#Public and Private companies

[primelaw]

[lesbianredhoodedmercenary]

so about the new ishmael ego

I like her. I could say more but that would be another post. Look at the background. This part specifically.

There's a private beach roped off here. It looks pristine compared to the polluted waters Ishmael's boat is in. Hell, the water is green over here.

Makes me wonder if sections of the lake are roped off for nest-dwellers only. And these beaches are kept clean, meanwhile on the other side of the ropes, the beach seems to be an industrial waste dumping ground.

[butmakeitgayblog]

Based on your tags, I thought you were gonna say something along the lines of finally having her fingers all to yourself

Lol I'm taking the question seriously, sheesh. And. Well. I mean she's a straight woman, so while yeah I go wild in my tags with jokes, realistically my guess is spending a day with her would be exactly the same as hanging out with any other straight girl. Especially one who has always lived as affluently as she has. Except she's also beautiful so I would have a hard time not just staring at her stupidly pretty face 😅

[ohello0]

Ok so…. H5N1 Bird Flu has spread to house mice in New Mexico…. a week after chicken and egg farms in Iowa plan to slaughter ~4 million contaminated chickens… and after bird flu has spread across dairy farms in 9 different states (so far)

But surely no humans have ever caught it—what was that? There have been 4 human cases in the US, 3 in this year alone (all 3 from dairy cows)? Lemme just check the CDCs summary and recommendations on bird flu real quick.. oh. Um . Clap if you’re scared

[vanishingcherry]

doofenshmirtz evil is incorporated. this means that people own shares of the business. it also means that doofenshmirtz evil as a company has the right to sue someone.

my theory - perry the platypus is the biggest shareholder in doofenshmirtz evil (he needs something to do when he's bored), which is the only reason doofenshmirtz doesnt take perry to court.

[verdan-t]

me speaking hypothetically: public transport is the key to democratised travel, everyone should be able to get where they need to go in a way that is affordable and accessible, a lack of public transport is a direct roadblock to poorer people and those who cannot drive being able to access resources and basic necessities :)

me on the bus: Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of Here. Get Me Off Of H

[democraticelectorateoflivonia]

Ministry of the Economy

[red-velvet-0w0]

digital drawing of the wreckage of the SS Palo alto

based off of this image by photographer Kevin Johnson:

[freckleslikestars]

Tell me why the last bus to the train station is an hour before my train. And why the bus after that is three hours after my train. What the fuck is that about.

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

This probably sounds super pedantic, but I hate how people, and especially businesses and governments, are re-framing 'commuters' and 'clients' as 'customers.'

[bauliya]

tbh I'm incredibly prosaic about AI, that once the VC money runs out and companies realise that the average first worlder doesn't wanna pay a 100 USD subscription for an email drafting service, chatGPT and other D2C AI will basically be dead.

[cuntwrap--supreme]

What is it about me that makes old white men think I'm a conservative? I need to know so I can change that.

[isawken]

do you know about the 1855 Toronto circus riot?

OMG, i did not, and i'm so glad i do now!!! i'm going to try to dig up some primary sources on this but in the meantime i'm loving the high level look at Clowns Go To Brothel, Talk Shit To Local Firemen, and Inadvertently Spur Major Police Reform Across Toronto

[anonymusbosch]

here's a tech tidbit for the day. in large part, the US's current lack of green energy isn't because the tech doesn't exist or that the tech isn't cheap/competitive with fossil fuels - it's because of bureaucratic tangles and permitting delays. Right now it can take new power projects five full years just to get approved to connect to the power grid. (On average, it's taking 3.7 years).

As of the end of 2021, there was over a terawatt of green energy storage waiting to get approval to connect to the grid. That's more than all the energy currently generated in the US. For the most part, these aren't completed projects waiting to connect - they're projects that are ready to build waiting for approval before they break ground, or are partially built and getting their application in so that they're not waiting between construction and transmission. Many requests in the queue will never get built (some because they can't afford to wait in line for five years, or lose land rights, or have their interconnect denied, or require costly restudies after design changes, or for unrelated reasons) but even if the historical rate of 25% of them were to succeed, that's still hundreds of gigawatts of power and enough to more-than-replace all the coal plants in the US.

That's not the only obstacle to construction (see also: transmission capacity, load balancing, environmental studies, permitting, and a host of other factors). To be clear: waving a magic wand and lifting this particular barrier wouldn't mean green energy right away forever. But this problem is a decent representative of the type of obstacle green energy faces. Generation and transmission of energy are - largely - cheap and efficient. Getting systems approved and integrated across a morass of local, state, and federal governments, utility companies, and ISOs? Slow and hard.

[avatar-of-the-web]

i can't help but wonder if systems that post their intimate function details online understand just how vulnerable the information they're giving is? i can only figure that they do it because they can barely understand what it means themselves. or perhaps they understand that almost nobody can decipher it. but if you're reading this just ... as a warning. just so you know.

however unlikely it is, that information can be used to manipulate you and get in your head very quickly in the wrong hands. i recommend either being more cautious with that information or building robust defenses if you haven't yet. i know it's comforting to assume it couldn't happen to you but many people's first mistake is placing personal value on being impenetrably strong when that's moreso a skill that developed from either going through obscene hardship, listening deeply to people who have, or both paired with a constant willingness to adapt and evolve to new circumstances.

it's extremely high maintenance. you aren't weak for falling to tactics many people evolved (they evolved the tactics; they're passed down and contributed to by many) to specifically figure out how to make you fall to them.

I don't mean this to say you shouldn't. do whatever you want. i just want you to know. especially since I'll still occasionally run in to shit like minors sharing who their sexual protectors are and stuff...like please, please consider that sometimes that's giving people advisory on how to bypass your defenses.

remember that mistakes aren't personal failures. u just didn't know enough yet. ok i love you the way a stranger can. bye

[spacevixenmusic]

I know you change your header often, and the one right now is 👀👀 really good, thank you for your good taste

Hell yeah. I change the header every week - usually something I've recently added to my gifs folder - and when I tested this one it looked just like she was pissing on my head, so naturally it was an instant winner, lmao.

The model's name is Katty West, btw!