My orthodontist had been high school band buddies with my parents, so when I needed braces 6 used him.

A few years later, his wife suspected him of cheating, so she hired a PI firm to follow him. They made the very stupid decision of telling her her was cheating on her in real time and where.

With her stepdaughter (his child) in the car, she drove to the hotel, confronted him, then ran over him 3 times. It was national news, and she got out of prison a few years ago.

This isn’t your everyday crypto scheme.

This is foreign bribes being laundered.

The part you can easily print, however, is the receiver.

The receiver is the part that’s legally a firearm. While I think it’s neat I can customize my firearms, I do acknowledge that someone who is prohibited from owning a gun can very easily print a receiver and order the rest of the parts from Palmetto State Armory to get a perfectly-functional firearm without any background check being performed.

I also don’t know the solution to the problem though. As 3D printing, desktop CNC, and other forms of DIY manufacturing improve in quality and decrease in price, it will be very hard to regulate home-brew weapons.

I knew a 26-letter alphabet by the time I was 2.

Usually fiber lines that have either been there for decades or the the federal government has been effectively paying them to install for decades decades and they just fucking didn’t do it yet.

Lots of those “government surcharges” that aren’t quoted in their estimates and show up as a surprise bill were authorized by the government, but go directly to the carriers and are supposed to be used to cover the cost of infrastructure upgrades and extension.

There’s often an “after-hours” shoot for scenes without kids or even specific camera angles from a scene where the child actors aren’t necessary.

The big reason for 60 over 12 or 6 is the divisibility by 5. That makes it divisible by all numbers through the first 3 primes.

To get it divisible by all the numbers up to the next prime (7), you’d have to go to 420, and the one after that (11) you’d need to go to 27,720, and 13 would require a whopping 360,360.

That actually works great.

60 is cleanly divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30.

10 is cleanly divisible by 1, 2, and 5.

This is the first step on the path to outlawing VPNs.

There are organized groups, but they mainly operate through removing and slap-tagging (placing an adhesive barcode for a cheap product over an expensive one).

Some of them get very specific. When I worked at a major outdoors chain, they’d get a $3,000+ Hummingbird sonar unit and put on a tag for a $100 Hummingbird unit, so the cashier would see the correct brand name pop up on the screen.

I’d mourn the lithium.

You made my exact point at the end.

“We don’t know” is not a statement of faith or belief.

I don’t know how how my phone works. That doesn’t mean I believe in Android or Samsung. Humanity doesn’t understand why the expansion of the universe is accelerating, but that doesn’t make the reason for the acceleration a matter of faith. It’s simply a gap in knowledge.

Knowledge is the realm of fact. Belief is the realm of the unknowable, not the unknown.

That’s a gap in knowledge, not a matter of faith.

At the same time, I do other this to simply blocking all flight near airports.

Years ago I got clearance to fly for an event near an airport but the fucking drone refused to fly.

Not knowing the answer to something isn’t a belief problem, it’s an ignorance problem.

For millenia we were ignorant regarding the relationship between the sun and the earth. That didn’t make cosmology a belief system. We were just wrong.

Faith is not the source of science.

Pedantic rant, but I hate people saying they “believe” in science. Science is not a matter of belief. It’s the realm of the empirical.

Leave belief to religion and knowledge to science. Mixing the two turns out bad every time.

If quitting your site can be taken as virtue signaling against misinformation and bigotry, your site may have some systemic issues.

I’m not sure you exist.

Cogito ergo non estis?

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Then what they need is to no longer be in the relationship.