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uwagar··on Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
eat your bugs bro. dont fix them.
uwagar··on Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
i prefer you fix your bugs instead.
uwagar··on Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
they also maintained cattle? i dont think 3 million people would have used only 3% of the forest area if their main diet was bovine heavy.
uwagar··on Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
if you dont destroy something, its usually close to an idea of pristine.

the trouble is slash and burn agriculture and clearing for beef production.

uwagar··on How to Exist
a lot of the previous posts on the site are all about doing all sorts of things and squeezing the juice out of them :)
uwagar··on Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner"
well i dont know why the downvote, this is exactly what happens to most toxic processes. exported out to the 3rd world.
uwagar··on How to Exist
doing nothing wouldnt have created the microprocessor.
uwagar··on Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner"
dont worry people of the first world, all the noise is going to move to the 3rd world in the next few years.
uwagar··on French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
this package drops u in the line of fire.
uwagar··on Korg PS-3300 is back
i am the other one.
uwagar··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
that must be depressing to the owners and the investors.
uwagar··on Punch yourself in the face with reality
nobody throws a prototype so this will happen
uwagar··on Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context
basically, u gotta unplug and go offline and live by moving about in the world and interacting with everything with your own senses.
uwagar··on An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold
they deffo colonise the soundscape with call for prayer blaring 5 times a day everyday and i cant turn my ears off!
uwagar··on UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
lol
uwagar··on Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet”, is retiring
he the mother
uwagar··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
its horrible to think when u are caught up in something serious that calling an ambulance could ruin your life later.

better to live in uk where nhs takes care of all this compassionately for free.

uwagar··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
i enjoyed reading your post. i'd love to know more about this "going clear". in my case, i have noticed that if you persist with cannabis inspite of the anxiety..u somehow come out on "top" ie solve the problem causing anxiety.
uwagar··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
yes there are no side effects. i have cold turkeyed twice (once when actually in turkey). and nothing bad happened. even AI was telling nothing bad wud happen. but im usually a light user. say 4 joints a day with 4 grains of # in each.
uwagar··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
in my experience, they are very boring people indeed.
uwagar··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
it doesnt give anxiety. they are already very anxious people.

i find if you persist with it, the anxiety goes away and then you feel cannabis cured me!

uwagar··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
this is your opinion too.
uwagar··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
It was never the healthy sporty types with fulfilling relationships, good grades or a nice career that smoke cannabis heavily (like daily)

^^ many of those are boring people.

uwagar··on Rebuilding the Computer Room
gee this chap is young if imac g3 was his first computer. or i'm old.
uwagar··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
age verificiation is throttling of speech. so the internet becomes again like TV or newspaper. u can transmit with license only. not anonymously.
uwagar··on The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
to see sofas on a plane feels weird when they ask u wear seat belts all the time now due to risks from turbluence (clear air turbulence apparently!).
uwagar··on The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
if i run a pain vanilla website with no need for user accounts, do i have to age verify? will icann also ask for id when i register a new domain?
uwagar··on Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
author says:

Before we dive into my dirty laundry,

dude, why would i want to dive into your dirty laundry man?

uwagar··on Software is made between commits
i keep comitting when i make a change. who cares. im solo dev. svn. git no thanks.
uwagar··on The Causes of Long Covid
did they even ask the participants of the study if they took the vaccine?
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