I mean, half the people who work for charities are technically doing some sort of Marketing.

I saw my children come out live, but maybe she’s just like the platypus of reptiles or something.

You just described my wife.

Username checks out.

Most IR pass through filters are for 890-900nm not 940.

I ran into this issue myself for a slightly different use case.

The thing I found worked surprisingly well was a scrap piece of car window tint. I literally just walked into a local shop and asked for a small piece of scrap.

Prosecco

I hate having anything inside the sink when it’s not actively being washed. Anything dirty that doesn’t directly go in the dishwasher sits on the counter to the right of the sink until such time as it can be washed.

My in-laws house is terrible for this, both sinks full of dirty dishes all the time. You have to remove them all before you can start the washing process, it’s absolutely stupid. You can’t even wash your hands in the sink properly because of it.

Do you only have a single sink? Most homes here come with double sinks (left and right)

I put hot soapy water in the left, and then pull things out and wash, then rinse in the right.

The soaking makes it significantly easier to scrub/wash grime and grease off.

https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/cleaning/best-way-to-hand-wash-dishes-a1749842004/

See them? Zero

The most common problem I have with other people’s dishes (often relatives) is that they are greasy after it’s been washed because they use the same water for the entire set of dishes and especially if their dish washing order sucks.

When hand washing I always do it in a particular order:

Re-usable Water Bottles, Pot lids which are not visibly dirty, Glasses/Cups, Utensils.

If the water is now greasy, I will drain and re-fill at this point.

Then Plates and bowls, Baking pans that are not greasy, Pots, Frying Pans, then Baking pans that are greasy.

This is far more important than any “guarding”

North Korea is being actively used as a pawn by China to do things that China doesn’t want to be seen/caught doing.

The most obvious one is hacking, a lot of the North Korean state groups even operate from inside the borders of China.

Tongue depressor is a common example of this use case.

https://frigate.video/

You can absolutely use your external IP rather than a domain, your ISP likely keeps your IP the same for long stretches of time. Mine only ever really changes during long power outages.

You can get around that the IP issue by broadcasting your ip from your local machine to a known service, there are some free ones but they aren’t the most stable things in the world if it’s critical. Google Dynamic DNS

What does currently mean?

Have I done it recently? Yes.

Am I doing it right now with this post? No.

I would argue that Amazon selling and also handling significant parts of the logistics is beneficial to the customer.

Shipping companies did not do a good job, that’s why Amazon vertically integrated parts of it.

Netflix having its own fiber and datacenters is another example where it was likely beneficial.

These companies do other things that suck, but I’m not sure I would blame the vertical integration on much of it.

Is there a specific location where you’re worried? Kitchen? Bathroom? Public transport? Work/school?

I just have it running in a docker container…

The administration of a basic income sitting outside of the government?

The government already has a list of every citizen registered via birth or immigration, and provides identification for people. They’re always going to need to do that. There’s really no reason to replicate that level of information outside of the government.

Most people would just go online and register where you’d like your money to be sent (Direct deposit, Mailed cheque)

However, you would still need a few call centers to handle issues, and If someone needs in-person support, the government already has common government service offices like DMVs and service centers that can provide in person service if required, saving significant money on needing dedicated service locations just for this one service.

Tl;dr Economies of Scale matter, and it doesn’t make any sense to replicate the parts that the government already does and has to continue doing.

It depends on what you mean by social welfare programs.

A basic income system requires very little administration, and what parts of it are required wouldn’t make sense to have it sitting outside the government.

I’d rather see a basic income than need non-profit food banks needing to exist. Grocery stores already exist, are reasonably competitive, and are enormously more efficient if people have the money available to use them.

For things like helping people with disabilities, where economies of scale are mostly irrelevant, ngos and non-profits can make more sense because they can specialize according to the need.

Improving your input, and the system message can also be part of that. There are multiple optimizations available for these systems that people aren’t really good at yet.

It’s like watching Grandma google “Hi, I’d like a new shirt” back in the day and then having her complain that she’s getting absolutely terrible search results.

Because you can’t really have parts of both.

Either you have wealth redistribution, or you don’t. A lower amount is still wealth redistribution.

You can have a government, or you don’t. A smaller government is still a government.

So if someone wants some wealth redistribution, and some government. They are just arguing how much of a Libertarian Socialist they are, not how much of a anarcho-capitalist they are.

I personally am a Social Democrat. Capitalism is good most of the time, just make sure you’re holding the reigns tight so it goes in the right direction. Skip capitalism altogether for specific industries where it just doesn’t do very well and have the government run those ones directly.

I’m neither a libertarian socialist, nor an anarcho-capitalist. Not even close to either of them, because again, it isn’t a spectrum.