These comments are insane, to the point I’m not sure it’s not just bots.

Is the shark like Superman for fish?

I’m assuming his rationale related to failure to maintain physical and grooming standards. I know he wanted everyone doing the same PT tests, and at the end of the day women have always had more relaxed standards for PT, and then black servicemembers got no shave chits more than other races. It’s so fucking dumb, but this was his setup, and now he’s moving forward with it. Because some black dude gets ridiculous bumps when he shaves, he’s now passed over for promotion. Crazy.

I believe PT standards should be the same for men and women, but I also believe they should reflect your job. If you work admin, or chow hall, you don’t need to be at the same fitness level as someone in the infantry, that’s just silly. And I came from Marine land, where every marine is a rifleman, if so they say, but it’s just not true. Logistics are a huge part of any war effort, we need people in those jobs, and they absolutely do not need to be at the same level of fitness as front lines. Not saying they don’t need fitness, but a different standard is appropriate.

Yeah, I recently got Strava, but I’m about at the point of ditching it. I run alone. Garmin keeps any stats just fine, and doesn’t inject any social media into it. I have a couple friends on Garmin, but I have to actively look for their stuff, and they for mine, which is exactly how I like it. Otherwise, I run, and then I can go see how things look, and it gets added to the archive.

I appreciate what you’re saying, but I don’t understand how it’s feasible. You have people with second homes in beach communities, and so they shouldn’t have those, those second homes should be primary residences. But those communities, now, are not situated to support people in those as primary residence, not at 100%. I’m talking schools, police, fire, utilities, the whole nine. All of those things take into account basically nonuse during a certain time. And that’s excluding the fact that if these were occupied full time, people wouldn’t be able to get to work every day, it would be chaos. And yes, there are solutions, but feasibility is key, and I just don’t see it being feasible.

I like what Mamdani is doing. If you’re essentially wasting space, having essentially uninhabited apartments in a city that needs affordable places to live, he’s taxing the shit out of them (I’m simplifying). And so ideally this creates some pool of funds to be used toward affordable housing, but at the end of the day I still think the best thing to do is mandate set-asides for affordable, 20% of the units on any project. An alternative is obviously that the government builds housing, but the benefit of private development is that now those affordable units are also tied to market rate units, and so the developer has an interest in maintaining all the units. With a 100% government funded affordable housing project, it just leaves the door open for cuts that turns it from an opportunity into a slum.

I don’t disagree with you, I just don’t know that it’s realistic. But I do think its philosophically where the discussion needs to begin, and then we need to account for pesky reality.

Nobody would build anything if the first X number of units had to be affordable, unless I’m misunderstanding you. The city needs 200k units of affordable, and so until that need is met, any new unit is affordable? Development would be stifled entirely. And I hate it, as someone who likes affordable housing, but it’s a give and take, and nobody is going to spend money on a project that they can’t make money. Mandatory set-asides on projects over X number of units is the only feasible compromise.

The Prius actually looks better, these headlights are awful, holy shit. I love Ferrari, every model for the last 40 years, but my goodness.

I don’t know what this means and maybe I’m just not techy enough, but all my shit is on my PC, and if my PC is turned off it doesn’t work. Are you saying it goes through their servers? I’m just curious why it matters.

Yeah, my mom uses it. My mom. I have to remove search bars from her chrome like it’s 2005.

I see plenty of comments suggesting it’s not the set it and forget it that Plex is.

Yeah, that’s really overthinking things. I host my movies and shows, I watch them from wherever. I feel like I’m not going to spend more time analyzing it, because my usage of the app is literally finding my movie and watching it, or putting it on for my kids. If my junk email gets more junk emails, so be it. I personally lost the privacy battle a million years ago, although I guess I do my best by not having Facebook or Instagram or anything of that ilk. I do exist, and so I’m fucked anyway, but I’m not going to spend energy that somehow doesn’t get me a meaningful return on that energy spent.

Yeah, my job involves grammaticizing (my word) the spoken word, and I need to sometimes remind myself that just because a person speaks the comma, it doesn’t mean there is a comma. It’s definitely easy to want to vibe (to use the vernacular) commas places, though.

We need leaders (aka politicians) on our side we can rally behind, but they are few and far between. And I hate the reliance on politicians, but that is what their platform is built for. The best I can do is vote and hope for a progressive who isn’t afraid to make hard decisions, but I know the best I get is someone moderate who will just accept the shit.

Yeah, this is it. When they ask me for more money, or when they demand I host on their servers, I will adios. Until then, I paid $75 one time and the service does exactly what I want it to do, and it’s ezpz for a basic individual myself.

I think the most likely scenario is the company goes under because they didn’t have enough money, and then folks will come here and complain about that. Maybe I’ll be one of them, but I’ll try to remember I paid $75 more than 10 years ago, and so I think I’ve more than gotten my money’s worth.

I agree with what you’re saying but your commas are literally killing me.

I’m glad you got whooshed because I like seeing the progress pics. It was all for the best!

This would make a killer puzzle.

Credit where it’s due!

America Bad, of course!

Don’t lump the entire country in with wherever you are, because I can go to plenty of places within walking distance of my home – in the United States – and just hang out, hard, and it’s fine.

There’s plenty of places by me where you can do this, and I live in the most dense state in America.