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San Francisco Archdiocese files for bankruptcy as it faces more than 500 sexual abuse lawsuits

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Absolutely. I live in Milwaukee where the local archdiocese already did the whole bankruptcy deal years ago. Somehow they got to pay a small pittance to the victims, get out of everything else, and they still own all of their (very lucrative) property. And that’s not just the church buildings, but their giant lakefront campus and no doubt tons of other non-house of worship property.

And that was after all of the documents were released showing the leadership was completely aware of the problem and covering it up just like everywhere else.

It’s a complete sham and abuse of the bankruptcy system.

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Some cities are digging up water mains and leaving lead pipe in the ground

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In my city the water works has a database of houses with lead laterals. I don’t think it’s 100% accurate but it’s pretty close.

Failing that, you can go to your basement and inspect the lateral itself. Lead is not very hard to identify if you can see and touch any part of the service line.

https://www.nrdc.org/bio/erik-d-olson/how-can-i-find-out-if-i-have-lead-service-line

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Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a customer of its 365 cloud tools in a $1 billion megadeal, according to an internal document

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No, OP is completely correct. It’s all down to how the company configures their MFA, but MS MFA will definitely show you a two-digit number on the system you initiated the auth on, and force you to type that on your Authenticator app.

I work with a vendor that has this setup and do this every day when accessing their systems.

Thankfully my own company doesn’t have the type a number stuff turned on.

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Thoughts on G100UL?

As a pilot but not a plane owner (yet). I can’t wait for this to be available and as soon as it is anywhere nearby will push my flying club as hard as possible to get the STC and start using it.

I personally think it’s absolutely disgusting that lead has been allowed to be used in aviation fuel decades after we banned it everywhere else. I strongly considered NOT becoming a pilot because of the pervasive use of leaded fuel. I have a small child and the thought of accidentally poisoning her while flying, although unlikely, is always in my mind.

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IT Management sucks

I moved from technical, to management, did that for around 4 years and decided that was enough. Switched jobs (also probably way overdue at that time) to a senior network engineer, left after a year and became a network architect. I’ve done that for a few employers ever since and generally love it.

I just do this for money, I care about my work of course, but end of the day I want to shut down and forget about it. My current role lets me do that pretty easily.

Being in management that long might make it harder, unfortunately. But I’d totally recommend trying to pivot to an architect role if you have the skills.

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Sinkhole Closes Part of Hank Aaron State Trail - Trail closed between S. 76th St. and S. 89th St.

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I talked to a city engineer in DPW, who reached out to the state DNR (who is responsible for repairing the Hank Aaron trail, unfortunately) about that terrible section.

He said they requested funding to repave the trail in the state budget… The budget just passed but I haven’t followed up again since to see if they got the funding needed. I certainly hope so, it’s getting really rough between Emmber and 25th especially.

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Meta to spend hundreds of billions to build AI data centres

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Nah, my local bloodsucking electricity monopoly (SE Wisconsin) will be charging the new datacenters the lowest possible per kWh rate, and due to the huge expected demand just got approval to build new natural gas power plants that ALL of us government mandated customers get to pay for.

You know, for the demand that would never exist if we weren’t subsidizing the brand new datacenters.

It’s a complete scam.

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In addition, ATC clearance generally means you have right of way especially on a landing approach.

I have to quibble with that a bit. An ATC clearance has no impact on right of way. IFR flights in VMC are still required to see and avoid.

True that landing aircraft has right of way, although I’m not aware of any interpretation that simply being cleared for or on an approach is enough… unless you’re on the final approach segment you aren’t really “landing” yet. (I have no idea if that was the case here or not).

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