If you’re a Mexican politician who has, in any way, crossed the cartel(s), you have to know there’s a target on your back.

My question is this: Do they not have access to government protection? Hell, even private protection?

I’m barely above average IQ, not a great shot, no formal combat training, yet I feel I could have fended with them off with my AR and a like-armed buddy. Again, I’m certainly no badass, but an AR with a mid-tier red-dot sight is literally a point-and-click interface. Some kind of panic lock and strong door would likely have gone a long way as well.

In May, the mayor of Santiago Amoltepec was shot dead in an ambush along with two other people who were in the car with him at the time of the attack.

THAT is different situation altogether, requiring professional security. But they couldn’t have a couple of armed men to guard a building? Just standing inside looking out the window? What am I not seeing here?

Police corruption will certainly come up, but I feel they have to keep that on the down-low, not, “Oh! It’s you guys! Come on in!”

I will be there. I will be armed. I will carry a gas mask. I will carry water and medical for my compatriots. I will not start shit. I will fight back if it comes to it.

Boeing is straight fucking scum, but that was the strangest plane crash I’ve ever seen. (LOL, like I’m an export.) The truth will out.

Fucking weird, isn’t it? Another rant would be about where is all the advertising money coming from?! Imagining being a buyer, I’d have to wonder how well my spend would be profiting.

A couple of decades ago I played around with being a salesman. Top advice was to try this ad, try that ad, compare results. Surely these people are finding revenue from spending on these ads? It just seems impossible to me that there’s profit for all of these cockroaches.

I feel like you weren’t there, in that time and place. Or maybe you were in some weird pocket where OTA wasn’t available? Can’t remember anyone bitching about lack of antennae service. Yeah, it could be sketchy, but I think most of us could drag in ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS.

I’m old, so many may not relate. I remember when the big selling point of this newfangled “cable TV” thing was zero ads. Can you imagine that?

Yeah, I have Prime for the savings on shipping. Got the Kodi addon for watching Prime, never used it except to watch The Expanse a few years ago. Would have been fucking enraged if I had seen ads cut into that. Fuck am I paying for?!

And one man walked away from that. The mind boggles.

Ah! Didn’t consider the input could be analog and not 1 or 0. That opens up a wide range!

Neither of those proposals answer the issues I brought up. But they’re very good for lemmy upvotes!

Never proposed that growth should continue, indeed it cannot. But depopulation is going to steamroll us in the next century and I see no way around it.

This is nothing short of stunning, had no idea anyone was even close to this sort of interface. And it’s only an 8-bit input! Fuck me, I would have made a (totally ignorant) guess of at least a couple of thousand sensors.

Hoped for a video. :(

I’m going to start using “inhumed”.

No, making money is not a legal obligation. CEO at my last job told the board, two years in a row, that intended to lose money so we could invest in our people and tech. They cheered him.

Can you imagine 6 dudes with AR-15s, nothing fancy, responding that that threat? One wonders what might happen.

And now the DEA’s got a chopper in the air,

I wake up screamin’ like I’m back over there,

I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don’t you know?

You better stay away from Copperhead Road.

Politically speaking, it’s easy money. You pander to the conservatives with blocking propositions, get votes.

*Who is going to champion the flip side?!"

You’re right, there is no economic system for dealing with this.

We are royally screwed. Global warming will only exacerbate the population drop, both through weather related deaths and less willingness to produce children.

If you’re young, I’d suggest you learn to grow food. Not even joking.

It’s important to everyone, including you. As the population ages, and fewer young people move into the economy, the tax base shrinks. Who is going to pay for government?

Also, employers will have to compete for the remaining workers, raising wages. That’s good to a point, and then everything becomes too expensive, now you’re in a depression. It’s an economic death spiral.

Taxing the rich only works to a point. Their wealth is mostly in the global stock markets, which will eventually crash. As well, the value of those publicly traded companies will nosedive as fewer and fewer workers are available to produce the goods and services.

We’re facing the global equivalent of the fall of Rome. Nation states will splinter into smaller and smaller, self-dependent groups and the riches we enjoy today will be memories of a better time. If you want a contemporary version of that, look at China restricting rare earths. That’s impacting about every other country on Earth. Now imagine international trade utterly collapsing.

That threw me as well.

“Hit” huh? Were rubber bullets just flying around randomly? The word we need here is “shot”.