Sorry in advance for being captain obvious, but I feel like I can’t get over this. Your comment is *valuable and I completely agree with your take here, but then the elephant in the room is: how do the people with power actually choose to use these tools? It’s not like I can effect change on healthcare AI use on my own.

So yes, it really can be first pass, good sanity check type of tool. It could help a good doctor if it was employed in a sane and useful way. And if the people with power over the system choose to use that way, I believe it would be a genuine benefit to a majority of humanity, worth the cost of its creation and maintenance.

Or, it could be used to second guess the doctors, cram more cases through without paying them fairly, or “justify” not having enough qualified experts to match our collective need.

Just framing how it is used a little bit differently suddenly takes us from genuine benefit to humanity, into profit-seeking for the 1% and lower quality of life for the remainder of us. That is by far my largest concern with this. I suppose that’s my largest concern with a lot of things right now.

Yer a waste wizard, Harry!

99%fighter

Thanks for mentioning, I didn’t know about this. Just subbed!

Aww, now I miss this. Our last local paper that printed comics when I was a kid reran bloom county comics after they ended but they stopped when I was maybe 15 or 16.

I’m on board with wastefighters, somehow it gives me similar vibes to Ghostbusters lol!

Support your local co-ops! Glad to see they were able to step in and help.

Target c-suite can generally go eat a urinal cake. Not that I ever really shopped there anyway but after they caved to bigots they went up there with freddies/kroger and amazon on my shit list.

Also sorry for the rant in advance: I wish small grocers were more fairly prioritized in general. Here in Portland we do have a few and I’m lucky enough to be kind of near one, but some areas are completely out of luck. Even the ones we do have tend to cut a fine line on prices due to how crazy jacked up properly values and rents are. Trash single fam and large business zoning rules are really blocking a lot of progress.

Remember folks, use protection no matter your NEMA plug and/or receptacle type! Proper generator/grid interconnect lockouts can avoid backfeeding your current to the grid and hurting line workers during an emergency. Never use spicy hellplug even if it wants you to…

Garbageman is also narrow/outdated imo. Municipal worker is more accurate (but can we still have municipalfighter?)

It depends heavily on where you live.

Where I grew up, the main concern was that snow piled up quickly during heavy storms. Most people knew how to deal with it and would be fine, but the incompetent people (who to be very clear aren’t always new to the area…) made things extremely dangerous for everyone else. Doesn’t matter if you’re an expert at driving in the snow if some asshat with worn out 3-season tires plows into you and injures you. But we had the infrastructure to withstand cold and snow, even if most of it was old and janky. The human aspect of it was a little messed up (plow drivers making min wage and working max legal hours, people being left to shovel 3-4ft of heavy plow walls in their driveway, etc) but they managed to deal with it. Core things like power and gas were mostly buried and kept working so you could stay warm at home, and homes were designed for temps well below freezing.

Long time ago I did experience a blizzard in Wyoming. Holy crap, like nothing else I’ve experienced. We literally couldn’t see the road 20 feet in front of us at times. You get snow-blind if you stare at it too long. We saw so many cars that had driven off the road on accident because they lost track of where the pavement was.

I live in Portland OR now, we don’t get many blizzards but our ice storms are rough. If we get snow people stay home if they can, it rarely lasts longer than a few days before it all melts.

Not verifying the load capacity of a customers vehicle.

My past job made the customer sign off the paperwork before we loaded them up and this guy did sign off on the paperwork that his truck could take the load. So, I wasn’t technically liable. I was newly certified and was the only driver around that day. We were a small shop that only took a few deliveries a week, and customers wanting samples back after delivery was even rarer (destructive testing is fun!).

Since I was new to this, I didn’t intuitively know the difference between a flatbed and a normal passenger pickup. So yeah. In my ignorance and with this guy’s sign-off in hand, I try to load his ~1000lb pallet of bigass metal test samples into his. Personal. Pickup.

The truck just kept squatting and squatting, even though I still had weight on the forks… until it finally made a horrific creaking noise. I immediately unloaded the pallet and went to apologize. The guy was mortified but he kept it cool and called his actual delivery guy to come with a flatbed the next day. I did that one too, thankfully his delivery guy just cracked up when I explained what happened (even gave me some quick advice too!). They kept doing business with us, at least, but his reaction in that moment is still seared into my mind.

Same, feels very uncomfortable to confront personally. Ooof size: collosal.

And a heavy duty three pack nonetheless! I didn’t realize packing factored into so many genders. Learn something new every day!

Look on the bright side: I bet a fair number of folks like me didn’t know about this and now it’s on my front burner to-do list to check it out! Thanks for the good work.

Greenshot is so handy. I’ve successfully converted several of my coworkers to using it. Some of our corpo contract IT folks are secretly pissed about it because unlike us they aren’t allowed to use open source software (LOL) so they have to put up with windows snipping tool

Startup times getting down below 20s definitely helps with this. I haven’t had a machine that took over 30s for a few years now… even my phone isn’t that slow.

Was recently asked to look at a laptop because it was “running slower than normal” and “takes a long time to resume from sleep.” Hmm, ok. It’s only a few years old, probably just bloateare.

I powered it on and immediately got served an early-2000s size dose of 10+ minute startup time. This laptop from only a few years ago still came with a spinny disk drive… Ugh. Didn’t even bother trying to optimize it. It’s getting cloned up to an SSD before I even try to work on it.

Honestly I’m shocked at the number of people that stayed on twitter. Like… just why? It’s zero effort to leave and minimal effort to find another platform.

I realize many people choose not to care who owns the companies that make their stuff. And to be fair, sometimes it’s actually worse to throw away the product than keep using it despite the associated image. I still daily drive my Tesla model 3 that I bought in 2019. Throwing away a car creates a shitload of waste, versus just continuing to drive it. I’d never buy another tesla, which solves that issue.

But unlike throwing out a car or even throwing out something with actual value like youtube, ditching Twitter as far as I see has no downside.

Whenever I see “Culture War” in a title I know it’s going to involve a shit take from selfish regressive pricks.

People are so incredibly fucking selfish.

They want them because they’re being lazy/cheap. No, seriously. They’re called widowmaker cords for a reason, but inevitably some muppet with two plugs and some wire will come up with the brilliant idea that one of these will work for.

One really sneaky and dangerous place these get made are generator backfeed cheater cables for houses. You see them in RVs, Xmas lights etc too, but generator backfeeds are super dangerous because they’re also juggling two potential power sources. A backfeed is where a house/building is disconnected from the grid just by flipping off the main panel breaker, then it’s “backfed” by a generator going into another breaker in the panel. Usually, without any type of safety interlock to keep the mains voltage off when the generator is on, or vice versa.

Afaik, this is illegal per housing code almost everywhere that I’ve seen, but still every now and then some yahoo thinks “wait, if I make a two-ended cable and put a receptacle on the house, I can remove the generator easily without any of the expensive safety crap!” And then grabs a live male plug when they fuck up and didn’t shut off the generator or mains voltage…

Electrified double-sided dildo sex, no less!