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Now you're violating the deal, I gave you a date, save your complaints until then. I look forward to hearing from you again in 153 years,
7/12/2178
So that no one alive will have to deal with your bullshit.
I remember hearing somewhere that the final exam to be certified as a master calligrapher is to make your own certificate.
My own handwriting is barely legible to myself sometimes, so I've never looked too far into it, so I can't say if that's actually true or not, but it's a cool idea if true.
I'm pretty much in the same boat, 720p looks fine to me in the vast majority of cases, and while I'm not great at going to my eye doctor regularly, the last time I had my vision checked it was fine, and it was right around the time I was shopping for a new TV and upgraded from 1080 to 4k, and still had a 720p in my bedroom.
If I looked really hard at them, I could tell the difference from the 720 to the 4k, but truth be told, I'm just not scrutinizing the picture quality of my TV that much.
I think the basic premise of your question is kind of flawed.
Generational age brackets are always a little fuzzy, but most definitions tend to define millennials as people born from about 1981-1996
Which means come the end of the 90's, the oldest millennials were just turning 18, the youngest were just entering preschool, the "average" millennial would have been about 10. Personally, I was 8 in 1999.
So most of us weren't exactly politically-aware in the 90s, let alone actively criticizing anything besides homework. And a lot of us probably had parents who wouldn't have let us listen to RATM because of the parental advisory sticker on their albums.
My main concerns at the time were things like video games and cartoons
Then right around the time we started to be old enough to really form political opinions, 9/11 happened and the world went insane around us.
I think (and hope) people are downvoting you just because of the content of the article and not really paying attention to where it was posted.
It's maybe not the absolute best fit for this community, I'm not sure that it's quite crazy enough to be an onion article, although in all honesty that line has become so blurry with how crazy the real world is these days that I can't even say for certain whether the authors intended for this to be a genuine defense of this ridiculous project or some incredible tongue-in-cheek mockery of it.
And to be clear, this project and any defense of it is insane, I get what you were going for sharing it here (or at least I hope I do)
9 meals, not days.
Most people tend to eat 3 meals a day.
I have a big bushy beard which somewhat limits my costume options if I'm going for any kind of accuracy unless I want to wear a mask
My two standby costumes that I dust off when I find myself with unexpected Halloween plans are
A lawn gnome. I dye my beard white, put on a blue ren faire sort of tunic, a wide belt, and a red pointy hat
And a Monty Python lumberjack. Red flannel shirt partially unbuttoned over a bra, suspenders, high heels, and a knit hat. I also have a big ol' double bit felling axe I may trot out if the occasion warrants it.
I suppose I can also lose the heels and bra and just be a regular lumberjack.
I would hope that like damn-near every other electronic device, it would include at least a thermal cutoff to kill the power before it got hot enough to start a fire.
Seriously, they're in pretty much everything, any sort of tool or appliance with a motor probably has one, of course anything that generates heat like a hair dryer or space heater, I've seen them in lamps, they're everywhere. They're also a pretty common point of failure, so if you're a little handy with a soldering iron, for any random device that suddenly stops working, there's a pretty good chance that the culprit is a brown thermal fuse and can be repaired for just a few cents and a few minutes of mumbling curses to yourself while you try to get the damn thing open.
I think the bigger issue with this is probably people with mobility issues, who I imagine are a pretty big part of the target market for a bed like this, if they have trouble getting out of bed to adjust the heat or whatever, a bed like this is probably pretty attractive. But if they get stuck in bed with the heat stuck on high, that could be a pretty big medical problem.
I have a friend who is unapologetically a weirdo (really that describes most of my friends and myself I suppose, but this story is about one of them in particular)
We're at a bar for his birthday. This place was formerly a real dump of a dive/biker bar but has cleaned itself up a bit. Still kind of a dive, but it's a nice dive. It's located practically right on the border of a really shitty town and one that's generally pretty nice, so it gets an interesting selection of patrons there.
He's a regular there, he actually lived in a small motel attached to the bar for a bit while his house needed some major repairs.
Again, he's a bit of a weirdo, it's his birthday, he's been drinking, and he wants to listen to some Disney song (I'm pretty sure it was "part of your world" from the little mermaid) so he goes and queues it up on the jukebox
And the song never plays
So he does it again. And again it never plays.
Eventually he figures out that the bartender (what was new and didn't really recognize him as a regular) was skipping it when it came up.
We ask her to just let it play for him for his birthday, she refused
So he queues it up about 10 times in a row, she can't skip them all fast enough, it finally starts playing, she's getting mad at us,some asshole dudebros in the bar are getting annoyed that this song is now playing twice, and we're all politely yet firmly asked to leave.
So we fuck off to another bar owned by the same person, we're welcomed in, they let us play the damn song, they mention to to the owner who apparently told the bartender who was giving us issues to chill and there hasn't been any issue since.
It is a bit outside of my area of expertise, but if I understand what you're asking, the police usually aren't going to just call up your family and say "hey, your adult child just did a crime and we thought you should know"
Unless there's a good reason for them to do that. If they suspect that you may be a danger to your family, they'll of course advise them and give them some more details.
Or if they're trying to locate you, they'll probably contact your family, but usually they're going to keep details vague, they probably won't come right out and say "we think your kid just robbed a gas station o do you know where he is so we can arrest him?" They'll probably keep it to something more like "he may have been present during a robbery and we have some questions for him"
But of course every situation, police department, individual officer, etc. is unique, so I won't claim that there's absolutely no situation where that might happen.
