What is the Farmers Market Version of the Internet?
Farmer's markets incentivize local food sources, direct-to-consumer, and decentralized commerce that avoids extensive industrialized farming.
How do we stop the #DataFarming and support smaller, less centralized digital tools?
Oh wow! My cynical self is pretty amazed that being a force for good motivated folks! haha...that's pretty awesome. Thank you, everyone that voted!
#poll #hypothetical #motivation
Hypothetical Question:
If Mexican America (nee USA) went to war with Canada, Mexico & China; Who would the UK back?
Nanites to Regulate Immune Response and Cure Allergies
due to a government mixup, you now have $100,000 that's yours to keep and do with as you please, no strings attached, no take-backs.
what do you do?
Homelab people, let's say you get a million £/€/$. What do you buy?
Doesn't have to be specifically lab related but that's mostly what I'm interested in.
A quotation from Milne, A. A.:
«
“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?”
“Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought.
Piglet was comforted by this.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/milne-a-a/48004/
Could President Biden be immune to legal punishment for imprisoning his opponents out of a vital national security interest? Does it threaten our national security to have a convicted felon elected to run the country? #Hypothetical #USPol #scotus #Fascism
A weird but interesting alternate reality: Windows 3.0 didn't get any approval by Microsoft. Windows got cancelled. Microsoft continues working on NT OS/2 3.0. OS/2 became a true successor to DOS.
Fast forward to 2021. IBM announces OS/2 15.0. Designed for x86-64 only. Advanced features, and stuff. Now available on ThinkPads starting November 2021.
Someone writes an amazing hacker guide to the software internals, but they did it in a goofy D&D dungeon master style.
It is proposed as an inclusion to the developer documentation. What do you do?
PS the third option is under the assumption they reluctantly agree with merging it, but clearly indicate that all the fun value is lost for them.
A quotation from Martial:
«
My ethical state,
Were I wealthy and great,
Is a subject you wish I’d reply on.
Now who can foresee
What his morals might be?
What would yours be if you were a lion?
[Saepe rogare soles, qualis sim, Prisce, futurus,
Si fiam locuples simque repente potens.
Quemquam posse putas mores narrare futuros?
Dic mihi, si fias tu leo, qualis eris?]
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/martial/64022/
Child: People go to jail for some really dumb crimes....could you see yourself robbing a bank?
Me: No. And why would someone rob a bank instead of just using malware encrypt the systems and get a Ransome?
Child: You gave me that alternative too fast. Are you planning something?
Now, the child thinks I have potential as a criminal, sigh.
#Conservative #pundits #meltdown over #MeganRapinoe’s #support for a #hypothetical #trans #teammate.
After Rapinoe told #TimeMagazine she would welcome a #transgender #athlete to the #USWNT, right-wing pundits tried to #weaponize her impending #retirement against her.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Sports #Soccer #Conservatives #Extremism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
Most Americans approve of Supreme Court decision restricting use of race in college admissions: POLL
"A little more than half of Americans -- 52% -- approve of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on restricting the use of race as a factor in college admissions, while 32% disapprove and 16% saying they don't know.
A majority of Republicans (75%) and independents (58%) approve of the ruling, while a distinct minority of Democrats approve (26%)."
Hey @jerry, just checking, you aren't working off any unencrypted backups of the site dB and actively protesting the feds in some wierd way that they raided you and put all on this server at risk, meanwhile withholding that breach event info for months before notifying everyone to take precautions with their accounts on the server, are you? #hypothetical #askingforafriend
#TheMetalDogArticleList
#BLABBERMOUTH
IRON MAIDEN's STEVE HARRIS On Hypothetical ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Induction: 'I've Never Been Worried About It'
In a new interview with Metal Hammer, IRON MAIDEN bassist Steve Harris said that he isn't concerned about being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "I've never been...
#IronMaiden #SteveHarris #RockAndRollHallofFame #HallofFame #Induction #Hypothetical #NeverWorried #theMetal Heroes #IconicBand #Legends
Pondering a #hypothetical; If the #pandemic had not happened when it did; would Trump still be #president ?
!["alright gang, let's do a fun little thought experiment.
which city would biden have to completely annihilate before you decide not to vote for him?
for the sake of this thought experiment, let's ignore actual real-world alliances between countries. it can be london, or paris, or athens, or barcelona, or rome, or berlin, or even an american city like new york or new orleans or los angeles or honolulu. this is all a hypothetical after all.
really consider it. if you're gonna bother to yap in my notes, at least try to engage with this question in good faith. imagine opening up the news, and you see that a bomb was dropped on this city, and then the bombs never stop. imagine you had a friend there. imagine you'd had a trip planned to meet them and see the sights. imagine every museum, every historical monument, every theatre, every university destroyed. imagine that one day, you lived in a world where this city existed, and the next, it has completely ceased to be. it's effectively been pompeii-ed out of our world entirely. there is no longer a big ben, or a parthenon, or a colosseum, or what have you. there is no longer that foreign musician you loved from this city. there are no longer sweet old grannies to share old family recipes from this part of the world. there is no longer the online friend you wanted to visit. there is no longer your vacation plans."
[...]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/448/492/218/087/911/original/f0c42fca62523dd7.png "\"alright gang, let's do a fun little thought experiment.
which city would biden have to completely annihilate before you decide not to vote for him?
for the sake of this thought experiment, let's ignore actual real-world alliances between countries. it can be london, or paris, or athens, or barcelona, or rome, or berlin, or even an american city like new york or new orleans or los angeles or honolulu. this is all a hypothetical after all.
really consider it. if you're gonna bother to yap in my notes, at least try to engage with this question in good faith. imagine opening up the news, and you see that a bomb was dropped on this city, and then the bombs never stop. imagine you had a friend there. imagine you'd had a trip planned to meet them and see the sights. imagine every museum, every historical monument, every theatre, every university destroyed. imagine that one day, you lived in a world where this city existed, and the next, it has completely ceased to be. it's effectively been pompeii-ed out of our world entirely. there is no longer a big ben, or a parthenon, or a colosseum, or what have you. there is no longer that foreign musician you loved from this city. there are no longer sweet old grannies to share old family recipes from this part of the world. there is no longer the online friend you wanted to visit. there is no longer your vacation plans.\"
[...]")
" 
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