[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We've been getting tons of rain here, but we are still in an outdoor water ban.

Between 8-5, no lawn watering (except golf courses and businesses), no washing your car (except at a car wash), no watering your ornamental plants (except for farms and garden stores). No filling your pool (even a kiddie pool) or running through the sprinkler (except at the water park).

It's not because of drought, but because one of our water sources is offline due to elevated PFAS, so they are blending water from other reservoirs, and those sources combined can't make up the extra demand.

And also protecting businesses by making sure we can't wash our own cars or lollygag through our own sprinklers. Gotta pay for that privilege.

We have to pay...for the privilege...of lollygagging through our sprinklers.

I get the lawn part. I hate lawns. But my yard is also a barren mud pit. I gotta put something down. Trying for mostly clover and other plants that don't need a ton of water, but they still need to stay moist to germinate and start off, and that's real tough to do if you can't water it during the hottest parts of the day. I don't really care what grows as long as it holds the dirt together and it's comfortable to walk on barefoot.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Detroit failed because of automation and off-shoring. Things that could have been repaired or prevented politically, sure. But not directly caused by policies based in bigotry and ignorance.

If any correlation can be made, it's from white-flight. Which would be caused by Detroit's massive loss of jobs and Florida's massive loss of land. But white flight, imo, is the reaction, not the catalyst, of its downfall.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

History has its eyes on them.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago

Florida woke and brown? Half the state literally needs to take a nap, and the only brown is in their Depends.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Pet peeve #209: implying DFW has a bigger furry scene than Austin. For some reason I doubt that.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

If you save the cheerleader you save the world.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago
[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

You mean to tell me, three days a week, they have to:

  • wake up extra hours early
  • pack a lunch or plan to pay for one
  • put on hard pants
  • drive their own vehicle in traffic, with their own gas and wear/tear
  • pay for their own parking.
  • do the exact same work in their designated space
  • drive back home in traffic 9 hours later

All for the same pay and several hours away from my family, home, or bed?

No fucking thanks.

Going remote was the best fucking raise I ever got, and it didn't cost them a dime.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

I'll start integrating the webhookers with Slack.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This is bad practice.

More accurately it should look something like this:

# Load sys library for exiting with status code
import sys

def sayHelloWorld(outPhrase: str="Hello World"):
    # Main function, print a phrase and return NoneType
    print(outPhrase)
    return None

if __name__=="__main__":
    # Provide output and exit cleanly when run from shell
    sayHelloWorld()
    sys.exit(0)
else:
    # Exit with rc!=0 when not run from shell
    sys.exit(1)
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While $1m USD in 1988 is worth only $2.6m in 2024, if they just put it in the S&P 500 back then and left it there, it'd be worth over $44.6m today.

I don't know if the Dijon ketchup is really worth it.

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