mctoasterson

Billy Mitchell can sue people all the live long day and win or lose it doesn't make him less of a clown.

"It's all Isekai?"

"Always has been"

Waiting for the douche with the AWP to appear in the space between the doors.

"Put all your changes on 3 separate sharepoint calendars a minimum of 2 weeks in advance. Also do the normal approval garbage in ServiceNow and attend a 2 hour CAB for final approval. If you didn't select the right dropdown menu option in the ticket details, you'll have to start this whole process over.

Also, why does it take you guys so long to get stuff done?"

"Its not in the budget to apply security patches this quarter"

I mean, people already know. A tariff is literally a tax that artificially bouys one domestic industry or class of product, at the expense of all others who participate in the market.

I've never seen or heard of any point in history where the apparent "desired effect" is achieved and all manufacturing production is magically reshored resulting in prosperity. The actual result is Joe Consumer having fewer choices or buying a Chevy he didn't want vs. a Toyota he did want.

... and while we are at it, what is an "American" car these days? Any company that was started or Headquartered here? Anything that undergoes final assembly here? The Ford I used to drive had parts and assemblies from Japan, Turkey, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, and probably China.

I used to do this when I was below 30 and it works pretty well for a time. If you work and have a family, this is the only segment of time you can carve into, to create more time for yourself.

One thing to be careful about though- there is growing evidence that not getting enough sleep earlier in your life like this can lead to dementia when you're older.

Do I get any kind of points for thinking Tesla sucked before all the political windshift relating to Musk?

I've said from jumpstreet that, at best, Tesla is like the Apple of the car world:

• Model releases considered "cool" for the first year or so, because it's a way to flex on the plebs.

• Pretty soon everybody and their mom has one and the design isn't very remarkable in and of itself. Therefore the iPhone becomes the basic bitch phone, and the Tesla becomes the basic bitch vehicle.

• Overpriced relative to similar performing products.

• Horribly invasive sensors, bad data privacy, and generalized ecosystem.

This effort itself is more like a FEMA disaster preparedness set of tools for the public. Whether it's power outages, bad weather, or actual war, the steps make each citizen less of a liability to the overwhelmed emergency responders. Having reserve water, backup communication, and a family plan is not "remilitarizing", it is just common sense.

I recently vacationed in Germany and the immigration polizei agent asked me, in English, "what's the purpose of your visit here?" and I said something like "Urlaub machen und Bier trinken, naturlich!" He applied the stamp and waved me through without incident.

So... Thanks for being cool, Germans!

I mean, this is true that the offramp was always going to be Russia keeping Crimea and the Donbas, and Ukraine getting some kind of security guarantees that fall short of NATO membership. Unfortunately we took the stupidest, most deadly, most costly way to get to this conclusion.