Careful with that strawman, breathe on it and it’ll fall over

“under no pretext” is quoted a lot here when gun control is brought up. It’s Karl Marx.

Bush never faced consequences for his, nor did Nixon (arguably), Kissinger, Reagan, or W. It’s been all crimes at the top for decades.

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Except, as they’ve learned, they didn’t actually have a theft problem. That was a lie to disguise low sales numbers. It’s no better or worse than it’s always been.

The real issue is and remains, the relentless pursuit of number must always go up.

The problem is locking up the item.

I’m not gonna fuckin steal it, don’t treat me like I will.

Notably, those stores fell out of fashion pretty quickly when someone decided to just throw stuff out on shelves and have people get it themselves.

I’m not asking a clerk to get me shit. I can either find it quickly and get it myself or I’m getting it elsewhere.

A general strike is difficult to crush. You can crush a strike here and there. You can crush several at once.

You cannot crush a strike of millions of people all over the country.

That’s the whole point.

I have said it before and I will say it again.

I oppose the death penalty because I don’t want the government to have the power to execute people.

Any other reason you have for or against, I don’t fucking care. If it’s a power you wouldn’t trust in the hands of your political rivals, you shouldn’t trust it in the hands of the people you support.

It’s actually worse at the top.

Your every moved is watched by your peers, who are encouraged to find any weakness and exploit it.

The cream rises faster if you agitate it, the theory is.

Which is why they have so much churn.

He was 24 when Grease was made.

The guy next to him is Michael Tucci, who was 32 at the time.

Luke Perry at the beginning of 90210 was the same age as Travolta. Then later on the same age is Tucci in the same series.

They still do. But they used to to.

Sure did. Whoops!

Extrusion is a little different but similar. It would be easy to confuse the two.

Extrusion is forcing material through a die to get a shape. There’s a play dough toy that is effectively a play dough extruder. You put the dough in the hopper, press a lever, and you get a star or whatever.

The surface finish you get kinda depends on the material, it will feel very smooth but won’t be nearly as smooth under a microscope as this. If you’re in to 3D printers, the aluminum arms are generally made of 80/20 T slot, which is an extruded material. Also like, all dry pasta is made this way.

Drawing is stretching the material. You’re pulling it through the die rather than pushing it, and getting a shape, and the act of stretching it out makes it incredibly smooth and can yield a stronger product.

This is also how record stylus needles are made. And frequently brass tubes. It’s not done through dies, but Chinese noodles are made in a similar process, constantly stretching until they’re the desired size.

In that last one, you’d probably be able to see the bent over tip with the naked eye. You’d certainly be able to feel it if you ran your finger over it. It would take some force and would be pretty painful to use.

These are manufactured differently from most of the stuff you’d be looking at.

Rather than milling and grinding, the needles are made from a sheet of stainless that’s rolled and welded, then drawn down to whatever size it needs to be, basically stretching the material out. Kinda like when you make a snake with silly puddy and pull it apart.

Then the points are ground in. Gives you a ridiculously smooth finish.

I think you’ll find more people who don’t even know what an operating system is than people who know enough about computers to identify windows as a problem.

From someone who eats almost no bread anymore:

It’s the bread.

You’re not going to sit and eat a spoonful of jelly like a fucking goblin, but you might eat a piece of plain bread and be happy about it. Especially if it’s a perfectly cooked dinner roll.

And honestly, this might be the best way to cut a pizza.

I love the middle, crustless pieces in a square cut pie, but triangles are the best shape.

Just cut the star in half a few times, as if you were cutting a regular 6 sliced pizza and whammo. Many delicious small bites

is THAT what that was about?

I only ever watched the first half of the TV movie. Second half never really seemed to air, or it really failed to explain anything.