Also the popularity of eugenics began in the US. You even read about it in The Great Gatsby.

I recently got recommended her channel. She’s amazing, like Jenny Nicholson but for science.

Well, at least in connection with her:

Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in March 1834 in an anonymous review of Mary Somerville’s book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences in the Quarterly Review

I appreciate her telling it like it is and not bowing to a pressure to please.

Found an article speaking more about it, if anyone is curious about the context/her work.

Try being a classicist… it’s rough out here. Can’t really say I love Greece and Rome without sounding insane.

Thanks for reminding me to set up Timeshift on my EndeavourOS install, salute to you.

I mean, I’m just one reference point, but here we go. I started with Kubuntu – I liked KDE, and Ubuntu is a stable, LTS distro. What could go wrong?

But my PC is Intel/Nvidia, so I’m constantly facing driver issues, and not to mention, snap is completely fucked. Ubuntu is supposed to be LTS but I’ve somehow still got 2-4 GB of updates every day or two. I’ve also got random bugs here and there and no real idea of how to troubleshoot them because the support is disparate or doesn’t address my specific issue.

Meanwhile, on my Chrultrabook, I decided to go with Arch, which of course presented its own set of issues. The archinstall script was straightforward, and debugging it was also fairly easy since the Arch wiki and forums were a trove of information. But debugging and tinkering, even when I accidentally bricked my laptop and had to do a clean slate (don’t ever interrupt pacman, I’ve learned!), has been a great learning experience. It’s made me feel like I actually understand a little more of what goes on under the hood. Ubuntu could do that as well, but it isn’t meant to be design.

Neither is good nor bad on its own, but different people enjoy different things. I didn’t think I would be the type to enjoy Arch, but it gave me valuable experience and a fun project (even if I did end up staying up until 3 or 4 AM on work nights). I’ve got EndeavourOS on my laptop now and still Kubuntu on my PC, but I’m wondering if I shouldn’t just switch over. Arch/eOS being a rolling release feels nice too, as I’m doing all these updates on Ubuntu anyway, but I’m slightly more worried about fucking something up.

The two are often connected (aphantasia and SDAM) but not necessarily so. It’s also possible it’s not related at all, but I just wanted to bring it up since your experience doesn’t sound like what I usually hear as the norm from most people.

My memory is like that too, extremely vague. Have you heard of SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory)?

Journaling is also incredibly subjective, but there is nothing to beat firsthand experience from the moment itself. I’ve got a terrible memory and always wish I had a better habit of journaling so that I could actually remember things that happen…

Oh man, expired health items are a big one for me. I keep having to tell myself it’s okay to dispose of them (safely in the case of tablets).

I’m trying to be better about not holding onto things. It’s incredibly hard though when I end up needing one of those “ah I won’t need this” things a few weeks or months later…

Cool resource, thanks for sharing! I was surprised that the old brand I used, which I thought was pretty good, was just “below average”, though now the one I’m getting is “above average”.

What exactly is this website? I’d never heard of it. It seems legit, but I’m curious about their sourcing.

I’ve seen some authors I like on Mastodon, like William Gibson. It’s a quieter place but I like that about it, as someone who never used Twitter.

Yes, being sedentary hurts you. My point wasn’t about weight loss, just that the quality of ingredients and food in Europe is leagues ahead of the US. It is much worse for you nutritionally to eat refined, processed grains than it is to eat whole grains. Not to mention the amount of fresh produce…

The access to fresher ingredients and healthier food cannot be understated. Food is so much more processed in the US, even if you’re mainly cooking at home. Even the “ingredients” you buy at grocery stores are more processed.

I’ve been meaning to check out their novels. Thanks for the reminder.

A 4090 is pretty great for playing Skyrim at 60 FPS, I’ll have you know.

I have the same gripe with the aluminum chassis on laptops. I got a cheap Thinkpad Chromebook for personal use and even though the material on the X1 Carbons is a fingerprint magnet, at least it isn’t chilly every time you rest your hands on it.