It’s a piece of poster board which is pretty much like cardstock. You can usually find some at the stationary section in a lot of stores in the US.
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It’s the day that the US uses to celebrate it’s separation from British ruling.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)
Every year millions of fireworks are set off because of it. A good portion are by people that don’t know their ass from their head and either severely burn themselves/others, blow off a body part, or cause some sort of wildfire.
EtherWhack@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train TracksEnglish9·21 days agoMeanwhile my sister’s fiancee drank the whole pitcher and is back working there totally believing Elon is some super genius and that the cars are capable of full self-driving. (I really have to bite my tongue when listening to him)
My camry can self-drive too, same outcome. (just off a cliff, rather than in front of a train)
EtherWhack@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Both drive by wire and conventional throttle bodies are controlled by a wire.3·26 days agoThrottle by wire.
The fuel is never really actively controlled by the user, more by its relation to the amount of air going into the intake.
EtherWhack@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Both drive by wire and conventional throttle bodies are controlled by a wire.23·26 days agoBoth are technically cables though. One, a power cable, the other a steel cable.
Or an axle failing
EtherWhack@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this weekEnglish6·28 days agoWhat are you talking about? There’s only one side. /s
EtherWhack@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•When you check the 'finished' project from the guy who bounced early for vacation19·1 month ago"Oh, we’ll fix it in production. It’s job security. "
(Task now requires several hours of downtime, combing through everything with the boss on your ass asking every ten minutes, “Is it fixed yet? Maybe it’s this… Did you try that?”)
I remember hearing the reason DI water may not necessarily be potable js it’s only free of salts/ion and may still have microorganisms or other biologically dangerous contaminates.
EtherWhack@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Klarna’s AI replaced 700 workers — Now the fintech CEO wants humans back after $40B fallEnglish3·1 month agoTheir system screwed up an auto-payment which they eventually fixed. They however left the delinquency mark on my account (they only corrected the notice sent to the credit bureaus), so any purchases had to be paid within 30 days.
Couldn’t and close out and delete my account fast enough.
While not as serious or deadly, the radium paintbrush story comes to mind
EtherWhack@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump now claims 60 Minutes interview caused him ‘mental anguish’18·2 months agoWell, what about all of the people on The Apprentice that were ‘fired’ on in front of a camera?
You might be overlooking the undertone of sarcasm in the complaints. No one is actually truly mad or anything, more humorously cynical of it.
I think most of it stems from how half-assed the censorship usually is along with the relative pointlessness considering how common explicit words are on the internet
EtherWhack@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I am not a builder… but that does not seem right3·2 months agoGoing by the writing on the wall, it’s for a 3-way dimmer switch. It also is likely the picture was taken during its install and not from someone trying to find a stud
What even is his beef with her? Like, I haven’t even heard her name in 10-15 years.