I’ll stop by and talk to David Marriott next chance I see him. I haven’t seen him in almost 30 years when he gave me a ride from the Manchester UK Airport

He was an asshat driver through. 1 star.

Marriott isn’t owned by the Mormon church. The owners are Mormon who follow the church leaders.

See it’s different.

I vote for squash/pumpkins. I have a bunch of those as well as corn.

Honestly most of the issues with OneDrive are from one setting:

Files On-Demand - it’s turned on by default. It uploads all the files in the drive to the cloud and then deletes them from the local computer. Its absolutely, fucking stupid and should be banned.

AI hardware is a sales pitch without a clear product. Consumers have no clue why they would want to buy something with AI on it.

For most consumers AI is a webpage that kids cheat on homework or adults attempt to cheat at work with. It makes ugly fake pictures with all sorts of weird errors. Its also the annoying as fuck answering services that you have to yell at 4 or 5 times to get to a real person.

Why would an AI PC be desirable?

That was the theory and how it works in a petri dish, however that’s not how it works in the body.

Antibiotic treatment doesn’t have to kill all of the bacteria. It needs to kill enough so the immune system can catch up and finish the job.

There been evidence for more than 50 years that overly long antibiotic treatments cause resistance to build up faster. That’s why they have limits on the first place.

So there’s a balance between too few days, and to many.

A few more tips that I have learned over the years.

1. Know who provides oversight to insurance companies from the government. Insurance companies historically are notorious for fraud and scams.

Here’s a place to start in Australia if things go sideways. Generally these systems force insurance companies to follow approved procedures and reasonable standards.

https://www.afca.org.au/what-to-expect/small-business

2. Keep your own copies of all insurance paperwork. Insurance companies are known to get creative with their copies of the paperwork. Myteriously losing or modifying documents after they are signed.

3. Document everything you discuss with the insurance. For example I just had to add some equipment to my business policy. Rather than calling the broker to add it, I e-mailed the request. It included in-detail description of the equipment etc. If you talk to them on the phone. Keep notes in a dated notes app or notebook of what was discussed. Be sure to use clarifying techniques like "Just to be clear I understand, (briefly summarize the discussion).

4. Remember the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Make a schedule to contact them to keep them from delaying. Weekly calls/e-mails etc. Stuff to show a record of due diligence resolving the issue.

5. Extreme measures - things to do before you get a lawyer involved. The objective is to be maliciously compliant with their rules to drive them nuts. There’s usually a way to exploit their systems if you search hard enough.

Example: The first house we purchased was a foreclosure and needed repairing before it was habitable. So we took out a loan that had terms for the repairs. The mortgage paid 50% of the repairs at signing and then another 50% on proof of completion. Well the assholes refused to pay out the second 50% on completion of the repairs for several months.

My wife got a little annoyed and found out that faxing the completed documents was an approved method of submitting the completed documentation… all 250+ pages of it. My wife also was involved in finances at the time and knew that every-single communication of from a client had to be documented and stored. She then researched further and found around 8 different fax numbers for different levels in the company (including the CEO). So she sent the full packet every day to every single fax number she located (using an automated system on her computer).

It took them 2 days until they called begging her to stop. She said as soon as the check arrived she would stop, until then the faxes would continue. It took them a week after that to get the check to us via overnight special delivery.

Right before midterm elections pretty please. Like 3 weeks before would be perfect. A massive crash with the normal support network in disarray from their stupidity. Triggering a 10 year long depression with up to 25% unemployment.

You know what happened after the last long lasting serious depression? FDR’s new deal - union rights, workers rights, social security, corporate regulations and all the other silly things that led to massive enlargement of the middle class at the expense of the extremely wealthy.

Been self-employed for a bit more than a year now as well. Strangely enough, I really didn’t notice much of a difference at first other than the bookkeeping.

I have been in independent advisory roles for a while now. I haven’t had a boss know what I was doing on a daily basis since 2010. I had a job to do, but it’s was up to me to figure it out and get it done.

I stopped informing anyone when I was taking time off 10 years ago. I have been taking 3-4 weeks in July and 4-5 weeks in Jan-February off for most of a decade now. Officially I only had 2-4 weeks of vacation but, but there was nothing to do during those periods and my old employers paid for my expertise, not time.

As an expert on the subject who has spent my life working with farmers around the globe.

70% of them are fucking superstitious idiots who believe the craziest shit.

25% of them are of average intelligence who do their best and work hard.

5% of the are intelligent wonderful people who are highly technical and skilled.

The socio-economic reasons for why this occurs is interesting (at least to me). Remember farming has had centuries of pressure for migration for rural living to urban. Rural populations are isolated and historically have lacked access to higher education, healthcare, mental health, etc. So you have a constant brain drain, combined with lower relative mental and physical health.

So how the fuck do these morons manage to grow a crop? They outsource the decision making to “trusted advisors”. Government agents, agronomist, fieldman, etc. these are the people who are actually making the day to day decisions on most of the these farms. What to fertilize with, what to spray, when to harvest, when to plant etc… they do it all the thinking while the idiots ride around in the luxury tractor cabins letting the GPS stear as they listen to talk radio or watch videos.

It’s worth $30 more per year. Aka it’s a subscription rate hike.

They hiked up all of the subscriptions. Then made it confusing as fuck to subscribe back to the one that you had.

I hereby formally invite your partner to come over and organize my linen dresser. It’s in my office and everything is just jumbled in there.

Nope, that’s not what it means at all

Genetically linked behaviors follow distribution curves. There is always variation in every population for any behavior. When a behavior is highly selected for, alternative behaviors become more rare…but they still happen.

A good example of this is homosexuality, evolutionarily speaking this behavior is highly selected against (reduced babies). It still occurs in all sorts of species.

What this means is that around 2/3rds of humans are strictly monogamous. Around 1/3rd of humans are promiscuous or partially promiscuous. These are instinctual behaviors that can be overcome somewhat by cultural norms. On an individual basis, for every 3 people you meet, one instinctually finds sleeping around to be their “normal” behavior.

Double check your insurance policy. Sometimes they will have a rider to cover loss income due to this type of thing.

Did you get hole covers?

That is what I spent yesterday figuring out. It was not fun or easy. Had to double and triple check my numbers.

The actual plant in the picture is poison oak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicodendron_diversilobum

It adds flex to the container for variations of atmospheric pressure. It’s what they mean by the fill levels.

Milk containers are filled by weight. The exact volume of the liquid can vary slightly based upon the atmospheric pressure.

If the container has no flex the top will pop off or the sides will crush in with pressure changes say when a truck drives over a mountain pass to deliver the milk.

Grammar is the attempt to enforce random arbitrary rules on a continuously evolving language.

The real solution would be for the EU to mandate an standardized open source connection platform that all car companies are required to support.

I currently use android auto on my truck. I had to make a bunch settings modifications to make it semi-functional. It took me months to figure out how to get it to do what I wanted, when I wanted it