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I just finished reading Cadillac Desert which went over all that and more. And yes, the agricultural shit-show in California an issue in its own right, but as someone from a State that CA is stealing water from, I’m a little salty (pardon the pun).

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Do you really believe that greed is a more recent phenomenon and that we’ve survived this long as humanity because we’re a social species that works for the betterment of ourselves?

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I made it all the way through. It’s not that bad, to be honest. Like it’s not the best, but I’ve listened to worse.

It seems like he watched Hamilton and was inspired by Aaron Burr, Sir, but didn’t know what to sing about so just did freestyle.

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Sounds like the dude might be on the autistic spectrum with some ADHD thrown in. These people can be toxic in this state and it’s hard to get them to move on without they themselves wanting to.

Have you ever hung out with him and “the guys” in a while? Maybe he misses the “good old days” and hasn’t realized people have changed. Doing another might push him to that conclusion himself, and it would be a good way to get him pointed in a more constructive direction. If the dude is anti authoritarian and hates modern culture, getting him to get a civil engineering degree might be the catalyst to break him out of the cycle.

If you do this, I would have at least one of y’all be prepared not to “refute” his claims but nudge him to a new discovery; if he brings up sidewalks being authoritarian say something like “oh, interesting. Have you read any of Jane Jacobs’ work? I think you’d like it.”

However, it shouldn’t be like an intervention. Try to let him have fun—have drinks, games, a bouncy castle, I dunno—and go at his pace. People like him just need a push in the right direction before they hurt people.

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I’d love to kick some money his way, but he only has two tiers: $20/mo and $100/mo. I think he could get a lot more donations if he started with a $5/mo tier.

I think he’d also do well to make a “this is why you should use bcachefs of ext4” sort of post to bring awareness to the project and its benefits.

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You need a full 8.1 surround lock system. These can be pricey, but I recommend this one from EcoBee. They typically run around $1300 each, but they come with elastiglass replacement if your window breaks under their protection, which I think is worth it.

I’ve debated getting rid of windows entirely to remove the risk, but I think I have enough protections in place for now.

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Before you perform another task on that hard drive, try photorec. You might be able to get a majority of your files back if they’re important

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I appreciate the irony in censoring the person’s name with yellow

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Damn, that was insanely fast, quadruply so compared to Nouveau

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