In my experience, in natural environments that contain a vertical paper towel holder, Torqueroligiverasacculum Genera finds a nest and potential mating area underneath.
I wonder if unchecked capital accumulation combined with cutting the social safety net and major public works will lead to commerce without customers: An economy built on consumption where nobody has the money to consume.
> Stories are being weaponised by populists who thrive on fear and capitalists who benefit from monetising it. The best storytellers are winning attention and winning power and keeping their power by telling even better stories.
It is increasingly costly to reach an audience (especially one of the size that would be required to have a "shared ground") not only in the sense of cash money, but also the attention cost of convincing that audience that those "better stories" (perhaps more shocking, outraging, etc.) they've been told might not be actually true.
News is becoming yet another industry that rewards the first mover -- write that first shocking headline, and all the other outlets have to work 10 or 100 times as hard to correct it later.
I've mentioned this here and elsewhere, but it's an app where you specify a word or phrase, and get a notification when someone else is nearby and has the same word or phrase set. Seems like a nice starter app. Good luck on your journey!
I live in a city with a large number of unhoused people. I think I would use unlimited resources to buy and renovate old buildings[1] downtown to build housing, and fund support services on-site to help people escape homelessness and addiction.
I would want to solve this because unhoused people are suffering, and downtown (as a neighborhood) has been sort of hollowed out by business choosing to leave for practical reasons (WFH) and because of the perception of "too many" unhoused people. I love downtown, it's just not a pleasant place to spend time, especially at night.
I do not have the resources nor the political acumen for these kinds of initiatives, and I think it would take a great deal of resources to not only buy the land but demolish or renovate the buildings. It would create a lot of jobs (construction at first) but I think there's a large amount of activation energy required to get started.
I love my 0.7mm Zebra Sarasa Clips (dark blue). I buy the refills to put in other pens. The ink dries nearly instantly. Not fancy, but a great workhorse pen.
This is the first earthquake where I got a ShakeAlert notification _before_ the shaking started. I had a good two seconds to think before I felt it, and that's pretty cool, all things considered.
I agree -- color bars pre-printed on tractor-feed paper would have used a Pantone ink, maybe a tint of 290 for blue, or 358 for green. Mills wouldn't have likely used a C+M+Y build: Why pay for three inks (and the potential for misregistration) when you can just use one? There might have even been a special machine to print the lines at regular intervals, and not run through a traditional offset printing press.
Pantone inks in specific, and printed colors in general, don't convert precisely to RGB. Ambient light reflects off paper to your eyeballs; a screen beams light into your eyeballs.
It's a nice little nostalgic thought exercise, though.
> Ricks, a native of the Ninth Ward, later told NBC Nightly News that he wrote the bulletin based on his previous experiences with Betsy and Camille. [...] The bulletin, and the rosary that Ricks clutched as he and his fellow forecasters weathered the storm in their office, are both now in the National Museum of American History.[19]
This is a personal anecdote, and just one data point, but still. I work on websites for customers, and frequently I'll need to (for example) iterate through some spreadsheet data, or convert a big object of this format to some other format. These are tedious tasks that don't take a _huge_ amount of time, but instead of grinding on a particular function for 30 minutes, I have a workable thing I can tweak in five minutes. I'd say this helps me "code faster and better."
Does it make the end product better? Not really: I would have gotten there with a function written by me or some LLM. But like everything I've been asked to do my professional career, it allows me to do more with less. More dumb functions in less time.