Thinking about the ‘tomorrow you.’

(Admittedly you’ve asked for metrics, not points. Bear with me.)

Electric bicycles got better (as did scooters). Pair with a train ride and you can have a blast in nature for little.

Lightweight tents as well.

Video quality on mainstream streaming sites. (Honorary mention: https://www.youtube.com/@TPENT/videos Tiger Pictures Entertainment, chinese movies )

3D-printing!

Concept2, famous for their indoor rowing machines, have decided to convert the company into a trust, removing it from the capitalist tendency of enshittification.

Linux and ecosystem

You’re conveying the feelings and insight well.

On your concept of a line—when it comes to ‘them’ I have found joy in blurring it by learning what a particular person is receptive to, to offer what could grow to be a small dissonance in their worldview. Maybe it won’t reach the extents of a mosaic, but it’s pleasing to learn when some ideas have spread. For example, on infrastructure try: “Road’s been erected by the state, everyone paid for it proportionally to their taxes—but now, rich or hardly-paying pauper, everyone leaves the same amount at the toll booth.” Any ‘unfair!’ will do at that point, like the rich shall be exempt. The dissonance is anchored.

Mamdani’s proposed rent-control, in particular to prevent gentrification close to new construction? “If they left too soon, their vacancies would tank real-estate value.” Depends on how clever they are with what you can get away with. Some mems will backfire—but that’s okay, utilize as your cover. (Try to discover who has a propensity to splitting.)

However I notice you’re focusing on ‘them.’ Maybe for the point, maybe out of discretion; but allow me to use the opportunity to point out work on a ‘us’ is perhaps more important.

I hope your wife shares your convictions. I’m entertaining the thought of a secret handshake for when dating. Printing out the hexbear logo or some such as sticker, claiming I just found it on the street to enquire whether it means something to my date or whether to bin it.—Having been open with my previous partners always made for good long-lasting companionship.

Same when expanding your circles, generally speaking, which I believe is everyone’s lifelong task. Chat up kindred spirits, stay connected, offer connections. Not always, but the others buy, mere simulacra at times, what we’re able to give ourselves: The pleasure of good company.

Comparing this to how venture capitalists do their due-diligence before investing, and regularly check fundamentals and viability of their investment after that: In many aspects they serve as additional directors.

Star Citizen makes a good case-study for why regulation is needed when mass-markets are addressed: Individuals are not granted that insight easily, the power-gradient is extremely tilted.

Also, but that’s just me, the press should get serious and start the clock on every game once it’s collecting money from the public: Doesn’t matter if you call it beta, alpha, early release—after N years your grace period is up, a line drawn; review and score whatever is tangible.

Examining the data, reading about it alone gives me mild sympathetic panic.

I recall having seen ‘chocolate pizza’ some time ago.

Half of the country was occupied by the Brits and US.

Also, fun fact: Cartographers, to spot copy-cats, frequently add figments into their works. Like an insignificant path that’s never been there and no reasonable person would want to walk, or cities that never existed nor anyone would ever want to visit. Bielefeld, for example. Dr. Oetker is such a product for ALDI.

Bonus: Germans have discounters with funny names such as Hit and Jawoll! (with exclamation point). The latter has the largest selection of industrial chemistry. You literally can find gallons of pure acid a shelf away from chocolate.

Fixed it. Thank you so much!

This could come down to a misunderstanding how those “weight jabs” work, one that’s maybe intentionally pushed by advertisments.

Jabs alone won’t do it, you will need to change your lifestyle (sleep, stress, environmental stressors…), eating habits (also because solid food will linger in your digestive tract way longer), and still work out: On a jab-regime alone you will be losing not only fat but also muscles that’ll need extra effort to be retained. So, you need to put attention and effort into the things you would for bodybuilding as well.

You do, though that also depends on your location relative to datacenters in serviced markets.

In practice—I’m a former Stadia customer—it didn’t matter much even for shooters. I did play Cyberpunk 2077, Doom; Wolfenstein, Return to the Savage Planet—and it was okay, even for multiplayer with friends.

