Most phones seem to give you the option to skip the next alarm. That may be better than disabling it?

See also some of the transparency and active transparency in KDE 5 (and friends): https://discuss.kde.org/t/krusader-and-kvantum-transparency/17533

Brick does really badly in earthquakes, at least without major reinforcing. ‘Unreinforced masonry’ can be fatal pretty easily.

Brick veneer over timber framing can be a thing.

In a lot of the world, a school bus is a normal city bus that gets “school” signs put on the front and back, and runs a specific route. There’s not much point in maintaining a dedicated fleet.

Here in NZ I believe they mostly can set their own routes, being ‘independent’ contractors.

I have heard Amazon in particular is super tight in the US.

And probably drives on the most efficient route for their run.

You’re about halfway along the run? They’ll always pass you about halfway through the day.

I imagine something akin to a draft or arranged marriages. You’re not married, you’re not married, congrats you’re now married.

Redundancy doesn’t necessarily come with a golden handshake, though many employment contracts do mandate it.

But they do have to try to find you another job elsewhere in the organisation if that’s possible, and they have to disestablish the position not necessarily you. That means that if they want to make one person from a team redundant, they generally have to actually ask if anyone wants to leave, and if not, run a transparent process to decide who from the team to make redundant, not just pick someone.

You also have to not be planning to re-hire for the role any time soon as that would imply the redundancy wasn’t genuine.

If you’re in a country with good worker protection, there’s a big difference between ‘made redundant’ and ‘fired for cause’. There is no ‘fired for no reason’.

Running through a tent site is not the world’s smartest plan. You’ll trip on a guy wire.

Do you remember where you played it?

It sounds/looks a little like some of the stuff from bontegames.

I’m not sure that lossy compression on vectors is strictly impossible.

You can do things like store less colour information and simplify splines so that curves are less complex.

“Greater Canada”.

Everything burns up regardless of size. Big things might not finish burning by the time they hit the ground.

You need either enough thrust to slow you to ~mach 2, or a heat shield to do the same by aerobraking.

It’s called aerobraking for a reason: you’re using friction to turn kinetic energy into heat to slow down, but that heat goes into the air and your heat shield instead of brake pads and rotors.

It’s been a long time since I played, but king+queen+bishop should be pretty achievable?

Oh, I’ve had the name for a lot longer than that.

As Someone Somewhere, I urge you to post more.

Where on earth do they get the ‘AYD’ from?

Seems like spifk, sporf, or knorkoon might be more sensible.

Never ask questions you don’t want answers to. Rule 34.

It’s often a disaster recovery type of thing.