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I still don’t understand why he gets so much air time.

Usually in cases like that, it's because the person is saying what the oligarchs want to be true.

but a number of the washers and spacers inside were broken or missing, so I suppose she’ll be put out to pasture.

Why would you get rid of something over washers and spacers? Those are relatively easy to buy or fabricate yourself.

They can decide if they want to pay for it, but they can't decide whether other people think it has value or not.

IMHO saying that “car culture -> less people walking -> more crime -> more fear -> less kids on the streets” is a bit of a stretch.

That's not the claim. The claim is “car culture -> less people walking -> ~~more crime~~ -> more fear -> less kids on the streets.” The perception matters; the reality doesn't.

In some communities piefed.social only keeps posts for very short periods, like 28 days, because it’s the kind of content people look at once and has no lasting value beyond that.

IMO that's not for admins or mods to decide. That's for users and (eventually) historians et al. to decide, and it's only knowable in retrospect, if ever.

Hell, most of archaeology is digging through literal trash.

But they only got up to 17 GB on Windows and 11 GB on Linux. With 32 GB available on both.

In other words, if the systems had 16GB instead, it might've made a huge difference. Too bad they didn't pull a stick from each system and check again.

Or a felony violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act!

No one should suffer financially for complying with forced civic duty.

On the other hand, they shouldn't pay people unequally for equal work, either. Why should some high-powered professional get $100/hour for jury duty when the juror next to them is getting minimum wage?

You could just say "well just pay everyone the highest possible wage, then" but even if we decided that's a reasonable use of taxpayer funds, the problem is that it's hard to know what the right number even is when it changes at the unilateral whim of the highest-paid worker's employer.

Your renaissance festival has camping? The one in my area is more like a theme park than a LARP.

I'm sure resigning (under pressure, I assume) seemed like a good idea at the time, but I wonder if that makes it harder for her to sue to get her job back.

That's because you're trying to use logic to understand trolling.

No matter what Trump does, it won't put the strait back in the status (in terms of freedom of navigation) it was in before Trump attacked. Iran fully controls it now and can impose whatever restrictions it wants, and there is nothing the US can do about it.

To be clear, packing up and going home is absolutely the correct thing to do, regardless. But even that is not "a way out" of the consequences because there is no "way out" of the consequences. Trump's damage is permanent and unfixable.