Which sometimes comes down to nothing more than paperwork. FISA wire tapping warrents became a rubber stamping operation under Clinton. Bush then couldn’t be bothered to do that much.

They can take out an ICBM. It can’t take out all the ICBMs.

Miller replied, “Well, he’s made it very clear that he’s not gonna go and weigh in and try to push various states in how they want to go and set up their particular rules and restrictions. That’s gonna be up to the states.”

Just in case it wasn’t clear, they belive that any level of tyranny is fine as long as it’s state government doing it, not the federal government.

To them, I’d point out the NIST warehouse of standardized materials:

https://shop.nist.gov/

$1,143 for 510 grams of Peanut Butter. $734 for 25 grams of Portland Cement. $1,107 for 100 grams of “Infant/Adult Nutritional Formula I (milk-based)”.

Is the US government ripping people off? No. It’s because when you get one, it is guaranteed to be the standard for whatever it says on the package, and it’s been made that way to exacting levels of detail. Unless you’re a laboratory using these materials, you don’t need to bother NIST with your grocery list.

Personally, I love this shit. It takes a whole lot of effort to make something to such standards. Doubly so when it’s not just one thing, but a combination of many smaller things that each has to be individually verified to work as part of a whole.

Yeah, it’s weird. Like yes, all these people put in a lot of effort to make sure that when people could die from equipment failure, we make sure that equipment is very, very good. Adding zeros to the price is the cost of that.

It’s nice that this time, we can just laugh at it. It’s not like all the other times where they beat up a black guy and shot his dog for allegedly counterfeiting a twenty.

It isn’t, but as Thetimefarm above says, the paper trail is what matters. Medical grade liquid helium for MRI machines is a thing. That paper trail is what adds a few zeros to the cost.

As a side note, this is similar to why Fluke multimeters are so expensive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay9wFQAW19Y

tl;dw: companies have reams of documents for their certification procedures of equipment, and calibration of the equipment to certify the equipment, and they’re based around the specifics of Fluke mutimeters. They aren’t more accurate or even much fancier than a nice hobbyist meter. Those companies must buy Fluke or completely redo all their procedures with accompanying documentation and certifying by professional engineers. If you’re not such a company, don’t bother spending all that extra money on Fluke.

It is until the court system tells them it isn’t. Illinois recently did that.

Maybe it helps people not to move so much inside?

The Illinois Supreme Court recently ruled that smell isn’t enough of a connection to illegal activity. Weed is legalized there, as well. California apparently needs someone to take up a case.

After retrieval it was found that the weapon had been magnetized by the scanner and as a result the firing pin was able to spontaneously release.

Just hit it against a table a bunch while shouting “stop being a magnet”.

I’ve had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday through Friday plane.

I don’t really care if he fucks couches or not, but IKEA shouldn’t be used as a brothal.

I’d call him a petite bourgeoisie if we’re talking about the actual definition of the word lol.

That’s exactly what I mean.

There’s several videos where he’s effectively saying capitalism is great, and all companies need to do is be a good employer and treat their customers well. And I’ll even say that by all accounts, he is a pretty good employer and his company does good work. There’s also reasons he’s an exception, not the rule, and expecting the rest of capitalism to fall in line is untenable.

Now what am I supposed to watch while waiting for the edible to kick in?

He can be a bit petite bourgeoisie. Other than that, he’s a stand up guy who doesn’t have to worry about YouTube demonitizing his videos so he can say whatever the hell he fucking pleases.

Fantasy evolved out of folk tales in the public domain. It was owned by nobody, and everyone could add to the story. It’d be accepted if people thought the story was good enough. Later, new stories were under copyright, but their heritage was clearly public.

SF grew up when a strong copyright regime was already in place. It was owned by either a single person or a corporation, and only they had the legal right to declare what was canon or not.

Dems face an electoral cliff if they do nothing. In a few more cycles, it may be impossible to win the senate or the presidency, even with a majority vote behind them, due to too much power in small states.

And I feel like half of that 20 years was based on FOMO. “I better get the next Assassin’s Creed or I’ll miss out”, and then it’s all the same crap but they still sold a million of them. People do eventually wise up to FOMO.

. . . our goal is not to push any specific agenda

This is the part they’re actually getting at. Not that the fundamental game design is for everyone (which, yes, is what they try and fail at), but rather they’re responding to people who think they’re failing because they put a woman as the protagonist in some game or another.