When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore that means they’ve given up on you…you may not want to hear it but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you and want to make you better.
-- randy pausch, the last lecture
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/430312-when-you-re-screwing-up-and-nobody-says-anything-to-you
ALL of it is good. Go watch. Maybe laugh a bit. Maybe cry near the end. Come away changed.
Please don't humour stallman any more than necessary.
While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it's not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California.
There are stark differences between 49 other states and Texas.
And the big one
They're set up for failure and occasionally they succeed.
the data only goes back to 1979 and has not yet been verified by NOAA which has data going back to 1880.
There's a whole hot world outside of America who don't need to wait for its underfunded organizations to get around to validating the data.
But I get it. The news is dire. It's neat to cling to uncertainty in times like this unless you lived in Lytton
Yes. Our 12% will really make a difference vs corporations' 80%. And we can get to that 12% if so 8 billion of us work together. I'm doing my 0.0000001% part!
Sister's vet office is now offline again for COVID. Docs sick, most of the tech staff, most of the admin staff. When it hits, it runs through like a forest fire. One vet left because F the angry pet owners who think it's a personal insult they can't get special treatment, and he replaced one of the two who killed themselves (stress) last year.
They may institute a mask mandate again
Me, I quit my job when they mandated return to work and I joined a union shop with 100% remote in the contract. I should mask up when I go to the store but I'm a dumb boy and always forget. I'm so vaxed it's like a bad hangover, but I don't have time for even that mess.
The most useful part about it to me is the API. You can tie it in to Active Directory
This trick alone makes my Lemmy addiction pay off. Thanks for even suggesting such magic is possible. Adding that as a task after my samba-AD rebuild this very f'n week.
There's a lot of value in a sleeping area that can get really really dark.
I'm ever so grateful for electrical tape.
I was born decades ago and 2 months early; in the glass box for weeeeks to beat the 11% survival-at-all stats.
Having said that, IT'S STILL NOT FACEBOOK'S BUSINESS as a conveyor and not a filter.
Before we had the fediverse - long before it - we had Usenet: people conversing globally in email-shaped units. It was shared and synched.
It was awesome. Questions answered, points debated, everything you wanted.
I don't think the fediverse is a magical solution, but it does have a familiar feel to it. Not as good when it comes to spelling, but "it's just the web," so the rules are maybe different.
This is fine.
This is the important part, I think: Spez showed that he will grind up his marketing partners - as 3PA devs are - into today's lunch ... and likely hope there's more to eat tomorrow.
We were always going to pay for their failures; this one, or the next.