Also the P320 - which was adopted as the new standard-issue handgun for the US military.

The Air Force actually suspended their use for a few months last year after one went off uncommanded and killed an airman. They inspected them and found that over 2% were already in unsafe condition after being adopted just 5 years earlier.

And the civilan version is worse and in the middle of several lawsuits. And this is after they were recalled for not being drop-safe.

Yeah. A Taurus or a Sig, maybe. Not a Glock. There’s a reason they’re so popular. They reliably fire when the trigger is pulled and only when the trigger is pulled.

Yeah - that’s why I always use credit if I can. If someone steals my credit card, I’m protected. The money doesn’t even leave my account, so I don’t have to worry about losing access to my funds for a few days while everything is worked out.

Inverted Y works for me in first-person games because I equate the tilt of the stick to tilting my head. If I want to look up, I have to lean my head back.

In 3rd-person platformers, it’s because I’m imagining moving the camera. It’s also why I have to invert the x-axis on third-person platformers.

3rd-person shooters I just treat as an fps because that’s how my brain works.

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Or just photos of random people or celebrities

Or AI slop photos. Or AI slop fake IDs.

The important takeaway is they won’t be restricting AI bots from participating.

I work in municipal development and we have 20 new “developers” a week trying to get us to buy their permitting apps. All of them are willing to offer us an exclusive discount as an early adopter, and the few I’ve had meetings with haven’t even been able to tell us what backend databases the apps use or understand that there’s a difference between an Amending Plat, Site Development permit, and a Building permit.

And I have to fight the mayor every time because he’s all aboard with the AI hype. He tried having all the city ordinances and decelopment manuals re-written by GPT to make them easier to understand, and we had to get the city attorney to explain that not only was it idiotic, but that it would cost a couple hundred grand just to have his firm go over everything and explain the specifics of how dumb it was, and that if a code re-write is needed (and it is), they should spend that money hiring a firm specializing in code review.

The slop apps are out there - they’re just all being pitched to governments and CEOs that have infinite faith in anything that will make people more expendable.

9-5 isn’t really a thing anymore.

It’s more likely to be 8-5 or 9-6. You get an hour for lunch, but you’ll be so busy you usually skip it and work that extra hour for free.

Did you just make the Avocado Toast argument?

I work near downtown Austin, where both Waymo and Robotaxi operate.

Waymo cars are some of the best drivers on the road because they actuallyt ested their product, use multiple Lidar sensors instead of just cameras, and have remote driver backups for unusual situations.

Teslas drive like maniacs and will end a ride and tell the driver to get out in the middle of a lane.

This is why when my city installed them (with a 3-2 vote from Council) they required them to all be installed in the Right-of-Way, which gives the city more authority to remove them if the contract is terminated (which it likely will be soon).

My father was a firefighter, and his go-to quote every time someone wanted a cat rescued was “How often do you see a cat skeleton in a tree?”

They eventually jump down. They can generally survive terminal velocity falls without injury so long as they land well, which they generally do when they jump out of the tree. But it’s still scary, so it may take them a bit to build up the nerve for the jump.

I used to be clergy. Now I work in government.

So I feel like I’m a decent authority on how the separation of church and state makes both institutions better.

Or did they just initially export the emails from Outlook as pdfs for the redaction process?

Preachers and all other church staff members have to pay income taxes.

There is an interest-free housing stipend for preachers that works similar to an FSA (use it or lose it annually). Some military service members get a similar stipend if they live off-base for the same reason. Many preachers and service members are itenerant and may be reassigned to a different area at any time. Purchsing a house isn’trealistic if you don’tknownwhere you’ll live in 6 months, so they can’t take advantage of tax breaks like the home interest mortgage deduction. Preachers who are provided free housing (parsonage) can’t take advantage of the tax-free stipend because they don’t pay for housing.

My thought on that particular tax break isn’t to close it but to expand it to everyone who rents.

That’s pretty similar to how it is.

I used to be a preacher. I paid taxes. Any facility space or property we rented to commercial companies (we had a psychologist who used a portion of our space during the week) was taxed.

The only real break we got versus other charities was that clergy can get a tax-freee home/apartment rental stipend if they aren’t provided a personage. The idea there was that, for itenerant clergy, purchasing a home isn’t realistic because they don’t know where they’ll live in a year. They can’t take advantage of things like a mortgage interest deduction.

But my solution there is to open up tax exemption for all rent payers.

Google pays them the make Goigle the default search engine.

We need to be careful in how we view the latest batch from the files. They contain lots of names of people who were not involved in the least. Bilbo Baggins and Punxsutawney Phil are in there. Lots of celebrities are in there simply because they’re referenced in an email, while they had no contact with Epstein knowledge of what was happening.

And if we’re too aggressive in how we react to people’s names popping up in searches, it gives cover to those who were complicit.

I used to rollerblade everywhere as a kid in the 90s. It was awesome.

They take the same cut as companies that monopolize the app stores on their hardware.

They take more than other PC platforms.