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in my mind, batteries are a "luxury item"So you're probably not hiring private firefighters to protect your property.
OK... wow.
No; it was kind of sad. I was at the corner store and they weren't accepting credit cards so I had to go home and get some cash and was lucky enough to have enough. A guy there said, "Oh, yeah, you should always have around $200 in ones, fives, and tens in your 'grab bag'."
Mmm. Yeah. good idea.
"You know! The bag that you keep with a change of clothing. You should have cash in there as well."
I just have no idea why you'd have a bag of clothes to grab-and-run.
If I get my family and my cats I'm happy. If I get my backup hard drive as well, I have everything I care about.
But I'm old and weird.
EDIT: Apparently I grabbed my grab bag.
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I always associated that kind of thing with the general "prepper" mindset. The kinds of people who assume they're going to have five minutes to grab what they need from the house and to get to a bunker in case of {insert catastrophe here}.
Though in this case I imagine a bunker would have clothes, etc. already stored. So maybe this is more the "grab and get out of town" kind of prepper?
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in my mind, batteries are a "luxury item"So you're probably not hiring private firefighters to protect your property.OK... wow.
No; it was kind of sad. I was at the corner store and they weren't accepting credit cards so I had to go home and get some cash and was lucky enough to have enough. A guy there said, "Oh, yeah, you should always have around $200 in ones, fives, and tens in your 'grab bag'."
Mmm. Yeah. good idea.
"You know! The bag that you keep with a change of clothing. You should have cash in there as well."I just have no idea why you'd have a bag of clothes to grab-and-run.
If I get my family and my cats I'm happy. If I get my backup hard drive as well, I have everything I care about.
But I'm old and weird.
EDIT: Apparently I grabbed by grab bag.
On one hand, a lot of...people...seem to take notes from used bookstore wwii survival manuals and ancient .txt copies of the anarchists cookbook. On the other hand shot got real with Katrina and people havent forgotten that. If you are in a situation where you need to evacuate, he isnt completely wrong, but we live in 2019, not 1989. I could see where you might just want to grab an external hard drive and leave with your family.
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I always associated that kind of thing with the general "prepper" mindset. The kinds of people who assume they're going to have five minutes to grab what they need from the house and to get to a bunker in case of {insert catastrophe here}.
Though in this case I imagine a bunker would have clothes, etc. already stored. So maybe this is more the "grab and get out of town" kind of prepper?
yeah, a get out of the house fast mindset.
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Yeah, but you can go 2-3 weeks in a single set of clothes. There are *so* many things I'd grab before clothes...
On a backpack trip, they're considered "useless weight".
Just swim in what you're wearing and you keep the smell down.
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I don't imagine most people are willing to stay in one set of clothes that long, even when on a "get the @#%$ out of dodge" run.
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Yeah, but you can go 2-3 weeks in a single set of clothes. There are *so* many things I'd grab before clothes...
On a backpack trip, they're considered "useless weight".
Just swim in what you're wearing and you keep the smell down.
2 to 3 weeks? Is that all? ~RUNS~
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I'll wear 2-3 outfits in one day.
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Typically just two here, one for work and one for going for walks on lunch break and for any after-work activities such as church or gaming.
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I just watched Hostiles on Netflix. I really can't recommend that one enough.
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So, in my opinion, misinformation is worse than no information; as I mentioned, if you tell people to prepare and they buy a bunch of perishable stuff (like ice), you're basically penalizing them for listening to you at all.
So imagine my frustration that this map shows my house somewhere around half a mile inside of the shutoff zone, yet PG&E's official site says I'm fine.
So... how dare you pretend to be a newspaper and get a map with boundaries that are at least half a mile off?
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I just watched Hostiles on Netflix. I really can't recommend that one enough.
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THIS IS THE PEN OF WINTER
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Geez. We got a call last night. My mother-in-law has been without power for 6 days now. My aunt- and uncle-in-law got evacuated last year, so they moved, and yesterday they got evacuated from their new home.
Maybe, just maybe, until PG&E gets their s*** together, living in the rural suburbs surrounding the Bay Area proper isn't such a great thing.
(The area GothBard's mother is in terrifies me because it's a 20-minute drive down a one-lane road into the wilderness, and the final mile of the road is surrounded by a massive eucalyptus grove. If a fire starts in her area, she's not getting out, plain and simple.)
