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I remember my eyesight was 20/20 all my life until I started playing more and more with phones and tablets, now I can barely see any font in a regular browser tab at 100% zoom so I set it to 150% by default.

One thing that changed for good is using a 50" TV as monitor connected to my mac mini at 4' distance from my chair. Now my eyes don't cross anymore and my sight has improved a lot.

So yes, I concur that looking at clouds and the horizon everyday may be a good way to recalibrate our eyes. Spend more time outdoors.

[edit] Oh, and whenever I can, I cast my phone to my tv in the bedroom so I don't spend countless hours on tiktok forcing my eyes. I wish tiktok and instagram were available in landscape mode.

A macbook air at $999 is always more attractive than one at 1000, 1015 or 1021. After taxes sure it will go over 1000 but usually when we're browsing for prices first impression always matter

I live in a tropical zone over 100F year round and use shade cloth to keep grass and plants green. Wonder if that could be used to cover big areas in the desert?

I use Brave, never seen an ad in ages

To expand a bit more, energy is the fuel of civilization, since we won't have oil at surface level and solar won't be possible without panels, we should concentrate in generating hydroelectric power from rivers that will still be there. With unlimited power everything else is just as easy to rebuild.

Ten years

Water wheels for a start, then dams, hydroelectric power and industrial revolution around the corner in just a year. Then ethanol/corn fueled engines and we'll be sailing/flying in no time. Trains will go electric right away instead of steam/diesel/gas. A small country with smart people and good leadership would easily build the first computer and nuclear bomb in less than a decade. From there, world domination.

It was never a nice idea, but there is nothing better for the moment

On the Android side of the fence, Xiaomi car looks nice:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/this-is-xiaomis-first-elec...

Things fly because of thrust, not wings. Rockets, missiles, don't have wings and yet they still fly even longer distances. Shut the engines of a 747 and it will fall like a rock, no matter how perfect the airfoils.

Bernoulli and Coanda are important but without thrust/velocity there is no lift

I do the same grouped by week with some personal markup like:

  FEB 18
  - todo
  x done
  ! important
  ? optional
  
  FEB 11
  - todo
  x done
  ! important
  ? optional

Curiosity, we waste time learning a thousand useless 'shiny' things at the same time, then we apply all we learnt solving problems easily

It is not absurd. It depends on the type of beings at play. Plants don't kill each other, but animals do on a daily basis, from whales to mosquitoes, they're all part of a macabre annihilation dance where strength, intelligence and mimetism play important roles.

Through different eras, men have traveled long distances to kill, subjugate, enslave other people, and to consume everything that can be consumed, we won't change if we start going to the outer space. Being the most advanced species on earth doesn't make us different, as spiders, fish, birds, wolves, anything that moves is determined to kill or be killed, so it's not only a human trait.

Is it a dark forest? We don't know, it may just be an open battleground where intelligence is the final conqueror and that's exactly what rides on top of the arrow of evolution.