The best time to leave Pinterest was 2010.

The second best time is now.

Which wouldn’t be so bad if they actually had shit that people wanted to buy. But all the guillotine shops are out of stock, with expected ship dates after December 4th.

I was an agent in a former life. Your understanding of the purchasing process is deeply flawed. If you don’t fix it, you’re going to get screwed over again and again. Fortunately, it’s an easy fix. Here’s the process you should follow:

1. Look up the house you want to purchase.

2. Write the offer, sight unseen. Get some kind of offer in front of the seller as early as possible. Sounds scary? It’s not: You’re going to include “inspection” and “financing” contingencies, and you aren’t going to send earnest money until you’ve actually seen the property.

3. Only after the seller accepts or counters your offer do you schedule your first showing. Here is where you confirm the property is what you actually wanted, and is in the “good” condition you assumed. If you don’t fall in love the first time you see it in person, exercise your inspection contingency and walk away. If it’s not in the “good” condition you assumed when you wrote the offer, plan on renegotiating.

NEVER waste your time “researching” or getting emotionally invested in a property until you have it under contract. If you don’t have a contract, it will get sold out from under you.

Your inspection and financing contingencies are your escape route. Use them. Lock the seller in early, and plan on walking away if you don’t love everything about the house and the deal.

Just saying…

I am not sure where you are getting that “theoretical” bit. It’s not theory.

In theory, you can purchase a gun with no training whatsoever. In practice, you’ll have a tough time avoiding the bare minimum safe handling instruction the seller is going to give you. Upon receiving that instruction, you can’t really say you have had “no training” whatsoever.

Looking at it another way: I don’t personally know anyone over the age of 6 who has never received any sort of training on safe gun handling. In Theory, such people exist and can suddenly decide to buy a gun on a whim with zero research or experience. In practice, not so much.

Try it.

No, seriously, try it.

Go in, tell them you’re a first-time gun buyer, and try to walk out without receiving basic safety training, referrals and/or invites to ranges and practical training.

It is theoretically possible to buy a gun with absolutely no experience or training. But, you would have to go in to the process with some sort of malicious intent, even if that intent is just to cast FUD on the purchasing process.

steam cools back to water

That one. The most common methods of condensing that steam rely on large bodies of water acting as heat sinks. Water in those large reservoirs is lost to evaporation, which is exacerbated by the additional heat.

The water in that reservoir must be reserved for the nuclear plant; a drought that drains the reservoir will knock the plant offline.

Air-cooled condensers are possible, but at significantly reduced efficiency, especially in already hot environments.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Did you know you can just buy shoe polish? You don’t have to find a boot to lick it off.

You’re a couple layers off in the protocol stack, but yes. AFSK (Audio Frequency Shift Keying) is a method by which digital data can be encoded on a narrow audio stream. It’s basically an old-school dial-up modem.

You can create and/or interpret those audio streams on a smartphone or computer via a headphone jack to pump them to/from the radio.

Ham Radio has APRS, which could be considered a “text based social platform”.

Prime is garbage. Even if it’s free on Prime, I hoist a sail.

That asshole better not do anything about the LGBT-Immigrant plot to melt the ice caps and flood Florida and Texas.

A pedestrian behind your car would be seen by the rear view mirror.

That’s incorrect.

If you are parked in a typical parking spot with the mirrors arranged like this, pedestrians standing on the end of the lines marking that space are not visible in either the rear view or the side mirrors. This is the most dangerous place to miss a pedestrian, as they will be hit as soon as you start moving.

This is the case in every vehicle I have tested this in, with the exception of a convertible that didn’t have C-pillars obstructing the rear view.

This arrangement is not suitable for city driving, specifically because it creates a different blind spot: A blind spot that is much more dangerous for pedestrians, and cannot be overcome by simply leaning forward slightly. A blind spot up close to the rear of the vehicle, where neither the driver nor the pedestrian has time to react to the other’s presence.

This arrangement is only suitable for highway driving, and then only in vehicles with unobstructed rear views. (Trucks, vans, vehicles with 3+ rows of seating should never use this)

You don’t need to turn your head with the mirrors pointing “to the rear”. Just lean forward about 8-12 inches to clear your blind spot.

Then you don’t have to set your mirrors so wide that a pedestrian in a grocery store parking lot can hide from them simply by walking behind your car.

The arrangement you are advocating should only be used on the highway, not in the city and never when backing.

Rejected. This arrangement is suitable only for highway driving. It is extraordinarily dangerous for city driving, especially in backing.

This puts very large blind spots up close to the car. Spots large enough to hide a pedestrian as you back out of a parking space.

The “door handles” alignment provides better view when backing. Clearing blind spots for lane changes is easily accomplished by leaning forward, which widens the angle of reflection.

Looking over the shoulders is not desirable: It takes your eyes too far away from your direction of travel. Leaning forward, your direction of travel is still in your peripheral vision.

Convex “wedge” mirrors are an excellent addition.