I can't recall the article, but on a note related to large-scale emergencies, a wave of excess deaths appear 1-2 years after a major local disaster like a flood, fire, or similar. It's not exactly clear what the source is if it's not stress. Rhetorical questions food for thought: Could it be major life upheavals cause interruptions in previously healthy habits to be replaced with less healthy habits, less personal resources and less access to healthcare after disasters, latent stress follows people around, or that stressful events inherently cause acute but unknown injury resulting in premature death? With the COVID pandemic and shelter-in-place, I would expect a similar wave of excess mortality too unrelated to infection and mental health effects.
In particular, COVID led to a massive shift to remote work. On the one hand, commuting to work, especially in the US where most commuting is driving, could potentially save lives. On the other hand though, it could cause people to spend more time sitting at home/less movement throughout the day, and also less social interaction/more isolation and loneliness. I could imagine these changes driving excess mortality
My university was similar (SGI, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun, Linux, SCO), but they used NFS to mount home dirs local to the computer clusters, which wasn't as cool because it wasn't possible to mount home dir volumes remotely like an AFS campus. They also, unfortunately, used original NIS which could easily extract all password hashes of all users with a simple `getent passwd`. I proceeded to run John The Ripper against a dump of everyone and found 60 passwords in 30 seconds, including several tenured professors.
Those were the days when portability and longevity were important and there wasn't as much of a monoculture or incompatible code/language features churn.
Manual labor can be a thing until you get too hurt to continue, and then you'll need another vocation.
Do whatever is of most value you find easy but others find difficult, specialize, find a location with more demand and less competition, brand distinctly, advertise efficiently, and make sure your prices are calibrated correctly. Maybe it's installing security systems or home automation integration.
Wishing and wanting will never achieve anything because those who own the businesses never cede anything voluntarily. They'll demand ever more productivity for less pay. There will be ever more homeless people, greater inequality, and ever more skewed power law distribution of wealth until people stop selling themselves short and start voting with their wallets, feet, and sweat.
In the US-centric perspective: Most forms of higher-education leave out fundamental job skills graduates need to be successful in the business world. Résumé writing, project management, time management, and team leadership should be covered.
Moreover In terms of compulsory education like K-12, it should also include public service and life-work skills like customer service modeling behavior, personal financial management, civics, and media critical thinking skills because Common Core and NCLBA succeeded only at creating greater mass ignorance.
The last thing we need is to teach people how to do things as they are already done, instead of giving them something that can be used to generate something new. And management skills can’t be taught anyway.
This is what happens when there is hyper-optimization of capital rate of return at the expense of cruelly suppressing the rate of labor wage increases. The middle class shrivels up to nothing and the precariat explodes with millions of under-counted homeless and functionally-homeless people. I guess billionaires really want to live in fortified gated communities in otherwise poor countries surrounded by favelas, criminal street gangs, and abject suffering.
Walking 2 hours per day is a completely impractical fantasy.
A better resource: Body By Science a book containing recommendations based on research and data. The overall goal is proper volume of effective effort of cardio and strength exercise that doesn't take too long and reduces risks of wear/tear and injury.
> Walking 2 hours per day is a completely impractical fantasy.
Tell people you spend 12 hours a day starring at a screen and they won't bat an eye, tell them you walk 10k step a day and they'll try to convince your it's unpractical, unhealthy, "10k is a made up number anyways", "I don't have time", "isn't it too hard?"
All my friends are single and spend more time gaming than I spent exercising, by far, for most people it's a time allocation decision. My brother is more active than me despite having a kid
Huh, ai mean both my sisters walk for like an hour a day with their toddlers most days with good weather. So idk, different strokes for different filks I guess
There's an oft-repeated factoid that recognizable organized civilizations last about 10 generations or 250 years on average. And then there's Strauss–Howe generational theory. There's no magic formula or universal fate except it's risky to have lots of corrupt, stupid leaders, injustice, inequality, and/or bad circumstances that do everything to avoid rare, effective leadership with integrity and labor wealth growing faster than capital wealth. Late stage capitalism is omnicidal and suicidal because the greedy fools involved tend not to care about or plan for the future, including a cognitive dissonance to deny anticipation of domination by externalities like changes in youth public sentiment, demographic shifts, geopolitical balances, and climate change. The current richest people in the world are drug addicts, warlords, pedophiles, and those who erroneously believe public beaches belong to them personally.
Per company government acquisition "bans" are stupid for PR and security reasons. Brand-specific banlists are whackamole when the same hardware and software will be immediately duplicated with another cat-walks-on-keyboard brand name that will disappear within a year.
Instead, there should be in-depth, enforced audit, compliance, and evaluation standards for gear for particular purposes. If it doesn't meet particular standard(s), then it can't be purchased or used.
Drone, paint can, mud, or a very heavy hat. Until they're made too expensive to maintain, they'll stay in business selling your movements to data brokers, police, intelligence agencies, stalkers, thieves, and/or scammers to mine for all time for any reason at all.
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