Many universities have a separate police department than the city in which they’re located. This makes some sense with big schools, and even more so for large public schools (Cornell is private), since they’re essentially a separate government than the city.

I teach nights at a large university with its own UPD, and they’re excellent. Their officers are better trained and accustomed to the kind of law enforcement that works best with universities.

When 19yo kids are drunk, high, and loud pattying in a dorm room, they show up and ask them to tone it down and offer to arrange a free ride home for anyone instead of arresting people like the city police do in off-campus apartments.

When a student is having a meltdown, instead of shooting them they try to calm them down and arrange for them to see one of the university’s counselors.

When a local creep is being a creep around the college girls, they trespass them from university grounds.

They’re part of the university, but the university deans have no more influence on them than the planning director of a city has on their police department. Overall, UPD is great.

Parking services, on the other hand, can go to hell. $800 a semester for a faculty pass to still get parking tickets for daring to have my car in the lot for a specific 4 minute stretch between 6:38 and 6:42 when it’s a commuter pass only lot, which I should have known because of the Cyrillic text written in invisible ink on a brochure from 1978.

From the employer’s perspective, there is no difference.

That’s one of the hobbies they look for with potential recruits.

Torturing animals in childhood is a sign that someone is more likely to become be a serial killer or a cop.

That’s not his home address. But news about his home in the area has made it to the news in recent years due to a dispute he had with the city, and since it ended up going to public hearings there was a public notification requirement regarding the address.

Some datacenters could be repurposed as traditional datacenters focused on networking and cloud storage, infrastructure.

It’s not that they don’t expect there to be Greek food or that they won’t want to eat Greek food. It’s that Americans used to having a huge variety of food available, and may need to be warned that they will not have that available.

I can get pretty much any style cuisine (my choice betweem authentic or Americanized version) for lunch any day. I could have Bao on Monday, Schnitzel on Tuesday, Tikka Masala on Wednesday, Carne Guisada on Thursday, and Injera on Friday all without having to travel more than 5 minutes.

And it’s not just urban areas. Even the tiny backwoods town my parents live in has country cooking, Mexican, Chinese, and Italian restaurants (though the Chinese and Italian are really bad)

Some armed, masked goon refusing to show ID trespasses on my property I’m not gonna greet them politely.

I’m pretty dumb.

That’s what’s on the table now, but it doesn’t look good.

The Supremely Court is about to rule, essentially, on whether states can even attempt to sue the oil companies over the states’ climate-change-related expenses.

The danger for the oil companies right now isn’t final Judgement from those lawsuits, but the discovery process. If the states are allowed to proceed, the oil companies have to turn over records, which will then become public. It’s not only damning socially, but they’ll also show that they lied to their investors, and THAT would trigger a mountain of lawsuits that could do real damage.

But with the current Court, I’m not hopeful.

I used to be a preacher, and am still a Christian. I also have given money to the Satanic Temple because the work they do is important.

Separation of church and state is good for the government, the churches, and society at large.

Shrap-ons was right there dude.

I’m not building a PC or buying a computer because I can make due with what I have a few years longer. But I do desperately need a new laptop at the office, so work is paying an outrageous sum of money for a new computer.

I’m also getting a few new employees - each of which is gonna need a computer

It businesses, not hobbyists paying these increased prices.

I also hate it when people say the same thing twice in a row.

You think that Trump wouldn’t love to disarm his political opponents if given the chance?

They’re already trying it with trans people.

As a leftist gun owner. I’m currently not interested in handing over my weapons.

I want a grown-ups only lobby for online games with shorter play sessions and games that end by 8:30 so we can go to bed.

I grew up in a town with a huge standing weekly flea market everyone knew about where everyone knew you were buying stolen stuff, fake IDs, bootlegs, etc. The way I finally convinced my family that TPB wasn’t illegal was by asking them if it was a crime to tell someone where the flea market was.

Version 20,922,789,888,000 ?

The mileage tax on average will make average petrol cars pay double what EVs will be paying in road taxes ( and it’s not even happening until 2028).

I’m absolutely stealing that one.