If you look at how the Missouri GOP works they will sandbag any campaign to vote against the repeal, run ads saying a yes vote is a vote for women’s rights actually and muddy the waters so much that voters don’t know what to do and either vote inadvertently for the wrong thing or stay home because they aren’t sure and then the evangelicals will bus people directly from church to the polls and the repeal will squeak by.
Missouri really hates democracy, this isn’t even the first time they’ve gone to great lengths to overturn the will of the people.
I stopped reading at Financial Tech startup. From that alone I know what kind of people we’re dealing with here.
Would this be the first direct conflict between two nuclear powers? Plenty of proxy wars in the past, but I can’t think of a time where two nuclear-capable nations went at it like this.
Absolute favorite is Outer Wilds. The only thing I don’t like about it is that I can’t experience it again. A true masterpiece of a game.
After that, probably Noita for sheer insanity. Deeply unfair, but getting a god-run going is that much sweeter. It took me ~100 hours to beat it the first time, now I can consistently win if I try but I’m addicted to doing stupid things to see what happens.
The local shipping port was empty yesterday. The last time I saw it that empty was during covid. It is genuinely frightening.
At one of my prior positions they outsourced all the junior engineers to this firm that only had windows desktop support experience.
Actual escalation I got:
contractor: I am trying to remove this file that is filling the drive but it won’t let me
me: show me what you are doing.
contractor (screenshot): # rm -f /dev/hdc
another one did rm -rf /var to clear a stuck log file, which at least did solve the problem he was having.
After that I sent out an email stating that I would not help anyone who used he rm command unless they consulted with a senior first. I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.
Getting awfully Blade Runner in here.
if your router is able to you can set up ACLs to allow the TV access to your network but not the internet.
It’s usually two quarters. By the time we are officially in recession we have been for half a year.
The victims here are all children. I am intensely angry at their irresponsible parents and even more so at the profiteering hucksters who convinced them that vaccines (that the parents already received) were bad.
People who intentionally infect their children with deadly pathogens and assist in spreading disease should face criminal charges.
If a bunch of conservatives buy Teslas to own the libs and end up accelerating the decline of ICE vehicles that would be pretty funny.
Middle School (Mississippi): Basically all lies: having sex with a condom will give you AIDS, abortions are evil and most women who get them die of cancer or suicide. Even 6th grade me knew that shit was fucking wrong, but I was already on thin ice in that school for fucking up the curve, thank Homosexual Jesus that I was only there half a year.
Junior High (New Jersey): Skip ahead to 9th grade. Sex-Ed was taught by a terrified gym teacher who was just adorable. This was pretty comprehensive, lots of biology and factual information. It was the early 90s so a big part of it was teaching how to avoid getting HIV, teaching both abstinence and condoms. Some mention of same-sex relationships, but when asked about the risk of HIV transmission from lesbian sex he blanched and said he didn’t know. No real fault here given the time period. They also taught various forms of birth control and other STIs. There was an undercurrent of promoting abstinence but also some pragmatic realism. In retrospect it could have been better, but compared to most of the country it was very good.