Yeah, it’s mainly a US problem. Local governments were structured to rely on sales tax revenue and had massive budget shortfalls when remote work took off. While remote work is better for the environment and employee mental health, but it was detrimental to the local economies, so many cities started mandating returning to office instead of reevaluating how our cities are structured/zones. Currently they’re not as much places to live as they are paces to conduct business, then commute back to suburbs to live. It’s fucked and our politicians are bought/paid for by the entrenched industries that got us into this mess in the first place. Maybe we’ll do better post balkanization of the empire.

To be fair a lot of apps don’t handle custom CAs like they should. Looking at you Home Assistant! 😠

Both is good. With the exception of NYC, most light rail and bus networks are focused on commuter traffic in the US and trying to go anywhere other than downtown and back home is a struggle. Crosstown routes are rare or require several changes and 2-3 hrs vs 15-30 minutes by car or bicycle.

Maybe something on rails to cover large distances between cities and towns, or like a really big car that can fit 50-100 people. If only such things existed…

Not to mention the economic terrorism remote workers are performing every day by not going out to lunch and happy hours in dismal chain restaurants concentrated in business districts we call downtowns. Will no body think of the shareholders?!

You know blind patriotism and acceptance that our way is the best way.

USA! USA! USA! We’re #1!

That sort of shlock.

Hey, Chat! That’s a great point. It sounds like you’re trying to prompt users to generate content to feed your garbage LLM in the laziest way possible.

Have you tried fucking off?

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Emmigrating ≠ being a digital nomad

Exactly it’s a retention bonus that gets paid out in stages, but DHS can also recoup all of it if the agent/goon leaves before the period expires. I wouldn’t be surprised if they dangle a “reenlistment” bonus near the end of the term which locks them in longer.

Maximum warp. Hit it!

Well obviously not a white one.

Revolt is now Stoat

What camera is it? I’m looking at setting something like this up at my mountain house for star gazing.