Yeah, but that backflip, though.

Yes, but Minetest/Luanti is not a fork of Minecraft, it is its own separate thing.

You can use the same license for both, and your purchase includes access to both versions regardless of how you buy it, unless that’s changed very recently when I wasn’t looking.

Officially, both versions also explicitly require you to create (or already have) a Microsoft account to sign-in and play. Unofficially, the Java version is dead easy to pirate.

I’m pretty sure I’m not a bot, but some days it’s difficult to be sure.

Hand me that illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator, will you?

It already does. Samsung’s Tizen OS these things run is Linux based, albeit at this point broadly in the same sense that Android is.

Wait until you find out what Jim Henson was up to before he got real famous.

Walking into this in the first Watch_Dogs. (NSFW. Very much so.)

If you take the time to interact with all the hackables and scan all the people in this area you’ll have revealed to you the incredible depths of depravity and cruelty going on here. It is incredibly fucked up. It was at this very moment in my first and only playthrough that I decided that no, fuck that. Aiden Pierce was now going to be murdering a lot of very specific people.

“Business must proceed.”

And right before that, GLaDOS also says, “Well, this is the part where he kills us.” Then the caption. Then the achievement pop. Then Wheatley says, “Hello! This is the part where I kill you.”

He then fails to kill you.

My beagle was fascinated by the oldschool rotary siren still in use with the local fire station when I was a kid. It was a solid mile or so away from our house but obviously quite audible. They did a test run on it every Sunday morning at seemingly increasingly earlier hours, probably specifically to annoy all the proto-Karens who sent snippy letters to them about it, or wrote in to the papers.

If you don’t know or you’ve never heard one of these, they take quite a while to wind down as the flywheel or whatever it is coasts after it’s turned off, slowly losing speed with the pitch going lower and lower and lower. When it got down into the very low registers, my dog’s favorite thing to do was trying to match its pitch by howling back at it. Obviously with decreasing success the lower the note went. Aroooooooouuuuuuwwwwwwrrrrrr…rrrr…rr…rr…r…r…

My town also did a yearly fireworks display on the 4th and how I got him to get over that was by bodily picking his dumb ass up and carrying him to the field overlooking the valley into town, so he could see what was going on. That was the congregation spot for everyone from all the local neighborhoods to sit and watch, so this also usually wound up with him being able to scam a hot dog or a hamburger off of somebody. After a couple of years of that it was him dragging me off to that field on the end of his leash.

For whatever reason he maintained a lifelong hate-on for the sound of skateboard and rollerblade wheels. If anyone ever went by our house on either of above he’d go absolutely ballistic. He didn’t care about bicycles or scooters or even loud motorcycles.

You separate out the isotopes. You don’t create U-235, but rather you extract the fissile isotope from your sample. There’s only a limited amount of the stuff in the world and the majority of uranium still buried (and in fact, the majority of it at all) is non-fissile U-238. Only something like 0.7% of the uranium in the world is U-235.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium

I suspect this is highly dependent on the level of enrichment of said uranium.

Even buying it piecemeal in dinkum quantities from scientific suppliers as a private customer, I’m seeing depleted uranium — i.e., 99.9% U238 and not realistically fissile material — priced at $32.50 per gram online. 2 kilos of that would thus be $65,000. Although I’ll be damned if I know just what the hell you’d do with the stuff.

I reckon weapons grade would run you just a smidgen more than that.

Correct on that count. The whole thing is now just a boy-who-cried-wolf situation.

That’s not why. It’s because it’s cheaper for a manufacturer of your widget to just slap a Prop 65 label on anything and everything out of an overabundance of caution rather than go through all the testing and certification required to verify if there is or isn’t any such material in the product. There’s no penalty for false positives, so to remain “complaint” suddenly every manufactured good on Earth suddenly sprouted the warning.

Loud outside noises like fireworks, thunder, sirens, etc. freak dogs and animals out because there is no apparent cause and effect. They’re just random, and don’t come from an identifiable source other than “outside.” Despite the popularly repeated advice, playing fireworks noises over your stereo speakers is not going to do anything for your dog nor train him in any way what those noises are or what’s causing them. Your dog isn’t fooled — he knows very well you initiated the speaker noises, because he watched you do it and he’s watched you make other speaker noises like TV and music the same way before. But by the same token dogs have no concept of abstract concepts so it’s no good trying to explain to him that your fireworks Youtube video or whatever is supposed to be the “same” thing as what he’s scared of. Because to him, it isn’t.

The only thing that worked for my dog back when was making the fireworks event participatory. Just randomly subjecting them to loud bangs isn’t going to do it. Take him outside to see the fireworks and stay with him, preferably with yourself and other members of your household visibly enjoying yourselves. Not coincidentally, this is also basically what you have to do with hunting dogs (and horses, for that matter) to desensitize them to gunfire.

Fireworks are especially tricky because they’re usually far enough away that there’s a large delay between the visual event and the noise. Trying to explain the concept of the difference between the speed of light and speed of sound to a dog is, naturally, likely to be difficult ^{[citation needed]}.

It’s already a truck.

Sandbags are remarkably effective at stopping small arms fire, at least as long as you can keep the sand in them. If you only stacked up the back wall of the truck right in front of the door and optionally if you only did it to waist height (you’d have to lie down behind them) it would absolutely work.

A typical hardware store sandbag is 60 or 80 pounds, and to stack up to a height of, say, four feet you’d probably need around 3200 pounds worth of them or so (40 bags) based on some rough back of the envelope math and hazy recollection of the approximate size of an 80 lb bag of sand. That may exceed the recommended load weight of your small box truck per the rental agreement paperwork or whatever the hell, but I don’t think in reality that would cause even a small U-Haul truck to struggle much.

Doing all four walls of the rear of the truck would probably take an inordinate amount of sand and wouldn’t be too viable.

Really, just pile up a layer of sandbags or whatever against the back door and you would be quite good to go.

Hey c’mon! Get serious!

Powah wave! Kickbat! Kickbat! Kickbat! Burn-u knuckle!

(Let’s add the announcer from the original Metal Slug games while we’re at it. “Rawket Lawnchair!!!”)

I use, “Enough of this, I’m going for a scuttle” all the time.

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