No, the Apollo missions also circled the moon.

Still do! At least that one guy…

For those who need a banger to brighten their day: https://youtu.be/ljPFZrRD3J8

Leopards eating good.

Ooo that feels like it should be illegal.

But now that you mention it, that’s kind of how the Best Buy deal worked. They didn’t automatically split up the payments for you like a car or home loan. It was a credit card, so you could pay the minimum balance every month. But paying the minimum balance wasn’t enough to actually pay off the whole thing in 2 years.

See Latinos for Trump.

I used to work at Best Buy waaay back in the day. They would advertise stuff like buy a $1500 TV and get 0% interest for 2 years. But the fine print was exactly like you just described. You could make 23 of 24 payments on time, but if you were late they would hit you with 20+% interest compounding based off the entire loan amount.

So if you missed just one payment you’d get hit with like a $500 bill.

It doesn’t provide any details other than saying he hit his head. Honestly the article is kind of one sided, quoting the city’s attorney but not the plantiff.

like the English word cheese, makes your mouth naturally smile

I’ve read somewhere that the E sound isn’t great at a natural smile compared to the A sound. Some advice is to say “Ayyyy” like the Fonz from the old show Happy Days

This was from 2017. Here’s the latest I could find: https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/huntington-settles-lawsuit-over-officers-leg-sweep-takedown/article_7bec81c8-6a53-541f-a466-93d200bf9f1d.html

…the city of Huntington settled the case in December for $17,500. The civil charges against [Officer Dakota] Dishman were dismissed prior to the settlement and he was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing after an investigation by the FBI.

Sounds like they over charged customers by $1.72. so if you bought a few dozen tickets, after all the legal feels you might get $12 of you’re lucky.

Was that a Van Wilder reference? If so… I don’t have a pen.

My growing view is that too many American Catholics have failed to show proper deference to the papacy, treating the pope as a political figure to be criticized or praised according to their whims.

Huh, maybe JD should listen to this guy

Nah, it says to be excluded you have to be the “passive partner” so power bottoms are still allowed.

LMAO - also is his name really John Dilbert?

Yeah far easier to impeach, which requires a simple majority in the House and 2/3rds of the Senate.

The 25th Amendment is a higher bar, since it requires 2/3rds of both the House and the Senate.

Nice. It’s from XKCD if you want the source.

Something similar happened to me! It wasn’t quite as threatening since my boss isn’t a dick. Our CEO declared that we were going to work with Palantir. Not to solve any particular problem, but just because they wanted an announcement saying we were working with Palantir.

The Palantir team did a demo showing how amazing their product was. They showed it supposedly being fed a Microsoft Project file, reading all the tasks, and then identifying which tasks were at risk. It spit out an answer saying something like “Task 123 may be at risk due to several factors including vendor reliability and blah blah.” Seemed really impressive - that would have taken a project manager and planner all week to figure out!

I got a hold of what they used for the demo and saw that it wasn’t reading a Project file. It was actually being given the task name as the prompt (“Task 123”) and then the prompt was "what would a project manager say about why this given task might be at risk?”

I told my boss that it was all smoke and mirrors. No complex analytics were being done. It was just basically “here’s a task, tell me why it could theoretically be at risk” - far different than “analyze this project plan, look at related data and identity what tasks are at risk and why”.

His response was “Good to know. Unfortunately the CEO has declared we’re moving forward with Palantir, so it is what it is.”

Somehow this company is worth billions of dollars.

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Kind of, but I hate seeing stuff like this:

And while you’ll be hard-pressed to find many experts who support unassisted births—as in, at home, without the presence of a physician or midwife—the core of Shanley’s philosophy stems from a concept that has existed for millennia but has been diminished in the past century: The majority of births are “normal” and don’t require medical intervention.

I’m glad the author prefaces that saying that experts don’t support unassisted births. Of course people have been having unassisted births for millennia with the majority being normal. But we used to have much higher infant mortality rates compared to what modern people would deem acceptable.

Personally, I’d have a dead baby and probably would be a widower if my wife hadn’t given birth in a hospital.