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Managing Partner @ Root System. Long Suffering Tech Enthusiast. Collapsing the wave function of my life. Kinsey3. COYS!
Petaluma, CA
".. to secure these rights, Governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
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The fact that I remember it all so clearly is telling. I don’t remember much else from those ages, certainly not as clearly.
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I’m not sure I would have internalized the full weight of the disaster if the movie hadn’t made me viscerally aware that there were people inside the rocket when it exploded. Hard thing for a 7 year old to grapple.
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It wasn’t just movies, I watched Challenger explode live but didn’t understand what that really meant until Space camp made me feel the fear. Space/NASA was ruined for me until my teens.
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looking delicious bro, mange!
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I took the Lake Shore Limited from Boston to Syracuse when I was 17 to visit my cousin in Utica and visit Potsdam to tour Clarkson. I got off at Albany-Rensselaer with people I met in the lounge car to stretch legs, proceeded to go to the bar adjacent to the station and was served. best time ever.
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proton mail: fully encrypted +, doesn't let html email trackers work, has a drive, calendar, and pw manager plus a bunch of others, I'm less familiar with. full desktop and mobile app support. great products. (business class too if you have that need)
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Oooh cool site :)
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There's no legal way to cross the border, plane, train, nor automobile, without passing through 100% ICE-controlled federal access points. Who is he kidding?
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Liz the developer on Instagram has some good content on the how and why's of this as well. As well as some stuff on building stingray hunters.
www.instagram.com/lizthedevelo...
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We're way past that now. Impeachment is a feckless "power" and a distraction. He's been impeached, twice. We're at "consent of the governed is revoked" territory. Peacefully. SHUT. IT. ALL. DOWN.
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We're way past that now. Impeachment is a feckless "power" and a distraction. He's been impeached, twice. We're at "consent of the governed is revoked" territory. Peacefully. SHUT. IT. ALL. DOWN.
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oh yeah, who wrote about this idea? it was 2014 or 2015 I think. Feels very David Wallace-Wells, but I'm sure I'm forgetting something.
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How the hell will we know that the situation is improving if our data is completely disconnected from the lived experience of the majority of the population?
You cannot consistently improve that which you do not measure. At least not causally.
The problem of our times.
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we're not going to be out of this doom loop we're stuck in.
I started this thread with the idea of changing the measure of societal health to become more encompassing because we're only now realizing the problem, post hoc.
The change needed is systemic and no problems are more difficult to solve
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We are on a path to Very Bad Outcomes™ if history is to be believed and I theorize that until we figure out a way to give a hell of a lot of people hope, real hope; hope that they believe their lives will improve, immediately followed by actually improving, even if incrementally to start,
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Expecting an electorate to show up in broad numbers to prevent this has never been long-term stable. A democracy that only survives with one party in power in perpetuity isn't a democracy, either way. America only survived this long due to our ability to share power with those with whom we disagree.
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to lose, would you not think twice about taking it?
Sure, not everyone would, plenty of people would act selflessly even in the face of their own pain and despair. Combined with an outdated and brittle electoral system; It only takes 30% of the population to inflict harm.
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broadly fulfilled, is it any wonder that so many people regress to punishing society because that's the only lever they have?
If you believed that the only option to act available to you hurt others, with no other outcome possible, and since you're already at the bottom with nothing left
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don't represent their interests, and worse, actively hurt them more?
It suggests they don't believe anyone will help them and therefore are ok with destroying the system, maximally, or just spreading around their pain, minimally. If only 20% of Americans have a future to look forward to, who are
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much of our problems root to the fact that so many Americans are in a constant state of suffering (even allowing for the fact that food access, even if inconsistent, has never been broader in the society)
They are broadly unfulfilled, as humans.
Why are they willing to back reps. who,
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Stay at home parenting is one thing, caring for those such as developmentally disabled persons, caring for elders (beyond family), actual health measures, the toxicity of sub-products and energy inputs into products, services, software, etc.
Wealth distribution is a big one, how
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Come on Charles, he's only intentionally crashing the dollar, the rest of the collateral damage is clearly our fault. He only has our best interests at heart and can't do anything incorrectly so any real-world downsides must be 100% the result of our weaknesses. Ahh it feels good to win again. `/s`
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I think it frustrates me more now, those willfully ignorant of concepts who's definitions are so easily obtainable with the most basic of searches.
like sure, I get that I have lots of education and tons of experience with latin roots and prefixes and esoteric constant names but still. not hard.
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totally grant that the process and machinations of recopying is material >> costly
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beyond the tactical maintenance effort problem, an order of magnitude growth in capability is an order of magnitude reduction in cost. The older the data, the cheaper it is to store, there's no excuse not to archive it in perpetuity.
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Optimistic Take: at least we know SOMETHING can move them. It may not be useful, but there's a rational actor buried below the layer of values-deprived sycophancy. It also exposes their other statements as duplicitous nonsense, not that calling out hypocrisy has any efficacy anymore..
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I may have you on this one, 14 y/o me and my 65 year old grandmother taking in a nice afternoon matinee while I was out of school on Xmas break while my mom was working.....and caught The Crying Game together. My gram was really cool about it, thinking back. told me about trans people's struggle.
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Inflation has cut deep into budgets, as I’m sure you are aware. But I’m making a practical argument which I understand isn’t your point.
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Is warranted. If that were packaged with a minimum wage boost I’d be for it.
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Depending on the area I agree, but for a family of four in a higher cost of living area, that’s enough to live but not enough to live, save for college for kids, and retirement, handle a semi major house problem and take a short vacation.
Not every one should be enabled but some COL +
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Small counterpoint, I recognize this is sarcasm and I’m not writing to “well actually” at you but to add that livable salaries can allow for those not already independently wealthy to afford to serve. Granted that doesn’t fix the cost to run but both need solutions to stem the flow to oligarchy.
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the apple watch app grid view is already shockingly close to this.
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err, i got to that from here: (www.tsunami.gov) which is NOAA....