antlion
When I watch rock climbing films my palms sweat.
I have a stereoscopic viewer. Like a desk version of Google Cardboard. You tape down two photos taken from different angles and view them in 3d. It has an adjustment knob like binoculars for your pupil distance, and some legs to hold it parallel to the desk. It’s made for aerial photographs. Maybe I could turn it into a VR viewer.
Depends what the goals were. I would say it has been wildly successful at de-registering would be free-thinking and minority voters. It’s been very successful at heavily funding police departments. Successful at growing the prison population, making a lot of money for shareholders off slave labor. It’s been successful at protecting profits for big pharma, when opium is pretty easy to grow and probably a much safer pain killer than fentanyl. Overall it’s been a pretty successful program.
Only way to make it more successful is if white folks could be made immune to drug addiction so it only destroys minority communities.
Yeah so maybe it hasn’t reduced the harm caused by drugs, but that was never the goal.
Poor people have mainly one problem: affording basic needs. As you get more you have lots more problems (in quantity, not severity). How much takeout is too much? What home improvement to prioritize? Estate planning? Who to hire to do taxes? House cleaner? Security (to protect the money)? Do you know a good travel agent? Insurance, upkeep on assets, investments. Am I charitable enough? Why am I still depressed? Should I see a therapist? Do I need a personal trainer?
Choosing how to spend money, is itself a problem. The only way to avoid the extra problems is to keep living like you’re poor, but without worries. Only buy what you need and know you can afford it.
Well we don’t want cancer or drugs in blood. But the current screening criteria for blood donations are kinda crazy. Travel to certain countries, tattoos. They should just test for the stuff they’re worried about directly: HIV, Hepatitis, and Malaria. Not that it matters since it’s illegal to buy/sell bodily fluids.
Blood banks. “Your blood saves lives”. Is actually “We can sell your blood to hospitals for $200 per pint”. Check the salaries of the non-profit blood bank CEO and board. I would gladly share my blood if I’m paid $100 per pint, or if they gave insurance vouchers for a free pint of blood, to avoid insurance charging $1000-3000 to get a pint back. In fact they could just call it “blood insurance” where your premium is paid in regular blood donations.
I use Emby. It’s similar to Jellyfin, but the Apps get a little more attention to detail. Worth a try, and if you don’t need gpu transcoding you don’t need to pay.
But, if I was still using an Apple TV, I would use Infuse.
Newborns are the worst. Be kind and patient with your partner. Eventually you’ll be laughing hard enough to forget the suffering. But while you’re in it, it’s a pretty thankless tough job.
It’s an auto-cycle. Which is probably more like a motorcycle, but without helmet requirements. It should be significantly safer than a motorcycle, particularly in the safety category of: not losing a leg during a fender bender. But larger vehicles it becomes a simple mass problem. The best hope for a vehicle like this is probably to become a low wedge and flip the heavy vehicle over or launch it to avoid crumple zones.
I was snowboarding with some French exchange students. They used a lot of slang. On the chair lift we saw somebody fall hard and flat, what we might call a “yard sale”. One of them said “Quelle bordelle”. I asked what it means he said “what a mess”. Later that year, my parents also had a French exchange student, and his parents were visiting and they didn’t speak much English. We were at the beach and I was describing all the seaweed from the storm and of course it’s a mess on the beach. His mom was a bit puzzled when I described the seaweed as resembling a brothel. You know, a mess, like trash, refuse, rubbish.
https://mcconnells.com/