Althuns

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by Althuns 1y ago
I can understand that this approach seems like the easy quick solution, but the problem is much deeper than that. It's more about a weaponization of language by those who know what they're doing. Getting into a language fight isn&
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by Althuns 1y ago
I hear very similar stories from folks in the greater metro area about what happened in Detroit in 2020 to this day. I lived here then and there were no fires, looting, or destruction here at all. It's been well documented, but that pe
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by Althuns 1y ago
I just spent a bit of time in Wien and was blown away by the ease of use of their transit system and its integration into Google Maps. For someone from the US, it's like a different world.
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by Althuns 1y ago
Absolutely they are! We're not talking complete vacancy, but 10% is the bottom of what I see for new buildings in my midwest city. These are built less than 10 years ago, and several have 25+% even after all that time. It seems that th
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by Althuns 2y ago
Agreed. We do need more housing, but it can also be more quality housing. This is the part that most of the "YIMBY" folks miss out on. We have a new, modern, but as cheap as possible building with the smallest legal unit sizes tha
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by Althuns 2y ago
The extremely hamfisted attempt to put DEI initiatives on the same level as serious mismanagement by leadership and structural problems in modern corporate design as the reason for major companies failing to innovate around the world took a
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by Althuns 2y ago
This is a feature of authoritarianism, not socialism.
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by Althuns 2y ago
Unfortunately, Alito has objectively proven himself to be a liar at best. His statements are the farthest of any justice from representing an agreement of the court. The only "pressure" that was put on FB, was the same put on Twit
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by Althuns 2y ago
I do. Work in a non-profit ISP in a large US city. We witnessed extreme abuse of the system from the big players. Even chatted with the FCC and whitehouse office about it. We were told to just abuse it ourselves because there was no politic
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by Althuns 3y ago
The common argument against this is that these buildings were not built for residential units (plumbing, electrical, building codes) and bringing them up to residential code is prohibitively expensive. This is not untrue, but I think this i
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by Althuns 3y ago
Lived in North Idaho for a time and int the forests you can still see a ton of massive stumps that don't match anything currently surviving nearby. It's a surreal and saddening experience.
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by Althuns 3y ago
Here in the midwest, the freight companies will intentionally pad the train with empty cars until it's just too long to fit in the passing turnouts and therefore forces passenger trains to pull off and wait. Detroit to Chicago and back
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by Althuns 3y ago
Just quit a job asking RTO for no reason. There are extensive studies showing the effectiveness of remote work. I believe it's a mix of justifying management heavy org structures and straight exercise of power. There's been a powe
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by Althuns 3y ago
Every outage there is a discussion about how these status pages are failing to adequately notify and describe the problem. Is there anyone out there doing it right?
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by Althuns 3y ago
Looks like the drop was due to folks taking the opportunity to unload. Is this a temporary movement due to a number of reactionaries or will it sustain?
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by Althuns 3y ago
We bought an older coin-op Speed Queen set from an apartment complex when they were replacing their fleet for app controlled new ones. Best decision we ever made. Just wired a switch in for the coin trigger. Extremely reliable and seems eas
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by Althuns 3y ago
I'll give you that at large events, but I'm talking 1-10k sized events with 25+ sheriffs deputies and city cops sitting in their cars. It was was negotiated with the city to have so many LE officers there as a condition of the per
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by Althuns 3y ago
Absolutely. Police officers themselves don't want to do this work, but the police as a system would lose power/ resources and thus they fight against any reform. I have a fun side-gig in entertainment and thus witness constantly t
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by Althuns 3y ago
These things don't have to be one or the other. There are places where it's very important that we transition towards less car-focused infrastructure and there are others where we will invest more in that infrastructure. Contrary
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by Althuns 3y ago
The maintainers of OpnSense are able to make their own determination about the severity of the issue and the method of the fix. They gently reminded the user of their process. Ubiquiti, as a provider of a paid security product, has a much l
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by Althuns 3y ago
In rock climbing you'll find that protective gear follows a similar system.[1] Though of course different manufacturers choose different color schemes mostly. Being able to quickly grab the right size piece that fits the crack you&#x27
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by Althuns 4y ago
Meanwhile in the US we have a huge rash of thefts of Hyundais and Kias and neither the police nor the manufacturers are interested in doing anything about it.
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by Althuns 4y ago
I wonder if there is a seasonality correlation with higher subscriptions in the winter and a drop-off in the early summer.
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by Althuns 5y ago
I really liked B612, but I couldn't take the tiny colons and semicolons. If they were normally sized, this would be the perfect font.
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by Althuns 5y ago
This is before we feel the effects of the terrible grain harvests in the western US. Low yields or completely lost crops are the story coming out of the Palouse and elsewhere. I don't think we'll know how bad it is until mid-winte
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by Althuns 5y ago
You would hope the judge would see through the bad faith and order accordingly. It's wild how okay the judicial system is with being used to abuse.
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by Althuns 5y ago
It's a worker's market out here right now and most employers are trying to behave like it's not. I'm about to make my second move this year. Both moves will be because of terrible work environments that my employers beli
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by Althuns 5y ago
There's still flooding from last week's storm in TN...