Ethan Fremen
@mindlace.bsky.social
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
April 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
Our bodies use fever to make the enzymes that viruses use to replicate themselves work more poorly if at all
“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Our bodies use fever to make the enzymes that viruses use to replicate themselves work more poorly if at all
The "democrats lack a leader/direction" narrative drives me a bit batty. When you can only count to 2, and one of the 2 is already a bugnut cult, the remainder are by definition going to be an ideologically incoherent aggregate.
April 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The "democrats lack a leader/direction" narrative drives me a bit batty. When you can only count to 2, and one of the 2 is already a bugnut cult, the remainder are by definition going to be an ideologically incoherent aggregate.
I hope this exercise in making libertarian fantasies real will finally teach us that the only healthy capitalism is frosting on a solid socialist cake. We could learn a lot from Denmark and Singapore in this regard
March 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I hope this exercise in making libertarian fantasies real will finally teach us that the only healthy capitalism is frosting on a solid socialist cake. We could learn a lot from Denmark and Singapore in this regard
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Little off-topic from my usual posts but this is what it looks like to be directly under the Aurora Borealis (northern lights)
The pics are a little blurry 'cause they were moving so much
The pics are a little blurry 'cause they were moving so much
March 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Little off-topic from my usual posts but this is what it looks like to be directly under the Aurora Borealis (northern lights)
The pics are a little blurry 'cause they were moving so much
The pics are a little blurry 'cause they were moving so much
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Working ridiculous hours is being promoted as good yet again, so here's a reminder that working 55 or more hours a week will eventually kill you.
www.who.int/news/item/17...
www.who.int/news/item/17...
Long working hours increasing deaths from heart disease and stroke: WHO, ILO
Long working hours led to 745 000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29 per cent increase since 2000, according to the latest estimates by the World Health Organization and the I...
www.who.int
March 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Working ridiculous hours is being promoted as good yet again, so here's a reminder that working 55 or more hours a week will eventually kill you.
www.who.int/news/item/17...
www.who.int/news/item/17...
Not excited about the "election was rigged" narratives. This is clearly not the case, and also repurposed from propaganda used to polarize the right. Decreasing confidence in elections is the point.
March 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Not excited about the "election was rigged" narratives. This is clearly not the case, and also repurposed from propaganda used to polarize the right. Decreasing confidence in elections is the point.
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hey, can one of the reasonable centrist writers condescendingly explain to me again that it is overblown to call these people segregationists?
Interesting. New contracting memorandum from Secy of Defense says military contracts shld stop including language that bars contractors from running segregated facilities.
March 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
hey, can one of the reasonable centrist writers condescendingly explain to me again that it is overblown to call these people segregationists?
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
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Thanks to Captain Mike Vinik for taking these photos of the SS United States off the coast of North Carolina. She's currently being towed through a following sea at about 6 knots, through the remants of a winter storm.
February 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Thanks to Captain Mike Vinik for taking these photos of the SS United States off the coast of North Carolina. She's currently being towed through a following sea at about 6 knots, through the remants of a winter storm.
When it comes to mandates, it's good to remember that no candidate has ever received even 25% of the total US population's votes.
February 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
When it comes to mandates, it's good to remember that no candidate has ever received even 25% of the total US population's votes.
I get the sentiment, but a MacBook Air m3 consumes about 5.1 watts while a 386 with CRT used 30-50 watts
I think modern computer software was a mistake and we should go back to our roots of developing for limited hardware.
The same amount of electricity that could power MS-DOS for a year is now used to ask Copilot how to save a Word document to your local Desktop instead of OneDrive.
The same amount of electricity that could power MS-DOS for a year is now used to ask Copilot how to save a Word document to your local Desktop instead of OneDrive.
January 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I get the sentiment, but a MacBook Air m3 consumes about 5.1 watts while a 386 with CRT used 30-50 watts
Yes, the current administration won a plurality of votes - 1.53% more than their opponent. This doesn't represent a majority of those who voted, much less the voting-age population.
Talking like it does is a fundamental distortion of the ground truth.
Talking like it does is a fundamental distortion of the ground truth.
January 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Yes, the current administration won a plurality of votes - 1.53% more than their opponent. This doesn't represent a majority of those who voted, much less the voting-age population.
Talking like it does is a fundamental distortion of the ground truth.
Talking like it does is a fundamental distortion of the ground truth.
The gender executive order is even more out of touch with reality than that time Indiana tried to legislate 𝝿 to be 3.2.
Every foetus is female "at conception", and there are genetic variants (like androgen-insensitive XY people) that appear to be entirely women despite having internal testes.
Every foetus is female "at conception", and there are genetic variants (like androgen-insensitive XY people) that appear to be entirely women despite having internal testes.
January 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The gender executive order is even more out of touch with reality than that time Indiana tried to legislate 𝝿 to be 3.2.
Every foetus is female "at conception", and there are genetic variants (like androgen-insensitive XY people) that appear to be entirely women despite having internal testes.
Every foetus is female "at conception", and there are genetic variants (like androgen-insensitive XY people) that appear to be entirely women despite having internal testes.
I've assembled a lot of furniture in the last month and a) it should come with disassembly instructions and b) it should be possible to dissassemble.
January 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I've assembled a lot of furniture in the last month and a) it should come with disassembly instructions and b) it should be possible to dissassemble.
The paxlovid aftertaste is like I gave a blow job to a rusty nail file wrapped in a dirty gym sock
January 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The paxlovid aftertaste is like I gave a blow job to a rusty nail file wrapped in a dirty gym sock
December 25, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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parents arguing over whether to take an agile or waterfall based approach to christmas dinner development
December 25, 2024 at 11:11 AM
parents arguing over whether to take an agile or waterfall based approach to christmas dinner development
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Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues
Mom: Let's pick out a Christmas movie to watch on Thanksgiving. Which one do you guys want to watch?
Family (in unison): DUNE!
Family (in unison): DUNE!
November 29, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues