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Beans and a shack is probably actually an acceptable standard to guarantee everyone. And given enough time and spare bits of wood you can make your shack a good shack.

But right now a lot of people are suffering without their beans and shack.

I think it is achievable. But someone has to start doing the economic planning to make it happen in each local area.

One approach is to take political control of each city and resolve the problem by applying sufficient government. Either you make enough housing for the people who are there, or you seize enough stuff for the project that people start leaving. But that can be hard to muster the political will to do.

Alternatively, "housing" per se is not unaffordable: at whatever reasonable fraction of a normal wage, there is somewhere on Earth that you could pay to live. Plenty of empty space in small towns scattered across the US, for example. The problem is that you can't actually live there, because you also need to have a job to pay for the housing, which isn't where the housing/empty land is. Also many of these places are so under-served by municipal services as to be practically uninhabitable: you can afford an RV and you can afford an acre of desert with no electric, water, or sewer service, but you cannot combine the two to create acceptable housing.

If the people who control the cities where the work and services are are unwilling to accommodate residents, then work and services need to be organized in places not under the control of these malicious actors. Ideally with new mechanisms in place to prevent the same failure modes from reoccurring.

Lemmy just is seizing the means of production of threaded forums and link aggregators. Means sized! We can all go home.

Is there any other job where multiple successive presidential administrations try to ban you?

Pretty good bird, kind of overdoing it on the color based naming scheme, 7/10 would bird again.

Open up Synaptic, search up all the packages that say stuff about XFCE, mark them for removal, and then apply all the changes.

What's your budget for this project? If you can out-spend the tourism board you can convince everyone your town is bad/the next town over is better.

You could also try making the town unpleasant by, say, opening a coal fired power plant or putting up hundreds of billboards for erectile dysfunction medications. But presumably you also want to live there?

A lot of these telescopes are on top of the tallest mountain around. Which in turn was probably pretty significant to whoever might have been dispossessed of the local area. So they can be surprisingly unpopular.

Like imagine if space aliens showed up, stole all the good land, killed loads of people, and then decided to build tools for their own notion of peaceful scientific exploration on top of Mount Everest, Mount Rushmore, and Half Dome.

Also, that Russian moon lander just crashed, so it could also be some kind of secret space cyber war of countries trying to make each other seem incompetent.

Is it that hard to get into making consumer electronics that this manages to persist?

I think the Hyper stuff is mostly a new name for the same thing.

The real "replacement" might actually be Bluesky though, which is Paul Frazee's new project that he seems to be doing instead.

Isn't that the opposite of this?

Reposting from Reddit, a classic scam.

I assume it must have been at some point, but I don't really know.