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The pumpkin stand guy wants to take a closer look
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No idea if this is the 'original' but it has more pixels
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The pumpkin stand guy wants to take a closer look
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No idea if this is the 'original' but it has more pixels
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Finally they are adding Braille to car gear shifters
That's some wacky gear layout
From left to right, top row to bottom row
4 6 5
R 1 2 3
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typical german overengineering
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It's the HK G11 and FN P90. Both guns have a magazine where the cartridges aren't in line with the chamber so each cartridge needs to be rotated before it can chambered. HK decided to commune with ancient clockwork gods to learn the secrets of kraut space magic while FN just went with a curved ramp.
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Is Bud Light Still Woke?
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First proof of leeches jumping captured on video
Video link for anyone interested.
Better video with almost no editing
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-21/leeches-jumping-video/104007924
Actual paper and video source citation (locked behind many paywalls)
A jumping terrestrial leech from Madagascar
Mai Fahmy, Michael Tessler Biotropica,
DOI: 10.1111/btp.13340
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Cast out from the jungle / With no rations or canteen
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At least everyone inside will be warm for the rest of their lives
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Rule
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For anyone curious, I couldn't find an exact statistics but hearing aids in the US cost between $2000 to $8000 per pair with the average costs sitting around $5000-$6000 per pair.
Insurance coverage varies per insurance provider and per state. It looks like many people will end up paying the maximum required by law before insurance takes over which is roughly between $1000-$3000 depending on state.
Not only is a single purchase expensive, you usually have to replace them every 3 to 5 years.
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Denatonium rule
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It's a "conical seed bottle" containing denatonium benzoate. I have no idea why but it's apparently pretty common to display chemicals in them.
It's similar to a pear shaped flask that's used in labs.
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Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
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One of my local gas stations had that to where it was so loud you can hear them in the car. A few weeks after they installed them, someone came by with a hand drill and drilled out all of the speakers. Not sure what happened to that hero but we need more people like them.
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Eagle being re-located from Denver International Airport
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Bird also could've been sedated while being transported
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Victory lap!
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Another 5 years and then he can run for president
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[Jeff Geerling] I'm never buying a Bambu Lab 3D printer again
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Bambu lab a while ago came out with printers and an ecosystem that was very easy to use compared to other printers for the price. However, there were a few red flags like proprietary parts, software which required the cloud, and DRM chips in filament. Bambu lab promised they weren't gonna exploit any of that and that they will keep their printers and ecosystem open and all the red flags were just used to aid in user experience like automatic print settings for DRM chipped filament, easy to swap parts, and cloud monitoring and notifications. Despite the promise, they're still a corporation and thus went against their word and closed off 3rd party slicers and firmwares so you must use their cloud and their software.
You do not own the printers, Bambu does. So now you cannot install third party firmware on your Bambu 3d printer or use a different slicer. Everything you do on your Bambu printer goes through their cloud unless you take countermeasures and use old versions of software and firmware before the lockdown happened and you completely block internet access to the printers.
People saw these big red flags early on and called them out on it saying they're gonna lock down their ecosystem later on but people kept buying into Bambulab since they were so easy to use and got amazing prints out of them.
Tl;Dr, Bambulab released printers and software that were so easy to use for the price but came with many red flags. Bambulab ended up closing down their entire ecosystem so they have full control of the printers and you are at their mercy if you wanna keep using it.
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Former US President Jimmy Carter, 100, dies
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J.D. Vance says he gets bad press because most journalists are “childless adults”
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Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
I couldn't paste the whole article since it's too long for a single post so I pulled all the main points word for word from the article without the paragraphs explaining them. You can view the full article with the noscript and ublock extensions on Firefox to bypass the paywall.
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I think we all have the same plans for Friday night
Spreading democracy > spreading cheeks
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Banana rules
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I'm gen z. We're too broke to eat bananas :(
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Why liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns
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Just a heads up, the whole "you don't have to aim" is a complete myth. Shotgun spread is completely blown out of proportion. It's somewhere around 0.5" to 1" per yard with barrel length, choke, and shot type affecting spread. Unless you're insanely rich and live in a mansion, you'd be within 10 yards so you'd only get 5" to 10" of spread which really isn't much especially since the pellets may not be evenly distributed within that diameter.
For anyone looking to buy a gun, educate yourself first to know what you're getting into and go to the range consistently so you know how to use it. If you don't do both of those, you'd be at risk of hurting yourself or someone else if ever you have to use it in a life or death situation.
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rule
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Could you do me a favour and make this post look like a Reddit post?
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Thanks! I've spent 3 weeks trying to solve this problem lol