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MonkeyDoughnut

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  1. Is this the car you're planning on your kid taking to college? Does she know where she's planning to go?
  2. In a time where Abbott and crew mandates elementary schools would have armed security guards on campus... without fully funding their hiring... and districts cutting librarians to save money, I'd thought I'd update that in my district, Fort Bend ISD, there have already been 2 security guards "removed from campuses" from leaving their firearms unattended. One left it in a bathroom - a teachers bathroom luckily. The other left it in an at the time empty classroom. “When students entered the class, they and their teachers saw the duty belt,” according to a statement send to families. “The security guard realized within a couple minutes that the duty belt was in the classroom and returned to retrieve it. Administration was made aware of the incident and the security officer was reprimanded.” (later was fired - the guard, not the gun) Kids and parents feeling safer already.
  3. Officer was arrested and charged with 3rd degree assault and 2nd degree breach of peace.
  4. Can you explain the large jump in dual employment for families with children while women's labor rate stays relatively flat? Bunch of single women or women without kids deciding no longer to work or something?
  5. Wow, that is not a deep burial. That sucks
  6. There are a lot of firms that have a lot of large depreciating cash balances on their books that like the idea of a long term - liquid alternative with upside potential.
  7. All these charts remind me of this text from a Fortune article last month: First, we need to help people make sense of their world, not tell them what to think. That means listening closely to people’s experiences. If they’re afraid they can’t pay their bills, we need to help them make sense of that lived reality. That starts by taking that lived reality seriously, not just telling people things are fine. When we listen to people, it becomes clear that aggregate statistics no longer reflect the reality most people live in. Unemployment may be low, but if you can only find work at low wages and irregular hours, things aren’t fine. Inflation may be dropping, but if your paycheck no longer covers your rent (the way we measure inflation doesn’t adequately capture housing costs), things aren’t fine. If you’re two percent better off than last year, but you were on the edge of disaster last year, things aren’t fine. We need to talk about that reality–economic inequality, corporate power, and economic insecurity.
  8. Clickbait by media making more shit up. "To clarify, Wendy’s will not implement surge pricing, which is the practice of raising prices when demand is highest. We didn’t use that phrase, nor do we plan to implement that practice," a spokesperson said in an email to NBC News. They added there are "no plans" to raise prices at high-demand times. "We said these (digital) menu boards would give us more flexibility to change the display of featured items. This was misconstrued in some media reports as an intent to raise prices when demand is highest at our restaurants. We have no plans to do that and would not raise prices when our customers are visiting us most," the Feb. 26 statement reads. "Any features we may test in the future would be designed to benefit our customers and restaurant crew members. Digital menu boards could allow us to change the menu offerings at different times of day and offer discounts and value offers to our customers more easily, particularly in the slower times of day."
  9. Tech needs to quit letting Joey give speeches, it's already embarrassing.
  10. are they considering the ones on alcohol sites that ask you birthdate "reasonable age verification measures to protect minors" as well?? I'd think they would need to comply in same manner since serving same purpose.
  11. China's newer Fujian carrier (2022) also uses electromagnetic launch ... they stole / "reverse engineered" from the US.
  12. There will be no problem buying Reddit shares at below IPO prices in 2024...none.
  13. Why not just use a childproof door lever lock?
  14. ahh... didn't realize they paused in 2021... Hopefully the move to 4A works much better for them. Suiting up less than 20 or so players in 5A football definitely wasn't ideal for anyone.
  15. Ep4 was awesome. No idea where they are taking things, but this season has been great.
  16. Boston Dynamics already selling these to many, many large customers from many industries. The smoothness of stairs is crazy. The value is immense. They are "only" $75,000 base which when you think of what they are doing is really cheap.
  17. Plenty more folks way more knowledgeable than me on here ... paging @cactusflinthead for one as to how soon for a pre-emergent on new sod. As am fyi - a broadleaf for St. Augustine that has worked wonders for me (after trying many unsuccessfully) has been "Image Southern Lawn Weed Killer". Can get any big box or online. My big problems are clover and chickweed. Has worked incredibly well for me on clover and well on chickweed, along with handling the stray other broadleaf weeds.
  18. same... probably will never touch them or need them (until I eventually throw them out) you are probably lookin at $20 for any cable(s)/plugs you "might" need later on that Amazon can get in a day.... it's not worth $20 to keep them IMO
  19. Real victims are the kids with weak immune systems who CAN'T get the vaccine having other people playing Russian roulette with their health.
  20. More info on the last minute update that took place while in orbit.... definitely not something you want to see happen and someone, somewhere feels like crap right now: Fortunately, the only payload mounted on the side of the lander now facing the surface is a static payload: an artwork provided by artist Jeff Koons. Other commercial and NASA payloads are operating, and many of them collected data during the flight to the moon and during the descent to the surface. One of those NASA payloads may have saved the mission. Engineers were able to use data from the Navigation Doppler Lidar instrument developed at NASA’s Langley Research Center to replace laser rangefinders on the lander that were not working. Controllers discovered the problem with the lander’s laser rangefinders after going into orbit around the moon Feb. 21 and deciding to use them to more precisely measure the lander’s orbit, which was more elliptical than intended. The lasers, though, did not work, and engineers determined that a physical switch — a safety measure on the ground because the lasers are not eye-safe — was not flipped before launch. “It was like a punch in the stomach. We were going to lose the mission,” Altemus recalled. Crain then found it would be possible to take the data from two lasers in the NASA instrument and incorporate them into the lander’s navigation system. “In normal software development for a spacecraft, this is the kind of thing that would have taken a month,” Crain said. “Our team basically did that in an hour and a half.” That process also provided a greater validation of the NASA payload than originally expected. “The technology performed flawlessly,” said Prasun Desai, NASA deputy associate administrator for space technology. “It acquired range and velocity data well above the required five-kilometer altitude as it was descending.” He noted the goal of flying the payload was to achieve a technology readiness level (TRL) of 6 on a 1-to-9 scale, validating a prototype of the technology in a relevant environment. With its use on the landing, “we were able to get an operational system now, TRL 9. It’s ready to be used from now on.” Altemus added it was “fortuitous” that Nova-C was in an elliptical orbit that prompted engineers to activate the laser rangefinder earlier than expected and thus discovered the problem. “That was fortunate and a bit of luck for us.” In normal operations, Crain said, the laser rangefinders would not have been activated until after the lander began its powered descent to the surface. “We would have probably been five minutes to landing before we realized those lasers weren’t working,” he said.
  21. NASA/joint group needs to send up a ship with like a dozen landers on it whose sole mission is to test landings and feed data back to be shared with all companies. So much time and money being spent on the equipment and tests on board, yet we still don't have a reliable landing system.
  22. I wish I would have done similar early on. Worked great for me when first starting, especially for Half Marathons (my favorite distance). When I finally decided to try a couple full marathons it was clear I needed more non-running activity to really "enjoy" the actual race. I did 2 and finished both but didn't have a great experience either time. I'm starting back up now incorporating more strength and speed work. As @Clintonaldo mentioned - speed work should not be avoided. Everyone I knew doing that changed to incorporate speed work religiously shaved a ton off their times along with having much better race experiences.
  23. Based on contact from the high gain antenna it sounds like it landed ok just a matter of not being pointed accurately (off course slightly, etc), something they should "hopefully" be able to correct, especially since they were able to patch the thing in lunar orbit to use a different landing plan.
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