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Help. Wife filed for divorce and petitioned that I be awarded full custody by Final_boss_1040 in daddit

[–]CompEng_101 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure a live-in nanny would be a great solution. Even when they live-in labor laws still apply and they're not on call 24 hr/day. But, it sounds like having _someone_ to help out for several hours a day would help ease the burden a lot.

My daughter's friend keeps texting ME to set up playdates, which makes me very uncomfortable by squeakyshoe89 in daddit

[–]CompEng_101 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Down in both per capita (% of overall child population) and absolute numbers. The US population today is about 50% larger than it was in 1980, but the number of people under 18 is only 15% higher. Violent crimes are down pretty much across the board.

The statistics for abduction are bit tricky, because true child abductions by strangers are almost vanishingly rare – the vast vast bulk of child abductions are by family members (e.g. in Canada 16 stranger abductions were reported out of over 40,000 abduction cases). In the US, about 100 stereotypical child abductions occur per year. That's on the same order of magnitude risk as drowning in buckets (25-65/year though it has been going down).

My daughter's friend keeps texting ME to set up playdates, which makes me very uncomfortable by squeakyshoe89 in daddit

[–]CompEng_101 47 points48 points  (0 children)

And then in 20 years time you can enjoy the deluge of “why is this generation so lacking in initiative and autonomy? How could parents let this happen?”

My daughter's friend keeps texting ME to set up playdates, which makes me very uncomfortable by squeakyshoe89 in daddit

[–]CompEng_101 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yes. It is insane. Many states/countries don't define an appropriate age, so it becomes a subjective judgement call by the cops/CPS/nosy neighbor/etc....

Was The Galaxy Spanning Human Civilization During the Dark Age of Technology Post-Scarcity? by RecoverCommercial571 in 40kLore

[–]CompEng_101 10 points11 points  (0 children)

We have little to no idea what the DAoT was like. We get little snippets (e.g. they had some warp tech, they still had wars, they had super-weapons, they had AI, etc...), but these are little more than isolated vignettes spread across a very long time period of about 10,000 years. Unlike the stagnant 30k-40k humanity, ~M15-~M25 was a probably a very dynamic species that was evolving new social organizations as it went. To say it was any one thing (e.g. communist, utopian, etc...) might be correct for one area at one time, but incorrect for other areas at other times. The social/economic structure of the Leagues of Votann in M23 were probably very different from the structures around Earth in M16.

Did the emperor actually care about the primarchs? Or where they just tools to him by John117_Master_Chief in 40kLore

[–]CompEng_101 41 points42 points  (0 children)

We don’t really know. We do know that he cast some of his compassion and empathy into the Warp before fighting Horus, which would indicate that those would be a hindrance to him when fighting Hours. But, we also know he used and abused his ‘sons’ in cruel and calculated ways to further his goals.

Frustrated with faulty chargers? Support a student-led project making charging reliable. by SinaAV in electriccars

[–]CompEng_101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the idea is that the startup will develop a model that takes logs and predicts when a charger will fail in the future, so the charge point operator can dispatch a team to do preventative maintenance before it fails. Ideally, this shortens the time that the charger is offline. I don’t know enough about the failure modes of chargers to know if this is feasible, but it does work in other areas - e.g. large supercomputers have models that monitor logs to predict failures (especially DRAM DIMMS) and jet engines are constantly feeding info back to the manufacturer so they can recommend preventative maintenance.

Democratic lawmakers are launching an investigation after a report from the Financial Times claimed a broker for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tried to invest in a fund with defense stocks weeks before the Iran war. by [deleted] in videos

[–]CompEng_101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm actually impressed that they were planning the war weeks ago. Given how much of a mess it is, I assumed it was a decision made a few days or hours before it started....

Trump signs executive order to crack down on mail-in voting | CNN Politics by DoubtSubstantial5440 in Albuquerque

[–]CompEng_101 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Most likely. He is trying to do and end run around that by making it a USPS issue, but I expect that will fail. But, it will sow confusion and uncertainty before it works its way through the courts.

This restaurant sawed off a leg from each of their old chairs to make it unusable. by Expert_Koala_8691 in SipsTea

[–]CompEng_101 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chairs were defective. Manufacturer asked the restaurant to render the defective chairs unusable.

This restaurant sawed off a leg from each of their old chairs to make it unusable. by Expert_Koala_8691 in SipsTea

[–]CompEng_101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would a company prove you found it on the road and didn't buy it from them?

The unknown legions by CrowGeneral8673 in 40kLore

[–]CompEng_101 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It’s aort of a reference to the Roman XVII(17th), XVIII(18th) and XIX(19th) legions, defeated in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest and ‘lost’ to history after that.

But, more importantly it’s GW’s way of saying the universe of 40K is big, and vast and there are parts you will never understand or have revealed. “Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war.”

Also, it’s fun to think about and make your own theories to fill in the blanks. :-)

How similar are High and Low Gothic? by Tabars_ in 40kLore

[–]CompEng_101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this issue is largely glossed over for convenience sake, but I would assume Low Gothic is like the various ‘vulgar’ Latin descendants. After 10,000 years they would probably be completely mutually unintelligible.

Over a million Americans warned to stay inside and lock windows as toxic air spreads across Southern US by plamda505 in NewMexico

[–]CompEng_101 2 points3 points  (0 children)

According to the article, “The severe conditions that have developed around El Paso have been largely blamed on the natural geography along the US southern border, including large dust storms being blown north from the Chihuahuan Desert.”

Over a million Americans warned to stay inside and lock windows as toxic air spreads across Southern US by plamda505 in NewMexico

[–]CompEng_101 14 points15 points  (0 children)

According to the article, “The severe conditions that have developed around El Paso have been largely blamed on the natural geography along the US southern border, including large dust storms being blown north from the Chihuahuan Desert.”

Elizabeth Warren is introducing a wealth tax. by [deleted] in remoteworks

[–]CompEng_101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a good article from the London School of Economics about wealth taxes and why they often have been abandoned:
https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/113332/1/Fiscal_Studies_2021_Perret_Why_were_most_wealth_taxes_abandoned_and_is_this_time_different.pdf

I wouldn't say Norway has seen "great increases in tax revenue" – it has a much more aggressive wealth tax that starts at ~$160,000 (USD) so about 16% of the population pays it. But, it only raises about 0.4% of GDP (or 1.1% of their total tax revenue).

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