That's how 20/20 perspective works.
TbF, I think George has played his best basketball with the clippers. Kawahi ruined the team before it got started, though that was on the clippers. Should have moved him years ago.
The global seed vault in Norway is north of the arctic circle as a way of offering preservation insurance and predictable, controlled, frozen temps for food sources and biodiversity. It's constructed deep underground in permafrost.
I was reading a book about refrigeration's impact on the food supply last year and at the end the author decided to visit. The day of her visit it was closed due to emergency at the main gate; meltwater was flooding the entryway. Meltwater North of the arctic circle.
I think it's much more likely you awake when the power goes out because MicrosoftAlphafacebookXDisneyP&G needed more power for a new data center and you couldn't afford a politician to keep your town's power.
Totally lost their way as they commodified and expanded so quickly. Truly great, unique insights are worth keeping small and waiting for. All the ted x and mini Ted x and micro teds etc. just water the brand and impact down.
I went to one in 2015 and cried, multiple times. By 2020 I couldn't even stand to watch them online as everyone was trying to give the next great Ted talk instead of Ted picking the most impactful content. They also got into echo chamber/preaching to the choir territory as it became too rote.
Up next, an article about how college kids are skipping learning and just using gpt for everything.
The hypocrisy is wild.
This nanny state for multi-leggers must end. Fancy Feast queens.
If sexual orientation, gender identity aren't a protected class, then you can legally not hire people for their sexual orientation and gender identity. E.g. you could completely, legally, not hire straight people and it would not be illegal discrimination because those categories are not considered illegal to discriminate against. It's legal to discriminate on many things in hiring; you can discriminate against stupid people, people who show up late and unprepared, people who don't have a degree (relevant or not for the most part), etc.
The point of Op you're responding to, is that it would be completely legal to approach hiring like that in this legal dystopia.
Neck and neck with US? As an American I feel like the UK is both better (some social protections and healthcare), worse (social mobility, pay, legacy monarchy shite like hereditary house of lords BS), and the same (private companies and the wealthy lobbying away what is right, elected officials selling the silverware by privatizing shit, debt, shooting themselves in the foot with economic suicides credit, tariffs...).
Anyone else have thoughts? Which is the worse country to live in for the average person?
When Trump beat Hillary I thought, oh, ok It has to get a lot worse first for the average American before it gets to healing. Maybe for a generation. Maybe many. Probably unlikely it's ever like it was 30+ years ago again TBH. Squandered quickly in the span of history. A blip.
It's on AFI's top 100 movies, yeah you'd better watch it. It's great to see bogart not playing suave, suited characters ala cary Grant.
John Huston was super interesting and influential filmmaker in his own right.
Actually fine some companies that break labor laws and don't build affordable housing when they're supposed to, and/ or pollute. None of that is happening. Boom, budget met easily for the next decade, bonus life improves.
I'll keep the money I've budgeted for as I'm entitled to it by statue and you can find your poorly planned and executed funds elsewhere.
Where are all the "do my own research" mofos now? Would be nice if they did that and learned about economics...
That is decidedly the finale house in L4D2 "Swamp Fever" campaign
I'd say given the current tech environment that book would "educate" based more on a Brave New World caste and less on ideal knowledge to raise someone up but to keep them in a certain assigned position.
Quick, you need a mental health app and a prescription too. It's not normal to be overwhelmed by this, you're the only one.
See: "free market" enthusiast Donald trump
Holy shit. I'm American and visited Loch Lomond and the trossarchs for the first time recently and this kind of vomitous entertainment in the middle of a temple of nature...above the objections of citizenry because of lobbiests and corruption, just appalling. I hope you have some sort of higher court function to which you can take this. Do your officials want ecoterroism? This is how you get it.
Business management practices. For a half century now, the snake has been eating it's tail devouring itself, it's employees, it's communities, it's government's...all to make Lumberg's stock go up 1/4 of a point. None of it is sustainable. Most of it is impractical. We all know it will end in violence in several likely ways and some of the damage is irreversible to people and planet. Yet, despite those unequaled consequences of current approaches, it's breathtaking the confidence with which freshly endebted newly minted business grads seek to join the line of miserable adults to create more miserable adults. Impressive execution of horrible ideas for sure.
I think your premise is pretty easily shown untrue; modern propaganda tools simply outpace and put volume traditional education and so bad ideas, memes and misinformation--to say nothing of the lower ends of human nature--are quite popular.
"Beatings will continue until morale improves" is a phrase that came from and for times like these. Welcome to the police state.
The NBA All-Star duo highlights a group that features WNBA legends Sue Bird, Maya Moore and Sylvia Fowles.
The Melo pick, while not surprising, is disappointing. I can't think of many players who did less with his talents and the situations he had. I had hoped that the NBA would stop honoring chuckers after the 90s; the last 10 years has seen the true elevation of "team" ball, San Antonio in 14/15 and GS for their stretch (and I'd argue Boston's failed few years showed you simply cannot win with hero ball and no defense and when Tatum finally stopped trying to be Kobe they finally won but I'm not here to argue about Boston).
