Seems like PERF is intended to sort of be that. A more cynical person might imply that their recommendations aren’t really meant to be taken seriously by cops on the ground, but they are at least partially there to say the right things.
I haven’t looked at the actual breakdown of their roster’s cap-hit per player, but general consensus seems to be that they can identify talent as well as anyone, and that stars they want will not be poached away, but that they’re very willing to let depth and less glamorous positions suffer for it. In particular, the OL has eroded, and the interior DL and secondary have been “meh” for years.
Those precious stars know they have you over a barrel and they will get bigger contracts than necessary because billboards and commercials are as important to Jerry as anything else is. He overpaid for Dak (twice, arguably), overpaid for Demarcus Lawrence, and insanely overpaid for Zeke’s big contract back when. If he weren’t viewed as such a sucker for stars, they probably save enough with each contract to keep a couple of better depth pieces around.
Beyond the player roster, Jerry still rankles at the relative amount of credit Jimmy Johnson gets for the Super Bowl wins. Jerry desperately wants to win a title, but only with a roster of “his guys” and a coach who is not a public competitor for praise and attention, and that directly affects the way he hires coaches. He stayed with Jason Garrett for so very long precisely because Garrett was a creation of Jerry (at least in Jerry’s mind), and he is an unassuming football-nerd personality who would be sated by the success itself more than the public praise. Mike McCarthy was picked up off the scrap heap and didn’t demand roster control, so he was acceptable as well.
And then, despite all the dysfunction, the regular season record is quite good over the years. Perhaps the biggest irony of all this is that Cowboy fans feel hopeless not because Jerry is a terrible GM, at least on a year-to-year basis, but rather that he’s a mediocre one who always thinks ultimate success is just a season or two away.
Now the real question is, which costs more: a “Bacon Double Cheeseburger hold the cheese”, or a “Double Hamburger add bacon”?
While imprisoning an old lady for “corruption” is pretty rich coming from a coup-loving military junta, there’s a pretty good reason that calls for her release have been lower on the priority list.
For those not inclined to watch, here’s a selection from the transcript:
[Brian]We would never judge someone for who they are we simply do not agree with anyone who does um we firmly believe that all people should be treated with dignity compassion and love and be embraced for who they are and that absolutely includes the LGTBQ+ community.
[Rachel]Brian and I are having ongoing conversations with each other within our company and within our church community to ensure that we all do our part to continue fostering a safe and welcoming environment for every member of the community customers and employees alike.
Notably present: Denials that they hate anyone or would treat people with disrespect.
Notably absent: Any serious suggestion that they will leave this church.
Take it for what you will. I dunno. I doubt they’re different people than they were two weeks ago. They’re certainly not frothing-at-the-mouth old school homophobes, but when you fundamentally, deeply believe that your God considers certain lifestyles are sinful, your brand of inclusion can feel hollow and calculated.
Too much for me to unpack, and shame on anybody who thought they knew well enough to threaten them (if that happened), but they also need to acknowledge that placing faith, especially politically active American Evangelical Christianity, at the forefront of their brand might eventually affect their perception among segments of their customer base.
GODDAMMIT! 🤣🤣🤣
I maintain that killing Snoke as a red herring could be fine, too. I find a tragically irredeemable Kylo Ren to be much more interesting than tall skinny emperor anyway. But even if one didn’t like TLJ, TROS was almost the worst possible way to follow it up. It satisfied no one.
Sheriffs are generally elected, but the scope of their responsibility varies widely in different jurisdictions. In some places they are mostly responsible for some combination of courtroom bailiffs and serving legal documents and running the county jail. In others, they’re the primary law enforcement that citizens will deal with on a daily basement basis.
In that case, I would recommend starting with FreeCAD (get a 1.0 release candidate from the weekly builds github) and make sure to watch a couple of intro tutorials. There are tons of CAD packages with pluses and minuses (and that’s exaggerated in their free tiers), but if you can start with FreeCAD and have it as your baseline, you can avoid a lot of cost and annoying business practices, though as I mentioned elsewhere, Plasticity is not a bad choice if you go in knowing its limitations.
I’ve done the trial, and included it in my stickied writeup at !cad@lemmy.world
It’s not parametric, and for amateur single-part designers the biggest thing there is just that it sucks to realize you screwed up a a height or distance somewhere, and now you have to go back and Boolean on some shape or adjust a bunch of screwholes manually. Constraining drawings and using variables is all very nice if you start making more sophisticated parts or really need to churn them out quickly, but the History is the beautiful part for this use case.
Other than that, I actually liked it quite a bit. The workflow is pretty intuitive, it works smoothly (on Win10 at least), and it has literally the nicest and most ambitious fillet/chamfer heuristics of anything I tried. It will try its best to fillet things right into oblivion.
My only other real concern is that it’s a one-man shop, but if it works mostly bug-free for you, that is not necessarily a huge deal, especially at the price point. I think it’s probably a pretty good value, but I already have a non-parametric app I can use well enough, so I went with Alibre Design on a payment plan, so it feels like a slightly expensive subscription, but then I own the license. I’m still hoping FreeCAD 1.0 will be good enough to make me regret the decision to go with Alibre, but we’ll see.
