell you who to contact with that dispute? I have seen videos from people who have received copyright strikes for music they had paid and legal permission to use, and even people performing their own music! Imagine getting a copyright strike against you for performing your own original music? - The copyright laws are broken, and getting worse with the recent change to criminalize infringement, and the automation of scanning is replacing human judgement. And it all falls on the 'little guy' to fight the 'big guy' to prove their legitimate and legal use. YouTube is in the unenviable position of getting blamed for having to obey the laws as written to avoid being the liable party.
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  14065. The plumbing Paul describes requires no permit, just do it while there are no "union boys" about. The stud walls, do them yourself to code and get the electrician in (which ought to be your only big expense) and once the electrician's work gets an inspection signature, put up the drywall in an afternoon, then spackle and sand the next day, and paint over the next day or two. Less than a week of your time and you're done. The floor? If you tear up the floor, don't even THINK about the word asbestos, just wear dust masks and fill the dumpster. Some self-leveling concrete, a day to let it set, then get your new floor in quick.
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  14066. A suspended ceiling is not in my skillset, but they do go up quick, and require no inspections during or after installation. You HVAC probably will need a post-install inspection, but I am not sure. I know residential more than commercial.
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  14067. This is that day we were warned about in math class. That day when the lessons we were ignoring to doodle and stare at Jenny Smith were going to be important!
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  14068. All? Maybe not. The ones who make the headlines? Yep.
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  14069. Store search video PLUS cat video? Nice. But thirteen people in 650 square feet? That's an average of 50 square feet per person. Jail cells are bigger.
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  14070. There's no hate quite like Christian love.
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  14071. Finally! You re-integrate in your office, I see the wall of YouTube play buttons, and barely on-screen is a... SURPRISE! (Lightsaber). I have been missing that.
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  14072. Qualified immunity, as it is in place today, is an evil we need to eradicate. While we're sending out our crusaders for justice, have them swing by civil asset forfeiture and do some scorched earth work there, too.
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  14073. I read something about how she claims the vote was rigged because she received fewer votes than she supposedly has volunteers. Now THAT is embarrassing!
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  14074. Well, sometimes a boy learns a new word and wants to show it off to the rest of the class.
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  14075.  @nolongeramused8135  We need fewer smart devices and more smart humans. I suspect the US is the wrong place to be looking for that outcome anymore.
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  14076.  @SteffiReitsch  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Also known as Taxachusetts, and "Get out of here Yankees fans, before something unpleasant happens."
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  14077.  @SteffiReitsch  It goes all the way back to the baseball war of 1482 in Luxemburg. (Made this up!) - No, wait. I actually looked it up. It goes back to 1919 when the Red Sox team owner sold Babe Ruth's contract to the Yankees, which coincided with, or caused, an 86-year period during which the Red Sox never made it to the World Series. - Pfft. World Series. Even now only two countries are involved in that tournament.
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  14078. Measuring police efforts by numbers of tickets and/or numbers of arrests means they are not being measured on prevention, only enforcement/collection. That would be like a widget production line being evaluated on the number of bad widgets they catch coming off the line instead of good widgets produced in the same period of time.
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  14079. I would agree that a package counts as delivered if the GPS coordinates match, if 1) The GPS coordinates were right, and 2) my house address was a set of GPS coordinates that were the same as that in the delivery truck's software.
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  14080. The "security" measure I use is to take the check out of the book before writing on it, then writing the check on top of a piece of fiberboard or a few sheets of paper and pressing hard enough to imprint the paper of the check. Not that I use checks all that much anymore.
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  14081.  @lobbymccawker2083  take your cheque to the harbour and pick a boat in your favorite colour.
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  14082.  @cathlive267  I think Dwayne is relating a tale of mild extortion. 'I caught you rolling back a mechanical odometer. Maybe if I get a new engine instead of a rebuilt, I could forget what I saw."
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  14083. When the "unusual" punishment is an option, it stays away from crossing the slavery line.
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  14084. "Oh sorry, your car was broken into and your stuff was stolen, here's an inventory list." - Oh, looks like you couldn't find the imaginary brick of cocaine either!
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  14085.  @EdSileo  You obviously have never seen a Braille mirror! (Neither have I, it's a joke.)
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  14086. A contributing factor to your experience may be the financial formula as it applies to hiring and employing speakers of a given language. Speaking English can get you access to many countries full of wealthy and unwise people (US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada...)
