I felt it was a bad choice. It cheapened the soul-crushing ending.

American tanks :(

The 22nd amendment was written poorly, and prohibits someone from being elected into the office.

Terrifying fact: the Speaker of the House is third in line, and doesn’t actually have to be a member of Congress. If the VP and President both leave office without a new VP being appointed, the Speaker of the House assumes the Presidency, bypassing both the 12th and 22nd amendments.

It works well, and I’m a huge fan and contributor to Open Street Maps (which it’s bassed on). But it doesn’t do traffic, which is unfortunately wha I need from my navigation apps 99% of the time.

If they had a paid option to cover the costs of using TomTom’s traffic API, I’d make the switch.

You seem to be doing some American math in that first line.

No, we’ve just really gotten good at finding other wrong options.

Yeah, and try as we might, we haven’t been able to replicate its biggest selling point. It was unfortunately also its greatest vulnerability regarding the corporatetake over.

It was a central location from which thousands of large, niche communities could be found.

Lemmy is great, but the decentralized nature of it also fragments small communities and makes it hard for them to launch. I was super active of the Scuba subreddit, but on Lemmy, there are like 8 scuba communities spread across the instances, but they’re all so small there’s no activity on them, and that fragmentation makes it difficult for one to reach the necessary critical mass to become active.

Former fireman salesman here:

Don’t just go buy a gun on a whim. Gun ownership is a responsibility with potentially deadly consequences if not taken seriously, and there are moral, legal, ethical, and practical considerations involved.

If anyone has questions about firearms, firearm safety, etc, feel free to reach out. I don’t support violent demonstrations or lawlessness, but anyone wanting to know about the tools for legal self-defense, hunting, and shooting sports is welcome to ask me questions.

Palantir is pretty spot-on. It spies on everyone, is a tool of evil, and once used you never know who’s watching and influencing you.

They took 3 weeks to attach my new plotter to the network because they didn’t know how to figure out how to trace a fucking Cat 5 cable.

We have 12 employees in the city. My home office has a more complicated network closet.

Oh, I’ve tried the shared mailbox thing. I had it at my last city and it worked fine, but our third-party IT service contractor here is the shittiest I’ve ever heard of.

It includes the latest release, but it’s the same one included on last year’s flu vaccine.

I think the devs may be quietly winding down support over the next few years.

Because investors know that they will almost certainly eventually be bailed out by a massive government purchase, so they bought the dip.

I work in government, and on mobile devices Outlook government accounts are restricted so that all other accounts have to be removed from the app.

It sounds like a great security feature, but since I need access to 3 accounts for reasons, I’ve got one version installed on my city phone, one on my tablet, and had to install another on my personal phone.

We’re budgeting in a second city phone for me next year because Outlook sucks.

Time for a covariance matrix!

That’s a correct word. In fact, it’s more correct than “supressor.” The first supressor was literally called the Maxim Silencer, and the ATF uses the term “silencer.”

I get that, but why the 4lb, 800-page books sent to millions of people a multiple times a year just to end up in the trash without ever being opened? 90+ percent of their orders have to be digital where they just search the website.

Yeah. I grew up around guns. I was shooting 22s early like you, had a compact shotgun by the age of 10, etc.

We didn’t live in the country, so while we had guns in the house, we did NOT have ammunition in the house until I was 15 or so, just in case me or my sister ever decided to play with a gun. We bought ammo on the way to the range or the hunt, and anything we didn’t shoot was given to a family member.

They are the reason I think I severely underestimate that sucess rate of junk mail. They essentially mail me a phone book 5 times a year ro my home and my office and I have ordered exactly zero products from them ever.

It can’t be cheap to send all those catalogs, so they must work.

They literally sent over 150 people to a slave labor camps without due process against a judge’s explicit orders.