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No, I took it

Bluetooth speaker? No! Homemade PVC pipe passive amp? Yes!

It's a little more expensive, but not dramatically so

Buying boxes of full-sized candy isn't even that much more expensive than the fun-sized, and the psychological impact is immediate and dramatic. Every year I hear kids go "Woah, big candy bars!"

Better for what? I only listen to mp3s I've got stored on my phone; I use BlackPlayer for that, and I love it. For streaming music purposes... I dunno, I never got into that racket.

Probably The Asylum.

Admittedly, The Asylum has a quite a few rooms within it, but I'd say that the antechamber of The Asylum that abuts the outer wall to Outside comprises the majority of the surface of the Earth and its atmosphere, so that's a pretty big room.

Did you see what he did to Dr. Dugong?!

Looks like one of those mechanical cancer SCPs.

At one point when I was in my mid to late-twenties, my workplace's neighbor had their sprinkler system fail and flood their business. It was so bad that a bunch of water seeped under the adjoining wall and we had about a half an inch of water across a third of our fairly large store. There were maybe a dozen or so of us working there at the time, and we all got called in to rapidly move merchandise out into a big truck so that it wouldn't get spoiled by the damp air before the remediation guys could do their thing.

So there's all of these people, most of them younger than me, but not by a lot, running back and forth with crates of merchandise, and I looked around and immediately saw how chaotic and inefficient it was.

So I said, "Okay, you stand by the truck. You stand by the front door, you stand just inside. You stand a little further in than that. The first person just picks up a crate, and we bucket brigade it all out to the truck."

It was an obvious solution, and it made the work go by so much faster and easier, but apparently I was the only one who thought to do it. I realized that in that moment, in a moderately large group, I was the most responsible adult in the room.

And I'm pretty sure that was when my childhood ended.

80 percent-scale mock White House

I'm confused about this part. Does that mean it's in basic outline correctly-sized but only has 80% as many rooms...

...or that the layout is exactly the same as the original, but everything is 20% smaller? Because then you've got issues with all the agents feeling like they're seven feet tall.

The theory I heard on the Strict Scrutiny podcast is that the 5th Circuit exists to write atrocious opinions on terrible rulings so that the Supreme Court can make rulings that are only 85% as horrible as that so the SC can seem more reasonable by comparison.