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ARealAlaskan

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  • ‘The fiscal trajectory is not sustainable’: CBO warns about the highest debt in U.S. history as Trump adds $1.4 trillion to 10-year deficit

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  • I am super interested in wind, but not sure if my house gets enough. My city is pretty windy in some areas, but I don't often get a ton.

    Do you have them yourself?

  • ‘The fiscal trajectory is not sustainable’: CBO warns about the highest debt in U.S. history as Trump adds $1.4 trillion to 10-year deficit

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  • Yep, the 'payoff time' on mine is long, but I am betting they last much longer than that, and that energy prices won't scale normally. I really want sodium ion batteries to work out, but they are sounding less promising.

    We have a big natural gas shortage looming here, and most homes are heated with it. Such an obvious thing to be trying to prepare for, sure heat pumps won't heat all winter here, but... If I can generate heat using my free electricity 2 or 3 of the months needing heat a year, that is a permanent discount, that only gets better as costs go crazy. People around me don't really seem to be thinking this way.

  • ‘The fiscal trajectory is not sustainable’: CBO warns about the highest debt in U.S. history as Trump adds $1.4 trillion to 10-year deficit

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  • I am investing in ways to make my future costs lower. For example, I have solar on my house. It covers about half of my bill, and will for the foreseeable future. I am looking into additions to solar, as I live in Alaska, and need to figure out winter times.

    I am looking into heat pumps, they aren't great for dead of winter, but they might eliminate shoulder season heat costs.

    We buy the best quality, and locally produced food and goods we can, to help support our health and our community resilience.

    Buy once, cry once, whenever we can, because replacement of stuff will be harder.

    We live beneath our means, and take the money we save being boring and pay off debt, so that we truly own what is ours, because someday, paying a mortgage or for a vehicle, might be too difficult.

    Practice using what you have, instead of buying stuff to solve your problem. Ingenuity is something that can be learned and practiced, but isn't something that comes naturally to people.

    Learn to make stuff, or about your surroundings. If you live in a place you can forage, learn about what you can eat in your area to supplement what you have to buy.

    Plan to be a poor person, because that is a situation that is likely, and that you can survive.

    Most people will not make it, if we wind up in a situation where you are dependent on what you plant, and goods you stock up on. That stuff is just prolonging the inevitable. Total independence is just not a thing most people are prepared for mentally, or have the skills to pull off. So, prepare for a future where luxuries are limited, material goods are in short supply, and you have to figure out how to make do with what you have.

  • How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet?

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  • I read the other day about a protocol called Gemini.

    https://geminiprotocol.net/

    It might fit what you are looking for, if you goal is just to publish interesting content, or get the experience learning something new and different, but not for you if you want to monetize.

    It is an alternate to the internet. You can self host there, also, but they have built Gemini to be unable to support applications, bots, malware etc... it goes much deeper, if you are curious, you should read, I am fascinated.

  • Video appears to show new ICE shooting in Minneapolis

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  • It was a little popup that opened the first time I clicked the link. It does not open on subsequent link clicks.

  • Video appears to show new ICE shooting in Minneapolis

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  • Hey. That link said first name last name (presumably yours) shared that document with you.

    Might want to clean that up for privacy sake.

  • What's your favorite movie that is in a language which you do not speak?

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  • The platform, aka El Hoyo

    It is about a futuristic prison, where food is distributed to inmates in a vertical prison. They have elected to be there, on promise of reward on release. They are fed on a vertical table, the descends, level by level.

    IMO, it is really about humanity and the choice between self service and a greater good.

    It is a great movie. The sequel... Eh.

  • My mom says that people who don't have "value" don't deserve to live and that "depression" is just an excuse for laziness. What's is your rebuttal for it?

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  • Less curious about cluster b personality disorders, specifically, and more interested in the practical understanding that (in this case) sometimes, the reason behind someone not valuing another is really about them trying to protect themselves.

    The connection between contempt, grandiosity, and shame; it makes sense intuitively, but it is interesting to spell it out that way.

    What about other big emotions, how many others are really outputs of another?

  • My mom says that people who don't have "value" don't deserve to live and that "depression" is just an excuse for laziness. What's is your rebuttal for it?

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  • Is their a field of study that focuses solely on the behavior, and the root cause, in the way your third and forth paragraphs does? Or, like, a flowchart of emotions and root causes? That was an interesting way to dissect why people might behave in that way.

  • New On The Market: ‘Empty Chair’ Town Halls

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  • This is it, exactly.

    I was at one of the Alaska empty-chair town halls, and it was good to just be around others with similar thoughts. Being surrounded by action, in a place where it is super unusual is uplifting. We arrived on time, and couldn't even get into the event because it was already full.

    Each time we get together, more people come, more people talk, and share upcoming events.

  • North Carolina GOP town hall gets rowdy as attendees hurl scathing questions on Trump

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  • I didn't think so. What a dick

    'Edwards kept good humor throughout the raucous town hall, telling attendees at the end that he enjoyed hearing the crowd’s “passion” and “patriotism.” In a news conference afterward, Edwards said Trump and Musk were “over the target” in what they set out to accomplish.'

    Edited, grabbed the wrong quote

  • A volcano near Alaska's largest city could erupt in the coming weeks or months, scientists say

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  • I live here.

    There is no real good place to evacuate to. All of the large population centers will likely be impacted, and most of those places aren't "large" at all. Literally nowhere to go, if we wanted to, except to the lower 48, or Canada.

    The distance Alaskan cities are from anywhere else makes evacuation logistically ... Challenging.

    The volcano could blow tomorrow, or in 6 months. You cannot realistically evacuate and abandon your entire life for a totally indeterminate amount of time.

    We had a similar eruption in 1992. It was fine. Airport was down for a day.

    The only real danger is volcanic ash. The volcano is 70ish miles off the coast.

    Everyone here is aware. We will all just hunker down. 3-7 days of food in the house, and water. Extra pet food. Schools and businesses will probably shut down for a few days in some towns. No driving, so the ash doesn't get kicked back up. Tape all of our windows to keep ash out, get dog booties, cotton to stuff their ears if you have pets that have to go outside. Swim goggles for pets and people. Respirators or masks do you don't breath it in. Might have to go a few days without electronics.

    All in all, everyone I know is just annoyed this will happen in the summer, and we'll be stuck inside. Summer is precious here, losing any of the days suck.

    The far, far greater danger is the wildfire season, it's been a very dry winter here. We always have lots of fires in the state, but this year will likely be worse, and with all the "winning" in the government right now, it is unclear what the firefighting response/capabilities will be. THAT could get plenty of people killed, and absolutely devastate out cities and individuals economic stability, which, frankly, is already not stable.