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It took me a minute too but on the fast you can see some blocky artifacting by the elbow and a few spots elsewhere like curtain upper left.

I say bing it just to go against the grain. There was a time when people thought twice upon hearing it but now most people inherently understand the phrase which is mildly amusing.

And when the cats get out of control introduce a bear? Or is it an alligator? ;)

Iodized salt use is decreasing in the US as well. I take a lot of supplements and vitamins and I rarely see iodine as an ingredient so I have placed iodized salt next to my sea salt as I know I do not get enough iodine rich foods in my diet. It's easy to forget about and while I may take things like St Johns and Turmeric daily, I can live without them, iodine not so much.

They did this strategy with stock, maybe they still do. You got a random share that could potentially be Microsoft or Apple or what not and you could earn more via successful referrals. I ended up getting some random pharmaceutical company whose name eludes me but it hovered around $5 the entire time I had it. I think it peaked at 8-9 once even, it was quite exciting for a neophyte like I was then.

I still have a physical subscription and I will say they do a good job offering content that you can read and it doesn't already feel terribly dated. Yes, often the topics are stuff you'll have browsed over in the last 30 days but the articles are still well written and worth a read (provided you haven't spent too much time on wired.com (I don't)). But the magazine feels so lite now, almost like a special physical edition of their website. The photo of Grimes on the cover recently was nice, maybe they could lean in a bit more on pictorial and photographic content, if it's days aren't already numbered.

For me Premium is worth it for ytmusic alone. I have discovered so much new music it's been a new personal golden age, like I'm in high school again. I think its due to at least in part its ability to integrate my many years of YouTube history and playlists. Now to be fair I have read others saying the exact opposite in terms of music discovery, all I know is I find a great new song or album at least once a week and that is something I could never say about Amazon, Tidal or Spotify.

I don't agree with that. It's at its root a cultural issue. People need a realignment of values so that being outside or amongst others is a better use of their time than the status quo. From that perhaps a rebalance of work and life will result but I don't think starting there would move the needle much.

Agreed. It never hurts to do a bit of research, we should seek to understand all that we hold to be true from the pages of history and perhaps spend a moment (or an evening) doing bit of reading on various topics. Trust but verify I suppose.

That would be great, I don't care for reddit results in my web searches to begin with. Lots of answers can be found in reddit, there is no denying that, but it's also likely one of the most manipulated sources of information on the web this side of Google itself.

I can't comment much on the information you've provided. The only philosophy I've really studied to any degree is aesthetics but a quick glance at a few of the pages was quite engaging. I will definitely be revisiting it later, thanks for sharing.

I recall reading about computational biology some years ago using cellular machinery and DNA to make programmable living (micro) machines.

They used to be much better, it's not your imagination. When I was a kid I read every issue of sciam and new scientist I could get my hands on and ya know maybe their magazine is still alright but nearly anytime I end on their website these days I regret it.

That's true but if we can work to make it 99 ways soon then we can aim for 98 ways next.

Testosterone and sperm counts have been decimated in modern times. Plus we are already seeing the vast majority of countries heading to births below replacement rate, yes even Africa. This could get deadly serious in terms of sustaining complex systems and ensuring resource production that can maintain relative comfort and security for everyone. I don't understand why this isn't a topic being vigorously discussed, even if it's not to fix things but even just to prepare for a shortage of new workers and tax payers.

I want the world to burn so that a better one can be reforged in the flames. Sadly, I fear there will be needless death on either path we take but I think there will be less suffering overall if we burn it down and rebuild it rather than staying on our current slow descent into dystopia.

They "protested" city bikes, scooters and ebikes a while back too. It was essentially a justification and excuse to destroy them in various ways.

On a good year I may take upwards of 10,000 images (~27.4/day). A roll of film basically but with digital cameras and an ever present phone in hand its easy to do even if relatively uncommon for most people. Still I enjoy using dalle and midjourney to experiment with photograph 'simulations' and how long does that take to spit out a handful? It's a whole lot quicker than it takes me to setup something at home or walk downtown to snap some frames. And that's just considering AI photos with human intent, automated image generation with AI (and video generation ramping up) is really gonna open the flood gates. The signal to noise ratio is only getting worse I'm afraid and I just hope work with real human intent whether it be AI, digital or film is not lost in the tempest.

I was actually quite curious about that and I found this.

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We're living in a golden age of burgeoning counter cultures. It's just never easy to see in the moment.

It looks like the anglosphere or Western world, however you want to frame it, seems to be moving in many troubling directions. It's hard to separate oneself from their moment in time and history and particular vantage point but it does seem we have a growing number of citizens willing (or apathetic enough) to sacrifice a whole bunch of liberty for some promises of security.

>If they actually believed the original argument that it was stealing, they should be happy that they stopped!

Simply beautifully put.

I'm pretty paranoid about battery fires. I store all my 18650s in vented metal ammo boxes, generally don't leave devices charging while I'm out of the house, etc, but I would hope (and I assume) something as large as a car battery would have a large safety margin built in.

I've been running WiGLE on my phones since 2013 or so and I have 2.1 million observations recorded, notably I don't run this 24/7. I'm just one guy with a phone and I wager I could sus out some interesting patterns from my neighborhood and city. I fully plan to as well, it's one of those back burner projects I keep plotting on. That said it really opened my eyes after they added Bluetooth support sometime ago. I can tell when particular nextdoor neighbors are home just by seeing their Galaxy Watch or earbuds in my network list. I can't even imagine what clever people could do with a continuous stream of wireless observations from thousands of points all recorded 24/7. It makes me feel naked in a way but I trust no one will bother to look my way and I go on with my life but I am at least aware of it. I wonder if normal people would care that corporations and the government can see their travels, patterns and habits and what can be potentially be surmised by such data.

Hackers (and SLC Punk) were my jams as a kid.

Fascinating, gives much food for thought. I wish I had more to add but just wanted to note I enjoyed reading that and being exposed to the concepts.

This but on eBay. Depending on hardware requirements there are some fantastic deals to be found compared to Amazon.

I use a mix of Google (built in Android search left in default configuration) and Brave Search (actual browser initiated search). Secondary phone uses Bing across the board. Each has its strengths those strengths are quite subtle and I really only prefer one to the other after hundreds of searches and getting a 'feel' for each. Bing and Brave seem to perform quite similarly in terms of results served yet I feel the design of Brave is more responsive. I'm rather impressed Brave built something as quick as they did as I have been using Bing for years and it took a long, long time before I felt it was good enough to ditch Google search entirely.