KozmoNau7

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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
Full vaccination greatly reduces the risk of infection and thus also the risk of transmission. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0607-mrna-reduce-ri... https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
You're willing to sacrifice people that you consider "expendable", because you think vaccination and masks are more dangerous than a highly infectious disease with long-lasting detrimental health consequences even for survivo
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
> "99% survival rate" 1% dead means around 3.5 million dead, in the US alone. Do you consider that acceptable?
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
> Who does this benefit?? Great upheaval brings great opportunity, if you are ruthless enough to exploit it. There are unfortunately many actors around the world who - for various reasons - desire to create instability, because they see
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
Exactly, things have a purpose and more often than not, that purpose is to be used up, possibly repaired and then used again, until it finally wears out or breaks completely. I tend to baby new things until the feeling of novelty wear off,
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
I didn't have COVID, and I also only had a day or so of fever after my J&J shot in June. My girlfriend had a similarly mild reaction, and we've both been tested regularly for various reasons, we're pretty certain that we
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
Equipment keeps on running until it needs to be repaired or replaced. If you can't get parts or new machinery at that point, you're screwed for a while, currently that can be a long while. Those situations will add up and get wo
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
> Global warming is going to open up the northwest passage and the arctic trade routes which would cut shipping times by a huge percentage from asia to europe. It would be the greatest boon to world trade in human history. Climate change
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
We're not seeing empty shelves in supermarkets just yet, groceries are still available, because most places have reasonably local production available. But electronics, cars, machinery, the kinds of things that are produced more centra
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
Maybe, just maybe we should take a long hard look at just how fragile and easy to topple all of our supply chains are, and actually do something to build in more resilience, to better weather adverse conditions. With how the climate is ch
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
This goes for all big corporations, all of them lie through their teeth and only care about the appearance of caring, because that's a lot more profitable than actually caring. Reduce your consumption and lifestyle. Buy as little
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but th
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
I will admit that you had me for a minute there. Pretty solid impression of a ghoulish libertarian.
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
You should sit down and calculate the absolutely disastrous consequences for the economy if you put millions of (jobless) people on the streets, during a massive epidemic. The rise in property values alone over the last 10+ years should hav
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
I will admit that I live in a place that does it right, namely Copenhagen. There is plentiful public transit, local shops and the entire city is extremely walkable/bikeable. I don't live in the city center, it's a 25 minute b
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
This assumes that your shopping needs can only be met by shopping malls. I do all my daily shopping in local shops, I have 5 or 6 in walking distance, 20+ in bicycle distance. The last time I went to a mall was for a specific offer in a spe
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
>The landlord didn't assume the risk that they couldn't remove the resident AND the resident wouldn't have to pay. Then they assumed wrong. National emergencies happen, in this instance a pandemic (that is still very much
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
I agree that collaboration is always desirable, and that common standards are beneficial to everyone. But the GTK filepicker is simply an embarrassment, there's no other word for it. For all of the effort that has been spent on everyth
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
I've been advised against covering the brake at all times, since it reduces throttle control. However I do cover the brake whenever going through intersections, passing driveways and so on. I do this on my bicycle as well, you never kn
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
You can block all outgoing requests to ports 53 and 853 for DNS and DoT respectively. That's the easy part. For DoH, you either have to block port 443 (bad idea), or block the IPs of all known DoH providers. Then you can run for exampl
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
Mikrotik products are very popular among people running WISPs, and their product range reflects this, with a whole range designed specifically for that purpose. Even their standard wall/ceiling-mount AP is weatherproof and comes with p
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
The point is to be against unjust hierarchies, such as royalty, nepotism and the like. Anarchists and solarpunks alike abhor unjust hierarchies, instead they trust in experts and those with knowledge, not those who "fail upwards&quot
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
You do know that anarchist ideology is literally defined by the opposition to states and state-lile structures, right? It seems odd to tar specifically anti-statists with wanting to create a state. Anarchy being literally the antonym of hie
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
You're thinking of Stalinist/Leninist authoritarian communism, which certainly doesn't encompass all of left-wing ideology, only a niche. When Stalin came to power, one of the first things he did was too purge all the anarchi
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
I take it you haven't talked to many leftists, then. We're quite anti-authoritarian and opposed to hierarchy. If you consider US democrats to be "left", you are sadly mistaken.
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
Part of the social contract of punishment, is that you stop doing the thing you got punished for .
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
Blokada and others work by using the VPN functionality in Android, to implement DNS blacklists. Alternatively, AdGuard and NextDNS run DNS servers where you can customize the block list, a remote Pi-Hole as you said. I'm using NextDNS
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
The only way I've found to manage all of this is to detach. Turn off your devices, go for a walk in nature, sit down and read a book, do some manual craft work. Something purely analog, old-fashioned, uncomplicated.
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
Probably, it'll be more like the fall of the Roman empire; a slow gradual process of increasing instability, culminating not in utter chaos, anarchy and apocalypse, but in finding a new (temporary) period of some stability. It's p
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by KozmoNau7 5y ago
That marks almost 20 years of Linux as my primary operating system. In early 2002 I got annoyed that the newly-released Windows XP would not run on my PC, due to driver issues. So I downloaded Mandrake 8.2, which had just been released, and

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