EPTOn April 17 2019 12:35 Moimoi wrote:
How do they put the cars inside a mall?
How do they put the cars inside a mall?
Cars are often composed of multiple parts which can be assembled into the whole.
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KwarK
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Cars are often composed of multiple parts which can be assembled into the whole. | ||
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ZigguratOfUr
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Zambrah
United States7393 Posts
On April 16 2019 02:07 Archeon wrote: IIRC from The 4 horsemen are just more unique afaik and make a cool picture, so they get more often adopted than "the great beast of the sea". more heresy: (don't read if you believe that the bible is the word of god and are easily offended) + Show Spoiler + Also the way John writes stuff I'm pretty sure that he meant 1/4 in a geographical sense, 1/4 of the population is too abstract for somebody who introduces his chapter by opening 7 seals and sounding 7 trumpets and then pictures devastation from random newly introduced guys/monsters everywhere to the point where it's involuntarily funny. John was probably a forefather of Michael Bay and we all know that Bay would split the world in quarters since that's more graphic. If John knew explosions they'd be all over revelations. Also for clarification: I'm fairly positive Zambrah was referring to War from the darksiders trilogy. Me and my friend started with Death from Darksiders, but honestly Kratos probably obliterates anything from Darksiders so hard that the only thing left is a blood mist where once there was a skinny purple Ozzy Osborne. We thought it was more interesting if we used The Horseman of actual Christianity because then I get to argue that since God is an omnipotent and omniscient being, shouldn’t his agents that he sets to a task accomplish that task with absolute efficacy since he’s omnipotent and omniscient and shit? Me and my friend voted War because God is basically bullshit cheat codes. Not that either of us know anything about the Bible, so maybe I’m fundamentally misunderstanding the horsemen, lol. | ||
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AbouSV
Germany1278 Posts
On April 17 2019 12:35 Moimoi wrote: How do they put the cars inside a mall? They bring them in the mall when they are still baby, and they grow up in a small room in the mall. Do not support this kind of behaviour, this is very cruel for baby cars that are taken from their families so early. | ||
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Fecalfeast
Canada11355 Posts
On April 19 2019 03:36 AbouSV wrote: They bring them in the mall when they are still baby, and they grow up in a small room in the mall. Do not support this kind of behaviour, this is very cruel for baby cars that are taken from their families so early. FINALLY SOMEONE TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT RAMPANT BABY CAR ABUSE + Show Spoiler + I honestly just searched stop car abuse this video is funny | ||
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oBlade
United States6344 Posts
Am I going to die of an electrical fire? | ||
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AbouSV
Germany1278 Posts
On April 21 2019 14:08 oBlade wrote: I have two LED bulbs in my ceiling on the same lightswitch. The other day one of them burned out so I thought okay whatever, I thought LED were supposed to last forever but I guess it's time to replace it. Then the next day it was shining again by itself. Am I going to die of an electrical fire? Yes. The holiday house you will have in 16 years, on an early spring, just as now, will have a short circuit on the underground fridge no one usually use, but you started by mistake. The fire will go around too long before you notice, and you will be trapped. I'm sorry. P.S.: LEDs do not last forever, but I believe they cannot be 'partly' broken. If they're down, they're down. So check that they are still well plugged and the connections are clean (turn off the power before you do so, please!). | ||
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Dangermousecatdog
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oBlade
United States6344 Posts
On April 21 2019 19:01 Dangermousecatdog wrote: There is corrosion in the wiring somewhere. Okay corrosion. Am I a goner? Maybe a rat pissed on it then it dried? | ||
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Simberto
Germany11945 Posts
Turn off the power (at the fuse box, not at the light switch!). Screw out the bulbs, check if there are dead insects or some shit in the fixture (Happened here. No idea how it got in there...) If that doesn't help, check all the accessible wiring where your lamp is fixed to the wiring in the wall. Could be some corrosion on one of them. If that doesn't solve the problem, i have no idea. (Don't forget to reenable the power before testing if it works) LEDs don't last "forever", but they last for a pretty long time. A lot longer than classical lightbulbs. | ||
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oBlade
United States6344 Posts
