Oh, this sounds like fun. It depends on how you define 'rural', but off the top of my head:
Parks & Recreation, Schitt's Creek, Breaking Bad, Ozark, Sons of Anarchy, Dallas, and that's without even looking at the Discovery Channel.
IMO we need to talk to each other more if we want to understand each other better, though. Not through dehumanizing screens, but in person and in good faith. When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with a stranger in a train, airport, store etc?
Yeah, they're not perfect examples, but those shows' characters live in the suburbs and spend most of their time even farther afield. The cities seem to serve as somewhat jarring juxtapositions to the places where the action and drama occur.
Dallas is not city show. They live in houses in the middle of nowhere. They are outside all the time. Like, you have to read wiki to know Dallas is city.
>Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather.
- Bill Hicks
Everything old is new again; maybe we'll get lucky and have another '60s-'70s as covid wanes, if people are starting to put trip reports on Medium blogs under their real names without any "SWIM" disclaimers. If y'all like these kinds of trip write-ups, erowid.org has loads of them.
I also was able to easily cancel online a few months ago (not in California). I'm wondering if they changed their policies recently, in which case this complaint is out of date.
I ran into this myself 18 months ago. I had subscribed years ago online, but was unable to cancel online.
I informed the person who canceled my subscription over the phone that I'd never consider doing business with them again, unless they fixed the problem.
I hope it's fixed now! That'd be a great improvement
The "Supreme Being" in the French Revolution was not necessarily the Abrahamic God. One major cause of the revolution was the Church's corruption and overreach during the ancien regime, and they got pretty radical with religious experimentation during that time.
They even tried to set up a state-sponsored "cult of reason" to replace religions like Christianity. That was followed by the "cult of the supreme being", because not many people felt comfortable worshipping an abstract reification of "rationality".
This is a shame, but not very surprising. The area around the reactor is a protected wildlife reserve, but the Columbia River Valley is a bit of an elegiac place to visit. It feels like a gorgeous area that has been used as a dumping ground for decades.
None of the individual projects that were erected seem terribly egregious. There's the old nuclear reactor that the article discusses, but that's fairly normal. The huge series of hydroelectric dams isn't good for the ecosystem, but it's not an awful compromise for the power they provide. The sea of red lights eminating from the windmill farms look creepy at night, but they're not too obtrusive. The military firing range isn't loud on most days, but the freight rail tracks are.
All of those individual projects add up. You can't roam very far, and if you visit the cultural centers of the native tribes in the area, they tell a very sad story which extends well into the present. And those cultural centers were typically funded by the power companies as a sort of low-key bribe to grease their projects' approval and improve their public image.
Espressif chips are excellent for making projects that work well, but it's a bit harder to recommend them for education.
It's tough to get truly "bare metal" code running on their chips once you want to dig more deeply into how things work. Everything is based around their development framework, which is open-source and quite easy to use, but somewhat difficult to read.
Part of why people like the Arduino ecosystem is that it supports a wide variety of platforms, many of which have excellent documentation and register-level example code.
But at the end of the day, the best way to learn about microcontrollers is to grab the first one you can find and treat it like a toy. Have fun!
Toyota's interest may not be in Level-5 autonomous taxis. They have a history of striving to fully understand every part of their supply chain; this could be a play at developing advanced in-house driver assists.
As an example, I was surprised to learn that Toyota designed their own ECU chips rather than buying off-the-shelf automotive grade MCUs until 2019, when they spun that business off to a subsidiary[1]. They really take vertical integration seriously.
One thing I wish any car manufacturer would do is create a system that helps their users use the turn indicator. It’s an endemic problem here.
Something like an annoying voice telling them that they should have used it immediately after turning. And if they fail to use it in three turns during the same drive they get a mandatory safety briefing before they can lock the car.
More Orwell(TM) is the last thing the world needs.
You wanna write tickets post up a real meatbag cop and make them write tickets. Don't create some dystopian dragnet that you can tune for revenue generation.
That question doesn't really make sense in the context of a US workplace.
The employee:HR relationship is fundamentally adversarial over here. HR's job is to protect the company, including from its own employees. They will throw you under the bus if it benefits the company.
Most people won't run into issues with them, but if you think that someone important to the company's bottom line is behaving inappropriately and you go to HR about it, how would you expect them to react? It's a matter of incentives.
What's the point you're trying to make? That irredeemable companies are a nightmare to work for?
Well of course they are. And just like irredeemable relationships, you need to move on and improve your judgement to avoid a repeat. Bemoaning on Slack achieves nothing.
The point the post you're replying to was trying to make (true or not) was that US companies have this problem unilaterally — so there's no point to trying to avoid companies based on it, as long as the US is where you choose to live.
At least those phishing exercises are done with the informed consent of the organization.
If they go too far and impact day-to-day work, or if people complain, the executives understand what is going on and who they can talk to about improving the process.
And if it feels lacking in empathy, consider that the company's management needs to sign off on any (legal) phishing tests that their employees are subjected to.
Not so much if you live in North America. There are a few plug-in options, but it seems like the good ones are staying in Europe and Japan because in 2021, the big automakers still don't think there's a market for EVs in the Americas.
Tesla does see a market in the Americas, so they actually sell cars here. That gives them a big leg up, even among people who don't like them.
> Not so much if you live in North America. There are a few plug-in options, but it seems like the good ones are staying in Europe and Japan because in 2021, the big automakers still don't think there's a market for EVs in the Americas.
We have, and love, our Chevrolet Bolt. In addition to the Bolt, Kia, Hyundai, Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi, Jaguar, Polestar (Volvo), and more all have electric vehicles, all available in the US.
Yep, I live in the US. There were tons of Leafs were plugged in every day at my office pre pandemic. More of those than Teslas. Also plenty of Bolts there. I see lots of non Tesla EVs on the road every day.
Parks & Recreation, Schitt's Creek, Breaking Bad, Ozark, Sons of Anarchy, Dallas, and that's without even looking at the Discovery Channel.
IMO we need to talk to each other more if we want to understand each other better, though. Not through dehumanizing screens, but in person and in good faith. When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with a stranger in a train, airport, store etc?