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A sound question.

Ok, where do you get those 50 people?

Do you have 50 people sitting around on-call 24/7/365 just in case they need to go knock on everyone's door?

Are you taking them off of other jobs to go do this? If this happens at 3AM on a holiday weekend, there's probably a pretty good reason those other people are already on the clock, like maybe fixing whatever issue is causing the advisory.

Are we relying on volunteers? How are we going to get ahold of them to let them know, let alone guarantee that they're actually going to show up.

We gonna mobilize the national guard to do it? How long is that gonna take to get going?

Maybe we'll just press-gang the first 50 people we can get our hands on to do it. What could possibly go wrong?

But let's say getting the people is a solved problem. How are they getting around? Not every area is easily walkable. Do we have 50 municipal cars on standby for them to use? Are we going to have additional people driving them around to the needed areas in vans? Are they using their personal vehicles and will need to be compensated for gas and mileage (not to mention probably an insurance nightmare for those people using personal vehicles for non-personal use)

3d printing is not the default fabrication method now that we're getting good at it. It just shines in certain applications.

Getting a little theoretical here

With the current state of the technology, 3d printing lags behind some traditional manufacturing techniques like machining and in terms of speed, cost, quality, available materials, etc. except for some relatively niche cases.

However, that gap is closing a bit every day, it may or may not ever catch up completely or surpass the old technique in those aspects

But if it does ever get close, I could very much see 3d printing being a preferred method

Subtractive manufacturing like machining, by design, creates a lot of waste, all of the chips and off cuts that are removed from the stock are either discarded or require additional energy and/or materials to recycle.

And things like injection molding require custom molds that wear out over time, and can be expensive to design and manufacture

And in either case, you're largely locked into making one thing on an assembly line at a time, and to switch over to a different product you're probably going to need to switch out a lot of the molds and tooling, recalibrate everything, etc. which can be time consuming.

With 3d printing, you could theoretically use only the amount of material that's actually in the finished product (if you design it that it doesn't require any external supports ) you don't need any custom tooling or mold, just generic, interchangeable nozzles (for FDM, LCD screens or lasers or whatever the equivalent is for other printing technologies) and you could switch production from one item to another by just hitting print on a different file.

Again, we're not there, may never be there, but it's a cool thing to think about

I'm also a cart-straightener

Blows my mind how some people actually manage to walk their cart to the corral, and then decide they're going to abandon any semblance of order in putting the carts away, you've already done the hard part by walking over, it takes less than a second to just not be an idiot when you push your cart in there.

Big carts in one line, small carts in the other, seems easy but they all put the square peg in the round hole.

And at least try to line them up. I don't care if you push them all the way in, just try to line them up so that they can be pushed together.

Cracker barrel decided they were going to change the logo

And to be fair, in most respects, the new logo was pretty bland and corporate, I don't think anyone particular liked it.

But if you don't tend to eat at cracker barrel, you didn't really care.

But cracker barrel's target demographic is somewhat older, conservative, white, and obsessed with old-timey Americana bullshit, so they took this logo change as a direct insult to that southern-fried all-American fantasy they hold so dear and had a hissy fit about it.

And with the backlash, cracker barrel rolled back the logo change.

Those same cracker barrel aficionados then started trumpeting about this being some sort of conservative victory in the culture wars.

Which is kind of baffling to liberals, because we didn't particularly care to begin with. If we had to have an opinion, most of us would probably have agreed that the new logo sucked, but we weren't going to be major cracker barrel customers either way so it wasn't worth getting worked up over.

And then in the midst of all of this, cracker barrel decides to roll back some of their DEI initiatives. Some think that they manufactured this logo controversy to act as a smokescreen so they could do that without it being noticed

I am very bad at remembering to clean my water bottles regularly, I have about 4 nalgene bottles and a CamelBak in fairly regular rotation, they get left in the car, sometimes with water in them, sometimes empty but rarely totally dry, often for days, weeks, or even moths at a time. I don't drink water that's been sitting in my bottles for that long, but I've never noticed any weird smells, scum, cloudiness, mold, etc when I go to empty them.

And I can't say I've ever had an issue with mold or any other funkiness in any of my bottles.

And I think a lot of it is that I only put water in my bottles, no flavorings or anything else (except maybe occasionally iodine or other water purification products when I'm camping, which of course is just going to kill anything that would start growing in there otherwise)

I also usually (but not always) fill them with purified water to begin with.

Regardless of if they're a major factor or not, or what species they're targeting, it's still a shitty thing to do to allow your pet to fuck with the local wildlife.

If you wouldn't go out killing birds, don't let your cat do it either.

You don't need an FFL, it's a 200 dollar tax stamp, some lengthy background checks, and you have to find one made before 1986 owned by someone who's willing to sell it to you.

You can kind of get around that by getting an FFL to acquire post-1986 machine guns, but that comes with its own red tape, and you can basically only get them for your business as a gun shop. If you close up shop, you gotta get rid of the new machine guns.

It has been a pretty common thing for the national guard to be deployed domestically with weapons but no ammo, or with ammo on their person but not loaded into their weapons, so it's a valid question.

nonessential items such as clothing, appliances and furniture

There might be some weird wording in the law or how the article is reporting on it, but those things feel pretty damn essential to me.

Good thing it's legal to walk around naked since clothing isn't essential.

Oh, you need a new fridge so that you can store food or medication? Sorry, appliances are nonessential.

Beds, chairs, tables, etc, who needs those?

