That’s an interesting take. What about a scenario where the nation as it stands doesn’t meet the requirements you outlined, but there’s clear indication the invading country would be worse?

Thanks for your thought. What about a situation where you know everyone won’t be killed, but the defeated country will no longer be democratic/open? In other words, you’ll live, but the quality of life will be much worse for the foreseeable future

So if for example every person’s name goes in the hat, and then conscripts are drawn at random? I only clarify because in a situation where every able body is fighting you’ve already lost, there needs to be logistics, maintaining utilities, growing food, etc

No, but if you make the device cold it generates wind

Something else they (and a lot of other coops) do is set a max ratio of executive income vs lowest paid worker income. So for example I think at Mondragon an executive can’t make more than six times the lowest paid worker.

I think market based mechanisms for calculating pay would be very hard to get away from.

That said, Mondragon (worker cooperative) has a base pay rate and then all positions are assigned a multiplier to determine an individual’s compensation.

These stupid motherfuckers.

It’s immoral, it’s anti human, so that’s problem number one. And what’s worse, they did such a shit job at it that the social media companies identified the accounts quickly, so surely our adversaries could do the same.

And there was this bit in the article: “The senior Defense Department official said that those complaints led to an internal review in late 2021, which uncovered the anti-vaccine operation. The probe also turned up other social and political messaging that was “many, many leagues away” from any acceptable military objective. The official would not elaborate.”

So I expect we’ll see reports of other shithead operations before long.

That is nice

I read arstechnica.com every day for general tech news.

I read talkingpointsmemo.com most days. It’s focused on US politics, but I like that it gives a little more context coming from a perspective fairly similar to mine.

Thanks! I’m personally in favor of doing things for knowledge’s sake. That said, what is the stated practical benefit when some government body is writing a check?

Funny, I just commented elsewhere that my credit unions have always offered great rates on auto loans. Where are you located? I’m in the states.

I previously had a dealer be like “let me see if my guys can give you a better financing rate” and they did (slightly) than a bank rate I had secured. But since then I’ve financed a few times with a credit union and they’ve never been able to beat the rate.

In the U.S. most credit unions are regional, if you go to a branch you can withdraw cash easily, or they’ll have agreements with ATM networks where you can withdraw cash for a fee, just like banks do.

In my daily life my credit union is indistinguishable from a bank, with the exception that I’ve had a few auto loans from my credit unions and they’ve always offered a lower interest rate than anything a bank or car dealership can beat. They also gave me a discounted rate because I was buying an electric car.

Looks nice! I’ve got a whole stretch where I want to pull up the sod and plant wildflowers for real. Right now it’s just really tall grass, and I spread some wildflower seed in there but only got a smattering of plants.

Yes, that’s what I came here to say

Yeah, if evolution is so great, how come we can’t fly??

Just like there’s no such thing as an unbiased person, there’s no unbiased instance. Better to know what you’re getting into than to assume what you’re reading isn’t coming from a particular point of view.

I was hoping they’d talk about click farms. Just a group chat where people interact with each other’s stuff seems kind of quaint

You don’t have to go, but unless the parties have tens of thousands attendees you’d probably have decades between invites. So it would be like, “it’s my turn for the big dope party!” Or even if it wasn’t your thing, you’d probably tell your friends “what the hell, I guess I’ll go.”

Plus imagine what innovations in party throwing will be developed with this infusion of funds into the party industrial complex!

Yeah, party!

This site, “the ancient theater archive” says the hangglider guy was used to seeing glimpses of ruins covered by foliage, but there had been a recent brush fire that made it more obvious.