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  14087.  @barbarawiddowson635  Wasn't he still using the Cougar part of his stage name for that one?
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  14088.  @barbarawiddowson635  Right! The dog!
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  14089. HOAs are bad. The purported complaining neighbor(s), if real, are almost worse. If you are such a whiner that you can't TALK TO THE PEOPLE UPSETTING YOU, but instead have to tattle to the HOA, or the cops? Just go away. Dig a nice comfy hole, crawl in and pull the top closed over you, because you are not fit to participate in this world. - And all of these whiners are the legacy of the participation trophy generation. They can't seem to remember that kids used to play without a parent hovering like a rescue helicopter. Kids used to ride bikes to school or the corner store without parents following them in the car. Kids used to climb trees, eat dirt, throw sticks, make up activities, shout, laugh, scream, talk, imagine... - If this HOA did not pay for everything from the streets to the utility feeds to the sewer treatment plant to police and fire... they are not a real government, and they can go pound sand. And people who buy in an HOA neighborhood? Wake up and realize how much of your rights you gave away for a pretty lawn and a fancy name on the wall outside the subdivision.
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  14090. They're grooming the children to make them accept extremism as normal. Who else has done that in history... Hmm. Tali-something, NSDAP, some party of Comm-something...
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  14091. Be careful! The township might learn the lessons from Atlanta and start arresting the lawyers for "criminal conspiracy" or other made-up BS.
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  14092. If they were in prison, they would have access to food and be transported to court hearings and medical appointments at no cost to themselves.
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  14093.  @rickbenjamins8587  Paragraphs, please?
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  14094.  @miles11we  I am amongst the LAST people who will tell someone to look to a god for help. Look to yourself, look to the people in your life, look to charitable organizations, look to the systems set up by other people that you may gain help from. I feel I am a better "Christian" than many Christians I have encountered in my life. Not all of them, by any stretch, but many.
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  14095.  @BJSmith-ll3uw  Did I say that? Or did you infer that? I am no longer clear, as this is not the only back-and-forth discussion I have had in recent days.
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  14096.  @doctorkdsify  Are talking about the frat party? I kid, I kid. Evaluating a person on what political party they attach their name to is a lazy shortcut. - Well, there may be exceptions - a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party can usually be accurately labeled on that factor alone.
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  14097. Lovely sonata, thank you Ray!
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  14098.  @margf.6773  If you are unwilling to look at other ways of doing things to compare and contrast, you will find it MUCH harder to improve.
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  14099.  @squiggyg.8415  Mine is "anyways". There is no s on the word when spoken/spelled correctly.
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  14100. The intro plays a little loud.
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  14101. I am struck by how many "repair AC" jobs are as simple as "replace leaky valves". I am willing to wager that is why my AC no longer works well. I did the consumer bottle recharge thing a couple of years ago when my car was about 8 years old, and the AC worked great for about six weeks before tapering off in performance. I will ask a mechanic to check the system for leaks and see if I can get AC back with a low repair bill.
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  14102. With the metric system. But for a more serious answer, by aggregating your data collection over a long period of time and using that data to determine the slope of the function line. Day-by-day data will be very spikey, but aggregated over a long time, and combined with data from numerous locations, the spikes smooth out.
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  14103. With a dog that big, a farrier's technique might have worked, but it leaves your back vulnerable to the bitey parts, so it would be a muzzle situation, or a two-person effort.
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  14104. And it may be moving, but not to the full range it is supposed to.
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  14105. Wait. the seats right by the hole in the plane were empty? I think I saw this in a movie...
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  14106. Sanction is a fun word. It means both "a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule" AND "official permission or approval for an action:"
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  14107. USS Texas: "When I was your age I was a lot older than you are."
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  14108.  @Wishes890  Why? 1) they did not have available bay space for a few days, also being a collision repair shop. 2) I saved paying them to put my car up on a lift and taking the wheels off themselves. 3) I DID have the space and tools available to remove the wheels. But not knowing those things, you question was quite reasonable.
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  14109.  @Wishes890  Most welcome! And have moderately neato day.
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  14110. I thought this one was hurricane Ian?
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  14111. One of the most irritating thing about this whole history is how many times the big companies copied someone else's inventions, and then somehow secured patents on those inventions even when the products had been in use for YEARS. So the rich get richer. Way to go, America...
