De Beers, seeing an opportunity

Shortages are between manufacturing capacity and demand. Manufacturers don’t want to expand capacity for some reason. You might think that they don’t believe the money will materialize to continue demand.

Heh, I was thinking of that in the context of age verification. “But the children” overrides the terminal fear of Antichrist?

I hate to say it but he “fixed” the deficit by deferring pension funding obligations for a few years. It’s kinda like paying the electrical bill with your 401k contribution and saying you’re ahead. I hope they figure out the funding in the interim or it will reflect poorly on leftist policies.

Wow those narrowboats must make nuclear subs look roomy. I always assumed there was a good depth to them.

Yeah, I’m watching some earlier episodes and that is part of my current outlook.

1Password took investor funding, moved to subscription and focusing on corporate.

Bitwarden heading the same way. Great…

I was in the trek camp when I was younger. But from a story perspective i think the episodic TV has aged poorly and the movies are just double episodes of TV. (This applies to Stargate too, for me.)

Theres something to be said about the social commentary certainly but meh.

Star Wars remains awful but at least it has entertaining aspects; it’s like the Marvel franchise now. Boom, explosion, wow. Though - Marvel has too much in the Team America Saves the World aspect (much like SG).

All the ones in my life are.

I work with Microsoft products. This checks out.

Ancestors? I know people who preach that.

I do have sympathy for people who are trying to figure out SharePoint or mobile OS file systems which just arbitrarily change the rules.

Counter argument: boomers who needed to type commands and swap disks to get a word processor loaded, who knew all the hotkeys required to issue commands and the alt-codes for special characters, who today cannot figure out where the file they were working on saved to.

If you want to feel good about it, look for the little things it does better. The seats are more comfy, it is more reliable, the sound system is better, the traction control is good, etc…

At the risk of financial ruin, driving somewhere for just for fun, dinner next town over or something, instead of the daily grind could be fun too.

Bus lanes and trams are a symbol of “communism” and car is a sign of “freedom” until you realize that the ultimate freedom is choosing to walk, bike, take transit, or drive to your destination.

his employer won’t reimburse him for mileage once he fully transitions into his new role next month

2018 Chevy Silverado, which he uses to carry equipment and supplies for the hotels, this year.

Well, that’s a fucking problem. Don’t take a job in which you are expected to use a personal vehicle for work purposes. Work provided vehicle and submit receipts for gasoline. Insurance company won’t like it. You won’t like how fast your car goes through tires and then dies. Etc.

What about wget? Then next step is the application and I’m mostly out of ideas.

Pop into the console and try pinging or dig google/etc. Might just be something simple like lack of dns server.

I had to get a NAS with moderate horsepower (a mobile i5 chipset). It’s not worth on power consumption or noise. Usually there’s not a lot you can do about noise. But free is free.

Three transmissions worth of reverse gear… to be 18 again and not care.

No no. It’s the m52 in bmw.