While we can’t say for sure, I’d certainly be wargaming some possible outcomes and how to respond to them.

Wouldn’t surprise me if disability for mental health reasons was high on the list of things to cut. It’s effectively an “invisible” disability, which makes it somewhat easier to cut while limiting loss of political capital.

I wish you all the best getting through the upcoming difficult years. You’re a genuinely good person for caring and thinking far enough ahead to realize the question needs to be asked.

For other folks reading this, now is an excellent time to review your payroll deductions and ensure you’re paying for private disability coverage - both short and long term. It’s one of the least expensive ways to hedge against the crazy of the next four years.

Still doesn’t fix the ill will from when they abruptly killed Apollo, in a stupid way that screwed both users and an indie dev who actually cared and had dedicated significant effort to the platform.

Also, I absolutely cannot wait for when Reddit itself becomes meme stocked. Somehow, both GameStop and AMC are still alive, but the crazies are back, and Reddit seems like an excellent candidate.

I’ve worked side by side with RU devs who were both personable and damned competent. Never were their tech skills in doubt, and I retain quite a bit of respect for those individuals.

I’d not do the same today explicitly because of the political and compliance implications. It’s unfortunate, but necessary.

That source is garbage.

Seems to be based on what amounts to a single “does not currently appear that the procedure itself killed him” statement from MGH, which is generally respected.

I will wait for the actual journal article that (I sincerely hope) is yet to come.

Five years, and an additional two months following consent from a highly experimental and unique procedure that he appears to have given informed consent for because he would otherwise have died sooner beats the hell out of five years without the two months.

I could make a hell of a lot of amends in sixty days, knowing it was all I had, that I’ve had trouble making in four plus decades…. Which would make the end exponentially more peaceful and pleasant.

Anything that gives me that much time is a net positive. Not going to bother with some of the usual surgical recovery stuff if I am fully informed at that point but… Don’t want to die wishing I had had time to make that one phone call or txt that I didn’t quite get to make because we don’t get to choose the moment.

Ten yrs from now hewill be a hero for undergoing the procedure that leads to real progress.

Hell, no. I was hired remote, the position was approved as remote, and remote is where I'm going to stay.

If I go job hunting, that's my #1 criteria. I took less money because remote, and because health insurance. I stand by that decision today, and would do the same again.

Content? Hardly.

Disinformation. Lies. Etc.

Been looking for this sort of device for my Pantech laser.

The cartridge is good for 1,600 pages - no more, no less.

All well and good, they’re cheap, except.. the vast majority of my printing is in A5 size (roughly half-letter, or exactly half-A4).

Those half pages count just like any other page against the total, and I get shorted by the better part of 800 pages or so.

When Borat was fresh, I was in a new hire class for a major telecom you’ve heard of if you’re in the US.

Somehow, the chatter came around to Borat, and someone challenged me on the existence of Kazakhstan.

I’m not always great with people , so I did a double take - they were serious. I shipped them a GMaps link via chat…

…and they proceeded to argue with me that said country couldn’t possibly actually exist.

Once in a while, I wonder where that person ended up - no Ill will towards the misinformed, but I’m certainly curious.

There's also zero reason for me to ever set foot in a Chipotle when we've two different local chains, one primarily sit-down and one primarily food truck-based, offering broader menus, safer food, and better food - along with all the miscellaneous one-offs that one would expect in a city of any size.

(Shout-out to Moe's, for anybody in Chambana!)

How about a headline that’s not pure clickbait.

If the clock is off (bad CMOS battery, as others have noted); and there is a password "max age" setting that's intended to be far, far, far in the future...

Well, your clock being off by a few hundred years might well trigger the (intended never) expiration setting.

Malware is a possibility, but I lean towards the date being the cause rather than an effect.

Or, try limiting one's actions such that they match the average American's level of criminality, and just don't be a fascist dictator asshole aiming to deport the people who produce food and... Yeah.

I understood it as “pre-prepared poop Pringles”

As others have pointed out - costs a few bucks annually,and requires beneficial ownership report (free IIRC).

Otherwise, it’s a tried and true tactic to pass businesses down through generations. An LLC vs. a corp vs a trust is a convo to have w/ lawyer barred in your state but the general premise is vaguely sane.

This is fucking horrifying.

• Fuck these greedy, utterly insensitive, bastards.
• Malls are generally owned by large corps in the business of owning malls. Anyone know offhand who owns this one so I can avoid their other properties?
• How many “housing first,” programs could we run using a year of the company’s profit?

Seems like it would be a nightmare to purify. Perhaps useful for agricultural applications, but for drinking and household use…. Most water supplies don’t have e.g., human bodies floating in them.

Not a scientist, happy to be proven wrong here, but that’s my gut.

Fuck if I know the answer to this, but someone I know well and respect works one of these shifts, and I don’t get it.

4 on 3 off and swap the next week, I get.

But it’s like these were designed to fuck up the workers’ health and lives. Oh, wait, they probably were.

Doesn't exactly seem newsworthy to me - without knowing the dynamics of his marriage, I find it hard to condemn - or even care - that a) he spent some money, b) on a company run by his alleged girlfriend, c) while married. None of those things are by definition incompatible with each other.

Billionaires and rent-seeking companies. There are at least three national companies I can think of who are hoarding single-family homes in major cities and renting them out.

Generally they purchase at scale via REO scenarios, and provide no value whatsoever while driving up prices drastically

One example is a company called “Progress,” no better or worse than the others but with a meaningful web presence if you’re curious.