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  14112. Once again, what we ought to be asking is, "Why the [redacted] are we turning prisons into profit engines for corporations?"
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  14113. Yeah, that "no big deal" leak is a pipe that looks like serious trouble. It seems to be the main water line and the exterior corrosion tells the tale of a weak pipe. That would HAVE to be replaced before a basement-flooding blowout. - And how did the store fail with fully stocked shelves? Was it a death without probate? Was it INS or other legal trouble? So many possibilities.
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  14114. Also, can you get a passthrough to join the first floor with the stairs going up? So you don't have to step outside in winter to go change floors.
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  14115. What grinds my gears about this situation is that the SAME McScrottle who said the Senate MUST vote and confirm a new justice two months before the election because it is their job is the SAME McScrottle who only four years ago said that holding hearings on a new Supreme Court Justice NINE months before the lection would not be allowed because <"The people deserve to have their voices heard" by their vote. - But in both instances, we the voters DID have our voices heard, by who was elected and sitting as President. But I guess that only matters if the president in question is Republican and white. - - Secondary gripe, the Senate, in 2013 got rid of the rule that they needed 60 votes to confirm a judicial appointment. and Lindsey Graham laments that "There is nothing they can do to change it." - Yes there is something you can do. It is only a Senate RULE, which could be changed back to 60 (3/5ths rule) the SAME way it was changed to 50 only seven years ago.
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  14116. Kimberly Guilfoyle looks like she should be out in the forest giving away poisoned apples.
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  14117.  @jakobrosenqvist4691  Or I could wait until you get so fed up with it falling apart (because you're driving a house on variable road surfaces, after all) that you throw the keys at me.
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  14118. Buy Here Pay Here Regret Later?
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  14119. Abolish everything! Okay, turning off the gravity now. Unless we have abolished off-switches already.
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  14120. I have had many cases of properly installed, BRAND NAME batteries leaking and the corrosion damaging or destroying my devices. NONE have erupted in fire and sparks. The worst that happens is that sometimes, after removing these burst batteries, my hands itch until I wash them a couple of times. - Maybe LG is ramping up to the release of their "Premium Cased LG Batteries - Guaranteed not to make your pocket erupt like the Fourth of July (even though no dry cell batteries do, ever) - Please pay triple for our safer batteries"
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  14121. I have not opened the inners of a car door since the moisture liner was waxed paper instead of clear poly.
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  14122. I had one of those calls where they said if I didn't work with them they would send an officer to my house to arrest me. I told him to send the officer right away, I would be waiting with my (non-existent) lawyer on the phone. - Huh. The man with the thick Indian accent hung up.
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  14123. The only tattoo I have ever considered getting it my blood type. Still have not gotten one, but that would be the one. - I heart Q also, but John DeLancie's Q. And a little bit left over for Corbin Bernsen's Q (Q2) and Olivia d'Abo's Q.
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  14124. Life isn't fair. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something.
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  14125. Illegally parked is a bogus shrug of a ticket in that incident. Not doing sobriety testing on any of the drivers is outright negligence. - My mother was driving back from picking up her mother-in-law form the airport when a drunk driver rn a red light and t-boned her car, totaling it and causing my mother and grandmother-in-law to have to go to the hospital. When the cops arrived, they had to WAKE UP the other driver, said, "Oh, [name], driving drunk again?" and had to help him stand up long enough to get to the curb. They did not cite, test, or arrest the drunk driver THAT THEY KNEW WAS A REPEAT OFFENDER and left it a "no fault" accident on their report. - [expletive] Worcester MA cops.
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  14126.  user-yg5hl7gr7j  I am sorry that my simile does not meet with your approval. I am crushed, I don't think my self-esteem shall ever recover. Alas! I must away to the fainting couch!
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  14127. Or they should ONLY ask "nasty questions". Like, "What has the President done to un-earn the appellation TACO?" or "Has the President reversed his anti-Constitutional decision to bar the AP?"
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  14128. I can't finish watching before commenting that this in-vehicle footage should result in Officer Texter out looking for a new job.
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  14129. Yep.
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  14130. If only they died more reliably, instead of being breeding grounds for the next, more dangerous mutation.
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  14131. I learned from my cats that when they go for a swat (with or without claws) that pulling away quickly usually leads to more injuries. Instead, I just go still and wait for the moment of upset to pass, and then figure out where we go from there. This has resulting in a lot less long scratches in exchange for the occasional puncture.
