Imagine a solid hardwood pallet, mostly oak. The supplier sends them out on a deposit. If you don’t return them they charge you the full replacement fee.

Some of them are 40+ years old.

What most people think of as being “really smart” is polymaths. These are people that suck up knowledge from many fields and make novel connections. It is believed that they are extremely rare. Some even argue they don’t exist

Modern academia focuses on a high degree of specialization which excludes most polymaths. So we have specialists that are highly intelligent in their narrow field of expertise but ignorant in most everything else. The bulk of the “smart” 1% are these types of people.

Much easier to just raise business taxes by enough to pay for free education at all levels.

Tax based upon the average education level required for the job in the industry. This would change them all to a skills based hiring system overnight.

I have a hard time doubting Ukraines estimated Russian casualties.

They have posted video after video of Russia assaults with 5-8 APC’s with a tank or two being absolutely demolished.

I wonder what the life expectancy of fresh troops are now. I doubt they can get experienced troops to leave their trenches and rear positions. So you know it’s some conscript from a remote impoverished town being sent in meat waves to the front.

A small village in Honduras controlled by the local cartel. With no money, not knowing the language, and a bus that just drops them off and leaves.

Well the first step in getting out of severe credit card debt is often closing all of the credit accounts. Stops people from doing stupid things like paying for one card with another card. So hey, it did help them there.

Up next for the fools… Debt collector hell.

No. Humans use technology to kill humans.

If you are not a neat person it’s hard to change to one when you have kids. A few tricks that my wife and I learned.

Have smaller places for everything to go. We used the cube storage units, small bins etc. Young children’s find things by doing the toy dump. The smaller the bin the less toys are dumped. It’s amazing how much this helps. To contain the mess.

Make picking up the entire house part of the bedtime routine. It’s pointless to do it in the mornings or during the day. 10 minutes later and it’s a mess everywhere. While they pickup, you lightly clean, run the vacuum, sweep, run the dishwasher etc.

The largest issue is the deep clean. Getting all those jobs done that you just can’t get do easily with young kids underfoot. We made enough money to afford to hire a college student to deep clean once a week. It was 4 hours once a week on Saturday morning. One of us would clean with the college student while the other took the kids out to do things away from the house. We had no family nearby otherwise we would have done what my Sister-in-law did. Drop the kids off at the grandparents for a few hours while she and her husband cleaned.

Its insane how little I eat now compared to then.

My two boys are 14 and 19. The food bill has been stupid high for way too long.

My wife and I combined don’t eat as much as one of them.

When I was 14, I grew 10" that year. At the end of the year I was 6’0 tall and weighed 145lbs.

We did a Calorie counting unit in PE that year in school. I was eating on average 6,000 calories per day across 8 meals.

They usually are buried. Bombs were usually dropped from over a mile up. If the soil was soft enough, duds could be completely buried on impact.

The also used carpet bombing techniques. So if one bomb didn’t blow, the nearby explosion would help bury it and hide the soil disturbance.

They find these all the time in Europe.

The “less horrible” news is many of those antivaxxers are also unprotected. Quite a few of them will face the consequences of their actions.

Pre-immunuzation measles mainly killed children because most of the adults had been exposed to it before.

The math works out. If a job takes 10 people a year to turn out, then 100 people should be able to get it done in 36.5 days? /s

What do you mean it would take 2 or more years for 100 people because they spend all their time bickering over what needs to be done? And those 10 managers holding 20 hours of meetings every week. Those meetings preparing for the upcoming meeting, about a meeting that was held last year where nothing was decided are important.

Pointing out significant flaws that are holding the systems adoption rate back is never popular. Most of them are very techy and don’t have a clue what the average user needs. It’s a great way to get them all riled up.

I spent a few years as a process flow and bug finder for some programmers building a proprietary internal system. Then I trained non-tech savvy people on how to use the system. One of the most difficult jobs I have ever done. Bridging the gap between the two of them was brutal.

That’s not a problem with windows it’s a feature. Even the barely tech literate people can use it to bumble their way through to get the job done, eventually.

They don’t use it well but they still use it. They also rarely break it anymore.

Those of us who worked with these people with win 98 and XP… Shudder. They ways they screwed up the system was truly remarkable at times.

No it doesn’t.

My last attempt was six months ago. Still had a few key programs in a tarball. Dow

Then there’s always the random hardware incompatibility. This last attempt it decided to flip the screen upside down on my laptop screen. Fun times…

It’s come a long way, but for the average user, it’s not anywhere near polished enough.

I have used Linux off and on for almost 20 years.

I install it, see if I can do everything I want.

Get lost in terminal hell.

Give up and uninstall it.

Until I can browse to a webpage, download a program and click on an icon and have it install and work, the OS is shit for the general user. It’s not that fucking difficult of a concept.

Make the policy change, see if they can get it to hold up in the courts. AKA normal business practices for corporate America.

I think drones overwhelming advantage is the range and terrain they are effective in. The ability to find and destroy a target that is moving behind cover is a huge advantage.

How many videos have we seen of assaults moving up behind a tree line for cover. Artillery can stop these but hitting a moving target from miles away takes a lot of shells. Air support can take them out but they are vulnerable on today’s battlefield. Weapons like the Stugna-P require line-of-sight on the ground so they have to let them get closer.

Most people never use all the specs. If all you are doing is browsing the Internet, watching videos, or playing some simple games, you don’t need much.

I have purchased unlocked mid-range phones for for a while now. Expensive enough to have decent specs but not so cheap that the build quality suffers. When the teenager is dropping the phone 3-4 times per day, a good case and a good build quality is required. 3 years with that type of abuse is about all you’ll get out of it.

I run two phones. For work I get one of the flagship phones. I only pull out my laptop in my office. Most of the time I am using the phone in all weather conditions. I use those specs for thousands of hi-res pictures, data entry etc… all day long. At the end of 3 years it’s toast.