Thank you for making your students do that. I’m sure it made them miserable at the time but I guarantee they are better for it.
In college I had a similar experience with statistics. I had to run a factor analysis by hand start to finish, calculating standard deviations, means, and all the other crap, showing work over 3 pages to get eigenvalues and all that. It sucked, but dammit if I dont have a WAY better appreciation for how it works now than I ever would have otherwise.
Yeah I know. Coming from military parents, I’m trying to not judge people too much since i know theres amazing people who serve, but I agree there’s strong maga bro energy in the military and it sucks.
Yeah. I’ve been looking in analytics and it’s awful. Any remote job on linked in gets over 200 applications (“people who clicked ‘Apply’”) in the first day. If you see a posting more than a day out it’s very likely to have more than 1000 applications (I’ve seen as much as 4500).
I emailed a recruiter about a posting recently when the job page on the company site was throwing an error. I told her about the error and asked if the job was real/still available. She said she’d gotten over 500 applications within a few hours of listing it and shut down the posting because she was overwhelmed. I think that’s the norm now.
I’m on the market now and I can confirm the job market is indeed fucked. Especially for anyone location restricted or wanting remote work.
Plus, it’s not like you can just join the military and quit when you don’t like how things are going. Unless things have changed radically, when you enlist you’re signing up for 3,6 or even 8 years of service with very little recourse for getting out (without messing up your career and maybe even your life).
I’m sure for a lot of people working in the military is just a job. It’s a luxury to choose jobs based on personal politics and a lot of people can’t afford that now.
This is where i see additional problems. Govt or no, Aetna should have been way more diligent in addressing any requests for info, and in providing more than what was explicitly requested they are also committing a HIPAA violation. Any counsel for Aetna should have been well aware of the risk of sending health records out and been very, very specific on what was to be sent and not to avoid a compliance issue.
If i was on Mangione’s legal team I’d be preparing a civil case and HIPAA violation claim against Aetna in addition to seeking removal of the prosecutors involved. (I’m not a lawyer but worked in health insurance for several years managing patient data.)
The article says that redacted names are alleged victims who were flown on the jet.
I remember a time when if I wanted to know what my friends were up to I would call their home without even knowing if they were there to pick up. Location sharing is unnecessary at least 95% of the time and I don’t get the appeal.
I know this makes me sound old but I don’t care.
Yeah, this seems like a prime target for Anonymous. Would be interesting to see big news outlets struggling between chasing a huge story and not wanting to cover something that outs their bosses (since there’s probably lots of them on there too).
It’s The Lottery for 2025.
Probably would go over about as well with people as it did in the story.
Similar in Panamá. My husband and I visited recently and was told by out tour guide that was the way. Not nearly as bad as India - folks were pretty good about stopping at a good distance away - but it was still pretty terrifying, especially in Panamá City.
St Louisian here and I am not at all surprised to see my city in this list. I’ve lived all over the country and driven in most of our biggest metros but StL is by far one of the craziest places to drive that I’ve ever seen. People drive like assholes in a lot of big cities (looking at you DC metro) buy they are at least somewhat predictable and respectful of basic laws. Here it is literally the wild west.
They will run stoplights and signs regularly, just about every time I’m in the car I see it at least once. And it’s not just squeaking by right after it changes, it’s egregious-as in traffic has started in the opposite direction and some jackass comes flying through the intersection like they don’t even see the light. But its worse than that- I’ve seen people go the wrong way on one-way streets, drive in the opposite lane of traffic to pass, turn left across multiple lanes of moving traffic from the far right lane and using closed off construction areas as shortcuts. Pedestrians and cyclists have been hit several times in my neighborhood by drivers who were ignoring basic driving laws. It’s not just randos either- city vehicles, school busses, and cabs do this crap. They aren’t just asshole drivers- they are reckless and entitled and unpredictable.
What makes the problem worse is that a huge number of people just don’t get their cars registered at all, and drive without tags or with years old temp tags with no repercussions. This also means they are uninsured, so it’s on the insured folks to cover any accident damage.
My insurance rates jumped about 30% when I moved here and I didn’t understand why at first but I do now. I love St Louis but I hate driving here.
So, a shitton of game developers just got laid off from Microsoft, another in a string of “restructuring” nonsense that’s been rampant in the industry.
That’s a lot of people with gaming expertise who could be put to work helping companies transition their games to single player experiences or at least making them accessible to customers after support stops. If the EU ends up pushing this forward, there’s a decent business opportunity in there.
Good luck. I’ve been trying that for years and somehow the darkness always creeps in, usually in the form of American politics :(
I briefly rode a motorcycle back in the day and I can say that taking a motorcycle safety course absolutely improved my driving. It helped me become more aware of cyclists and bikers on the road and made me more aware of how my actions impacted how the bike (or car) moved. It was incredibly helpful and I would recommend it to anyone even if you’re not interested in riding a motorcycle.