I want privacy, and long form thought.

Neither of those things thrive in an environment where everyone is trying to extract value from thought and personal information.

Check out project Gemini:

https://geminiprotocol.net/

"Gemini is a new internet technology supporting an electronic library of interconnected text documents. That's not a new idea, but it's not old fashioned either. It's timeless, and deserves tools which treat it as a first class concept, not a vestigial corner case. Gemini isn't about innovation or disruption, it's about providing some respite for those who feel the internet has been disrupted enough already. We're not out to change the world or destroy other technologies. We are out to build a lightweight online space where documents are just documents, in the interests of every reader's privacy, attention and bandwidth."

No auto playing media. No cookies. Nothing tracking you. And they built it, as I understand, to be deliberately difficult to add new features to, to prevent enshittification.

I feel like maybe we should call our 4 senators (AK, MW and both KY) and say thanks for voting the way the did. I am from AK, I generally don't agree with a lot of what Lisa does, but she does have a history of occasional rank breaking, and, performative or not, she is still one of the only senators who doesn't religiously fall in line.

This is it, exactly.

I was at one of the Alaska empty-chair town halls, and it was good to just be around others with similar thoughts. Being surrounded by action, in a place where it is super unusual is uplifting. We arrived on time, and couldn't even get into the event because it was already full.

Each time we get together, more people come, more people talk, and share upcoming events.

I am investing in ways to make my future costs lower. For example, I have solar on my house. It covers about half of my bill, and will for the foreseeable future. I am looking into additions to solar, as I live in Alaska, and need to figure out winter times.

I am looking into heat pumps, they aren't great for dead of winter, but they might eliminate shoulder season heat costs.

We buy the best quality, and locally produced food and goods we can, to help support our health and our community resilience.

Buy once, cry once, whenever we can, because replacement of stuff will be harder.

We live beneath our means, and take the money we save being boring and pay off debt, so that we truly own what is ours, because someday, paying a mortgage or for a vehicle, might be too difficult.

Practice using what you have, instead of buying stuff to solve your problem. Ingenuity is something that can be learned and practiced, but isn't something that comes naturally to people.

Learn to make stuff, or about your surroundings. If you live in a place you can forage, learn about what you can eat in your area to supplement what you have to buy.

Plan to be a poor person, because that is a situation that is likely, and that you can survive.

Most people will not make it, if we wind up in a situation where you are dependent on what you plant, and goods you stock up on. That stuff is just prolonging the inevitable. Total independence is just not a thing most people are prepared for mentally, or have the skills to pull off. So, prepare for a future where luxuries are limited, material goods are in short supply, and you have to figure out how to make do with what you have.

The other day, the dumpster fire got his geography and international knowledge confused, calling Iran the 'islamic Republic of Japan. I believe as he was discussing the violating of the ceasefire the other day, but I could be getting my international incidents confused, there have been so many lately.

Good for you guys! It starts with just a few people, and when people see a few people, they become emboldened to join in. Starting the ball rolling is the hardest part, IMO.

In Anchorage, AK, before yesterday, at our last protest we had maybe 500 people, the one before that, maybe 200, before that, maybe 100 etc...

Yesterday, we had THOUSANDS. 16 different communities put protests on, up from just 5 or 6, a few weeks ago. Something like 70% voted trump last year.

Yes! I do not understand children in breweries. It seems like irresponsible parenting to me. Taking your kid with you to a place not meant for them, while you drink, and then getting into your car and driving your kid home after?

Just go have a beer at home ffs, and don't subject me to your kid running around like a... Kid.

You, sir or madam, are an abomination and should be abolished.

Pineapple is only slimy when inappropriately treated. For pizza you need to cut into small chunks, drain over a sink for a minute, and then quick fry in a pan to give a little caramelization. THEN put on pizza and bake. It is magic, paired with Canadian bacon, salty, sweet. Yum

Best breakfast burrito: the Hawaiian. Ham, potatoes, pineapple, eggs, sour cream. In fact, you have inspired me, with your hateful statements this morning, and I'll be putting and order in shortly.

I didn't think so. What a dick

'Edwards kept good humor throughout the raucous town hall, telling attendees at the end that he enjoyed hearing the crowd’s “passion” and “patriotism.” In a news conference afterward, Edwards said Trump and Musk were “over the target” in what they set out to accomplish.'

