Public Grief

Lots of people are worried right now. Worried that the world is out to get them. Grieving about the safety they’ve lost. Anxious that they can’t do the things that keep them human. Afraid that no one will help. Or for people like me, a typical Tuesday.
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From this side of the fence it’s actually nice to know that everyone else can finally see the threats that others live. Nothing made the government less competent or capable, nothing made the food or energy supply less reliable, nothing made our health care system less well prepared, nothing made housing less available. This is the usual state of the world, just pushed 5% further toward chaos, so the suffering escapes from those society is willing to sacrifice and seeps into a place you can see and feel.

I like that it has made us simply suspend some of the more harmful public acts. As it turns out housing the homeless is a thing most places can do in a few weeks. As it turns out you can simply turn off evictions, and debt, and individual medical expenses. Rich dickbags have told us for centuries that we can’t – the Founding Fathers specifically designed a government to prop up those types of institutions – but it’s actually pretty easy. Many of the “extreme” policies that have been dismissed as “impossible” are actually things that we did without even a lot of prep work.

Of course it will all evaporate as soon as our current dickbags can figure out how to get colonialism back up and running. They’re worried about the low velocity of money. Specifically they’re worried that without a high velocity to your money they might not be able to keep all of the money they hoard. But it’s a start. Billionaires being afraid is always a good start. What are you going to do to make sure they stay that way?

Things are otherwise okay. Dog is still injured but he’s doing better with the wagon ¹There will eventually be pictures, but right now wagon rides are still a two person job. Dog requires supervision to help stay sitting, and depending on terrain possibly lifting in and out. But there’s progress, and even at the current level of effort it’s still better than things were without the wagon.. I’m back off the queue for a few weeks, but not still not feeling great about the day job. Shanda is calmer, if sicker, than last week. We got new trash cans ²Sturdier cans too, which is good because the collection folks have broken 3 of the ones since I’ve lived here. The lid on the trash can is also integral, which will be a big improvement over the loose one they regularly left flying down the street (and it doesn’t even get windy here). I’m also hoping the labeled can will help keep me from … Continue reading. I got more dye and socks and postcards, well ahead of schedule. I got to do some housekeeping in Rimworld. I’m excited to try some earring CAD in HA4H this week, and it’s been years since I was excited about CAD ³I’m sure I’ll be sick of CAD well before I’m done modeling the earrings. I’m not great at it and it doesn’t tickle the parts of my brain that let me just stare at it for hours making it go. But I think I can make a decent start before my initial hope runs thin, and there’s a good chance I can find motivation to return once I get … Continue reading. I’m less excited about getting my ancient 3D printer going again, but I can probably get someone else to do the actual print.

ZiB

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