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“OK, alarm set for 9:11 am”

Congrats to your parents for raising a rational adult.

I feel like some people hold or post those signs as support for a family member in law enforcement—but for the most part, yeah. I’m the son of two cops, and I will never post such a sign in my yard, on my car, nor will I put up one of those bastardized American flags with a black background, white stripes and stars,

Search and Rescue helicopter pilot guy here. In case any of you are wondering if this will happen to you after falling off a cliff face or something and needing an airlift, it won’t if they do their jobs right. In the organization I fly with you have to use a line attached to the litter that’s held by a member of the

“Sir, we’re losing altitude!” “Engage bottom rotor!”

As a long time AppleTV user, the thing that is going to make me kick them to the curb are their dumb defaults that you cannot change.

Now I want to see the cut where it is simply a Tony Stark snarky look and a wordless snap.

I happen to work in this industry, and you have no idea how right you are. In fact, you absolutely NAILED it—Zoom’s valuation is based almost exclusively on its ability to “just work” when other video conferencing platforms don’t. It’s why so many companies are paying for it right now, and why Zoom has grown so

That’s not really correct. Melting through the reactor pressure vessel isn’t what’s commonly called a “China Syndrome” event, since the fuel is still within the primary containment vessel which is still within the containment building. “China Syndrome” loosely refers to theoretical unchecked melting down through the

Not going to argue the fact, but I think the “fun” part of it is highly debatable.

we need to outlaw soda pop. i gave up soda when i was diagnosed with gout and the effect was immediate for me. i’d bet it would be for others as well.

In news no one could have predicted, streaming is bad for your personal life.

Well, he WAS on the paleo diet...

There’s something vaguely familiar about that...

Yep, on all counts. I always thought the form factor was off. Having the brick out there in the wind didn’t make any sense to me. The Contour was much better in this regard but their marketing sucked.

and that battery life.....

The Session 5 is legit great.

That and they were the first to market. Now they are nothing special.

The UI was terrible for the first few iterations. Once the app and phone connectivity was introduced, a lot of those issues were alleviated. That said, the price point was still waaaay too high.