Still... I expect hurricanes in Florida, not in Tennessee.
Indeed it is brother... indeed it is.
Rugby players.
I don't care for sports so much, but a ton of my friends play rugby. Several of my exes play rugby. I've got cousins who play rugby. I live in the States and, while rugby is popular, it's no where near the levels of enthusiasm where like 90% of the people a person hangs out with plays it (and you not also play or have any real interest in it). Mostly to support people I was dating, I've been to like ten games in my life and, while I understand how the game is played, I'm just completely uninterested in sports and following sports as a hobby or interest. I don't know why, but rugby people love me and I love them.
Season 1 was basically Seth MacFarlane's TNG fan scripts... it's a Star Trek series through and through.
And turns out... he can get away with everything.
I mean... yeah, probably.
Well, Senators Manchin and Sinema made sure nothing got done through then... which, when you realize Biden was in charge of the DNC during his administration... it's a whole "they didn't whip their legislators well enough" situation. Democrats are nearly world renowned for failing at that.
Filibuster only works against certain legislative pushes... usually only stuff that needs 60 votes (instead of a simple majority) in the Senate.
The white supremacists didn't forget... they just thought the wrong side was winning.
It's similar to the problem AMC had with the Pacer... revolutionary automotive design and in the first year it did amazing! Then, in the next two to three years, demand dropped like a rock. Seemed as though everyone that wanted a car which looked like really nothing else on the road had already bought one in the first year.
Republicans were in power when those planes hit the towers.
Haven't read the article, but I'll bet it was MS Teams.
One time at a TV station I worked for, the manager of our marketing department decided that three $90k pieces of robotic studio camera equipment were actually fun toys with which he could (without training) just mess around. I came into the studio that day to find two of my fellow production department coworkers trying desperately to wrangle the situation. At one point, the manager nearly crashed two of these robots into one another and my co-worker threw himself onto the emergency stop switch halting the imminent collision and, potentially, tens of thousands of dollars of damage.
Knowing we had work to do with these units shortly and having been trained on how to reset everything after an emergency shutdown, I turned to the manager at the control panel. Y'all, as the words "wait let me help you reset it" were coming out of my mouth he shouted directly in my face "I said I fucking got it!" So... I threw up my hands and walked to the break room, which was across the hallway from the chief engineer's office. About two minutes later the marketing manager walked into the chief engineer's office saying "hey [chief engineer], we're having a problem with the studio robotics, can you come take a look?"
My coworkers told me that, the moment the door closed behind me, the manager turned back to the robotic controller and said "I don't think I've got this." An hour later, the GM sent out an email announcing basically "union shop rules" for the incredibly expensive robotic equipment... essentially: if you're not trained on them, don't touch and we weren't training anyone else. Come to find out that when my coworkers explained what happened to the chief engineer (who had fought corporate bean counters for nearly five years to get us these robotic units), he had apparently chewed the marketing manager out to the point of causing an HR situation and nearly succeeded in getting the idiot fired.
Since then, every time I realize that I am doing something that will make the company more money or even just save them money, I always think back to that moment of "I said I've fucking got it" and stop what I'm doing. I'll do a ton of extra work to make my job and my coworkers' jobs easier long term, but I am NEVER going to intentionally contribute to making any place at which I work run more profitably. It's just not worth it.
Way to go Elevance Health and the Centene Corporation!!! Women 🙏Can 🙏Be 🙏Monsters 🙏Too!!!
Louisianan here... I'm working on my French language skills... if y'all want to invade and take it back, not gonna lie we've got some problems (red state).
Haven't seen it here yet, but it's one of the greatest and most prolific YouTube channels about science fiction and the future... Science Fiction and Futurism With Isaac Arthur
FOIA Request Reveals Why Amtrak Pulled Out of Planned Station at Miami International
"Amtrak's decision not to move to a station adjacent to Miami International airport was based on estimates that relocating its existing station at Hialeah would generate an additional 20,000 riders and $2 million in yearly revenue but would cost $5 million annually to execute, according to information it released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request."
Would it be difficult for me to build a Linux equivalent to a Chromebook?
So, my 10 year old Chromebook has reached the end of the line and, because of [gestures vaguely around at the state of everything], I obviously don't want to buy another one. I am beginning the process of evacuating all my stuff from Alphabet's ecosystem specifically (mostly Google Drive) and other big tech generally.
Essentially, what I need is an inexpensive mid-tier laptop. No gaming, no need to run complex stuff like video/audio editing, nothing like that... I just need to be able to stream video, look at my email, check social media, download text and photo files, etc (so, running a web browser and saving files... that's it). I'd ideally like to have something I could setup once and then potentially not have to fuss with for years (outside of updates obviously)... like a Chromebook.
Coming to Lemmy because I just have no idea where (else) to get started.
Which distro do y'all think would be a good fit for this purpose? Should I play around with different ones? What laptop manuf
An NYC to HOU Route and Making Current Tri-Weekly Services Daily, Ranked in FRA Study
A new study, commissioned by Congress as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Bill, just released.
Report on a Local Homeschool Football Team
So, a loca US basedl home school association actually has a football team. They're doing okay in the state rankings (given the circumstances of not being a government backed public school or private donor slash multimillion dollar private school), but I really want to point out the local journalist here. They went out of their way to grab a super local/niche story and, not just report on it but, give it the star treatment. Bro went full NPR voice on an athletic program with like twelve to fifteen students. GOAT.
Sears From A Joke Being Torn Down
American comedian Ron White frequently tells a story about how his van was damaged in a comedic way by the technicians at a Sears Automotive Center in Savannah, GA. This week, that Sears Automotive Center is being torn down. While the shopping mall that former Sears location is a part of is otherwise doing well, the Sears has been closed for years. The department store end-cap building and the car service center in its out-parcel property are being demolished to make way for the development of a new apartment complex.
A link to Ron preforming the story for a live audience.
Someone Stole a 200 ft (60 meters) Tall Radio Antenna in Alabama, USA
A radio station is on standby after thieves removed a 200-foot radio tower in Alabama.
No one’s sure how the ambitious bandits made off with the heavy steel structure, WJLX station general manager Brett Elmore told WBRC.
The "Margaritaville" cruise ship is up for sale if anyone wants it.
All pictures in the listing seem to be from before the ship's "Margaritaville" makeover, but it's definitely the same boat. The rest of that class has been retired and sent to the breakers.
In 2023, it was featured in YouTuber Bright Sun Travels cruise video "North America's Worst Cruise Ship." The ship, named the "Margaritaville At Sea Paradise" (at the time of that review), had been purchased second hand and operated by a company called Margaritaville At Sea Cruises (formerly Celebration Cruiseline). All of the Margaritaville and Jimmy Buffett branding was a licensing deal the company made with Buffett's food service and vacations empire.
The ship was originally launched in 1991 as the Costa Classica for the Costa Cruises company of Italy (the same one of the Costa Concordia disaster infamy).
So, who wants to buy a cruise ship? Not gonna lie to you all... she's got some problems, not least of which is the Jimmy Buffett theming.