As a fellow bureaucrat, I absolutely understood his frustration. Why go through the entire process of switching insurance, risking missed coverage days, and other bs, when you could just call and have a person look at the generated evaluation numbers to fix things? He wasn’t mad at me; just had his professional bride bruised when he found out that I was getting the same effect as the official process by doing (in his eyes) even more work than a simple call would be.

I actually love finding these things in my job. Whenever someone does something that looks really silly on the surface, but as soon as you look into it from a user persective you find out it’s just as good (or better) than the official process you originally expected. It’s always trippy finding them because you have to turn your brain around to understand why they did it. And you always wanna keep it in your back pocket if you ever end up in a similar situation.

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I’ve found that this is usually a “staying with a single insurance provider” problem. I usually end up switching every two years or so, but I check everytime my six month renewal comes up. I’ve found that my premiums pretty consistently go down so long as I keep looking around. The last few times I switched from geico to progressive then back to geico, and the cost went down each time I switched.

Fun fact. At the last call to make sure my insurance was switched over properly, I had the csr angrily explain that in order to get the same affect, all I had to do was ask for a reevaluation of my policy. It turns out that the automated systems that send out your new price every renewal don’t do a good job of adjusting the premiums down and you’re supposed to ask a person at the company to review things if you don’t like the automatic price.

I plan on continuing my personal policy of switching providers every few years anyways. I’d rather have the new customer prices than deal with a person on the phone going through every option to see if the new price is actually better or worse than the competitors offers.

You could also modify the frame to have that pole blocking things be removable; cut it off and weld on a pair of bolts to put it back when you’re done.

The phone would be otherwise still fine despite being 2 years old. I’m sure even if it was covered, Google would find some way to not repair it under the program because it is a carrier unlocked model running GrapheneOS.

I had a different, also known hardware issue with my pixel 8 screen. I also use grapheneos. I used the pixel replacement policy that google had (the phone was still under warranty) and I didn’t even bother to put the OS back to default, just erased everything on it. They didn’t even bother to check for the default software, just that they got a pixel 8 back from me.

Fun fact, I actually grew up with the right one inside my house garage, running. My dad managed to find a working one somehow, and was just handy enough to hook it into the water in the wall of the garage. It was actually really neat.

It feels like all the breaking bad characters were designed to be the heel. I couldn’t stand any of them, and if I can’t stand any of the characters, why would i bother continuing watching the show?

Repeat offenders. It’s always repeat offenders.

Gender as a social construct tends to pretty strongly fall under the umbrella of “this is one of the arbitrary societal rules” that you run across just about everytime you talk with a regular person for me. I like being male, but all the trappings of being male, like muscles, beards, beer, bars, hunting, whatever, are only there because people say they belong there, and not because that is a thing I feel makes sense on its own merits. Essentially, long flowing wedding dresses as daily office wear on men would make just as much sense as a suit and tie does.

However, gender, for me, very specifically has me appreciate what I was born with. I like having a beard, I like having muscles, and I like the traditionally masculine clothes I wear. These things just aren’t really connected to my self-perceived identity as a man. I wear my clothes because they feel right, not because they’re what men wear. I keep my beard because it’s fun to have, not because men have beards.

I think the autism just makes connecting “this societal trend tends to read as male or female” to “this is how I feel as a man/woman/other” a lot harder for us than it is for most people. The only reason I even learned about what being trans feels and looks like is because of the people in my life who are trans. If they had instead transitioned and just said nothing beyond “use this name and pronoun”, I don’t know how much I would have actually noticed about it. I had siblings penciling mustaches on years ago and just kinda went “fashion lmao” and didn’t look any deeper into it. Like, my parents asked me specifically about the mustache, and I brushed it off, because all trends are arbitrary to my eyes; this was just one more thing on a long list of things that don’t have to make sense to be followed as a rule.

If you are an ICE agent experiencing thoughts of suicidal ideation, remember this: your choices and actions have led you to be undeserving of the life you were gifted, and the world is better off without you.

