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Is helium used in deodorants these days?

Hahahaha, I love it

That’s why you practice this stuff. It’s the only way to make sure you won’t slip under pressure.

It’s what I had to do - just make it a natural response. “I’m not well, I won’t be in”. Just keep repeating it, regardless of how many times you’re asked why.

Every large company I’ve worked for (since the mid 90’s) never swept this stuff under the rug - quite the opposite, actually. I’ve seen people with all sorts of issues being accommodated.

Practically every team I’ve been on had at least one person with some kind of issue. We all knew, and adjusted. Once in a while you get an asshole teammate or manager…those quickly get a reputation and people avoid working with them.

Companies are painfully aware of risk.

Shit, I’d be calling a lawyer just to put a scare into that boss. Fucking douchebag.

“I’m not well today, I can’t work, that’s all you fucking need to know”.

I’ve never had a boss even ask why. Frankly, he should know better…what he doesn’t know he can’t be liable for. Dumbass. Plus who has the time to worry about why? Does it change anything? No.

The difference is even this pittance of a fine wouldn’t happen in a planned economy - it would be like the planners fining themselves.

What we’re seeing here is a result of the amoral “beastly” types concentrating power. What you’re suggesting is to intentionally concentrate that power from the start.

Facebook is a great example of democracy - the billions of people using it have effectively (in their voluntary ignorance) voted for it to be like this. These are the same people who would vote for policies in a pure democracy.

And you’re ignoring what happens in the SMB space, where people aren’t part of the corrupt circle.

You’re welcome to start a small community anywhere in the US with a planned economy, as proof of concept.

You could call it… A commune, to indicate its goals.

Your “job” isn’t to “change” anyone’s view - and a real pastor would know this.

Change is an individual thing, and a “real” pastor would be appalled at your idea of the implication of denying individuality by thinking you can make another person change.

Your job is to help people examine the world, examine themselves, and gain understanding, so they can determine for themselves what change needs to take place.

Thinking you can make others change (and thinking that the change you choose is the “correct” one) is the height of hubris, and offensive to the very concept of personhood.

Pastor my ass. Nothing more than a sophist.

By supporting networking (and also using a mesh to increase range).

As I understand “walkie talkie” radios, the spectrum they use (GMRS/FRS/CB/MURS, etc) isn’t permitted to transmit data in a way that’s useful for proper data networking (there’s some allowance for data but not really anything like what most people think of as networking, and encryption is right out of the question).

For the most part, these radio specs can only increase range by use of repeaters. IIRC meshtastic takes a mesh approach to increasing range and reliability.

And even where it’s a factor, local code will (slowly) reflect actual capability.

Ive lived in several states, a few which get snow, even the heavy wet kind. Even there code permits up to 3 layers, depending on how the roof is constructed.

Agreed.

This is some of the best writing as to how/why/when cloud sucks.

I’ve shared it with my consulting friends, so they can more easily explain to (SMB) clients why cloud isn’t necessarily a good answer.

Yea but the people who use this today grew up after T9.

Nowhere did you say this.

So forcing everyone to use a single system, where everything about them can be known.

And we know how “secure” these systems aren’t.

Dont be naive.

That pupper needs proper restraining, and not by its human.

Even the best trained dogs don’t respond well to being jabbed/poked/prodded (and this is not how you trim toenails, you get them down on a table or on your lap).

Source: frequently assisted a vet friend when techs were unavailable, it’s a very rare animal that will tolerate being jabbed, having blood drawn, even just being shaved for an IV. (Actually I’ve never seen it, unless they were mortally ill).

It’s unfamiliar to them, so they react by protecting themselves.

(Edit: this dog, like 98% of them, are poorly socialized/trained in general, which I find very frustrating. People are lazy, complacent shits when it comes to learning about dogs before they get one. And most can’t be bothered to do the work required).

Yep, it’s even bad for the driver. Reflective glare off signs shows it well, plus the sharp cutoff means you have high contrast - something is either well-it or totally dark.

Unfortunately lighting regs haven’t changed, and I don’t know if the research exists that demonstrates what makes for effective vehicle lighting.

If it does, even then we’d have to push it into regs, and you know how much the industry will fight it.

Weird, I have the Izzy repo and it doesn’t show up.

Thanks for the link!

This is a major issue with F-Droid. I can find this via a browser, but the F-Droid app doesn’t show it, even searching by name. It just doesn’t exist. It happens all the time, I’m not sure why it doesn’t show apps that I know are there.

G-Droid doesn’t show it either. :/

Looks like that’s for iOS?

Edit: Which is a cool find too, since I also have iOS devices.

I’m not finding it, do you mean Open Note Scanner?

My first time seeing this.