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I can understand that, it's why we have standardization. But the fault also lays on assuming everything is exactly as expected. Otherwise we wouldn't need stud finders at all, we'd be sure where every last 2x4 is. A depth measuring stud finder would tell you there's an unusual mass and give you warning that all isn't like you'd expect.

Many people here have posted the link to Climate Town's video on expiration dates, but your comment also brings into focus a video of theirs about consumer waste. Actually he's probably made a few on that subject, but the one that came to mind was about the circle of buying and returning products (eg. Amazon returns), and what really happens. Good lord, the waste.

What is the optimum angle to secure such a device for the maximum result? Asking for science.

Also, I wouldn't ever glue/tie/epoxy one of these. I'd do four in various places.

Oh, so nastier than being asked by a reporter to tell the scared American public something encouraging during a pandemic? So Presidential, this guy.

I'm sure from a code perspective there's something wrong here, but there must have been an issue with securing it from the right, and someone saw a bunch of scrap lumber pieces and said, got an idea. It's not structural and needing to hold weight, so I'm really curious why, other than aesthetics, this is bad. Once covered by drywall, will this be some problem in the future?

Those would be fractured kyber crystals. Not something the Jedi would want.

Search your feelings, you know it to be true. Also, look at the inventory spreadsheets from last year, you can see what went into construction.

My non-scientific gut feeling is that regardless of what we do, we're too late to stop the natural feedbacks already in progress. Which was the problem all along - humans were never the sole cause of global warming, they were the catalyst with their emissions to set things rolling. Even twenty years ago if we had done everything right and stopped emissions, we had already pushed the environment to change. And we didn't, so we've been pushing that boulder down the hill even as it gains its own momentum. Smart, we are. The boulder will stop when it stops, not when we wish it.

A bit true of larger trucks too. Long ago when we had an RV trailer and a dually truck, it rode and drove the best when it had a full load behind it.

Gen X's baseline fear for wasps

Look, there's rational reason for it.

I just like the article because it shows that not everyone has forgotten about us. Whether what it says is true or not. I am totally anticipating all my social security, savings, and pension to dry up right when I need it, that's true enough.

There are multiple timelines of potential futures. They all end up collapsing into a singular "now". Many of the futures have very low probability.

I pictured that very scary moment from Whitley Strieber's "Communion", except Whitley is on his phone in bed scrolling along, and the alien peaks out, sighs, and slowly goes back.