And no one did get hurt.

But he’s still an idiot who made 2 very large purchases of the same product without doing any research on the quality of the vehicles.

All it takes is one mad king who thinks he can get away with just one to win something.

A mad king who wants Ukraine, or Taiwan, or South Korea.

As soon as one launches, they all launch, other nuclear powers won’t believe they have a choice.

It takes 30 minutes or less for an ICBM to reach anywhere in America, really the world, from Russia, china, or North Korea. How much can you get done in 30 minutes? Could you organize a meeting in different time zones, and convince another person to stop being a lunatic? Could you convince another president, who is about to have one of his cities burnt to the ground, that he should just let it happen.

That’s a hell of an elevator pitch you’d have to pull.

It takes less time than a good pizza delivery for the world to end.

Bought iPhone last year.

Tried Apple Maps the first week.

Put in address to friend’s new condo building.

Took me to a parking lot behind a grocery store next to the building, and then acted like I could drive through an old wooden fence to get to the condos.

5/10 I only had to drive to the other end of the block to find the only entrance to the property.

Oh I didn’t sign.

Someone offers you a sack full of cash to do something, you better start finding a dentist to look at that gift horse.

The signup bonuses can be pretty large depending on your placement exam.

When I was a young dumb 18 year old that wanted to be a doctor, I thought the army would be a good way to do that debt free.

They offered me something like 25 grand if I signed up that day.

That’sa lot of cash for an 18 year old.

I don’t think you really grasp how much pressure 10,000 psi is.

A typical car tire is like 35 psi

A propane tank for a grill is like 200 psi.

Have you ever seen a car tire burst? Or a propane tank? Big booms, they can easily hurt or kill people already.

A hydrogen tank would be 50 times more pressure than a regular tank of fuel, and 300 times more pressure than a tire. If those burst, people will die, and have their bits spread around the neighborhood.

An industrial machine designed to handle 10,000 psi gas is a little different from a tank you’d take to a BBQ.

A fuel station will also get resupplied regularly, so any small leaks are no big deal, as there will be a shipment of fresh fuel coming in a regular schedule. Your BBQ tank of hydrogen likely will need to be refilled regularly even if you don’t use it, as any valve that would be cheap enough to mass produce is not going to be able to keep hydrogen in for months while it sits in the garage.

Then there’s also the fact that most uses for gaseous hydrogen require the above 10,000 psi storage pressure. This allows a useful amount of hydrogen to be stored in a non-comically large container. 2 problems I see with this:

1.) a 10,000 psi container is fucking terrifying. If that things bangs into something and ruptures, it going to send shrapnel through a house.

2.) a propane like tank can be opened to the Atmosphere and does not have a regulator built into the tank because most people don’t know how to actually use a regulator. So a 10,000 psi tank with just a hand valve between the user and a jet of gas that can send the tank into the stratosphere does not sound like something that should be available at your local hardware store.

Hydrogen is very difficult to bottle. It tends to just slip out of anything you put it in because of how small the atoms are.

And also incredibly low density. So your bottle would likely be on a trailer.

The last one so far

Texas wants to bring it back.

Fuck Texas

ChatGPT had a fever dream again

Because this is probably the best challenge to qualified immunity that’s ever been available.

Complete and utter dereliction of duty.

They even ignored their own department’s procedure on responding to an active shooter, so they can’t argue it wasn’t in their duty to stop the shooter, or they didn’t know how.

Plus Culver’s always has ice cream

Blazing saddles was written with the golden rule of offensive comedy: don’t punch down or up, punch in all directions.

Amazingly generous of Kim to allow all of those soldiers to defect like that.

Yes, because the computer can fix the physical gears in the transmission.

Found on road dead

Fix or repair daily

Failure of Research/Development

Fucker only runs downhill

While wearing suicide vests

There’s a shocking number of people who will just go off into the woods with their clothes and a phone.

I went hiking with a date once who expected to be fine walking a ten mile trail with no water bottle. Some people have no real world experience of how much water you need when you’re exerting yourself for hours on end.

No phones, no distractions, just a man living in the moment, getting stalked by a large cat just like his ancestors.

I’ll yank your units