Manager: “Torrential rain at our customers location means we’re going to have to move priorities, I just got the email 5 minutes ago.”
Sup 1: Our new pioritizes mean we’re running the lathe. We cant pivot to project Y because the metal for that was cut incorrectly and the new order is on backorder. We can use that metal to make order K but well have to manually cut it down."
Sup 2: “Tim called out this morning, I can rearrange my department to cover most positions but not that one, can I get John from you to run the lathe? Gary is the most qualified but his sister filed for divorce from Doug on saturday. Doug has to interact with the lathe position all day and itll cause issues.”
Sup 1: “I can give you John if I can get Frank from department X to help cover down.”
Sup 3: " I can give Frank up but were having a baby shower for Rachel at 1400 and Ill need him back for that."
Sup 1: “Thats fine we have maint scheduled for today well just do that then.”
Manager: “Now that we’ve had our 5 -10 minute start up meeting no one do anything. Lets call the IT guy on the other side of the country who hates meetings and get him to program the details of todays resource allocation into joemos skynet. He says its way more efficient than us talking for 5 fucking minutes at the start of the day. It definitely has a section for you’re most experience lathe operators sister is divorcing the forklift driver in another department. Joemo skynet can then text its plan into the ether cause 10% of the floor doesnt even have a working phone number and 99% dont have computer access. Joemo definitely understands the manufacturing industry.”
If you know of a good way to automate leading humans out of manufacturing then youll make millions and CEOs will love you. Because if theres one thing computer systems are definitely great at its dealing with completely unique and non black and white information especially without a human having to manually input it.
NEW DELHI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed and 102, including 22 army personnel, were missing in northeast India on Thursday after heavy rain caused a glacial lake to burst its banks, triggering flash floods down a mountain valley, officials said.
“The search operations are being undertaken under conditions of incessant rains, fast-flowing water in Teesta river, roads and bridges washed away at many places,” a defence spokesperson said on the X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.
A cloudburst dropped a huge amount of rain over a short period on the Lhonak glacial lake on Wednesday, triggered flash floods down the Teesta valley, about 150 km (93 miles) north of Gangtok, capital of Sikkim state, near the border with China.
Video footage from the ANI news agency, showed flood waters surging into built-up areas where several houses collapsed, army bases and other facilities were damaged and vehicles submerged.
Other mountainous areas of India, as well as parts of neighbouring Pakistan and Nepal have been hit by torrential rains, flooding and landslides in recent months, killing scores of people.
Last year, Pakistan blamed climate change for unprecedented floods caused by historic monsoon rains that washed away roads, crops, infrastructure and bridges, and killed at least 1,000 people.
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NEW DELHI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed and 102, including 22 army personnel, were missing in northeast India on Thursday after heavy rain caused a glacial lake to burst its banks, triggering flash floods down a mountain valley, officials said.
“The search operations are being undertaken under conditions of incessant rains, fast-flowing water in Teesta river, roads and bridges washed away at many places,” a defence spokesperson said on the X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.
A cloudburst dropped a huge amount of rain over a short period on the Lhonak glacial lake on Wednesday, triggered flash floods down the Teesta valley, about 150 km (93 miles) north of Gangtok, capital of Sikkim state, near the border with China.
Video footage from the ANI news agency, showed flood waters surging into built-up areas where several houses collapsed, army bases and other facilities were damaged and vehicles submerged.
Other mountainous areas of India, as well as parts of neighbouring Pakistan and Nepal have been hit by torrential rains, flooding and landslides in recent months, killing scores of people.
Last year, Pakistan blamed climate change for unprecedented floods caused by historic monsoon rains that washed away roads, crops, infrastructure and bridges, and killed at least 1,000 people.
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I hadn’t cried in 7 years and decided to do some emotional exercises to make myself cry. So I managed to cry about 4 months ago, haven’t been able to since even with my grandmothers death. Might start trying again.