Melo was never able to put aside his ego, arrogance or ignorance and learn to be part of a system on offense, let alone defense which he showed consistent contempt for. The closest he got to competing was in Denver--and that was mostly thanks to Chauncey and over-performances by most of the rest of the team. He immediately took that great team and opportunity and decided to get a bag instead, moved to NY and took himself out of competitive basketball in hims prime so he could be a NY superstar and work on his brand and celebrity which Denver couldn't offer. He took less money to go to NY, and because he demanded a trade before his contract was up, it forced NY to give up most of the young talent they had--so he arrived to a historically struggling basketball city that had been building a nice young core that it had to gut to get him. I don't recall if they ever even made the playoffs with Melo. He should have been booed at every touch for his duration there.
Melo never wanted it in the NBA, shrunk in the big moments, never committed to any sacrifice nor leading by example...until he finally had a mini-renaissance with a reduce role on the Blazers--something had he done it years prior would have made him a wicked weapon as a 6th man, but with that ego it wasn't happening.
If Melo gets in, Bradley Beal should get it. Can score with their eyes closed but want no part of what it takes to win. Hopefully the last relics of a dinosaur era where stats didn't matter.
---------------- Howard did more and did enough. Intensely unlikable guy, and while his ring wasn't really "his", he played some nice support minutes to AD and added value and managed to keep his idiocy in check thanks to the bigger dogs having him on a leash. Howard deserves HOF in my book.
Deschutes County commissioners voted 2-1 to end a DEI committee’s work following a 20 minute discussion.
Super brave Caucasian commissioners decide committee they do not directly benefit from does not have a purpose, in a wise and comprehensive evaluation showing exactly who is a member of their community worth investing in.
Program had no funding and cost nothing other than ~4 hours of each program member’s time related to the program each month.
Please keep this in mind when thinking about where you will travel, vacation, live and do business with in Oregon. If you'd like to share your thoughts with the county commissioners: board@deschutes.org
Deschutes County commissioners voted 2-1 to end a DEI committee’s work following a 20 minute discussion.
Super brave Caucasian commissioners decide committee they do not directly benefit from does not have a purpose, in a wise and comprehensive evaluation showing exactly who is a member of their community worth investing in.
Program had no funding and cost nothing other than ~4 hours of each program member's time related to the program each month.
Please keep this in mind when thinking about where you will travel, vacation, live and do business with. If you'd like to share your thoughts with the county commissioners: board@deschutes.org
Hi, I'm in the US and non-car safety is appalling. I live in a semi-urban area and get nearly hit, obstructed or aggressively cut off at crosswalks or driveways nearly every single time I run, which is every other day.
Rather than try to make the case with stats showing no local enforcement of pedestrian code, I've decided for my and likely my future lawyers sale I should just record and montage it. When I'm inevitably disabled or killed by one of these selfish dumbasses, at least it will make for simple settlements, and prosecutions .
I'm in the market for a headmounted/head strap camera, preferably with a microphone option. I googled a bit and there are some go-pro-ish options but they all seem pretty big and heavy, made for mountain biking or swimming, etc. anyone have ideas or links for a lighter option? Don't need 4k and 400gb of storage, just enough for an hour or video and audio at reasonable resolution.
TIA
It steadily has dropped for a year or more and I can't take it anymore. If I replace will they fix? I pulled it off and even with the water off there is still water coming out of the pipe at a slow, slow drip pace. Is it the water shut off that needs help? Would of course prefer the cheaper fix but if a new head isn't going to stop the leak it'd be good to know.
TIA
Ziply serves about 100,000 former Frontier customers in Oregon.
Ziply was a dumb pipe with decent rates for symmetrical fiber with moderate usage. No good can come of this for customers, hope Kahn blocks it.
Ziply serves about 100,000 former Frontier customers in Oregon.
Ziply was a dumb pipe with decent rates for symmetrical fiber with moderate usage. No good can come of this for customers, hope Kahn blocks it.
Ziply serves about 100,000 former Frontier customers in Oregon.
Ziply was a dumb pipe with decent rates for symmetrical fiber with moderate usage. No good can come of this for customers, hope Kahn blocks it.
Played out Monster Mayhem card game within a month or so. Bought Castle Panic and was a great fantasy intro board game, simple to learn with just enough strategy to keep it interesting for older folks but it's about run its course.
Looking for suggestions 2-3 can play together mix of youth and adults, ideally collaboratively. Basic-level RPG or strategy fantasy/mystery/adventure, small group of 3 max so not really a "DM" situation type game, all would be players.
TIA
Local union leaders in Seattle said 64% of members voted against accepting the proposal.
Screw your workers for 30+ years, move your production, make them embarrassed with your company name by eliminating engineering excellence and outsourcing quality to lowest bidder, withhold raises for a decade, remove a real retirement plan and see what happens.
