Lev_Astov

Some US states have some sort of department of weights and measures. I’ve contacted mine before about such issues and they take them very seriously, sending out an inspection team to test the claim. What they can do to enforce things depends on the state, though.

Plenty do. There just needs to be more organization.

What’s great about this comment is that every side can say it about the other!

They’re so brave.

SES King of Democracy

I really appreciate how the gun is a close approximation of Deckard’s blaster from Blade Runner.

I looked to see where this was copied from… and it’s you 6 years ago.

It seems like it’s up to the state to set the barrier for entry to their Medicaid system. In my state, the limit was <$24k yearly income, and I think that’s gone up since I last looked. In a friend’s state, it was <$12k to qualify, which is a lot harder to survive on.

Yeah, that was my experience with employer-run healthcare in general before I left to start my own business. I was paying $200 monthly for a terrible, high-copay situation like that from my last employer when I broke my knee. My friend with zero insurance had the same injury so I went to his doctor and surgeon. Afterwords we compared our total bills and mine was barely any less than his cash-only bill. I felt robbed.

That’s why you do Iceland instead.

I’ve always wanted to do this…

What icons? I’m not seeing any such things. What am I missing out on and why?

I felt the same until some point in high school when I realized all food ultimately grows from recycled rot, so I decided to try liking mushrooms. It was a lot easier to overcome the texture of those than of raw tomato or onion and opened up a whole new world of umami flavor. Just wash them and cook them; there’s no understanding the people eating them raw…

What ever happened to doing this with UHF RFID? Getting the cost of the individual chips down was always just a matter of scaling production.

In my experience, they usually lose interest partway through the clarification and then later ask three questions that were covered while they weren’t paying attention.

I do wish Robertson heads were more common. They’re almost as tough as torx, but tapered to stick on the tip of the tool, which is so convenient.

Reality confirmed, however.

I’m a big proponent of buying government surplus office printers. I have this huge print center collater thing that came with more toner than I’ll ever use in my life. $55

Human error is a far more reasonable explanation than complicated conspiracies, but I understand the thought. It really looked like that ship aimed for the bridge. Planning such a conspiracy would be far, far harder and more expensive to pull off than simple bridge failure, though.

Believe it or not, the insurance companies drive maritime safety requirements since they hate having to pay out for things like this. The classification societies that regulate and inspect ships to approve for insurance coverage have very strict and well thought out safety requirements that get better any time a new failure mode is discovered.

I personally think this one was human error in an emergency situation.

Theory: They lost primary electric service and began a slight drift to starboard. When they got backup power online, they began a crash reverse to slow down. This would hinder rudder control since the ship was still going forward and now just creating turbulence with the prop. Reverse would torque the stern to port, swinging the bow to starboard, as we saw. The bow thruster was offline due to the power issues.