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I've been looking at historic newspapers recently, its bothersome and unfortunate that many (most?) are all behind newspapers.com (ancestry) paywall.

There's an interesting company, Panthalassa [1], thats working on harnessing open ocean wave energy to generate electicity, and run inference with it. [2]

[1] https://panthalassa.com/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PCJRN7yGs (interview with the founder)

There's a long history of cherry stone consumption for some cherry species, they are very nutritious and the cyandide is removed by processing/drying/cooking.

Delicious almond like flavor, have experimented with wild chokecherries (Prunus virginiana).

Good article about living at a remote estancia at the bottom of Argentina, January 1971, 'The Housewife at the End of the World'. Not too much has changed since then.

https://archive.org/details/edg-ng-1961/edg%20NG%201971-01%2...

The book mentioned is 'Nutrition and Physical Degeneration', online version: https://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/pricetoc...

Highly recommended, at minimum for interesting historical look at various cultures with a pre-modern processed food diet. AFAIK the basic hypothesis about diet affecting face morphology holds up.

Highly recommend the 2015 documentary 'Cartel Land'

in what cultures do you think it will never be asked?

Can you recommend some specific ones?

Highly recommend the book 'Of Wolves and Men' by Barry Lopez

Might be wishful thinking, but I see this as the silver lining of the conflict

'A Paradise Built in Hell' by Solnit is a good read about it

Another very interesting possible benefit of ibogaine not mentioned in the article is potential for treating TBI.

from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41883580/:

>Longitudinal analyses assessed cortical thickness, subcortical volume, and predicted brain age (pBA), estimated from T1 scans. pBA was significantly reduced at 1 month relative to baseline (-1.3 years). Cortical thickness analysis revealed post-treatment increases in 11 regions. Subcortical analyses revealed significant volumetric expansion in 8 regions. Magnesium-ibogaine therapy was associated with increased cortical thickness, subcortical expansion, and reduced pBA at 1 month.

Not really "horribly unsafe", it seems that with proper prescreening and magnesium supplementation cardiac risk can be safely managed. I was looking into this a few weeks ago.

However there is certainly a lack of data, and facilities doing treatment now are probably incentivized not to share adverse events.

I think its important to state that "bonk point" is different based on if your metabolism is adapted for carb vs fat burning.

If always training with high carb loads, you will bonk rather quickly going on a long ride without any compared to if you train fasted or more fat adapted.

Interesting, but doesn't seem to be much evidence they depended on natural occurring fire.

Here is a nice report: Fire-Making in Tasmania: Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence , Gott 2016: https://sci-hub.su/10.1086/342430

from the paper: "The consideration of fire ecology data and various factors involved in the complex process of fire ignition, combustion, and behavior, in relation to the GBY paleoenvironment and archaeology, enabled the rejection of recurrent natural fires as the responsible agent for burning (Alperson-Afil, 2012)."

>It's been extensively documented among modern human groups.

Do you have some sources? A quick search doesn't pull up much evidence for current hunter-gatherer dependence on natural fire regime. Or you mean anatomically modern humans?

Wow. What is your total capacity and range with that setup?

See Michael Levin.

You can keep your file current structure/workflow and just use immich as a viewer and search engine, read only.

Not sure that's valid; in my experience Samsung phones are fairly repairable* and have spare parts available worldwide. Guessing Fairphone parts are much more limited.

* probably much more fiddly than a fairphone though

Hah, was just about to write that. Also recommended.

Has there been any significant use of decentralized mesh communication networks in Ukraine in the last years?

beautiful

How did you live differently knowing it was a possibility? It must have always been a shadow lurking nearby?

I think that might be the easiest, or even one with 3 buttons and volume knob.

Any tips for setting up a smartphone with a macropad as mentioned? I like this idea but worry it introduces a lot of complexity for the non-smartphone literate population.

Regarding the cassette player, in the US the 'National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled' has a player with an excellent simple interface, using cartridges for each book: https://blog.library.in.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/isl-t...

Does anyone have suggestions for an simple audiobook/music player like this for the elderly and or those mild dementia? It should have large, tactile buttons, simple play/pause interface, volume control (ideally knob), and be able to read from sdcard or usb/

- I've used the Relish 'dementia radio' [1] before. Its a radio with support for reading from usb, but has no memory so useless for audiobooks. Very overpriced.

- The 'National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled' has excellent cassette type players [2], but they only take their cartridges. Ideally something this format but supporting usb/sd card

- Another comment [3] here suggests a smartphone with a macropad. this could work. they also built a custom solution.

[1] https://relish-life.com/en-us/products/relish-radio [2] https://blog.library.in.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/isl-t... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818639

Doesn't feeding them contribute to even more deer overpopulation and human habituation?

I wouldn't mind seeing some legislation that forced compatibility between different ebike systems, especially battery DRM....