For me, mIRC had a clunky but useful script editor included that 14 year old me spent countless hours creating little chatbots with

I dont know, the issue reminds me of tech support calls id get back in the day for people who got angry at their ISP when they mixed up IMAP and POP3. Maybe step through exactly how this message service handles copying and deleting before using it to hire prostitutes for years.

"In a bizarre agreement, Russia sold Pepsi 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser, and a destroyer in 1989 to keep soda flowing into its citizens’ mouths. With all this firepower, Pepsi indirectly became the sixth largest naval fleet in the world."

They sold it all as scrap metal

Doesn't PepsiCo have its own small navy as well?

Of course not that's way too direct, we've got laws.

Biden has to issue a presidential act before he can legally off him.

There's even a particular style of massive highway interchanges nicknamed 'Texas style stack interchanges.'

Basically their outer roads(frontage roads) are just smaller highways, and those all get their own interchange right on top of the main highway interchange, resulting in a giant pasta bowl of overpasses.

Their highway infrastructure is absurd

The first casualty of those battery fires is probably going to be someone handcuffed and locked in the back seat.

Fantastic! Stromae is actually the reason I learned verlan existed! I got to see him live in the US, and it was one of the coolest live shows I've ever seen. The majority of the video for quand c'est is an actual part of the live show, and I wasn't expecting it at all

Agreed...I was especially impressed after I learned about their Verlan. As far as I can tell it's basically pig Latin that they take seriously and use regularly as slang? As a quick example, the word Verlan is Verlan for l'envers. They can keep their secrets I guess haha.

Kremlin propaganda constantly involves polishing a turd until it shines. They're going to have that 'bad look' one way or another, how do they twist it to make it work for them.

Turds are all they ever have, and they shine them well.

I once worked a stint for UPS doing package sorting. I definitely used that time to take some mental notes for any future shipping of mine. One big thing to pay attention to is keeping the weight/center of balance FIXED. Preferably low to the bottom and centered, but definitely fixed fixed fixed. Packing peanuts might still let something heavy shift around. Some folded up cardboard to keep heavy stuff fixed in one spot can go a long way to keep that box together.

The reason comes down to the belts in the sorting facilities. Some conveyor belts will suddenly tilt up at like 35°. If your contents shift the right way at that moment, the contents will start to use your box like a hamster wheel, counteracting the movement of the belt, and it will stay there doing flips until another package takes a beating helping it, or the jam is cleared. Even worse, it could climb that 35° incline and instead wobble wrong all the way at the top, and come tumbling down 30ft. You grow to learn the sound of a tumbling package, because immediately after the tumble it hits a small metal lip 2 ft from your head, shoots across your work area, and lands where you just grabbed it from. I think the max limit on that belt was 60lb packages.

Auto mechanics, this is specifically why your alternators are always beat to shit after UPS ships them.

This was also 10+ years ago, maybe they addressed the careening packages of death

Can we be neighbors?