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The countries that have "developed" have increased pressures on less developed nations, and caused or exacerbated problemsin the areas they have exploited in order to develop.

This Is It, by Alan Watts also describes some of the same feelings. I picked it up recently and am still trying to digest the concepts he describes.

Thank you for this. I've been dealing with these issues more than usual lately and this was helpful to read.

You can bring food into a movie theater without too much trouble in my experience.

It would be cool to learn if there are other easter eggs like this in Google search. Is there a list somewhere? [edit] Yes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs…

I noticed the "only one on sale" thing too. I suspect the author meant it was the only one for sale at the store, period, not that it was the only one with a sale/discounted price.…

I saw "The Ashley Book of Knots" mentioned on another post, and it has some interesting history of knots. Especially that the introduction of books led to sailors spending more tim…

I wonder if there's some link to rate of footsteps? The step rate of an approaching/retreating human or animal would have been relevant to survival.

> Today at another McDonald's I observed the entire bootstrap process and can confirm that the kiosk indeed is responsible for installing “custom firmware” on the card reader If th…

It's also supported in Azure Devops wikis

We just started smelling/tasting some fishy flavor with eggs from one of our hens. We suspected flaxseed in the feed we were giving, and switching feeds seems to have fixed it. Bro…

If Musk fails, are there likely to be any lasting effects to Twitter or more generally to the market?

Failing to answer Leetcode questions doesn't mean anything is wrong with you. Many will be difficult without spending a lot of time practicing similar problems. If they were "easy"…

OT, but this era of WP website was quite nice looking and readable. Refreshing!

Your username also tells me you have gotten over the "holy shit WTF is Kubernetes" part. I think I'm headed somewhere similar shortly. Hopefully I have the same success as you!

I'm not sure what 'all consuming' would mean exactly. But excess complexity might also indicate fragility, in which case breaking an entire system/subsystem might come fairly easil…

Never got around to playing it, but I probably spent 10+ hours trying to get the demo to run on the family PC. Unsuccessfully.

The picture at the top of the article has the caption "Setting Windows 11 to one of its dark themes also darkens the background of the Settings app—but not the background of most t…

That's my number one gripe. Searching message history is absolutely terrible.

This was oddly fun.. It inspired me to keep writing a stream of thought that I normally wouldn't do anything like: hello, my name is sublime text, and I don't know what I'm doing. …

Former smoker here, and I miss the time to relax/reset, plus the social aspect. Lately I've been taking small breaks to just sit outside, and this has some of the same benefits for…

This was very helpful. Thank you

Hell is exactly how I would describe this. Well-made, cool video though!

Great! Legacy underground mazes full of decomposing human heads are such a pain.