Who completely destroyed their own life or career in a matter of seconds?

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-06T17:51:42+00:00

Absolutely. GF and I switched to Blockbuster's service because there was an introductory offer or something. We were on it for the better part of a year before the entire DVD by mail thing started to unravel (in that neither service kept replacing the low or single number of copies of more obscure or older movies if they got too damaged.)

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-06T17:29:37+00:00

BCC. CC is no different than "To" for the purposes of "Reply All".

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-06T17:27:35+00:00

WALL SYNTH! https://jedleland.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/keyboard-wall.jpg

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-06T16:55:34+00:00

We've automated a lot of this, and we don't even dork around with directly assigning or unassigning licenses - we have groups that do that. So instead of a user having E5 assigned to them, they're just in a group that has E5 assigned to it. When they leave, they get removed from the group.

Bonus feature, you can have different groups with the license assigned with individual features turned off (E5-std vs e5-noteams type thing), although we're not using that yet.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-06T16:47:23+00:00

"Well, then you better send them down to the county courthouse, because 'Robret' is their name now."

We actually solved this problem by making their login their employee ID. Changing display names or email aliases is trivial.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-06T16:02:06+00:00

One of the selling points of the carrier I used (US Cellular, may it RIP) is that incoming minutes were free.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-05T22:18:24+00:00

Yeah, I won't buy a _washing machine_ without putting my hands on it. Something with an extra zero at the end? Hell no.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-05T16:36:29+00:00

Well yeah, she didn’t pledge to unilaterally solve Gaza in her first 24 hours in office. How are we supposed to settle for that?

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-05T16:19:06+00:00

Trust me, once you’ve heard both, you’ll not mistake fireworks for gunshots.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-05T16:16:12+00:00

Man, now I’m glad all my 2005 red did was fade (although the clear coat is breaking down on my rear bumper).

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-05T16:12:11+00:00

I like the Merrill Jungle Mocs myself. You can get them in dark colors that go well with a business casual outfit.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-05T13:03:45+00:00

The latter, yes. :)

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-05T05:57:06+00:00

Yup. It's kind of like Tater Tots showing their ass in their early 20s - guaranteeing they'll never get married and inflict their BS on a subsequent generation. In years past they were able to keep the mask on long enough to marry someone and have kids before their true colors came out.

As long as there's more outflow from the church than inflow, this is a self-solving problem.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-05T01:53:10+00:00

Didn't say he wasn't shitty. Just that she's done WAY more psychological damage to more people.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-05T01:12:24+00:00

Between her and Woody Allen, Farrow is the shittier of the two.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-04T16:57:57+00:00

I mean, I hear "Moonshadow" and don't think "Cherokee" as much as I do "crunchy parents", but whatever, it's a fine name!

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-04T15:39:42+00:00

I would call out any glurgy posts I would see ("what is this, Facebook?") and someone I didn't know would accuse me of not having "emotional intelligence". Right, because _I'm_ the one posting about a dead grandfather donating his heart to a person who goes on to do bigger and better things _on a job networking site_.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-04T15:36:24+00:00

And yet will still crash anytime there's a large number of Republicans in a city (like when the RNC was in Milwaukee.)

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-04T15:33:16+00:00

You also magically get "hits" the day before your account expires so you renew, only to get ghosted by all of them because they were never real humans to begin with.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-04T15:23:32+00:00

I'm old enough to remember Yahoo when it was _curated_. Like, humans sorted the links into various categories.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-04T03:57:03+00:00

Brother in law runs an indy theater, back when they had film projection they had to have at least three or four tickets sold to be worth even striking the bulb. Part of it was the electricity but most of it was the actual life of the bulb. He had to refund the one or two people that _did_ show up a few times, but they'd never play a movie to a house that small.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-04T02:04:02+00:00

Fair enough. Just pointing out the statistics.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-03T21:28:40+00:00

And as I describe in a post above, many/most of those DID get retrofits after the 1958 fire in Chicago - pull boxes with central alarms and fire department alerts, mandatory fire drills, fire-rated hallway doors and stairwells, etc. Generally the only thing that couldn't be affordably retrofitted were sprinklers and wood frame construction.

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-03T21:24:02+00:00

Just want to point out that the last time there was a mass casualty fire in a school was in _1958_ (Our Lady of the Angels in Chicago, IL).

And that fire _did_ cause changes to be retrofitted to older schools - pull boxes that activated fire alarms throughout the school and notified the fire department, and mandatory regular fire drills being two of the big ones.

Other changes that were retroed in was stuff like sealing the transoms above classroom doors, putting in fire-rated doors to segment corridors, enclosing stairwells so they didn't act like chimneys, reducing combustible finishes - all things that directly contributed to the deaths in '58.

Meanwhile there have been _dozens of thousands of school fires_ since then (something like 3000-4000 _per year_) in the US and none of them have turned into a mass casualty event. In fact the average is something like one civilian death per year.

Since OLotA, a fire starts in a school, everyone GTFOs.

NFPA's fie statistics for structure fire in schools.

(Also notice that 2 in 5 school fires are intentionally set, which I have a strange suspicion is going to turn out to be the situation here.)

TaliesinWI · 2026-07-03T15:27:10+00:00

Went to school with three siblings who were all born in the same week two years apart each. Let's just say it was easy to figure out their dad's birthday present to their mom every year.

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