I love Skechers.

Perfect excuse to get a hotel room … ?

Just don’t drop your Cleveland pierogis through a Chicago sunroof.

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Not today, FBI.

I knew it was a quote from somewhere, I just didn’t care. ;)

It was always originally “inflammable”, as in “able to be inflamed”. It wasn’t until cargo warning placards came around (for trains, I’m sure), that the meaning got muddled up with “unable to be brought to flame”.

There was an official agreement to create the word “flammable”, and use that on warning placards instead.

Even the best struggle.

I have watched Primitive Technology start fires with a hand drill so many times, he’s got it down pat.

Or inflammable.

The people who are making these things happen are wholly unfamiliar with consequences.

I believe - and @[email protected] will correct me if I’m wrong - that as long as the static charge differential between you and the equipment is low enough, there’s no concern about damaging static electricity flow through components. Touching the case, even if it’s not earth grounded, will discharge any potential you’re holding into the case. Then the difference between you and the components will be small enough to be safe.

Conflating two very different political groups seems par for the course.

What nobody has yet mentioned is that redoing the thermal paste is dead simple, and doesn’t carry any significant risk.

Make sure you’re grounding yourself by touching the metal case frequently. Open the case, unclip the CPU fan, clean the old paste off with isopropyl alcohol and a lint-free wipe (both the fan and CPU). Use as high a concentration of alcohol that you can lay hands on, and eyeglass wipes and gun cleaning patches are lint free. While the fan is off, hold the blade still and blow off all the dust with some canned air. Dab of thermal paste, between the size of a grain of rice and a pea, right in the middle of the CPU. Don’t spread it. Clamp the fan back on, done and done.

As long as you’re taking the fan off, might be worth investing in a new fan at the same time.

Soviet Union … Maoist …

Uhh

So I learned something yesterday, from someone who is in the world of research.

The trope about researchers spending most of their time applying for grants is no joke. Universities don’t pay researchers; the researchers get paid from the grant money they receive. If they also have a teaching position, they might get a tiny tiny bit from the university, but that’s it.

So when federal grants get halted, there’s a whole bunch of people who do important research basically put out of work immediately. The kicker is that a fair amount of the research being funded is ongoing research, where if you just “stop doing it,” all the previous work is ruined. Because there’s a lot of things you can’t just stop, put on a shelf, and restart later.

Little t’s war on universities is more serious than you might think.

The person who delivered/stole the item is not a Doordash employee, as @[email protected] points out. They’re also right about if OP goes to the police, OP is subtly conceding that the independent contractor driver is the perpetrator, which can be argued to be letting BestBuy and Doordash off the hook - which is what they want.

I agree that doing the chargeback is the best course of action at this point. Yes, the bank will want to see the video proof - the bank is probably the only organization involved who would care about that.

$5K would be cheap for all that.

It’s cheaper still to just not cover it, and raise premiums.

But one is right-handed and the other is left-handed, that’s for undrilling two holes.

Tangent: eye witness testimony is the worst kind of testimony.