There’s a government-tier system used by lots of schools, cities, etc. It fucking SUCKS.
Like: if you have Outlook on your mobile device and add a government system account, it makes you remove any other accounts. Even if those other accounts are part of the same organization.
And since I manage more than 1 email account that need to go to separate inboxes for legal reasons, I get to carry 3 phones and a tablet.
I think the worst part is that the Vice President openly defended them.
The state is actually a big part of the problem in this case. Small gas trucks are effectively illegal.
Automakers were fucking around with vehicle classifications in the 2000s to get around CAFE regulations. Things like the PT Cruiser were being classified as trucks. So starting in 2012, CAFE regulations were changed so that fuel economy standards were based on vehicle footprint. But it had a huge unintended consequence.
Suddenly a Toyota Corolla had less-strict fuel economy standards than small commercial vehicles like the Dakota, S-10, and Ranger. Notice how all 3 models were discontinued by 2012? And now that the Ranger is “back” its footprint is larger than some old F-150s?
As the CAFE standards get stricter over time, manufacturers have learned it’s easier to just make the car bigger than to meet the fuel economy standards. They’ve made the marketing about penisnsize and shit, but it’s really more about meeting regulations.
A more recent casualty was small cargo vans. The Transit Connect, ProMaster City, and NV200 were all discontinued by 2022 because small cargo vans can’t meet CAFE. This is also why New York had to cancel its new Taxi fleet that was based on the NV200.
A lot of the confusion comes from the fact that the FBI refers to is personnel as agents, whereas “agent” means something entirely different to the CIA.
CIA agents aren’t employees of the CIA, but are people in other positions that are being used by the CIA. This can include informants, spies, etc.
I was in Costco the other day, and there were a shocking number of people loudly complaining about prices. Usually people in the store will keep it to themselves, or maybe grumble a bit and move on. But they were truly getting worked up.
GOP is really playing it stupidly. The number one way to get violently overthrown is to make it hard for people to put food on their plates.
If I had a car that had suddenly stopped working due to a careless update, I’d want it to be bricked so I could make the manufacturer pay for a different fucking car.
CIA agents aren’t government employees.
Yes, but also make it clear why you are leaving. And as dirty as it feels, don’t tell them their actions are irredeemable and they’ve lost you for life.
If you tell them you’ll never come back no matter what, then they no longer have to care about your opinion. You’re essentially telling them that they should start catering more-heavily to the fascists now that the only potential customers don’t mind them bending the knee.
States and cities try to criminalize recording police all the time.
Way too many jobs require degrees to apply as well. Yeah, if you’re a doctor, scientist, engineer, or other specialist that really does require advanced education, you need that level of education.
But I’m hiring a new permit tech to process contractor registrations, take permit payments, and answer the phone. It’s ludicrous that the city wants them to have a degree in “Public Administration, Fiance, Construction Science, or a related field.”
I rent, so I’m not showed to store a trailer, so I’d have to pay for trailer storage.
I actually own a little trailer, but I have to keep it at my parents house, which is about 200 miles away.
Also called “illegal” in most places.
And the flying is, it was much cheaper when it wasn’t mandatory. Liability insurance used to be super cheap because people didn’t want to pay for insurance that didn’t cover their own car. But when states started mandating liability insurance the price skyrocketed.
What grinds my gears though is being required to have liability insurance for every car even though the car itself isn’t covered. I’d love to daily drive a super-efficient electric car, but I teach scuba on the side and once or twice a week end up having to haul a bunch of dive gear in my cargo van. But with the cost of liability insurance, I can’t afford to keep my van as a beater weekend driver when the time comes to get a new daily driver, so I’ll have to buy another fuel-guzzling murder machine that I mostly drive to an office job downtown.
The cool thing about inflation is it hides shitty stock market performance.
The greater the inflation, the more stocks and GDP go up!
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. So of course it’s on the Republican’s enemy list.
When the butchers at a single Walmart store in Texas formed a union, Walmart retaliated by firing every butcher nationwide and switching to only pre-packed meats for all stores.
They’ll put themselves through a lot to make sure the peons don’t get too uppity.
Lemon juice. Tomato sauce. That one egg that for some reason decided to be a real motherfucker.
I love my cast iron cookware, but it can be a fickle bitch.
I can drive 2 hours in still be in Austin.
Christ only threatened Hell one time, in Matthew 25. He says people will be damned for the following reasons:
How is the GOP the party of Christ again?
Did I mention the part where I work for a municipal government by day and teach at a public university by night? It’s 2 phones and a tablet for the city, one for the university, and a 4th phone I didn’t mention for me.
Though the school phone usually gets left in my bag. I teach scuba and underwater photography. Nobody’s gonna lose their house over me waiting a few days to respond to an email. The only time my duties there are critical is when I’m actively with the students. Then it’s more important because pressurized encironkents and breathing and stuff.
But I also don’t take my phone underwater ^(on purpose).