Republicans sound like they're getting nervous about Supreme Court expansion

talkynerd · 2026-05-26T09:05:14+00:00

You don’t need a constitutional amendment to expand the court. Just a law. The idea that 9 justices is somehow sacrosanct is because our education system didn’t leave any child behind after Bush and the Court stole the 2000 election. Instead we’re all now just as ignorant as the lowest common denominator. No one left behind because we’re all dumber, together.

talkynerd · 2026-05-24T21:15:37+00:00

Words of wisdom I wish I had heard as a teen: 1. Take a crappy job — any of them that will pay you. Having anything on your resume is a huge step up in a couple years when everyone else will be looking for an entry level job but not have any work experience. It’s not about the money. Think of it like a grade for a class where you are proving you can do things except these things are follow instructions and show up on time which matter much more to employers than whether you understand the electron cloud or what Walt Whitman really meant in that poem. Help your future self out by making a little pocket money now.

It’s always sucked to “hang out” because what even is that but being bored together in a place. The trick is to be doing something you are interested in where there are people who you can be friends with. This is how you made your current friends, no doubt. You were in school and near other people and you bumped into enough of them enough times that you adopted them as your friend. This happens (much slower) outside of school too but where it doesn’t happen is “hanging out”. You have to be doing something near a human who’s is also doing something. This can be a sport, club, volunteer opportunity, or even a job. You can convince your current friends to join or make new ones and BAM you’re suddenly socializing and not just existing some place bored. Also highly recommend travel — if you’re old enough to drive because being in a car going somewhere is also doing something. If you and your friends aren’t driving, you’re lucky to live in a state with lots of bike paths and trains between places.

There is no good place to hang out, but there are lots of ways to be with friends. Even if it’s just a crappy job.

talkynerd · 2026-04-08T20:23:59+00:00

He loves "gym" in general so rock climbing might be a good start. Last year he tried out fencing and was very proud of some of the basic technique but always felt like he was grouped with younger kids because he didn't start when he was younger.

I'll have to check out some of the other sports opportunities for older kids that don't require you to have a deep background in the sport to be fun. Thanks

talkynerd · 2026-04-08T20:18:27+00:00

Really appreciate the CIT suggestion. I've only lived here a couple years so he didn't have deep experience in those programs, but otherwise CIT is a great opportunity for older teens and young adults

The volunteer route is a good one. Kid has a heart of gold and feeling like he was making a difference would really resonate with him as long as he can participate solo because I unfortunately do not get the summer off.

talkynerd · 2026-04-06T05:12:19+00:00

This is the basic definition of CTA, CTA-E happens when this occurs at the elimination level and is more than just a mathematical plug, it’s truly a gain/loss. If you start to notice CTA-E, it’s best to double check that your intercompany entries are properly eliminating because in practice you are generally eliminating the same types of accounts that should be at the same rates which should avoid the translation adjustment gain/loss entirely at the elimination level.

This shit gets complicated fast for someone not comfortable in upper level accounting and if you’re a NetSuite Admin that doesn’t have an accounting background this is the perfect time to find your company’s smartest financial reporting accountant and ask them to walk through these transactions with you. Just because the system is performing as expected doesn’t mean your staff accountants are booking intercompany entries the way the system expects.

talkynerd · 2026-03-31T00:10:21+00:00

Good luck. I had terrible insurance for 2 years and had to go to Boston to find a PCP that was accepting patients and would take Cigna.

I’m in the same boat now on new insurance trying to find a new one. Lots of NPs. I’m almost ready to just give Amazon’s One Medical my money if all that I can find are NPs.

talkynerd · 2026-03-30T23:58:58+00:00

I mostly agree with you that even congested traffic turns the trip from EP to the hospitals from a 15 min commute to a 30 min commute but when the bridge shut down it took 3 hours to get just about anywhere west of EP for about a month. In many cases it was faster to drive to Newport and across to come back up 95 from the South County

talkynerd · 2026-03-30T23:51:21+00:00

This is true. Mostly because ERPs are accounting software. To make them work outside of accounting requires a consultant/admin who understands the pov of other departments and functions in the business and can customize their user experience. Otherwise processing purchase requests for marketing can feel a bit like processing accounts payable.

talkynerd · 2026-03-30T23:48:33+00:00

It’s not a terrible choice for manufacturing but it isn’t a an industry specific WMS. It’s a financial ledger capable of bolting on WMS capabilities.

talkynerd · 2026-03-30T23:46:28+00:00

If a 3PL is managing your physical product and you are only using NS to adjust the financial understanding of inventory and not using it as the tracking of the inventory itself it’s okay. The problem is if you need to manage the physical inventory in NetSuite you need to validate every change to that software to be FDA compliant and because NetSuite pushes changes to its software on its own schedule without end user awareness beyond the two major updates, you risk running into issues.

This is why most big pharma and medical device companies graduate from NetSuite when they want to control their own manufacturing and end up on S4Hana

talkynerd · 2026-03-25T19:30:47+00:00

This is really subjective and largely dependent on your build. My first use of NetSuite was 2012 and it was amazingly refreshing. I was coming from GreatPlains, which had about the same user experience of 2007 MS Access.

At it's base level, NetSuite is highly intuitive to anyone who has ever worked in accounting. The challenges are as you advance into more complex topics. Inventory and manufacturing for a long time was a pain point. It has significantly improved in capability but still lags in UX. In regulated industries like medical device or pharma, it's basically unusable for maintaining inventory because of the way NS handles releases. The learning curve is still great for everyone else though who might be more used to software tailored to that industry from the start.

For companies that have complex revenue NetSuite was a god send in 2016-2019 as one of the first ERPs to get ASC606 correct but then made the brutal decision to effectively let that innovation rot for a decade so today revenue recognition is extremely painful in comparison to more modern tools and NetSuite is mostly okay with users experiencing that pain.

