To provide some balance to this article. Two weeks ago my wife took our kid to another child’s birthday party. The family had rented a bounce house so they invited neighbors and their kids over to have fun as well. Food was done as a potluck. One neighbor decided to bring a crock of THC infused chili to this kids party and decided not to tell anyone. My wife and about 8 others were dosed without their knowledge when they ate the chili. Luckily none of the kids at the party had any. This did impact us as my wife was breastfeeding our newborn and had to stop for a while in order to prevent any thing from passing to the baby. So, of course this article is satire and no one is maliciously sticking fentanyl in candy. However, people can do strange things for strange reasons. My wife had a large enough helping of chili that she felt the effects into the next day.
I can perhaps give some insight into this. One step in the mask making process was hand cutting the design into a masking film called Rubylith. Rubylith is made of a backing sheet coated in a UV resistant red film. The design was hand cut into this film on a large scale then used as a “master” to expose smaller copies.
People are not responsible for the ads they see. Ads can be targeted demographically and/or by time of day. Ads can be mistargeted or targeted very broadly. I regularly get ads for things, including risque things, that I am not in the market for & have not been looking for.
There is a great channel on Youtube called Ghost Town Living. It follows an individual living in an old California mining town, trying to preserve its history. Recently he has begun the process of pulling ore out of the mine and refining to silver. He talks through this cuppellation process.
https://youtube.com/c/GhostTownLiving
Part of me wonders if the “Super-Rich” have some sort of insider knowledge that is leading them to prep for the end of civilization. In reality, i imagine it is more than likely an excuse to spend money to feed their own neurosis.
- rich CEOs doubly so, their drive got them to where they are; BBQs and baseball games with their kids won’t scratch that itch
- the problem that occupy the minds of the 99%, most of which revolve around money, don’t concern them
- hence they move to the next “problem” and put 100% of their effort into that. Some other rich CEO asks what they’ll do if the world collapses and suddenly that voice in their head says “find a solution”
It’s nothing more than the ultra high level of Maslow’s hierarchy. Shit us common folks don’t have time to think about.
It's about how much money they have. If I estimate it to a 1% risk, I can't invest all of my income, and even if I did, I could maybe own a rural home, but that's it. For them, by investing the same proportion, they get way more.
I think most people feel a lot of anxiety over the future. Any members of the super rich who are donating a lot of their money to social causes, A. Don't remain super rich, B. Are probably less likely to have ever have been super rich, and C. Aren't reported on in these kinds of articles.
What you're left with are the people focused on "me and mine" over "them and theirs", and couple that with the vague unease most of us have over the future...you get this.
For perspective, I've known working class preppers too. Lots of survival skill practice, storage dedicated to large amounts of shelf stable foods and water, etc. They're just not as 'interesting' to warrant as much reporting, as even though they're spending the same percentage of their income on it as the super rich, it's not as extravagant.
The super rich are also subject to the same cynicism as you and me. Some don't donate to social issues or try to fix things because they feel like sure they could throw money at the problem but nothing would change because the problems are just intractable.
The super rich are just people with a lot of money. You'd find that some traits are distributed differently from the general population, but they are not cognitively superhuman or exempt from anything humans normally think. The super rich also get conned, join cults, jump on cultural or ideological bandwagons that eventually look embarrassing, have mental illness, get addicted to substances or behaviors, etc.
Sure, I agree with the principal of the idea. Decentralization is always a great thing and having a few gatekeepers for the popular TLDs is not ideal. In reality though I am not sure how this would work from a DNS perspective. If anyone can define a TLD, you would need mappings of those at a DNS root level. This is a pretty high burden on the root resolvers. You would almost need to decentralize the root functionality of DNS. This would pretty much take a rewrite of how DNS clients function as root resolvers are normally hard coded in. Anyone have thoughts?
I was more saying there needs to be no system of domains per se. Let any person register any "internet address" and ICANN maintains authoritative servers for all internet addresses.
Cages are not just for segmenting customers but also to segment levels of security. You can have a datacenter which is accessible to your typical tech responsible for rack/stack drive change operations while maintaining an area with high impact devices which can only be accessed with an elevated credential set.