I don’t know who you are. Please believe. There is no way I can convince you that this is not one of their tricks. But I don’t care. I am me, and I don’t know who you are, but I love you. I have a pencil. A little one they did not find. I am a women. I hid it inside me. Perhaps I won’t be able to write again, so this is a long letter about my life. It is the only autobiography I have ever written and oh God I’m writing it on toilet paper.
I was born in Nottingham in 1957, and it rained a lot. I passed my eleven plus and went to girl’s Grammar. I wanted to be an actress.
I met my first girlfriend at school. Her name was Sara. She was fourteen and I was fifteen but we were both in Miss. Watson’s class. Her wrists. Her wrists were beautiful. I sat in biology class, staring at the picket rabbit foetus in its jar, listening while Mr. Hird said it was an adolescent phase that people outgrew. Sara did. I didn’t.
In 1976 I stopped pretending and took a girl called Christine home to meet my parents. A week later I enrolled at drama college. My mother said I broke her heart.
But it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it’s all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free.
London. I was happy in London. In 1981 I played Dandini in Cinderella. My first rep work. The world was strange and rustling and busy, with invisible crowds behind the hot lights and all that breathless glamour. It was exciting and it was lonely. At nights I’d go to the Crew-Ins or one of the other clubs. But I was stand-offish and didn’t mix easily. I saw a lot of the scene, but I never felt comfortable there. So many of them just wanted to be gay. It was their life, their ambition. And I wanted more than that.
Work improved. I got small film roles, then bigger ones. In 1986 I starred in “The Salt Flats.” It pulled in the awards but not the crowds. I met Ruth while working on that. We loved each other. We lived together and on Valentine’s Day she sent me roses and oh God, we had so much. Those were the best three years of my life.
In 1988 there was the war, and after that there were no more roses. Not for anybody.
In 1992 they started rounding up the gays. They took Ruth while she was out looking for food. Why are they so frightened of us? They burned her with cigarette ends and made her give them my name. She signed a statement saying I’d seduced her. I didn’t blame her. God, I loved her. I didn’t blame her.
But she did. She killed herself in her cell. She couldn’t live with betraying me, with giving up that last inch. Oh Ruth. . . .
They came for me. They told me that all of my films would be burned. They shaved off my hair and held my head down a toilet bowl and told jokes about lesbians. They brought me here and gave me drugs. I can’t feel my tongue anymore. I can’t speak.
The other gay women here, Rita, died two weeks ago. I imagine I’ll die quite soon. It’s strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and I apologized to nobody.
I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one.
An inch. It’s small and it’s fragile and it’s the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
I don’t know who you are. Or whether you’re a man or a woman. I may never see you or cry with you or get drunk with you. But I love you. I hope that you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better, and that one day people have roses again. I wish I could kiss you.
Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.
In recent memory the two that have stood out to me are Risk of Rain 2 and Halo 4. I thought some 3rd-person action in the former would be fun but I found the core loop and overall shooting boring after a couple run attempts so I guess it just didn’t click for me.
Now Halo 4… I think gameplay in that title is an exercise in tedium. Add on (what is in my opinion as:) poor AI, a bit too much melodrama, dumb retcons, “do X three times!” a bit much and I got a campaign that felt like a chore and haven’t touched it since I left off at the level with the Mammoth. The Prometheans are a pain to fight and I felt funneled into making do with Forerunner weapons to take ranged potshots at Watchers above all other targets and then rushing to kill the one Knight I was targeting before it regenerates, also above all other targets. Yuck. (Update: Coming back here since it occurred to me that I could sum it up as: my ability to make mid-combat decisions and play in the sandbox was kneecapped by poor enemy and maaaybe level design respectively.)
Hurricane Idalia is now thrashing much of northern Florida and south Georgia, whipping winds up to 90 mph, dumping heavy rain and hurling seawater into flooded cities as its impacts a 250-mile swath of the Southeast....
Groundwater is water that has collected at some point. Lake, aquifer, whatever. Over X many years rain has pooled in this spot.
If there is X amount of rain coming in each year and you use less than that, by sending it on down the river/whatever no worries. (as long as you’re not dumping things in the river that are gonna suck for people downriver.
