Oh, I forgot to add the interesting part: they were out of a job for a good while, finally got a got a new one, and started looking for a place to stay cause the job’s nowhere close to where they lived.
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Literally had one such old person checking out my shared house the other day and telling my younger housemate, who’s struggling to find proper work, to “try harder”. Guess who didn’t get to stay in the house.
I don’t see why we can’t designate door-to-door mailing in sparsely populated areas and community mailboxes in more crowded places? Wouldn’t that save quite some money while still ensuring that people don’t have to spend ridiculous amounts of time to get their mail? I’d imagine that in more crowded places, because things are a bit more down in scale, people wouldn’t have to drive 20 minutes just to get their mail, and it would generally be a 5 minute walk.
We can do something more creative too. If there’s a nearby cafe or something, make that the community mailbox and people can grab their mail and have coffee. Your parcels would be away from the elements, and the cafe can become sort of a 3rd place. It’s more efficient land use!
We can also make community mailboxes have the ability to notify the people whenever there’s something in the mail, and people can subscribe to that system if they wish to (not everyone wants or can use digital ways of getting information). That way, it’s more difficult for people to forget about their mail. There definitely is a development cost and ongoing maintenance cost, but hey, it’s an option.
For those in sparsely populated areas, nothing much would change, if any. I think they could still have community mailboxes and just opt into it if it fits their lifestyle (eg, they choose to head out to the mailbox every Tues and Fri, for example). They can change their delivery option by going online or just visit a library or somewhere they can get a person to help them change their setting.
Is that a bit more work for postal workers to have to separate mail? It could be, but perhaps we could append some kind of token to the address to clearly distinguish door-to-door vs community mailboxes, making it easier to verify by eye, and also easier to automatically separate via a scanner if needed. Heck, could we just plaster a QR code to mail?
For those who changed their option, you might still get mail either in your community mailbox or your own mailbox, depending on what you’ve switched to.
Just spitballing here. There’s a lot you can argue about each idea, but there are many things we can do to be more efficient, make it less painful for our postal workers but also save out on cost.
Not in my functional language with no nulls :P
That’s one real tone deaf response. Did you even understand what I wrote?
While I don’t disagree with the comment you replied to, just saying that you’re hearing similar complaints these days just reminds me that a lot of “complaints” are controlled and disseminated strategically to flood the zone and make issues seem more serious than they are. While it’s still a useful way to get a gauge on certain issues, when it comes to politics or politically charged issues, it’s no longer a reliable source for any kind of personal judgement. Just my 2 cents.
Back in university, it was an iPad mini 5, using Notability. Notability has enshittified badly though.
These days (I’m no longer in university so I do write a lot less), I write on a Kobo.
It does. I vastly prefer writing notes by hand than typing em. But my handwriting sucks when I have to write quickly, and I also don’t like lugging around giant stacks of paper. And so I settled on a digital writing pad, and just do the work to type my notes later. Acts as revision too.
pp’s comment doesn’t even make too much sense. Does he think people believe that governments can change the course of literal macroeconomic trends in just less than a year, and especially in the face of an aggressive economic threat from a large trading partner?
Oh wait. His supporters would believe that.
Fuck off pp
Every time I see someone recommend this at work I die a little inside. Like… C’mon!
I wonder if we could just build out that infra and trade or sell the know-how or tech to other countries. I’m sure a lot of countries out there are pretty darn interested in replacing AWS. Displacing them would be hard, cause it takes a lot of money, and so years, to procure all that hardware, but it’d already be a big win if people would even consider hosting their business sites or apps outside of AWS/Azure/GCP.
One of the main seeking points of those services, however, is that it’s easy for software businesses to expand to different geographical locations by just deploying the same thing they build to the new environment, and that’s an enormous barrier for cloud providers, easily separating the smaller fishes from the big ones. Being able to share that tech with friendlier countries or countries with sufficiently cordial relations, would make it easier for businesses to do that.
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Hope exists, but I find it hard to convince myself that there’s enough of us to move the needle, in that we’re simply not the majority. There’s a lot of us, and it feels great being in these spaces and chatting about and sharing what we could and should do. But the moment I walk out of my door and start talking to other people, I see many who either don’t care, or is unabashedly cathartic, or cares more about just themselves, or is even happily going about with their lives doing exactly the things that are destroying us, including their own future.
Children are always how we continue to have hope for the future huh. It’s unfortunate that many of my peers in my generation (early adult to adult), especially the well-educated ones, have sort of given up on having children, either thinking that they’re too loud, too disruptive to their lives (either in lifestyle or finance-wise), or just don’t want to bring new lives into this “dying” world. Some of them are teachers themselves, and it’s depressing just hearing their stories on how kids are living their lives these days. There are those who are born into unfortunate families, parents who don’t know better and don’t really do much bringing their kids up, and then there are those who look at the state of society and don’t find much hope, plunging them into depression or making them feel so pressured that they develop behavioural issues. Teenagers are rebellious yes, but many of the issues of the world aren’t something that you can fight back or change with just your will. I wish we as a society would pay more attention to them, and actually look at them, if not just to know how we’re doing as their predecessors. There’s a lot we can learn from them.
