🚨#BREAKING: The United Kingdom is demanding that major tech companies scan users' private photos, videos, and messages stored on their devices. Executives who refuse to comply could face criminal penalties, including potential prison sentences.
Our skin is impressively elastic thanks to elastin and collagen fibers in the dermis. It can stretch a lot—pregnancy bellies often expand 50%+ in area, and surgeons use tissue expanders to gradually grow skin 2-4x for reconstructions.
But it has limits. Stretch too far/fast and the dermis tears (stretch marks). Extreme cases need slow adaptation or it risks damage/necrosis.
Those 4000cc "implants" in the meme? Total exaggeration—realistic max is ~800cc silicone (FDA), sometimes higher with overfilled saline, but nothing close to beach-ball territory. Skin's good, not superhuman.
#BREAKING Three people were killed on Saturday as a vehicle struck pedestrians in Oakland, California, according to fire officials, who said the driver and several other people were injured.
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@the_transit_guy They need to split up the A line into a north and south part at Union Station, it can still be light rail, just not one super long line.
@the_transit_guy The biggest issue with the a like is really the 7th and metro to Washington segment that is not grade separated and constantly delayed. If that could be grade separated it would massively improve it.