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  14132. That place is an open floor plan, that's a plus. It seriously needs a gut to structure, and a wide pour of self-leveling concrete before you put down a better floor. do the window grates/panels work? Single-pane glass will have you heating and cooling the outdoors about half as much the indoors.- - - No indoor access to basement is kind of a negative. As is the solitary confinement feel of the layout. - - - Give your Bosch a break, it is working REALLY hard to put the lie to real estate listings.
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  14133. If this person has earned a felony charge for those signs, then a "fair and equitable law" would also see felony charges for things like statements leading to threats against the witnesses, prosecutors AND family of the judge involved in a rather prominent legal case.
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  14134. Oh, it's been a cruel joke for a VERY long time. This orange buffoon has just helped shine a brighter light on the problems.
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  14135. What is this monolithic entity, "THE MEDIA" of which you speak?
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  14136. Debating with the bandwagon (of either extreme) crowd right now is like trying to debate a flat-earther. You're better off slamming your hand in a car door and calling it health care.
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  14137. The first question was a gimme. If the temperature and volume remained the same, and there was no NEW chemical reaction, then there could not be an increase in pressure. - The second one caught me. I predicted they would melt the same rate, because of equal temperature. (after seeing the answer) Huh. I would not have figured that out
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  14138. If you ask every one of those "Kamala was a DEI hire." dingbats what DEI is you would get a lot of blank stares.
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  14139. BMW: Plastic transmission pans with non-replaceable filters. - Tangentially, to ALL carmakers - Give us back our transmission dipsticks, you jerks!
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  14140. May I recommend K'eyush the Stunt Dog for you? Every video of that chatty husky brings me smiles.
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  14141.  @honestiguana  Yep. ONLY "The Left" (whatever that means to you) uses fear as a weapon. - ONLY "The Left"... Pssht.
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  14142.  @honestiguana  Let us check some recent releases via presidential pardons of people convicted by a trial, with lawyers, evidence, a judge, and often a jury. - Joe Arpaio - Criminal contempt of court Kristian Saucier - Unauthorized possession and retention of national defense information Lewis Libby - Perjury (two counts), obstruction of justice and false statements Jack Johnson - Violation of the Mann Act Dinesh D'Souza - Campaign finance violations Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr. and Steven Dwight Hammond - Arson (former) 1st Lt. Michael Behenna - Assault and unpremeditated murder Conrad Black - Mail fraud and attempted obstruction of justice Pat Nolan - Racketeering John Richard Bubala - Conversion of government property ... So many more! And uniquely, reversing the demotion of a Navy Seal who committed a war crime.
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  14143.  @honestiguana  So now you point at pardoning someone who LATER did a more serious crime? The biggest difference in pardons and commutations (and meddling) in the last four years is the number of recipients who received such largesse as a function of their politics, not as a function of someone making a case on grounds like overly long sentences, health, and poor legal representation.
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  14144. I think that is wrong as well. We have a system of laws, not a system of "feelings".
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  14145. No laws, no crime! Simple!
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  14146. Maybe with the boost from this magazine cover, Muck can finally grow a real man's moustache? Or figure out that he should just shave already?
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  14147. We, the car buying public, must remain vigilant for the next car company trying some similar shenanigans. If we don't push back EVERY TIME, we'll only have regrets later.
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  14148. Nothing give me mixed feeling of joy and dread like, "Put your safety glasses on, science is about to happen," in a Southern accent. All that was missing is, "...fixin' to happen." - The boxes of baseballs are cat-approved! - If I was financially able to, I would support your joy and science, and I wouldn't even want a baseball. If only...
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  14149. Still more coherent than the Flat Earth or Space Denyer crowd.
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  14150. I am EXTREMELY not a lawyer, but a quick search tell me that if they can get this to the federal level, it would be a good 8th Amendment case. "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" - At the Michigan state level it is Article 1 Sec. 11. "The person, houses, papers and possessions of every person shall be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures. No warrant to search any place or to seize any person or things shall issue without describing them, nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation. " Section 16 "Excessive bail shall not be required; excessive fines shall not be imposed; cruel or unusual punishment shall not be inflicted; nor shall witnesses be unreasonably detained."
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  14151.  @scottlemiere2024  Yeah, who'd want to touch PEASANTS?
