A lemmy nomad. Wish there was a way to migrate posts and comments from .world to .ml to here… 😪
I wonder if the archive.ph guys would be willing to host this as an alternate rendering option. They’re already doing archival downloading and reformatting, and I bet a lot of their users would appreciate having a totally unencumbered view like this.
I believe that is the point.
Yep, this is it. Show how “broken” it is by breaking it, and enough of the population won’t even notice when it’s “fixed” and they’re only getting 2/3 of what they were before (and are entitled to). Plus grift, etc.
Someone’s been reading Dave Graeber again
2025 twist: Kenneth is AI.
Wow no 4 wheel requirement?
I’m confused. Assuming you’re talking about bleach for laundry it’s just Sodium Hypochlorite. I don’t see how they could be derived from animals or animal products unless I guess if you’re counting diatoms from billions of years ago.
Not to mention if you’re out on a surfboard you probably don’t want to be wearing a weight belt :)
Less legendary, but I was there for this one:
Had to rent a truck at the end of college to move myself and two friends out of an apartment. We swung by the main campus on our way out to find, as many know, literally everything you might think of just laying in piles. Since we had extra space in the truck we loaded in around 25 TVs and computer monitors, an air conditioner, and a few decent-quality pieces of furniture. The screens we sold for cash when we got to our destination, and I had the furniture for probably 10 years.
The stuff people through out because it’s inconvenient to keep or transport is mind-boggling.
Disney’s board recommended voting against the proposal to end its participation in the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index. Shareholders concurred, with only 1% of shares voted in favor the proposal, according to the preliminary tally.
That’s damn near unanimous.
Governments are not big monolithic things, at federal, state and local levels there can be hundreds or thousands of users/endpoints to support. Nobody does that in house, even Fortune 500 companies outsource service and support (that’s how companies like RedHat, Xen, etc got so big when they were still making FOSS software). From another angle it’s about risk reduction, since if something comes up you have a vendor to blame.
Most of the govt fees are going to be for service and support, not licensing, so even with FOSS software they would need to find European vendors willing and able to provide everything from tech support to hotfixes to planned upgrades.
So many Meaghans!
The premise is that humanity has had 10,000+ years to experiment with different ways of living on all corners of the Earth, so it’s ridiculous to say that the modern system that we’ve evolved with division of labor and accumulated wealth is the only possible way (or the inevitable way) - which was kinda the premise of Sapiens. And then they back it up with a ton of modern archaeological evidence. It’s a little dry and admittedly academic, but really compelling once you dig into it.
I appreciate your optimism - good luck!
Wow, here I thought Jessie and James were brother and sister, but as it turns out they’re not, there’s lore, and they’re not dating either.
I know this is mostly a joke, but for anyone interested in this sort of thing I highly recommend you check out The Dawn of Everything, which goes into exhaustive detail about how in some places cities existed before agriculture, and in others agriculture existed for a long while without cities. (And by “check out” I mean prepare to devote long nights to reading with a million Wikipedia tabs open)
Skill issue, as the kids like to say.
Little Martha by The Allman Brothers does the weirdest thing in my brain. It’s just a fantastic instrumental acoustic guitar piece, but my brain desperately tries to “find” words in the melody. It’s almost like it’s a foreign language and I’m trying to suss out the meaning somehow. I’ve never run into another song that does that.
This was me 25 years ago, and it took a good long while after I was in the black before I could get to a point where I could stop thinking about work when I wasn’t working. I think this is the key: you MUST make time to not think about work (and from the sound of it, to think about your wife). I found it easiest to literally put it in my calendar. I set aside time for when I wanted to work out, play with the baby, hang out with the wife, etc. It was very granular in the beginning because otherwise I’d just blow it off, but when I penciled in 45 min for lunch with wife or 15 minutes to read a book, I’d actually do it. Eventually being able to unplug became easier and I could stop, but scheduling was a crutch I leaned on for years. It’s fantastic that you can see a path to success already, but remember that work and the grind aren’t the only important things.