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For me, it's easy to not fear it when I'm healthy, but as soon as I have health problems, I get this strong fear of mortality. It's a visceral thing though. In my mind, I know it's fine, it's inevitable, and there has never been a better time in history for medical treatment. But the fear I feel is separate from that rational knowledge. That is what's hard for me to harmonize. There is an anxiety underneath it all. And the funny thing is I never used to get that either, but after my brother committed suicide, I have had this visceral, mortal fear.

Daily meditation has helped me identify the feelings, but has not helped much in overcoming them. It has helped me find peace among them, which is a decent middle ground.

The mortal fear also helps me clearly prioritize things in my life, so it does have its benefits.

This one is easy. His idea about what "doing really well with Russia" means is way different from what American officials have had for decades.

That's the fast lane to having every company that values their IP exiting Brazil. Apple would roll their certificates and quit signing whatever Brazil was building with and Brazil's economy would be way worse off for nothing.

If the Dems could fire her, then so could The Fanta Menace.

I thought so too until I read this https://www.boristhebrave.com/2021/05/23/triangle-grids/ which touched on my biggest gripe with hexagons:

When working with hexes, you quickly realize their edges are a huge pain. They don’t line in a straight line! That makes it impossible to subdivide the grid with a line. You cannot build a big hex out of lots of little ones.

Triangles solve that. Squares also do not have that problem. Triangles work better on the surface of a globe than squares though.

Hosting the server is free. I'm actually not sure about windows because I don't use that. We actually play on our iPads. We have a family set up. Pay once for the app, everybody gets to install it on their own device.

For free stuff I think people run Java edition? Again, I've never done that. There is an itzg Java server container https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-server

FWIW Bedrock lets you connect to servers online that have free games to play like Bed Wars, Sky Wars, Block Party. I don't know if Java has that.

The Volkswagen Bug Zapper.

My kids and I use https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-bedrock-server and I would recommend it.

What if instead of her song she chose to perform Can't Touch This.

The Maple Eh-phone

This era was before smartphones and always-online lifestyle. Being always online is a prerequisite to the attention economy.

So, yes, you're right that the best internet was back then. Back when we could leave it at home and go out into the world knowing everybody else had also left it at home.

Laptops are an obvious exception back then, but almost nobody took their laptop to the bar with them, or to a concert, or on a hike, or to the grocery store. And the trouble of pulling it out and trying to find WiFi meant that it wasn't easy enough to distract the majority.

This does not sound good for those people. Writing is a way of thinking. AI writing assistants are competitive cognitive artifacts. People who use AI to write most of their written communication will get worse at thinking through writing.

The origin of yum, the Yellowdog Updater Modified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum_(software)

Office 364.93

"They're born, so fuck em. We only care about unborn babies." - GOP

Seriously this. Just look at General Patton:

We may have been fighting the wrong enemy (Nazi Germany) all along. But while we're here (on the Soviet border), we should go after the bastards now, 'cause we're gonna have to fight 'em eventually.

The authenticity of that quote may be disputed, but the idea is clearly in line with American military ideology at the time, and in line with what Patton thought.

And here we are in 2025 with American leaders siding with nazis and Russia.

Edit: I meant only that USA was anti-Russian. I don't think anybody else thought the Germans may have been the wrong enemy.