Giuliani had the NYC emergency management/crisis center relocated to the WTC despite experts warning him that was a bad idea.
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I've been using some variation of Linux since the mid 90's but never been able to fully switch over. That said I am on my longest and perhaps permanent switch over with KDE EndevourOS (Arch based). I don't believe this is what you are hoping for but I do believe it is close so perhaps something to keep an eye on for the future.
I have gotten Teams to run once for a about an hour before it crashed and now I can't figure out what proton/wine voodoo witch doctor recipe I used.
No idea what luck you will have with RDP or RustDesk.
KDE plasma's window tiling manager is really damn cool but has no documentation. Still you can do neat stuff with it like having a floating window tile on top of another tile (basically an always on top state but on steroids) with distinct tiling arrangements for each virtual desk space.
Scaling has been good but font support is still at the "almost but still not perfect". A graphics designer might be in trouble.
Drivers - This is where Arch's pacman (software package manager) and pkgbuild really shine. If it can compile and is available as a git repo, an rpm, or deb file then there is a good chance you can get it working. That said there are still an unfortunate mountain of unsupported stuff.
Otherwise, with all the improvements to Wine via proton and the other forks, it is getting easier to run a lot more Window's applications.
Like I said, EndevourOS/Arch with KDE is getting pretty close to being an easy jump from Windows but not 100% perfect.
Even the Nazis, the literal ones from the 30s and 40s, were not as inhumane as we treat our homeless, chronically ill, an disabled.
At least they would outright murder them while here they end up dead behind dumpsters or just outside hospitals. I did a lot of volunteer and community work until I had reached my limit of seeing how fucked up things are at the bottom.
not just democracy but whatever is left of the economy will evaporate.
preemptive response to how invincible the US dollar is, a lot of people said the Titanic was unsinkable.
Unless the CO is compromised, anyone who opts out will likely find themselves constantly "lucking out" and not going on deployments. The USN has some serious idiots in charge of our nuclear subs but they also really know how bad things get with contagions due a couple classified events.
Not too much to research with the blinding lasers needed. Keep in mind I am not any where near an expert but this seems like a sufficient implementation. I am 100% certain someone smarter and or more experienced than me could potentially simplify this further.
A sufficiently high resolution video camera with fast integrated auto focus on a mechanized cradle, a computer with two RTX 4090's, and of course a class IV (say 100w) laser with dual rotating mirrors should be enough to permanently blind the bulk of a crowd.
I bet there is a free model on hugging face for identifying the pupils for eye tracking and there are facing tracking models to drastically cut down the area for acquiring targets. Really the hardest part could be the camera but if you have enough money, Hollywood has stuff that would work. Other problem would be running the models fast enough to be effective.
Casing could just be a metal box that rotates and has a quartz glass window coated with hydrophobic chemicals.
They can't make it to obvious this is the bad place.
Ugh, I don't even want to imagine what it's like being on a cruise ship full of norovirus.
While I am not a big fan of sailing and such, I am one of those rare assholes that absolutely doesn't get sea sick. That said, being surrounded by vomit and shit everywhere would probably be enough to overcome that mild superpower.
Well there was that time an aircraft carrier was taken off the line because of rona, so not too hard to imagine how it would go.
Also the whole "man flu" thing is actually real. Testosterone has been shown to weaken parts of the immune system - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5075254/
This is why federated servers are the best. The "man" can't keep dem der frogs down!
"Alright so this system is called 'testing' but you need to get two seniors to sign off plus a good reason to push an update."
/What about this system?/
"Oh, that's where we do all are actual testing, just be careful not to break it too much."
/Alright, what is it called?/
"Uhm, I think its called prod or something like that. The root password is written on a sticky note on the upper right corner of John's monitor."
/Who is John, the senior dev or something?/
"What? Hahaha no, John is just the summer intern."
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My partner plus several of my friends work for FEMA and the sentiment is kind of fatalistic these days. Americans have really fucked these people over. Latest "Fuck you" from not just MAGA was the absolute apathy over the furlough except to get upset when TSA tried to halt the precheck lines.
Before that, DHS started firing people by not renewing their contracts on New years eve, barely a peep on the news or social media.
Also DHS handed down a decree that supervisors are not allowed to give anyone a rating higher than 3 (out of 5) for future annual evaluations. Basically a solid 3 out of 5 is a foundation for firing people.
When there is a major "temporal atmospheric deviation" (they're not allowed to say "climate change") at least we might have the national guard but as for FEMA, it feels effectively dead.