Related factoid; the US Navy is the world's second largest air force.. second only to the US Air Force itself. And if you split Alaska in two, Texas would be the third largest state.
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The United States Postal Inspection Service is actually the oldest of all federal law enforcement agencies. It's as old as this country is.
This is a phrase I have seen numerous times before on the internet, always in contexts which make clear this is a call to violence.
> Mailing it blindly doesn't seem like it should be anyone's first instinct,
Mailing it blindly? If you first contacted a university researcher asking about a rock and they said "sure send it to me and I'll check it out", and then kept your rock without telling you upfront they would keep it, you would be in good company. A whole lot of people have lost neat artifacts like this. Not just meteorites of course; crystals, fossils, archeological finds. Basically anything you think a scientist might find interesting, the scientist will keep for themselves for the same reason.
Edit: Downvote me if you like, but even OPs article admits as much: "Please note that any unsolicited specimen sent to UNLV or our department will not be returned." What I say is well known in the geology hobby. There are only a handful of people who have a good reputation for verifying and returning meteorites. At the very least, do your research and try to find somebody with such a reputation first.
> "If you complain to Amazon that the seller is contacting you outside the Amazon messaging platform and harrassing you, then Amazon will close their seller account."
What is the purpose of telling somebody to do exactly what they just told you they already did, and insisting that it will work when they just told you it didn't? Your comment is tantamount to gaslighting.
Not nearly as important as food; the only thing as important as the food supply is our supply of drinking water. Nothing else is comparably important, so you're wasting your time trying to find analogies. And the instability historically see in the oil industry is precisely what sane people want to avoid in the food supply.
Exactly. Having a stable supply of food is more important than having an economically efficient supply of food. Of all industries, the food industry in particular should not be left totally up to market whims.
Probably just smuggled across state lines. Bought in a state with low taxes, then sold in a state with high taxes. The store pockets the taxes instead of passing them along to the state, which it can do because the cigarettes being sold were smuggled so the high-tax state doesn't have any record of them existing.
In Washington state [or just Seattle? I'm not sure], there are laws restricting how many square feet the signage for a weed store is allowed to have. In response to this, weed stores devised a trick where they buy up neighboring businesses and run them under the same brand name as the weed store, with very large signs. So next to "Bubba's weed store" with small signs, you have "Bubba's Car Wash" with very large signs. Anybody looking for Bubba's weed will see the huge sign for Bubba's car wash, and know they found the right spot.
2b) Don't buy phones that talk to the police.
It's not an assumption, it's an evaluation they are continuing to earn by quacking like a duck.
Thank you for putting words to this. I think it's something I've struggled with as well.