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Dayum NH, I wish you luck with the outages and the family.
well, as I said, the utterly infuriating thing is the sheer level of incompetence shown at all levels of private and public industry:
"We should privatize PG&E! That will make them more efficient!"
"Oh my goodness! Instead of using the maintenance funds to maintain their infrastructure, they gutted the fund to pay off executives and shareholders! No one could have predicted that!"
"Oh my goodness! Due to a lack of maintenance, aging PG&E lines are starting fires, killing people, and causing billions of dollars in damage! No one could have predicted that!!"
"Wow. PG&E is cutting power to residential customers to prevent fires. But they're not cutting their transmission lines. And oopsie!
- Kincade fire: Bad PG&E transmission line
- Lafayette fire: Bad PG&E transmission line
No one could have predicted that!!!"
The sheer levels of greed and incompetence are mind-blowing. And yet I seem to be alone in pointing out that before they privatized, PG&E spent a heck of a lot more of their budget on maintenance! Go figure!
EDIT: To be fair, the whole reason they got privatized was poor management, but privatization made things worse rather than better, as vultures swooped in to pick the remaining meat from the bones of what was once a great utility company.
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Geez. We got a call last night. My mother-in-law has been without power for 6 days now. My aunt- and uncle-in-law got evacuated last year, so they moved, and yesterday they got evacuated from their new home.
Maybe, just maybe, until PG&E gets their s*** together, living in the rural suburbs surrounding the Bay Area proper isn't such a great thing.
(The area GothBard's mother is in terrifies me because it's a 20-minute drive down a one-lane road into the wilderness, and the final mile of the road is surrounded by a massive eucalyptus grove. If a fire starts in her area, she's not getting out, plain and simple.)
Okay, not to make light of GothBard's family situation, because that is truly horrifying.
BUT.
On land, in rural areas with narrow roads?
Seriously, I'm not going to get into a long treatise on this, but HORSES.
They're smart, they're strong, and they can get you out of ANYWHERE.
Compared to cars, they're cheaper, greener, more efficient, more sensible, and better for your mental health.
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Geez. We got a call last night. My mother-in-law has been without power for 6 days now. My aunt- and uncle-in-law got evacuated last year, so they moved, and yesterday they got evacuated from their new home.
Maybe, just maybe, until PG&E gets their s*** together, living in the rural suburbs surrounding the Bay Area proper isn't such a great thing.
(The area GothBard's mother is in terrifies me because it's a 20-minute drive down a one-lane road into the wilderness, and the final mile of the road is surrounded by a massive eucalyptus grove. If a fire starts in her area, she's not getting out, plain and simple.)
Okay, not to make light of GothBard's family situation, because that is truly horrifying.
BUT.
On land, in rural areas with narrow roads?
Seriously, I'm not going to get into a long treatise on this, but HORSES.
They're smart, they're strong, and they can get you out of ANYWHERE.
Compared to cars, they're cheaper, greener, more efficient, more sensible, and better for your mental health.
So, she is on a horse ranch, but she's never ridden in her life, and it's a classic narrow gulch: The fire would come up from below, so unless the horses can fly they're really hosed. Much like the Paradise fire, people are building their homes in what are effectively flame chutes with massive amounts of underbrush. A horse could push through that brush at 2-3 mph. The flames would come up it at about 20. It's not good.
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Wow, that is all scary.
I was living in the middle of Katrina (Got out beforehand, like a semi-intelligent person, although, to be fair all I grabbed were an extra pair of shorts and a couple of t shirts clothes wise.The rest was Wife, kids, and valuables that cannot be replaced.) And thought that was bad when it went down,
But fires scare me a lot more. I mean, at worst case I CAN swim. But I cant walk through fire!
Prayers and well-wishes to all involved in or even near that mess.
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WHAT THE WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
Age of Mythology
Age of Mythology
AGE OF MYTHOLOGY
(Thank you.)
Huh. Three and a bit pages. WELP! Time to catch up!
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How many Dragonball Z characters does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but it involves a lot of yelling and takes at least 3 episodes.
Try the Abridged version!
Vegss to me sounds like the least fun place to take anyone, regardless of age.I personally despise Vegas, and wish never to return. Yet everyone else says it's some kind of wonderful place.
I don't drink, don't shoot, and don't hire hookers.
That pretty much ends Vegas for me.
But GothBard and Shiro insist that there's shopping (don't do), shows, and restaurants.
