magic_smoke_ee

> What about the "detonation system controlled by the driver in the Tesla Cybertruck" as reported by the FBI?

That's not a fact. I just watched a reputable report the morning after that also reiterated the FBI's position that there was still uncertainty if it was intentional or not.

Still not proof of terrorism. That's only evidence of bad judgement.

That might be why the plasma rifle and the BFG don't work if it embeds a shareware WAD file. See also: https://archive.org/details/DoomsharewareEpisode

It's funny. Some of the physical wall art I collect has a similar character of walking the line of tacky, like a psychopathic 16-year-old bully's pin-up spank fodder from the '80s, to exuding inherent value independent of sexuality. It goes between the authentic Soviet propaganda posters and the defunct radio station stickers signed by Frank Zappa.

Ryder rented both vehicles used in Oklahoma City and '93 WTC. This is a meaningless grasping at straws unless we want to forbid rental vehicles entirely because of what 1:10 million outliers might do with them. Maybe we ought to figure out what's wrong with us, people at home, and the conditions of people elsewhere in the world who are going on suicidal rampages, and then help, reform, or reset in multiple-point, holistic approach to put peoples on-track as viable, healthy civilizations without as much violence?

Apply Hanlon's razor. There was zero shrapnel and most of the force blew upwards. It definitely could've been a really poor use of judgement of storing flammable gasoline and fireworks in a confined space that then found an ignition source in the piss-poor-designed back of the CT.

I feel the same way about Ideal-tek PCSA-4N through hole components PCB holder. Often, there are better tool(s) for a job. Lindstrom or Piergiacomi (Hakko or Piergiacomi branded) flush cutters.

IDSPISPOPD, IDKFA, and IDDQD work but the only weapons that work are the chainsaw up to the rocket launcher.

Yes. That's the compounded price because the cheapest retail price of Wegovy for 4 weeks near me is $1311. It's compounded with vitamin b6 as a hackaround for $250. The manufacturing of semaglutide outside of Novo Nordisk was legally possible because of the scarcity problem. I don't feel at all bad because NN's CEO is a greedy prick who lacks shame about selectively bleeding poor Americans dry while selling it cheaper in the rest of the world.

Had to look it up because I can't remember nitty-gritty details: DD manufacturer under class 10 FFL or class 2 SOT. I imagine the various types of insurance needed to operate such a business are expensive and painful too.

Used widely in a nuclear engineering reactor simulator that was essentially a quadruple integral finite-element analysis program based on MC.

Not true. 16 colors at a time. EGA had a color palette of 64 colors. Depending on the card, precise palette cycling can be used to appear to have all 64 colors available so long as too many different pixels aren't used too close together.

Has a milspec drop rating and some can survive liquid spills with integrated keyboard drain holes.

I use a T480 (bought new a lot time ago) moderately-capable gaming PC (lol):

- 3 extended, swappable batteries + third-party external battery charger (also has an internal battery T490 lacks)

- 32 GiB RAM

- i7-8650U

- 2 TiB SSD

- Retrofit/modded magnesium top case

- I pre-acquired replacement parts like fans, hinges, backlit keyboards, and case screws

- Works with Windows 11 + Razer Core X TB3 with an RTX 3070 Ti eGPU

Needs a couple of utilities to max out CPU TDP to 25W.

The short-barrel shotgun (SBS) (modified or original) without an NFA tax stamp is the holding charge. They're working on determining if was just unlicensed destructive devices (DDs) or there were specific terroristic plans. That's why.

Yeah. I don't think even Brandon Herrera would advocate for privately-owned WMDs.

Perhaps the initial and continual suitable personal stability and trustworthiness for owning different categories of mass-casualty-capable weapons should be sensibility and increasingly regulated appropriately. Honestly, I think there should be a limited number of gun clubs that require continual vouching/sponsorship to retain access to certain categories of weapons. Letting randos amass 100 AKs with bumpstocks just seems insane.

There exist private ownership of artillery field pieces and Bofors L/60 40 mm autocannon in America. The thing though is that any sort of exploding shell requires a DD NFA tax stamp for each.

Pipe bombs can be legally owned by private parties with an DD NFA tax stamp. They probably require a certain type of BATF manufacturer cert to make as well.

Something (Wegovy) I need for medication-induced obesity, but cannot afford ($250/month or $3k/year out of pocket) because Medicare won't cover it. Even when it is "covered", it's a "specialty tier medication" that is even more expensive than that.

Most people forget that US Medicare isn't true universal, single-payer healthcare and is an excessively-complex, oft corporation-involved, half-measure. It is mostly better than Medicaid, healthcare for the very poor, which is even worse. Medicare Advantage is a total scam.

Anything fun in life is illegal, immoral, fattening, or dangerous.

In high school chemistry, I once superheated magnesium in a covered crucible and then blew on. That was fun.

All chemists are pyros, by definition and by requirement.

In the 90's, Tower Records sold The Anarchist Cookbook no questions asked. Its recipes didn't appear very well researched and some seemed outright lethal or impossible.

Exactly. Dynamic languages that allow self-modification create tech debt and bugs implicitly, which is why I prefer statically-compiled languages that have stable ABI/API guarantees. When there are too many "freedoms", there are no promises and zero stability. Static compilation (because all of code paths must be exercised and translated to machine code) or at least gradual-typing of dynamic languages are essential. rbs and sorbet are non-starters, mostly because it's fragmented, optional, not widely-deployed, and lots of extra work. Python demonstrated wiser leadership in this specific area by modifying the language.

Corporations' motivations rarely coincide with deep, consistent systems strategy, and largely operate reactively and in a manner where individuals get favorable performance reviews for adding profitable features or saving costs.

I wonder if Jeff Bezos also hoses-down Blue Origin workers with ice-cold water to passive-aggressively attack demands of livable wages and sensible working conditions for Amazon warehouse workers.

Seems pointless and expensive, and it's concrete that doesn't lend itself to modification or repair. 3D printing in this case appears to be used as a tech gimmick rather than an actually-scalable process, or it would already be in-use everywhere.

The most inherently sensible home would be protected from wind (derecho, hurricane, and the uncommon tornado), fire, flooding, and severe heat and cold (and associated climate control costs) by building mostly underground on flat, stable, high ground.

Then you're using Brave or Opera.

I was just going to say this. It has to have a CARB sticker. No CARB sticker, no pass. Passing a smog test in most US states typically uses on-board telemetry combined with a rear-wheel dyno. Most smog shops won't touch vehicles that lack OBD2 but still require smog tests every 2 years. Also, I'm unsure if smog shops still use an external NOx/CO probe like ye olde days or rely entirely on the vehicle to be non-VW "smog mode" honest.

People are suckers for convenience without considering the details of how something is made, supported, or serviced, or the TCO.

Tesla can outright decide to total/brick your car and not sell you parts. They're worse than Apple.

While an VW-owned, separately-managed Scout appear to be making a better EV, but could still take it in the direction of the corporate drones.