The"awareness" of erotic as power should also consider its limitations and misuses - in the same discussion. When only the potential negative or positive of a subject is promoted - it avoids the management an individual needs to apply to assure their use remains helpful.
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Wait till everyone else trespasses on them !!!
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Ya chunked it.
I neither state nor support that type of action.
*watches bobble-head*
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Tourism is the ugly, fattening, low-hanging fruit of cheap job creation.
bartenders, baristas, cooks, waiters, room service, Uber driving, janitor, tour guide, ... It's all shit pay.
Tourists UNDERPAY for the infrastructure it takes to support their bloated carcasses in blissful ignorance.
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A steam powered, economy-class, hyper-divided, caste-riddled, inward looking superpower ? They won't take on EU, USA, Russia.
I think a better term is a regionally dominant partner-power.
- no global military presence
- no global investment in improving other economies
- not a first call nation
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There are additional ways to measure outcomes...
Annual economic cost of hurricanes is $ 70-100 billion
Annual cost of flu is $16-20 billion
Average rebuild/recovery from hurricane is 2-10 years. Lack of a reliable home can lead to illness - like flu
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No doubt.
But that "dumb argument" has to made to figure out - how do we intelligently search for the jackals who prey on the innocent.
If the response is "it's too hard" - the jackwads have won.
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While I'd to believe this a problem "somewhere else" - I think that homeowners insurance premiums are going to explode nationwide...
- structural heat stress
- more energetic storms
- more storms
- less wealth to cover regular maintenance
www.newsweek.com/florida-insu...
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Who trusts the mega-church and evangelical pastor-bastards with anything ?
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Robots don't grow. They're built to size. The image on the link implies a parent-child relationship based on size.
How do humans let go of the idea that robots must be "human" in all facets of their existence.
The replicant Rachel in Blade Runner never had the childhood she "remembers".
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What an incredibly insane cry for notoriety .....
What other rubbish does she promote ? The three foods that will shorten your life by 11.3 years - even if you only eat them once ...
www.ladbible.com/news/health/...
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Putin loses his. "puppet vote" in NATO.
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The requirements of total unanimity for corrective action are ludicrous in an era of belligerent nation-state actors. No bad actor state will ever agree to corrective action.
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What if the data storage rule only allowed one image saved after your death.
Where image would you have saved for posterity ?
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The conceptual accuracy is at odds with inherent tracking it creates.
ONE ID TO RULE THEM ALL.
Positives of correlating all activity of one individual to all actions (banking, public benefits, licenses, convictions, jobs, income, vehicles,...)
Isn't trusted against hacking or general misuse.
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Do the swimming there too !!
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Imagine if, for the last 60 years, USA federal minimum wage had kept pace with USA inflation.
More families would have no debt & could pay for their children's education.
But no - the damn GOP & corporate America & asshat economists stopped all that. They only think about "shareholders".
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Imagine climate based infrastructure "heat exhaustion" cutting service life of rail, bridges, roads, sea ports and airports..
No wait - watch it start to become a regular factor in expedited maintenance.
www.nbcnewyork.com/news/its-so-...
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There's a woodpecker absolutely hammering a tree in my backyard.
My rain flooded garden is host to three mallards and some robins, starlings, cardinals, grackles.
Two squirrels have to stand on hind legs to look over the unmowable grass
I'm sitting inside not bothering them
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How about EVEYONES browser history is public data ?
Even the dark web !
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Kurt Vonnegut
"The Illium Works"
The "impersonal corporate giant" with the power to alter humankind's destiny.
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Donald Trump promises he will never have an abortion 🤔
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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I'm not a gung-ho fanboy of
-EV's
-corporate pollution
-unmanaged waste
-lack of resource recovery
-incomplete process engineering
-shoddy fabrication
-over-production
If you clap, grin & adopt new technology due to FOMO - we won't see things the same way.
I'm also skeptical about bike lanes.
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I like that.
Others have reported far less success.
Battery tech still needs an end of life cycle management process. It's true of every consumer product. Fashion industry dumps ~ 92 millions tons annually of unsold merchandise - as waste. These are bad corporate convenience habits.
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Landfills are not perfectly maintained boxes of isolation. Lithium in landfills is a source of groundwater contamination.
Lithium mining is high volume water user in, oddly enough, areas where water is scarce.
MIT: one ton of mined lithium can emit almost 15 tons of carbon dioxide
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Somebody is cooking the rocks !
www.weather.gov
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What is the status of Vesuvius?
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Cool, but the "recycling" industry needs cost recovery mechanisms up front - separate from anything earned by selling recovered materials. Unfunded = trash
Plastics as example - is a massive money loser.
Battery processing is much harder & and the extraneous materials need to be dealt with.
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I'm waiting for third wave monetization whereby social media charges users to post 😉
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How is hazardous waste management (of depleted batteries) accounted for ?
That will grow over time.
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It's a devil's bargain for retirees with small savings due to low working wages that result in low SSecurity income
A) High monthly premiums forever
B) Crushing debt from 1 bad health event.
Only corp's win in the "for profit" health care system. They're profiteering on every customer.
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One wonders if the GOP is aware of its collective incompetence ...
Biden - sure he's old - but the "youth of the GOP" are in advanced cognitive decline by age 40.
www.newsweek.com/marjorie-tay...
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One couple told me Advantage plan was cheap at first - but later expensive due to declining health & related out of pocket expenses. The "pre-existing" health status prevented them returning to traditional/original Medicare.
Medicare Advantage is a dark alley - be prepared when you enter it
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Is this like "TIKTOK" on steroids?
What else could an internet connected technology system be "pen testing" while driving freely around the country ? 🤔
Who has access to that data?
What has Elon Musk helped China accomplish ?
fortune.com/2024/07/08/c...
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Avantage seems valid for some people. The article shows it's systemic profiteering.
For me - the "original" was better after talking with 15-20 others who had already chosen (some of either side)
Lastly - if advantage doesn't work for you, you must requalify to get back to original.
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I supposes.....
COVID variants evolutionary response varies based on to the resistance encountered in the human population in which it is "festering"
www.iflscience.com/new-fluqe-co...
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Shanghai is likely to see increasing persistent heat stress for decades.
There seem no timely solutions affordable by the largest proportion of residents.
How does a city built in a time of low annual weather-heat & cheap artificial cooling suddenly convert to shedding heat ?
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Given the restrictions and limitations of most Medicare-Advantage plans - the monthly costs of "the alternatives" can quickly be exceeded by MAdvantage out of pocket or non- covered expenses.
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Clean up would go a lot faster if all permits to summit of Everest were halted UNTIL after the clean up.
Do that on an annual basis.
www.npr.org/2024/07/07/n...
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As a non-scientist - there seems to be a surge of articles on possible causes, aggravators & persistors of migraines.
Informally - they don't seem to apply to all types of Migraine
-General w/ or w/o aura
-Chronic
-Brainstem aura
-Vestibular
-Abdominal
-Hemiplegic
-Menstrual
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Can this simply be an upsurge of overlapping external control efforts:
> AI SE's find/boost certain page properties more
> Privacy/Blocking tools - cumulative mass of users running this is large enough
> Pre-Election "control testing" for various systems
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DEAR HUMANS,
Remote control is a fantasy RPG.
REDESIGN SHITTY SYSTEMS TO RELIABLY SELF REGULATE.
Electricity production necessary to maintain an always-on/monitored internet world doesn't exist. Expect shortages.
www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
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They all keep claiming they can get rid of it - but never do.
They are incompetent !!!
😉
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Aberrant individuals exist in any cohort.
Aging actresses doing bikini photos, 75 year olds still working..
Realize the luckiness of being old now
You grew up with
- free/low cost college
- limited debt
- cold war
- 1-income happy family + house
Youth today think/expect worse and get it.
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Imagine if each email cost a dime to send - or 50 cents. Would scammers activity, then, fully fund the internet security system ?
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IMObservaion A larger part of an aging cohort mostly stops learning & stops innovating. They've a historical understanding of how the components of infrastructure, finance, politics & society, which they saw assembled, integrate. They rely on that system & only imagine fixing - not replacing.
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This situation was s true in first world nations. Entrenched industry owns/runs the political class via funding & lobbying.
Both industry & government are bound to the sunk costs of their existing investments. The complexity of change they fear is due to loss of the system in which they prosper.
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Cloud computing
Is vaporizing life on earth
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Old Singularity
Should be the name of a Scotch available in the restaurant at the end of the universe
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Two steps required, land lease, then data based drill permit. These are required permits on land leases made available under Trump admin. Companies are accelerating permits to lock in rights.
Biden Admin has minimized new land leases for oil/gas exploration.
www.energyindepth.org/why-bidens-o...
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