Concur. I’m still banned from PayPal and I have been since the early 2000’s because I used it to buy a “high capacity magazine,” which PayPal declared was “illegal activity” with no appeal.

…An airsoft magazine. Not a single state in the union where that’s illegal (or at least certainly not at the time).

Payment processors attempting to police the nature of online transactions should expose them to liability, not the other way around.

Count the feetses!

That’s Samus, from Metroid.

Trust me, you don’t want to see a Metroid with tits.

Ground wires don’t go from the pole to the house. Your home’s ground literally goes into the ground, either via a stake or by being attached to a cold water pipe. Having your ground connected to distant objects/poles/locations is counterproductive, because the extreme distance is likely to wind up with different potentials at different points, which would put current on the ground wire all the time, which is exactly what you don’t want.

Anyway, notice that the big bare wire is not actually electrically connected to anything and is only attached to a tensioner pulling it against the house. The ferrule on the end is to keep it from fraying over time.

Eh. I don’t see any compromised insulation on any of those wires. Honestly, I wouldn’t even bother. Just head on up there with a nonmetallic ladder and poke that junk out of there with something nonconductive if you’re worried. I ain’t afraid of no volts. (And before anyone freaks out, that bare aluminum cable is structural, to prevent the wires from sagging. It’s not carrying any current.)

It seems to me that whatever built that nest decided to abandon it before moving in. There isn’t any visible bird shit around it which there certainly would be if it had birds in it (especially ones big enough to drag those sticks up there) and the lack of chewed material around it indicates a lack of extant rodents.

I hate the new Chuck E. Cheese with a burning passion. I would even take his gonk original incarnation over the generic blanditude that he is now. The '90s Chuck with his ballcap and skateboard was a perfect encapsulation of his era and he should have stayed that way, especially since that decade is now suddenly so fondly remembered.

That is some serious cassette futurism, right there. I kind of approve of this.

I await with interest the first serious accusation that I’m a bot. A very well armed bot, perhaps. I certainly type some strange things, but you guys have probably seen my hands too many times.

Unless my hands are also AI generated. Hmm.

I’ve already garnered the achievement of having several people on one of the Discord servers I hang around on of treating me as if I’m literally a penguin. Nobody’s yet come up with a credible explanation of how I’d be able to type. (Including, surprisingly, the obvious hunt and peck gag that presents itself.)

Ah, yes. Every child’s favorite purple dinosaur: Borney.

(But seriously, have you seen what they did to our man? Dafuq.)

I was going to post this in the root of the comments but then I saw yours, so I copy-pasted it and attached it in the hopes that we can get a Fuck Nintendo train going.

Yeah, literally nobody in my circle of gamer friends and acquaintances has any interest whatsoever in buying the new Switch. Not a single one. Not even the ones that were previously diehard Nintendo and Zelda fans.

Zero.

Crap like this is really underscoring why. Nintendo has ramped up their already user-hostile behavior far beyond the point of absurdity.

The happy-fluffy-starry-eyed wording in this article taking great pains to point out how “easy” it was for this person to have their fraudulent ban reversed are doing way too much heavy lifting. It never should have happened in the first place, and there shouldn’t even be any mechanism that makes it a remote possibility.

And then there’s this:

Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether they can still play with the used game cartridges they purchased, or if these are considered pirated copies that could result in another console ban if used.

Uh-huh. Miss me with every single molecule of that shit.

He was brought to (or rather, fired at) Earth as a baby. Arguably he should be first in line to be a DACA recipient.

He also spends his spare time literally fighting a billionaire, so there’s that…

It wasn’t a matter of typing too fast that was the issue, but rather commonly paired letters should be positioned such that their mechanical linkages would be less prone to collide with each other if they were pressed consecutively. Your only real limitation in typing speed on an oldschool mechanical typewriter is that you can’t have two keys pressed at the same time and you can’t have two hammers hit the page consecutively before the first hammer has fallen away. Commonly paired letters should be mechanically unlikely to collide, which does not necessarily follow that they wind up with an intuitive location on the keyboard itself in terms of what’s “far apart” and “close together.”

