Even construction companies need finance and HR

Umbrella Academy was a hate watch for me. I loved the experience of watching it with my sister, even though I absolutely detested the show itself. Every single one of the characters is just the worst fucking person with zero redeeming qualities, and they somehow just get worse as the show goes on.

I tried many times and I did always like it, but for some reason I never felt the urge to finish the first season.

Ooh, me too. I got more than one season on my second attempt, but I’m honestly not sure how much more. Definitely didn’t get through 3 full seasons. I enjoyed it, but…just not enough to go out of my way to keep watching it.

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Because Elon wanted it. Vance doesn’t have an ounce of initiative in his body. He doesn’t need a reason other than his boss asked him.

The pope goes by AD&D druid rules. The new pope is the guy who killed the previous pope.

So it’s J D Vance.

My software engineering degree required me to do “Calculus and Linear Algebra” 1 and 2, as well as “Multivariate Calculus and Ordinary Differential Equations”. I can’t say that I’ve used any of it in my work, but at least linear algebra has obvious applications in computer science. Not so sure about calculus.

Discrete mathematics was much more directly useful.

Aww she gorgeous!

That’s me for about a week with any new device. Then I slowly get more and more lax, until eventually I’m the one on the right.

Clickable links, for sure. But machine-handled links like RSS feeds and ActivityPub subscriptions? Maybe not.

How?

If it was that, he should have said it was that. Instead, he used the opportunity to chastise his bandmate for the comments he made and made it very clear he was distancing himself from Gass.

It is a joke about the Confederacy in the American civil war

Oh, I thought it was about the '60s–'80s with regimes like Pinochet and Banzer and the series of military dictatorships in Brazil.

Yeah I agree. I’d love to get rid of maps, but location history is just way too valuable to give up, and I couldn’t find anybody else who does it.

I also really like navigation that’s responsive to current traffic levels. Obviously even if someone else provided that, them having fewer users would mean it’s not going to be very effective, but I’d be willing to switch to someone else who at least was attempting to do that, even if their userbase wasn’t there yet.

Right now though…nobody that I could find even tries to do either of those crucial features.

or failing some purity test on his political opinions

How about cancelling a tour and disappointing all the fans who had bought tickets to that tour, because he disagrees with a joke that one of his fellow bandmates made because of its political content? Because he cares more about his own personal brand image and tickets to his latest children’s movie than he does about his and bandmates and his biggest supporters. I think that’s a bit more than “failing some purity test”.

I know he is a person with a good heart

No, you don’t. You can’t. His detractors can’t claim to know he has an evil heart, either. None of you know him personally, and it’s a kinda gross degree of parasociality to think you do.

(fwiw, I personally don’t hold what I’ve seen of his pro-Israel comments against him too much. I think he’s wrong, but I’m more inclined to agree with you that he doesn’t have an understanding of it, especially since the comment I saw him make was in the immediate aftermath of the October attacks in 2023. If he’s made pro-Israel comments since about January 2024, that starts becoming inexcusable in my eyes.)

German law literally restricts bike light brightness to a point of being impractical in the dark. It bans blinking lights despite research showing blinking lights increase visibility of cyclists. It requires cut-offs that make it so you literally can’t see what’s ahead of you until it’s too late to react to it, if you’re riding at speed.

If you’re only ever riding at a slow 20 km/h on relatively well-lit city streets, it might be fine. But that’s just not reality.

You’re required to have a rear light, but it must be mounted between 25 and 60 cm above the ground…so you can forget about a light mounted on your helmet or backpack…or even at the most natural place for a light…at the top of your seatpost. It’s fucking nonsensical. And to learn that despite all this bullshit making cyclists less safe, car lights are unrestricted? Oh boy, am I incensed right now.

Wait, Germany bans good-quality bike lights, but allows unregulated lights on fucking cars‽‽

As long as she has her orb to ponder.

The trick, if you ever do, is to ignore the way Aussies have it. It really is an acquired taste, and Aussies lather it on thick. But when first starting out, the best way to do it is to spread a large amount of butter (or margarine) on toast, and then over the top of that spread a very thin coating of Vegemite.