That’s because they’re guaranteed to sell all the water when there’s a storm anyway. There’s a reason there’s laws against raising prices in an emergency.

He’s not saying use a grinder. He’s describing polishing as micro-grinding.

The response to this mess is gonna be everyone sticking with Discord, not because there’s no alternatives, but because there’s too many alternatives.

Evidence of citizenship and identification are 2 different things. You can have a driver’s license or state ID without being a citizen. Proof of citizenship is more difficult - especially for married women whose names won’t match their birth certificate.

The most common reason to prove citizenship right now is when starting a new job, where they’ll ask for either a passport or a social security card and state-issued photo ID.

Europe is working on it. Notice how they’re starting to adopt open source software and are working on their own credit card processor?

Right now, their governments and economies are too reliant on US-based tech companies that can be ordered to cut them off. So they’re working on eliminating that reliance ahead of sanctions.

That’s the idea.

They openly allowed armed civilian militias like the “Minutemen” and “United Constitutional Patriots” to detain and hold migrants at gunpoint until CBP arrived.

Hell - in the 80s a militia group calling itself the “Civiliian Military Assistant” was actually making border raids into Mexico to shoot on migrants before they crossed the border.

Grand juries are different than trial juries in Texas. They’re nominated “respectable” members of society that serve terms for multiple months. It’s remnants of Jim Crow that are alive and well, where rich white guys decide who gets prosecuted for what.

And Texas made it even worse a few years back. In 2008, a white guy called 911 because police his neighbor’s house was being robbed. He indicated that the neighbor’s were not home, and also that he was gonna shoot the burglars. The dispatch told him over a dozen times not to interfere, and he repeatedly said he would shoot them. As plainclothes police were arriving on scene, dispatch told him they were arriving, but he went ahead and shot the 2 unarmed burglars in the back while.they were fleeing, killing both. They happened to be unarmed.

The grand jury refused to indict him for a crime, but the familes sued the murderer in civil court and won.

So Texas made a law that if someone is not convicted of a felony for a gun crime they can’t be sued in civil court over it.

Things were bad in the 80s in general.

Look at movies from the time. Revenge of the Nerds has one of the nerds dressing up in the same costume as a jock to have sex with his rival’s girlfriend. And when she finds out after the deed, she loved the rape so much she decides to dump her boyfriend.

Blade Runner - the beloved classic sci-fi has Harrison Ford pinning a woman who says no to a wall and sexing her up as the romantic climax of the film.

Also the P320 - which was adopted as the new standard-issue handgun for the US military.

The Air Force actually suspended their use for a few months last year after one went off uncommanded and killed an airman. They inspected them and found that over 2% were already in unsafe condition after being adopted just 5 years earlier.

And the civilan version is worse and in the middle of several lawsuits. And this is after they were recalled for not being drop-safe.

Yeah. A Taurus or a Sig, maybe. Not a Glock. There’s a reason they’re so popular. They reliably fire when the trigger is pulled and only when the trigger is pulled.

2015

Did you just make the Avocado Toast argument?

I work near downtown Austin, where both Waymo and Robotaxi operate.

Waymo cars are some of the best drivers on the road because they actuallyt ested their product, use multiple Lidar sensors instead of just cameras, and have remote driver backups for unusual situations.

Teslas drive like maniacs and will end a ride and tell the driver to get out in the middle of a lane.

My father was a firefighter, and his go-to quote every time someone wanted a cat rescued was “How often do you see a cat skeleton in a tree?”

They eventually jump down. They can generally survive terminal velocity falls without injury so long as they land well, which they generally do when they jump out of the tree. But it’s still scary, so it may take them a bit to build up the nerve for the jump.

Or did they just initially export the emails from Outlook as pdfs for the redaction process?

“We opened a position in response to feedback from the person whose former role you’re interviewing for.”

“You increased staffing?”

“No. We created an opening in response to their feedback.”

They take the same cut as companies that monopolize the app stores on their hardware.

They take more than other PC platforms.

It’s more nuanced than that.

Choosing not to release on Steam isn’t easy because it’s not a balanced market, at all. It’s trying to release a Disney-style animated movie, but only in adult theatres.

Steam is the 900-pound gorilla. Yes, they have a good interface, but they take a ludicrous portion of game revenue. Epic has a shit interface, but they take well-under half of the fees Steammdoes for the same game.

Gabe is not your friend. He’s a billionaire yacht-collector. Half-Life 2 wasn’t designed to be a great game. It was designed to launch a digital storefront that allowed Valve to rake in 30% of all revenue for games sold on the platform - which is often a larger percentage than is paid to the actual people making the games.

Why are we defending a system where the fucking checkout system is valued as much as the people making the games?

OEM licensing isn’t the important part. It’s everything that comes with it. Subscriptions, cloud storage, etc. In my city, a bunch of field workers are being moved from laptops to iPads and phones with the next hardware refresh due to the price jump in laptops. Microsoft won’t have integrated Onedrive and SharePoint and full Office Subscriptions for them.

We already use third-party web apps that aren’t Microsoft (and are mostly hosted by AWS) for a lot of their work, so the only Microsoft product they’ll have is an email address.

Us abandoning the Windows laptops costs Microsoft hundreds a year per employee.

In a “fault” divorce, it could allow people to use the obligation of a spouse to perform sexual acts as a way to assign blame in the divorce. Basically allowing one partner to claim harm and therefore pursue financial damages or even leverage in custody disputes because they were owed sex. It trapped people in situations where they were forced to have sex or face potential civil penalties if their partner refused a no-fault divorce.