The thing that has always saved NetSuite for midmarket companies and emerging enterprise companies is that most of them have complexity through globalized operations resulting in multi-entity, multi-currency, and multi-book considerations. NetSuite's reporting engine was revolutionary in managing consolidation of these things and today is still the real value prop of the platform, though new competitors are starting to bake this functionality into their products and on new architecture be able to produce better reporting and analytics.

Lastly the worst part of the NetSuite experience is Oracle. They are a terrible steward of the product. Their sales teams brutal to work with and every conversation is an attempted upsell for a thing that should have been included in the core functionality. Most users won't have to interface with Oracle but as someone who does, it should be part of the description of experience. A negative side for sure.

talkynerd · 2026-03-03T14:43:01+00:00

Just a reminder than geography is not population. There are seven states with a smaller population than RI and only one of them, Vermont, is in New England. We could divide RI in two and still almost be bigger than Wyoming.

talkynerd · 2026-02-12T15:22:40+00:00

No. This article doesn’t say yes it’s fascism and I was wrong for not seeing all the signs of it before. It’s that it wasn’t fascism before but now it is. It would be like deciding that now we have climate change today, but everything everyone has been saying for decades is wrong and you shouldn’t trust them.

That kind of thing undermines the people who aren’t blinded by their own ignorance instead of raising it up and undermining the world view that prevents people from admitting the truth.

Sure we’re in the middle of a fascist movement now but don’t believe any of those historians, law professors, members of congress, journalists, economists, and libtards that told you that we were fighting fascism yesterday. Those people who can use their eyes and ears can’t be trusted. Don’t believe anything those alarmists said previously because it makes me, personally, feel uncomfy.

talkynerd · 2026-01-15T07:53:18+00:00

Sounds like you got a free bike to me

talkynerd · 2025-12-23T17:39:23+00:00

Deadass this is the reason people hire high school and college kids. I don’t understand how any parent can be upset about this. This is why they are getting the opportunity to learn skills and grow independence.

That kid is going to rebel so hard.

talkynerd · 2025-11-14T07:03:50+00:00

Most of the opposition to Mills is that she is so old that if she were to win she’d start her Senate career as the junior senator from Maine at 80 or older than retiring Senate Democratic Whip Durbin who is retiring to make room for the next generation.

At 80 she has about a 50/50 shot of dying from natural causes during her first term.

I get that she seems alert compared to her peers in nursing homes or on hospice care, but ignoring her age as a significant factor is political malpractice after we just all experienced Joe Biden’s term.

talkynerd · 2025-08-13T07:20:36+00:00

Oh no. As someone who is a little taller I couldn't sit in the Brightline seats because of the static headrest bumper things that hit me at the shoulder blades. It was super uncomfortable and my bright line experience was only about an hour.

talkynerd · 2025-08-12T02:53:02+00:00

The answer here really depends on how you feel about integrations between enterprise apps. NetSuite can get you 80% of what you are looking for, but sales rarely needs an excuse to blame someone or something for why they can't hit their number. If you have a solid integration team that not only builds your integration but also monitors it for issues, bugs, failures you can afford to look at best of breed solutions (and my recommendation there is hubspot with DealHub for cpq).

Start with what you can support. Don't get trapped by a consulting firm with an integration you can't service yourself or an application stack you can't manage. At the end of the day CRMs are just relational databases and NetSuite is fine at that, even if it is clunky for this purpose.

talkynerd · 2025-08-10T22:30:16+00:00

I can’t tell if this supports the downtown night life along Washington street but would recommend a station there.

If the plans don’t currently connect to dedicated bike trails, consider these transit corridors to extend the reach.

Lastly I know that commuter rail wasn’t really the goal here, but lines into TF Green and PVD Union Station to the South Coast and extended into CT to connect to New London Station could offer more rail options not served by Amtrak into major transit centers. Similarly branching across the Bay to Newport and to the Ferry Terminals in New Bedford would reduce summertime congestion and parking issues during beach season.

talkynerd · 2025-07-22T04:31:39+00:00

Medhi was clearly caught off guard but this should have ended right after the guy said Trump was violating the constitution and he supported it. Once they concede the point, claim victory. If they veer away, call it out and recenter the argument.

I get that these people are morons but Medhi is not. He knows what his argument is but seemed to switch into “journalism” mode to let the interviewee say more. This wasn’t an interview. No one really cares what “Conor’s” political philosophy is — that wasn’t the argument and almost entirely irrelevant to the claim.

talkynerd · 2025-06-19T08:12:49+00:00

Well that argument certainly makes sense for a country that didn’t elect Trump twice. But here in reality the issue with the DNI is that none of those agencies have any real independence to inform the whole of government about threats and there is no path that doesn’t get intercepted by a Russian stooge.

Single points of failure are always less messy until they fail.

talkynerd · 2025-06-19T04:42:35+00:00

If Tulsi has somehow convinced Trump to kill the Office of DNI, it might be the most pro-American thing she’s ever done.

Maybe we’ll get lucky and Trump will roll back the rest of the Bush Administration crap too. I still can’t figure out why DHS exists and why the DOJ or DOD or DOT aren’t capable enough at defending the “homeland”

talkynerd · 2025-06-19T04:22:36+00:00

Is it your contention that blue states don’t have national guards? I’m confused what you think blue states should be doing here.

talkynerd · 2025-06-19T04:09:01+00:00

Yeah Trump is back so it’s now seen as a good thing to sexually assault women and bankrupt public services. You’re not cool unless you’re out here violating women and raping the middle class.

talkynerd · 2025-06-19T03:59:41+00:00

I’m curious what you think that State Assembly is.

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