I want to have a title like “commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 37th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Federation”

I’d say so. I have more faith in Apple keeping this show alive longer than Amazon or Netflix would have.

I think we’re up to 5 or so different plot lines occurring at any given time per episode, so chances are you’d be interested in at least something going on.

This has been my favorite episode of the entire show.

The good: learning about the secrets between Cleon I and Demerzel continues to move in unexpected directions.

The bad: Hober Mallow acts as a Deus Ex Machina at the most convenient of times.

The ugly: keeping track of the mentalics story is a bit much for my normal brain. It’s been a long, slow burn with conflicting information given to the viewer at several points.

TLDR: they can start striking as soon as 30 days, pending the cooling off period and regulator support. They are looking for an immediate 35% pay raise with annual raises of 6%

This is a 30.5” wheel. It’s 38mm/1.5” larger than the existing 700c/29” standard size.

Basically what a 29er is to a 27.5”.

Car wheels keep getting larger, so why not bikes I guess.

Article is light on specifics. This may be related to a teacher who sore prosthetic breasts under a tight shirt a little while ago. It also might not. Who knows?

FSR really shows it’s limitations when you’re running a low resolution to begin with. I want to like it, but it’s pretty noticeable and jarring with every game I’ve tried it with, including BG3.

The FBI has removed malware from personal devices before and will likely continue to unless forbidden to via legislation.

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/548082-doj-authorizes-fbi-to-remove-malware-on-computers/

No easy solution.

It’s easy to ask that professionals who are not medically qualified step down, but what are those people to do with their months (years) of training and certifications? We can’t realistically reimburse them for their time and money spent. Those skills may or may not be applicable to a similar compensating job. Losing their job in many areas leads to loss of health care options.

Add to that the existing and forecasted pilot shortages…

I think an off ramping program which turned medically-disqualified pilots into trainers with some sort of state sponsorship could help ease many of these concerns. Might look like a national pilot school or a 5 year contract for providing training at local private schools.

It’s on Apple TV+. Not a super popular streaming service, at least among my peers and family

I’m kind of hoping we get something a little different. Maybe that Cleon 1’s memory is larger because he’s still around to add to the heap via some assistance from Demerzel.

The clones are around as useful idiots and to introduce a level of sanity checking to make sure Cleon 1 isn’t left to his own thoughts.

We’ve already seen how opaque the process is for managing memories and editing them are.

I think that’s a valid argument, but it’s more expensive for Disney.

Let’s say you run a company and offer all of your 50 employees free park passes valued at $1500 for the public. Just giving them the passes costs you little. There’s some administrative overhead and the costs of park usage, but those are mostly spread across your million or so visitors paying for park access.

You can alternatively give the 50 employees the value of the passes. That’s $75k. Could be the price of another firefighter or two part timers. Maybe three interns. It’s a cost that could maybe be applied elsewhere.

Or the executives split a bonus. Who knows.

Eh, might not be that black and white.

Who’s to say that these firefighters chose the Disney district over a neighbor because of the better benefits? Maybe they have young kids who they want to be able to enjoy the parks on a regular basis without spending so much. Maybe this benefit is worth an extra 30 minute commute each day. Lots of reasons to chose one job over another.

Let’s not just shit on everybody who loses a nice thing. I doubt these people are fighting fires solely for the paycheck.

It’s not amazing with a controller, but it’s serviceable.

I’ve been running the game on a Steamdeck, nearing what I think is the end of act 2.

Looting is made much easier by holding “A” and iterating through whatever is in the environment. Unopened items like chests and bodies have an asterisk* to indicate as such. The action wheel isn’t wobbly as far as I can tell, but the lack of snapping is an accurate critique. Small item icons are probably just how it has to be unless you fancy navigating between several pages/tabs/scroll screens full of items.

That’s my observation. Inventory management is kinda jank most of the time.

What’s the irony?

Are we assuming that since this person purchases smoked salmon that they’re immune to, ignorant of, or in favor of lower purchasing power? Are we assuming this is a luxury purchase, so they are not entitled to slumming it up with the rest of us?

Let this person just enjoy their fish, whatever little amount they’re getting for $10.

Health insurance sucks. I’m all for universal health coverage with the opportunity to pay more for faster service for those who are well off.

Just think - there are tens of thousands of insurance employees who’s job is to calculate risk and develop pricing algorithms such that the company makes money no matter what. There’s no product or value created for humanity. It’s just ensuring that some people who own significant portions of the business keep getting paid.

They screw doctors and patients. Doctors get reimbursed whatever arbitrary predefined rates that were agreed upon during contract negotiations. That’s if insurance gives the green light for the patient to even get the procedure. Why does a middleman decide who gets medical care and how much the doctors should be paid? How is a patient supposed to choose a surgery team that’s all in network?

I get what you’re saying, but fuck insurance. These companies are a parasite on healthcare, housing, and mobility.

Sourcing this critical information is an exercise left to the reader

Back blaze is one of the OG “cheap cloud” storage providers.

They buy cheap stuff and develop cheap storage networks to charge cheap prices and stay in business. They publish entire papers on running cheap storage if you’re interested. It’s actually pretty interesting stuff.

They raised prices 20% (or $1). Hardware costs **may have gone down that much, but I’m willing to bet their energy and rent prices haven’t. They’re subject to services inflation just as much as anybody else.

Frozen pizza prices in my area have increased more in the last year than their services.

When should have we stopped developing new processors and computing architectures? I just want to make sure that we never improve upon existing tools to avoid that pesky planned obsolescence.

Pentium? Core Duo? Core i7? AMD Ryzen? Apple M1?