CapstanRoller

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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
It's climate change, not some piddly amount of barely radioactive water diluted to undetectable levels.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Hasn't the USA collectively decided that houses are a luxury good? Forget "better internet" — many of us can barely afford any shelter, much less one that we can 'own'
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
The people creating that value get very little from ad revenue. Google keeps most of the money. This is why many creators are turning to Patreon, etc.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Won't using such third-party clients cause your account to get flagged?
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Someone already beat you to it https://hackaday.com/2023/02/21/youtube-as-infinite-file-sto...
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
When the basics become harder and harder to attain despite increasing abundance, people tend to either give up or revolt.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
"Huh? What flooding?" asks the man comfortably lounging on a yacht, as millions of regular folks get swept away by the rushing water.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Sounds like survivorship bias. All those events had an impact on someone. They destroyed many lives and set back countless others. It can happen to you, unless you continue your lucky streak or your continued survival was/is due to w
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Wages may have risen on the low end, but it's really difficult to find a job in many professions and the pay has dropped substantially. My LinkedIn feed is full of unemployed engineers, recruiters, etc. Layoffs are also continuing, but
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Turns out those "foul jungles" are necessary for a healthy planetary biosphere. So much for manhood!
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Do you still have one? Did you hack it?
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
OP is obviously concerned about poodle skirts
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>I think the trigger that would bring people back to the office is a new economic boom based on new and unknown technology The modern Internet, the WWW, Linux, etc. and most of the core infra as we know it (and take for granted) was buil
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
The Leaf is in a weird position, since Nissan keeps betting (incorrectly) on CHAdeMO even on the latest model Leaf
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>a tiny home with 4 walls and a door with a 24/7 security guard You are not describing any homeless shelter that I've ever seen. Usually they are very crowded communal sleeping facilities with barely any security and zero priva
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
They should've kept the original base-plate of prefabulated amulite. Too much profit-driven "optimization" IMHO
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>Overspending Money itself isn't real. Resources are.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>There’s plenty of free cash/food/shelter around for those who need it. There's plenty, but very little is actually given to those who need it.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
As a worker, ask yourself some questions: was HR hired to represent you, or to represent the corporation? Is HR part of your personal legal counsel team? Who signs HR's paychecks?
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>does this sound like something a rational person would participate in? The Almighty Mar-ket, with all its acolytes, always form a rational economic system, by definition!
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>Reduce public spending Austerity kills.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>If all goes well, perhaps in the future we'll be able to compare this transition to Chile under Pinochet Pinochet was a fascist. Do you seriously feel okay endorsing his aims and goals?
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>The micro-optimization of me using switching to electric stove does not register on any discernible metric Switching from a gas stove? It absolutely does register, much more so in your household air quality but also it helps deprecate f
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>We put solar panels on our roof not because we love the environment or civilization or are worried about saving the planet but because it ultimately would save us money on utilities. Who is "we"? There are plenty of people who
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Plenty of people who code get laid off. SDETS/automation QA engineers are software engineers, but aren't treated as such.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>Because that isn't an alternative. Rather it just strikes me as regular rural living in a small house. It was more of a suggestion to do something quasi-legal like a multi-tenant tiny house village. I know a few folks who did this
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Community doesn't mean much when it's primarily mediated by money. I suspect OP wants to escape capitalist society, not society overall.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>Find land, which there is plenty of in rural areas, and build a new small house? Then you're just contributing to the sprawl problem, because infrastructure has to extend to you somehow. The options are: - bring all the infrastruct
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
There is a massive need for degrowth . Carbon capture is a scam — the thermodynamics just don't make sense. It's far easier to not pollute the first place than to pollute and then expend even more energy trying to undo the damage
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
This is due to zoning laws. Many people desperately want smaller housing, but it's effectively illegal everywhere in the USA. The only alternative is to buy rural land and try to get creative with the law (e.g. your tiny home on an exi

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