is there a good argument for living in california that does not involve the weather/temperature/beach etc.? i don't know many people who live there, but the ones who do only seem to mention the weather as the thing they like

don't say you read a book if you listened to it. say you listened to a book. one is not necessarily better than the other i'm just a stickler for telling the truth

everyone seems to use vs code so i understand i'm in the minority here but it's so damn bloated and full of extra services, extensions, etc. Sublime Text for me. it's as close to the charm of a notepad txt file as i can get without sabotaging my productivity.

my favorite take on disgraced secret service director kimberly cheatle resigning: "she girlbossed too close to the sun." —@HODL

the only drill i've ever owned has been this old corded Craftsman my dad gave me when i moved out after college, which was already ancient back then. it still works but the torque is shit, i couldn't even drive wood screws into a 2x4 the other day. plus it's heavy, and i've had to run extension cords all over which is a real pain anyway i just got this bad boy and it's so much better in every way i feel like a kid on Christmas 😭 worth every sat

i know Windows vs. Mac is a thing re: desktops & laptops, but i thought Linux was the industry standard for running servers and important computing infra, not Windows am i wrong or does enterprise deals + legacy equipment + laziness explain all these Windows servers out there?

my hobby is being extra kind to people for no particular reason

just as novels are a trojan horse for truth, video games are a trojan horse for tech mastery and innovation - all the senior devs and tech leads i know got into coding because of video games - both bitcoin proof-of-work and LLM's grew thanks to gaming graphics cards

anyone got poetry recommendations? a poet who's under-recognized but goes hard?

hi hello, spicy take of the day: "pescatarians" eat meat, fish muscle is meat. it's animal flesh. if you insist on trying to hang with the vegetarians just because you only eat aquatic flesh and not mammal flesh it's because fish and crustaceans gross you out a little, sort of the way bugs and worms gross you out, so you consider them a moral exception for aesthetic reasons. similar rationale as to why people always want to save the bees but not the wasps. bumblebees seem cuter and pollinate pretty flowers and fruits. wasps seem like vindictive jerks that just build grey papery nests or mud caves. it's an emotional/aesthetic decision trying to disguise itself as an ethical one

germany selling all its bitcoin and shutting down its nuclear reactors is such a profound self-own i have to believe they're still repenting from the whole hitler debacle and thought some additional self-imposed punishment was in order

built my own linkree-style site, hosted on a private virtual machine: https://mark.mulvey.xyz little by little i'm reclaiming more tech independence feels good. learning lots.

many people are one medical emergency away from being broke health is wealth in more ways than one

"Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want." —Naval View quoted note →

Austin, Texas is sufficiently inland that whatever storms come through the Gulf only ever turn out to be intermittent light rain for a day or two before returning to the regularly scheduled sunshine hashtag blessed

pv fam 🤙🌅 feeling grateful and motivated. it's a fresh new week, let's get to work

if you want to be more mindful about placing radio transmitters inside your ears pressed against your brain for hours on end try these:

Distanced-nnEMF Bluetooth Air Tube Earphones

Distanced-nnEMF Bluetooth Air Tube Earphones

Keep non-native radiation out of your ears and your phone away from your body.

consider getting more sunshine onto your skin and into your eyeballs not from behind glass. not from behind lenses. not from behind chemicals. just exist, as you are, outside in natural, full-spectrum sunlight walk around relax heal

someone asked Google's AI chatbot how to infuse garlic in olive oil without heating it and was given a recipe for botulism that nearly poisoned his entire family: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1diljf2/google_gemini_tried_to_kill_me/