[-] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 7 points 3 months ago

In this case the bond is because he's appealing a civil judgement that's been reached. This is different from a bail bond. He's not at risk of jail over this unless he gets in contempt of court.

[-] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago

This is a game I keep coming back to. I love it, and it's got great replayability. I'm glad the phone version works well now.

[-] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 18 points 6 months ago

I'm an anarchist, and my take is that anarchism isn't pacifism, and "no coercion" is a bad summary. It's more about the absence of hierarchical coercion and instead distribution of power to all people and communities.

If you're going around burning down houses, your anarchist neighbors are going to use force to take away your matches and gasoline if you don't stop.

[-] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 8 points 7 months ago

Why not put the bridge somewhere internal, then? It's not like it needs windows.

[-] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 17 points 7 months ago

A lemming that has taken off is https://startrek.website/c/risa !

I love my stream of Star Trek shitpost.

[-] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 8 points 8 months ago

It's all bullshit, and you've hit the nail on the head.

The only way out is through each other: change your workplace to be less bullshit. Demand dignity. Maybe bring your friends and make a co-op.

[-] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 9 points 8 months ago

Ironically, as I've become more senior (11+ years at a faang company) I've had to do less and less of that "look around and understand everything" work because of time pressure. But I rely on my experience to be more confident that I can ignore the details and focus on the reason I'm in this file.

Well, that, and if it gets too messy I give up and call in a junior engineer...

[-] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago

"well actually" room temperature superconductors do exist, quite definitely! ... But only at 100 gigapascals of pressure. https://uspex-team.org/static/file/Troyan2022_ufn227g_High-temperature%20superconductivity%20in%20hydrides.pdf

Still really cool, but not useful for engineering.

I agree that this paper needs to be replicated before we get excited.

[-] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 46 points 11 months ago

One way you might resolve this is to get everybody talking about it without the boss there. I bet nobody likes the policy. Maybe everyone would agree to not give a reason, or to give the same reason that is an obvious lie?

[-] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

Come to beehaw, we don't have downvotes.

[-] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

In the US, tap water is regulated to higher standards than bottled! In the rare cases where there is a problem with it, everyone gets notified, for example http://www.msdh.state.ms.us/msdhsite/_static/23,0,148.html.

NYC prides itself on having really good water, both for local food production, and just for taste. NYC did this by buying up land around its reservoirs further inland and building a large aqueduct system. The water isn't even filtered!

That said, some locations have unpalatable water, such as towns near the ocean that get their water from nearby wells.

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