jacobush

Maybe we can settle for totalitarian.

... but also your colleagues?

Hm, interesting place to draw a line in the sand.

Then we can’t know if a country was a dictatorship ship until a ruler dies. Also, all countries with despots ousted and replaced by others, disqualifies as dictatorships.

I don’t like your definition. I’d rather look for rule of law and signs of democracy. Both of which are very scarce in China.

While true, that's largely ortogonal to why China is so very much a dictatorship.

Leather is also cured in all sorts of nasty things.

Sweden had preparations like this for roads and ports.

http://www.icyousee.org/titanic.html

according to this:

Survival rate first class men and women: 62% Survival rate women, steerage: 49%

So clearly, it was better to be rich than female.

or blend?

There's something about the colors that made me fell ill to my stomach. The rose color, it's just too much Apple. And I like my rose colored iPhone. What next, Apple t-shirts? How much and how large Apple branding are we expected to flout?

At least the iPods are rather small and the phone fits in the pocket.

Sweden did sort of a lockdown excluding schools up to pupils age 16.

Consider also how much electronics around us which leaks harmonics all over the place without any modifications.

Reading from the other side of the pond, heating and electricity in the US seems so fantastically complicated. Where I live, the standard is water radiators for old installations and new. The last 20-30 years or so each radiator has a thermostat. (Bimetal, no electronics.)

That's it.

Somewhere there is a reservoir and something to heat the water. It can be anything, and indeed most older homes have been converted a few times already but nothing changed in the water system itsef. (For a house to have started with a wood furnace, then oil, then electric, then municipial heating or solar or whatever, is completely normal.)

The water either circulates by convection (very old systems), or with a pump. If the pump fails, convection typically still works, just less flow.

I can't. Nobody goes home. Nobody else comes through. It's just him - and me.

Step 1 don’t be poor. (Most poor died by default.)

Step 2 don’t be a man.

We will pay of course in due time, but you meant that of course. Complacency has a cost.

Or, you will not go to space today.

In Sweden too, at least a generation back or two, it was like this.

The US digged itself in pretty well.

Probably not at a power level which really matters?

It’s like embedded software. DOS is basically bug free at this point. If there are bugs in DOS, they are known.

ANY bugs will be in the application.

People are not average. How big is the spread?

In Sweden the homeless increased when a lot of dedicated mental health institutions were closed.

We need to remember they allocate resources horribly in other places though. Genocide is going there, forced abortion and sterilisation of entire populations.

Just to clarify, I meant that if they at some point knew how to code, that goes a long way to understand the mindset. It doesn't matter as much if they could code their way out of a paper bag if you put them in front of a modern toolchain.

A general doesn't need to know how to fly a fighter jet. But it helps if they stay up to date on modern tactics.

Sort of agree, it's enough if they could at some point. If they keep an ear to the ground about how things work and what's possible, that goes a long way.

THAT is reality. It would take magic to restore many ecosystems by this point.

... I didn't know that was a thing. I'm naïve.

I'd say it's downright cheap.

Evil is what evil does.

A secret union. Would be labelled terrorists in no time flat.