The Dell P5524Q is a 55" conference room monitor. It has no built-in wifi, microphones, camera, or other smart tv bullshit, it’s just a big monitor. It just turns on when you turn it on and turns off when you turn it off - it doesn’t take 5 minutes to boot up because of the shitty low-grade computer hardware built into it. You can find them on eBay in the US$900 range.

China has been supplying war material to Russia, and is the single largest customer for Russian oil which is one of the only things keeping the Russian economy semi-functional.

completely normal behavior

xkcd #1105: License Plate

These people are 80s cartoon villains.

They also don’t have the experience of only seeing half the episode because you were channel surfing, and not getting to see the rest of it until you catch another rerun two years later.

Ok, I’m seeing a couple ADA violations here…

Yes, when there’s a new new guy.

Common practice in most workplaces is to continue the cycle of dumping the shit work on the new guy. But, if you want to build influence, you don’t do that. When the next new guy comes along, you adopt them, you show them how to get things done, and when other people dump shit on them you help clean it up. You don’t do their work for them, but you also don’t leave them to do the work alone.

And you teach them to do the same thing with the next new guy. When they’re up to speed you start load balancing with each other intentionally. They need to leave early for personal reasons one day so you handle some of the extra workload for them. They do the same for you.

(side note - this works when you offer first - you don’t open this by trying to get them to do you a favor first; you will run into people who will take advantage of this and not grasp the concept of returning the favor - when this happens you don’t whine about it, you don’t confront them about it, you don’t even mention it, you just note that this is an indication of that person’s character and you don’t ever offer to help them out like that again - there will be others who understand cooperation and join in automatically, those are the people you make part of your group; so you worked extra one day and didn’t get reciprocation, that’s OK, it’s a cheap low-risk way to learn about who that person is - scratch it off and don’t catch feelings over it, be professional, you still have to work with this person you just don’t have to trust them)

(second note - this does not work for anything that you might be legally liable for - if the other person has to sign their name for the work or is in some other way accountable on record you cannot cover for them and even helping may be problematic, especially in the medical field)

Maybe you’re still shoveling shit, but you’re not doing it alone. If you don’t have a tribe, build one.

And then break the cycle.

So we should assume every redacted name is a Republican, got it.

The predator watches its prey carefully, waiting for the ideal moment to strike.

I think it’s relevant that there doesn’t seem to be any oversight for civilian safety in regard to experimental flying objects.

If a large-scale government space project doesn’t get oversight (or consequences), how much is there going to be for a shipping business?

not China per se, but more like general lack of safety regulations bad

and hey, free drone!

Yup. It does make me wonder if Trump is maybe doing a favor for some investor buddy, raising the price so they can exit at a higher value.

At the moment, not many:

The government bailing out a dying company is probably going to float the price, at least for awhile.

Are they fast as lightning?

This is the country that drops rocket boosters on residential areas (more than once) (more than twice).

I don’t think I’d want to be living in the areas where the rich people are getting their stuff delivered by drones.

“male climate change”?

Is that what you call it when you shrink up because it’s cold?

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

There’s a food source somewhere. Assuming they’re not getting food from your kitchen (you’re not finding them in the pantry), there must be something else nearby. What’s around? Anything you can get rid of? Old cardboard boxes? Dead plants/yard waste? Pet food?

How old is the house? Does it have wallpaper? If you are unlucky they might be eating wallpaper glue or something like that. Also have you made sure there isn’t a sewage leak under the house?