I am exceedingly dubious about the whole thing, but I figure I can take the kids and drive off to see the Grand Canyon, which actually DOES sound like fun.
I'm with you guys.
That said, the Grand Canyon is quite lovely! Especially if you can get it with a faint snowfall!
So, 2 episodes?How many Dragonball Z characters does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but it involves a lot of yelling and takes at least 3 episodes.Try the Abridged version!
Yes, one of which is about Vegeta in a mustache!
Impus Major: Hey, Dad! Since the state is always burning all the time, can we rename it from "The Golden State" to "The Hellfire State"?
NobodysHome: Sure!
IM: Or maybe "The Chipmunk's Lament State".
Sounds like Florida.
(Just replace "Chipmunk" with "Squirrel" and you're good to go.)
Or, The Charcoal Briquette State.Impus Major: Hey, Dad! Since the state is always burning all the time, can we rename it from "The Golden State" to "The Hellfire State"?
NobodysHome: Sure!
IM: Or maybe "The Chipmunk's Lament State".
I was wrong. This sounds like Florida.
Science gone mad: It seems that somewhere, farmers developed a variety of Grape that tastes like Cotton Candy. No. Just no. I expect my Grapes to taste like Grapes, not carnival food ( if you consider Cotton Candy food, that is ).
Huh. You got a link to this? Sounds weeeeiiiiird.
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I was wrong. This sounds like Florida.Or, The Charcoal Briquette State.Impus Major: Hey, Dad! Since the state is always burning all the time, can we rename it from "The Golden State" to "The Hellfire State"?
NobodysHome: Sure!
IM: Or maybe "The Chipmunk's Lament State".
How about "The Chipmunk Briquette State"?
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[music]Chipmunks roasting on an open fire...[/music]
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How many Dragonball Z characters does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but it involves a lot of yelling and takes at least 3 episodes.Try the Abridged version!
So only two episodes instead?
For 3: Um...uh...I just checked with everyone on my team...none of us have heard of this one. That one is *weird*. Is it just on Word, or Excel too? What version of Office is this? I'm really curious and want to research this one. (I'm seeing nothing in Word's options about update behavior, since that's generally handled through Windows Update as well.
Okay, so does your copy of Word have a quarter of the window taken up by a blue bar on the right side, and a mind-bendingly irritating advertisement for Microsoft Office in the bottom of that blue bar?
(Technically less than a quarter, but more than a fifth.)
Also, does a small entirely unadorned pop up periodically come up asking you to update your Microsoft Word?
Because the former has been true for quite some time, and the latter has been true ever since an official Microsoft update happened a little ways back, and I've been ignoring it because it seems sketchy at best.
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"Okay. I know your case revolves around the Amish, but how exactly did you all end up researching Scientology?"
Never a dull moment...
So only two episodes instead?How many Dragonball Z characters does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but it involves a lot of yelling and takes at least 3 episodes.Try the Abridged version!
Hey, now, I'm talking Team Four Star, not Kai!
I will send...I can help with the outside.Well. After talking to my dad about some number stuff, I just spent my plan period getting started on a mortgage pre-approval application. Very nervous.I must be a very different type of person.
I just filled out the application, talked to the loan officer, and said, "With these numbers, how much can we get?"
So I applied for that much, we looked for houses in that range, and we bought one. And this was back when I was a teacher and GothBard was a lab technician, so our combined income wasn't all that great for the Bay Area (well under 6 figures combined).
I guess it's just the way I think. "I'll fill out all this information honestly, then I'll ask you what number I should write as the total loan amount, and I'll trust that you'll give me a good number. Once that gets approved, THEN I'll look for a house."
So yeah, we didn't even start looking for a house until we knew exactly how much money we had, and as a result it didn't stress us at all (other than the caliber of house we could afford. But we were patient and we lucked out).
That's actually basically what I did.
1. Call Dad and ask his professional opinion (since this is his field) for what he thinks I could afford. (Conversation was basically "I kind of want to stop renting...am I being stupid, or is this viable?")
2. See if there was literally anything in the area in that range or if I should give up. (This is also called bored with grading, play on real estate sites)
3. Hear back from dad to confirm range.
3a. Be proud that I'd actually eyeballed it correctly.
4. Work on app so serious house hunting can begin.You missed
5. Relaaaaax!You applied for the correct number, you'll get it, and you'll find a house in that range.
The harder part is being happy with the house in that range. I can't help you with that one.
