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"Oookay, who fat-fingered the EBGP peering table this time?"
Welp, everyone needs a DR/BCP plan for national and regional disasters of natural and human kinds that also involve cellular, network, fuel, and power outages at different areas.
For example, perhaps the they need multiple cell carriers with independent backbones run by different companies.
I'm not sure where you sourced your information. Taxi drivers are around as dangerous as loggers. Petro-chem (oil rigs) are also extremely dangerous.
"Nothing to see here. Please disperse. And stop recording."
So, what does "close" mean? 1000 ft with a telescope?
I can understand not interfering with the immediate official duties, but this seems like it will be overturned on 1a grounds.
It depends if they're deficient in terms of: - Not protecting the team from unreasonable demands and/or blame from the organization - Doesn't ensure the work environment stays civilized for all - Doesn't lead or set an example where necessary
There are genuinely nice, civilized, respectable managers who aren't "trying too hard".
1, 2, and 5 are essentially the same sort of Cluster B issues. Related: The No *sshole Rule is a good book to read on how a single jerk can ruin a team, manager or not.
3 is treating others with contempt instead of equal humans.
4 is a lack of ability to delegate/trust/verify that ruins morale.
This is genius (sort-of).
It solves a specific and practical need without being too grandiose.
In the long term, an independent, non-profit, social enterprise, government-sponsored entity would be a better vehicle for this because whichever states, federal (Medicare, Medicaid, VA), pension funds, AARP, and/or insurance companies could back it in order to reduce their costs. It's far better to pool the risks, minimize duplicated effort, and reap the rewards using scale.
This is how pharmaceuticals and healthcare should be delivered for nonelective care.
The leading US industry lobby, PhRMA, will do everything in its power to kill it in some manner whether through the legal system, traditional advertising, and/or social media.
https://truthout.org/articles/pharma-breaks-lobbying-record-...
Too many people nowadays leap to part with huge sums of money with little or no assurances and refuse to make waves when (not if) they get taken.
Hmm.. what if you wear sunglasses and checkout the screen's figure? Would it still notice?
I love how it's pay money for the privilege to temporarily license a beta, unfinished feature, but only if you jump through a million hoops. Some gotcha capitalism right there.
Perhaps King Musk could go to a feature-enabled forever model of IR cameras, LIDAR, MMW RADAR, and similar AND disengage FSD when it's too complicated for AI control... nawh, that would be too sensible and unprofitable.
Keep your hands off my FLAC and MP3 hoards. :P
Actually, Spotify's catalog isn't that impressive. I use Plexamp when Spotify's choices get old. Soundcloud also has infinite permutations of remixes.
Argh, I mistook it for the classic yellow WM-F45.
Tapes and pencils forever. ;P
Edit: I remember one of the last-ish MP3 players was a Dell one with a micro HDD. First drop and it died. xD
I don't care about ascetics much at an airport except decorating around functionality.
Around 2005, the newer Shanghai airport had information boards that didn't contain information except various permutations of Windows' BSODs. IIRC, it was that terrible, inefficient design of long and narrow.
In general, DFW is a better layout: almost circles of gates globbed almost contiguous to each other as lettered terminals relatively close together connected by a bidirectional tram, many security screening entrances and exits, and people moving devices (i.e., moving walkways, "golf carts", etc.)
1. Vehicle marketing and 2. personal information and demographics collection for resale preying on the magical thinking of people who play the lottery as wishful thinking in order to better their circumstances.
Ah, good ol' insecure attachment styles, emotional unavailability, and/or fear of abandonment.
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BTW: If you want to be immensely unpopular with most people, get good ones tagging along with other good ones of their preferred general demographics. It's absolutely revolting when people consider others besides themselves without ulterior motive but to be cool. :peace:
My grandparents were both from extremely broken homes and married young (15 and 21). They were together until they passed, for 70+ years. Even so, they split for about 6 months at one point but came back together.
They:
Chose their battles.
Didn't hold grudges regarding resolving disagreements with compromises and solutions.
Worked together in things as simple as cleaning up the dishes (~6 minutes usually).
Spent a great deal of time together.
Never forgot love meant showing respect, kindness, and tenderness towards each other.
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In my opinion, a keeper is found by gradually intuiting answers to the extreme fundamental questions in life:
1. Is the vibe approaching effortless, real, natural, and safe? This alone isn't enough but it's a good sign.
2. Do they tick most of the ideal adjectives of a sense of humor, honest, reliable, respectable, fascinating, wise, and not a liability?
3. Who would you (and they) prefer to be stuck on a proverbial deserted island with them?
3. Would you'd trust them implicitly with decisions about your life and everything else if you were away or incapacitated?
4. Have you seen their reactions to not getting their way, under pressure, and with people not in positions of power?
5. Would you die and/or kill (if absolutely essential) for them, and vice-versa again?
6. Are both of you better together than apart overall?
That's my 2c. My bill is in the mail. :)
Sorry, I don't know what you mean by that. If "supposed" implies judgements from vague "them", I don't really care what "they" think.
There are numerous holistic and historical factors that throw more people into the jaws of the unforgiving US criminal justice system:
1. School-to-prison pipeline [i]
2. For-profit prisons
3. Mandatory minimums
4. Three-strikes laws
5. Over-policing minority and poor areas
6. Racial profiling [ii]
7. Lack of adequate universal mental healthcare
8. The War on Drugs
9. Lack of opportunities + crimes of desperation and despair
10. Poverty leads to inadequate defense and conviction or pleading out to something they didn't do because overworked public defenders are a cruel joke
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Yes. He's a political prisoner, 77 yo, and of no danger to anyone.
