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This one made me really sad.

I loved his videos. I learned a lot from the disassembly videos.

Then he went all Covid denier as soon as the pandemic hit. I couldn't watch it anymore

Silly animals!

an engineer, their word may be trusted enough

That's what happens here. This person was a Professional Engineer, a kind of certified engineer. Their job is to determine if stuff is safe for use.

Things like roads, bridges, pressure vessels, and apartment buildings all have a Professional Engineer (PE) look over their designs at some point. Their job is to use their expertise to determine if the thing can do it's job safely.

Existing structures are also periodically inspected by PEs. Like the above person, they determine if the thing can continue to do its job safely.

Unlike other engineers (in the USA), PEs have to attain a certification. You need to take an exam and maintain a license. It takes a lot of time and effort to obtain these things.

Shouldn’t the inspector be working off existing plans rather than being able to declare any structural element as decorative?

As someone else mentioned, the building is old enough that the initial plans likely no longer exist.

It's the job of the PE to make judgment calls like "is this column structural or decorative". This person fucked that up. Losing their license and ability to practice would be a fitting punishment.

When PEs fuck up, lots of people can die.

Idaho, the northernmost state of deep south

And public consumption is permitted anywhere tobacco use is

This is so important. I live in WA state USA. You can't legally smoke cannabis outside. It continues to make cannabis consumption illegal for many people.

Another vote for Ubuntu.

I tried it as my first Linux distro about 5 years ago. There was some learning curve, but I really enjoyed it.

I've been using it for 5 years now. I'm glad I switched from windows!

Glad to hear that old-school opioids are still being produced.

Really impressive that F9 is taking on Gore like this. They're a famously vindictive and litigious company.

I haven't checked, but I'm guessing EVERYTHING he says about Gore Tex is an easily provable fact.

If it wasn't, Gore would sue fortnine.ca off the surface of the earth

Oooooh, I wonder who's going to win??

Because prohibition doesn't work. We tried it with alcohol, it didn't work. We've tried it with most other drugs for decades, it didn't work.

Prohibition just creates a black market for whatever drug is banned. The drug will still be available. It will also be adulterated and untested for purity.

If they were banned, cigarettes would become more like modern heroin. The contents of them would be unknown. In addition to the harms of tobacco, there would be the harms of whatever adulterants the black market sellers put into them.

Instead of dying over the course of decades of consumption, the smokers of Black Market cigarettes would also potentially be dying immediately from whatever random stuff people put in the cigarettes.

I'm continually amazed at the effort espresso drinkers put into making a coffee

We had a good run