Bibles. There are so many fucking bibles. When I worked for a church we probably had 20 people a year buy a while new set of new bibles for the church. Like - we already had like 3,000 bibles with a weekly attendance of about 500. We didn’t need new bibles, but people just kept giving them to us.
It’s the most-printed book of all time, and they just don’t stop making them. It’s insane.
Had a friend who’s wife started assuming he was cheating or trying to cheat with any other woman in his life. It was very extreme. Like - he once held the door open for a random woman entering a restaurant and she started accusing the woman of being a whore.
He ended up staying with her for a few more years because their daughter was 16 and he didn’t want to end up paying child support, and when they split up the 18yo daughter moved in with him.
I work in the development department of a very small municipality, and am also the GIS department, website dude, and in-house IT.
Our Public Works director didn’t want to learn to browse my maps on the web portal, so he spent like 35 grand on a third-party GIS tool thay was supposed to be super easy - we just had to provide the mapping for it.
He just assumed he could have me build out and maintain an entirely separate GIS system just for him.
He no longer works for the city.
They don’t, which is why they can’t prohibit this satellite. It meets all their requirements regarding radio interference.
The Satellite should absolutely be stopped, but the FCC isn’t the agency to do it.
It’s better.
Cities have to report on their budgets, and spending more taxpayer money replacing cameras the public doesn’t want that are very much in the public eye is something many City Councils won’t want to continue.
For cities where Council is split on the issue, this kind of expense is the kind of thing that may push that last vote over the threshold to cancel the contract.
Flock still makes its money, but their contracts aren’t renewed and the cameras are covered up, so it’s a win overall.
They’re going all-in on AI because they know they’ve accumulated too much power and the backlash is coming. They’re trying to eliminate the need to keep the poors around for things like labor and security.
There goes my algorithm.
Anyone remember the Wing Commander 3 and 4 cutscenes?
Mark Hammil, John Ryhs-Davies, Malcolm McDowell, Tom Wilson, Casper Van-Dien, and even Walton Goggins!
You mean Kazaa Lite K++, right?
I loved so much that one of the top downloads on Kazaa was a ripped version of the paid version of Kazaa.
Does it? I always see them.
My city finally got a court order against a billionaire for unpermitted building that allows us to bulldoze his house. Just took 7 years in court to get the ruling…
And instead of bulldozing the house, we were able to use the court order to strongarm them into fixing their site so it no longer damages the environment, their neighbors, or city infrastructure.
The upside for the city there (aside from having to bid out and manage a major project in-house) is that we get a lot more tax revenue from a house that is brought into compliance than a scarred, demolished site.
I think my account was banned, but don’t know for sure. I left during the API bullshit.
Definitely didn’t do anything against the rules.
If you write enough laws in a manner that makes it easy to violate them accidentally, then anyone can be prosecuted at any time and civil liberties can be removed via technicalities.
Most police departments also don’t generally have helicopters and paint bombs.
The real world isn’t GTA where you get a 5-star rating and suddenly all the cops can instantly appear with missile launchers and shit.
I work for a small city in the same building as the police department. And yeah, they have AR-15s and body armor now, but grenades and helicopters are a different story. They’d have to get the closest major city, or more likely the National Guard to deliver that kind of firepower.
And it’s not that the police didn’t try whatbthey could in this case. They jumped on top of the machine, and even dropped a flashbang (which SWAT teams do have) into the stovepipe to try and disable it.
The governor reportedly considered sending in the national guard with an attack chopper, but a hellfire missile does a lot of damage and theocal decision to try and block his escape from the hardware store with a different dozer worked. He wasn’t able to back out after ramming the shop, and was forced to try and drive through, getting stuck in the process.
Grenades aren’t exactly standard issue police equipment.
There’s scraping data, which should be considered stealing, and then there’s asking people to steal company data as part of an interview process.
This is actual industrial espionage. If true, it could be a big deal.
That’s how they’ve been operating for years. They’ll go public soon enough though, so your 401k will take the hit instead of the parasites on top.
That’s what the SpaceX IPO was about. They were listed on the NASDAQ way earlier than companies are normally allowed to be so the assholes up top could raid your retirement fund despite there being no path to profitability.
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.
It was shortly after covid that she went kinda crazy, so I’ve wondered if she had some long-covid issues.