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A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms
  • I made it to the J's before I found a company there was even a chance I might support, and it's the worst of the sandwich options near me that isn't a subway.

    Sysco was the next one and that's just because if you go to a restaurant, chances are pretty good they're getting their food from Sysco.

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    Will Wednesday Hot Tip
  • I used to use the company Wi-Fi to look for other jobs every time they threatened a change I didn't like.

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    Been thinking this for over a decade
  • Well in the US, no one was originally intended to vote but the male landed gentry, who clearly could afford to travel for several days to their polling place, get plastered on local liquor, and just shout who they were voting for at whomever was supposed to jot that down. Them that person would go off and vote for whoever they wanted, in case the peasants had gotten any silly ideas and voted for the wrong guy.

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    The grand prize
  • Drill bits are coated in tungsten carbide. Sometimes. There are a variety of coatings.

    The drill bits you're buying at the big box store are high speed still with some kind of coating to help them last a little longer. The specialty drill bits you're buying for working on metal are also HSS with a different coating and probably different tip geometry.

    End mills are milling/lathe inserts can be HSS or carbide, also with some tungsten coating. Importantly, these are sintered, and made out of dust.

    Tungsten carbide is waaaay too brittle to work as a drill bit.

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    The grand prize
  • You ain't putting it anywhere. It's getting delivered and staying where they put it.

    A single 5 foot cube of tungsten would weigh about as much as an above average sized single family home.

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    Republicans Assumed a Nebraska Senate Seat Was Safe. Then This Candidate Came Along.
  • I would be thrilled, but I don't think he has a chance.

    I see more Osborne signs than Fischer signs. But that's just Omaha. I see a lot of blue dots, but that's just Omaha. I see as many counter signs to that. Red states, pax man eating a blue dot, red dots, you name it. Down the street from me it's like two neighbors are having a fucking duel with signs.

    It's gonna be close. And sadly I think Fisher has a massive advantage.

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    Eat lead
  • Calling it mental illness isn't just a stretch it's just fuckin wrong my dude. I get what you're saying but bro, that's just how humans work.

    For the vast majority of people, belief in science isn't fundamentally different than belief in religion. Very few people actually know. The rest of us are taking it on faith that the scientific method is working. Even when it isn't (that's a fascinating story, btw, a lot of scientists confirmed findings before it was ultimately debunked.)

    Taking things on faith is part of why we work as a species, knowing a thing to be true without ever seeing it is critical to a functioning culture.

    The fact that that well has been poisoned with bullshit is a natural consequence.

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    AI just steals other people's labor
  • Most of Al's music isn't parody. Smells like Nirvana is one of very few that is, as the song Al writes is about the original work/artist

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  • I went to high school with this guy. We were never really close friends though he was perpetually in the one group of people I kept in touch with after high school.

    A few years ago we had a falling out and I never really looked back. I never really liked the guy, sometimes I fuckin hated him. Though the group kinda fell apart after that and I lost contact with someone I actually did care about. Otherwise, getting him out of my life really wasn't a negative.

    Regardless, he responded to a Facebook post and curiosity got the better of me.

    In the past, he'd expressed regret in voting for Trump, he wasn't a Democrat and voted third party in 2020. I assumed he'd check out of this election and I'd see what he was up to.

    Strangers, this man has completely lost his fucking mind. His Facebook is flooded with reposted tiktoks admonishing the current administration and screeching about the moral imperative of getting trump back in to office. One after another after another, 5 to 7 of these things a day. Continuing debates he's had with somebody by tagging them, and notably getting no response. More than once he's brought up a trump policy, blamed it on Kamala Harris, and howled about how evil the Democrats are.

    In the past any attempt at rational discussion would devolve to fanatic ravings, and now it seems that all he's doing. Constantly screaming in to the void about some perceived Boogeyman.

    I haven't lost anything, as I said getting out of each other's lives was a good thing for me. This guy used a hard R during the protests and would go to safe spaces online to torment the people there for fun. He's literally the type of person Facebook has screening questions for.

    But Jesus, he's like a fucking caricature. There's no engaging with that type of person, no bringing them back. He's just lost.

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    This is an abrasive disk, rotating at 1500 rpm. When I shine my flashlight at it, it carries the glow with it, approximately halfway around the disk. What am I seeing happen here?

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    But they sent my area to a different building.

    I'm at a place I don't know, surrounded by people I've never met, and as it happens food I can't eat.

    I'm not allowed to leave.

    I'm supposed to feel appreciated.

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    Anakin has a clear motive, and a logical progression from naive to evil.

    Danny just decides to lose her shit one day.

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    Books like the expanse?

    I'm 75% of the way through the last book in the series. I've read all of the novellas. What would you recommend next?

    Three only other series I can think of that's similar is the Three Body series from Cixin Liu.

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    It looks like operators pointing sensors at the shoe instead of the part, pressing go and walking away.

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