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DenverCoder9 strikes again?

In an interview with a far-right website ahead of the summit, Bovino called Nazi Germany’s lead general Erwin Rommel an inspirational figure

Hitler turned on Rommel and threatened Rommel’s family if Rommel refused to commit suicide. Rommel committed suicide biting down on a cyanide capsule.

Trump has now turned on Bovino firing him. Perhaps Bovino is telegraphing his future plans.

I’m just replying to the text you quoted.

Seriously?!

If there is a lot worse context, why not quote that?

You’re replying to a post about an article. You’ve got the whole context if you bother to click on it.

Random question. If a woman was getting touched by 3 guys, would she be justified in getting violent towards them?

No need to be coy like there is some double-standard. Lets add the context from the LaBeouf situation for your question for an apples-to-apples comparison:

If a woman was asked to leave a bar by an employee because they were harassing other patrons, then she punched the employee before leaving, then she returned later outside the bar and started punching another patron and headbutted a third while yelling at the men “say ‘Christ is Lord’! Say it! Say ‘Christ is Lord!’” would she be justified in this violent towards them?

I would say, no. No, she wouldn’t be justified.

So he’s saying [paraphrased] “It wasn’t broken, but I decided to ‘fix’ it anyway”

He also alleged to Channel 5 that “three gay dudes [were] next to me, touching my leg”, before the violence preceding his arrest.

“I [got] scared,” LaBeouf added. “I’m sorry – if that’s homophobic, then I’m that.”

Alternate headline, “Self admitted homophobe Shia LaBeouf doubles down on homophobia after assaulting three men.”

I wonder if this is yet another symptom of remaining available trump sycophants being bottom-of-the-barrel tier now. As in, all of the other better qualified candidates have left MAGA or been run through and fired already leaving on the dregs at the bottom to appoint to important offices.

“Is there no one that likes me anymore that can do the job?”

“Not really, no sir.”

“What about the kid with the MAGA hat and the pole at the insurrection?”

“Uh, sure. We can see if he’s available.”

I mean when, let’s say, I have one day, a week or a month left to live suffering from an illness

The likelihood you’ll have any clue your going to die in such a short time as a month is extremely low. You’re much more likely going to die in an instant through fatal injury or bodily failure like a heart attack or brain aneurysm. Lets say you live to 85 years old and are finally dying of something entirely predictable for old age like congestive heart failure or late discovered end-stage cancer. You’re going to be long past having any energy or ability to do anything about without help.

If you actually get some kind of clear guidance you’re going to die from a prolonged (meaning not instant) ordeal, you’ll likely be in hospice where they will give you amazing narcotic drugs in whatever massive doses you need so you feel no pain and are simply swimming in dopamine as your body gives out.

The takeaway is, there’s no point trying to spend your healthy hours trying to plan for something like this. No plan you can think of will be useful even in the extremely unlikely scenario, the conditions you imagine do happen.

If a “Press Office” can no longer be accessible to the Press, it ceases to be, by definition, a Press Office.

Whats really funny is that the interface is closer to MS Office 2003 which was Office pre “ribbon” interface. So the current version of MS office is actually the weird one that changed.

I’m confused on one main point from the author. Are these created projects for work or just personal? This answer changes the dynamic of the entire article.

Except for the SaaS, almost none of this is useful and I don’t want to maintain any of it.

If they were personal projects, then there’s nothing wrong. They were useful for a moment, or were fun to build, and if they’ve exceeded their usefulness, get rid of them. We do this all the time with hobbies, so why would it be a sin with personal code? Nobody spends an hour finishing a crossword puzzle and says “well that was a waste of time”. We spend money on hobbies too, so if your hobby is coding and you want to spend money on an LLM subscription for your hobby, as long as you get value and enjoyment out of it, its fine.

However, if these were supposed to be commercial marketable products, and that business resources were used they yes, clearly there is a lack of planning and resource allocation. Spending time and money building something which has no use can can’t be maintained is a major business error.

/shitty conspiracy theory

…or was the constant exposure from X-rays keeping all of our cancer at bay. And with the removal of that lifesaving treatment, we’re all rapidly being overcome by our uncheck cancer.

Look at the data and see when LCD TVs first entered the American consumer market. With the removal of CRTs, our cancer rates exploded!! Coincidence?! (yes its just a coincidence)

A single digit percentage are doing quite well even in this economy. Another single digit percentage are older boomers that lived through the stagflationary era under Carter in the 70s, but are now long since retired and have decent living as the last generation that received pensions and fully funded Social Security so they too are doing better than the earlier time in their life when they had even less money.

I have no idea who the other 25-ish percent are though.

I’ve done a bit of math for my area and the minimum you’d have to make to be independent is $25/hr.

Just want to make sure I understand your metrics. Is that “independent” meaning “outside your parents home” as in, “paying your own rent but have roommates”? Or is that “studio apartment living by yourself”? Neither definition is invalid, I’m just interested in the data.

When Wahlberg assaulted people when he as 15 and 16 years old. That doesn’t excuse the behavior, but 15/16 year olds aren’t adults with fully formed brains. Wahlberg also went to the police and claimed responsibility for the attack. He then plead guilty in court and served time. It still bothers me how racially motivated it was and for that I would personally always have disdain for Wahlberg.

Cosby was 28 years old for his first time of rape allegations. There would be more than a dozen other women that came forward with reports. The most recent was Feb of 2000 when Cosby was then 63 years old. Cosby was a fully formed adult doing these horrible acts to women he had power over, and he used that power to abuse them.

Spacy and Weinstein also did their horrible acts as fully formed adults and had a repeated pattern of doing them again and again to people they had power over.

Implementing that recommendation would mean removing vaccines for these diseases from the recommended schedule:
hepatitis A
hepatitis B
…

No one can live without a Liver, which is exactly what hepatitis attacks and kills. Tweakers will steal your catalytic converter off your car for $40. When a market exists with a $20,000 street value for a liver, and there’s a liver in every jerk walking around in public, random kidnapping and organ theft is going to be a thing regular thing in about 20 years in the USA.

It takes more than a name to deliver the result. MS Office365 also claims to be great for collaboration, and its a trainwreck to try to use it in that way.

Hot take: companies shouldn’t get tax breaks, sweetheart deals, etc. ever, for any reason other than being non-profit public good companies. Succeed or fail on your own merits.

I understand this desire, but its a potentially simplistic view. There are times that for every $1 worth tax break to one entity generates a scaled $10 of tax revenue for the city or state. Why would it make sense to lose the overall net tax revenue to the people?

Sometimes it means that city or state has jobs that can employ their residents instead of the city or state continuing to decline when people move away for needed jobs. There are simply lots of places that companies don’t want to go and that its sometimes worth it to offer the tax break to incentivize them to come.

Other times it can be for a company to come in and offer a needed service to the community that would otherwise be unprofitable, and the residents would simply need to go without.

Unless your city or state is an extremely desirable place to be, its frequently difficult to get new employers to come or expand in less desirable places.

Probably possible to bury the tank deep enough you could grow the tomatoes on the ground above it if space is a concern.

You’re proving my point. They just started working on it 3 months ago. It will be a long time, if ever, before it is a Gsuite replacement. They even said they tried this a few years ago and abandoned it. There’s a risk they’d do it again.

So if there’s another open source effort specifically focused on an online product, its a good thing.