1984/farenheit 451/Brave New World are the adolescent trilogy for me that anyone who wants to understand the nature of people and mechanics of power would do well to read.

I’d add Animal Farm to that as well.

Politics

I miss the Internet of the late 90s and early 00s

I just watched gladiator to show the kid for the first time and for me it was the first time in 20 years, he was wonderful. I then watched “space camp” a few days ago which id never seen and Phoenix’s 11-year+old face jumped out of that.

Showing the kid “Sneakers” now, and the kid was blown away Phoenix had a brother (River) who was also an actor.

“it was at this moment, Bub realized why many of their online forum discussions may have ended with them being banned.”

Is gadget bridge OS? I’m not familiar with what it does/offers, etc.

Data privacy was somewhere Garmin was better than other providers when I looked at it, though that’s relative and also with how fast companies are coming out fascist maybe I’ve missed them losing any privacy advantage?

Garmin running watch. Never liked running but am a list checker and analyst; seeing my inactivity or progress drive me to be more consistent and active. I’m massively healthier and happier as a result. Also first one lasted 10 years, 1-week battery life. Just bought a replacement last year(face was scuffed up after 10 years but was still running like a champ). No idea why other watches have such crap battery life without offering more features than Garmin but it’s brought me joy, mental and physical health.

“If you didn’t hear back about the application, reach out to the company/recruiter/interviewer.” - they’re either not into you or swamped trying to get things lined up to move forward or both. Either way they don’t want to hear from you because you’re not getting it or they are working on it. Just pretend you didn’t get it and move on.

“Personalize your cover letter for each job application.” - no one has read that shit in years–and that was before AI slop started doing them all for people—and good companies don’t ask for them anymore as it’s cruel to waste applicants time on them.

“Ask for what you’re worth in the interview/during a promotion/counteroffer!” - this one comes with an asterix as it’s not always terrible advice, but well-run orgs gave a budget for your role, know what the job generally pays for the skills it requires and can’t go much outside of it at all or they’ll create pay equity issues which is against the law in most states if not federally, depending. I say all that and close by saying most companies aren’t well run, so they’re just trying to save money, but some are actually working withing a good system so don’t take it personally if they don’t or can’t offer you more.

HHGTTG, Les Miserables or Don Quixote.

Boils down to “we’re so smart we don’t need to think or evaluate our thinking anymore”. Anyone who can look around the world and try to push that line aping an oligarch’s fantasy of going back to serfdom.

“no offense but”, classic Seattle. I was on a different continent but heard your Seattle condescension sound and clear.

You kind of seem desperate to brag about how cool you think you play situations; different countries and cultures and everyone’s risk tolerance is different. You should start a thread about how cool you are and share with a Seattle community, they probably are cooler and did it first.

You’re trying to correct something and are uninformed, not adding a ton to the convo.

"A spoon is frequently used in the preparation of certain drugs, primarily heroin and crack cocaine. For heroin, a spoon serves as a heating vessel to dissolve the powdered or tar form of the drug. Heroin is often mixed with water in the spoon, and heat is applied from underneath with a lighter to facilitate dissolution, to create a liquid for injection. A small piece of cotton or a cigarette filter is sometimes placed in the spoon to act as a filter, drawing the liquid into a syringe while leaving behind impurities.

Crack cocaine, a rock-like form of cocaine, can also be prepared using a spoon. Powdered cocaine is mixed with baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and a small amount of water in the spoon. This mixture is then heated, causing a chemical reaction that separates the cocaine base, forming an oily mass that solidifies into crack cocaine “rocks” upon cooling. While crack is primarily smoked, the spoon is used in this “cooking” process to transform the powder into its smokable crack form."

2am subway station in Vienna. Had been drinking all night, really had to pee. Walked in to the bathroom, saw dude with a spoon and a lighter doing his crack thing and did a sweet 180 Michael Jackson spin on my rear heel and was out the door before it even closed from my opening it.

Had never seen anything like that in real life but didn’t need to look twice.

Last dance with Mary Jane - Tom Petty

Cry me a river - Justin Timberlake

Goodbye - Barbara Streisand ( Hello Dolly)

Curtis’s “Sweedish” accent was at least as offensive…

African or European projectile?

Everyone’s body is different but try lighter and more frequent. 3x 20 minutes. You can always push faster, more frequent once you get past “it always feels like I’m dying”, but at this point you’re trying to convince your body, “this will be a regular thing, I need to be able to do this”.

Do 3x 20 and add in walks on off days. Anything to overall make your body raise its “floor” for cardio.

Taking days off is when your body immediately tells your lungs and heart “see I knew he was kidding!”

You can go from marathon shape to having running be a struggle at old levels with 4 weeks of inactivity. Most people go faaaar longer than that without exercising and think there is something wrong with or unique to them.

Our bodies want to save energy and not waste it burning calories to keep you in shape, so regularity trumps all. Go light, go often, and slowly increase pace, duration, frequency as it feels good. Your body will respond in time.

That is clearly two rapscallion puppies dressed in an adult dog costume.

Seriously, Fezzik moment here.

And in just a few years, for me with my on-chip gpu needs and AMDs huge improvements around the same time, shopping for a processor went from having to read about Intel and AMD and wonder who I should choose for my next small laptop to not even considering anything with an Intel chip set. Thankfully this is also when AMD also became a standard offering at many OEM laptop makers (10 years prior you maybe had a few laptops in the entire market with an AMD option).

Intel truly squandered so much market dominance–despite it being clear to a layman where markets and the world was going-- it’s breathtaking. The fact they missed both mobile phone chip explosion and GPUs despite having been producers of both at some level is wild. The fact they managed, separately, to lose an enormous amount of trust and reputation points with their customers is a testament to why their only new investor is someone as stupid and corrupt as Trump.