At my last job, every time they added or removed someone’s key card access, the system would reboot and everyone would be locked out for like two minutes.

We also had two floors that were connected by a fire stairwell, so you needed a card to re-enter the next floor.

At least twice my card stopped working in the middle of the word day while I was standing in the stairwell and I assumed that they just fired me and assumed I’d see my own way out.

Survived three layoffs at that company.

I wonder what the azeotrope for magically created alcohol is.

See? I do t even know how many boroughs there are!

Yep. Not what I intended.

I mean every American is expected to know the layout of a specific city.

My point is that people in the US are kind of expected to understand the layout of a city that they may never have been to or maybe only visited as a tourist.

It’s only the “local map” for like 8 million of us.

I once sat behind a dude in line filling four propane tanks that he put in the back seat of his pickup truck.

digitalblasphemy.com ftw

I’ve been using a Dell keyboard I got at goodwill for $4. It’s great.

My first day in Seattle, I stayed here. I got plastered in the hotel bar and when I woke up, my car that I just towed 3,000 miles was broken into.

Great intro to the city lol. Lived here for the past 12 years.

I think it’s really brilliant marketing. If it didn’t say shatterproof, I never would have contemplated how shatterable my ruler is. Ruler durability was never even on my radar.

Since it did, I broke mine on the first day of first grade while testing it, and I needed a replacement.

Has anyone in this family even seen a chicken?

Are we forgetting 4patriots.com?

Android OS runs a modified version of the Linux kernel.

Image from the funniest part of a movie that I won’t spoil because I was surprised and wish I could watch it again for the first time.

Yeah, but again, try running on a platform of “everything you enjoy will need to be different.”

Someone call Mumen Rider!

Oh sure. I agree with that. Obviously many people have limited options.

I just think think it’s a monumentally bigger ask no matter where the change has to be made (policy or individual choice).

Like our best solution for transportation (in the US at least) is to just keep making larger free ways. Even gas powered buses running on decades old technology could make a significant impact on the climate crisis, but people either don’t want to ride them or cities don’t want to build them.

Any way, I’m just frustrated with the attitude that we’re going to technology our way out of this hole without needing to change or sacrifice anything (like we pulled off with ozone).

When it comes to energy use, there’s such a thing induced demand. If it’s cheaper, people will use it more. Hell, look at how much energy it takes to use AI to write an email.

There’s no induced demand with refrigerants.

Yeah but consumers already have choices when it comes to fossil fuels and they’re sticking with fossil fuels.

Eh. The solution to the ozone layer was to replace refrigerant A with refrigerant B. A 1:1 swap that required very little effort from anybody.

Getting off fossil fuels more or less mandates an entire global paradigm shift in how we do basically everything. The entire global economy of the past 200 years has been built off an unsustainable energy source.

Sure, we can replace gas with batteries, but every step of the way is going to require small changes in how people do things, and they’re going to be very resistant to that.