If you use more than that, well there’s going to be less water in the groundwater next year. Also the people downriver probably don’t get as much water, so they’re groundwater will also probably be lessened if they don’t cut back.
Groundwater tends to be millions upon millions of gallons. It takes a while to use up, especially since it’s being replenished occasionally.
But if you’re using more than is coming in it doesn’t matter that it will “eventually” come back around. At some point there’s going to be a dry spot in the loop where previously there’s been a water deposit.
Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said heavy rains triggered landslides and flash floods in the hill state.
Mr Sukha posted on X about a flash flood and cloudburst - a sudden, very heavy fall of rain - that had occurred in other parts of the state, in which 14 people had died.
Thousands of tourists visit the hill state of Himachal Pradesh, especially its capital Shimla, around the year to enjoy its cool weather and picturesque scenery.
Videos shared on social media over the past few days show vehicles and buildings being swept away by gushing rivers, trees falling on cars and tourists stranded due to road closures.
Incessant rains have also been battering the neighbouring state of Uttarakhand for the past couple of days, where officials fear several people have been buried in landslides.
On Monday, officials said that the Char Dham Yatra - a pilgrimage to the four holiest sites for Hindus in the state - has been suspended for two days due to the rains.
Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon::Amazon resisted a removal request, citing lack of “trademark registration numbers.”
Upon searching Amazon and Goodreads, author Jane Friedman recently discovered a half-dozen listings of fraudulent books using her name, likely filled with either junk or AI-generated content.
On Goodreads, the process requires authors to reach out to volunteer “librarians” and join specific groups and post in comment threads to request the removal of illegitimate books.
Friedman reports that Goodreads removed the offending titles from her official author profile hours after her blog post went live.
Although the fraudulent titles were eventually removed from Amazon after the story blew up, Friedman’s experience sheds light on the complex process authors must navigate to protect their name and work online.
In a world where generative AI could potentially flood our communication channels with noise—low-quality, automated creative output in unlimited quantity—open selling platforms such as Amazon haven’t caught up with how to deal with the problem yet.
On X, historian Dean Grodzins wrote, "I once bought what Amazon indicated was a paperback edition of George Saunders’s Swim in the Pond in the Rain.
“In lines 10 - 20, the author most likely uses the word ‘arduous’ in order to…”
Math Section:
“If 3x - y = 12, what is the value of 8^x / 2^y ?”
ACT (American College Testing)
English Section:
“Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Despite his desire to travel during his week off from work, Ted was __________ the prospect of spending so much money on a plane ticket.”
Math Section:
“The equation 2x + 3 = 15 has what solution for x?”
CLT (Classical Learning Test)
Verbal Reasoning:
“Choose the word that best completes the analogy. Hammer is to nail as knife is to: a) Fork, b) Spoon, c) Cut, d) Plate.”
Grammar/Writing:
“Identify the error in the following sentence: ‘Despite the rain, he decided to went out without an umbrella.’”
Quantitative Reasoning:
“In a game, if a player scores 5 points in the first round, 10 points in the second round, 15 points in the third round, what would be the total points scored after 10 rounds if the pattern continues?”
Literary Analysis:
“In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, how does the character of Mr. Darcy evolve over the course of the novel?”
We’ve been unseasonably mild her in the mid-Atlantic. We’re just getting our first run of 90F/32C+ days this season, whereas we usually see that sometime in June. Seeing what’s going on in the rest of the country I consider us to be damn lucky.
We’ve been getting hammered with rain, though. About 3-4x normal in June.
Obviously people can say whatever they want, but I personally don’t see any value in dragging something down when instead I could be lifting the thing I do like up.
I can understand that. It’s no fun to rain on someone else’s parade. But I don’t think there is no value, for example, in you expressing why you dislike Picard Season 3. You’d be dragging it down, but I don’t think that’s so wrong to do. It’s okay to dislike things, and it’s okay to say you dislike things. I think you agree with that.
