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[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

YMMV, but my local library system has a limit on the number of e-books that can be checked out at a time. Some e-books they only have 1 or 2 “copies” of, other they have 20+ “copies”. Seems dumb to me that there’s a limit, but I’m sure they’re forced to do it for a reason.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 4 points 6 months ago

To add to this, Hamas has agreed to release the hostages several times. However Israel won’t agree to a ceasefire, and so the hostages haven’t been released.

Israel doesn’t want the hostages released, because then they can’t use the hostages as justification for their genocide.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 11 points 6 months ago

Unlikely, as long as you cut off any non-postage-related barcodes. But normally the label just has barcoded address information and the “business reply mail” postage permit number.

Here’s an example, address removed.

Business reply mail example

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 3 points 6 months ago

If you’re in the U.S., try the Libby app! Connects you to your local library system so that you can borrow audiobooks.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 52 points 7 months ago

It’s reminiscent of really old email threads.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 2 points 7 months ago

I’ve heard “BLM Land” used as an example of affirmative action by an older family member. He scoffed at how ridiculous it was that there was land reserved for BLM and the blacks weren’t even using it.

Wonder if it ever occurred to him that the “BLM Land” had been there for decades, but the “Black Lives Matter” movement has only been around under that name in recent years.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 4 points 7 months ago

Sure, but you can’t let perfection be the enemy of progress.

That would be like saying, “Antibiotics cause digestive upset, and you already have a deadly bacterial infection in your colon causing digestive upset, so you’re just going to have to accept the infection because the antibiotics aren’t going to fix the digestive upset.”

The plants are already being grown. Whatever animal suffering exists from the plant being grown is going to exist either way. What we can do is eliminate or reduce the middle layer of additional animal suffering that comes from raising animals for food.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 2 points 7 months ago
[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don’t think the problem is MSPs as a whole, I think it’s cheap execs who go with the lowest bidder and the cheap MSPs who take their money to do almost nothing.

I worked for an MSP a few years ago. We used a monitoring tool, and on of our co-managed clients (a regional healthcare provider) used the same monitoring tool. When a major vulnerability in that monitoring tool was exploited, our client’s instance was hacked, and ours was not. As a good MSP we knew how to properly configure and secure the tool, while their in-house IT just installed the tool and moved on to the next thing.

TL;DR: Shitty IT people will be shitty IT people. I’ve cleaned up after a lot of incompetent internal IT departments, and an equal number of incompetent MSPs.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 6 points 7 months ago

I never make these kinds of comments, but I just laughed so hard at this. It’s just so accurate.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 6 points 10 months ago

One could argue that, because of a congressperson’s increased influence and power, the bar for what qualifies as “conspiracy” perhaps should be a little lower. I’m not saying that it actually is lower, but maybe it should be.

Regardless, this seems like a serious ethics violation. Someone should not be allowed to serve in government if they’re going to talk about how their colleagues “need to die” before a certain date to send some sort of a “message”.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 10 points 10 months ago (69 children)

Agreed!

Now do Israel too!

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