...and plateaus are the highest form of flattery.
The Eagle Scout designation in your 20s is crazy work. It comes off like a guy who puts his Masters degree abbreviation in his email signature, when he's 46.
Fuck you Derek, you sit in a cube all day and have been in the workforce for decades. Nobody cares you have an M.A. in Communications.
With all this dystopian tech nightmare fuel, they're gonna save money by completely eliminating the need for SERE training (because it will be futile).
Important distinction of course.
There is a difference between how Twain or Heller uses it vs. someone just unironically dropping N bombs.
Actually tried this game and here are some observations -
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It runs fine on Steamdeck without any tweaking. The Steamdeck Compatibility rating didn't make this clear, so it is worth noting here.
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It isn't a horrible RPG. If you are a grizzled veteran of more complex JRPG mechanics and elements, you're going not going to be blown away or anything. But it is playable.
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The dialogue and puns are cheesy if self-aware.
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It's free, and there are coupon rewards for beating each section. This requires the Wendy's mobile app, which I don't use or care about. I eat traditional fast food maybe once per year. But it might be a upside for someone.
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I have to think the title "WendyQuest" is a nod to the historically significant PC game promo ChexQuest.
I think he will step back and bide his time. Several conservative commentators have described 28 as a "poison challice" of sorts for the Republican nominee. It is basically Vance's nomination if he wants it, but he faces an uphill battle after the midterm wipeout and the growing obviousness of how lame a duck Trump is at this point. Vance is going to struggle to distance himself from most of the negatives of this current administration.
If someone like Rubio gets a VP nod, on that losing ticket, it doesn't necessarily hurt a potential run later when the conditions could change again entirely. Whereas if he engages in a primary fight vs. Vance, DeSantis, etc. over who runs at the top of the ticket in 28, even if he somehow gets the nomination, he is kinda just setting himself up to be the fall guy (I'm assuming of course that 28 continues the trend of backlash against the current administration).
You can write to them (email or paper) and it can apply pressure indirectly. Their interns read it and "tally" the types of issues mentioned. They will send you a bullshit canned response that re-states their already engrained positions, whether it aligns with what you want or not.
But arguably it can move the needle if enough people put sustained pressure around very specific bills. Probably more direct influence than voting.
You could see a scenario where they pressure/rush Alito into retirement and force a replacement vote before the current Congress term ends. Not likely but possible. I think a more likely scenario unfortunately is that the parties take turns "reforming" the court every time they control the Senate and the Executive.
Unpopular take around here, but factually correct
Disappointing.
At this point we need a trusted company with some manufacturing leverage to make a privacy-first TV. I think Framework would be a good candidate. They can actually secure supply chain of panels and whatnot. They should be able to offer a TV that's a dumb panel or with minimal optional inputs or modular components. It'd be difficult to do the product engineering from scratch but if you already have done it with laptops...
Do it now while you can still buy a Pi and a hard drive for less than $500 each.
These weren't worth it at the $120 price point, let alone now. I'm going to be recycling older SFF PCs I guess, at the penalty of higher noise and TDP.
Whatever they did, I hope the costume never came off.
This was apparently already patched in AOSP in October and if you use GrapheneOS and opted into security preview updates, you're already covered.
I won't be tricked.
I'm writing in Haywood Jablowmee.
She's also the only one that has something resembling an actual character arc.
Shinji starts and ends the series as a little bitch. Unless you're counting the Rebuilds, and then there's a bit more character development.
He was pretty good in his minor role in Apocalypse Now and he didn't entirely look like he didn't want to be there.
What about roles like The Fugitive... His character seems believably motivated there.
He might actually be self-aware that he comes off as miserable. Look at his cameo in Bruno.
Even if you are in a previously good sector like IT/CS, the "quality" of your job is likely decreasing with each year.
Software development and support both tend to get worse and more demanding over time with increased productivity demands, lack of respect for personal schedule constraints, after-hours and weekend maintenance and deployments, outsourcing and AI pressures. God forbid you are responsible for app or system patching as you will now be on the hook for perpetual vulnerability remediation.
Add to that the landscape for technical people is a lot of contracting but also random layoffs and outsourcing. Many people get brought on with what seems like a "high" salary without realizing they will likely never get a meaningful raise. So you basically have to change jobs every 3 years to stay ahead of inflation. If you stay in most IT jobs for 5 years you'll realize at the end of it you've taken a 20% paycut due to inflation plus lack of raises.
Source: 20+ years in this particular sector
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