- Certainly they’re the enemy of this administration.
- Indeed. People have forgotten the word traitor.
- Please for the love all that is good and holy tell me you’re joking. If not, HOW THE HELL DID YOU THINK THIS WORKED???
- I don’t need to justify it. The other explanations are only partly correct if they ignore this giant red flag. The number of people who willfully ignore this is massive. Its a shock to process — no one wants to be even WILLING to believe it.
We’ve been had and the number of people covering for this grows daily, and will continue to do so until one day we all wake the fuck up.
- You expected this to make sense. The goal is to destroy the US economy. Full stop. There aren’t many lenses that make sense anymore but this one? This one has made sense for quite some time now. Reexamining the behavior of the people in power using this lens should assist you in understanding the world we find ourselves in.
- Unbound is a recursive, caching, validating name server. Personally, I run it on a container right on my Mikrotik router. I service DNS myself, and honestly it feels better. If you’re unaware of what this software can do, I do suggest looking into it a bit.
- Greed. You’re describing greed. The folks at the top of the pile in the US seemingly all have hoarding disorder. Very little of what they do appears rational… unless you concede their actions are meant to harm the general wellbeing of the US. population, while themselves being nicely insulated from all that.
- How about those folks actively engaging in behavior that damages the US?
- Those icons look AI generated to me
- Remind me why we keep using smart phones? They feel like a noose around our collective necks.
- Essentially the same as kasey_junk -- they're missing from the roads entirely. I frequently am in the areas of Lombard & Aurora for work, and I haven't seen a cop on the side of the road with someone pulled over in what feels like years.
I do see the insane driving. People going fast and weaving is the tip of the iceberg. Regularly now I see people using left turn lanes in intersections to pass people on the left and cut them off mid-intersection. Regularly I see people utterly spaced out on their phones, nearly stopped in the middle of the road -- these folks present a unique danger if you're doing the speed limit and not paying really close attention. But just generally, I think "good driving" went out of style during COVID, when a huge swath of people stopped driving.
These sorts of things I feel used to be addressed by the police in a very public way: you'd see that car that was weaving doing dangerous things pulled over a mile up the road as you continued on. THAT is what's changed, for me.
- What about simply running ‘unbound’ yourself?
- I’m in Chicagoland and can report the same. The cops aren’t doing anything. Interestingly, it seems crime is going down while they do nothing. This leads me to believe we don’t actually need huge police forces.
- They’ve seemingly chosen, en masse, to simply do nothing anymore.
- You may not be a card-carrying anti-vaxxer, but you muddy the waters in such a way that you advance their position.
- I recall when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, there were a handful of stories that came out about some of the oldest home in the area being built in such a manner that they had great air flow, were oriented towards the sun in such a way to keep warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Of course the main thrust of those stories was that these homes — critical to their survival — was that they weren’t built in a flood plain. But few to none had AC, because they didn’t need it.
Its the hubris of man that we stopped building our houses with respect for the weather. As we’ve left that behind we’re losing that ability to our collective detriment.
We can and should do better.
- I’ve wondered about this many times. How much would the world cool if we turned the HVAC off for a week, a month, permanently? I mean, we watched as the natural world breathed a sigh of relief on 9/11 as all planes were grounded. We watched nature reassert itself in places humans vacated during COVID. So why not HVAC?
- The only way you're going to get people to notice anything at all is if you shut down the internet.
- They funded the Nazis with the help of the Catholic Church, did they not? Isn’t that a widely known fact? Or am I simply wrong?
So which is it?