There are three things occurring with this new facility:

1. Construction - Generally, the cost of construction is far larger than the tax for the construction project. The county may build the jail in a few years, but the taxes to pay for it usually take over a decade to pay back.

2. Operation - Once you open the facility, you have to use it. That generally requires some form of operations budget. Facilities cost money to run and intelligent governments try to plan that into building a new facility.

3. Maintenance - The building isn’t going to last forever, and a lot of modern buildings need more effort to maintain them then older buildings. It is common for facilities to need significant maintenance work every 15 years. If you’re going to bond to build a facility, why not include maintenance as part of the total cost of life for the facility?

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit Ketrecel White.

Sure thing, O’Brien.

I find it depends on how they get compensated.

It depends. I’m playing at a table where it isn’t any of the players’ first game and several players have wargaming experience. I can easily see the DM doing something like this and I wouldn’t fault them for doing so.

To add to it, I wouldn’t put “Internet” as a subculture since that is way too broad of a definition of place.

Less integrated and with more fear.

A lot of people get success through dumb luck.

She also wrote something that felt resonant and in a manner where the flawed logic of her universe doesn’t make itself readily apparent, which takes some skill.

Part of the problem in creating a canonical universe over a piece of fiction is that it takes a lot more thought to create the world and few people who can create that world can write compelling stores in said world. She wrote a compelling story. That said, a lot of writers can compelling stores that don’t get the kind of press that Harry Potter did.

Most constitutional monarchies got that way due to incremental change generally caused by political crises. Switching from a monarchy to a republic usually done as a response to one of these crises; no crisis usually means the monarch keeps the crown.

You also have an issue of what to replace the monarch with. Most constitutional monarchies have parliamentary systems of government where the legislature has supremacy. However, you still need a supreme executive to run a government when the legislature fails. The process of picking that person is very politically important and had inherent risks to it. For some countries, keeping the monarch as the on/off switch is easier than dealing with the headache of choosing a President.

TERF Queen wrote the series in Edinburgh and is thought to be inspired by the local architecture in creating Hogwarts.

The premise of the post is that, by saying that I’m leaving, I’m telling them why so that they can change. That has the energy of an old person yelling at the retail staff why they are never going to come back to shop there again.

A lot of people don’t respond well to criticism. A lot of people aren’t going to change. For some, it may be hard for them to fully understand why I didn’t like the interaction. At that point, it is easier just to let it go.

I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

Sorry, the homeless shelter got defunded. Don’t worry, they’ll turn it to luxury condos.

One of the things I’ve seen with current junior staff is that they have grown up with computer text for everything, which makes reading non-OCR text very difficult and a learned skill for them. Since I work in a field with scanned handwritten documents, this makes their work much slower.

I wonder if the same problem will happen with AI, where future generations will expect a computer to create connections between different documents.

The Last Jedi was a good movie, it just wasn’t a good Star Wars movie.

Hope it goes as well as CNN’s streaming service.

They aren’t making it illegal to be alive, just to be alive there.

I really hope not.

Maybe not redlining, but there has been shown to be increased inequality by keeping the homebuying market opaque.

As an industry, headhunters have a vested interest in selling you since that is their business model. You aren’t the client, you’re the product.