You have to use words like “unalive” and it’s still popular?

I’m very much against AI slop and hate how it’s the most prominent use in day to day life.

With that said, I work for a small government contracting company. We are careful about what we bid on, and of course it’s not a sure bet that we’ll get it. There is a lot of boilerplate stuff in these proposals. When I was on the bench, my boss asked me to help find some AI tools to help with proposal writing.

Honestly? I can see it being used in cases like this. I wish there weren’t so much fluff needed in these things, but that’s the hand we’re dealt. It’s not necessarily worth hiring another proposal writer for what we do, and I certainly wouldn’t use its output as-is without knowing what you’re proposing, but to get some decent starting verbiage, section by section, to be adjusted after? Yeah, I can see that being useful.

Also, as I learned from having a wife who needs to watch her sodium intake, less sodium doesn’t necessarily mean low sodium, which I believe has a legal definition. You may need to shop the higher end brands that come in cartons, not the store brand cans. But I think a little splash should help pretty well and last a while

I was going to say that’s a long time, then I realized I’m not too far behind! 18/13 for us.

We all have our kinks in the bedroom. I guess if you think women must be weak in the world, having them be strong in the bedroom could be one of them. And if you think I mischaracterized something about conservativism, that’s all the more reason the two things shouldn’t matter together

Assuming this question is serious, it sounds like you love a label and what you think it stands for more than the things you actually want. That’s even worse than missing the mark on one piece of a perceived package deal

It was kind of a meme that 2016 sucked. Then Trump got elected at the end and everything magically got better for everyone and we all lived happily ever after.

(Do I really need to include the /s here?)

This is silly.

Hmm I never said that.

This you?

You drive door to door leaving flyers. […] Why do you think municipal or county staff can’t drive

Anyway…

What are you even talking about? Use your words.

You’re talking about what Amazon and USPS can do. They can do it (Amazon not every home in a given area) because they’re equipped to. Saying that the water company should be able to cover a town with flyers because USPS goes door to door is about as logical as saying USPS should fix a water main because the water company does it.

Now, if the law requires something that will always change the calculus but that doesn’t seem to be the case here

Naw, I think “but we have cars” was silly, not clever (funny how you dropped that pretty quickly). I think “but you can get people and a plan immediately while also fixing the problem” is silly, not clever (admittedly places that require certain notices will also have a plan to implement it as required by law, not I’m thinking about wherever OP is which I’m assuming doesn’t have that). I think comparing with organizations that need large coverage for their daily operations (not necessarily 100% of homes in a day, mind you) is silly, not clever.

Feel free to move on.

You can drive from neighborhood to neighborhood, but when you go door to door it’s almost certainly on foot. My parents live in an older neighborhood with mailboxes at the front doors, and unless we had a package they never had the truck on our street. It was always parked a block away while the carrier went on foot going from door to door.

And no, I don’t think the water company would have an army of 50 people ready to do an organized canvas of the town (unlike the Postal Service, which has a roster of dedicated mail carriers)

It’s even easier to respond with

“sorry, it’s a Sunday on a holiday weekend”

“Our carriers are halfway done with their route for the day, we’re not paying them overtime to go back”

“Our sorting system is already done and the trucks are loaded up”

“I haven’t checked my mail for a few days” (as the recipient of that flyer)

Keeping them on edge 😏

My water district has 55,000 customers, many of whom won’t answer their doors thinking it’s a solicitor. Even if they did, you could have dozens of people going door to door and it would still take forever

• they are cable-less, thus need to be charged separately

I’ll give you that, but my bone conduction headset lasts a few days with the amount I use

• they are cable-less, thus it is easier to lose them

Meh. I’ve put corded earbuds in my pocket and probably worn them out faster that way. Bluetooth headsets I tend to leave on (much to my wife’s annoyance) and that makes them last longer in my experience.

• bluetooth implementation is a potential security vulnerability

Aha, that van outside must be tapping into me listening to The Dandy Warhols! I knew it! (In all seriousness, if security is that critical you probably shouldn’t be doing whatever it is over WiFi, which is pretty much unavoidable with a phone)

• transmission by radio will always be less energy efficient than transmission by wire

Are we really talking about saving energy here? That’s like… Moisture in the bucket levels. Not even a drop in the bucket

Around a neighborhood is one thing. An entire town could be a hell of a lift, not to mention that there are still problems with notes on doors (I usually go in and out through my garage; the front door is rarely used)

“I’m coming!”

-Lemmynsfw owner, probably

Honest question, what method of alerting would you have suggested? Looks like they tried 4 different things at once - none perfect, but I’m not sure any would be

Well, any law is only as good as people following it (and enforcement for violations)

Jail rosters are generally public information. I live in a fairly blue state with a lot of prisons (Colorado) and can look up any prisoner in the state system online.

Part of the thinking is that if it were secretive, the government could just disappear people (rightfully a concern with ICE right now) without anyone knowing.