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  • Projects will have a budget that will have an expected return on investment (ROI) over a fixed period of time for private sector. Public projects raise a bond, and you can’t exceed the bond.

    Raise steel 10-25% and you can blow past the budget window, because steel construction parts go up to match. Create uncertainty about the future market, and your ROI calculation is toast.

    It frustrates me when people say “well just buy american steel,” as if people were not already buying american steel as well as foreign. Now there’s not enough steel so prices go up. There’s no strategic pile of steel reserve. If a store normally sells 100 apples a day and suddenly there are 76, would you say “just buy american apples” when the price went up and there were shortages?

  • I know you guys are arguing, but I want to compliment both of you for pulling from good sources and trying to make relevant point to each other - I just went looking for anything useful on reddit and it’s full of clear brigading trying to crow the loudest about how they won and the other side wants to punch your dog.

    So honestly, thank you for both being to a higher standard, even when you disagree.

  • Do we have a good instance for tangible rumors? Major media is so stale that if it was bread you could use it as a weapon, and anything on reddit is brigaded by both sides. I was hoping Institute for the Study of War would start daily updates, but they seem set on staying on Ukraine and Iran for now. Any help appreciated, because this is a pile of fertilizer soaked in diesel and both sides are throwing grenades at it.

  • It’s not paid time off.

    Edit: I used to work a salary position in Texas. On slow days it was common to tell the hourly employees we had nothing for them right now and to go home. The salary employees always had something to do.

  • There was a website at some point that would put up themed meeting phrases each week, with points if anyone used them and caught it. I still remember a few of them.

    “I don’t want a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow, I expect a pot of uranium.”

    “We either play barbie or go home. I didn’t get come here today to be Skipper.”

    “I don’t say we build a barbie dream house, I want use to build a barbie on ecstasy house.”

    “Is this a queen alien problem? Or more of a face hugger we can ignore for a while?”

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world

    I Know You’ve Seen This Before

    The Onion @midwest.social

    White House Offers Correction After Karoline Leavitt Accidentally Answers Reporter’s Question Accurately

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Trump Team Heavily Lobbying for Jared Kushner as Next Pope

    The Onion @midwest.social

    As US Military Leadership Crumbles, Chinese Leaders “Kind of Curious” if They Could Take Nebraska

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Texas Republican Party ‘Near Civil War’ as State House Debates Gun-Based Abortions

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Trump Threatens 40% Tariffs on Ireland Unless Bono Wins ‘Amazing Race’ This Year

    The Onion @midwest.social

    New EU Resolution Decrees All Mentions of “Country With a Tiny Penis” Be Replaced with “Country With a Tiny Penis”

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Floridians “Worried” As Trump Asks Supreme Court for a Preemptive Ruling Whether He Can Nuke the State

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Journalists Demand More Synonyms for Stupid as Trump Administration Enters Third Month in Office

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Budget Concerns As IRS Layoffs Cause Americans to Remember Over 65 Million Additional Dependents

    The Onion @midwest.social

    LiteCoin Announces Smaller, Less Popular Efficiency Office to Capitalize on DOGE Success

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Entire Nation Unsure How to Act as Trump Frees Detained American Held in Russia

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Republican Leadership Concerned Its “Mountain Dew Baja Blast” Caucus May Divide Party on Greenland Name Change

    The Onion @midwest.social

    China Demands US Slow Its Collapse and Stick to Chinese Timetables.

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Republican Leadership Outraged as Colombia Announces a 75% Tariff on Cocaine

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Americans Unite Around New Soda Flavor: “Pepsi Despair”

    The Onion @midwest.social

    As Finding Out Quickly Approaches, Republican Voters Remain Delighted with the Fucking Around

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Shock and Outrage at Latest Actions by White House

    The Onion @midwest.social

    White House Highlights Number of Straight White Males in Cabinet as Charges of Diversity Mount

    The Onion @midwest.social

    Growing Concern Among America’s Adversaries They Forgot Bribe Payments to Cause This Much Chaos