SomeAmateur

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1887-1.html

ADSB exchange is the go-to

Now is my chance to share a useless fun fact! If there is a V-22 Osprey on the map the icon will change from helicopter mode to plane mode depending on airspeed

I’ve never seen an artist so over AND underrated at the same time

(I don’t know the lore and don’t care to but in my opinion she’s okay. Not great, not horrible, just okay. And that’s okay)

“Longer winters means less mosquitoes!”

“What about the rest of the year?”

“…”

That reminds me there’s a game called Shadows of Doubt! You are a detective in a dystopian cyber noir world where corporations run everything.

Anyway they just added a mode to have the damned snail always after you while you’re trying to take on jobs and solve crimes

I’m not against them, but I wonder how EVs will hold up in the long haul. Like in 20 years will there even be a feasible used market or will the batteries and motors be too shitty without a crazy expensive replacements to keep them practical?

And then there’s the scrapping process for batteries too. Can batteries be refurbished, scrapped or recycled in a way that most regions can do it?

Like LEDs I know they CAN be built to last a long time, but I know companies often don’t

This is similar to how the hunger games ends. Generations of people suffered and died in the meadows where little kids could now play in peace.

In this case of the comic it’s tourists discovering a mass grave of people that used to live where they are vacationing so yeah changes the tone a bit

It’s setting the stage. It doesn’t do much on it’s own but if you recognize them as a state rather than just some people it gives leverage to use more diplomatic tools.

How much difference will it actually make? No idea.

This reminds me of metal gear solid 3

So what would be your recommendation instead?

A lot of people use substack

It was made for the colonists

Indubitably

EDF! EDF!

Yep, cities are great because there’s almost always someone you can call on to get problems dealt with almost immediately. Police, fire, utilities, landlords, homeless shelters, therapists, hospitals, exterminators etc etc

In the country you simply don’t have that. Churches are basically community centers. The govt doesn’t have a huge role so country people are okay with smaller government. Cities can’t imagine life with a smaller government because they rely on it in tons of ways to keep society functioning

Many people in cities think something like owning a gun without the intent to commit a crime is insane because they can call the cops.

Many people in the country think not having a gun around for emergencies is insane because any first responder is 15-40 minutes away, and until then you and your neighbors are it

Like you said it’s not so much right vs left but city vs rural mindsets

I think it was LA? If I remember right people were calling and observatory and some people thought they were UFOs

True, just makes it harder to send

Thanks to light pollution and pollution pollution just seeing the stars can be hard enough for many

I feel that, but how close are you to the nearest salt mine lol

My neighbors are homesteaders, but not the type you see online. It’s work at first but honestly the benefits are awesome once they got the ball rolling

They do a lot of gardening, have chickens, apple trees and just built a small sawmill to make and store lumber. I buy eggs and firewood off of them

It seems that a lot of the real hardcore lifestyle people don’t spend half of their day filming and posting about it