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uuldika

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  • Phasing thru walls

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  • it was successful?? how?

  • What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

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  • yes, actually!

  • What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

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  • ran a Tor exit node. chatted on Bluelight. took over a (small) botnet. tripped on research chemicals.

  • NSFW

    Phantom Limb Pain

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  • there's a rare mental illness called Body Integrity Dysphoria which makes people want to amputate a limb. They have less phantom pain than ordinary amputees, supposedly.

  • You Gotta Use The Right Desktop OS

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  • No NixOS? 🥺

  • You have one month left to get your Real ID before the May 2025 deadline: It's 'crunch time,' expert says

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  • it's an enhanced driver's license. I showed my passport and everything. if you look ar that fee schedule, I paid the "upgrade" fee ($7) because I already had a regular driver's license, and it expires two years from now, so $7*2=$14.

  • Christian "TheoBros" are building a tech utopia in Appalachia

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  • it's taboo up here too among the Salish people (Pacific Northwest.) interesting how it's shared.

  • You have one month left to get your Real ID before the May 2025 deadline: It's 'crunch time,' expert says

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  • I only had to pay $14 here in WA. maybe it's different depending?

  • Are most people here left-wing?

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  • There's a few ways to handle, but for example:

    • Roads: large towns and cities would mostly handle their own road maintenance. Roads connecting towns would probably be joint ventures. Projects would be funded and contracted by the towns and financed by town income tax. Rural areas would be underfunded, but that's partly intentional - dense population centers are more sustainable.
    • Environmental regulations: handled at the level of impact. for example, water quality standards for a river bind everyone who accesses the river. restrictions (e.g. standards for heavy metal levels) would be passed by minority vote - if 40% want a standard, that's enough. carbon credits would be administered at the Federal or World levels, by a combination of central government and treaties.
    • Education: probably pretty devolved, mostly a choice by municipalities in what they offer/teach. there'd likely be standardized tests that most places agree on for transferability (e.g. how the SAT works today.) religious schools could exist in religious communities, or you could have a Montessori program in your secular socialist Kibbutz.
    • Slavery: illegal at the Federal/World level. same with indentured servitude and coercive contracts. one of the most important functions of the central government is to protect the civil liberties of individuals.

    So the principles are mostly:

    • Externalities are handled at the level of their impact.
    • More power locally, less power centrally. City governments are more like micro-nations bound by a sort of EU.
    • Cities largely have a lot of direct democracy with some representatives. Critically, city governments wield lots of power over the businesses that operate in the city. This is critical to check corporate power.
    • Federal government exists as a backstop to safeguard fundamental rights and for truly national concerns.

  • Are most people here left-wing?

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  • I'm a left libertarian. I embrace decentralization, collectivism, freedom from corporate and central government tyranny, and want to maximize individual liberty and progressive values as we ideally move towards a society like the Culture series by Ian M. Banks.

    I'm not Anarchist because it's too chaotic and unrealistic, and I'm not ML because I don't like State authoritarianism and central planning.

  • Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings

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  • I've been denied all the best ultra sex 😞

  • A bailout for farmers caught in Trump’s trade war is already being discussed. ‘If we don’t get something, it will be quite a disaster”

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  • hungry constituents will pressure their representatives to revoke the tariffs.

  • Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging

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  • don't we have enough working forests to satisfy demand for lumber? even if we open some BLM land to logging, do we really need to log literally half of it?

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  • I'm fine with automation if we can have fully automated luxury communism!

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  • China is likely to get AI before the US does. Innovation here is slowing down.

  • New mini-dishwasher, made in France!

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  • Fun fact: the detergent packs are DRM'd, so you can't refill them and you have to buy from the company.

    Another fun fact: somebody made a "Bob Rewinder" that lets you reuse existing cartridges and fill them up with extremely cheap dishwashing liquid.

  • We're cooked, I'm hooked

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  • once in a lifetime recession

    slightly bit-crushed Mr. Incredible

    once in a lifetime pandemic

    monochrome nightmare fuel Mr. Incredible

  • Bubble Wrap!

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  • me in the ER when a neurology professor and her gaggle of students came to examine me after the ER doc called them up. it was giving House.

  • Bubble Wrap!

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  • eyebrow crabs?!! doctors are a different breed, that's nightmare fuel to me.