Never. Nobody I’ve met with the experience has ever painted it in a positive light. So I’ve never gone out of my way to make it happen. Had the opportunity once or twice. Opted for a regular bed.

but if the laws are anything like Massachusetts

Californian here. They’re not. Lol. I mean you can do a private party sale and the guy is welcome to store the rifle in his trunk on his way to the meet, but all firearm sales or transfers have to be done at an FFL (basically a registered gun store) and require a 10 day waiting period, meaning you’d meet with the person at the store, do a shit ton of paperwork, pay a fee to the FFL and the DOJ, go home without the gun. Then come back 10 days (specifically 240 hours) later to meet up again, do some more paperwork, pay the person, and you’re now the proud owner of a gun that cost you 15-25% more and infinitely longer to acquire than if you lived 200 miles to the East.

Thankfully, making guns so much more expensive and tedious to acquire than damn near everywhere else in the country has rendered it physically impossible for criminals to steal guns or otherwise obtain them illegally. Now, if someone goes on a killing spree in a shopping mall, they may face legal repressions if the paperwork doesn’t come back clean.

I’d say no. Small production scale, highly niche target audience, moderately-to-significantly higher than average pricing for Steam/ Valve hardware has pretty much always been their thing.

Basically, Steam / Valve hardware (and the company in general) have a strong “for gamers, by gamers” reputation. One of their methods of maintaining that reputation is by incorporating, for lack of a better term, “premium quirks” into their things (Steam Link was relatively novel at its release (and kinda sucked), the OG Steam controller with the dual touchpads and gyroscope, finger tracking and grip strength monitoring on the Valve Index controllers). They know that the Average Joe gamer will probably just pick up a Quest headset or an Xbox controller, so rather than try to fight for market share that has a built-in customer base (for example, most people that already own a console will just use the controller they already have rather than buy a new one for their PC), they maintain their “gamers first” reputation by offering a more niche, “premium” option.

Edit: Also, I’ve never not seen the Deck being touted as a massive success. Like you said, even at higher than normal prices people will buy them. It would be silly for them not to keep that money printer going, they don’t even necessarily need to increase production, people will practically buy them at whatever speed they come off the line.

I’m sure you could, but with financial literacy where it is, I doubt even automating it at a mid sized scale would be enough for them to cut back on lending.

It’s 3d printer resin

Because we’ve been scrolling for too long.

I fly a lot and rarely do I see someone with absolutely nothing on the plane. Having a checked bag by no means excludes you from also having a carry-on

There’s a bunch of bs predatory services that will let you finance literally every purchase. There’s a picture of someone “finally” paying off their $1.50 Costco hotdog after like 4 payments.

Not entirely sure everyone will get it. But I found the joke entertaining.

Your argument would hold more water if organized religions encouraged people to say things like “oh my God”. Saying those phrases or otherwise taking the Lord’s name in vain is generally frowned upon, at least in most western religions (no idea if this taboo exists for, say, Hinduism).

You’re right in saying we don’t think about it when using it in everyday language. Similarly, most westerners aren’t thinking they’re celebrating the birth of Jesus when they are doing their Christmas shopping; obviously the holiday is inherently religious, but the only groups that generally view it as strictly a Christian holiday are devout followers of another faith that forbids them from celebrating, and obnoxious atheists.

When you encourage people to stop saying “oh my God”, you aren’t sticking it to organized religion in any way; you’re literally policing people to do the same thing they want them to do.

when atheists proselytize it’s because organized religion is harmful and they’re trying to limit/remove its power

That’s what they always claim, but 9 outta 10 times I see an atheist on this website it’s because someone said “oh God, that’s crazy” and they had to reply with “🤓😏 more like oh Flying Spaghetti Monster that’s crazy. Haha! Get it? Cuz God doesn’t exist!!?”

Oh, yeah I never would have got that. Lmao. Thanks

My egg is cooked trying to figure it out

Their life was so preoccupied with whether it could find a way, it didn’t stop to think of it should find a way.

The 30-something year old bachelor who has nothing in his apartment besides a tv, a PlayStation, a fridge full of beer and a mattress on the floor probably has a smaller carbon footprint than any of us

You’re probably going to get your post removed / banned, this community isn’t meant for support questions. Check the sidebar

You can use a pair of scissors to terminate the connection anywhere along the wire and it will achieve the same thing

Technology Connections did a video on this, his findings and my experience tend to be quite the opposite of yours… With a gas burner, you’re dumping so much of that energy into the space surrounding the kettle (hold your hand above the kettle… all the heat you feel is being wasted by not warming your water), whereas an electric kettle keeps the heating element inside the heating chamber and only loses a small amount of heat warming up some escaping air.

When making noodles and such, I boil the water in the kettle, then pour it into the pot that’s been sitting on the stove on “low”. It’s a million times faster than just boiling in the pot.

American btw.

I just bought a Miata and after showing it to some family I’m gonna go play DnD

The biggest fault was walt being built up to be a good guy. He’s the main character, but he’s definitely not a “good guy”. That’s kinda the whole point of the show. Most people who walk away thinking walt was a badass have a relatively immature take on the story.