Every time I see a "X big tech site is down" story, it's like "huh, must be rough"

I mean, my sites do occasionally go down, but that's a skill issue I can overcome, innit?

"Government is expected to collapse" as in "a standard democratic event where the current government isn't going to continue and an election can be called"

What we're waiting for is "Government is expected to collapse" as in the end of the fifth republic and the beginning of the sixth republic (or the first french empire)

The masculine urge to maintain old smart phones

Bartholomew Halliburton the III

There are benefits to the somewhat broken Japanese system, and hanging onto talent is definitely one of them.

yeah, but minetest is FOSS and isn't slowly being infected with suck.

I wrote a super long effortpost about the fact that the Wachowskis are postmodernists, and the first Matrix movie worked because it was deeply steeped in postmodernism. The problem with every Matrix movie since is that you need a stroy other than postmodernism to have an arc, and they couldn't make any other story as effectively.

If anything though, the postmodernism of the Wachowskis is why the Wachowski brothers became the Wachowski sisters -- they deconstructed the essential nature of their biology and subverted them. It's a symptom of the problems with 3 of the 4 Matrix movies. Of course, "The mind makes it real" is objectively false -- the mind is a highly parallel thing where not every part can directly manipulate every other part. People feel pain, people think they're dying, people think they're dead, but they keep going because the thing that makes their hearts beat lives elsewhere, somewhere more primal than the higher brain functions.

By contrast, its contemporary Fight Club actually does something neat, it has 3 parts to its arc: Postmodern deconstruction (the Fight Clubs everyone remembers); Modernist postmodernism (Project Mayhem) where tearing down society becomes industrialized, systematized, and made into a machine where the individuals involved are just pieces of a grand narrative (of tearing down grand narratives); and finally adopting something older than modernism itself, standing next to the girl you like after fighting to try to stop the bombs from blowing up the buildings. People never seem to remember the last two parts of Fight Club, but the fact that they're there makes it a much more complete story imo.

I actually found out from the story of spruce beer. British colonists in America learned from Native peoples that spruce needles could help prevent scurvy, so they decided to make a beer out of it. But they misunderstood how it worked. To make beer, they boiled the mash with spruce needles—unfortunately, this destroyed the vitamin C. So while it was tasty, it didn’t help with scurvy.

The Indigenous method was more effective because it protected the active compound. Sometimes they’d make a spruce tea, but it was only gently heated—never boiled. They also made a lightly alcoholic, fizzy drink using maple syrup and wild yeast, but again, no boiling, and fermentation was short. That preserved the nutrients.

Not all nutrients are created equal. Some survive boiling. Some don’t. Some are enhanced by heat, others destroyed by it. Some dissolve in fat, some in water, and some barely dissolve at all. You can’t just heat things and assume the good parts will still be there.

Herbal teas aren't used as sources of Vitamin C. If they were, then the British wouldn't be known as "limeys" for carrying around fresh limes on their ships to prevent scurvy, they'd just use herbal tea.

Pretty sure that was something we got wrong, if you hear it up a lot of the important nutrients are destroyed. including the vitamin c.

"Two hands, there son!" :P