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    2 days ago

    Long ago I ran a Windows Media Center PC in the living room and used the hell out of it. When WMC finally went EOL, I look for alternatives and found Plex. I never got around to setting up a Plex box, and now I see it too is ready for the scrap heap. I think this is what getting old is. You plan on doing something and never get around to it. Time passes much faster up here in age.




  • Now he’s going the other direction to act like the good guy and fighting against Trump.

    Who will believe he is the good guy? He pissed off liberals when he abandoned green initiatives and threw his lot in with climate changers. Then he pissed off conservatives when he had his war of words with the orange turd. Moderate Republicans that may oppose trump are put off by Musk’s antics and insistence of introducing internet humor into business dealings and products.

    He has no supporters anymore and any group he’s trying to court wants nothing to do with him.





  • Several people have told me I should sue the builder, and I probably should, but I’d have to pay for a lawyer, and it would probably take months and months.

    IANAL, but I’m wondering if for your situation you’d have more success with a whole string of Small Claims court. A quick Google search for your area says this:

    “You can ask for up to $25,000 in most small claims actions in the Tennessee General Sessions Court.”

    I’m betting nearly every one of your findings and fixes you had to pay for would be under that. There’s no lawyer needed to file them, as you can do them yourself, and for the builder to have to defend it, they’ll have to send their expensive lawyer to each court proceeding. If they don’t show, you could get a default judgment and just win outright with no battle for the legal judgment. Now, collecting may be a different problem though. You could keep one claim going all the time so you don’t have to do them all at once (and make it worth it for them to put a billable lawyer on it".

    June:

    TheDemonBuer v. DR Horton - civil suit from breach of contract “missing attic insulation” claim of $12,485

    August:

    TheDemonBuer v. DR Horton - civil suit from breach of contract “missing main drain connection” claim of $7,434

    etc.

    If you string this out long enough, one of two things will happen:

    • You’ll eventually get paid for all the fixes you needed to begin with that you paid out-of-pocket
    • DR Horton will actually show back up and say “fine, show us what’s actually broken and we’ll give you one single large check to go away”

  • Listen, I get it that the Austin PD, as the example here, are doing their best. I get it that they aren’t their own ultimate masters. All those points are made. I’m also GLAD that the APD are doing what they can within their rules to warn residents that these actions are happening. Yes thats good.

    However, thats approach of harm reduction, not harm avoidance. The good folks of the APD are being used as tools to carry out the harm though. They may not want to, but they are. Is anyone claiming different? The state doesn’t need to take over the APD to get the harm the state wants done. The question, and its a rhetorical one, is “where is the line?”. At what point is it better to say “no, I won’t do that” and be replaced by the state? I fear that day will come, but it needs to be examined now, before the state asks for something worse.





  • I don’t disagree with most of your thoughts above, but I’m not seeing a discussion of the merits or detriments of arguing in bad faith. A necessary component of bad faith arguing is the knowledge that you don’t actually hold that opinion that you’re defending even while claiming you do. After your first sentence in your text above you’re speaking to actual beliefs that the person holds, which wouldn’t be bad faith.



  • Those that argue in bad faith usually abandon consistency in the process. Because they don’t believe in the argument they are presenting, as soon as they are proven wrong they simply pivot to a new, and likely, contradictory argument. This often occurs because their real reason for their desired outcome is abhorrent (and they are aware of that) but they argue a different reason that would have the same outcome. This is prime red meat for racists and misogynists, as an example.


  • On the job training. Yes, it takes time and money but it is the obvious solution.

    A challenge facing many white collar jobs is that the entry level jobs are being automated away. There is no job for them to train on. The floor starts at Intermediate skill level and advances quickly to senior. The grunt work that needed to get done used to be handed to juniors. It wasn’t very difficult, and it was low risk if they made mistakes. It was perfect entry work that was both necessary in that it served a productive purpose, but also allowed someone to get in the door and start working in a particular field. Technology and automation are now doing that same grunt work, so the entry level jobs are drying up and not being replaced. Its going to be a massive problem in a decade or two if the Intermediate and Senior positions are still needed and those that are in those jobs now retire or die off. This assume that the Intermediate and Senior positions don’t also get automated away.

    I’m not closely involved in trade jobs, but I wonder if a version of this is happening there too. One example I can think of is jobs like twisting rebar tie wire by hand for concrete work isn’t technically difficult, but it is time consuming and uncomfortable.

    Here’s how its done by hand

    However, now there are now robots that can do this work so much faster, and they don’t eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, or get injured.

    Here’s a robot that can do it

    Is this happening in other entry level trade jobs? Will there be nowhere to train on the job?