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I can tell you to keep a go bag, and as I type this I can think about how p-cord could save your life with the right knots, since so many people have survived floods by clinging to trees and chimneys. I can tell you that life preservers are cheap as hell and worth having in your house.

In honor of this glorious holiday weekend, to pay my respects to the innermost heart of this great nation, it’s about cars, or more exactly, driving.

Territoire Numérique Ouvert: Para não ficar dependente de soluções proprietárias, Lyon desenvolveu o Territoire Numérique Ouvert (TNO), uma plataforma colaborativa baseada em software livre. O projeto, criado em parceria com a Métropole de Lyon e o SITIV, já está sendo usado por milhares de funcionários públicos em várias cidades francesas.

Wealth above, and death below: in recent history this arrangement has proven to be remarkably tolerable. Everyone of course is aware that ever more people are immiserated and discarded, that ever more of the Earth is destroyed. But for the better off, the very worst is kept at a very comfortable distance, and life more or less maintains its rhythms.