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5 hours ago, C-Man said:
Average new car is more than $40k. Even fender-benders can get to be $5k plus claims in a heartbeat with all the tech in cars now. Add in some distracted drivers and you get what we have now. (And there’s the under/uninsured motorists as well.)
It's just crazy to me - my 2019 SUV was the top trim level with all the bells and whistles and even with adding on a lifetime bumper to bumper warranty it was under $40k
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10 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:
One of the funniest takes I saw: the message of the last episode was not to listen to your parents and just go along with any strangers who tell you what you want to hear. Go ahead and get in that van.
Did you see a different episode from me? She literally went and asked her mom for permission lol
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16 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
With the exception of Rogue One, Star Wars has been pretty mid since Empire.
Man the last 4 episodes of Clone Wars season 7 is peak Star Wars. Not better than Empire or the OT but it can hang
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8 minutes ago, Incredulity said:
Interesting, was told no wai can make ends meet so must shoot heroin in tarp city under overpass.
You really gotta stop reading pronghorns Twitter feed man
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1 hour ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:
This guy is supposedly legit, so it seems there's no emergency, although it's weird that their sim situation had their surgeon stuck in traffic
Seems like a ground crew member getting stuck in traffic is exactly what you should be simming and drilling for
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6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
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Hah almost as if on cue, Gartner of all entities put out data and a study on why RTO mandates are harmful to talent
Even these MBA/school-as-a-business hacks listen to fucking Gartner
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13 minutes ago, Chopper said:
[laughs in oligarchy]
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11 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:
All I know is I'm really tired of communicating with WFH people with crappy phone connections. Someone fix this and I'd be more on board with WFH crowd.
sounds like you work with some bad IT boomers, most VOIP solutions have decent to good echo cancellation and can make most microphones sound halfway decent
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46 minutes ago, 1978horn said:Figured this was the best place. They are going to lose a lot of people.
Dear UT community,Beginning this fall semester, the University will require almost all staff members to work on site full time. This will be a significant change for some members of our community, so it is important to take a step back and explain why requiring in-person work best supports our culture and reinforces the teaching and research mission of our University.
Staff members can most effectively serve our students, faculty, fellow staff members, and other stakeholders when working together in an environment that fosters collaboration, innovation, availability, and reliability. Our vibrant campus community helps distinguish our great University, and as members of our staff, you contribute to that vibrancy each day. We are here because of our students, and your consistent presence will help provide a more complete and engaging learning experience for students throughout campus.
Leaders of colleges, schools, and units will work through the logistics of these changes and, by early July, will finalize their plans to bring most staff members back to on-site work full time. All plans will be fully implemented by Aug. 19, which is one week before the start of fall classes. Based on the revised guidelines, a small number of roles will continue to be eligible for remote or hybrid work at the discretion of the supervisor and college, school, or unit leader. These roles will be characterized by observable productivity; work that is transactional, internal, or service related; or functions that require high levels of individual time to perform.
For all staff members, some occasions may call for irregular schedules or intermittent remote work that does not require formal arrangements. Managers will continue to make those decisions on an as-needed basis.
Thank you for your work and your profound dedication to our Longhorn community. I look forward to having students, faculty, and staff together on the Forty Acres as we continue to make this the world’s highest-impact public research university.Sincerely yours,Jay Hartzell
PresidentYikes my mom runs one of the major call hubs for UT Austin and she's been able to do way more without driving in an hour from Pflugerville every day. This is a boneheaded business consultant brain move.
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29 minutes ago, Nivek said:
The HIMARs have been so successfully implemented I almost think they are being run by US operatives at this point.
I'd bet they're definitely getting targeting intel from the US which is amping up their effectiveness, but as for operating em, shit even @atomheartbevo could operate em so it cant be that hard
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1 hour ago, Keef said:
We also need more judges. It's crazy that you can have a situation where one judge (RBG) kicks the bucket and so many entrenched civil liberties are threatened. If you triple the number of judges, you reduce the impact of one person leaving.
I think it's much cleaner to just increase to 13 seats. We previously increased to 9 justices in order to have a one to one ratio with the various circuit courts, and over time we have grown from 9 to 13 appellate courts.
That is consistent with past norms and serves to dilute the fascist and/or corrupt justices out of taking away civil liberties
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2 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:
Flood the zone with so much garbage & misinformation that eventually some of it sticks and people start to believe it or people become numb to the crazy ranting and accept it and stop pushing back. This is done by so many of these guys.
Nevermind that it takes significantly more words and effort to dispell a lie than it does to spread it. Elmo's rollback of twitter standards and pushing the most extreme shit to the top of the timeline has really done a number on some people's grasp of reality
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8 minutes ago, Orale said:
What's the significance for the economy?
