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chris1001_the_sequel posted...

I've had my license plate stolen.

oh, the only reason anyone would do that is because they have no car insurance right?

theAteam posted...

No but apparently my truck has 4(!!) so Ive got a prime target

Most cars have one?

Bugmeat posted...

It saw a large increase in frequency when prices of the valuable metals inside them went way up during the lock downs.

Oh the copper right? How much can they get? Supposedly if yours is stolen it's very expensive to replace

adjl posted...

Because they have both a reasonable understanding of how bone structure in extant animals influences the sounds they make, plus a reasonable understanding of dinosaurs' bone structures. Put those two together and you can get a decent idea of how dinosaurs would have sounded. There's still room for soft tissue to influence things further, and that tissue won't necessarily be obvious from fossils, but it's still quite possible to make some solid guesses from the information available.

so most scientists think they were really loud? Crocodiles make very little sound right? But they are kinda related , not as closely as birds iirc

Bugmeat posted...

5 minutes? They used to hit the Amazon parking lot on a regular basis when I was security there. Watching them on video they would do that shit in like 2 minutes.

Camera review would show them driving around the lot about 30 minutes ahead of time. They would pick out a handfull of cars that were ideal and come back later, hitting multiple in quick succession. But they had an entire lot of cars to choose from and were just hitting the easiest ones.

oh really? they had these converters on cars like 20 , 30 yrs ago too right? But stealing them has became much more popular than they were then? How much can they get for them?

Kai_Laguna posted...

Yep, a bit of hose, a jerry can, and your mouth is all it takes.

you have to use your mouth? Oh so only like a hose is needed? Didn't know that.

..more than her character, on three's company? R.I.P. , but iirc the ratings did not go down much, at all, after she was famously replaced on the show.

Kai_Laguna posted...

Nope, have had gas stolen though.

oh most cars have locks on the gas compartment now right? a lot of older cars didn't. They used like a tube?

Cars had these like 20 yrs ago and they were being stolen back then right? Bu not nearly as much as now? I heard it can take as little as 5 minutes

Baha05 posted...

Yeah it was also the one that really brought the OG cast back and gave us the true antagonist of the series.

it brought the original cast back but it still was a pretty bad movie

Baha05 posted...

Hot Take, Dominion was t as bad as everyone claims it is. At best barring the goofiness of Jurassic Park 3, it is better then Fallen Kingdom

dominion was the last jw world movie to come out? both the last 2 were very forgettable

not sure

not sure

CruelBuffalo posted...

https://twitter.com/kadiagoba/status/1725178928757612683

lol stole the joke

but he isn't resigning is he? how long left in this term?

Evthean posted...

Thats a scary thought about the potential next generation of demon bug believers

yeah i kinda agree with this

EmilyTheCEman posted...

I imagine the haptic feedback makes it more expensive to make.

what part of the rumble is the haptic feedback exactly?

Series X's? The series s controller is exactly the same right? And iirc both are very similar to the xb1 controller. Maybe the ps5 controller made more improvements from the previous gen. Both cost more than the previous gen's controllers though

Zareth posted...

Just listen to bird calls and make them deeper and much louder

Birds diverged from dinosaurs like 90 million yrs ago? It is not definite

x controller? Both cost more than last gen. But iirc usually the ps5 one usually sells for around ten bucks more than the series x

dragon504 posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcBoY_aEVj8

We'll likely never know, but I wouldn't be surprised if the people studying them weren't at least in the ball park.

why do you believe they are in the ballpark?

the jurassic park movies' guesses might be as good as anybody elses

Hejiru posted...

I don't know how they figured out T-Rex, but we do know what Parasaurolophus sounded like. Since it had a horn that was used for vocalizations, we can recreate its sound by scanning its skull and then simulating air passing through it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLb9i3v4ap0

i watched some dino documentaries on that dinosaur. Some scientists are puzzled how it lasted so long. It wasn't incredibly mobile , or armored like triceratops, like it would have been easy pickings for t rex.

Ratchetrockon posted...

by eating our little ancestors

what? do you believe it would have been better if humans had never evolved?

