Heard in Watch Wes Work short on youtube:

“The nice thing about standards, is that there are so many to choose from.”

Yes.

Once it is tipped on its side, its easier to remove the batteries and motors.

In Oklahoma we just use the name of whatever tribe was forcibly relocated there. Although I know of one town that was named after a misspelling of an indian chief’s name. The Apollo 14 CSM pilot lived there.

Sometimes I make it a challenge. Can my other half access the content the “right” way faster than a torrent can be found?

⚠️ WARNING: P.U.I ⚠️

Letterboxes are seen in cities sometimes, but in the middle of nowhere, everyone has a mailbox by the road. Sometimes they are clustered together, a bunch of boxes in the same place so the mail carrier doesn’t have to drive a mile down some unpaved dead end road.

They aren’t shooting at them. It used to be a popular thing for teenagers to whack mailboxes from moving cars using baseball bats or similar implements. It was a bigger problem ~20 years ago.

Of course now you’re likely to break your hand/arm/bat if you try it. I’ve seen several methods used to prevent damage to mailboxes, including cages made from rebar, stacks of mobile home rims with a mailbox in the center, mailboxes made from drill pipe, the mailbox at my house is made from 1/4" thick steel plate and the post it is mounted to is a piece of I-beam. It’s bonkers. I think you could hit it with a semi truck and the truck would lose. I didn’t build it, it was there when I bought the house.

The “Nothing else around” is the hard part of that.

Burned into my mind is the reaction to my rural town’s mayor when Flock was brought up:

“Have you seen the stop signs around here? Do you think those cameras will last any longer?”

Many of the local stop signs have at least one bullet hole in them. Armored mailboxes are commonplace. They want to put up something in the sticks that it isn’t morally ambiguous to destroy?