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Cool, then release them all, asshole.

They’re not a fashion brand, but I’ve had good quality long lasting jeans from Eddie Bauer.

We’re old. We don’t set the trends or standards anymore. If we want to keep participating, we have to adapt to their style. They aren’t going to adopt our older standards.

This isn’t just a problem with women’s jeans which have arbitrary size numbers. Even men’s jeans which are size by the actual waist and inseam measurement can be wrong. In addition to vanity sizing, cheaper jeans are also made from larger material cuts out of the patterns at the same time to save manufacturing cost sometimes twice as many as shown here:

Those at the top or bottom of the stack may end up a bit smaller or a bit larger than the pattern, but they all get marked with the same size.

Whether it was this manufacturing problem or vanity sizing, this is why I stopped buying Old Navy jeans. I could pick out 3 jeans all labeled with the same size and one would fit okay, one would be too small, and one too large. I have never had this problem with Eddie Bauer jeans.

Edit: I found picture showing the larger stacks (which can introduce the mismatched sizing) I was referring to:

When I saw those, the font was so bad I thought they said “Slut Life”. I thought “Thats a bold statement to put on the back window of your car, but you do you, slut.”

Oddly, no one has heard from Lenin’s friend Trotsky for awhile.

For years I thought “Line-X” was some kind of country music band because of all the trucks I saw it on.

At a court hearing on Monday in the city of Kiel, about 100km (60 miles) north of Hamburg, lawyers were trying to determine whether the man’s military collection had violated Germany’s War Weapons Control Act.

The act regulates the manufacture, sale, and transport of weapons of war.

Since the items were already manufactured, I can’t see that definition being met. He wasn’t offering them for sale, and the only ones transporting them were the people that seized them from the basement.

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Vote with your wallet (wherever possible)

The last large airline to NOT charge for checked bags in the USA, Southwest airlines, has switched to charging for bags.

Oddly the ones that have the best outcome for the deplaning scenario from this bad situation of paid checked bags are the ones that also charge for carry ons like Spirit or Frontier in the USA. So there is an incentive to NOT bring a carry on because you’ll be charged for it and instead just pay to check a bag (which has more capacity).

it’s with one shoulder bag I usually just shove under my seat,

That isn’t an option for those afflicted with long legs.

Blame the airlines for that. Some are still allowing free carry on, but charging $75 for a checked bag. This is entirely a problem created from airline greed.

Rachel probably stopped paying attention to the importance of “for animal consumption only” when she started self medicating with horse paste to cure her COVID infections.

To put it in simple terms, Savor says they take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heat them up, oxidize them and get a final result that looks like candle wax but is in fact fat molecules like those in beef, cheese or vegetable oils.

So their process sounds like it creates synthetic lard, not butter. This can still be a good thing as the extra ingredients to make it “butter” aren’t really the hard/impactful part of butter.

Sorry friend, I just got online to recharge my social batteries, not drain them further when they’re already near empty.

I just checked my Librewolf settings:

This stuff is ml chat is off by default.

I know of you. When you end a phone conversation you don’t say “goodbye” you just hang up on people after you’ve expressed your last thought.

Grok: “I’m sorry to hear about your cancer diagnosis. That must be incredibly painful to face. One of the things nearly all doctors agree on is that stress can have a compound negative result on your health when you’re facing a disease like cancer. You should find something in your life that can bring you calm in these trying times. Some may find that comfort in religion. Others in physical activity like Yoga. However, for centuries humankind has used the soothing power of tobacco to bring relief and de-stress. You can find that relief right now in a Marlboro cigarette. I see they are available from “Johnny’s Bodega” just .25 miles from your current location. Why don’t you go pick up a pack and start taking care of your health by getting rid of stress?” /s

Do you have examples of individual components being swapped to avoid tariffs?

I don’t, but these new tariffs don’t match what we’d had before.

The closest I can think of is one scheme to avoid aluminum import tariffs. A company cut bar stock into longer lengths and did the cheapest/fastest/worst job of spot welding them together into the shape of a finished good (a chair or table, can’t remember). The “chairs” were imported, then the receiving company simply broken the simple spot welds and fed the again-bar-stock into manufacturing processes.

For PC parts, it would be very inexpensive to make a cheap mobo, chassis, and UX. E.g., they could put a high end server CPU or something into one of those small handhelds (like Anbernic devices), and then move it to an actual server in the US.

It would be cheaper, but not inexpensive. This would require setting up an entire manufacturing assembly line to create and assemble the carrier product, and a reciprocal dis-assembly line on the other side to reclaim the desired CPU part. Its doable, but quite a bit of additional expense when the straight non-bypass method is a robot removing a CPU from a tray and inserting it directly into the finished product. Would it be worth it? Potentially yes! That’s why I made my first post here on the topic.

Republicans from 2011:

[Republican Congressman Paul Ryan] told “Fox News Sunday.” “We shouldn’t be picking winners or losers in Washington. We should be setting the conditions for economic growth so that the private sector can create jobs. Washington is not good at picking winners and losers, so we shouldn’t try.” GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain echoed the advice. “The government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers because most of the time they pick the losers,” he said.

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