Most of my work is with Macs, and even one server is running macOS, so for those who don't know how it works 'over there', one runs Time Machine which is a versioning system keeping hourlies for a day, dailies for a week, then just weeklies after that. It accommodates using multiple disks, so I have a networked drive that services all the mac computers, and each computer also has a USB drive it connects to. Each drive usually services a couple of computers.

Backups happen automatically without interruption or drama.

I just rotate the USB drives out of the building into a storage unit once a month or so and bring the offsite drives back in to circulation. The timemachine system nags you for missing backup drives if it's been too long, which is great.

It’s not perfect but very reliable and I wish everyone had access to a similar system, it's very easy, apple got this one thing right.

I have a bunch of old macs here with different distros onthem, mostly Mint, that I have been trying to give away to locals (without being obligated to provide support, which is the stickler apparently). They all run great. One could dumpster dive or curb cruise, or around here, lurk at Recycling.

No soil. Might as well grow food in a building.

kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies)

1. (political science) Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens. from 1829.]

Remember to visit the range on windy days, folks.

My mother's village of 800 people, they hung partisans from each corner of the town square. Regularly. It was stressful and fucked up for a little kid, and my grandfather was a partisan.

As always:

Follow the Money

Doing just what you’re paid for and not one bit more is called “Work to Rule” and it’s just total bullshit that it’s an effective labour tactic of resistance, because it implies that exploitation is part of the expectation in capitalism.

People want to do a good job and employers milk that.

My daughter, who is kind of broke and physically disabled and a student, just told me she feels wealthy because of the social connections she has: good friends from childhood, new friends from school, and a cohousing community that she's staying at that has kind of adopted her as an honourary member, plus all kinds of our old family friends who she's social with and trusts.

She gets it. In the end it's how well you loved as much as how fine you lived.

Yup, dude even gets disappeared just for being in the wrong street at the wrong time.

Get ready for the new Underground Railroad eh.

It’s not the rage at all. A minority of misinformed people in Alberta and an even smaller percentage in BC and Saskatchewan are back on their hoser soapboxes.

The people against it are very against it. But whatever, it’s not going to happen without violence, as most of the lands don’t belong to the provinces, it’s mostly treaty or crown, and it triggers some very high feelings.

this has “with us or against us “ energy

kakistocracy

Noun

kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies)

1. (political science) Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens. from 1829.]

There is very little ’Alberta’ that is left over after you map out Treaty lands and Crown land.

The Treaties are older than AB and take precedence.

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Such a prescient episode.

yes I Am Canadian, bud

I have hired and fired before. If someone came to me with a resume that slim, would they even get the interview… nah.

He’s never made anything, his expertise is misleading rhetoric, so I guess if he were ever to get an actually productive job making things it would be advertising where he can VERB the NOUN all day.

You can seize the means of Production and lose society to those who own the means of Reproduction (of society): communication. Media, culture, education, history, and Law are just as fundamental to society as ownership, and as a shaper of motives, has more inertia, therefore momentum.

American oligarchs have a long lever into Canada through ownership and influence of our media, both legacy and online. We are going backwards without fixing that.

Au contraire, the rage-perp needs to stop at the third beer, and definitely would benefit from a couple of bong hits and an hour of introspection.