Most people in all of those stories just tried to live their lives. The story follows the few that didn’t.

In real life, even if there is a resistance, the connection between those that could join/assist and the general populace, is blocked by a constant surveillance and enforcement state. When groups start to form, they’re arrested because the act of organizing draws attention to them. Think of all the ‘terrorist’ groups you know. You know about them, because they organized. Which put a target on them. Which is also what ends most resistance groups.

This is the real reason the Black Panthers terrified Reagan.

Looks like my Ubuntu machine won’t be running Ubuntu for much longer.

That’s more what the Chinese are doing these days. Russia was pure centralized planning and control under an autocracy. The theory being that the central authority would be abolished once communism was achieved. Because everyone knows autocrats easily give up their absolute control of a country.

What you’re looking for is a portaband. A hand held tool you can put on a shelf so it doesn’t eat up space. Swapping blades lets you use them on wood too.

As for your miter saw, safe is kind of a relevant term. You can do it with the right blade. Personally I wouldn’t go past aluminum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_My_Destination

Humans and teleporting have a lot of difficult social problems.

Small wind is horrible, the efficiency of wind is entirely based on the swept area of the blades. At scale it’s great, but at household sizes it’s just not worth the cost. Turbines and windmills are a ‘Go big, or go home’ situation as far as being cost effective. Solar, even with batteries, is more cost effective for household or mobile sizes.

Just installed the Honeywell T9 yesterday. It integrates with Home assistant offline, and handles my heat pump stages. Pretty happy with it so far.

Comcast is why I’m not allowed to call the cable company any more.