Trainguyrom

I did the math recently and if you took the assets of the wealthiest 1% and divided only half of it amongst the remaining 336.3 million Americans it would be a check of approximately 68,000 for every man woman and child and those bloated blood sucking leaches would still have an average remainder of just under 6 million dollars each.

I think you're math lost an order of magnitude somewhere in there. Quite a few billionaires increased their wealth by 10s of billions of dollars in 2024 alone. 336 million is a bit less than 1/3 of a billion. If you just took 1 billion dollars from Bezos for example, and distributed that to all Americans you'd have an economic disaster from the sudden shock of every single American becoming a multi-millionaire overnight and Bezos would still be wealthy as fuck and making more money in a day than anyone could dream of

Tax. the. rich. When billionaires can increase their wealth by hundreds of billions of dollars per year, there is no reason for anyone to be poor. Hell, lets imagine a conservative 30% tax on wealth gains over a billion dollars. That's hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into the government every single year. Universal healthcare, free university tuition, and UBI all paid for with plenty leftover for ambitious megaprojects like reconnecting the entire country to passenger rail services. Anyone who says the government can't pay for shit that will help the 99% is ignoring the amount of wealth that exists.

Not in a single drive yet, but very viable in a single server these days.

I remember clearing drive space on my first computer once, I went off of install size and anything other than a couple of key games that took up multiple hundreds of Mb got the boot and anything less than 100 Mb stayed installed for a bit longer. When you've only got a 40GB drive, thems the choices you have to make!

Meanwhile I've seen Fortnite literally fail to update with less than 100GB free because it needs to modify so many files in its gigantic install

When I went back to college for a degree in networking during the pandemic it was similar. A few people were clearly there without any passion or natural affinity to IT, some had the natural affinity and/or passion but couldn't keep up, and ultimately out of the 50 or so students who I started with in the fall of the first year, only about 12 of us made it to graduation. There was a group of 30+ year olds launching second careers who helped eachother work through it all (I don't think any of them had the natural affinity but maybe the passion), and a group of 20 year olds who had a natural affinity for tech who made it, and I fell somewhere in the middle age-wise (but I have both the passion and the natural affinity)

My grandfather was naturally left-handed, forced to write with his right hand in school, then after school found he could no longer write with decent penmanship with either hand. His penmanship was always terrible for his entire life

Fox news found a Hypnotist that said teens should sleep later

Probably just the only "expert" in their rollodex who answered and said they were available

With trains all you have to do is add an extra passenger car or two for the peak times and keep the number of trains running the same. You could also increase frequency during peak times if you have the track, train and driver availability to do that

Idk I've met some pretty frustrating administrators who understandably hate Microsoft but they then go and refuse to learn anything else, refuse to use anything other than some variant of Windows for anything that needs an operating system then complain when their hacks to make windows do stuff it was never designed to do (or stuff it once was designed to do but hasn't been supported since Server 2003) get broken.

As an administrator part of your job is to identify the right tool for the job. I am most comfortable in Linux, I find the general architecture to make far more sense than Windows. I fully recognize that for most businesses Windows is the best bet on many cases. But there are also situations where windows should be your last possible choice. These admins setting up IIS Server and windows-based SCSI targets, using HyperV instead of a better hypervisor for more than a handful of VMs, they frustrate me to no end and I have to suspect they just have given up on learning anything new with these choices

There is a trope of the well-meaning white man speaking for women/minorities instead of letting woman/minorities speak for themselves

Whether you found yourself unwittingly acting that trope or just happened to get on the bad side of a misanthrope it's important to try to learn from such an experience so that you can be a better ally

My understanding is that's true of basically all insulation. Old structures were built with the assumption that they'd breath, and insulation wasn't as important since they'd be heated by fireplace in the winter (either directly or using the fire to heat water for radiators) and air conditioning wasn't a thing yet.

I don't know if that would work in this case. So one example that's relatively easy to replicate, y'know how in Doctor Who (this was specifically David Tenant era that I was watching) they'll sometimes have some soft choral mood music? It would cut out when the only sound was the softer notes of that choral music, or worse when characters are speaking with the choral music in the background it would cut out every time there was just enough time between a character speaking and the choral music hitting a louder note it would cut out, cut in for the note, cut out again then cut in after the other character responds

Republicans will do anything but acknowledge Bird Flu