I've never heard anyone decry "vice signalling" and surely humans do that at least as much.

https://copyright.gov/ai/

I'd also argue a place where the state surgeon general posts anti-vax memes and the governor has made his national bones by gutting educational programs and rights isn't "well-run" by most definitions.

Would love to hear more about what you meant by "well-run."

We're going to design a (language) application that performs the following tasks, delineated by semi-colons:

Then I listed about a dozen high-level user stories, separated by semi-colons, and ended the list with a period. Then I clarified my instructions like this:

We will design each step together, where you ask me for any specifications needed to complete the step and I respond with those specfications. When you feel we have completed designing a step, ask me if I have any questions before proceeding to the next step.

It started with a high-level recap of my user stories, asked if I was ready to proceed, and then began to describe the first step. Over about two hours of back-and-forth, I ended up with a 20-page document of high-level architecture interspersed with code samples, db schema samples, and answers to questions that popped up during the "discussion." And I got about halfway to a working prototype during those two hours.

BLEW me away how well it worked.

There's no comparison to having nearly everything in multiple states obliterated to the point that rescue takes weeks or months to arrive. We're not equipped to instantly support millions of refugees in the US. Moving hundreds of thousands of people for Katrina was probably at the upper limit of what we can effectively do (for various definitions of "effectively"). A killer quake out west could have 10 million refugees.

>>You can get an apartment for $500. Health Insurance is $30, utilities $200

Right off the bat, you're not "getting an apartment for $500." MAYBE you can find someone trustworthy who can rent you a bedroom for $500/month in some cities but:

As of 2020, monthly rent averaged $1,164 nationwide; median rent is $1,104.

-- https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/renting-statistics

Only 7% of US counties have 1-bedroom apartments affordable on the prevailing minimum wage.

-- https://reports.nlihc.org/oor

Also, you need first month's rent ($500), security deposit ($500-$1000), utility deposit ($50 - $500), and sometimes last month's rent ($500).

So now we're talking a few grand. Better hope you spent the past three months working that guaranteed-40-hours/week minimum wage job without spending a single penny of your wages!

I also hope that your job is very close to your new apartment because you're going to need to spend a LOT of time chasing all the benefits that you seem to think are easily handed out and you don't have money for transit. Nope, you can't afford to take a whole day off work to wait in line for a free transit pass -- after all, you're going to spend $700 of this month's $900 income on housing and utilities!

At least make up numbers from this century if you're going to pull this Horatio Alger stuff :-)

Good luck "debunking" your "myth," comrade!

OJ was found not guilty by a jury of his peers who felt there was reasonable doubt to his guilt. Sure, to the vast majority of us, he obviously did it and skated, but I'd guess there are 100 or 1000 non-publicized cases of an innocent person getting railroaded for every OJ.

Clinton paid a massive political price for his weasel language and related evasions, and some people think that price included Gore's loss of the Presidency in 2000.

Capone was brought down for unpaid taxes, not parking tickets, and that was as a result of a federal task force brought about following years of incredible gangland violence in Chicago.

I wouldn't call these bugs.

And let me know if ANY cops in the US have ever complained about overtime -- guaranteed overtime and overtime pay rate are often specified in police union contracts and there are tons of articles every year about cops making $100K+ overtime on top of base.

Source:

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detect...

If the product in question doesn't have an available extended warranty, then pick another product.

Telling every hardware maker "you have to support every device you make forever" is ludicrous.

I have some 15-year-old netbooks in storage that still power on, should eeePC have to "support" them now? Should they have to maintain a repair depot with replacement parts forever? Should they have to just release their own version of Linux forever to support each model of hardware?

> Another opinion holds that Thursday was chosen as a poke in the eye to Orthodox believers, since their fasting days are traditionally Wednesday and Friday (official doctrine did all it could to encourage atheism).

I'm struggling to parse that first sentence in a way that someone would be offended by.

2) Don't talk about how you spotted some system deficiency three levels above you and reported it. That's just going to creep people out. And that is NOT the sort of thing that makes a manager think you're Good Will Hunting and say "What's that genius doing in the call center cubicles? Get him an office and insurance right away!" Instead they are 100x more likely to say "Yes, drone, we're all well aware of that issue, get back on the phones."

3) You're cold-contacting SVPs at Dell? Spoofing contact whitelists to get through their phone systems? Yeah, this isn't "War Games," so you're about 1000x more likely to anger somebody than you are to impress them with your skillz. There are the "normal" channels of getting a job (the HR application route) and the "usual" channels (having a friend at the company get you hired)... but anything else (walking into an SVP's suite) is really, really unlikely to help.

I mean this well -- twenty years ago, I was a college freshman dropout with no portfolio, no connections, and a rural drawl -- so you CAN succeed. But I had some rough years and I had to put in my dues as an entry-level help desk grunt before rising up as a sysadmin.

* Get some sort of stable job and don't quit it until a year has gone by AND you have a signed offer letter in hand for a provably better job.

* Don't give up on Medicaid! In most states and most scenarios, you're MUCH more likely to get decent subsidized ACA healthcare than you are to find a job that gives you insurance within 90 days, let alone 30 days. But you gotta do the research and the legwork.

Some of the topics being discussed in our (US) church in the past couple of years:

* the devastating personal and economic toll of the pandemic and how we can help individually and in aggregate

* race relations in the US and the history of injustices caused by racism, including police brutality, and how we can respond in our daily lives

* LGBTQ-related topics, including the ability of people of different sexual identities to participate fully at all levels of the church hierarchy

* the environmental impact of our actions at the personal level all the way up to the institutional level as it pertains to human-caused climate change

You can find many churches in the US with people that believe in every possible belief related to all of these issues.

No, it's not just potlucks and singles nights :-)

Can you please point me to the thread where you justify this (otherwise unbearably arrogant) response with your credentials?

(Seriously, how did this comment not get yanked as an obvious ad hom troll?)

This is "once this vaccine is pulled out of the super-cold freezer, it starts breaking down, and you have X hours before it's worthless at best."

Worse than "worthless" is the idea that people might get a useless expired vaccine anyway, think they're protected, and then be a vector for future transmission.