Tony Stark first appeared in Marvel comics 8 years before Musk was born.

Those “smaller rounds” were extremely hot 5.56 rounds - an upgraded version of the rounds the guy above me is saying fires through brick walls and cracks ribs if it hits armor.

Mind you, this is what people wear going into combat. It’s for military, SWAT, etc.

An everyday police vest wouldn’t take that kind of beating.

In modern body about it’s spread over the area of the entire 8lb plate, which is way, way more area then the butt of the rifle.

He moves out thigh, and it’s Rachel and Joey living there for a while

Maybe on a plate from 1965 that is just a sheet of steel inside cloth. Modern ceramic plates spread the energy of the impact.

Here’s a video of a Level IV plate taking a 30.06 AP round followed by like 6 5.56 AP rounds and a 7.62x54R AP round so powerful it jammed the rifle.

There’s no significant plate bulge even after all of that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1qLZwBeMuM

I used to work at a major outdoors retailer. The music on blast wasn’t too bad most of the year because they actually had like a 12-hour playlist, so nothing repeated.

Then Christmas arrived. There were still no repeat tracks throughout the day. But the thing about Christmas songs is that there’s only like 10 songs that have each been recorded by like 15 different artists, so while the individual recordings didn’t repeat, we’d still hear the same song 8 times a shift.

And the one across the hall with the unemployed actor and the waitress?

That last part is bullshit. If the force distributed across the plate were enough to break bones, then firing the rifle would dislocate the shoulder of the shooter.

Did you not read the part where I said the incentive requires them to vote?

We shouldn’t specifically have Election Day off work. Everyone should get one paid day off in the period of early voting or election day. It’ll prevent the hours-long wait times at the polls on election day and allow businesses to stay in operation by spreading out the time when workers are off to vote.

I’d prefer it even more if the money for the vacation time were paid by the government, but only of the person actually votes. Otherwise, you’ll just find a bunch of cruise specials around election season meant to capitalize on the extra vacation time, and voter turnout won’t be significantly impacted.

Same for lots of jobs here.

Honestly, Wednesday and Thursday are the worst days for Christmas for those of us who also get Christmas Eve because they’re the only days that don’t result in 4 days in a row off from work.

If it’s on a Friday, we get Thursday through Saturday. If it’s on a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, they give us Friday through Monday, and if it’s on a Tuesday, they give us Saturday through Tuesday.

But this year, we’re off Saturday and Sunday, work Monday, are off Tuesday and Wednesday, and return to work on Thursday.

It’s the same total number of days off, but it’s way less useful - especially if travel is involved.

Yeah: because getting people to get a vaccine during a pandemic that’s killing millions isn’t going to be difficult.

It’s a Samurai movie.

But a lot of Western movies were also inspired by Samurai films.

The great Kurosawa films were all remade in a different genre in the West.

Yojimbo and Sanjuro became A Fist Full of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.

Hidden Fortress became Star Wars.

Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven and Bug’s Life

Rashomon became The Outrage.

If it’s literally in your job description, as it has been in my last several positions, does it qualify?

“Other duties as assigned” is a bitch.

If it doesn’t do it on its own, one of 2 things will happen:

1. They get bought out, which almost always results in a bump.
2. The government bails them out, which is an even bigger bump.

My Galaxy Note 8 is a backup phone. It was a flagship when it launched, yeah. But even so, it’s 7 years old, the last update for it was over 2.5 years ago, and it’s still chugging along like a champion.

Smartphone design is mostly a solved problem. Take today’s screens and processors and throw in a few features from the past (removable storage, IR blaster, and headphone jack) and you have a 10-year phone.

I used to get a new phone every year because phone got way better each generation.

My phone is top-tier from 2021 (Z Fold 3), and I have had zero temptation from the newer versions. All they really have is faster processing, but since all apps are designed to run well on budget phones from 5 years ago, there’s no reason to upgrade.

They were probably just lazy in their site design and the link itself contained the token for the login or whatever.