halcyoncmdr @ halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world

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For a real answer, instead of the usual Internet and "US bad" useless comments... yeah things like metal detectors and X-rays are pretty standard for a lot of food manufacturing.

However, just because things are standard, and even installed and used, that doesn't guarantee that it issues are noticed immediately. Things do fail, sometimes silently depending on the design, and that might not be noticed immediately, or employees on the line ignore issues instead of dealing with them. Sometimes, things are just caused by laziness or incompetence, not for intentional reasons.

And sometimes it's just a difference in who's expected to verify quality at various stages of processing a product. If the final processor and packager isn't likely to cause a particular issue via their equipment and process, they might not check for those issues, instead expecting their suppliers to do so before they get the material. Like if the final company just puts packages the final product in plastic, they might not be checking for metal fragments because their equipment doesn't have any risk of doing that. And the previous suppliers might not be checking because they expect the final company to check the end product is after all processing. So the end result is no one actually checked for it.

Yeah after the previous story, about 6 months later they came to upgrade basically the entire grid section in our area. We had a talk to the engineer and she had been able to use our section as justification for getting some sort of brand new and very expensive testing equipment.

Our neighborhood was built in the early 1960s. So at the time it was about 50 years old, and the electrical usage of homes then was vastly different than it is now. Unlike modern homes with power outlets every 6 feet or so on every wall, we have two outlets per room, if we're lucky. She seemed very happy that we had pushed the issue because apparently that equipment had been requested for years before she finally had a real world justification that management would finally approve.

A power company willingly looking at increasing residential capacity or fixing issues that can't be blamed on the homeowner? HA

We had a bad transformer that took 6 months of constant nagging before they would even send a tech out, and they still threatened to charge us for the visit. That guy turned white as a ghost when we told him the issues we were having and that the transformer was the one next to the neighbor's massive nearly dead tree. The internal bars had melted and he said it could have exploded at any point, easily burning at least that neighbor's house down, and probably a good chunk of the neighborhood since it was a dry desert climate.

A decent portion of ICE are probably incel gooners anyway. The position's power makes them feel like they're not as pitiful and utterly useless as they actually are. The overlap with the is damn near a circle for all of these shitty groups.

Bet you Trump threatened to cancel the World Cup hosting in the US unless they gave him something. It's essentially impossible to reschedule an event that large this close to the start.

Leading a mob... She was going to lunch at the restaurant and ICE rolled up on the group.

ICE created the entire confrontation. And escalated it AFTER she identified herself.

Fucking cowards. Did they forget there were a half dozen independent cameras they have no control over following her around because she's a member of Congress? We're not having to wait for edited body cam footage here. The video of their conduct was basically streamed live.

They generally avoid doing this brazen shit in states and areas that are more armed.

Not sure that's actually the case. Most of the people that I know with firearms are either Democrats or former Republicans that have left because of the current Republican party shit.

But I'm also in southern AZ, relatively near Adelita's district. AZ has been a weird purple-ish amalgamation shifting back and forth for decades now.

Same, my commute is about a half hour, with 2 main routes I could take that are about the same time. Just knowing if one of those is screwed up can be the difference between an okay drive in and hell.

You are not wrong. It's not even a theory.

Studies have shown that most corporate CEOs exhibit many psychopathic tendencies. It's how they are able to rise to the top, they don't give a fuck about anyone else, so it doesn't get in the way.

Then they use the money from those positions of power to try and manipulate whatever sociopolitical ends they want. They buy media companies to manipulate what narratives are told to the public, and how certain situations are covered, spun, or ignored entirely. They use those companies to create artificial campaigns turning certain groups against each other as distractions. If people are arguing about "small" things, they don't have time to notice the big things being done.

They won't give a shit. They're bigoted sociopathic fucksticks. The types to react like that are a lost cause.

Nothing will turn them from their bullshit unless it directly affects them, like their favorite child being LGBTQ, and even then many of them choose to disown them instead of being empathetic with their own child.

Some people are just shitty human beings and should be shunned from civilized society until they're willing to deal with being a piece of shit.

Of course not.

Nancy Grace Roman

There's a First, Middle, and Last name there.

Do you just ignore words when reading? Is everyone on the Internet illiterate? Because comment sections everywhere seem to indicate it's a very high percentage.

That would require thought being put into it. That's a lot to ask for, clearly.

Most likely explanation... Modern monitors effectively have their own little PCs inside... that go to sleep when the monitor does to save power. Older monitors didn't give a crap about power usage at all.

Oh look, once they have more relevant info the situation changes.

A reminder that a grand jury is allowed to only be given info that helps the prosecution. They could receive absolutely nothing that exonerates the accused. It isn't a trial, it's a bare minimum check that the government isn't wasting time and effort.

It was rare (until this bumbling administration) for a grand jury to not indict, because federal prosecutors only bothered to go after cases they were sure would be won, resulting in a greater than 90% conviction rate.

The meetings are only there when higher level decisions have to be made, or they need out of the box brainstorming. Because even the enlisted are trusted to be able to make determinations themselves, otherwise they wouldn't have made it through the academy and been assigned. Theoretically of course.

Also a good reminder that this Justice Department failed to indict the guy that threw a sandwich at ICE twice, then reduced the charges to a misdemeanor to bypass the grand jury, and still failed to get a conviction.

Normally federal charges aren't brought unless there's a strong case. The Federal conviction rate is usually over 90% because they don't bother going after things they probably won't win. They seem to have thrown that out the window in their haste to target political enemies. Turning the entire department into a laughing stock for anyone paying attention.

They used AI until they had to deal with the bullshit that comes from inevitably using an auto complete that hallucinates and even lies directly to you about what it did.

That's socialism. Can't have that. Can't even have part of that. Then people want more. And you can't exploit them anymore.

I wouldn't go that far. It's fine for most things you'd use it in, and it's a lot less work. Especially for those with mobility or dexterity issues, like many of the elderly.

People always seems to forget about them when making useless blanket statements.