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brygphilomena ,

$10-15 will get you an outlet tester at just about every home improvement store. You plug it in and the three big LEDs light up and you compare it with the sticker on the device. Get one with a GFCI tester built in, when you press the button it will short to ground and if your receptacle has GFCI protection or is on a GFCI protected circuit should trip the GFCI protection.

brygphilomena ,

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Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)

It’s disappointing that copyright infringement could cause these people to spend time in prison, but the predatory practices of the companies they where competing with are punished with no more then fines. A “cost of doing business” for the corporate aristocrats. This is the threat the upper class uses on the rest of us,...

brygphilomena ,

I’m around 200tb currently, working to move to a new server that will let me house 800tb worth of disks, before I consider getting a shelf to expand to.

At this point. I don’t know which is cheaper. The hardware, maintenance, and power or just paying all those subs.

brygphilomena ,

There’s no way we’re hiring a white man for this role. They’d be very careful how they’d message that to agents.

Furthering that, they use the word agent. Specifically referring actors.

brygphilomena ,

Sure, but they also said role. Which can just mean job position, is more commonly used for casted actors.

brygphilomena ,

Most power line adaptors say to keep it on the same circuit. The one I have is running a small VoIP phone and I don’t have issues with call quality.

What's was your favourite fast food product that unfortunately got retired and never came back?

Here, for a while at McDonald’s there was a 🍔 called “the 1955” and it was the best, big pieces of onion, an special sauce, buns and big piece of beef with bacon (for Europe standards anyways) it disappeared once and came back for an encore only to be removed again and never return.

brygphilomena ,

Jalapeno rings at del taco.

Sliced jalapeno, breaded and fried. Served with a ranch-esqe sauce.

Simple and so fucking delicious.

brygphilomena ,

While there are significant regulations around intake pipes, including grates and/or having multiple intakes so that no single one can be completely obstructed to create a suction scenario where someone can be trapped, this particular pipe was found to be plumbed on the wrong side of the pump. It was sucking in water when it was supposed to be ejecting water.

This is serious for the hotel chain, franchisee, installer/contractor, and inspector. This had to fail so many checks to have occurred. It wasn’t a chance occurrence for someone to be sucked in and seriously harmed or killed with the way this was plumbed; it was a matter of time when someone was going to be seriously injured or killed.

Truly a tragedy, and I cannot for the life of me imagine the pain that family is going through right now.

brygphilomena ,

Can you imagine being the inspector who missed this?

Reading a few articles. It sounds like this was inspected and passed before people got into the pool.

brygphilomena ,

Her name was Abigail Taylor. She was 6.

Truly a heart-wrenching story. https://abbeyshope.org/abbeys-story/

brygphilomena ,

The delta-p videos are wild. The most popular being a crab sucked through a crack in a pipe, not a hole, but a crack no more than mm or two wide.

brygphilomena ,

Fallacy is a fault in logic, not a falsehood.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc (after it therefore because of it) is a fallacy. Or an appeal to authority is a fallacy.

brygphilomena ,

I work IT for my day job managing a datacenter and cloud infrastructure.

I host mostly Plex, home assistant, and immich. Immich has its data backed up, I don’t care about Plex data. If it all dies, so be it.

I have a server coloed that houses some websites and email, plus some random other things I’ve setup and tested. It’s got backups, and downtime is fine.

If my self hosted stuff dies, it doesn’t matter. Nothing in my life ultimately relies on it.

Disney told L.A. residents to move to Florida for a planned campus. They did, it was canceled and now they're suing (www.latimes.com)

Walt Disney Co. continues to face fallout from its scuttled plans to move 2,000 California employees to a proposed Florida campus — a controversial decision the company reversed last year following the return of Chief Executive Bob Iger....

brygphilomena ,

One of my favorite sites: http://iscaliforniaonfire.com/

brygphilomena ,

Mk2 is my favorite. My dad had one when I was growing up. My brother then had a mr-s until he totaled it. Now I’ve got a MR-S as well. I love the car. A little under powered at times, but I almost never have the top up. In the mk2, I’d probably have the t-tops off the whole time as well.

Honestly, worth it. The cars are so much fun.

brygphilomena ,

Dont forget, if you use vacation time on the 3rd and 5th. They don’t pay out the day off for the 4th as a holiday.

brygphilomena ,

Refrigerated or frozen items can’t be restocked, there’s no real way to tell how long they’ve been out of refridgeration. Hit em in the pocket books.

brygphilomena ,

Metal as fuck

brygphilomena ,

They shut down the Disney Express from the airport during the pandemic and never restarted it.

brygphilomena ,

Yup. Another short sighted decision from Disney leadership.

