afraid_of_zombies

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Hail the Omnissiah! Praise be to the machine-god.

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Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider (apnews.com)

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church....

afraid_of_zombies,

but the flip side is they can ignore that just like they ignore prohibitions on eating shrimp and wearing polycotton blends.

Because Paul threw out the rules but added in a few of his own. Also to be fair this isn’t really Paul this is a guy pretending to be Paul.

It’s funny rereading all his tiresome letters and remembering that all the arguments he is presenting he claims to have gotten in one blinding vision.

afraid_of_zombies,

Except the rest of the Bible is just a reflection of his work so not sure what would even be left.

afraid_of_zombies,

On a related note how come criminals in Gotham City don’t just do crime during the day time?

afraid_of_zombies,

I am just sitting here looking at all you people upset about government waste and thinking about the crap I see every day working for a company that is primarily a government contractor. The river of dirty money.

Just this week alone, and this is Thursday, I told a state employee PE that his spec calls for a part no longer manufactured and if he doesn’t update his spec he is going to get whatever I find on eBay and he said he doesn’t care. Tens of millions of dollars project and this guy is having me put in used parts on a new system.

afraid_of_zombies, (edited )

We all know, everyone knows. You think this is atypical? And yeah I sent my email and copied everyone I was supposed to. Nothing happens. I wrote up a nice one pointing out that these parts are no longer manufactured and as a result I will have to buy used and long run this is hurting the operation team. Even suggested a list of alternative parts. His response? “Rejected, follow spec”. No exaggeration here. So much for mutual respect. 3 word response to another engineer bringing up major project concerns.

I don’t drink tap water when I am in or around Toronto ON. There is a reason for that, I have seen how the sausage is made. Sent a system there I want to say 6 months back with a PLC from about 2002. Whole system was full of used parts, as I explained in my email.

Arizona, California, New York City, Toronto, parts of Florida, Sussex County New Jersey, Dubai, Oregon, and UAE off the top of my head. I am sure I am forgetting plenty. Places where I have sent brand new pieces of equipment with used parts inside it and I warned the guy running the project that this was going to happen if they didn’t update the spec and they didn’t care.

afraid_of_zombies,

Maybe but it isn’t uncommon. This can’t be news for you. You know the game.

Government puts out the bid. Some shitheads like Jacobs or Parsons grab it up. They recycle some decade old spec. Subcontract it out to 3 companies who subcontract it out to 8 companies and so on until 90 different companies are involved with ten guys doing the actual work.

And now everyone is trying to clone a system from the early 80s. Because no one wants to do engineering, meetings are far easier. The excuse will always be that prudence is a virtue, which might be true but it isn’t the sole virtue.

afraid_of_zombies,

The focus was quality for the public,

If I had a nickle for every time someone with a degree in civil engineering told me about electrical stuff or software stuff. Guys think that if it costs more it must be better or even worse that if it is was the norm in their 20s it must be best.

Whatever it’s Friday and I am sick of caring about you people not dying from choleria because some PE want to run their little con.

Workers at TJ Maxx and Marshalls are wearing police-like body cameras. Here’s how it’s going (www.cnn.com)

Retail chains like TJX, the parent company of TJ Maxx and Marshalls, are equipping some store employees with body cameras to deter shoplifting and improve safety. This is part of a growing trend in the retail industry, as stores respond to an increase in organized retail theft and violence against workers. However, some...

afraid_of_zombies,

Oh I thought those were target practice spots for my laser pointers and high powered flashlights.

afraid_of_zombies,

Hey boss,

Not sure what got into you. Given that we have literally hung out after work playing tabletop games and getting wasted, and I was planning to go to your wedding in September. Thought we were buds.

Anyway guy down the street offered me more money. So going to be working there now. Best of luck without the millions of dollars I made you last year and finding someone with my skillset.

afraid_of_zombies,

Can’t wait until I can buy all my clothing online and be done with this

afraid_of_zombies,

Rogue: I roll to steal the camera

DM: you want to steal the camera looking for thieves off the chest of the guy also looking for thieves.

Rogue: yes

DM: no.

Rule lawyer: it’s his right to roll

DM: fine

*Rogue rolls a nat 20

DM: fine whatever somehow no one notices

afraid_of_zombies,

It isn’t uncommon for them to have policies where no adult is alone with a kid.

afraid_of_zombies,

I have made my decision, I am not going to vote for Hunter Biden. It took lots of articles and lots of social media but they convinced me.

afraid_of_zombies,

Another proud moment for our civilization. Arguing about the private parts of children in the court room to make the baby Jesus crowd happy

afraid_of_zombies,

You haven’t been to the circus show that is my city board of ed meetings.

afraid_of_zombies,

I swear I can tell who grew up with a lot of siblings by how they eat.

afraid_of_zombies,

Bet she is the fifth dentist as well

afraid_of_zombies,

One of the reasons why I went into infrastructure. I get to provide hospice care to the bulk of the human race and my chances at personal survival are pretty decent. The powers-that-be will still need someone who knows how the machines work.

afraid_of_zombies,

We are talking about ppb. Very hard to detect that from a distance. We couldn’t detect it on Mars from earth.

afraid_of_zombies,

Also dog owning girls are usually in better shape.

afraid_of_zombies, (edited )

People still died of other stuff even when COVID-19 was raging. Pit bulls are murder machines pretending to be an animal that doesn’t mean no other animals are dangerous

afraid_of_zombies,

You don’t like getting into very detailed conversations about age of consent laws and child pornography?

afraid_of_zombies,

Found it amusing when Rothbard came out pro-immigration restrictions and worked so hard to explain why it wasn’t racist when he did it.

afraid_of_zombies,

A libertarian is a Republican trying to sleep with a Democrat. All the bloody graphs in the word won’t change what people are.

afraid_of_zombies,

spacenews.com/starliner-launch-rescheduled-for-ju…

Well you got to give them credit for not giving up I guess.

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