Lived in North Idaho for a time and int the forests you can still see a ton of massive stumps that don't match anything currently surviving nearby. It's a surreal and saddening experience.
Assuming the trees were used for construction and are either still in place or in a landfill, at least cutting down the trees probably resulted in a larger net carbon sink!
Here in the midwest, the freight companies will intentionally pad the train with empty cars until it's just too long to fit in the passing turnouts and therefore forces passenger trains to pull off and wait. Detroit to Chicago and back is therefore a tossup between arriving early and arriving 12-24hrs late.
Just quit a job asking RTO for no reason. There are extensive studies showing the effectiveness of remote work.
I believe it's a mix of justifying management heavy org structures and straight exercise of power. There's been a power shift in the economy since covid towards the employee. There's been clear and open conversation about how that's a problem and how it needs to be reversed.
Every outage there is a discussion about how these status pages are failing to adequately notify and describe the problem. Is there anyone out there doing it right?
Looks like the drop was due to folks taking the opportunity to unload. Is this a temporary movement due to a number of reactionaries or will it sustain?
> someone could have said the same about Enron's initial 15% drop in 2001
Not someone who's been paying attention to Bitcoin and knows you can't compare it to a stock, especially one that became the poster-child for corruption and how the financial system can be manipulated.
> Stock indexes have a century-long history of recovering. Bitcoin? a decade.
Certainly no asset has been declared "dead" [1] more times than Bitcoin has in its first 15 years--the white paper was released October 2008 and the Bitcoin blockchain went live January 2009.
Bitcoin has dropped at least 15% in a single day many times; that's to be expected for a new asset class the vast majority of people don't understand. Once things settle down, Bitcoin will continue to do what it's been doing since 2009—increase in value compared to fiat currencies. The 15% drop over a couple of weeks is inconsequential.
It is worse than that. It is due to Grayscale mass liquidations, which few people apparently saw coming. The unlocking of liquidity backfired on longs due to liquidation of GBTC. This is another example of how speculators and investors tend to get blindsided. You think you understand the risks but you don't. You understand the risks you know, not the unknown ones that only manifest when too late.
The concern now is grayscale will keep dumping , so people are selling into this fear, creating additional selling on top of the Grayscale selling in anticipation of more Grayscale selling.
We bought an older coin-op Speed Queen set from an apartment complex when they were replacing their fleet for app controlled new ones. Best decision we ever made. Just wired a switch in for the coin trigger. Extremely reliable and seems easy to repair - haven't had to in the 5 years we've had them.
We had that for awhile, until finally the motor gave out and it was "easier" for me to buy a new Speed Queen set than fix the old (and the wife wanted an upright anyway instead of the front-loader).
The whole fun was using the coins! I even bothered looking up how to reset the cost so it was only a dollar, too many coins was annoying.
Absolutely. Police officers themselves don't want to do this work, but the police as a system would lose power/ resources and thus they fight against any reform.
I have a fun side-gig in entertainment and thus witness constantly the massive amounts of LE officers who are required to be hired at each of these events just sitting around doing nothing.
The reason those requirements exist is because things do happen occasionally and it can get out of hand at large gatherings when it does. And local taxpayers don't like footing the bill for rowdy people from out of town. Something like an NFL stadium can hold the population of a small city, and when you get that many people together, the law of large numbers applies to the probability of something happening. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/a-quietly-esc...
Most of the ways that things can get out of hand can be handled by a normal security team. For huge events like NFL, it makes sense to have cops at the ready for the extremely unlikely event of a terrorist attack. But there are orders of magnitude more events with far fewer people that do not need unaccountable armed security.
With averages of >10 arrests per ~3 hr event at some of these venues, I'd think it is obvious that someone with arrest powers would need to be there.
Either way, what you are suggesting has been done, and was the standard before many of these requirements were in place. The problems in police staffing that resulted were the reason these requirements originated.
I'll give you that at large events, but I'm talking 1-10k sized events with 25+ sheriffs deputies and city cops sitting in their cars. It was was negotiated with the city to have so many LE officers there as a condition of the permits. Seems more like a form of tax and compliance. They literally do nothing though. Every event I witness obviously drunk people driving out of there right by the cops with their heads in their phones.
It's my anecdote that I'm trying to make the point with; these - supposedly - highly trained folks with very expensive equipment are being called in to do all kinds of work for which that training and equipment are unnecessary. There is an opportunity for other folks with more directed training and equipment to fill these roles in society.
These things don't have to be one or the other. There are places where it's very important that we transition towards less car-focused infrastructure and there are others where we will invest more in that infrastructure. Contrary to many contrarian beliefs, European style mass transit doesn't include the complete removal of cars.
The maintainers of OpnSense are able to make their own determination about the severity of the issue and the method of the fix. They gently reminded the user of their process. Ubiquiti, as a provider of a paid security product, has a much larger, immediate, and different responsibility to fix the issue and communicate clearly with their clients.
I think that everyone is entitled their own intentions, but they are also responsible to communicate those intentions effectively. If the intention was to not be "some Karen complaining" it wasn't clearly communicated that way.
In rock climbing you'll find that protective gear follows a similar system.[1] Though of course different manufacturers choose different color schemes mostly. Being able to quickly grab the right size piece that fits the crack you're placing into is exceedingly important.
