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Who gets custody of Duke Nukem? 

Cool. Now do Illinois and California.

Remember when Utah's governor asked people to pray for rain?

What happened after a governor asked his state to pray for rain

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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox posted a series of tweets in response to comments about his call to pray for rain, starting by writing that Utah — along with most of the West — “is experiencing its worst drought since 1956.”

I should also add, that while my current direct manager is on-board with RTO (my real direct manager is on leave for like 6 weeks because of major surgery), he's also made it very clear that if you need to stay home for a specific reason (weather, kids, etc), just stay home for the day. So there is still some flexibility there.

1 minute ago, Jason said:

 

A funny thing about collaboration is that yeah for some things in-person interaction is always going to be superior, but for a lot of programming stuff it works better remotely. Instead of having to drag your laptop to a room with a projector or having someone come and look over your shoulder you can just share your screen, and the person helping can try stuff off on their second screen while also watching what you're doing. And you can easily bounce back and forth on who's sharing their screen.

I totally agree that screen sharing is better than projecting or connecting to a TV for technical stuff. It's easier to focus on smaller details on a laptop/PC monitor than it is staring at something on the wall across a room. I find in-person meetings better for more of the "brainstorming" kind of discussions. I feel it's easier to bounce ideas off of a group that way.

Right now I go into the office every other Monday but that changes to three days a week in mid-March. I don't think 100% WFH is a great idea, but I also am dreading three days a week. But a big issue for us is that the reasoning behind RTO was same old story of increasing collaboration, which is bunk because this only applies to FTEs and not contractors and a huge, huge chunk of our workforce is contractors. And part of the reason contractors weren't includes is because we simply do not have the office space to accommodate everyone. Plus, a lot of people that were hired in the past year or two that were intentionally hired to remote positions still get to keep their current WFH setup (which conveniently includes a fair amount of upper management).

I got a GameCube/Rogue Leader on launch. I don't know if I paid new enough about release dates to get any other game day one before that. 

30 minutes ago, chakoo said:

Boo.. It should be far longer than 3 year ban.

If he's still relevant in 3 years then we have a way bigger problem than him going into business in New York. 

3 hours ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Now would be a good time to share that Stainless steel is not actually as the name implies "stainless". There are also tiers to its manufacturing with higher "purity" rates correlating to much higher prices. The king of stainless, in terms of rust, is type 316. Tesla opted to tweak the formula to create "Ultra hard 30x". I'm not aware of the performance spec of this variant, but in regard to rust it seems to behave more like 304. 

I'm sure it'll be a great advertisement for Cybertrucks in the future when people seem them on the road covered in rust and oxidation after a year or two.

38 minutes ago, legend said:

 

Humanity will eventually be able to navigate this. But the the first few years will have growing pains and this is coming out right during a presidential election with one of the most corrupt and incompetent candidates the US has seen. So it's not great!

Yeah, initially I think its going to be a mess. But I don't think it'll mature enough to strongly influence this election. It seems easy enough to spot that anyone trying any funny business will get called out right away. Going into the future I think it'll just be like how no one trusts Google searches anymore because its predominantly slop that's been SEO'd to hell.

2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

We are so very, very screwed.

Are we? Perhaps this just leads to a scenario where the media/internet is so flooded with cheap AI generated nonsense that people will start to inherently distrust anything on social media and bring about a return of reputable human-curated content. On a small scale, looking at stuff like the Wirecutter being one of the few bastions of seemingly honest consumer product reviews.

The problem is always that the burden of proof for Dems is way higher than Republicans. If Dem states don't certify a Trump win on the basis of him assisting Jan 6th, then you just need a Wisconsin/Georgia/etc to not certify Biden on some bullshit about "insurrection at the border" or some shit. It'll come down to state legiatures and the gerrymandering therein. 

Honest question of where these jobs are coming from when the tech sector seems to be on a killing spree regarding jobs. 

I do remember the Olestra chips in the 90s. I remember seeing a big display of them at K-Mart. Don't know if I ever actually at one.

This is a very weird story for @Jason and @Commissar SFLUFAN to independently post at roughly the same time. 

4 hours ago, thewhyteboar said:

He's gonna go get that leg-lengthening surgery and come back stronger than ever!

Failing that, maybe he can just hang out with some drag queens so they can teach him how to walk in heels better.

On 1/15/2024 at 12:33 PM, CitizenVectron said:

 

Yikes, frozen pipes are no joke. Yesterday we had the coldest day in 30 years. Today it's not much better, I think -35C (-31F), but is -45C with the wind chill (-49F). Everyone here has insulated homes with good natural gas furnaces, but even still you see frozen pipes if they are right near exterior walls. Despite this, my wife walked to work this morning, 4km in total. Total nutcase, lol.

It's been a few days, hitting temps in the teens during the day but still around 0 overnight. But she was able to get the pipes thawed and no apparent leaking. So, dodged a bullet there. Should be back above freezing next week.

Sub zero temps here in Chicagoland. My girlfriend's hot water pipes to her upstairs bathroom froze. This happened last year for her and her landlord put in new insulation, but it clearly hasn't helped. So she's got no way to take a hot shower at home and when it warms up a bit on Wednesday there's a fear that the pipes will thaw and start leaking if they burst.

There needs to be some Purdue/Sackler-like turning points for the consumer truck market segment.

1 hour ago, Chadatog said:

I believe Chip Roy is playing the part of Matt Gaetz this time around.

You mean he's giving money and drugs to minors for sex?

12 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

Russia is having major electrical and natural gas/heating issues right now. It's gotten much colder, and many of their systems are failing around Moscow. Right now there are hundreds of thousands of homes in the Moscow region without power or heat, and many trains operating without heat. Basically just infrastructure degradation combined with a lack of replacement parts. Also big shortages of chicken and eggs. 

Which came first?

Why were they building a tunnel under the synagogue?

21 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

@ThreePi NIU dominating right now.

 

Kicker ran for a 45 yard TD on a FG fake, then was so busy celebrating the team had to take a time out because he forgot he was supposed to be the one to kick the extra point.

I never actually followed NIU sports. Went to I think two games in those 4 years. Fun to see them doing well, I suppose.

19 minutes ago, ort said:

I’ve always believed that if republicans really wanted to get rid of illegal immigrants all they would have to do is come down super duper hard on the American businesses who employ them. Pass a bunch of laws that excessively punish any business found with undocumented workers… But  of course they will never do that, because the hard truth no one wants to admit is that our economy is dependent on these laborers and the vast majority of the industries that depend on them are the same ones that give so much support to the same party that is constantly calling on measures that would actually harm their bottom line. Republicans don’t actually want to fix the problem, because then they would lose one of their main methods of keeping their audience outraged and angry.

Well, also by keeping all the burden of punishment on individual workers, it keeps them in line. Keeps them from reporting unsafe work conditions, unfair labor practices, etc.

I assume this was also something that was intended to be recorded for TikTok or something similar. Not much different than all those gender reveal videos that go wrong.