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Everybody would be under a lot less stress if [a basic level] of their needs were met [to avoid at the very least bankruptcy and preventable life-long injury or even death] for the entirety of their lives with no expectation to ever contribute anything. He's missing the realization that [everyone] has to contribute something [via progressive taxation] to meet the [basic level of] needs of all the people whose [basic level of] needs are being met regardless of their contribution, which is why [every other industrialized nation, even with failures and economic issues in parts of their systems, is able to provide at least this basic level for their citizens, except for the US because of for-profit healthcare lobbyists].

With the insane proliferation of streaming services... lots and lots of Linux distro installation ISOs.

If you're running NixOS there's an impermanence plugin that allows you to specify specific directories and files you need to persist outside of what NixOs/HM builds for you and then use a tmpfs in-memory partition for root and/or home. Then at boot you're loading up the NixOS/HM config and then the persistent files are symlinked or mounted to where they need to be, but otherwise you have a fresh system on each reboot. It's a bit painful and manual to figure out exactly what to keep (unless you just want to keep the entire .config, for instance, which I don't) but it's amazing to know that you can mess up your home directory as much as you want and then it'll automatically clean itself with a reboot.

I just wish Barrier worked with Wayland. First Synergy claimed they were "working on it" years ago, now Barrier's movement seems stalled as many of the developers have moved to yet another fork, Input Leap.

From the report you gave, the first paragraph under the heading "Primary Cause of Homelessness":

Widespread homelessness is the result of a severe shortage in affordable housing, a widening gap between rising housing costs and stagnant wages, and an insufficient safety net for individuals with disabling conditions. Though these drivers are structural and systemic, individuals often have one or multiple major events or factors that precipitate their homelessness. An inability to secure adequate housing can lead to an inability to address other basic needs, such as health care and adequate nutrition.

The climate aspect is most definitely covered in the article.

As for the bus issue, most sources I found (eg, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...) show that the flow is _out_ of the big coastal cities when it occurs.

I'm sure there is more nuance, but zoning and the lack of true market forces to build more and denser housing seems to be a very large piece of the puzzle.

From the article:

> Homelessness is best understood as a “flow” problem, not a “stock” problem. Not that many Americans are _chronically_ homeless—the problem, rather, is the millions of people who are precariously situated on the cliff of financial stability, people for whom a divorce, a lost job, a fight with a roommate, or a medical event can result in homelessness. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, roughly 207 people get rehoused daily across the county—but 227 get pushed into homelessness. The crisis is driven by a constant flow of people losing their housing.

The relationship is FAR more symbiotic, bordering on parasitic, than what you've described and I'm sure you know it. The job of the company is to fulfill a need (what you've described) OR, failing that, to CREATE a need and THEN fulfill it.

I should have just left out the "Silicon Valley" part of that, true. Unionization of developers and technology workers is starting, but remains slow because unions are usually formed when the cost of speaking out becomes worth more than enduring the negatives and unreasonably low pay is usually one of the biggest issues for workers and we don't really have pay issues. Musk's approach to treating his employees as cogs in his machines, to the point of becoming belligerent when they assert their human individuality, could be an accelerant in forming unions even in this high-pay sector.

Unions are democratic, employee-run institutions which promote higher involvement of employees in the operations and logistical planning of companies. I'm not referring to Twitter becoming a Co-op, that would indeed be nearly unprecedented.

Musk may end up being the most influential person to:

1. Electrify our vehicular infrastructure

2. Get humans to the Moon, if not to Mars

3. Accelerate the unionization of Silicon Valley tech workers

His approach to remote-vs-in-office work is less that of a data-informed futurist and more that of an autocrat. Just as he's loudly supporting public free speech as long as it's his speech, I predict within a few months of taking over Twitter (assuming he doesn't just eat the penalties for dropping out of the agreement) he'll be loudly proclaiming his support of democracy as long as it's not within his companies.

In order to talk to my friends, family, and coworkers I need to have the following apps installed and running: Slack, Teams, Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp, Google Chat/Hangouts/Allo/Whatever, FB Messenger, Discord, Twitter, etc.

It'd take a pretty strong argument to convince me that this is so much more productive and allows for more innovation than the old days when the spec for things like Email, HTTP, IRC, XMPP allowed for a plethora of different tools unrelated to the company sponsoring the tech and people figured out how to make money USING the interoperable tech instead of OWNING the tech.

RCV is a fantastic idea, but it is very difficult to get it installed on a large scale. Only one state has tried (Maine) but their state Constitution as currently worded seems to disallow it (as their Supreme Court has warned them). So for many states you'd first have to amend the Constitution to allow for RCV (or go for broke and try to get RCV enshrined in your Constitution) and then hope that those who benefited from the previous First-Past-the-Post systems will act against their interest to implement it by law or will refrain from enacting laws to overturn a citizen's referendum (which is my home state of Utah's preferred way of invalidating all citizen referendum). That said, while it's not a perfect solution it leans so heavily towards resolving many existing issues that I've long decided that if any politician publicly supports it as part of their campaign they'll have my vote.

Sure, and those few days before you become symptomatic but you're already beginning to be contagious to others you're also staying home?

What about those who provide social services to city-dwellers? Teachers, firefighters? It can be problematic to have the police tasked with protecting a city they don't even live in. Next time you see an SFPD officer with a free moment ask him/her what they think of the explosive growth in SoMa.