They were still selling into the 30s, marketed primarily towards women (“less maintenance, no gasoline needed”, etc). The Depression really killed off the environment that allowed many people to own multiple cars, and those little electric city cars were the first to go because you needed something that was big and could actually carry your kids and your dog and your belongings and whatever else.

The difference is that Dwyer did it on live television, in a highly publicized press statement. Cameras didn’t cut away.

This is true, but as most self defense people will tell you, it only takes a small hole in another person to stop them worrying about much more than “oh damn that dude just shot me”.

I was about to say, just from the few BD toys I can identify, that’s an easy $4-600 depending on size.

That’s my point. He is enough of a fan to know the connotation. He knows what the name implies, and company names are a deliberate choice that imply things about that company.

From what we’ve seen of him playing Path of Exile, basically, yeah. As expected from most rich assholes, he wants the prestige of being good at a game, but wants to shortcut the whole part in between where you’re not good YET.

They weren’t making bombs, apparently they manufactured explosive filler for 155mm artillery shells.

More specifically, the story has to MEAN nothing. It has to curve REALLY CLOSE to interesting ideas and statements only to swerve away just before they actually make you think about a thing.

“Whitewashed tombs” comes to mind.

Catholicism IS Christianity.

They might’ve had one (or several) bad experiences and this is a trauma response, but even in that case, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say “yeah sure they’ll pay their own way, I just feel safer if we have a second pair of eyes I trust in the restaurant/cafe/etc with us”. Like, you don’t gotta be at the table, but I kinda get it for the first date or two being “hey I trust this person, mind if they tag along and grab a drink at the bar to be my watchman or whatever”.

Just play City of Heroes. It’s still running in private servers, and Homecoming is even doing active development on new powers and questlines.

No, it was because of shoddy wiring causing a fire inside the capsule in an area that couldn’t be accessed easily from the inside or extinguished from the outside. The egress sequence was also very time consuming (somewhere like 90 seconds). Apollo I also was just a training module, it never got launched.

That doesn’t sound very shareholder-minded of you. /s

This would be Hel, which is sort of like “you weren’t terrible but you weren’t awesome”, although you also have Náströnd, which is a place within Hel reserved for murderers, adulterers, and those who break oaths.

Of course, we all know that he also has invented time travel solely to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand to ignite WWI.

I mean, Russia’s certainly looking like they want to try at Finland again with those troop buildups, and they’re propping up a lot of armed agitators in Moldova, as well as a lot of sabotage across Central Europe (and now a drone incursion accidentally-maybe-not into Poland). Sure looks to me like if Russia isn’t an aggressor nation towards Europe, they’re doing a damn fine job imitating one.

Do they have the troops, morale, equipment, money, or veterancy to effectively prosecute a war against a nation that hasn’t undergone serious regime change recently? My money is personally on no success, but I’m definitely willing to say that Putin will give it a try. He has leashed his entire wagon to the horse named “expansionism”, and he NEEDS some sort of victory to keep any semblance of public support, no matter how jaded his populace might be - otherwise his dictator friends might get ideas on seizing Russian lands.

I’d immediately miss one of those incredibly tall, narrow steps and break my fucking neck. No thanks.

Every time you deplatform a group, it generally shrinks by about 10%. Keep doing it enough and eventually you have a group that’s JUST the diehards, and that group is generally so small that they’ll burn themselves out.

Same here from when I was working in the field. If I’m driving, I can count it as working so I go home after 8 hours instead of 9 or 8.5 or whatever.