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  14152. I will relent and let people ignore the mask, distancing, and crowding guidelines, if they will also agree to wear a shirt or at least a pin that reads, "Be aware, I do not care about getting other people sick, so F you." Or maybe a prominent biohazard symbol. - I am in the susceptible population, and I would appreciate the warning to stayaway from high-risk people.
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  14153.  @Bourikii2992  Nope.
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  14154. I think that's $11.99 at Olive Garden.
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  14155. Belida Carr has a good channel comparing building products, including several deep (itchy?) dives into the pros and cons of various types of insulation. She lives in Texas, so her videos are a little bit light on snow-belt applicability, but she presents her information clearly and is VERY up front when manufacturers give her tours and samples. https://www.youtube.com/c/BelindaCarr
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  14156.  @Omego2K  I can't lose cash if my hard drive fails. And while cash may be voodoo, it's also not a Ponzi scheme.
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  14157.  @Omego2K  Here I assumed that by BTC you meant bitcoin, that Ponzi scheme masquerading as money.
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  14158. I'm kind of glad that for most of my life we couldn't afford chemical weed killers "You've got fingers, pull the weeds!"
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  14159. You know, in some states, who the mother lists as the father carries more weight in family court than DNA tests. Perhaps a wave of unwanted babies with these Justices listed as the fathers of record?
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  14160. Why would you do that to him?
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  14161. I used to have a (edit: cold-blast style) hurricane lantern for camping, but as soon as I got it, I converted the tank to hold a battery compartment, and had a short coil of LED bulbs in the dome. Other than the benefits of not using oil, and not having to worry about a hot lantern, I also got to choose a color. I went with half white, half green. If I rebuilt it today, I would use a strip of color-changing LEDs with a controller circuit.
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  14162. That it is called "equitable sharing" is very outrageous. Who the Pasta is it equitable to? Oh, right. The people who stole the money.
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  14163.  @JP-gi7dw  Shut the [redacted[] up, spammer.
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  14164.  @ding9633  Inside information, trespassing, or information from a trespassing neighbor with a grudge.
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  14165. I need a t-shirt that reads, "All legal disputes with the entity inside this shirt can only be resolved by arbitration under the terms of the entity inside this shirt."
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  14166.  @drozcompany4132  If your online-purchased discount air trip involves changing airlines, or wings of the airport?
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  14167. Homeland Security is involved because when there is a big federal bust, credit-takers crawl out of the woodwork to get their moment in the spotlight.
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  14168. My first try: Ja-puh-nees ca-ree-uhrs.
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  14169. The Libyans! Marty, look out!
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  14170. Nous sommes Luigi!
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  14171. They're only tough when they outnumber the people they're harming. Otherwise they're "in fear for their lives" and will go for guns.
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  14172. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Sadly, not enough dead insurrectionists on Wednesday. - This Republican Representative speaking for "accountability" only did so after prevaricating on the issue on Colbert's show. He voted against the last impeachment, and only says what he is saying now because he is one of the earliest rats off the ship.
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  14173. Hospital security guard's FIRST radio/phone call (If he was so new as to need one in this kind of incident) should have been to the damn hospital to check if the man was indeed a patient, and if he was okay to be outside and walking with his IV, versus mentally confused and needing help to return to his room. - This can only be made right with some firings of the people involved in the illegal arrest and detainment, and the withholding of life-saving medication. And the first-contact security guard needs to pay out-of-pocket, even if it is a long-term garnishment or future wages. As long as corporations and taxpayer funds pay for settlements, change will not happen fast enough.
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  14174. And her face is unattractive as well.
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  14175. Someone tell that plaid dweeb that humans used to walk tens of miles a day in normal life. That is the activity our DNA selection used to be for, not sitting like I am at a keyboard, getting carpal tunnel and losing my vision.
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  14176. That "thunk" sounded to me like something shifting in the glove box. But I don't have the benefit of having been sitting in the car when it happened.
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  14177. Wasn't that the ship in Wall-E?
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  14178. Wait, Liberty requires one to comply with a Christian lifestyle? Damn, I can't be that homophobic, racist, egotistical, judgmental, narcissistic, and full of myself and still have time for everything else I need to fit in my day. I guess that leaves me out. - And a health care plan is not "lower cost" when it leaves you holding the lion's share of the financial burden after a health incident.
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  14179. Somehow, I don't feel that the typical voter is smart enough, or well informed enough, to be trusted to vote for judges for the highest court in a state. Heck, those same people (and I include myself) often can't properly arrange their diet, follow simple driving directions and not get into a preventable accident, or protect their sensitive data online.
