America does it both ways, so…

Yeah, most places that don’t allow shoes inside have a place by the door where the shoes live. Also sometimes guest slippers depending on how hard they go with it.

Literally created as a tax dodge for L. Ron Hubbard.

Any person without training is infinitely better than an AI without training data.

Guy was an IRL internet troll. There’s a reason so many celebrated him being gone.

Radioactive decay is not the same as fission. It’s not entirely unrelated, but definitely a different process.

Leaves some screens open for more Iron Lung.

About the only useful task an LLM could have is generating random NPC dialog for a video game. Even then, it’s close to the least efficient way to do it.

It is physically impossible to become a billionaire if you’re not evil.

They don’t always bail them out. Sometimes they force sell them to their competitors.

Oh man, I remember getting lost with those so many times.

It’s a throwback to pre-TV stage shows. The types of people funding TV shows are old and set in their ways and back then they’d make their shows just like The Honeymooners or I Love Lucy.

People weren’t still scheduling calls in the '90s. We had answering machines and even voicemail by then.

It wasn’t exactly the same. The guy who bought them was mostly interested in pillaging the real estate, which he sold to himself at a huge discount. He then decided to show off the superiority of his randian philosophy by enacting policies that very quickly destroyed what was left.

The brand exists, but it’s not the same company.

The definition of booby trap requires it to be harmful to anyone who interacts with it, even innocently. Since it was only harmful to someone intending to knock it over by driving into it or who loses control of their vehicle, you need to determine intent to harm.

That whole thing really felt like some wrestling kayfabe. You’ve got that picture of him with his fist up and a tiny bit of smeared blood near his ear. Then spending the next few weeks with a cartoonishly large bandage over it, only for his ear to be completely unscathed when he finally appears without the bandage.

It couldn’t have been considered a booby trap, legally speaking, because it was a mailbox and was harmless for normal operation and traffic. It could only harm someone vandalizing the mailbox, so that’s why intent came in.

If it was truly a trap, intent wouldn’t have mattered. You are always liable for damages from a booby trap. That’s why you set them up so they can’t cause damage.

This has got to be some sort of tax fraud at the very least. That or money laundering.

Well, it didn’t go as planned, but I wouldn’t necessarily call it a failure.