Any and all reliance on energy from a foreign source is a national security risk. Many nations are going to be finding that out in a very painful way soon.

Is this the real life?

Thank you. I do like the teaching and student outcomes more than research. That’s not a route to huge success as a professor if you’re measuring on the money, rank, and fame scale, but it’s who I am and seeing my students succeed is my life affirming activity.

When I get out asap it’ll be to another school where I hope I can find a community who values education, not just a grant size measuring contest. It’s somewhere out there.

Huge hugs all around for those making ends meet with their own two hands!

My so-called university is run by people who have never taught a class in their lives. I’m getting out asap.

My school tried to schedule me teaching 9 hours straight (sorry, with a 45 minute break, so a total of 9:45). Get fucked. Teaching is fraking energy intensive and I literally can’t keep going that long. Their reasoning? It’s hard to schedule the classrooms since we refuse to get enough of them, so we’ll just have the faculty and students have insane schedules. Did I mention it was also going to have university students be in class 9 hours per day? NO ONE can learn like that, but it’s really good at saving money.

That’s almost enough to cover their bills for the next 9 months. Good money after bad.

“When you have fear and you stop going to the doctor, then in the future there are important consequences” of missing prenatal care, Bustamante says. “Your children are more likely to suffer, for example, low birth weight, and this will ultimately have lifetime consequences.”

This is the crux of it for me. All of this is to punish and be cruel to brown people. The same so-called Christian principle following fascists who rail on and on about abortion and babies are 100% on board be cruel to adults, which leads to the pain and death of babies.

Conservatives don’t care about babies, only about getting to be legally racist. The slavers never gave up, they’re just wearing elephant pins now.

Science is so very cool. Building a machine to keep antiprotons in frozen suspension with superconductor magnetic fields at 8.5 Kelvin so you can transport them around to other research sites!? Sounds fun, let’s do it.

I had a model of the Yamamoto way back in the late 80’s. I had no idea the quality of the treasure I possessed.

Even a toga is an option. It’s not “normal” most places, but if you wear reasonably covering clothing and get your work done anyone worth working for won’t really care.

The law field is already facing this. They took on many specialized tools to replace clerks and people hired to search case law. The people normally hired to do that work were the future lawyers hired by those very firms. The total pool of candidates to hire from shrunk and now they’re having to fight over the reduced quality of candidates to keep many of the firms afloat.

Fewer trainees == fewer qualified hires in the future (duh).

It’s back to a Tragedy of the Commons all over again. With all firms hiring and training lots of young lawyers, there were plenty of people to hire in the future. Then, each firm stopped training as many themselves to save money and get a personal advantage, which leads to a smaller future pool to work with for everyone. Rinse, wash, repeat across the industry and now there’s a crisis.

You’re not the only one reporting those kinds of issues. My account was recent (last four months) too, but it was also with one of the biggest banks too. I could see how smaller banks would have more hurdles with how crazy the US regulations are getting. It places huge reporting burdens.

We had no trouble opening a bank account in Germany as a US citizen residing on a EU Blue Card visa.

I’m still running the last release of Hannah Montana Linux. Just waiting for something better to come out.

No. Full stop NO.

It’s my computer and my family. Stop trying to justify yet more tracking us in our own homes and on our own devices. Get fucked.

We have a serious trip back in October. Who knows what awaits us by then.

I would sometimes shake things up and go mostly staff with a sling. The sling is hilariously entertaining on many fronts. It’s not really a big damage weapon, but with called shots life gets fun. Headshots? Yup. Knocking out guards? Indeed. Breaking that vial of potion to release the spell/fog/acid? Bingo.

Sneaking a ranged weapon into town? Have fun with that heavy crossbow, I’m just wrapping the sling around as a belt. Ammo? Sling stones are fabricated, but any old rock can improvise.

While the longbow / longsword ranger is just classicly awesome, a sling / (something) is worth giving a try.

Next up: atlatl barbarian!

Looks like there were 6 operational ones when Russia invaded. Two are confirmed shot down, two damaged. Add in this latest one hit.

They’re about $300mil to build and Russia has trouble getting the parts. Every A-50 lost is a huge win for Ukraine.

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This isn’t the first time something like this happened with Strava and its ilk.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases

InfoSec is very difficult with unsecured devices collecting local data and sending it to publicly accessible locations.