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Cyber-camps? Giga-gulags?

The story of the filmmaker is probably one of the funniest true crime stories I've ever heard. Obviously, the murder itself is incredibly tragic, because that shitstain just catfished some random guy and murdered him in cold blood purely to stroke his ego, but the story literally feels like a dark comedy.

However, the dude thought he was basically Dexter and far more intelligent than he actually was. He wrote a fucking screenplay describing himself as this super genius sex machine, while documenting his crime in great detail and claiming it was just a coincidence the murder lined up almost identically. Then the way he tried to cover his tracks were so comically inept, it only made his guilt even more obvious.

Is this the recipe for Torgo's Executive Powder?

The Model 3 released in late 2017, while the "Pedo guy" thing happened in late 2018, and the "420 funding secured" fraud was before the Model 3 even officially entered production. The "FSD in 6 weeks maybe" BS had been going on from the earliest Model S days, and I can give a very comprehensive list of all the massive red flags that'd been waving from when the first Roadster rolled off the line.

I can give a pass to anything earlier than the Model 3, just because it wasn't reported on nearly as much and I don't expect people to follow industry news to the same degree I do, but it was still definitely there for people to see if they wanted to. However, Elon has literally always been a massive piece of shit from day 1, and it's only gone downhill from there and especially after the Model 3 was starting production. Anyone trying to convince themselves they bought their car before that was "obvious" is coping hard.

Unfortunately, these actually might not show if the GFI is working, and might give a false negative.

If there is no equipment ground, the outlet must be labeled as such, but it is allowed by code so long as protected by GFI. However, since all these testers do is shunt hot to ground, if there's no ground connected, it won't work and appear if the GFI is not working. However, assuming it's working, it will still do its job, since it they protect against ALL current leakage, and not just ones through the outlet's ground path (otherwise they'd be pretty useless).

I had a "landlord special" where they extended an old 2 wire box with no ground, and my PC case shocked the fuck out of me after I had the carpet cleaned and was walking on the damp floor. A ground would likely have dissapated that bit of current leakage, but also a GFI would have probably tripped when I touched it. They weren't willing to run a new wire with a ground because, unsurprisingly they were cheap fucks, but I convinced them to install a GFI for safety at the very minimum.

Also worth noting that these things are easy to fool for ground, since it's bonded to neutral, and shitty electricians will tie them together at the outlet to trick the tester into seeing a "ground" when it's actually neutral. It's dangerous as fuck, and the only way to check is by taking the plate off and seeing if the outlet is properly wired.

Michigan, where an extremely diverse college town like Ann Arbor that's listed as one of the most LGBT+ friendly places in the US is only 30 minutes south of Howell, home of KKK members and literal Nazis 'protesting' a stage production of The Diary of Ann Frank

the implosion mechanism to initiate the chain reaction compressed it to about half the volume.

Y'know, I've done a lot of "hobby research" into nuclear weapons, but never really did the math on the degree to which the pit was compressed. Just on an intuitive level, it's already a bit difficult to fathom solids compressing, but not unreasonable to imagine. However, in my head it was like, a couple percent at most. Forcing a solid ball of insanely dense metal into a space half of what it originally was just blows my mind even more.

But you can only sell if someone is buying, and the moment you list that huge skyscraper on the market and find out that the only offers you're getting are 1/10 the asking price, suddenly the other massive commercial buildings you have on your balance sheets (and those of all your rich buddies) suddenly drop 90% in value, and it's revealed the emperor has no clothes

Accidentally screenshotting your bank acct and routing number is the only one I can really think of.

Well, if America is no longer a superpower, then Putin and all his oligarchs buddies are planning on sweeping up the spoils of its ruin for themselves.

That's because conservatives are very individualistic for whatever reason. Instead of seeing systemic issues they see bad apples.

Because conservatism inherently relies on fear of change, simple thinking, and avoiding the discomfort of questioning the status quo at all costs. You want to believe that everything is hunky-dory the way it is, and avoid thinking too hard about all the ways it might not be.

It's uncomfortable to think that the system you're participating in and benefitting from might be the cause of it. No one ever wants to think they're the bad guy. It's the reason they hate stuff like CRT so much, because it's an incredibly uncomfortable thought to imagine that everything they've known and tried to maintain is actually a complete nightmare and they've been part of it in some way.

The world is much scarier when you see the pain and suffering so many experience, and it's through no fault of their own. No matter what they do or didn't do, some people just get dealt a shit hand, either by chance, or because of systemic issues. It's much easier to say "The system I believe in is totally fine and just, it's their fault they haven't been able to reach the same place I have".

It's almost always whatever you you threw out last week though.