My caveat to this is that many of the foundational individuals to stoicism, as well as present influencers, are members of the upper class, and while there are a lot of great ideas in there, stoicism can often be distilled into a philosophy of rugged individualism which is more easily achieved with wealth, power, and privilege.

I am of the opinion that stoicism is good, but a disproportional number of those who practice it are often out of touch.

I frequently forget that chrome is installed on my phone. The only time I’m forced to use it is about once a year when I order Papa John’s Pizza takeout. Their checkout page doesn’t seem to work in any other browser.

It rapidly became one of my favorite single player games of all time after I bought it in late 2020. However, it is fundamentally a hiking simulator with a light sprinkling of open world stealth/action/horror gameplay and some innovative passive online multiplayer mechanics.

So, it might just not be your cup of tea. Especially if you don’t like simulation / management games such as fight simulator 2020, FTL, etc. However, if you enjoy meditative or atmospheric games, such as dear ester, fallout 3, valheim, Firewatch, maybe give it a shot when it’s on sale. The world building is fantastic, and the vibes are sublime.

As far as I know, this hasn’t been mentioned, but I hope it launches for PC day 1. I’ve played DS1 through twice on steam deck. That said, DS2 may require an upgrade.

Welp, I tried folks. Sorry!

Yeah 🙃 that is an ongoing issue. It’s very much county dependent as well.

Not surprising! My partner and I can really only hope we find some cheap land that’s RV friendly some day.

Probably the most significant one was Gore vs Bush, as Bush’s victory probably led to the war in Iraq and the impending global climate disaster.

The best one to play with is chat gpt’s paid subscription, but some excellent free voice ai are Google Gemini, meta’s WhatsApp ai chat, hume.ai, and chat gpt’s free voice chat.

Playing hangman or 20 questions with friends and a voice ai is objectively hilarious. None of them can really do it properly

😅 holy shit, this church is based

That’s actually a pretty neat looking peice of kit, if over engineered. One of the issues is it relies on you seeing, sighting, and firing at the drone, which tbh if you’re already doing that perhaps you were 90% to shooting it down with conventional weapons.

What a gd shame we killed these poor birds off.

Something which clarified Zuck’s behavior in my mind was an interview where he said something along the lines of, “I could sell meta for x amount of dollars, but then I’d just start another company anyways, so I might as well not.”

The guy isn’t doing what financially makes sense. He’s Uber rich and working on whatever projects he thinks are cool. I wish Zuck would stop sucking in all his other ways, but he just doesn’t care about whether his ideas are going to succeed or not.

Congratulations! … [Cries in Florida man tears]

I freaking hate RLS

Wait, was funhole always peddling this shit-for-brains idea? Damn.

Wow this looks terrible!

Me clicking this article

Sorry, I was tired when I posted that.

They reduced the batteries needed for an existing system by improving the control module and pump motors to more rapidly adjust to sunlight variation. It’s good, but more of an iterative improvement.

Also… It’s not a novel solution, and tbh it’s a little unclear if it’s an actual improvement at all.

For example, looking at the pictures it seems to be maybe a 1500 watt solar system. Such a system might need a $500 mppt charger and a $600 48v, 50amp battery. Their system still needs the charger and a battery of some sort. So, how do thier equipment cost compare to the old system? They don’t really make that clear at all. Also, their efficiency metrics don’t really make sense to me. It’d be nice if they’d produce a figure like gallon per watt between two comparable systems running under identical conditions on location.

Anyway, the whole think feels a bit self aggrandizing.