There’s a dude in our town that has a lot where everyone dumps their scrap metal and he takes it to recycle. It’s pretty rad since our local trash service won’t take it (even though they dump everything together, including recyclables, at the transfer station to be hauled off to the dump out of town).

It’s pretty bad. I’m having to back out of the stream every few minutes. Maybe Netflix should stay in their lane.

And for the record, I’m watching on a hardwired Nvidia Shield with a 1 gig fiber connection with nothing else running.

Be careful with that, it could make you a target for a visit

Or they could just store the data locally on the user’s device and not transmit it back to a central server, such that the company never even has possession of the data nor any way to retrieve it? Like I get it would require a major rewrite if they weren’t already doing this, but at least they’d be keeping their users safe while also having no way for authorities to gain any data.

“…because gas prices might come down 10 cents”

Yeah I’m going to bed now, hate to say it but it’s over. 4 more years of that fucking dipshit and his shenanigans.

Sociopathic tendencies

And if Google doesn’t pay? What is Russia going to do, invade Google?

Yup, I’m not paying an extra $3/mo on top of what I pay for prime for no ads, I’ll just not watch what’s on your service. Not to mention, most of the filler movies/shows on all of these streaming services are garbage anyway. If it weren’t for my wife, I would just have my Jellyfin server by itself.

If I lived anywhere near a city and not in the mountains, I wouldn’t have prime either. It just saves too much time whereas my time is in short supply and I don’t have it to make a 3 hour round trip run every few days.

For private client or business accounts maybe, but it’s mind boggling that they allow that amount for standard accounts via an ATM. My business account maxes out at $15k for ATM/mobile deposit, anything over that I have to go inside.

The problem lies in that people need to access them outside working hours due to their own work schedules, which is ultimately the point of these things. Granted, a fire station, police station, or even a hospital lobby would be better than outside.

Edit: ok, maybe not a police station, but y’all get my point

It seems like in almost every thread, there are at least one or two cranky individuals that just downvote for the hell of it.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/2024/04/28/why-president-biden-cant-fire-the-postmaster-general-of-u-s-postal/73443709007/

Basically due to the way the USPS is structured, Biden can’t fire him outright or directly, the decision has to come from the USPS board of governors.

Ah makes sense, I forget how old a lot of that infrastructure is. I do a lot of work for our local ski resort, they have a 12mw generation plant for their snowmaking system that can backfeed the utility if needed, and they’re sync setup was basically two blinking lights that you had to visually time just right to close the switch and pray you didn’t screw up lol.

It trips me out that many of these plants don’t have APUs for starting themselves up, or that they were designed in such a way that they require utility power to boot up. Like I understand that black starts could have problems with frequency sync with no point of reference, but I can’t imagine that their control system circuits don’t have any form of self-powering redundancy built in to their design. Is there any reason for this?

It’s the same old problem, politicians get their wheels greased in a certain direction by rich bribers donors. Unfortunately, there is a massive surplus of rich folk to do the greasing here, and politicians have been cut from the same cloth for a while now.

I’ve been in construction for many years, and the norm is working straight through till lunch then straight till the end of the day. Usually no one bats an eye if you take a few minutes to catch your breath or smoke if you bust ass, but yeah there typically isn’t a designated 10-15 all stop. That and most guys usually take 20 min to take a shit, so I guess it tends to balance out.

Most jobs I’ve had will schedule 8-430/9-530/etc, so that you work a full 8 hours but you have a 30min mandatory unpaid lunch break. The two 15 min breaks are paid, but they were also “discouraged.”