Trying to avoid YouTube (I hate that my phone chaged the case from lowercase on its own) is hard.

The watch here option is still a YouTube stream, it just doesn’t open it in the YouTube app or open YouTube in the browser.

You can up your trifecta to a quadrella if you also do Crossfit.

15 minutes to charge is more than road-trippable. Start the charger, stretch, go to the bathroom, get a drink, reply to messages you’ve gotten and didn’t respond to because you were driving and you are responsible, and it’s been more than 15 minutes!

… why should the investors get their money back? They invested ludicrous amounts of money into a technology with obvious limitations from the start with the intention of using that technology to replace many people’s jobs. Losing that money will be a better lesson than some probably unenforceable “pact”.

Every 288 days the clock gaining 5 minutes a day will be right again for a moment.

The idiom refers to a clock who’s hands don’t move at all, I hadn’t thought about how it would apply to a running but inaccurate clock.

A clock that either gains or looses time will actually have its moment of correctness more often the more time it gains or loses.

This train of thought didn’t help my insomnia, but it was interesting, thanks, lol.

You…buy a book and then throw it away after you read it? Anyone does that?

Yeah… as amazing as full dive VR would be, I’d be afraid that weaponized would be a better term for how it would be implemented than enshitified.

Umart sounds like Best Buy in the US. Fuck Best Buy.

That’s assuming they didn’t have AI write it. No brain engagement either way I suppose.

I haven’t watched this yet, but I’m familiar with his channel. He typically pulls in info from a few different sources (often studies, which he does cite) and talks about them. Pretty worthwhile.

For the parents. I feel bad for the kids.

I agree they got out maneuvered, but I think that was more the result of ignoring certain serious issues rather than not moving fast enough on things they did. It wouldnt have mattered how quickly they implemented new programs then, they would be canceled now. I think it was a strategic/ideologic issue, not one of pace.

I’m glad for anyone in a position of power to not be thinking quarter to quarter. It leads to decisions that are obviously stupid when looked at as even a 2 year time frame, let alone 5 or 10.

Yes, faster progress would also be nice, but we need more forward thinking basically everywhere, far too many things get decided on a “what is most helpful/profitable/looks-good-on-the-books this quarter” basis.

There is definitely an element of Tribalism. But in my experience you have to maneuver to avoid cars coming into your space more often on a bike or motorcycle than you do in a car. Not that it is constant, but it’s a one or two times a week vs a couple times a month in a car. You’re just less visible since you’re so much smaller. Not that loud exhaust is a good fix, haha.

Legally it is Florida, so I won’t try to convince you otherwise. Culturally though, the Florida Keys are pretty distinct from the mainland. Nice place, except for all the usual high tourism island pitfalls, but they are alleviated considerably since there is a bridge.

I think it’s a truck for regulatory reasons. Trucks get a pass on a bunch of things that can be a regulatory issue for cars, because of course they do.

They are offering kits to make it a van or SUV. Still no coupe, but better than a truck for many purposes.

By the time most people start pumping gasoline, they are almost past the part of their lives they take many standardized tests in.

I hate it too, and yes the current layout is way better. I’ll try it, but I might try other browsers too. I hate that most times a ui for a phone is updated it reduces the number of functions presented, becoming simpler and cartoony. Sometimes a feature or setting you used previously takes longer to get to, sometimes it’s gone. (Not firefox for the features being gone entirely part, that I’ve noticed)

The chemical is capsaicin, and it’s a neurotoxin. That’s why with repeated exposure you can start to gain resistance.

Birds are less sensitive to capsaicin, which made having it around seeds beneficial for plants. Birds eat the seeds and then spread them after flying somewhere else, but mammals are deterred from eating the seeds and they are poor vectors for spread because most mammals that eat large amounts of vegetable matter have molar teeth that aid in breaking down small seeds for digestion.

Until a certain mammal decided they liked the burn, and deliberately spread those plants further than birds ever did.

My god. Somehow I hadn’t thought of doctors using LLMs to make decisions like that. But of course at least some do.