Maybe an AI-upscaled version of a reposted low-res (and on the way to being deep-fried) jpeg?

I really appreciate that there’s one character in Demon Hunter that has a gun. It works, and is incredibly effective… against lower-level demons. The world-ending upper-rank variety need at least a decapitation, and half the time, a secondary decapitation or dismemberment of some kind. Simply asploding demon parts with one or two shotgun slugs is not enough in that case.

As a storytelling device, it really grounds the entire power-system in both the supernatural and super-human. We get periodically reminded that a gun absolutely holds its own in raw firepower, but the situation is just a bit more of a problem than it can handle.

Maybe. Depends on how well-sealed those bearings are.

You’d need ambush tactics

Smoke and rockets. At least until supplies run out. Then you get crafty: sticky bombs, fire traps, optical illusions, nets…

The last one is interesting since I bet they’re not dexterous enough to undo knots, let alone handle being tangled up in something. Once you know how they’re programmed, you hit them outside that envelope.

Possibly, but I’ll bet it’s too coarse to get into things. Middle-east environments are likely to be well within the operating requirements for any military-hardened versions. So think: dust, dirt, dry clay, and sand.

Diatomaceous earth, and any super-fine starch that can absorb lubricants would be my best bet here. A very, very finely pulverized sand or glass might also do the job. It might also be worthwhile to see what solvents and chemicals can penetrate sealed bearings, eat wire insulation, and corrode water-resistant alloys. Heh, maybe just a jar of brake cleaner would work.

For a while there, this phrase was on stickers that people could put on their plates (IIRC). At some point, the city council and DMV got involved and just printed the motto/complaint right on the plates.

Also: big buildings usually have cargo elevators. It would be insanity to “door-dash” every last package on the passenger cars, limited by what could be carried or lugged on a hand-truck. Instead, they would load up the whole car from the truck on a loading dock, then deliver one floor at a time, start/stopping the car where needed.

China: Bulldozes Kowloon Walled City

Also China:

In that scenario, we’ve already said goodbye to sadness. Regret, anxiety, self-loathing, and severe-bowel-discomfort just pulled up and are joining the party uninvited.

Go back far enough, and you uncover dishes with wonderful names like Farts of Portingale.

Eh, it depends on circumstances and the people involved. In all cases, the original couple now has a beef, so that’s where we agree.

Where things get subtle is whether or not the other girlfriend here knew that the boyfriend was cheating or not. If that’s established beyond doubt, then yeah, I can see how a confrontation would make sense. It’s still not a good idea though; they’ve demonstrated a skewed moral compass already so that could go poorly and for probably little gain in the end.

Even murkier is how different people practice non-monogamy. Some folks are free to have multiple partners without them ever meeting each other face-to-face. Others prefer to interactively collaborate and vet partners instead. Even then there’s all kinds of variations, agreements, limitations, and so on. Which is to say if someone is up front and vocal about being one of those situations, do you really know that’s true? And, if on that trust you wind up accidentally crossing a boundary with someone, how would anyone parse out the truth?

So, yeah, probably don’t start a beef with the third party just to be safe, unless you’re absolutely, positively, 100% sure that’s not going to blow up on you.

It would be a statement, that’s for sure.

Major problem is that Amtrak has the lowest priority on our rail network. Getting to a campaign rail-stop on time would be almost impossible without greasing some palms. So you’d have to hook up with a cargo rail line or something like that.

Edit: Now, if you had “improve rail transportation” as a major platform plank, showing up late would be a feature, not a bug.

Yet slower, and far less convenient than air travel. Sight-seeing aside, I honestly don’t know who this is for.

Maybe there’s a train-enthusiast club out there that has a small fleet of rail-ready cars?

We tried this though. “C” stopped being an average grade and therefore “okay”, a long time ago.

I get it, but I just can’t get to that place mentally in stop-and-go-bumper-to-bumper traffic for that long. Not even half that long. If that was a nice 50mph cruise the whole time, sure.

I personally hit a wall at 41 minutes of in-car travel time for a daily commute. I’ve timed it. Every second after that feels like a whole level of abnormal waiting, a kind of cold torture or injustice that you must wade through to to your destination. It’s not a healthy headspace at all. I’ve naturally sought out shorter commutes after this revelation, and yeah, the 30 minute estimate seems right.

I have one of those.

It’s labeled “screw it.”

As long as it has a massive IKEA logo embossed (or with filigree) on there somewhere, you have my vote.

Glad you’re okay, Choom.

have no idea why the chargebacks were such a massive deal to the processors.

They don’t have a lot of things to measure when attempting to address fraud, but that’s one of them.