I’m a former Disneyland cast member, for the most part the front of house cast members are trying to make everything a good experience and preserve the magic. But leadership decisions over the last decade or two have made it harder.

Tons of cast member benefits have been removed and moral is much lower. This has led to decreases in guest service and enthusiasm. Many of the cast stay on because they have grown up inspired by what this company has created and the environment for artistry, creativity, and excellence and want to spend each day trying to spread that happiness to others.

They have raised prices while providing fewer services. Things like the Disney Express, perks for staying in the hotels, fast passes, and tangible knick knacks that give an emotional touchstone for eliciting memories of good times with family.

They’ve turned what used to be free or included perks into additional charges. Things like fast passes which used to create a genuinely better experience in the parks are now extra surcharges. It gives the feeling that Disney is trying to hide the real price of the parks because if they added that to the normal ticket price they would receive a ton of bad press. Instead, even though you essentially need it to have a good time, they make you pay again. Same with food and drinks, they treat guests as a captive market. They know people will need to eat and drink while they are there so they charge as much as they can get away with.

Leadership has lowered standards and investments in creating and maintaining areas of the park. It reminds me of the Euro Disney and California Adventure launch era.

This leads me to technology and their over reliance on it. They have truly innovative engineers and incredibly creative designers. So it leads to wonderful creations like their new audio animatronics. Absolutely marvelous creations. But Disney is using them as a focal point for guests to watch and marvel at instead of to support and enhance an already great show. They aren’t investing as much to build the environment that these audio animatronics are placed in so they feel out of place.

They have removed much guest interaction with their cast members and replaced with an app on your phone. Cast members are, in my opinion, Disney’s greatest attraction. They are the ones who create the personalized, meaningful experiences. They are the personal touch that made people feel welcomed. They could reinforce happy memories and mitigate frustrating experiences. They could find novel ways to solve problems or partner with entirely different departments to create new and engaging magical moments. Moving as much as they could to an app takes the interactivity away. Guests experiences are looking at your phone for whatever attractions wait time is and going directly there. I believe that it leads to more disappointment seeing every attraction or restaurant you want to experience have high wait times.

The app also forces people to plan their day. Instead of being able to explore and experience the parks, it creates anxiety to plan and try and fit so much in that you leave unfulfilled if you miss something you wanted.

Show standards have dropped that maintenance on things like replacing worn carpets or repairing damaged and chipped paint in stores has been forgotten. It’s a relatively small thing, but it’s a detail that sets a strong impression for guests. For the prices they pay, the expectation promotional materials sets, and word of mouth they hear, people don’t want to feel like they are in a rundown park.

They used to hide construction to “preserve the magic” and enhance the “show.” However, as of late that only consists of mostly blank temporary construction walls mostly to prevent guests from entering a construction zone. They used to use scrims and painted/themed construction walls to entirely block sightlines. For instance, the videos showing how guests can look directly into working construction sites while riding the train.

Many times their actions feel almost hostile to consumers. They removed benches in areas to prevent crowds from congregating or lingering. They wanted more people in and out to buy overpriced merch and food. It reminds me of bars that make their stools just comfy enough for you to enjoy one or two drinks and leave.

Leadership has changed it’s target audience from families to “Disney adults” while still promoting it as a family destination. Things like star wars land and avengers campus aren’t for children. They’ve ages up the parks and rides to take advantage of the millennial nostalgia.

They’ve also tied everything into existing IP instead of creating new and exciting stories in their parks. People love Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion, and The Jungle Cruise not because they were a movie and then people could come “visit that world.” But because they were unique, fleshed out, well told stories and experiences. They don’t trust their guests to like a new attraction unless they can capitalize on an existing brand to lure people in. Hell, even quotes from Bob Iger have said their latest “original stories” have flopped and they will focus on sequels. Which is eerily reminiscent to the direct to VHS sequel era that almost destroyed the company.

In my opinion, so many of their recent original films showcase how they are writing a story by committee of executives. They force certain themes or messages into the story that it neuters the writers from creating a compelling story. They play it safe with their films. It feels like an exec said “we need a story about x” and then had someone write it.

Finally, in targeting “Disney adults” they aren’t building the nostalgia and brand loyalty of the next generation. They are burning the good-will of people who grew up in Disney households and were raised on Disney films. They are putting themselves into a position where in 15-20 years at the latest the company will have a crisis trying to retain an audience that has only a fleeting emotional connection to a handful of films or memories of the parks.

