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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • I think i ahould preface the following because it sounds more neutral than I meant it to. TBC I condone neither of these positions, nor do I mean this to be argumentative with your possition, but rather collaborative:

    I suspect the objection is to the calling out of / reminder that destruction of water facilities as a war crime, which seems to be something both sides have done/ been threatening in the Iran war, as well as the call out to allow UN/ other humanitarian aid groups unfettered access in warzones. Which seems like it conflicts with Israel’s contentions with UNRWA.








  • My friends got a funnier version of this. The local elementary school has a service that translates automated phone messages for parents into any language.

    She’s bilingual, but her mother only speaks Russian and shes been teaching the kids Russian. So she gets each message, 2x, once in english, and once in Russian. But, whenever the system hits a loan word, or word that is the same in both languages, (superintendent was the word it hit when I was driving with her thw other day)

    it gets derailed, and finishes in english with a really over the top Russian accent.

    Not the same Russian voice mind you, it switched from a woman speeking fairly fast to a man speaking english slowly and angrily, with a Russian accent, like it was trained off of cold war movie 'Soviets or something.








  • Unless im missing something about the design, theres a fairly common bit already on the market that works for this, and Id assume most auto shops already have laying around. My dewalt 50 piece came with one…
    Bit looks like ( https://share.google/KHdg0HfO6zC9bab9O)

    That one of those 2 pin spanner wrencheswith one on an arm that swings to adjust size, as far as asshole design security screws go, im not too mad at this… accomplishes what it needs to (keeping some rando with a screwdriver in his pocket from just deciding to undo some exposed screws for ‘fun’, or stealing your car trim) without being so proprietary pwople who arent preppared can’t undo it with tools at hand (like the apple Pentalobe screws, and various triangle and tritip Philips variants, really anything with an odd number of contact points is immediatly more of a pita)




  • In some states that would already be illegal with serious penalties. Like massachusset’s grocers laws.

    Iirc the law states customers are entitled to the lowest advertised price (including in store) and a discount or advertised price must be valid and available for 7days (maybe its more, i forget) and if its in print, have a clear start and end time, or its 7 days after last publication/ viewing- so if I see the tag in the store and they switch it out after I pick the item, it would have to be valid- price raises and end of sale tags are a thing eith the end date in bold on them. (Also meaning even if they run out early they have to give you a ‘rain check’ and honor it later when the item comes back in stock)

    Penalties are triple the item price up to $20 off the bill at the counter, and thousands in fines and up to 30 days in jail for cashiers/ managers refusing to honor a price.

    According to a friend who was the produce department manager at the local grocer, that wasnt the worst of it though- a report of failure to comply (ie a custome not getting the 3 the item discount at time of sale) could trigger a state’s weighs and means audit, the first step of which is them forcing closure of the grocery store immediately for 30 days, which according to him litterally meant them showing up or having the local PD locking out employees to prevent a cover up- so no putting meat in a freezer, veggies back into the fridge, throwing out dieing product so It didnt contaminate the good stuff- basically guaranteeing a loss of everything in the deli and produce sections, easily a $50k+ hit even at our smallish grocery.