lockweasel

224 pts ยท December 8, 2014


Somebody call Bobby Tables...

10 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because it would be awkward to admit they are investing the revenue in private energy companies or that they chose not to invest in infrastructure improvements for 30 years and now can't support current demand, largely driven by expanded subsidized commercial use, so they ratcheted up the price to discourage private use and prop up decades of under-funding maintenance and expansion while cutting sweetheart commercial use deals to major industry players..." (yay)

10 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Getting anywhere close to those limits in any serious/professional context and not just using proper database software is horrifying. Postgres + pg admin is free...

10 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Medical insurance and Property & Casualty insurance (such as your auto insurance) are regulated very differently. There are laws requiring coverage in the health insurance context that do not exist for P&C.

10 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Agree with the sentiment, but let's not put pictures of other people's kids on the internet. Even if it's from an already posted YouTube video, there's no need to draw additional attention to children who haven't consented to being in the public focus like this, and it can cause them harm.

11 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

The primary message here is directed at Minister Akazawa, the LDP, and the Diet, though, and is appropriately couched in kinda subtle~ish language (by US standards). This isn't a blunt message TO the US. It's a criticism of Minister Akazawa. He is not the right person to handle the situation even though he is "very serious" (Alt: *With all due respect...* the minister, an idiot who can't be taken seriously as he is willing to negotiate with an extortionist.) Trump is just collateral roast here.

11 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Seams, you have a problem with this.

11 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Still awesome though.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I feel like dogs stuck in freezing lakes/rivers is this generations quick-sand. Whole buncha kids about to be absolutely fuckin READY to save some dogs then just like, "what? I thought there would be more of this..." when reality hits.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's When I Reach for My Revolver - Mission of Burma

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

London vegetable Orchestra, AKA the House of Lords...

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Its a little kinked but it turns on just fine

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is adorable, but man, does it have to be in the middle of the bus station? Can it be like, 20 feet away in thr parking lot or at home where there aren't a ton of travelers being inconvenienced for an Instagram video?

1 year ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

It's a "method" question that gets at your problem solving process. Do you look at long-term va short-term, do you view the elephant as some kind of business capital or as a living creature, are you managing risk or focused on the earning potential of the elephant? The absurdity of the situation ensures that there's no "right" answer, acting as a control variable to ensure that a notions of the "correct course of actuon" don't bias a response indicative of a candidates method and priorities.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How about dealing with the "family glitch" in affordable healthcare calculations so that we don't punish full-time caregivers by guaranteeing that their healthcare is a disproportionate % of their family income while they are somehow ineligible for subsidies simply because an employer offered "affordable" insurance only to the one working parent...

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Olympics doesn't have a shooting competition it has an aiming competition. If there was a medal for gratuitous destruction we'd hold it down though.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Jaba

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Seattle has the South Lake Union Trolly. For a *very* brief moment you could get official "Ride the SLUT" T-shirts

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Same here. That stretch of I90 from Bellevue to downtown Seattle is rough during rush-hour and Preston isn't really a suburb. You're well on your way to the mountains there. Not saying don't do it (it's great here). Just make sure you know what you are signing up for. I'm happy to answer any questions as well (born and raised here)

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I feel like you have to consider something more along the lines of the differential between the taxable value of current-use and best-use & assess a penalty or additional tax for under development to avoid things like inadvertently pricing fixed-income/elderly out of the home they own as property values go up. If they've lived in the house 50 years & best use is already single family home then jacking their taxes because land values went up is still kinda shitty. Tax the F outa rental income too

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's interesting social context here, though. If you consider history, China had a MASSIVE & very rapid increase in private car ownership following the opening up of their economy in the late 70s. While many countries had a gradual evolution of driving rules and etiquette over time as car ownership slowly grew, China practically had to develop these norms overnight. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of folks with access to cars who haven't been socialized to driving culture/norms/or even rules.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'd be down with a robot dog equipped with lifesaving tools that could be deployed into dangerous environments where a person might not safely go themselves. search and rescue, first responder situations with active hazards, etc.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's public knowledge, everyone watching you fall out of the sky is loading up too

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is kinda interesting because, when you think about it, most of the training data readily available on the internet for where's waldo probably emphasizes him and what he looks like far more than actual where's waldo books where the reader is supposed to find him. How where's waldo books "work" isn't context readily available to chatgpt. In some dystopian future, poets and artists with a better grasp of nuance and subtext will be the Navajo code talkers of the resistance in the robot wars

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wouldn't be surprised if she spent a good portion of her life angry about the orphan crushing machine, too. The headline is, "Let's celebrate this person who did everything they could, right up to the end." Too many folks get so angry at the machine that it derails their ability to DO anything, and they just end up making butthurt posts on the internet as an outlet instead. This is a person who faced that machine and kept working to make things better. I needed a reminder that this is possible

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As long as it only affects the pay of those in the majority at the time of shutdown. This could easily be weaponized against those representatives from more proletariat backgrounds who do not have independent wealth to fall back on.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cupcakes. That is all.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Cancel enough flights and the % on-time goes up if the population counted is defined as flights that took off...

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Available estimates provided by the building owner who did not want to go to jail for violating occupancy laws but definitely wanted lots of money unsurprisingly conformed to local regulations...

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0