I work in consulting. I have a VPN for my company and also for each client

I’d generally agree, definitely consider XY completely forgettable. That said, I think Rush of Blood is a great album as an album. Parachutes is a better collection of songs but Rush feels more comprehensive to me. Even clocks, in the context of the album, works. The only other album I enjoy is viva la vida, because while it’s not perfect, I like what they were attempting with that one. I’d like other bands to experiment with those kinds of concepts so even if I don’t think they exactly hit the mark, I appreciate the attempt

I would say at the time they were solid good. They weren’t technically very complex but who cares - half the bands at that time barely even played instruments, just banged out power chords and yelled into a mic. As far as pop music goes those albums were great in my opinion. Wouldn’t talk about them in a music theory class, but we were lucky to have such solid albums getting radio play.

People are upset cause you’re 'both sides’ing it whether you mean to or not.

It’s like that in my city too when people decide to drive on the streets designated as greenways. You want bikers out of your way? Give them another place to go and they’ll gladly use it to get away from you. It sounds like you’re describing a place where there is only car infrastructure so bikers are forced into traffic situations built for cars. That means every one of them interprets what they are supposed to be doing (either for safety or to follow the law) differently.

Think about it this way. Someone parked in the bike lane? I’m swerving into traffic. Person doesn’t see me and starts merging at me? I’m swerving into another lane. Someone intentionally decides to ride my ass? I’m getting out of their way before they get violent, possibly putting me in front of you.

Tired of bikers in your ‘car lanes’? Give them their own lane. A person in a car does not have any more value or rights than a person on a bike. And their infrastructure costs tons more.

If there were 100x less games but they all had the passion of stardew behind them I think we’d come out ahead

Mate without due process you don’t know who’s getting hanged for what. ‘I saw _____(name whatever neighbor you don’t like) collaborating with ice’ becomes a death sentence . If you’re so unconcerned with hanging innocents congrats, you’re the fascist now

The point of the due process is to determine that they were in fact one of these people. Due process doesn’t mean no conviction, it means no witch hunts

Leaders move masses. Look at Lincoln, look at either Roosevelt (who didn’t even come from the working class). They had a vision and they pulled the country towards that vision. I refuse to believe that out of 350million of us there aren’t a couple people capable of being real leaders. ‘we don’t have the votes’ - so get them. Bernie Sanders was polling at less than 1% when he entered the race against Clinton, and he nearly beat her by building a movement. The reason they don’t have the votes is because they don’t want them. They don’t actually believe in progressive policies.

Units are weird. I just say one orbit

I def had some weird experiences like this in school too, though not as extreme. I had a teacher once give me a zero on an exam because I used greater than and less than symbols to describe two lines intersecting. She thought I did them all backwards. Normally I’d be too shy to push back but zero on an exam was pretty extreme so I went to discuss one on one and she basically called me dumb saying I don’t know how the symbols worked (this was like 9th grade, I def did and was pretty alarmed she didn’t). Finally she said fine, she’ll go ask a math teacher to come explain to me in front of the class if I’m so smart. She left, was gone for like ten minutes, and came back super upset. Slams the paper on my desk in front of everyone and says something like ‘fine I guess you want an A now?’. Was traumatizing. But was actually a huge teaching moment for me in that I stopped seeing teachers as things/concepts, and started seeing them as people. Same as me/my classmates/some random on the street. No one has this shit figured out. I also realized I never wanted the experience she just had, and learned to always hedge my opinions. It looks like, I think, it seems to me, etc. Has saved me from looking stupid but also encouraged those that I teach to question my dumb shit. But yeah. Teachers are just people, have you met people?

Side note my math teacher was extra nice to me that afternoon - I also learned that the teachers don’t necessarily like each other either. Apparently I had helped score points for the ‘not batshit insane’ crew

Millennia.

It’s been a nightmare seeing tech companies move into the utility space and act like they’re the smartest people in the room and the experts that have been doing it for 100 years are morons. Move fast and break things isn’t viable when you’re operating power infrastructure either. There’s a reason why designs require the seal of a licensed engineer before they can be constructed. Applying a software development mentality to any kind of engineering is asking for fatalities

Crazy inefficiencies is why not. If you’ve ever worked a large infrastructure or construction project you’d see why this doesn’t work. There are advantages of scale. A single company being able to handle the land acquisition, and all engineering alone for a large project is going to be like 10000 people, and that’s without construction. If I had to work with 15 other companies to get a thing built I’ll tell you right now that things never gonna get built. Big companies aren’t the problem, small ownership is the problem. Employee owned (socialist) companies are the solution. It’s not about not scaling, it’s about ensuring that the workers own the means of production. If you want renewable energy, high speed rail, and sustainable district engineering we need to leverage economies of scale. It’s just that we need to set up economic systems that distribute the profits to those doing the work.

It blows my mind that most people eat meat every day. We’ve normalized such insane things

It sounds like you’re telling me to stop caring about climate change cause I’d be happier

They’re mostly not being used for that and they come at a huge cost

Without spoiling too much in the book he isn’t muscley on earth but is once he is in space for a well explained reason. However, he’s also meant to be clean shaven in space due to the same reason and it looks like they’ve changed that so who knows.

I don’t like the idea of limiting company size - there are a lot of advantages of scale. Instead let’s say any company over 1000 employees must be fully employee owned

These people must be so scared all the damn time. Imagine being so overwhelmed by reality that you create such nonsense. As if tax has ever been anything but ’ I have an army outside, you give me your stuff now. I’ll be back next summer’. I’d love to see a movie about a group of sovcits in a post apocalypse. Do they act like laws are still real? Do they create new laws? What is their basis of reality?