Out of the tens of thousands of installed systems, there are bound to be failures of the mechanical safeties (or human-performed installation/maintenence) that can lead to a Swiss cheese path to failure. I wouldn’t necessarily dismiss the whole category as a bad example because of that however.

Is it perfectly fail-safe? Well, in those cases, it wasn’t. But what were the contributing factors?

The watches were radium, not uranium.

Nah, it’s the pig sucking Israel’s dick at the moment

Not to be a downer, but I seriously doubt anything would come of a report. The provider could have bibles in every room in the practice, with weeping jesus hanging on every wall, and still not violate any rules. Providers can now refuse to treat based on their moral grounds (read - pharmacists not filling scripts for the morning after pill, birth control, etc and more.)

As utterly disgusting as this is, it’s not illegal.

Edit to add - what’s even more surprising is that someone paid $6.95 for that rag

I remember it before ads…

Well, those two in particular were used heavily by my elders growing up in the 70s, so it predates the web by a little bit.

The oft-forgotten full phrase is: “a broken clock is right twice a day, but you still wouldn’t use it to tell time.”

Similarly, often in reference to corrupt cops or politicians: “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch.”

Removed by mod

I believe the ailerons are on the outside half of the wing, and the flaps are on the inside half (toward the fuselage)

Extends the flaps, i.e. makes the chord of the wing longer making it able to be more effective at lower airspeed. (takeoff and landing).

The flaps are retracted at cruise to make the wing more efficient at cruise.

It’s my aeroplane

It’s big and white with a red stripe - it’s like a big Tylenol!

Roger, Roger

What was that show with the skeleton that was taking over the world?

Found Michael Bolton.

I dunno, ‘cumsprites’ was pretty damn funny!

Another person knows about Sigue Sigue Sputnik‽‽‽

I knew before coming into the comments there would be a pendatic with this argument

Not exactly, no, but I have seen several women as ‘best friends’ in the role, and they ran the range of confident jokemasters to nervous public speakers.

My advice is 1) to make sure to ask the dj how to best hold the mic so people can hear you 2) rest assured that the groom chose you for the role - he has the confidence in you - rely on that to help boost yours 3) prepare so you can relax - don’t overthink it past that!

I ran a dj business for about 15 years until covid and the sucky state of music killed the interest in it for me. We did hundreds of weddings.

The most memorable best man/maid of honor speeches were the ones where the speaker showed genuine love for the couple, shared a memory of them/with them, and delivered the speech from the heart, not from a piece of paper. They didn’t make it about themselves. They didn’t do a “roast” either. Those are tacky.

Honor your friend and his wife (often she’s had a vision of this day instilled in her from early childhood) by focusing on them.