braveamateur

braveamateur, 1 month ago to random Swedish

"Fear exists only in relationship to an idea, and idea is the response of memory as thought."

"The Book of Life" by Jiddu #Krishnamurti

patrickworld, 5 months ago to random

Good gift or nah?

Likewise, 5 months ago to photography

What’s a book you’d like to read next year, either a newly published book in 2024 or a book that you didn’t get to this year?

I’ll start:

The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (2024 pub. date) & A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (not new 😉).
#2024 #booktoot #photography #read @bookstodon

braveamateur, 5 months ago to books Swedish

1/10
Top 10 #books I read this year, in no particular order. No rereads.

The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville

RickiTarr, 5 months ago to random

Did it seem like the Black Friday Deals the last few years weren't actually deals?

During the years of Covid-19 lockdowns, many retail based companies saw unprecedented growth, because people were staying home and buying stuff instead traveling, going out to eat, and the other social activities they would normally do. That combined with Stimulus Checks created a sort of false economy.

Now any logical person, would understand why, and set their expectations appropriately, but not our Corporate Overlords, their religion is perpetual growth, even though nothing has worked that way ever. So if they saw an unprecedented 9% growth for two years, they were absolutely shocked when the only saw 6% growth. Now 6% growth is still incredibly good, nothing to be upset about at all, but they have a board that they promised impossible statistics to, and guess who gets punished?! If you said the Consumer, you were unfortunately right, no actual deals for you. It blows my mind that people still think rich and powerful people are smart, greed makes you stupid, they just live in a system that empowers their stupidity.

RickiTarr, 6 months ago to random

So, the hubs and I have a one of the long term couple debates about when is the best time to shower.

For me, a shower is calming and relaxing, so I tend to do it in the evening or before bed.

He says it's refreshing and energizing, so it helps him wake up, and get going in the morning.

How about y'all, is it relaxing, refreshing, something in between, or something different entirely? When do you normally do it? Have you always done it the same or have you changed over the years?

fraying, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

This is fucking unhinged.

Corporations and politicians are ruining the planet, not people who take photos of their cats.

This is the same kind of blame shifting corporations use to distract from their own culpability. Look up the history of the litterbug campaign. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/05/origins-anti-litter-campaigns/

Scolding people for using digital tools isn't gonna save the planet. Electing better politicians that create laws to rein in corporations might.

RickiTarr, 6 months ago to random

Okay, what movie/TV show/ book has the best take on time travel and why?

Theblueone, 6 months ago to random

PONDERING

ianRobinson, 6 months ago to music

If acoustic guitar blues is your thing you might like the latest Mitch Grainger album.

Plug It In (Acoustic) - Mitch Grainger.

Songwhip: https://songwhip.com/mitchgrainger/plug-it-in

#Music #NewMusic #Guitar #Blues

clive, 6 months ago to random

When we talk about natural carbon sinks, people most often talk about planting and preserving trees

And fair enough: Trees rock! 🌳

But so do ...

fungi 🍄

grasslands 🌱

& phytoplankton 🍥

Step forward, you UNSUNG HEROES of CARBON SEQUESTRATION

My essay on what it would take to help these organisms gobble up more carbon: https://clivethompson.medium.com/grass-and-fungi-carbon-warriors-81ee3724577b

A free "friend" link in case you don't subscribe to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/grass-and-fungi-carbon-warriors-81ee3724577b?sk=308a9f7dad9495707b2da39b12743303

gutenberg_org, 7 months ago to science

The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second #OTD in 1983.

After the 2019 redefinition of the SI base units, this definition was rephrased to include the definition of a second in terms of the caesium frequency Δν_Cs. This series of amendments did not alter the size of the metre significantly, a change of 0.02% from the original value of exactly 40000 km, which also includes improvements in the accuracy of measuring the circumference.

#science

braveamateur, 7 months ago to random Swedish

"If unchecked markets worked as well as Andreessen insists, we wouldn't be in this mess. The most powerful people in the world are technological optimists. They asked for our trust in the 90s, the 00s, and the 10s. They insisted that all we needed to do was clap louder. We clapped. They failed. We grew less trustful."
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/why-cant-our-tech-billionaires-learn?r=evw8

RickiTarr, 7 months ago to random

I don't give a flying fuck what the Forefathers wanted. Why would we let a bunch of dead sexist slave owners decide the kind of country we want to live in?

braveamateur, 7 months ago to random Swedish

"Plants ignore the most energy-rich part of sunlight because stability matters more than efficiency, according to a new model of photosynthesis.

They also offer a lesson that — at least sometimes — evolution cares less about making biological systems efficient than about keeping them stable.

It appears that the photosynthesis machinery evolved not for maximum efficiency but rather for an optimally smooth and reliable output."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduce-the-noise-in-photosynthesis-20200730/

iraantlers, 1 year ago to random

#portals