My jobs don’t have “work as long as you like” schedules. You work until the day is done - even if you’d rather be cooking. I’m up at 5 to start the day and don’t get home until 8 or 9 most nights. With so little time at home, I don’t have 30 minutes to dedicate to cooking.
Yeah - I could spend my weekend cooking and cleaning, but then my life would entirely be working or prepping for the week in which I’ll be working. I need to have some time that’s for me.
His pettiness has allowed him to achieve amazing things. He used it to fuel his ambitions to replace the Catholic Church.
Now he is the one offering sanctuary and relief to countless pedophiles worldwide.
The show is about the Air Force traveling the universe (where everyone speak English) using puddles designed by an ancestor race made up of Arthurian characters and later controlled by Egypitian and Norse Gods.
The math is sometimes a bit hand-wavey.
Smaller non-electric trucks and vans are effectively illegal in the US. Starting in 2011, fuel economy ratings started being weighted on vehicle footprint instead of vehicle classification. And as fuel economy regs become stricter, it’s easier for the manufacturers to just make the footprint larger than to make things more efficient.
It’s why the Dakota, S-10, and Ranger all stopped being made that year, and when the Ranger was relaunched years later it was the size of older F-+50s. It’s also why every compact cargo van stopped being produced between 2021 and 2022 as fuel economy standards increased.
An NV200 compact commercial cargo van has stricter fuel economy requirements than a Toyota Camry.
Jesus Christ I’m tired of people not understanding what a write-off is.
It’s a reduction in taxable income, not a tax bill. If your tax rate is 20 percent and you write off a $100 loss, your tax burden is reduced by $20, resulting in a net loss of $80.
You can’t just make massive losses go away with a write-off.
All we know is the screen isn’t using HDMI 2.1.
It’s harder to tell a woman she’d be prettier if she smiled if you can’t see her mouth.
I didn’t fully understand the glory of working from home until I did it on a snow day.
Removing the commute was an obvious, expected benefit. But turning off the camera and doing laundry or cooking lunch while in one of my multiple daily conference calls was amazing. I just had the meeting in my headphones and chimed in when needed. And it annoys me that can’t be my regular routine.
I drive 3-4 hours a day in traffic to sit in a (very nice) office where 95% of my work is remote work using cloud-based software and attending Teams meetings.
But because once a week or so someone may walk into city hall and ask for me instead of sending an email or making a phone call I’m expected to be in the office. Which is doubly annoying since most of the time they get turned away because I’m already in a separate online meeting when they show up.
I do legitimately have to attend public meetings a few evenings a month. I’d be so happy to compromise and go into the office on days with public hearings or when I need to visit a site, but work remote the remaining 80-90% of the time. Hell - I’d even trade working an extra hour a day while remote to do it. It’ll still save me time versus driving.
First inpressions matter. The thing most people want operating systems to do is get out of the way. And while using Linux is great (so long as your software supports it), setting it up is not seamless. If you want to install Linux, new users have to spend 8 hours surfing 20 boards to be told 30 different answers about which distro to use. And that’s before you even get started.
If you want to install Windows, you just fucking install Windows.
Your company is an outlier.
Windows is the PC operating system used by almost every organization. If you aren’t willing to work with it, you really need to be clear about that up front.
It’s like trying to get a job as a mechanic at an auto shop and telling them after the interview you refuse to work on Toyotas.
Absolutely. PEBKAC is real.
But as a good user, it still annoys the hell out of me.
Dude - I just need you to type in the admin password so I can install software or fix whatever is wrong that you don’tunderstand. We really don’t need to spoon.
I wouldn’t actually mind if they actually vetted the software, but they just type in the password and install whatever I click on. I once changed the name of an installer for a new version of QGIS to “IT malware installation test” and they didn’t even notice.
Or just wear a hoodie and mechanics gloves and don’t drive up to it.
When I watched Breaking Bad, I was mesmerized by Walt’s descent from a man who just wanted to help his family into the monster he became.
When I watched it the second time, I realized there was no descent. The monster was there from the first frame, but I had been used to seeing the main character as essentially good.
Brian Cranston’s performance gets praised all day every day online, and against all odds it lives up to the hype.
Super PACs are so 2012. In 2024 SCOTUS ruled that officials are allowed to accept “gratuities” so long as they don’t directly say it’s a bribe.
Unless it’s for the President. Then they can just say it’s a bribe.
Childless uncle here. My role is to love my nephew and support him in whatever way he needs me to.
Sometimes he just needs me to be a responsible, safe adult he can count on who isn’t burdened by the need to act parental.
Things were bad in the 80s in general.
Look at movies from the time. Revenge of the Nerds has one of the nerds dressing up in the same costume as a jock to have sex with his rival’s girlfriend. And when she finds out after the deed, she loved the rape so much she decides to dump her boyfriend.
Blade Runner - the beloved classic sci-fi has Harrison Ford pinning a woman who says no to a wall and sexing her up as the romantic climax of the film.
I work in municipal development and we have 20 new “developers” a week trying to get us to buy their permitting apps. All of them are willing to offer us an exclusive discount as an early adopter, and the few I’ve had meetings with haven’t even been able to tell us what backend databases the apps use or understand that there’s a difference between an Amending Plat, Site Development permit, and a Building permit.
And I have to fight the mayor every time because he’s all aboard with the AI hype. He tried having all the city ordinances and decelopment manuals re-written by GPT to make them easier to understand, and we had to get the city attorney to explain that not only was it idiotic, but that it would cost a couple hundred grand just to have his firm go over everything and explain the specifics of how dumb it was, and that if a code re-write is needed (and it is), they should spend that money hiring a firm specializing in code review.
The slop apps are out there - they’re just all being pitched to governments and CEOs that have infinite faith in anything that will make people more expendable.
Having required hours or multiple jobs is illegal?
Having a shitty commute is illegal?