We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I’d rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere
We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I’d rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere
You have to wonder if we aren’t just confirming what the Great Filter is. There may not be any space faring civilizations.
YEP. Same. It’s always entertaining at work to watch a colleague who’s never heard my accent before hear me speak to a patient from Appalachia or the south
Yeah I’m absurdly good at not speaking in my native Appalachian accent, opting instead for a sort of “generic midwest.” Unless I’m tawking to ma day-ed-dy, n’ then all bets is awf."
My sister and I cover so well and so often that none of her four children who are literally being raised in Charleston, West Virginia has even a trace of our accent.
The irony that phenylephrine intravenous is actually effective at maintaining blood pressure in people who are trying real hard to die on ya. (Our ICU uses it sometimes.)
https://www.lhsc.on.ca/critical-care-trauma-centre/phenylephrine-neosynephrine
Preach. I hate the shit, it makes me feel shaky, but god damn does it work.
They can buy themselves a few years at best without a functioning supply chain. We all depend on society, no matter how much they like to deny it
They think they do. No amount of money will protect a person from the collapse of a civilization. Never has, never will. Their plans are very much predicated on the assumption that markets will somehow magically continue to function after the general populace has lost all faith in them
I always struggled to imagine what dodos must have looked like irl until I saw these things. They almost look make-believe! Happy to see them reintroduced.
Oh noes! If he pays more in taxes he might be just regular old dirty rich instead of obscenely-no-one-could-ever-contrubute-enough-to-the-world-to-justify-this-level-of-wealth-accumulation rich. I feel so sorry for him.
This was not a good year for me to pick up Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry of the Future” book
Vivekananda is one of the most brilliant minds in modern India, contemporary with Gandhi, and only less well known because he died so young.
And “what that is” is that you’ve blindly accepted outsiders’ racist assessments of your people. You really need to question that shit:
“WE HAVE THE WORST GENETICS”
Holy SHIT, my dude. You need to take a SERIOUS step back and question the eugenicist colonial bullshit you’ve internalized. I would advise taking a look at Swami Vivekananda’s assessments of India and Indian people.
“nuke the unevolved savage freaks” is the most blatant example of standard issue online “it’s ok to say racist things about Indians” I have ever seen. I have no idea how anyone in 2023 could not have a single brain cell to make them rethink a statement like that before clicking the comment button.
Are you fucking kidding me with this racist shit?
Kuru Quantums for the win:
https://www.kurufootwear.com/products/womens-quantum-2-jetblack-slategray
Wide toebox and a heel designed to collapse around and maintain your natural heel shape instead of crushing your heelpad flat. These are the first shoes in my entire life I don’t need orthotics for. And I’m a nurse! I live on my feet all day
Oh man, let me introduce you to my absolute favorite used book seller:
https://www.ebay.com/str/secondsalecom
Also, construction leftovers on eBay are a great way to get sink faucets, light fixtures, etc. for a house.
Correct. Which is why cheap and agile renewables will remain a good option for less wealthy countries.
We *rich countries would be really stupid to worry about money when trying to save the planet.
There’s a lot of world outside the US, Europe, and China.
There only being that one playbook is the exact reason why I have a patch on my backpack that reads: “Evil is boring”