yup, all the worst parts of a car, a boat and an airplane merged into one without many of the upsides of any of them.

This is pretty normal for space programs, NASA was actually an outlier in that they didn’t suffer any major loss of craft in their early experimentation, most other programs including the Chinese and Soviets, did.

well in one case the guy was 84 and it’s likely they weren’t mentally competent to live alone let alone use a weapon.

Your assessment of “stand your ground” laws is factually inaccurate. They DO NOT remove the need for you to be under “immediate threat to life”. All they do is remove your duty to run away if you can, even if you are under threat. Stand Your Ground does not apply if there is no immediate threat to your life or that of…

My last house didn’t have trash pickup, I would have to either pay a pickup service per pickup or drive it to the dump (and recycling center separately) myself.

Still didn’t leave trash all over.

I think you could make a cogent argument the 120mm version is a tank destroyer in effect-- a giant gun on a fairly small platform designed to engage enemy tanks from ambush or at long range.

this is a good example, behavior standards differ between a dive bar and a high-end cocktail bar, or between a bowling alley and a golf course, or a punk concert and a big band concert.

it’s just a different culture, just like standards of audience behavior are different between a stand up comic and an academic lecturer or between a punk band and a jazz band.

That is how it has to be more or less, at least within the scope of the ability to do this via modifying a rule.

Biden can unilaterally say that the privacy protections extend to make this mandatory like other aspects of HIPAA but they cannot make it illegal to report a crime, even if they don’t think it ought to be a…

you’re not wrong about history but at the same time doesn’t that prove his point?  No one could look at the East India Company or its kin and go “yeah, that was a great idea that worked out well for everyone involved”

Not at all, they do it all the time, and have for ages. A lot of gun control legislation, for instance, including the original National Firearms Act. Including one case where they literally banned a product because they didn’t like its name, despite the fact it was, to put it charitably, not the kind of weapon…

a Stupid Coup™

except there are no citizens, the permanent residency of the district is zero.  That’s why they had to go through all of this to start with, because if you relied on property tax like they do for most districts, the tax income would be zero dollars, but obviously infrastructure still has to get built.

It’s a murky area of law, but there’s strong precedent that only humans can own copyrights, if it’s not made by a human, it’s not eligible for copyright.

Eye of the Beholder had a SNES port but that’s about it, you’re right. the titans of western CRPGs like the Ultima series, Wizardry series, Elder Scrolls prior to Skyrim, all Black Isle’s stuff, were all PC-only.

to me JRPG was just a descriptor for a very common set of tropes and design decisions from Japan that lead to a different lineage of games that were barely in the same genre. Western CRPGs tended to follow the Ultima/Wizardry/Eye of the Beholder type design (first person dungeon exploration, vancian spellcasting,…

I really can’t recommend wood boards for home use. I know that a lot of people like them, and yes they CAN be safe, but most people don’t use them safely at home.

yeah, they’re TOUGH levels, not raw size like some of the challenge levels (like the minigolf) or incredibly tenacious stains (like the stunt plane or the locomotive) but they’re basically like the monster truck on steroids.

It’s more just spreading over everything and being gross and disgusting... so not so much Last of Us as the Filth from Secret World-- for like all six of us that played that game.

your “homemade hand sanitizer” recipe is not effective for germ killing. The recommended MINIMUM concentration of alcohol in a hand sanitizer is 60%.