Well, shotguns generally are extremely range limited, and birdshot is pretty mild after a couple dozen feet. You’re not gonna hurt someone accidentally, even if you completely miss the thing.

Handguns and rifles have an extremely high likelihood of hitting something or someone behind whatever you’re shooting at and travel great distance. Miss the camera, and you end up doming some poor bastard just walking down the street a mile away, or hitting some kid chilling in their room.

False. Residents are explicitly allowed to collect rainwater. You can collect and keep 110 gallons, but it can only legally be used for non-potable purposes.

Yup. And here’s some more to back you up. There are several satellites whose sole purpose are tracking greenhouse gas emissions.

Japan has GOSAT (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite) and GOSAT2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_Gases_Observing_Satellite

NASA has Tanager-1 https://www.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/nasa-designed-greenhouse-gas-detection-instrument-launches/

And two CO2 mappers along with a dedicated methane mapper.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5332/

The ESA has Sentinel-5P https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Space_for_our_climate/Satellites_providing_clear_picture_of_greenhouse_gases

There’s also MethaneSat that tracks methane emissions. https://www.methanesat.org/satellite

And GHGSat which tracks industrial emissions. https://www.ghgsat.com/en/technology/constellation/

No, he didn’t. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was passed and signed into law by Bush a month before the 2008 election even happened. The only thing you can really say is that Senator Obama was one of 70 yes votes on the bill in the Senate.

Obama signed the American Rescue and Recovery Act of 2009, which was heavily focused on stimulus and assistance to individuals and working families. He also signed Dodd-Frank which put a ton of new restrictions on the banks.

Basic facts matter.

There’s a difference between “has connected features” and “REQUIRES connected features” though. Again, you’re making a false equivalency.

Yes, pretty much every new vehicle has some sort of connectivity, and almost all have some sort of paid subscription to use those connected features in the app.

That’s entirely different than requiring you to have a subscription and use the app. Most new cars do NOT do that. They still have all the basic functionality without using the connected features, and the features are literally extra features so you can do things outside of the range of the fob, or add some extra things that the fob can’t do.

Buy any of the other vehicles out there that don’t pull that bullshit?

Lol it wasn’t a choice between that car and walking. That’s a massive false equivalency.

That would be an absolute nightmare to administer lol. Though I guess that tracks.

1, 01, 001, 0001, and 00001 would all be different users

Unless by “digit” they mean any alphanumeric.

You’ve got a lot of options if you go to a 5 characters with letters.

Which they’d kind of have to with 700k users if it’s 5 characters.

If it’s case insensitive, you’ve got 60,000,000+ combinations, and if case sensitive then 916,000,000+ combinations.

We already do with tidal generators.

And theres ways to follow currents for extra help, but you’re limited to that and where the current moves.

Anything else and you’d have to violate the laws of physics.

It’s like putting a wind turbine on an electric car. The increased drag would cost more electricity than the turbine could produce.

It’s kind of funny to see all these headlines not long after everyone was going on about Apple not doing enough with AI and going to slow with their rollout.

They have just done it a lot smarter than the others. Not rushing out to throw piles of money at something. Same thing they did during the pandemic, when other companies were massively overhiring trying to ride the wave. Apple didn’t and subsequently hasn’t needed to hold massive layoffs.

Focused on private groups of friends and family

So, a group chat.

the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sharing

So it literally is just a fancy group chat. Or I guess a singular feed of multiple group chats…

I’ve never ever seen anyone actually group eggs with dairy in a culinary sense. They’re only like that in the store because we have to refrigerate eggs in the US, and that’s typically one of the only refrigerated sections.

Most of the time the dairy section will also have all the refrigerated stuff like bread doughs, pie crusts, fresh pasta, pudding, and cookie dough too because they need the same refrigeration.

Other countries that don’t wash eggs just have them on the shelf at room temp in their own aisle.

Well it’s more that “fruit” and “vegetable” aren’t really separate things. All edible fruits are also vegetables. Vegetable is just any part of plants edible to humans. There’s absolutely no such thing as a botanical vegetable.

It’s only that there is a botanical term for fruit (the seed-bearing reproductive part from the ovary of a flowering plant) and a culinary term for fruit (a sweet plant used in desserts and other sweet foods).

A strawberry is not a botanical fruit, but considered a culinary fruit. Rhubarb is generally considered a culinary fruit, though it isn’t a botanical fruit either.

Then you have botanical fruits that are poisonous to humans, and are not vegetables either.

Well, yeah. They’re mostly fats. Fat is more than twice as calorically dense than sugar. 9kcal per gram vs 4kcal per gram. I’d expect pretty much all nuts and seeds to be more calorically dense than raw sugar.

Tomatoes are a vegetable…

Vegetable is just a culinary term. There are plenty of botanical fruits that are culinary vegetables. Eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, squashes, cucumbers, avocados, olives, green beans, peas, corn…

Damn. Palm Beach Pete got him.

Ehhhhhhhh.

We have two Kias. An EV6 and a Telluride, so their EV and gas lines.

They’re nice looking cars, but the “Kia quality” definitely creeps in. If we didn’t get them on dirt cheap leases I would probably be pissed lol.

Yeah they are limited on their screen time. They have to do an hour of reading before they can do any fun screen time, then they can do whatever until bed as long as homework is done.

At bedtime they have to be in bed, but can use their kindles to read until 10 when they automatically lock on them.

I mean believe it or don’t. I don’t give a shit lol. It’s true. I was the same way as a kid, far ahead of all of my peers with a high school reading level in first grade, twice in school scored the highest in the state for standardized testing for my grade. I even got two little trophies from the state for it.

Their mom is an insane reader as well, and clocks 100+ books a year.

They got a great head start with genetics, but we’ve also put a ton of effort into fostering that.

So you literally show where it skipped a generation, because you completely left out the Silent Generation between the Greatest Generation and the Boomers.

Greatest Gen are generally the parents of Boomers. Silent Generation are the parents of GenX. Boomers are the parents of Millennials. Gen X are the parents of Gen Z. Millennials are the parents of Gen Alpha.