Deviant Ollam - Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness)

Also Dont Talk to the Police

And as always, know what day it is.

pave paradise, and put up a parking lot

very carefully

Every study performed on insect counts has concluded that overall insect populations are declining, though there is not complete global coverage of data. One study in Germany found that the flying insect population had decreased by 75% from 1990 to 2015.

A 2019 survey of 24 entomologists working on six continents found that on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the worst, all the scientists rated the severity of the insect decline crisis as being between 8–10.

Nothing scares me quite as much as the thought that I might live to see global ecological collapse.

Narrow scope.

Your description makes belief sound like willful ignorance.

Maybe, maybe not. In the absence of evidence, belief may be harmless, though somewhat pointless in the sense of Hitchen’s razor:

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

and Newton’s flaming laser sword:

That which cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.

It certainly becomes willful ignorance if the believer avoids and/or actively rejects contradictory evidence.

It sounds like the real challenge is knowing when you have enough information to convert your educated guess into full-blown knowledge

The educated guess (hypothesis) becomes knowledge when it can be demonstrated by direct experiment rather than inferred/constructed from related knowledge. Also it’s important that the educated guess be testable/disprovable somehow, at least in theory (Popper’s falsifiability principle):

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or refute it.

So, belief is benign when it exists in an untested/untestable area and the believer is not bound to the belief emotionally. Belief is malignant when it exists in a tested area or when the believer clings to the belief emotionally. Belief is either harmless or extremely damaging, but in either case of no practical value.

Solipsism is a dead-end of navel gazing.

Belief is seeing that the light is green even when it isn’t.

Knowledge is accepting that the light is red when it is.

Believing that the light is green will not help you when you get flattened by a truck. Knowing that the light is red will keep you from dying pointlessly.

Knowledge is the first step on the path to wisdom. Belief is delusion.

If you cannot demonstrate, or point to a demonstration, then all you can do is guess. You can make an educated guess based on other demonstrations, but if you cling to your guesswork as if it were demonstrated to be true, and you internalize your guesswork as part of your identity, and you refuse to let go of it when confronted with contradictory demonstrations, then you are a fool.

You could always try Red Star OS

Might be worth a look yourself:

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I think you need to do something more to keep the panel from pulling out of its channel again. You should do what others have said, remove the door, pull the panel out, clean out all the old adhesive and caulk, and replace the panel, but you should also add something to keep the panel from leaning down away from the wall again.

A simple fix would be to screw something like this bumper into the ceiling at the end of the top channel, right at the corner of the panel so that it can’t slip out. If the ceiling is just sheet rock there then use an anchor as well.

This might not be the prettiest fix, but because the door is hanging off this panel you shouldn’t trust it to hold with adhesive only, and definitely not just silicone caulk (which is not an adhesive). Moving the door will flex the adhesive and eventually work it free again.

Run a bead of silicone around the seam. It will be more than enough to hold the glass in place.

I don’t think so, the shower door is hanging from the side of that glass panel. Silicone caulk is not an adhesive, it’s just a sealant. Opening and closing the door will break it free again.

From my extensive experience in this area (true crime podcasts lol), if your hitman is either quoting a reasonable price or offering a payment plan, they’re a cop.

And the ones asking for payment up front will enjoy the free money. What, were you going to get a receipt for that?

Absolutely, a single hospital for an entire country would not work. But also, small clinics on every street corner would not work because none of them would be able to support more complex/expensive functions like surgical wards, FMRI or biochem labs. The hospital needs to be scaled so that it can support those things, but then it only makes sense for it to serve a larger community because it’s going to need a large staff and a substantial budget - so it needs to be at least locally centralized.

As you said, there’s a critical size.

Well, no, certainly there could be cooperation. But operating a complex entity like a hospital or a sewage processing plant requires proper organization and a permanent dedicated staff. I don’t see how you could do that in a decentralized way.

If everything is completely decentralized then it essentially means that each person is providing for themselves… including basic services like water and waste processing. Centralizing these things makes sense, they’re more efficient when operated at scale, and there are significant benefits to task specialization. And frankly, you don’t want decentralized medical care - you want big, modern, well-funded hospitals with the latest technology, which means centralized locations and management.

Decentralizing services doesn’t make sense. Individual residence solar panels are substantially less productive than large-scale solar plants. Services like energy, water, medicine and waste handling should be concentrated and publicly funded - but then that means you need to collect public funds and then decide how to use them, and that means government. The larger the public project is that you want to build, the larger the government around it has to be.

Not keeping a constant speed when driving on the highway. Just pick a speed and drive.

Maybe it’s time to start funding software infrastructure the way we fund physical infrastructure - with tax dollars.

I’d like to recommend two books:

• Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh (and/or Peace is Every Step and/or No Mud, No Lotus)
• Getting to Where You Are by Steven Harrison

Define “better”.