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A “family size” bag of Doritos is not sized for a family.

It should be the size of a family.

I used to watch a lot of traffic court videos as background noise. Normally it was people who knew they were guilty showing up with lame excuses.

One time though there was a guy who got a ticket for rolling a stop sign. The issue was it was a very poorly placed sign that was ridiculously far back from the intersection. The guy had fully stopped at the sign, pulled up to the intersection and slowed down to check and then rolled through it. The cop had reluctantly agreed that is what happened once the guy laid it out.

Despite the cop admitting it was a bad ticket since the guy hadn't actually rolled through the sign, the prosecutor pulled up the law which said a car must stop at a stop sign, or in an intersection without one must slow and yield to traffic, and tried to argue that because the intersection had a stop sign that the guy in the car was required to fully stop both at the poorly placed sign AND at the intersection. He went back and forth with the judge for like ten minutes while subtly misquoting the text of the law rather than just letting it go. After both the guy with the ticket and the cop both spoke up the way too long proceeding finally broke in the guy's favor.

The total court appearance was like 45 minutes, with much of it spent with a judge and prosecutor talking through a stop sign law. If it was so ambiguous that professional legal experts need to talk it through then it is absurd to ticket a person in the moment for making the wrong choice.

Tim Cain (the lead on the original Fallout and a long time programmer) talked about his experience being a programmer for hire at a major studio later in his career. It as a culture shock for him to see younger programmers basically doing no optimization. When he talked to them about it the attitude was basically that it wasn't worth the time to do, since none of the higher ups cared about it, and the programmers could easily get whatever they assignment was done with bloated, unoptimized code. There wasn't any experience in optimizing or a culture of doing it.

All the new releases were under $20 indie or "AA" games like Microprose published titles.

The short version with the Berthier is that it was very limited by the 8mm Lebel cartridge. It is a terrible cartridge to design a rifle around.

Brutal that the French military was stuck with the Lebel Model 1886 rifle through the war. The downside of rushing to be the earliest adopter of smokeless powder is that everyone else is going to have better rifles when they catch up.

Slow clap, Mr. Mulder. Slow clap.

The last horse has finally crossed the finish line. I suppose now the real question is...what are you going to do about it?

More than the mechanisms themselves, the calibers, magazines, and belts are all wrong for a NATO country looking to be on the standard. 7.62x39mm is a truly archaic caliber for a service rifle. 7.62x54r is also a choice locking the military into a very narrow band of options. Much better to get on NATO calibers if old ammunition stocks are getting low.

Scully believed in the high level idea of the X-Files since nearly the very beginning. That's why she stayed loyal to Mulder. Scully often doesn't believe in specific theories pushed by Mulder in individual episodes, and she is often correct that his initial theory is wrong. Without Scully's skepticism and stress testing of Mulder's theories, many investigations would go down completely wrong paths.

Chapter Master is a great 40k 4x fan game project if you are willing to put up with a level of visual jank that comes with a long running fan project.

https://github.com/Adeptus-Dominus/ChapterMaster