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}(self));!*Plowser*!* is in the 99th percentile of browsers by global user count!
# Fact Sheet
- !*Plowser*! is used by 2,050 people
- sample size of browsers is 10,000 (this includes toy apps on GitHub and almost all browsers in the sample have no record of active users)
- those using !*Plowser*! have no choice as the developing company $*DendralRot Inc*$ forces all its employees, contractors and users of their enterprise '?_shuiteware_?' (a name derived by mashing |-->shite|software|suite<--| into one word) to use their browser
- if we place the number of global browser users at a conservative 1,000,000,000, !*Plowser*! actually has 0.00000205% of users
It's possible to do business without scanning your customer's faces, tracing their contacts, selling details of their transactions to aggregators, etc ... where does the line get drawn?
And that doesn't even address data that is "accidentally" collected.
Also, I want to tell you it gets better, I had problems getting sleep too for nearly a decade and it started really catching up with me as I entered my thirties (appetite, energy and cognitive issues for example). Turning screens off, limiting stimulants, not partying as much and keeping a regular wake up time _really_ helped me.
Best of luck to you.
Calculus helps here too: https://nmmra.org/calculus-and-its-use-in-medicine/
It's been a few years now and while I don't print enormous amounts, I regularly do need to print out forms or documents. I still haven't used up the original ink cartridge it came with.
There's also a Linux driver provided by the company for this model.
[0]: https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/d...
I'd be interested in your response to this article that focuses on the American city of Baltimore: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/13/693972661/a-high-crime-neighb...
On a personal level, I think what you're saying makes sense and is a good healthy approach to life and maximizing potential by not doing stupid things. It is good to hold yourself to account and those around you as well.
From a social/macro perspective though, I think it's important to look towards the data on things like crime in a scientific and empathetic mindset if we want to build a stronger society and optimize for bringing out the best in people and making sure everyone has a fair shot.
Crime happens for all sort of reasons, probably a non-negligible amount is committed by people channeling the abuse they received as children and their abusers probably never got held to account in any explicit way. Or say you're a young kid raised in Sinaloa without much education, your parents actually poked fun at you for going to school and talked down at the things you learned in the classroom. Around you, not only are the most successful and powerful people narcos, but your economy is defined on the gains from crime. Of course the line blurs, are you a criminal if you join up with the traffickers, are you a coward for not and choosing to do 'honest' work?
If the world is waging war against you and your options while telling you it's your fault for being in the position you are in, maybe you stop thinking like a middle class civilian and more like a soldier on a dead man's mission.
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/features/mental-he...
Curious what definition of capitalist you are using here.
Three common meanings according to the Oxford dictionary are:
1. a person who invests capital in business enterprises.
2. an advocate of capitalism.
3. a very wealthy person.
You can advocate capitalism and also support behavioral standards and worker rights in the workplace. It's not anti-capitalist to disagree with your employer's policies or culture, standing up for you and your fellow workers' bottom line can be capitalistic in of itself.
If there's a market for services to help individuals assert their rights and fight for better conditions, then investing in this market is as fundamentally capitalistic as investing in a market that services the opposite.
As a capitalist, you could even invest in both these markets at the same time. Check out this index fund:
https://www.invesco.com/us/financial-products/mutual-funds/q...
There's Altria (cigarettes) and Anthem (health insurance). Tesla (EVs) and Exxon (gasoline/petroleum). Even Activision (corporation of topic) and Stryker (actually no idea what this company does, so assuming they fund and profit off worker strykes). The thing about capitalism is that it doesn't run from conflict or mobs or regulation, it profits off the needs and desires these things create.
Extending this logic, I would also like to posit that jumping off a cliff is flight.
Whether it makes sense to add the stage name to a resource name is a decision that is informed by a wider context that includes hosting environment, deployment pattern and configuration approach. It can make sense in some situations and can be a bad idea in other situations.
Raising the deficit and inflating the currency for blind and reckless cash give-aways (imo), only makes it worse and all the more reprehensible and should have everyone questioning why we're not overthrowing the existing parties by rallying around new ones and collectively agreeing to stop voting Dem or Rep altogether. Because if we traced the government (tax) money spent over the past year to where it is now, I bet we'd see it directly widening the wealth gap no matter the party or rhetoric used while misappropriating it.
Anyway, I think the real solutions (to hunger, education, healthcare, &c) would involve breaking down the issues causing the inequality and really working to solve them one by one in good faith with a common vision. Small groups of people can achieve this. It's unfortunate that the idea of that happening on the scale we're discussing is laughably absurd.
I know that's a tall order, but I think governments should be accountable to how they've invested their citizen's money and how those investments are doing.
Also should be pointed out many countries greatly expanded their deficit as part of Covid measures.
The existence of interest groups is independent of democracy. They form in pretty much every political system on the planet, not just democratic ones.
Warning: Link is [probably] a spoiler if you're thinking of reading the book
Personally I think the proposal you're describing is ridiculous and wouldn't do much in terms of affecting climate change, but I'm confused why you hold this up as an example of democracy working.
What is literally democratic about elected officials backing down from a proposal they introduced because of pressure by affected industries?
The Roman empire was at war nearly non-stop for centuries too and with probably varying degrees of public awareness[1].
The real news I think would be an empire that managed to avoid war for any extended period of time w/out declining. If examples of this exist in history, perhaps we can learn from them.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_wars_and_battl...
You should read the last link, it addresses pretty much everything you bring up, including the handicaps placed on research, adjustment for gun suicides, and the conflations that might tilt the arguments either way.
Maybe some people performing these studies are doing so for ideological reasons, but there's a clear reason why the pro-gun lobby has made it increasingly difficult to do good research and have clear-minded debates over the topic and it is not ideological, or even logical, unless you understand they're only doing it to maximize their sales and de-regulate their industry.
Gun ownership, and use, just like your arguments, tend to center around emotions and compensating for insecurities than around science and research (and common sense imo). They also tend toward low empathy justifications, like writing off gun suicides as not real gun violence.
FL and CO also have 10% of their populations holding concealed licenses and their gun death rates are worse than PA's.
The consensus is that guns reduce safety in communities[2].
[0] https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/the-most-armed-states/
[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/guns-crime/news/2019...
[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-guns-do-not-...
Mostly I've seen a very mixed bag of opinions, reactions and measures over the past year and a half.
I think people are pushed to extremes because there's a heady mixture of:
1. an invisible, unthinking enemy breaking through borders affecting everyone and causing an inflection in basic social etiquette that demands action in very grey and alien moral zones most people have no experience in
2. the internet increasingly dominating the human experience while still being a relatively new, mindfuck global network that (a) undermines basic instincts honed for thousands of years, (b) increases fringe and extreme communities by enabling distributed social networking, and (c) enables surveillance and individual targeting on a scale most preceding dystopian literature couldn't imagine
3. unsolveable, self-perpetuating issues such as racism (as a proxy for culture wars and systemic oppression), conspiracy theories / misinformation (as a means of fracturing and neutering political movements that empowers users and proponents like a heroin-dealer empowers the neighborhood) and wealth inequality (the 'meritocratic' cloak over the otherwise naked aristocracy of capitalist societies) all dominate discourse and news cycles with the apocalyptic 'slow' train of climate change coming into view that we can't avoid because the sheer scale escapes our petty existential crises and sadistic impulses that have driven history and gotten us here (wherever the hell 'here' is)
4. the release of the tiger king documentary