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  14180. When we lived in Phoenix in the 1970's there were a LOT of residential lawns. And a lot of huge in-ground backyard pools that saw maybe 6 hours of use a week. But there were also good things like the gravel, native tree/bush and cactus yards, and even a couple front yards I saw that were paved and painted green. - I also remember how bad the area was for retaining what little rain it saw. The hardpan desert took very little water in, and most of it just flowed away. We lived a block and a half from the main north-south wash that carried rainwater from as far as Prescott and let the water just rush at break-neck speed (sometimes literally if someone was swept up in an unanticipated flow) down to the Salt River, and points downstream.
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  14181.  @ellie_cr  When I live in Phoenix fifty years or so ago, I saw one Astroturf "lawn", but that stuff faded pretty quickly. Newer versions are more colorfast, I think.
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  14182. Aawww. After his second bath he kind of looks like a furry AT-AT.
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  14183. If the mayor gets to be the judge and the prosecutor, I want to also be the bailiff and the court reporter. I will now show myself out, as the record shows 'Hizzonor' has found for the defendant.
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  14184. This type of video is okay, Louis. A burden shared is a burden lightened, and if you can't laugh at some aspect of tragedy, then it becomes truly tragic.
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  14185. All of a sudden Russia is concerned about territorial integrity? That's like a wife beater all of a sudden claiming to be a champion of feminism.
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  14186. @Sean Embry Thanks!
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  14187. Banning smoking or nudity from adult video games is a gateway drug to complete centralized control of society by a an outraged, puritanical minority. - So glad we made sure everyone got trophies!
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  14188. It kind of sounds like you moved to another sales territory this time. Kind of like when you change territories for something like AAA.
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  14189.  @matirion  Hypothetical based loosely on several REAL events. - Five cops at a call for a "scary black man walking down the road". One cop goes hands on because the "scary black man" who is actually a teen knows his rights and declines answering questions. Four other cops don't stop the cop's beating of the teen. That makes FIVE bad cops.
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  14190.  @sstreet9436  The issue with all of the quick-lube places is employee turnover. You may have your car serviced by a 5-year experienced tech. Or your car may be the new hire's first. Now add to that the possible variability in training quality/quantity...
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  14191.  @rowanmurphy4986  YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY!
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  14192. Wow, YouTube. 5 seconds into the video and I get ad-slapped.
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  14193. Was that a baked bean Furby?
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  14194.  @sean7134  How the PASTA is a mechanic a tipped employee? Are we, as a culture, really tipping mechanics? Man, NY state and city are f-ed up.
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  14195. Two important questions: What happens when a couple of crazy Finns put it in a hydraulic press? and Will it blend!
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  14196. Or even have one in the first place, John Deere!
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  14197. The traffic camera you get mailed is a ticket you received. In this story, those warnings were never sent to the vehicle owners (who may or may not have been the drivers at the time).
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  14198. Cholesterol clot turning into a brain aneurism. Meteor striking the room he is in. Cardiac infarction. - Dear Lord of Pasta, please choose one of the above, or even another of your divine devising, to remove Mister Precedent Donald J Trump from our world.
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  14199. "Hey! I just fixed one of your failings that you were probably embarrassed about! Why aren't you more outwardly ecstatic and throwing me a parade?" (sarcasm)
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  14200. In this case, it could just as likely have been the corrosion on the non-wearing edge interfering with the caliper jaws.
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  14201. When it comes to canned food, I am pro: beans, tomato and tomato products, soups, beets. Am an anti (except for making a soup): green beans, corn (also good for fishing bait) And nobody should ever have to eat Brussels sprouts, canned or not.
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  14202. Officer "Get out the f**** car!" has a lot of the signs of a meth tweaker.
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  14203. What I really like about this is that both gravity as a force and gravity as curved spacetime work to explain the observed universe, for most purposes, equally well. And depending on what you are examining, one will be handier than the other, while not invalidating each other.
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  14204.  @narfwhals7843  I was perhaps overgeneralizing. And thank you for reminding me about Mercury's orbit. I learned about that a few months ago, but it had faded in the ol' neuron library.
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  14205. If this guy gets bail, watch the news for when he kills the ex-girlfriend and/or others.
