But it’s a fucking container.

So - speaking as a former security guy - no.

Tangential: please consider pet insurance if you don’t have it already. The last thing you want to worry about is the cost of care, and vets are as mercenary as USA healthcare.

(We have a dog and two inside-cats, and they’re all fully insured; and with my sister managing a vet hospital in another region, and the (anonymized) stories she tells, we wouldn’t have it any other way. )

Hipaa/etc is privacy. Duty to report imminent danger does not break laws on private information. It’s attribute vs action, and the two are all but orthogonal.

Knowledge of the full cost to the people would tank their campaign, I’ll bet.

Right? That’s noble work.

And, if you’re lucky enough to have had/used/seen the Facebook Portal TV unit in action, you’ll understand the zeal I feel. Truly a wonder during covid.

Beautiful. When I ditch gLatitude, I’ll be glad for that very setting.

I just want something (baked in wine) I can never have.

Yeah, so fuck them.

A federalist?!?

I suspect she’ll do whatever gets her more “retire in Cabo” money.

I call bullshit.

Yet, our mountain folk keep doin it.

Linux is his.

He gets to make the rules. We get to decide whether to bail.

I don’t understand confusion or entitlement over this.

Savage, but warranted. Perfect.

I rent an apartment for way too much in a new building built and now rented by the same corp.

Notes:

• we have tenant rights and a “landlord and tenant act” to which we all must adhere, and it affirms rental increases may not exceed inflation % each year.
• it also dictates that all rental terms default to monthly after 1 year
• it mandates adjudication by magistrate on transgressions
• it sets timelines for security deposits, how the landlord must prove a case for withholding, etc

Differences between a corp and a rando landlord:

• Corp has incentive to stick to L&T as its penalties stack up on mass complaints. Randos could cry stupid/poor and skate
• Corp is usually OCD with the 24h entry notice, fire alarm/drill testing reqs in L&T. Randos, not so much.
• this corp will call out dinkweeds who spill in the elevator and don’t clean it up because those bajillion cams all work. Randos have been a little more tolerant of issues that affect renters
• rando landlords can decide to move family in and loophole-evict you. …then decide otherwise abd rent it out for higher. Corps can, must, and will document you being a bad tenant before they boot you.
• building code mandates so many smoke detectors that we have Fucking SIX of them in our place. Because it’s Corp, they’re all linked on the floor and building. So we can’t bobbitt 4 of them to save our sanity without them finding out and caring. It’s a concrete building, people, it’s not gonna burn.

I’m pleased to live under a stricter ruleset than you may, and I do claim it makes a lot of difference. Is a well-regulated property market a potential factor? Is that what you need?

(We pay the highest average rent in North America, and ours is $4/sqft/mo. Glad we are capped at inflation and can’t be reno-victed (and L&T has rules there too I think))

I don’t get why people keep saying “own nothing and be happy”

It’s sarcastic, in a “you will eat what’s on your plate and you will like it, young man,” tone from a boomer parent.

Oh! America has Columbus Day on Original Thanksgiving day. T.I.L.

I must follow a completely different Jon Stewart.

It was a bit cheeky.

Libs and oranges always try and placate the cons, thinking it’ll smooth things over, but the cons take, and they take; and when the gravy train ends they give the finger back.

Let fort Mac burn once. Just once. And ask Marlaina how she likes the RoC now. It’ll be a good prep for becoming another Puerto Rico for America, too, if we frame it right, right down to the lobbed paper towel.

(Keep in mind that the best money-based thing Marlaina could do for the people is massively curtail foreign ownership of resource extraction to 49%, instead of the 99-100% it is now, but she’s still going with some moronic trickle-down plan that hasn’t worked since even before Peter lougheed’s time)

I just saw someone call it “cuck coding” (vs “vibe coding”), because you just sit there.

This would make meat proxies Code Cucks instead.