What do you mean? I was literally just walking down the street in NYC just as I read your post and I got punched in the face too! How does this keep on happening?!?!?!
I always explain the cloud as follows:
You go to a whiteboard and draw a cloud, then inside you write "not my problem". That's the cloud. It isn't anything special, it's just a concept of this other thing that isn't your problem because you're paying Amazon to deal with it. You could have an identical server to theirs in the same data center on the same internet connection running the same software, and then you'd have to draw all of that and it wouldn't be "the cloud" anymore.
You go to a whiteboard and draw a cloud, then inside you write "not my problem". That's the cloud. It isn't anything special, it's just a concept of this other thing that isn't your problem because you're paying Amazon to deal with it. You could have an identical server to theirs in the same data center on the same internet connection running the same software, and then you'd have to draw all of that and it wouldn't be "the cloud" anymore.
The ephemeral nature of the fediverse is sometimes kinda annoying. It's annoying enough for mastodon, but it's really annoying for community based stuff like on Lemmy. You might have a vibrant community and then -bam- the site goes down. You're stuck with thousands of posts on your instance and maybe dozens of communities just sitting there taking up space.
One of many reasons why I think an alternative to server based communities on Reddit clones probably need to exist.
One of many reasons why I think an alternative to server based communities on Reddit clones probably need to exist.
Tbf there's lots of civilian branches. Pharma, food, a lot of domestic manufacturing is just idled military capacity... The world wars got America into total war mode and it never wanted to leave. As empire declines it'll have to or it won't be a United States much longer. Ask the Spanish empire how great being overloaded with debt and military obligation is.
I don't care, anime has been fire the last bunch of seasons. Solo leveling alone has been just so damn good, but there's all kinds of stuff.
One financial guy I used to follow was adamant that you should invest in REITs. "Don't worry guys, it's not residential real estate, it's commercial real estate. It's safe!"
How's that working out for ya?
How's that working out for ya?
I'm awfully happy that we're not on any of their platforms... Imagine how much of a waste this is -- 20 billion dollars is enough to change the lives of millions of people permanently, and instead it's being spent on election fuckery.
Something that I've been thinking about a lot lately is the effect that drones could have on the democratization of war. Hearing stories out of Ukraine about drone attacks being extremely effective against extremely expensive military hardware makes me think a lot about the difference between the bronze age and the iron age, or the dawn of the firearms age against armored cavalry. Suddenly you can have some people with some extremely inexpensive weapons with extremely high effectiveness against modern arms.
Yes, unfortunately I think we can all agree that there is a massive amount of State corruption in the US right now, which is one of the reasons why the empire is so badly in decline.
Another way that all of this helps to hurt everyone is by basically forcing the destruction of the accumulated wealth of the nation. You might think that those cars were wasteful because they burned a lot of fuel, or because they were too old, but they were highly complicated devices that already existed that people have the option to use if they wanted to. The cash for clunkers program took cars that were perfectly serviceable and destroyed them. It has resulted in vehicle prices in North America overall being on a completely different level than for example Europe where such a program didn't exist.
Really, it would be better to let the car companies fail and then maybe they would come back with something people actually wanted to buy. On the other hand, as part of that failure maybe they need to start pointing their finger directly at the government for forcing companies make cars that nobody likes.
Another way that all of this helps to hurt everyone is by basically forcing the destruction of the accumulated wealth of the nation. You might think that those cars were wasteful because they burned a lot of fuel, or because they were too old, but they were highly complicated devices that already existed that people have the option to use if they wanted to. The cash for clunkers program took cars that were perfectly serviceable and destroyed them. It has resulted in vehicle prices in North America overall being on a completely different level than for example Europe where such a program didn't exist.
Really, it would be better to let the car companies fail and then maybe they would come back with something people actually wanted to buy. On the other hand, as part of that failure maybe they need to start pointing their finger directly at the government for forcing companies make cars that nobody likes.
And even if they were your servants, what you're not going to treat your servants okay?
I was thinking something a little bit more like somebody pulling a wrench or moving a box, but I guess participating in a glowie op counts too. :p
At some point, somebody somewhere needs to actually do a thing. You need boots on the ground actually doing stuff or you aren't actually doing anything.
This truism being ignored is going to be really bad for our society that thinks everyone can get someone else to do it.
This truism being ignored is going to be really bad for our society that thinks everyone can get someone else to do it.
You know, I've been thinking about that Cash for clunkers program a lot lately. I have a sneaking suspicion it might be the primary reason why used cars are so unbelievably expensive. I mean, I was looking at some used cars, and for vehicle with almost 400,000 km on it they were asking the same as what you would expect to have paid for a new car not that long ago.
So it's one of those things where the people who make the decisions to have these programs aren't the ones who pay the consequences of having these programs. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be a young person trying to get there first vehicle. Mine was 500 bucks, which admittedly was a very good deal for the time, but I'm just imagining going five figures in debt to buy something that could be scrap any day...
So it's one of those things where the people who make the decisions to have these programs aren't the ones who pay the consequences of having these programs. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be a young person trying to get there first vehicle. Mine was 500 bucks, which admittedly was a very good deal for the time, but I'm just imagining going five figures in debt to buy something that could be scrap any day...
I've written at long length about hydroelectric, and it's difficult to argue that it isn't the best possible form of energy anywhere it's practical. There's a direct inverse correlation in most places between the amount of hydroelectric and the price of electricity. Unlike most forms of green energy, it is highly effective in places where it gets cold, such as Norway, Northern Quebec, and Northern Manitoba. You don't need particularly exotic materials to build such dams, you can use regionally sourced iron and copper if need be, as well as local earthenworks and limestone for portland cement.
Now that doesn't help much with transportation, but there's another long proven technology we could bring back which would be beneficial: The electric streetcar. There were cities with extensive public transportation operating using such streetcars at the turn of the 20th century, showing it was already practical 100 years ago. These were also successfully used in cities that are cold. One thing that would have to change for public transportation to be more useful is we'd need to accept that there is such a thing as good behavior and bad behavior and if you're not going to behave in a way conducive to polite society you shall be removed from public transportation. As long as it's ok to be bad in public with no repercussions, then people will want personal vehicles.
Now that doesn't help much with transportation, but there's another long proven technology we could bring back which would be beneficial: The electric streetcar. There were cities with extensive public transportation operating using such streetcars at the turn of the 20th century, showing it was already practical 100 years ago. These were also successfully used in cities that are cold. One thing that would have to change for public transportation to be more useful is we'd need to accept that there is such a thing as good behavior and bad behavior and if you're not going to behave in a way conducive to polite society you shall be removed from public transportation. As long as it's ok to be bad in public with no repercussions, then people will want personal vehicles.
What I mean is, did Gandhi actually say any of that?
It's like Abraham Lincoln famously said: "don't trust everything you say attributed to famous people on the internet, it doesn't cost anything that slap some words on a photo"
It's like Abraham Lincoln famously said: "don't trust everything you say attributed to famous people on the internet, it doesn't cost anything that slap some words on a photo"
Not the base image I wanted but im not digging through meme generators for the guy from breaking bad
