One factory job had a couple days of orientation in a classroom before we started on the floor, but on day one we ended with a tour of the work areas. As we went around, someone working recognized one of the others in my group as a local methhead/rampant thief. We found out that’s why he didn’t come back when we started working with the others.

Canada, if it’s day one. There’s a 3 month probation period where the requirements before you can fire someone are non-existent, though you still can’t fire someone for illegal reasons.

Narrator: It wasn’t the last time.

She get it real cheap used? They had a decent reputation because the new ones were mostly owned by old boomers that didn’t push them very hard, so they were reliable (relative to the rest of the used car market), though that didn’t help the way they looked or performed.

The Prowler didn’t look quite as lame but got extra lame points for following the trend set by the PT Cruiser.

Apparently the turning radius of the PT Cruiser was comparable to some large ships.

I bet he browsed with toxic mode enabled. Or maybe a special mode that just flagged the word blocks so he could promote them to user blocks.

Which also is what led to it being found, since db0, being a good dev, saw his whole instance was “incompatible” and dug into it to resolve it and figured out what was really going on.

A shadow is a 2d projection of a 3d object projected back onto 3d space.

Yeah but what’s done is already done!

It’s not like someone can just draw a time machine in the next panel so that he can go back and blurt something like “Tell her you have bad knees!” before the future version pops out of existence, leaving a confused past version wondering “Who? When?” Followed by a new arc where he doesn’t go to the bar because he thinks he needs to do something more important, wanders around looking for the woman he needs to inform about his bad knees (which aren’t even really that bad).

All to set up a scenario where an exhausted man sits down on a bench and is approached by another woman who flirtily asks him if he’s a bad boy and he absently replies that his knees are bad, she laughs and they fall in love.

And every now and then he thinks about that alternate reality where he somehow determined that “Tell her you have bad knees!” was enough to not only win his true love’s heart but also somehow led him to her. Though he loves his life with her, he obsesses with finding ways to unlock that advanced intellect in this timeline.

It’s not like you could just draw that, the past is in the past, worry about the present!

I’d say ugliest of all time went to another car that was featured on Breaking Bad: the PT Cruiser, appropriately used as a car gift that causes insult rather than happiness.

Though I’d bet the actual backstory to WW’s Aztek is Pontiac paid them a bunch of money to use it in the hopes that it would boost sales if the show became popular.

That’s not science. Science would be kidnapping a representative group from Sentinel Island and also kidnapping control groups from various places around the world to compare and rule out specific cultures only having that.

And then the results are dubious anyways because I don’t think there are any translators for the Sentinel Island language, so the only difference you’d see is their sudden rise to technological parity and then superiority to the rest of the world and somehow the control groups are all in contact with them, too, despite the control tests all happening local to their populations.

By the time you notice the pattern that the control groups are helping the Sentinels take over the planet, it’s too late.

Then the tables turn entirely and you find yourself kidnapped and led through a building that defies your imagination; rooms seen through hallways look too big, people are doing things you can’t comprehend in some of them. Not like weird rituals but it looks like science, but you don’t recognize any of the objects they were manipulating excitedly.

You are brought into a room and informed that they are trying to decide whether to punish you for kidnapping them or reward you for inadvertently unlocking their minds.

Some other famous US cities:

• Arlen, Texas
• Springfield
• Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Cleveland, Ohio
• Pawnee, Indiana
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Quahog, Rhode Island
• New New York, New York
• Metropolis
• Gotham City
• South Park, Colorado

You’re still personifying it too much. Whether or not you get angry doesn’t matter to it. It has no concept of whether something matters. It’s just predicting tokens based on the token correlations it encoded in its NN parameters during training plus a bit of random noise. Everything else is just trying to set up the context in the hopes that it predicts the tokens you want it to.

And since it wasn’t trained on every possible context, it’s overfitted to some (eg maybe a mention of yellow will make it very likely to talk about bananas) and lacks any useful context at all for others (eg your very specific problem).

Could anodize them or use a dye instead of a paint to get the same effect without any of it flaking off into the lock (or your pocket).

FYI, don’t post a picture of your keys because that’s enough information to make a copy of the key, should someone decide they want to.

Also, if someone is prepared, just briefly handling your keys can be enough time to make an impression that could also be used to make a copy.

Or those common dumb ones could be attempted by someone just trying to snoop on your phone.

Guessing he’s more concerned about his foot than the prop, which is what axe kicks and stomps are good for: delivering force without risking injury to the more delicate parts of your foot.

Oh yeah, if I had a packet of it here right now I’d just eat it directly. Like they could have made a successful business out of just selling those two sauces I bet.

Yeah, though at least pressure doesn’t really factor in, which I think is where most cases of steam breaching a water seal comes in to play. But if gases can be exchanged, steam is way higher humidity than air normally and can condense inside.

My guess would be the odds of a soap or steam breach on a water resistant phone is very low, but if you bring your phone in for every shower, you might be tempting those odds.

Shit like that used to bug me but eventually I realized it was a waste of time getting set off by incorrect word use or spelling. As long as the message isn’t ambiguous, who cares? And even when it’s on the border, it’s often clear enough from the context what they really mean (though can be fun to deliberately misinterpret it).