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Alternatively: Lonely people get to take longer hotter showers because there’s more hot water because it isn’t consume by a bunch of other people in the house leaving you with only a 2 minutes of luke warm water before you get nothing but cold water left.

Careful, you mind end up like this:

I’m not sure if its law, but two datacenters under construction in Ohio are already following something like this. The downside is that these DCs are deploying their own natural gas fuel cells to generate their own power. While it does shield rate payers from the costs of deploying new electricity capacity buildout, I have to imagine it will hit rate payers (regular people) that will face rising natural gas costs.

So in the case in Ohio, it isn’t solving the problem, its just moving it elsewhere but will impact most of the same people negatively.

Well, I suppose my solar panel payback date will arrive a good bit sooner than expected.

Federal minimum wage is almost exclusively for red state populations that hate their working poor. All blue states besides one (that I can see) have state minimum wage set significantly higher that the lower federal minimum wage so the federal minimum wage doesn’t apply it those blue states.

You might have been provided a “less-ipe”. In communities where recipes are closely guarded, social pressures may force one to share what would be a personal secret. So they give an adulterated version ensuring only they, the original recipe holder can produce the beloved result.

We can extrapolate.

This comic was published 5 years ago, and that there is a second frame of the comic:

Standing person: “Okay, I trust you. Here’s a budget, a team, and a deadline 5 years from now.”

“Men are disgusting! They only think about one thing sex medieval sword making!” /s

The headline buries the lede:

A woman allegedly came out of a nearby room after Spillman’s arrest and told police he had followed her from the hotel lobby to the sixth floor. The woman said she and other guests “immediately entered their room because she was in fear of their lives”, the police statement recounted. The statement added that the woman purportedly saw Spillman “masturbating next to [the] hotel room”. Hotel security told police they had also seen Spillman allegedly engaging in the same behavior on the floor.

He’s not just doing something inappropriate in public that would be fine in private. He’s following women around and doing this outside their rooms. That’s a serious problem.

Thats a good article. It looks like they’re taking some interesting approaches of good “new” and “old” ideas I’ve seen in other countries. I wonder how much the lack of domestic fossil fuels as well as limited land area are shaping these vs politics and entrenched interests for energy companies.

…and possibly the museum HR department when IT reported it.

From another source:

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My still-in-use cheap flatbed scanner from 2002 lost Windows support after XP. It is fully functional and operational on my laptop built in 2022 running Linux.

You seem to be absolutely convinced the lens you see reality with is not a lens but reality itself and you are wrong.

You are misinterpreting the amount of confidence I’m portraying in this discussion, but that aside I don’t see this conversation continuing productively for either of us. I’m also not nearly as invested in it as I am gathering you may be, and there’s nothing wrong with you being passionate about your position. I’m going to break from this conversation here so we stay on good terms with one another. Thank you for taking the time to share your views with me. I appreciate it.

The only systems I can think of that function under the axiom that you suggest, which is that scarcity is a necessary obstacle to tackle before systems can resist destroying shared resources, are ecosystems dominated by invasive species and cancer. In both cases, it is the inability to tolerate abundance in a system because of an endless growth mechanism that causes the destruction of a dynamic encompassing stability.

Well, that sounds like an accurate description humanity in the last 1000 years at least.

In other words, every society that experienced periods not entirely ruled by an oppressive, authoritarian regime and that had/have some shared wealth whether it be in public spaces, public knowledge, public utilities, public education or other forms of public shared resource.

I think that statement is more supports my current position. You’re pointing out a temporary state, not an enduring condition. I could probably argue that even many of those temporary states of a successful shared commons were potentially built on the exploitation of others outside of those benefiting from the commons, but lets ignore that for now. None of those endured. Every single one has ended, or in some possible isolated cases that may exist today, have not shown they could endure with changing social or geopolitical conditions. These examples don’t live in a vacuum either. Unless the whole of humanity is onboard, a segment could pillage the shared commons of another society if they did not have adequate defense as has been shown in humanities history an uncounted amount of times. So what, in your approach, would change one of these temporary states to a permanent one that humanity would actually implement?

The way you understand how scarcity MUST impact systems cannot explain this blatant inefficiency in a natural ecosystem, individuals in nature are supposed to use EVERYTHING they can right?

Not right. There is no scarcity of resources for the bears because here bears use a form of violent authoritarianism to ensure resource (salmon in your example) availability for themselves. A dominate bear will kill weaker bears to ensure food, mates, and territory are established. In that sense, it mirrors the human reaction. Again, that points away from a non-violent benevolent society of a workable shared commons.

Except it didn’t because it turns out the Grizzly Bears discarding the Salmon ends up transferring a massive amount of nutrients from the Ocean to the Forest. The system benefits from slack, from a giving up of an individual boon for no perceivable immediate collective gain…

The only way I can see your example apply to humanity is if you’re suggesting humanity should enforce a class hierarchy where apex predators (small segment of high class humans) get first dibs of the prime resources, and lesser creatures (the middle class) and plants (those in poverty) benefit by what the bears leave behind. Isn’t this the premise of Regan’s much hated “trickle down economics”? I don’t believe you’re suggesting that, but I’m not seeing an alternate interpretation. I’m open to hearing your alternate explanation.

Provide evidence for this claim.

I can provide zero evidence. I’m trying to imagine a world where your proposal works. Scarcity elimination the best possible way I could come up with.

I understand this has been established as our cultural intuition but it is a near axiomatic assumption that upon examination has very little evidence to support it, whether we look to the natural world or to human societies.

If your proposal doesn’t need to eliminate scarcity, I’m even more interested in how it is done. Whats the secret sauce has society-at-large been missing? You mention examining human societies. Do you have a human society to point to where your proposal exists successfully already?

I would imagine a system you’re suggesting would first have to eliminate scarcity of resources. We certainly have the ability to do that with our technology today but choose not to do so. Wouldn’t it require a turn to benevolence by all involved in the society to achieve that? If so, that doesn’t sound like a likely outcome. What, in your opinion, would it take to escape the Tragedy of Commons that is likely to actually occur?

My guess is an ongoing effort to attempt to diminish the value of all vaccines so the ACA mandate to cover vaccines can be gutted. Or rather thats what I’d think if they followed any logic. I think RFK is killing vaccines because it hurts his feelings.

But another tactic is paying with credit cards where the payment is rejected. One tactic that gasoline stations use to counter that is to impose a temporary charge to make sure that there’s enough space on the card to cover the actual cost,

Its not actually charging the card, its blocking that amount of credit out so it can’t be spent on something else. In credit card terms this is called an “authorization”. There’s no actually money be deducted, nor is there any interest accruing to the card holder. Since at the time of authorization, the merchant doesn’t know exactly how much the card holder is going to spend, the merchant usually does an authorization of a fix amount, lets say £75. This lets the merchant know they card holder has enough credit to cover the transaction up to at least that amount.

then to remove it and put the actual charge through after the pumping is done.

Close, they remove the £75 authorization, then set a new authorization for the real amount, let say £36, then they actually charge the card which is called a “settlement”.

I agree with your main point that pre-payment solves this problem of drivers driving off without paying.

But my electric company has some dumbass arbitrary limit on the amount panels the professional installers have to follow and I’m pretty sure I’m close to it

This is what I faced too. The power company only allowed to install solar generation capacity 110% of my power consumption over the last 12 months. So we had to spent a year being very wasteful of electricity. That allowed me to put up panels covering the entire roof.