I’m only going to focus on one part because it shows the disconnect between you and I.

If you have a working printer, toner, paper…

Who said anything about a printer? I said hard copy. Not printout. Write it down. Carve it into rock or shape it in clay. 3000 cycles and you keep limiting yourself. That 200 pounds of copper wire could be pounded flat and marked with a sharp tool to create a long lasting hard copy. So many options for a hard copy and you defaulted to the one option we can’t even get to work when everything is working.

90% of people would die within the first three months because they don’t know how to cook and we have a three day supply rule in stores relying on just-in-time delivery.

If you make it past the first 90 you probably have seeds in the ground to get you to the next 90. We don’t just inherit the environment, we shape it. We can start growing our own food within weeks, not reliant on ancestors

But let’s get back to the topic. 3000 charge cycles, your number, is a lot. All that time can be used to make hard copies of essential information. You can learn how to salvage wire and build new energy sources. An average 2100²ft empty house has almost 200 pounds of copper wire in the walls. 3000 cycles to learn.

But thanks for telling me who I am and what skills I already have.

The average hunter gatherer only worked for about 3-6 hours a day. They had more free time than we do.

Point is that 3000 cycles is more than enough time to find or make a replacement even if society doesn’t rebuild.

That’s… a lot of cycles. That’s almost a decade. Plenty of time to build an electric generator from scratch by traveling on foot to a copper mine and smelting the wire yourself. Unless you manage to pull an alternator from a car that can’t find gasoline and save yourself the trip. From that you could make a gravity battery or any number of other options.

The average laptop is 65W. So the 40 amp solar battery station I built with a 100w panel could run a laptop 7 hours a day without any issues at all. Plenty of time to get actionable information out of it.

The Amish are not self-sufficient. They are self-reliant. And it takes a minimum of 50 families for them to have a functioning community. What you’re describing is more of a frontiersman.

I have never lost a bet that depends on my fellow Americans being disappointed because they failed to understand something.

Region locking can be dodged of you plan to buy region locked games, use a VPN.

How many of those orders are Americans trying to get around import restrictions and tariffs?

I did.

Thank you. I’ve had some serious sleep issues lately and haven’t been on as diligent. I fixed them all.

many trans spaces in Lemmy require listed pronouns,

That’s great, for people in that ecosystem. I’m not there. I help when asked, I get in the way if there is a problem just like I do during domestic abuse extractions, but I don’t go into trans spaces for the same reasons I don’t go into black ones. I’m not wanted there unless I’m bringing a donation. And I’m too poor for that.

If you’re using gendered pronouns for most cis people

That would be a problem. If it was something I did. Fortunately by being consistent that isn’t an issue.

McDonald’s quality control is actually pretty tight. Other than the onion issue recently it’s been some time since their last outbreak. They are one of the few companies that could afford cti test every single product coming in if the FDA stopped all testing and the hit to profits of an outbreak is big enough to justify the testing.

It’s your mom and pops that are the real risk. And Trump doesn’t eat at those.

And figuring out their preferred pronouns isn’t always easy. Can you trust the news source to have gotten it right? You end up getting stalkerish and seeing if they have made a public statement on their pronouns and you have to make sure it’s current because gender can be fluid and maybe it changed since the story broke. And do you need to go revise your previous posts and comments to update the current status? Or do you go with evergreen and neutral because you definitely don’t want someone digging through your history and seeing something different from whatever is current and then jumping on the cancel wagon without checking the calendar to see if it was appropriate at the time.

This isn’t as simple as a lot of people want it to be. Going neutral isn’t a slight. It’s not misgendering. It’s a way to avoid accidentally making an error even with the best of intentions.

My old roommate was trans. They went through multiple gender identities before settling on that. And every post I made mentioning them is still clean because I went with the gender neutral before they had ever made their first change.

For the better part of 30 years I have used a non-gendered language when possible. I was elated to find that “they” was originally, 13th century, a single pronoun instead of plural. I have probably used “one” way more times than is healthy.

~30 years ago I was living in/near Hillcrest, San Diego. Gay, trans, drag and everything else. I was online and people’s genders were frequently unknown. In 1993 we already had the issues that On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.. Now we have AI which has no gender pronoun, I’m voting for “hal”.

Point is that avoiding gendering text has been and will continue to be the safer option for general purpose writing. Some people will get bent out of shape that you didn’t use gender specific language because the Narcissism of Small Differences means they must see you as the enemy even if you agree with them on 99% of things. Trying to have a generally non-discriminatory pronoun policy? That’s a paddling. Your good intentions must be stopped because they aren’t pure enough.

It sucks. Instead of focusing on the slander used by hate speech and the remediation sought by the one who was wronged we are totally lost in the weeds and focused on if we used the right three letters because avoiding the wrong three wasn’t enough. It’s thought police with the best of intentions but it’s still thought police.

That’s a pretty healthy outlook. A little bit more therapy and you might even stop wanting revenge.

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Is this a secondary account for Duke Atreides or Dr Yueh?

Corporate sponsorship of luxury foods for people that can already afford to buy them.

Note for those reading this years from now. Eggs were the reproductive cells of birds. They would be eaten as a source of cheap protein and used in baked goods.