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here's a picture of my bonsai as promised:
it hasn't grown much over winter, but it will certainly need pruning within the next few weeks.
Definitely get a kick out of replaying Cyberpunk 2077. Have to give it a few months between replays, but there are a lot of builds and so many ways to approach the missions that it always feels new.
On my third playthrough I found, totally by accident, a whole new section of a mission that I'd never seen before, and completing it made a major change to one of the storylines.
My other half takes the lead on our garden. She has a small herb garden in our kitchen, and has some seedlings for vegetables that will soon be planted outside. This year she has also started taking an interest in growing flowers to try and help our local insect populations.
I help out, and I like growing gourmet mushrooms. Last year I grew three varieties of oyster mushrooms in our second bedroom. This year I want to try growing shiitake and lions mane as well.
We have several indoor plants too. A big Amaryllis which has been going strong since Christmas, and I have a small bonsai that I tend to. Several cacti and succulents too.
while the potential social utility of religion might not depend on it's "truthfulness", the actual ability of religion to provide benefits to society does depend on it's "perceived truthfulness" to some degree.
taking myself as an example, I'm not religious, never have been. in fact, I'm fairly convinced that it's all just mythology. no matter how good of a case you could make for the social utility of a religion, it's unlikely to convince me that the religion is actually true. that limits the social utility of the religion because at least one member of the society has a high barrier to adopt it as a personal moral guide or philosophy.
in this regard, the social utility of religion does depend on it's truthfulness (or at least, on its ability to appear truthful). an untruthful religion is necessarily fragile in its capacity to permeate a society homogenously and persistently, because once the seeds of doubt are sown, the validity of the religion as truth will always be questioned, and it therefore is unlikely to be fully adopted by everybody in the society. a society with various different religions, and a mix of religious and non-religious groups will not gain the benefits of a society that has a single religion.
My other half and I are hoping to become expectant parents this year. Don't have any other goals, I suspect once there is a baby on the way we will find ourselves with totally new priorities.
the security isn't to stop the bank losing money. it's to stop criminals from gaining money.
if the bank loses the cash they can just print more, so there's no issue for them. but, they can't allow us plebs to get huge amounts of cash without working for it. only they have that privilege.
Slow down, breathe, and don't be afraid of stopping talking to think or take a sip of water.
Nervous speakers feel the need to fill silence with filler words (umm, err, etc), or will ramble on quickly with their speech.
Confident speakers will embrace silent moments and allow them to exist naturally. In fact, allowing moments of silence can be very useful because it gives you a chance to take a deep breath, or to have a quick sip of water, or just collect your thoughts, whilst simultaneously giving your audience chance to digest your words and reflect.
any ride at a theme park involving water. why the hell would anybody want to go on a log-flume, for example? what a stupid idea getting yourself soaked in water while fully clothed, then having to spend the rest of the day slightly damp.
Get a refurbished mini pc and install Linux. I got a Lenovo think centre, 8th gen intel i3, 8gb ram, 512gb SSD for £80. installed Debian on it. attached some usb hard disks, now it's a server.
far more powerful than a raspberry pi and barely more expensive.
Isn't this mistakenly assuming that bitcoin is only used when it is moved?
I use bitcoin every day, by leaving it exactly where it is.
Defence stocks won't go up or down based on whether I invest in them. If I invest, it won't prolong the wars, and of I don't invest, it won't cut them short.
The death and destruction is happening anyway and will continue to happen. Why shouldn't I make money off that?
It's not like I'm even making money from the violence, I'm just making money from the movement of a number on a screen that's somehow connected to a company that builds the tools of the violence.
I've been considering this (to a minor degree) for the past few years. Just not rolling the clocks forward this spring, and living my life in GMT.
Have there been any significant hurdles for you? Living in the US, you have different time zones, so maybe you're used to thinking across tzs? In the UK we have one time zone so I can't imagine it's easy to live every day in two times?
Had roast pork with my parents last week, turned out my dad had trimmed the pork fat and thrown it out instead of making it into crackling.
Reasoning: it is just fat and therefore it's bad for you. I tried to argue it was probably one of the healthier parts of the whole meal, but the fat was already in the bin.
Afterwards we had a choice of sugary desserts, manufactured on an assembly line. Supposedly they weren't bad enough to warrant being thrown out...
The cat is out of the bag at this point, Bitcoin has been a self-sustaining thing for a long time. Satoshi, if he came back, couldn't change anything fundamental. His only advantage would be a social one (people might take his opinion more seriously because of who he is). He couldn't force bitcoin to change, so there is no reason to do anything differently.