I could go on for hours on my disappointment in Disney leadership, particularly in regards to the parks and resorts. Ultimately, it comes from the very top with Bob Iger. Under Iger we saw many of these issues and changes arise, implemented by Bob Chapek when he was head of Parks and Resorts, accelerated when Chapek became CEO, and then in spite of Bob Iger’s public statement on changes Chapek had made, his lack of reverting those policies.

brygphilomena ,

I’d love to see some way for this to encourage domestic production.

However, that wouldn’t work. Most of the bullshit we buy would still come from China or some third world country. And it’s not like the businesses importing the product would pay the tariffs themselves; they’d immediately tack the cost onto the retail price. They pass the pain into consumers and we get fucked instead of the multinational corporations.

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brygphilomena ,

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”

brygphilomena ,

Ha. That was my first question when I saw this.

It looks horizontally opposed. I want to say it’s an ej out of a Subaru. Top right looks like the bracket for the turbo heat shield. Plenty of lines on the right for the coolant going to the turbo. What’s throwing me is the black plastic on the top left. Looks like the intake resonator that sits inside the front fender of the bugeye.

I’m going to guess it’s an ej20 rather than the ej25. I know that resonator was in the 2003 wrx, which, at least in the US, only came as a 2.0L. I don’t know if the 2004 wrx still had that same intake as they changed a lot that year.

brygphilomena ,

I disagree on the duct tape of the mouth. There needs to be a better way to handle that than making it harder for someone to breath. Where they keep the zip cuffs, they should probably have a spit mask or something.

brygphilomena ,

If she took a Xanax to relax before the flight and then had a Jack, she could be unaware of the integration between benzos and alcohol.

One drink can put you into black out territory on benzos.

brygphilomena ,

For a lot of things, teachers are mandatory reporters. Certain topics get reported to CPS and authorities regardless of the child’s wishes.

Fortunately, they are pretty clearly defined around “a danger to self or others” and sexuality, gender identity, and pronouns don’t fall into that category.

brygphilomena ,

Nah, I still think housing is a human right.

Send his ass to the projects though.

brygphilomena ,

These boots were made for walking

It’s raining men

Man! I feel like a woman!

Tons of great “girl” songs that I’ll belt when they come on. Besides all the Broadway and show tunes that I love.

Music is music. A good song transcends girl or boy.

brygphilomena ,

I don’t care that I’m a 30 something man. I’ll sing that and Complicated at full volume.

brygphilomena ,

If your business cannot survive paying living wages then your business does not deserve to survive.

Your business is not more important than the employees, despite whatever they try to say.

brygphilomena ,

Oh, I know they won’t close. That’s just their threat. They keep saying “oh woe is us, if we have to pay living wages then we won’t be able to keep the staff hours or we’ll go out of business and look at all the employees that would lose their jobs.”

But it’s a thinly veiled threat and always has been. What they are saying is “if you do this, I’ll hurt all these people in response.”

If your business closes because you can’t manage your costs, then another business will fill the void that can. Isn’t that how they always describe capitalism and the “free” market? They have money to pay for all this media and “reporters” to repeat their propaganda. They’d rather pay that then spend the same on their employees.

brygphilomena ,

I’ve heard this sentiment for almost 20 years. “The app works fine, why update, it only breaks things.”

Then they blame me when it starts being incompatible with the current OS or some other application. Even if the only fix is to update they still resist or refuse outright.

brygphilomena ,

I completely agree.

Back when I was taking GEs I had an ancient history class that I just couldn’t get. One visit to the professors office hours and he basically guaranteed me a decent passing grade as long as I did the final essay.

His job was to teach and help students pass. He knew his subject wasn’t everyone’s passion and was super chill about it.

One caveat of this, is in my experience it was younger TAs running 100 level classes that were the strictest. They for whatever reason didn’t have the experience or self-awareness to know that their teaching method didn’t align with every student.

brygphilomena ,

As an IT director, I encourage my techs first action to be to connect to the clients machine and ask them to “show me what’s happening.” Then they aren’t to interrupt the user until they complete their explanation except to ask for clarification.

You can see all the steps leading up to the error, the users workflow, typically the desired end result, and the error message.

You also are building rapport with the user making them feel listened to. Far too often I see techs assume something else is the issue, “fix” that, call it done and the user gets frustrated.

Even if you can’t fix it, like so many user issues, at the very least the support experience is a positive one for the end users. Sometimes it’s just that a specific preference isn’t in an applications options or they need to change a step in their workflow. But at least the end users was listened to and their experience and frustration was validated.

