They just fucked themselves because every pedant is going to come out in force to mess with them.

Under 40 U.S.C. §6102 the Marshal of the Supreme Court may prescribe regulations, approved by the Chief Justice of the United States, that are necessary for the adequate protection of the Supreme Court Building and grounds and of individuals and property in the Building and grounds; and the maintenance of suitable order and decorum within the Building and grounds.

I’ll be suing because the rules they have in place state that there are no demonstrations allowed on the grounds, which is a first amendment violation and not necessary. They also state that there are no guns allowed, a second amendment violation. Their job isn’t too protect the justices, just the people inside. Justices didn’t have to come if they don’t feel safe.

You can just buy aftermarket tools from Eastern Europe that don’t have such nonsense.

Governments and other entities start wild conspiracy theories with people who are susceptible to them so that people who discover real conspiracies look crazy.

Who’s to say there isn’t a planet that is constantly on the exact opposite side of the sun so that we can never see it?

Probably brought in some of the original guys for one last job.

The Chinese government has a huge propaganda machine. I work with a lot of Asians and it’s not uncommon for them to interject that they hate blacks right into the middle of a normal conversation. Mexicans also tend to do this as well. They also think that illegal immigrants are getting a lot of free money to do nothing.

Why not just get a propane grill and cook outside if the power goes out?

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Rivian has been doing layoffs at their BloNo plant recently. I’m not sure if it’s just like everyone else in the tech sector or if demand is down.

They need to distract the MBAs with a box of crayons to eat so the adults can make good decisions.

The majority of people in the stat live in NYC.

Most new York residents are renters and don’t pay taxes directly. The cost gets passed onto them by landlords.

My wife does this and it’s somewhat uncomfortable and puts my back in a weird position that I didn’t really care for.

Bye bye middle management!

But seriously, work will always expand to the available workforce. That’s why there are so many stupid industries. They always tank during a resession, but other industries will expand to use excess labor.

It happened to Blackberry, everyone had one of those until iPhone came out. IBM used to be the most common PC brand. Everyone used to drive minivans. Markets shift all the time.

I’m excited to see more and more activity pub compatible software. These projects are created and maintained by just a few people and could stop being maintained at any point. Many of these platforms lack features that make moderation a reasonable task among other less desirable quirks. It’s one of the reasons I decided against hosting my own instance.

I think it is a shame that the creators of these projects lead with stating which programming language and methodology they’re using. IT DOES NOT MATTER. This is a major sticking point for the pedants. Just tell us what it does, leave the technical aspects of the project in the docs for the people that it actually matters to.

The mix of microblogging and threaded posts should be interesting. Kbin has both, but they are not intermingled. I personally don’t use microblogging, but I do see screenshots of posts on here, which is basically the same thing I suppose.

As far as complaining about fracturing of the userbase, well, this is an issue across the Internet. There’s Facebook groups, Reddit, message boards, YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and too many other platforms to list, all fracturing topic enthusiasts and competing for users. I believe that more projects will allow the fediverse to contribute to grow and eventually mature into something a lot of people will use. More projects and forks means more ways to try new ideas and improvement without a single project owner preventing growth of the entire ecosystem.

I think people are saying that the bridge shouldn’t have collapsed like that just from being hit by a barge and that there was some kind of structural defect in the bridge. The fact that investigators went straight to’ “maintenance was just done to the ship” is sus.

Bridge engineer is a very specific kind of structural engineer and nobody who is licensed to be a bridge engineer is going to risk their license tothrow in their .02

A good prank gets the prankee to laugh along with everyone. For instance sending a singing telegram to someone would cause slight embarrassment, but would still be entertaining for everyone involved as long as they don’t work at a funeral home or something like that.

The dumbest ones are when they mess with someone’s car by covering it with something or filling it with something like plastic balls or whatever. That’s just mean and not creative.

It depends really. If you need to use old software or hardware, then no. I have some automotive tools that don’t need the greatest PC to run and I’d rather not mess up my installation of the software they need to work, so I have an ancient Thinkpad with windows 8 on it that I can boot up and use for diagnostics. I just maxed out the ram and put in an SSD so it runs halfway decent.