When people trade their time or skills with each other locally there is mutual benefit and all the value of that trade naturally stays in the community (because it often doesn’t involve cash, and even where it does it’s off the books). Once someone spots these kind of good things (unofficial homework club, meal sharing, unofficial community kitchen etc) and tries to make it a more organised co-op so that more people can be involved, the co-op now has to register all its activities and pay taxes, which has the effect of removing some of the value from the community. If it’s an area seeing underinvestment from local government (as many poorer areas are) then there’s a great risk that’s a net-negative for the community even if the co-op is doing a “good thing”. There’s a critical mass at which the local community receives a net benefit and I wonder if many good ideas ever make it that far.

See: tax treatment of co-ops in the UK. I’m sure there are parallels in the US.

There’s lots and lots of low level community support, bartering and exchange. But once a good natured soul tries to organise that into something… taxes!

Assuming he was elsewhere on CCTV at the time of the shooting (work, university, cafe) he should be ok.

A bunch of comments on here and Reddit about how police will do everything they can to make sure he’s seen as a threat during arrest and kill him? I don’t think that’s the case, but if this guy has nothing to do with it and felt the same it would be much safer to just walk into a police station and get ruled out of the investigation. Better that than risk a cop spotting him one day and thinking himself a hero.

We should know within a day because if flirty Starbucks guy isn’t him then that person will almost certainly come forward to get removed from investigation.

He’s shown a high degree of planning so far. Bringing a decoy bag and being casual in front of CCTV in not-his-clothes seems on the money at the moment. As soon as I heard he made a beeline for central park I bet he has a change of outfit and strolled out looking totally different. Sure enough they’ve found a bag in the park they think was his. He’s 2 to 3 steps ahead of them…

Or he’s terminal himself and pissed off

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Plauché

Trinity: what is he doing?

Morpheus: he’s beginning to believe…

What do you mean? On death row in most countries they’ll have already been condemned to execution by a specific method…

Lemmy is a great opportunity to ignore karma. So ignore it.

I’m a contractor, I take my earbuds out and tell them I’m still billing…

Best thing you can do is to not participate.

Welcome to nuclear deterrent.

Alabama accent: grow forest, grow!

What country are you in? What field of work are you in?

Are you able to get job seekers allowance (or equivalent)?

Job hunting is exactly this kind of grinding numbers game. It’s tough. Nobody enjoys it.

If your CV has been given the ok by design experts then you’ve got nothing different to do there.

So besides making “getting a job” your job and continuing to apply relentlessly and chase down opportunities your other task is to downsize your outgoings and expectations until they reflect your reality.

Apply for lower paying jobs. It’s a backstop that doesn’t meet your income goals but it’s better to be searching for a better job while earning 60% of your target than being unemployed and earning nothing.

Finally be prepared to put everything on the table. Are you resisting moving? How far away does your search span? What would it look like if you made your outgoings 80% of what they are now? 70%? 60%?

As a contractor I’ve worked with some real idiots and some really unpleasant bullies too, but I’ve never given them the proper “fuck you” when leaving. On one occasion I was able to go back to work for one of them when I was stuck for work during covid. On another occasion a referral came through one of them which led me to a 3 year contract of solid work.

So I don’t burn my bridges, you never know when you’ll need to cross one again.

Or to put it another way, you might not think of yourself as having a “network”. But those bridges, like them or not, are your network. And they’re worth more standing than burnt down.

Interesting point thanks

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It might seem like there was an “old days” in war compared to modern times but technology in war has always been continuously improving and has often been the decisive factor.

In the America-Mexico war the Americans had a distinct technological advantage being able to use the newer and more accurate 1841 Springfield rifle. They also had superior artillery technology.

If you mean the “old days” as in mass troop movement on the field and hand to hand fighting and no computers then there was plenty of that all over Europe and elsewhere later in the 1800s all the way up to WWI.

See the Crimea War 1853-1856 and the Franco-Prussian war 1870-1871 for some notable examples. (Both with rifles, troops marching on the battle field, cannons, horses etc)

why is the mexican-american war considered “the last war of humanity”??

why do you consider the mexican-american war “the last war of humanity”??