To add on, at my work we started getting yubikeys for the people who didnt want Microsoft’s authenticator on their phone and found they still need to download the mfa to set up the yubikey in the first place. So its not a perfect solution if you dont want the authenticator to touch your phone at all.

I can also confirm that the help desk members who are not enlightened about Microsoft will ridicule you for not wanting the MFA even if its reasonable to not want Microsoft on your phone. As much as we think all techs are Linux nerds, I have the opposite at my work. Some of the higher up techs are constantly trying to get people to switch to windows 11…

Good ol Billy Shepherd

I think his suit jacket says Boeing lol

Alright I’m gonna be the dude who replies to myself but I did some research and these prices are probably real. What’s crazy is they appear to be significantly lower than last years prices. Another important thing is that the formal menus mention the dishes being sized to serve 4 people. That makes it slightly more okay but also still ridiculous. This has to be inside the paddock or VIP areas though as I dont think they would even offer caviar to the peasants in the general admission.

Lol if you zoom in there is clearly something weird going on with the numbers. I would believe 0s were added to the prices. Even without the 0 at the end the prices would still be absurd but this is way too expensive to be believable. If it is real just burn the whole place down

Saw them live in Boston! They’re fantastic musicians and if you have the opportunity to see them do their shit live I would highly recommend.

I’m proud to be wrong. The beef dudes or the imperfect dwarf are my favorite

I think America is really good at getting attention so everything good and bad is magnified by how much exposure it gets. So our dumbasses are some of the loudest and best at being noticed for their dumbassery in the whole world.

As an american, I can confirm these are not our best and brightest. The best and brightest have either started leaving or they are seduced by big business and paid absurd (for working class) salaries to ignore the problems of the country.

Wow you definitely aren’t american as I’m scratching my head to even figure out what you mean by some of these. The average grill in america is a standalone outdoor cooking station with a metal grate used as the cooking surface. They are also found in restaurants but usually they are in a bit of a different form that what the average American thinks of as a grill. the grates give the characteristic lines of grilled food that many seek. A griddle is a grill where the grate has been replaced by a flat piece of metal, often used for small or runny foods that would fall between the grates of a regular grill.

We also dont typically have standalone broilers. Most american ovens have a broil option where the top heating element becomes very hot and can be used to brown the food.

The main difference between grilling and broiling, in my american eyes, is how they are used. Grilling is a technique for cooking food from start to finish. Broiling is a technique used at the end of cooking something to brown it or something to that effect. I wouldn’t use the broiler in my oven to cook a whole meal, and I wouldn’t turn on the grill or griddle just to brown something.

In my eyes saute is when you use only enough oil to keep something from sticking or burning, while frying is when you use enough oil that it starts to really add to the flavor of what you’re cooking.

I think the worst thing Americans have done is the air fryer though. Its just a fucking tiny convection oven, there’s no frying going on at all. They just know us fat Americans are conditioned to salivate when we hear the word fry and cower in terror from big science words like ‘convection’ lol

Its not surprising. I used to work at one of these places and they would laugh at any viable alternative acting like it would never have a chance. They also were well aware of the fact that some of their distributors illegally kill the returned horshoe crabs and turn them into fertilizer. So any claims that they’re not hurting the horshoe crabs are bullshit. They’ve just offloaded the hurt to contractors who are 50/50 on actually trying to protect the crabs and just using them as bait. Even if they didn’t do that, I’ve always been suspect that the crabs do great in the wild after losing 60% of their blood.

They are talking about giving to charities, not directly to the homeless. Even if they were talking about giving directly, the drug argument is very silly. If they’re hungry they’re gonna buy food first. Maybe they’ll try to buy less than they need so they can use the leftover for drugs, but that’s their prerogative.

I work with the homeless and the vast majority are just worried about meeting their basic needs and being treated like a human.

Sad that it will be gone or that it won’t be taboo?

Lean/six sigma. Its kinda hard to describe, but its basically a way of doing business that is ‘more efficient’. Its principles are having as little inventory on hand as possible and trying to make sure there is no process waste by making sure everything happens “just in time”. For everyone but workers it works pretty well to generate more profit and produce more goods, or at least it did until the supply chain got completely fucked.

Obviously they mean 5 times bigger than unmodded. Map looks similar in size to a full 81 tile map in the current game. Even if it was smaller, its still more than enough space.

I don’t see how anyone could be anything but hyped at this point. They’ve done a great job of incorporating many of the improvements from the modding community, while also iterating and improving on things I didn’t even expect them to touch.

The only thing that would keep my from buying it at this point is the performance. I built my computer around when the first game came out, and I would be surprised if it can handle this.

Underground cables are pretty hype. I hit a point in CS1 where I used mods that just ran the power under the roads, and I was dreading having to make above ground connections for the new one.

I do worry that power might require too much micromanagement for certain styles of play. If you’re playing the game in a city manager style it seems like a fun challenge, but in an unlimited money city that functions more like a model, it could get tedious. Mods will probably fix it if that is the case but it could still be something to think about.

I finished a 3+ year long weekly Stars without Number campaign this week. An amazing experience as I have never experienced a campaign from start to completion on either side of the table. It’s almost left a hole in me as I started this campaign with the goal of running to completion and now I’ve done it and am not sure where to go.

Wasn’t the most climactic or dramatic ending but the game was run as a sandbox with this being the ending to a goal they have been working towards for a long time. Felt rewarding regardless.

I also co-dm a 40k dark heresy 1e campaign and play in a torchbearer campaign but neither of those had particularly notable sessions compared to my game that ended.

Finally it’s not playing, but I have been thoroughly reading Lancer to prep for my next long term campaign.