Perhaps this is an industry (one among many) that should pay the Federal government a per train/per mile of track fee to cover the expense of the Federal government employing Federal train inspectors?

Anti-government conservatives have successfully pushed for industry self regulation for decades and so we get what we get.

goodbye flappy bird 2.o

Better option: Pathfinder 2e. It’s everything good about 3.5 and 4 married together. 

This game looks very mid, and with a retail of 60 bucks, thats a big ask for something I’ve played a dozen+ times already. But once this goes on sale for 20 or less I may consider it. It’s just too much for an empty headed farm sim clone.

Burning man got gentrified. Not sure people even try to pretend it’s anything but an excuse to have sandy drug sex.

Yes, that’s part of why Burning Man was kicked off the Playa after the total destruction of 1996. Burn scars everywhere.

The subtext of Burning Man has never been “leave no trace.” It has always been “Who gives a fuck about this place, I wanna do fun shit in the desert.”

Oh a communist, huh? 

We love to take our 700+ horsepower $100k trucks to festivals about self-reliance and being kind to our earth mother or some such, don’t we folks. 

That RV is fucked. Shitty aluminum frame, stapled together interior panels, press-fit water lines... The modern RV industry builds shit that barely lasts 10 years when the units are treated well. This just bent or broke a bunch of stuff. 

Good - unnecessary DRM on HARDWARE is pure rent-seeking behavior and should be reigned in

This comes down to an epic failure of leadership.  None of these CEOs have made a convincing case as to WHY everyone needs to return to the office.  Their employees are not buying their reasoning.  I had an EVP at the software company tell me he doesn’t believe his employees are really working.  This is a SOFTWARE…

“Jassey deflected questions on what data or information led him to make this decision.”

1st Gear:

Our company (a major aerospace company) is trying the same hardball tactics and it’s definitely not worked out well for the company. So far on my team alone (of 16 people), 7 people have walked. And walked into jobs that paid better and guaranteed remote work.

Reverse: I had a lot of respect for McCain until he pulled that stupid stunt in selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate. My Dad- who “Had” been a Republican his entire life- in turned voted for Obama and since then voted for the Democratic candidate ever since. A lot of other moderate Republicans did the same thing.
 
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I am shocked..... No seriously I’m shocked it isn’t higher. The US in particular has just ground people into dust under the gears of Capitalism. The average person has to keep making the choice between eating and health of any kind.

WTH kind of strawberries are these scientists eating?!

Well, we are on the brink of becoming an authoritarian Christian Theocracy. That’s worth not being around for.

Well perhaps if the United States valued its citizen’s physical and mental health over that of corporate wealth then we would live in a much more supportive and compassionate society. This is not the case. The “American dream” is the pursuit of wealth, power and fame. All other values are eclipsed by these primary…