IphtashuFitz

My grandfather was a James. He went by Pete.

Even if they don’t have any nukes that they developed themselves, there’s always the possibility they could’ve bought one or two from North Korea…

There is no vaccine for Lyme that’s available to the public. Hopefully there will be one soon though. My wife and I have been volunteering for a Lyme vaccine trial for the past two years.

Changing a 120v line over to 240 is likely also against code even if the physical cable can handle it. 120V cable is typically white/black/green, and the electrical code prohibits using the white one as a hot leg. That’s why 240V cable of the same AWG is red/black/green. The red & black legs both carry 120V.

#1 is a terrible idea if you ever need to hire an electrician in the future, plan on selling your house, etc. The National Electric Code prohibits using white, green, or grey wire for a hot/load connection. The 120V cable will contain a black wire for the hot connection, white for neutral, and green for ground. To properly convert it to 240V you would need a cable that consists of black & red wires for the two 120V legs.

If your home ever suffered an electrical fire then this sort of jury rigging is precisely the sort of thing any competent insurance inspector would spot, and insurance carriers would deny coverage for since it clearly isn’t code compliant, which means a licensed electrician didn’t install it and it wasn’t properly inspected.

How many of the mass shootings in the past 10 years were perpetrated by white men vs black men?

When my wife and I did some hiking in the Canadian Rockies we had an interesting talk with a park ranger we ran into. He described a problem bear they had to deal with a year earlier by explaining how bears brains are pretty much hard wired to remember food sources and return to them.

The park rangers had determined that this particular bear had either been fed by a hiker with a backpack or had seen a backpacker accidentally drop some food. Whichever the case was, this bear would only accost people with backpacks along a specific section of trail. If you didn’t have a backpack the bear would leave you alone. But if you had one then the bear would come up looking for food.

The rangers tried multiple things to discourage the bear. They sprayed it with bear repellant when it approached. They shot it with beanbags when it approached, etc. Eventually they tranquilized it and moved it something like 100 miles away to a different part of the Rockies. It always returned to the same location and continued to harass hikers with backpacks.

They eventually made the difficult decision to kill the bear before it mauled any hikers...

The NSA is already known to have tapped into the fiber optic lines at an AT&T datacenter back in the early 2000’s. That sort of tap would generate absolutely massive amounts of data.

If they did something like that 20+ years ago then the volume & analysis isn’t the issue. It’s whether or not they decide they need to perform mass surveillance of mobile devices.

No, but if somebody like the NSA comes along with a request to intercept a specific package, or even a bunch of packages then customs will gladly turn them over. As was posted elsewhere in this thread, NSA has been known to do this in targeted cases and installed software into routers etc. before returning them to customs for delivery.

So it truly depends on whether an organization like the NSA has you on their radar.

Not to mention the people who come up with all that cheesy music and lyrics that try to rhyme with the nonsensical words the industry uses for drug names.