It is indeed bad and inaccurate.

I bet they only chose it because it looked similar enough to Mercator, unlike Dymaxion or other options.

People really hate change, friction, and doing something in a new way, even as small as using a different map.

So they settled for Equal Earth map as a compromise, because it’s a slight incremental improvement over Mercator, rather than a fully new thing.

Isn’t Dymaxion map projection even more accurate than Waterman-butterfly?

IMO marking Crimea as neutral makes zero sense in what otherwise would be a great map suggestion, and it really pisses me off.

Either show the actual control status on the ground: which would mean 80% of Ukraine marked as Ukrainian, 20% of Ukraine as Russian.

Or show 100% of it all as Ukrainian, as it’s agreed upon internationally.

Showing entire Ukraine as Ukrainian except for “neutral” Crimea doesn’t match reality neither legally nor militarily.

It’s immoral to leech off other people’s children tax money, sure.

But also no one wants to be a sucker doing 20+ years of unpaid labor raising kids, so someone else 's S&P 500 keeps growing and sustains a very comfortable retirement plan, and no one will even help you with raising kids anymore.

It’s really the system’s fault, not individuals. It makes it lucrative for every individual human to give as little back, and take as much from everyone else.

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I think reason why ultrarich can be called dumb is their lack of introspection.

They don’t waste time thinking “How does this affect other people?” or “Why do I want to be rich?” or else they wouldn’t have spent decades relentlessly grinding in a rat race.

You also have to be very delusional and take massive gambles to get rich. It worked out for Gates or Musk, yes, but its a survivorship bias. Lots of other psychotic people have lost all by chasing the next big thing like AI-powered startups or NFTs.

Although I would surely not claim all ultrarich people are dumb, because I haven’t seen any, nor have research to back this up.

He works out in jeans and won’t show his legs (my guess is steroid marks in his legs)

You are right, he is on juice, I think he even admitted himself that he is on TRT, which isn’t uncommon for wealthy men his age but yeah.

Still very ironic and inconsistent of him to promote “wellness farms” instead of SSRI’s and Adderall, while being on TRT which has way more side effects.

OBVIOUSLY we should care because it’s the internet and loud minorities dominate here, skewing our perception of reality and what political opinions are worth debating today, despite being fringe and unfeasible IRL /s

I have been experimenting recently with turning airplane mode on when I am outdoors. Although I still use a notes app and an offline .mp3 player.

I can definitely recommend, it feels much calmer, slower, and my situational awareness improved too.

They literally said in the opening sentence: “the best thing about early internet wasn’t AIM or MySpace”

The post isn’t about individual technology at all, but how relationship with technology changed.

I managed to squeeze 5 years out of a $200 budget phone. 7 years on mid-range or flagship is trivial.

Especially as new Pixels have lots of features to improve battery longevity:

• charging only up to 80%,

• OLED display that turns off pitch black pixels. Many apps nowadays have pitch black themes, and you can set wallpapers to pitch black,

• limit display smoothness to 60 Hz,

• battery saving mode,

• dark mode,

• turn off background usage for individual or all apps

40% is an extremely low approval rating in a two-party electoral college system like the US.

In the US, each election is only really decided by 10% of non-partisan Americans, who live in the swing states.

90% of other votes don’t matter, because those are permanently blue or permanently red states, and they cancel each other out.

So for Trump to lose 10% of Americans would mean to lose 100% of people who decide election outcomes.

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Taxing sugar is protecting the poor people’s wallets long-term from having to buy Ozempic, surgeries, sneakers for jogging, and fitness trackers.

That’s the real way wealth gets transfered from the bottom to the top - by selling poison AND the treatment for it.

It’s not like authoritarian governments ever lied with their official statistics to prove a point or anything…

Environmentally inclined people feel like they do something and don’t rally against the real problem.

Actually we have already been lobbying and protesting and trying to change the system for decades.

The work might not be visible, but it’s due to resource constraints, not because we are delusional and think that decreasing global CO2 emissions by 0.000000027% will fix the biodiversity loss.

Having friends is bad OPSEC!

Signal people have already explained why they refuse federation.

Basically, looking at history of federated messaging protocols (SMS and email), they are permanently frozen in time, and haven’t had security improvements for decades.

Signal team considers this tradeoff unacceptable, as highly targeted individuals rely on Signal to always keep it’s security model up-to-date against the most capable adversaries.

Thanks, this makes sense