NaibofTabr

My friend, you are in luck:

Pigs In Space

There are two important questions about whether the lessons of this coalition government have value outside of its formative context:

1. Can it scale? Can the organizing principles be extended to a second city, a province, a nation? How much of the strength of this group is built around the personalities of specific individuals who are providing a backbone of leadership that cannot be replicated elsewhere?

2. Is it sustainable, ideologically? What happens when the outside threat which forced this group to unify is no longer felt, when the first generation which fought together and saved each others' lives in a very real and practical sense dies and the following generations don't feel the same sense of unity, didn't bleed together, don't share the same level of trust in each other? What sustains the group identity?

That's boinking.

"Circling"? Is she an airplane waiting for a runway to clear?

No Oddjob.

but did you ever play 4-player Mariokart64 on a...

A lot of advertising is built around making consumers feel good for buying particular products, not convincing them to buy in the first place. Debate in this context would be useless because it's more about confirmation bias than coercion.

This is an ad.

The supplier, 30Seconds Group, says the cameras allow them to track “occupant engagement” from residents who are a “captive audience” as they wait for lifts to their apartments.

JFC, how do these people sleep with themselves at night.

Someone has to make sure they never do anything ethical.

I'm not overly concerned with an organization trying to build surveillance functions into an open source operating system.