What’s updog?

Don’t forget velocity; mass, density, materials, shape and fragmentation characteristics of the projectile!

If you prompted the soiled flag, that was a nice touch in your three seconds.

Right you are, Ken.

I needed a replacement for an item hat failed under warranty. The original part was made in Canada, and a replacement was mailed to me free of charge. Except, I got a note from FedEx that i had to pay tarriffs… My tariff was $5, but FedEx was charging a $25 tariff handling fee on top of the $5. And if I didn’t prepay, they would instead charge $40 total to collect my $5 tarriff.

FUCK FedeEx for having the audacity to request a refund from the federal government on top of their blind extortion. These fuckers need to burn.

I don’t know, but the Ivanpah solar power station near Primm NV, which is a set of three molten salt towers is reportedly getting decommissioned, removed, and replaced with PV panels. Word is PV technology had improved in efficiency and stopped in cost enough that the whole molten salt thing is no longer economically viable, at least in comparison.

Northern Nevada can get pretty frosty. I remember seeing -14f there on a particularly cold morning. I’m in Southern NV now, and it was around 90f yesterday. Overnight lows are barely getting under 70f still. Coldest I’ve ever seen here is around 28f, and I can’t remember the last time it even got to freezing.

Nope, Nevada. One of the other mildly infuriating things about this flier.

Nope, USA. The third infuriating thing about this flier.

The problem is, while using ai is still discretionary, that is rapidly changing, and it ia being integrated into nearly every commercial consumer OS, browser, mobile device, etc. It’s entirely plausible that there’s a near future where most USAians can’t ot don’t know how to use any technology that doesnt have this sort of technology integrated.

And if the precedent is already set (which it is), that its perfectly acceptible for companies to turn over people for any sort of actions or words that are not approved by those in power…

My buddy for 17 years, since passed - Bailey (because he was a tabby with a belly the same color of Bailey’s Irish Cream.

My current littermates, brother and sister:

Girl: Willett Boy: Scout

Both named after bourbons - Willett and Smooth Ambler Old Scout.

Except the commercial aggregators have all started filtering the data of specific planes on request - you won’t find Elon’s or Swift’s ADSB data on popular sites/apps like FlightAware or Flightradar24. (I’m not familiar with PlaneLogger). Open source aggregators like OpenSky or ADSB Exchange will have them though, but the UIs of those sites are far less polished and have fewer features.

Yes. I don’t believe much of anything he says, but “dictator on day one” was very obviously his real plan.

Many long COVID infections are causing/caused significant damage to organs (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11834749/). A vaccination isn’t going to reverse organ damage.

If it’s an OEM part that I need, I usually use the car manufacturer’s parts catalog to find a part number. Then I enter that part number in a web browser, and browse through whatever comes up to find the lowest price from a trustworthy source (usually a car dealer online somewhere that sells/ships parts and has an online store, but sometimes eBay, Amazon, etc.)

Aftermarket parts get a little more complicated because it depends entirely on what kind of part you’re looking for.

I’m not generally the type for this kind of meaningless comment, but it is just so perfectly apropos, I present the following statement:

womp womp

A babbling brook.

Volkswagen used forced labor from concentration camps. I don’t think there’s any way to argue that a company built upon human suffering isn’t evil - or at least wasn’t at the time.

The Autobahn was built using forced labor of re-education camps, prisoners of war, prison inmates, and Jews from concentration camps. If the Wright Brothers made the first powered flight in an aircraft built of human flesh from murdered victims, nobody sane would be celebrating their achievement.

There is NOTHING honorable about causing harm to others so you can have more for yourself.

This is the best primer over ever found on the topic

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjHf9jaFs8XWoGULb2HQRvhzBclS1yimW&si=GLVXGfURN4xxPusO

Also Crimson Tide and The Abyss