First I realized that I was reading the news for entertainment, not to actually get informed in any meaningful actionable way.

Then I started to doubt any headline that confirmed my biases. “Trump says terrible thing” boils down to a 3 second sound bite with zero context. “Trump voters regret voting for him” is a summary of 8 tweets taken off a recent trump post. “New study” has 23 participants.

In other words read the damn article. Things are bad, but not quite as relentlessly bad as social media would have you believe.

Also, I vote, I donate, I march. There’s not much else I can do, so what does all this “being informed” do me? Me being miserable doesn’t help anybody.

Second: stop consuming rage bait. 50% of Reddit is just videos of people being insane in public. It’d have you believing that we live in a warzone. We don’t. There is nothing to be gained from watching that shit.

Outside of that, picked up some video games and even started reading books again. Trying to deprogram the brainrot that makes it hard to concentrate on anything for more than 10 seconds.

Oh, and alcohol.

Fatly walking around corners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_heAvQ94Q

How would you cool the water to condense it?

Getting it to cool efficiently is actually a very interesting challenge. Certainly more challenging that I thought before watching this https://youtu.be/tmbZVmXyOXM

Well I mean the false ending

Portal

Yeah, it is frustrating that the license is tied to the physical disc. Especially when they won’t send you a replacement for a damaged disc.

I personally buy, rip, and keep the physical discs of my collection which is now well over 1,000 titles. It’s a lot of work, and takes up a lot of space, but it’s also a hobby I enjoy. I’d much prefer if I could just buy a license for the film and watch it or store it however I want.

You know, this might actually be a decent application for NFTs.

Eh. A few more steps to rip the content, but not bad really.

Now UHD Blu-ray is a different story. There are a limited number of drives that could do it before their firmware was patched.

That’s why I like to check if someone has already rooted a purpose-built gadget before buying.

My RabbitAI will make a nice little MP3 player when the company folds.

“Aptronym”

When someone’s name is fitting for their occupation.

Tiger Woods (like the gold club)

Usain Bolt (who bolts quickly)

Etc.

Also whatever this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

It’s remarkably well done considering the overall low budget feel. Corridor Crew did a breakdown.

https://youtu.be/ADr3r_mM5h4 @3:45

I remember the trailer I saw showing him dodging milk shot from a cow’s udder Matrix style. That did the trick for my 11y/o brain.

Yep. Legit didn’t know it was a musical. Walked out 10 minutes in.

Figured someone would do it better than me. Thanks for the correction

For those who just wanna know: cards at the time performed math on brightness values assuming a linear brightness scale when it should be logarithmic.

Rubik’s cube (cool fidget toy, not too hard to memorize the algorithm), learn Morse code, read free books on libby, diamond dots.

I envy you.

Frog Fractions

I wish this map weighted streets for density. Seattle is mostly NSEW as portrayed in the plot, but the downtown core famously has two competing grid systems.