There was a guy who was in tech support who talked to a customer about who was hot or not in the company. It was actually the customer who started the conversation, but the rep ran with it and used all kinds of unprofessional and disparaging language when describing his female co-workers.

That call happened to have a supervisor listening in, so he was fired immediately after he got off the call. The thing is found out who called in, and the women on the team had to assist him when he called for support.

Until people are donating enough money to make maintaining an open source browser doable, this will continue to happen.

I do not. I can give you a link to the one I’m referencing though. I’m sure that something like this would exist in Seattle.

https://www.ideafoundry.com/

There are maker spaces in some of the larger cities due to this. There is one in Columbus, but it never took off because…most people who live in Columbus have garages.

Most bus systems in American cities are for people to get to work and back home. Trying to take it to, for instance, a friend’s house, and you’re generally going to spend about 4x the time it’d take to drive there.

I don’t know who did it, but there was a list of cities in the US with the amount of space used for car parking. I think Tulsa, OK was something like 2/3rds of their downtown land was devoted to parking.

The average American thinks that if roads are too dangerous for bikers, then bikers shouldn’t be allowed to drive on them. This is preferable to reducing the speed limit…that people will ignore anyway.

I live in a suburban area of Columbus, Ohio.

• To the nearest convenience store: 1.5km
• To the nearest chain supermarket: 3.7km
• To the bus stop: 450m (this bus runs once per hour)
• To the nearest park: 1km
• To the nearest library: 5.5km
• To the nearest metro train station: 195km in Cleveland, Ohio (Columbus is the largest city in America by population that has no passenger rail service)
• To the nearest intercity train station (Amtrak): 162km in Sandusky, Ohio (This comes through once per day at around 3 or 4 am)

You also mention you can get somewhere within 10 minutes of walking. A lot of Americans will refuse to walk that far. For many people in the country and the suburbs, the bulk of the outdoor walking they do is to/from their cars and to get the mail.

It’s hard for Europeans to understand, but nearly all American cities are built around the concept that everyone has their own car and drives everywhere to get around. Even things that are 5 minute walks, Americans will get in the car and drive to. Mass transit (again in most cities) is coded as “for poor people who can’t afford a car”, so it’s always difficult to use and is much slower than having your own car.

In college (2003ish), I ran a desktop PC without a case. Hell I ran the processor (450MHz P3) without a fan, just a passive heatsink. It ran fine.

I will probably spend a full year doing Not A Damn Thing™. After that, who knows. Volunteer somewhere maybe.

I work from home so most of the time it’s whatever I wore to bed the night before. Unless I’m on camera and then I’ll put on a t-shirt.

Getting paid without having to work.

This morning I wore a Cleveland Guardians hat to lunch.

Sorry I assume everyone else has it.

Universal healthcare in the United States.

/mind blown

My brother in christ, I’m not talking about the pretext the government used to attack Iraq. I’m talking about the fact that the two things had nothing to do with each other.

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The fact that the government used that as a pretext doesn’t magically link the two things.

we were attacking a country for the president’s personal vendetta

This had nothing to do with 9/11. Invading Iraq was much later. You’re conflating the two.

“Bush did 9/11” is crazy talk. “Bush invaded Iraq because he wanted to get back at Saddam Hussein and make money for Halliburton” is not.

“Donald Trump makes me, a white christian, feel like I’m important.”

No. Cops have convinced a majority of people that they need to be able to break the law in order to protect them.