

I’m surprised they can get insurance at all after all that has happened.
I’m surprised they can get insurance at all after all that has happened.
Forest fires are no joke.
Prepare. Stay informed. Listen to the authorities.
If they tell you to leave your home and evacuate, leave.
Use it to hire most of the best minds to be found with the sole purpose of creating an expansive infrastructure to provide regular people the means to organize as one.
The undertaking would be staggering. Reviewing all the known history of man, considering all the languages, cultures, failures and successes.
Researching and combining all known technologies.
All to set the groundwork for a global union of human kind to be able to collectively counteract the disease that is the upper most classes.
After much daydreaming on the subject. I think this is the way of long term existential survival for the human race.
TL;DR: Basically, the Star Trek federation.
Ok, so not really bright, but visible. I smell the plot to a bank heist movie.
And blinded by security cameras?
Seriously, wouldn’t being able to see infrared basically make you see night vision cameras like they are street lights?
The idea of autonomous super robot people doing all the hard work for us sounds great, until you remember that it will all be built on foundations of profit.
It doesn’t really matter how brilliant the engineers are if the corporate manager is forcefully cutting corners.
Who do you think gets the blame when things go wrong though?
Strategy.
No, your half-baked, half-plan you stole from an intern, is not only not good, the last guy tried it and we are still trying to fix that mess.
I’m not sure if it really counts as a buzzword though.
I’m not sure I have an explanation why, but getting paid for my blood makes it seem dirtier somehow lol
I think you might be right. I have only ever given whole blood, so I can’t confirm 100% on the paid plasma either.
What places pay you for it? I’ve only ever been given snacks and juice afterwards in Canada.
The pay rate of the lowest paid worker of any company or institution should be somehow legally and directly tied to the pay rate of the highest paid executive.
If the executive wants to make more money and gets a raise, then so do the workers.
Not sure if anyone else mentioned this, but you can just redirect traffic on your local LAN with an ad blocker like pihole ( I currently use adguardhome podman instance )
Basically, it rewrites any calls to your outside domain from within your local network, back to your local web server. As long as the site is setup with the certificate there, you’re good.
Then setup a nginx reverse proxy and you’re golden. Regular site outside LAN, internal site inside LAN.
Edit: spelling
I hear you and agree, but part of me wonders if that is solely because they were always nasty people, or they are actually reacting to the awful way they get treated.
They are already probably dealing with failing health, burying most of their friends, not understanding most of what is going on in the world, feeling left behind, etc.
In their shoes I’m not sure if I could be very cheerful myself. Maybe I’ll get the opportunity to find out and hopefully I’ll not be one of the ones you mention, but who knows.
Most of us are tired from all the crap of the world already, imagine 30-40 more years of that on top of the things I just mentioned.
Absolutely, which is why cooperative corporate structure appealed to me. Everyone has there same stake in it and still maintains their own separate lives. Only things that are agreed upon as shareable would be shared.
Like bulk food, equipment, etc.
TL;DR: capitalism.
I’ve put some thought into this and I don’t have a good answer other than because of how society is designed to keep us from doing it now.
Evolutionarily speaking, we are designed to thrive in smaller communities. It’s only in the more recent part of humanity that we seem to have moved away from that. I mean, there were still cities a long time ago, but within them were what could be thought of as smaller communities.
I myself am of European descent, but currently live in a place where there is a thriving native community and realizing that I sometimes have envy of some of their ways of life is what got me thinking.
For instance, in western society becoming elderly is almost seen as a problem, like a burden that needs to be “dealt” with. For them it is a station of respect and reverence. If an Elder walks down the street, they are taught to show respect and pay heed to their wisdom and guidance. If the rest of us are lucky, we can get a seniors discount at select stores by declaring they we are among the needy.
I’ve even went as far as researching communal living, intentional communities and cooperative housing, but I keep chickening out when it comes time to pull anything into action.
The idea of finding 4-6 like-minded families to share resources with and use our individual talents and skills to help each other really appeals to me. It makes sense to build resilience against harder times.
But to answer your question, smaller communities helping each other is against the capitalist ideal and is/will be thwarted at any scale by corporations and corporate influenced governments alike at every turn. So I guess that’s the most likely reason.
Yet.
This reads like an obvious ploy to soften the idea to his base. They hate Obama too, probably because Trump does.
What other opponent would ire them more? Also, if someone like Obama was on-board, it would be more of a challenge to the rule against it from both sides. Democrats rally behind Obama, Voting machine hackers behind Trump.
Is like a pretext to calling Obama a chicken for not doing it down the road.
And the news floats gently into the minds of the weary, surprising no one.
Probably just a comment to placate his base while behind the scenes it’s daddy Putin’s orders as usual.
Can someone considerably smarter than me, with time to spare, please just find a way to federate/decentralize DNS.
I can fathom that it is complicated, maybe even impossible in the current setup, but the internet we all grew to love dies a little bit more each time the mouth breathers try to restrict it on behalf of capitalism.
Maybe remembering ip addresses can fill the void of not having to remember phone numbers anymore?