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I refuse to believe

Looks like there is a stack of sticks above the olive baskets, so those sticks can be removed or added as the pressing continues. When pressing is finished, if all the sticks are removed, then the lever can rest on the tree and be clear of the olive baskets. It would switch from a class 2 to a class 1 lever, and the stone would be lifting the lever end up and out of the way.

I'm now imagining a bundle of 2x4s vertically sticking up 6 feet.

I think I've only once or twice had something not fit the hatchback because the roof was too low. And those items wouldn't have fit in a 3-4 foot bed either. Plus a proper hatchback should have roof racks to put oversize cargo on anyway.

I'm not arguing a 5+ foot bed isn't better than a hatch (my 97 Taco with 6 foot bed comes in handy sometimes), but the shorty beds make me laugh.

That's got to be like a 3 foot bed? I just don't get how that's useful vs a hatchback with the seats down?

The graph on the right only shows that more variables impact unemployment than just interest rates alone, which you obviously know. It doesn't prove or disprove the model on the left, which is a pretty simplified relationship. Monetary policy, like adjusting interest rates, was demonstrated to be quite effective just recently with the Fed successfully keeping inflation and employment under control with these tools over the past few years.

We say alleged because in civilization, you're innocent until proven guilty.

We know Eric Adams did something similar with Turkish donors in New York. There was also a ton of reports of this happening during Trump's first campaign.

There are 54 Glock models that are certified for sale in CA. Almost 1000 models from all manufacturers are certified. Plus private party transfers are legal, meaning you can just bring one in or have a friend give you one.

The rules are quite loose? Why else would they have eagle eyed officials watching closely to disqualify athletes for infractions.

Games can absolutely be played asynchronously. Games can have scoring systems instead of head-to-head.

Would you say pinball is not a game?

I didn't think I needed to get out the dictionary definition of game, but I hope this clears it up... Definitions from Oxford Languages: "noun, a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck."

Why track and field events not games? They have rules, can be won or lost, and can be played casually if you think that is a requirment.

Take shot put, hammer throw, and javelin, for example. The game is who can throw the object in a certain way the furtherest. I could play a shot put game with some friends at a river bank by drawing a line in the sand and seeing who can huck the heaviest rock on the shore the furthest.

There's a reason they call them Olympic Games.

Really any activity with some structure is a game if it is play and not "real", even better if it can help practice a skill useful in life. There is a difference between a running race (a game) and running for your life from a bear (not a game). Between MMA and a street fight. Between war games and a shooting war.

I wish I read this comment before wasting my two minutes as well...

If your game doesn't involve traveling above 100mph and pulling more than 2g it's not a sport 😤