My guy Zo

No one deserves anything in the state of nature, everything just is what it is.

Desert regards The Social Contract. The contract says we mutually agree to behave respectfully towards eachother, to honor eachother’s right to exist and persist in the world. When a person fails to abide by the contract, they aren’t covered by it either. A person who hoards resources beyond what they can possibly use is not covered by the contract and deserves no protection under it.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Some days all I do is watch the sky

The research on it is pretty murky because marketing firms frequently fund research studies but if you poke around at some of the many meta-analysis papers out there I think it’s hard to conclude that advertising is a net profit for big companies, at least in a dollars in dollars out sense. Freakonomics did an interesting episode on the topic in 2020.

For a new brand with zero visibility I’m sure ads gain new customers, but established brands (which make up most of the advertising I see) probably aren’t making much of an impact on their sales with their incessant campaigns.

Ads make me especially mad because there’s reasonable evidence to suggest they aren’t effective at increasing sales so the whole thing feels like a scam to waste everyone’s time and money

Learning to make workplace smalltalk will make work easier and more pleasant. You can learn to deflect away from topics that are super boring to you and you can develop an “I’m super busy” persona for times when you need to focus.

Glad they canceled the program when parents said something.

AFAIK most clients don’t automatically tag posts as any language, so almost everything is lumped under undetermined. When I post from voyager I don’t have an option to select the language.

Some former software like kbin automatically tagged language and added hashtags automatically to make posts discoverable by microblog fedi communities. Maybe mbin or piefed are currently using that capability?

But I think the short answer is that the language feature isn’t very practically useful right now, but might be in the future as features are built out/expanded.

Things like good public education make society more pleasant to live in for everyone including greedy opportunists and their families.

Same with balancing resource extraction against environmental stability.

What billionaires are doing seems totally illogical and self destructive even from a greed perspective.

Even if we assume they’re thinking they can escape on a space ark it makes no sense to want to live in the cold, harsh, hostile environment of a space instead of on the one planet that we can naturally breathe on that also happens to grow delicious things and stuff.

From no perspectives can this be a smart move, I refuse to believe it!

I just use a spreadsheet currently. No fancy template or anything basically just a monthly expenditures list into a few categories.

I used/liked Goodbudget (an app based simulation of an ‘envelope system’) for a while. I think it was especially helpful for developing budgets across moves if that makes sense. Not sure what their free features look like nowadays but before you could share it between people so your whole household could see how much was available in the “groceries” ‘envelope’ for example and move money from another ‘envelope’ if they needed more.

I think AI is in a similar place as GMOs were 10 years ago. The technology isn’t inherently problematic but the main companies rolling it out seem to be doing so during a banner drop where the banner screams “I’m evil and I intend to burn this place to the ground.” We shouldn’t trust them because they’re practically telling us not to in the same breath they use to promote their products. I would say most of the main models available to the public fall under this boat.

Just like GMOs this doesn’t mean that there’s not some cool AI research being done, for ex. special models run by researchers to improve diagnostics or look for new antibiotics. It remains to be seen whether the cool stuff will have been worth whatever it is we lose.

I’m always afraid to repot

In such an unassuming little pot! Look at it go!

I grew up somewhere where it didn’t cool down a lot at night and the only solution was to sleep in front of a fan. Sometimes I could get the fan to blow directly into the sheets and sort of balloon them out which was pleasant.

Where I live now it cools at night so I can open the windows at night and close them up during the day. Sometimes I close the curtains too if it will be extreme. I open the windows and create a cross draft when it cools down.

Those ice/fan pseudo a/c setups don’t work well.

My glass shower doors hang like this, maybe looking for shower related kits turns up something new? If you have a glass shop who do custom glass stuff (windows, aquariums etc) you might inquire there about the hardware.

I know a couple where the guy is quite a lot older and less attractive than the girl and guys will legit regularly confront the girl at the bar or at concerts and stuff being like “why are you with this guy” visibly upset

Ohh I should order some replicas for my key collection

Agreed, she somehow used her hip bone to pivot or something? I thought she was going to go head first but try to hook her foot over the window to ease down

I agree, it’s basically an extension of finders keepers that if you lose something it isn’t yours

Note to self: figure out which of my friends have bolt cutters