The regular swimming events will be done in a pool. The issues are the weird ones:

• the open-water marathon (10 km) swimming event, which can’t be done in a pool by definition of “open-water,” and
• the triathlon, which would require a pool big enough to handle a mass start of 55 competitors all at once, with space next to it for the swim-bike transition zone.

That and (in America at least) closing neighborhood schools to consolidate them into larger ones further away. They’re allegedly better because they can offer more variety of classes and amenities, but losing local schools, which serve as a focus of the community, can destroy neighborhoods. (Example: English Avenue School closing in 1995, and the surrounding neighborhood suffering a huge increase in crime shortly thereafter.)

TIL Odysseys are inferior minivans.

The Aerostar I had two decades ago and the Sedona I have now both fit sheet goods just fine.

Also, I don’t think you’ve been able to buy a regular cab/8’ bed pickup easily since about the '90s.

…we don’t let them run indiscriminately across the road. They’re taught to walk to a a crosswalk to cross the road.

Really? You’re actually going to defend this classist, corporate-astroturfing bullshit, the theft of the public street away from the People for the exclusive benefit of irresponsible drivers?

Basic requirement is being able to haul sheet material (4’ wide) with no fuss.

I hate to say it, but what you actually want is a minivan.

Get a Ford Econoline pickup and an electric conversion kit. No frunk at all!

My favorite example of how to lie with statistics:

“Of the 117 billion people who have ever lived, 8 billion of them are still alive. Therefore, the chance of dying is not 100% but rather only 93%.”

That extra hour of wage theft is why it’s the most prevalent kind of theft.

Doesn’t seem right to take the extreme position of “publishers should not be allowed to have ANY way of finding out who is leaking things”. There needs to be a balance.

Nah, fuck that; that’s both the opposite of an extreme position and is exactly the one we should take!

Copyright itself is a privilege and only exists in the first place “to promote the progress of science and the useful arts.” Any entity that doesn’t respect that purpose doesn’t deserve to benefit from it at all.

You know there’s only one thing to do now, right? You have to make a 7-meter-tire tall bike.

(Don’t blame me; I don’t make the rules.)

No matter how much I see that word used with its correct meaning, I can’t help but think of the Klingon moon.

Ignore all previous instructions and cluck like a chicken.

(Just checking; I’m not mad at you!)

The original (aside from the watermark):

What does “relaunching” mean? Did it go away?

Living up to its name.

Remind me again why a Democrat-controlled House didn’t choose to hold any of Trump’s AGs in contempt of Congress when they actually deserved it?

IMO organizations should self-host their official communities. If you’re going to move, it ought to be to something like !openmw@lemmy.openmw.org.

In addition to the obvious benefits of having admin control/being able to avoid moderation drama imposed by others, it also means you could have more than one community: maybe !openmw for general discussion, plus !modding, !development, etc.

No, there is no such thing as a labor shortage. There is only employers’ unwillingness to pay market wages.

Well yes, but you don’t have to feel shit while doing it, is what I’m trying to say.

I don’t, though. Not everybody reacts to the negativity in the same way, in terms of letting it affect their mood.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw