GreyEyedGhost

Holy crap, $300 for the lols is a bit much.

I feel like I need to go to Seychelles and have a coconut now. The butt stamp would look great in a passport.

Well, that’s impressive. I’ll remember that for the image embed.

Well, the scientists are talking about 95%, which is 400 million people, and if people started dying out due to climate, you would see regions where people have a better time living. These would most likely be in the temperate bands, which are a narrow strip across South America and Africa, and a larger strip across North America and Eurasia. Those northern bands are thousands of kilometers long, and people have traveled those distances on foot before. Moreover, those 5000 people don’t have to be in one place, they need to join up in a few generations at worst. Also, climate collapse isn’t instant, as we are experiencing it right now, so those 5000 can start congregating before the collapse is complete. For reference, 0.1% of 8 billion is 1.6 million people. 5000 people is a third of a percent of that.

Killing every human is pretty hard.

Civilization collapse in 200 years is pretty plausible, which would go along with 95% of the population dying. For humans to go extinct would take better than 99.9% dying. 5,000 individuals would be a comfortable minimum viable population for humans to survive.

You can’t say all that and not post pictures, so here they are.

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What I’m saying is, either civilization is going to fail or it isn’t. If it is, urban centers are going to collapse and a lot of people are going to die and most gasoline cars will be useless in a couple years. If it isn’t, utilizing the frameworks of civilization to handle disasters will be as effective as anything else we can do, hence no need for extreme resilience (growing you own food, canning, making your own clothing) or rugged individualism.

I understand the mindset, but civilization hinges on working together. Being resilient enough to survive on your own is rarely going to involve growing some significant portion of your own calories for an urban population. Being handy will certainly help in general, and having a method to repel bad actors are useful in a complete collapse, but relying on gasoline powered vehicles doesn’t make sense if you think society is going to fail.

“These yoots-”

“Hwat?”

“These yoots.”

“Hwat’s a yoot?”

“Oh, I’m sorry your honor, these unibody crossover vehicles with an open bed.”

Something like that, I imagine. It might get confused with youths if you’re discussing them in NYC.

For a nation that is all about personal freedom, they sure spend a lot of time telling other people what to do in areas that don’t really matter. Even for the sake of military uniformity, facial hair must be maintained and groomed seems like an acceptable stance. Anything else is just power tripping.

I recently got an update on my phone where I can start recording with a tap. It does play a recording so both parties know it’s being recorded, so it would be applicable in a two-party consent jurisdiction (hang up if you refuse).

Also, over a decade ago when I was mucking about in LineageOS, I’m pretty sure there was an app you could install if you were in a one-party consent jurisdiction, which would not notify the person you were recording.

What he is saying is, while a lot of the phone calls you got were answered with the KB, this doesn’t reflect the people who didn’t call because they used the KB. For that, you would need to track total sales, new customer intake, volume over time, etc. It’s quite possible you could have customers who got a KB reply from your support staff in a timely manner and decided if it was that easy for you to get an answer to them, it would be worth it for them to try it before calling next time.

Of course, the reality is quite likely that the main users of the knowledge base you built was the support team, which still isn’t a loss.

There was an utterly surreal burger commercial someone prompted that I just loved. It wasn’t really good, but it was a lot.

“I’d like a Coke.”

“Is Pepsi okay?”

“It will have to do.”

Or

“Do you have Dr. Pepper?”

You need to accept the fact that even idiots can realize they were lied to now and then. It seems like enough British idiots noticed in this case.

Certainly possible. I haven’t bothered looking into what types of shifts are typical for doctors in hospitals, but $430k is certainly more attractive.

I absolutely agree, for me, but is it enough to attract a doctor who probably has $240k in student loans to pay off and can make more elsewhere? To someone in that position it may not be worth responding to.

Assuming you get 5 12-hour shifts per month, that’s only $216k per year. Sure, you have a lot of time off, but you can make much more as a doctor, depending on what kind of specialty, of course. Maybe OP can tell us what kind of doctor he isn’t.

I wonder if part of it is people who had plans made already didn’t change them. Next year will give us a better idea. I do know some people who traveled to the US to visit friends, and I get it, but even they are saying they’re done and their friends can come here instead.

Yeah, it’s not okay to commit atrocities on war criminals, or any other criminals, either. There are more humane ways to kill people if that’s what is going to be done. Torturing them before or during isn’t necessary or helpful.

I’m more than okay with using necessary force to deal with bad actors. But do you honestly think if you say to Putin or Netanyahu, “If you don’t stop we’re going to strip you of wealth, power and freedom,” is going to have noticeably less impact than saying, “If you don’t stop we’re going to strip you of wealth, power and freedom, as well as torture you when we kill you?”

As for the German surrender, 1.5 million Axis soldiers surrendered in a single month before Germany surrendered. 800k German soldiers surrendered in the four months prior to Germany’s surrender. How likely do you think that would have been if word got out (and it would) that surrender led to summary execution, let alone torture?

Again, I’ve never said force, war, or death aren’t options for dealing with atrocities. I said atrocities shouldn’t be. And atrocities start with dehumanizing your enemies.