America has the highest incarceration rate in the world except Seychelles.
Furthermore, the US is generally unconcerned with rehabilitation, prisoner welfare, and is most concerned with locking up as many people as possible in for-profit prisons and throwing away the key.
There is no consideration of "Hey, this person in prison should be genuinely rehabilitated because they may become my neighbor after they're released."
America doesn't care about people who enter the criminal justice system, homelessness, mental healthcare, universal healthcare, or livable wages. In reality, Americans, imprisoned or not, who aren't rich (95% or so) don't know how bad they have it compared to the rest of the world.
Listen and watch works by Chris Hedges. He teaches in prisons and notices many aging, nearly cripple African-American men in for life for petty crimes.
In the rest of the world, actual life sentences are unheard of short of terrorism and mass murder. 21 years IIRC is the standard maximum for many European countries (i.e., Norway) for most serious violent crimes. The person will likely have changed being 35-40+ years of age. If not rehabilitated (which the US doesn't care about), Norway can extend sentences in 5 year increments like a parole board.
Go away or I shall taunt you a second time
PS: I actually have the bridgekeeper's questions as a welcome mat.
True that. An older woman makes me think birth defects, less agreeable, more jaded, less spontaneous, less flexible, worrying more, and less energetic for weekend adventures. These are mostly stereotypes that don't hold for all cases. The birth defects part is the only statistical one.
I (44m S NM NK MAANG) inadvertently have much younger gfs (19-27), Master's- / PhD-types who also tend to be more emotionally and life mature than most people of any age. I guess it might be "market dynamics" when I'm dating them and they announce that they're bi or pan, whether it's a college phase or they're actually that. I don't understand why that happens or why women try to set me up with other women. It doesn't make sense. I piss with the equipment I was issued and don't look a gift horse.
Numbers don't mean much either way. I used to date quantities of women randomly without any consideration to fit but they revealed themselves to be poor fits.
Smoking, drugs, bad habits, already had kids, alcoholism, emotional instability, poor attitude, ego out-of-control, lack of intellectual curiosity, judgmental (conservative or hipster), too boring, not many hobbies, low self-confidence, jealousy issues, cheater-type behaviors, psycho (cluster A B or C), external locus-of-control, taker rather than giver, and/or lack of excellence.
There's tons of women I've met who seem like catches but they're invariably coupled.
PS: What's weird in my life recently is coupled women wanting to be "friends" with me. I'm fine if that's what it is, but the vibes and actions are incongruent to that.
Coffee maybe fine for some people, but it's too sterile, formulaic, low-effort, and low-energy like a business meeting. I prefer to do something.
And don't waste 5-6 dates when you know in the first 1-2 if they're worth exploring more. There's too many people and you develop a sense about personality traits.
For example, I avoided a date with someone who presented themselves as a comedienne. She came off as arrogant and unwilling to listen to anyone else initially but I gave her a second try. Her set was so bad, I got up and left after she finished because I'm not going to say it was fantastic. I had a beer somewhere else. Lo and behold, who walks in but this same chick. I hoped she didn't see me but she came over and started bitching me the riot act. I told her that my suspicions were proven correct by her behavior and that she should get lost unless she wanted a face full of pepper spray. I told her to fuck off and let me enjoy my beer.
I'll take 3 guesses:
a. 13" x 9". A tape measure and body shaming ensued.
b. Minimum $200m net balance sheet.
c. Minimum 6'7" height.
Dating books are written by people who are in the business of selling books. I would doubt many elderly couples or parties of who are happily-married for decades write dating or relationship advice books. Keep your money and talk to happy couples: it's better information for cheaper.
Checklist people who act like they're entitled to order a person at Burger King are perpetual unicorn chasers. The ego and self-absorption of those types is suffocating.
The good stuff is when it's effortless at first. For the long term, both parties have to be willing to put in the work to cooperate with another differently opinionated, fallible human being. Too many people ("middle-class" Americans 20-35) behave in an entitled manner without putting in the effort or the reciprocity. They're indeed special, like everyone else.
Edit: Also, you should know how someone behaves in extreme situations because that reveals their character. "Do you trust them with your life and everything else?" is the question that must be resolved eventually in the affirmative to consider them a dependable and trustworthy keeper.
From here, it sounds like you're trying too hard and it's coming across as desperate or lacking in confidence.
I live near downtown ATX. I'm technically tipsy HN'ing at this hour after going out to 6th and Rainey with a buddy. Heh :)
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your data source was mistaken. The SF Bay Area has the most skewed educated gender ratio in the entire US of any metro. It's not called "Man Jose" for no reason, every bar is a sausagefest, and every other person in Sunnyvale and Mountain View is a software engineer.
It sounds bad to say, but I can basically pick any woman from 18-45 and they're way more attractive in ATX than anywhere except LA. Unfortunately, not all people (women and men included) in ATX specifically are adults where it count. Most people in ATX aren't looking to settle down. Ask me how I know that too. (The worst are the relationship upgrader women out for the next "hotter" guy and/or bigger paycheck who spontaneously forget they have a BF or a spouse. Pump-and-dump material.)
ProTip: Never rent or lease in ATX near a pool unless your goal is to party 24/7.
Dating apps tend to less useful in ATX specifically where socializing is expected. Talk to people in real life casually like human beings without expectations. The more people you talk to and share good vibes with, the more you increase your odds for all kinds of good things.
There are no hacks or shortcuts but connecting with a human being and seeing where it can go rather than focusing on achieving a particular status. No one wants to couple with someone who wants to use them to reach a dream rather than appreciate the real them first and foremost.
TL;DR: Chill out and socialize. Try some CBD if it helps. :)