So you’re doing their job for them, dragging out a rarely used definition and trying to pretend it’s the “common use of those words”? Or are you their alt?

The only “common use of those words” is what the captain posted. I have never heard that term used in any context outside of someone that holds a position, political or otherwise, that will be gone soon, either from term limits, because they lost or didn’t run in the last election, or got fired/replaced/quit, but the new person isn’t in the position yet.

You used it wrong. You can learn from the person that responded to you or you can double down and try to invoke a little-to-never used definition, but everyone will know you just used it wrong.

Holy shit, it’s real‽ I saw this in another comm and thought it was a fake shitpost.

First, I’ve never noticed this “Gen z stare” thing, but you do need something when you walk up to a customer service person. Looking up at me, a little nod, a hello, something to let me know you’re ready for me to start the interaction and I’m not interrupting.

Yeah, we’re always going to need plastics, metallurgical coal, and some LNG but if we’re not extracting it anywhere near the current volume to meet energy needs would we meet the world’s helium needs, and if not I wonder what we would do with all the LNG as a byproduct of helium extraction?

I didn’t realize the world’s supply of helium was almost totally a byproduct of LNG extraction. If we manage to completely abandon fossil fuels are there other sources that we don’t exploit now because it’s not economical? Would we still need to extract LNG to get helium? What would we do with the useless LNG?

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Maybe there’s another layer if you know who he is but I think it’s just some fucking guy and the point is the words and his facial expression/body language.

What is there to breach? You’re already exposing your your real identity when you post under your real name with this new requirement. As long as the methods for verifying your identity aren’t something scammers can exploit there is nothing to expose. If, for example, you could use your photo ID with everything but your pic and name covered, and maybe also birth year for age checks, all it does is remove the ability for people to be cunts with impunity.

I’d have to give it some more thought, but I’m not against this right away. The Internet has become a vile place. Maybe if you wouldn’t say something in public for everyone to hear, you shouldn’t post it either.

We’ve all heard “it takes money to make money.” But rich people know it’s better to use other people’s money.

I have a question about this I haven’t been able to answer.

Is the problem the “flushness” or the lack of mechanical linkage to the door latch?

I’ve been in several Teslas, every model but the Cybertruck, and you push on the fat part and the skinny part comes up, which you pull to open. But as I understand it, that just activates an electrical servo or something that unlatches and partially opens the door, and that’s the problem because without power pulling the handle does nothing.

I had a Jaguar F-Type R (I think Range Rovers have the same handles) and it had flush handles that you could set to pop open when you approached, or you could hit a little button on the forward end to pop open the rear end or, like the Tesla, you could push on the forward end to manually raise the rear end and when you pulled on the handle you were mechanically unlatching and opening the door, unlike the Tesla. You could disconnect the battery and still open the door, which as I understand it, you cannot do with a Tesla. Would this be ok?

If it seems far fetched that every news organization keeps talking about flushness when that’s not the problem, I’m willing to entertain it because that’s what happens every time my area of expertise ends up in international news. Whenever my profession, or a related one, is in the news they almost always get it at least a little wrong, and sometimes ridiculously wrong. And they say the same wrong things across all news sources all over the world. I, and others in my group of professions, can see why this happens. They get some basic information but lack context so they interpret it wrong and what comes out is complete nonsense, or at least a little misleading.

I thought I was a “customize everything” Nova launcher kind of guy, but when I heard the original developer had quit the company that bought it I switched to Niagara. I thought I’d just try it out for a few days, immediately got hooked. Just a few things to set up then your done and getting to everything is so much faster and easier, one handed.

Not just anyone, but it’s not too hard. They expect to be able to get you into shape. There are also waivers available for disabilities, if you score high in the ASVAB you’re more likely to get one. OP didn’t mention any disability so it shouldn’t be a problem.

And different branches have different requirements. A buddy from high school with a horrible home life and no prospects was too heavy for the Marines but the army took him. Got a specialty with transferable skills in the real world and has a great life now. In and out before 9/11 though.

Say you lost your driver’s licence/ID and need your birth certificate and SS card to get a new one, a new passport is easy enough if you have those basic documents.

I’m going to get burned like crazy for saying this but if leaving right this second, like NOW, really means homelessness for you; go join the air force. Sign the papers, pack up what they let you bring and forget about everything else. If your family gets wise to what is going on and tries to stop you, they will come looking for you and your family will be in deep shit. Maybe even mention to your recruiter that if you don’t show up at the appointed time, you’re probably being held against your will, might speed things up.

Fucking paywall

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There was a period of time when MeToo was at it’s height that there was very little nuance in how people reacted to any abusive behavior. Probably related to a dam bursting releasing emotions that had been pent up with these things going unpunished, and mostly ignored, for so long. And you’re right, during this time people who should have apologized and shown some sort of behavior that made us believe it was sincere should have been able to return to public life after a period in the wilderness instead of being treated the same (socially, obviously they didn’t get the same legal treatment) as Weinstein and Cosby.

I don’t think your theory is tinfoil hat territory at all. I think a majority of people could go either way in life, on a wide range of things. Most people don’t really give anything a lot of thought, they just fall into patterns dictated by their environment. If someone in their formative years is exposed to something that tickles their sense of unfairness and that leads them into shittier areas of the Internet, a person that could have ended up a nice, normal, boring person can be turned into a piece of shit.

Post the same question in a comm that uses another language that you speak and see what answers you get there.

HOAs maybe? Mine would lose their shit if people started having these things “visible over the porch wall.”

Edit: Article says it’s for regulations about putting power back into the grid.

Malazan Book of the Fallen and all associated works! Bonus points if I can forget the plot and remember all non-spoiler lore. My one complaint with those is going to the wiki to refresh my memory on something and going down a rabbit hole.

Movies and TV too.

Yes, those tankies are twisted, bring unable to support communism without making excuses for a brutal dictator.

So surely you must appreciate someone capable of criticizing that brutal dictator without smearing communism in the process, right?

Why would you see a conversation about a brutal dictator and jump in to talk about how he was a communist? Don’t you think it might be people like you that encourage tankies to reflexively disagree with any criticism of Stalin?

If you can’t have a conversation about Stalin’s crimes without someone erroneously bringing communism into it maybe that’s why frustrated communists often defend the indefensible.