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It looks pretty similar to this image I found from a British playground equipment site. Odds are it’s a real slide in a real room that was furnished after this photo was taken. Outlet looks weird because of the screw holes and the power switches in the middle that UK outlets have.

Shark milking is one of the most dangerous professions out there. It doesn’t surprise me that the industry is under reporting deaths.

I wonder how accurate that number is. From what I can find, the source was Castro’s head of intelligence. He’d certainly know things, but he is a single source. His list includes things that arent assassination attempts, like assassination schemes (plans that haven’t been/won’t be put into action) and attempts to assassinate his character. Is a plot to make his beard fall out an assassination attempt?

The scuba suit with poison fungus is one that seems pretty popular, people love to bring it up. But it wasn’t an actual attempt, it never made it out of the planning phase.

Wait, the BBC article I just found about his book Executive Action: 634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro says, “However most of the ideas were never put into practice, former bodyguard Fabian Escalante said.” The source of the 634 number isn’t even claiming that there were 634 assassination attempts.

You can’t separate the two things like that. Lighting a flag on fire is political speech and the administration has said they will charge people who light the flag on fire. The fact that the thing he lit on fire on federal property was the flag is absolutely legally relevant here. It will be a major part of his defense, as they will try to argue that the law he has violated is placing an undue burden on his freedom of speech. It will be the thing the entire case hinges on.

This is important because it’s fairly easy to make laws against all the things involved in a protest and then say “oh we aren’t charging them for protesting, we are charging them for obstructing the view by holding a sign.”

I’m not sure why the article says the charges aren’t relating to burning the flag when the charges are about lighting the flag on fire. The charges don’t say the word flag on them, but it is the flag burning they are charging him with.

The US has a progressive income tax, so it is true that people with higher education pay more income tax as a whole. The main difference with other countries is that it has a fairly low percentage cap and an absurdly low capital gains tax. The wealthy paying a low tax rate because of most of their earnings being asset based instead of income based doesn’t change the fact that the people who get paid higher incomes from their jobs that required higher education pay more income tax.

It’s labeled 1.25 pints. A US pint is ~473 ml. Multiplying that by 1.25 gets me 591 ml.

If you were intentionally trying to design the page in a way to deny trans people their identity, I don’t know what you would do differently from this.

A binary ‘Sex’ field could at least have the cover of “Sorry, the code is 30 years old and we don’t know how to change this field in the database without breaking things.” Labeling the field as Sex Assigned at Birth means they considered trans people and considered them worth hurting.

Edit: I do think asking for sex is a CDC thing. But only asking that means you can be misgendered at the pharmacy and also ignores that hormones have a major role in your health. A doctor or pharmacist going off your birth certificate to treat you is a bad doctor/pharmacist.

Just Male and Female.

The hiding behind vague medical reasons is infuriating. When I went through this form, I was thinking “don’t lie to me and I won’t have to lie to you.”

Immigration judges aren’t actual judges. They are in the executive branch.

They make dedicated Nvidia images and I’ve heard good things. It’s supposed to be one of the distros to pick if you want a good out of the box experience with Nvidia. Only used the Amd/Intel image myself though.

Crypto was an annoying bubble. If you were in the tech industry, you had a couple of years where people asked you if you could add blockchain to whatever your project was and then a few more years of hearing about NFTs. And GPUs shot up in price. Crypto people promised to revolutionize banking and then get rich quick schemes. It took time for the hype to die down, for people to realize that the tech wasn’t useful, and that the costs of running it weren’t worth it.

The AI bubble is different. The proponents are gleeful while they explain how AI will let you fire all your copywriters, your graphics designers, your programmers, your customer support, etc. Every company is trying to figure out how to shoehorn AI into their products. While AI is a useful tool, the bubble around it has hurt a lot of people.

That’s the bubble side. It also gets a lot of baggage because of the slop generated by it, the way it’s trained, the power usage, the way people just turn off their brains and regurgitate whatever it says, etc. It’s harder to avoid than crypto.

Alright, I see the problem. I’m describing how some men literally spread their arms across the back of multiple seats and how some men literally spread their legs out so that each knee is blocking access to each seat beside the and you are interpreting that as people complaining about guys being allowed to use their armrests. No one is complaining that you take up physical space. They are complaining that you are spread out in a way that blocks access to the space around you that you don’t need. If you don’t sit down and spread your knees wide enough to block access to the seats next to you, then the term manspreading doesn’t apply to you.

Size doesn’t make you spread your legs, blocking two other seats or make you wrap your arms around the back of the other seats. I’ve seen plenty of men who can keep their hands and knees in front of themselves.

What I picture in my head when I hear the term manspreading is the guy on every bus or subway who is sitting in a middle seat with legs spread wide. It could also be arms around the backs of the surrounding chairs.

I made a typo for one of my employment dates while filing the background check. Caught it right after submitting it and then asked around and everybody told me that they’ll call and ask about it if they can’t figure it out from just looking back at my resume.

Next morning they called me and said they had to close the role because of budget cuts. Two months later I got an email saying my hiring was being paused because my background check was flagged and I had 10 days from the check to dispute it. I decided to call the company and they told me that they had already hired someone else for the role.

So yeah, getting the dates right can be important.

They aren’t artificially sweet, they are a sweetener that is artificial (man-made). As opposed to natural sweeteners that you can just grab from nature.

My point is that the part about the prosecutor only applies to the last part of the sentence. It’s the newspaper doing an “allegedly” thing. He was sentenced to life for these crimes that the prosecutor says he did. That way if it turns out he didn’t actually do it and later goes free, the newspaper will be less likely to get sued for libel.

The article later goes on to talk about how he was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life by a judge.

According to prosecutors is describing “…for plotting to attack FBI agents and seeking to incite a “civil war,”” not the sentencing.