I swear by those tyres. After a near miss on an icy road when I was a teenager, I decided that I'm not spending another penny on modifications to accelerate faster and would instead put everything into being able to decelerate faster. These things do the job.
09.03.2025 21:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The weather has a magnificent impact on mood - I've been out in the garden most of the weekend and have fixed almost everything that has been annoying me all winter.
09.03.2025 18:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
*mandatory "but how can you know something is real if you can't see it" joke*
07.03.2025 02:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Or, put simply, resources are resources. They will collect and grow according to Pereto like anything else. There will always be people who accumulate economic power, and all that can be done is to reset the game and watch it happen all over again. To keep it level requires manipulation of the game.
06.03.2025 03:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Attempts at doing it with the economy resulted in bloodshed time and time again. Give someone the ability to decide who is and isn't worthy of economic participation by their own chosen metrics of the day and they will exploit it for ultimate power consolidation and economic manipulation.
06.03.2025 03:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
This is the curse of the left. If the right win, they band together. If the left win, they see it as an uncomfortable compromise. At least that's the case in the UK, and giving into it with Corbyn and his ilk left an open goal for the worst sequence of Conservative governments in British history.
06.03.2025 03:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
But it works. The numbers demonstrate that.
Sure, they could change it up at huge potential downside. They may get a president out of a left populist like Bernie or AoC, but the house and senate would be an open goal. You'd need a party-wide alignment for that, risking wiping out central support.
06.03.2025 03:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Weird time range.
19 of the last 30 years had a Democrat president.
63% success in a two horse race is hardly a near-continuous failure.
But if it isn't good enough, look at the Popular Vote, in which Hillary Clinton best Trump and Al Gore beat George W Bush.
But yeah, literal insanity.
06.03.2025 02:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
All I have seen on this platform in the last few days is people blaming the electorate, centrists, swing voters, republicans, media, education.
This is the first comment I've seen that hints that, just maybe, the fault is the party that didn't even bother trying to appeal to the electorate.
06.03.2025 01:49 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
> Keyboard switch between desktops
i3wm
> Less Mouse
i3wm
> Less neck turning
Turn your chair instead
> Cleaner context switching
If your context fits on one monitor, I envy you
> Consistent setup for office + travel
I use NixOS at home, Macbook when travelling. Consistency is boring.
05.03.2025 00:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Overall, Apple music is best for me. Just a shame that its recommendation system doesn't understand what a recommendation system is for. It isn't for telling you about things you've already been listening to that are unrelated to a playlist you're making. I don't see how that's useful to anyone.
03.03.2025 22:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Amazon Music had potential, too, but their Linux support is dreadful (can only stream on a browser, at a quality that can only be described as dogshit) and they kept removing songs from their database.
YouTube music isn't supported on Alexa.
03.03.2025 22:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Spotify had their algorithm down. It was great. It's just a shame their audio quality is bad and Spotify Connect is the worst implementation of anything since Thomas Midgley Jr invented leaded petrol, CFCs, and his own personal deathtrap.
03.03.2025 22:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I think where they're going wrong is that they think I, as a listener, am only going to be interested in one genre of music per day or something. The playlist can't just be a playlist of similar songs, it's got to add in whatever other shit I've been listening to as well.
03.03.2025 22:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
YouTube video by OlafurArnaldsVEVO
Γlafur Arnalds, Nanna - Particles (Island Songs VI) ft. Nanna BryndΓs HilmarsdΓ³ttir
Added Olafur Arnalds and Anna's Particles (WARNING IF YOU LISTEN TO IT YOU ACTUALLY MELT) and Apple Music decides maybe I should add some Oasis.
03.03.2025 22:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
YouTube video by Menke
Menke - Moln (Lyric Video)
Added Menke's Moln (LISTEN TO IT ITS EVEN MORE BEAUTIFL) and Apple recommends adding Yellow. YELLOW.
03.03.2025 22:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by SigridVEVO
Sigrid - Dynamite (Acoustic)
Added Sigrid's Dynamite (LISTEN TO IT IT IS BEAUTIFUL) and Apple Music recommends Politik. No no no no no.
03.03.2025 22:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
But when that was all over and the wife and kids were in bed, I decided to make a playlist of "beautiful Songs" for work, inspired by Spotify's Most Beautiful Songs In The World playlist circa 2018 when I listened to it a trillion times a day.
All it would recommend was Coldplay.
03.03.2025 22:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Over the weekend I was driving across the country, wife and kids in the car, so I played a good all-rounder for the trip: Coldplay. You know, the good era before Mylo Xyloto when they knew how to play instruments without flooding the EQ with atmospheric crap and doing bad collabs.
03.03.2025 22:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I just don't understand how Apple Music's recommendation algorithm is so bad, considering Apple's reputation for, you know, being pretty good with music.
03.03.2025 21:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
8 years, though none of it kicked off until I had the "head of" in my title, at which point it skyrocketed. The ones they phone/write to/send gifts to are specifically looking for people who might be able to sideskirt the traditional hiring pipeline, and who they might be able to sweet talk.
03.03.2025 19:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
When I was in fintech as head of engineering I had 5+ emails per day plus a couple of spam calls per week, handwritten letters to the office and, a couple of times, a letter to my home address (π‘)
This was still the case as of June 2024, when I went into quantum as an IC, and radio silence since.
03.03.2025 19:19 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Besides, you've already made it in the social media game.
A few weeks ago my nan sent me a link to one of your shorts on Facebook. My NAN.
02.03.2025 11:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Unsupported except by evidence from all large scale attempts. Surely there comes a point where enough blood is spilled and we decide enough is enough.
When that perspective is adopted, the hammer and sickle is revealed to be as grotesque as the swastika, Guevara imagery as distasteful as Skorzeny.
01.03.2025 12:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
There are two fundamental problems when debating communism.
One is that the general idea is (I believe) well-intentioned but naive. So one can't make an argument about bad faith.
The other is the claim that communism has never been done because it has never reached the impossible ideal.
01.03.2025 12:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
One was* a communist.
Fascism and communism are both unnatural states that require totalitarian control and punishment to keep people in line.
The difference: fascism doesn't pretend otherwise, Communism pretends it'll all be sunshine and rainbows. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
01.03.2025 09:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A funny flowchart for preventing carpal tunnel syndrome. The "NO" path shows an incorrect posture with slouched shoulders and bent wrists at a computer leading to more pain. The "YES" path humorously suggests "Running into woods. Never to be seen again" as a solution.
Just hit escape
01.03.2025 04:09 β π 309 π 47 π¬ 1 π 2
If at first you don't succeed, you're not a budgie.
28.02.2025 19:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This place really needs a way to mute reposts from various accounts.
You know, the ones that post great content about [cool topic you're interested in], but repost [weird topic that you're highly disinterested in] at 50x the rate.
27.02.2025 22:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
If there's another line of traffic heading right towards you and beeping their horns, you're definitely in the wrong lane.
27.02.2025 01:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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