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He has actually been married to only two of them. He just keeps paying money to random women to have his kids.

Status symbol. Like how many of them keep buying iPhones just so they can show others they could afford an iPhone. Being expensive and not Chinese is pretty much the exact point.

Samir, you are breaking the car! Samir, listen to me! Samir!!!

The fuck does it even need a subscription for, anyway? Is it not hosting the videos locally? Fuck that.

“It” being a “Doorbell with a subscription”, from the message you directly replied to. In a thread about a video doorbell from Aldi.

Oh, I guess the micro sd card slot under the batteries of the doorbell camera is non-functional then, and it saves the videos into your ass, where you pulled that claim from?

Yes. Yes it does store them to the camera.

In general yes, but that’s also how you easily end up on sites like insecam and shodan.

Local hosting for a security camera is a rather terrible idea, because it can be defeated by stealing or breaking the camera.

In this case a headcount before leaving could kinda have been feasible as the ship only had 120 passengers - often it isn’t simply because modern cruise ships tend to be massive and have way too many passengers to keep track of - but from what I could understand they had an electronic system in place and for some reason she either wasn’t marked as having left, or had somehow been mistakingly marked as returned.

She was noticed as missing when they did do a “headcount”, during the evening dinner.

It’s estimated russia spent $145 billion for the military in 2024, and the budget for 2026 is about the same - 2025 was around that as well. So that 200 billion pays for roughly 15 months of the currently 44 month war.

Gotta keep the investor money flowing.

“Trust me bro, I know x didn’t work but y will, give me a few more billions bro, AI will make us rich bro”

And fittingly, both of those categories are pretty much a perfectly overlapping venn diagram because they are so overarchingly vague.
Drinking water can kill you, and if it’s too hot, it causes cancer.

Therefore “drinking water” is something that can be found it both lists. And so is “not drinking water”.

It’s also the worlds most addictive chemical, and alarmingly nobody addicted to dihydrogen monoxide has ever been able to overcome that addiction, every dihydrogen monoxide addict dies with a 100% certainty within a few weeks if they stop taking it.

Hmmh, could be, though both are “from the factory”, the winter/summer tires are slightly different sizes. But the allowed error in the EU overall (or at least in Finland) is 10% +4km/h, so it’s still well withing “spec”.

Prince of being the child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Andrew still retains the title “prince,” bestowed on him at birth as the son of the then reigning monarch.

If it didn’t, it would be pretty damn annoying as cars always show higher than actual speed. I’ve had to set our BMW to do +8km/h so that it actually does 120km/h on GPS and not 112.

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

You can’t really detect “TV signals”, but you can quite easily detect the 10.125 kHz horizontal line-scanning deflection coil of a CRT. Though I’m fairly sure even if they did originally start effective back in the 1950’s because people had very few elecronic devices around, actually detecting anything accurately must have been increasingly difficult as time went on, and a lot of the newer models must have been more about being a scare tactic.

Dammit president Madagascar, you were supposed to shut down everything, not flee.

“I think the workers at ZA/UM all agree that we have something unique at the studio that we want to preserve for years to come.” Marketing manager Poppy Ingham handles social and communications for the studio behind politics-laden RPG Disco Elysium.

The studio behind it technically, yes. They did kick out the main people responsible for Disco Elysium few years back after tons of drama and massive legal kerfuffle though.

“Free trials have a catch! Once the free trial runs out, it isn’t free any more, and it actually starts costing money!”

My favourite example of not having basic understanding is the Lia radiological incident.

Three men from Lia (later designated as patients 1-DN, 2-MG, and 3-MB by the IAEA) had driven 45–50 km (28–31 mi) to a forest overlooking the Enguri Dam reservoir to gather firewood. They drove up a nearly impassable road in snowy winter weather, and discovered two canisters at around 6 pm. Around the canisters there was no snow for about a 1 m (3.3 ft) radius, and the ground was steaming. Patient 3-MB picked up one of the canisters and immediately dropped it, as it was very hot. Deciding that it was too late to drive back, and realizing the apparent utility of the devices as heat sources, the men decided to move the sources a short distance and make camp around them. Patient 3-MB used a stout wire to pick up one source and carried it to a rocky outcrop that would provide shelter. The other patients lit a fire, and then patients 3-MB and 2-MG worked together to move the other source under the outcrop. They ate dinner and had a small amount of vodka, while remaining close to the sources. Despite the small amount of alcohol, they all vomited soon after consuming it, the first sign of acute radiation syndrome (ARS), about three hours after first exposure. Vomiting was severe and lasted through the night, leading to little sleep. The men used the sources to keep them warm through the night, positioning them against their backs, and as close as 10 cm (3.9 in). The next day, the sources may have been hung from the backs of Patient 1-DN and 2-MG as they loaded wood onto their truck. They felt very exhausted in the morning and only loaded half the wood they intended. They returned home that evening.

If you find a strange grey canister in the middle of the woods that has somehow melted the snow around it and is steaming hot for no reason, don’t fucking touch it.

…but we all know in our hearts that if we didn’t have prior understanding of these thing, all of us would totally go touch the mystical heat canister.