I want AOC on the ticket.

Yes, I have done this several times for work. Digital nomad life that turned into starting a family that travels for work.

It’s difficult every time and sometimes you just have to admit that it isn’t going to work out in that country. Some countries have really strange attitudes or laws or systemic issues that you will not solve as an outsider. Sometimes people will just see you as a target or an opportunity for money and that’s never going to change.

Also looking back gives perspective; I had a difficult time in xxx country, but that was my first time overseas and I didn’t have quite a grasp of the language, and I was also unfairly comparing it to the USA. A decade later, I’ve been back a couple of times and now xxx is my favorite country. Five stages of grief and all. There’s more backstory but I can blend in a lot of countries.

Conversely, I went to some countries and saw how they are still very colonized from centuries of oppression. And then I go back to the USA sometimes and see the same mentality. Really shifts your perspective.

I was a child of a refugee so I always thought whatever complaints I had were nothing compared to what my parents went through. Also I had swastikas spray painted on my house when I was young so I never really fit in anywhere. Kind of keeps me going.

I feel more comfortable in some countries than my own home country. The USA has changed as much as I have over the past decade.

Finally, one semi-related point: I really, really learned to hate American missionaries. In every single country. They’re just the worst. I think they choose their countries and villages for some sort of confirmation bias to themselves that American Jesus is the best and only civilized way to live. They aren’t learning anything, just reinforcing their world view and not teaching anything useful. It’s just a way for middle aged white guys to get young girls from poor villages. They aren’t helping anything.

Thanks for being the only consistent player the past 2 seasons. We didn’t get All-Star Brodie but we got a tough as nails grit dude who inspired his teammates and played with more heart than anybody else.

This is inspiring, thanks. I wish there was more info about the high-protein diets these athletes take.

I’m spending about the equivalent to $600/mo USD just to get 195g of protein daily through vegan powders and vegan meal replacements. It’s expensive but it keeps the carbohydrates down (a medical necessity).

Where’s Andrew Yang?

#YangGang is a glimpse into the reality of the Democratic Party’s Asian American problem. (this isn’t the appropriate venue to actually discuss those issues; a quick Google search will quite contemporary results showing the trend).

Yang has moved on and created the “Forward Party” which is working to gain ballot access at the local level in a handful of States.

Nice looking phone, within my budget.

No word on the pwm rate though. I know the 12 and 12R had high frequency pwm dimming; hopefully NotebookCheck does a review of this phone.

If we continue this trajectory, here are a lot of highly populated and productive urban economic centers that read:

“Future climate for this location is expected to be unlike anything currently found anywhere on Earth, so there are no climate matches for this location.”

These are the most densely populated cities on earth. In the most peaceful 2080 scenario, all that you (or your descendants) would have to worry about in Scotland is that suddenly all these people would be on your doorstep, overburdening your supply chains, disrupting the job market and driving prices relentlessly upward because Scotland suddenly has very temperate weather and everybody wants to be there. Congrats, enjoy the new traffic and strained healthcare system.

In the most realistic scenario, there’s endless war, death, and suffering globally as human migration on a scale we’ve never seen disrupts everything everywhere.

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Wonderful. There is a VinFast plant coming to the USA, near where my family lives. It is typically a rural conservative area so this could help with buy-in as it creates local jobs.

Separately, I love see Southeast Asian companies and tech spreading globally. When I was a kid I hated the smog and pollution. And of course the negative stereotype of being SEA was hurtful for many reasons.

But when I became an adult I had an epiphany that when the petrol engines are gone, the “dirty” cities will suddenly become paradise to live in. And if the developing countries adopt this tech faster, maybe there is a future where the image of SEA cities and technology and the Global South in general are viewed with more prestige.

Anyway, optimistic story, I hope this works out.

Sometimes I wonder if articles like this, displayed prominently at WaPo and CNN last night, are meant to paint all climate scientists and people who worry about the environment in a bad light, so that any discussion about the climate is tainted.

I can hear the Joe Rogan bros at work parroting, “Micro seconds per century hyuk hyuk” with no further thought. And then later complain about skyrocketing housing insurance, increased food prices from this year’s drought, and the record setting heat and AC bills, like they are three separate unrelated events.

Great program. Needs better pay and more funding. A pathway for future federal service and job experience for young adults.

I assume programs like this, that we need to grow and to give more funding, would be eliminated depending on the results of this election.

Also since the article kept giving me popups about registering for $1, I archived it here: https://archive.ph/MM8WG

I guess older would be old enough to remember Cliff Burton.

My Metallica bassist is Newsted. Which means I’m not young, not old.

People who only knew Trujillo are the young bucks.

I agree, but the synopsis relies too heavily on extreme outliers to make it’s case. Bill Gates was not a great programmer with a bit of luck. He was an ok programmer (IIRC, the only code we’ve ever seen from him is the QBasic game Nibbles) who was a nepo baby with family on the board at IBM where he got his first deal. This is the case for many other billionaires we are told to worship. Maybe they didn’t all come the billionaire class, but they had plenty of resources available, access to extracurricular education as kids, and these kids weren’t worried about their next meal growing up.

So just from the synopsis, there’s not really a strong case against meritocracy. The bamboo ceiling that discriminates against Asian Americans in the workforce, and other institutional racism prevents true meritocracy. We also have this fixation, and it probably comes from Western culture in general, that when an invention or a new product comes out, we highlight and celebrate one person and that person is the “pioneer” or “inventor” of the project. From Neil Armstrong to Steve Jobs to Elon Musk, the media and our history books ignore the bureaucracy and teamwork of tens of thousands of people needed to bring a project to success. Safety experts, engineers, janitors, food services, logistics, HVAC teams, all important part of the process. The media also tend to reward grifters like that guy who was supposedly the inventor of Firefox a few years ago, and allow the “cult of genius” to run too far in our narratives. It’s always the story of a single white guy with a good idea. Except in reality, it isn’t that at all.

Finally, the reward for being “lucky” or whatever is far too high compared to the threat of just being “not lucky.” A “lucky” person who worked hard and who is successful and never has to work again in their life and can afford to launch their kids in a way where they can live comfortable lives is one thing, I don’t have a problem with that.

But to be “lucky” to the point where you alone have more money than a majority of mankind combined is another. There should be upper limits to wealth, and these feedback cycles do a poor job at ensuring the reward for success is distributed evenly to everybody who took part. Meanwhile the person who is equally talented/important but not as “lucky” still has to worry about their next paycheck, food on the table, and medical bankruptcy from a diagnosis or accident.

Less billionaires. Less starving kids. Free healthcare and education. Thanks for sharing.

I saw this in a magazine and it was so cool looking. A few months later I got Linux on CD and never looked back. That 3D Motif/fvwm look was amazing.

Funny enough, my BIOS did not support booting from CD. I remember in DOS, I had to load MSCDEX from a floppy but I have no recollection on how I actually booted and installed Linux from CD.

Tetris

When it’s still green and hard.

Shred it, make papaya salad.This is what I spent a lot of my holidays doing as a kid.

https://www.saengskitchen.com/laorecipes/laopapayasalad

I never knew people let it get soft until I moved to South America. I didn’t even know the orange stuff was the same fruit.

Also, mangoes are best when still green and crunchy dipped in spicy powder.

This should be a national law.

It’s about as fast as a Haswell desktop, but a fraction of the power usage. It will run any modern OS.

$1/day after discounts and rebates. Right now that is in the Pixel / Nord range.