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Article says there’s a pepper ball launcher and a glass hammer, so this thing is mainly for surveillance and mild distractions, which is much better than I was prepared to read.

"Currently, an officer’s job is to run toward gunfire, alone, with no support or intel—basically a standoff. With our drones, they’re not alone; they know what the suspect looks like, what they’re doing, and we take point around every corner.

“We usually find the shooter before they do and keep them occupied. Every officer who’s seen this live has said they want it.”

If this actually encourages them to do their jobs, great. If this is just a kickback to private industry and further militarizing schools while police still sit cowering, than I know where they can dock those drones…

He’s got great taste in animal friends! 🦉

I just like tasty things, but I do like thinking it helps encourage people to keep the non-industrialized apples alive.

They’re both really solid choices IMO. They’re pretty different than each other and both pretty versatile.

Just hit farmerstands if you got the option and if they sell them loose, just grab some of each and it’s very surprising how wide a range of apples there are. Lots of good ones. Macoun, winesap, braeburn, Fuji, jazz, honeycrisp. We’re pretty surrounded by farm country so we have apple festivals too where they just cut you off slices of all sorts.

I’m in Pennsylvania, and we seem to have pretty solid apple country here. Some of the farms you can go to and they got 6-10 varieties depending when you go and how successful the crop’s been.

Mutsu are usually called Crispin here. Not sure if that’s light racism or one of those trademarked names or both, like Pink Ladies are trademarked so everyone else’s are Cripp’s Pink, which is a weird name to me.

I have a few regular spots I hit up for them, and I check the local paper to see who’s offering stuff I may not have had before. There’s a ton of vintage apples out there, and it’s fun to compare them and different seasons seem to make a few have years they’re particularly good or not so good. It’s one of the few food adventures that isn’t too expensive or unhealthy, so it’s a win on all accounts.

Now I haven’t had 6 apples at once, but have had a few after picking some particularly good batches and that was enough to do in my belly for the day. I do have a weak spot for some nice Mutsu or Jonagolds. Hmm, we are coming upon that time of year now that I recall…

I did know someone that worked at our local Ag college, and he volunteered to help with the peach harvest. The bruised ones they couldn’t sell, but he didn’t want to waste so many precious peaches, so he did spend the entire day eating partial peaches in the midst of picking them. I think it took him 3 days to recover from all the peaches. He was more peach than man for a bit. He made no mention of drunkenness, so perhaps peaches have a different alcohol content than nanners.

While learning from one’s own mistakes is crucial, I prefer to outsource that when possible, for situations such as this one. 🍑 🍌

Both. Instructions were unclear and I didn’t peal them.

I think my bowels might have more issues than my liver at that point. 😂

Are you saying I can get drunk off of bananas while adding beneficial fiber to my diet?! 😄

I got the lazy person’s V60 to compliment my Aeropress, the OXO pour over brewer. It’s a coffee cone with a drip chamber, so no fancy kettle, artful swirling procedures, etc. I heat water in a measuring cup while I measure and grind beans, and toss it in the top and walk away. Takes basic flat bottom cone filters. Dump the cone and run under the tap to clean.

It’s been my daily driver for about 2 years now.

To be fair to the zoo, everything they are asking for aside from the horses is available from RodentPro. I don’t like the idea of taking public donations like this because I’d worry about some weirdo poisoning something.

Animals with known medical histories will sometimes get “reused” after they expire. Time, money, and effort was put into these animals that didn’t make it, and in the wild, they would have served this purpose anyway. But those animals aren’t pets either.

Really the only news here is the public solicitation. I don’t think it’s the best look for the zoo, I don’t know their financial situation, but I can’t imagine they will be flooded with animals to make it worth the people this will turn off. The only thing we ask the public for is donations to buy food, canned or bagged commercial pet foods, or donations of fish that people catch.

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They unfortunately do.

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You’ve never seen animals flattened way onto the shoulder, well outside the lines or in the middle of the lane where the car should have gone right over it?

My biggest gripe with the rise in violent talk is that it comes off like those commenters trying to get other people riled up into do that violence for them.

