Do you think all the extremely complex (and corrupt) existing financial system is more energy efficient?

it is.

Hey, someone is going to have to do all those below-subsistence jobs that the deported immigrants have been doing.

I barely graduated high school and never completed my only semester of community college. My whole life I found it very difficult engaging with formal education and lacked motivation to focus on the synthetic work of school. It always felt meaningless and detached from reality to me. I was eager to be done with school as soon as possible.

I’m very satisfied with how my life turned out and the minimal role of formal education within it.

It’s almost certain…

Show your work

But now the victims are white

I’ve been happy using gath.io for a very privacy-respecting meeting organizer that doesn’t require participants to onboard onto yet another platform.

Population density matters:

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This is literally the case all the damn time in every single era of history.

I don’t know how old you are, so I can’t even guess what your perspective and context on this subject might be. All I know is that at 55 (born in 1970) it sure feels different right now compared to how things have been for most of my lifetime. To me, at least.

Before Digg was Kuro5hin and Slashdot

I always figured maybe the acid rain would save us from the killer bees.

My side hustle website got big enough in 2007 to allow me to quit my day job and go all in with it.

Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.

None of Jellyfin’s security issues affect me.

All of Plex’s shit does.

Every year Jellyfin improves and Plex further enshittifies. You’re fighting against the tide here.

There are still options for disc-by-mail rental online. Netflix shut down their business but there are smaller companies still serving the remaining market.

… when there’s literally no other option to own it in a way it can’t be just taken from you …

There’s at least one legal route that’s still viable.

I buy lots of Blu-ray and 4K UHD discs. I rip them straight on to my Jellyfin server. In fact, there’s been renewed vitality in disc releases during the past few years. Small shops like Shout Factory and Arrow are buying rights to old (‘60s through ‘00s) films that were shot on 35mm. They re-scan and remaster for UHD 4K and then straight to physical disc. That’s a cheap production pipeline with modern tech.

I’ve been having a blast re-visiting films that I never saw in the theater and only know from VHS or DVD rentals. Seeing them again with fresh eyes in 4K has been really gratifying.

That, plus new release discs keep me with more options than I have time to watch.

“Vietnam” is not widely known for sex tourism, but “Southeast Asia” is coded. “Sex Tourism in Southeast Asia” is a familiar term in American English and the image caption is tailored to leverage that association. This image was created to be misinformation and the creator chose the phrasing to increase the image’s impact.

What do they pack them in?

I lost power and water for several days following a hurricane. No internet and no cell signal.

A dual band HT was our only way to learn what was happening across the city and in our neighborhood. It was a lifeline. I’ve got a bigger mobile unit set up now with a better antenna. Easy thing to keep on hand for the next zombie attack.