That moment when you look around for the most competent person, and come the sad conclusion that it’s you

Meanwhile, basically every Dutch students “dates” by bike, and most of London dates via the Underground.

What even IS that?

Correct. I guess that could be clearer, now that I reread my post. Edited.

I mean, they don’t “hate your guts”, but the people making the choices don’t give a shit about your feelings as long as you’ve bought the game. The devs, who aren’t making those choices, probably want to make the best game, but they likely prioritise “having food” over “Making the best game ever”.

Ehhhhhh.

Starlink has a major problem in durability as a result of the low orbit (required for low latency), meaning it’s extremely expensive in upkeep.

The satellites inability to talk to eachother, combined with the narrow transmission angle means the system scales very poorly and has numerous bottlenecks (both the satellite and the uplink station). Yes, Starlink is “working on it”, but the laser-link solution is very complex in terms of engineering.

Starlink has some amazing usecases, but those usecases can’t possible cover the cost. It runs almost entirely on subsidies and venture capital.

Some do, but they make it their main draw. The reason Kerbal Space Program is fun, is fun because you can fuck up and die in a million different ways, and not doing so is chalenging and succes is rewarding while failure is hilarious(ly frustrating).

Not fucking up and dying in Starfield means pressing the Use Healthpack frequently enough.

You can make condensed milk at home. You absolutely shouldn’t can it at home. That’s a pretty big difference.

Yes you can. Take milk, simmer for an hour. Thats basically it

Edit: step 3 would be NOT canning it. Keep it in the fridge like a normal person.

All 7 of them. The other 993 will upboat it for having a meme in the comment

I always buy dehydrated/condensed milk in cans, is that not normal?

Error-correction for dropped packets is also pretty shit.

Never read the comments, but holy crap indeed!

Is that known rapist and sex trafficker Andy Tate?

I doubt it ever happened before, so whatever the policy will be, it’s going to be brand new

It’s literally one Google search away. And if they want to travel, you’ll be able to speak English to basically everyone (under 40)

The contractor I worked for was run by a man who used to say “if the contract says they’ll blow up the contractor on delivery, we’re putting in a bid and solve the problem later”

The library I worked for as a teen used to process off-site reservations by writing them to a text file, which was automatically e-faxed to all locations every odd day.

If you worked at not-the-main-location, you couldn’t do an off-site reservation, so on even days, you would print your list and fax it to the main site, who would re-enter it into the system.

This was 2005. And yes, it broke every month with an odd number of days.

It’s just as depressing when something counts as “clean”. My saddest example was a former sand pit, they spent 30 years digging out 15 meters of sand, then another 30 years filling it with anything from industrial to veterinary waste, “capped” it with rubble in the late 40s and called it clean enough.

Had a bigass job digging out the top 3 meters of random waste, including several thousand of barrels of whatever the fuck. And definitely no unexploded ordnance (spoiler, after finding several ww2 rifle stocks and helmets, the first mortarshells were dug up too). After makimg room, it was covered in sand, clay, bentonite and a protective grid.

So naturally, 3 months after that finished, some cockhead decided to throw an anchor and hit go all ahead flank on his assholes boat and tore the whole thing up. No need to fix anything though, just shovel some more sand it, that’ll stop the anthrax!

This was all in open connection with a major river, of course. One people swim in.

“It’d be easier to discuss in person” means “I don’t want a record of this because it’s either illegal or shows my incompetence”.

Any meeting that they want to talk about in writing should ALWAYS be recorded.