Used to be a tool designer in US SE. Left $20/hr 60hr/week automotive job for $21/hr 40hr/week defense job temporarily while waiting for a tech support job. Now I moved to NZ and got a really cushy job in the architect sector and make double.

What’s really weird to me able that defense job was no-one has filled it for so long because of lack of pay the due dates for the designs on my desk ranged from the 90’s to early 2010s.

In automotive you couldn’t be a single day late, doesn’t matter how many hours you have to work or how many warm bodies to cram into a single office. Architecture you can be a couple weeks late, but no more. But to have designs 2 decades late and still be wanted/required and valid is so wild; and not a penny extra for overtime or if they can’t hire anyone at that rate.

Fair. I wouldn’t feel safe if a Bus walked into the bathroom.

No you can’t choose anything. Because cruel and unusual punishment is banned by the Constitution, sometimes courts say “you can’t execute a person that specific way because it’s cruel or unusual.” When lawmakers make new methods sometimes they have fallbacks to older methods to make sure the execution goes through reguardless of court rulings like that. A death row inmate’s lawyer might request a different execution method: if it’s one of the fallbacks the state may allow it and show the court saying “it isn’t cruel if it’s what they choose” and avoid an expensive appeal. In this case she has chosen a method not available in Tennessee, perhaps as a delay tactic to get more time for an appeal or different judges or perhaps even a stay of execution from a Governor. Trump has become famous for selling pardons which more or less expunges your conviction. Governors and Presidents also have the power to commute a sentence which says you’re still guilty but I reduce your sentence, typically down to time served. This is typically used when what they did is no longer illegal such as marijuana possession. As well as stay of execution, which, depending on the state, either switches you to a life sentence or just delays the execution.

Legally speaking the last war the US declared was WWII. Everything else has been heavily armed police actions. Congress declares war but the President is head of the military and does what he wants with the money Congress provides. Which seams like a disctintion without a difference except when it comes to “wartime” provisions in laws, services, and insurance.

I use Proton which comes with SimpleLogin for email aliases. Then you can have one inbox but not only can you easily filter out the spam but if you’re careful you can prove who sold it. If you generate an alias and use it only for Reebok, and then you get an email to that address selling you socks you know it was Reebok that sold you data to Big Sock.

The irony of that post having all the markers of being written by AI

True white LEDs can be expensive, often cheaper to have rgb trios to emulate white, plus now you can have end user customization. Google “why are the streetlights purple in Florida” for a funny example of this

Riding my escooter through the local parks.

Factorio

Civilization 5

Roller Coaster Tycoon

Baldur’s Gate 3

Forza Horizon 4

HM: Slay the Spire, Portal 2