Now to get me to resubscribe, get rid of all that ridiculous TLC, Discovery channel bullhsit. I ain’t gonna subsidize that shit.

Nah, just let him use it for whatever and whenever. Hell, just let him use it as is if he is impatient to fly in it.

When it turns out to be a massive liability to everyone on board. I am only seeing win-win scenarios with minor collateral damage in worst case scenarios.

I mean there was the economic crash of 2008. Sure Obama was in office for about 6 months at the time but that was the result of years of loosening regulation. So gonna give Bush the W for that one.

Maybe I missed the day when it was covered in my Civics Class. But whats the protocol for a majority of constituents of a state to go, “Yo, we are going to stay in the Union but we are gonna go all 1776 on the state Government.”

Like it sounds like, they did the whole proper get a bill through the official channels and vote on it part. But it sounds like the establishment (In this case the state) is like, “yes, but NO”. So what do people do in a situation like this?

In other words. Israel has decided to do the absolute bare minimum in order to be no worse than a 90’s Somali warlord.

Disclaimer: If you want to explore window managers then go ham! Linux is all about exploration.

Now, If you think the grass might be greener on a different desktop manager then stick with gnome. By no means am I saying Gnome is the best, but its more of a situation where it will devolve into the quirks you know vs the quirks you don’t know situation.

Personal Antidote, I started with Gnome and used Gnome for years. Got curious and started jumping around I tried KDE, I3W, XFCE, Pure X, Etc. There were things I liked about each one of them but the quirks of each deviating from my expectations coming from gnome was too much and I ended up sticking with gnome.

That being said, out of necessity due to system constraints I run XFCE when I need a light weight DE. A close second in that realm is LXDE But I don’t like its default aesthetic nor do I feel like customizing it since I do most of my computing in a terminal.

Replace GNU/Linux with NixOS

So…… We got an alternative to Switzerland as a country? Historically I always thought they took digital privacy seriously. But it seems tides are changing.

We got any other GDPR countries as good as Switzerland? How about the Netherlands?

Or is this gonna turn into a game of finding a country that just doesn’t care about digital surveillance?

Failed too efficient. Technically now a one sentence horror story. DQd until revised.

6 - Drugs

IDK Its weird how a lot of rich and powerful are all closet drug addicts. Like you got the funds and resources to turn your self into an Adonis amongst people. You got the funds to go skydiving daily, flying in experimental aircraft, learning how to do some James Bond level driving maneuvers, or train to go all John Wick on a shooting course. Yet a lot go, “hold my beer gonna get some nose candy”

Like come on, am I missing something or are these people terribly boring? Where are the mega wealthy ones that wake up to have breakfast in a hot air ballon, followed by Horse Polo, followed by fencing lessons from an olympic champion?

Dude, top ten expositions of all time. Up there with the importance of pizza delivery.

I mean say what you want, but thats legit how new tech is being developed right now. My favorite book is Cryptonomicon. It came out in 1999, But the premise was that the main characters were going to build a currency backed on cryptography. There was even a side story in the book where one of the man characters is looking for a specific investor who is obsessed with trading cards. The main character sells the investor on the idea by saying how the technology could easily be adapted for distributing digital trading cards.

The dude basically predicted Bitcoins and the rise of NFTs in 1999.

Lol, Interestingly enough. The hacker who steals the book realizes that each copy he makes can’t have a ractor so he substitutes it with a computer generated voice. I distinctly recall him acknowledging that it’s not as personal as a ractor but is adequate enough for the purpose.

Everyday we get closer to the book The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson where the main character has stolen from him a book he created called, “A Young Ladies Illustrated Primer” The thief turns out to be a hacker and mass produces copies of the book for orphans.

The book itself is an AI that assess the users surroundings and intelligence level before creating stories that are relevant to the user that also educates them.

I can see this being a net positive if done correctly. But I don’t think the tech is there yet.

Are you talking about an ERP system like SAP? If so it’s all about data collection of business operations. Sure you make some no brainer decisions to do things that are practical but it always devolves into “how much did this improve the bottom line?” You start to get data on what business has the highest margins in sales and what products are proving to be a PITA to the bottom line due to customer support eating through labor.

spreadsheets are good but you start hitting walls when the company expands. Suddenly Purchasing managers are making entries to a file, but simultaneously works in production are changing the same file to reflect what they consumed in production. You then start auditing things and don’t know what the QTY row numbers mean. Is that actual inventory? Is that a mix of inventory on order? does this reflect what the production consumed today? if so when?

It gets messy without the right tools when the company scales.

That is way too optimistic. We are going to have 4+ years of random disaster shit demonstrating to the MAGA crowd that the agencies devoted to dealing with the fallout are all corrupt and thus need more budget cuts.

I wish I was being sarcastic but 100% thats gonna be the spin.

We talking about a team trying to find inefficiency in the GAO or a team being sent to figure out how to do their job better?

Silver lining, we can get houses due to a crash?

Not trying to be a pessimist. But we need solutions in the next few months to a year. Even if we went all in on high speed rails, its gonna be years before there are tangible impacts to transportation.

Here is the neat part. ATC controllers in training needed a huge bump in recruiting numbers 10 years ago. These jobs aren’t something you can pull people off the street to do. There can be zero mistakes, trainees need to be vetted and undergo tons of hours in training and education to be experienced enough to work unsupervised in the tower.

I reckon we are past the point of no return with the current system. Either we are going to see a reduction in operational airports or we are gonna see a lot more automated systems directing traffic.