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Don’t you have to be confident the clocks are sufficiently synced across the system?

Absolutely amazing. American TV was a desolate landscape with occasional stuff so good you couldn’t believe the oasis wasn’t a mirage. Max Headroom was in that category. And of course it didn’t start in the States.

Dunno if it would hold up today though

you have to actually remap your world to one where this person doesn't exist--that's a difficult neuro process and grief is part of it

I found The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O'Connor really helpful. It gave me a frame for why grief is a necessary part of our brain processing the loss. It made it much easier to move through the pain.

I think it’s important to remember (and buttresses the upthread points)—the volatility isn’t a coincidence—it’s a direct result of the discovery of the oil and the crucial role it played for imperialism and capitalist expansion.

This seems super cool but is this like battery breakthroughs? Don’t get excited until we are much closer to it being manufactured at scale/appearing in clinical settings? This is a real question—I’m not clear on the significance of these kinds of press releases.

And the driver can actually crash. Pilots have strict work rules for a reason. People die when pilots are too tired.

Is there variance in how long people can work without degraded performance? Of course. But it still degrades for most people.

As were Marx and Engels, 175 years ago in the Communist Manifesto: “Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind.”

My favorite Easter egg is the title as anagram for “NSA reeks”

Quartz crystal explanation and cutaway picture with fine tuning marks was all I needed. Preordered. Looks like a fun read.