And now I will never be able to unsee it. Mr. Orc in the Kitchen with a Morning Star.

They have never looked at looked at what an office visit is billed for, let alone a “simple” ER visit. And forget about a chronic condition.

I have really good health insurance through my employer and we still run about $2,000 a year in fairly low copays.

For the non-physics-nerds in the audience, that calories per second is a unit of energy over time means it is technically correct to state the nutritional value of cooking spray in horsepower. The cooking spray in my pantry is labelled 8 dietary calories/second, which works out to ~45 horsepower.

This wasn’t time to set up contracts it was simply a delay in whether or not they would spend the money. And in search and rescue most of the living victims will be recovered in the first 72 hours.

The thing is they already have. FEMA has set up Urban Search and Rescue Teams (USAR) all over the country. Most are staffed by career firefighters. FEMA bought standard equipment packages for them, pays travel expenses, pay their local department backfill overtime to maintain coverage).

I like the new logo.

jesus was a leftist revolutionary and yet the history of christianity itself is the clearest and longest-running example i can point to of the dangers of creating power structures

Yes he does, pretty much whenever one of his companies declares bankruptcy it is then restructured with a management company that he owns that gets paid a flat fee to run the business regardless of the profitability of the original company which the creditors are stuck with.

I second this opinion.

I can see uses, like getting to the top of rail cars or tank trucks. And most current equipment designed to stop leaks are made to be applied by humans. I haven’t had an opportunity to try to use them with a quadruped with an arm so I am not sure which would work better.

fuck norms there should be rules for people in power and when they break them they should pay with their freedom, their fortune or their lives 100% of the time

I can see applications were it would be useful, especially in places I wouldn't want to risk a person. I would pair one up with a Spot, with the Spot carrying sensors and the Atlas handling things like doors, turning valves, and other actions requiring manipulation.

As far as I am aware they are not for sale yet. They recently moved from the hydraulic version to the all servo motor version which was one of the final steps in Spot before they became available but no idea what the time line is.

I have been to Boston Dynamics because we are thinking of buying Spot to support our HazMat team.

FDNY has at least one which they use for different missions. nypost.com/2023/04/18/f...