This one is it for me. The game really does so much with so little. The reality of the game is that it is a roughly linear sequence of closed levels (with some hub levels thrown in) that feels like a cohesive, connected world. It’s absolutely incredible!

Oh nice! I’ll check that out too! Thanks!

That’s pretty amazing. I’ve never played the game but it looks pretty chill.

Sometimes I really get in the mood for chill games like Stardew Valley or NetHack! Maybe I’ll check out ETS2 sometime!

Commercial driver’s licenses?

At first I thought it was a giant snickerdoodle! Now I kinda want a snickerdoodle…

The system doesn’t view you at all. It’s just a jungle out there. Hang on to people you’re close to. Try to grab what you can and survive. I’m rooting for you!

When the one being washed is finished what do you do with it? Do you rotate sheets every day?

No. The comic is talking about airspeed: speed relative to the wind.

It records an air speed of 0. Isn’t that working exactly as intended?

Sure you can. Just need a pitot tube!

S&P 500 index fund.

The issue with prions is they’re not that contagious. An infected person is not a danger to other people. This means you need to contaminate all the meat in the food supply because you can’t rely on transmission.

The deeper thing they have in common is that they’re all products which follow power law distributions based on popularity. Popular items get more exposure by word of mouth than unpopular or unknown items. That exposure leads to even more popularity which results in exponential takeoff.

Thus you can have a music industry where Taylor Swift can make a billion dollars on one tour while millions of other musicians languish in total obscurity.

Yeah. The same thing has happened in the music world, the book world, and even the movie world.

YouTube lowered the barrier to entry to basically nothing if you want to publish your own movie. Getting millions of people to watch it, even completely for free, is very difficult. Almost all of the videos out there with millions of views were published by people who were already well known (even if they grew their fanbase directly on YouTube).

Music is probably fairly similar to movies in that you can publish easy on YouTube and then direct everyone to your Bandcamp site to buy music from you.

The book world is probably hardest to crack. There are so many authors out there and it’s very easy (from a technical standpoint) to publish your own book. Writing a book a lot of people want to read and getting people to read it is a totally different matter!

That actually doesn’t say very much. Vegan ricotta can be made with many different things.

Yes. This is the way. Never trust your own willpower when you can use a (hopefully simple) device to put yourself into a routine!

I saw another post recently about advice for living with ADHD and a lot of people said “habit formation is impossible.” I didn’t have time to reply at the time and subsequently forgot about it until now. My number one hack for getting around the habit formation problem is setting reminders on my phone! I use them for everything and it always feels satisfying to complete a task and check off the box to finish the reminder!

Stay away from gambling sites. If you’ve got extra money and want to watch it grow, invest in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) with a low/no fee trading account. Stay away from meme stocks as well.

If you do invest, diversify your portfolio. SPY is very exciting but it’s heavily tied up in the AI bubble. Try to more international markets, clean energy, minerals, heavy industry. No matter what happens to the AI companies, we still need energy and resources to build stuff and keep our economy going.

Read about taxable and non taxable trading accounts in your country. Try to use those to avoid having your savings eroded by taxes. You will pay plenty of taxes on your income, so don’t worry about that!

Sure you can have a unique identifier. That’s not the issue. The issue is that anyone can contact you via your phone number! This is not a problem with chat apps where people need permission to add you to their contact list. Why not have a system like that?

Same goes for credit cards. They should need to ask for permission to charge your credit card. Merely knowing your credit card info should not be enough.

A bunch of those fruits were likely pollinated by domestic honeybees!

And this is the genesis of my copious notes on things to do, going back decades, which I’m mostly never going to do. Ahhhhhh!

I do end up doing a few things though!