To some extent you can predict the world’s as well as the player’s behaviour to put latency mitigating measures in place.

Cloud Gaming changes some dynamics in the relation between “publisher” towards their customers: You no longer have to accept a publisher’s dictate regarding PC requirements, they henceforth need to please a single and stronger party that the cloud gaming provider is. You can no longer remain ignored on bugs and crashes, because (similar to consoles) the blame cannot be summarily shifted on a “non-standard” runtime environment. Also moves the focus from capital (customer, buy to make it run…) to labour (the studio needs to rework…).

You don’t own your “Steam library” anyway, to remind everyone.

Google Stadia was called “daddia” precisely for this.

When you bough a game through them¹ you could play it without subscription in FHD or something to that effect.

¹ They reimbursed all purchases, including those made through in-game currency, when Stadia closed.

If any existed, it would merely be a performance meant distract from the truth.

Food intake must be synced with your biorhythm. In other words, unless you work night-shifts, eating breakfast, or rather after waking up is important. (3–4 meals are recommended.)

Else your odds of developing obesity or diabetes are higher.

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/21/3457
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7246451/

Know and accept thy limits.

Though it saddens me that those who have the least, pollute the least. And those who have not catched up yet, perhaps due to a history of colonial exploitation, will suffer the most.

In my mind, this government capture and fight against recognizing externalities is a prominent argument against Capitalism. And also why they so fight against universal healthcare.

Almost unpacked my soldering iron, comrade.

This is another video by Inside China Business, it conflates US Treasuries and debt in general, as means of propping up the US budgets and as security in banking (though he does not go into the Euro-Doller), and the SWIFT banking system virtually all banks are connected to. Throws in seizure of Russian assets as another (loose) argument to explain loss of trust in the former.

He moves to bond yields and by extension interest rates. Those in RMB were lower.

Finally he ends in presenting China as one-stop-shop–provider for solutions such as infrastructure projects. Those are financed in RMB by those countries, and they borrow them from chinese banks. (The RMBs don’t leave the country, services and goods are = with debt on the same side.)

This is no good video to understand either of the mentioned mechanics, though admittedly you can only press so much into 7 minutes. There’s too many places to begin for a concise comment that’s no wall of text. I will cherry-pick:

I can make everything fast if it doesn’t need to be correct.

Though he has access to some radio equipment people usually don’t have and is systematic in his pursuit to learn at which frequency they communicate, he otherwise lacks fundamental knowledge of the field. Since he gives himself access to a storage facility it’s not necessarily his own. (Another inconsistency regarding his respect for property.) Also, his office (I presume it’s his) is not rigged the way. (He is no car mechanic either.)

And, first thing someone with some background in medicine and related trades has (or adventure sports practicioner, or nurse…) when facing 20 day+ treck through dense forest is, you’ll be needing at his body composition 20× 2200 kcal in food minimum = about 15–30kg of solid proviant alone without foraging or hunting. Yet he’s embarking with a 15-20 ℓ backpack. So, neither a soldier, nor game warden, nor farmer.

He’s disinfecting his wounds with absolutely the wrong means (don’t do that!), treats it incorrectly (again, don’t imitate), which rules out he were a trained nurse or medic.

Mystery to me where “that look in his eyes” were coming from, unless maybe mild starvation or dehydration.

It used to be food, or rather being depicted as eating, that displayed someone as rich in movies. Eventually it was (and still is) space, as in a spacious home.

(I feel compelled to mention Parasite.)

Now, is this an attempt to position (poor) childless people against other poor people with large families?

Express appreciation for your significant other by a diamond ring—that so needs a counter-narrative!

I realize this is about a token to be admired and shown off to presumed peers, but awfully materialistic even if it not were for the significant chance it supported misery and human rights violations elsewhere. Though I am afraid a remark to that extent would not be enough to sour the mood sufficiently to abolish that “tradition.”