Covid ended any hope I have. We couldn’t get people to put on a fucking mask or get vaccinations when the disease was right in front of us killing millions of people.

There’s absolutely no way we’re gonna get people on board with fighting the climate disaster. Humanity will be lucky if it survives itself.

To the people pushing hlthis narrative that want to buy houses in a vacation destination cheap then rent them for $600/night.

If your business requires all its employees to be there to function, it’s understaffed.

People go on vacation, get sick, quit, have car trouble, and die. Your business needs to account for that.

I still run across them that charge at 1.0 speeds. I’m pretty sure if my phone isn’t turned off they can’t actually keep my phone from dying at idle.

Last time I went to one (2020), the shelves were 80% empty, and what they had was mostly karaoke machines on consignment sale.

It was super depressing.

It can be reproduced indefinitely without cost to the creator. It’s the first production that’s a bitch.

How is initial production funded if nobody is willing to pay for it?

There’s one critical issue with Teams that’s about to result in it being banned for government work.

You can’t save logs.

My small city just changed domains and went to 365 Government. As part of the process we had to migrate all our accounts and create new ones, and we lost all of our Teams history because there’s no way to save the logs.

Now if someone asks for chat history as part of an Open Records Request or as discovery in a lawsuit, we can’t provide them. Other government bodies are starting to realize this and everyone’s about to start getting “don’t use Teams” memos from the lawyers.

Most states don’t tax cars outside of sales tax.

They may have registration, but that’s different than tax and only applies of you use the vehicle on public land.

Property tax is usually school districts and municipalities, and is well-under 1% most planned.

They can be used as collateral because they are assets that have value. You can use your car or house as collateral too, and neither requires payment of federal income tax.

There isn’t a federal tax on most assets. It’s income that’s taxed. If your assets gain value they can be sold, at which point you pay taxes on that income, though often at a reduced rate (e.g. Capital Gains Tax for selling stock at a profit).

That works great unless you’re specifically looking for results in those frequencies.

It’s the equivalent of trying to look for a red laser pointer dot on a wall and some jackass put red floodlights in front of you aimed at the wall.

The problem is they have to come up with a new source of income now that it looks like Google’s payments to be the default search engine to them are illegal.

That’s like 90% of their revenue, so they’re panicking.

Force. Brain fart.

Was working on the tractor this weekend.

I’m not sure there’s an ethical way to kill a deer with torsion.

They tried to nickel and dime me on a $4000/yr product, but I’m just giving them the nickel.

I think Trump and the secret service keeps getting lucky that his assailants are idiots regarding their weapon choice. This guy was 300-500 yards away and had an AK.

An AK is a 4-5 MOA rifle at best, so even with perfect optics, a perfect shooter, no wind, and a steady position, you’re looking at a precision of 2 feet at 500 yards, and that’s ignoring that precision gets progressively worse at range.

At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 round has gone subsonic, lost 80% of its muzzle energy, and dropped 30 feet.

Anything under 1000 ft/lbs of torque force isn’t considered powerful enough to ethically hunt a whitetail deer. At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 has less than a third of that energy. It’s enough to be lethal, but not consistently.

And all that is the starting point for the first shot. It gets worse firing semi-auto.

I will give ESRI credit for their online stuff. It’s expensive, but it’s also pretty great. We’re actually thinking about getting an online subscription but no software licenses.

I didn’t discover it this uear, but I started using QGIS professionally when the small city that hired me to, among a lot of other duties, be the new GIS department.

Turns out they thought ArcGIS cost the same as like Office or Acrobat, and they didn’t budget for it for the fiscal year that started 2 weeks before I started working.

Anyway, I’ve gotten pretty good with QGIS, and we’re sticking with it. It does everything I need it to do, and I can still pull stuff from most REST servers.

If you have reason to believe someone is in mortal danger, your response shouldn’t be to mail a letter giving them 30 days to respond.

You send police to the scene where they secure the potential suspect and make sure there’s nothing going on.

Watch Bernie if you want to see Black do a different take. His character is quirky, but there’s a lot of depth to him as well.

I do wish we got to see Black use a little more of his range because he can deliver a nuanced comedic character too.

I really, really liked his performance in Bernie. He was silly, but there was also a simultaneous depression, fear, and darkness in his performance.

Nope. I’m not acting on any information that can’t be pulled in an Open Records Request after I leave the city.