Ground control noticed helium leaks and the spacecraft had a cluster of thrusters fail. That’s not almost dying in a horrific way.

Wensleydale?

Buddy, I just shit your pants.

A while ago I found this blog post about why there are different tow ratings in the US vs. Europe.

It basically boils down to American tow ratings being designed to allow for higher speeds (beyond 60 mph) than European ratings. And it’s more of a question of vehicle stability than power.

Cool! Let’s sanction Israel then! HRW squares that circle because two people can be wrong at once. Shooting civilians is not sanctioning. The US doesn’t sanction North Korea by blowing up South Korean shipping.

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They’ve killed civilians on civilian vessels that are not Israeli flagged, going to, or coming from Israel.

Human Rights Watch says that recklessly attacking a civilian vessel is a war crime.

Hell yeah! War crimes are ok when my side does it!

Thanks for the early morning laugh!

Well, since the “U” in UBI stands for “universal”, and since the group of people who received this money were selected because they were very poor, then this is not a UBI experiment. This is just a welfare program.

The trade name of Naloxone is Narcan, for those wondering.

Yeah we do. Corporate goons gonna corporate goon regardless of your job title.

My company was recently acquired by another company. The new company has better pay, but more expensive benefits (health insurance). That would be fine, except we get the more expensive benefits, but without the pay bump. Based on their own numbers in job postings online (Thanks Washington, Colorado, California!), I’m being underpaid by $20,000.

Luckily my local management is on our side and trying to get pay raises, but the Chief Bean Counters have been tight lipped.

I’m not sure how (or if) a union would help in my case, but it probably wouldn’t hurt.

Not really, surprisingly. They mostly only needed basic assisted living stuff (meals were provided). Both needed help with their medications, but my grandpa was mostly independent, only requiring help putting on his shoes and taking showers. My grandma was a psycho wannabe escape artist though. But she didn’t really need someone to watch her all the time. The building was intentionally designed confusingly to prevent escapes.

A few years ago my grandparents were in a memory care facility as their health declined. It cost them $18,000 a month to stay there. Adjusting for inflation that’s like $22,000 a month.

“Quack! Quack! Quack quack quack; quack quack.” – Joseph Ladapo

In my mildly educated opinion, I wouldn’t say so. The Sun, The Daily Heil Mail, and The Daily Mirror are rags. The Times has its issues, as any paper does, but I wouldn’t call it a rag. It’s a center right paper with high factual reporting.

That’s what ballistic missile submarines are for.

I mean, there are 2.8 million civilians in the United States civil service. I’d imagine a country with 4 times the population would have a few more than that.

Precisely. And since these machine guns use water cooling, they might even be the most effective weapon for the job, period. That way they can fire for an extremely long time.

“Fun” fact about Sickle Cell Disease: it gives you significant protection against malaria. If you have the sickle cell trait, you’re a carrier for the disease, but you don’t have symptoms of it. Being a carrier also gives protection from malaria.