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Stories/comments like these make me want to dedollarise.

The longings for simpler days are definitely still with us. They explain a lot of social dysfunction. E.g. see Terence McKenna.

You'd still get regional overpopulation issues. E.g. the Justinian plague in 541 AD. That's still far away from mobile hunter gatherer tribes with densities of a few dozen people p…

Precivilisational lifestyles can only carry a small fraction of our current population. To a significant degree we're locked into this, and have been for thousands of years.

Given all the other phenomena going on around computing, I may soon go back offline.

A few weeks ago we had 30 degC indoors at 70% humidity after a brief thunderstorm. That felt... stressful - at a wet bulb temperatures of only 25 degC, see https://upload.wikimedia…

> or stop them from reproducing It may not be possible to breed any trait to any distribution one would like. For body size, maybe, also depending on maternal nutrition. But appare…

Everytime you think this it will be. Let's go back to analog.

I've read this on here previously but still can't reproduce it, neither from home nor mobile IP (this is in Germany). Are they slowly rolling this out? Did you connect via VPN? I s…

"We do what we must/ because we can./ For the good of all of us./ Except the ones who are dead.~"

The outlook on this, as so often, depends on personal finances.

Surprise hyperinflation. Check the breadshelves!

I think we're long past the the point where you'd need to distract from the actual value proposition of this tech. Hiding behind a malaria mosquito sob story is cringe. As a bonus …

Can't reproduce.

I'm kinda relaxed w.r.t. actual hostilities coming from Germany/Austria. The large pensioner populations and - still - a sizable part of workers understand that burning the house d…

The deindustrialisation -> rising populist right pattern is kinda similar in Lil' US (Germany); it started later and moves quicker. And we can't get by on software subscriptions.

Maybe a lot of applications of computer technology merely represent civilizations' most intricate and expensive hobby?

The natural ("prehistoric") state used to be a low density distribution of mobile tribes, which sidestepped a lot of the problems that afflict civilizations, like pandemics and loc…

Bestgore, TheYNC

gpedit.msc

Like https://gamecopyworld.com :>

"Amusing ourselves to death" was eerily prescient. Now that the amusement stopped, what might happen next? Not the metaverse, that's for sure.

Fabric is the one place for all your data!

They also use .microsoft now (e.g. for the M365 admin portal).

The obsession with constant content production combined with algorithmic, feed driven consumption frontends with terrible discoverability and intense bubblification lead to today's…