I can’t get the chip so it doesn’t matter to me.

There’s like a million reasons but broadly speaking the brown cover with the compass and photos on it is a happy medium before the organization tried to adapt outside of being an equivalent to the Nazi children’s program it was started to provide parity for.

Not really, but in terms of creating a group of children who have the skillset to be stormtroopers.

That’s good for American children (especially opening up the group to girls!), but it means the manual has lost a lot of what made it a good literal baby steps guide to building skills that will serve you in conflict.

Again, you want the last gasp of fascism edition because swimming a mile isn’t Nazi coded or woke, it’s continuing to live coded.

There’s probably a lot of differences but whatever you have is a great start to fitness, mental health and a ton of useful skills and ways of thinking.

It’s gonna sound lame but get a 90s copy of the boy scout handbook and learn all the stuff in it by putting yourself in situations where you will use them. For things like tourniquets and other first aid, take a class. Don’t be afraid to update the methods by looking up stuff online.

If you’re not sure why I suggested this: bsa operated at one point as a pipeline into the military for children. The skillset it teaches is basically hobby infantry.

There was still a penny chickle gum machine in the second floor of the courthouse till a couple years ago.

Yeah, I usually put it in the little pocket until I get home or keep it in the ashtray of the car.

Actually I only ditch the small change, the bigger ones are nice when you run across a vending machine.

Yeah, when you buy stuff they give you change.

The little pocket keeps it tight against your body so it doesn’t jingle around when you walk.

I’m gonna start doing that. Hell yeah.

I had a couple of hot dogs and a half gallon of sweet tea. Bout to eat an orange though. You save and candy your peels?

You’re fine, I had t had breakfast either so I definitely acted like an asshole. It’s just frustrating to broadly generalize with a disclaimer and still catch it.

The thing I didn’t say was that Stalin had no choice but to bring em home and the ideology I link that decision to and its consequences are not an indictment of him.

It’s just that often times decisions of state aren’t really made freely and except for certain circumstances, super deterministic systems tend to inherit a powerful inertia.

Socialism in one country leaves a place for a nation with a socialist developmentalist aim to occupy. China ended up being the one who occupied that space. Socialism in one country is a contribution generally attributed to Stalin, not that I think he had any choice in the matter.

Then what happened

Redditors read and quote even one entire sentence challenge level: impossible.

In all seriousness, we have to at least acknowledge that the ussr, under Stalin, stopped trying to expand the communist world so aggressively and that created the space for a nation like China to develop the way that it did after events like the sino-Soviet split.

To deny that China had this role is even more ahistorical than distilling 1945-maybe ‘51? - Idk I’m thumbing this sucker out at a truck stop away from any books - down to “Stalin decided it was better to build the Union up and pay out at least some peace dividend than to keep up the hellish war economy against the west.”

When Stalin abandoned internationalism and adopted socialism in one country (this is an incredibly broad generalization of events bordering on the ahistorical but please bear with me for the sake of brevity) it became possible for another nation to take a socialist developmentalist line without needing to support the ussr.

The history of Chinas post ww2 20th century is one of threading that needle. They did a pretty good job.

The most interesting and telling thing will be the Chinese governments actions in the next ten years. Will they make the same mistakes as the ussr did or will they chart a different course as America tries to align itself against a new communist bloc.

What’s your current router? What is the symptom you’re experiencing?

With that much stuff connected you absolutely have to be doing some kind of subnetting and traffic shaping.

If you’re pretty far out from your neighbors then you can use different wireless aps to make up the backbone of the subnets. If you’re close enough to the neighbors to see their networks in a site survey then there may not be enough spectrum to do that.

Give me the job.

No more or less than those who come before.

I think we see more obvious fascist indicators because conditions have advanced to the point where protecting the American state and its apparatus can only take those forms.

Gatorade is more refreshing and hydrating.

Also campaign to refederate with blahaj.

I could see your point if we completely ignore the circumstances surrounding the technology. The best metaphor I can think of is star trek. It has to be envisioned as a post scarcity environment for the technology that’s portrayed to be positive and not some new kind of repression or extraction.

If we lived in a world where the labor saving technologies that comprise smarthomes weren’t used to justify getting worked to the bone even more than you already are or to make it acceptable for energy prices to do anything but rise or to continue to allow climate inappropriate bottom of the barrel housing to be built in places like phoenix then I’d have a different view.

I see smarthome technology as a relatively simple tool, but my understanding doesn’t stop at the recognition that “it’s a hammer”, it extends out to “who is swinging it?” and “why do my fingers hurt so much?”.

It’s just really easy to make that criticism of smarthomes because all their benefits are easily, cheaply and efficiently replicated:

Put your standby stuff on power strips and turn the little red switch off when you’re not using them. Alternately, don’t do this because they’re designed to be left on standby, the power drain is negligible (even if you completely dismiss my reply and block me, buy a kill-a-watt type meter so you can know for sure) and stuff like the ps4 can get fucked up if you turn it off without telling it you’re about to.

Make checking your doors part of your nightly routine. It doesn’t matter a bit if all the doors are locked if one of them is not quite shut or the electronic lock fails for some reason. Before you say you’ve never seen that happen, I have seen it happen hundreds of times in my workplace.

I’m willing to concede that minmaxing the hvac is something smarthome technology is good at, but it can be implemented by itself, apart from the smarthome ecosystem and can be replicated by opening and closing windows, putting on or taking off a coat or just - and I know I’ve ambiguously alluded to this already - not having a climate inappropriate home to start with.

You can get the same effect of dimming lights by switching from bright overheads to dim lamps instead. It’s really cozy.

A few summers ago our local power company sent around mailers asking us to “beat the peak”. We put the washing machine on one of those old electromechanical timers and set to go off in a few hours and turned it on. The dryer was harder, because it requires a button press but we just put up a clothesline in the yard instead of messing with some simple way to automate it. You don’t wanna be running that thing while no one’s around anyway.

All simple, sub 5 minute tasks that give a better understanding and arguably a better routine to the household and require little to no computing or automation. Except for not putting stickbuilt houses in places that they don’t make sense. I can’t help you there.

To reiterate: the technology itself isn’t the problem, it’s the world it’s a component of that makes me dislike it. In a just and sustainable world smarthome shit would be good.

And what the requests are, I don’t care if some cdn is carrying Mozilla’s homepage requests, for example.