It looks… Marvelous.
Which is to say it will have a ponderous first act as it takes pains to bring viewers up to speed, some decent zingers and set pieces in the second, and a tedious never-ending battle in the third, with certain parts making no sense at all as they try to save the patient but excise whatever cancerous Kang references they had in it. The success will depend entirely on whether the audience finds the leads charming in the midst of the nonsense.
I will see it eventually, because I am an aging nerd who can’t quit this cinematic diabetes, but I’m not paying for it or driving anywhere to do so.
This story actually sent me down a brief rabbit hole. If there is any science they put into it, it’s psychology. It’s all about treating them as badly as the non-shooting part of the job could ever be (and likely worse), and weeding them out, all while doing the traditional “break down to build up” crash course in traumatic teambuilding. They barely need the average number of graduates to be active SEALs, much less do they need the rest of the applicants to do any remotely similar work. Weeding them out through sheer misery is as good as any other way, though even then the Navy doesn’t want them dying of Rhabdo. No, the Navy will be happier if you die from pneumonia brought on by your steroids and viagra (apparently the blood pressure effects help reduce swimming induced lung edema) helping you push your body until it literally breaks down.
Navy BUD/S in particular is a recruiting tool for the Navy. They dangle a glamorous prize in front of the boys of America, a prize that is quite disconnected from anything else the Navy does, and they therefore sign many of them straight out of civilian life for four-year contracts with only the promise that they’ll be allowed to try out. Well over half of the applicants don’t do any actually useful Navy stuff before going to BUD/S; for them it’s their first “training” after basic recruit training. When 90% or whatever of them drop out, they “serve the needs of the Navy” without even the thin guarantees of an enlistment agreement because by letting them do their insomniac beach torture running for a week, the Navy has officially lived up to their end of the bargain. So you’ve got all these kids, many of whom are already high level athletes and often have higher test scores or even degrees, doing whatever the Navy wants them to. Even the ones who don’t sign up for BUD/S can still get pulled into the recruiting office by the romance associated with Hollywood warriors.
Once they wash out, it (anecdotally) seems like about half of them rotate into something useful (seemingly split between brain-jobs like intelligence translator and kinda-cool jobs like underwater ordinance disposal), and the other half get made “undesignated seamen,” your average sailors who are applying new paint or scraping old paint or heating up bagged chicken tenders that taste like paint, basically all the jobs that the Navy has trouble filling. One amusing reddit poster talked about how they’d be doing all these thigns on the “USS Neverdocks.” It also seems like, regardless of the job they move onto, the general impression is that most of the dropouts will be professionally useless for several months, and only about half ever become truly productive sailors. But nobody knows for sure, because the Navy won’t tell anyone.
The alum who led the training most recently graduated from the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training program, or BUD/S, Collins also said. The program is an intense, monthslong training program for Navy SEAL candidates.
Sounds like former lacrosse-bro either thought his instructors were wimpy CYA babysitters when they told him he should be drinking so much water all day, everyday that he can’t even sleep through the night, or perhaps slightly more forgivably, he internalized the lesson so thoroughly that he didn’t realize current lacrosse-bros would not be hydrated nearly well enough to handle a SEAL workout. In either event, that macho competitive bullshit mindset pushing people to ignore giant flashing biological warning lights and hurt themselves is one of the ways that toxic masculinity is literally toxic. It’s D3 lacrosse, my friends. The fate of the free world does not depend on beating Wesleyan by 9 instead of 7.
Tangentially, that cereal is super good, sweeter than you’d think but not cloying, although TBH I’m not turning away garbage kids cereals either.
I think this is the second time this has happened in recent months. I am wondering if the UK bureaucracy has some sort of training about not violating trademarks generally, or some sort of software filter to avoid trademarked terms. Regardless, it seems like a fairly petty annoyance that affects a tiny number of people and can be worked around.
Or hell, maybe it’s the same clerk and Gareth from Slough is sticking to his guns.
Indeed ideed.
Shitpost ideed.
Something people forget, and especially people on the right, is that being on the front lines does not make you the final arbiter of good or even morally defensible policy. When your job is to make arrests and get your ass home safely every day, and you’re almost universally called from incident to incident showing people at their worst or in a moment of victimization, you’re going to start to see every interaction as emblematic of societal decay. That can’t help but affect your outlook on the world, and the average person attracted to law enforcement is just that… an otherwise average person. A lot of them are dumb as shit, and even the ones who aren’t have their own confirmation biases (e.g. being attracted to a job imposing order in the first place) and resistance to seeing the forest for the trees.
It would be foolish and cruel not to take Law Enforcement’s preferences and suggestions into account in any policy discussion, but it would be even more foolish and crueler to think they hold some unassailable position of authority in that dialogue. Most American cities, and certainly most American cities that vote Red seem way closer to the latter than the former, and even the Blue ones always struggle with simply deferring to those who “know best” and not wanting to be accused of reluctance to keep people safe via the existing institution that’s (in the public perception at least) set up for that.