Just don’t go into the confession booth with a black light…

It routinely does, and they still don’t learn.

I use subtitles and I am a native English speaker… sometimes the actors mumble or get washed out in the mix, or just the room we’re watching in is a bit noisy, so being able to read the dialogue helps my brain to pick out what they’re saying a lot easier.

States don’t operate their own postal services though, and this is the problem. A state can allow mail-in voting, but if the USPS doesn’t deliver the ballots, then the state effectively doesn’t have mail-in voting.

Also, any CompSci grad I’ve worked with couldn’t write code for shit unless they learned how outside of their schooling, and yet so many go the CompSci -> programmer route instead of doing like SW Eng or something like that.

Heavy tariffs, I presume?

Not likely, just campitalism doing it’s thing. If people buy it at ~$1 each, they’ll sell it for that, and try to raise the price again next year.

You’re paying for time, that’s the most expensive part of all restaurant food. Time in employees wages, time in the building’s rent cost, and so on. The coffee beans are probably the third lowest costing part of the cup of coffee, just above the water and electricity.

I’ve worked at places with <50 people where the 2 IT people had “manager” titles, but they were just “the IT people” in practice - one handled user stuff, the other was focused on the client-facing infrastructure.

Our lone HR person was also the “HR manager”, we had a single “accounting manager”, and a couple more like that. Some departments ended up expanding and the “managers” did end up with direct reports, but that’s kinda just how small businesses work, this posting sounds a lot like that.

How about

Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy, and a fried egg on top, and,

Span

The process of producing lumber is largely automated.

The process of producing concrete is largely automated.

The process of producing drywall, mud, paint, nails, tools, wires, switches, pipes, are all largely automated.

The process to create the architectural designs and blueprints for the house are largely automated.

The process to create the electricity, fuels and vehicles needed are all largely automated.

To make a house, people used to draw plans by hand (if at all), chop the trees down with an axe and/or saw that was made by hand by a blacksmith, shape the timber with hand tools made by the blacksmith, fasten things together with hand-crafted joinery or nails hand-made by the blacksmith. All the materials were transported by hand or by horse and lifted onto the structure by hand or manually operated hoist. Every part of it, including the production of all the tools, was previously done by hand.

The invention of the assembly line opened up the possibility to eventually automate virtually everything except the final assembly, and we have robots that can be made capable of doing that autonomously as well. You can buy pre-fab homes where all the major sections are built in a factory by robots and shipped out to the construction site and attached together.

Construction is far more automated than what you make it out to be.

There was a bit of fan-lore I read a while back that the stormtroopers intentionally missed because Vader didn’t want them to kill his kids… really its because it would make for bad cinema if the NPCs killed the main characters 30 seconds into their first scenes…

Reach, throw, row, go is what we were taught when I was a kid.

Use a stick or something for them to grab if you’re close enough

Throw something buoyant attached to a rope to tow them back

Row out in a boat and use a paddle/buoy/life jacket for them to grab and tow them back, especially if in a canoe, they’ll capsize you trying to get in.

Finally, if nothing else works, go and do the stuff you said

The straightest Home Depot has to offer!

but, like, socialism would be soooo expeeennnnsive

Definitely not free, little fuckers are expensive AF :D

Yes, it absolutely does.

Prod should always be highly “air gapped” with some sort of deployment process which tests not only the code to be deployed but also the deployment itself. I’ve been doing QA for a good while now, and everywhere I’ve worked has testers dedicated to testing the actual update process to make sure it will be safe when deployed.

Spent nearly 10 years working call center jobs, every single one of them had QA people listening to random calls and grading them. If you didn’t stick to the script or try to sell the thing or whatever it was, you’d get a failing grade on the call. Enough of those and you’re gone.

You’re also graded on how long each call takes based on a metric called “Average Handle Time” or AHT which was set by the client based on whatever fucking fantasy they had about how long each call should take.

Fun fact, some contracts I worked on had an AHT requirement that was lower than the amount of time it would take to go through all of their required scripted sales pitches without even addressing the reason for the call. It was literally impossible to get full marks because you either had to skip most of their required scripts, not help the customer, or have the call run long.

That’s exactly how I usually play it too :)

I think you forgot to mention that it’s cheap