Literati

Literati, 2 months ago

Rents are skyrocketing because demand is high and we literally do not have enough housing for the number of people we have in the places they live.

Suddenly dumping more money into the economy would just increase the price bar on that demand, and prices would go up more.

Prices can increase for a lot of reasons, and going up from one doesn’t stop them from going up from another.

Literati, 4 months ago

Program management system for the entire division? Excel. “Agile” task tracker? Excel. Requirements manager? Oh no no, that one’s written in a word document with no version control. I have trauma. Use tools made for the thing you want to do, please.

Literati, 5 months ago

The 14th is a reconstruction amendment btw, it wasn’t drafted or ratified by the founders.

Literati, 5 months ago

The room is pitch black, you’re relying on dark vision, and you just failed your perception check. I can definitely see this happening outside of bad DM’ing, and I think the PC being sus of a blank room in an otherwise dangerous dungeon could also be in character.

Literati, 7 months ago

I feel like it’d make gift giving more difficult, but more meaningful- you would have to give people actually customized things, something you made or something you think they need that they haven’t noticed. Harder, but shows more thought than giving generic-consumer-item#528

I know this is a meme, just made me think

Literati, 7 months ago

Was thinking of this pod while reading the post. So good

Literati, 7 months ago

A friend would use "theydies and gentlethems"for dramatic effect

Literati, 7 months ago

Sounds like what the old Kirkbrides (think the stereotypical big Victorian asylum) were originally intended to be before we overcrowded them and made them closer to prisons.

Literati, 7 months ago

I’d assume it’s a Federally levied property tax, the rebate applied to Federal income. Could be on the basis of the county assessed value of your property though.

Literati, 8 months ago

The president can’t just appoint whoever they want. Officer commissions have more oversight than say judicial appointments. They have to be approved by the Senate (eg this situation) and also have to meet requirements for the position/rank set out in regulation by congress. So a president could theoretically only promote the most conservative officers in the pool, but it’s already a small pool.

Even so, as we see here, it only takes one senator to block promotions. This isn’t even a fillibuster, the Senate passes this routine stuff through bulk unanimous consent.

Literati, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Stenographers usually use something pretty similar so I doubt it. The ones I’ve seen (to be fair, live captioners, not stenographers) use something that’s closer to a piano than a normal keyboard, and it types full words rather than letters, but also has a regular typing functionality. Pretty cool to watch honestly.

Literati, 9 months ago

You can’t really outsource to the US in that way. Launching with SpaceX is outsourcing to the US. Your other options are just picking a different US launch provider, which is still a private company. The US government isn’t providing launch as a service in the way that SpaceX or other launch providers do.

Literati, 10 months ago

The supreme court blocked Biden’s attempt at loan forgiveness two weeks ago

Literati, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

If the legislative has delegated the execution of certain fiscal policy to the executive, and given the executive certain bounds within which it can operate on that fiscal policy, then the executive is within its prerogative to do so.

The legislative branch has been abdicating power to the executive for some time due to its own consistent deadlock. I don’t think that’s a good thing, but it does mean the executive often ends up with some limited purse string control.