You should throw it a quinceanera. Put it in a dress and buy it a small car.

20 GB hard drive from 2006.

Next year we’re going to have a party for it.

In a few cities it’s good. NYC, Chicago, where white people live in DC, and maaaybe SFO come to mind. (LA your subway is only for movies, F off). Literally everywhere else it’s a travesty of busses designed to institutionalize and reinforce classism and poverty. So it’s bad, and no one wants to use a bus system (lack of tracks? Lack of charm!) of it served wealthier neighborhoods.

I used to use Power Delete Suite to nuke Reddit comments.

In /r/privacy they started implementing the new social credit system where not only do you need karma, you need fresh karma, called a “Contributor Quantity Score.” So my usual aged, pop in every few months account with decent karma is effectively banned for being (actual term) “lowest value” because I’m not on Reddit commenting every day.

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/19023371170196-What-is-the-Contributor-Quality-Score

As for their plans, seems like a probability where they just want us to pay $5.99 a month to make the problem (they created) go away.

Yeah, I would want to eat food and whatnot, so I wold probably want money which I can trade for goods and services.

Lol, I’m a privacy advocate. I’ve seen how many websites have my data, and played the cat and mouse game of opt out requests.

This is a dream. I would mourn my stellar credit score, degrees, and professional certs, but I would go pick up shifts as a plumber’s apprentice and just go enjoy life.

Well, up until only a generation or two ago, no one born into those paces actually did have a choice to stay or not. It’s not easy to leave a family support network, especially in a niche environment.

That being said, living in the desert, I saw tons of Midwestern tourists that underestimated it, and quickly got into basic trouble that I learned to avoid as a child. Bit, the people that were always cool and always prepared to deal with a harsh environment were the people that had spent time in Alaska. Spend time in an extreme place, and you learn to respect any extreme place, and be perfectly fine.

And the extreme cold option is always an option on the table. Not nuclear winter, but one bad volcanic eruption can affect large parts of the globe. Just ask folks in 1816, when an eruption in Indonesia led to a year with literally no summer in most of the northern hemisphere. Totally brutal famine in Europe, as one could also expect from AMOC collapse.

Yes. I’ve lived in West Africa for about 7 years total. I’ve seen plenty of 50m deep wells pulled by hand go dry or collapse. People collecting water from puddles after a rain, rather than walk a mile to the well.

The old guys in Mali and Niger talk about being kids, roaming forests and keeping hyenas from eating the goats. One village I knew was named “it’s an elephant.” It’s all gone now. It’s been gone for 30 years. The elephants, the hyenas, the forests north of 13 degrees N, are mostly gone.

But some trees are still there, all the way into the Sahara. There are oasies and seasonal lakes with fish and wells and crops. Herders graze goats and donkeys in narrow bands far into the Sahara.

Im not saying it’s great, but im not saying it’s absolute devastation and hell on earth. I’d rather be there than some isolated community in Alaska or Siberia.

That’s when you dry out the stuff you grew when it was only 100°F

Also, Millet, sorghum, cow peas, pigeon peas, cactus, okra, and sweet potatoes are the crops that already grow in the Sahel, where it’s usually right around triple digits. People live like this right now. They have for generations.

Ever heard of a well?

Friendo, for those of us that have lived in deserts, no one gets naked. During the day at least ;)

Light clothes are amazing. I lived for 3 years on the edge of the Sahara with no power and pulling water from a well. When it was 110+F, sitting under a tree and soaking your shirt in water was perfectly fine, and more than enough to be comfortable. Turbans are amazing technology.

And I’ve spent time above the Arctic circle. I can compare the two.

While you like to think “you can put in more clothes,” that’s nice and all… Both if you have the right clothes, and have imported heat and calories. OP is talking about perpetual Arctic circle winter. Nothing grows, you will run out if wood to burn to stay warm. You will import everything, from boots to gloves to pants to coats. Look at an Inuit diet. Now look at a Mediterranean diet. Civilization flourished in areas that get hot. Humans spent 50,000 years in the equatorial zone. We are built for it.

You do you, but, uh…enjoy your narwhal blubber and seal jerkey I guess?

Triple. No hesitation.

First off, coats are heavy and stupid. Breezy linens all day every day.

What food you going to grow in below freezing temps? Millet, sorghum, rice, grapes, tomatoes, onions, garlic – all already grow in triple digit temps. I’m eating well.

Natural evaporative cooling is easier to achieve than burning slow-growing resources for heat daily. Millennia-old technology exists to handle high temps.

More people live in the Sahara than the Arctic. I’m not a penguin, no matter what the other kids said in school.

Right? I couldn’t even get Voyager to show a feed, and every browser kicked for warnings. No idea how they would have missed it.

Yeah, I told them them late yesterday. I figured someone else would, and apparently no one else did.

I think our instance just failed some social dynamics test.

The mitochondria.

Second Art Nouveau. Art Deco is nice, but I think over played as a throwback.

Also a fan of a neoclassical Italianate style. Square columns, low flat roofs, towers and tall thin windows. It can vary, but when done in a clean and simple style, it’s very nice IMO.