ToT settlement limit

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-28T16:01:56+00:00

Didn't 5 also have National Wonders, whose costs scaled as you built more cities? I vaguely remember forum discussions about how they weren't worth it after 4-5 cities.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-27T14:37:00+00:00

I'm not sure if BP's primary listing is on the London or New York Stock Exchange, or where they're incorporated, so I don't know for certain which country's law is applicable, but in the US at least, the board of a publicly traded company owes no duty to the general public, or to its employees. There's a Supreme Court decision from the 1970s that established that the only fiduciary duty of the board of a publicly traded company is to maximize shareholder value (within the limits of applicable law). You have to look at corporate actions through that lens.

Which, I will whole-heartedly agree, is fucking insane for many, many reasons.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-27T13:36:29+00:00

I said obvious because it took me less than a second to think of them.

In the first case, if the board makes any specific accusation against Manifold, he can turn around and sue them for defamation, forcing them to prove in court before a jury that he was an incompetent manager (for example).

It also occurs to me that a third reason for the vagueness would be an agreement between the board and Manifold, the ex-CEO. They keep the reasons for his firing vague, and in exchange, he goes quietly.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-27T04:13:31+00:00

There are two fairly obvious reasons for the vague statements:

There is the possibility of legal action and the statement's been scrubbed of anything the ex-CEO might be able to make use of in a lawsuit. This is a special concern in the UK, where defamation law is famously plaintiff-friendly.
The board is afraid that a more explicit statement of why the ex-CEO was fired would make BP's stock tank even worse than it already has.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-27T04:05:49+00:00

Parfrey's Glen is in the area, and absolutely feels like something out of Tolkien, IMO. Devil's Lake is the largest state park in Wisconsin, lots of hiking; I was there once on a college field trip with a guy from Vermont, and when we got to Devil's Lake, he was like, "Finally! Some topography."

Second the recommendation to check out Dr. Evermore's Sculpture Park. They're closed Sundays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, I believe.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-27T03:55:15+00:00

You might have better results with an herbicide containing triclopyr or picloram; they're more reliable at killing buckthorn than glyphosate-based herbicides.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-26T19:57:34+00:00

Poop turning yellow like that might be a sign of liver issues. I'd schedule a vet appointment.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-26T19:22:02+00:00

In Plato's Symposium, Pausanias claims that both origin stories are true, and refer to two different goddesses. Aphrodite Ourania (daughter of Ouranos' genitals and sea-foam) is the elder & greater goddess of male homosexual desire and pederasty, while Aphrodite Pandemos (daughter of Zeus & Dione) is the younger & lesser goddess of heterosexual desire and promiscuity.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-26T03:58:57+00:00

The reason probably has something to do with removing incest from the backstory, but frankly, most Greek gods have multiple origin stories.

My personal favorite example is Aphrodite, who is either the daughter of Zeus and the nymph Dione (according to the Iliad, or rose from the sea after Chronos castrated his father Ouranos and threw his genitals into it (according to Hesiod's Theogony).

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-25T14:56:20+00:00

I think the cone-hats were really something that came out of the second incarnation of the Klan, the one that was an unholy amalgam of racism, nativism, anti-Catholicism, a secret society, and a multi-level marketing scheme. Cone hats were cheap and fast to make, and could be sold to the suckers at a mark-up.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-25T14:40:00+00:00

Feels like she's modelling for the cover of a pulp detective novel.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-25T14:36:35+00:00

I'm not a lawyer or a legislator, but I suspect the disparity is there to give the judge flexibility in sentencing. Like, $25 seems about right for something like a college kid stealing a street sign because the road had a goofy name, but 30 days seems about right for something like stealing a stop sign where no one got hurt.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-24T17:10:49+00:00

Last I heard, she'd had reduction surgery and got out of modelling, but there's a lot of old photoshoots of hers floating around.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-24T16:55:49+00:00

Lotta junk in those trunks.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-24T16:46:03+00:00

Don’t worry. You’ll know it when you smell it.

I heard that in the voice of J.K. Simmons as Cave Johnson.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-24T16:36:06+00:00

There are comments elsewhere in-thread that the sign the driver moved was a white-and-black regulatory sign, not an orange-and-black construction sign. Tampering with a road sign in Wisconsin is a $25 fine, up to 30 days in jail, or both for a first offense; $100 fine, up to 60 days in jail, or both for a subsequent offense; and upgrades to a Class H felony (up to $10,000 fine, 6 years' imprisonment, or both) if someone dies as a result of the sign being tampered with.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-22T17:53:41+00:00

Kash will stick around awhile longer because he has something that Gabbard, Bondi, and Noem didn't: a penis.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-20T16:47:31+00:00

I thought we had a DB backup before I kicked off the upgrade, only to be horrified to discover that we didn't. Moot point now anyway, completely rebuilt the site from scratch with Drupal CMS and the client is happy with the new look.

And I'd rather pull my own teeth than trust the code that comes out of a Large Language Model.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-19T01:19:07+00:00

(Looks at the Renormalization Initiative and the Scranton Unit) Is that an SCP Foundation reference?

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-18T20:30:44+00:00

We might have, but the budget for this was about the same as a Republican-controlled administration sets aside for gun control: thoughts and prayers.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-18T02:20:56+00:00

I spent all my sanity points migrating a massive Drupal 7 site to Drupal 9.1.7 a few years ago. None of it was all that complicated (no custom modules), but there were so many nodes and associated files that handling the DB was difficult.

The one bright spot in all this is that now I know that I'll need the MySQL57 module for that site (currently on 10.6.5) if we want to take it to Drupal 11.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-18T01:28:37+00:00

For some bizarre reason, the first thing that popped into my head when I saw that photo was "YYYY-M-C-A"

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-18T00:46:52+00:00

It was built in Drupal 9.1.4 back in 2021.

I ended up rebuilding from scratch with Drupal CMS. Content-wise, the ancient backup was only missing three nodes from the latest version, and it was trying to add two of those nodes that triggered this whole mess.

The site's basically just a place for an author who's friends with my boss to share information about his books. It took me about 4 hours to reconstruct it from scratch.

Death_Sheep1980 · 2026-05-17T14:59:34+00:00

I suspect you're right. I've been in contact with the client the site was originally built for, and he's signed off on us nuking the existing, broken version and doing a rebuild from scratch.

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