[ExI] Summer weather and COVID-19

[SR Ballard]

Because then you have absolutely no privacy from your employer and all your personal business can be monitored and tracked by your employer in the name of “building security”. 

Certainly people might want to live away from work, ensuring their ability to say “no” to extra shifts, or not get a door knock from their boss when they say they are ill.

SR Ballard

> On May 23, 2020, at 1:32 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Rather than cars, I think of food.  Already existing in places are highrise buildings where produce is grown under sun and artificial light.  Why not combine the building with apartments for the workers there?  Why not build places where you just walk across the hall to go to work?  Support staff will live in basements, which can be several stories deep.  Solves many problems such as transportation to work.  Ban private vehicles - use all public buses and trains.  I am quite sure that I did not steal these ideas from anyone and also sure that they are not unique.  bill w
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>> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 1:19 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> > On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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>> re Oakland and no reason to go there:  "There's no there there."  Gertrude Stein.
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>> I disagree!  There is a there there.  There is simultaneously too much there there and not enough there there.  If you mean with the term “there” the square meters of ground space there, then there is not enough there there.  If you use the term “there” to mean population, there is way too much there there.  If “there” means both, then there is simultaneously not enough there and too much there there.  Their need is for more there there or less there there, depending on how you use “there”.
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>> Oakland is too crowded.  San Francisco is worse.  Of course these are great places for a virus to move to and raise a big family.  Their problem is in having plenty of virus families there.
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>> As we struggle in our current predicament, do think of ways to salvage the big cities, to get proles in and out of that place safely.  I think there are ways to do it and save nearly all the current infrastructure.  The lithium battery has opened a lot of possibilities.  Think of a small personal vehicle, battery powered, which completely encloses a prole, capable of guiding itself onto a train.  Think of something that would take up no more space than a wheelchair.  It doesn’t need to go fast (top speed of about 15 km/hr is plenty (for people on foot that is a practical cruising speed.))
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