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  • But this assumes that people in survival or emergency situations are only going to look for themselves. In fact, in almost every emergency situation where there's been a breakdown of emergency infrastructure, the exact opposite happens - it just doesn't get reported on by the big outlets.

    After Katrina, for instance, you heard "oh there was a huge rape and murder pit in the Superdome" on several news outlets. The​ Superdome was actually used by survivors as an ad-hoc camp, and the only armed people there were making sure people DIDN'T get hurt like that. People with boats went on sorties into the flooded city to get people back to the Superdome, where they had food and cots and medical care. The only real "looting" was for medical supplies, food, and things to help people SURVIVE, not luxury goods, and many tried not to scavenge in areas or businesses that couldn't take it - Walmart could deal with a couple dozen missing sleeping bags, small businesses in the area would definitely miss that medication though.

    It turns out humanity, in an emergency situation, left to their own devices, GENERALLY will choose to help other people first rather than hurting them. Research has shown that this will to help is fairly deep-seated in most people, and it tends to fall apart when societal pressure is reapplied - in the case of Katrina, that camp fell apart pretty soon after the National Guard and police started shooting anyone who was "looting", no matter what they were taking.

  • Trump suggests giving Vladimir Putin whatever he wants
  • Nah, he and the Duma have stated their victory conditions: total control over Ukraine AND the destruction of Ukrainian national identity. He doesn't want Ukraine thinking of itself as a sovereign nation, only a Russian state.

  • Inspection visits to Tesla employees on sick leave - electrive.com
  • I did this once to my store manager. Dude wanted me IN, no matter how much I told him I'd been throwing up all morning. I managed to drive the 15 minutes into work...and promptly threw up all over his shoes when he started trying to yell at me on the sales floor.

    Never had anyone doubt that I was sick again at that job.

  • CVS California: 7000 employees strike. "I work full-time yet can’t afford to get health insurance, which is ridiculous, because CVS owns Aetna"
  • They also own CareMark, which is a pharmacy middleman...so CVS owns Aetna who covers you, then Aetna pays CVS for your prescriptions, then CVS pays CareMark for the pills (I think I have the order right there). Somehow, this is legal and totally cool despite the money never leaving the CVS ecosystem at all.

  • Cyborg: A Documentary – new film about first upgraded human asks whether we should just because we can.
  • No no, the worst thing would be having a beer with Lofwyr and everything seems totally normal after.

    S-K is my favorite Corp to build stories around because it's so incredibly easy to make lore-aware players incredibly paranoid.

  • She thought the US constitution was read-only
  • Average lifespan was also seriously dragged down by child and infant mortality rates. Most historians and historical medical researchers agree that if you made it past 5 or so, you stood a decent chance of reaching your mid 70s.

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