We have global standards defining what is “international waters” vs what a country can claim ownership of.

If this terrorist group is attacking anything in “international waters”, they are in the wrong

They could look at their flood insurance bill to see if there is visible evidence of it affecting them

My understanding is we have evidence of slowdown but really don’t have the historical data to know when AMOC stops being driven, and it could take a century or two for the water to actually stop circulating.

Some outrage headlines have claimed it’s already collapsed and I don’t know if we have data to disagree with that

Not at all. Most of those Workstation or Fusion users are likely employed by their enterprise customers, and they need an inexpensive way to try to keep them.

I know it’s anecdotal, but when I worked for an enterprise that used VMWare, most of us also tried to use VMWare in our home labs, even though the company didn’t provide licenses.

Back when VMWare was a desired skill, many of us had VMWare in our home labs even when we didn’t have an employer that used it, to maintain proficiency. This doesn’t seem likely anymore but they probably want it

Cool setup!

What do you have for network equipment? I have 1G symmetrical unlimited, but anything faster seems to require a jump to much more expensive networking. And even then, most user equipment can’t support that

Got one, thanks!

Plus you’re leaving nails in the parking lot for everyone else to run over

And even worse, when they leave the tow hitch in so you have a shin breaker extending over the sidewalk.

I have been considering this but don’t have enough patience. The cops in my town don’t care. They might even yell at me for wasting their time.

However they do seem to collect data on calls and eventually respond to what it seems like people want. I think it would take getting to the end of the year and having some data analyst say “look how many calls we got about cars blocking the sidewalk. We need to do something”

Even to Washing hands. Sometimes when I first get up, my back protests about bending over so much to be able to wash hands in my bathroom sink.

Building code has a small range of allowed counter and sink heights, and it’s definitely not for the benefit of taller people. A buddy of mine has vessel sinks, adding like 4” to the height and it is so much easier

I have no idea where your lore is from, but I like it! As a taller and bigger guy, I see no better way to go out than protecting my love my partner from hordes of barbarians. Let my ribs be impenetrable armor and my femur be an armor splitting bludgeon for her berserker rage. Tales will be told and songs will be sung, and …… crap, she’s now my ex. Forget it, I’ll fertilize a tree when the time comes

But what if the only relief is stability, of weak bullshit policies applied consistently over time? People want visible change immediately but sometimes there is no such solution

More importantly, if weak bullshit policies aren’t enough, how can “NOT” ever be better?

I also agree she was more centrist than I prefer, but I don’t understand people unhappy she’s not further left, choosing to take a hard right and flying off the deep end. This is not like Columbus thinking the world is a sphere so you can head right to get left. Or maybe it is somehow, either way Haitians came out the worst

Maybe, but it’s hard to believe the cult leader will be active in four more years, and so far no one else has whatever power he has to attract his followers.

Also, I’ll take four more years of the country functioning

Maybe the response I got from my Mom is telling

• she’s a surprisingly liberal boomer
• she understands Trump is unfit to lead anything and would never vote for him
• she was unhappy voting for Harris

When I asked why and fact checked, two of her three reasons were false and third was “misleading”.

So even with someone whose vote was always going to be Democrat, the flood of misinformation and lies prevailed.

For my brother who is conservative, I didn’t get into it since there was no point in starting an argument. However he dismissed a lot of things Trump said as “he’s not serious, he’ll never do that.”

Very true. In contrast, I’m fed up with Firestick and am interested in trying AppleTV instead. But that device is two years old. I’m not in a hurry to buy, so that means I’m on the sidelines as I waited for the Spring announcement, then the summer announcement, then the fall announcement, and a new model never came. Now I’m getting stubborn: there must be a new version coming soon. If I knew when to expect any update, Apple would likely already have my money

Or the 10¢ plastic bags are now reusable …. Now I’m getting into the habit of reusing them, and the cost is rapidly approaching zero. They’re still plastic, but that also means they are lighter, more compact, and they’re an improvement in that I do re-use them many times. It means that yes, I’ve accumulated 100 in my trunk so I always have enough and I’m not afraid to throw one out if it is contaminated

When the cloth bags first came out, I typically saw them for more like $1. Maybe I’m spoiled by that expectation

As the saying goes, “the second best time to plant a tree is today”. Yeah, we’re missing so many decades where we could have actually prevented many of the consequences, but it will still get worse if we don’t act now.

Assuming Harris also supports Biden’s IRA from a couple years ago, it is the biggest investment in reducing climate change from the US ever, and is certainly projected to reduce carbon emissions. I remember projections at the time saying it gets us halfway to our car in emissions goal. It’s a good start, but now we need someone who can build on that to get us the rest of the way, not someone who will deny, repeal, and backslide. I’m confident Harris will at least hold the line, but there’s still hope she will walk frward

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/11/harris-vs-trump-on-climate-change/