Sounds like more ways for insurance companies to a) charge you more based on behaviors they arbitrarily determine are “bad”, and b) take your payments for years/decades then never pay out because they say something you did on video makes any accident your fault based on some term buried in the 500 page contract you obviously didn’t read all of.

They already do “a” by taking vehicle blackbox info uploaded by dealers or via telemetry and increasing your rate via their risk analysis. Note, your rates never go down for good driving. Only up.

I’d rather have the book and not read it than be wishing I had one.

So you’re saying people with guns would kill the people with the knowledge needed to have a hope of survival in a hypothetical apocalyptic catastrophe in a shortsighted display of greed and strength?

That absolutely tracks.

Why?

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There’s people that might survive, I’m thinking like the Amish. But even they depend on modern society at some level for materials. If anyone would make it it would be a group like that, someone already without modern tools as much as possible.

There’s the endgame right there.

Never understood these bunkers in modern times.

If TSHTF so hard that someone truly needs to bunker up for months on end civilization as we know it will likely be at an end. No coming back from it. Congrats, you survived to enjoy the death of everything we know. Heck knows they didn’t store a hoard of raw materials, tools, physical books full of knowledge, farm implements, seeds, and have ready access to individuals with year 1895 level skills to make it all work. They only thought of themselves and stored some food, lots of booze, and a little medicine, figuring they could jet off to some safe haven when it was convenient.

If it were even the 1950s I think there would still be enough of a reservoir of local material and knowledge, and everything was mostly manually skilled labor to create, so bunkering could have worked out. But not today. Global supply chains, relocated resource extraction and manufacturing, and everything computerized has virtually guaranteed the impossibility of bootstrapping modern civilization should it fail.

They’re just as dead, but they get to enjoy roving starving humans trying to kill them over whatever’s left.

There’s no reason to downvote you, you’re correct. The only issue I have with this reasoning is that it doesn’t take into account that those accepting the flooding aggressively reject outside information no matter how it’s offered.

We can all be wrong because we want something to be true for whatever the reason, that’s understandable. The rejection of truth otoh is problematic, especially when that rejection rejoices in harm to others.

Rent Extraction is the objective, and I partly disagree that killing the secondary market is the blanket objective. Look at ticketmaster. They sell the tickets, then they also take fees on the resale of those same tickets purchased by customers/scalpers. They profit twice thanks to the secondary market. Doesn’t work (yet) for something like books, but give it time.

The general objective is to force everything to subscription and also force upgrades thanks to them controlling EOL for everything. They never want to give users the ability to run their own servers for sunsetted services.

Fair, but the question still stands.

That’s not what we’re debating. Don’t change the subject.

Why would you look at this and not understand the door shelves are full too?

Syrup lasts longer in the fridge, particularly real maple syrup. It can get mold growing on it.

Condiments are the death of refrigerator space. All different sizes, almost never consumed quickly, and they eat up space waiting to be used.

Nothing wrong with that except

I can virtually guarantee that “toilet humor” and similar would have been very common - you can’t all shit in “public” and have a thin skin.

Sharing the sponge.

Ok, so not literally…TP would work fine but my main concern would be with the lack of cultural ability to handle men, women, and children in the same bathroom at the same time. We’ve got too many horrible humans out there, so I don’t think everyone together would be the solution.

I’d think a modified european style setup would be best. A common handwashing area but the stalls are individual and have full doors with urinals in a separated area.

100%

The “I can’t breathe” crowd.

Does this site contain any other war tragedies or is it just Gaza?

It won’t.

The democrats won’t allow anything that makes the establishment neolibs look bad.

E: lol downvotes. I hope y’all prove me wrong, but the Dems are still mostly shit. I’ll vote blue, but they no longer represent pulling us back from the edge to me. They’re “don’t upset the apple cart” and “we can’t undo anything, it’s water under the bridge.”

Yeah, didn’t want to get too deep in the weeds about it, but FreeCAD is definitely an example. I feel like I’m using a perpetually unfinished decade-old program. While it certainly qualifies as one of those older free packages it never really took off.

Part of the problem is the Big Software crushing any hobbyist software. I used to be big into 3D design. 20 years ago there were dozens and dozens of different programs of different quality available to people wanting to do 3D design, along with top tier programs like 3DSMax and Maya, and even they had “learning editions” with stripped down features for free non-professional use.

Now? Most all 3D design software is proprietary, subscription-based, and stupid expensive. Very, very few programs are available to anyone wanting to do hobby work or learn, and plenty of them are “freemium” with better features paywalled.

Point being, choice has been restricted or eliminated. 20 years ago there was a lot more to choose from both skill and price-wise. Now it’s $200/month/seat, or a couple paywalled freemium programs.