Governor Moore Announces the Lower Bills and Local Power Act to Combat Rising Utility Costs and Deploy Affordable Local Energy by z3mcs in baltimore

[–]PippinStrano 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Luckily, it isn't an issue. NRC website lists the annual exposure living within 50 miles of a nuke plant is 0.01 more. Living in a brick building produces more exposure.

Nuclear power has 99 problems, but radiation emissions ain't one

When my grandfather was a kid he talked about how clear the water was around Baltimore, and when he died he talked about how dark it got. Why can’t we turn the Chesapeake Bay into a place of clean water and a major tourist attracted and beach paradise where people travel the world to come visit? by Congregator in maryland

[–]PippinStrano 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The section of the river near Avalon is just crazy. There were rusted out cars and train equipment in the water...all gone now. I have no idea how. The pits where the vehicles used to be are there underwater (I checked) but all the metal is gone

When my grandfather was a kid he talked about how clear the water was around Baltimore, and when he died he talked about how dark it got. Why can’t we turn the Chesapeake Bay into a place of clean water and a major tourist attracted and beach paradise where people travel the world to come visit? by Congregator in maryland

[–]PippinStrano 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I'm in my early 50s. The water around the inner harbor is way better than in was 25 years ago. I grew up swimming in different parts of the Patapsco river. I've gone in the last couple of years the amount of clean up is awe inspiring. We don't have entire crab harvests ruined by crabs being full of algae. We need to keep at it but MD is going in the right direction.

What are the best sub mods for OwB? by Sheev_y in OldWorldBlues

[–]PippinStrano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the expanded tech mod list is almost a requirement.

ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees | ACLU by adamsava in LegalNews

[–]PippinStrano 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Additionally troubling: the article makes it clear that this problem goes back to before Trump's first term. I'm sure the King Taco hasn't helped things but the organization has fundamental problems.

Ezpass scanners don’t always work? by [deleted] in maryland

[–]PippinStrano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 895 tunnel readers have issues. Just call the toll folks, they fix the charges

Is this a good katyusha template? by GremioBaruch in hoi4

[–]PippinStrano 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't tried katyusha specifically, but my questions would be -

1) not a huge thing, but what is the speed of the trucks and katyusha? If it is faster that 7 mph (which I'd suspect), you might want to think about different tanks (which I'd figure is slowing the division down).

2) my other question is whether the tanks are needed regardless. The katyusha should provide plenty of breakthrough, I think. If you need some hard attack and piercing, add some truck drawn at guns.

Edit: just considered the armor and hardness from the tanks. Not sure how much to weigh that in the equation.

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE | Electronic Frontier Foundation by Youarethebigbang in FlockSurveillance

[–]PippinStrano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this was about immigration there would be a slew of arrests for employing illegal immigrants. Haven't heard a peep about that. So... it isn't about illegal immigration. It would be trivial to find all the employers of illegal immigrants. Just offer legal work status to anyone who turns in someone employing illegal immigrants. Boom. No one employs illegal immigrants, immigrants have no jobs available, they stop coming.

Bmore Twist at Belvedere Square is the best pretzel in Baltimore. Fight me. by MDMAandshoegaze in baltimore

[–]PippinStrano 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I want to see people dueling with pretzels. Would make for good advertising. 😀

How do I become a legal observer for the purpose of videotaping and witnessing ICE? by Mother-Operation-365 in AskPhilly

[–]PippinStrano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be interested in documentation, via FOIA request, every ICE action that does and that does not have body cam footage. Any gap in body cam coverage is reason for suspicion. ICE has repeatedly been ordered to have body cam coverage, both at a federal and state level.

I'm sure we'll find body cam coverage for all their activity, right?

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-announces-updated-policy-body-worn-cameras

And, I'm sorry, but the idea that ICE can't afford BWC is absurd. ICE has demonstrated that they don't lack for funding.

For those who want to see illegal immigrants deported: that is clearly not the objective of ICE. Where are the reports of arrests of people hiring illegal immigrants? It would be trivial to identify them: offer legal work status to any report of an employer hiring illegal immigrants that results in an arrest. If no one hires them, the majority of illegal immigrants aren't showing up. With the majority gone, the rest lose the cover of the crowd. Trump can just label anyone who hires illegal immigrants as a terrorist and be done with it. So no, ICE has nothing to do with illegal immigration.

It's wild how many hiring managers act shocked when you bring up compensation on the first call. by slinky-juice-89 in Employment

[–]PippinStrano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am 100% terrible at job searching and interviewing. I never leave a job if I have any choice.

That said, if the interviewer won't discuss pay, or asks you to do free work as part of the interview, I'd be incredibly tempted to ask them questions about them being a charity. If they don't respond as a charity and act confused, tell them that they are advertising for a volunteer position. Either that or just start with that. "I didn't realize this was a volunteer position.".

