I like how when someone basically says “Don’t be the vegan at the party”, you double down with the thing that most pushes buttons.

It’s good at removing doubt.

Yeah, I’ve spent some time with a similar proselytist. My cousinas are all vegan, one of them a crusader. After that incident she’s not on my friends list any more.

But you be you.

Imagine what smartphones would look like if they still had to be powered by AAA batteries.

That’s a false comparison. We have Lithium and NiMH batteries available off the shelf for common things that aren’t phones. The technology is available for a COTS phone battery replacement, as long as it matched a common form-factor.

And if phones can’t work around a common battery form-factor but yet all look like fucking candy-bars, then I call bullshit.

There is a formula that suggested “living X minutes closer to work is worth Y dollars more on the purchase price” because the commute time saved and the health benefits of reduced stress were far worth the added cost – and it may be like $5k on the mortgage per 1 minute saved. And if the commute dropped to a <= 30min walking commute, the benefits skyrocketed.

You better believe a walking commute factors into planning subway stations.

working from home.

I’m pleased to have switched to a union job that protects my safety and respects my time, by allowing 100% remote work as available – that’s to allow for people to work from the office, but to promote a remote-first approach. The specific wording in the contract is as convoluted as anticipated, but the summary is they have a minimal number of ‘hotel’ (hot-desk) spots in an actual office, but the spaces they sold back during covid they do not intend to request again.

(For the poor managers more validated by seeing my ass in a chair every day, I say “get help, my ass isn’t appealing” and I also mention my day job deals with some pretty private shit, and an actual home office is a straight-forward to certify for ergo and data privacy; but the manager has to want it. And that’s how I can spot the fucking pervs)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand#Studies

See also ‘reduced demand’ on the same page.

1. massively over-supply options better than cars
2. people avoid car hassle
3. shrink lanes
4. repeat

But that first step is the killer: I found in my own experience that my transit commute had a maximum bus tolerance of 15-30 minutes (based on traffic) or I’d just not do it. I can ride a train for an hour, but have me sit in traffic on a bus and it’s “fuck no”.

Ah, so a correlation/causation comprehension conundrum affects both your comments on this page. That’s some good coverage, Lou.

This smells off.

You’re talking to each other’s ears, not tonguing them

Shrews were tamed like this.

what the hell is the deal with people that walk around in public on speaker phone, with the phone held 2 inches from their head

Like they’re eating a pizza or they’re some reality TV episode?

It’s because they’re stupid. Just stupid.

Engineers and designers spend their days optimising the mic and speakers for people holding the phone LIKE A PHONE and these halfwits hold it like a slice of pizza, shouting over the loudspeaker that we all can hear but they can’t because they’re shouting.

Like an idiot.

Nah. These aren’t the racist xenophobes. The next guys, if they win, those are the true bigots. Expect everything about immigration to suck.

My oncle sailed into early COVID season with late non-hodgekins and not long to go. He thought of his pregnant daughter and her child, and the risks of attending treatment, now daily, and took a voluntary.

Our med system made this horrific decision slightly less so by handling everything but the go button; and while we miss everything about him to this day, we’re grateful.

It’s important work, even when we don’t win.

Meanwhile, a person like me who lives in an apartment and must charge his car during the day

Why not use the outlet at your parking space? That’s in the building code now.

Microsoft requires a proof of presence through Windows Hello.

… which requires a hotmail account or something, right?

So no. The only interaction I’ll have with this is coding cinc.sh to remove it.

Pointless – you need to beep through 4 doors to get to my unit. Hell, the elevator won’t even take you to the right floor unless you can get a fob from one of my neighbours so that button will work. Stairs are locked to get ONTO a floor, so they’re only good as exit stairs without another key that only firemen get, and you can’t get in by rappelling onto my patio either, Ethan Hunt.

My sister got the one where the scam says her son got into a car accident and - mumbling through ‘a broken jaw’ so thats why the voice is off - Officer Peterson needs to arrange bail, but off the books.

It was surprisingly effective, and my sister had a freakin’ heart attack as any parent would, and THOSE people can rot in a hell made of mealworms, ticks and black flies.

I’m torn between asking them to put up or shut up, and maybe just not confirming they got an address that still works.

I dunno. if I was born into a family rich on something like oil, I hope I’d spend a bunch to end our dependence on it. chiefly because it’s better than not, and I’d also have the fortune to do so, and the irony of using oil money to get us post-oil like we’re Norway would be a bit of added cheek.

What should she do in her position: lay about like Bruce Wayne or try to do good like batman?

because the another backdoor

You’re gonna want a cat-scan.

tuat

You whot?