it’s not a sex robot it’s an automate.
@billseitz i’m for it! and of course it enables just avoiding those areas. but if for whatever reason (it’s not hard to think of reasons), people want to rebuild there, but would be willing to say build at higher density and use forms of construction density renders economical, are there safe ways to do it?
( https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/20/it-isnt-sprawl-if-its-dense/index.html )
is there any version of urbanity that could be built and would not burn in fire-prone areas of Southern California, or would any form of human habitation burn under the conditions nature presents (and humans exacerbate) there?
“platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, market dominance, profit via extraction) conflict with many basic human and societal needs.” @kissane https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
@dpp the truest affection derives from exchanges of fancy feast and cuddles. toying with annihilation is just icing on the cake.
@dpp sounds like a very cuddly way to die!
they deny it exists, but climate change serves an essential function for the right. it proves progress only makes things worse and we need to go back to their mythologized past. the disasters are caused by lesbians, they say. they have blessed themselves with abundant disasters.
one thing about canada, greenland, panama, the gulf of armenia — we’re talking about shit HE says again, rather than shit Elon says. which may be more important than greenland to him.
places i miss burn while i miss them.
a smaller mishap is called a kittenastrophe.
@dpp Microsoft is down below 1, less risky aparently than the broad market…
what if we did a *reverse* merger? we could sell ourselves to Denmark for, like, $1, then we'd have Greenland AND a civilized state.
when the US government finally realizes it has to arrange mass construction of new housing for climate refugees, my dream is @holz_bau leads the agency.
Europe has Ukraine as a bulwark to the east, and Greenland as a bulwark to the west.
"This is the baseline of everything to do with social media. You can’t really keep up with the all the bad things people do within the business model. Period. End of story. " #JoshMarshall https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-economics-that-define-social-media ht @timbray
// it's an inherently destructive business model that only pencils because Section 230 is too categorical
the main practitioners of post-materialist politics are a few heads of state, who are making territorial conquest great again because they are bored of stable maps and miss the glory of conquest.
@realcaseyrollins it is current foreign exchange prices. but it’s weird that it should rise if the expectation is it’s to decline because inflation. (that said, there are some “overshoot” models of FX pricing that might actually be consistent with rise-to-fall. i need to look those up, it’s been a long time.)
@BenRossTransit i guess we need the East American and West American Oceans.
wouldn’t it be more bigly to go for the American Ocean?
@realcaseyrollins the USD is really strong. usually that suggests low inflation expectations, people don’t want to buy or hold a currency expected to depreciate relative to other currencies, which a higher inflation rate than in other countries should provoke. 1/
@realcaseyrollins at the same time, long-term bond yields are rising sharply, despite the Fed cutting short-term rates. that suggests over time the market expects the Fed will be forced to re-raise rates pretty sharply, which suggests a prediction of inflation pressures. 2/
@realcaseyrollins so, these things are hard to reconcile. dollar strength can be explained as a preaction to tariffs, but if so that should mute any price effect of the tariffs. something is missing from my understanding or analysis, something doesn’t add up. /fin