I will avoid doing any work whatsoever! It'll look much better that way!
Maybe the native Floridians can help me understand this one, or maybe it's my innate obsessive-compulsivism, but I had reason to go to the hardware store over lunch to pick up some wiring stuff and...
...woooooooooooooow...- People desperately buying up batteries
- People desperately trying to find face masks
- People snapping at the staff and at each other over the scarcity of such items in the store.And it's like, "Er... we had ALL OF THIS LAST YEAR, and many of you are clearly long-term residents. What did you do with all the masks you bought last year? Didn't you stock up on batteries last year? What about three weeks ago when PG&E first started announcing these outages?"
Yes, I'm a whale. We had fires last year, and I bought both face masks (cheap) and air purifiers (expensive). PG&E warned about outages, so in lieu of batteries (cheap) I bought a generator (expensive).
And yet I bought it all when the warnings first started coming out.
This idea of, "Wait 'til the last second then get pissy with stores because they've run out," really baffles me.
I can understand waiting until the last minute -- I did that last year and regretted it, but I didn't hold it against the storekeeps that they were out; I understood that I took too long and missed out.
So, knowing it would happen again, I stocked up during the post-fire glut when stuff is cheap and easy to get.And I kept it all, so I have it this year.
Just the whole, "We didn't get extra last year, we didn't prepare this year, we ignored all the warnings, and now we're angry at YOU over it," is baffling.
I guess it's human nature; they're suffering, they're upset with themselves, and they're lashing out at others because of it. It's just the whole, "Lashing out at others," I don't particularly care for.
I mean, I don't know. I'm always surprised when it's time to get more water and the stores are suddenly out for some reason ("Oh, a hurricane may or may not be coming. Again. Good to know. Sigh.") We always have enough batteries, but so I'unno about the rest of the stuff.
And yelling at the poor clerk won't make them mysteriously reappear.
This one.
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As my weight increases to my heaviest in life, back problems begin.
Wtf kind of design flaw b%%#~#*& is that? You get big, and your body makes it painful to do what is required to get slim?
This is as dumb as putting waste elimination behind the recreation area.
Oh. And of course depression over it all. But I won't waste thread space outlining that beyond "the evpresent grows."
Speaking of poor design, I've been in the hospital since Monday, but they're discharging me this afternoon!
I went east for a family reunion ten weeks ago, caught a lung infection, tried to tough it out when I got back, then tried an oral antibiotic at home, then got myself a PICC line for a home IV antibiotic, then finally got admitted on Monday when none of the above worked. My doc still isn't sure wth is going on -- he's still waiting on test results -- but apparently I'm not quite ill enough to stay in hospital.
Which I have mixed feelings about. I love being home of course, but there is still something wrong with my lungs. Well I asked the hospital docs to write me a work letter so I can have a couple days off and then a week out of the sun, so that'll give me a nice breather.
Oh and next time I'm admitted, I'm bringing all of my own meds -- it seems every day I trip over another hospital policy, some of which seem to have been designed specifically to make my treatment more difficult. >:( What I wouldn't give to have one of those fur'reigner hospitals that understands that patients with chronic conditions don't suddenly lose the ability to manage our own meds when hospitalized.
*SIGH*
Another Spare the Air day with air quality utterly abysmal, but the chaos from yesterday's windstorm was amazing: Shiro lost power for an hour, and many other people on the chaperones list reported similar issues.
So PG&E is shutting off power to huge swaths of people to try to prevent fires, more people are losing power due to the windstorms actually knocking out power, and the huge fire to our north turns out to be caused by PG&E failing to cut power to an older facility. In other words, "Oh, it's OK for us to cut power to you, but we're not cutting power to us, because that would cost us money. Oh. Oops."
I swear, until we pass legislation that corporate executives can be jailed for the malfeasance of their companies...
Plus, GothBard's been sick in bed since Friday and this morning Impus Minor sounds terrible, so we have horrific air quality plus a house full of sick people.
Thank goodness I bought so many air purifiers last year!
*Grumble*
Wow. So much at once! Praying for you all, and hoping everyone gets better (insomuch as possible) swiftly!
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they're expensive and die, kind of like... OK... not going there...)Okay, FaWtLeans, here's a game for you:
Everybody PM NH their most ridiculously inappropriate Cards Against Humanity style endings to that phrase.