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  14206. Imagine if a chicken gave this guy a bad coupon?! - I wonder if, at nearly 80, this is his retirement plan out of economic necessity.
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  14207. Hmm... We're going to need a Captain Disillusion video checking this one out.
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  14208. Very informative video. When I first quickly read the title, I thought the name was Lea Gaslight. Sorry.
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  14209.  @MHWGamer  I use my phone until either it dies beyond the ability for a battery swap to fix - or the carrier says I can't use my phone because the towers are taking down the hardware that the phone uses to connect, and I am forced to upgrade.
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  14210. Program Car sounds so innocuous, so nice. Until you realize that some programs are rough on their cars. Hopefully none are as rough as The Dukes of Hazard! Great program.
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  14211. Well, with very rare exceptions, all of the electrons are billions of years old.
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  14212.  @jims.3987  Do your knees hurt from down there?
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  14213. Also keep in mind, that for CBP, "The Border" is 100-ish miles from any port of entry, which includes airports with international flights. So only a small minority of people in the US DON'T live "near the border"
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  14214. Another possible reason to ban tiny homes: the AirBnB house buyers can't charge as much for renting small homes, reducing their ability to make even more money while pricing people who need a first home out of neighborhoods.
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  14215.  @cewla3348  I didn't notice a piece missing. Sorry.
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  14216. You are either an idiot, or a troll.
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  14217.  @libertyvalance7715  Boo-yah! I caught me a Republicant! - And they said you couldn't catch anything by remote fishing...
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  14218.  @libertyvalance7715  I see. I say your either dumb or joking, and you call me an idiot. But I'm the one who can only resort to name calling? - By every objective measure, Donald J Trump was one of the worst Presidents in US history. Lying, misappropriating defense funds, influence peddling, Twitter tantrums, racism, xenophobia, cozying up to dictators and enemies of the country, making America the worst nation, by a LARGE margin, in the struggle against Covid-19, and inciting insurrection after over forty court cases against the fair and legal election were thrown out for lack of evidence. - But I have no arguments to put forward either, apparently.
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  14219.  @libertyvalance7715  Just as with flat-Earthers and anti-vaxxers. ANY argument I make, any statement I offer, and evidence I provide, will be me wasting my time because ignorance strongly embraced is bullet-proof.
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  14220. caffeine is a drug, eh? Well, love is the drug for me. And I've been drug-free for about twenty years. Unless cats count, and they DO(!).
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  14221. The last time I privately sold a car I wrote out a bill of sale, including the VIN, description of the car, and the mileage, and used carbon paper so the buyer had a copy. Once the sale happened, I went to my insurance company's office and had them add my sale of the vehicle to their weekly Registry trip. I did not trust the person I sold the car to on their willingness to actually get the transfer done correctly. edit: State: Massachusetts. Year: mid 1980's.
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  14222.  @GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou  The editing can be done, if justified, when someone gets the footage via a FOIA request. THEN is when you can blur out a face or mute when someone gives their personal identifying information (DOB, address, etc.). But the original record should remain unedited and uncut. Otherwise it is meaningless as evidence, and the person giving sworn testimony against the cop who turned off their issued recording device should win by default.
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  14223. Can I help you develop an immunity to concussions? Or have you completed that homeopathy program?
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  14224. Ah, you have a picture of me speeding? Allow me to introduce my lawyer, Mr. Werner Heisenberg. He is uncertain, on principle.
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  14225.  @SomethingInTheGround  The First Amendment bans government obstruction of free speech (with some exceptions such as libel, slander, defamation, etc.) Unless your job is a government job, your boss is not bound by that restriction. And if you job IS a government job, your speech may be even MORE restricted for things like protection of secrets. Though protection of secrets, government or business, kind of wander into security, and contract law.
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  14226.  @SomethingInTheGround  The cop SAID he pulled him over for flipping him off.
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  14227.  @SomethingInTheGround  Your politeness is astounding.
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  14228. And can afford to color those grey hairs (if he is vain) because of Apple's customers.
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  14229.  @LA-MJ  Exactly. If people are willing to sell their principles over a bag of kitschy made-in-China memorabilia, then they don't deserve to be part of the movement.
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  14230.  @dantesinfernopurgatory7826  As long as you are aware that neither is a long-term solution, particularly if exposed to the elements.
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  14231.  @dantesinfernopurgatory7826  That's what I wrote.
