Fall of Civilizations

History with Cy

Historia Civilis

History Time (check out this one on the Amazon)

The Entire History of the Earth (super interesting and atmospheric broad geological history playlist)

The heavy weed smokers I know are all capable of taking breaks for things more trivial than the threat of serious jail time (ie taking a break to lower tolerance, taking a break while looking for a new job, etc).

They should use a vertical mouse at least!

You’re welcome! It stands out against its citation chasing peers by having no sign in necessary or freemium functions. This blog is a bit dated but it’s a librarian who’s been keeping a list of the citation chasing options incl. their database coverage and such.

Zotero is great! I love how many tools and integrations people have built for it. Inciteful (citation chaser) is a favorite. It lets you graph paper associations from a folder of related papers and then suggests related papers based on that. It’s designed to help people build bibliographies, but it also functions as an interesting way to visualize a paper’s impact and genealogy.

I dream of a Bottom Up Logistics software that would enable us to thoughtfully connect and eventually scale grassroots resource sharing efforts. If Farmer Bertha had unsold crops she could list them. Communities in need of certain resources would indicate this. People could commit the use of their time, equipment, etc. The software would do the work of calculating efficient routes and assignments to get everything where it was needed.

My inspiration is the various pet rescue consortiums I’ve found in every city I’ve lived in. People crossing the country to pick up a single dog from rural alabama to bring it to a shelter in california. People pooling money to buy trucks specifically so volunteers can cart needy dogs around. They don’t use fancy logistics but they make it clear to me there’s a lot of uncaptured goodwill out there, and I think that given an organized way to engage, people would jump at the chance to participate in scaling a sharing economy based on empathy for our fellow creatures.

I do think individual (not species) inclination played a bigger role than people usually imagine. We frame evolution as kind of a mechanical inevitability when we teach it in schools (at least when I was taught) and this misses some important complexity.

It also misses an opportunity teach the species problem in biology which I find super intriguing.

I mainly remember my aunt taping marathons and stuff off live TV (trying NOT to record the commercials by pausing the recording during them)

Ohh that’s cool

My local Ace hardware is great for cleaning supplies and random hardware, way less overwhelming than home depot or lowes.

Ebay is great for used clothes if you want to update your wardrobe. New clothes tend to be low quality or overpriced. You can get excellent condition used clothes that are high quality for a fraction of their original cost.

What kinds of things are you looking to update?

I would just say I’ve been working here a long time and thought it was policy that I could eat because that’s what I’d been told in the past. Now that I know it’s against policy, my bad! Apologies! Thanks for letting me know.

A friend in college bought a vinyl lathe. It is difficult and you will get poor results without precise instruments.

I agree with your assessment. You’re creating healthy boundaries around your work. You’re taking your breaks legally. You’re doing your job. A job it sounds like you took specifically because you didn’t enjoy the other roles. Those other roles probably do need to be reformed. The more people that put up healthy work boundaries, the more likely policies will be adjusted to actually accommodate for (usually legally mandated!) break and lunch periods. If everyone skips lunch that becomes defacto policy and ruins it for everyone (including the patients getting worse care because their team isn’t in top form).

I held on to mine longer than I wanted to but got fed up. There’s definitely friends I don’t keep up with as well now though. Wish there was a simple and secure way to share updates and photos with friends/family aside from group chats.

I never used Snap but back when I had instagram I tried to train my algorithm to show me ONLY cute animal posts by only clicking in to view those videos (selecting from explorer rather than scroll mode). Nonetheless, IG insisted on including fitness and diet influencer videos and random “funny” clips in my feed

TIL!

It’s an urgent “hurry” maybe similar to “careening”

No one deserves anything in the state of nature, everything just is what it is.

Desert regards The Social Contract. The contract says we mutually agree to behave respectfully towards eachother, to honor eachother’s right to exist and persist in the world. When a person fails to abide by the contract, they aren’t covered by it either. A person who hoards resources beyond what they can possibly use is not covered by the contract and deserves no protection under it.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Some days all I do is watch the sky

The research on it is pretty murky because marketing firms frequently fund research studies but if you poke around at some of the many meta-analysis papers out there I think it’s hard to conclude that advertising is a net profit for big companies, at least in a dollars in dollars out sense. Freakonomics did an interesting episode on the topic in 2020.

For a new brand with zero visibility I’m sure ads gain new customers, but established brands (which make up most of the advertising I see) probably aren’t making much of an impact on their sales with their incessant campaigns.