Does anyone else here think that maybe these ads aren’t the result of a sense of humor, but an attempt to pitch gee-whiz features to low-information consumers?

Glad to hear the wet rescue is working and they’re getting them out relatively unscathed.  I was pessimistic that weakened non-swimmers would fare well against a challenging dive, but am more than happy to be proven wrong.

Exactly this. On top of the fact that a bore hole is not a hole that a human can pass through.

Don’t mischaracterize the situation: rescuers do, in fact, have a general idea of where they are. (When I said “reliable” above, I meant in the sense that 2010's Chilean mine rescue is the only previous example I’m aware of; there simply isn’t much history to the process.) This cave system is reasonably well-mapped…

Apparently they’ve been in it before, but this time the purpose became a rite of passage to reach a particular wall to sign their names.

Diving them out seems doomed to fail. Waiting out monsoon season might work, but could also end in tragedy. I don’t understand why drilling an extraction route has been ruled out so quickly. Yes: I understand that there’s no reliable way to triangulate their location relative to the mountain/jungle above, so you can’t…

Diving them out seems doomed to fail. Waiting out monsoon season might work, but could also end in tragedy. I don’t understand why drilling an extraction route has been ruled out so quickly. Yes: I understand that there’s no reliable way to triangulate their location relative to the mountain/jungle above, so you can’t…

This is such a weird situation for all the reasons others have already mentioned. If I’m the GM of a non-Spurs team right now, I wouldn’t touch this guy with a ten-foot pole. He’s been in the league’s best organization, one that genuinely looks out for its players’ health (how many DNP-Old did Duncan/Manu get?), and…

My thoughts exactly re: Chris Paul.

Alright, I can go along with that.  +1 to you, good sir or madame.

I for one can’t understand how his skull wasn’t crushed, regardless of how he died, if the tunneling took place somewhat recently.

Seconded.  I mean...  Yeah the trim level can be a bit tricky to narrow down, but that’s clearly a Fusion.

Are you me? Because whoa, I used to curb-stomp people in BF:1942, but nowadays am strictly average at most online games I play. As a result, I’m limiting myself more to quality singleplayer stuff.

From the linked article:

Yep, this is the entirety of the problem with “sharing XYZ device” startups boiled down to its essence. People are dicks, and removing the onus of ownership means these problems will always exist. The million dollar question becomes: can the startup make enough in revenue to not only offset negligence and deliberate…

This is so weird! I need a dealer insider to tell me if it’s realistic to expect someone to walk in and buy a car that’s been sitting on a dealer lot for almost 3 years, and at basically full price!

Yeah, I’m with you on this. They’re not great movies, but they’re perfectly fine. Awesome worldbuilding and visuals, clearly.

The trapper is an asshole; his bongo technique doesn’t accomplish anything but agitate a scared, pissed-off apex predator. There’s literally no purpose to tapping it like that.

“We have seen instances where there are people who claim to be Nazis, but are in fact on the payroll of various SJW [social justice warrior] groups,” and trying to damage Gab’s reputation, he said.

Yep, I’m always grey. I like to think I make (generally) insightful comments with a minimum of trolling, and yet so I remain.