It’s crazy to me how we went from buying a complete game for $50, and now we get an enshitified, half completed mobile game for free but people spend hundreds of dollars playing it.

And it’s nowhere near as good.

Why I likes the ABET requirement for engineering. Still have an 80% fail rate due to the standards, and you get audited for coursework.

I have yet to meet an employer who will hire an engineer from a non-ABET school.

A buddy of mine spent several thousand on Marvel Heroes. He wouldn’t go out to lunch with us, and finally I asked him what was going on. He eventually told me, we had a “dude…we are adults and can’t be doing that shit. Imagine the hookers and drugs you could have bought!”

He quit, but still tells me he thinks about it and is immediately filled with regret.

Post your spectral emissivity study or GTFO!

(Buy Washing Machine)

“Hello, I see you bought a washing machine. Would you like to buy a few more?” - Internet Ads

The UL one is very applicable.

Chinese motor manufactures will often copy a design (completely rip it off) and make changes to make it even cheaper to manufacture. These make the motor no longer UL compliant. Sometimes these changes lead to it becoming unsafe, but good luck suing a Chinese manufacturer in China if your house burns down. However, they will still put a UL sticker on it and call it a day.

I used to work in motors and turbines and will outright refuse a motor made in China. Always buy motors from US or Mexican manufacturers (inside the US, cannot speak for EU). A good way to find out where the motor was made is looking to see the company that made it - and 100% your HVAC company didn’t manufacture the motor, they bought it from a B2B supplier you likely never heard of.

Keep moving those goalposts to make Elon look good. Maybe someday he will matter.

Dude is a fraud, an Edison. Stop worshipping pieces of shit.

Which Elon has contributed nothing. He isn’t an engineer, he isn’t a scientist, he doesn’t even understand free body diagrams. He is fucking stupid.

He is not first named on all of them, which means he likely advised masters and PhD/post docs on their work. It’s not uncommon.

This many papers is uncommon, but how it happened is not out of the norm.

Because they don’t chatter in like a sub-70 IQ Harpy wanting attention?

Musk is a fraud. He was never accepted into a PhD program. He lied about his physics degree and was awarded one while not attending after daddy gave money to the school. He doesn’t know shit about science, engineering, or literally anything except how to be an edgelord.

Dude is a fucking loser and companies succeed in spite of him.

It was Ryu.

“HAYDOKEN!”

Eric the God Eating Penguin already killed them all. We are safe.

It just sways back and forth from the awesome Dinosaur party.

Zombie JFK would get my vote.

Maybe Nearly Headless Nick could be his VP.

I still think Yoda is a Sith Lord. What better way to be a Sith Lord and bring complete chaos to the galaxy than to take over the Jedi, redefine who they are over the course of your existence, and support the slave masters rather than help the slaves.

Darth Plagueis saw through it all and eventually put in place a series of events to destroy Yoda’s empire.

This sounds like something from a Tarantino movie where the demons start pouring in, but there is a fence. Since there are no fences or walls in hell, none of the demons understand it so they turn around and go home.

So are the Ice Walkers on the other side of the ice wall? Those dudes were scary.

Or maybe it’s more Viking Lore Ice Giants. Even more frightening.

That makes sense. Thank you for the reply.

I ask this genuinely - but do you like them? They are one band that I never understood how anyone got into them. I get that people like all kinds of stuff, but they always seemed like a worse version of Nickleback.

I have one, but it’s not the same as the original.

I have posted pictures of the books for people who want to see the original maps included in the books.