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The state of Wisconsin refuses to accommodate my religious exemption to speed limits while permitting emergency personnel to continue speed whenever they deem necessary. Both are equally valid exemptions to public safety and should be accommodated.
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The state of Wisconsin refuses to accommodate my religious exemption to speed limits while permitting emergency personnel to continue speed whenever they deem necessary. Both are equally valid exemptions to public safety and should be accommodated.
Not saying its good policy but IME grading bad work takes way longer than average work. Having a trapdoor for students that refuse to even meet a well defined requirement so you can grade it faster without justifying everything is useful. If they want to improve it you can work with them after.
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Not saying its good policy but IME grading bad work takes way longer than average work. Having a trapdoor for students that refuse to even meet a well defined requirement so you can grade it faster without justifying everything is useful. If they want to improve it you can work with them after.
To me it made no sense to bail out SVB. Insurance they were paying the fed was calculated based on the expected limit so paying more risks going insolvent. It sets precedent for it which means people don't spread out money increasing risk too. There were options for high value accounts they ignored.
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
To me it made no sense to bail out SVB. Insurance they were paying the fed was calculated based on the expected limit so paying more risks going insolvent. It sets precedent for it which means people don't spread out money increasing risk too. There were options for high value accounts they ignored.
I know it's not important, but 7 holes is less than the average number of holes most people have in their body before being shot, so he isn't even claiming to be a good shot.
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I know it's not important, but 7 holes is less than the average number of holes most people have in their body before being shot, so he isn't even claiming to be a good shot.
Cops can't wear masks, that's socialism!
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Cops can't wear masks, that's socialism!
Yeah, I am still salty that we designed infrastructure to be resilient to nuclear attack and then decided to route everything through aws-east-1 anyway lol.
I used to have a site that lost Internet for an hour every time the train went past though.
I used to have a site that lost Internet for an hour every time the train went past though.
November 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Yeah, I am still salty that we designed infrastructure to be resilient to nuclear attack and then decided to route everything through aws-east-1 anyway lol.
I used to have a site that lost Internet for an hour every time the train went past though.
I used to have a site that lost Internet for an hour every time the train went past though.
My advisor would light every tree outside and had figurines and candle powered spinning tree display for every surface. It took 48 tea lights to power it one night. He started in November, finished setup on new years, and took it all down over Lent.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
My advisor would light every tree outside and had figurines and candle powered spinning tree display for every surface. It took 48 tea lights to power it one night. He started in November, finished setup on new years, and took it all down over Lent.
The conclusion of the conversation was they should keep deadlines for homework and such, but only to the extent that it facilitated their job grading (grading every assignment from a student on the last day is not viable) and less so as a teaching tool.
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
The conclusion of the conversation was they should keep deadlines for homework and such, but only to the extent that it facilitated their job grading (grading every assignment from a student on the last day is not viable) and less so as a teaching tool.
And frankly very few knowledge jobs are.
I was having a conversation with some professors about college vs my job and pointed out that since college a tiny fraction of my deadlines were real. Most are just for planning purposes and get moved if needed.
I was having a conversation with some professors about college vs my job and pointed out that since college a tiny fraction of my deadlines were real. Most are just for planning purposes and get moved if needed.
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
And frankly very few knowledge jobs are.
I was having a conversation with some professors about college vs my job and pointed out that since college a tiny fraction of my deadlines were real. Most are just for planning purposes and get moved if needed.
I was having a conversation with some professors about college vs my job and pointed out that since college a tiny fraction of my deadlines were real. Most are just for planning purposes and get moved if needed.
I mean, the asshole tax on that job has got to be insane no matter who is quoting it.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I mean, the asshole tax on that job has got to be insane no matter who is quoting it.
We just fired someone the other week, and while strike 3 was infact them screwing up something technical, the first 2 strikes were them horribly failing to work well with others, and their lack of emotional intelligence in dealing with the mistake was what make a mistake job terminating.
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
We just fired someone the other week, and while strike 3 was infact them screwing up something technical, the first 2 strikes were them horribly failing to work well with others, and their lack of emotional intelligence in dealing with the mistake was what make a mistake job terminating.
Unfortunately I don't have to guess. The day I finally decided to log off was when I opened my feed and saw 5 literal nazis screaming literal antisemitic ideas within 7 posts.
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Unfortunately I don't have to guess. The day I finally decided to log off was when I opened my feed and saw 5 literal nazis screaming literal antisemitic ideas within 7 posts.
When I log in now about 3 of the first 20 posts are friends. The rest, and everything after that are pages I have no relationship with
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
When I log in now about 3 of the first 20 posts are friends. The rest, and everything after that are pages I have no relationship with
Remember when under Biden inflation dropped and everyone yelled that wasn't good enough until we got deflation and returned to 2019 prices.
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Remember when under Biden inflation dropped and everyone yelled that wasn't good enough until we got deflation and returned to 2019 prices.
Ok but wasn't there something where she helped people case out the capital or did that blow over
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Ok but wasn't there something where she helped people case out the capital or did that blow over
I am so happy to hear that you are doing better
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I am so happy to hear that you are doing better
Still pissed off that the last time I got a flurry it was just a paper bowl of ice cream with crushed oreos sprinked on top. Is this a new thing that is spreading?
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Still pissed off that the last time I got a flurry it was just a paper bowl of ice cream with crushed oreos sprinked on top. Is this a new thing that is spreading?
Iirc a huge element of it was the machines need to be regularly cleaned with a solution that when you add it as directed can't get hot enough during the cleaning cycle and fails without a usable error message and locks out the machine. And corporate got huge kickbacks to choose those machines.
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Iirc a huge element of it was the machines need to be regularly cleaned with a solution that when you add it as directed can't get hot enough during the cleaning cycle and fails without a usable error message and locks out the machine. And corporate got huge kickbacks to choose those machines.
I am so happy to see this again. I loved the imagery and descriptions in the version you originally released.
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I am so happy to see this again. I loved the imagery and descriptions in the version you originally released.
It reminds me of the (probably fake) 4chan story of the dude who's whole life improved because he started taking care of shrimp and realized he wanted to be better to them so he gets a job and eventually goes to college and meets people because he can be interesting talking about his shrimp.
October 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
It reminds me of the (probably fake) 4chan story of the dude who's whole life improved because he started taking care of shrimp and realized he wanted to be better to them so he gets a job and eventually goes to college and meets people because he can be interesting talking about his shrimp.
Unfortunately my middle school did teach statistics and it really didn't change most of my classmates.
October 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Unfortunately my middle school did teach statistics and it really didn't change most of my classmates.
We have actual manifestations of the Chinese room thought experiment and people are still obsessed with the Turing Test.
October 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
We have actual manifestations of the Chinese room thought experiment and people are still obsessed with the Turing Test.
Look at how they responded to one person deciding the system no longer worked and handling a single healthcare CEO himself. Even that taste wasn't enough to wake them up about what they were creating.
October 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Look at how they responded to one person deciding the system no longer worked and handling a single healthcare CEO himself. Even that taste wasn't enough to wake them up about what they were creating.
Yeah, I have never seen a hotel that didn't have fucked plumbing. Usually too small of pipes or the wrong slope on drains so everything backs up and drains slow.
October 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Yeah, I have never seen a hotel that didn't have fucked plumbing. Usually too small of pipes or the wrong slope on drains so everything backs up and drains slow.