Notoriously simple industry. Anyone can do it really.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/schottis-block-out-pleated-blind-dark-grey-90369507/

I’ve given it some thought.

There isn’t enough empty land in temperate climates for someone to survive unmolested outside of civilization, and I don’t have the multitude of skills required to make it in less hospitable climates. If I could find a good source of food I might make it past the first couple weeks, but I’m not hopeful. I’ve never harvested an animal, so that’s a big barrier.

If I had a good solar system and a house on several hundred or thousand acres to get me started it might work out. Better yet if I have some seed and starter food.

It is important to understand what Vehicular Cycling is and how it has entrenched carbrained infrastructure. https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/28614295

That’s also part of the Vehicular Cycling/Forester problem. Forester, distilled and paraphrased, was a proponent of “serious” cyclists, which included the MAML (Middle-Aged Man in Lycra) on racing bikes and excluded the person picking up groceries on a bike with baskets. Which summs up to “cycling is for recreation”. And visibly, the aggressive cyclists tend towards that MAML image, rather than dad picking up groceries or mom cycling to work.

Video Essay or Wikipedia

Tl;DW/R: pretending bikes are cars and claiming bike lanes are dangerous.

Vehicular cycling advocates have set cycling back decades in USA, with the result being this thought.

A car or a bicycle travelling at 30% of the speed of traffic introduces a considerable risk. It’s why bike lanes aren’t also sidewalks. But it’s not a reason for vehicular homicide!

Disabling 8.3 filename creation has been a recommendation in the Best Practices Analyser since Server 2008. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/ff633453(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

I had a GPO to disable it corp wide back then and didn’t have any reports of issues.

It’s less the size and more the density, I think. Also, country dwellers simply don’t understand the problems facing city dwellers and city people constantly diminish concerns of the country people. That leads to a divide and no chance of concerted protests.

I also think a consistent problem facing left wing leaders (at a large scale)is an inability to tap into emotional response, in the face of right wing politicians successfully exploiting emotions.

People need to feel that their actions can make change happen, and they need to be emotionally invested.

Plus - the economy of England is two countries: London, and the rest. Massive wealth disparities.

A very simple, though hardly practical rule to follow perfectly is: “Avoid things with ingredient lists.”

Michael Pollan as mentioned elsewhere “eat food, mostly plants, not too much.”

“Avoid the centre of the grocery store” assuming a North American layout (which has regional variations) - the point being that the prepared foods are in the middle, the outside edges are butcher, dairy, and produce.

Some asshole once said, “Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.” This is also good advice, despite the source.

Just hook in get it done then have beers after

This is how I like doing it anyways. The beer is the reward for a job well done.

I think that riding mowers look goofy. They’re like a toy tractor. You have a grown ass man riding a power wheels tractor!

That’s on top of the fact they do a worse job in twice the time! One of these is made for drinking beer and one is for getting the job done.

But that’s just my opinion.

The companies who sell these bypass devices spend time on graphene too, don’t worry.

The price of iOS exploits would suggest Apple’s doing a pretty good job in this area.

Botching executions seems to be a theme with the USA.

It’s impossible to get through the ai screening, at least without overpromising. Companies want junior applicants with 20 years experience.

People got a taste of another way of life over Covid and understand their daily attendance just doesn’t move the needle.

Managers need to justify their existence by watching people in the office.

This is a quarter of record high fuel prices too.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I’ve always heard that joke about horses.

At least if you spend it on horses, you’ve got horses.

Back to the devices (Apple with some local AI), but that’s not exactly revolutionary.