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  • If the other comments knew the details, the response would be terror not annoyance:

    Management types in smaller, growing businesses are shockingly susceptible to the promise of "cleaning things up" by making everything a "Microsoft shop", even when that means transferring data and control to Azure (competitors also try but MSFT almost always wins)

    They're happy, they own nothing and they don't even know it

    Note: this is largely referring to corporate accounts

  • I agree in spirit but a CPI applied to military expenditure would be adjusting for prices of irrelevant items and could become very skewed at such large scales

    Admittedly I don't know have a better idea either so... Guess I'm hoping somebody smarter than me can chime in

  • We talk about freedom the same way we talk about art,” she said, to whoever was listening. “Like it is a statement of quality rather than a description. Art doesn’t mean good or bad. Art only means art. It can be terrible and still be art. Freedom can be good or bad too. There can be terrible freedom.

    Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

  • Not sure what the science is between 2 images with no source or timestamp and nearly 20 years of technological improvement between them is but this isn't the peak of Katrina

    Katrina ultimately reached its peak strength as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale on August 28. Its maximum sustained winds reached 175 mph (280 km/h) and its pressure fell to 902 mbar (hPa; 26.63 inHg), ranking it among the strongest ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico.

    It probably refers to its stats at landfall

    Katrina weakened to a Category 3 before making landfall along the northern Gulf Coast, first in southeast Louisiana (sustained winds: 125mph) and then made landfall once more along the Mississippi Gulf Coast (sustained winds: 120mph). Katrina finally weakened below hurricane intensity late on August 29th over east central Mississippi.

    But power doesn't equal damage for weather

    [Katrina] is the costliest hurricane to ever hit the United States, surpassing the record previously held by Hurricane Andrew from 1992. In addition, Katrina is one of the five deadliest hurricanes to ever strike the United States

    Sources:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Katrina

    https://www.weather.gov/mob/katrina

  • Can't remember the name but there's a novel set in Ireland in the not-too-distant future

    Synopsis implied it had become a surveillance state but didn't gave up before confirming due to the literal writing style

    I swear every sentence was written in the passive voice (poorly remembered examples):

    "It was made known through the clothes he wore they were sent from the department of security"

    "As she walked outside the smell made Spring's arrival clear"

    Totally fine normally but do it every single sentence and it becomes a mystery novel where the mystery is what the hell you just read!

    ... Or idk, Harry Potter 5 is pretty meandering