IcyBlackDeep

Is there a way to do a block-quote that's not quoting someone? The editor doesn't seem to have a button and neither Markdown nor bbtag syntax does anything.

Not that it's a great thing, but $40,000 is tiny in the world of congressional lobbying. Despite the cited headline, a breathalyzer is only one possibility cited in the legislation. Any method to detect "impairment" (to be finalized by the secretary of transportation) would fulfill the text: [quote] ADVANCED DRUNK DRIVING PREVENTION TECHNOLOGY.—the term “advanced drunk driving prevention technology” means— (A) (i) a passive system that monitors a driver’s performance to identify whether that driver may be impaired; (ii) a system that can passively and accurately detect whether the blood alcohol concentration of a driver of a motor vehicle is equal to or greater than .08 blood alcohol content; or (iii) a similar system that detects impairment of a driver, including a combination of systems described in paragraphs (A) and (B); [/quote]

What's your spirit animal?

This from the same guy pushing Peruvian voodoo juice a few posts earlier.

You can file a complaint with the CPFB. It's probably not going to do much for you personally, but if they're screwing everyone the government might step in. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/how-do-i-stop-automatic-payments-from-my-bank-account-en-2023/

Probably not going to kill you, but turbulence can turn severe out of nowhere and throw people into ceilings. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/united-airlines-flight-967-turbulence-caused-22-injuries/story?id=11219122 > "For those couple of seconds, I just saw people fly up like in front of me," said Brian Liu, a passenger interviewed at the Denver airport after United 967 landed. "Actually, the lady sitting beside me, she actually flew up to the roof and she hit the ceiling and she landed on my lap."

So, uh, is there a way to see what e-mail address I used?

Funny enough, I used to work with a vegan who didn't eat Oreo cookies because they used bone char (charcoal made from animal bones) in processing them. Doing a little reading about that right now, the internet's like "yeah, they might, but if you try to avoid anything that's every been touched by an animal product you may as well give up."

Dude's gonna be in so much trouble.

Not from Virginia, but I remember driving through Alexandria for the first time and seeing Jefferson Davis Highway. I'm like, "you're really naming a road after the leader of all the secessionists right outside the capital?"

That motion is about the only reason I'd use a square gate. Super easy on one of those.

Bill Watterson famously fought to get back the rights to the characters Calvin and Hobbes and has refused to ever license them out. And he stopped drawing the strip in 1995. So you're unlikely to see any incarnation of them beyond what already exists. Unless I guess his estate decides to cash in some day. I can't find the quote, but I think Watterson once remarked on Charles Schulz not owning the rights to the Peanuts characters, "The papers could technically fire him and have some college kids draw the strip. In fact, judging by the latest strips, maybe they already have."

Japanese movements are pretty good, but the old workhorse Seiko NH35 is now being made in Malaysia and people say it ain't what it used to be. (Seiko fit and finish ain't what it used to be either.) Of course, the $30 Japanese movement isn't going to have the engineering of a $200 Swiss movement. I think the issue with Chinese movements is that they're all kind of beige-box type deals, so it's hard to know if any particular one is good or bad.

Well, NOW they do. Funny think about a series that's been going 20 years is you can see the evolution from and to

Current thinking is probably not. > In 1990, tombs belonging to the pyramid workers were discovered alongside the pyramids, > with an additional burial site found nearby in 2009. Although not mummified, they had been > buried in mudbrick tombs with beer and bread to support them in the afterlife. The tombs' > proximity to the pyramids and the manner of burial supports the theory that they were paid > laborers who took great pride in their work and were not slaves, as was previously thought.

In general you might be right, but especially last year there was a lot of talk about it. A politician ought to know by now. Metalocalypse gets a finale, I withhold judgement on how deserving it is. You're showing bad taste with Venture Brothers, show is excelent. ATHF was great for a couple seasons, but went on way too long. Unless the movie is more like those early seasons it would be very skipable.

For the record, unless you're running some spam bots or something, you probably do not have the reach to do any of the "pump" part. And then you're just speculating like everyone else.

Wow, it's like the opposite of all of Yomi's players using Tanya.

Scare-quotes "the media" mentioned the knife-wielding aspect from the start. The police showed edited body-cam footage the night it happened, and full footage from three body cams was released the next day. It's a complicated and tragic situation for sure, but it's not exactly a cover-up.

It is not. Feel free to go start a Vtuber thread if you like.

Biden has made his proposal, congress will act on it or not. Watch and see who votes against it.