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  • I think you are right, and I find the thought of raising someone with the intent to keep them ignorant is gross.

    As a teacher, one could not bring up the subject, but one could encourage critical thinking.

    If I had the opportunity, but with these constraints I would say:

    “How do you know they are bad (or X opinion)? The Church thought Galileio was wrong about the sun being in the center of the solar system, and scientists thout Harlen Bretz’s theory about the Missoula floods sounded too biblical. Anyone can be wrong; so it is important to gather information and decide for yourself.”

    And yes, I believe a child would understand the point, even if they don’t get the references.


  • It depends on whether your adversary is motivated and equipped, your resources, and what visibility you would like to permit.

    Let’s suppose you have a poorly equipped adversary, a couple thousand to spend, and you want it to be invisible.

    When a door is bashed, the wooden jamb breaks at the lock. So you could go bash resistant device, I believe there are inserts that make bashing significantly harder. Or you can go with a steel door and steel jamb.

    For windows, a sheet of polycarbonate glued to the outside should make them resistant to rocks and small arms fire. You should be able to break the glass and kick out the polycarbonate in the event of a house fire.

    Check your slider door that it can’t be levereged upward and removed while shut.


  • I have a suggestion.

    TLDR: High density, owned housing, professional management, restrictions on owning other properties.

    To avoid HOAs misusing funds, allow people to own, and build high density: build apartments for sale, to be managed by corporation. Corp is funded by reasonable fees set before construction as a percentage of value of property. Apartment owners can vote to fire incompetent managers, otherwise, managers are free to choose how to effectively run complex. Salary is fixed.

    To encourage a builder to take on the project, we have 20-50 people sign up to buy apartments. They have to put down a refundable deposit of $100 to get on the list, and $5000 to the builder (applies to down payment) when building starts.

    Deed restrictions, created before breaking ground, prohibit ownership of an apartment by:

    1. any corporation

    2. any individual that owns another home or is on a corp that owns rental properties (excludes REITs if shares owned is below 5% market cap)




  • azureskypirate@lemmy.ziptoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comRefer to the 📈
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    The Wealth of Nations made convincing arguments that mercantilism wasn’t the most effecient system. Paid laborers cost less than slaves. Hoarding [gold] bullion makes it abundant in your country, thus less valuable.

    It may be time for the next system. The manifesto will need arguments that appeal to one’s pragmatism rather than sense of charity (48 Laws of Power, Law 13, Robert Greene).







  • azureskypirate@lemmy.ziptoHumor@lemmy.worldYes, but
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    The way people behave in airport bathrooms bothers me. The bathroom gets cleaned 5 times a day and people still use a mountain of tp on the seat and flush the toilet with their foot like a bunch of homo zombies with norovirus just rode the handle.

    But if you must do the above, in any restroom with soap, wash your hands afterwards. You’d want your doctor to.





  • I’ve got Proxmox running on a nvme mirror. Two HDDs are passed to Turnkey Linux mediaserver; they are mirrored with BTRFS and act as storage. I am satisfied with all (prox, turnkey, btrfs) and would recommend.

    I had one BTRFS drive fail, and replacing it with no experience took about an hour.

    I do wish there was better user documentation for WebDAVcgi, the WebDAV frontend in Turnkey linux mediaserver.

    mediaserver comes with Samba, so I use that to connect devices like phone or laptop to the server

    Turnkey’s mediaserver was my replacement for Openmediavault with Filebrowser plugin. Filebrowser creates an internal user to write files for anything uploaded via web interface, so if you mount the folder later via NFS, the permissions don’t match. Openmediavault would stall or crash a lot as a container and especially as a VM, but maybe it runs better on bare metal.





  • Context: Giuseppe Valditara, Education secretary, is a male, 64;

    Giorgia Meloni, Prime minister, is a female, 48. Pic related.

    She tabled the bill to continue limiting sex-ed.

    Opinion: Progress. Although killing your partner is not directly related to sex-ed, sex-ed is generally good. Students learn hygiene and STI prevention.

    I don’t study these curriculums, but the class I took didn’t mention homosexuals or gender roles. Gender id and transgender weren’t in pop culture, but I doubt it is included today.

    Edit: Sorry guys, I read the article poorly.

    Giorgia Latini, not Giorgia Meloni (prime minister), tabled the measure. It isn’t clear from the article if the measure was tabled before or after the Valditara’s amendment was approved. And Giorgia Meloni weighed in on gender theory, not necessarily sex ed.

    I can’t seem to determine from this article if sex education will be limited more or not, just that it is an issue for debate in Italy.