kalkulat @ kalkulat @lemmy.world

Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.

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Needs discussion. I'm more concerned for kids -never being able- to buy a home. "Owner-built", no problem.

It's my opinion that housing is so basic a need that no house should be allowed to use for a gambling chip.

The 'housing market' needs to be broken in favor of individual ownership. (For many, speculation has driven ownership out of reach.)

Only individuals may purchase individual homes, and must agree to occupy them as their primary and only residences until they sell and vacate them. (Live-in landlords included, e.g. boarders.)

As part of the deal, they must first find another individual buyer (under the same terms) for their present home.

(Futher stipluations needed, but none that permit violation of the above principle. )

"We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes." - Leona Helmsley. (~ 1989)

(Convicted of extortion; sentenced to 16 years; released after months.) Her husband's death left her with the Helmsley hotels, the Helmsley Palace and the Empire State Building. (Yes, that one.)

If you've not dipped into William Gibson (Neuromancer) and several trilogies since), I've enjoyed all that I've gotten to so far. (Wanna 're-read' the 'Bridge Series' in audiobook.)

(I'm also a fan of Stephenson, Dan Simmons, Charles Stross, and that ilk.)

Whoa! Thanks for the pointer, I never saw one. (Don't get to HD much these days.)

Good idea! Also works for shortwave stations that turn on at your wakeup time, especially if you're annoyed by propaganda!

(I use an FM radio tuned to a spot where there are no signals. Doubles as an FM radio during the day.)

(Use the tone controls for more or less white or brown noise.)

YES! I a roll recently to get the cables behind my desk up and away from my feet. (Jerking cables out of their jacks sideways is bad for today's crap hardware.) AND no more rats' nesting.

(Too bad I never found a desk with a cable gutter along the back. Wud be great for a bunch of heavy audio/midi cables.)

Really good science news communicators (including many teachers because how are admins to judge?) are too rare ... on YTube there's ... a half-dozen, maybe, at best?

" the Selfish Gene, which I could rip on for pages "

Please put me on the list to read that!

Yeh! Good to see the rusty machine (and self-deprecating) model fading away and being replaced by real appreciation of the true marvels that have emerged over millions of years. (Science's mechanical models were all so ... 18th century!)

(Not so familiar with biology but did enjoy hearing about the tack Lee Cronin's taken.)

It took many generations to be able to put the truth out there like this. Over and over until people recognize that -openly- living the truth, in a world where lying is so easy, is the definition of courage. And of real freedom.

The how part.

Dinty Moore still comes in cans ... and is better than ever (esp. compared to most of today's canned "food".

Fission's not just more expensive then rewewables, it's way Way WAY more expensive. Even if you don't count the costs of safely (if ever) securing wastes for thousands of years. Or paying for the on-land spills (too dangerous for remediations for decades). Or the health costs of the emissions (recorded and unrecorded). Or ever-skyrocking costs (and failures) of renovation. Or using loads of ever-scarcer river water, or water from oceanside earthquake zones like Fukushima.

Luckily, we have a reactor in the sky 90 million miles away. Right now, every day, It provides the Earth with hundreds of times the amount of energy humanity currently consumes. FREE ENERGY. Windmills have been in use for well-over a century, yet utilized little. Why? Because when FREE energy is everywhere, up for grabs, it's hard to centralize material formats in nice, big, very profitable power plants ... especially when you don't count externalities (especially invisible ones, like emissions or mines hidden away in places no one who matters ever visits.).

Takes a lot of propaganda to keep people divided and discouraged while they decide out how to hold onto the bank.

Strange to see people blaming their fellow citizens, when it was a certain beloved King that started off his reign by hugely cutting the tax-rate of corporations, leaving them with the 'trickle-down'.

Somehow rulers manage to keep the people divided by keeping them blaming each other rather the root-cause.

Hmmm. I never learned most of this in high school. Hmmm. I wonder if that might have helped understand the harder stuff later... changed how I do stuff. But hey, I did learn how to make napkin holders and bird houses.

Oh well, I did eventually learn a lot of it. The slow and hard way. And Carlin helped.

KInda stupid question, innit? If I still have it, I don't think it's a misconception. You'd have to tell me.

But then, anyone can make a mistake. Doesn't make you a bad person. I make mistakes every day. I shouldn't have said stupid, I should said... whatever they call it now. Meathead?

Homestarrunner wuz wunnada COOLEST things EVER to come outta this series of tubes. WJERE ar alla moobies u ask? Me to!

And to think that their colleagues told them not to bother, that there was nothing there. Must feel really gratifying after all those years.