worker: Gets new job

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Error-correction for dropped packets is also pretty shit.

The library I worked for as a teen used to process off-site reservations by writing them to a text file, which was automatically e-faxed to all locations every odd day.

If you worked at not-the-main-location, you couldn't do an off-site reservation, so on even days, you would print your list and fax it to the main site, who would re-enter it into the system.

This was 2005. And yes, it broke every month with an odd number of days.

"Google Cloud hosts many of Twitter’s trust and safety services. If the disagreement isn’t resolved by the end of the month, and if Twitter severs ties with Google Cloud, this could seriously threaten its ability to fight spam, remove child sexual abuse material and generally protect accounts."

So, it only breaks things that are vitally important for Twitter, as well as legally mandated, but not anything Musk actually cares about...

Is that known rapist and sex trafficker Andy Tate?

Yeah, ethnic nationalism is pretty fucking far from centre. This party was (eventually) banned for being a criminal organisation.

This is really only a raid, Ukraine has no ability to supply troops by sea, nor the ability to even land enough troops to hold territory.

But the fact that they did this means that Russian "rear" area security is absolute shit, and they have the option to improve that (taking forces from reserves or the fromt) or suffer more rear area raids.

while it still has the Elon bad bias

So does reality, I wonder what causes it.

Poorer?

That's weird because in terms of Median Wealth (you know, the thing that decides rich/poor) the US is 21st in the world, the UK is 11th. (Pdf link: https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-databook-2022.pdf)

GDP doesn't mean shit by itself.

Yep, they have "treason is against the rules" rule, which lists all the big countries' laws against espionage.

Dont underestimate the role straight up racism played in the brexit vote. It wasn't just foreign propaganda, and much of the propaganda was enabled by racism.

That moment when you look around for the most competent person, and come the sad conclusion that it's you

Well Turkey, if you're wondering why you're not being let into the EU...

Moscow simply paid him more than Kyiv. Probably accompanied by the phrase "Would be a shame if these pictures got out".

Everyone who's a conservative right now, is either:

A: completely forgotton their live before turning 25-30

B: Is a massive asshole who actively wants others to suffer for their own gain

C: Is a completely brainwashed morons who legitimately can't see the problems they're causing.

"It'd be easier to discuss in person" means "I don't want a record of this because it's either illegal or shows my incompetence".

Any meeting that they want to talk about in writing should ALWAYS be recorded.

I know it looks like this sometimes, but it's really not all that bad.

I'm a chemist, I work mostly in (workplace) safety, hazardous materials and waste, so I sorta-kinda know what I'm talking about. I'm also a random internet stranger, so definitely check my data for yourself.

Compared to 50 or 60 years ago, when we had leased gasoline, asbestos carpets, ashtrays at macdonalds, trash burning in cities, indoor gas/oil lamps, coal heaters and pewter/lead cups (well ok, not those last ones but you get the idea), we're doing SO much better.

If we didn't ban all those things, you literally wouldn't be able to spot the problems coming from BPA. It would be lost in the noise from how bad all those other things are for your health.

That's not to say we should ignore microplastics, or that they're healthy, or that modern people are whiny babies. Absolutely not. BPA is absolutely bad for you, but it's more of a "dog biting your hand" type of bad, as opposed to the "bear mauling your face" level of bad we had in the 60s and 70s. Both can kill you, but you'll barely notice the dog while having your face mauled.

Trump narrowly averted a nuclear holocaust... by forgetting how the Football works.

It's just as depressing when something counts as "clean". My saddest example was a former sand pit, they spent 30 years digging out 15 meters of sand, then another 30 years filling it with anything from industrial to veterinary waste, "capped" it with rubble in the late 40s and called it clean enough.

Had a bigass job digging out the top 3 meters of random waste, including several thousand of barrels of whatever the fuck. And definitely no unexploded ordnance (spoiler, after finding several ww2 rifle stocks and helmets, the first mortarshells were dug up too). After makimg room, it was covered in sand, clay, bentonite and a protective grid.

So naturally, 3 months after that finished, some cockhead decided to throw an anchor and hit go all ahead flank on his assholes boat and tore the whole thing up. No need to fix anything though, just shovel some more sand it, that'll stop the anthrax!

This was all in open connection with a major river, of course. One people swim in.

Everything Amazon does is a privacy nightmare, yet somehow this is worse.