[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 72 points 2 months ago

If you put a TV in a Faraday cage that blocked the relevant radio spectrum, would there be no static on it? I expected the answer to be a quick Google, but it wasn't.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 72 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The children do not yet know how much they yearn for the mines of listservs.

A new, novel solution to an already-solved problem that is worse in pretty much every way. But at least it is anathema to retention of institutional knowledge.

In short: just do a fucking PHPBB forum, it's better than this shit.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 108 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Dark patterns.

All the big tech firms do this shit all over the place because the regulators are sound asleep at the wheel.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 124 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Smart Features" in the Messages app have always been explicitly processed only on-device. This is a big change if it is different than that.

I'm betting they'll make this opt-out, which is fucking shady as hell. And worse, I bet opting out your own messages doesn't stop someone else that is opted in from unknowingly/unintentionally transmitting all your messages that they received. Ugh.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 91 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

To be clear, he wasn't "praying on the field". He was leading the whole team in prayer as part of the school event, at the 50 yard line, with the audience watching, inviting others to participate, apparently creating an atmosphere of pressure to participate, etc.. He was using his role as a coach and as faculty of the school to formally endorse and encourage his particular religion as part of the identity of the team.

And the stupid fucks at the SCOTUS thought this was not an establishment violation based on lies. Kavanaugh literally repeatedly lied in his opinion on it, claiming repeatedly that it was a private prayer instead of a giant, intentional public spectacle.

Anyone who looks at the photos of clips of the prayer will have ZERO illusion that this was a small private prayer on the field. It was a megachurch-inspired moment.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 110 points 7 months ago

All the other corruption and such aside, imagine how terrible this is for the urban development of your town.

The municipal government has no incentive to invest in forward-thinking policy that will lead to healthier and more economically sustainable communities. If they invest in any kind of maintenance or developments that increase road safety - and thus decrease fines - it hurts the government's ability to operate. Indeed, they have direct Financial incentive to make the roads less safe. Not to even mention that they have no incentive at all to do things that improved the city in ways that won't affect their traffic fines.

They've committed to giving up on good governance of their small town. They found a way to function by just parasitizing others. They've given up.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 113 points 7 months ago

They were told the other acceptable courtesy titles were Mrs., Ms., or Miss. Using "teacher" was also out of the question.

After being denied Teacher, Professor, or Dr. as the title (the last because they did not have a PhD even though evidently others in the school go by Dr. without a PhD without discipline). And note that "Mr." was apparently not an option?

The school's hands weren't tied. They appear enthusiastic.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 129 points 8 months ago

This joke is backwards.

YouTube is the one trying to kill an infinitely adaptable adversary they stand no chance of defeating.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 78 points 9 months ago

Employees are rated like Uber drivers -- 5 stars is good, 4 stars neutral, anything else is bad.

But the companies forbid giving 5-star reviews.

If they didn't, they'd have to admit their expectations are too high for the pay they are offering. Exceeding expectations is the expectation and therefore you cannot exceed expectations. And since you aren't exceeding expectations, minimum or no raise for you.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 89 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why do cops have the power to just routinely turn off their body cams?

That should be limited to using the bathroom. If it gets turned off during regular duty, it should be presumed to mean something is being covered up because that is exactly what it means. There should be paperwork triggered every time it is turned off.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 73 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Congress members get as many votes for war as they have draft-age family members. For each vote they cast, they must enlist 1 family member. Starting with their own children.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 70 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Fruited beers are very popular and breweries make them sincerely and routinely, especially for sours and milkshake-style ipas that tend to be the big hits with young people that don't have a taste for more "serious"/traditional beers. This is the beer for Basics and is the bread and butter of the local nano and microbrewery to draw in diverse crowds. They also change up their selection to drum up continuing interest.

If there is any brewery that tries to recover infected batches by masking the flavor the Brewery deserves to be ridiculed and shut down. I spent over a decade as a craft beer buyer for a large place that dealt with literal scores of microbreweries and have never even heard a sniff of a rumor about a good brewery doing that shit, and I think you should name and shame the one you worked for the did.

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