If you feel the justice system has failed and there is no other recourse, than that is one thing. But I keep seeing all these comments saying “why aren’t you out there doing anything about it?” and my first thought is always “well I haven’t seen your face on the news…” As far as I’ve seen it’s still all right wing nutters doing all the violence. If you aren’t out there doing something dangerous, why are you here telling others to go do that thing while you sit at home?

You’d call someone a hypocrite if they were on here every day telling other commenters they should feed the homeless, but you found out they don’t volunteer or donate or whatever. But I got to scroll past a bunch of keyboard warriors on every political or news thread throwing tantrums about why “nobody is doing what must be done.” Justified or not, if people start going after others, it’s going to go badly for both sides. If you won’t put your money where your mouth is, why are we all forced to read it?

If you’re serious, spouting off about it on a public forum is pretty stupid. If you’re not serious, you’re making the rest of us look stupid to anyone checking out this platform. I feel that’s a pretty fair assessment without judging your opinions or anyone else’s. We’re all wrestling internally with where our limits of tolerance are these days, but we can talk with each other productively about it, or we can rant and rave like a bunch of violent cavemen, but I know which one of those environments I’d rather be in.

Hah, I figure I do bother some people with my block of posts, but 1) I put all my posts up and breakfast so people have all day to ask me questions and I have all my down time at work to answer them so you get quick replies before you forget you even asked something, and 2) if seeing 3-5 owl photos is a row is that big a deal, congrats on having no real problems! 😜

I really do feel that way I do it is an advantage for anyone who develops a real interest in the content. It works for me in a way that it isn’t a burden to do it every day, and you get my mostly undivided attention to reply to you.

I’ve gone to a Coldstone (ice cream shop) and the guy working there was just giving out free ice cream to everyone because he hated to store so much.

Another time I was at the conveyer belt sushi chain, and you’re supposed to get a gacha egg out of the machine after so many plates go into the return, but it was jammed up. Told the girl at the counter and she just plopped up the bucket of eggs on the counter and told me to help myself as she doesn’t get paid enough to deal with the machine, so I grabbed a few Spy x Family trinkets.

Even in my job at a pharma campus, most of us are contract workers who don’t get the benefits the actual big company employees get, and a lot of my equipment i need is broken. I keep equipment running with my role, but I have to ask for favors or supplies from other contractors at times so I can actually get stuff done. From being old enough to see the last glimmers of old school places that rewarded long term employees to seeing how every place seems to be run today, I don’t blame the kids for bringing some anarchy to the workplace. At least I get paid a decent wage to be miserable. They don’t, and having worked those retail and foodservice jobs myself, they probably work harder than I have to here.

It took me a lot of years to learn my jobs don’t give a damn about me, so while there is a twinge of sadness to seeing them that broken on jobs so early, I’m also glad they’re not under some false impression that working extra hard for free or putting the company first will get them somewhere.

I don’t know if I need this, as I felt everything was done pretty well as it was in 0 and Kiwami 2, but since all the characters and actors are so good with these roles, I definitely want to see it.

I’d be a bit annoyed if this isn’t eventually a free patch to the PlayStation, and I don’t know if I’d pay for it, but having this a Nintendo exclusive permanently seems an odd decision.

Oh wow. I had no clue there were so many that inexpensive now. Thank you!

Huh… I watched a basic review on it and that seems somewhat intriguing. It looked faster than expected, decent basic features, and he says parts availability is good. I may have to put this on the wishlist… Thanks for the tip!

I check periodically, but I don’t see anything within an hour of me. It’s a shame, as I’m in the more populated part of my state, between the biggest and third biggest cities and I read about these places and feel I’d really enjoy them.

I have a milk frother for example, that burned out its stupidly non resetting thermal fuse because it got put on the base, something bumped the start button with nothing in and it burnt out. I’d love to have someone show me how to locate that bit and replace it, but I dunno where to go for that.

Same with the 3D printer. I can afford one, but at this stage of life I’d rather someone give me a hands on run through and give me some of their wisdom from experience than me playing around and getting frustrated until I get it right.