Like, imagine going in to the job at the end of the week and saying, “Hell yeah, I love Fridays!” and some sad sack co-worker is all, “Yeah, but don’t you just hate Mondays?” Buddy, why? What would be the point in being so negative, when instead you could be positive?
The co-worker sounds like no fun to be around. But what if the conversation was this:
“Hell yeah, I love Fridays!”
“I’m with you on that, this week’s been rough.”
The co-worker isn’t trying to bring you down by reminding you of next Monday, they are trying to relate to you over your shared experience of the last week. You may dislike it, but I don’t think it’s the same as them going “but don’t you just hate Mondays?”, and I think that’s more like what is happening when people talk about their dislike of some show.
Now, imagine if every time someone made a post praising, some other series or new episode, I jumped in with, “Yeah, at least this one was better than season three of PIC.” What am I actually contributing to the conversation?
Not much at all. But if you did it once, it wouldn’t be fair for me to treat it the same as you doing it every time you reply to someone. I’m not suggesting you bring up your dislike of Picard in every conversation – I agree that would be annoying – but, if you have a point to make, I think it would be fine for you to on occasion bring up Picard’s flaws to highlight the strengths of another show. I think it can even make your point stronger; instead of contextless praise, you can point to something specific to show how one thing is an improvement over another.
People do this with Voyager and Battlestar Galactica, where they praise BSG for commiting to the premise in a way Voyager didn’t. I haven’t seen Voyager and I haven’t finished BSG, so I can’t comment on whether I agree with that, but if someone agrees with that criticism and prefers BSG to VOY for that reason, I think they should feel free to criticize Voyager, to praise BSG, or to do both at the same time. Perhaps the contrast can be illuminating.
Furthermore, I don’t consider, “This doesn’t feel like [X],” to actually be criticism.
Sure, I agree with that. But if the criticism is bad, it’s bad regardless of whether or not something else is being praised at the same time. It seems that you think it’s worse to praise and to whine than to just whine.
Risk of Rain 2 teases new DLC "EXXXXXXX-X" (store.steampowered.com)
Seems to have a mysterious description. Not sure if it means anything or if it’s just a teaser.
Kids Are Attending Pro-Palestinian Protests In Roblox (kotaku.com)
A solidarity protest took place on Roblox, with 200 players reportedly attending...
Cannot imagine that level of satisfaction (startrek.website)
Himalayan lake flooding in India kills 18, nearly 100 missing (www.reuters.com)
Fourteen dead, 102 missing after Indian glacial lake bursts bank in heavy rain (www.reuters.com)
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When was the last time you cried?
I hadn’t cried in 7 years and decided to do some emotional exercises to make myself cry. So I managed to cry about 4 months ago, haven’t been able to since even with my grandmothers death. Might start trying again.
Not counting games that were unfun because of bugs, what’s the most unfun video game that you’ve played and what made it unfun?
Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.
Hurricane Idalia pummels Florida with record-breaking storm surge and catastrophic flooding. And more dangers loom | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Hurricane Idalia is now thrashing much of northern Florida and south Georgia, whipping winds up to 90 mph, dumping heavy rain and hurling seawater into flooded cities as its impacts a 250-mile swath of the Southeast....
America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow (www.nytimes.com)
Himachal Pradesh: Nine dead, dozens trapped in India temple collapse (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon (arstechnica.com)
Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon::Amazon resisted a removal request, citing lack of “trademark registration numbers.”
Florida may become first state to accept a ‘classical’ alternative to the SAT and ACT (www.nbcnews.com)
Here is a summary of the key points from the article:...
False Claims that Heatwave is Bogus Spread Online (www.bbc.com)
False claims suggesting that the BBC has been misreporting temperatures in southern Europe have been spreading on social media....
Official Trailer | Star Trek: Lower Decks - Season 4 (startrek.com)
FaZe Clan vs OG / BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2023 - Group C Upper Bracket Semi-Final / Post-Match Discussion (kbin.social)
FaZe Clan 🇪🇺 2-0 🇪🇺 OG...