The Velvet Lurker.

The standard in the US seems to be “People Of Color” is fine and “colored people” is a slur.

The NAACP retains its name for historic reasons.

This. The one time I bought a printer for home use it turned out to be possessed by evil spirits or something.

By contrast the enormous printer at work is a perfect angel and if it ever plays up, that’s between it and its servicers.

We are the Xenomorph generation.

It is.

Fortunately for me, I am not in your country to begin with.

But yes, having studied history I would always seek safety for my family from emerging totalitarian regimes.

It is more effective to fight totalitarianism when you are not physically under their control. An Allied soldier was more effective at fighting Nazis than an Auschwitz inmate.

Parents have a particular attachment to the safety of their own children.

That’s not a political statement, it’s just the reality of human nature. It’s also usually seen as ethical.

This is about half of it. The “winning” city Magnasanti (pop 6 million, city stands for 50 thousand years):

Technically, no one is leaving or coming into the city. Population growth is stagnant. Sims don’t need to travel long distances, because their workplace is just within walking distance. In fact they do not even need to leave their own block. Wherever they go it’s like going to the same place.

There are a lot of other problems in the city hidden under the illusion of order and greatness: Suffocating air pollution, high unemployment, no fire stations, schools, or hospitals, a regimented lifestyle – this is the price that these sims pay for living in the city with the highest population. It’s a sick and twisted goal to strive towards.

The ironic thing about it is the sims in Magnasanti tolerate it. They don’t rebel, or cause revolutions and social chaos. No one considers challenging the system by physical means since a hyper-efficient police state keeps them in line. They have all been successfully dumbed down, sickened with poor health, enslaved and mind-controlled just enough to keep this system going for thousands of years. 50,000 years to be exact. They are all imprisoned in space and time. – Vincent Ocasla, while explaining the reason why he wanted to create Magnasanti.

We live in a world where this building was signed off on and built, and that was before AI, so multiple incompetent people are getting through engineering.

As for incompetent doctors there is now an agency tasked with catching them.

We are indeed. Not looking forward to my old age, where doctors, accountants, and engineers cheated their way into being qualified by using a glorified autocorrect.

Your disbelief is strange.

People occasionally ask questions in lectures. Anything they are confused about gets covered off in tutorials later. Lecturers and tutors both have office hours where further questions are asked.

If a student has learning difficulties or special requirements there is pastoral care available for that.

It’s really not mysterious.

She has children. It’s interesting that if you thought a full on dictators/ death camp regime was coming (as she does) you would either abandon your children or put them in harm’s way, but judging other people for making a different choice does not make you seem all that righteous.

She has children. It’s interesting that if you thought a full on dictators/ death camp regime was coming (as she does) you would either abandon your children or put them in harm’s way, but judging other people for making a different choice does not make you seem all that righteous.

You sound naive. She studies dictators and she grew up in a neighbourhood of holocaust survivors. Teachers and their students are already being taken by ICE and it may become harder for targeted groups to find safety. This is not a question of “standing in a crowd”.

Speedrun to Idiocracy.

Thank you!

Thank you for this advice. I always contact emergency services immediately if I find someone who is having a serious health event.

However, I spend time in remote areas where emergency services are sometimes an hour away. There is not always mobile phone coverage but to date I have not found anyone in that situation and my longest wait has been half an hour in an urban location.

Neither are taught it

This is a little disappointing, because it sounds like if someone needed it they will not be given it by emergency services. I can only hope that rural responders are taught a little more.

Yikes. It was not meant to be advice. Sorry for not making that clearer. I have edited the original comment.

Thank you, this is the kind of reply I was hoping for. I would love more information.

So, if the person has completely stopped breathing, and ambulances are 20+ minutes away, should I limit my response to attempted CPR?

Is it your opinion even if they have been stung by a bee etc?

It’s telling that even his dream job (security contractor in DRC) is very corpse-adjacent.