Any lock can be defeated. The point is to make it more difficult: the longer it takes and the more obviously weird things a thief has to do to try to break it, the more likely they are to get caught in the act. They know that too, so it’s a deterrence. Better to find an easier mark.

I was just thinking I should order some, but you’re right: I’m gonna go over to O’Reilly & AutoZone later (so the keys come from different stores).

This might be viable if the Palestinians weren’t the second most hated group in the region.

There’s a flavor of American antisemitism which is zealously pro-Israel: they want all of us Jews to move there.

Testing with bamboo is a pretty standard test for Japanese swords (and their wielders). That doesn’t look like bamboo, but wood shouldn’t be all that different.

Medieval weapons... medieval money.

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You got me curious: the cheapest manual, CPO 911 on AutoTrader is a black-on-black 2010 Carrera cabriolet with 28k miles, for about $58k. That is not a wholly unthinkable amount to spend.

I have been saying exactly this for a while now. It used to be they charged extra for an auto. People paid it because they wanted it. Some of us would do the same for a stick. It might not make sense for every model, but if you can sell a thousand cars with the $1k manual option, that pays for whatever extra cost they…

I don’t believe they did it on purpose, but if they did it would be for the publicity: make an ultra hot, limited model to rejuvenate the attention the 911 garners.

Maybe we can kill the whole slammed/stanced culture that way?

The inter-state reciprocity agreements which allow you to drive a car registered in one state on another’s roads are contingent upon you following local regulations.

I don’t really care about McAvoy, but I understand the sentiment more generally. A couple days ago, while (re)watching Parks and Rec, I thought I remembered something about Sam Elliott. Dismayed, I went to look it up. I was pleased by what I found.

Netflix recommended it, so I tried to watch it. I made it less than 5 minutes.

I’m assuming one of his projects will kill him before that happens.

as a guy, I haven’t initiated this topic in conversation much, mostly because I don’t think it’s my place to do that, and it can possibly bring up a lot of bad memories and make the other person uncomfortable and such.

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The end of your story is pretty great. I’m filing it away with the one where my buddy first met his wife when he photobombed her friends taking a group selfie, and the married couple I know who started out as a one night stand.

I am not a lawyer and I don’t do this kind of work myself, but I am a little familiar with the procedures for human studies: even under those standards, I don’t think it would be illegal. The person whose behavior is being studied is the one who’s commissioned the recording. You’d have to get something in writing, but…