Regna

Regna, 10 months ago

I disagree regarding lying down for bed. Never teach your body to associate the relaxation of meditation with sleep. Unless you only need it for immediately before you sleep to calm your mind.

I can now have mindfulness while doing activities (not driving ofc). Your body will do what you teach it, and I’ve stopped falling asleep meditating when I removed it from bedtime.

Yes, the world needs more meditation.

Regna, 10 months ago

As we’ve seen, the danger of AI is not that it can do specific tasks well, but how people decide to use the tools. And how other people are gullible enough to provide the content that will hurt their family.

Regna, 10 months ago

Not in any way surprising, pretty much every square inch of viable land on the British isles has probably been lived on within the last 2000 - 3000 years.

We have similar discoveries in the south of Sweden, we joke that “you can’t throw a rock in a field or forest without hitting ancient ruins and relics”.

Regna, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Edit: Apparently I didn’t RTFA, this is about farmWORKERS, not farmers. My point still stands about farms and agricultural practices further down. However, a scale of agriculture that requires extremely low paid, often illegal work force with no rights, is not a sustainable practice either.

The main issue is that you need a serious scale of operations to be able to earn money from agricultural practices, and that leads to a fairly monocultural crop, subsidies for certain crops and cog-in-the-wheel operations. So it is already heavily affected by industrial corporations. This is not just true for the US, it’s like this in the most part of the developed world. So the “family farms” tend to get outcompeted even when the farmers are pretty much working round the clock, and still with decreasing rewards and increasing loans while they have occasional crop failures. So it doesn’t surprise me if the next generation wants to experience life that isn’t a constant toil.

There are already “hobby farms” as well, not only run by rich people with horses and McMansions.

And then there is a homesteading movement, where families go the other way. They want to escape the rat race and settle down, have more time with their kids and be self-sufficient. Some even do it in an extremely frugal way, some in an eco way with permaculture instead of monoculture. Some are even ex-farmer progeny who want to get back to their roots in a smaller scale.

Regna, 10 months ago

Good question. But at least he used his blinkers, that is virtually never with the case with BMW or Audi drivers.

Regna, 10 months ago

I wish I had dashcam footage of the luxury Audi who was repeatedly brake checking buses and trucks on a major highway, swerving in front of them and forcing them all to come to complete stops before dashing away and repeating it with the next big vehicle. But that’s Södertälje (municipality south of Stockholm) for you.

Regna, 10 months ago

I don’t brake check people, but I do flash my brake lights a few times if someone is tailgating me. That generally makes people realise “oops, sorry, I was too close”. If they ignore that I slowly turn the cruise control down until they’d rather switch lanes and zip off. Funny how I’m only tailgated when there is plenty of space in the passing lane to the left of me.

The brake checks that the assholes do are when they actually brake to have near-collision vicinity to trigger collision warnings/autobrakes on trucks and busses, or to really rile another car driver up/collect insurance. But they forget that many people nowadays have dashcams (thank you Russian insurance companies!).

Regna, 10 months ago

That could be fixed in the apps and UI:s as a cosmetical improvement based on a timezone entered in the user settings. UTC is… universal.

Regna, 10 months ago

I want to add my praise to the heap.

I’m pretty happy with Voyager on mobile, but when writing something, it’s not ideal.

The generic Lemmy UI is more than OK on desktop, but the lack of error code reporting to the user was frustrating, at times I tried to resubmit posts and comments and the spinning Submit button just kept on going, for some communities in particular. So I stopped posting in these communities.

Now, with Alexandrite, I feel like this is a good UI that I really like. And I love that you write out the background error message for why posting or commenting fails!

Really nice job!

Regna, 10 months ago

Well pointed out.

Regna, 10 months ago

Looks like one.

Regna, 10 months ago

As if we Swedes wouldn’t have mandatory education about the major religions of the world during school already. And I am pretty sure almost every school library carries copies of the quran, just as the bible and some other major scriptures.

Regna, 10 months ago

Among the first leading paragraphs I was worried that this merely was what Bhutan claimed. That it was followed up by WWF and other organizations is great.

Regna, 10 months ago

This looks delicious.

Sorry for the stupid question: I know that I could search it up on the internet, but how was it a roll? Looked like folded bread/banh mi/bao with a few sauced lobster bits up on top. Was it before the pre-roll?

Regna, 10 months ago

It was probably a wonderful reuse activity to create this with kids.

Regna, 10 months ago

Very exciting.

Phone friendlier links: Archive.ph, Archive.org

Just wish I hadn’t opened that site in Safari on iPhone first, putting it in reader mode crashed it so hard I had to restart my phone.

Regna, 10 months ago

And worse than that, the article states:

Mrs Scott was unable to free herself and, as Cliff drove away, she was dragged under the Go North East vehicle and remained pinned under its rear wheels for almost an hour.

Regna, 10 months ago

Thank you for the response, it is helpful. I’m leaning more towards not adding them to the list. I also saw that their user ratings were really bad for a “20+ million user base”.

I noticed the VPN part, and they seemed to block pretty much every exit point in the US for my VPN provider, even though I cleared cookies, caches and used different browsers to surf in incognito. Unless I left some sloppy crumbs.