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It's really horrible how little most companies value their employees. The employees who generate the bulk of the value for the company.

I was lucky. My company gave me the option of 6 weeks of paid vacation or 12 weeks off at half pay. You better believe I took the 12 weeks. That was two years ago now, and I've heard rumors that they're trying to get rid of the perk for people who hit ten years in the future.

Also there's no perks for anything after 10 years. Probably time for me to start looking for something new...

The title was "original Xbox aka cat warmer" when the "pedantic" comments were made.

Huh, I didn't know about this option. I'll check it out. Thanks!

My ingress firewall blocks the cert renewal challenge requests because they always come from countries that I blanket block, which requires me to keep an eye on it and disable blocking on certain countries to allow the renewals to happen, then re-enable blocking.. Let's Encrypt (somewhat understandably) doesn't publish the list of IPs that they will use for the challenge requests, so I'm not sure if there's a better solution. Anyone dealt with this?

If you create little solar-powered micro computers and toss them onto the roof of a bunch of random businesses with public Wi-Fi, then run them as exit nodes then you could bounce your connection around through a random set.

I didn't come up with this, I think it was a plot point in some novel I read.

But the tarrifs don't go to the penguins..

But the penguins don't pay for the trarrif, Americans do

I haven't had time to watch the video, but based on the text in the post, here's my 2c:

If you actually build it, it's not a fake project, whether or not you were paid to make it.

I wish my alignment with poutine would grant me Canadian citizenship...

I found this

https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-and-xs-role-in-2024-election

via reddit

https://old.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1i7whn9/twitter_whistleblower_elon_musk_changed_x/

What's even worse is that even with these prices, Palisades is absolutely swamped with people on most days that are worth skiing (especially holidays).

So, unfortunately, the market can clearly bear these prices...

I definitely miss skiing in Tahoe when I was younger. Much different vibe now with all the crowds :(

Runabouts can be very awesome, but can anyone explain to me what the hell is going on in the UK where (in some places) they've added a bunch of traffic lights to their roundabouts? In my (admittedly limited) experience, they make them substantially worse, but perhaps I'm missing something?