Vast amounts of time on bandcamp?

being able to walk to your friends house?

I’ve seen some rural people say EVs are better because you can recharge them at home and not need to drive a bunch of miles to get to the nearest gas station. This gets even easier of they have solar.

I tested my US middle school student who, when forced to pick a country on this wikipedia blank world map, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/A_large_blank_world_map_with_oceans_marked_in_blue.PNG picked Ireland.

I did get it right, though uh thank you to reporting from ukraine for your news tied to map animations.

The “Justice” department has a search tool, though they might hide files again… https://www.justice.gov/epstein/search

I also saw some of the datasets on the torrent trackers and they’re tens of gigabytes.

Eeew…

I had a coworker who’s laptop started emitting smoke in a meeting. thankfully this was in the days when you could still remove batteries. That was a nice safety feature.

Yikes!

What brand was that garbage?

I’m curious why Chrome OS had such a big drop?

I remember one of the xmpp devs mentioning one reason the XEP-174 spec became less popular was there’s no good way to support OMEMO. This may or may not matter to you especially over a yggdrasil encrypted network, but it’s probably worth keeping in mind

try “flatpak remove --unused”

The transcription of D is wrong. It should be:

sed 's/\([a-zA-Z]\+\)/\n&\n/g; s/\n\(.\)\(.*\)\(.\)\n/\3\2\1/g; s/\n//g' file.txt

also D is correct, assuming file.txt contains a list of words one per line

Welcome to the software commune comrade!

For someone doing solitaire and mahjong, maybe try iagno (reversi), tetravex (tile layout puzzle), or minesweeper.

Being around too many antagonistic people is stressful.

“The impact of election stress: Is political anxiety harming your health?: Psychological science shows that politics can harm our physical and mental health, but the positive aspects of political engagement can lead to greater well-being”

“In polarized communities, they found that bonding ties, or bonds between people who are similar (in this case, politically similar), were linked with better physical and mental health (International Political Science Review, Vol. 75, No. 3, 2022). Bridging ties—connections with dissimilar people—were associated with worse overall health for people who were politically isolated.”

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/10/managing-political-stress

There’s a big difference between analyzing your enemy and letting them shout at you constantly. I can research conservative evangelicals attitudes without having to let one set up a loudspeaker next to my house.

The conservative troll types are also the ones most likely to try and argue about echo chambers because their style of rage farming doesn’t work if everyone avoids them.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/01/owning-the-libs-is-the-only-gop-platform/676692/

My guess is the music goes into the past, leaving echos in your memories.

I think it’s more fair to compare average income versus average life satisfaction. (using a scale of 1 to 10) (On this scale Finland is the happiest, and Afghanistan is the least happy)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness

Average satisfaction for Costa Rica (6.61) or Mexico (6.33) isn’t that much lower than the United States (6.89) at roughly 1/4th the GDP.

South Korea (5.95) doubles Mexico’s GDP ($45.5k vs $20.25k) but has a lower life satisfaction.

Or Hong Kong (5.31, $58k) is close the US ($64k) in GDP but less happy than Russia (5.66, $27.4k).

Costa Rica is at the 1.5t per capita probably safe emissions and has a life satisfaction of 6.61 compared to the US’s 6.89.

Our world in data also has life satisfaction versus CO2 emissions and central america looks to be doing fairly well for themselves. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-satisfaction-vs-co-emissions-per-capita

Most of the young adults in America currently can’t afford kids, housing, or cars.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1225957874/housing-unaffordable-for-record-half-all-u-s-renters-study-finds

The xz/ssh back door made it into Debian testing, So I felt I should wipe and reinstall.

Debian has had a rolling release for ages.

Take it up with men and current gender stereotypes.

“The research, conducted with three other colleagues, consisted of seven experiments involving more than 2,000 American and Chinese participants. We showed that there is a psychological link between eco-friendliness and perceptions of femininity. Due to this “green-feminine stereotype,” both men and women judged eco-friendly products, behaviors, and consumers as more feminine than their non-green counterparts. In one experiment, participants of both sexes described an individual who brought a reusable canvas bag to the grocery store as more feminine than someone who used a plastic bag—regardless of whether the shopper was a male or female. In another experiment, participants perceived themselves to be more feminine after recalling a time when they did something good versus bad for the environment.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/men-resist-green-behavior-as-unmanly/

It’s likely using nature is coded as masculine, while showing you care about nature is coded feminine.

There’s definitely the genetic component too, but the scents from soap is an interesting thing to test out.

And for what it’s worth some types of oil of lemon eucalyptus works reasonably well, if you don’t want to use DEET. https://www.consumerreports.org/health/insect-repellent/oil-of-lemon-eucalyptus-insect-repellents-a7989538414/

Some friends really like this stuff “Repel Lemon Eucalyptus Insect Repellent2 Pump” and consumer reports also thinks it works pretty well.