Happened to me. It was snowing like mad, so I thought I could use my hiking boots instead of shoes when I went out. After a few hundred meters, the foam between the boot and the sole started to disintegrate. When I was back home, the soles were only attached at the front, and the dampening material from the heel nearly to the toes was gone.

Those DC/AC converters cut off within milliseconds if something fishy is happening on the AC side. And the cyber security is a matter of how well or stupid you manage your network.

We installed four panels and generate 700W max, 3.5kWh per sunny day. Not much, but we got the modules at half price, so all this power cuts into our basic use. Any kWh we generate is one less we have to pay for. And as long we are below our baseline, we don't need batteries.

Last Christmas. Whenever it pops up in the radio, I switch to the next station.

There is actually no need to talk to children about gods. Those questions you imply only religion could answers usually don't pop up in a childrens world except when brought in from external sources.

The only way to prevent all those issues with voting machines is to get rid of them.

There is no way that a voting machine fulfills the demands for a fair, secret, democratic, tamper-resistant vote. It is basically mathematically impossible to perform a proper democratic vote on a machine.

Mafia lobbies to get criminal law to be rewritten to remove punishments for crimes.

Protecting the waiters and barkeepers from what? If they just had normal minimum wage rules, and service was included in the price, they would not need "protection" from a self-inflicted problem.

Good. Let them be offended.

They are fucking lazy. Just imagine the strenous work of typing two or three lines of text, just to save the world from moving terabytes over the net!

Don't give him even more stupid ideas!

He is not wrong here. That paint job could easily be called vandalism.

The worst thing of Ayn Rand's funeral was that it was decades too late.

This will hopefully move more people to use Firefox again.

Because they were too stupid to check the local customs before the trip. And it shows, not only with the tipping, but with a lot of problems they cause.

And the third one is still asleep.

For reasons like this, my webcam is only plugged in when I actively need it.

There are a lot of points where RNGs are important.

Mapmaking. I start off with a very rough shape of a continent or island in Inkscape: eight to ten points defining the shore. Then I apply the "fractal" feature with a low depth setting. It breaks down each line into four randomized lines. I then move the one or other point if i see the need. Then it's a loop of fractal again, and another manual round until the shoreline is looking like I need it.

NPCs. I always have a list of names ready. Or to be more precise, a list of names for each relevant character race and population. On top of that, I have a list of roughly defined generic NPCs. Like "John Doe, male, baker, 34 years, married, two kids. Strong, enduring, but not overly smart." There are probably online generators for that, but I made my own back then. Just generate them by the dozens and pick those who you think are useful for the campaign. Whenever I use one of them, they get moved over to the campaign log.

More NPCs. I used a different kind of generator to create lineages and family trees. As always, generate a lot, and weed out anything that you don't like.

The blue part is not intended for use on normal paper. I don't know how how the paper it's intended for is called in English, but it is the thick, transparent paper used by architects and engineers.

Has any of his blames ever survived contact with truth and reality?