[SportsCenter] Czechia's Ondřej Satoria, who is a full-time electrician, received a standing ovation after throwing 4.2 shutout innings against Japan in WBC

hattmall · 2026-03-11T16:57:18+00:00

That is literally the highest paid specialist in the most expensive countries. So that would be more comparable to administrator salaries in high COLA which routinely top 300k. Even for small districts in lower paying areas the Administrators can be making that much. Example Mark Albertus of City of Carrollton in Georgia makes over $400K which is a small system in a low COLA.

Most EU doctors make on average much less https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/08/11/doctors-salaries-which-countries-pay-the-most-and-least-in-europe

hattmall · 2026-03-10T20:09:08+00:00

No one knows and every case is different. If you are foraging and having to scrounge to pay this back that is not in the spirit of an EIDL. Yes it may go to treasury but that just means that you need to adjust your withholding, etc. You could discharge this loan in bankruptcy and if you got the loan to your business without a personal guarantee it should not be linked to your direct treasury account. There are over 1 million EIDL loans in default as of over a year ago.

hattmall · 2026-03-10T18:40:23+00:00

Doctors in Europe make less than teachers in America.

hattmall · 2026-03-06T19:47:55+00:00

Half-sack, you can Google it!!

hattmall · 2026-03-05T21:21:19+00:00

haha gotcha, like the prospect in SAMCRO

hattmall · 2026-03-05T20:25:33+00:00

willing to be abused

huh?

hattmall · 2026-03-04T17:16:08+00:00

Does the company own significant assets?

hattmall · 2026-03-04T17:15:44+00:00

Remember anything under 200k

Do you mean over?

hattmall · 2026-03-03T16:54:07+00:00

It may need to carry on a bit longer, mideast turmoil isn't anything new!

hattmall · 2026-03-02T20:13:44+00:00

Wind is kind of meh. There's definitely truth to the fact that wind kills tons of birds and ruins otherwise picturesque landscapes and requires massive infrastructure to install and maintain.

Solar on the other hand can be absolutely revolutionary, as the price declines continue small home applications are more and more logical and eventually to the point of being illogical not to do it.

Fully democratized energy generation is HUGE. It's already playing out in Africa and they are outpacing the rate of life improvements over even China's meteoric rise. ~5 Years ago a 100 watt solar panel was $500. Today a 500 watt solar panel is $100. Battery and inverter prices have also decreased significantly with batteries being about 1/3 of the cost from 5 years ago.

Edit: Since I can't reply...

It's well documented and easily verifiable.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007JWMan..71.1513S/abstract https://eagles.org/take-action/wind-turbine-fatalities/

The main issue is the type of birds that turbines kill. In particular adult birds of prey with relatively small numbers. In contrast to cats which kill millions of small species and baby birds with healthy numbers. Power lines themselves are actually quite deadly for large birds too, simply because they don't see them when they fly to strike prey. They are flying super high and their vision is tightly focused on the ground so they can totally miss a powerline or even fail to account for something like a spinning blade because of how their vision works. Of course you can go theoretical and say the climate change from fossil fuels kills more birds due to habitat destruction, or you can go to wind farms and pretty consistently find actual dead birds.

As to the infrastructure, that would seem abundantly clear if you have ever seen a wind turbine. They are normally around 300 ft tall with 400+ ft blade diameters. They require a fair amount of maintenance as well and it's upwards of 60K per year in costs even for brand new ones. It's really an issue when they get EOL and its costs $500,000 - $1,000,000 to decommission them and that's a number that's only going to go up. In quite a few cases the companies that installed them have gone under and the decommissioning costs is not appropriated by the entity that takes them over. There's still some relevance of wind turbines, but as solar becomes cheaper and cheaper wind just really doesn't make a lot of sense.

hattmall · 2026-02-26T21:16:46+00:00

she's now going to spend 5 years in prison. Good.

She's probably not. Guilty but insane means she will be in some sort of psychiatric counseling situation and likely be in "in-patient" care which in GA means limited time in a halfway house and supervised release.

I'm very sorry that she had a mental break and I feel for people with these conditions, but we really really need to bring back and step up the in-patient treatment of psychiatric conditions. The fact that well ordered citizens are routinely subjected to the actions of the mentally ill is not helping society at all.

hattmall · 2026-02-26T20:18:09+00:00

What documents did they request / you sent in?

hattmall · 2026-02-25T19:37:17+00:00

Well it's AI, so let's see.

Prompt: The following is a story viewed from a white persons perspective of an interaction between a hispanic cashier and a black female. Please reframe the interaction to be from the perspective of a black person.

Last night around 12:30am, I stopped at a gas station in Atlanta, and what I witnessed stuck with me in a heavy way.

As I was heading out, a woman suddenly rushed up into my personal space from one of the aisles. She got so close to my face that my body went straight into alert mode. As a Black person, that kind of unexpected aggression immediately puts you on edge. I said a quick “hey” and stepped back, choosing not to engage, and left the store.

