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  • I’m just brain dumping here but anymore I really think of government as population management. Its just a matter of how we all “reach the end” by the ways they manage our lives.

    I saw it first hand with my step mother last year. She had brain cancer and was acting well with treatments. Eventually they noticed traits that her body wasn’t healing naturally between treatments. Have they likely seen these traits before in previous cases? Sure. But insurance also basically said “this life is not worth our money anymore” and refused further treatments even though they were helping. She lived another 3 months after they cut her off. She may have made it another 6-12 of they kept her on them but I’m no scientist or doctor.

    We have a great water crisis in the west states. I’m not sure how sustainable our food supply will be in the next 25-50 years.

    I love my kids and can’t picture life without them now, but I do second guess bringing them into the hell that is this world every few months.

    The bottom line factor is how many people are in the country, and can we provide for them as is. I wish it weren’t that way. We should be thinking world wide. It would be amazing to think galaxy wide. But our puny ape-sized brains clearly can’t handle even a small slice of our livable Earth.






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    12 days ago

    At 10 they should know better. Now, I don’t know the dynamic of this “neighborship”, and pettiness is not the way to go about anything. At the same time though, it’s only water.





  • I’ve had two QNAP NAS fail on me, never again. The first failed shortly after the 3-year warranty expired and was MSRP $600. The second failed right before warranty expiration with MSRP $1200 thinking a better unit would be less prone to fail, but alas.

    Thankfully I was able to RMA to get my data back (proprietary RAID), and while waiting on RMA to return, built a custom TrueNAS server I can service all parts on myself for around the same cost of a new NAS. Sold the RMA unit on eBay to recoup some cost as well. All I ever ran on those units was Plex and Samba\NFS file shares. Never again.




  • As a parent with kids who are starting to dip their roles into the digital age, I would also say this is mainly a parenting issue, but the economic “squeeze” is the other part.

    There are so many tools available to manage the content your kids consume - ad blockers, family accounts with monitoring and management, ect. I may be biased as I’m in the IT profession, but if you live in this digital age and claim ignorance on anything technology related then it’s no wonder we are on the state we are in.

    Many of the responsibilities the US government agencies used to take on themselves have been eroded to be handled by the individual, coupled with a subscription society for the or day to day appliances and tools we use. After working a full time job M-F, and if I don’t have after hours tasks to handle I get maybe 1 hour worth of family before it’s time to pack it up for the night. Weekends are typically house work or chores. I consider myself fortunate to have that much. Squeeze in management of my kids content intake and that’s just more time taken away from everything else on the list.

    I’ll do it though because I’ll be damned if my kids grow up like these kids are now.