Xatrion posted...

Of all things cultists have to be irrationally afraid of, why is sex almost always at the top of that list?

yeah it doesn't make sense. Though for many , reasoning is not one of their strong points

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Ratchetrockon posted...

Man I wish they were still roaming the Earth. Maybe they could have prevented us from decimating the planet

how would dinosaurs prevent that?

Fin_Dawg_004 posted...

Idk, science or some shit

Really? jurassic park's guesses are as good as anybody else's

bumpoi

Fin_Dawg_004 posted...

Realistic sounds:

https://youtu.be/2eqJYtFO3SI?feature=shared

Jurassic Park:

https://youtu.be/g3rIFjCVawc?feature=shared

how can they really know?

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Heartomaton posted...

Never had a manager that dumb, surprisingly. Not even in the decade I spent at Walmart.

What did you think of walmart? i used to work there. They are prob still below industry retail avg for pay they it made big news that they raised wages.

ironman2009 posted...

Not necessarily, just the ones I worked with.

was this a large retail place like a walmart? Yeah i might i agree. Most retail managers are alright but there are a lot of bad ones

Flauros posted...

Back when i worked retail, my "team leader" was a real tryhard in that regard.

Just let the customers walk right over her and bent over backwards for them.

Naturally they also had the "all employees are lazy thieves that dont deserve respect". She treated all of us wagies like trash.

It was kinda sad. Its not even like she was making bank there. She made like 13 an hour with 0 overtime allowed.

I've seen this before as well. Treat customers like kings and treat employees like shit? I don't get it, What?

ironman2009 posted...

Every retail job I worked at my manager was either insane and had a plot to murder every customer that walked in within seeing them for 5 seconds or just straight up disappeared for 90% of their shift.

oh you think most retail managers do a pretty shit job?

..is always right?" Idk, maybe most customers do believe this idk, seems very few retail managers believe it

Southernfatman posted...

These. Lots of them are hypocritical AF though and think it's ok when they use contraceptives or get an abortion.

Unbelievable. They would themselves, but want to put that on others. Who wouldn't be super pissed at that?

WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

I know I'm in the small minority but ranking the first three.

JP > JP2 > JP3

I really liked the second one more than the third. Possibly becuase the second one had a book, even though the movie didn't really follow the book for most of it.

yeah the 2nd and the 3rd were decent . Prob liked the 3rd a little better though.

TheOtherMike posted...

Are you familiar with the Republican Party?

you believe that most republicans are against people they don't know, using birth control?

Fenriswolf posted...

In order from best to worst IMO

Jurassic Park
Jurassic World
Lost World
Jurassic Park 3
Fallen Kingdom
Dominion

not sure which of the last 2 were worse, both bad. i was falling asleep in the theater. the trailers werent bad

Trelve posted...

They were better than Jurassic Park 3 at least.

i disagree

yeah jurassic world was good but the 2 movies that came after that were awful , easily the worst of the jurassic franchise.

is there any other huge movie series where it is universally agreed upon that the 1st movie was the best?

Smackems posted...

No, maybe like 10 or 15 percent on birth control. But on abortion it's probably like 80% against. Just numbers based on my experience

really? 80 percent to restrict abortion? In every state when put up to a popular vote abortion rights have been confirmed, maybe it would not in your state.

Smackems posted...

Yes. I live in Mississippi there are a lot of super religious people that are against that and abortion. Some even against condoms n shit

Really? Complete insanity imo. You would say that most of the people in your state have this opinion on this?

..birth control? yeah they were against like people they didn't know, using birth control. This might be very rare to have this opinion, not sure.

Zwijn posted...

Never did and never will step foot inside one.

why not?

specialkid8 posted...

I'll go very infrequently but I couldn't tell you the last time I actually interacted with one of the employees. They seem to be doing an alright job I guess. Especially at wandering around like zombies.

walking around like zombies? that's how most are at the store you go to?

BlueFalcon posted...

Pumpkin
Blueberry
Apple
Cherry

in that order

eh, can't stand pumpkin pie. Is it sold any other time besides halloween , thanksgiving?