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That's supposed to keep you from being monitored by bad actors over public Wi-Fi, iirc.

It's wild that they actually responded to the pedantry comment with the exact pedantry I was trying to pre-empt.

Sometimes, with caveats (I researched this a while back). tl;dr: probably yes, if you get puzzles manufactured by the same company around the same time.

• There are "puzzle companies" that are actually just design studios who farm out the manufacturing process to a puzzle printer. Depending on the printer, they're very likely to reuse puzzle dies even between design companies; so you might even be able to remix two puzzles by different companies, if they use the same print company.

• Certain high volume printers rebuild their puzzle dies from scratch every so often (so the design would be entirely different depending on which print run you're working with). Ravensburger in particular had a thing on their website (it might still be there) about how they can't get you individual replacement pieces because they've almost certainly already rebuilt the die since your copy was printed. And most companies end up just replacing the entire puzzle if they leave out a piece.

• Some puzzle companies make puzzles where the design and the cut are related somehow (Magic Puzzle Company built a whole line on those). Those are unlikely to be reused between designs, though you do end up paying extra for them.

• Even if you get a pair of puzzles that were cut using the same die, they might not line up the way this image shows. If the die was removed and flipped around between one puzzle's cutting and another, the cut would be "upside down" on the other and they would fit together in a very different way.

Actually, as someone whose company has been working on updating extensions from MV2 to MV3 for the past four years, the timeline has changed. A couple of times, I think. Originally, MV2 was supposed to be entirely deprecated by the beginning of this year, but they've pushed it back twice and extended enterprise support even further.

Yes, hence the disclaimer. Grumman delivered the Lunar Module in 1968, Grumman delivered the LLV in 1986, Northrup delivered the B-2 Spirit in 1987, and the companies combined in 1994.

Just to head off any pedantry: I know this isn't how it went, but it's funnier this way.

US Government Employee: "Okay, awesome. So that's a solid contract for the Lunar Lander for NASA. Great doing business with you."

Northrop Grumman salesman: "Yeah, sure, happy to help us win the space race against the Soviets!"

Gov Employee: "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go figure out who we're going to get to build a stealth bomber for the Air Force."

Grumman: "Oh, we can do that too!"

Gov Employee: "Whoa, really? Thanks, that really makes the rest of the week easier. I appreciate it! Now all I need to do is find someone to make some cute little mail delivery trucks for the USPS."

Grumman: "You're not gonna believe this..."

Like Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Once they're out of the party, they can't be fired or voted out for saying it.

Also, they're spineless.

if you haven't talked about that kind of thing already, clearly you're doing something wrong.

Yep. There are some cases where you should know the answer before you ask the question. Proposals are one of those cases.

my wife asked

Whoa, you were really slow on the uptake.

He's so upset Kamala stole his momentum, but the sequel never does as well as the original.

Don't miss the reality of what he's saying here. He's not saying that you should make your own decision about who to vote for, he's just saying that you shouldn't listen to her.

He still wants you to listen to him, and vote in lock-step with whatever he spews out.