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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-arrested-after-wheeling-uncles-32605375
Woman arrested after wheeling uncle's corpse into bank to sign off £2,500 loan

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Borg said:
Bank Teller: Can I get a photo ID and a pulse please?
And BP, the gentleman appears to be 0 over 0. I'm no Dr madam but I don't think that is good.
 
Hilariously, Tesla warns that the truck should never be washed in "direct sunlight" due to possible corrosion in the stainless steel. A special "Car Wash Mode," which closes all windows and disables wipers, should also be used to avoid damage.

Drivers also have to opt out of regular car washes and are told only to use "touchless car washes" that don't make contact with the Cybertruck's surface.

And in case you forget to follow any of this advice, you may be out of luck when it comes to having the company fix your broken-down truck.

"Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage," the company's manual reads. "Damage caused by car washes is not covered by the warranty."

"Damage caused by improper washing" is also not covered.
https://news.yahoo.com/tech/cybertruck-turns-large-metal-brick-150515024.html
Fortunately, in the case of the car wash, captain.ad's vehicle mysteriously started working again after he filed a ticket and went to bed. The vehicle seemingly needed a complete reboot, which was triggered by him holding down the two buttons the night before — but required five excruciating hours to complete.
 
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Astronuc said:
https://news.yahoo.com/tech/cybertruck-turns-large-metal-brick-150515024.html
I rented a car. I wanted to get into the back seat, which was locked. The rear window was open, so I reached through it and unlocked the door. The car shut down. We had to call the rental agency on the phone to get some special access code. It's a good thing we had telephone coverage and that there wasn't an emergency like a flood or fire. If so we could have died.
 
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Physics professor unjustly imprisoned for drug smuggling, serves two year sentence.

 
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Who is more crackpotty, the crackpot or the one who listens to them?

This is a reactionless drive. It is crackpottery.
 
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Nugatory said:
Who is more crackpotty, the crackpot or the one who listens to them?

This is a reactionless drive. It is crackpottery.
Fair enough, I have never heard of it.
 
berkeman said:
Then you haven't been reading the PF rules very closely... :wink:
Oops. Ok apologies.
 
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Hornbein said:

Essentially some guy serendipitously discovered a new phenomenon, which was then developed into an art form by this other guy.
 
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If there is a way to make a diode to isolate inputs then it should be possible to make logic gates out of it. Getting the timing of all signals right will be a challenge as we rely on signals that always move.

Make time steps of half the refractory period. Define an on ->off sequence as 1 and an off -> on sequence as 0.
Send a signal into a T-junction followed by a fixed flame in the following time step.
Input 1: on -> off is converted to on -> off -> on
Input 0: off -> on is converted to off -> on -> off
Pick up the second and third time step and we inverted the signal: We made NOT.

OR is a simple T junction. If either signal starts with "on" then we get on->off, otherwise we get off->on.

OR and NOT can be combined to make all other logic gates.
I just don't know how to build diodes.
 
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Bangkok housecat survives being devoured by a python.

 
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Hornbein said:
He means making a diode out of lighter fluid. Flames pass through in only one direction.
Oh, OK.
Just throw'n stuff against the wall here to see if anything sticks. :oldwink:

How about a tapered constriction, somwewhat like a funnel, in the pathway (groove)?
 
A marine chopper transports a plane on a sling, refueling mid air on the way

 
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Very surprised at the conclusion of this study.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-gender-difference-perception-ambient-room.html

I only have my humble anecdotal evidence to present but that spans over 30s years in different working environments with women.

My conclusion? They (the gentle sex) feel the cold more, they feel the heat more.

Only last year I posted on pf about trying to convince my office full of women that opening a window would make matters worse not better during our 90F heatwave.

Sure I felt it in the afternoon, but from 8am to about 11am it was not so bad, certainly no reason to open every single window they could as soon as they walked in!

Today was a great example, showing a young colleague (23 female) around the building where all the fire extinguishers were located.

Twenty seconds leaving the office she was shivering, I thought she was ill! 17C in Oldham UK today.

Remember this debate?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-03121-1

https://www.wired.com/2015/08/men-women-battle-office-thermostat/

Some scientific explanations.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health/i-am-woman-why-am-i-always-so-cold
 
Trolling the trolls.

Tiffany Haddish started tracking down her online trolls and calling them on the phone
Haddish told the Los Angeles Times that she created a fake Instagram account under the alter ego “Sarah” in order to combat the online hate she was receiving and to “destroy” the trolls by gathering details from their personal life.

“I’ve learned how to find people’s information — like I pull up the credit report, police records. You can do that for $1.99,” Haddish said. “Sometimes, I get so mad that I’ll get they phone number and I’ll just call them.”

“Oh, I have called people, honey,” Haddish continued. “They be shocked that I called. They’ll be like, ‘I can’t believe you even saw that.’ You did a whole video, jerk! You made a full, five-minute video!
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Borg said:
Trolling the trolls.

Tiffany Haddish started tracking down her online trolls and calling them on the phone

:oldlaugh:
I'm not really impressed by bullied people becoming bullies themselves, but the article had another unrelated interesting fact:
The “Girls Trip” favorite said that online bullying got so negative over the last year (with commenters calling her “pedo” and “not funny,” for instance) that she hired a digital forensics analyst when death threats starting coming her way. The analyst’s research showed that 75% of these threats were “created by robots in Malaysia and Iran.”
 
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