It begins.

A "geneticallysuperior race". Where have I heard that one before?

And no, I dont want somebody else to pay for her loans. She signed for them, She (we) is responsible for them.

Its called being a responsible adult.

The TL;DR of the ruling is "If you want this kind of relief, have congress pass a law. Presidents dont have the authority to do this."

So if you want relief, call your congresscritter.

Signed,

Somebody already paying for somebody else's student loans. (My wife's)

You're just upset you cant science like the rest of us. /sarcasm

(some of us understand its also geopolitical, but its more fun to discuss the nuances of how you divide up a celestial body for timekeeping when a rotation based moon-day is something like 27 earth days)

Exercising my google fu, it appears the moon rotates every 27 days. So now what? Will the moon have 24 hour (ish) hours to account for 1 sunrise and 1 sunset? If it moves so slow, is it really practical to try to sync up a clock with time zones? Especially since it would be "all over the place" as it relates to earth time/time zones. It s not like you can say "if it is 4P UTC the time on the moon (based on its rotation) is ___________. "

I think you set it to UTC across the entire surface, it would make sense given how slow it rotates.

Pilots here operate on UTC all the time. So it doesnt have to mean that at noon the sun is over your head.

Steve, why does your gaming tower smell like french fries?

And by professional, do it right. I mean setup a dedicated room with a door that closes so that you can work and communicate with others in peace. And dont use your speakerphone because it picks up too much background noise. We don't need to hear your personal/family life happening in the background.

I am so tired of having to listen to folks that think its cool to WFH in common areas with their spouses, dogs, and kids running around making noise. One guy I talk to regularly apparently does so in his mud room or kitchen, because I can hear his spouse come in and out of the house thanks to squeaky doors that slam. (I know he lives in an old farmhouse from chatting with him over the years) Its as unprofessional as a cube dweller insisting on making a call on a speakerphone, or cranking your speakerphone up so loud I can hear both sides of the conversation clearly through the office walls.

While I understand really loud noises on the other side of a closed door will come through. I get it. But I shouldnt hear doors slamming, conversations and footsteps obviously in the same room, etc. while we are trying to have a meeting. Please Use headsets and physical isolation to minimize the rest of your home's natural (and not business friendly) noises.

Now get off my lawn. /rant

There was a scammer(s?) that loved to post fake job offers on our FB neighborhood pages claiming to have 3rd shift jobs nearby for Amazon (including transport to/from the job), or even better; work at home for Netflix. Both were 3rd shift positions, claiming up to $85/hr. They'd post hiring events to lure victims in.

And looking at their website, it was obvious they were not legit, (generic with unfinished pages in the wordpress template) but I'm sure lots of out of work folks fell for it, desperate for an hourly rate they couldnt begin to earn legitimately.

Old news. I remember when digital photo frames first came out. Owner's daughter bought one. She asked us to show her how to load photos onto it.

about 5 seconds after we plugged it into her laptop, AV software immediately alerted on a preloaded virus that was set to autorun (if allowed by the system, luckily our GPOs disabled that)

The sad thing is the cost of this cheap Chinese knockoff wasnt that much lower than any other brand.

They need to explain how what should have been a basic static "Merry Christmas" message managed to go out as a TOTALLY different message. Was somebody trying to show off and send a complex "mail merge" and chose the wrong sql tables?

There really is no excuse for this one. Just type out the message (since its the same for everyone) and hit enter. Done and done.

To be fair, she wasnt hosting hillary@dodcontrolledaddress.gov. in her bathroom. She was hosting a private email address and then stopped using her official .gov address for correspondence to intentionally bypass govt oversight. (I believe she later claimed she was too stupid to understand what she was doing and it was an accident)

If you or I did that as peons, we'd be behind bars right now. But she and others (on both sides of the aisle) are special and above the law.

Intentionally bypass safeguards and pass top secret/confidential info through a private, probably compromised mail server and then destroy the evidence? No big deal.
Take a selfie in a sub and accidentally get the top secret controls in the background? Thats a jailin'.

Yep. Check it out. www.fairtax.org.

And its better than a flat tax because there is a prebate every month to reimburse you for what you would spend up to the poverty line for necessities. So the poor could effectively pay zero taxes still. Low income folks are impacted more on a flat tax than the affluent.

But dont let the lies of the detractors fool you. Yes its a 23% tax, but the IRS is GONE (by law it cant kick in until the IRS goes away) so you get most of that back by taking home your entire paycheck. So its more or less a wash. But those against changing status quo will omit the 2nd part, and claim "MY OPPONENT WANTS TO RAISE YOUR TAXES BY 23%!!!!!! Vote for me instead and keep your money. "

And the devil is in the details. Its only on NEW purchases. Buy a used car? No tax. So you control how much tax you pay by how much you spend.

And no I have no intention on debating it here. I'll let somebody else do that. Just putting it out there for those interested in learning more.

Nobody cares what your score is. At least among those that dont play the game.

Seriously.

In the height of the miner induced supply crisis we bought my son an Oculus. Specs on the Oculus site said his average video card was fine. Turns out that was only for the Oculus software. All of the games he wanted required a minimum 1080i video card, which at the time was over $800. Nope!

Luckily thats what I was running in my gaming rig, and I wasnt playing as much as I used to so I just gave up playing FPS' and traded him cards so he could play.

Maybe now I can get back into gaming again.