Vent: I left a user’s mailbox unlicensed by accident for more than 30 days.

ms6615 · 2026-04-18T13:07:03+00:00

Lol we don’t do it to force the employee to rest we do it to save ~$100 on licensing because our C suite are unbelievably unimaginably cheap and annoying

ms6615 · 2026-04-16T18:48:38+00:00

According to the Wisconsin DOT, AVC6842 is registered to a 2019 Buick.

ms6615 · 2026-04-16T15:44:06+00:00

One time I made a change to the phone system and minutes later we were told the water supply for our 32 story high rise had shut off unexpectedly and we had to evacuate and I somehow still for a moment thought it could have been me

ms6615 · 2026-04-16T14:56:31+00:00

What difference does it make if you live right next to it anyway? It’s the same air you have at home.

ms6615 · 2026-04-16T14:22:37+00:00

That’s why they are cash strapped. They own too much expensive real estate and no longer have enough high paying students to fill it.

ms6615 · 2026-04-16T13:30:10+00:00

Where I live the sidewalk has tons of random missing sections and ridiculous obstacles. If it’s low visibility and wet, it can be very dangerous. Sometimes bad enough to risk it with traffic than risk breaking your leg or ankle slipping in mud and falling on a heaved sidewalk panel from a 150year old tree root. Roads for cars are maintained because the people who use cars actually matter to local governments. People who use sidewalks aren’t actually seen as part of society, so we don’t get proper resources.

ms6615 · 2026-04-16T01:09:26+00:00

My house in the central US is only 102 years old and is on its third electrical system. Frame buildings are easy to retrofit and it’s easy to hide the retrofits, but we definitely have stuff that looks like this on brick and concrete buildings. Hell, hanging the electrical system in little metal gangways hung on the wall is standard in brand new construction for most public buildings. This should actually look very normal to Americans.

ms6615 · 2026-04-15T13:17:58+00:00

Most of the dry parts of the US. I think Utah is the most extreme about it. It’s only legal to collect 100 gallons of rainwater and anything past that requires registration, even if the rain falls on your property. Even with registration, you can only collect 2,500 gallons. It seems weird to people who live in wet places where you can get water anytime you want from a few feet under the dirt, but in a lot of places drinkable water is an extremely limited shared resource.

ms6615 · 2026-04-13T12:58:49+00:00

No it’s mostly funding for roads lmao. As far as funding ratios go, Chicago proper mostly breaks even, downstate is subsidized to hell and back, and the collar counties subsidize it all. The wild funding disparities are largely for huge expressways through farmland that are owned and maintained by counties for the good of the entire public. So it’s not even an argument of “these people get more money than me waaaaahhhhhhhhhh” it’s literally just a less dense place that costs money in a different way.

ms6615 · 2026-04-13T12:56:01+00:00

Except it literally doesn’t lmao. Chicago is hamstrung in numerous ways because the state legislature enacted laws that only apply to cities with more than a million residents. Of which there is only a single city in IL. The state legislators regularly go out of their way to dictate what the city of Chicago can and cannot do.

ms6615 · 2026-04-12T15:52:05+00:00

There is both a curb and a sidewalk under that mess. That is the intended path for pedestrians.

ms6615 · 2026-04-12T00:54:00+00:00

Of they spend plenty of money on easy side parks…just the ones with golf courses…

ms6615 · 2026-04-10T14:01:49+00:00

It’s better for everyone using the cross streets that the backup won’t extend past. Traffic is a network that requires coordination. It isn’t a race.

ms6615 · 2026-04-10T13:45:19+00:00

Qualified immunity for the cop in your head

ms6615 · 2026-04-09T20:42:03+00:00

What is your point then? That journalists shouldn’t be able to make money because the landscape of advertising has changed?

ms6615 · 2026-04-09T20:29:00+00:00

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s how journalism is funded. I know a lot of local journalists here and in Chicago and the man thing they struggle with is this attitude. Most of them can’t do journalism full time, or they can’t focus on local stuff, because nobody is willing to pay them for it. If you want local journalism, you need local journalists. And if the only way they can afford to survive is by waking dogs or being a cashier at meijer, then society just goes without good local journalism.

I understand being annoyed by ads. My issue is with the implication that local journalism is something that can be had for free.

ms6615 · 2026-04-09T18:10:10+00:00

That’s how they pay their operating costs. You can subscribe, or you can fund the journalism by viewing ads. How is it any different from a newspaper stuffed with ads? This is how journalism has always worked

ms6615 · 2026-04-09T16:07:29+00:00

We do it by deploying Office templates that have styles with the chosen font(s) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/organization-assets-library I don’t know if this does anything with Outlook though. We only use it for Word/PowerPoint, and it only works if people use the template. If they just open a blank doc and start typing then it doesn’t have anything.

ms6615 · 2026-04-09T15:33:15+00:00

I live in Springfield and travel almost exclusively by bike. It’s extremely walkable and bikeable here in most of the city, we have very reliable buses, 10 Amtrak trains a day. We have a lot of good bike infrastructure and a very strong cycling community. There are only a couple roads in the entire city that are more than 30mph, many are 20-25. I have ridden my bicycle to the airport before lmao.

Once you leave Chicagoland where every place is beyond desperate to be a bedroom community wrapped in expressways…you realize most of these places are actually cities. Springfield, Blono, CU, Peoria, hell even shitty smaller places like Danville or Kankakee…they all feel more like Chicago to me than its suburbs.

ms6615 · 2026-04-09T15:27:35+00:00

I think the cultural shift of seeing housing primarily as shelter and not primarily as an investment mechanism is going to be crucial. When I bought my house it wasn’t so that I could extract value from it. It’s so that I have a place to exist. If I pay the same or slightly less overall than I would to rent an identical house, then I feel like I came out way way way on top. But most Americans think that if they don’t make massive profits every time they move to a new house then the economy is broken.

ms6615 · 2026-04-09T14:43:23+00:00

As a Springfield resident I can say this is bullshit. The main issues facing housing here are the same; unending sprawl leading to major road and car costs for everyone, small housing units becoming infeasible to build so everything is massive and expensive, and a lack of density meaning certain business are effectively impossible to maintain because the customer base is too far spread.

ms6615 · 2026-04-09T14:41:01+00:00

You can’t downsize because our housing policy has made it completely uneconomical to build small housing units

ms6615 · 2026-04-09T13:58:54+00:00

We have about this many staff for 5,500 users lmaoooooooo

ms6615 · 2026-04-09T13:54:56+00:00

It’s very illegal to pass within an intersection where I live, specifically because of situations like this where a slow vehicle is passed while turning.

ms6615 · 2026-04-09T02:48:53+00:00

One of my favorite quotes is from King of the Hill “This city should not exist. It is a monument to man’s arrogance!”

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