Touche

The Council of Nicea didn’t establish the books of the bible.

I think it established the Trinity or laid the groundwork for it.

On top of the fact that the gases have lower molecular weights than air, they are also at 37°C or 310K ie ~5% lighter still.

To save some googling for other people: Rayhunter is an initiative to identify when simulated cell towers are being used for surveillance.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying?language=en

I would be surprised if there are other devices for it. I think you’ll want to look at what network bands Verizon uses and see what that corresponds to in Canada. But I really don’t know.

Rage Against the Machine?

Everyone likes to believe they’re thinking independently.

Can you elaborate on that claim?

I exercise some critical analysis, but for the most part I just have trust in human ambition. For example: the reason I believe human CO2 emissions are driving climate change is not because I’ve looked at the evidence and evaluated it for myself.

The reason I believe that human CO2 emissions are driving climate change is: that seems to be the consensus of people that have worked hard to impartially develop expertise and gather data to understand climate science.

There are two important systems at play

1: Scientific research, which harnesses human ambition by rewarding impartial research and discoveries which overturn old assumptions/paradigms.

2: Journalism, which harnesses human ambition by rewarding impartial reporting on various fields of human interest. (Reporting is why it seems to be the consensus of the scientific community)

The impartiality of these systems is (has always been) under assault by capitalism (which also derives its power by harnessing human ambition) and so one must, to an increasing degree, evaluate the appropriate level of personal mental effort to allocate to identifying biases in the reporting.

Presumably anybody that does this gets their code integrated into the training data right?

Two other options would be:

A. End of the Molotov/Ribbentrop pact (any war with Russia is technically transcontinental)

B. British sinking of the Vichy fleet (happened in a lot of places right?)

Or paradigm adjustments to the two you suggested:

A. France/Britain declaring war in response to German invasion of Poland (committing their global empires to the conflict)

B. Japanese campaign in Malaysia and Indonesia adding that theatre to Japan's war and putting them at war with.... Ummm other empires.... I think British and dutch?

Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.

In Canada we passed a regulation that social media sites have to pay our media companies to link to their articles. Google is paying up, but Facebook said no, and has banned news. It has made Facebook here much less terrible.

I really like that the 3d preview has a scale!

Putting something you need to see where you can’t see it actually does have a short of efficiency logic to it.

Like save the fusible storage locations for things you’ll be able to see

I went to China on a business trip about 10 years ago. I was gobsmacked by how good they are at flattery. I was totally unprepared for it, and they didn’t even want anything from me.

Wait, so people can choose whether or not they’re subjected to hate speech? What tyranny!

If you don’t like the way communities are being moderated, maybe you should find/start a server that more aligns with your values.

Halberdiers?

whoever wrote this wanted to make clear that Judaism does not condone human sacrifice, in contrast to other contemporary religions.

I suspect that the addition of the lamb(goat?) Was a latter addition to distance Judaism from child sacrifice but that Judaism did evolve out of a religious tradition that practiced child sacrifice (and idolatry). But I’m also aware of how antisemites would love to slander modern Judaism with accusations in a similar vein, so it’s a kinda difficult line to walk.

Fun fact: Abraham goes up the mountain with his son but comes down alone, suggesting that in the original text he went through with the child sacrifice.

I can only speak from my own experience.

My strategy is committing to planning my day at the beginning of the day (9:10AM after I’ve gotten my kids to school) and then talking with my wife before bed about how well I managed to stick to the plan. Ie did I actually plan tasks for the day, did I accomplish those tasks, is there anything she’d like me to add to tomorrow’s tasks etc.

Planning my day includes assigning time frames for the tasks, including one task right after planning. If I know I’m likely to want to play video games that day, plan a time and duration, and set an alarm on my phone to interrupt my play at the time I thought I should stop.

Try really hard to frame things in an analog way. Ie As progress instead of as victory or failure.

What I mean is you didn’t do exactly what I asked, and that’s fine you made real progress towards developing a sustainable solution.

I use a paper productivity planner to plan my day and I’ve found it very helpful. maybe do 30 minutes of research into options available to you.

I am diagnosed with ADHD and your experience sounds similar to mine, ie executive function disorder. Not getting anything done until the last possible moment, and then only the bare minimum because it was all I had time for.

Of the various strategies I’ve employed, having an accountability partner has been the most useful.

I Tell someone what I’m going to do, and when I’m going to do it by, and commit to talking to them about it reasonably soon after the time frame I set.

For example, I never had any success exercising until I started going to the gym with my father. It has been really good for both of us. We both want both of us to be healthier and we’re helping each other do it. Sometimes one of us can’t go and that’s okay, we acknowledge it, move on, and keep each other on track. This has been so successful that I even went to the gym on my birthday.

I would really like it if you’d spend 5 or more minutes brainstorming and listing some different people in your life you could sustainably use as accountability partners, before this post is 24 hours old.

Please either comment or DM me ASAP about whether or not you’re going to do this, and wait at least an hour before actually doing the brainstorming.

I don’t want to see the list but I’d love it if you could message me with the number of people on the list, and what areas of your life they intersect with.

I’m going to check this comment and my inbox sometime between 24 and 32 hours from now.

I’m in Canada where we have restricted some food dyes. I miss the old colours of Froot Loops and Smarties (similar to M&Ms, not rockets). But it’s fine because those colourants really do only exist to make junk food look good.

It’s not clear to me the exact scope of what they consider to be artifical dyes though. Is a dye produced by a genetically modified bacteria natural enough?

Conservatives have been saying that Dems want to force them to eat bugs, so it’s a little strange to be tacitly encouraging the use of Natural Red 4 which is made from crushed beetles.