“Military grade” means about as much as “all-natural ingredients”.

Supposedly, the Cybertruck is made of “space-grade stainless steel”, with the intended implication being it is the same steel used on Starship.

Probably a bit of both. I’m sure there’s also a lot of folks at the the agencies in question trying to decide who’s job it is to do what.

Did they hire former HP marketers?

Oh lord.

I recall Tesla crowing about it being a “space-grade steel”, I suppose implying it’s the same alloy used in the SpaceX Starship and booster.

Oh my lord. I am going to have to try and find a video of them playing sometime to hear what they sound like. :-)

Oakly doakly, you guys.....

It’s possible to have compassion for everybody in this situation, IMHO. It’s a flipping miracle the man in the back of the squad car is still alive (and possibly a testimony to the lousy marksmanship of the two officers). With someone like this officer on the force, we’re all one case of mistaken identity away from…

Believe it or not, it actually is possible to have sympathy with mass shooters too. And with that crazy lady who tried to shoot up that megachurch the other day, and in the process of being taken out, got her son critically hurt too. It’s a damn shame; these people needed help and didn’t get it. Instead, they found…

Oh, 100% he absolutely would have known.

Agreed; it’s misleading to call it just “carrier”, especially “WWII carrier”. She was a smallish lake freighter, one of many to perish under the unforgiving swells of Lake Superior. She also predated not just WWII but WWI as well — she went into service in 1913, so you can’t even describe her as a “WWII cargo carrier…

I . . . assumed they figured we were smart enough to understand what “intraspecies” meant and weren’t trying to con us. Maybe I’m just not cynical today?

Well, considering that mummies were historically sold in Europe to be pulverized and turned into pigment (“mummy brown” was not even remotely a euphemism) while their wrappings got repurposed as to-go food containers (seriously) it . . . could actually be worse, and has been.

“Because standardized parts mean you save while money the mfr (and their approved suppliers) loses money.”

The story got traction not because people are ignorant but because people are fed up with too many things being made connected or “smart” and the headline makes for an easy “HAH, see, I told you all this IOT nonsense was a bad idea!”

Smart toothbrushes will tell you if you’re doing a bad job brushing and give you tips on how to improve your brushing — so, if you miss the biannual nagging by your dental hygienist and/or dentist, you can buy a toothbrush to lecture you daily. ;-) I think most people would prefer *less* nagging.

Is there a competition among these people for who can say the most offensive thing? I mean, really . . . he thinks pregnant one year olds are a) possible, b) likely enough to be mentioned, and c) ought to bear their rapist’s child? I really can’t decide which part of that is worst.

Well, it’s a hell of a way to learn that nobody’s listening to your station. :-D

Let’s take a step back.  We’re sidetracking a conversation here. I never intended to imply, as you’ve taken it, that a technician (not “assembler”) was randomly taking bolts for some strange random purpose. You have read far more nefarious purpose than intended, while wholly sidetracking from the point I was making: