with the current weather situation, I HOPE there will be a massive rain- and thunderstorm over here.
the soil is so hard and dry, anything beyond a little spray of water will end in a flood like the Ahr valley. That would actually wash many of these people away…
Serial numbers
Every ATM knows which bill has been distributed to which card holder. Said number is recorded again once it’s brought back to a bank - plus the account it’s deposited to.
Sure, you can’t trace each bill immediately, but as one doesn’t deposit or withdraw a single bill at a time, a large pile of data is created. And, with said pile: Patterns and connections. The rest is just Business Intelligence and Big Data Analysis. But, in the end and with sufficient data, one can determine each and every probable connection you might have had and each place you contacted for a transaction. Even those that do their very best to stay offline - everything hidden in the big data spiderweb data fields.
Anonymity is an illusion. It’s just a matter of time, effort and reason to look into one’s details. Don’t give them reason to suspect anything and they won’t use these tools…yet
like humans, or example?
not really anymore. Soft coal - yeah, but the still highly required black coal is almost exclusively imported.
it’s always been. Same goes with coal and “natural” gas.
Oddly, all those right-wingers argue we’re dependent on imports electricity-wise, but NOBODY EVER mentions our TOTAL dependence on oil, coal and gas imports.
that’s exactly what I’m talking about.
A single freak-weather event is a tragedy. But if it happens again and again, people maybe start to see a pattern and listen to reason again. That way we can enable them to FINALLY do the stuff that make a change.
Sadly, most humans don’t learn from reason or logic. It takes pain and suffering of some kind for them to embrace real change. Be it monetary pain or actual loss of anything they can feel. Yeah, I wish there was an easier and less impactful way, but from what I learned - that’s idealistic dreaming.