On the Sholes and Glidden typing machine from which the modern QWERTY layout was originally derived, the hammers did not have a return spring but were rather dropped back home via gravity. Later models quickly developed spring loaded returns for just that reason.

The Sholes and Glidden 'board was tweaked somewhat from its original quasi-mathematically determined collision mitigating layout largely for marketing purposes, and also for aesthetics. The primordial design actually had the period key in the middle of the field which probably looked just as goofy to people back in the day as it does now. The rights were eventually sold to Remington (yes, that Remington) who made the final adjustments to arrange the keys in the modern QWERTY layout, invented the shift key for both upper and lowercase letter capability for their Model 2 Standard typewriter which the Sholes and Glidden machine lacked, and the rest is history.

I’m pretty sure QWERTY telegraph keyboards post-date typewriters. Early examples of telegraph transcription machines literally used piano keyboards with letters inscribed on them, and the prototype Sholes and Glidden 'board inherited a similar two row layout before adopting the staggered four row one.

It’s not. Historically lead has been used in bullets and shot because it’s both cheap and very dense. You need something with mass in order to impart energy on the target. If the mass of the projectile were irrelevant everybody would just load their shotgun shells with rice or something. Obviously it doesn’t work that way.

I believe the consensus (based on the downvotes) is that the poster above is trying to tacitly make some kind of insinuation that lead is “necessary” due to its density in opposition to banning it, which I lightly debunked in my other comment. Other significantly less environmentally harmful materials are available and in fact already mandated in some areas for shotgun hunting.

Probably, but tungsten steel shotshells are already readily available.

The point of this is to not be broadcasting lead all over the countryside. Silver, gold, or otherwise, nobody is going to be able to pick up all the pellets from any shots that don’t hit the target. And in shotgun hunting, that’s most of them. Some ranges do dig up their backstops now and again and reclaim the lead, but in a hunting context that’s quite impossible.

The obvious answer is to use silver. It’ll work on both ducks and werewolves.

Anyway, you forgot tungsten (19.3g/cm3, even geater than gold). Alloyed with steel as it usually is in shotgun shells it’s like 14.9g/cm3, denser than lead and cheaper than using it pure.

I have offers turned off on eBay for this reason. The only thing you ever get is low ball offers. Yes, I know you can set a lowerbound limit.

Since I have offers disabled (or if someone wants to try to underbid your setpoint out of optimism and/or stupidity) that prompts the lowballers message instead. Usually with an insulting poorly spelled paragraph attached, or some sob story. Or both. But since they messaged you, that means you now have their user handle and can block them. So, goodbye.

Edit: In fact, speak of the devil. I had to punk exactly such a rando right now. They came at me with a 50% offer on an item I already have listed at roughly 50% below its selling price with their excuse being, “Well, I’m taking a risk trusting you that it works.” Broheim, if it doesn’t work eBay will force me to take it back, no matter what… The beauty of this, by the way, is that this precludes such idiots from interacting with your listings anymore and, I think, even being able to view them. So you’ll never even see them again, unless they go out of their way to create another account. And they lose out on their chance to buy whatever your thing was at any price through their sheer greed and ineptitude.

I’m given to understand a sizable fraction of these dweebs try to make their living lowballing whoever they assume are desperate sellers of crap on eBay, and then turn around and list the same item right back for full price.

I’m assuming glass printer beds are supposed to be tempered, and just an FYI for you or anyone else attempting the hardware store or score-it-yourself method, the glass you wind up with will not be tempered and will also have exceedingly sharp edges and corners. If you have access to a belt sander with a suitably fine belt you can at least round off the sharp bits.

Untempered glass probably won’t deal with thermal loading very well, either. It might work, and it’ll be cheap, but prepare for disappointment.

Not pretty much. It is, straight up. I use the same gallon jug to clean things as I do to run my lighter.

Some of this may depend on your client. If you do a triple dash by itself on its own line:

You get a horizontal rule in most clients, including the default web UI and all of the major browser based clients I’ve tried.