If you have metrics or surveys, it’s always interesting to hear a user write in that the issue was not resolved, but they were extremely satisfied.

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If they’ve got a control booth in the middle of the venue, that’s usually where I want to hang out. Best audio/visuals right where the guy engineering it is listening to it

brygphilomena ,

Which is such a poor attitude. Just because someone is bad in one subject doesn’t apply to every subject. English, math, and history were all GEs. What use does having an English major be weeded out by their ability to do stats or calculus?

Or a psych major because they have no particular interest in pre-silk road civilizations?

brygphilomena ,

Ecstacy.

Some of my happiest times were rolling at a concert. Im empathetic, happy, social, and my anxiety is pretty much gone.

brygphilomena ,

Oh totally. Outside of a few festivals where I took it three nights in a row, typically I was only rolling at a show maybe once a month. I couldn’t imagine doing it frequently or having an urge specifically to roll.

brygphilomena , (edited )

Their profession.

I didn’t go to medical school and am in a different industry than them.

brygphilomena ,

I’ll bring the nails

brygphilomena ,

So Adderall is an amphetamine salt. Not a methamphetamine. Not that they don’t have methamphetamine drugs that are prescribed for ADHD. But they are drastically different drugs.

I do think their prescriptions are over dosing, but to say that over prescribing is preventing those that need it is the wrong conclusion. If there is that much need, then there should be increased production. However the federal government restricts the productions to a certain level.

Like most drugs to treat mental illnesses, it’s a lot of “try this and report” to determine the effectiveness and the dosage. We don’t truly understand the neurotransmitters or how they affect mood and mental health. We work on correlation. It’s only by how the patient self reports the effects that they can adjust the dosage and potentially change to different drugs.

brygphilomena ,

Or you’ll have anxiety about wanting to do something but be too high to actually do it.

For those that can enjoy it, cool. But not everyone can chill and get into something when high.

brygphilomena ,

I can only speak to my experience.

Often I fall back to films or games I’ve already developed an emotional attachment to. Because the mental energy it takes to develop a new attachment is significant. I find I can trick it by putting something on while I do something else and then come back to watch or listen to it later where it’s already somewhat familiar.

My ADHD doesn’t really let me have long term (hour plus) focus easily. It wants the easy dopamine hit from something that it knows it already can drop into.

brygphilomena ,

One of the interesting things for the possible usefulness though is you never see firehouses acquiring these. They already have tools that achieve all the use cases. That’s half of fires deal, being prepared for all sorts of emergencies - not just fires.

brygphilomena ,

He was pretty good in Surf Ninja. Like a lot of people, he’s better when he’s just a supporting character.

brygphilomena ,

When entrees are all up in the 30s versus in the 20s, it doesn’t matter if [customers] know that you are gratuity-inclusive.

I tip 10-15%, how are prices so much higher that then jump into the 30s for a meal? Most of my meals our, tip included, don’t hit the $30 threshold. I think that their prices, even accounting for tips included, were off.

“I think a lot of people don’t see the system as being broken, or anything. And a lot of people love tipping,” he observed. “They feel some kind of power.”

He thinks people like tipping because they have power? That’s kind of fucked.

They spend a bunch of time saying that the locations they included tips in payed $5-6 less per hour. How can they even say they ran a location with tips included if they didn’t even match the tipped wages? They overcharged for food and still didn’t pay the staff enough. I’d say that’s a lot of mismanagement rather than a failure of a no-tipping restaurant.

Here’s another core concept that places don’t seem to understand, if your business cannot make it without underpaying staff then you shouldn’t be in business. Someone else who can manage it will fill your gap in the market or the market will correct itself.

brygphilomena ,

I don’t mean to be mean, but are you okay?

brygphilomena ,

A year and a half ago I was able to buy a home, I had been saving up for the down payment and finally was able to make it happen. I’ve been house poor since then. I can’t wait until I’m finally able to feel comfortable with my finances again. In the meantime, I’m getting very comfortable with eating a lot of rice.

Fortunately, the girlfriend and her daughter are moving in soon. So that’ll help a bit as she’ll be taking over some of the utilities. And the house has appreciated almost 15% in that time as well.

I’ve been able to put away some away for retirement too. If all goes well when that time finally comes, I’ll have the mortgage paid off and will be able to live with relatively low expenses. My current mortgages interest rate is 6.875%, which over 30 years has me paying pretty much as much in interest as the house. But if interest goes down I can refinance and each % point lower I can get is about $200 a month. I really, really hope that it ends up back at 3% again. Maybe then I’ll be able to put some in savings again.

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