Yeah, I will say that this isn't completely hypothetical to me. I've lived in Texas my entire life including through the winter blackout of February 2021. It was truly anomalous weather for us to be caught in single digit temperatures with no power to run any HVAC systems, and most homes don't have fireplaces. It was unpleasant, but in the end the cold wasn't particularly dangerous.
Since then, I've stored away a small indoor-safe propane heater with a few days of fuel supply and a 2KW generator.
I agree. Not only that, but I find the interface on my phone much better so sometimes I find myself holding my phone instead of using CarPlay...which I admit is even worse.
“Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance” — Robert Pirsig
“Siddhartha” — Herman Hesse
“Stranger in a Strange Land" - Robert Heinlein
"Wind Up Bird Chronicle" - Haruki Murakami
The first two were handed to me by my father when I dropped out of high school. Zen was a slog the first time I read through it, I came back to it my late twenties and have read it at leaset two more times since then.
I was not a fan of "Zen" as it tried hard to sound intelligent without saying much. Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami was a disappointment as well. Mystical realism is an often imitated genre done well by only a few.
It changed the way I think about "thinking". I also see myself in the father and son story. I am sorry to be so general but if I jump into the specifics I fear I would ruin them. Not because somebody else couldn't but I know myself to be a horrible teacher.
Being an extravert, the book inspired me on how to get energy from my inner world of thoughts, ideas, and images during quarantine. Beautiful metaphors and philosophical inquiries into values.
I think the question I find interesting is are these new startups generating a product that is 1) better than products already available on the market and 2) better enough to justify the 5x to 10x price? I don't know about the products mentioned in the article. I have had mixed results from my own experience of purchasing similarly markets products. However, I am excited about these new products coming to market. If you can 10x my underwear experience bring it on!
this is probably cheating-it's beyond "original Amiga hardware"-but there were various expansion boards like the Video Toaster which did video switching and effects, and later editing.
I was originally going to suggest the Amiga's video genlock that enabled products like the Toaster, but it looks like WinUAE can simulate genlock via an external AVI file.
disclaimer: was not an Amiga user or analog video professional; some of that might not be totally accurate or use the correct terms. And iiuc, the 1000/500 series for example didn't have the expansion capabilities of the 2000.
I suggest checking out the Mr Money Mustache forums. Specifically the Case Study forum. I was in a similar place to you (though with less children), and it took about two years of changes but I now save about 70% of my salary. It has been empowering. It came from a lot of small changes (tips) that rolled to become a mindset change. The Mr Money Mustache forums are focused on retiring early but I prefer to focus on the Financial Independence. I initially thought I would sacrifice happiness, oddly I found the opposite. However everyone is different and I wasn't married when I started, which makes lifestyle changes easier.
I read every article about classic Macs. Like many of us, these computers are where I got started with my tech love. That said the only thing I really miss is Flying Toasters. Okay, maybe a spacial Finder as well.
Do you worry about consuming too much mercury? I brought down my fish consumption after reading about this risk but I could be overblowing it. Do you have have any advice on how to deal with this?
This says the tolerable weekly intake for methylmercury is 1.6 μg per kg body weight per week. For a 200 lb man that is 80 milligrams of shark meat (p95 1835 mg/kg) or 11 lbs of sprat (p95 0.029 mg/kg) or 2.9 lbs of sardines (p95 0.112 mg/kg).
NO, for two reasons. I eat mostly salmon and sardines, and some small mackerel only. If you look up fish low in mercury there are a ton of links.
But secondly, they found that the nutrients, mainly selenium, in the fish actually help the body remove mercury through the thioredoxin system, so the worry might be exaggerated. I do not eat fish everyday as well, I eat shellfish on the off days and I fast. Oysters are really high in selenium.
Easiest step is if you eat tuna, don't eat Albacore, instead eat Skipjack.
If you can afford it then go with brands which have thorough testing (e.g. Wild Planet, Safe Catch, etc.). Granted best to go further down the food chain, but this is an easy first step to take.
Three things occur to me as I read this article: 1) Toilet paper seems like a necessity. 2) In America, we treat our prisoners horribly. We are going to look back on this in a 100 years with the same disdain we look back on slavery. 3) Though I have a hard day a head of me, my life could be far, far worse.
> We are going to look back on this in a 100 years with the same disdain we look back on slavery.
We can only hope, but why only in 100 years when 'we' - the people in this thread and a lot of others - already look at it with disdain.
But there's others - lawmakers, the private prison industry, etc - who think this is just fine and dandy, because it fills their pockets and is a legal avenue into a slave labor force (prison labor). It's in their interest to get people in jail.
BTW major US businesses use Unicor for backend support/logistics. There were guys denied going to lower level facilities (with better privileges, closer to family, etc) because their forced labor was too valuable.
