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@RealPostFolder "Isn't it your job to figure that out?"

"Officer, I believe I was going the speed limit" Don't say what your speed was, or what you thought the limit was, just say you thought you were following the law and nothing else

@InquiringBob @RealPostFolder So admit to guilt. yeah, no

@RealPostFolder Add 5mph to the limit and answer that. If they instead ask what is the speed limit on this road you answer 5mph below your actual speed. And you smile and you’re polite. If you still get a ticket maybe they will mark it down. Then you plead not guilty. 5mph come on.

@nunaambon Ooh. 2 seconds of delay while they cut the seat belt... Yeah, not useful

Not like cars have steering wheel locks

@elvenmaidinn Beat it, Lion King and Aladdin many times

I was rised on this game and I beat it, twice! I don't need Easy Mode!

@LibertyCappy Rational Anarchist. So Right on one spectrum, nowhere near any political figure on the other.

Let's get an audience check Which of these most closely defines you? Explain your views below too

@Mageba_wav Butter reduces the bacon cook time. Better heat transfer.

why bacon needs butter to fry? ...

@davepl1968 Didn't DOGE find that the government has bought like 2 bajillion copies?

Hi! I'm Dave Plummer. You might remember me as that guy who registered WinRAR in 1997. Has anyone else registered yet?

@CJGRISHAM Because when they commit malpractice against a citizen, the citizen just gets a higher tax bill to pay for it.

We attorneys have to have Malpractice insurance. Why don't cops have to have it also?!

@dmozenne @AaronBergman18 Why would they not just say "kwy" instead of kwh per year...

@AaronBergman18 Yep, unit of charge equal to 3.6 coulombs. My favorite unit to hate on is kilowatt hours per year, often used to express the average power draw of an appliance under some set of assumptions. Comes out to about 0.11 watts.

milli-ampere*hours (mAh, what you see on charging banks) is a serious contender for worst unit of all time. It is almost never useful and serves exclusively to obscure rather than clarify It is NOT an amount of energy

@LaNativePatriot Watched a split ring on a deuce&a-half tire go 25' straight up and through the metal roof at speed. Cage was less than 10' from where he was filling it. Remote air at least, so nobody hurt. In the field we pushed the tire under the truck before inflating, best we could do.

I always take safety seriously, this video was from last year. It was maybe half filled. But these things exploding can definitely kiII you. If you ever are filling up a tire, respect the damage it can do to you

@Jringo1508 @IT_unhinged I set a users password to "I'veforgottenmypasswordandcalledthehelpdesk41timesthisyear"

@IT_unhinged I'malittleteapotshortandstouthereismyhandlehereismyspout!WhenIgetallsteameduphearmeshouttipmeoverandpourmeout It's not all that hard.

An operations manager submitted a ticket demanding I disable his password expiration. He said changing it every 90 days was a psychological burden. I told him security protocols are hardcoded into the AD environment. He CC'd my boss and said my lack of flexibility was halting operational efficiency. My boss told me to find a workaround. I found one. I moved his user account into the legacy mainframe service tier. Service accounts have passwords that never expire. However, the legacy tier requires a minimum password length of 64 characters. And it doesn't support biometric login. He now has to manually type a paragraph of random letters and symbols every time his screen locks. If he gets one character wrong, he has to start over. He asked to be put back on the 90 day rotation. I told him the migration script only runs once a fiscal year. His operational efficiency has plummeted. My psychological burden is zero.

@CashToWealth @forallcurious Orthodontists make it big though. Everyone who got braces will likely need them again.

@forallcurious Dentists seeing this news like: “we had a good run, boys”

🚨: Japan trials new drug that regrows human teeth ─ ending dentures and implants forever

@FloatyRedHead23 @forallcurious Presumably it could trigger them all, so you'd lose your current set just like you lost you baby teeth.

Makes me wonder if it's select teeth that they could trigger to grow or if they have to yank out a full set of adult teeth for a new set to come in. I would rather it be certain teeth since I have a pair of implants for damn near 30 years that I wouldn't kind getting rid of as I would love to have the real thing again

@Kinai_24 There is no game theory in this question. Game theory is about computing the best odds/outcome for yourself no matter what the other player(s) do. Red is a guaranteed win, it doesn't matter what they do. Game over.

La pregunta del botón azul/rojo es interesante porque si lo piensas un rato se reduce a "¿harías un esfuerzo por salvar a alguien que no tomaría la mejor opción?" Que llevada al absurdo se podría reformular como "¿merece vivir alguien que no sabe usar teoría de juegos?"

@mattyglesias I'd concede to taxes on the land UNDER the house. Never on the house itself.

Do people think that if Larry Ellison comes to your town and pays cash for a giant mansion he should be exempt from property tax because he didn’t get a mortgage? Does that make sense?

@EmilyStewartM I'm not pro-waymo, but I am pro-"yes the Hilton, now shut up and drive while I read my book please" So I get it.

the pro-waymo people who say they love it because they HATE having to speak with the driver — as in engage in basically politeness with another human being and say hello — are just ... man how did we get here

@mattyglesias "thick gasoline that is harder to burn, but makes more energy when it finally does"

Occurs to me today that I don’t actually know what diesel is with any specificity. It’s, um, kind of like gasoline but also different? Trucks use it. And Europeans? Freight trains?

@RealUncleTesla I find driving long distances incredibly relaxing, so that part is a non-issue. When I'm allowed to sleep, the equation will change.

Yesterday a friend told me about a 15 hour road trip they took last week and how grueling it was. I told him you gotta get a Tesla and let it do all the work while you sit back and relax. His response was: A) he wouldn't trust it because he heard they get into a lot of accidents And B) he would want a car with a solid state battery I told him about the stats of FSD being 8x safer than a human driver alone but he said he heard the opposite. 🤷🙄 He then went on to say he wants to get an EV Toyota because he thinks they'll be able to make a better EV. The general public has no idea. 😵‍💫

@AlecMacGillis 2 bdrm/1ba single wide. Mom&Dad in one room, my 2 sisters in the other, big brother (10) on the living room floor, me and my 2 little brothers (6, 4, 2) in the pullout full size hideabed couch.

"Rilee Stewart and Brock Goodwin always imagined having several children... But that vision shifted once they settled into their 2,000-sq-foot house with a $3,200 mortgage... They realized that even with one child, they would most likely need more space." nytimes.com/2026/04/26/bus…

@PlotWeaver I've only designed a shed if that counts as a building, but it's still standing 22 years later. My invasion plans were graded, but not tried. Haven't done the dying gallantly yet. Rest covered.

How many of these can you do? How many do you want to learn? My answer in comments. "A human being should be able to: - change a diaper - plan an invasion - butcher a hog - conn a ship - design a building - write a sonnet - balance accounts - build a wall - set a bone -comfort the dying - take orders - give orders - cooperate - act alone - solve equations - analyze a new problem - pitch manure - program a computer - cook a tasty meal - fight efficiently - die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert A. Heinlein