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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That is what needs to happen. Unfortunately the issue is that they start with messaging like this to make the vast majority of the country think they're safe.

Its only going to be 'certain citizens', who've committed 'certain crimes'.

So that most other citizens will sit quietly in the corner and hope to not call attention to themselves.

Meanwhile the scale and scope of who's counted as undesirable; who's going to be impacted, will continue to grow as their ability to process the 'undesirables' grows. This will go until the set of undesirables includes everyone not actively working for 'The Party'

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

legally shipped off to a foreign concentration camp

I think you mean sold to the highest bidding foreign labour camp.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, we won’t really be prosperous until we’re losing multiple cities a year to wild fires.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

we went from “trump never tells the truth” to “why didn’t you believe trump” so fast people are breaking necks left and right.

I think its more that he says so much shit, you can't take any of his words at face value, which isn't the same as everything is a lie.

If he says something that sounds positive to people other than himself, its probably a lie. If he says something that sounds horrible, its probably him telling the truth by accident.

Following this heuristic, this sort of violence was exactly the sort of thing he should have been believed on. edit: formatting

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think that defeats it at all, it just changes the direction of the conversation and is as deeply philosophical as the first. Some might say life goes on with or without free will so it doesn't matter, other say that the a societal acceptance of the absence of free will removes the burden of guilt, and could reshape society in very profound ways, so of course it matters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

From the comments link:

From the article: the Miyawaki method, a forestation technique that creates fast-growing, highly biodiverse native forests in the middle of urban areas, or even on deteriorating land. This planting style forces vegetation to compete for resources, accelerating its growth. A forest planted using this technique can grow in 30 years and requires no maintenance after three years.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira/_Miyawaki#Method_and_cond...

A dense plantation of very young seedlings (but with an already mature root system: with symbiotic bacteria and fungi present) is recommended. Density aims at stirring competition between species and the onset of phytosociological relations close to what would happen in nature (three to five plants per square metre in the temperate zone, up to five or ten seedlings per square metre in Borneo).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

My devices headsets, speakers etc will usually try to reconnect to last phone/tablet that it was connected to.

If they connect to tue wrong one, You can usually trigger them to look for a new device, connect to it from your phone, then as long as your phone has BT on when its next turned on, it should connect to your phone first.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Started compiling a list, but it posted early, and I got lazy.

List of them here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services

Looking at the first handful, most aren't medical professionals.

You would still expect that they should be able leverage their resources to have a pre-built response to a question like that.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

I think the whole 'Barbie' thing is a reference to how the women in Trump's orbit all have the same over-manufactured aesthetic.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Spy by Family obviously

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It'll create a new bottleneck for sure, but I expect there to be a few communities built up by the richest of the rich to survive with as much comfortable as possible. A large number of the survivors will be their serfs, essential staff to maintain their comfort in exchange for a chance to survive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm not speaking from experience with the firefighters side here, but I do think it come's down to the ick factor of smell is so much stronger than the yum factor.
Smell is how we know if something is safe to eat, so if its off even a bit, that jumps to the peak of our attention.

Usually if you burn something a little bit, that's the only smell you notice.

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