The crowd takes are my favourite part.

From where I’m standing, we don’t disagree about anything except for the power of the word “should”.

You’re right, so much about our world revolves around how cheaply we can put…fucking…smoke into the air. It’s maddening, but you’re right.

I don’t know if oil will get cheaper though, do you think it will?

Yeah but hear me out: using these tools also has an element of deskilling and what early research is calling “cognitive surrender”. There’s also a hazard of cognitive self-harm in willingly using them in place of thinking. When your boss slop-bombs you, try actually reading it and then talking to them in person. See if they even know what they said, they might get scared straight.

That might be a viable defense in one scenario, but as a global approach in the context of everything currently happening, it feels more like a “tools of the enemy” issue. Like combating misinformation with more misinformation, it will backfire sooner or later. And it profits the broligrarchy the whole time you’re doing it.

It does feel like such a subtle but firm line, that divides people who just want things to work and not demand anything in return, and people who see computing and media as inherently political and worth investing energy into, and critically choosing what to use and what to avoid. How we bridge that gap and wake people up is, in my mind, a bigger problem than any single use case.

I realise that. I’m reading that energy densities will have to be around 800wh/kg for planes to rely entirely on battery power, but there are shorter distance planes already using battery power. With how quickly solid state batteries recharge, I don’t see why planes couldn’t just stop more often. It’s a small price to pay for zero emission flights.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t this be great for electric commercial flights?

There’s no way for me to judge myself by that yardstick and not want to [redacted] myself in the grawlix.

Have tried drinking too much, I gained two stone and slept like shit? Being hot and not cranky are really important to me, I’m finding

I should really drink less often, the calories aren’t worth it…

Nobody gets out alive; eat that jar of mayo

I do sets of twenty for most things and I do something similar; count to five, then ‘count’ around my teeth with my tongue, quadrant by quadrant. For the final set I count down from five. Hey, whatever works

That’s not really a hack so much as the basic behaviour on which all human success is predicated.

It’s a great hack, but it takes finesse to keep my mask on when I do it

Whose gold are you supposing was on the plane? Trump doesn’t pay anyone for anything.

The fact that he’s even acknowledging it is noteworthy. I bet Russia is running low on gold reserves, too.

I would prefer to agree with you, but humans in dire straits too rarely make smart long-term choices.

I mean, weird to keep arguing after I said I agreed for my own part. But I recognise others don’t think as we do.

Why do you seem to believe that after thousands of years people would suddenly not regard gold as precious? That belief deserves to be interrogated.

It’s not a cheap place to live, but I don’t need a car here so it’s kinda nice that way.