Literati 5 months ago • 100%
I can visualize this so clearly and it feels like a fever dream
Literati 5 months ago • 100%
Same when I got on ocd meds. Love being able to go and do a thing without compulsively making lists of every other tasks that I could be doing.
Literati 6 months ago • 75%
Economics is just psychology masquerading as a hard science
Literati 6 months ago • 75%
Rents are skyrocketing because demand is high and we literally do not have enough housing for the number of people we have in the places they live.
Suddenly dumping more money into the economy would just increase the price bar on that demand, and prices would go up more.
Prices can increase for a lot of reasons, and going up from one doesn't stop them from going up from another.
Literati 6 months ago • 100%
I remember I'd just happened to buy a resin 3d printer, and so had bought a few masks to use for that. I got into printing and painting Warhammer because of the pandemic. Still have a a small army that's entirely printed and about 3/4 painted from that time.
Literati 7 months ago • 100%
They could store the families in a separate underwater bunker built on the ruins of a death cult's sunken wizard tower too.
Literati 8 months ago • 100%
Program management system for the entire division? Excel. "Agile" task tracker? Excel. Requirements manager? Oh no no, that one's written in a word document with no version control. I have trauma. Use tools made for the thing you want to do, please.
Literati 8 months ago • 50%
Next up, they're going to go scream at the girl scouts on the corner that they're being exploited
Literati 9 months ago • 100%
The 14th is a reconstruction amendment btw, it wasn't drafted or ratified by the founders.
Literati 9 months ago • 100%
The room is pitch black, you're relying on dark vision, and you just failed your perception check. I can definitely see this happening outside of bad DM'ing, and I think the PC being sus of a blank room in an otherwise dangerous dungeon could also be in character.
Literati 9 months ago • 100%
If they were able to meet the actual up/down metrics for the subsidy, I don't see why they shouldn't get it. But they weren't able to do that, so they don't get the subsidy.
Literati 9 months ago • 100%
Is this a US thing I'm too French to understand?
I'd say likely yes to this. It's much easier to centrally govern a more geographically dense and homogeneous country.
In the US we have strong localized government (city/county, state) and the more sweeping Federal government.
And they do submit to central government, that's exactly what the discussion in this article is about- will the central court decide to strike down their local laws?
All I want for Christmas is an East Coast bullet train.
Literati 10 months ago • 100%
And why it makes great rocket fuel...
...if you ignore all the other side effects
Literati 11 months ago • 100%
I feel like it'd make gift giving more difficult, but more meaningful- you would have to give people actually customized things, something you made or something you think they need that they haven't noticed. Harder, but shows more thought than giving generic-consumer-item#528
I know this is a meme, just made me think
Literati 11 months ago • 100%
For middle incomes in the NCR in DC or MD it's usually cheaper to get the same thing in VA, on an income tax basis alone.
Literati 11 months ago • 100%
A friend would use "theydies and gentlethems"for dramatic effect
Literati 11 months ago • 100%
For some reason I kept imagining sending this post back in time to Benjamin Franklin and how he would react
Literati 11 months ago • 100%
Was thinking of this pod while reading the post. So good
Literati 11 months ago • 100%
Sounds like what the old Kirkbrides (think the stereotypical big Victorian asylum) were originally intended to be before we overcrowded them and made them closer to prisons.
Literati 11 months ago • 75%
I've been a meat eater my whole life, and a well made impossible burger is pretty damn close. There's nothing "not meat-y" about it like I've experienced with beyond meat. I even use it to make my biscuits and gravy now because I can't tell the difference at all in that.
Literati 12 months ago • 100%
The actual article is in The Hill
Literati 1 year ago • 100%
The president can't just appoint whoever they want. Officer commissions have more oversight than say judicial appointments. They have to be approved by the Senate (eg this situation) and also have to meet requirements for the position/rank set out in regulation by congress. So a president could theoretically only promote the most conservative officers in the pool, but it's already a small pool.
Even so, as we see here, it only takes one senator to block promotions. This isn't even a fillibuster, the Senate passes this routine stuff through bulk unanimous consent.
Literati 1 year ago • 100%
Alternatively, I've met plenty of people who are so desperate to climb the ladder that, even knowing full well their deficiencies, they climb to a level where those deficiencies become detrimental for everyone around them.
If you aren't a good organizer, and climb into an organization centric position, that's 100% on you. If you aren't a good leader and take a coordinating position, that's on you. If you aren't good at lining up blind screws, and you knew that was a core competency for your job when you took it, that's on you. It's not that I expect you to be "smart enough to overcome" whatever you're bad at, but you shouldn't be in positions where something you're bad at, but can't overcome, is a major part of your duties.
At that point, yes, I'm going to be "mean" and directly point out your deficiencies.
Can you tell I had a fun meeting today?
Literati 1 year ago • 100%
Stenographers usually use something pretty similar so I doubt it. The ones I've seen (to be fair, live captioners, not stenographers) use something that's closer to a piano than a normal keyboard, and it types full words rather than letters, but also has a regular typing functionality. Pretty cool to watch honestly.
Literati 1 year ago • 100%
You can't really outsource to the US in that way. Launching with SpaceX is outsourcing to the US. Your other options are just picking a different US launch provider, which is still a private company. The US government isn't providing launch as a service in the way that SpaceX or other launch providers do.
Literati 1 year ago • 100%
The podcast Ultra by Rachel Maddow goes into the history of this period and is really good
Literati 1 year ago • 98%
The supreme court blocked Biden's attempt at loan forgiveness two weeks ago
One more for today. Planetary HQ for the DSM faction. This is my third run through setting it up as the last two servers went kaput, so the buildings are all blueprinted and pretty easy to throw down and build with nano build & repair. I'm a slut for infrastructure. Imgur: https://imgur.com/a/fv0sjeg
Imgur: https://imgur.com/a/vVk9kje Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2994617007
The most heavily armed and outfitted variant of DSMs most populous ship, the Jackknife Destroyer. This version has a spinally mounted rail gun as well as a frame shift drive for long distance travel. Unpressurized and configured for a crew of up to 3. Imgur: https://imgur.com/a/wTfY0x4 Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2994013172
So simple and so tasty, just started making these recently. Feel free to remove if this isn't quite a cocktail enough. Thought this was the community of people who'd be most likely to want to give it a try.
Literati 1 year ago • 100%
I just saw an article about this. I find it concerning... But I also want to try it
Literati 1 year ago • 100%
I just started Silo last night, really enjoying it so far.
Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2993560099 No idea if the image embed is working. Finally uploading a lot of my faction's ships and RTS-esque buildings to the workshop after a "no pen testing" agreement with the other faction on our server. Probably will try to post them through over the next couple of days. edit: Redid the image, imgur link: https://imgur.com/a/mFPurxk
Figured I'd post my favorite space tech/engineering podcast. These guys are great.
Literati 1 year ago • 100%
250k.... Absurd. Throw it on the mountain of reasons for a wealth tax.