SwingingTheLamp

The six-packs of bottles sold in grocery stores have been 500mL for years. Probably somebody filled the machine with them. (The label should say, “Not Labelled for Individual Sale” near the barcode, if so.)

Thank Thomas Jefferson for that brain damage. It has a lot to do with why most of our topsoil is now in the Gulf of Mexico.

I’d be happy, too, if I didn’t have to wear pants.

Right proper shitpost here. Imma start forking ASAP.

The crying woman is close enough to the design of a monument in the cemetery near my house that I’m pretty sure that he’s stealing her dead baby, which, given Jesus’ close association with Israel, is right on brand.

It’s also a shiny bauble to dangle in front of the demented puppet who’s the face of this regime, in order to keep him distracted.

They still don’t have color photography in Europe?

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Give the HRT time to work. Nothing changes all at once…

Mostly I hear it in the idiom death throes, or in the throes of passion, but occasionally it pops up in other contexts to describe painful spasms, or difficult upheavals, like workers in the throes of economic turmoil, or the throes of childbirth.

*throes

I mean, I understood the comment just fine, but throe is kind of a neat word and it’s a shame not to use it.

For that matter, then you don’t need to put any radioactive material in it at all, but just claim it.

I’m kind of skepitical of the “dirty bomb” idea. Frankly, it sounds like a load of bullshit, because of the πr² thing. Namely, if you want to irradiate and area to a sufficient extent to cause immediate radiation sickness, then keeping it concentrated is your best bet. A very small bomb, at most.

The other extreme would be a huge bomb to spread radioactive material over, say, a city. At which point it barely raises the radioactivity above background levels. Or at least doesn’t cause immediately apparent effects. Imagine terrorists issuing a statement like, “Sure, it doesn’t seem so bad TODAY, but wait 'til you see the slight bump in cancer rates in 20 years.”

Indeed, on looking it up, I see that the experts are skeptical, too, and tests conducted by Israel didn’t find much effectiveness. That could be why we haven’t seen one used.

This could be trivially defeated by a program which erases the hard drive unless run using a particular executable name. Then, all twenty entries could simply be hard links to the same executable file on disk, but one of the names would trigger different behavior.

There is no better, quicker way to turn a dyed-in-the-wool, rugged-individualist, capitalist American into a raging communist than to mention anything to do with their cars: Gas (should be cheap), highway lanes (no tolls and MOAR!), or parking (free parking was the 3rd commandment).

Make this your year!

Remember to wear your safety gear! In this case, one of those RSI wrist braces…

That’s the Wheel of Dharma, a symbol from Buddhism, and to its right is the “Happy Human” symbol used by secular humanists.

My city recently got a BRT route. Having a counter that tells you how long you can expect to be stuck in traffic is good UX, but even better is when the trip always takes the same time, because you’re not stuck in car traffic.

In a walkable area, you don’t buy for a week at a time, you buy what you need for a meal or two. Popping into the store is a pleasant, 10-minute diversion where you’re likely to see friends and neighbors, not a 2-hour safari overland to the edge of nowhere. It means buying fresh, healthy food, rather than the giant pallets of highly-processed product that I see folks haul out of the CostCo.