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Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence. :P

The more people you have voting, the less likely it is for the difference to be exactly 1. In an election with 3 voters winning by 1 isn't notable; in an election with tens of thousands of votes, it's pretty unusual.

Maintenance teams are discouraged from marking trains and rails for maintenance because delays impact profits.

https://www.propublica.org/article/railroad-safety-union-pacific-csx-bnsf-trains-freight

Bradley Haynes and his colleagues were the last chance Union Pacific had to stop an unsafe train from leaving one of its railyards. Skilled in spotting hidden dangers, the inspectors in Kansas City, Missouri, wrote up so-called “bad orders” to pull defective cars out of assembled trains and send them for repairs.

But on Sept. 18, 2019, the area’s director of maintenance, Andrew Letcher, scolded them for hampering the yard’s ability to move trains on time.

“We’re a transportation company, right? We get paid to move freight. We don’t get paid to work on cars,” he said. “The first thing that I’m getting questioned about right now, every day, is why we’re over 200 bad orders and what we’re doing to get them down. … If I was an inspector on a train,” he continued, “I would probably let some of that nitpicky shit go.”

I have always heard it called the heel.

What is the rationale behind switching to the US dollar? I sort of get why US libertarians are opposed to fiat currency (they don't want the Fed to have the power to interfere in markets), but Milei just wants to switch to a fiat currency that someone else controls? What makes him think that would end well for Argentina?

In the initial phase, the official fix (just purge your cache and redownload the filter lists to get the latest ones) didn't work for me, but the second revision of a filter someone posted to Lemmy did. It had the side effect of making it impossible to scroll down on video pages, but it's not like the comments on Youtube are super valuable most of the time anyway.

After a week or so I deleted that one to see how the official filters were doing, and it turned out they worked great and I haven't had an issue since.

I wasn't defending kids being in school so early. I was just musing that it sort of lines up better than it does with 9-5s. Which is probably incidental.

My rationale for what? 9-5s were covered by implication in the comment I was replying to: if you work 9-5, it's kind of awkward that the kids get off at 3. I was just saying that if you work mornings it's kind of awkward that you probably have to leave before the kids do, and if you don't work during the school day then the kids aren't at school while you work.

Not sure what I'm parroting. The topic of this subthread is Grammaton Cleric's assertion that "kids need to be at school while parents work," so I'm just mentioning that for a lot of parents that already isn't the case.

I don't have an opinion on times they "should" be at school.

It roughly lines up with morning shifts, I guess? When I was working at a grocery store our morning shift was like 6-3 with an hour lunch. I don't know how you make sure your kids actually go to school if you're at work by 6, though... And if you work evenings (or overnights, for places that are still open 24 hours) it doesn't help at all.

I think most of them think the last real pope was Pius XII, and yeah he was the guy who signed the Reichskonkordat with the Nazis, which required priests in Germany to take an oath of loyalty to the German Reich.

He actually did that as Secretary of State before he became pope, on behalf of the previous pope, so they were both fash.

The reason sedevacantists dislike his successor, John XXIII, is that they are really upset about the Second Vatican Council introducing ideas like "the beneficial nature of diversity" and "concern for secular human values." That's the moment when they think the church went off the rails.

There's a heresy called sedevacantism that basically believes the last few Popes don't count because they've taken positions that the real Pope would never take.

They don't do the burning at the stake bit anymore though.

I'm not sure this tracks. If the unicorn-shoe-believer really believes in shoe unicorns, how could they not tell other people how to wear shoes? If they stand by and do nothing, then billions of unicorns will come to harm from people wearing their shoes wrong. If someone told me they believe in shoe unicorns, but they don't care how I wear my shoes, I would suspect that they don't REALLY believe in shoe unicorns.

IIRC there was an issue where you don't get feedback about why community creation failed. Check to make sure the community name you're trying to create isn't already in use.

It's interesting that they tried to nerf sandbagging. I think it will just change how people do it (they'll drive badly on purpose instead of stopping), but we'll see.

Thank you! Her name's Xena.

Sometimes she is round:

I get really bad embarrassment squick (watching other people in uncomfortable situations makes me very uncomfortable) and this show is 100% unwatchable, which means it is definitely hilarious for anyone who isn't afflicted by a similar condition.

Silverstein said Hughes also violated the policy earlier in the year, when she signed an open letter protesting the Times’s coverage of transgender issues. “She and I discussed that her desire to stake out this kind of public position and join in public protests isn’t compatible with being a journalist at The Times, and we both came to the conclusion that she should resign,” he wrote in the email.

It seems having a spine isn't compatible with being a journalist at the Times.

I searched "McBarney's disorder" and found the Peppa Pig Fanon Wiki. According to fanon, this is an incurable fatal disease that causes cannibalism and makes you act like you're two years old.

There are 15K articles on this wiki. It's 13 years old and has over 366K edits. And yet, their intro blurb on the main page is about 1/3 random letters because they couldn't come up with 300 characters of text for it.

What the ever loving hell?

I'm curious why the limit is one item. If the drone can carry 5 pounds, why can't they put 5 pounds of stuff in the box?