Against the printing press “Writing indeed, which brings in gold for us, should be respected and held to be nobler than all goods, unless she has suffered degradation in the brothel of the printing presses. She is a maiden with a pen, a harlot in print.” ~Filippo de Strata
“For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.” ~Socrates. On the invention of writing.
This.
Yup. Just got a great deal off of FB marketplace.
The survivors would duel, too. We could see even better results than that.
I work at and live near one. I have zero objection. I love that my commute is short enough to get to work by bicycle.
We use less water than an average lawyer office - mostly the toilets. All of the generators added together make less noise than a landscape crew working on my neighbors house. Our building construction actually added electrical capacity to our county.
I accept that many other companies do it wrong. We do not. The industry is not monolithic. There are some bad actors that make us look bad.
And inspected after every use.
Absolutely. Maybe Aja?
A bunch of “classics”…
Yes… I am an oldster.
Your conscious experience is all that you are. The only thing that truly belongs to you. Valuing it above all else only makes sense.
What about bikes that are LOW?
Too bad Texas is a conservative shithole. Otherwise electricians might be tempted to move there.
I really like the anarchist societies dreamed up by Ursula LeGuinn. Anarres. The Kesh. Implementation does require a significant change of attitude, though.
We had to build a full enclosure of 1/4" hardware cloth - including the top. Chipmunks were the worst, but birds, squirrels, and deer also attacked the plants. It needs to be tended to keep it effective or something will find a way in. We call it the plant prison.
As for insects, my wife won’t use anything"artificial", so it’s neem oil and diatomaceous earth. It doesn’t work very well so we loose most of the zucchini.
I interviewed at a company that provided open source telephony hardware and service to businesses. It’s absolutely a viable business model.
What about Barney Miller?
Cyberpunk literature has a few templates to follow. “Johnny Mnemonic” refers to “Christian White and his Aryan Reggae Band”.
I worked with one in the 80s to do large-format B&W jewelry photography. After a few hours of work, I had a sunburn on one side of my face.
I call them “High Performance Speed Vents”. I have them in my old garage-work tee shirts, too.
Against photography “Could you find an honest observer to declare that the invasion of photography and the great industrial madness of our times have no part at all in this deplorable result? Are we to suppose that a people whose eyes are growing used to considering the results of a material science as though they were the products of the beautiful, will not in the course of time have singularly diminished its faculties of judging and of feeling what are among the most ethereal and immaterial aspects of creation?” ~Charles Baudelaire