"Oh my god there's microscopic plastic all over the water and air and in our cells!" Is there any specific individual or organization responsible for not thinking this through? | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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KwarK
United States44205 Posts
On April 23 2019 01:55 oBlade wrote: "This plastic will degrade in x years. Let's put it in the ground." "Oh my god there's microscopic plastic all over the water and air and in our cells!" Is there any specific individual or organization responsible for not thinking this through? The system is operating as intended. Companies exist to make money for their shareholders, they are amoral by design, if hurting someone costs $1 and earns them $2 they have an obligation to their shareholders to hurt that person. Take Dupont, they learned that C8 accumulated in the ecosystem in 1951 and noted that their workers were getting sick from it in 1970. They weighed the risks, consulted their legal team, and began to invest in regulatory capture. Now 98% of Americans have C8 in their bloodstream, despite it causing birth defects and cancer. Companies have to be stopped from doing these things, and that means both laws and aggressive policing of those laws which doesn't really happen because the system isn't set up to help it happen. Or even Walmart who offload a considerable portion of their payrolls onto the public purse through EITC, medicare, and SNAP when minimum wages are too low for people to live on. When success is measured in dollars you shouldn't be surprised when dollars are prioritized over negative externalities. The individual responsible is all of us. The organization responsible is society. We built this. | ||
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Puosu
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JimmiC
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solidbebe
Netherlands4921 Posts
On April 23 2019 02:25 KwarK wrote: The system is operating as intended. Companies exist to make money for their shareholders, they are amoral by design, if hurting someone costs $1 and earns them $2 they have an obligation to their shareholders to hurt that person. Take Dupont, they learned that C8 accumulated in the ecosystem in 1951 and noted that their workers were getting sick from it in 1970. They weighed the risks, consulted their legal team, and began to invest in regulatory capture. Now 98% of Americans have C8 in their bloodstream, despite it causing birth defects and cancer. Companies have to be stopped from doing these things, and that means both laws and aggressive policing of those laws which doesn't really happen because the system isn't set up to help it happen. Or even Walmart who offload a considerable portion of their payrolls onto the public purse through EITC, medicare, and SNAP when minimum wages are too low for people to live on. When success is measured in dollars you shouldn't be surprised when dollars are prioritized over negative externalities. The individual responsible is all of us. The organization responsible is society. We built this. I agree with you but I dont think your statement is entirely correct: "if hurting someone costs $1 and earns them $2 they have an obligation to their shareholders to hurt that person." Companies have an obligation to their shareholders to maximize revenue. But how that revenue is maximized is up to the company, and it is impossible to determine an optimal strategy. Practically as well as legally. Hurting the person and earning the dollar is not the only option for a company to take in any realistic scenario. There will always be a multitude of scenarios which earn the company money. An ethical option which on paper earns less money than an unethical does not have to mean that the company is not owning up to its obligation of maximizing profitability. As the ethical option can be incorporated into marketing as good PR. How the profits of that are calculated are not an exact science. My point being that 'maximizing profitability' is not something that always automatically leads to companies being exploitative: even though the incentive system is broken, there is still personal responsibility held by the shareholders and company leadership. Even within this system there is a legitimate possibility for companies to behave ethically, even when they have the opportunity not to. That said, yes the system is inherently broken and damage companies do to society/the environment should be paid for by these companies. If we made unethical and destructive companies unprofitable by design, we would live in a much better world. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Emnjay808
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Dangermousecatdog
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Acrofales
Spain18400 Posts
On April 23 2019 04:15 Emnjay808 wrote: Is Jordan safe to travel? My parents are going there for a church thing, a week or so. I was there last year and it's perfectly safe. Just don't go anywhere near the Syrian border. Luckily there's nothing touristic near the Syrian border. I did get a stomach bug, probably from buying a fruit juice on the street. | ||
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