Not give up on tech, but definitely refocus to resilient local solutions. And trying to minimize the harms of being always connected to the extent possible for living in society.

It would be purely self-serving, tribal culture war outrage and not out of concern for giving fast food workers a holiday. I bet it would come from the same people who give out those Bible tracts disguised as US dollar bills as their tip at a restaurant.

If we want to take a shower from scratch we must first invent the universe.

Snow falling on a bridge looks even colder than it is. You stare out and see the blackness of water beneath you and the night sky above you. You can forget you are alive in such a place.

One thing that getting old has taught me, sleep is awesome and worth looking forward to.

I’ve been having to size up, but that is probably because of my overly-sedentary lifestyle and fondness for good food. Trying to work on it when my mental well-being permits.

Clicked the preview, there is nothing to see here, folks.

I suspect coal country in Kentucky, WV and rural PA and Virginia and the western plains in Nebraska and Kansas, which are already severely stressed with population loss, will see some real ghost towns soon. Especially if the Ogallala aquifer dries up in the latter case.

I think I’d put Virginia Woolf on my list.

Sounds like a cool idea, I literally just finished rereading The Left Hand of Darkness yesterday though.

Ho, dankon! Mi certe iam kontrolos tion, kiam mi havos sufiĉa da tempon.

Esperanto, very slowly, using Duolingo. Why? Just because.

Since you said “house” I’m going to push back a little bit. Housing is unaffordable and we should address it but single-family homes are not a feasible solution for a lot of places and situations.

Definitely one of the fastest way to start arguments, especially among people left-of-center.

I don’t understand how people can read shit like this and then vote for this guy. These politicians just say whatever they fucking want, depraved and cruel and completely devoid of even the figments of sense.

Folding laundry is supposed to be to prevent wrinkles isn’t it?

Three different failed attempts to spell “event horizon”.

I’m sure the page had lots of them once, but they all broke down or rusted away long ago, heh.

Not that long, you would see it play out similar to what happened in TNG episode The Wounded or DS9 episode Defiant. Picard is pretty cagey but it seems pretty unlikely they could deal with the Federation and Romulans coordinating and putting significant resources into their capture or destruction for very long, at least assuming they don’t just leave. At that point, they would find it difficult to keep their ship outfitted and supplied when they are outlaws.

I agree with all you said, I just can’t believe it is possible for conservative viewers of the show to be blindered to the numerous, numerous ways where the show morals, both implied and very much stated, are antithetical to the entire value structure of the modern right-wing of the USA.

But then again, when I think of the Trek fans I know in real life, it is surprising how many of them are Republicans. Not a majority, but enough. So they might just be overlooking the things they don’t agree with.