I can't... think of one. :/
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Disaster prep
For us we just keep a number of cans of raviolis and other things that can be eaten (even if they shouldn't) without heating or microwaving or whatever. They cost about a buck each, last for at least a year, and are "ever-green" for purposes of eating at any point during that time.
Water just is kept when it comes up.
For refrigerated goods, we just kind of eat stuff in the refrigerator as it makes sense to do so, and then do without.
It helps that we have a father-in-law who is super into the whole prep thing and have batteries and big flashlight (they're about $3-6, depending) that do last nearly forever for most purposes.
As for heating and AC, we just shrug and sweat.
Of course, this comes from places where we don't have to worry much about flooding, or about similar issues, so that's an expense we don't need.
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On one hand, a lot of...people...seem to take notes from used bookstore wwii survival manuals and ancient .txt copies of the anarchists cookbook. On the other hand shot got real with Katrina and people havent forgotten that. If you are in a situation where you need to evacuate, he isnt completely wrong, but we live in 2019, not 1989. I could see where you might just want to grab an external hard drive and leave with your family.in my mind, batteries are a "luxury item"So you're probably not hiring private firefighters to protect your property.OK... wow.
No; it was kind of sad. I was at the corner store and they weren't accepting credit cards so I had to go home and get some cash and was lucky enough to have enough. A guy there said, "Oh, yeah, you should always have around $200 in ones, fives, and tens in your 'grab bag'."
Mmm. Yeah. good idea.
"You know! The bag that you keep with a change of clothing. You should have cash in there as well."I just have no idea why you'd have a bag of clothes to grab-and-run.
If I get my family and my cats I'm happy. If I get my backup hard drive as well, I have everything I care about.
But I'm old and weird.
EDIT: Apparently I grabbed by grab bag.
For us we actually have made rather extreme sacrifices to try to be sure we can do this, but never actually expect to do this. It's the kind of thing where we just decide not to do something rather than spend the emergency cash.
We don't keep a set of spare clothes, but that's because they're literally right there. It would be hard miss.
But half of our family still remembers Hurricane Andrew. It's been twenty-seven years, yeah, but that's the kind of life-changing experience that doesn't go away, kind of like Katrina.
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Dayum NH, I wish you luck with the outages and the family.well, as I said, the utterly infuriating thing is the sheer level of incompetence shown at all levels of private and public industry:
"We should privatize PG&E! That will make them more efficient!"
"Oh my goodness! Instead of using the maintenance funds to maintain their infrastructure, they gutted the fund to pay off executives and shareholders! No one could have predicted that!"
"Oh my goodness! Due to a lack of maintenance, aging PG&E lines are starting fires, killing people, and causing billions of dollars in damage! No one could have predicted that!!"
"Wow. PG&E is cutting power to residential customers to prevent fires. But they're not cutting their transmission lines. And oopsie!
- Kincade fire: Bad PG&E transmission line
- Lafayette fire: Bad PG&E transmission line
No one could have predicted that!!!"The sheer levels of greed and incompetence are mind-blowing. And yet I seem to be alone in pointing out that before they privatized, PG&E spent a heck of a lot more of their budget on maintenance! Go figure!
EDIT: To be fair, the whole reason they got privatized was poor management, but privatization made things worse rather than better, as vultures swooped in to pick the remaining meat from the bones of what was once a great utility company.
Centralization isn't bad.
Centralized privatization is very bad. This is what's called "monopolies" and "trust" and... it's why we supposedly have big laws against this very thing. Doesn't stop it from happening, of course. That's why, despite the fact that there are half a dozen different internet providers "in my area" I have... only one option. That sucks.
Wow, that is all scary.
I was living in the middle of Katrina (Got out beforehand, like a semi-intelligent person, although, to be fair all I grabbed were an extra pair of shorts and a couple of t shirts clothes wise.The rest was Wife, kids, and valuables that cannot be replaced.) And thought that was bad when it went down,But fires scare me a lot more. I mean, at worst case I CAN swim. But I cant walk through fire!
Prayers and well-wishes to all involved in or even near that mess.
Agreed!
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Today's blogpost: a ghost of trapped apprentice.
Ugh.
Boss Baby. Sing. Trolls. All removed from Netflix! Dang it!
Cloud with a Chance of Meatballs? Oh, yeah, sure. That's still there.
>:I
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** spoiler omitted **
And I have yet to see a single privatization effort that hasn't simply focused on "private is better" with no regard for "the public good".
