I’m waiting for the next scandal to be around fudging battery monitoring and performance, just to pump the numbers up on the window sticker at sale.
I watched this happen with my Nissan once I figured out that the factory driving profile causes range estimates that only a hypermiler could achieve. Once I put a hundred miles of real-world driving data into it, I saw 20 miles vanish from the estimated range on a new battery. So, basically that, but worse.
EV’s are great! We save so much time and effort not having to cheat on emissions testing this way.
Considering that Georgia used to have the stars-and-bars on their state flag, I’m 100% certain it would get used this way.
Why should the law treat these things as the same though?
Good question. I think that the law is going to see a flag on a government flagpole from a “does this represent part of the government or not?” standpoint. In that context, the message the flag sends is irrelevant. In this, and possibly many other cases, it represents a third party that is getting notoriety and support from a government facility. Maybe it’s okay if its declared as an official act by someone that has the power to do so, but then it probably won’t be a one-off like the flag in the article.
In truth I freaking love that people put a pride flag in such a prominent place. It represents values that align with basic human dignity and are harmless to everyone. I’m just concerned that it’s going to open up a whole can of worms that might make things worse. Then again, things are already pretty bad so clever tactics that exploit loopholes are warranted.
If the law is blind to bigotry then that’s a larger problem.
The de-facto environment out there is increasingly so. It is indeed a massive fucking problem.
Thank you. Be the change you want to see in the world, right?
Agreed. Plus a legal precedent in favor of pride flags, could cut the other way. On principle, I don’t want to see hateful sentiment yield a legal victory. In practice, disallowing this kind of expression in government facilities would/should keep MAGA flags and other nonsense far from the same flagpoles. Or at the very least, it could be argued so in a second court case.
Working on the helldesk of an internet provider in the early 2010s.
Former helldesk employee from the mid 1990’s here. Thank you for serving.
Dude had our bog standard account and tried to claim he was our biggest customer.
I had one that did this. Dude bought 10 years worth of dial-up access in 1995.
All I needed to know was to pay attention to the terminology and optics of NFL drafts and the power dynamics following it. The fact that those in power are a-okay with problematic stuff like that, strongly suggests they have skewed ethics and likely apply that ethos everywhere.
Weather?
Oh! You mean outside.
Yeah, we don’t do that here.
From a governance standpoint, yes, I agree. However, the state as a whole is very rural and quite picturesque. There’s a lot of beautiful forested wilderness there and it enjoys a nice bit of shoreline too. Not exactly evocative of Gibson’s Sprawl.
Naw, he’s trying to be (a)cute.
I work in IT. Some days are better than others. Framing seems to be key to keeping my psyche intact.
I constantly wrestle with the environmental impact of this field. More so now than ever. Everything that goes into consumer and professional electronics generates a lot of waste, and as a professional, I’ve had my hands on more systems than the average home user.
I also do not work at any FANG company, nor for anyone in surveillance like Palantir or Flock. Besides, I don’t get invited to those parties.
Everyone in IT has contributed to both negative social and environmental impacts in some way. Some, much more than others. AI has thrown gasoline on the fire, but we still have the same problems as before: pointless commutes, e-waste, planned obsolescence, power-hungry software, enriching the rich, and so on.
Meanwhile, (without doxxing myself) I work at a company that helps their customers do good things.
I think that’s where I keep my conscience clear for the most part: I’ve made decisions that place me in a relatively better place, with some sense of karmic balance that tips towards better than it is bad. Telling oneself “it could be worse” certainly seems fragile - and it is - but it is what it is.
I’ll add that, in a capitalist system, even the concept of employment is coercive and not 100% voluntary. Also, the way companies proceed in this environment exploits the built-in demand for employment, while exploiting and extracting all kinds of things, both real and virtual. IMO, this puts the most (if not all) of economy on trial for ethical concerns, so we’re only left “how (non)ethical is your workplace?”
You’re gonna give me a small crisis with that one.
I’ve racked my brain trying to figure out how anyone could be so culturally and politically regressive when the world is chock full of stuff that didn’t exist a decade or two ago. And then your post shows a very plausible anecdote that kind of explains it. To think that anyone would observe the outside world and see a fixed and solved existence with no forward trajectory, despite recent history clearly illustrating the opposite, just baffles me. Yet, that really happens.
Bad news: the “village” is 4chan. Have fun!
I… I may need to frame this and hang it over my monitor.
What’s in-between the lines here is that the newer elite food aesthetic takes substantially more labor, skill, energy, and time. This effectively gate-keeps “simple” food from most people. It’s not until well after the industrial revolution where we see these kinds of meals become more affordable for people.
So they began cooking meat in meat-based gravies, to intensify its flavor.
This is a great example of what I’m talking about. Anyone can roast a cut over a fire or just toss raw meat into a stewpot. But a rack of lamb with a rich demi-glace? From scratch, in an 18th century kitchen? And that’s not the only course? Yeah, strap in, because that meal just became an all-day job if you don’t have any help.
Not why, memorize.
Otezla. It’s relatively new(ish) and used for autoimmune stuff. Documentation said that some abdominal pain during the titration period was typical.
What I experienced was pretty consistent searing hot pain in my gut after the second day. Blood test would later confirm this to be my liver; my enzymes were all over the place. It was so bad, I didn’t even get five days in.
This reads like a Mitch Hedberg joke.
One time, I was late for the bus. The schedule said I was also 20 minutes early for the bus. It seems to me there is an obvious disagreement in the late-slash-early status of the bus. This cannot be good for traffic. Someone should do something about this.
For all the off-the-wall casting1 in that movie, he was kind of the theatrical glue that made it stick together (IMO).