Cautionary Tales by Tim Harford.

Takes stories of errors, mistakes, catastrophes of the far and recent past and analyses the causes of them and what lessons can be learned. Everything from assigning success to personality over circumstance to the “curse of information” to what to do in a plane crash.

Interesting, insightful, exceptionally well written and presented, always interesting and entertaining.

If you’re at all interested in numbers and statistics, and even if you’re not but like hearing experts deconstruct the claims and lies made by politicians and business people, then I highly recommend More or Less also from the BBC.

Montserrat in the Caribbean. Visited multiple times as a kid after the volcano as I had family working there in regeneration projects. Beautiful place, beautiful people, wouldove to see it again as an adult and see how it’s changed now.

We went on a highly illegal and potentially dangerous trip (if the volcano went off again, by the time we heard it, it would be too late to escape) to see the old airport from where you can see directly up the volcano and the path the pyroclastic flow took and covered the terminal building which was half buried in the dust.

There were wild horses roaming and nature was already starting to reclaim the place so the intervening 30 years probably have accelerated that and I’d love to see it.

I will wait for torrent, if at all

https://github.com/graslu/1964GEPD/releases/tag/latest

You should play the Project64 GEPD project.

A customised emulator setup specifically to run Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark in 60fps, widescreen support, keyboard and mouse controls, support for HD texture packs.

https://github.com/graslu/1964GEPD/releases/tag/latest

IMHO it’s the definitive way to experience these games on modern hardware. I’ve tried running both on my steam deck and the controls just don’t translate well to a comfortable experience so prefer this.

They’re called ROMs, can’t give you links because that’s naughty but if you use your reputable search engine of choice for Gameboy ROMs you can find them pretty easily.

This cafe

I mean I try not to be a dick about spelling and grammar and stuff these days, but come on!

iamverysmart

You need to receive news from a broad variety of sources, not just those that agree with your viewpoint or have a particular agenda.

Al Jazeera obviously have a pro-Qatari but less so than Fox News for example or any billionaire owned newspaper/TV channel have biases.

Aggregate from all sides and the truth will be somewhere in the middle.

Human slaves! In an insect nation!

I think they just mean they weren’t very good at it

Factorio

LOL California has the 5th largest economy in the world, bigger than France, Italy, Brazil or India.

Pretty sure they can fix some minor property damage caused by some peaceful protestors and the National Guard.

I sing Sweet Child O Mine and Sweet Caroline with the other songs melodies. Confuses people nicely.

Any of the 6 million versions of Hallelujah except the original Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley.

I swear wannabe pop singers see it as some sort of rite of passage but they universally murder it either by trying to replicate on of those two and coming up painfully short or embellishing it with flourishes and superfluous variations.

It doesn’t make you look deep and thoughtful it just highlights what an average singer you are.

Bees are almost all female. The males’ job is to fertilise the queen’s eggs, have their penis explode and then die.

ELIZA, the first chatbot created in the 60s just used to parrot your response back to you:

I’m feeling depressed

Why do you think you’re feeling depressed

It was incredibly basic and the inventor Weizenbaum didn’t think it was particularly interesting but got his secretary to try it and she became addicted. So much so that she asked him to leave the room while she “talked” to it.

She knew it was just repeating what she said back to her in the form of a question but she formed a genuine emotional bond with it.

Now that they’re more sophisticated it really highlights how our idiot brains just want something to talk to whether we know it’s real or not doesn’t really matter.

Came here to suggests these two choices!

Almost as hard as the planet is getting fucked by the computers to make this absolute shite.