There is in fact a “what these options mean” at the bottom of the page that does that.

Oh man that works so well.

See, to me, there’s two philosophies that battle here, with me. I can treat employers as companies, as logic machines, that calculate what revenues they can make and every other business decision. With that framework, I agree, whatever I do in my off hours is my business, they shouldn’t (but do) have the right to meddle with me in that way. Deny the corporate machine access to that info.

But the other framework, where your employee is a person managing a business, I don’t agree. If I am a human business owner, trying to run a good company with standards and practices as guidelines, get told by a potential customer I’ve lost the sale because of the actions of someone I employ, if I see that as a recurring pattern, I gotta weigh if they’re worth keeping.

Now, for me, these two frameworks aren’t exclusive, neither is right or wrong, they just show up in different places. Corporate McDonalds firing a minimum wage employee, that gets the company-as-a-machine model. Small business with like 5 employees? Company-as-a-person. Firing a C-Suite of a large company? Company-as-a-person.

This is company-as-a-person to me because they’re a face of the company. C-suite people get hired because of who they are, whereas minimum wage in a company get hired because of the skills they have.

And good for the credit union, they did.

Now she’s unemployed.

They’re sentient if the child thinks of them as such. Andy’s etch-a-sketch was used in play as a character, so it gets thoughts. The Lilypad, with its decorative face and hands, gets the same thing.

Really, the only gap in this logic I can think of in the toy story universe is the shipping crate of buzzes that no child has even seen yet, but besides them, toys tend to wake up and be alive when interacted with, either by a child or a toy that has itself come alive from a child. S Even sitting on a store shelf, a child will still see the toy and imagine on occasion, so this still works for Stinky Pete.

Add more roboports where you want them to be.

If I wanted a solely bot-baaed network, I would seperate ores into their own network like slazer suggested, but also make a solid line of roboports within the network. The robots flying to distant roboports tells me theres not enough roboports, so add more until they stop doing that.

And also, I agree with direct insertion to furnace being the way to go. I’d also make gears and steel at the ore patch, too, because both of those take multiple iron plates. Getting 1000 gears into your main base, at the max cargo size of 4, takes 250 bots carrying gears but 500 of plates, and 1000 steel is 250 bots of steel but 1250 bots of plates to then smelt.

If I was building a botmall, I’d also try to put them wherever the most expensive component was. Even if they’re not directly connected to production, if I can minimize the trip it’ll be way more efficient.

Perfect for a custom build, yeah. Share updates when you do it!

Did something similar, and in my experience the vent probably won’t be enough. If I did it again, I think I’d do a watercooling solution, instead. I haven’t actually done watercooling myself yet, so verify first, but I see no reason you couldn’t route the tubes through the back and release the heat externally. The cooling could be attached to the back of the drawer, so that it all stays together. That’d also reduce the size of the holes since you’re trying to preserve the look of the desk more.

Yeah it works great they don’t even need to register, the system says they already did.

Heck of a credit card bill, for that one guy. I wonder if theres a sneaky line in the TOS about how “best effort” is good enough and sticks him with the bill anyway.

Same.

I’ve just gotten to Aquilo with a higher SPM in every other science than I’ve ever had before. This time it won’t just be a kludged together base that always locks up, it’ll be a functional one with a reasonable output.

Then imma streamline all the bases into big base blueprints to try to get all the speed achievements.

Play d&d

I would, when I’m printing out a D&D map. Taping pages together isn’t the worst, but only needing to line up prints in one direction would be great.

But it’s optional, either way. Odds are I’d have sheets in most of the time and switch to roll for that, specifically, but having the option is nice, it also lets me print smaller without wasting a whole sheet.

That’s still the difference. I also feel spent and use the battery analogy in my day to day life. My “capacity” is pretty decent, I can afford things, but I have to manage it, and yeah, so much is a cost, even things you’d never expect.

If we say a party costs 50 and your battery is at 20, that sucks. That relative I mentioned has been suicidal over this, and its entirely possible that their inability to manage that battery is directly caused by their mental health struggles, too. I’m not claiming they’re a bad person, when I say they’re a bad friend. I’m saying they aren’t going to be there for those that call them “friend”. It has absolutely been a lifelong struggle for them, and that sucks, but they cannot do it. I cannot power a laptop with a standard phone charger, even if they’re both USB-C, and this person I know isn’t a good friend outside of a very small group they have.

I don’t mean to sound like a dick when I say that, everyone’s different and we have different struggles, different things take a different amount of battery or take more or less spoons.

The issue of “how do you tell if someone’s running on empty or just not willing to put energy into it?” is a whole separate issue than “this costs more battery than I have when fully charged”. The solution to the first, is managing your charge. The answer to the second, I dunno. To me, that feels like the mental health equivalent of asking if this mole looks cancery online, and if I was in that situation, I’d be seeing a therapist or a med manager about it. Not saying you haven’t tried or anything, I’m just saying I don’t know the answer to that, and I have the feeling the answer is way deeper than someone on the internet will be able to go. I sincerely hope things go well for you, though.

