Woke Tropical Storm Destroys Only Houses of White Men, Trump Voters
DNA identification of all citizens, but the State only stores a series of hashes rather than the DNA itself, for reasons of privacy.
This basically came out of a realization that if the government has stored your eye scan, fingerprint, and DNA information, then at some future date, it might be possible to clone you (or rather parts of you) in order to defeat your biometric protection mechanisms.
So a proper cyberpunk government should have some way of not storing this information itself, but only data prints that can be reliably and unidirectionally generated from it. Otherwise that authorization infrastructure could be severely compromised by foreign rivals in the event of a breach - and you can’t so easily change your President’s DNA.
then you realise that we’re surrounded by billowing clouds of biomarkers wherever we go and private entities will be sucking it all up to add to their databases anyway
True. Biological bodies are very inconvenient that way.
On the other hand, that isn’t so good for the field of biometric identification!
DNA identification of all citizens, but the State only stores a series of hashes rather than the DNA itself, for reasons of privacy.
This basically came out of a realization that if the government has stored your eye scan, fingerprint, and DNA information, then at some future date, it might be possible to clone you (or rather parts of you) in order to defeat your biometric protection mechanisms.
So a proper cyberpunk government should have some way of not storing this information itself, but only data prints that can be reliably and unidirectionally generated from it. Otherwise that authorization infrastructure could be severely compromised by foreign rivals in the event of a breach - and you can’t so easily change your President’s DNA.
DNA identification of all citizens, but the State only stores a series of hashes rather than the DNA itself, for reasons of privacy.
I do love the culture shock whiplash of the sentence “The adultery laws don’t apply to registered prostitutes.”
Like, where does that fit on the political compass?
Yeah but they’re the bad type of skin color so we can safely ignore them and nothing insane will happen.
Have you actually been seeing a significant number of lefty people say that we should ignore the drug overdose epidemic or that it isn’t a problem?
My “:<” was more about the situation overall.
This did fly under the radar for a while, and there was a bit of coverage, but no real political will to accompany it. In this case the GOPpers aren’t so much better since they don’t know how to actually fix drug problems, although apparently they’re changing the laws to stop handing out opioids by the 90-pill bottle after every surgery.
(I was given some prescription painkillers after my surgery and deliberately avoided using the full dose, or even many of the pills. I wanted to feel enough pain to know when I might be causing trouble. Apparently I inadvertantly followed what you’re supposed to be doing.)
God fucking dammit my I typed out two replies in a row only to have Tumblr’s donkey piss mobile app shit itself.
TL;DR the left has been trying to get drug addiction taken seriously as a medical issue rather than stigmatized as a moral failure for a while now, and I don’t see how there is/was “no political will” unless you narrowly define that to mean political will to put restrictions on opiate prescriptions, which is a policy that I’m still not really sold on even in light of the scope and seriousness of the epidemic.
Edit: also that emote only showed up as a “:” to me in your earlier reblog because of weirdness with how tumblr parses HTML and @staff needs to get their shot together
You’re thinking that I’m having a stronger reaction to this than I am. If you want to argue the point, take it up with Slart.
I don’t see how there is/was “no political will” unless you narrowly define that to mean political will to put restrictions on opiate prescriptions,
In fact, I did mean this particular issue flew under the radar, and this particular issue didn’t seem to have a lot of political will behind it. Left will is focused a lot on recreational drugs legalization and preventing all the secondary harms from incarceration (significant), rather than preventing drug abuse.
In the case of opioids, apparently what’s needed is prevention, as most of the addicts are ones that got issued dozens of pills after a surgery, when in practice they should be getting about five plus ordinary painkillers or something, then come back if that isn’t enough. (And policy is changing on this. Scott would probably have something to say about it in terms of dysfunction of the medical system.)
The “:” was probably because I originally typed “:<” on the mobile website, instead of “:>”. (I don’t use the app.)
Yeah but they’re the bad type of skin color so we can safely ignore them and nothing insane will happen.
