...what a pair of f*cking losers...
...what a pair of f*cking losers...
…ideally, minimum wage should be set per-county at three times one standard deviation below the mean housing cost…
(3 * ((600 SF * σ $/SF) * FHA 30-Year Mortgage)) / 2080
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
...you can do the math yourself: minimum wage has never been pretty but false assertions undermine the legitimacy of reform advocacy...
(edit: these same values are clearly graphed across the entire history of the federal minimum wage in the parent article)
...not to sing the praises of minimum wage, but if it kept pace with inflation from when i was compensated accordingly it'd be $8.05 today; if it kept pace with its inception hourly folks today would be paid $5.57...
...every time you link to xitter, elon drowns a puppy...
...yeah, they're going to jump from five baby boomers straight to millennials next change of the guard, and like, whatever, man: we acclimated to disenfranchisement thirty years ago...
...barnacles would make a fine champion in a party with vinegar the barbarian...
...king's island was pretty cool fourty years ago: the bat, the beast, the racer, the beastie, that little eiffel tower, i even won a couple of stuffed animals...
...i parsed that as 'once a month' and pondered your ensuing lifestyle...
…is it socially acceptable to shun these f*cking losers yet or do we still have to play nice?..
…some believe democracy functions best when voters support causes rather than game the system against causes…
...that'd take a deep dive into obsolete building codes to identify exactly when the concept was first introduced: BOCA, southern/standard, and uniform building codes all merged into IBC about twenty-five years ago so we're talking about old paper code books from twentieth century...
...areas of refuge are closely tied to modern accessibility standards which arose from the ADA in 1990; i'm guessing they were widely introduced sometime in that decade, possibly earlier for high-rises or hazardous occupancies, but they were definitely part of 1997 UBC (which most of california enforced) and 2000 IBC...
(i started working professionally in 1993 and every project i worked on was fully accessible, but adoption varied across different jurisdictions and when i worked in california a decade later they were waaaay less accessible than texas)
...we used unpowered dollies of similar design for moving large appliances back when i was a groundskeeper...
...i have a paraplegic friend who's surprisingly adept at wheely-ing his own chair down fire stairs and a quadriplegic friend who we just hodor outside during fire drills, even though they're both supposed to shelter-in-place...
...exit slides were common fire escapes in the 1950s and you can still find abandoned hatches in some older buildings, but in my experiences renovating aged facilities they've all been sealed-off (and signs removed) during life-safety modernisations over the past seventy years...
...they're pretty dangerous by modern standards so alternatives are always preferred, similar to old abandoned exterior fire escapes...
...architect here: we design protected areas of refuge where mobilty-impared occupants can shelter in place until emergency services arrive to evacuate them from the facility...
...you'll often see areas of refuge identified near elevator lobbies and equipped with hardened callboxes for emergency communication, or marked on the evacuation plan if they're in a remote location...sometimes areas of refuge are pretty subtle if you don't know to look for them: we design protected firewalls, structure, and building systems integrated into the facility so the biggest tells are usually callboxes, magnetic door hold-opens, or tracks for automatic fire curtains...
...when renovating older facilities, we do the best we can to modernise life safety within the limitations of existing infrastructure, but the general rule of thumb is that as long as you've improved upon what originally previously existed, you've satisfied your obligation even if it's not at parity with new construction...
(it's not uncommon for old facilities to have gone through a dozen or more life-safety modernisations since the advent of modern building codes, just palimpsested one-over-the-other as standards progressed)
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Dominate Person - Indefinite Duration
...how would you characterise dominate person cast with indefinite duration?..
...upcasting dominate person at eighth level can maintain up to eight hours with concentration, so i'd be inclined to consider twenty-four hours duration equivalent to a ninth-level spell, but perhaps i'm under-gauging the difference in power between eighth and ninth-level spells?..
...regardless, in this particular case it was cast with indefinite duration plus disadvantage on the saving throw against a hostile player character, which i'd like to translate into mechanical terms: maybe a ninth-level casting with heightened metamagic plus silvery barbs?..
...i'm playing with a DM who has a poor grasp of fifth-edition's mechanical balance and i'd like to help him understand just how adversarial his homebrew and houserule tendencies are leaning, especially for early tier-two gameplay...