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This was my first reaction too.

I’m curious why you are putting yourself through this? Given this is a multi million dollar project, why not purchase an existing home? I know inventory is tight, but you’d close on a place within 6 months.

Lots of people game on the LG C1. 55in is $1300ish.

Was it this Atlantic article?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america...

Turkey banned crypto https://fortune.com/2021/04/30/turkey-crypto-ban-erdogan-cry...

1. Join a book club. Even with just two other friends. It holds you accountable and will force you to read most days. I often find myself aimlessly watching YouTube and reading Reddit comments at 8:30pm. It’s that bored stage of the daily social scroll where I’m not getting any novelty or pleasure. Then I realize I can read my book instead.

2. If you have a significant other, trying reading a short story out loud at night. My wife and I did this for a while and it’s awesome.

Neil Stephenson was just talking about this concept on Lex Friedman’s podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAfdSak2fs8

I really urge people to do a multi-day fast a few times a year. I wrote a little guide about it that I shared previously [1].

You can wonder about these longterm positive effects, but it's sort of a Pascals wager. You lose absolutely nothing and it could have significant upside. Worst case, it makes you confront your relationship to food and offers a great mental challenge.

One cool thing that you learn is that there is a maximum hungry you get. It doesn't ever go past that point (and you've felt it before without fasting). Even better, it ebbs and flows. You won't be in a state of "OMG I am starving!!" all day long. It hits at normal eating times, and then retreats to the background.

Anyway, just try it.

[1]https://www.nicholasjrobinson.com/blog/general/five-day-fast...

My Bosch fridge claimed it would notify if the door stayed open. I read that to me I’d get a native push notification after a time threshold I can set. That would be a very useful feature.

Oh how foolish I was.

No, it’s an app that requires a whole mess of registration.

They better not email me a report card like this guy.

Wow, you’re the real MVP here. Thank you.

For anyone who doesnt use shortcuts often, what you need to do in Shortcuts is:

1. Make a ‘URL’ action to prefs:root=PASSWORDS 2. Hit the ‘+’ and make a ‘Open URL’ action from safari.

Save, add to Home Screen, and you’re done.

Arnold’s best friend, Franco Columbo, was my body worker. He’d just look at me and know what I was doing wrong. He was so amazing. And sadly died way too young from a boating accident.

I’ll see if I can find a PT who can replicate.

How did you find your personal trainer?

I have a chronic neck pinch, coming from a weak lower trap (I think), that I’d love to fix. I make it worse multiple times a year from lifting and have to take at least a week off the gym.

I bet I am doing what you did with using the wrong muscle.

Thank you!

There’s no comments in here yet, but I cant possibly read the article. Guess Ill go check Slack.

Displaying an NFT was my thought for it too. Gas fees were high at the time and so I never did anything there either.

I got one during the crowd funding campaign and received it a few months ago.

Played with it for an hour or two. It now sits unplugged on my desk. It’s too distracting to be always on, and too limited to turn on occasionally. I’m just not sure what to do with this thing.

From that article, you need to install it in a 700+ sqft location. That’s a pretty big garage.

Champagne is a very frequent trigger.

Red wine I generally don’t drink because it’s more likely to make me feel like garbage the next day.

I had no idea about histamine levels. Need to fully read that article, really appreciate the link.

Once or twice a year I get a nasty case of hiccups that lasts 2-3 hours. Usually after a day spent wine tasting. How strange…

For $15 it’s worth a shot.

I thought housing was going to tank, so obviously I thought the market was going to tank too :(

I started house shopping in 2019 in a high cost of living suburb.

Prices seemed high. The market seemed frothy. I was very cocky and told my agent I wasn't in hurry. Prices would surely normalize. We must be in a bubble! Everyone seemed so irrational.

COVID hit and I was beyond smug. See, Mr. Agent, I told you. World wide pandemic will burst the bubble and I'm going to get a house for nothing.

$450/foot houses are now $650/foot. We've been priced out of multiple neighborhoods.

If you don't have an offer on a house within 3 days of the first showing, don't even bother.

Add $100k to the listing price to even begin thinking if you can get the house.

And then pray you aren't up against 5 all cash buyers.

Meanwhile, I've had the down payment sitting in a savings account for three years and its buying power decreases every month. Should have YOLOed into BTC. Would have turned into one of those damn all cash buyers.

Fun times.

Chappelle was brought up in the article ;)

Yes!! Apache Strike!

>For claims that don’t directly result in physical harm, like conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus, we continue to work with our network of over 55 fact-checking partners covering over 45 languages to debunk these claims... Once a post is rated false by a fact-checker, we reduce its distribution so fewer people see it, and we show strong warning labels and notifications to people who still come across it, try to share it or already have.

Does this pass the mask test? As we all remember, the WHO said to not wear masks early during the outbreak. Twitter users, in particular, was way ahead on urging people TO wear a mask. Would Facebook now block that or reduce its distribution and potentially risk lives?

Space Quest was pure, utter magic to me. I couldn’t believe it.

The helicopter game was Apache something.

Crystal Quest was awesome. My mom loved that game too.

I don’t recall a pyramid game.

This study seems relevant https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2378023121996854

> Fewer young adults are engaging in casual sexual intercourse now than in the past, but the reasons for this decline are unknown.

And this recently discussed article

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/opinion/sunday/endocrine-...

> Scientists are concerned by falling sperm counts and declining egg quality. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be the problem.

Important to note the 300k is a hypothesis

> Official birth data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics will not be available for many more months, but some states have already released provisional birth data. In January 2021, which would be the first month in which all full-term babies born were conceived after the lockdown began, births fell by 7.2 percent in Florida and 10.5 percent in California, after adjusting for secular trends, seasonal variation and the use of provisional birth data.

> you can make most diets healthy when adhering to rules of freshness, nutrient density, and a wide array of nutrients.

Let’s sing this from the rooftops. I deeply agree.

Commenters point is that these are the wrong solutions to the wrong problems, misdirected through naming and PR.