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Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Makes sense. Tangentially, people always mention of spending time on the toilet, but I never could relate as its a max 2-3 minute activity for me, usually less. Only have enough time to read some Reddit posts. Maybe, as I get older, this will change. Edit: I am vegetarian, probably has something to do with it.

Gotta give the hemorrhoid doctors some work. Ideally you should finish your business rather fast, but I think a lot of people simply find a nice break on the toilet. Obviously food has an impact but if any type of *vore has long shits it’s probably because they aren’t getting enough fibre, another boon for the hemorrhoid doctors! The reason I know a shit should take 30 seconds is because there is this Danish doctor w…

No shit.-

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It’s been like that since August 2000 when they launched their premium sponsorship program, which was replaced by AdWords later that year. I’m not sure you can fully blame Google for what the web became though. Part of the reason search engines are close to useless here 24 years later is because most of the content people produce go to SoMe sites. Sites like Hacker News, sites like Medium and so on and because of how…

One could probably put a date on the moment when the decreasing friction of publishing to the web intersected with the increasing potential for monetization. Suddenly all of these new people are writing blogs for AdSense revenue instead of good vibes and the atmosphere has all the vibrancy and vitality of a strip mall.

Early 2004, I'd ballpark.-

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The simplest thing would be to simply link to a Youtube video, perhaps with a small warning that it will take them to Youtube which uses trackers. You could even make the link an image that is the thumbnail of the video. Not the prettiest or purest solution, but very simple.

I've seen youtube embeds be overlaid and say things like "this embed carries tracking, click here to load inline at your own peril or here to watch on original site" or something to that effect. Can't recall where though.

Medium did (does?) this when you have DNT enabled. Several GDPR-compliant sites do the same, though many use their embeds as a means to track people into clicking the "accept all tracking" button.

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They could solve these problems by not living on a sailboat.

It's a bit like saying: People climbing a mountain can solve their mountain-climbing problems by not climbing mountings. Also not unlike: It's not the destination, it's the journey.

It's a bit like saying that having to climb mountains is a problem when you choose to be a mountain climber.

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Makes sense. Tangentially, people always mention of spending time on the toilet, but I never could relate as its a max 2-3 minute activity for me, usually less. Only have enough time to read some Reddit posts. Maybe, as I get older, this will change. Edit: I am vegetarian, probably has something to do with it.

In my personal experience it mostly has to do with how much fiber you get, whether you eat meat or not. Lots of meat and no fiber is not recommended.

This is why I stopped eating keto; I lost two stone really quickly but you pay for it when you're on the throne.

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> a growing storm of complexity that humanity increasingly depends on Yet real engineers ought to now that “An engineer has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing left to take away”. ... or they never new and yet attempting engineering anyway? Growing portion of my life is spending time with the complexity of toolchain and work context, while my outcome diminishes in every sense, amoun…

> financial selection is the way how society work on top of finite resources since ancient times I don't know where you get that from, but if anything it looks like there has never been a single society but many forms of organisation. I'd be even more careful with any reference to finance in that context. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

> there has never been a single society but many forms of organisation

Single society? ... where that came from and who brought it here, apart from you of course? Collaborative large human groups where division of labour is an intrinsic matter is referred simplisticly as society. No elaborated and complete study was the goal here to give complete picture of the matter but a short referral to the inherent competitive need, as part of the story.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-FUCK-are-talking-about/dp/B08X... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money

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One thing I don't get is how they sustain themselves in terms of income - does anyone know what they do to support their lifestyle? Just really curious (and potentially out of the loop). Thanks.

I don't think they sustain themselves with this project.

They get 900 USD a month of stable income from Patreon. Add to that income from art commissions etc. and realize that they don't have to pay rent, car insurance etc.

Looks sustainable enough.

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> , so saying it's retroactive justification isn't really true and minimizes the real problems they face. I wouldn't call any of the listed problems "real problems" in the context of my long winded disability and homelessness lmao. I used to be in their community, the mods, and indirectly, them, were abusive as hell. Their community is, last I heard, hemorrhaging queer folk (or maybe it's bled dry and queer folk just…

I'm very surprised to read this, considering both authors of the linked article use they/them pronouns.

The problem with identifying the goodness of people by their use of pronouns is that, surprise surprise, empty words good person does not make

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A larger battery and more solar panels doesn’t seem to be an option for the authors: > The modern stack doesn't really work for us, it doesn't apply to the limitations that we have on the boat. We have 180 watts of solar. We just spent the whole summer with two 6-volt batteries, which is very small. When you're going down that route, at every turn people are telling to just put more solar panels, or to buy more batte…

I love what they're doing, but these are reasons that don't hold up to scrutiny. gluing flexible panels to the deck would solve the windage problem and the boat is over 16,000 pounds laden... adding another ~80 pounds (less if LiFePO) of batteries would decrease their "run away" ability by about 0.5%. They pretty clearly ran into a challenge, chose the fun solution rather than the practical one, and ran with it. Whic…

Not only that, but how cutting-edge is the stuff they have? New solar panels have much better efficiency than panels made 20 years ago, for instance (both because of better technology, and because of the effects of aging). Newer battery technology has much higher energy density than old stuff.

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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"We choose to make this video game and do the boat life thing, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win!"

Living in a boat is not hard.

Sure, if you live on a boathouse on a British river in front of the supermarket
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