American ExPat

American Expat Working Abroad Since the Bush Administration.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

It's not just faster; they go higher than traditional equipment can.
When there are high-rise fires, quite often the fire department has a difficult time reaching the high floors at all.
Water is crazy heavy though. I'm a little skeptical that a drone has enough power to lift a hose of a diameter big enough to make a significant impact on the fire.
A 5-inch hose weighs something like 10kg per meter. The building I live in is 38 floors, which is nowhere near the largest in the city. Assuming 3.5 meters per floor, that would be around 1,330KG to reach the top floor.
I suspect that they are using smaller diameter hoses to lower the weight the drone needs to lift.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

When China had the 1-Baby law, they did the opposite...
If you had a second baby, the penalty was 3, 6, or even 10x the annual income of the family, depending on the province/city.
It was called the "social compensation fee" (社会抚养费) and was reimbursement to the state of all the benefits that the baby would receive during the course of its life.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

@jerseyh0mo A Christian has never knocked on my door, only Mormons.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

@prieurdp The company that I work for requires everyone to reverse into parking spots at the company's facilities.
The reason is that if there is some kind of emergency, people can more quickly and safely evacuate.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

@Neccccy No...
We definitely should not copy Japan....
What we should do is outsource our entire immigration system to Japan. Have them build a giant immigration center on one of those little islands that they have and have all immigrants travel to there to be processed and approved.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

@GordonGChang One thing that is obvious, but I never realized…
We call them the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the Iran War, etc…
But if you go to those places, they call it the American War.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

@BGatesIsaPyscho

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@DCal822 @omgsidewalks And my point is, then go find the numbers rather than talking in abstracts.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

@DCal822 @omgsidewalks If you disagree, look up your own stats....

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@Tim_Walz, @Ilhan: Is Somalia using Minnesota money to fund this?

[IRGC INTEL @IRGC_NEWSs]

🚨 JUST IN :

Somalia has announced that it has banned all Israeli ships from passing through the Bab el-Mandeb

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

@WildSentences I haven't seen it in a while, but some hotels used to have a desk at the elevators on each floor that you needed to walk past to make sure you didn't have any girls with you when you went to your room.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

@MarioNawfal The uranium is stored in type 30b casks.
It’s literally as easy as picking up the casks with a forklift, putting them on a C-130, and flying them to the United States.
The difficulty is digging down to them through the debris of the air strikes.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

@leboyneski Of course Scotland created penicillin, they needed it after they invented Haggis.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

Because boomers don’t get jobs by applying for them.
They get jobs through the people they know. They have a network of people they’ve previously worked with, or went to school with, that are willing to hire them.
That’s what was always so important about going to college, to start building that network.
Think about the kids you made friends with in college. Are they working good jobs? Did they have majors in sciences, business or liberal arts?
Since my first co-op job in the early 90’s that my school lined up for me, I’ve never even applied for a job. Either a friend/previous colleague called me and said his company needs someone, or a head hunter called me.
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

We have a milk tea 🧋 shop here named Hey Tea. If you go there, it takes like 45 min to get your order even if you’re the only one in the shop.
I don’t know why but girls love that place, if you’re out with them, they’ll often want to stop and get a drink.
It drives me nuts sitting there waiting and when they finally decide to make your drink, it takes like 15 seconds.

[American ExPat @Imported_Fun]

@giveashitnature I don’t buy it.
I would see one in my house every once in a while. I never had cockroaches but they don’t seem tough enough to take on a cockroach. 🪳

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@StuffWorthSee I bought one of these off Taobao to shoot cats from my balcony while they're trying to kill the koi in my koi pond. The only problem is it's kind of leaky, so you get wet when using it.

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@DoraDaemon1 Because the offset keeps changing, they'd need to continually monitor the offset and manually update Google Maps.
The real way to do it is to apply to the government to get the offset key through an API so it updates automatically every time they change the offset.

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@netatank Here’s what the China ones look like, the one on the left is a normal beef burger and the one on the right is Filet-O-Fish.

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@unifiedprolife Because the Japanese aren't woke libtards, plus their girls are cute.