That sounds pretty good too, yeah. The program could be expanded to include safe spaces/training for teenagers and such too, probably include a rec center that always has stuff going on for them to participate in, etc. At that point it turns from a housing/job training project to basically a community, built around safe spaces, opportunities, and education for the future.
Humans need to go close to the infected animal to get infected.
To some extent yes, but ‘get close to’ is pretty broad: breathe contaminated air in the general vicinity of animals, drink water they’ve pissed or shit in, etc.
Oh, so being exposed to new viruses reduces the risk of dying to a virus you got … because you were exposed to it?
That is in fact how a vaccine/our immune system works, yes.
I don’t want to say never, but probably never. Regardless of AI slop filling social media there will always be places where people congregate that are at least less-impacted by these trends than others. Personally I live in Texas and aside from a few family members everyone else I know lives elsewhere in the country/world and I would have no contact with them whatsoever if not for the internet, so that’s always going to be a draw for me no matter what else is going on. Also I don’t think it’s quite as apocalyptic as you make it out to be; before AI the big concern was ‘zomg the ads will be everywhere’, but then adblock came along and aside from walled-garden mobile apps I virtually never see ads. Dissatisfaction with AI slop will lead to tools meant to find, identify, and combat it, just like it has with everything else. The only danger is if we let companies wall us totally into their little app ecosystems where it’s illegal to modify them to block the stuff you don’t want to see.
Nearly all of history’s worst diseases have come from animals, and animals have those diseases whether we eat them or not. Factory farming certainly enhances the danger, but cows don’t stop existing just because we don’t eat beef. There is, however, also an upside to meat consumption: being around/eating animals all the time also builds up your immune system’s defenses against diseases that originate in those animals. See: indigenous people in the Americas dying in droves to diseases they had no immunity to because they didn’t farm/ranch animals. I mean and also the smallpox blankets, but you get my point.
If the virus originated in a wide area around Yunnan/Hubei (the latter of which is where Wuhan is) then it seems pretty unlikely that it came from a single source within Wuhan, right? I agree that the headline might be a bit ambiguous, but it’s like saying ‘It came from all over Texas’ vs ‘It came specifically from El Paso.’ But I haven’t read the study myself.
You don’t need to be a billionaire to eat the rich, but it definitely helps to insulate you from the legal ramifications thereof.
I would build housing for the homeless. Simple rule, no muss no fuss: need a place to live? Get a place to live. Live there for free until you can get clean and/or find a job and get back on your feet. Maybe throw in some job training too, or some kind of work-study program where they can get (paid, ofc) experience while they learn a new trade to help cover gaps in their work history and such. I’m imagining apartment complexes built around some kind of combination trade school/recovery program that teaches people to be plumbers, welders, electricians, etc while helping to get and keep them clean, offer group support for reintegrating into society, the full package.
I could help a lot of people that way with $5 billion. I’d show up in places like NY/LA with large homeless populations with a greyhound bus that said ‘free apartment and a good job this way’ on the side or something too, and just bus 'em in as new housing became available.
I’ll give that a shot, thanks.
I dunno the UAE’s energy situation, maybe they installed a shitload of solar in the desert and are practically giving away electricity, but it still seems stupid to build anything water-intensive in a desert. I lived in Albuquerque, NM in the late 90s/early 2000s and they had a big Intel fabrication plant out there, in the desert, using so much goddamned water that they were depleting the water table. But they don’t care as long as it’s cheap today and probably cheap tomorrow. Expensive eventually because of resource depletion is a problem for future quarterly reports.
And if it takes just as much time to back in as it does to back out, I get why some people would rather spend that time before going in than after coming out. There is backing up involved in parking in a parking lot one way or the other, and if you’ve somehow only ever gotten stuck behind people who are backing in and not people who are backing out then I’d call that extraordinarily lucky, not evidence of the efficiency of backing out instead.
But yeah there are shit drivers everywhere, even ones who don’t back in.
Hm, yeah, let’s build a giant datacenter that needs a ton of power and water in the desert, that’s a great plan.
I don’t drive, but the way I’ve always heard it is because people care more about leaving quickly than arriving quickly.
I knew a girl named Miracle when I was in grade school, but Iamamiracle is ridiculous.
There are only 2 things that can’t be lawyered out of existence:
Basically the only real answer is to be so rich you can out-buy or out-lawyer anyone else.
Good, driving music. I have a big list of liked songs on Spotify that I listen to while I’m exercising, but I’m slowly creating another playlist called ‘Energy’ that I add suitable songs to, with the intention of ultimately building a playlist full of such songs. It’s kinda weird though, sometimes I feel like the music gets stale and repetitive, even with 800+ songs on shuffle, and that affects my motivation to exercise.
Yeah I was gonna say, there’s a whole-ass rental car industry exactly for that kind of purpose. But this isn’t the sort of thing you buy because it ‘makes sense’, you buy it because it’s cool and you have fuck-you money so that’s enough of a reason.
I, we, you, they, kinda all of them. I kinda make up characters in my head and assign them positions and personalities based on the need of the moment, and address them as appropriate. I don’t give them names or anything, it’s more like ‘that dick who keeps telling me to get off my ass and be productive can piss off’, etc.
Yeah, I too once thought flying cars were the best idea since sliced bread. I’ve since grown up and realized that they’re just airplanes with extra steps, cause it’s not like you’re ever going to be able to land it on a highway or whatever. It will always be cheaper to just buy an airplane and a car and use one to get to the other.
Yeah, that’s not poor typing skill, that’s just slack-assing, nothing you can do about that except find people who are more engaged with the RP. :P
Also if she’s just as fast on her phone as a physical keyboard then I’m gonna go ahead and assume that she can’t touch-type worth a damn. Skill + physical keyboard will beat skill + virtual keyboard every time, even accounting for swype, auto-correct, word-completion/guessing, etc.
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