I loved my Phillips CPAP for the better part of a year, until every use started coming with a distinct burning sensation in my nasal passages and throat.

Of course the VA still wondered why I wanted a new non-Phillips machine after the recall. Like hell the refurb/“fixed” version is good-enough, when the FDA banned them from making any such products going forward…

Up-voted for that last panel, but the rot is on-theme for the holiday.

… but its not? Literally, the “harder” part about making a bomb with reactor-grade material is keeping it from blowing-up prematurely, while still getting maximum yeild at boom-boom time.

A less-advanced nation might get a lesser explosion out of a “safer”(doesn’t explode until its supposed to) bomb with reactor-grade material, but its still going to be a massive, nuclear explosion, and the unspent fuel creates additional radio-active fallout.

Apparently, civilized-countries’ worst nightmare regarding weapons-grade plutonium is that those that “shouldn’t” have “the bomb” could build them and then be able to shelve them for a later, legitimate threat. Oh, and not being able to cry “they built a dirty bomb!!” if such were ever used.

Apparently, the opposite is the case. Funny story, when making a bomb, blowing up during construction, storage, or delivery to the target is an un-desirable trait.

Not because we don’t have Spam, but because we can’t find it under all of the cheese.

At some point, even a willing merchant should offer lower per-item payouts.

“I like you enough to go x over wholesale” only goes so far, and yeah, damn near everyone has an absolute limit on what they would expect to be able to offload in the next century. Likely a much lower limit than you would expet. Repeatedly selling the same thing should eventually invoke “I’ll take one or two this time, but for the rest, you should probably visit x, who I sold that last truckload too, or x, who I had to PAY to haul it away. You now owe me money, btw.”

Indeed, and trusting the US to protect allies from invasion was a bad call. The leap from “perhaps US allies should up their defense spending to what it should have been all along, plus a temporary bonus to catch-up/modernize” to “pre-emptive attack and iron-domes for everyone should be on the table” is both eroneous and wasteful.

Don’t encourage countries to bankrupt themselves buying solutions that are sold mostly by the US - thats exacly what my government would love best to enrich defense contractors and justify continued record spending, plus more meddling, I promise.

“Treat x as an attack that requires immediate action, you can’t afford to make rational long-term decisions today” is the hook-line-and-sinker CIA/fascist narrative, always has been.

“Weapons grade” is actually more stable and less prone to blowing up without constant management, who knew?

Nothing-burger.

You’ve got it backwards. Weapons-grade is more stable. Less stability is fine for reactors, because they are designed to manage the reaction on an on-going basis and not, in general, blow up.

That’s what we’ve been trying to tell the world about Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and even Cuba. That last one’s strategically debatable, but for the rest “we should treat it as an attack” was a lie then.

Its no more or less of a lie now. Encouraging other countries to embrace reactionary foreign policy is no more of a good idea than following the US’ lead on the matter.

If you or I can be held responsible for such activities from our homes, why give google an exemption?

It would depend on jurisdiction of course, many of us live places that will give us(with help of a lawyer…) a bit of an out for guest wifi or TOR exit nodes, but ultimately, you know google is going to settle for little more(or less) than it would have cost them to buy these works at retail, whereas you or I would also get slapped with thousands of dollars extra(per item?) in fines and legal fees.

They can afford to pay for the porn, but they chose to go the “we shouldn’t have to because its smut” route, and not bother trying to say their employees are responsible for downloading random books/movies/whatever for personal use. Do they get to use this out for CP?

Also, unlike you or I, they have logging in place, such that they know which employees did what. Not saying they should name-and-shame, but they could(and should) easilly eat the cost and pass it through to those employees, whether it also comes with HR disciplinary action ornot.

Doesn’t/shouldn’t work for their liability either. Vocabulary fail on my part.

Where did they get the idea that that’s a more respectable response?

EDIT: Doesn’t/shouldn’t work for their liability either. Vocabulary fail on my part.

Think the downvotes are mostly title-realated. but also, you need references. There are definitely communities that are a better fit for this screed, no matter how much you may want it to be welcomed here.

I hope they bankrupt the fucking state of Texas. Someone should sue him for wasting taxpayer money. Toss-up on whether I feel bad enough for progressive &/or sensible Texans to care how those two thoughts play-out.

Employers love the smell of desperation comming off of “low skill workers” in their 30s, especially when they come to work to escape the cold or heat.

How the hell are they both wage-slaves and unemployed?

All good reasons to stay away from the Hue/Wyse branded WiFi bulbs(nvm that their colors suck). Also why those are less than half the price of the ones that require a hub. When the internet goes out, I can still control my hub-connected Hue bulbs, and some(but not all) of the various Bluetooth bulbs I own.

Original Hue bulbs are good shit, the best softwhite, yellows, and/or orange color-tones you can get on the market, but everything else is hit-and-miss IME.

If you like to read/study, its original Hue or Dumb bulbs. The rest is usually party/mood lighting at best, and the best deals for that are on the standalone stuff that comes with crappy remotes.

nonono, line the upwards escalator with mattresses behind that combatant, and I guess hit the e-stop the moment one falls. Which gets the honor of potentially tumbling like a clown for a moment can be decided with a coin toss or rock-paper-scissors.

Narrowly avoided a downvote by way of a decent pun. Upvote for the username.
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