Have you actually been seeing a significant number of lefty people say that we should ignore the drug overdose epidemic or that it isn’t a problem?
My “:<” was more about the situation overall.
This did fly under the radar for a while, and there was a bit of coverage, but no real political will to accompany it. In this case the GOPpers aren’t so much better since they don’t know how to actually fix drug problems, although apparently they’re changing the laws to stop handing out opioids by the 90-pill bottle after every surgery.
(I was given some prescription painkillers after my surgery and deliberately avoided using the full dose, or even many of the pills. I wanted to feel enough pain to know when I might be causing trouble. Apparently I inadvertantly followed what you’re supposed to be doing.)
So uh… about these hurricanes
So there’s been this interesting pattern where the places that are habitable after global warming are also the places with housing restrictions.
At which point everyone despairs of ever living in the 80 degree parts of LA and moves to 120 degree Vegas at a tenth the price. (Or at least the 109 degree parts of LA a couple mountain ranges away).
And right now, it sure looks like the fastest growing cities and regions in the country are either the sort of place where an extra 5F gets people killed or the sort of place where you get semi-regular hurricanes.
So uh… what happens when people try to flee north and can’t?
massive pressure on the Canadian government to allow unrestricted immigration, probably.
which we’ll cave to without anything in return
probably.
The population of the South census region is 120 Million, the population of Canada is 30 Million, and a mild exodus of admittedly rich Asians from a single city-state destroyed an entire province in under a decade (And then actual China got involved and things got worse).
Even if you wanted to take them all, you physically couldn’t.
Which is really sort of my question here. The only places in America that are growing are probably places that we don’t want growing because they’re not terribly nice places to live. What happens if/when they become uninhabitable?
~shock therapy~
Shouldn’t the US Great Lakes/Rust Belt region remain pretty habitable after global warming? As a bonus the region is already built overbuilt from populations that peaked mid century.
Also, fresh water concerns in the southwest. They’re draining the aquifers faster than they can refill them.
If you wanted to live there anyway and can get a suitable job, northern Ohio likely isn’t a bad place to plunk down. The housing is much cheaper than the coasts, especially the coastal metros. However, this migration probably won’t occur for 20-30 years.
I would avoid buying long-term property in Texas, Nevada, or Florida.
So uh… about these hurricanes
So there’s been this interesting pattern where the places that are habitable after global warming are also the places with housing restrictions.
At which point everyone despairs of ever living in the 80 degree parts of LA and moves to 120 degree Vegas at a tenth the price. (Or at least the 109 degree parts of LA a couple mountain ranges away).
And right now, it sure looks like the fastest growing cities and regions in the country are either the sort of place where an extra 5F gets people killed or the sort of place where you get semi-regular hurricanes.
So uh… what happens when people try to flee north and can’t?
massive pressure on the Canadian government to allow unrestricted immigration, probably.
which we’ll cave to without anything in return
probably.
The population of the South census region is 120 Million, the population of Canada is 30 Million, and a mild exodus of admittedly rich Asians from a single city-state destroyed an entire province in under a decade (And then actual China got involved and things got worse).
Even if you wanted to take them all, you physically couldn’t.
Which is really sort of my question here. The only places in America that are growing are probably places that we don’t want growing because they’re not terribly nice places to live. What happens if/when they become uninhabitable?
~shock therapy~
An opening for the emergence of a new order.
For those who haven’t been reading my blog long enough to know this:
One of my goals is to invent a new form of Nationalism, adapted to the 21st century, powered by new organizational and information technologies.
Not a racial nationalism, nor what people have in mind with an ethnic one, but a kind of National Technocracy, where the nation is ruled effectively by true experts - not merely the credentialed - for the benefit of its citizens, selected through new forms of republic or democracy.
This is unrealistic, I admit, but then so was the last election, and I can feel how the Overton Window has opened up, and maybe some fragment of it will fall to Earth and improve something, somewhere.