Yep. And since I carry 3 laptops in my backpack (2 for work and one personal), it’s a problem.
Though I will say the fact that all 3 can be powered by Type-C cables has been since huge life improvement since i don’t need to carry around 3 different charging bricks.
Municipal development guy here.
You’d be amazed how many contractors and architects have issues with stair math.
It’s really, and is still very much a thing.
And they really do have a “belt” system. Because of some bullshit ai had to do at an old job, I’m a Six Sigma Yellow Belt. I’ve never had my time wasted more.
Can they fix the “randomly turn itself back on and drain the battery while in its bag so that it’s always dead when you actually need to use it on the go” problem?
Because that’s been a problem for like 20 years at this point and means I have to treat my laptops as if they don’t actually have batteries because it’s schrodinger’s power any time I pull one out to work.
I was at a conference this week, and half the attendees were huddled in the cafeteria the whole time because there were some tables on one wall with outlets.
Welcome to the ranch.
Did you know there are people finishing their Master’s degrees this year who weren’t alive for September 11th?
I literally typed that Aliens was the other major contender at the bottom ofnthe comment, then deleted before posting because I didn’t want to be too fanboyish about James Cameron.
But… yeah. Dude can make an action flick. Heck - the Avatar movies didn’t change the world with their messaging, but dammit if the action scenes aren’t jaw-dropping.
The TV series from the mid-2000s was actually pretty decent, but it was canceled like 2 seasons in and never finished its story.
But yeah, T2 isn’t gonna be topped. I think it is a strong contender for best action film of all time.
Did you not notice the part where Epstein committed suicide, Giuffre was hit by a bus, survived, and then committed suicide, and Maxwell was paid a closed-door visit by Trump’s personal fixer?
They have and will continue to kill to keep these secrets.
The city is buying me like 15 grand in new software licenses this year, but I can’t convince them to spend another 2 grand on a new fucking computer because mine is “supposed” to be good for 2 more years.
The lesson was to vote in the primaries.
We used to have a bit of that.
Until the aftermath of the election of 1800, the Vice Presidency went to the 2nd-place finisher instead of a running mate. It’s why Adams (a Federalist) had a Democratic-Republican (Jefferson) as his VeeP.
But then they ended up having the VeeP run against the sitting President in 1800, and it was a fucking mess. So they changed the constitution to put the VeeP on the ballot.
I’d like to take a moment to point out that the third-party candidate did not, in fact, win.
My work laptop was upgraded to Windows 11 and performance has severely suffered.
As someone who usually uses 3 monitors (sometimes 4) and does GIS, it’s an issue.
It’s really looking like a shitty week for the Trump administration.
How do you expect them to lash out? Invasion of another American city? Attack on Venezeula? Arrest of Pelosi?
It doesn’t have to be subtle to show why something is good or bad.
My favorite recent example was the TV adaptation of the Last of Us. The third episode makes it very clear that it’s a statement that a gay couple can have a beautiful life together. I was watching through the show with my parents, who were incredibly homophobic. They got very upset when they realized that it was going to be about a gay couple, but by the end they had tears in their eyes.
There was zero subtlety, because the story was so beautiful it didn’t need it.
Trump lost the last shutdown in one of the most humiliating political defeats of his Presidency. Did he think this one would be different?
Best we have is Civil Contempt. It’s different than criminal contempt, which can be pardoned by the President and must be enforced throught the executive or the Marshalls service. A judge can appoint anyone to enforce civil contempt rulings, including someone who doesn’t report to the federal executive.
Lots of people’s don’t understand the difference between civil and criminal, and a automatically assume criminal is always stronger. But civil is a lot more flexible because civil and criminal have different goals and remedies.
Criminal penalties are punishment for committing crimes. People think of murder and theft, but by far the most common criminal convictions are traffic violations. You get caught speeding and you have to pay a pre-defined penalty or take a driver’s ed class or whatever. For the most part, criminal convictions can result in fines, imprisonment, or execution.
Civil is different. Civil cases aren’t seeking punishment - they’re seeking relief. That is, in a Civil case, the Court can make you do something or stop doing that thing.
For an easy example that I run into pretty often in municipal government, I’ll highlight the difference between Civil and criminal cases for the same offense: building a fence past your property line into the public right-of-way.
When I take someone to court in that case, I can go criminal or civil (or both).
If I take them to criminal court, the judge can make them pay a fine. But the judge can’t make them remove the fence. We can issue separate citations every day and have 14 charges on the docket each week, but that’s it. There are some billionaires in some areas who actually build illegal fences and just pay the $500/day in fines because money isn’t an object to them.
But when I take them to civil court, the city isn’t seeking punishment for what they’ve done - it’s seeking relief. That is, instead of a fine, the judge can order that the fence be removed, and (and this is the big point) that if it ISN’T removed after the order the judge can appoint someone else to go on the property and forcefully remove it.
We actually have a case in my city where we’re have a court-appointed third-party private firm preparing to tear down a large part of house that cost 9 figures because the owner is refusing to carry out the judge’s order regarding their illegal construction. The judge didn’t want to put the city in charge because the impact on property tax revenue of tearing down such an expensive piece of property might convince the city to turn a blind eye.
When an order isn’t obeyed, a judge can appoint someone to carry out the ruling, and unlike in a federal criminal case which requires that the judge appoint the Marshall’s Office, a civil ruling specifically doesn’t have that restriction on the judge.
Throw in another leap day every 12 years and we’ve got a system.
I’m just saying that I’m heavily armed even for a Texan. Do with that information what you will.
The series was a solidly decent story, but the production was spectacular. The practical puppet effects are mind-boggling.