(For clarity - the series based on Boss Baby and Trolls are there. The films themselves, however, are not.)
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** spoiler omitted **** spoiler omitted **
This is the same reason that incompetence tends to blossom and mismanagement (and bureaucracy) flourishes under most government-run systems: the actual incentivization isn't actually the public good.
You can see the problem with absolute government run systems... everywhere.
I tend to think this is a major problem with most political dialogue within the states - it's focused on government-specific programs, or unregulated industry freedom. It doesn't take much to prove that these lead to consistently bad outcomes of consolidation and self-interest above others.
This is the reason that our government was intentionally separated into three parts (to diversify power) and why anti-Trust laws were established at all (because being successful isn't bad - refusing to let people do things other than you want them to is bad, and monopolies tend to the latter).
Adam Ruins Everything made an exceptionally interesting point about internet service provision, and it's one I can personally relate to, in how French models require at least four competing options to operate within the same region for the same households - and as a result France has faster and more reliable internet, pound-for-pound, compared to US models. This clicks with me, because I can actually see this happening.
And this is the crux. Consistently () government-only product systems and services have been problematic and prone to abuse and mismanagement. Similarly, monopolized systems have proven to be rather bad for the customer.
It's a pattern in both regards that can be seen repeated without much effort.
I think mandating that the service exist is good.
I think mandating that the service be private is good.
But I think regulating that privacy to follow the public benefit is necessary.
As a conservative and Christian, this is something that we often miss that's fundamentally a part of our own culture and background.
As a reeeeeaaaaaaaaaaal quick for-instance: in Israel it was legally required that people did not cut the corners of their fields... in order to allow those that were poor and did not own property (for literally any reason whatsoever) to gather and have something to subsist off of.
This shows taxation expended toward poverty relief systems under government mandate ()-point is that we religiously descend from a culture that requires that we set aside a portion of what we do have as an offering to God (religious requirements) and to people (social requirements), but this a thing that is confirmed in the government structure.
Now, how this was enforced varied heavily, but the Ur-example comes directly from that law and similar.
This seems relatively consistent throughout:
- allow things to be run by people to make personal gain
- make sure other people also can make personal gain
- regulate to make sure that personal gain doesn't come at the general expense of the public
- correct when this last part goes awry
I think making a profit is a fine motive, and one that drives a lot of people into doing a lot of good, hard. But if profit rules, there is no morality. There has to be a balance, and, at present, it feels like the fulcrum of all sides is way too swingy and self-defeating on where that fulcrum lies. I'unno. I don't have an answer.
I'm just a dude typing on a forum, grateful for a game and a life in a first world country, who's tired and trying to make the best decisions possible... like most people (in the US), I'd guess.
And that's another thing: I'm of the opinion that teacher's (and many peoples') work hours are too much for too little pay, and I-
Ugh.
Boss Baby. Sing. Trolls. All removed from Netflix! Dang it!
Cloud with a Chance of Meatballs? Oh, yeah, sure. That's still there.
>:I
(For clarity - the series based on Boss Baby and Trolls are there. The films themselves, however, are not.)
Ah.
Seems that Dreamworks is pulling away from Netflix in favor of Hulu, while I don't know what is up with Illumination titles (someone said maybe FX?).
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** spoiler omitted **Dayum NH, I wish you luck with the outages and the family.well, as I said, the utterly infuriating thing is the sheer level of incompetence shown at all levels of private and public industry:
"We should privatize PG&E! That will make them more efficient!"
"Oh my goodness! Instead of using the maintenance funds to maintain their infrastructure, they gutted the fund to pay off executives and shareholders! No one could have predicted that!"
"Oh my goodness! Due to a lack of maintenance, aging PG&E lines are starting fires, killing people, and causing billions of dollars in damage! No one could have predicted that!!"
"Wow. PG&E is cutting power to residential customers to prevent fires. But they're not cutting their transmission lines. And oopsie!
- Kincade fire: Bad PG&E transmission line
- Lafayette fire: Bad PG&E transmission line
No one could have predicted that!!!"The sheer levels of greed and incompetence are mind-blowing. And yet I seem to be alone in pointing out that before they privatized, PG&E spent a heck of a lot more of their budget on maintenance! Go figure!
EDIT: To be fair, the whole reason they got privatized was poor management, but privatization made things worse rather than better, as vultures swooped in to pick the remaining meat from the bones of what was once a great utility company.
very, very well put.