Concentrated hate circles are as bad as child porn sites and hubs for international terrorism, but our (American) government is shockingly inept at doing much about the former.  

Swatting is putting out a hit on someone, with the police as hired killers working pro bono. Same as the other styles of “call the police on this person as a way to try to get them killed.”

Someone out there deliberately sent police to this woman’a house in an attempt to get her murdered for the ‘crime’ of *literally just existing*

“Swatting is a dangerous prank”

No, swatting is an attack. It is targeted, hate-inspired terrorism. No rational person thinks “Wouldn’t it be funny if a SWAT happened on this person’s stream?” This isn’t a prank or something to be reductive about. The person perpetrating these attacks is betting on the police to use…

So, I work in a field in which we ARE trained to “work outdoors and to manage the effects of hot weather.” These are some of the ways we do that:

At the very least they could put a few squirrel-cage-type fans along the upper corners of the cargo area and some ventilation louvers along the bottom edges, to maintain constant fresh air flow through the cabin. Fans of that type are highly efficient and wouldn’t draw that much power. Of course, we’re talking about a…

I wonder if any of these companies due studies on how overheated workers affect productivity and customer service.  I’m a lot nicer to the customers when I’m not sweating my balls off, and I work harder, too.

Yeah even a couple of those little cheap square pop up vents you used to see on campers back in the day would make a huge difference, and at the quantity they would be buying them would probably only be a few bucks.  But it costs money, even a little, ain’t gonna happen unless they are forced to do it.

Not only is the heat dangerous for drivers, but a lot of medications and medical supplies (tests, bio, etc) will spoil when they’re exposed to that kind of heat for extended periods. Pills that could survive a few hours on a doorstop in 95F heat won’t last that long in a 130F oven, and packaging insulation can only do…

This entire comment is very stupid and reflects your basic lack of empathy and any understanding at all about economic realities in this country. But this gem made me laugh the most: “I won’t say I don’t feel sorry for UPS drivers...” and then you spend an entire paragraph explaining exactly how not sorry you feel for…

There’s this gem:

I didn’t notice how small these ‘worlds’ were until after I beat the game and ran around to find the last 5 or six memories I missed. The care put into the living space of every essential character warranted several minutes of exploring, but when that didn't matter just to 100% it is a rather small space. I felt a lot…

Because a lot of places rather spend money on military grade weapons, armored vehicles, than putting mental health professional on these type of calls. 

I’m pretty sure that’s all major companies nowadays, not just publishers.

Drivers from this event almost killed me and my wife. We have a rental in the Norwood area and were down there checking on it. We were going out of town for a hike when several exotics with some sort of livery zoomed towards us at a zillion miles an hour passing others and heading right for us head on. I braked, they…

I saw the word “Rally” and saw a car without a cage with what looked to be blown bags by the crash site.

But that would be discriminatory against the morons and idiots who maintain that they have every right to be that way and better educated people are no better than they are.

The whole purpose of a SPAC is to allow raising money in the markets for purposes that are traditionally covered by venture capital/private equity - i.e., highly speculative investments. It’s really an end run around the limitations of private equity (which can only take money from “sophisticated” investors, not the…

At this point I would be highly suspicious of any company formed under the auspices of a SPAC. They seem inherently scammy and I suspect they’re going to become illegal some day after a bunch of powerful people manage to lose a ton of cash on one, instead of taking it from other fools.

It’s called ‘collusion’, folks. Not quite a monopoly, but it doesn’t need to be. It’s a small group of companies happy to just keep jacking up the prices. There is absolutely no free market happening here.