The genetic dynasty is one of the main reasons I didn’t watch the show

If you mean a complete absence of the electromagnetic force, then chemistry and physics are going to get very disastrous for us very quickly

I mean, superpowers are already supernatural, so I don’t want to assume that all the rules of physics apply

My boy just forgot blind people exist and can function their bodies

I’ve been summoned

I don’t think I have a single clear memory of any news story ever. I have vague half-remembered snippets.

The best I can do is 9/11 but I was well into my teens at that point, and even then my memory of the news itself isn’t clear.

I remember what my local news anchor looked like. That’s absolute it.

It absolutely has 6 floors, and counting as the Americans do with ground floor being floor 1, then the top floor would be floor 6.

I can’t find good photos so I’m using Google Earth, but I kinda agree with OP, I find 16 quai de bondy bears more resemblance than 6 rue burdeau, even accounting for foreground. Rue burdeau is way too close to those points of interest.

But as you said, it’s all inspiration anyways. Interesting that there’d still be some identifiable landmarks in the background if the foreground is all just kinda made up.

True, but I also think that my exact answer likely generalizes to most situations where institutions are capitalizing on the suffering of people.

IMO this post isn’t about the willingness for people to help each other in times of need, it’s about the willingness (and ability) for the community to organize a defense against institutions that are using the situation to exploit the community.

Did the banks go out roaming the streets helping people?

I don’t question if communities would band together, I question if a community banding together could still pose enough of a threat to a bank or auction to pressure such a sale.
What are a bunch of broke farmers going to do to prevent a foreign REIT from buying the property in an online auction?

Why would that make banks less likely to take foreign money instead of more likely to take foreign money?

It absolutely could not happen again, regardless of how organized the community was, because banks simply wouldn’t sell the foreclosed property in an auction of community peers if they weren’t getting good money for it, they’d auction it to REITs and corporations without them needing to set foot in an auction house.

It’s not unholy, it’s just less holy. There is still one hole.

Wrong.
It’s called swamp water, and as kids we loved it. Mixem all up!

I’m not sure how you measure if bait was successful, but it is indeed a sad state of affairs

That was a bit of hyperbole on my part.

The baby has hands, the hands are on the floor, the hands are soon to be in the baby’s mouth. That’s what I was getting at. When a baby is on the floor, floor dirt will be getting in the baby’s mouth.

As in go play outside, and be with friends.
Not as in put your face on the arcade floor.

Right?

My concern is the cleanliness of that patch of floor though.

I’m currently in the middle of switching.

I’m using immich, running on a raspberry Pi, saving to my NAS mounted as a network drive. I access it remotely via a CloudFlare tunnel.

However CloudFlare doesn’t like serving video for free, so I’ma move to a VPS running pangolin and a few other security tools.

I also plan to find a better off-site disaster recovery backup solution for my NAS. Maybe AWS glacier, or maybe another NAS at my parents connected via tailscale, where I can send periodic full backups.

That’s by design. It’s why regulations that give power to workers never pass, because it’s actually let emplyees apply pressure on their employees to be ethical, and employers don’t want that

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism type shit.
There are no companies where I agree with their ethics, but I gotta work. From there it’s just a matter of shades of gray, rather than a dichotomy; there is no clear line. You just gotta do the best you can. Make the best choices available to you.