He’s started adding exemptions. He just added one for the automotive industry following discussions with the big three auto makers. What if the tariffs were a grift all along? I’ll
This is exactly what they were the last time around. They poked so many holes in that tarrif policy it was a seive
Lately I’ve been replaying the campaign in Railroad Tycoon 2 (available for a just few bucks on GOG) and I’ve had just as much enjoyment as playing a full priced modern title. Granted it’s got pretty timeless 2d(ish) graphics and a studio recorded bluegrass soundtrack at a time when most games just opted for midi soundtracks. It’s even got a complete stock market simulation where every action you take affects your company’s stock value, and you as an individual can manipulate the market to benefit your company and vice versa. I’ve had particular enjoyment by personally selling a bunch of stocks to artificially depress the value of another company right before attempting a merger. That and trying to survive margin calls without being forced to sell my 90% stake in every single railroad company that inevitably tanks the value of every single railroad in the game
Pretty dang good for a nearly 30 year old game!
Are you trying to tell me that this doesn’t look amazing? Look at those lovely hills and fjords! I think I even see a fox poking it’s head out
My interpretation is less about pandering to the perceived majority and more about avoiding drawing negative attention from the Trump/Musk administration which is clearly very petty and very receptive to virtue signals. Do they kiss the ring? They get special treatment. Do they do something perfectly within their rights that Trump doesn’t like? He’ll find some way to make them hurt for it and take whatever concessions they offer to avoid being hurt
This one’s my favorite
When my child started holding her breath when tantruming the doctor made sure to tell us not to worry and that if they manage to hold their breath until they pass out they’ll start breathing as soon as they go unconscious. Kids are wild
The sad part is Indiana is such a nice state. That was one state I’ve visited that I did not expect to like so much
That’s just the spam that gets through! On my ancient ISP-provided email it’s primarily distributed via compromised accounts from the same provider. And what I see targeting the corporate world tends to come from newly setup email servers or newly setup accounts on paid email providers
Well that sounds like a right pickle. Generally whatever entity is in charge of providing parking would be the one to bother to find a solution. If that’s the business, reach out to a manager or other decision maker, if that’s the municipality they of course can be reached and usually love a low cost high impact change they can make at the request of a citizen. If that’s a shopping center thats probably still a manageable process to notify them of the demand. All of the above are financially incentivized to provide adequate customer parking, and customers leaving bikes in the walkway would indicate a strong customer demand for more bike parking
I’ve noticed it definitely varies depending on how you access it. The web version is flawless as long as the software has the resources it needs to run (my server is slightly very over-provisioned and gets crazy IO delay pretty frequently from running too much on too little).
The official Android and IOS apps are pretty good but do glitch and hitch from time to time, but apps on other platforms are less perfect. Also the third party Streamyfin and Swiftfin apps both seem to work a bit better than the official one but have their own quirks to be aware of.
The Roku app only just got consistently usable around 3-6 months ago, and still prefers to crash without displaying an error when fed media it can’t direct play, and for some reason some user profiles just don’t work on it. I don’t have anything else to try other apps on but that’s my experience so far
I haven’t really used Plex so I don’t know how clean of an experience it provides, but Jellyfin is very usable and honestly at this point most of the problems I have are specific to my media or my setup and not so much problems with the software itself
Hey man, I’m being nice. Your initial comment described a ~40 mile commute and made no reference to whether or not you live in town. I’d previously made comments like yours before I picked up biking as a hobby, and I’ve encountered plenty of people who live in town but have to commute to another and use that as the excuse to not bike even though they’d like to. That’s why I left my comment saying “hey you can still do this” but we both know it’s different if you’re in town or not. That’s one of those choices you make when you choose to live in town or outside of town.
Personally, I’m making the choice that just living in town isn’t enough, I have a special needs child so my wants and needs have changed, so I’m going to go further and move into a major city. Right now I super commute while we clean up, fix up and pack to sell our house and move. That seems to be the right choice for me, and none of these choices might be right for you. That’s life, you make these choices that have trade-offs. Sometimes you make the right choice at the right time, sometimes you make the wrong choice or your wants and needs change and you course correct as needed.
Half my life I’ve lived more than 5 miles away from the closest store on roads with no shoulders or sidewalks and 50mph speed limits.
I live in a small town surrounded by farming communities, I have family that are farmers (some hobby, some not so) so I absolutely get the kind of living situation you describe
That’s 16 miles number seemed odd to me so I did a little bit of digging and it looks like based on the 2 minutes of reading I did that number might be heavily skewed by residents of rural communities and super-commuters. Looks like people in urban areas have a shorter distance to commute which reduces the delta between car and bicycle travel time
This map seems to show that rural/urban devide pretty clearly and supports that, with many larger cities falling into that smallest <30 miles average daily travel category
I love bypassing a traffic tailback on a bicycle
You can do what I do and enjoy biking around town/your neighborhood as a leisure activity. Bike to whatever stores or appointments make sense. Biking to a hair cut for example is nice because the wind as you bike helps shake the bits of escaped hair out of your clothing!
Current I super commute while I get the money scraped together to move, and even then my job requires me to drive a personal vehicle to customer sites as needed so biking/public transit likely won’t be an option until I land a better role with a company that isn’t as cheap as this one
Dude where I live climate change is making it snow less but get extremely cold (-40c/-40F) multiple times a season thanks to the destabilizing polar vortex. It’s really interesting seeing how different places are impacted by climate change
I suppose in the context of biking that makes it more viable though since you can always dress more appropriately for the weather but you can’t out dress 12" of snow in front of your tires
Usually that means the venue hasn’t provided bike racks when they really need to. There’s a convenience store near me which has no bike rack so I end up locking my bike to the firewood rack as the only reasonably secure spot to lock it
Can’t fix the air con issue
When I started cycling last year I found that I acclimated myself to the hot weather by riding daily (plus once you start moving even if it’s super hot and sticky the airflow as you ride along at 5-10mph really makes it feel far more bearable than one would think, even at 100% humidity!)
I can only imagine how much more bearable it would be on an ebike where I wouldn’t have to fight so hard on hills or starting from stopped
I swear when I first heard 321 it was “at least 3 copies of the data in at least 2 physical locations with at least one copy being offline” but now I’m hearing of different storage mediums instead of different locations
The bigger question is “do Americans actually want these jobs?” According to the JOLTS surveys for the last several quarters there’s about 100,000 open manufacturing jobs that are not getting filled, in a labor market sized about 500,000. Simply put, it’s abundantly clear that people don’t want the manufacturong jobs that do exist
I also saw this from the inside when I worked my last job with a company that does contract cleaning services for industrial facilities. Nobody wants to work industrial sanitation, and they end up primarily hiring immigrants and ex-convicts as they’re the only people desperate enough to take these industrial sanitation jobs. And it’s not for lack of pay or benefits, the fact is the nature of the work sucks!