Disaster

The economy didn't respond they way "it should have" by tightening... so corporates had to just resort to good old fashioned collusion to teach the workforce they can't ask for things like hybrid and payraises.

It's kind of blowing up in their face.

OK first off, check out what WiFi band is getting through. You can get some mileage by enforcing the router and clients to connect on a specific band - they are supposed to auto select based off the best/least congested band, but these days nearly everything is squawking away there. You could try relocating your router/AP and testing - if there's a duct or a bunch of pipes in the way they may be interfering or opaque to the radio band, so moving the router might honestly result in better performance. Tape it to the ceiling if you have to (3M command strips work pretty well)

2.4Ghz gets far greater wall penetration than the modern high bandwidth 5Ghz band solutions, but it'll be limited to 54mbps or slower.

Not all WiFi access points are created equal. The antenna on a Linksys Router/AP ($??) vs. the antenna on an Ruckus AP ($500+) is a totally different animal, and it shows.

Effectively trying to coax a good signal out of radio equipment without a proper survey is more akin to dowsing or engaging in a magical ritual than anything really technical though...

Not without its drama

Easy to be loving to your inner circle when you have millions provided by killing other people's kids.

Generally in English they'd usually be called "A Patsy" or "Strawman" - someone disposable to do the unpleasant work, whom nobody will particularly miss.

I more or less stopped paying attention to NYT in 2002-2003 when they so gleefully cheerlead the Iraq2 campaign. And I feel dumb it took me that long. They don't exist to do anything except manufacture consent.

In the pearl-clutching liberal world where people still can't understand why she lost when it was her turn

I don't think anyone could look at the evidence and come to a different conclusion, honestly.

Suggest reading about the circumstances running up to the storming of the Bastille.

Well, that didn't take long..

I'd hoped nobody would come to the conclusion that was the core argument, but it is a consideration.

And I would like to draw attention to the totalitarian nature of our attitudes towards suicide. It's been enforced heartlessly for a very long time - if you commit suicide, you'll go someplace worse. It's this, it's that. All ultimately to remove the last escape for people who are in some form of extreme physical, mental, emotional or existential pain to the point where they don't believe there's another solution.

I'd sooner discuss why we have those attitudes - maybe it's so we get a free pass to be extractive and shitty whilst simultaneously denying the people we abuse even the dignity of leaving on their own terms.

Suicide is not assisted, leaves a mess for those that discover a corpse, EMT's and others to clean up. Someone's suffering might end when they jump in front of a train but the train driver's suffering only just begins at that point.

Suicide is often an unmanaged, chaotic process which causes trauma. It also often fails whilst leaving those that attempt it in bad physical shape. A law like this reduces the necessity of discussing, normalizing or enabling suicide because there is a safe and properly counseled path out of a no-win situation for those that truly need it. A policy on containment when there are probably household cleaners that could do the job effectively with a small amount of chemistry knowledge is absolutely insane - and if someone truly is in that much pain, they'll find a way. Families and loved ones also have time to work through grief and loss rather than getting the wind knocked out of them when they hear the news.

The fact that we've hit a point where we can even have a discussion about this is probably something that should be celebrated, rather than being so totalitarian and controlling that we effectively force people to live even when they're in enormous pain.