Personal Infrastructure

We typically think of roads and bridges as infrastructure. So long as potholes are filled and bridges are safe, we take infrastructure for granted because our real goal is the journey, not the road. This is Public Infrastructure which also includes other large undertakings such as national defense, elections, power grids, etc. Less appreciated is Personal Infrastructure, everything we all need to set us up for our enjoyable and productive journeys through life. Our most important Personal infrastructure is health and education. Also are all the little tasks necessary to support our journey such as shopping, servicing cars, paying taxes, cleaning the house--endless.

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We assume government pays for public infrastructure from roads and bridges to national defense, with private financing for our capitalist development. Political disputes, however, rage over who pays for the basics of Personal Infrastructure, individual health and education.

by PPpdddddddcc February 8, 2020

Infrastructure

No matter what people say about infrastructure, aging or new, what they don't tell you is that there's not a whole lot for a city to do about a storm besides what it has always done, ride it out, then clean up afterward. Lives will be lost, nobody likes it, but it still happens anyway as it always has. Damage will be expensive to clean up after a large storm, that hasn't ever changed and it's not going to. Storms can hit just about anywhere along the coast to inland, that hasn't changed, and it's not going to. People still don't seem to get how arrogant it is that they will beat nature the next time by being as prepared or more prepared than nature. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to try and compete with nature, or test nature, because nature will run everybody over, and that's not a win win for anybody, because in reality, there is no such thing as a win win for everybody. If it sounds too good to be true, it is, because it isn't true.

Some of us are glad when nature shows humans they are not as in charge of everything as they think they are, and if there is one species that still doesn't get that after being shown over and over again, it is humans, not animals or any other species. Humans are the one species arrogant enough to think they will find a way to beat or outcompete nature, so it's beautiful when nature shows them otherwise. Infrastructure is resilent enough, regardless of age. New York is a resilient city filled with resilient people, it always has been, and if it tells the wildfire to go fuck itself, it will be the same city it always has been in no time without anybody missing the wildfire or losing sleep over it.

by The Original Agahnim September 3, 2021

Infrastructure

The bases of how government works in todays time. How the people in office use the Constitution to work for their needs in the world.

President Trump saw the infrastructure of the government different that other Presidents.

by Eye of the Tiger times 22 February 15, 2023

Infrastructure of Science

A metascientific framework that examines the material, institutional, and organizational foundations that make scientific knowledge production possible—the often-invisible systems, structures, and resources that scientists depend on but rarely think about. The infrastructure of science includes laboratories and equipment, libraries and databases, funding agencies and grant systems, journals and peer review, professional societies and conferences, universities and research institutes, training programs and career pipelines, communication networks and computing resources. It also includes the less tangible infrastructure: standards and protocols, classification systems, citation practices, reputational economies, and the social structures that enable collaboration and competition. Examining the infrastructure reveals that scientific knowledge doesn't emerge from individual genius alone but from complex systems that channel resources, enable work, and shape what's possible. Changes in infrastructure—a new funding mechanism, a new database, a new communication platform—can transform entire fields by changing what scientists can do.

Example: "Her infrastructure of science study traced how the development of online preprint servers transformed physics—not by changing how scientists thought, but by changing how quickly they could share results and get feedback. The infrastructure shaped the knowledge."

by Dumu The Void March 16, 2026

sexual infrastructure

The overall financial, social, commercial, and (sometimes) medical systems that support your pursuit of, and engagement in sexual activities.

Systems include, but are not limited to: ATM machines (for emergency 2:00 AM cash withdrawals), online hotel reservations, all-inclusive resorts, bottle service, taxis, your friend's place (because let's face it: yours is crappy), and your Mom.

Example framework -
Him: Hey sweetie, its been a while since we've insert sex-related activity here.

Her: Yeah, because you're a cheap-ass and we haven't leverage one or many supporting institutions from the sexual infrastructure in a while.

Concrete Example:
Him: Hey sweetie, its been a while since we've had a threesome with your secretary. What gives?

Her: Yeah, because you're a cheap-ass and we haven't taken a crazy Vegas weekend in over 5 years!

by Canadian Bacon 2011 May 23, 2011

zero infrastructured

A term used in Cyber Nations, an online nation simulation game. It means that a nation infrastructure level had been reduced to zero, or totally obliterated.

Can be used as ZI'ed or ZI'd.

Player one : That last war I got Zero Infrastructured.
Player two : Bad luck man.

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P1 : I'm gonna get ZI'd.
P2 : Relax, you can always rebuild.

by CN Player November 13, 2013

The Infrastricture

A conspiracy to restrict funding for the repair of roads and bridges seldom traveled by the privileged.

We'll never get our road paved; The Infrastricture wants more trees lining Main Street.

by Zappin' Nap January 5, 2019