[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

You mean Judaeo-Christian Islamic values. Let's at least be inclusive here.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

Oh it's 'blatantly' true that the headrest are for safety. The problem is engineers can't design a perfect one size fits all. So things are designed around averages. It's the best they can do.

If you fall outside of those averages at either end well, there is going to be more risk. As a male who is above average height, automotive headrests add more risk for me just as they do for a smaller woman.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

Straight for the furniture you mean.

Hide yo' kids, hide yo' women, and most defiantly hide yo' couch!

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

The miss use of the term "billet". As in "Made from Billet Aluminum to military specs" I have literally sourced metals from all over the world. Ain't no one ever tried to sell me "billet" anything.

A billet is an old term that was used when iron and steels were smelted and then poured in to either kind of a bread loaf mold or a round shape called a bloom. It would then be reheated at a later time and then formed into the final shape. No one would use "billet" or a "bloom" to make anything from it. It would have been "sponge" like and to soft to be useful for anything.

Fecking sales trying to market to ignorant people with a term that doesn't mean what anyone thinks it means.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

There is currently a minor attack about his, (long ago), DUI with a photo of his mugshot. But the man has long publicly owned up to it. And he learned his lesson from it and no longer drinks alcohol at all.

In fact, he signed a bill that allows for purging of certain legal records for others due to his experience in life.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

Hey, we paid good money for those (now) states.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

As a retired medic who has has to deal with my share of the mentally ill, I will try to add a little context perhaps.

What got them to enter the apartment is they probably realized they were dealing with a mentally ill person who was not properly on their meds, (we can't say for sure at this point - but it's as likely as not), and they then started what should have been a simple welfare check. Which can entail entry to observe the person and the general living conditions. Cops do welfare checks everyday, multiple times a day. The next step if they determine there is a problem, is to request medical assistance, an ambulance, to deal with the person. The cops are to remain in scene and assist if needed - i.e. help talk the patient into seeking medical help or sometimes stop an assault on EMS. But that's what SHOULD have happened.

Instead a straight up murder was committed.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago

This ain't no big revelation to anyone. Since the 1960's Republicans have relied on liberal voter's apathy to win seats in government. It's liberalism's greatest weakness and failure - the belief that someone else should be responsible because they can't be bothered.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago

The US has such places along highways also.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

As one of my Daughters told the Chair of the Physics department at a large Big 10 collage to switch her major from ME to Physics, "I want know the answer, not guess."

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

Been 'wet shaving' since I started shaving a very long time ago and never stopped. When the blade slots went away in the back of the medicine cabinets in every bathroom, I made a blade bank from a steel can with a lid that I cut a slot in. I takes me years to fill it.

***For those too young to have seen it. The medicine cabinet in every bathroom used to have a slot in the back of it to drop used razor blades into when they got dull. The would simply fall in between the studs in the wall and pretty much just rust away since the blade back then were made of plain high carbon steel. I remember helping to do several bathroom remodels and when pulling the cabinet and the plaster and lath wall, we would find a small pile of rusted to nearly dust razor blades.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

Clickspring - An Australian horologist who not only builds clocks from raw materials by hand, but his series on the Antikythera mechanism is a must see. He actually added to the historical knowledge about it. Plus he has one of the most soothing voices on the planet.

Steve1989MREInfo - Not only the history of military rations, but culinary critic also. And who among us isn't fascinated by watching someone open and eat a 175 year old ration on camera.........

ANTI-CHEF - Watch a normal Canadian person attempt recipes from Julia Childs and other Micheline Star Chefs in his New York City apartment. Complete with sirens and his failures.

Stand-up Maths - A more irreverent look at mathematics then Numberphile

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