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Comment · 5 years ago
gender?
Comment · 5 years ago
Without dysphoria the trans crowd is no different than otherkin or that Rachel Dozel woman.
Comment · 5 years ago
pretty sure it's a generational thing, and unfortunately, a disappearing habit.
Comment · 5 years ago
Not sure why you're getting the down arrow. 10-15 years ago you could use reddit practically any which way you wanted and it was never an issue. Nowadays I can hardly load a page without stock Chrome.
Comment · 5 years ago
Or hack their router to figure out their physical location. Water+microwaves etc.

Or van eck phreaking.

Or sell them tattletale electronics, like ethernet or usb cables.

Or rubber hose em.

Or ask scroogle/fecebook.

Comment · 5 years ago
Covid was just the finger on the trigger for the whole world's loaded footgun. Excessive interdependency and each new generation of the managerial class keeping things lean to look good on paper has landed everything up shit creek. Idle hands were justifying paychecks.

I've seen companies go from doing everything in house to outsourcing everything. It was ugly before covid, but now it might be sinking the ship. They used to retain the necessary talent, keep a stock of necessary $THING, and get things done on time and on budget. Now the MBA's see a way to cut costs on paper but it all ends up late and over budget. On to the next ship for them after this top heavy piece of shit sinks.

I'm sure there's a careful business calculus for not bringing people up from the bottom but goddamnit I used to see results, and happier coworkers.

Comment · 5 years ago
Hah. I have a love/hate relationship with the FAA. Funny story: a building was something like a foot over spec, about a mile off the end of a regional airport and the FAA found out. I do not envy the builder.

I've known some FAA people and they're some of the more interesting types I've come across.

Comment · 5 years ago
Complaining about git is like complaining about any other unix tool, if you don't read the docs you're in for trouble. Sometimes a lot of it.
Comment · 5 years ago
I've got a settlement for them, and it only cost about $.70 a head. I swear they'll be immune from future legal action.
Comment · 5 years ago
i like the numbers they come up in some of those lawsuits. i have uhh...heard of people that have robbed the entertaintment industry of roughly the world gdp. if you go by their numbers.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'll bite. Lazing a pilot endangers a lot more than one person's sight. It's not even close to being equivalent with someone doing it to one person who's not flying a plane.

I really don't want a regulatory eye turned towards lasers, at least during a media cycle. Determined assholes will just take apart their BDR players. It'll stop most kids I guess, but I think more media coverage could lead to more behaviour like this.

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