Every UPS, FedEx, Amazon driver etc. would need full body armor…

The article says nothing about emergency exits being locked. If that was the only exit available to me then I’d use it and let the store employees deal with the alarm.

My wife and I just yesterday stopped at a Target while on a 5 hour drive. We were looking for a specific pharmacy item. They didn’t have it at that store. We didn’t need anything else so we didn’t buy anything. That might not be as common in a grocery store, but it’s not unheard of.

And then there’s always the chance of “I just got an emergency phone call” and need to forget about shopping…

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I’ve hardly scratched the surface with them, but I did create on/off sensors for my ancient washer & dryer with them. I’m sure I’ll come up with more ideas soon enough.

But you as an individual won’t be suing the IRS so escrow makes no sense in this case.

Not to worry. That perfect impenetrable wall that Trump had built during his first term will protect us all from the Mexican army.

How would the individual be protected from the IRS if they are penalized by the IRS for non-payment of taxes. Just because you sent a check to some state entity doesn’t mean those federal taxes have been paid, and that state entity likely wouldn’t have the authority or resources to protect you from the IRS.

It would be kind of like sending your mortgage payment to your lawyer when you have a dispute with your bank. You still owe that money to the bank, and they can take action for non-payment.

A number of years ago my wife and I visited Lubec, Maine, which is about the northeastern point of the state. Lubec has a bridge that connects to Campobello Island, which is Canadian. For whatever reason, Campobello is in a different time zone despite being physically only one or two hundred yards from the mainland.

I learned the hard way that the closest cell tower in the area was on Campobello, and since it’s in a different time zone it caused my phone to change time to an hour earlier. Luckily it resulted in us being an hour early for a harbor tour instead of an hour late.

Did Trump fall for one of those Nigerian prince spam scams?

When I was a kid it was shaving cream. Take a can, put a needle in the nozzle, then melt the nozzle with a cigarette lighter. Once it’s cooled pull the pin out so you have a pinhole nozzle. It’ll spray the shaving cream ten feet or more.

I honestly forget how I learned that trick…

New costume idea: Racist zombie hulking maniac

The very first thought when I saw the photo of it:

I am Groot!

You too will soon be able to buy an abandoned datacenter for just $1,000.

Indeed, “empirical” data doesn’t show sustained demand for the Cybertruck, but a sustained plunge down the toilet: Tesla sold just 5,385 Cybertrucks in the third quarter of 2025, which is a staggering 63 percent drop from the same period last year.

Let’s not forget buyers remorse. I have an extended family member who is an avowed Tesla fanboy and bought a Cybertruck when they first became available. He got rid of it after a year or so because of all the negative comments he was getting. He & his wife have two young kids, and from what I heard it sounds like they were all getting harassed at times…

He now drives a Rivian instead.

Tangentially related: if you have an EV and charge at home then National Grid now has a program to credit you when you charge during off-peak hours. It’s a bit convoluted and only works with certain WiFi enabled EV chargers, but its saved us around $10 a month since we signed up.

Back when the capacitor plague hit I had to manage locating & replacing over 500 motherboards in the datacenter of my then-employer. Imagine if a hardware glitch like that happened in one of these.

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Just wrap tape around it to hold the spoon in place, pull the pin, leave the taped grenade, and take the bike.

So Israel gets to unilaterally call time-out on the ceasefire whenever they feel like it. Yeah, that’s fair…