That made me think of this… which hasn’t happened in a good number of years.

The only place I’ve ever seen that huge Kirkland bottle is in a workplace. I don’t even have pain killers in my house right now…also American.

Valve is an odd duck because they aren’t a publicly traded company and thus not driven by the ‘line must always go up’ nonsense. They would be a company that absolutely would purge bot accounts from their queue. Steam account that’s only hours/days old? No games in the account? No wishlist either. No browse history of any game ever? Yeah, that’s a bot.

The same bots that buy everything in seconds would just fill the first 50K(or whatever) places in the back order queue. They already have to have different accounts, addresses, credit cards, etc. to avoid the per customer limits.

Admittedly that does give whatever company more time to investigate that queue for bot accounts. They could then remove suspicious accounts but that costs time/money and they have virtually no incentive to do it. Not to mention the backlash from false positives.

Some dealers or tire shops have a service to store/swap them if space is limited. You can ask around. There are really two ways to do it. A higher upfront cost of an entire set of wheels/tires. They just need to be put on. Other option is to have snow tires remounted on the same rims. This option costs more per change(mount/balance) but cheaper up front (no rims to buy).

I have an entire set and just use cheap rims. That way if you do slide into something and mess them up it’s not a huge deal. My stock rims are like $800 each…other rims are like $100.

I also downsized my tires to a smaller factory size. Usually cheaper tires on 17” rims vs 18 or 20”. If you keep the outer diameter the same you’ll get more sidewall height. That paired with the softer nature of snow tires will change the driving characteristics of your vehicle a bit.

My insurance agent of all people when I was a teenager said to find an empty parking lot full of snow and slide your car around. The first time you slip out shouldn’t be on a public roadway if you can help it. Stops you from freaking out and making it worse. Learn how to correct slides and such so when you need it then you have some idea of what you’re doing. Pay attention to light poles, curbs and more importantly…parking stones(the slabs of concrete at the front of some parking spaces that might be hidden under snow). So make sure you’re familiar with the lot. Back parts of mall parking lots are a pretty decent choice.

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More stuff… While snow tires can help tremendously they don’t make it even remotely close to driving on dry pavement or even wet pavement from rain. You need to do just about everything slower and brake earlier.

Most snow tires have two sets of tread wear bars. The normal set found on most tires and a second much taller set that marks their reduction of ability when used in deep snow. You need more tread to disperse the thicker snow/slush. Biggest difference is the rubber followed by the tread patterns/siping. They stay softer in way colder temps than even all-season tires. The further below freezing you go the more noticeable this becomes. Conversely they don’t handle heat well and will degrade insanely quickly. The handling sucks too cause they feel kinda greasy because they’re just too soft at higher temps. They’re made for cold.

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I was mostly curious and love random trivia. So I looked it up and apparently it has a wiki page. It did actually originate in the restaurant/bar scene but way back in the 1920’s.

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They posted a link to their blog post down in the comments of the gist…

We also want to address the Bug Bounty program associated with this case. Although the researcher did initially submit the vulnerability through our established process, they violated key ethical principles by directly contacting third parties about their report prior to remediation. This was in violation of bug bounty terms of service, which are industry standard and intended to protect the white hat community while also supporting responsible disclosure. This breach of trust resulted in the forfeiture of their reward, as we maintain strict standards for responsible disclosure.

They failed to mention that the report was closed for being out of scope. Any reasonable person would expect that to mean a remediation was not coming. So really he didn’t give up his bounty because he wasn’t getting one to begin with.

Edit: cause autocorrect is dumb.

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Can’t believe this hasn’t been posted yet…

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They release data for stuff like this. Currently 46% can cover a cost of $2K or more with just savings. 57% for $1K or more.

Just Japan doing Japan things.

You got down voted but Chicago is just a weird place. When someone feels the need to make a website with a comical spin on the violence then something is very wrong. They have a Shot-in-the-Ass-O-Meter and Shot-in-the-Junk-O-Meter which are at 96 and 31 for the year so far.

Edit:Had to fix link…

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I have little hope they’ll fix 11 in a year when 10 hits end of life. 11’s already been out 3 years…