This is 100% correct in the IT world. I have a split IT dept due to mergers (its a whole thing, people are fighting to not give up knowlage on systems so their position looks useful to mgmt… its fucked) and the other side of the fence are the most useless window-lickers ever because their tier 1 just closes things almost at random to bump their numbers up.

Most people live in the northern hemisphere, winter in January is cold and miserable for a lot of the planet. What do you think people are supposed to do inside? Play checkers?

Plus, shit like this happens all the time. If you turn into the gate lanes for a bunch of federal buildings and your not there for a reason, they will detain you, even if it was an accident (they are very clearly marked, some have entire exit ramps to themselves). Every year or so, someone does this, panics and/or does something stupid… For the DMV, this is a just a normal Tuesday.

Represent!

When they fired all the agents who were tracking down J6 rioters, they fired all the comptent people at the department… What they hell did they expect was going to happen. Plus, now that the feds have changed how they hire and fire people, noone capable of doing that job well will be applying.

Seconding steam deck, but also need to add in the docking station. That formfactor has stolen my heart, it does mobile gaming, along with having the horse power to be a PC substitute at home.

In addition to SteamOS, but ill let others promote linux and sticking it to microsoft now that linux desktops are finally crossing the “it just works” finish line.

I mostly am refering to food quality, no matter the quisine. When ever I fly back to the US from abroad, it takes a few days for everything to stop tasting like plastic, or having something off about it.

Its quite sad…

Best Fish n’ Chips Ive had was at a small pub near the old harbor in Reyknavik, arguing with two brits about toy internet spaceships, where the fish was alive that morning.

Euro food is the best, even the simple things, its just better.

You dont write the number of feet in a mile as 14A0 (base-16 for this example).

Your complaining about ratios used for unit conversion, not base numeral systems… Fuck, this feels like a slashdot comment.

The feet to mile conversion is still in base-10… Its the ratios between the units that are seemingly arbitrary. Come on…

He already isnt allowed within 500 feet of Ikea…

Fair. The point is that on the artist formerly known as twitter, there are still some who can be talked out of the point of view because they have not seen anything else, the platform supresses them and bans conversations based on what ever elons biases are this week. Others have already drank the coolaid and the only solution then is to just throw heavy history text books at them until it sinks in that there is a reason that books covering europe from 1935-1945 weigh a ton.

Im getting Chuck Tingle vibes…

For people already in the deep end. Its opinionated and does a lot of things for you to manage higher end consumer hardware (stuff you could manage yourself and learn how it works). For people who are a Windows native and are fleeing W11, it gets my recomendation as in Linux land it pretty close to “It just works”.

Imposter! Thats not Mariner, her sleves are to rolled down.

I would not worry about that. Her legal team has already stuck it to the entire music label industry. They already got that covered for her and made bank doing so (lawyers that good aint cheap).

I dont have a problem with that, but what I will object to is the current regime making the replament ID system. 1) there is no way they would design it well or securely, smart people capable of building such a system are usually the first to bounce to another country as they will have the means to do so. 2) it would be too easy for them to lord the new ID over peoples heads (like they are with immigration status now) and impliment a social credit score like China does.

Your correct that SSNs should not be used as IDs, but getting the government to build a modern system for that opens too many avanues for abuse (especially with darth cheeto in charge).

Tell that to silicon valley, its a marketing bit now. Being “Too cool for school” is part of the tech startup playbook.

If I had a nickle for ever time the UK did something pants-on-head stupid or short-sighted from a minor survey or public poll, [counts change jar]… How much are big macs these days?

Peter’s Evil Overlord List #32 - will not fly into a rage and kill a messenger who brings me bad news just to illustrate how evil I really am. Good messengers are hard to come by.

He is failing simple things from a listicle from 1996…