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But this opens a whole new can of worms. You’re telling me he was smart enough to evade capture for a week, but wasn’t smart enough to ditch the ghost gun he had used in the murder?

It smells like turned off body cams and planted evidence.

Yeah, New Mexico IDs and license plates both say “New Mexico, USA” for exactly this reason. So many people have almost been illegally arrested and turned over to ICE by incompetent cops during traffic stops. Cops will pull New Mexico plates over, see the New Mexico ID, and demand to see visa paperwork because they think the person is from Mexico.

Any “retro” collection. Old video games, for instance. In many cases, the barrier to entry is sky high, because there are very few old consoles or games on the market; The collectors have bought all of them, and are never planning on selling.

It’s tedious, but it’s mostly just a matter of waiting for the water to heat back up afterwards.

Unplug the heater, then run the bathtub until you’re out of hot water. Turn off the bathtub, and turn off the water supply going into the heater. Attach a garden hose to the bottom of the heater, and run it to a drain somewhere. Turn the hot water on somewhere like a sink, to provide a vent to the system; It won’t run because the supply is turned off, but it’ll at least allow air into the system for when you drain the heater. Use the spigot at the bottom of the heater to drain it.

Be prepared for a gross rush of water at first, because all of the sediment and rust will have settled to the bottom of the heater where the spigot is. Once it’s drained, you can do whatever maintenance you need. For instance, you probably need to replace the cathode rod, which is designed to wear away over time to protect the rest of the heater from corrosion.

To do a final flush, you can open the water inlet at the top of the tank. It’ll help drain any last remaining sediment out of the tank. Then turn off the water inlet, turn off the spigot, disconnect the hose, and leave the sink tap open while you refill the tank with fresh water.

The whole process only takes like 30 minutes, and then you’re just waiting for the heater to come back up to temperature afterwards.

My wife was caught up in that Ebola scare, because she was on the same plane that the nurse (who had been treating Ebola patients and knew she had been exposed) flew in on. The feds came knocking on her door, and basically said that if anyone in the household left the house, they would immediately go to prison. They put ankle monitors on everyone in the household, and security tape across all the doors and windows so none could be opened without visibly breaking the tape. The CDC called every hour or so to do mandatory temperature checks, and they had to talk to every person in the household to make sure everyone was still present.

Apparently she almost got fired over it, because her manager initially didn’t believe her. She tried to pull the typical “if you’re sick you need to find someone to cover your shifts. If you can’t find anyone, you need to come in” BS that is rampant in retail. It wasn’t until my wife had the feds call her manager and basically tell her “she’s 100% under quarantine, and if you encourage her to break it we’ll haul your ass in front of a judge” that the manager relented.

I bet he'd be like "Nah, use it to pay for ~~people’s health care~~ more assassins.”

Imagine a crowdfunded CEO bounty program

Yup, this is my concern. They’ll claim he resisted during their no-knock raid, and they had no choice but to execute him in his bed. And all of the body footage will be “accidentally” scrubbed, or every single officer “forgot” to turn their body cams on.

“The assassin didn’t resist” is going to be the new “Epstein didn’t kill himself.”

Supposedly, once they got across the border and got access to Russian smart phones, they quickly discovered porn. There were several reports (though TBF, they could have been propaganda), that the NK soldiers kept getting caught masturbating by the Russians they were working alongside, and some were incapacitated due to the fact that they had masturbation-related injuries. Like the NK soldiers just used every single opportunity to whip out their new phones and beat their meat until it was bloody.

They do. But they often insist on sobriety tests anyways, because it helps them gather circumstantial/subjective evidence against you. Basically, a breathalyzer will objectively say if you’re over the limit, but a sobriety test allows the cop to feel like you’re over the limit and arrest you even if you’re not.

The breathalyzer removes any subjective doubt, so cops will often use it to confirm when they obviously know someone is over the limit. But they don’t start with it, because keeping that subjective doubt as long as possible means they can keep probing for other reasons to support an arrest in the meantime.

Basically, imagine you’re an investigator doing an interview. Your job is to arrest this person, even if they have done nothing wrong. If you open the interview with a breathalyzer, you remove any doubt about their sobriety when they blow a 0.00. But if you start with a sobriety test and they “fail” (by your subjective, totally 100% biased opinion) then you can initiate the arrest before you even breathalyze them.

And even if they blow a 0.00, you can say that they’re high instead, (because they “failed” your sobriety test), and arrest them to take a drug test back at the police station. Since the drug test isn’t testing for active impairment, (it’s just testing whether or not they’ve done drugs in the past few days/weeks) there is a much higher chance that they’ll turn up positive on the drug test even if they’re sober. But again, you don’t actually care if they’re sober; You just care that you got the arrest, and that they pissed hot on a drug test back at the station because they smoked weed last week.

Americans do have the right to refuse a sobriety test, and they should! Cops will push and make it sound mandatory, but it’s not. Just insist on being breathalyzed instead. Because a field sobriety test (even if you’re stone cold sober) will only help the police form a case against you. And under your fifth amendment rights, you’re not required to help the police build a case against you. Field sobriety tests are the “I’m saying I caught a whiff of weed coming from the vehicle, so I can justify ripping your entire car apart on the side of the road even if I don’t find anything during the search” of DUI stops. Cops will use it to justify an arrest even if you have done nothing wrong.

It’s a blue collar union, and blue collar workers (regardless of union status) overwhelmingly vote conservative.

That’s my concern. It’ll go the way of climate change and school shootings.

The narrative will shift from “it doesn’t happen” to “there’s nothing we can do to stop it” to “why even bother? It’s normal so it’s not a big deal.”

Turn off half the breakers. Now you know which half the outlet is on, based on whether or not it has power. Repeat.

For instance, let’s say you have 100 breakers. You turn off the first 50. Your target outlet still has power. So now you have divided the potential number of breakers by half, and you know the breaker is somewhere in 51-100.

So you cut that in half, and turn off 51-75. Your outlet is now dead, so you know it’s somewhere in the 51-75 range that you just turned off; if it were still on, it would be somewhere between 76-100.

So now you reset 51-63, while leaving 64-75 off. It is still dead, so you know it is somewhere between 64-75.

Maybe now you turn on all of the odd breakers, leaving the evens off. It is still dead, so you know it must be 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, or 74. Reset the first three. Your outlet has power now, so it must be one of the first three.

Flip 64 and 66 off. If you get lucky, your outlet still has power and you know it is 68. But you get unlucky, and it is dead. So now you know it must be either 64 or 66.

Flip 64 back on. If it has power, you know it’s 64. If it doesn’t, you know it’s 66.

We just eliminated 99 breakers and found the correct one using only 7 tests. Because each test eliminated half of the potential values, it whittles things down very quickly. We went from 1-100, to 51-100, to 51-75, to 64-75, to the evens between 64-74, to only 64/66/68, to 64/66, and finally landed on 66 as the correct breaker. If we had gotten lucky earlier, we could have done it in 6 instead. If you had simply started with breaker 1 and worked subsequently, it would have taken 66 trips to the breaker box to figure out.

Where binary search really excels is with large data sets. Even if it had been 1000 breakers instead of 100, it still would have only taken an extra three or four searches (1-1000 > 1-500 > 1-250 > 1-125 > 1-75… etc…) to narrow it down.