The specifics are probably going to depend on where in the world you are, in the US it's generally going to be a no unless you've specifically listed them as an emergency contact, they're your medical power of attorney (which is separate from legal power of attorney) etc.
I work in 911 dispatch, so I'm not specifically covered by HIPAA, though we have some similar regulations and obviously we rub up against the edges of the healthcare field. My wife also works in a psych hospital, and my sister in a nursing home so I get to hear a lot of stories about stuff like this.
My wife has to deal with a lot of cases where a parent is trying to contact the hospital about their adult child who's a patient there, but since they're not listed on the correct paperwork the hospital can't even confirm that their child is in fact a patient there, even though they were standing right there next to them when they were admitted a couple hours earlier.
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I get calls at work a lot because someone's child/parent, boyfriend/girlfriend, brother/sister etc. was taken to the hospital by ambulance earlier, and when they called the hospital they can't tell them they're there because they're not on the paperwork, so they call us freaking out trying to figure out where their loved one is, and all I can say is that they were transported to the hospital, I can't tell if they haven't finished signing it, already been discharged/left AMA, if they possibly had to be transferred to a different hospital, or more likely the hospital just can't confirm anything because the person calling isn't an emergency contact.
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Recently I had a call from a woman who was freaking out. Her husband was missing, his car was in the driveway, and she saw a lot of blood around the house.
While she was on the phone with me her friend was calling the hospital to check if he was there, but the hospital couldn't tell her.
Then her friend gave her the phone, and since she was listed as an emergency contact they confirmed that he was in fact there.
What happened was that he had a bad nosebleed and had his brother give him a ride to the hospital, but didn't tell her and of course he was an older guy who never has his phone turned on.
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My sister once had a patient who had apparently led one hell of an interesting life, and at different points had been a doctor, a lawyer and a priest, so aside from his resume sounding like the setup to some kind of joke, he also knew his way around all of the ins and outs of how the whole system worked, but being a patient in a nursing home with probably the early stages of dementia setting in, he wasn't always acting rationally, and apparently it was an absolute nightmare for the staff and his family to navigate the changes he was making to his paperwork while he was there.
I have a friend who used to work for a big time tech company with lots of defense department contacts, one of the sorts of companies where if he talked about his company helping the government read peoples emails and track you online and such, you couldn't really be sure if he was joking or not.
He no longer works for that company, and I'm pretty sure he wasn't joking by the way.
I've been fortunate to know a lot of really smart people in my life, and I like to think I'm not an idiot myself, but this guy is hands down the smartest person I've ever met and it's not even close, he is scary smart.
And he made insanely good money while he worked for them, and the kind of shit they did on the company (and by extension, the taxpayers' dime,) was insane, they were regularly flying out to Vegas and putting it all on the company credit card.
So yeah for a talented person, there is really damn good money to be made if you can get security clearance.
Depends a bit on what you're doing with them
For hard-wearing work pants, I think Duluth firehouse pants are pretty hard to beat
Dickies or Carhartt are solid, more-readily-available options
If you're looking more for lightweight hiking pants, I used to have a pair of north face zip-off pants I really liked, but I'm not sure if they still make the same or similar model, but I'd take a look at their offerings. They were a bit pricey but not outrageous.
Barring that, a lot of my outdoors clothes tend to be Columbia.
For sort of a middle-of-the-road that can kind of fill either role, I'd probably go for BDUs. No specific brand recommendation, there's a lot of companies making them, and while I haven't tried them all, the ones I have have been pretty much the same. Just kind of get whatever you can get a good deal on online or whatever your local military surplus place stocks.
V for Vendetta
Things got changed a bit for the movie if you're only familiar with that
The man is Adam Susan (renamed Adam Sutler in the movie, played by John Hurt) the leader of the ruling Norsefire party, he falls in love with the "Fate" supercomputer that runs the government surveillance system
I think "millionaires" is probably a bit too broad depending on exactly how you define it. A million dollars doesn't go nearly as far as it used to.
Most insanely wealthy people don't necessarily have millions or billions of dollars sitting around in cash or in their bank accounts, that worth includes things like investments and real estate.
So going by that most people who own a house are probably around halfway to being a millionaire just due to that, add in a retirement account and some savings and odds are theres probably a lot more "millionaires" walking around than you'd think.
I have a relative who retired a few years ago, he worked as a bricklayer his entire life, and don't get me wrong, that's a solid job, and he was very good at it, so he made good money, but he wasn't his own boss, or anyone else's for that matter, wasn't actively playing the stock market or anything, just a guy who worked his whole life, lived within his means, saved money, put it into safe retirement accounts and such, etc.
He retired with about 1.5 million. I'm not totally clear if that includes the value of his house or not, if it does that would still put him at around 1 million in savings and investrents, and if it doesn't you can bump him up to around 2 if we measure him like we do the really wealthy people.
And there's a good chance that medical bills and such will eat up a good amount of that from him in the coming years..
Mines a 16 cup model, so that could be the difference.
I don't think mine has ever moved at all when I'm using it, and I've done just about everything you could ever want to do with a food processor.
The only time I've seen it struggle with anything was when I had it almost full of ground beef to make homemade hot dogs. It got it done, but it wasn't happy about it, and I'm pretty sure that emulsifying that sort of quantity of meat would be a struggle for any machine that could reasonably fit on a countertop.
Oh hey, you again,
Per our agreement, please hold all complaints until 7/12/2178