The difference is what you do around it.

Friend’s birthday is coming up next week, and they care about you and you wanna show you care about them? Well the day before (or whatever timeline you need), you don’t do anything that drains your batteries, or do things to recharge them, so that when it’s time to go to the party, the battery is full.

If we’re gonna treat social as a limited resource, then being a good friend means spending that resource on them. If we give it a number, then let’s say a birthday gift costs 50. It doesn’t matter if your battery holds 100 or 100, save 50 for the party.

I have a relative who does the battery thing, and the key thing that puts them in the “doesn’t care” category despite a mental disorder that absolutely qualifies them for the battery analogy, is they just don’t spend their battery unless it’s a benefit to them. They won’t spend it on one of their friends unless it’s one of like, 2 specific people, so it’s an excuse.

They both offer that, though.

Haven’t day traded but I have speed ran games, you get a similar awesome feeling when you’ve accomplished the goal, and similar feelings when your runs that day are just worse than yesterdays.

You can’t separate your mood and results. At least I couldn’t. Most days this was fine, I could focus on “I got this trick down, just need to integrate it into the run better” or “wow, that was a perfect 2 minutes” (of an hour-long run). The days where there wasn’t a silver lining, those days were a mess. Spend hours, all fucking day, accomplishing nothing? Killed me. I stopped speedrunning. Mostly stopped gaming, but I still like doing factory games or doing things like making a living dex in Pokémon, and still play games with others.

If you’re shutting down on those bad days, you have it worse than me, which makes sense, since you’re spending money to do this. My advice is to look at what money you’ve actually made. Is it more than what a normal job would make for the time you’ve put in? If not, then stop doing it, its not profitable. If it IS making you more money, then you need to put a value on your happiness, since its costing you that. Spoiler, most people want money to live well and get happiness. Even if you’re making more, think of it like “was the extra hundred I made worth the crashes I’ve been having?”.

Gambling isn’t sustainable, anyway. Day trading is a short term thing, at best, and it sounds like you’ve tapped that out, at least as far as you can without sacrificing your health.

Depends how they can interact with local laws.

It’s reasonable to conclude a temporary owner could invite someone in, just like a real one. If a warrant involved temporary possession, then the government that issued it would be able to invite someone in, and then if the vampire were charged with a search, that charge would be an invitation.

Based on wording on example warrants in the US, however, they do not word it as a seizure of the building, even temporary. Makes sense, but at least a US-based vampire with a warrant would need to still be invited in.

Equipment and wages, but also all the time you have to put into your business that isn’t billable.

Time spent on the phone, scheduling people, time spent doing estimates for jobs, time spent doing business accounting, time spent on truck maintenance, time spent disposing of materials that you’ve hauled away.

You can pay someone to do almost all of that, and charge for estimates if you’d like, but paying for an accountant or a secretary turns a time cost into a money cost, so you’re either losing your hours or doing extra jobs to pay for your accountant. Since finding enough work can be a challenge, it’s easier to put in your time, but spending, say, 8 hours a week on accounting is still 8 hours you weren’t paid that week.

Taking your truck in for maintenance also means you’re paying a mechanic, who has to price similarly to you for all the same reasons, so if you’re measuring in time spent per day, you’ll find setting aside time to do maintenance yourself is probably worth nearly as much as what you’ll make actually working.

Charging for estimates would be great, except that’s a privilege you get when you have enough work that you can decline jobs. If you don’t have that much work, eating the 10$ of gas (probably 30+ now, but 10$ then) is better than having a customer decline to call because he’s paying for you to do maybe nothing, in his mind.

Some weeks I worked 5 days, some 2-3 days. I was college age and either was fine for me at the time. The arborist was putting in 40-50 hours of work on that slow week, 60-70 on the full one.

A larger organization is gonna break all those time costs into additional employees that manage the day to day, an accountant, a mechanic, a secretary, and that’s a great way to visualize all the costs that you can’t bill for that someone who is working on their own or as a single-crew business is still paying for, just in time they don’t get reimbursed for instead.

Military behind lines can be pretty important because of delays in them receiving notices and their ability to do anything about it. Pretty much every legal notice gets a timeframe before things occur. Usually something like a month is sufficient, but for someone in military service, who have arguably the best excuse to not be able to do regular things for a whole month, the usual polite way to go about things is to wait for them to return home, and historically, courts have thrown out cases for people who didn’t do that, because it wasn’t a reasonable amount of notice.

No idea about the legalities of this particular case, but it is extra rude, getting a court date and losing by default for not showing up when you didn’t show up because another part of government mandated you be on a battlefield.

As a former groundsman for an arborist, I was shocked at how much of what seemed like a ludicrous sum just bled away to nothing. Guy earned the equivalent of maybe 20$ an hour after expenses. This was 20 years ago, so that was livable and more than double what someone at McDonalds could expect to make, but the actual income he brought home to the family was microscopic compared to the 1.2 million he took in before expenses.