I don’t know what the projections are but seems like populations are growing/stable

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3/2024-12/2023-sar-blue-whale-enp.pdf

Stilsuits: get it for the unbearable heat as we turn the Earth into a desert, now with wifi blocking!

I thought we were going with musicians and actors for asking public figures about geopolitical events they are neither experts in nor qualified to address

Yeah they’re not going for productivity, they’re an AI company. They just want the appearance of it to juice up their valuation or to stroke an executive’s ego.

That’s ok, they can promise more with no intention of ever paying it because there’s a special privileged ‘preferred’ stock that the bigger investors and executives get that’s prioritized for sales and dividends before anyone else’s.

‘Almost all’ makes me wonder about what the other ones are

If you demonstrate you’re willing to murder civilians and kids to accomplish your political goals don’t be surprised when someone does the same to you.

Taxes are the prerogative of Congress not executive. This is a continuation of decades of usurping power from the legislative to centralizing under executive that illustrates why both US political parties entail right wing politics.

I find cultivating some creative outlet and hobbies provides a resilience against my desire to ride the hype on the latest thing/tech/game/book/etc. Also using lists, waiting for sales, and spending more money where I spend most of my time.

Looks like someone wrote a pretty recent dissertation on the subject

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=nl&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=effect+of+wealth+on+greed+and+paranoia#d=gs_qabs&t=1753212816532&u=%23p%3DVAPTZ3dcNJQJ

The Downside of Wealth: Toward a Psychopathology of Money Accumulation, Noah Laracy. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2017

For a summary of a summary wealthy people have better health and quality of life, which shouldn’t surprise anyone due to the food, housing, access to healthcare, etc security money buys currently, and when controlling for age (comparing like aged individuals instead of only looking at wealth) paranoia increases with wealth.

Full text https://www.proquest.com/openview/4e788e9e34bca1073784da0d0c99705e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750

Nethack is a command line classic

Are they still considered professional doctors if they are willing to do harm to their patients by ignoring the latest scientific research on patient care because it makes them feel icky?

https://apnews.com/article/sex-abuse-catholic-church-mormon-5d78129a2fe666159a22ce71323f6da3

Multiple religious organizations established abuse hotlines, which publicly appears to be an effort to address the higher than average child SA criminals within their clergy/employees.

But they are actually getting used to establish a loophole so if they report it to clergy using the hotline they want to use religious protected speech (like confession), or if they report it to a lawyer they want it to be attorney client privilege speech. Then they always have a clergy or lawyer answer the hotline and never report the crime to anyone outside their organization ignoring local laws.

I like to keep all my eggs in one basket, that way you can really keep an eye on them.

Lumberjacking in Antarctica 10 out of 10. It’s tough because there aren’t any trees to practice on.

I’m still feeling that part out since it’s only been about a week, a full charge can last me multiple days (5100mAh) and the battery in my pixel 5 (4080mAh) was pretty run down.

Fully charged 25.5hr ago & pretty heavy use yesterday and I’m at 63%, the 5 would have been twice dead by now.

Yes, and it comes with very few by default as well

No restart needed, pull down twice and the switcher is on the bottom right. Usually takes just a couple seconds to switch.

What are the consequences of violating the rules to push a vote through? The rules, like laws, don’t mean anything if your don’t enforce them.

So far it’s been good for about a week. Highlights have been the easy install, secure by default but lets me override when I want (block app network access on install is awesome), and getting access to the other app repos than Google’s I haven’t seen since I installed dirty unicorns years ago. I setup multiple users so I can keep my primary like a root which was also simple to do.

Only complaints I have are when I get messages on another user than primary I can see the messages in the app but not the message content in the notification, its just a generic alert message like new messages received. Nice to have but not going to make me switch back. And the keyboard doesn’t have swipe typing so I use gboard with network access turned off.

Also I did install the Google app store to get a couple paid apps and calendar/contacts I need to move out of Google. It does sandbox by default which is really cool and i think should be required for phone manufacturers. I just disabled services/store/calendar access to the network after I let it download everything.

Edit: also not a OS thing but I tried switching VPN to orbot/tor at the same time and it is still really unreliable for that use with the way so many sites try to sniff out your location

It’s almost like the organization itself is designed to make things worse if it means short term profits, useful and appreciated apps sacrificed at the altar of line must go up

My pixel 5 recently broke and the only reason I went with a pixel 9a was to install grapheneOS on it as soon as I got it. The process has become way easier than it used to be. After setting up/skipping all the first run screens I plugged it into another Android device and used the grapheneOS site to run the install, took like 15 min.