Is there any reason why this needs to be a taxpayer subsidized organization?
I realize it's not quite the same thing, but there are already corporations who pay private meteorologists for their services.
World or not be better to allow corporate America to pay for these types of services and free up those dollars for other things?
I can't stomach most King. My wife has every book he's written.
That said, The Stand would be in my top 5 books ever. I've read it seven or eight times. 11-22-63 is also spectacular. I read it. Watched the Hulu mini-series and now am listening to the audio book.
Well that's the end of me ever doing anything productive for the rest of my life.
And a new phrase entered our vocabulary
It was a bridge too far.
2018 to 2024 we lived near Fort Knox. The home of Godman Army Airfield. We regularly saw Chinooks and Blackhawks and the occasional Apache.
Sometimes we see a whole squadron of them up at the same time.
It was awesome.
Hard disagree. No matter what someone does state-sanctioned murder is unacceptable. Full stop.
Then you don't need to worry about someone being innocent or authority figures ignoring evidence.
State-sanctioned murder is an evil act.
Reclining your seat is an act of pure evil unless you are sitting in front of a tiny person. Even then it might be considered moderately evil.
It doesn't matter if he was guilty or innocent. State-sanctioned murder is ALWAYS wrong.
Today is my wife's birthday, when she opened her gift it was a reMarkable Pro. So far we're both impressed.
Any early Alistair MacLean...
Guns of Navaronne
Where Eagles Dare
When Eight Bells Toll
Night Without End
Puppet on a String
Louis Lamour's westerns are complete popcorn and fun to read
C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower books
Fucking abhorrent behavior from the State.
Me...
Two email threads on the same subject with the same subject line, slightly different recipient lists.
It was a really deep thread and at one point I had emailed the internal version with "the customer is not good at math." And included the correct math.
Some time later we had resolved the issue and I replied to the customer, but somehow ended up on the wrong thread. Fortunately it was so deep that I don't think they ever saw it. But one of our VPs did. We had an entertaining conversation.
To this day I hate threads that go on for ages and I hate it when people reuse threads.
6'6" (247.5 Oreo Cookies for those of you who use that measurement). My wife is 5'1" tall.
When I was growing up my mom would always say "the tall girls are going to love you!" Every tall girl I ever asked out shot me down in flames.
New documents show just how ineffectual the Uvalde Police were during the 2022 school shooting.
If you can't really in the cops to do it, you may need to rely on yourself, that is if the cops let you.
A polka is always better when shared by friendly strangers.
I'm trying to learn to be a fan of baseball. This sort of history helps shape that burgeoning fandom.
For as long as I can remember, and that's quite a long time, I have thought I should be a baseball fan, but I have never ever been a baseball fan. Soccer? I've been #RCTID since 1976. Football? I've been a Seahawks fan since I learned to understand football. Basketball? I can vividly remember celebr...
I've long thought I should be a baseball fan, join me on a quest to become one.
There's a song, I think I only heard one time likely on KGON in Portland, OR and likely in the late 70s. This song has haunted me over the years but I have never been able to locate it again.
The one thing I really remember is that there is a spoken-word portion where the vocalist talks about the Boogie Woogie, but pronounces it more like Boozhi Woozhi.
I'm laying in bed quarantined with Covid and once again its memory and my inability to determine what song it was is haunting me.
My favorites broke. They were working great but now they don't work at all. I can't favorite anything there icon sits in the middle of the plus sign and I can't move it to any open slot. Things I had already favorites continue to work, but I can't add new things or swap things out.
I've tried dropping my entire inventory and then picking things back up but that is not resolving there issue. It's not game-breaking but it is frustrating.
If you've been waiting to buy on console, now is the time to pull the trigger
I own XCOM 2 on PC. Is it worth getting it on the Series X so I can play while sitting on the couch?
Shortly after my previous post about BEX, my merc company folded due to a lack of funds.
I took the opportunity to install BTA and give it a try. I love the depth, I love the details, but I'm really struggling with the lack of a cohesive art style. I'm finding it pulling me out of my suspension of disbelief.
Has anyone else had that difficulty? Will I outgrow it with time?
If the video game is fair game...
I've been playing BEX, and I suck at it mostly. I always play Ironman, so that entails lots of restarts. I finally have a merc company that has lasted a bit. I've moved up to 2 and 2.5 skull missions.
Needed some money quickly and took a 1.5 skull mission. Comstar showed up, wiped my lance it was the last mission in my current system, I didn't know what I was going to do to not go bankrupt.
Discovered I had Shadowhawk in cold storage sold it, started taking out my "starter" mechs on half-skull and one-skull missions, I'm starting to become a bit more financially solid again and may have survived afterall.