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You ever been on the inside of a cockpit?

I understand your issue. No, don’t hang yourself. You’d just get replaced immediately by another person ‘just following orders’.

It’s true that we’re all virtually powerless in ‘the machine’, but as the analogy would put it, it is via all the ‘powerless cogs’ that the machine is able to crush and destroy at all. You shouldn’t kill yourself, but instead should malfunction so as to damage the machine’s ability to crush, or to change it’s function entirely.

Education is one part, and the best education is realizing what you’ve been deprived by uncle Sam. You have no power because you’ve been deprived of what gives you power: privacy; community tied only to mutual uplifting instead of hobbies or less vital matters; a well paying job by which you could actually have meaningful effects on society around you; time unburdened by work or distraction, through which you can self-actualize and forge meaningful bonds; housing which you own, giving you security from undue raises in cost of living and protection from undue eviction.

The second part is community forming, mutual aid, and counter-establishment activism. That and not excluding others based on race, gender identity, homeland, or cultural differences (that’s the rub for many). Essentially, rectifying your ancestors’ mistakes is the same as uplifting ones own situation outside of society’s predefined means, and uplifting everyone alongside you.

That would be innovation, which I’m convinced no company can do anymore.

It feels like I learn that one of our modern innovations was already thought up and written down into a book in the 1950s, and just wasn’t possible at that time due to some limitation in memory, precision, or some other metric. All we did was do 5 decades of marginal improvement to get to it, while not innovating much at all.

I think it is spoof-resistant from the sound of it? You giving a valid proof-of-region via one of their circuit designs provides proof of your region but does not give your exact location, from the sounds of it.

I’ll get back to you after I’ve read through it.

Anyone have context for the photo?

Maybe it’ll rebound

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I have not been able to get up from a single one of his videos. They’re all addictively well-paced and written. All great vids.

Apparently new x-ray systems are now able to differentiate the density of water from other more dangerous chemicals, which has made so some airport customs do in fact allow water bottles through.

Video talking about it

It’s a good thing the US has equipped every satellite with a concealed carry weapon /s

Me when something cold touches my back.

Monolithic Archive systems like Internet Archive are cool, but we really should be pushing for better localized infrastructure usage for this kind of archiving, IMO.

That’s another potential defederated API to build out. I doubt it will end up developed, since most opensource devs are already busy on other projects.

Nah, this is just South America during the cold war.

I AM BULLET PROOF

Bullets are leftist! /s

Bruh drafting up the evac plans is gonna be a nightmare. And you best memorize your floor’s plan or you’re gonna be running a maze for your life.

It’s gonna turn out this whole fucking thing’s just a bunch of open floor plans with my luck.

Well, the reason people argue it’s a racist argument is that Paul Ehrlich’s book, ‘The Population Bomb’, was explicitly racist and advocated forced population control on less developed nations, and his talking points are consistently the most used throughout the conversation. For a full breakdown, I’d recommend listening to the ‘If Books Could Kill’ episode covering it.

What most arguments boil down to is either vague gesturing that the world capacity is nearing what is sustainable by the earth - a claim that is still very unproven and widely refuted - or claims about populations ballooning exponentially - These claims have historically been most leveled at African and Asian countries, most notably China and India.

The solution to this problem is also explicitly problematic most of the time, since the only solution to too many people is less people. Very rarely is this solution suggested in western countries, since the claims are only leveled at nonwestern nations with issues of poverty. These solutions are almost always to rob these nations’ people of their reproductive autonomy.

At the end of the day, I think that the actual solution has nothing to do with population, and everything to do with developed nations hoarding their wealth. If we actually made pushes to bring impoverished nations up into a healthy state, we already know that as QOL goes up for individuals, the number of children they have declines (the key reason is still debated). Just that would potentially be enough to cease global population climb.

We could also be greatly cutting emissions from developing countries by actually helping them develop emission-free methods of power and production.

There is also still much improvement to be made on how we farm land, how we harvest the crops, how we consume those crops, and food waste reduction, so I also don’t by the argument that we can’t make enough food.

Y’all really sleepin on plankton mutant ninja turtle.

Colleges explicitly advertise themselves as means of getting training for specialized job markets. They directly partner with companies to provide internships. A college degree is required on the majority of job openings in STEM, regardless of the opening.

This was not a distortion of colleges - it was a full societal push to make colleges more useful to the general public in the 1940s, which directly lead to an explosion in the number of colleges, mostly in the form of community colleges. Since then, the major purpose of colleges has been vocational training first and foremost.

What is this cube and how does it relate to the drive?