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I recently watched a documentary on the Great Smog of London of 1952. I was vaguely aware of it because of The Crown, but it was so much worse than I realized. Something like 10-12K deaths by modern estimates.
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I recently watched a documentary on the Great Smog of London of 1952. I was vaguely aware of it because of The Crown, but it was so much worse than I realized. Something like 10-12K deaths by modern estimates.
Newton MA vs Boston. Boston averaged home price $800K, Newton $1.4-$1.5M.
November 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Newton MA vs Boston. Boston averaged home price $800K, Newton $1.4-$1.5M.
Make them ride circuit by horse.
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Make them ride circuit by horse.
I’ve been saying since at least 2015, probably longer, that the internet was a mistake, and for the sake of our species we need to shut it down. It’s only made things worse in the intervening decade plus. I say this as someone whose entire livelihood depends on the internet.
October 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I’ve been saying since at least 2015, probably longer, that the internet was a mistake, and for the sake of our species we need to shut it down. It’s only made things worse in the intervening decade plus. I say this as someone whose entire livelihood depends on the internet.
Came here to say Gabriel Bell would like a word with them about their idea, but you beat me to it.
October 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Came here to say Gabriel Bell would like a word with them about their idea, but you beat me to it.
Granted, I no longer live in ME, but I lived there most of my life. Mills would not be my first choice of candidate, and I would love to see some younger people in ME politics, but she probably does stand the best chance of beating SC if anyone can.
October 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Granted, I no longer live in ME, but I lived there most of my life. Mills would not be my first choice of candidate, and I would love to see some younger people in ME politics, but she probably does stand the best chance of beating SC if anyone can.
Maine has the oldest population of any state. Young people tend to leave for better opportunities elsewhere. There is no deep bench of local politicians. Of the people in the D primary I have heard of Mills and Platner. I only heard of Platner very recently.
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Maine has the oldest population of any state. Young people tend to leave for better opportunities elsewhere. There is no deep bench of local politicians. Of the people in the D primary I have heard of Mills and Platner. I only heard of Platner very recently.
Conversely, that’s also the problem with calling it “No Kings”, as much like the Romans, we may not want rex, but we are moving towards the principate if not speed running straight through to the dominate.
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Conversely, that’s also the problem with calling it “No Kings”, as much like the Romans, we may not want rex, but we are moving towards the principate if not speed running straight through to the dominate.
I feel like the same could be said of almost any topic. The last 45 years has been Republicans claiming that government doesn’t work, and then sabotaging the government to make sure it doesn’t work.
October 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I feel like the same could be said of almost any topic. The last 45 years has been Republicans claiming that government doesn’t work, and then sabotaging the government to make sure it doesn’t work.
What about Cataline? Maybe we’re in this boat because we’re lacking a Cicero.
October 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
What about Cataline? Maybe we’re in this boat because we’re lacking a Cicero.
I’ve been saying for years, maybe decades now, that the Republican concept of freedom is the same as a child’s concept of freedom. I get to do whatever I want without accepting any responsibility for anything I do.
October 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I’ve been saying for years, maybe decades now, that the Republican concept of freedom is the same as a child’s concept of freedom. I get to do whatever I want without accepting any responsibility for anything I do.
I liken it to smoking. I made tons of friends over the years because of smoking, and was able to manage my anxiety. In many ways smoking was a really positive thing for me, but it also left me addicted to nicotine, and was slowly killing me. Social media is doing the same thing to culturally to us.
September 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I liken it to smoking. I made tons of friends over the years because of smoking, and was able to manage my anxiety. In many ways smoking was a really positive thing for me, but it also left me addicted to nicotine, and was slowly killing me. Social media is doing the same thing to culturally to us.
I’ve been of the opinion, since at least 2015-2016, that social media if not the internet itself was a mistake, and as a species we would be better off to shut it down entirely. It’s not that I don’t see the benefits, I make my living in IT, but I think the harms far outweigh the benefits.
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I’ve been of the opinion, since at least 2015-2016, that social media if not the internet itself was a mistake, and as a species we would be better off to shut it down entirely. It’s not that I don’t see the benefits, I make my living in IT, but I think the harms far outweigh the benefits.
Then again most of my problems are either well documented and a quick trip to the Hashicorp website gives me what I need to know, or are so poorly documented that an LLM wouldn’t know either. That being said Claude Code has worked very well so far.
September 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Then again most of my problems are either well documented and a quick trip to the Hashicorp website gives me what I need to know, or are so poorly documented that an LLM wouldn’t know either. That being said Claude Code has worked very well so far.
I’ve been required to use several different LLMs at work, an most of the time I spend more time explaining what I want then sorting out what is real and what is hallucination than it would have taken me to just do it myself the first time.
September 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I’ve been required to use several different LLMs at work, an most of the time I spend more time explaining what I want then sorting out what is real and what is hallucination than it would have taken me to just do it myself the first time.
I’ve always been a fan of Rubber Duck Debugging. That’s where you explain the problem to a rubber duck or other inanimate object. I find articulating the problem out loud often leads me to the solution.
September 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’ve always been a fan of Rubber Duck Debugging. That’s where you explain the problem to a rubber duck or other inanimate object. I find articulating the problem out loud often leads me to the solution.
That last line might be the sickest burn I’ve ever read.
September 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
That last line might be the sickest burn I’ve ever read.
Is the press actually in the Oval Office with him? If not it wouldn’t be too hard to deepfake I expect. I can’t bring myself to actually watch the guy speak.
September 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Is the press actually in the Oval Office with him? If not it wouldn’t be too hard to deepfake I expect. I can’t bring myself to actually watch the guy speak.
Personally, my biggest problem with note taking, is my penmanship in cursive is so poor that I can’t read my own writing, and years of attempting to fix my penmanship in elementary school failed. Having a laptop when I went back to college in my late 20’s made a huge difference for me.
September 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Personally, my biggest problem with note taking, is my penmanship in cursive is so poor that I can’t read my own writing, and years of attempting to fix my penmanship in elementary school failed. Having a laptop when I went back to college in my late 20’s made a huge difference for me.
The thought that keeps me up at night is that is whether we are hurtling toward a “When in the course of human events” moment or whether we are not, and I’m no longer sure which is the worse option.
August 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The thought that keeps me up at night is that is whether we are hurtling toward a “When in the course of human events” moment or whether we are not, and I’m no longer sure which is the worse option.
More like OopsSEC
August 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
More like OopsSEC
When the actual professor returned, and I took Latin 3, he switched us to Wheelock, and in his opinion we were way behind where we should have been. /end
August 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
When the actual professor returned, and I took Latin 3, he switched us to Wheelock, and in his opinion we were way behind where we should have been. /end
When I took Latin circa 2010 we used Latin via Ovid for Latin 1 and 2. The problem was that the primary Latin professor was on sabbatical those semesters, and that book was chosen by the substitute, who I believe his primary experience was teaching high school Latin. /1
August 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
When I took Latin circa 2010 we used Latin via Ovid for Latin 1 and 2. The problem was that the primary Latin professor was on sabbatical those semesters, and that book was chosen by the substitute, who I believe his primary experience was teaching high school Latin. /1