Half my University students weren’t alive for Halo 3.

I teach at University and half of my students weren’t alive for Halo 3’s release.

The US has a weird mix of big emplty spaces, really fucking expensive existing underground utilities and roadways, and private property (easements ain’t free) that makes new underground utilities stupidly expensive to run.

You have to buy big easements, negotiate utility contracts with local and state governments (to use the public right-of-way), dodge existing infrastructure while repairing what you break, and lay a fuckton of cable.

I work on the municipal side, and despite Google Fiber having a utility agreement with us for years they still have yet to lay a single foot of underground fiber because we won’t allow them to cut across roads that we just replaced in the last year, require their microtrenches to follow engineering standards, and they need to show existing underground water, gas, wastewater, and electrical services on their plans because they’re famous for just running a trench and making it the water district’s problem when they cut 7 public lines in an hour.

They probably have a stronger claim and higher-ceiling on their portion of any judgment suing individually.

Yeah - these are crazy preppers. Inknow a few of them, and they’re the kinds of people who you very much do NOT want to share a bunker with.

At will employment isn’t a magic trick, and this case demonstratesit clearly. It means employees can be terminated without cause. But if employees are terminated without cause they get to claim unemployment. That’s why they manufacturered a reason here - to keep him from being able to claim unemployment.

It also allows them to term employees for illegal reasons. An older employee making more money and approaching pension can’t be fired and denied pension for being old. But if they steal a cookie? Absolutely.

That rule ain’t gonna stick any more than the lining in th reflection pool.

That actually sounds pretty dope. Make the pitch round with walls (kinda like arena soccer), and that could be fun. You could even do something cool where each goal actually gives points to both the opposing teams so there’s a more strategic dynamic to it.

I so use my Quadraphonic 8-track player as my main speaker system.

I keep “Star Wars and other Galactic Funk” by MECO loaded in it, mostly because i don’t think it would survive being removed at this point.

You haven’t lived until you’ve heard disco mixes of the Star Wars soundtrack that were made as a serious project and not a parody.

Work Product and Attorney Client privilege are broken by AI use, making anything shared with an AI discoverable.

Defaulting AI on is how you get the corporate lawyers to make us drop Microsoft.

Starts blowing towards DC

That’s just being a raider with good PR.

They aren’t Christian.

The only time Christ really threatens damnation (Matthew 25), it’s over the mistreatment of the poor, sick, imprisoned, and foregners.

People don’t understand just how difficult it is to cool stuff in space. Half of the shit sticking out of the ISS that people think are solar panels are actually radiant cooling systems, and the ISS will generate WAY less heat per volume than a data center.

Honestly, Lemmy has been good for me in some ways because it isn’t as popular and doesn’t have the deep niche communities reddit has that I was super active in.

I get more accomplished now because I essentially “finish” my Lemmy browsing and move on, whereas reddit always had something else for me to dive into.

Why spend all that money and resources cultivating actual intelligence?

My parents bought a retirement property byba lake in the middle of nowhere and pit a boat on a lift on the dock. But the lake is a water supply lake, and their dock is only about 4-5 feet deep when the lake is full, which is only for about a week after a major flood these days.

Most of the time when I visit I end up driving under the boat with the lawnmower. It’s just a really expensive porch swing at this point. We can’t even take it to a different lake because it’s stuck on the slings

The fact that they’re making companies sign 5-year contracts for the current prices before selling anything at all says that they’re expecting the demand to collapse soon, and they want to lock in the high prices before that happens.

When industries pull this bullshit, they should be nationalized.

One of the most important reasons to cite journal articles and books with an ISBN instead of web links never gets mentioned.

Web links change all the time. Page numbers and paragraphs do not. Your sources shouldn’t die when AWS does a migration or a website changes its name.

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