Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me! Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!

I’ve taught my kids that there are grownup words that they can use once they’re a grownup. They’ll heard grownups use these words but they aren’t to use them themselves. And probably around the time they’re grownup enough to figure out the ruse they’ll be about grownup enough to understand when to and not to curse

You motherflippers all think this everything is a motherflipping joke

Fuck I forgot about the whole “human malware” thing

GTA RPers would be pretty fucked if they needed to stop saying the names of drugs

I learned all of my Chinese from Firefly

Oh crackers!

A company does not need total market share to be a monopoly even in legal terms

Huh that’s very interesting!

rm -rf / only deletes everything on the / partition and any currently mounted filesystems, since efi is its own partition and not mounted it wouldn’t be touched

And also don’t run commands that require you to type in “do as I say” before they run

My wife grew up on a farm and her description of how nasty cleaning out the chicken coup is is enough to put me off ever considering keeping any kind of birds

Having someone who’s dependent on your care can absolutely be a driver for kicking executive dysfunction’s butt! For me it was my first child. She’d wake up in the middle of the night and I’d try everything except for the diaper and save the diaper for absolute last because I didn’t want to change it, and it was just a little wet so it was fine. Quickly learned that was just a waste of time and forcing me to be zombie awake for longer so I finally just stopped putting it off and would change her diaper as one of the first steps of the middle of the night wakeup routine. Routine complete much faster and with much less laying back down and then getting back up.

Generally the best option is for all property taxes for education to go into one pot to by divided up fairly across all school districts in the state, that way wealthy areas don’t end up with over funded schools while rural areas and poor areas get poorly funded schools

It’s more like a tax, you choose to purchase land from the city, you gain access to city services by living in the city, and in exchange you must pay the city annually for the privilege of owning the land, and if you don’t pay for long enough the city might seize the land from you. Could even call it a property tax…

You’re right! I finished Sourcery like 6 months ago and have read a bunch of other books since then so my memory was kinda foggy. But that’s exactly it, the magic exists and can be powerful but it’s simply more trouble than it’s worth

I think you might have responded to the wrong comment?

This is the one thing I really appreciated about the Discworld books on a recent re-read. The wizards are hilariously incapable of doing anything useful. Terry Pratchett doesn’t give a super clear series of rules for the magic system but it’s abundantly clear that the wizards are incapable of actually useful magic, and mostly just get too tired up in internal power struggles to ever do anything. And in the book Sourcery, the first sourcerer (one who can create new spells) to grace the disc takes over the world, realizes running the entire world is too stressful and tedious then creates his own pocket dimension to play with magic in instead (I’m oversimplifiing here, skipping over a bunch of interpersonal stuff related to a sentient wizard’s staff run by a dead guy who tricked Death among other details but that’s the general gist)

By making the wizards so useless it bypasses any of the logical problems posed by creating a world with magic in it. There’s no “why no use this spell” “why not magic out of this problem” etc. all because the wizards are too useless to actually do anything

Honestly asking: what other way would anyone suggest to bring back outsourced manufacturing jobs?

The bigger question is “do Americans actually want these jobs?” According to the JOLTS surveys for the last several quarters there’s about 100,000 open manufacturing jobs that are not getting filled, in a labor market sized about 500,000. Simply put, it’s abundantly clear that people don’t want the manufacturong jobs that do exist

I also saw this from the inside when I worked my last job with a company that does contract cleaning services for industrial facilities. Nobody wants to work industrial sanitation, and they end up primarily hiring immigrants and ex-convicts as they’re the only people desperate enough to take these industrial sanitation jobs. And it’s not for lack of pay or benefits, the fact is the nature of the work sucks!

He’s started adding exemptions. He just added one for the automotive industry following discussions with the big three auto makers. What if the tariffs were a grift all along? I’ll

This is exactly what they were the last time around. They poked so many holes in that tarrif policy it was a seive