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Yeah tell that to my teaching assistant wife who works at a Lincolnshire village primary school and is now 'always on' to the whims of the go getting headmistress 24/7.

She feels she can't practically ignore out of hours requests and she doesn't want to challenge the practice for fear of rocking the boat.

Dividends are mildly taxed now.

Banks explicitly talked about utopia's being too boring to write about and that the friction on the edges of Culture and the rest of the universe provided the necessary drama for a novel.

I'm finding all the Consider Phlebas hate kinda weird. I found it electrifying at the time and 25 years on when I re-read it last year, Horza's weary bleakness was incredibly poignant.

I’m asking for ownership to be disrupted. It’s insane we all have our own and they have such low utilisation.

They are almost always stationary parked somewhere when privately owned.

What Apple does with the iPhone 'closed ecosystem' seems very relevant for owners of Samsung handsets...

Decisions made in their 'closed'ecosystems leak in the rest of the world.

Not true in Nottinghamshire near where I live. There are several largish permanent average speed camera systems unrelated to roadworks eg A6097.

Such that, when I was looking for a new car, cruise control or a speed limiter was a must.

You’ve forgotten about the Homepod. That sounds pretty amazing for it’s size and price. (I work in the music industry and have an unhealthy interest in monitors / headphones)

Hmm perhaps ‘rewarding’ wasn’t the right word. Satisfying is closer. I wasn’t looking for a ‘the baddie got caught and everyone lived happily ever after’ per se. I thought the pacing / editing was unsatisfying towards the end, I inferred studio meddling.

Germans less interested in moving fast and breaking things than Brits in my experience. Especially outside of Berlin.

In the UK, if you have a test, you are required to quarantine until you get the results. Is it not the case elsewhere??

Which is probably his worst film. Expending more effort on a more rewarding ending would have been time better spent.

Time for Game B. And fast. Come on HN. Time to bring your A Game to Game B and get stuck into John Vervaeke, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall etc.

https://youtu.be/8Es_WTEgZHE

Invest in properly learning about yourself.

The best works of art leave space between the ideas, words and images. Blade Runner is a bit more like a poem than a novel and that's why it works so well and why it was rejected so soundly at the time of release.

Sometime it takes a while to grasp the significance of a poem.

Also in the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/21/cuties-netflix-...

The irony being that the first time director is a black woman.

Threatening the ability to be subtle in art. Not a new thing - see Chris Morris 'Paedogeddon' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9frVTgoKSI

Hope folks wake up to the manipulation going on here fairly sharpish.

Bandcamp experience for an artist is good but the backend could sure do with a spruce, particularly the reporting and the API for merch fulfilment.

That said anything pushing against the chilling affect of Spotify is a win.

Closed loop insulin delivery systems functionally “cure” t1 diabetics and are here today. Have implemented for a t1 friend. Has transformed his long term outlook.

https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/

Relies on currently quite expensive hardware (continuous glucose monitors / insulin pump / iPhone / Bluetooth to radio device) but that could all be combined into 2 cheap devices easily. Regulation and inertia just seems to be making that process very slow.

In the UK plenty of mid to high end pocket sprung mattresses are flame retardant free. John Lewis specify whether they have retardants or not.

I'll be buying a new sofa this year so I'm keenly interested on the sofa side. It seems that Ikea are the only company that make nicely designed not incredibly expensive sofas. Will look at vintage as well.

I'm down with Stewart Lee's take on political correctness

https://youtu.be/x_JCBmY9NGM

(warning, contains British Humour)

I think the error in your argument here is to always reduce the application of political correctness down to flawed individuals.

If there is consensus at a societal level that certain hateful speech should be prevented for the general good of society, (and there is) then enforcing that makes sense. We've evolved past bear baiting and public flogging (in most parts of the world), we can evolve past racism, sexism and other limiting behaviours.

I’m not sure I’d describe it as out of character.

Phonetically styled narrative from characters pops up in several Banks novels. I’d argue the The Barbarian’s Scottish dialect in The Bridge was a precursor to Bascule.

There are also smattering’s of fun phonetic speech in the first few Culture novels. Most memorably from Fwi-song the prophet of the Eaters cult.

I had the feeling with Feersum Endjinn Banks decided to go ‘all in’ on the fun phonetics.

In the early 90s I went to a Banks reading (possibly Crow Road or The State of The Art) in Sheffield and during the Q&A he talked with great animation and detail about his new as yet untitled novel, which a few years later turned out to be Feersum Endjinn.

Sorely miss him.

The episode of Michael Taft's excellent 'Deconstructing Yourself' podcast featuring Douglas Tataryn was definitely a 2019 highlight.

Excellent exploration of the intersection of psychotherapy and meditation. With bonus Circling practise and Integral theory talk thrown in.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/meditation-emotions-bi...

So good and so underrated.

Can't recommend that book enough. Huxley nailed it.

Anecdotally - I helped a T1 diabetic friend set up Loop using a Dexcom G5 and then a G6. Over the course of many months of use, the G6 has proved MUCH more reliable and accurate than the G5, which resulted in far better Looping. The Loop community as a group seem to confirm this increased accuracy.

There's plenty of sushi that doesn't involve fish or meat. Sashimi is raw fish. Sushi is more about rice.

Agreed. There's very little litter in the UK countryside because (generalising) the people who litter don't go there and the people who do are included to pick it up.

British towns and cities aren't great, embarrassingly bad compared to the Japanese cities I've been to.

I spent a weekend in Lisbon recently and was fairly shocked at how bad the litter / rubbish was. The worst I've seen in Europe. Warm climate made it smelly too.

By bizarre coincidence I bumped into my neighbours yesterday, they’d just arrived back from Tuxford Mill after reading the Guardian article. We live only 15 mins away.

I’ve been buying Tuxford Mill porridge oats from for a few years. Going to try my hand at sourdough now!

Egan’s best book IMHO. Genuinely mind expanding ideas.

Curious what you're pairing them with? Not had to re-pair my, er, pair at all. I have iPhone 6s and 2012 MacBook Air.

Agreed, but weirdly our experience was that three was easier than two. We truely had to let go of the idea that we could do everything the 'right way' and as a result became more relaxed and confident parents as a result.

Anecdotally our third child is the least anxious and most confident out of the three. We were clearer about the stuff that really didn't need sweating over - we had no choice!