Captainant

As someone working in an extremely large organization, have you ever tried to build something without a mandate from leadership? Good fuckin luck trying to build a team, the second any of their managers get wind of it they'll either try to reclaim their people's time, or steal the project for themselves, or decide for you what your 20% time project should be for. What you describe is good if you want to go into people management and never ever build ever again. The current consultant-brain crop of management makes it a really shitty bargain to spend extra time and effort on something that is not specifically directed by upper management. And even when you do follow their directives and build something that adds value to the business, it always fails to get adoption because the consultant brain fucks always just buy some shitty SaaS product for an outrageously high price because they had a fun dinner with a sales person

Well NYT is always so on point with doing good journalism to fight fascism

Why on earth would they spend all that money to stage crews that their shareholders should be getting instead?? It's not like center point is gonna lose any customers over poor service, so they have zero incentive to do anything more than the barest of minimums

I mean, Russia is still using their protected airfields to blow up childrens hospitals. So I'm really hoping that the west finally takes the gloves off and lets Ukraine start to meaningfullu impair the russian strike capacity https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/missile-attack-on-ukraine-biden-s-administration-1720475576.html We're still playing tiddlywinks with this fascist fuck and forcing Ukraine to keep taking body blows they could be degrading ahead of time

We do have a better way: ranked choice voting. It's been in practice globally in other democracies, and has been successfully implemented in state elections here in the US. It consistently reduces extremism in the politics thanks to the voting structure meant to actually determine consensus, and not just playing political games

Not kidding, check that there's oil and fuel in the generator. When Snowvid hit in 2021 a coworker just moved into his house with a generac equipped that never turned on, but for a few quarts of oil

DEI and CRT are the evil buzzwords that chris rufo brought to the republican vernacular in order to marshall conservates against culture war enemies. Thomas, Scott, Byron, Daniels, etc al aren't their enemy - it's anyone who advances progressive ideals and equality. So by your framing yeah, "DEI" is exclusively a """democrat""" mechanism

I mean, all that shit has been brewing for a decade plus at this point. It's the chickens coming home to fuckin roost after the economic coke bender that we've been on of near zero interest and incredible growth in wealth inequality

I wonder if Boeing will tell them to pound sand on the recent order to inspect all their 737MAX and NG's for issues with their oxygen masks https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/faa-orders-inspections-2600-boeing-737-airplanes-over-oxygen-mask-issue-2024-07-08/

The derecho was a wake up call for our hurricane prep. Hand crank radio is a godsend for info when cell phones start to crap out

Ukraine isn't using US/western weapons to attack russian territory (not stolen Ukrainian land) for reasons that are bound to incite CR type discussion

It's surprising to you that abbott doesn't give a shit about Houston? Motherfucker has been actively trying to make the city worse across multiple fronts

You ever have to take the keys away from Grandpa or an elderly parent? It looks and feels quite a bit like this

Thing is, the Biden campaigns pitch ISN'T "our shit stinks less" - they have actual policy outcomes and goals and shit that they are campaigning on. Trumpco just isn't engaging with that and is steering the dialogue as he always does via his firehose of falsehoods. And then when the octagenarian inevitably does a senior moment, that's ALL that the dialogue is about. It's hard to convince idiots to not vote for the guy who looks like and truly represents them. And for many of this country, that person is a criminally fraudulent child rapist

Man if bayous are already that full, it's gonna flood like crazy as the storms move upstream

Finally got a break in the rain and walked my dog, but it was still 30-40mph winds. About half of the exterior fencing in my neighborhood got K/O'd but I haven't seen any shingles on the ground so that's a good sign

Yeah I don't love feeling my house shake as I take a shit. It's blowing HARD in spring branch, I wonder how the roof damage will stack up to the derecho

I've definitely heard the occasional distant pop, followed by a brief dimming of my lights, so I'd bet there's a bit of oscillating happening as available voltage on the grid spikes up and down that causes the step down stations to skip offline

More power flickers in Spring Branch but still have lights on. My neighbor's fence has half gotten ripped outta the ground and is wiggling in the direction of my garage so hope that stays put. My wife noticed our master bathroom vent fan was dripping water, getting pushed in through the exterior vent

I still have data over my home fiber, but my AT&T cellular service just blipped out

Judging by the speed it's looking like 8 or 9 AM when it'll hit I-10. No telling if it'll be Katy or downtown though Yeah I've been hearing more "thunk"s than usual. I can't see my back yard really at the moment but curious to see what stayed and what flew off

I just had a short power skip that turned half my stuff off and tripped my UPS alarms and then it came back on. Definitely making a pot of coffee while I still can Edit: in spring branch

Reuters: Boeing to plead guilty to fraud in US probe of fatal 737 MAX crashes NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge and pay a fine of $243.6 million to resolve a U.S. Justice Department investigation into two 737 MAX fatal crashes, the government said in a court filing on Sunday. The plea deal, which requires a judge's approval, would brand the planemaker a convicted felon in connection with crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia over a five-month period in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. The settlement drew swift criticism from victims' families who wanted Boeing to face a trial and suffer harsher financial consequences. The Justice Department's (DOJ) push to charge Boeing has deepened an ongoing crisis engulfing Boeing since a separate January in-flight blowout exposed continuing safety and quality issues at the planemaker. A guilty plea potentially threatens the company's ability to secure lucrative government contracts with the likes of the U.S. Defense Department and NASA, although it could seek waivers. ... As part of the deal, the planemaker agreed to spend at least $455 million over the next three years to boost safety and compliance programs. Boeing's board will have to meet with relatives of those killed in the MAX crashes, the filing said. The deal also imposes an independent monitor, who will have to publicly file annual progress reports, to oversee the firm's compliance. Boeing will be on probation during the monitor's three-year term. Lawyers for some of the victims' families said they planned to press Judge Reed O'Connor, who has been overseeing the case, to reject the deal.

Bout to throw a couple ribeyes on the grill that I was planning on cooking at the coast yesterday evening. Fuck you Beryl, we're riding this out with full bellies

Lol sitting in a boarded up house slamming clawz sounds terrible