Viewing profile — Althuns

I can understand that this approach seems like the easy quick solution, but the problem is much deeper than that. It's more about a weaponization of language by those who know what…

I hear very similar stories from folks in the greater metro area about what happened in Detroit in 2020 to this day. I lived here then and there were no fires, looting, or destruct…

I just spent a bit of time in Wien and was blown away by the ease of use of their transit system and its integration into Google Maps. For someone from the US, it's like a differen…

Absolutely they are! We're not talking complete vacancy, but 10% is the bottom of what I see for new buildings in my midwest city. These are built less than 10 years ago, and sever…

Agreed. We do need more housing, but it can also be more quality housing. This is the part that most of the "YIMBY" folks miss out on. We have a new, modern, but as cheap as possib…

The extremely hamfisted attempt to put DEI initiatives on the same level as serious mismanagement by leadership and structural problems in modern corporate design as the reason for…

This is a feature of authoritarianism, not socialism.

Unfortunately, Alito has objectively proven himself to be a liar at best. His statements are the farthest of any justice from representing an agreement of the court. The only "pres…

I do. Work in a non-profit ISP in a large US city. We witnessed extreme abuse of the system from the big players. Even chatted with the FCC and whitehouse office about it. We were …

The common argument against this is that these buildings were not built for residential units (plumbing, electrical, building codes) and bringing them up to residential code is pro…

Lived in North Idaho for a time and int the forests you can still see a ton of massive stumps that don't match anything currently surviving nearby. It's a surreal and saddening exp…

Here in the midwest, the freight companies will intentionally pad the train with empty cars until it's just too long to fit in the passing turnouts and therefore forces passenger t…

Just quit a job asking RTO for no reason. There are extensive studies showing the effectiveness of remote work. I believe it's a mix of justifying management heavy org structures a…

Every outage there is a discussion about how these status pages are failing to adequately notify and describe the problem. Is there anyone out there doing it right?

Looks like the drop was due to folks taking the opportunity to unload. Is this a temporary movement due to a number of reactionaries or will it sustain?

We bought an older coin-op Speed Queen set from an apartment complex when they were replacing their fleet for app controlled new ones. Best decision we ever made. Just wired a swit…

I'll give you that at large events, but I'm talking 1-10k sized events with 25+ sheriffs deputies and city cops sitting in their cars. It was was negotiated with the city to have s…

Absolutely. Police officers themselves don't want to do this work, but the police as a system would lose power/ resources and thus they fight against any reform. I have a fun side-…

These things don't have to be one or the other. There are places where it's very important that we transition towards less car-focused infrastructure and there are others where we …

The maintainers of OpnSense are able to make their own determination about the severity of the issue and the method of the fix. They gently reminded the user of their process. Ubiq…

In rock climbing you'll find that protective gear follows a similar system.[1] Though of course different manufacturers choose different color schemes mostly. Being able to quickly…

Meanwhile in the US we have a huge rash of thefts of Hyundais and Kias and neither the police nor the manufacturers are interested in doing anything about it.

I wonder if there is a seasonality correlation with higher subscriptions in the winter and a drop-off in the early summer.

I really liked B612, but I couldn't take the tiny colons and semicolons. If they were normally sized, this would be the perfect font.

This is before we feel the effects of the terrible grain harvests in the western US. Low yields or completely lost crops are the story coming out of the Palouse and elsewhere. I do…