Good for them.
I received several texts today on my personal phone number addressed to a minor child in my household for whom I provide health insurance from Kaiser.
- I opted out of Kaiser text message communications. They don't respect it because Marketing?
- The messages are addressing a minor child, yet sent to me, the adult. Kaiser would know their age. If they're young, directly texting them is a violation of parental consent. If they're a dependent there could be all kinds of privacy concerns for say a teen who maybe doesn't want their parents to be involved in such conversations.
- I went to Kaiser's website to make a complaint. They don't provide an e-mail contact so you have to use a web submission form. Attachments (e.g. screenshots) aren't allowed. I copied in the text of the text messages after noting my concerns above and tried to submit. The web form said "unsupported characters", which I then spent 30 minutes trying to guess which of the characters from the texts they sent me might be unsupported by their website.
- I decided to call their web support to find out which characters were unsupported, I'm sure I wasn't the first person to have the issue. They asked for personal identifying information that isn't necessary to provide website support, spent 5 minutes locating my account, and then told me they'd have to transfer me to a different region as they don't support my region.
- They transferred me and I received an audio notice that the region was experiencing technical difficulties and the call disconnected.
- I went back to the web form to open a complaint about their web form and submitted it suggesting they identify which characters are not permitted. The form also is about 3 lines of text high but accepts 1,000 characters which makes it very difficult to read as the web user (I'm sure a dark pattern to reduce form submission)
- I called support again to try to reengage them to find out if they could identify the characters so I could submit the ticket myself. I got a different agent and had to tell them my original complaint and then what had just happened. They said they didn't know which characters were permissible, that my regions support shouldn't be down as they had no alerts, and wouldn't be able to find out which characters the form could use, despite being web support. They said they could take my complaint over the phone.
- I asked what else they needed to make the complaint. The woman said just a minute and pulled up a form after talking to a colleague and asked me to start from the beginning to make my compliant. I hung up.
- I went back on the website, typed out the entirety of the text messages I had received, my concern and the form allowed me to submit. The text messages must have had a hidden character or space that wasn't visible to me when copying/pasting.
Now I wait to hear back on my two complaints. All so that, after furiously and competently struggling against the machine, I get back to a place where maybe if I'm lucky they will respect my communication preferences, not contact my child without my permission, potentially fix their shit website, which would leave me maybe about as good off as I was before I was aware of these issues.
I feel like Calvin at the bottom of the big snowball hill he and Hobbes used, only in the modern US it's a shit snowball and it's full of companies who are technologically incompetent and aren't incentivized to follow even the laws they likely helped shaped through lobbying. The above issue is hardly even bad compared to other situations I or others have been through, it's the routiniety of it that is so dystopian.
------- Edit: 10. IT support responded to my ticket tonight. They didn't read the complaint and provided boilerplate AI template responses on how to submit a ticket when logged in as a customer.They also provided instructions on how to take a screenshot and asked me to respond to their e-mail and attach it so they could review. I responded telling them I didn't need instructions on how to take a screenshot or how to submit a message, that was included in my ticket which they didn't read--I needed a functional communication system, and reviewing the above points and then attached screenshots. I received an automated response almost instantly from their system that I had responded to a ticket that had already been closed and that Kaiser hoped they had resolved the issue to my satisfaction. No ability to re-open the ticket, no contact e-mail or phone number to continue to try to resolve the issue.
Mia Rochelle Baggenstos, 37, and Reginald Lamont Reynolds, 35, were arrested for delivery of methamphetamine, unlawful possession of methamphetamine, unauthorized use of a vehicle and possession of a stolen vehicle.
...and it contained a meth/fent dealer starter kit; cash, gun, drugs and scales.
If anyone else uses this emulator and (unfortunately) Windows, are you seeing turbo run throughs when loading ROMS? This updates were installed yesterday and they're the only thing I can think of unless the rom speed can be controlled elsewhere in the system I'm not seeing:
2024-10 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5044285)
2024-10 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8.1 for Windows 11, version 23H2 for x64 (KB5044033)
Cheers. --------------- edit - fixed with tip below (- key slows down emulation)
Vote Yes! on Measure 118 to get yearly rebates of $1,600 for yourself and every Oregonian, kids included. A four person household will get over $6,400 every year. Paid for by making giant corporations pay their fair share.
I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count.
Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.
Vote Yes! on Measure 118 to get yearly rebates of $1,600 for yourself and every Oregonian, kids included. A four person household will get over $6,400 every year. Paid for by making giant corporations pay their fair share.
I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count.
Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.
Vote Yes! on Measure 118 to get yearly rebates of $1,600 for yourself and every Oregonian, kids included. A four person household will get over $6,400 every year. Paid for by making giant corporations pay their fair share.
I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count.
Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.
Vote Yes! on Measure 118 to get yearly rebates of $1,600 for yourself and every Oregonian, kids included. A four person household will get over $6,400 every year. Paid for by making giant corporations pay their fair share.
I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count.
Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.