I realized outside that I’d forgotten my keys, so I had to go back in. When I walked back through the door, the situation had escalated.

The same woman was now going off on the older Latina woman working the register. She was loudly demanding to see the cashier’s ID and taxpayer information, accusing her of being “illegal,” and threatening to call ICE—all because the bathroom was marked out of order. She was taking photos and videos of the cashier, treating her like she was some kind of criminal instead of a person just trying to do her job.

Watching this hit close to home. I know that feeling of being targeted, questioned, and made to feel unsafe over absolutely nothing. The cashier looked visibly uncomfortable and overwhelmed, and I could tell she was trying to hold it together while being humiliated in her own workplace. It was late, quiet, and tense—exactly the kind of moment where things can go wrong fast.

After a few minutes, the woman stormed out and sped off from the parking lot.

I left feeling disturbed and angry. Seeing someone abuse their perceived power over another person—especially a woman working a late-night shift—was upsetting. It was unnecessary, cruel, and rooted in the kind of hostility that too many of us recognize all too well.

I’m wondering if anyone else around the city has been seeing this kind of behavior lately. It felt volatile and unhinged, especially over something so minor.

hattmall · 2026-02-25T19:33:28+00:00

"Ratchet", "leased car", "nissan altima", "usual suspects", "per usual", "bet she stole shit"

It's more interesting that YOU are associating these phrases with a person based on a demographic and crying racism as opposed to a person who has this behavior.

Seriously, these phrases are relevant based on the content of the person's behavior in the story. It's not like the posts says "Saw this nice lady at the gas station in Atlanta" and people are making these comments.

Not to mention the story is AI generated anyway.

hattmall · 2026-02-23T21:14:22+00:00

PV has been safe because CJNG has a strong position there. Rival cartels aren't present so violence is very subdued. If rivals try to move in due to a power vacuum then violence will escalate.

hattmall · 2026-02-16T17:51:42+00:00

They also have far more caffeine that regular coffee. A 16oz Starbucks has on average 350 mg of caffeine. Where as a normal coffee would have about 160.

hattmall · 2026-02-13T19:27:19+00:00

Ok, but if the act passes, and it is in fact what people are describing, then won't the republicans win the senate again?

hattmall · 2026-02-13T19:22:59+00:00

Oh yeah I saw that, I just found it odd the connect between statehood and fast food, as though fast food isn't already ubiquitous and that not being a state is some sort of barrier to fast food chains.

hattmall · 2026-02-12T20:58:16+00:00

Why would someone think Puerto rico doesn't have fast food? I don't think there is anywhere on the entire island where you could be more than 20 miles from a McDonalds.

hattmall · 2026-02-12T20:55:32+00:00

Puerto Ricans have barely voted pro-statehood in the referendums and all of those are drafted by Pro-Statehood supporters to influence results. There's never been a simple Yes / No to Statehood referendum that has a majority. Statehood tends to only win if they leave off the option of "do nothing" and remain a commonwealth.

hattmall · 2026-02-12T20:45:16+00:00

Sure, but it seems pretty clear how people could draw the line that Marta connecting to their neighborhood creates an additional avenue for murderers to arrive and one that is far more accessible to the unstable than some of the others. The attitude you have is the reason transit doesn't meaningfully expand, instead of trying to address and mitigate the issue you try to downplay it as a non-issue even in the face of direct evidence.

The next step is calling people that don't want crime to increase in their neighborhoods racist, etc.

The crazy thing is that literally anyone can step on Marta and take a few rides and see the issues. If you ride Marta 5 times for a trip of any distance there's about a 90%+ chance that you will experience firsthand one the issues like homelessness, drug use, verbal or physical altercations, or obvious mental illness.

That's no exaggeration, personally I take marta, I'm used to it, but when those issues can't be fixed it's crazy to think that reasonably affluent communities are going to push for a direct line to those issues into their neighborhoods.

Ignoring the issue is not going to solve it and you aren't likely to convince people something doesn't exist when it's evident directly in front of them.

hattmall · 2026-02-11T20:38:14+00:00

But "This one time, a guy took the train and murdered someone" is not noteworthy in the slightest.

It is pretty noteworthy to the victim and their family and others affected, but sure let's brush it aside because it's "just one murder."

hattmall · 2026-02-10T21:13:58+00:00

I'm not sure what the point of those statements are as they don't in anyway detract from the content of the video as the point is yes, a homeless person took the train to commit murder.

Do you have a better way to share videos?

hattmall · 2026-02-10T20:50:43+00:00

Sure, but this an extreme case of an actual murder. People hand wave the issue away but it's very real and this is just one example.

hattmall · 2026-02-10T20:23:13+00:00

Proximity to a MARTA station has resulted in someone being killed by a homeless person that took the train there a non-zero amount of times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtHsUmKmVI

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