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Calgary in general is traditionally very spartan, architecturally. The situation is noticeably improving with the years, though, and honestly IMO an all-brick complex can still feel vibrant, if it's filled with happy people.

Eventually, it lost its human scale, residential population, vitality, sense of safety, and most of its sunshine. An equal amount of effort, she says, will be required to turn it back into neighbourhoods once again.

Some of these seem like weird issues to take. Our civilisation is an intrinsically larger than human scale undertaking; if you want to avoid that, you pretty much have to go back into the wild. Similarly, every tall downtown is shaded, because of the square cube law of basic geometry. Honestly it's impressive how much light we do manage to let in.

The extremists on both sides (very much including Hamas) can get fucked. Especially since they have effectively worked together.

What should it be called?

If they can do it, they will. It's ad dollars to them, as good as any others.

Don't let them do it. Buy dumb electronics, or at least smart electronics you can use airgapped.

Good luck! Organising is hard work.

I can code or do errands, and am willing to help out a bit. I'm not sure how much time exactly I can devote to this, but if you're stuck on something and can't find anyone else to do it, I'm a good call. I might switch back to lemmy.sdf.org depending on how broken it stays, same username though.

An organised, easy way to do this would be great. Kind of like a test audience for FOSS.

Right now, people basically have to appoint and organise themselves as reviewer, which is a big ask.

You can look at it that way. They do advertise and play a lot of mind tricks. It's also possible to be so poor you don't even qualify to go into debt, though.

The plutocrats (as well as more moderately wealthy people) might argue that it's always agreed to freely by the debtor, so it's not their fault. I'd maintain free will doesn't exist at a collective level, and they fucking know it. The entire concept of marketing is predicated on that.

Har har.

I guess not, in the shelf storage sense. Lettuce growing in a pot isn't either that way. You don't have to ship in anything nonperishable to keep them going, though, which for the purposes of dealing with a fucked supply chain (my situation) is good enough.

Fair. To rephrase, is there another animal that's not made bitey by being ill with rabies.

Assuming they're checking the emails at all.

Remember when that guy decided to read a book while his Tesla was doing basic lane following, and merged into a semi? I 'member.

Hmm, that actually tracks with what I see in real life, but it's pretty impressive. I guess that's also why we have massive household debt.

Yeah, these are the same people that want to ban books and have tight control over which true things are taught in schools.

No, actually. I guess somebody still makes them? I heard they went out of fashion because they were really bad, but I'd give it a try for the sake of completeness.

I've had chickens before and enjoyed the little bastards, so that's actually not a downside for me.

It seems like a simple explanation, but the history of biology is pretty much the history of thinking we we're special and then finding out we were wrong, over and over again.

So is there another animal that doesn't bite when infected with rabies?

No, this is Patrick!

A layer completely covering yourself. Once baked, this will preserve valuable ethnographic information for future archeologists. /s

Too soon?

What's it sitting on? A copepod maybe?