Time to go brush up on those 3C scenarios…

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

Discord? Huh, my first thought was WarThunder.

You’re right, completely glossed over his 3-day golf weekends.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago

On June 26, 2014, in a 9–0 ruling, the United States Supreme Court validated this practice of using pro forma sessions to block the president from using the recess appointment authority

Can’t do recess appointments if the senate is never in recess. When was the last recess appointment made? 2012, and it was ruled invalid.

This makes no sense anyway. The Senate will be Republican-controlled by four votes before he takes office. So he’s worried about Republicans blocking his nominees? Or is he asking for an ally that’ll put the Senate into recess immediately so he can recess appoint hundreds of people? I doubt even his staunchest allies will be willing to publicly neuter themselves so much.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 30 points 4 days ago

I expect he’ll do what he spent his last term doing; spend half the day watching Fox News and rage-tweeting, go downstairs for some photo-ops and sign whatever his staff puts in front of him, get whatever it was challenged and (sometimes) blocked in court, and then, if he’s feeling insufficient attention, make a bunch of pronouncements that’ll catch everyone by surprise and then never follow up on it.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

You mean the sham of a conference hosted by and chaired by petrostate sponsors? The conference specifically designed to facilitate fossil fuel expansion deals? That conference?

That’s my field. Yeah, it can be hard to get your foot in the door, but once you’re in, you’re in. The nice thing is that all the info and experience you need is freely available. Want to show off malware analysis skills? Download a sample, tear it apart, write up your thoughts, and post it in a blog. Link to it in your resume. I’m a hiring manager, and I read those. Is network analysis more your thing? Malware-traffic-analysis.net. Know what we need? People who know what the three major cloud providers’ security logs look like and know when something actually bad is happening, because the default alerts are pretty useless. Same for O365 logs. Sometimes, I feel like our userbase wants to get their accounts compromised.

Perception isn’t reality, but it’s just as important. You have to do great things for the working class, and then tell them, with examples, both how you helped and how the Republicans would have screwed them. Repeatedly. No room for kid gloves.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Seriously, corporations, it’s a free pass! “Sorry, we can’t release any customer information without a court order due to the legal liability if we were to release the information to a an unknown party acting fraudulently.”

Although, I have to ask (although I’m pretty sure of the answer); are some companies just giving up whatever information is requested to anyone with a .gov address? What if its spoofed, or typosquatted?

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 267 points 1 week ago

“If your husband is mad at this ad, then this ad was made for you.”

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 256 points 2 months ago

This is how we know that he thinks he lost.

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I just got my first bill since going to a community choice power provider. Here in California, the investor owned utilities (commercial companies, not the publicly-owned utilities) act as retailers of energy. They buy power on the open market from generators, then sell it to their customers. They bill both for the cost to generate the power, and also for power delivery (which includes maintaining the grid). An option that recently became available is for a city government to join a community choice power provider, which then buys power from generators on our behalf. The utility still delivers it, so it’s not real competition, but partway there. The community choice provider then bills the utility, who passes that bill along to individual customers.

So, the generation cost went down by about 30% for power used during the day, and a few percent for power delivered at night (three different time-of-use categories). Our community choice provider has an option for 100% renewable power, which I chose, so this is a pretty tangible demonstration that renewable power really is cheaper than fossil fuels.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 124 points 10 months ago

Take it even farther, not all species get hammered on the same chemicals. “Barkeep, a glass of your finest room-temperature-aged milk, please!”

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