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A shoe molding is thin enough that it could bend to follow the ceiling contour and wouldn’t need to be scribed (which is the point of it). It would effectively hide the imprecision, but it would diminish the modernist aesthetic.

Notice how the article subtly carries water for the liberals/fascists by only mentioning Bottoms (a liberal) as the opposition, while leaving out any progressive or leftist ones.

The effective opposition to the fascists would be somebody like Jason Esteves (of the candidates whose names I recognize, anyway), not Bottoms.

You mean, before employers stole our paid lunch breaks and gaslit everyone into forgetting about them.

cut straight.

Well there’s your problem! Unless you’re prepared to skim coat and flatten the ceiling, you’ve got to scribe your trim to it (and even then the result will be “less bad,” not “good”). Straight won’t work!

You can’t do trim on trim because it’s too much ornamentation for those modernist cabinets.

This is a perfect example of what folks often don’t understand about modernism: they think it should be cheap because it has simple shapes without fancy ornamentation, but they don’t realize the ornamentation hides all the crimes. To do modernism right you have to have precision instead, and that actually costs more than fancy trim.

Frankly, the drywaller needs to be called back in, because he didn’t understand the assignment.

I mean, the higher-density parts are surely incredibly expensive, too. Elton John’s place (which he apparently sold a few years ago for over $7M) was a high-rise condo on Peachtree Road. And that was an older building near West Wesley; I’d expect newer buildings near Paces Ferry or Lenox Road to be even higher $/ft².

They’re not. They’re supposed to use their wheelchair on that same infrastructure that’s great for human-scale wheeled vehicles.

Nobody who’s actually disabled believes that. Knock it off with the dishonest faux white-knighting.

People in John’s Creek wish they could afford property in Buckhead. It’s a big area (more than one neighborhood), but parts of it are neighborhoods with names like “Tuxedo Park” that contain legitimate mansions, including the governor’s mansion. People like Tyler Perry and Elton John live there. You get the idea.

Haha, get fucked, Buckhead.

(For reference, that’s where the rich assholes live.)

But also fuck Waymo, of course.

“Gender transition treatments” or puberty blockers? Because actively causing the transition to one gender and merely blocking the development of the other one (to stall for time until the real decision can be made as an adult) are not the same thing.

A huge part of the absurd hysteria about all this is based on misrepresenting a non-decision as a decision.

Allowing children to be treated with puberty blockers is the conservative course of action, not the radical one.

Also I have no idea why npm is worse offender than most?

I think it’s because JavaScript devs have a more promiscuous culture of code reuse than most. In what other language community would something like left-pad justify being its own package?

Excuse me, but [email protected] is a different community.

Ideally, sure, but being motivated by spite is better than not being motivated at all.

I upgraded last spring, mainly because I was worried about prices going up due to tariffs:

• 1700X → 5700X3D
• 32GB DDR4 →64GB DDR4
• 512GB NVME → 4TB NVME
• Vega 56 →9070XT
• New case and PSU*

Turned out the tariffs weren’t as bad as I expected but the AI buying spree I didn’t anticipate was even worse (and expected to last for a long time), so now I slightly regret not going all the way for DDR5. Would’ve been an extra $500+ back then, but would be an extra $1000+(?) now. Still, I’m much more future-proof than I would’ve been had I not been paying attention to politics, as my old setup wasn’t actually feeling inadequate yet at the time.

I also almost built a solid-state NAS with one of those cube-shaped Beelink mini PCs, but missed my chance: the SSD prices started spiking while I was waffling over it in my online shopping cart. Even the mini PC itself costs nearly double now what it did then, let alone the storage for it.

(* New case because I got the wrong 9070XT under launch-day time pressure and the 2.5-slot card didn’t fit in my 2-slot ITX case, and then new PSU because the new case required SFX instead of ATX. I could’ve gotten a bigger case for less money, but I wanted more portability in case I need to flee the country on short notice to escape fascists. And yes, that was my actual thought process. Thanks, Trump. 😡)

Yeah, I was gonna say, that sounds more being paid an hourly rate (at sub-livable wage, BTW) and $0 commission.

You gotta have some mechanism to let low performers go.

That’s called “firing for cause.”

Of course, that actually has accountability attached to it. Misusing layoffs for that purpose is an end-run around that accountability, which is why sociopathic corporations prefer it.

Implementing additional forms of wankery in the “Metaverse”.

If a company does layoffs, they should not be allowed to hire any staff in the same or similar roles for 12 months.

Either that, or the laid-off workers should get right of first refusal for the positions. (Along with some additional incentive for the company not to game it.)

Right, and that’s what’s going to have to change: a bigger focus on things like in-person tests (including in-person bluebook essays), oral presentations/thesis defenses instead of other project deliverables, etc.