I feel like digital billboards have made stuff like this less fun, if only slightly. The investment and energy required to pay for people to climb way the fuck up on a billboard and paint or glue or stretch, or whatever the fuck people actually do with “normal” billboards makes it all feel a little more delightfully unhinged.
Due to JPEGification, I’m only about 75% sure this is a digital billboard, now that I think about it.
If there’s some there there, it’s that between Brexit, global warming (specifically affecting Europe’s scientifically complex combination of high latitude and mild temps), and war on the continent, Britons might be more subject to disasters and shortages than in recent decades.
Paul Sellers has been known to use plywood jaws in years past, but he is using some nice stuff with a lot of void-free plies, and he is not putting dogholes in it. Honestly, though, even the material you have there, if laminated to 1.5" and with just one or two 3/4" dog holes, it should work pretty well and would be easy to replace. If you are on a budget but want to do hardwood, this is a perfect job for red oak.
So, mens rea gets slightly misunderstood a lot, especially with more white-collar stuff. Generally, you don’t have to know that you were violating the law, just that were doing the action that happens to be against the law, at least for the basic fraud laws in question here.
The election interference part is murkier, and really all you have to do to avoid charges under the traditional federal interpretation of the federal statute is to claim ignorance; it’s one of the weird exceptions and has basically rendered federal criminal prosecutions for campaign finance violations as a charming hypothetical, except when committed by campaign managers with law degrees. There is a revised standard that says you don’t have to know the law inside and out, just that generally this sort of thing is not allowed, but that is untested.
There is NY election law that could be held to a lower, more traditional standard, and while itself a misdemeanor, it could be enough to trigger the felony standard. Overall, it is probably the weakest part of the prosecution’s case, but the prosecution would say that falsifying the records to make sure that Trump got elected is enough.
They don’t blow off your fingers. They do hurt like a motherfucker and leave you with a first degree burn and the gunpowder equivalent of a henna tattoo.
My favorite is always going to be that first segment. You know they told him he should speak to the camera, and by god he was gonna do it right, even while oh so agilely wailing on that dresser, sending at least two pieces of it flying into the air.
Funny. This doesn’t look like a roadside stand in Neuvo Progreso, Mexico selling elote en vaso and badly cammed copies of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.
Yup. Big-ass syringe full of warm water, possibly with some solution in it (I don’t recall that part). It was affecting my hearing in one ear, and the flush fixed it right up.
And yeah, that’s nasty. I had to get my earwax flushed out once. It was unpleasant and super gross, and I’ve used the specialized peroxide solutions a couple of times in the years since. My wife has the dry wax gene, and finds wet wax both gross and confusing.
The only thing I’ll add is that having used a cheap camera earwax cleaner, the magnification makes every normal little waxbooger look like a Star Trek brain slug, so while still dramatic (don’t get me wrong), the videos always look just a touch more dramatic than they really are.