I am a proud owner of a brand new home. I am in love with it. It’s cute the yard is perfect. It is old and lived in hard. And we couldn’t afford really nice. Pretty much everything we looked at had some serious issues so we chose the one we loved the most and the one we felt we could handle the issues. I have lots of...
it’s obvious their pets handled the moving process poorly and have urinated in every room with carpet
Cleaning up pet urine can be really expensive depending on how bad it is. If it's not just a few spots here and there, seriously consider ripping out all of the carpet and padding and living on the floor boards until you can get new flooring.
You should buy a black light. Nothing expensive, $20 or so. And shine it on everything with the lights off, urine glows. As a side note, anyone looking to buy a house, or even get a new rental should get a black light.
I doubt it's your name/ethnicity. It's probably more that you're over qualified and they're afraid you're going to work for 3 months before getting a better job better matching your qualifications. To be clear they shouldn't discriminate because of over qualifications either.
I say this as someone who works in the public sector, for many years. Every year I have to go to an EEO training and they drill it home what we can and can't consider. There's no way they are managing to discriminate against white sounding names for a decade without someone blowing the whistle. I 100% guarantee some fox news watcher there is blowing the whistle for their 20 minutes of fame.
I brought this up a few years ago where I work. I want to have a team sanitize the applications before the hiring team gets to see them. Remove names, dates that can be used to construe an age, gender, etc. I hope this study helps me get my point across at next years EEO training.
We have rubrics. Like if we're asking for an AA degree, but a BS preferred, you'll get tossed out if you don't have an AA, you'll get 1 point for an AA, and 2 points for a BS. But you'll also get a 2 for a MA or DR.
It gets weird when it's education and or maybe experience somewhere in the field.... some people who write our job descriptions don't think things through....
In an extraordinary show of support for organized labor, President Biden said he would join workers in Michigan on the front lines of their strike against leading automakers.
When Joe Biden and Congress enacted legislation in December that blocked a threatened freight rail strike, many workers angrily faulted Biden for not ensuring that the legislation also guaranteed paid sick days. But since then, union officials says, members of the Biden administration, including the transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, and labor secretary, Marty Walsh, who stepped down on 11 March, lobbied the railroads, telling them it was wrong not to grant paid sick days.
“We’ve made a lot of progress,” said Greg Regan, president of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, the main US labor federation. “This is being done the right way. Each railroad is negotiating with each of its individual unions on this.”
Brine discharge can be pretty bad for the environment, so we do some tank exchange thing with Culligan. Every other week they install a new tank and remove the old one to be recharged. Working great so far.
It's about $50 a month. Nothing gets released at my house, which is nice. I'm a little out of my depth with the chemical reaction, but the idea is inside the tank are a bunch of resin beads impregnated with stuff calcium and magnesium ions will bind to. So as water flows through the tank the calcium and magnesium is removed and stored in the beads. So the beads store it, but can't store an infinite amount. The tank gets switched out every 2 weeks and culligan takes the old tank back and reverse the process. I'm sure this involves nasty stuff, but hopefully economy of scale and regulations make it a cleaner process than just dumping the salt in the ground.
I'm hoping to find a build list for a general home server/NAS. The goal is to have a server capable of running 2-3 VMs along with a handful of containers, act as a Plex server, and act as a NAS for media storage....
I have a similar setup except I'm using Jellyfin instead of Plex.
For hardware, it's a Ryzen 5900X, 128 GB of memory, 1 cheap SSD for the OS, 2 1TB NVME drives for fast storage, 2 2TB SSDs for normal storage, and 4 20 TB drives for bulk storage. 1 cheap GeForce GT 710 for video, and 1 Nvidia T1000 for transcoding.
For OS, I'm using Proxmox. I have a few VMs, but mostly everything lives in LXC containers.
For the NAS part, I have the hard drives mounted as a raidz2 on the Proxmox host, and I pass access through using LXC Bind Mounts. The pair of SSDs are in a mirror, and same with the pair of NVME. Game servers live on the NVME, and everything else on the SSD.
Game servers that run on linux run in LXC, otherwise I have a windows VM. I've never liked running game servers in Docker.
I also have Proxmox Backup Server running on the Proxmox host itself.
I like the idea behind the Media Bias Chart, but I do see an issue to keep an eye on.
The website appears to do some sort of averaging. MSNBC and Fox News score 34 and 36. If you mouse over MSNBC, you'll see only a few items below 24, and only a few above 50 but they mostly cluster between 32 and 40. There's only a few things from MSNBC that are stinkers. When I read a piece on MSNBC, I have high confidence it's decent. I would be hard pressed to cherry pick 10 BS pieces to support a BS narrative.
However if you do the same thing with Fox News You'll see a bigger swing in the extremes. They do real some journalism at Fox news, but they spew a ton of shit opinion too. Just like MSNBC they have a decent chunk between 24 and 32, but they also have a decent chunk below 24. If I wanted to get 10 BS pieces to support a BS narrative, I probably could.
Also thanks for taking this on, it's a huge task and it's appreciated.
President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors ( www.whitehouse.gov )
$8.2 Billion from the President’s Investing in America Agenda to Deliver Transformative Passenger Rail in America...
New homeowner lots of questions
I am a proud owner of a brand new home. I am in love with it. It’s cute the yard is perfect. It is old and lived in hard. And we couldn’t afford really nice. Pretty much everything we looked at had some serious issues so we chose the one we loved the most and the one we felt we could handle the issues. I have lots of...
Nearly 20% of workers have changed their name on a resume because of discrimination concerns, says new report ( www.cnbc.com )
A recent survey on hiring practices led by hiring software company Greenhouse found "pretty sobering stats" about discrimination in hiring processes.
Biden Will Join Autoworkers on Picket Line in Michigan, a Historic Move ( www.nytimes.com )
In an extraordinary show of support for organized labor, President Biden said he would join workers in Michigan on the front lines of their strike against leading automakers.
Saltless Water Softener?
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RFK Jr.: COVID ‘Ethnically Targeted’ to Spare Jews, Chinese ( www.thedailybeast.com )
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