Beans, lentils and some other supplies arrive today for the depression that is well on its way.
And if no depression materializes, great. We can still eat the beans and lentils. That’s how insurance against calamity works.
(Hint: There’s gonna be a depression. It’s baked in.)
I just asked a user to log in using the password she chose less than 5 minutes ago. (She couldn’t remember it.)
Not that unusual for the average user. I’ve had many users over the years who would forget their passwords every 2-3 days.
Self-service password resets are a godsend.
It’s fucking hilarious that so many STEM clowns look down on philosophy when about 90% of science is, “How sure am I that I know what I think I know?”
Which is and always will be a philosophical question.
The ‘70s conversation pit is making a comeback.
Yes! I love the conversation pit. A lot of 1970s design language was pretty great, even if the colors were not optimal. I bet the colors worked better in the moment, though.
Our house was built in 1975 but still only has a few remnants of the 1970s features left. I wish there were pics of it when it was new.
When you say that tattoos look bad people always come out of the damn woodwork saying, “I have right to do whatever I want with my own body!” Sure do. I agree with that 100%.
But I also have a right to say, “Damn, that looks like absolute crap.”
Those rights aren’t mutually exclusive. In fact, both need to exist to have a free society.
I wish there were a way to measure “practical literacy” vs. “can recognize some words and sound them out.”
That said, let’s talk about what’s pinging around in my brain. Literacy rates worldwide went from about 12% in the early 1800s to about 88% in 2016.
I suspect that 2016 number is about the peak of what I deemed above to be “practical literacy.” Already, large portions — perhaps even the majority — of Gen Z is not even close to being literate in any real sense. This will probably only get worse as TikTok and similar scourges take over the collective culture. Literacy is now passé in the literal French verb sense — as in “past.” It’s no longer required nor desired for and by the majority of the population.
This ramifications of this change will be just as large an alteration of society as widespread literacy was. And I do not have any idea how it will play out, but that future is well on the way whether we like it or not. In most important aspects, it’s already here.
North America is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover.
What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
The death of the middle-class restaurant.
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex.
Here’s the iPhone. Here’s the iPhone With Tariffs.
Beef Is Expensive. Meatpackers Are Scraping Every Morsel From Bones.