GodDAYUM that article is fucking brutal.

From the article:

Here’s what went wrong:

• Door misalignment — 4 repair attempts
• Front drive unit whine/noise — 5 attempts
• Water leaking from the tonneau cover — 3 attempts
• Suspension clunking — 2 attempts
• Water leaks from driver/passenger doors — 8 attempts
• Rear drive inverter false undervoltage errors — resulted in disabled drive units
• PowerShare system malfunction — never worked and was deemed hazardous

It’s funny but I think you nailed the timeline on the head. I got a 2019 corolla (it’s a manual and it doesn’t need a key!) and all I had to do to get it off the internet was pull a single fuse and reroute a speaker wire. The controls are actually a pretty good mix of physical and touch too.

It used to have support for showing maps on the head unit, but that never worked reliably and required special software that has been discontinued. I tried manual updating the software and that feature is gone gone.

I have actually rented a couple corollas since then, and they’ve all been disappointingly worse as far as everything about them is concerned.

About six weeks. I was attached to someone else’s unit at NTC in California for a training excersize with them. There were no showers in the field, and the showers pre and post excersize were colder than a witches tit, and open as a gay mans asshole after all night orgy.

And that wasn’t the worst part of the whole experience either.

Honestly that last one looks pretty dope. I gotta try that.

The built-in GPS limits are for speed and height, not accuracy.

You’ve never seen the after-effects of someone who actually got surgery to change smaller things. Those aren’t obvious, but they are incredibly common. The rare few who do it so often that it makes them unrecognizable as natural just stand out from it all the more because of how successful it is for regular people.

The other part of it is that body issues often lie to you about what is good/bad about yourself, and they don’t always stop doing that just because you changed it to what you thought you wanted. If you have the money for it, that can be a very vicious cycle all on its own. Don’t get me wrong; I do things to alter my appearance regularly as well, you just have to be careful not to let the intrusive thoughts win where you can.

I think the rich people who make themselves that aweful looking through so many surgeries likely need help; I don’t expect very many of them to be happy about the result at all.

You’d just print the photo on the paper instead of that. Use the benefits of the medium to your advantage. Physical copies of photos has a history of working which is waaaaay longer than any current digital medium could ever match.

This is likely more for things which require digital data storage, programs, longer form text that space constraints mean you can’t just print as a book, security codes, etc.

Goddammit I ate the onion.

So, the tweet isn’t entirely true; my experience in the army was that we very much did irregularly do marches together, even after basic training. Every few months or so the battallion or brigade leadership would get an idea about a ‘fun run’ or whatever, and the start of those is always a march together. It inevitably switched to running together, but there was definitely a quick refresher on walking in step together on a regular basis.

What the tweeter missed is that there’s tricks that every leadership command knows to do if they want a formation to look good.

If you wanted to put a military parade on that actually looked good you’d do a couple things prior to running it. You’d tell your various units to have a competition for who does it best, and you’d put up a basic-ass award for the winners and runners up. This ensures that any ladder climbers go out and find all the people who are actually good at this to put together a small super squad of people who actually know what they’re doing. You then have them compete, and you pick the units that did the best to lead your parade.

We actually did this in basic training; my drill sgts had a little demonstration where they put the people good at keeping time together and the people bad it together. It was damn impressive how much of a difference just doing that made. One or two bad marchers can ruin a whole formation with their lack of timing.

None of this was done; at best they practiced for pt for a couple weeks before the event, but even that is iffy. They likely didn’t bother to filter the parade members who can’t march out, and that’d be good enough to turn this into a herd instead of a formation.

This doesn’t rule out malicious compliance at all though; again, one or two bad marchees doing their best (or worst) job can completely throw off the timing of everybody behind and next to them. Same way as counting wrongly out loud can throw off someone trying to count up to 50.

It’s all read only, yes, but I just use a group specifically for NAS access and put users that need it in there.

I use the NFS version from the debian repository; not actually sure which one, and didn’t even know that it mattered.