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Planet Money has some really good episodes. Unfortunately, a lot of filler as well.

You all don’t get it. In the story, the interviewer is the bad guy, he’s wasting his time and the time of the interviewee just to understand how valuable his team is.

The lesson to take from it is to be in touch with your team so that you don’t need someone else to show you how they are.

Countries allowed to have nukes:

• countries that already have them
• countries that make them before someone stops them

Don’t forget China, India, and Pakistan all have nukes.

You aren’t having them redline the engine and slip the clutch going up a hill. Practicing idle starts in first is probably way less wear than a single sporty start on a highway on ramp.

I genuinely can’t tell if you’re doing a bit?

You can have brown bread and baked beans that aren’t ultraprocessed, and they’re probably healthier for you.

Using processed food ingredients like molasses doesn’t make something ultraprocessed and unhealthy. Other ingredients like butter and olive oil are also considered processed.

I just can’t wait to continue my Oral-B brushing experience.

Sorry bud, it sounds like you think I believe someone could train their body to become bullet proof. That’s not what I’m saying.

I’m saying your argument is fallacious. Your conclusion is correct, but your argument fails.

Also, you can’t just convert impact energy to pressure like that. I’m not familiar with the equation you’re using (is it just energy divided by the volume of a 0.22" sphere?), but I do know that impact is much more complex than that. It’s going to depend on both the bullet and the impact surface. Bullet geometry and material will change things, for example hollow points vs full metal jacket. Then there’s the impact surface, it’s hardness, strength, ductility, even viscoplasticity (materials can deform in different ways at the really high strain rates you get in an impact event). Think about the way Kevlar armor works. It dissapates some of the energy by stretching and breaking the strands of Kevlar and it reduces the impact force on a body by spreading it over a larger area and slowing the bullet over a longer distance. The person wearing the Kevlar armor still gets much of that energy delivered to their body.

Do you need to have it broken down, step by step, why shooting yourself with a gun, is going to permanently injure you, likely quite severely?

No, I mean the guy in the post demonstrates it pretty clearly. Going from 22 pellets to 22 short was basically going from “this won’t maim you” to “this could kill you at close range”. Could he have used something else between those energies to further develop a callous tough enough to stop a 22 short? Ehh probably not, but going on about how a 223 will blow off his leg isn’t a good argument for why this method won’t work. It’s either a strawman or a non sequitor depending how you present it.

It’s like you’re making this argument: Paper will never stop a 223 bullet and here’s why. 10 layers stopped a small pellet sure, and 50 layers stopped a 22 pellet. But if you just make it 100 layers and shoot it with a 223 then it will explode because a 223 is at least 100 times more powerful and that’s only double the paper! No amount of paper could stop a 223.

“His way of thinking wouldn’t work because if he skipped a bunch of steps in his process, it would blow off his leg” isn’t the great argument you think it is.

Oh I guess I’m confused how your first sentence is related to the rest of your post?

Sorry, but that “if” is doing a lot of work when the rest of it seems like you’re building a strawman to beat.

It wasn’t 223, check the post again. His goal was 223 but he went to the hospital from 22 short.

I’m now imagining a bundle of 2x4s vertically sticking up 6 feet.

I think I’ve only once or twice had something not fit the hatchback because the roof was too low. And those items wouldn’t have fit in a 3-4 foot bed either. Plus a proper hatchback should have roof racks to put oversize cargo on anyway.

I’m not arguing a 5+ foot bed isn’t better than a hatch (my 97 Taco with 6 foot bed comes in handy sometimes), but the shorty beds make me laugh.

That’s got to be like a 3 foot bed? I just don’t get how that’s useful vs a hatchback with the seats down?

I wish I read this comment before wasting my two minutes as well…

James Webb didn’t do shit. The man is dead.

That link is just awful. Very difficult to tell where events are or how big they will be.

It’s definitely highly edited. It probably isn’t AI, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the editing was heavily AI assisted. I found the original source on reddit itookapicture 1 year ago, which isn’t 100% evidence, but AI was way worse then and it doesn’t have any of the telltale AI signs.

It’s says he recently started sleeping at the park, not recently became homeless. It could have happened to him at any point in his life, based on this story.

My friend’s dad fell off a ladder and nearly broke his back when we was in his close to 60, if not older. He luckily had family and was about to retire anyway, but imagine if he were a single construction worker in his 60s with no 401k.