Enterprise had trouble finding its footing.

Season 1 and 2 were too episodic, and they were super heavy-handed with the social commentary while also trying to sex the show up in a weird combination that didn't work at all.

Season 3, they swerved hard into serialization and went WAY overboard with it.

I think they'd finally a good rhythm in Season 4 with little 3-episode mini-arcs, but it was too late to save the show.

And the series finale was a slap in the face to the whole production. They deserved a better ending.

But everybody suffering isn't zero-sum. It's net negative.

Even if this were true, a policy that hurts everyone isn't sucessful just because someone else suffers more than you.

Is retiredgif a thing on Lemmy? Because this would definitely qualify.

The worst PMs are people-pleasers who don't set realistic expectations and promise things to clients that can't be delivered reasonable.

But those are also often the people who get promoted because those making the decisions like a "Yes" man who tries to make people happy with great "customer service."

It is if timed properly.

A true, effective boycot a week before the end of their quarter will fuck up their quarterly earnings reports and hit the stock prices in a way that can't be balanced out for another 3 months.

The implication was that they make donations for the write-offs. That's not accurate, because it's never cheaper to make a donation and write it off than it is to just pay the taxes.

Look into Xreal glasses.

That's a wild misrepresentation of how write-offs work.

If your tax rate is 30% and you make write off a charitable donation of $100, your tax bill goes down $30. Spending 100 dollars to save 30 isn't the key to riches.

There's no way to save money through charitable donations.

I wonder if this font would screw up ocr?

To be fair, DST is a more complicated issue. Everyone wants to end it, but there's disagreement on how to do it.

One side wants to not be missing an hour of sleep half the year and wants to go to standard time only.

The other side is psychopaths. We had a Spring Forward. I'm owed a Fall Back. If they try to take that away from me, I'll take up arms.

It's approaching that point.

If the executive ignores the law and the other branches of government, we effectively no longer have a representative government.

I've recently really gotten into 3d printing, and I've bought the bullet and purchased a pretty nice 3D scanner (Crealty Raptor Pro).

There's no such thing as too much enough RAM for these scans.

There is a super famous, incredibly mediocre destination BBQ restaurant in Central Texas that is famous for an all-you-can-eat family-style meal. For decades, they only accepted cash. Way, way longer than made sense. Like into the 2020s I think.

Their main menu item was all-you-can eat (hard to quantify number of sales), only members of the family that ran the place were allowed to count the take and the receipts at the end of each shift, and they only took cash.

I fully believe they were either laundering money or evading taxes by under-reporting. But then they opened a few satellite branches, including one at the airport, and started having to be more careful as they expanded.

3 things:

First off, you literally started an argument explaining that something can't happen, then ended it by saying that something that can't happen can happen, and that hurts my brain a bit.

Secondly, one reason reason a judge can deputize people is for cases where the executive branch or law enforcement has gone rogue and they need to enforce the law outside of the regular channels.

Third, the whole "Can't arrest or charge a sitting President for any crime" thing isn't a law, but a justice department policy. Deputized law enforcement and prosecutors from outside of the justice department wouldn't be bound by that policy.

They grew up in the age of the smartphone and apps. They never had to learn to understand technology.

I have to teach fresh college graduates how to navigate network folders. It's wild.

I was slightly wrong about the order. I was actually talking about Black Mesa, which was in the same initial batch of 10 games.

Steam Greenlight was a program where independent games without a publisher could release games on Steam, but it was absolutely exclusive. They couldn't sell their game elsewhere.

Literally the first game released on the program was a free Total Conversion mod that you could download anywhere else for free, but if you wanted to get it installed through Steam, you paid them for the privilege.

That's exactly what Steam Greenlight was before they stopped all curation of games.

Suicide is the preferred outcome in the eyes of these motherfuckers.