That’s the glimmer of hope here. You’ve got greed and inconpetence all dueling with malice.

Billions of dollars will be squandered on overpriced and inappropriate equipment, or laundered through consultancies that won’t be providing proper training, setting the stage for some dramatic rake-in-the-face moments.

My bingo card includes:

• An ICE branded armoured vehicle driven over their commanding officer, DUI optional.
• Antivaxxed recruits getting Super Malaria trying to operate the camps.
• Some dramatic security failure (maybe a domestic-terror plot) that even Biden’s law-enforcement apparatus would have easily stopped except that all resources were focused on ICE.

Let me stop at the Sunoco and pick up eught gallons of CHIN.

Is it pronounced like the blood thinner/rat poison (warfarin)?

Look into vintage ALPS boards like the Focus FK-2001.

I believe Packard Bell boards of that era are BTC-made rubber dome.

It was less about formal privacy and more “here’s a room that licks so people won’t barge in accidentally”

I’d think the bathroom would be anotherboption.

Yiu can take the ham radio license exam over Zoom now, but you need to be in a closed room to imply you’re not being coached. The evaluators said I was far from the first to do it in the loo.

At this point Void feels like Slackware for the 21st century. It’s comprehensive and less full of “modern linux” hairballs than some others, but they seem pretty good on package updates. I like it being non-systemd as a first class thing rather than trying to backport it on an uncooperative parent distro.

Cobalt 60 has a half life of 5.27 years.

If the 7-1-63 is a date stamp of original manufacture, it’s gone through over 11 half-lives. There’s less than .05% of the original flavour.

I don’t know about the decay products, but I’d wonder how far we are from legitimately edible.

This is big “if we break your old toys, you’ll HAVE to play with the new ones” energy.

Tell me when they port FVWM. Seriously. FvwmButtons-- a pretty trivial dock except it can swallow other windows-- seems like it would be out-of-bounds on Wayland unless it was owned by the compositor itself to access the other windows. I don’t see any of the new taskbar-tools used with Wayland compositors offering similar functionality (I could be wrong) and that seems an amazing loss of feature parity.

If you’re thinking amplifier, just grab your favourite Japanese '70s hi-fi range and go from there. Can hardly go wrong.

A half-scale Harman/Kardon 330c but with an OLED info display in the panel that held a tuning scale might kill it.

The key is to use the right materials. They sold a modern CD-based stereo a few years ago that apes the look of a small Marantz 22xx, but being plastic garbage, sort of fails the mission. Conversely, Yamaha did some new silver-face amps that don’t look like dollar-store tat.

I sort of wonder if the next generation will still romanticize Japan in quite the same way. We’re past the peak trendy-products era of Weird Sony and the Toyota MR2, anime is no longer a secret exotic thing, and it feels like if you want “15 years ahead of us optimistic techno future”, you could easily slide in Chongqing or Seoul instead of Tokyo.

Y’know what? I don’t care. Maybe it’s happening, even in the dramatic worst-case way it’s portrayed here, but is that the biggest/only story in China? It feels sort of credibility-stretching that a country of 1.4 billion people and a top-two global economy is entirely cantilevered around the idea of oppressing a tiny minority in the rural corner of the country. I’m fairly certain there are at least nine people in China who can go an entire workday without contemplating how to wipe the Uighyurs off the map. Maybe as many as twelve!

The US is no longer in any sort of moral leadership position to point fingers on human rights, if not for the last few decades, then certainly in its El Salvador phase. The only reason Western media remotely give a damn here is because they’re desperate to slap an asterisk next to the growth and real economic advancement of a country that promises to outpace them imminently.

In 2006, it was the least hot garbage choice though.

If your software supports authorize.net, you can often use some other gateways with a drop-in compatible API by changing the endpoint.

Have you tried Johnson’s Spray Crab?

They’d need to change the law banning living people on coins.

Surprised they haven’t pushed to slap Reagan on the dime to displace FDR.

What the hell is with the “Thank you for your attention to this matter?”

You’re shitposting to a global media audience, not politely asking Facilities to restock the vending machine with Snickers bars.

Are you just in full Business Guy Autocomplete mode? A Bigly Language Model?

I guess Kanban doesn’t provide a deadline by itself. Agile and sprints give an excuse to say "why did it take X amount of time when we already forced you to pull a different number out of your derrierre?:

The UK issued silver dollars once. They were dated 1804 and considered “bank tokens” as they had less silver than their denomination required at the time. They basically stamped a new design on Spanish colonial 8-real coins and passed them as five shillings.

The UK had a hard time with coin supply for most of the 1700s until 1816 when they finally downdized many coins.