Rocket equation notwithstanding, there is the tyranny of development. Electric motors, rocket engines, ion thrusters… All of these locomotive technologies went through iterations. Even if alien scientist invented a warp drive capable of carrying an infinite amount of mass an infinite distance with no energy, there would still be a development process to implement and integrate that drive into a spaceship.

Technological progress, or the accumulation of knowledge does not happen overnight, it’s built layer by layer.

We’ve been looking all over for signs of life. Earth screams “there is life here!”

I always giggle at the idea that aliens would come here in some super advanced spaceship.

Look at the spacecraft we’ve managed to land on other celestial bodies. They’re basically the lightest, sketchiest, life support boxes with a rocket motor that we can manage to get to the destination. It would be reasonable to assume that any alien out there reaching earth for the first time would either send a rover, or it would be the jankiest craft that could just barely get here.

Sam Altman is an alien in a human suit. Our AI sucks because aliens had to adapt their software to our crappy binary logic/architecture.

For some people, surface level is enough.

The wheels were the only “property loss” crime we’ve experienced in ~10 years living here. All the other crimes were landlords illegally withholding our deposits.

The electric motor for the Mach-E is available in a crate.

Agreed, but needing the truck for truck stuff 2% of the time is waaaaaay over the typical truck usage. I think most people who have trucks actually do “truck stuff” with them 0.2-0.0% of the time, and in that case, regular car, wagon, or van is a better all around option.

People stole the wheels off my wife’s car, in a lit parking lot, in one of the safest big cities in the US.

Yeah, you can’t leave your nice tools out in the back of your truck bed in most places.

Eh, my family camped frequently and reno’d/repaired multiple houses. I think the only time we used a truck was to take a bunch of bathroom tile scrap to the dump. Everything else was done with minivans or a club wagon.

I support Tate…

…Being locked in prison for the rest of his life.

Please use a degree of decorum. Or better yet, take a break from the internet, go outside, meet some people, make friends and in general have human connection.

Good thing we have the CFPB to register and punish companies for shady practices like th…oh, nevermind.

Sadly, you can.

Friend died recently. I know you can.

I would have been your daddy…

It’s an old Halo CE reference that gets shortened to that acronym a lot.

IWHBYD

The insurance? Sure, it would easily cover that.

The cost of medical care, even with insurance? Not even close.

Can’t speak to the usefulness of a foot mouse, but a cheap set of 3 USB foot switches is a game changer, literally.

For tactical shooters I bind lean/peek to the side pedals, and set the center pedal for voice communications.

For solo gaming, you can take your obnoxious overlay commands, set them to impossible key combinations, and then bind those combos to the foot pedals. No more accidentally opening up the Steam or AMD overlays, but they are still there if you want them.

Was he using 300-win or 6.5? From what I heard it was 223 or 5.56.

Fixed, thank you.

Chest shot wouldn’t work. Like I said, at that point in the campaign, the former president has secret service protection and was probably wearing soft armor underneath. Even then, you would need a hit that is instantly lethal. If you hit the lung, liver, or even a major blood vessel, and he still lives because he has priority medical care on standby, so you would need to hit the heart to get the job done. Heart is smaller than head.