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  14232. I'm finishing a re-read of an older book series by Michael Flynn (not the disgraced and pardoned former US general, a different guy) where they have SSTO (Single Stage to Orbit) spacecraft and when I first read the initial book I thought, "well, that's a ludicrous idea, but the book is still quite good." - This shuts my mouth. - In the books they even do a similar landing method, which is officially called a "glide to a tail-down landing" or a "swoop and squat" and the some test pilot characters call "The death loop" - The books in the series are "Firestar", "Lodestar", "Rogue Star" and "Falling Stars". I heartily recommend them.
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  14233. Nikki really leaned into the South Carolina accent for that press conference. It's amazing how her accent changes depending on the location, the audience, and the topic.
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  14234. If rain + Tesla = bad battery problem, then Selling Tesla + Scotland should = illegal.
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  14235. That stuff in the second instance that they are wearing is less tactical and more "tacti-cool". Still dangerous nutjobs.
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  14236. USPS used to have policies that protected your packages from theft. Now, if you want to protect your packages from theft, you have to get the sender to spend more money to require a signature for delivery, and then HOPE that the mail carrier actually pays attention to the status.
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  14237. This would get so much exposure!
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  14238. It's astounding how many businesses get 1-star reviews from butt-hurt trolls who've never even patronized the business. And the sites make business owners jump through hoop after hoop to only deny them the ability to wipe those fallacious reviews.
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  14239.  @JohnWiku  No ink = no scan should result in the person responsible at the company being locked in a room with six hungry badgers for an entire 8-hour shift.
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  14240.  @shayneauer6063  The original "gripe" is that she did not pull over and yield when he was traveling with lights and sirens. She was not his original reason for having those on. (at least if I understand the video correctly) So he evidently abandoned his original call to pull this woman over for failure to "respect his authoritai!"
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  14241. At this point, I just assume there is lead, cadmium, mercury, and numerous other harmful things in all aspects of life. Food, water, air, churches, very small rocks...
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  14242. Brilliant move (sarcasm) from a state that HAS to import food because they don't have enough water or arable land to feed their massive population. At least all Californians are rich enough to be able to pay the higher prices this will cause, right?
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  14243. $2,200 to add another possible point of failure? I wouldn't choose the electric door motor either.
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  14244. Weird thought: People will say "lighting a garbage can on fire" when they mean lighting the contents. To light a garbage can on fire, it would need to be a plastic one, or you would have to use VERY high temperatures.
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  14245.  @Brian-pt2nn  The what-the-Pasta now? You're pulling my leg.
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  14246.  @LazyBunnyKiera  I've seen a few videos of HOAs booting cars in peoples' driveways too.
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  14247.  @Kiskadee8388  Price of eggs (a mis-informed data point), unwillingness to have a (GASP!) brown woman president.
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  14248.  @sk22ng  What kind of brand-sheep would accept a coupon for the same brand that ripped them off?
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  14249. I secretly voted for a 30-meter asteroid to interrupt Orange Donnie's golf game before January 20th. I am deeply disappointed.
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  14250. Now we get to waste hours of time trying to figure out if a video purporting to contain educational or repair content is actually good, or just artificially pumped to the top of the recommendations. Whee...
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  14251. He has a particular set of skills, developed over years.
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  14252. That piece of old art at 24:00 is really informative!
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  14253.  @PileOfEmptyTapes  Why, that's American national "democracy"! Particularly since the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court.
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  14254. Condominiums: When you want to live in an apartment, but also own your home*. (*Sort of)
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  14255.  @gilesleggett  "Simply use our specialized bezel removal device ($4,999) to open the phone, then remove the electronic components with our special screwdriver and prybar ($49.99) to expose the battery and backing plate." "Then dip the battery and backing plate in our proprietary battery glue solvent (Dipping mechanism $3,999, solvent $199.99 per 0.5 liter) to free the battery. After that simply neutralize the solvent with our specially designed neutralizer ($299.99 per 0.5 liter). Then replace the battery (As low as $149 cheaper than the new phone price!) with an adhesive pad ($29.99) and your jpob is half done!" "Reassemble your phone then bring it to the Apple Store to have the serialized battery matched witht he phone for a low ($39.99) service charge."
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  14256. Sue the zoning board for allowing a house to be built there.
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  14257.  @rossmanngroup  Instructions unclear, wore extensive safety equipment in the shower (where many people slip and get hurt or die) and didn't get clean.
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