grilledcheesecowboy

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[–] grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago

My personal theory is that a lot of advocacy for working in-person goes away when you remove:

  1. People that financially benefit from office culture (office land lords, restaurants near office buildings, janitorial services, etc.)
  2. Social vampires that view the office as the best place to gossip and share their boring personal lives with a captive audience
  3. Managers and executives with poor leadership skills and low self esteem
[–] grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It takes you more than 10 minutes to make a cup of shitty office coffee at home?

Your job is so strict that you can't afford to step away from your computer for the 10 minutes it takes you to start a coffee pot, go back to work, and then step away again to get the coffee when it's ready?

That's already been hacked by the NSA

Don't forget you can easily block a user by clicking on their username and then clicking the block button.

[–] grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A lot of people are focused on this quote:

Witness Reverend Jeff Hood told reporters he saw a man ‘struggling for their life’ for 22 minutes as Smith became the first US death row inmate executed by nitrogen asphyxia

Which says to me that from the time they brought him in and strapped him down until he died lasted about 22 minutes and the murderer struggled physically against the restraints the entire time.

This quote farther down suggests from the time they started administering the gas until he died only took a couple of minutes:

But, witnesses said Smith appeared conscious for several minutes, shaking and writhing on the gurney.

Several could be 25, and he could have been shaking from pain and agony, but it seems more likely he was holding his breath and shaking out of fear while trying to fight and get free.

Keep in mind that the first quote is from his anti-death penalty spiritual advisor and this entire article is brought to us by a magazine with an "end the death penalty campaign".

I'm generally anti-death penalty myself, but nitrogen asphyxiation seems way better than electrocution, lethal injection, or hanging. They could probably do it better by using some kind of general anesthesia to render him unconscious and then flood the room with pure nitrogen, or even just get rid if the death penalty all together. Unfortunately this is the world we live in and so fae this is the least bad option we've seen.

[–] grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you gonna give a fuck what Trump might do in 12 months?

[–] grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

There are degree's of response to genocide. If you think you Trump will have a harsher response towards Israel's genocide than Biden, then you should definitely vote for Trump or not vote for Biden.

But make no mistake: not voting for Biden isn't a condemnation of Biden's response to the genocide, it's an endorsement of how you think Trump will respond.

[–] grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Basically it means that you lose the ability to control reactor temperature. Sodium cooled reactors general have a positive thermal coefficient for reactivity, meaning when temperature increases the reactor power goes up.

When you lose cooling your temperature rises, which results in increased reactor power which results in increased temperature which results in power which ... in a self reinforcing loop until a melt down occurs and everyone gets Chernobyled.

Even if the reactor isn't susceptible to this cycle, liquid sodium is a solid at relatively low temperatures. So in some situations the liquid sodium will stop circulating and then start to cool and solidify. This effectively blocks the cooling pipes and it is very difficult to get the sodium heated up enough to liquefy and restore cooling circulation. This can again lead to getting Chernobyled.

[–] grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This reads like a poor attempt a guerrilla marketing.

[–] grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

Not only are corporations buying up houses to rent, they're actively preventing new houses for purchase from being built through "build to rent" schemes. They use the already scarce construction resources and divert them to building housing with the sole intention of renting them out.

So they're keeping the supply houses available to own down, and then preventing new supply from being created. It's a giant fuck you from corporations and shitty local government for letting it happen.

[–] grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You might be interested in Pathfinder Society.

Basically they're Pathfinder pickup games with a pre-approved set of rules run at game stores and conventions. The games tend to be focused almost exclusively on mechanics and puzzles with almost no role play.

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