Hey if the batteries are that old you should replace them anyway. Every year or two it needs new ones. They will eventually start leaking battery acid and fuck up a good flashlight

That’s far more than I want from a flashlight.

On/off. That’s literally all it needs to do. I’d like to be able to plug it in and charge it but quite frankly if I can’t get that without it just going on/off with the single press of a button I’ll replace batteries until the day I fucking die.

I use a pocket flashlight daily. It is an integral part of my job. I use flashlight in a wide variety of light conditions and different levels of reflectivity.

I have never wanted my flashlight to flash on and off, change brightness, or any of the other random crap they force in to what should be the simplest tool in my toolbox.

Press button. Change state of light. That is literally the only thing it needs to do.

Fastenal them nuts amirite??!

MSC?

Guys it’s literally in the completely free to download book linked in this post, called exactly what it’s called here.

Remove the biosphere from the equation and I’m still pulling that lever harder than I’ve ever pulled anything in my life.

Which is why you should never just look at calories.

600 calories of candy bars and 600 calories of steak looks a lot different. But will weigh about the same. From memory, that will be about 2 and a half Snickers, and one 8 ounce steak.

Trying to eat 600 calories of healthy green vegetables would see your jaw fall off before you finished chewing. About 6 heads of romaine lettuce to get you that far. Until you add dressing. Which, generally speaking, will have about 120 calories per ounce. A little more than a candy bar.

I just want you to know that I tried to read this comment, got bored because it got technical, (user problem) and scrolled to the bottom to find the very helpful, important part, in giant letters and bolded. And I appreciate you.

I was referring to Joseph Campbell.

Almost all of the Christian folklore surrounding Jesus can be directly tied to other myths that were common knowledge to Mediterranean people at the time.

There was a dude called Jesus, there were a lot of them. That one was Jewish and belonged to an evangelical cult was likely. But we can’t really say that because the Bible exists so too must have the Jesus described within.

What we have today was written by people hundreds of years after the fact. There was nothing written during these events, nothing at least that survived.

If you go looking for proof of Jesus, you’ll either come out disappointed, or delusional. Think of guys like Ken Ham.

Keep the faith, by all means. But part of believing is accepting that you don’t get to have proof.

It still works in highly technical areas.

Or if you’re a machinist someone will tell you the right way to do something as soon as they see you have the material. By the time you have it in the machine 6 other guys will have told you the right way to do it in six wildly different ways. Someone will suggest Vaseline instead of coolant. Someone will start bitching about Haas. Someone will insist that it’s only possible with thru spindle coolant, regardless of depth. None of which matters because your code won’t post to the 40 year old 3 axis mill you’re using and the engineer gave you a print with impossible geometry anyway. GEE I DON’T KNOW TERRY DO YOU THINK THIS HUNK OF STEEL LOOKS LIKE YOUR PART YET

Anyway my point is sometimes there’s more than one right answer, even if everyone says they have the one right answer.

Sometimes technical specifications limit you to a specific set of right answers, but the right answers you get are for different set ups entirely.

and sometimes, the circumstances surrounding your failure were given to you by the engineer in a state that was destined to fail, whether they knew it or not.

It would have to be the manufacturer.

If someone steals your car and kills someone with it, then disappears without ever being identified, the car owner doesn’t assume liability. Liability falls on whoever was operating it at the time. If software was driving, then the software company assumes the liability.

Richard prior came out ok.

You can’t damage the credibility of people who don’t claim to have any. And, in attempting to do so, you can only increase their credibility.

Matt and Trey don’t claim to be any more than a few jackass comedians with a TV show. Scientology’s MO really doesn’t work against guys like that.

Let’s make a compact to all use “guillotinetherich”

So, all of the triple A publishers. Got it.

Notably, these movements had effective protests because they actually tried to force a change with their matches. The civil rights movement marching through Selma was to a registration office, because they were being denied the right to vote, and they were effectively saying “go ahead, tell us all no, all at once.”

Suffragettes not only demonstrated but worked together to convince their husbands to embrace the movement, and even that only happened because Wilson had a stroke and his wife effectively ran the office while he recovered.

Modern protests are skipping the most important step. They’re obstructing, being seen, but not actually trying to accomplish anything specific. Or if they are, their objective with each protest is so obscured by the media as to be rendered moot. What good did blocking traffic for half an hour do, other than to sour people to your cause?

Every time a person is killed by a cop, fucking get 500 people to go to the police station responsible and have every single person demand the footage of the killing. One after another. Inundate then with requests, clog up their operation, get fucking arrested if you have to.

Protesting alone doesn’t accomplish anything, unless you protest with some teeth.

I’m in the middle of a major metropolitan area, in an area that was at one time suburbs but is now just sprawl.

The only thing on that list I couldn’t technically walk to in 15 minutes is a sports arena. There’s daycare centers, urgent cares, a handful of restaurants, bars, my choice of grocery stores and specialty shops all within walking distance.

Technically

You wouldn’t fucking want to. To get to any of those things I have to cross at least one, possibly two major 4 lane roads that’re busy as hell all hours of the day. There’s one gas station I can get to, and a handful of smaller shops by going through my neighborhood, right at the edge of the 15 minute walk, and that’s it.

Unless it’s a church, there are 4 churches I can easily get to walking without crossing any major roads.

Bullshit

The ad read is never that short

Except it’s a Tesla.