Not covered on the site: The fact that San Francisco experiences earthquakes. Unlike all those other cities it sources as being perfectly fine with completely different building standards.

To summarize: Requiring installation by electricians means that people will still DIY… They just won’t bother to get a permit/get it inspected.

Whereas allowing DIY encourages permits and inspection.

Giving pigs scaffolding and baths‽ Those swine!

Socialism to the rescue!

Retiring would be a step down for that guy.

Just hoof it down to your nearest library and ask the librarian. They know how to horse around 🐴👍

Ah yes. I’m actually impressed that they were able to determine that he was “Verified BS” so quickly.

That is mammillaria spinosissima aka “spiny pincushion”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammillaria_spinosissima

If they’re bringing on “IT leadership” people then the only place where they’re going to be bossing people around is cubicles, conference rooms, and operations centers.

They may get people killed but it will be because they underestimated the damages caused by their hackers. In fact, I highly suspect that there will be a huge “collateral damage” incident from US/Israel hackers using an undisclosed vulnerability to break into something that “the bad guys” then use to break into some important systems all over the world.

Imagine a major industrial control vulnerability that gets turned into a worm by Iran that then causes massive explosions and chemical fires all over the world. Even in countries that have nothing to do with their current conflict.

The “front line” in that war is an operations center somewhere in the US where they control spy satellites and tell our allies, submarines, & other remote equipment what to do.

It’s super interesting, right? Are there any other armies around the world that have lowered their minimum health/boot camp requirements in order to recruit more people like drone pilots, software developers, and various other engineers?

Seems like a good idea to me. Ever since WW2 technology has been the most important factor in warfare. So much so that it now doesn’t matter if you have a single soldier ready to deploy if you have nuclear ICBMs (not that it’s a good thing we have those).

The difference today is that what you need are lots of people to “man” data/operations centers and just a few ready to deploy for actual combat. Also, a lot of people involved in manufacturing and with skills like CNC machining and 3D printing.

None of those skill sets are conducive to “being in shape”. Rather than focus on troops being “ready for anything” it makes more sense to have them housed right next to the systems they work with so they can roll out of the bunk and into the operations center like a fireman rather than out of a barracks and on to a troop transport.

Many drugs permanently alter your brain. He could’ve been smart at some point but he just took too many/the wrong drugs. Now his intelligence is low enough that he thought it would be cool to hang out with Trump.

…but let’s be honest: You don’t get that rich by being smart. You get that rich by being lucky (and a total scumbag).

When that happens it will derail their entire argument. These people are the opposite of trained professionals.

Even if you bring it up they’ll try to change the subject, “this conversation is getting off-track.”

Future news story: Trump wanted to use nuclear bomb on Iran but couldn’t figure out how to read the codes in the nuclear football.

“No matter how many times I asked no one brought me a football. They just kept handing me a briefcase!”

Something tells me that the MAGA base won’t be too happy about this. They want the deportations to happen in their communities.

“Sorry Texas: Because you’re full of MAGA people we’re cutting your ICE resources.”

To me, this is like saying, “4chan has turned into a cesspool!” Yeah: It was like that from the start. YOU were the ones that assumed it was ever safe!

You’re posting stuff on the public Internet to a website for adults where literally anyone can sign up and comment FFS.

If you want good moderation you need community moderation from people in that community. Not some giant/evil megacorp!

There’s all sorts of tools and platforms that do this properly, easily, and for free. If you don’t like Meta’s websites move off of them already!

Apparently billionaires do give a shit. A lot of it. An entire island of shit… Trickling down to the next layer down of hell rich people.

Come on! It’s not like voting or printing have been around for very long. New Orleans still has to work out the kinks.

What does it even mean when the printer says, “Politics load letter”‽

Mods on Xbox only exist for games where the game itself officially added mod support. I mean, sure it’s great when a game maker does that but usually it’s not as good as community-made mod support because community mods don’t require approval and can’t get censored/removed because the vendor doesn’t like it.

Remember: Microsoft’s vision of mods is what you get with the Bedrock version of Minecraft. Yet the mods available in the Java version are so vastly superior the difference is like night and day.

Console players—that are used to living without mods—don’t understand. Once mods become a regular thing that you expect in popular games going without them feels like going back into the dark ages.

All the fun of Windows gaming with the locked-down ecosystem of a console (no mods). What could go wrong?

It’s Windows Mobile all over again.