“excommunicated me from my department for reporting my concerns to her.”
This jumps out to me.
An entire department stopping talking to him means either the entire department was threatened against talking to him, or the entire department chose to stop talking to him.
I’d be interested in hearing from the department members.
Honestly, the sanctions are pretty much just a footnote. If the sanctions were all that mattered, they’d simply withdraw.
If the sanctions didn’t matter at all, they wouldn’t have even been mentioned at all, yet here we are with them part of the conversation.
Somebody should really tell the Russians. I’ve been hearing about “The Rouble Collapsing” for years now and Russians don’t seem to be affected or care.
Is that so? Why are Russians so adamant that sanctions have to be lifted then? If they weren’t affected or didn’t care, why are they even bringing it up?
"Russia ready to end war in Ukraine if sanctions are lifted, says Lavrov " source
Is the rover on Mars still taking pics? Cause I’d teleport there. Just to make everyone wonder how I got there.
Not just one but TWO rovers are on Mars taking pics right now. This would work for the picture, and then you’d die pretty quick from the water boiling out of your body from the low pressure atmosphere. Worth it.
This has the possible downside of you being dissected for the benefit of science. One human life for the possibility of discovering the ability to teleport? The astronauts/cosmonauts on the ISS would know about you, but you’d never make the news.
This year. Having near omniscience about recent events would have so many useful applications.
Depending on the timing of when this ability takes affect, I might be able to also place wagers on events, like awards shows, that have already been decided but not yet announced.
OP’s rules were “You can skip around in time and space within your chosen year, but not affect anything.” So you couldn’t go back in time to place wagers to collect today. Your changes in the past would not affect the present.
Yep. There’s people that want to keep distance at work and don’t appreciate it. Just have to respect that and leave them to it.
Some people just don’t like to have their hobbies shared.
“then connected Farmer with an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center in the state”
I can imagine how that conversation went: “I know its risking not only your reproductive organs, but also your life. However, have you considered carrying the child to term so she can die in your arms shortly afterward so you can ‘pwn the libs’? Think about their tears!”
Most people expect their parents to be ultimate protectors and the ones to encourage their children’s flourishing, but many are often unwilling or unable to change as their children change.
One of my personal milestone measurements of becoming and adult is realizing that your parents aren’t ultimate “anything”. They’re just people like you are. They make mistakes and hopefully learn from them, but sometimes not. When each of us has grown up and has our shit together, there should be a recognition that they are not your superiors, but your simply your peers. I personally think this is healthy because it doesn’t hold parents to any high expectation, but also allows us to forgive their faults like we would our peers. Also as peers, you can choose you don’t want to share your life with them. Thats your choice as an adult.
Don’t think that things like “rescinding your apology” are necessary - just be done. If you can support yourself, and have friends or other people you can emotionally rely on, I would just simply “stop” with your family.
This so much. If you’ve already concluded that the people in your family have a poor opinion of you for illegitimate reasons, then why are you trying to change their opinions with the “rescinding”? Just decide that you’ve already said your last words and be done with them.
Move forward with your life and build a family of your choosing, not the one you were forced to be in because of birth.
At least with Trump the insanity is out in the open. I mean these cabinet picks are insane. It would be funnier if we didn’t have to live with the consequences.
Do you not get that Trump will likely get two more Supreme court appointments? The third branch of our government is locked into conservative hands for the next 30 to 40 years now regardless of who gets elected afterward.
Or saw that both sides probably lead to the same end eventually.
Get out of here with that false equivalency bullshit. Trump’s cabinet picks so far are a Russian propaganda parroter for head of CIA, an anti-vax and raw milk advocate for Health and Human Services, a white supremacist tattooed person for Defense secretary and a suspected pedophile that is having their ethics hearing results blocked for Attorney General.
Do you even think for a hot second that Harris would have make such unqualified and toxic choices for her cabinet?
I almost can’t blame them. A majority of Americans voted for fascism and racism. These are their customers.
Thats part of the social contract. Its crappy that that person was abusing it.
There’s a cost to keeping an agnostic solution that maintains that portability. It means forgoing many of the features that make cloud attractive. If your enterprise is small enough it is certainly doable, but if you ever need to scale the cracks start to show.
For some reason they think cloud is more stable than our own servers. But we had to move VMs off Azure because of instability!
If you’re treating Azure VMs as simply a replacement for on-prem VMs (running in VMware or KVM), then I can see where that might cause reliability issues. Best results means a different approach to running in the cloud. Cattle, not pets, etc. If you were using Azure VMs and have two VMs in different Availability Zones with your application architecture supporting the redundancy and failover cleanly, you can have a much more reliable experience. If you can evolve your application to run in k8s (AKS in the Azure world) then even more reliability can be had in cloud. However, if instead you’re putting a single VM in a single AZ for a business critical application, then yes, that is not a recipe for a good time Nonprod? Sure do it all the time, who cares. You can get away with that for awhile with prod workloads, but some events will mean downtime that is avoidable with other more cloud native approaches.
I did the on-prem philosophy for about 18 years before bolting on the cloud philosophy to my knowledge. There are pros and cons to both. Anyone that tells you that one is always the best irrespective of the circumstances and business requirements should be treated as unreliable.
We have decided to bring as much as we can in house and only put the workloads that have strict contractual uptime agreements on our VMware or HCI stack. The rest of the stuff goes on KVM or bare metal to save costs.
This is similar to the recommendations I give my customers, but its never this easy.
Entire teams are trained on managing VMware. Years of VMware compatible tools are in place and configured to support those workloads. Making a decision to change the underlying hypervisor is easy. Implementing that change is very difficult. An example of this is a customer that was all-in on VMware and using VMware’s Saltstack to orchestrate OS patching. Now workloads they move off of VMware have to have an entirely new patching orchestration tool chosen, licensed, deployed, staff trained, and operationalized. You’ve also now doubled your patching burden because you have to patch first the VMs remaining in VMware using the legacy patching method, then patch the non-VMware workloads with the second solution. Multiply this by all toolsets for monitoring, alerting, backup, etc and the switching costs skyrocket.
Broadcom knows all of this. They are counting on customers willing to choose to bleed from the wrist under Broadcom rather than bleed from the throat by switching.
The VMware is superior by far IMO because I like to have full control of my systems and roll my own stuff.
This was a strong argument before the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Have you looked at your renewal costs yet? VMware is a great product but is far less attractive at the new pricing. Every customer I have is asking how they can get out of VMware as quickly as possible because of the new pricing.
Space Center Houston is a really enjoyable attraction for history and spaceflight. Stand next to a full sized Saturn V rocket (on its side so you can walk it end to end). Go inside the Shuttle Carrier 747 plane! Much more to see too. Spaceflight is inspiring!
This article is from 2017.
Its is likely knowable information if she is still a registered republican.
I would watch this holiday stage play every year.