chiliedogg @ chiliedogg @lemmy.world

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Did you see the video?

Even the AI knows he has issues with his diet.

It's fine when you're young.

When you get older, the ability to roll your feet off the bed and easily stand up is clutch.

The Cameron Avatar films are great spectacles. They should be experienced in the theatre.

And they know what they are. They don't have much cultural relevance, but they make stupid money because they're event films.

University is overpriced, but a degree isn't just saying that you've gained knowledge. Being able to look up and memorize stuff doesn't mean you'll be good employee. if you can't work effectively with a team or tend not to finish a project all the knowledge in the world means nothing.

The most important thing most degrees demonstrate is that you can work for years on a project with multiple milestones involving multiple disciplines, work with others or self-direct, and meet goals.

Yeah. This administration has made it clear they will never do the right thing and will violate any agreement. There's zero reason to negotiate with them.

It's whybthe Dems CANNOT back off on the shutdown. Trump's threatening to fire a bunch of federalnworkers he doesn't like if the Dems don't play ball, but he's been doing thay anyway for 10 months. There's nothing he can threatening he isn't going to do anyway, so there's no reason to compromise.

The Oas was actually pretty solod. The only real problem was the removal of the start menu and traditional interface for non-touch computers. It's just that it was a huge fucking problem that destroyed the perception of Win8 even after the issue was addressed.

If Metro had been the alternative interface and the traditional experience the default, it would have been celebrated as a great OS.

12 year-olds from 1997.

I'm a government official and people can walk in the building and demand to see my text messages and emails, and I have to hand them over (with reasonable, well-defined reactions categories like social security numbers, home addresses of certain officials and citizens, etc).

And that's a good thing.

I'm not gonna say I enjoy Open Records Requests, but that's mostly because it's a pain in the ass redacting shit, and I recently had to do a TON because a very high-profile person had interactions with the city and every journalism outlet in the country submitted slightly different requests thay required me having to do reactions on about 10,000 pages of documents despite the requests only covering about 30 emails between them.

But it's a pain I'm willing to put up with to maintain transparency.

Sometimes there simply isn't a good substitute for a wooden spoon.

If I've got marinara in the pot, you keep those plastic and metal utensils away.

Did I mention the part where I work for a municipal government by day and teach at a public university by night? It's 2 phones and a tablet for the city, one for the university, and a 4th phone I didn't mention for me.

Though the school phone usually gets left in my bag. I teach scuba and underwater photography. Nobody's gonna lose their house over me waiting a few days to respond to an email. The only time my duties there are critical is when I'm actively with the students. Then it's more important because pressurized encironkents and breathing and stuff.

But I also don't take my phone underwater ^(on purpose).

There's a government-tier system used by lots of schools, cities, etc. It fucking SUCKS.

Like: if you have Outlook on your mobile device and add a government system account, it makes you remove any other accounts. Even if those other accounts are part of the same organization.

And since I manage more than 1 email account that need to go to separate inboxes for legal reasons, I get to carry 3 phones and a tablet.

I think a lot of people who do evil things don't see themselves as evil.

I think the Bushes were evil people who did evil things and I'll never forgive them.for all the damage they caused. But I also don't think they were unpatriotic. They believed in what they did and thought they were making society better.

I think MTG is the really stupid, slightly more evil version of that. She really wants to make things better, but not for everyone. But when she clearly sees that the people she does care about (uaully right-wing racist trash) are being hurt, she wants to make things better for them.

I think the worst part is that the Vice President openly defended them.

They're not aliens. They're demons.

You never actually see a spaceship. They don't ever show any technology or even clothing.

And they're defeated with an act of faith.

The state is actually a big part of the problem in this case. Small gas trucks are effectively illegal.

Automakers were fucking around with vehicle classifications in the 2000s to get around CAFE regulations. Things like the PT Cruiser were being classified as trucks. So starting in 2012, CAFE regulations were changed so that fuel economy standards were based on vehicle footprint. But it had a huge unintended consequence.

Suddenly a Toyota Corolla had less-strict fuel economy standards than small commercial vehicles like the Dakota, S-10, and Ranger. Notice how all 3 models were discontinued by 2012? And now that the Ranger is "back" its footprint is larger than some old F-150s?

As the CAFE standards get stricter over time, manufacturers have learned it's easier to just make the car bigger than to meet the fuel economy standards. They've made the marketing about penisnsize and shit, but it's really more about meeting regulations.

A more recent casualty was small cargo vans. The Transit Connect, ProMaster City, and NV200 were all discontinued by 2022 because small cargo vans can't meet CAFE. This is also why New York had to cancel its new Taxi fleet that was based on the NV200.

About a day

Only good thing is that the venom doesn't have lasting effects if you get artificial respiration in time.

They put you on a ventilator until it wears off, and then you're fine.

They don't want the leaves covering up the unnaturally green grass, and if they clog up the storm system that's someone downhill's problem.

I work in municipal government, and I have very strong feeling about leaf blowers.

All these assholes blowing all the great fertilizing trulimmings and dirt off their lawn and into the street to clog up the storm drains.

Way too many jobs require degrees to apply as well. Yeah, if you're a doctor, scientist, engineer, or other specialist that really does require advanced education, you need that level of education.

But I'm hiring a new permit tech to process contractor registrations, take permit payments, and answer the phone. It's ludicrous that the city wants them to have a degree in "Public Administration, Fiance, Construction Science, or a related field."