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Here is a slow motion video purporting to show him reaching for his missing weapon
I personally can't see any reaching in this video. But the uploader claims to see Pretti reaching at the 27-second mark, which is well after he was first shot by the officer at the 21-second mark. So your items 6 and 7 need to be corrected:
(6) An officer draws his gun and shoots Pretti.
(7) All the officers disperse and stop holding Pretti down. Pretti partially rises from the compressed kneeling/dogeza position in which the officers were holding him, but soon falls back to the ground. Pretti allegedly (observer opinions vary) reaches for his empty holster as he rises.
(8) The aforementioned officer shoots Pretti several more times.
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Users on /r/conservative and Kiwi Farms seem to be fairly split.
Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to get paper that's 1/30 of normal thickness. Some cursory searching indicates that normal paper weighs around 20 pounds per ream or 80 g/m2, and flimsy "onionskin" paper (often found in Bibles) weighs around 10 pounds or 40 grams, so ultra-thin 0.7-pound or 3-gram paper probably does not exist, and a book with 1/30 horizontal scale would have extremely unwieldy thickness.
(I feel like there's a condom joke to be made here somewhere.)
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Maybe for a person who hasn't been seeing exactly the same joke leveled against Anya Taylor-Joy for many years.
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It's a completely race-neutral joke about people whose eyes are too far apart. See this comment.
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Grape juice + seltzer water → healthy soda
This also works with apple juice, but not with orange juice. I assume that the suspended pulp in orange juice somehow interferes with the bubbles.
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Orthodox Judaism does not allow male–male sexual relations
Obilgatory link to the Talmudic discussion of whether it is permissible for a man to insert his own penis into his own anus
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It's a joke about how Tanzyn Crawford looks like an alien (ayy lmao). I've seen lots of similar jokes about Anya Taylor-Joy.
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The article addresses this.
In 2017, the most recent year for which data are available, the average car consumed less than 2,900 British thermal units (BTUs) per passenger-mile while the average light truck used less than 3,400 (and both were almost certainly less in 2019). That’s far better than the national average of transit buses, as both motor buses and trolley buses used more than 4,600 BTUs per passenger-mile.
Only two of the transit agencies considered here—San Francisco Muni and Honolulu—used significantly less energy than cars in their motor bus operations. Dayton’s trolley buses did as well, though as discussed below that number may be questionable. Motor buses operated by another dozen agencies, including New Jersey Transit and Denver’s RTD, used a little less energy than light trucks but more than cars.
The remaining agencies all used more energy per passenger-mile than automobiles. The worst cases were buses in Bakersfield and Sacramento, which used more than 9,000 BTUs per passenger-mile, and buses in Phoenix, Kansas City, Orange County, and a few smaller areas, which used more than 8,000. Albuquerque, Dallas, Nashville, Phoenix, Raleigh, and Reno are among those above 7,000, while Indianapolis, New Orleans, San Diego, and San Mateo County are above 6,000.
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While perusing my folder of ten thousand unsorted images downloaded from 4chan, I happened to lay my eyes on the following hilarious exchange from an old fan translation of the manga Death Note.
Yagami Light: What's your name, anyway? I'm Yagami Light (夜神月). Kanji of yoru (night) (夜), kami (神) from kamisama (god), and Light is written as tsuki (moon) (月). Weird name, eh?
Misora Naomi (undercover): I'm Maki Shouko (間木照子). It's written with the kanji for aida* (space) (間), moku (wood) (木) from jiyumoku, the te (照) from terasu (reflection), and ko (子) from kodomo (child).
Translator's note: Some kanji lesson for you :)
*I think this may be a typo.
"Lord of the Manor", an article for GURPS 4 in the magazine Pyramid, contains the following interesting summary of the cost of transporting agricultural produce from a rural area to an urban area.
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By road, not using wheeled vehicles: 100 % of the cargo's value per 30 miles of distance, where the cargo's value is 0.5 "GURPS dollar" (copper farthing) per pound of grain
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By road, using wheeled vehicles: 100 % per 60 miles
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By river: 100 % per 300 miles
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By sea: 100 % per 1500 miles
In contrast, ACKS 2 offers the following numbers for transport.
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By road: 100 % of the cargo's value per 230 miles of distance (implicitly—the actual figures in the book are 1.25 CP per 24 stone-miles and 0.12 GP per stone of grain, where 1 GP (gold piece) = 100 CP (copper pieces) and 1 stone = 10 pounds)
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By river: 100 % per 920 miles (1.25 CP per 96 stone-miles)
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By sea: 100 % per 4600 miles (1.25 CP per 480 stone-miles)
The "Lord of the Manor" prices are three to four times as much as the ACKS 2 prices. Why? Two possible factors:
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"Lord of the Manor", in conjunction with predecessor article "At Play in the Fields", assumes that the price of 0.5 dollar per pound of grain in rural areas is halved from the normal default of 1 dollar per pound in urban areas. In contrast, ACKS 2 changes its base price of 0.12 GP per stone by only −10 % in rural areas and +10 % in urban areas.