Edited, grabbed the wrong quote

Yep, the 'payoff time' on mine is long, but I am betting they last much longer than that, and that energy prices won't scale normally. I really want sodium ion batteries to work out, but they are sounding less promising.

We have a big natural gas shortage looming here, and most homes are heated with it. Such an obvious thing to be trying to prepare for, sure heat pumps won't heat all winter here, but... If I can generate heat using my free electricity 2 or 3 of the months needing heat a year, that is a permanent discount, that only gets better as costs go crazy. People around me don't really seem to be thinking this way.

Hey. That link said first name last name (presumably yours) shared that document with you.

Might want to clean that up for privacy sake.

I am not sure what a pause is, so maybe I don't understand the standards in your industry, so, grain of salt here.

If you hired a contractor to work on your house, and one guy just stood around waiting to do his part, and declined to help his peers to make the process more efficient, but you had to pay his regular rate, I bet you would be annoyed.

The 'other duties as assigned' expectation has been consistent during my entire career, at every job I have ever had. I have never held a job where, if I was not busy, and someone else was, and I possessed the ability to help, where I was not supposed to pitch in. That is just what you do to support the peers you work with, which should be the goal. Your organization is there to provide a thing (no matter what the org is) and everyone hired is meant to support achieving the goal.

I can empathize with the desire to malicious compliance, but... I would make sure 'other duties as assigned' are genuinely not a part of the expectations, because if they are, this is a pretty lickity split route to not having this job anymore. No manager wants to have to either chase someone down and argue about being generally helpful, or place additional work on your peers because you want to do less.

I live here.

There is no real good place to evacuate to. All of the large population centers will likely be impacted, and most of those places aren't "large" at all. Literally nowhere to go, if we wanted to, except to the lower 48, or Canada.

The distance Alaskan cities are from anywhere else makes evacuation logistically ... Challenging.

The volcano could blow tomorrow, or in 6 months. You cannot realistically evacuate and abandon your entire life for a totally indeterminate amount of time.

We had a similar eruption in 1992. It was fine. Airport was down for a day.

The only real danger is volcanic ash. The volcano is 70ish miles off the coast.

Everyone here is aware. We will all just hunker down. 3-7 days of food in the house, and water. Extra pet food. Schools and businesses will probably shut down for a few days in some towns. No driving, so the ash doesn't get kicked back up. Tape all of our windows to keep ash out, get dog booties, cotton to stuff their ears if you have pets that have to go outside. Swim goggles for pets and people. Respirators or masks do you don't breath it in. Might have to go a few days without electronics.

All in all, everyone I know is just annoyed this will happen in the summer, and we'll be stuck inside. Summer is precious here, losing any of the days suck.

The far, far greater danger is the wildfire season, it's been a very dry winter here. We always have lots of fires in the state, but this year will likely be worse, and with all the "winning" in the government right now, it is unclear what the firefighting response/capabilities will be. THAT could get plenty of people killed, and absolutely devastate out cities and individuals economic stability, which, frankly, is already not stable.

I called both of them. One got my thanks, and one my dissatisfaction. I don't think he cares... But I did anyway.

I don't disagree that I want them to be even more vocal than those of us who saw this coming, but I think the idea that they must do more is off putting to people who are finally seeing what many of us saw coming. Allies are allies, and expecting even more than the revelation they are having isn't always going to be realistic.

I called one and said thanks. Called the other, and told his voicemail the same thing. Not that he will listen... Useless human.

Ah! Thank you!

I read the other day about a protocol called Gemini.

https://geminiprotocol.net/

It might fit what you are looking for, if you goal is just to publish interesting content, or get the experience learning something new and different, but not for you if you want to monetize.

It is an alternate to the internet. You can self host there, also, but they have built Gemini to be unable to support applications, bots, malware etc... it goes much deeper, if you are curious, you should read, I am fascinated.

I think it is because code switching goes beyond just the words someone uses, and more into how the words are used, and the cultural expectations that come along with the way those words are said.

A lot of those cultural expectations are very American in flavor.

maybe you also experience the same, I am not sure, but I do think it is deeper than just language.