suburban_hillbilly @ suburban_hillbilly @lemmy.ml

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Never met a craftsman in my life who didn't want to produce excellence.

The reason they don't is because management at best doesn't value it, and more often punishes it. This is you and your buddies fault Vivek Ramaswamy, you absolute shit for brains knob.

It's because the entire party got justifiably shellacked in the press and court of public opinion for pardoning one of the kids for cash judges. This happened where I live and I remember the outrage over the absurdly light sentences they recieved to begin with, clemency on top was just too much for many of us to stomach.

Some people really don't deserve second chance or eleventh hour stay.

That smoke you see in the distance is actually steam rising from Japan's numerous nuclear plants as they prepare for the incoming demand from the armada of fax machines about to be turned on at Nintendo's lawyer's offices.

I see they learned a lesson about blanket commutations based on loose criteria.

Assholes.

I'm sure they're contesting all of it. There isn't a downside and a conviction depends on the state having all its ducks in a row, which they do fuck up sometimes.

There is also even a real possibility that he's innocent and they're trying to pin it on him.

You shouldn't assume you know things you've not done before. Student loan relief through bankruptcy is not 'next to impossible'. Since the new guidelines were drafted for judges about 98% of student debt holders seeking bankruptcy had some or all of their loans discharged.

You should also be aware that not all studen loan debt is equal. The higher requirements for discharge only apply to loans for tuiton specifically. If you got extra in your loans for computers, car, room, board, etc, then those amounts are treated like any other unsecured debt during bankruptcy.

There are articles/guidelines/worksheets that you can find on the Dept of Education and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau websites to help you get a good idea of how your specific situation is likely to turn out.

I've always been of a mind that the real reason is the one they'll never admit: it makes a liar out of their self-aggrandizement. It has to really hurt the ego to see all the work still getting done, or even [gasp] more work getting done the less they are involving themselves in other people's tasks.

help me get started

You mean help her get started, right? Science fair is for kids, after all.

As a has-been science fair dad the best advice I can give: pick a different project. If you want to build a voice activated drawing robot with her at home, go for it. Sounds like a wonderful time and a great project for a girl interested in robotics.

It's a bad science fair project for a primary student. Science fair projects, first and foremost, need to be the entrants own work. They should be able explain the 'what' and 'how' of all the steps and actually be able to do them. "[Dad/Mom]..." can be an explanation sometimes, but not this time. Second, unless it is an 'engineering' fair, it need to contain a testable hypothesis that is, you know, tested. If your project does not primarily involve measuring something, it's almost certainly not right for a science fair. Third, rein it in a bit. You have chosen a huge project. It's the kind of thing that could genuinely take months of your time even as an experienced roboticist. At least for a young kid, pick something where the write-up is most of the work. You should be able to do 90% of the experimental work in an afternoon. It can take longer to finish, but in a 'checking in' kind of way; waiting for mold to grow or an egg shell to dissolve.

Not trying to be a dick, but I really believe sticking with this project is setting you both up for failure.

At this point anyone still writing articles with the unstated premise that Americans are paying enough attention and in possession of enough information to have their voting choices influenced by actual policy proposals and their real-world effects should be stuffed into sacks and hit with sticks.

and there’s always weird ass bugs and issues and a ton of involuntary learning involved

The issue is not that Linux is more or less buggy/difficult than Windows. It's that you're conditioned to already understand Windows' bugginess/difficulty. I dual-booted for some of xp, all of 7 and much of 10. I found once I got comfortable enough with both, there were perhaps slighly fewer deep problems on Windows, but they were always much more difficult to rectify.

But I understand if you don't want to take the time to get to that point, learning isn't for everyone.

The only thing Ann Selzer did wrong was trust her methodology. If you take a lot of samples, some of them will be outliers, wecome to statistics. Reminds me of the classic stats homework assignment to toss a coin 100 times. The fakers are easy to find because none of the streaks are long enough, aka, no outliers.

Other pollsters would have tossed the result simply because it was different. Those pollster suck. You're supposed to do what Ann did because that is the only way to converge on the actual value.

I guess I can add 'hilarious' the the growing list of words that no longer mean anything in particular.

It's only a matter of time until we read Gorsuch giving a history and tradition argument that references the Salem witch trials as proof that the first amendment was only meant to be read as applying to Christianity. Thomas will file a concurrence nobody asked for explaining the legal basis for 'internment' camps for non believers with a footnote claiming that trial by drowning is totally legal actually.

What on earth could ever make anyone think this is ok?

Salinas

Villanueva

oh...

You're telling me the same guy who was proclaimed some kind of modern ninja-spy-assassin-genius on the back of his work in NYC was just stupidly waltzing around Altoona carrying an illegal ghost gun?

Doubt.

I think you're overestimating the relevant attention spans.

I do genuinely detest expressions of joy at the misfortune of others, even when I think the others have earned that misfortune, but I just cannot help the schadenfreude with this one. Feeling bad about feeling good is a weird headspace.

It’s your stairs and… garden, I guess? I have no idea why unintentional poisoning is so high, does food poisoning count? It must.

Drug overdoses.

Dunno where this map came from but it's missing MDT and probably others like it.