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"Lord of the Manor" and "At Play in the Fields" assume that a typical low-tech family of five humans subsists on the equivalent of 3600 pounds of grain per year (300 $/mo, valuing grain at the urban price of 1 $/lb even if the family is in a rural area). In contrast, ACKS 2 assumes that a family subsists on the equivalent of 4250 pounds of grain per year (4.25 GP/mo × 12 mo/a ÷ 0.12 GP per stone of grain × 10 lb/stone).
Overall, I'm inclined to trust ACKS 2 (a system with a coherent economic basis) over "Lord of the Manor" and "At Play in the Fields" (two isolated economics-focused magazine articles for a system that makes some honest gestures toward a coherent economic basis but is far from totally based on one).
More house-construction drama:
2026-01-08:
The permits have been granted. See the attached files.
I will get together a project scedule [sic] for you sometime next week[.]
2026-01-22:
You said on the 8th that you would provide a schedule "sometime next week". It has now been two weeks.
I will be providing your schedule before you're [sic] start date.
Please note that your official start date is not until March.
At this time, I need you to remain patience [sic] while my team and I finalize the remaining project details.
We are ensuring everything is properly aligned before breaking ground, so the project proceeds smoothly and efficiently.
Thank you for your understanding.
If you've changed your mind and now disavow your January 8th statement, that's fine with me.
When I retired from my government civil-engineering job, I was expecting to escape incompetent project managers. But it seems that I will have to deal with at least one more.
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Your article is paywalled. Regardless, far more important than dead morons at grade crossings is the fact that Brightline is not making a profit.
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Average occupancies have declined as ridership has fallen faster than agencies have reduced service. In 1991, the average transit motor bus carried 11.0 people; by 2019, buses were no smaller yet they averaged just 8.0 riders. Trolley buses do a little better because they tend to serve mainly dense inner cities, but their average occupancies still dropped from 14.8 in 1991 to 12.8 in 2019.
The differences between cities are much larger than the changes over time. Honolulu, New York, and San Francisco motor buses carry an average of 17 riders. At the other end of the scale, Ft. Worth transit buses carry less than 4 riders, and buses in Columbus, Dallas, Indianapolis, and Salt Lake City average just 5. Honolulu, New York, and San Francisco are denser cities, of course, but the real problem is that transit agencies want to collect tax revenue from as many suburbs as possible and therefore become obligated to serve those suburbs even though most of the residents have two or three cars in every driveway.
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A user who wants to put biographical information on his profile page or in his flair can do so in his account settings.
"Nobody" is an exaggeration.
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| Question | Yes (%) | Not sure or skipped (%) | No (%) |
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| Do you think Greenland is territory that is strategically important to US interests? | 33 | 35 | 32 |
| Overall, do you approve of US efforts to acquire Greenland? | 17 | 36 | 47 |
| Do you think it would be a good idea for the US to use military force to take possession of Greenland from Denmark? | 4 | 25 | 71 |
| Do you think it would be a good idea or a bad idea for the US to build additional military bases on Greenland under an existing agreement? | 33 | 37 | 29 |
I don't know whether that supports your claim.
You can do this to some extent through "My Ad Center" in your Google account.
em dash with no spaces is the traditional US standard for serious typography, now adopted by LLMs. en dash with spaces is the British standard.
This is a gross overgeneralization, judging from a few books grabbed from my shelves and websites visited.
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Steve Jackson Games (Austin, 1970s–present): En dash with spaces
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New York Times (present): Em dash with spaces (cringe)
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Sherlock Holmes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993): Em dash without spaces
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Rumpole of the Bailey (London: Penguin, 1983): En dash with spaces
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Reuters (London, present): Hyphen-minus with spaces (cringe)
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Associated Press (New York, present): Em dash with spaces (cringe)
Every publisher does whatever it wants.
a hyphen with spaces became the online standard for dashes in the era when plain ASCII was what the internet ran on
You're forgetting about the double hyphen-minus.
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I think I've seen the setup that you describe on Your Movie Sucks. But most channels, such as Red Letter Media, Gomlet X, and Raocow, do not upload separate Patreon-exclusive or YouTube Member–exclusive ad-free (non-monetized) videos.
Someone more creative than I am, please make the condom joke that obviously is crying out to be made here!
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