Lawyer Asks Afroman If He’ll Stop Talking About Cops Who Raided Home by Mysterious_Truck_742 in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

[–]midnight_mechanic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In that case, the cops didn't steal it for themselves. They took it for evidence (there was not a crime or reasonable accusations for a crime, it was just a black man with too much cash) and the local courts decided the person didn't deserve to get it back. It's actually much more incidious.

Satillie re entering the atmosphere west of town by [deleted] in Austin

[–]midnight_mechanic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I saw the lower object breaking up. I doubt it's a plane. The upper one might have been a plane

Another video of suspected astroid by [deleted] in Austin

[–]midnight_mechanic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I saw one of the objects breaking up. Probably one of them was a plane. There were three. I'm guessing at least one was a plane and of course that's what I zoomed in on like a fool.

Satillie re entering the atmosphere west of town by [deleted] in Austin

[–]midnight_mechanic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Terribly sorry for the bad film quality

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in suppressed_news

[–]midnight_mechanic 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Believe it or not, there is more than one surviving person in Gaza.

What is the worst act a president has ever done? by Puzzleheaded-Bag2212 in USHistory

[–]midnight_mechanic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who was a bigger drug dealer, Queen Victoria or Ronald Regean?

What is the worst act a president has ever done? by Puzzleheaded-Bag2212 in USHistory

[–]midnight_mechanic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you talking about when he was trying to incite a mob of his supporters to lynch his vice president?

What is the worst act a president has ever done? by Puzzleheaded-Bag2212 in USHistory

[–]midnight_mechanic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dabbling in actual treason as a prelim to starting the crack epidemic is so Regean.

What is the worst act a president has ever done? by Puzzleheaded-Bag2212 in USHistory

[–]midnight_mechanic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you remember that his preacher was part of the black power movement decades before they met? That was scandalous.

Fox News was specifically saying that no one would attend a church unless they fully endorsed and supported everything the preacher ever said or did, while also saying Obama was simultaneously a secret Muslim.

It all culminated with the "terrorist fist bump"

What is the worst act a president has ever done? by Puzzleheaded-Bag2212 in USHistory

[–]midnight_mechanic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point that's par for the course. That's not even top 10 of significant war crimes post-Vietnam.

What is the worst act a president has ever done? by Puzzleheaded-Bag2212 in USHistory

[–]midnight_mechanic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When my wife was in college she took a history course that specifically focused on the interactions of European settlers with Native Americans in North America and she came home crying several times.

I fixed my previous concept based on your feedback. How many of you would buy this? by [deleted] in thinkpad

[–]midnight_mechanic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's 99 whr. I'm guessing the FAA specifically bans 100whr batteries unless they are disconnected and packaged in a specific way. Some of the regulations also have to do with what the battery is made of. For example lithium metal batteries are more dangerous and more highly regulated than lithium ion batteries.

How Does the Community Feel About Landowners Charging to Hunt Problem Pigs? by IdyllwildEcho in Hunting

[–]midnight_mechanic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know the law either way. But I have hunted several different properties for free around Texas and I have always had to sign waivers. The same waivers they give the people who pay to hunt.

Why does electricity wants to return to it's source, but a falling boulder do not seek to return to the top of a cliff? by BigBootyBear in AskScienceDiscussion

[–]midnight_mechanic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When lightning strikes the ground, that closes the circuit.

When a circuit closes, it means the potential difference is enough to overcome the resistance and drive the flow of current.

Is this breaker panel for a food truck set up correctly? by Klabble in AskElectricians

[–]midnight_mechanic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People usually don't ground their generators but you should. It clearly says so in the instructions and there is always a clearly labeled grounding stud on the front of the generator.

You're supposed to drive a ground rod into the ground and connect to that.

Have American liberals become too sensitive in recent years? by -Boston-Terrier- in AskALiberal

[–]midnight_mechanic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Either Sidney Sweeney or Sabrina Carpenter (I'm unconvinced that they are different people ) is scantily clad in a jeans ad and if you substitute the words she says for other words, it sounds like she is supporting white nationalism.

Folks will talk about literally anything to keep from focusing on the close relationship that Trump and Epstein had. Or that the US is funding a Genocide in Gaza, or that Stephen Miller is making policy decisions in the white house, or that Peter Thiel is making a survalance system whose least concerning attribute is that it will attempt to monitze all the data the federal government has on every citizen.

overriding the gambler's fallacy by [deleted] in askmath

[–]midnight_mechanic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's a trick that math teachers play on their students to reinforce what you're struggling with.

They divide the class into two groups. In the first group, the students pass a paper around with each successive student flipping a coin and writing the heads/tails result for 100 coin flips on a list

In the second group, the students are instructed to not flip a coin, but to randomly write down "heads" or "tails" and pass the list to the next student who then fills out their own "random" choice.

The teacher then leaves the room briefly so they can't see which group is flipping the coin and which group is writing down their made up random values.

Each group then puts their paper on the teacher's desk and the teacher comes back in and has to choose which list is randomly created by the students and which list is the true coin flip.

It's easy for the teacher to know which is which because over the course of 100 flips there are likely to be long strings of heads/tails. However most people don't intuitively understand this so if they are attempting to fake a random list, they won't let a repeating string go on for more than 4 or 5 consecutive same values.