I would have an easier time finding value in a refuse pile than I would within New York City.
> ignorant by most of the inhabitants of the developed world
"developed world", ah yes the part of the world marked by sedentary lifestyle, obesity, mental illness, suicide, mass shootings, and vast disparities in power.
Only beasts are joyful in Hell. I can recognize the demons just in their happiness.
Yes, you are correct to assume. I should be more humble as I just revealed my own ignorance when it comes to the meaning of "equivocating" :P
> But in both cases the value only existed because of the people offering the deal. XeroX doing nothing with a UI or native Americans doing nothing with some land would mean the UI and the land would continue to be worth nothing. It was the others coming with ideas and effort that made them valuable.
Specifically, "XeroX doing nothing with a UI or native Americans doing nothing with some land would mean the UI and the land would continue to be worth nothing" is what I am getting at.
Practically, focusing on the things you can change (mostly small scale evils in your community) will have the highest degree of positive effect, rather than focusing on stuff you are bombarded with online that is out of your control (mostly large scale evils).
However, don't think you get vindicated from duty just because the task is impossible. You are as just as much responsible for yourself, your family, your friends, your community, as you are responsible for the person living on the other side of the globe. Whatever you decide to do with that information is up to you, but you will suffer with any of those who suffer, whether that be in life or death. Only the delusional think they can escape righteous judgment.
Maybe I used imprecise wording. Not root, but must be part of sudoers. Or am I misunderstanding how the process works? Don'tWhenever I have installed a package from aur with yay it requires user being part of sudoers.
And you and me would be better off for it. You can rely on such insanely complex technologies that have required millions of man hours to develop in which even the most knwoledgable will lack a complete understanding, or you can live within your station.
I agree. Care is highly expensive out of neccesity. You need someome to basically do everything for these individuals, and this includes many undesirable tasks such as helping them use the commode, shower, dress, etc.
Additionally, the typical pay and hours worked for the nurses and care workers is, in my opinion, much lower than it ought to be. The cost will only increase as the nursing shortage increases.
Even ignoring economics, the quality of life for someone living in a nursing home isn't very high.
> The first time I emailed a stranger, I swear my cursor hovered over Send for a full five minutes.
I would estimate communication is 95% non verbal and 5% verbal. The problem with online interaction is you are limited to this 5% while interacting with an almost infinite number of social groups and people.
Learning how to adapt to online socialization is learning how to adapt to being blind. Only you aren't blind, you are choosing to wear a blindfold.
> It was bad enough when finding out more than 400 AUR packages for Arch Linux users had been infected with malware but now that number has risen to around 900 a few hours ago and now in the end at more than 1,500 user-contributed packages.been infected with malware
I never had a need for the AUR.
If I want a package not in the official repository I build it myself or if it has a binary release I will download it. this way i don't have to use root when building and can have program installed locally just for a single user which is how it should be anyway for most desktop use cases.
At least in this way there is one less level of possible malicious code insertion in developer -> user, vs develeper -> maintainer -> user.
Not from the UK, but this person's experiences is similar to mine in the US.
The cost of care, especially nursing/assisted living, is so high that even millions of dollars in savings can be used up relatively quickly.
The worst is for situations where their income (ssi/pensions) exceed qualification for medicaid, but are less than what could cover a nursing home. this can be solved with a miller trust but it takes time to setup so you better have another way to take care of them while sorting out.
> Navigating the cost of care for my 79-year-old mum has been complex, and there is something deeply uncomfortable about reducing a lifetime of achievements into savings accounts, assets and financial assessments to be handed over to near strangers.
Just as the health and happiness of a child is in large part determined by such unimportant and irrelevant factors as material wealth so is for the elderly or the infirm.
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In a perfect world children would take care of their aging parents, but (of course) this isn't always possible.
The US was fine without an oversized influence on foreign countries and the burden of defending Western values and democracy. We accepted the empire given without thinking of the added responsibilities. Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran are those conflicts worth having a higher global influence? The standard of living is higher in the countries we protected in Western Europe than in our own country. It's a Pyrrhic victory. Without this 400 lb weight around our necks, America and its citizens would be in a better, more sustainable position.
> The cold brew order is no new behavior. We know what it is. The American empire is just the fourth incarnation of what started as Roman, became Christian European, and then predominantly British. We know what it is. We still have it in our veins, the disdain these tourists are showing. Their carelessness and abstraction. They are the rulers, the ones who believe they are giving meaning to reality for the first time.
When it's your time it's your time. And in comparison to the empires of old, the American empire is far more humane to it's subjects. The biggest mistake our nation has made in the last 100 years is being merciful to the war mongers; Perhaps if they received justice instead of undeserved tolerance they wouldn't be so insolent to complain of what is put in their bowl.
I don't have any commentary to add, just a passage from the last prompt I found particularly moving:
> *But it wasn’t just that. She’d also grown religious. She went to the Buddhist temple with my parents—I stayed home—and sat at the base of a twisty tree, meditating. She believed in Jesus, too. She said she was ready to die. It seems like that gave my parents peace, but I always thought she was deluding herself or us or both.*