Its definitely one of those things where I understand the logic and reasoning behind it, but still find it somewhat off putting

Add in regulations on windshields, lights, airbags, bumpers, etc. also enforce design considerations that skew towards a more homogeneous design. No more pop-up headlights or sharp chrome bumpers for example.

Missed a Delta flight by about 5 minutes two weeks ago, they put me on another flight no added cost, though the ticketing agent did let slip the flight I missed had been overbooked anyway, so non-zero chance I would have been booted off the flight if I had shown up 5 minutes earlier anyway.

Also, effectively all international carriers are held to the same standards regarding airline caused delays, regardless of HQ country.

I missed a flight on British Airways once, in a quasi-airline caused issue: got stuck trying to get through customs on Johannesburg with only 45 minutes from landing to make the transfer, and yeah absolutely no assistance from BA, had to buy new tickets and wasnt refunded the missed flight either.

"people who need a thought-terminating cliche to ward off a gnostic consolamentum crashout" is like 95% of tumblr's remaining userbase tbf

LBJ Orders Pants YouTube video by pthiso

Best I can do is LBJ talking about his nuts and bunghole

Because, as we see, one small mistake in timing means you're screwed for the next decade in terms of development and market share

I will actually defend Intel a bit in that almost all their current woes come down to getting caught mid development cycle with EUV, really screwing up their ability to jump to better nodes and other path dependencies, but there is also a reason no one else is still doing their own fabs

shit we're gonna have Cook 2028 speculation now.

Presumably it becomes a problem for them to care about if/when their paychecks stop showing up (or shortages render those paychecks effectively useless)

If Heironymous Bosch did a Whitesnake album cover

FARA enforcement, Title IX compliance for faculty, and fiduciary duty of board members of publicly traded companies; all stuff already on the books waiting to be enforced and all stuff that is objectively good and will also put a serious dent in the fascism complex

A 10-Year-Old Girl Wrote to NASA Asking Them to ‘Restore Pluto to a Planet,’ and NASA’s chief Replied with Four Words No One Expected

"No way. Fuck off."

The problem with this, is that when we had stronger parties, in the US, they kept reinventing forms of segregation from first principles.

The current weak parties are one of the major victories of 20th century progressives.

A virtuous cycle

Yeah, Im just saying, a datacenter doesnt meet anyone's risk/reward ratio, you're not physically getting any copper without setting off a million alarms and being swarmed by guards. Realistically, theyre getting caught the second their beat-up pickup pulls up without a parking permit.

Meth heads are going after anything abandoned, much different than robbing a place with 24/7 armed security.

FCS, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Also they better not be expected to have to pay taxes for any of it, and those teachers and healthcare workers better show no signs of affluence, they need to be poor and resentful, like everyone else in the town.

Here to say...rural Vermont also sucks ass.

I mean, I speak from experience when I say a lot of data centers, especially the big campuses, do get built with quite a bit security and access control, granted a lot of it is focused on stopping potential terrorist style attack than robbery, but breaking into one isnt trivial, for the most part

Also it reminds me a lot of the 90s telecom bubble which was alongside the first dotcom bubble, saw insane CAPEX from companies trying to build out their networks, huge government subsidies, etc. Plus even if the most of the big players go bust, the demand will likely still come.

Getting a Big Bopper Burger with a root beer float?

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

Feels a lot like the 90s telecom bubble in the US and Canada where not only were investors and companies throwing massive amounts of money to expand their networks and bandwidth, the government's also gave out tons of grants and concessions, like building cell towers on federal park land.

Last guy who ran off on the pack got choked out by some Givenchy gloves.
The last thing he ever saw was the price tag on them.
Slowly faded into darkness and I let the archangels take him

Every line from this man is straight from the old testament and you cant convince me otherwise.