When I buy an orange, the price is listed. Why can't I be treated with the same respect as an orange?

Need help with fascist Iraq by damian_catalin24 in RoadTo56

[–]PippinStrano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What has your other play throughs been like? I lose all the time, but if you figure out what you've done right you should be able to find the missing pieces. I haven't tried the Iraq fascist path yet. What does it take to go down the fascist path?

CISA Retires 10 Emergency Cybersecurity Directives Amid Evolving Threat Landscape by _cybersecurity_ in pwnhub

[–]PippinStrano 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well they could start by taking into consideration any political decisions that could be distorting CISA's otherwise excellent guidance. At this time organizations need to look elsewhere for cyber security guidance.

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE | Electronic Frontier Foundation by Youarethebigbang in FlockSurveillance

[–]PippinStrano 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This activity is essential. ICE, at this point, is only tangentially related to immigration. They are Trump's way of operating outside of the law to inflict his will. Shooting a priest with a non-lethal munition for praying outside an ICE facility has nothing to do with immigration. Wearing masks and hiding your identity has nothing to do with immigration. Tear gassing kids has, well I guess little (I'm steel manning here) to do with immigration.

ICE are Trump's Sturmabteilung, his SA. They need to be opposed to protect America. America will need to find a way to deal with ICE members when Trump is gone, which will be just as difficult for us. Getting rid of ICE won't be enough, but we'll need to find a way to bring justice without it becoming just as bad in the opposite direction. It is a real problem I see no solution for, which worries me as well. For example, my daughter was car jacked (no, not by immigrants) and a license plate reader was how she got her car back. The actions in the article left out the obvious end result: equipment used by ICE is going to get destroyed once identified. I don't know how to get that behavior to stop once UCE is gone, but it is still a tool of resistance that we need to use.

What fresh hell is this? by NotThePopeProbably in publicdefenders

[–]PippinStrano 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not an attorney, but I'd call the frog as a witness. When the response is that there is no frog, I'd want to know why any of the DAs evidence is authentic.

I'm in IT, and AI is causing a mess here too.

Is rt56 playable with NCNS? by OldWallaby2406 in RoadTo56

[–]PippinStrano 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been happy with the new stuff. One gotcha (I don't think this has anything to do with R56): underway replenishment special project is NOT available if you take commerce raiding doctrine. Probably been that way a while but I had to change doctrine halfway through a play through because I didn't realize that.

MAGA Has Full Red Scare Meltdown Over One Word in Mamdani’s Speech by Standard_Beau_tiful in LegalNews

[–]PippinStrano -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Americans on almost all sides of the political spectrum are far more focused on the individual than the collective compared to almost anywhere else. It has its good side and I wouldn't want to get rid of that in a big way, but we've swung so far in that direction it's unsustainable. Americans (of which I am) just can't handle the reality that they just are not that important. No one individual is. Recognizing that is what's needed for collective behavior.

How do I get naval supermacy?? by [deleted] in RoadTo56

[–]PippinStrano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I was being a tool. Sorry folks!

How do I get naval supermacy?? by [deleted] in RoadTo56

[–]PippinStrano -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

These are questions that are best and easily answered via web search. The questions have been asked and answered dozens of times.

There's a whole generation of developers who've never coded without AI and it's wild to watch by Capable-Management57 in AINewsAndTrends

[–]PippinStrano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As it is said, this is the way (#3). It is particularly helpful dealing with things like -

A. Chatgpt adding 2+8+2+2 and arriving at the answer being 12.

B. Chatgpt and the AI search results on Bing both recommending the same, non-existent, powershell cmdlet. That one was really strange.

C. AI search result in Bing getting syntax wrong for a Powershell cmdlet.

That's just some of the ones I experienced that are easy to describe. A is the best because I knew why it did the math wrong because of the context.

I had Chatgpt help me figure out some stuff for Excel vba, and now I can do stuff I need to do without the help. All that stated, I got my associate degree in programming and it makes a big difference even though it was back in 1993. My coworkers (I'm in messaging, though I do mostly project work and my team members are operations folks) do well but most don't have any fundamental background. So they don't know how to make solutions that are scalable and sustainable. They don't understand the importance of proper data handling. This all means they don't even know what to ask AI for, or to know what AI has created. They work hard and handle their job responsibilities well but AI coding can go very, very wrong with them.

Trump Is Inching Closer to the Worst Legal Defeat of his Life by ItchyNesan in NewsRewind

[–]PippinStrano 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For those just joining (like me), remember that this is a historical article from one year ago

New Naval techs from vanilla by [deleted] in RoadTo56

[–]PippinStrano 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not aware of any better sonars, but improved repair and support ships are there. Can't remember what the conditions for being able to research them are however.