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Nolan Working in the covid-19 crisis unit, more and more people are getting infected within our personal environment. We're just enough healthy personnel left to keep up the work and are preparing for a 'working-lockdown', meaning that we don't leave the base and build shower containers and beds to rotate in a 24/7 shift system. The impacts are getting closer.
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👉 LÊo The general failure and ultimate collapse of the Texas power grid should forever be remembered as a failure of unregulated capitalism. For the numerous failures and tragedies broadly attributed to "socialism", I think it is fair to blame this on on capitalism.
☕ David Antoine Wind turbines are a minority in Texas energy mix right? And you shouldn't rely on it to cover your spikes for obvious reasons. For what I know, TX power companies ensure a strictly minimal energy outpout with no regards for potential crisis situatioms. In fact, in case of crisis, as the blizzard that occurred, they will profit off of it by spiking electricity prices due to high demand /black outs. The excuse being : oh it's such a rare occurance, why spending for prevention?
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Mhmm One day after the CSP in euro webinar with a EU expert saying there hasnt been been a big issue from "corona crisis", SolarReserve backed by Bank Santander (spain) files for bankruptcy in the US lol to be fair, they've been shut down since mid 2019 because bad design for hot storage tank... hopefully everyone else learns from their mistakes
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📚 Terry Mcginnis Ep. 10 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Consciousness youtube.com/watch?...
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💡 Diff Where were you during the Toilet Paper Crisis of 2020?
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📉 Bill I made sure to poop right before I showered if you know what i mean
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âšĒ Ghostis People who were saving money for a crisis like , how many months did you save? Did you have to use it?
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đŸĨ¨ Shruthi Follow up question: is fake news as much of a problem as people seem to think?
đŸ”ģ Trinity Yes. I wrote propaganda before the fake news "crisis" was considered so, and it was (and still is) concerningly easy to get people to believe anything you write. Hitler's propaganda was an excellent blueprint - make big lies, not small falsehoods - but I bet in the future agencies will look at the Donald Trump campaign (and presidency) as their inspiration. The new frontier is in Internet memes. I'm not a nazi btw, I was just 12 and bored.
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📈 Cody what are you looking to keep up with? current infection rates, vaccine development, etc?
đŸĻ„ Chip Uni All of those, honestly. I'm trying to guess when this crisis will be over in the United States.
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Mark Dain I already avoid plastic bags (I have several "bags for life" I take to the store with me) but I'm not willing to stop using toothpaste... do you know what brands contain the microbeads? If they're being banned then I'd imagine the consumer doesn't need to do anything and that problem will be solved.
📷 |\/| I can't recall using paste with beads ever--so not much help from me there. Who would've thought that these plastics, which have been ubiquitous and highly useful, have become an item of environmental crisis.
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Mark Dain Hmm... I meet people who are in their late 30s who still haven't figured out what they want to do. Do you think this is inevitable? I'd like to spend my 20s traveling and trying to figure out what I want from life. Would that help? Right now I don't know a lot about myself.
😀 Tom A fool thinks himself to be wise man. A wise man knows himself to be a fool. With age comes wisdom, but not everyone's picture is always complete. That is where accepting life's uncertainty comes into play. Some people think they understand their world and when they finally realize they don't, they have a mid-life crisis. Some people keep putting off thinking about their life's meaning until some trigger, then they have a mid-life crisis. It's not inevitable, but it's extremely common, and will probably only become more so as technology distracts us more and more. Continued here: sublevel.net/re/22992
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Martijn Not sure how this applies to Soylent people. I have never looked at food replacements for dieting, and don't need to lose any weight. I want it to give me 100% of my needed nutrition just so I don't need anything else.
Simon Janes I look at it this way, if you give your body 100% stable nutrition day-in-day-out you leave yourself vulnerable and unprepared for crisis-situations when you can't eat.This idea is in-between actual fasting and non-fasting states, but intended for life-extension.
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Nkrs On one hand I think the technological advancement is outstanding, but on the other, it threatens to take bread off many tables. Foxconn fired 60k people - if each of those workers provides for a family of four, that means that a quarter of a million people just lost their income. I think that's frightening and that we'll see more and more people losing their jobs because what they were doing got automated (see also: qz.com/656104/a-fl...)
Mark Dain Just wait till the automation industry gets disrupted by self-driving trucks. There's an estimated 3 million truck drivers in the USA alone. Add that to the truck stops and other organizations, industries and towns that are dependent on trucking and it's estimated 10 million will lose their jobs. This is a crisis waiting to happen; medium.com/basic-i...
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Martijn Someone decided to pick up a phone and get informed. During a crisis all nuclear plants will be put on minimal staff. Tihange was fully staffed today, thus lots of people had been asked to leave. Good to know we're not escalating into nuclear threats.
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Martijn 24 ... next year will probably make me fuss a whole lot more. "Milestones" *shudder*
Dorcas And the upcoming "quarter life crisis".
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Martijn Apparently there are EU-wide helplines. In 13 member states, calling 116 123 gets you talking to someone in case you are "suffering from loneliness", "in a state of psychological crisis or thinking about committing suicide". Who knew?
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Mark Dain I remember there being an emergency number, something like 111? Didn't know they had other services though. Maybe they should be advertised more
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Mark Dain The crisis is over! Got my phone fixed. It's interesting I posted about it on Facebook and StreetLife and I got suggestions for local places on SL. Nobody posted on Facebook. Maybe I should just close my account there. It gets less useful every day. Infact my post was hidden within seconds due to the constant tidal wave of baby photos.
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Asko The only actually useful account for me is Facebook. I made a group for local freelancers there a year ago and I now get most of my work from that very group, because it also has a ton of companies. And I talk to my colleagues there. So there's all that, too.
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