About a million people.

News about my city. TTRPGs. Home repair.

I’ve tried to kick up conversation in appropriate communities here, but I don’t get comments.

Memes, clearly.

I think it worked so well because they’d spent two or three seasons not doing that.

Planet Money did a really interesting episode on money in Gaza. Basically, bank branches don’t really exist, and physical paper money is really hard to come by, so getting money into Gaza is really hard.

Any money you donate would need to get past various embargoes to get to a Palestinian bank, then be passed to a person who can’t really access it.

There are multiple factions. Some of us are happy to pay the people who produce the stuff we enjoy.

gboard. Swipe typing is great. I’d love an open source alternative that doesn’t involve manually copying stuff around.

Moen? I’ve replaced the showerheads in pretty much every place I’ve lived with Moen wands and they’ve been fine. I don’t recommend the magnetic attachment, but the rest are fine.

My grandmother got cochlear implants for both ears after she became unable to hear. She loved that she was able to talk to people again. She said that listening to music wasn’t as good as she remembered, but it was better than what she had. I don’t think the garbling sound ever disappeared.

Do what feels right. If you don’t get it now, you can always get it later.

I feel like this is the best approach. An ally is an ally. If they have weird, socially unacceptable, or poorly thought out ideas, but they

1. aren’t acting on them,
2. don’t promote them,
3. still act in good faith on issues we have in common,

then they’re fine for the stuff we care about. The right has built a big tent because they understand this. We’re only holding ourselves back by subjecting each other to purity tests.

As always, there are limits, but generally we need to build more coalitions.

What? Taiwan doesn’t want to give up its only strategic advantage? I’m shocked.

/uj

I’m curious how long it would take to build the supply chains and fabs to make the 50% things a reality.

Your nose yearns for the mines.

I feel a little relieved to stop using it, tbh. Every time I read the label, I couldn’t help but think it must be bad. I’ve found that Head and Shoulders is enough to keep flakes in check (it wasn’t before the T-Gel), so I’m just worrying about that now. 😂

Most of the front page was variations on that statement immediately after the shooting.

I have. I’ve provided links to my instance and gotten upvotes. 🤷‍♂️

T-Gel is no longer available in Canada possibly elsewhere. Apparently there’s a lawsuit.

The Wired story says the same thing but with more context and less “trust me, bro”.

They are both interesting reads.

Everything that dude says passes the sniff test: it seems like it could be explained as a run of the mill criminal spamming operation. The Secret Service story doesn’t offer evidence that there’s anyone extraordinary about it.

FWIW the dude also makes a number of unsupported statements that seem to be “trust me bro, I’m a hacker”. The statements aren’t outlandish, so maybe.

but agreed, the name is not informative

From the wikipedia link:

Marshall Rosenberg … explains that the name was chosen to connect his work to the word “nonviolence” that was used by the peace movement, thus showing the ambition to create peace on the planet. Meanwhile, Marshall did not like that name since it described what NVC is not, rather than what NVC is. In fact, this goes against an important principle in the fourth component of NVC, i.e. requests. Specifically, in an NVC request, one should ask for what one does want, not what one doesn’t want. Because of this, a number of alternative names have become common, most importantly giraffe language, compassionate communication or collaborative communication.

Ironic, indeed. It looks like it got that name from what Rosenberg was doing at the time, rather than an attribute of the system itself.

I really like the system. Knowing that it was part of a utopian counter-culture nonviolent peace movement makes it even better.