To be fair, at the time, there was no ISS for the shuttle to dock to, the shuttle pretty much was all they had. It was designed for missions of about 10 days, and could be expanded to about 17 days if needed. If they needed to stretch it up to a month to go beyond that for her to have a second period, I suspect that would rather have used that cargo capacity for some extra food and such and dealt with her free-bleeding, and much beyond that they'd need to come down one way or another or just die in space.

Care to elaborate a little on the racism angle a bit?

Not that I doubt it, but with the amount of research I'm willing to put into it (basically skimming the character barrel Wikipedia article, and a couple quick Google searches) I couldn't turn up a whole lot of details.

I did find one class action lawsuit accusing them of racial discrimination, but without diving too deep into the court records, a lot of it kind of looked like more of a "some restaurants had shitty, racist managers" than a top-down "this whole company is racist" kind of thing. Not that it excuses the company for that, they're responsible for hiring decent managers, but unless you're going to have someone from corporate monitoring operations at every restaurant all day every day looking out for that, I could definitely see a lot of it flying under the radar.

If we want to talk LBGTQ discrimination though, yeah, there's some outright shitty stuff at the corporate level in their past. Although (again, from just some very brief and not-at-all in-depth research) it does look like they've straightened that out pretty well over the last decade or two (and also, let's not take for granted how fast a lot of people have come around on a lot of LGBTQ issues, at the time that stuff was happening, a lot of the country still hadn't come around to the idea of accepting gay marriage, for example. It doesn't make those policies right, but it was more in-line with the country as a whole at the time)

I work in 911 dispatch, so my job kind of falls into some weird exceptions as an essential public safety thing.

Technically I'm considered salaried somehow, but in practice my pay is hourly.

I work 12 hour shifts, and my paycheck reflects how many hours I worked (and however much PTO I used) during that pay period.

Technically, if shit really hits the fan my supervisor could come running into the lunch room and say they need all hands on deck, no more breaks today, and they've eased up on it a bit but for a long time we weren't even supposed to leave campus at all on our breaks so that we'd be available if we were needed, so I guess that's at least part of the reason my breaks are paid.

The roads get better, the drivers get worse, there's jughandles everywhere, they won't let me pump my own gas, and there's liquor stores that aren't owned by the state.

Also I have to cross a river, and pretty much everything gets flatter.

For the other borders, mostly the same. One direction you start seeing more places serving crab, another has no sales tax, one is just boring and depressing, and the other unless you cross at some very specific places is mostly just woods and farms and shit that kind of blend into our own but with better roads.

Generally I agree, but I do carve out a narrow exemption for that particular hourly job, it was in a warehouse so pretty physical, I was on my feet all day, carrying around heavy boxes and such, and with the specific job I had I was often the first one there in the morning and basically always the last to leave, so I really wanted that nap in the middle of the day

I'm not a doctor who fan at all, so as far as I'm concerned the show is dogshit regardless of who the doctor is, but that's my personal taste, to each their own.

However, from a couple minutes of googling, I'm pretty sure that the most recent doctor was a dude, and the next season with a new ("gender swapped") doctor hasn't even aired, or even been given an official release date, so not sure how you can really judge it already. Maybe you don't like the actress, but I know I've been surprised by actors I generally don't like knocking it out of the park before.

There was another female doctor prior to this most recent one, but again, you've had a whole 'nother doctor since then.

So I'm really not too sure what you're on about their "current attempt."

I didn't like my old job, but the one thing I really miss was having a full hour for lunch and being located directly next door to a park

I'd go hang my hammock up between a couple trees and set an alarm on my phone to take a nap, it was pretty damn great.

You can go way down the rabbit hole here, you can blame Christian European colonial powers, but you can blame the pre-christian Roman empire for opening that door for Christianity to spread into Europe in the first place, you can blame Jews for being the religion that Christianity spun off of, you can blame various other religions and cultures that eventually morphed into Judaism

You can do that all the way back to the first organism that evolved that had a hint of sapience if you really want to

But that would be ridiculous.

That's all in the past, and while it's important to understand how we ended up here, we can't do a damn thing to change any of that.

However here and now, we have groups like family watch international actively fanning the flames and funding this crap.

They're not the only ones, they're not all American, but you have your head in the fucking sand if you think America isn't the biggest piece of this puzzle.

Imagine the book as almost a Ken Burns style documentary made after the zombie war, going back and interviewing the people who were there and lived through it collecting their stories.

It's been a while since I read it, but each chapter is a different person being interviewed telling their story, more or less in chronological order. The stories don't really overlap directly with each other, but together they paint a great overall picture of the war from start to finish.

And it's a good cross section of different people, soldiers, scientists, ordinary people, an astronaut who was stranded on the ISS for the duration of the war, etc.

I think everyone who read the book really wants it to be picked up as a mockumentary miniseries in that sort of style with "archival" footage with people being interviewed giving voiceovers and all the other usual documentary trappings.

And the Zombie Survival Guide is also a fantastic companion to it that is basically done as a, well, survival guide, that was distributed during the war, and is referenced once or twice throughout WWZ

I used to work at a pizza place around the time that gluten free stuff was starting to get big. We added a gluten free pizza to our menu. The crusts came pre made, frozen, wrapped in plastic, with their own disposable aluminum tray.

However, we were a pizza place. The whole pizza station constantly has a light dusting of high-gluten flour on every surface, because that's what happens when you're tossing pizza dough around. We used the same cheese, sauce, and other toppings for them as the regular pizzas and I'm certain those had at least traces of that high gluten pizza flour in them because, again, flour was everywhere.

Honestly, no one with celiac or any other form of gluten sensitivity should probably ever step foot in a pizzeria, I'm sure the very air in that place probably had detectable levels of gluten.