Agreed. Apparently the mod does not agree.

Gosh, Germans supporting genocide, again?! Who would have thought?

Y’all realize this is a bubble, right? I almost feel sorry for these investors, gonna have their ass handed to them in the coming decade.

Agreed. This is most likely just some people being doofy.

Probably get hate for this around here, but it would be pants-on-head retarded for a political candidate to propose a major policy shift 3-weeks before a national election.

She may well be correct with her numbers, I’m too lazy to check. But the Saffir-Simpson scale only measures wind speed. Makes for a fair thumbnail sketch, but doesn’t say much about the actual effects on the ground. For example; a slow moving CAT-3 can easily do more damage than a fast passing CAT-5. Keep in mind, Helene was only a CAT-2 by the time it hit NC, something we laugh about here in Florida. But it was huge, slow and wet. And due to the geography, well, flooding. Florida is so flat that water just drains out, nothing to channel it.

I have seen so many pictures and videos of the damage

I’ll just add this, nothing you see, or can see, in the media does justice to what it’s like living in the aftermath. My ex-FIL was in the Mississippi Guard. Two tours or Iraq, two Bronze Stars. What he saw and did after Katrina gave him PTSD and he abandoned his wife of 32-years and his daughter. Picture destruction that the United States military struggles to push through. House in the road? They fucking chainsawed them and pushed them to the sides. Stuff like that.

Ivan was my “war” and I drove MS from the Gulf Coast to Hattiesburg after Katrina. At this point I’m numb to it and the pictures all look the same.

Solid write up! You’ve changed my opinion. I had thought terms like “octoroon” were merely archaic descriptors, had never thought of the “one drop” angle and what that implied.

Holy shit! There’s even a word for all this!

such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed unions to the ethnic group which the dominant group perceives as being subordinate

1/64th: Sang-mêlé. My god, that’s a laugh-out-loud racist word if I ever heard one. How far back did they want to go?!

For anyone else finding this interesting, this might be the opening of a rabbit hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon

pay for google one

LOL, that’s the idea all right! I pay $99 year for 2TB of storage, so I’m a happy camper. My Windows libraries, movie storage and such is backed up offsite in addition to local backups.

Reminds me of when Malwarebytes changed the interface to look like a straight up virus. LOL, we were all shitting bricks.

I second this, but OP says they have special lens needs. That’s what stacks the price.

I learned it working telecom. For example, if you wish to offer 911 service, your service has to be operational 99.999% of the time.

It’s more casually used to mean a service or operation is insanely reliable.

Or shotgun shell sizes and loads.

“It all started in 1840 when the dram was a common unit of measurement…”

Where there’s a will there’s a way! Don’t give up.

For example: Use a small and VERY hot nail to melt a sideways hole. Patiently. Use the same nail as a tab. (Probably have to shorten in before the final push.)

I want to believe. But there are questions.

If the price tanks too hard, China will dial back production. The article talks about this. Seems to already be happening.

Also, why am I not seeing a penny drop in price at the hardware store in my corner of America? Anyone know of deals I can take advantage of?

I have many uses for solar cells, mainly personal stuff. Charging 12V lead and lithium batteries (mostly have this covered) and powering my camp for a start. Love to get my home going as well, but prices aren’t there yet and I’m kinda broke.

Feeling it. Starting to look myself.

Moved to a new team, former boss was frustrating, to say the least. Great company on the whole. Maybe I’m an idiot?

Pinged tonight by my new manager, who is on PTO but kinda half-ass working anyway. Some shit, “When I get back.” Other shit, “Do this now.”

“Updated user account per his manager.”

“Told you not to touch that till I get back.”

“You updated the tracking sheet saying do this thing.”

Fuck me. I can’t keep up with conflicting verbal orders, ticket orders, Slack orders, and Jira orders. Am I supposed to provide a fucking timeline as to what was ordered at what date and time?!

“Also the list in that email, go ahead and make all of the users except $X and $Y as regular users.”

“Uh, no warning?”

“No need to update the sheet at this moment. I will deal with the people on the list when I am back.”

Done. And still working on it. Now I have no idea whether to continue.

EDIT!: Boss was wrong a fully apologized! He’s gotta stop half-assing being on PTO and trying to work anyway.

Wondered if it was something exactly like that. Way to put the spotlight on their gender issues.

LOL, I feel that one. That novel is where I learned the word.

Tell me you know nothing about front or backend webdev…

I want to know how many people believe that’s real.

Proof-of-concept? No use planning much if you don’t have a solid power supply waiting. OTOH, seems like solar would be a no-brainer.