It’s impossible to earn that much money, but at some point it’s also impossible to hold or spend. Banks can only take so much safely, so it needs to be placed in companies and investments that require some management and all the consequences and responsibility of running those. Spending it is problematic because it will disrupt whatever market it is injected to, potentially harming a lot of people.

The only real solution is to avoid billionaires in the first place by taxing corporations much much harder.

Based on your description I’m going to take a wild guess: Your father is a “functioning addict”.

It explains everything, including his self destructive behavior.

Land can be bought everywhere in all price ranges. The real hurdle is whether you can legally live there or what requirements there are, due to zoning and building codes.

I think the easiest way to get a self sustaining home with as little legal issues as possible is to buy an already legal home with the grid connection, but then just don’t use it.

If I were young and single again, I would look into auctions of derelict farms. Tear down the old building and instead build a small totally legal connected up to code cabin with water, waste and electricity connection. Then use the rest of land to do whatever actually interest me, while complying to the bare minimum of legal requirements for that land.

They won’t whine. They’re going to flip around and claim they never supported him.

Who the hell goes to his page anyway?

You don’t need artificial intelligence. We already have intelligence at home.

It’s difficult to read if you can only watch the person typing.

Sort of like lip reading

A brain itself doesn’t feel physical pain. That requires a nervous system and pain receptors of which the brain has none. Brain surgery is done with only local anesthesia for the skin and scalp.

We also know that braindead people don’t suddenly start creating brain waves even if the body gets mechanical resparation and pulse. It’s quite literally “off”. So, I guess the creation of a dead brain won’t feel anything or start thinking about anything by itself.

The question is what inputs they give these artificial brains. It’ll think that, and that will be it’s “sensory” input. Whether that can cause some emergent brain waves that could be interpreted as emotion or other stuff is impossible to say. I doubt it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_car

True depiction:

https://arcomage.github.io/

I have kids myself, but I don’t feel ashamed of letting them know that I don’t always have the answers or that sometimes I like to jump the trampoline for fun.

Adults who seem like they know everything and act responsible all the time actually seem “juvenile” in my opinion.

They don’t really get it, you know? Like they got to that level of life by following expectations and then stopped developing past that and just keep trotting along. Some people get stuck there while others “soften up” when they get grandchildren and less responsibility or whatever.

People mature in different paces, but the whole “being grown up” is definitely just an optional phase.

It’s really a question of whether you have electric heating or a furnace or district heating.

It’s not common to have more than one heat exchanger for hot water if you have a furnace or district heating.

Electrical is much easier. You can just place them anywhere and they don’t cost as much to install. However, electricity is usually more expensive than district heating.

Sadly it’s a remake. The original url was bought by some porn/click farm.

But yes, even the original script wouldn’t work on modern browsers. If anyone wants to do something like this today, they should buy a mobile ad. There’s seemingly no limits to how many pop-ups and redirects they’re allowed to make.

Skateboarding. It has enough variety to keep it interesting for that long. Unlike many other sports, there’s an infinite number of tricks to learn. Even if you’re old.

For anyone too young to remember, the “you are an idiot 😀😀😀” reference, it was a prank virus from 2002.

Technically it wasn’t even a virus even if it was usually described as such. It was just a link to a website that would show the text, play the song, and then spawn more windows when you attempted to close one. Restarting the PC was the only way to stop it. It was very funny in cubicle offices.

Unfortunately it’s true. A lot of voters in Copenhagen moved further left, but for the entire country it seems that the Social Democratic Party lost voters in both directions, giving the mayor titles to the right wing coalitions. The small populistic parties gobble up the votes and point them to the Mayor candidates from the Liberal Party (which is right wing). The population as a whole appears to move to the right.

On the bright side, municipal level elections like this are in no way comparable to the usual party politics of national elections. There’s much more collaborating across party lines and much larger internal differences in the parties due to the local situations that they deal with. The personal votes are more important than the party. The small populistic parties don’t get much say in the end, when they only have their own members to represent them in the city councils. Most decisions will still only be possible as collaboration between the largest parties from both sides of the middle.

Get a hold of the janitor. As simple as it might seem, this is not something you want to do yourself in a multistory building.

You’ll need to have access to the boiler room and the topmost radiator. There’s probably a good reason why you don’t.

If you open that screw, you’ll only let more air into the system and potentially get a lot of smelly water on your floor.

The joke is that Reddit is the only one “buying” Reddit gold. They use it to herd the hivemind.

… and this is different from Reddit gold how?