1 km is about 15 minutes walk.

1 meter is about a step.

1 cm is about the thickness of a gusset on medium sized industrial machinery

1 kg is about 2 pints (or a little more than a quart)

20°C is comfortable for most people, 35+ is uncomfortably warm

Looking at a lot of downloaded first episodes of things.

TV show?

Cat post: Cat snuggled up to me last night as the little spoon and tucked his head under my chin and began purring. The dream of every cat person.

Then I posted it this vignette to the news mega presumably between ukraine and palestine stuff >.<

Gotta reduce speed so their tailgating distance is the appropriate gap

Not some sort of holy piss shield?

I feel like these names could slot into the mst3k chunk beefcake names, a joke I think the blog makes

I’d be certain there are other books in that genre.

One of my late mum’s cats has figured out how to wriggle the auto-food dispenser to dispense a couple of biscuits at a time. The other cat is more aggressive about food.

I’m taking notes on division of labour here.

Damn, you’re killing it

This is an indicator of severe dopamine deficit. Maybe try with a few more games

Did you type this yourself or did you use grokkk?

Someone asked about “why did capitalism develop in Europe instead of China” last week, and I have a little bit more of a partial answer.

Europe had a frontier (the Americas) where nascent capitalists could rest, recuperate, and build wealth and power away from the prying eyes of the traditional aristocracy. If you compare any equivalent frontiers for China or India, the frontier was not as friendly (or didn’t exist; there were simply other empires there). So our hypothetical Chinese 15th century capitalist cannot accrue power outside of the traditional powers in China.

You can even sorta see this today, in places like Israel where unethical practices (even beyond killing Palestinians) can be tested and tried out. Even outside of Israel, the “capitalist” innovations of greater exploitation happen in countries that do not have established power structures that can or would stand up to capitalists. Being able to flit between countries in order to avoid scrutiny is one of capitalists greater strengths as, say, a labour movement in the UK gets powerful enough to challenge hegemony (to say nothing of labour aristocracy). This is especially compared to previous aristocratic power structures, which tend to be local and disempowered if they flee to another country.

Like I said, this is only a partial explanation, but one that ties colonialism and capitalism together and explains why it happened in Europe rather than China (though it does raise the question of why hypothetical capitalists in China didn’t do the same colonialism in the Americas or SEA, perhaps those hypothetical capitalists couldn’t exist for other reasons).

Filing notice to quit my job today. I’m all burned out

I’m old enough to remember when using computers daily went from a dorky interest to something the cool kids were doing (MySpace etc). Obviously, how the two groups approached computers was quite different. Even how they approached social spaces on the internet.

Idk, haven’t thought about it much but I remember being pretty depleted about being interested back then. The things I was learning with basic coding and stuff could now be done in a couple of clicks, the resources were now more scarce, and the space became filled with money-people interested in promoting their brand

Thinking on it, the first three episodes of S02 of Andor felt kinda aimless. They had a point to make, but they felt more cartoony and less related to the rest of the show than most other episodes. What’s up with that?

My stomach twisted a little reading this

I could go for a regular beer

Only really just started to notice I’m doing it constantly. Not much luck or strategy so far

I dissociate and fawn pretty much constantly in most social situations. I do not feel in control. What most people know me as is a bunch of trauma responses. I feel like I’m watching myself have conversations and making “decisions” from another room.

It took me a long time to admit this to myself.