JesseMReeves

..and as expected, men here fail to get it.

Their compulsive erasure of female voices across the internet is just the same impulse of control.

It is always about exerting control over female bodies. Not rational, but evolutionary residue.

I recently talked about LSD to a spiritual person (the western esotericism kind).

He accidentally took a very high dose in his 20s and also read a bunch of books on the subject for a while, by Leary and so on. He equated it to a trip to the mirror maze, but nothing more. He doesn’t find it worth it and warns against it since for some people it lingers for too long. He is puzzled about people calling the experience „spiritual“ too.

It seems you did not understand what I was trying to illustrate with this example.

Edit: I removed the example because it just distracts from the point.

A lot of people out there do not listen to learn or share viewpoints or out of genuine interest for the other being, but to get information that they can later use against you. People with real interests (nerds) should be particularly careful when talking to most people because nerds don’t understand such intent, which is why I try to not share my interests or similar personal information when I don’t sense certain personality traits. Being shut up about yourself makes most people out there mad because they view a conversation as a “trade” and can’t expect a later dopamin fix if you don’t give them your share, but who cares.

Maybe ancient nomadic humans ate low-carb / keto in winter (which is why it seems good for using up fat resources efficiently) and high-carb in summer (which is why it seems good for filling up fat storages)?

Consider a dust mite hoover (Hoover Ultra Vortex is popular). Also good to have some turnover routine for your mattress as dust usually accumulates underneath in the bed frame.

Black Seed Oil at night also helped me as a mild natural antihistamine. I’m not sure whether it can / should be taken for extended time (my otolaryngologist saw no problem but I’m not sure).

The very first thing I did was turning off buying via voice.

My two Echo Dots 3 had an aura of technical immaturity from day one, but I always viewed them as inexpensive minimalist audio players with some extra functions. They were on sale for like 20€ when I was looking for a simple Bluetooth speaker and I am happy I gave them a try.

* Spotify across the apartment due to the seamlessness of Spotify Connect. No complaints about sync or sound quality, works beautifully.

* Audiobooks or radio while unable to control smartphone (bathtub, exercise).

* Quick access to radio stations, news shows (the ones it understands at least :) ).

* Simple automatic routines like a brown noise playlist during sleep or wake up music, or turning the lights off at night.

* Elderly people in my family who don’t understand tech love theirs to request favorite music via Spotify, set kitchen timers, play digital radio, get a morning greeting. It’s an extended kitchen radio for them and in heavy use.

Would not call this a failed product, perhaps they should focus on core functionality, and improve the app (that I fortunately rarely use).

I’ve introduced sabbath, one day per week (mine was Saturday) where you are not allowed to work or even think about work, not even reading mails. Do what your inner voice leads you to do on these days, including staying in bed all day while listening to audiobooks.

I’ve been using my sabbath day to explore the country I was living in (immersion in different places), and / or meeting people while at it. While traveling I was listening to audiobooks or playing games on my Switch (but overall reduced screen time). It was one of the factors getting me through an AI PhD.

I've been a beta user but the 10$/month price tag is too steep for me.

That being said, I'm beginning to think that having a price tag as entry barrier is a good thing for a search engine.

One of the reasons for Google's downfall is that they had to cater to dumb and easily controllable masses.

Also, the aggressive SEO that made the search results so bad made economical sense as soon as those masses flocked at the platform.

Kagi may only stay this good if it does not become too popular. I hope the developers think about the fact that their best strategy might be focusing on their current sizeable niche market of nerds and intellectually curious people.

These are some of the worst photos you can show of Dresden.

Try some image search instead. It’s called „the Florence of the Elbe river“ for good reason. There are almost no big cities in Germany today that are comparatively beautiful (Münster maybe, but it’s smaller). Some impressive art has been collected there.

Good people have died. And you are thinking about bad PR and shareholder feelings.