Definitely use a safety when present, but some guns intended for everyday carry do not have traditional safety switches. They rely on trigger and/or grip safeties to reduce the chance of negligent discharge.

Don’t be discouraged if you look for a safety and can’t find it. Just obey the other rules of firearm safety to minimize (because you’ll never truly eliminate) the risk of injury.

I let my Prime expire three days ago, yet they still upgraded me last night. I’ve already downgraded. We’ll see if it continues to badger me to upgrade like it has the past couple months.

For me, the value add of Plex is their maintenance and support of the apps on various platforms and the authentication and connection management. I do have my server port forwarded, so there’s no reason for them to handle my media streams. Being able to tell a new user that all they need to do is download an app from a trusted app repository and create a free account so I can invite them to my libraries is a super simple experience for most skill levels and well worth the $60 or so I spent on a lifetime Plex pass over a decade ago.

I get that there are use cases where it makes more sense to go with a completely free solution like JellyFin, but many critics of Plex act like ALL they are doing is serving user-supplied media on a web server, and that’s a gross misrepresentation of their offering.

I don’t love the IPTV stuff that they do, but it’s not that difficult to tweak the current app so that only my libraries are shown. Compared to an experience like my smart TV which is shoving ads down my throat and adding steps to get to the apps I want, it’s an experience I can live with if it keeps Plex in the black.

I think the text is cut from a longer form document. The author may have been declaring the abbreviation for use in the rest of the text.

Man, I remember loving this comic. Unfortunately, it looks like the yesthievescan domain has been purchased by scammers. Don’t go there.

Always crazy seeing a The Big Hit reference in the wild

When I had my first dog, I drove a Kia Soul and would put the back row of seats down when I took him places. Depending on the circumstances, I might let him in from the rear hatchback or one of the rear side doors. One day I called him out to the car and was standing beside the open rear passenger side door. He came tearing down the path at full speed, rounded the car and leapt-- into the closed back door. He yiped, looked at me like he was offended, then hopped in the open door.

OP, I feel you pain. My current dog ate a toy, too. Only it wasn’t his toy, and I don’t have any kids…

$4300 emergency vet visit later, my girlfriend and I are much better about cleaning up after playtime.

I can snap with my right hand all day, but for some reason, my left hand just never gets the appropriate sound to come out.

Fuck yes, Fight for NY was amazing. I love the idea of a fighting game where you have to end the fight, not just knock the other guy’s health bar down to zero so he falls over. So satisfying to put your opponent down with a haymaker or chucking him in front of a subway train

The only one, rather

Wouldn’t scores fall earlier than that as more people utilized their credit lines and their credit: debt ratio changed? I’m sure the impact is much less than missing payments, but I think that would be an important thing to monitor for trends

AP News has picked it up now at least.

even if those pedophiles were in his party

I disagree with you on this. I fully believe that Biden is enough of a status-quo type that he would withhold the documents if there were enough names to significantly damage the current Democrat hierarchy.

I respect the job he did while president, but Biden wasn’t rocking the boat any more than he had to.

Great reminder. I’ve had skin cancer a couple of times and I’m far from what you’d call the outdoorsy type. Caught early, it’s a very manageable condition. Keep an eye on your moles and if any start changing quickly, schedule a dermatology exam. I get annual checkups.

FSD (and stock Autopilot, for that matter) are systems you engage while driving, similar to Cruise Control. I feel like the capabilities are different enough that the average driver wouldn’t get too used to FSD over a couple week period.

For me as someone who drives a decent amount of country backroads, I’m wondering whether the stock Autopilot obeys stop signs. I know it didn’t when I first got the car, and I wasn’t in a hurry to test if they added the functionality. I could see maybe someone renting a Tesla with FSD, getting used to it, then not realizing that the next Tesla they rented without FSD was going to blow through a stop sign.

Tesla has also been doing this for years. My 2019 Model 3 has an upgrade option for the acceleration. It’s a one time payment, but Tesla’s no stranger to the subscription model. They offer monthly fees for the upgraded “self-driving” package and occasionally give me a free trial period to try it out. I’ve had enough phantom braking incidents with the stock version that I’ll never use it.

ETA: Also, any upgrades I get for my car will not transfer if I sell it. I’m guessing that’s a big incentive for Volkswagen and the like to jump on board for this shitty practice.

I listened to an audiobook with a main character who had that name (The Rook by Daniel O’Malley) and the narrator pronounced it in a way that rhymed with Tiffany

It sure as hell isn’t a Shower Thought

I think that’s a letter from the Yautja alphabet

Rumor is he dies in the first 20 minutes. To “make the plot intense and unpredictable”.

Nothing against the actor, but creating a boring character to hang the plot on was always a dumb decision for a franchise with lore like Mortal Kombat.