You see, the original scarlet letter was put on some woman just fighting for her freedom in an oppressive society. She was a pioneer of female empowerment in a patriarchal society, just like Mace, who's being oppressed for exercising her first amendment right to say "no" to functioning government.
I kinda want to see if we can post enough screenshots from DayZ and Left 4 Dead, calling them photos from our neighborhood to get the AI media to report on a global zombie virus.
omg. I'm just 15 hours in, haven't discovered temples yet, but that seems unconscionable. Like, MMO levels of grind. I mean, I've happily put hundreds of hours into each TES-offline, FO-offline, Deus Ex, CP2077, BG3. I don't mind repetitive if the mechanic is fun.
MMO grind is for when you expect your customers to spend hundreds of hours just hanging out with their friends and you need to find something for them to do. It doesn't have to be fun or rewarding, just distracting. Maybe TESO and FO76 have distorted their priorities.
I have a chart I've been following. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ZCP3 #unemployed and #unfilled jobs. Rate hikes have been bringing the unfilled jobs number down, but they haven't touched unemployment, and there's still way more jobs than people looking. Another 6 months, maybe, before the job market gets tight enough to remind the poors of their place in society.
Get your union organized and contracts negotiated soon.
Not the person you replied to, but the only thing on your list with real processing requirements is Jellyfish, if you do transcoding. My pihole uses like 0.3 CPU on a pi4, HA 0.1, zwave2mqtt less than that. You're more likely to run into bandwidth issues with sonarr/radarr/dropbox, because pi's just can't push data to disks very fast, but if you're doing downloads in the background, maybe that's no a big deal.
When I retired, 5 years ago, I planned to spend more time in online games and maybe find a nonprofit to work with. The online game (Eve) that I'd been playing for years turned tedious after just a few months, and I never found a really interesting NPO. I started walking to local restaurants for lunches, and that simple thing has given me a much greater sense of connection to the community than I got in 20 years of commuting through it. Youtube, Reddit, and now Lemmy, let me feel connected with my interests without having to comment - basically to get a sense of cool stuff that other people are doing, either for inspiration or reassurance. Woodworking, machining, home server/automation, and recently chili pepper farming. I'm reclusive, but I love this life, and I wouldn't go back for anything. And who knows: I might still get inspired by some NPO.
"Democrats need to be the adults in the room" has been the argument that allowed the GOP to get so many crazies. It's essentially an appeasement doctrine, and appeasement only works if there's some other process actively working to diminish the extortionist so they won't be able to do it again. GOP hasn't done any policing of their own candidates, even bolstering the whackadoos, where putting forward good candidates is the one thing a party is for.
The GOP won't keep their own house clean; Democrats are fully justified in letting the voters see exactly what a mess the place is. Maybe the voters will clean it up - nobody else seems ready.
I have a live local backup to guard against hardware/system failure. I figure the only reason I'd have to go to the off-site backup is destruction of my home, and if that ever happens then recreating a couple of months worth of critical data will not be an undue burden.
If I had work or consulting product on my home systems, I'd probably keep a cloud backup by daily rsync, but I'm not going to spend the bandwidth to remote backup the whole system off site. It's bad enough bringing down a few tens of gigabytes - sending up several terabytes, even in the background, just isn't practical for me.
I keep one in a bank deposit box. It costs like $10/year, fireproof, climate controlled, and exactly the right size for a 3.5" disk. Rotate every couple of months, because it is like 10-15 minute process to get into the vault.
Not to mention liability insurance. Your gun harms/kills someone? You've got insurance to pay for it. Your gun stolen and used to harm someone? Prove it was securely stored or it goes on your insurance.
It's for his disciples. All he needs to do is show them that she's imperfect, that she's "political," or that she's part of the Illuminati and, to them, the whole trial becomes invalid. It was already invalid because the prosecutors are oBviOuSLy political cronies of the Biden crime family, and having it tried before a political crackpot confirms that the whole legal system is just a Kangaroo Court of east coast elites.
50's fine, as long as you haven't really abused your body or lost the health lottery. Can't speak from experience, but 60 looks OK for the most part, although you'll probably learn your doctor's name around then. 70 is my current schedule.
Caretaker is way better. "I'll put a black woman in as a placeholder until a real senator can be elected" sounds horrible.
I mean, it's a very pro-democracy move to make an explicitly temporary appointment and not distort the election. It's also a very progressive move to fill the seat with a highly qualified member of an under-represented group. High marks on both counts. It's just hard to describe the coincidence of those goals in a way that doesn't sound like tokenism.
Watching my parents age, now into their 80s, they're only just now starting to admit that, maybe, they're not as smart, agile, and capable as ever. Chronic kidney disease, COPD, metastatic cancers.... No blatant signs of dementia, but it's a struggle to explain new concepts or devices to them. I think it's just hard for people who've been strong, independent people all their lives to accommodate a world in which they can't carry 25 pounds or deviate from habits engrained over 20 years. It's got to be even harder for a politician or oligarch surrounded by sycophants. Harder still when the brain loses its capacity for logic.
No, no: that's the other skyguy. We're like the kids in a bitter divorce, constantly bounced between a good parent and a bad parent, with no actual agency. Except to thank good skyguy, otherwise they might not protect us from bad skyguy next time.
Skyguy whims sometimes feel arbitrary and capricious, but there's divine or diabolical intent, which means it's way better than being lost to the randomness of chaotic but determinate natural forces. How terrifying would the world be if stuff just happened for no reason?
I'm pretty sure that Meta is the only company that thought there's a big market for VR, and even they seem to be giving up on it. Apple's device seems more oriented to giving you a private workspace than a real virtual world - like a big array of virtual monitors to replace actual hardware - and that avoids the worst motion sickness triggers. Of course, their device is also priced far out of mass market.
The most popular applications for VR are all games, and even the gaming companies are doing very little development in that space. Fewer people think VR will be a big thing than thought 3D TV would be a big thing.
That's what makes the communication so difficult to do well - when the boss comes in and says "We're doing great," the workers all assume he means corporate profits, but corporate profits don't attract good workers. Salary, benefits, and working conditions do. If the boss wants to make that point at a pep talk, he's got to go on a long tangent about how competitive salaries are, how much vacation everyone gets, yada yada, and by the end of that, saying "and we can hire really good entry-level workers," is kind of anticlimactic. I mean, who cares if this year's new hires graduated with median 3.2 GPA vs just 3.0 5 years ago? Better just not to phrase it that way, even if it is a positive metric for both new and established workers.
You see, the original scarlet letter was put on some woman just fighting for her freedom in an oppressive society. She was a pioneer of female empowerment in a patriarchal society, just like Mace, who's being oppressed for exercising her first amendment right to say "no" to functioning government.