I wish the first pic actually represented the amount of shoulder room that was available on public transit systems.

Can’t remember the last time I took the bus or flew and wasn’t just constantly rubbing shoulders with the person beside me.

“A man cannot live on bread alone
But nor can he live without it”
–That one shopkeep in Kingdom Come: Deliverance

The trees can’t be harmed
If the Lorax is armed

Wasn’t that the narrative being pushed after that bug hurricane this past fall? That FEMA wasn’t passing resources to right wing counties?

Edit: “Trump also claimed without providing evidence on his social media platform, Truth Social, that the federal government and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper were “going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas”” –Hurricane Helene Wikipedia Article

Yeah, but thats only after China invaded.

Yeah, that “preventing 67 deaths per year” bit seemed rather…lacking. While I’m sure those 67 + families will be appreciative, this seems like a drop in a lake.

Appreciate you walking the figure out. It was on my own to do list.

Welp, I think the detectives know who to DM when we see a rise of murders in “a few months”

Lmao, I kinda figured. Appreciate the follow-up.

That said, there are apparently efforts to see if we can get ants and other insecta addicted to coke.

Wait, you mean that terrible kerning is on an official card?

Similar (though VERY slow moving) effort to do the same on my end.

My big hesitance is that I would need to centralize management (cause gods is it hard to get anyone to understand ssh), which says to me I’d need to have something public facing on my friends and family’s networks. That pu lic facing bit just makes me squeamish.

I…wat.

So a quick google search shows that there’s experiments trying to get ants on to cocaine, but that doesn’t look like common practice?

Lol, can you pass me links to show thats normal?

Neat experiment, but I’m not clear how they incentivized the ants to attempt this? I doubt it played a significant part in the ants accomplishing the goals, but it is something nagging at my brain as I chew on this.

Right, so that’d be part of moving us to the “easy to do” end of the spectrum.

I don’t feel the community does a great job of “leading the horses to water” though. I know I avoided VPNs for the longest time after learning half a thing about logging and such, and largely only jumped on the band wagon when it got wrapped up into my existing proton mail subscription.

How can we do a better job of leading the uninformed to water is the real question, I think.

I don’t know about a crop top, but I would totally rock a roman/greek battle skirt

The near symmetry, ah, I see weve found the true Vorin solution.

FEMA doesn’t do that? I def agree they shouldn’t, but I thought that was one of the things they did.

The eminent domain bit feels like its probably too big for anything smaller than a large city to handle, so seems like states handling that is a good move. Don’t suppose you know of any states with any active lines of effort in that direction?

Those are some interesting reads, and really appreciate the response + resources.

I do feel the attempt to buyout the residents in the CA example is a good move, but it does basically amount to abandoning the town (as the OP seems to think will be the norm. Glad the state is attempting to do something to help, even if it feels like a half measure.

It feels like FEMA (as imperfect as they are) would have been a program that would’ve helped if a landslide wiped out a town though? Either that or the builders of the township would’ve had to sign away a bunch of their rights to that as part of building into the area (kinda feels like the case for Bayocean?) if it was known to be disaster prone.

Idk, how does the community feel about building in disaster prone areas? Like, if you want to build a house in a flood zone, I think you should be allowed to do it, but also, you’re on your own when a flood comes, ya know?

I don’t want to discount the people who lost land and homes due to the creation of dams and reservoirs (My great grandpa purportedly lost his home due to some of this), but that feels really different than losing a coastal town due to rising sea levels.

Obviously from an American perspective, FEMA is very imperfect, but that we have structures and systems like FEMA makes it feel like people in coastal towns that get “washed away” will have some form of safety net to fall back on.

Am I missing something in that assessment?

I’ve been curious about this myself, but haven’t heard any news to this effect. Can you provide any examples of this happening in the past (preferably within the last 50 years)?