If you’re in a position to walk away from almost anything you are doing at work and have someone else do it instead, and you’re still paid, it’s not work. If you are in this position, have family, and work 7 days a week, you have a self-regulation problem. See a fucking therapist.

One day I walked in and asked for meds. I got meds. They work, to a degree.

Good doctor.

You know when you accepted the risk, boss?

This is the risk.

A pity. I love my Volvo, but it’s several generations old. The software (particularly driver assist) is arguably the best I’ve used, including current cars. The UI suffers from a small screen but everything just works and there’s real buttons. I do wish it had CarPlay of course.

No idea what to replace it with. Wagons are basically dead as a class (don’t say crossover); Volvo is apparently unreliable and besides, I can’t yet afford an EV with the range I need (I have one; it’s great; I need more range and that’s still more than I can afford). Ah well, hopefully I’ll have time to consider it before it dies; it’s barely 10 years old and I plan to have it another 10.

Worth noting - I don’t know where these are built, but my feeling is that the EV and software is more Chinese, and the design, chassis, interior, and gasoline engines are Swedish. It’s difficult to know, but it may be that the safety culture in the Swedish offices hasn’t been replicated in China. That’s always a risk with acquisitions and certainly not a Chinese problem.

I am not sure that the issues he has experienced are especially unique however. Pop into forums for BMW and Mercedes and there’s always a few people who got lemons.

Not to detract from the potential effects of climate change, but the mean daily high in June is 27, July 29, and in August 28. It’s not exactly Arizona or Dubai.

At the Victoria Gonzales weather station, daily temperatures rise above 30 °C (86 °F) on average less than one day per year.

When all you do is PowerPoint meetings, ai seems powerful. When you have actual problems to solve, it’s considerably less meaningful.

I have long been an advocate that a trust fund must be established before a mining or energy project is started, sufficient to re-naturalise the space and address contamination and safety concerns. But naturally, that’s not popular with the corporations. Instead, governments and non-profits are left cleaning up abandoned oil wells that spew tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Infuriating.

1. Require auto technicians to own thousands of dollars of their own tools.
2. Pay auto technicians piecework.
3. Senior techs take on “gravy” work that pays better per hour, leading to very long hours for the junior techs to make ends meet.
4. Society and government guide everyone with three brain cells into university degree programs for decades on end.
5. “There aren’t any automotive technicians”!

Plus, it’s very obvious that there’s a massive push towards ending fossil fuel use in the personal transportation space, and electric cars simply don’t have the same maintenance requirements. It’s like stating your intent to become a professional typist in 1988 when computers were clearly going to massively impact the line of work.

Does multiple assessments by different doctors all disagreeing with each other count?

He’s 46, in case anyone is wondering how deep Russia is digging for frontline soldiers.

I’m still waiting for FaceTime to be opened.

👏off👏line👏back👏ups

The company said its IT complied with industry standards

Clearly not. Even with MFA bypass and backup aware malware, it’s still effective to have backups and MFA.

I think the key is to huff leaded gasoline fumes until it makes sense. (≖_≖ )

Compare money spent on roads, airplanes, and trains per-passenger and you might find the answer there. Outside of China.

Wonder what the tolerances are. That is a big piece to fixture.

Someone told me that “the global elites” wanted to chase a policy of reducing the worlds population (vaccines came up as one way) as part of environmental policies and that was why they needed to support Trump (neither of us has any material attachment to the USA, naturally).

It’s ironic, because that’s actually what Trump is doing. painfully ironic, as people are being hurt and killed by the policies. Not to say that a different president wouldn’t move in their own interest.

That’s a high pucker factor situation.

I believe that the driver assistance systems encourage inattentive driving. Tesla rightly gets a lot of press for this, but when the car holds the lane and brakes for you 99.9% of the time, it sure seems safe to send that email, formatting and all.

But the problem is that one would require self-awareness to identify what degree of inattentiveness is OK (change the radio station) or not (review the PowerPoint Jane sent over). With our current technology situation, those systems probably are net positive for collision avoidance.

My kids get to learn to drive with all that shite disabled. Except the emergency stuff (auto braking), which seems like a good idea. Check your own blind spot, dummy.

Standard saccharomyces will ferment all the simple sugars, unless interrupted. Some fruit don’t have much in the way of complex sugars (which are responsible for rounding out flavour), and some fruit just don’t have a pleasant flavour without sugar present. It’s also possible that there’s a Brett or other bug in there that ferments the less simple sugars and brings it down stupidly dry. I think plums are on the stupid dry list; I’ve had them in a sour beer and it was… crushingly tart.

I love spending time in my garden watching the butterflies and bees, but gosh the mosquitoes are terrible, better spray them with a residual effect insecticide.

what happened to the birds and butterflies and bees?