I typically scoff at those hyped up world-ending scenarios cause they’re just in it for the TV, but climate change and WW3 are different. WW3, maybe not so much; the threat has always been there, and we live with that, doing things in hopes that we can keep the balance of the world largely in place. There’s definitely an increased likelihood of it happening with the US essentially saying “fuck you” to everybody, as the current world order is definitely unipolar and there’s been a lot (if not too much) reliance on the US being the rather benevolent power keeping peace around most parts of the world (let’s not get started on the shitty things the US has done in the last 40 years, but the reality is that many parts of the world has had relative peace for around that long). Climate change though, that’s absolutely no joke, and many climate scientists and experts have seen sounding the alarm for decades. You won’t see bombs in the sky. You might still be able to keep adapting to ever hotter, colder, or crazier weather patterns, but we can only adapt so much before we hit a brick wall with engineering and economics. We’re still actively making this only planet we have less habitable for ourselves and our future generations. Food production has consistently been going down, and the wars aren’t helping us move food around better, making everything expensive everywhere.
I’ve said more depressing things, and maybe most may think that that’s where I end, and that my answer is that there is no hope, or that whatever hope there is is meaningless. Maybe it’ll surprise some that I don’t think so at all. It’s exactly because I understand the situation that we are in and how dire it is that I think we should continue to do what we can. When it comes down to it, you either do something, or you don’t and you wait and die in regret (anyone who tries to say that they’ll try to enjoy their lives as much as they can before they die so that they have no regrets, you’re absolutely dying with regrets; unless you’re one selfish bastard, you are absolutely going to die with regrets). I would much rather be doing something to change our reality and even challenge fate itself than to just let it do its thing. At the very least, I will die knowing that I’ve did what I can, and that my only regret is that it wasn’t enough to change things.
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Several recent generations, especially in the US, have decided to essentially label being smart as an unpopular trait, and ridiculed people who put effort into schoolwork as “tryhards”, discouraging knowledge acquisition and allowing kids to just say “Ah, this is good enough and I don’t have to try hard”. Saying “I don’t understand math” was, essentially, a fashion statement. So of course we have almost whole generations that lack the ability to think critically and realize that they’ve been trapped mentally to be cows for milking. Doesn’t help that Western culture is rather hedonistic, where prioritizing one’s own indulgences triumphs over the well-being of others, and that sort of culture gets spread everywhere. Give them the illusion of freedom, and they’ll let you do whatever you want. Sorry I didn’t mince my words there.
As much as I’d hope to see things change for the better, I don’t really see it happening without some really depressing episodes given the direction that the world is heading towards. There are small glimmers of hope here and there, but none of them are in a position to really move that needle where it needs to go. I try to be positive and do I can, but I can’t shake the vision where we’re heading towards some of the most turbulent times we’ve seen since WW2 and the Cold War. Sorry for bringing up some really dark visions, but they’re all rather well tied together to me.
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Exactly. We can kind of see this in Japan too: trains and buses do reach out to rural areas. There definitely has been a reduction in frequency and train services to some villages there, but living in rural Japan doesn’t necessitate a car immediately: you only need one of you need to get out of town frequently at irregular times, or move large objects frequently. Getting food is still pretty easy even without a car: you could either bike or take a motorcycle, and in some cases, you don’t even need it cause houses are all pretty close together despite being rural.
Sometimes, I think North Americans are slightly insane. They want to live completely on their own land with nobody around, but still want all the benefits of being in society, and demands people to give them that at low prices. You can’t have the damn cake and eat it too.
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The linked Hackernews comment thread is so cathartic and car-braindead. Ugh… I need to wash my brain.
Public transport doesn’t work unless you’re China/Japan, cause we have bureaucracy, safety issues, blah blah blah blah blah
as if those don’t exist in China and Japan (edit: heck, these places have even more bureaucracy and concern over safety (particularly Japan!))
Can’t get to mah grocery store or that good grocery store “close by”
That’s what you get when you have wide af stroads
Public transit sucks even in London outside of touristy areas
Ahem, nobody ever said it’s good
Public transit sucks in Germany
Ahem, just look at how Deutchebahn has been operating
Most people can’t bike!
Not everyone has to!
If strawmen were part of our population, they would be the most abused group of people on Hackernews. Just more reason to never visit that site for my sanity.
Shit doesn’t work cause we’ve made it, or some people with a vested interest against alternative modes of transport have made it, hard for public transit to work nicely. And whoever the fuck thinks that it’s either public transport or private transport and nothing in between can go hide in their cave. There will always be both, and it’s only a matter of how much of both.
Edit: Edited the quoted section to properly separate my retorts from the comments
How can we expect kids to mature and learn responsibly and citical thinking if we remove challenging material?
Well that’s the fucking point: these skills are in their way of controlling minds or at least keep them dumb enough so that they don’t question their circumstances, particularly those created by those who decided to ban those books. Knowledge is power, and so if you can remove knowledge…
Is that “the” supposed to fit between “police” and “opposition”? I’m still confused by this terrible headline.
You read that wrong my friend. It says “Spend ¥6000 or above (implies that you spend this much at The Poutinerie) and get this magnet for free”