They cost $2,000 (in 2025 $) when they released in 1982. Sounds like a deal to me!

That works in a Mel Brooks movie

Good. Our first laugh of the day.

Y’all downvoting OP for laying out the methodology.

Pretty sure I’ve read that it is, but the issue here is retesting employees that are already onboard.

Grok fucking nailed it. And everything stated is verifiable with almost no effort.

Life sciences are where this sort of thing will shine.

So, to my fellow Americans in NYC, how are those gun laws working out? That’s a smartass question, but more seriously, what will you do when the Gestapo comes rolling down Flatbush Avenue?

I’ll never find it again, but a few years ago jihadis went rampaging down the streets in Iran, randomly shooting into apartment blocks. All I could think was, “At least that can’t happen here.”

American, white, liberal, redneck gun nut here. If you’re talking about “defund the police”, that’s yet another idiot liberal slogan that misses the mark. The idea is to take police funds and pay for workers who can handle situations police should never have been sent to. Want to kill yourself? Call the cops!

The far right loves cops because cops are on their side, or are perceived to be. To put it bluntly, guns are for shooting marauding black people, not white people. See all the stories about white people being shocked when law enforcement doesn’t go their way? Yeah.

Also, I suspect people who are anti-gun have never had violence inflicted upon them, or cops who are far away, or haven’t had a bear wander in the dog door, or haven’t had an enraged redneck struggling to be polite because they’re visibly armed. In related news, my MAGA neighbor came stomping down here to kick my ass, turned right the fuck around when I went inside for my .45.

I could write all night on the subject, but let me leave it at this: Now is not the fucking time for Americans to disarm themselves. The only reason fascists haven’t run us completely over is that they know there will be a real chance we’ll fucking kill them. Look where the ICE raids are happening, in the places where guns are the most suppressed.

Yes, this all sucks, but it’s where we’re at in America.

Looked into beekeeping on and off and varroa mites are a top consideration in any source I’ve read.

American here. My nearest grocery store is 68x that far.

Talking to a good friend 20 years ago, very smart guy, and he was thinking we already artificial gravity.

Every one I’ve seen or replaced was just that. No idea what the wax thing is about so I looked it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_thermostatic_element

OP’s right!

Fax is too simple to completely die.

OP in the Precambrian

All that destruction to provide a couple of hundred jobs. These dumbass politicians think Meta is bringing in a factory, like the old days.

Then donate time and money to Habitat for Humanity. They’re the only reason I own a home.

What a succinct, compelling argument!

https://www.unicornsrule.com/wp-content/uploads/unicorn-deer.jpg

Alabama is 70% forest, beautiful to travel the back highways. Judging by the forestry activity I see, they must supply a huge chunk of lumber for the region.

Many, if not most, of the small towns are surprisingly nice, but the wealth gap is on full display. Not a fan of the big cities. Mobile and Birmingham are gross all around.

For almost everyone, the straight-up phone call has become an intrusion.

I feel like everyone, in America anyway, has forgotten that telemarketers weren’t allowed to call cell phones.