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The "make every company a cooperative" concept has been proposed before. For certain companies it could make sense, but it gets a little tricky when it's anything that needs significant funds to get off the ground.

Corporations were invented for a reason: it creates a mechanism whereby investors can put money in up front in exchange for a share of possible profits once the venture gets going. For example, that makes it possible to build a billion dollar nuclear reactor with 100 staff people who couldn't each pay 10 million dollars.

The mechanism that creates billionaires is only sort of related. Elon Musk, for example, built up his wealth through tangential involvement with a series of really successful companies.

Like going to a post office.

You walk in, show your health ID, get treated, then leave.

Edit: Assuming you're going to a hospital. Family doctor care is similar, although in my province they're contractors, and it can be hard to find one with an opening for new patients right now.

Oh, I just noticed it wait time was requested. It varies for family doctors; the local one that sucks can pretty much always get you in immediately. I'm with one that needs a couple days notice now, haha.

If you get referred to a specialist it's a long wait, like many months, and when you do go it's a human production line coordinated down to the second.

Hmm. I'd guess that filtering all frequencies outside the data transmission window could help there, but I don't really know.

These are supposed to be disposable, and are hastily being put together in wartime conditions by largely non-Western countries. Exotic solutions are highly disfavored.

Also, you have to consider that a single fiber has pretty high surface-volume ratio.

Assuming they intend to use their power for good in some way, then maybe?

Many do, and I don't really have a moral obligation to oppose them personally then. The main obstacle would be my fear of dying in a nasty way when it all falls apart (which is probably made more likely by being nice).

Even before I saw that guy preach, I thought he was the creepiest-looking person ever. His sermons and lifestyle don't help.

Wow dragonfly mating is cool. I don't know if I've ever seen that.

On the wing it's more formation-style, though. Do lovebugs twist around to face the same way? I was impressed because I was imagining them flying together while pointed opposite directions.

Yep, I'm slightly upset. Does he actually think something worthwhile is going to come out of the negotiations?

I mean, it's not really a new problem, although it's just been ordinary health issues rather than AI.

Usually disability has been addressed very poorly, though.

Yeah, this seems pretty performative.

Interesting, good to know! I would have thought they'd be pretty good at not scattering anything.

Hmm, looks like this does include Dwarf Fortress. (KitFox is in Montreal, but Tarn Adams spent a couple decades working on it in Seattle)

Does it make sense to buy it on sale, if paying for a thing that I've played a ton of already is the point?

It probably won't take long in this case, haha.

Meanwhile, TIL there's a bug that can fly while conjoined for mating.

If by personality you mean individual-level differences in behavior, yes, definitely. (It's old now but it holds up)

I mean, it'd be odd if there was variation like there is in all organisms but it somehow didn't extend to the brain.

Even wilder, because of the semi-decentralised way an octopus's central nervous system is set up, it's been suggested each tentacle might have a personality of it's own, on top of the octopus's!

It sure seemed like one, yeah. One unusual thing is that there was apparently a Discord channel with multiple marks in it at once.

My interpretation of what that means is something like "knowledge about how to live well".

One thing I wish I knew when I was younger is that no matter how smart you are, you're not that smart. Basically, unless you have a positive argument why someone else hasn't thought of a thing, they have.

A simple corollary to that is that meritocracy doesn't exist, which is also why this fact gets played down in public discourse.

Avoiding the famous things...

Tracking mud into someone's house. The most striking cultural difference is literally just taking your shoes off as a guest.

Alligators, tropical diseases, hurricanes for the most part.

Flag-worship. Which is ironic because tomorrow is Canada Day, but really the US is on a whole other level.

Government deadlock.

Pennies.

Embargoing Cuba.

Most affordable compared to what? Non-western cities can get crazy cheap. I remember a video of a day out on the town in Lilongwe, Malawi for a single USD.

I'm in rural Alberta, and you're still going to be hard-pressed to find a sub-1000CAD rental.