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3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:
He offered her Tesla stock for sex. lol
If he offered to show her a "wild ride", then TSLA shares would certainly fit that bill
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JFC y'all are all a bunch of high falutin' crazies. This is a star wars mystery box show, it's not gonna be a fun thrill ride. I am really digging the expanded show of different cultures interacting with the force/thread
But for the story, Im pretty sure the Jedi have a lot to do with those dead witches. The padawan took his oath of silence and the wookie quit the order, so something had to have broken bad. I'd bet trinity does some ruthless Jedi shit
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15 minutes ago, bolverk said:
Is that the fucking scary Lake Charles Bridge that has looked like it's going to topple over at any second?
Lake Charles.... Where you start gambling before you get to the casino!
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17 minutes ago, Bevo said:
I don't know what you are talking about, but I have a question for you. I used to use Pandora and now I am using it again. I'll pick some group like the Animals or Bob Dylan, and it seems like the songs played end up being the same. Eagles, CCR, Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young, The Guess Who... If I pick The Beach Boys, it is a lot of the same stuff with some 50s music mixed in. It isn't beach music like the Safaris and the Ventures. Moreover, it is never more obscure stuff: It is always the same songs. And if you listen more than about 4hrs, it will basically repeat. Has their algorithm always been shitty or has it gotten worse? Is there anything better and if not, why?
It's not just the algos, it's the rightsholders to that music revoking the license that pandora had to play the music. But yeah, Pandora did enshittify by building a system to let labels pay to get their songs played more
Tbh music discovery has gotten worse and accessibility even moreso if you're not curating your own collection. Music labels are so toxic and greedy that artists have to re-record old tracks in the studio just to get access to their own library again. It's all a huge mess that's driven by greedy IP holders and their army of lawyers
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8 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Now, with home-recording and production tech and various self-promotion platforms, record labels and publishing companies are less essential to the process and creators, even small ones, are more likely to own their own rights.
The question is, will the free-shit army start to respect those rights now that it is the little guy whose ox is getting gored?
Generally speaking when put to the test - very much so yes. There's a whole cottage industry out there of patreon-only podcasts and games and content that have little to no DRM on them but are still kept "in the family" along with donations to the creator. Sure patreon is the payment platform, but they're usually just giving you a custom RSS feed that can be from anywhere.
And yeah in my experience, the community makes sure the little guy is getting paid and not stolen from. There are absolutely still cases of theft and freebooting their designs into some etsy or ebay shop, but that's par for the course either way
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16 hours ago, Brisketexan said:
Meanwhile, a brewery hosting a drag show here in Austin yesterday was shut down because of a bomb threat.
Number of evangelical churches where actual pedophiles are actively practicing their trade: a metric shitton.
Number of evangelical churches where actual pedophiles are actively practicing their trade that have been shut down by a bomb threat or similar threat by any of these people who claim to be "warriors protecting our kids": FUCKING ZERO.
ain't no hate like god's love
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24 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Politics aside, it is somewhat strange that with the advent of the internet, a lot of people seemed to decide that everything should be free.
I'm more than happy to pay for content - my problem is when content that I've paid for becomes no longer accessible or the platform simply vanishes. If buying isn't owning, holding my own copy isn't stealing.
Digital rights management - and the blind pursuit of ever stronger protections - have been an incredibly toxic force for paid consumer experience. IP holders have attacked their consumers with worms and trojans simply to ensure their music files aren't copied, and faced zero repercussions.
And besides in the case of art being """stolen""" through copying, it's not like money is being taken out of the pocket of the artist. They barely see a fraction of the overall money made off their work and art. You're gonna have a hard time getting me to feel sympathetic for a second/third/fourth/fifth/ad infinitum hand rights holder who's acquired the royalty rights missing their passive income payments
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12 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:
Saw this::
Sources add that Mrs. Alito also has a longstanding reputation in influential GOP circles for ranting about politics, the culture wars, the Left, and the burning grudges she’s nursed since at least the George W. Bush era.
Commenting on the Alito family’s dynamic, a well-connected GOP lawyer says that Justice Alito “is like if you turned National Review into a single person.” Martha-Ann Alito, the lawyer says, “talks like if Breitbart assumed a human vessel … They’re the Washington couple of Donald Trump’s dreams.”
Lol what publication is this from?
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4 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
This doesn’t happen overnight but it does happen.
Lol we've been waiting over 40 years for the trickle to reach it's way all the way down. I'm pretty sure it doesn't happen at fuckin all, just based on my having eyes and all that
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
in Daily Texan
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"Help, my LLM isn't hateful enough!"