Yep, there’s a few episodes made after that

That’s because they’re talking about another one, where someone’s braindamage is countered by a part of their brain being ran on a commercial cloud. Of course, enshittification follows, and her husband resorts to extreme measures to pay for the increasing cost.

Do we?

I tend to agree that developped countries tend to underestimate the fragility of their systems. But then there still are simple facts like if you spend 10% of your income on food, you can afford significant food price hikes. If you spend 70% of income on food, then a small rise is already lethal.

And the Canary islands too. I wonder if there’s precedent from them going extinct in mainland Africa and the naturally returning

Or maybe something stronger than that? Like not making it possible to federate unless there’s at least two admins? Or having some automatic fallback when servers die, so that their communities don’t die with them. Feels like a gamble otherwise, putting in the work of building a community when it’s this fragile…

Hadn’t used my account in years. But deleted it now. It seems unlikely that the old Twitter will ever return.

It would like us going through a book of mammals and getting horny. Who would do that? Oh… well

It’s just a random number. No matter how bad it gets, your attitude can only make it even worse.

Sure, we’re on course for disaster. But pretending like there is a single tipping point and that we’re Doomed (doomed, I say!) anyway, is just a convenient excuse to wallow in hopelessness and inaction. The truth is that we’re still making things worse by the day, and every kilo of CO2 saved helps slow down the speed of the disaster. And those little efforts by folks like us, might still make the difference between 1 billion dead or 1.1 billion dead.

OpenStreetMap, singular, with the words capitalised and without spaces, thank you very much. We might be a tad neurotic about that.

For this kind of query, consult the Urban Dictionary.

I had to check. I’m pretty sure it’s this bridge in OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/28.02674/79.48926 And there it is also not closed off for routing

Having enjoyed the entire expanse series, I didn’t really enjoy this book. I can’t really put my finger on it. I think my biggest issue is that the characters remain pretty bland. Of the group you follow, many remained little more than a name for me.

Glad you already learned this is probably nonsense. The wrong reasoning is very similar to much thought about overpopulation. The amount of people that makes for a place to be overpopulated is a function of how societies work and the technologies they have at hand. One extra issue there is that improvements in technology usually lead to population growth, so much progress gets cancelled out.

You know when we first started seeing growing populations and development of agriculture? When the climate started an exceptionally long stable period. Guess what’s going put of the window now? Planting for draught because that’s the “new normal” won’t get you far if the next year happens to be the wettest on record. Let alone that stronger storms than ever seen before aren’t exactly great for harvests either. And that’s just agriculture. Climate related disasters can wipe out key infrastructure, with unexpected consequences down the line (e.g. no car production because of a certain specific part of almost all cars comes from that one specific place). And then there’s the refugee problem on top of all that.

Yeah, the centre. But many places like this are half dead at the core, with car centered suburbs around it and shops in big malls along the roads. The difference with Spain is stark, where the old centres are usually still the actual heart of the village.

How would making states, towns or neighborhoods look richer cause outrage? For income statistics, median us a much better measure in most cases, because it reflects “the average experience” much better. If you want to highlight income inequality, there’s plenty of other stats you can use, e.g. the percentage of all income going to the top 1%.

There’s millions of Venezuelans in Colombia, Ecuador and further South. But their options there are for more limited than in the US.

Didn’t he basically campaign with this?