I hate programming. But I love when I try to do programming and I get to see a program thing come to life and do stuff. I have all these cute little pets that bark, “Hello, World!”

Seeing as the free and open-source software movements have been a very effective, enduring, and successful method of liberating a lot of digital infrastructure, I think it provides a powerful model as an alternative to “seizing” the means of production.

One example already in practice is Open Source Ecology. FOSS industrial machine schematics have to be the basis. But the factory itself needs to be reinvented, from a linear process to a circular and, I think, general purpose one. Like a maker space scaled up enough to provide for the needs of one township.

And part of the reinvention needs to involve using a property trust framework to ensure the physical production property is in common ownership. We need to copyleft the means of production.

Thanks, I don’t doubt it. Biggest issue is that I have significant anxiety about doing any riding after a really close call some years ago. A car was going something like 50 mph on a 35 limit street, and was inches from hitting me from behind. Technically it did hit, but only enough to barely whiff past my body, and put a small dent in my rear rack.

Ouch. Yeah I jumped on that deal as soon as I saw it. Then tried the controller for a few days, could never get used to it, and now it’s collecting dust somewhere.

Even as someone with big hands, that does not look like a comfortable controller to use. I’ll wait for the next $5 clearance sale like I did with the original Steam controller. 🙃

Dude, “orthorexia” was a thing that was baselessly made up. It doesn’t exist.

It’s not hard to just leave bananas out of recipes, at least for me, it doesn’t feel like a loss in the first place. Just more room for better things.

Spinach is fine, the oxalates bind the spinach’s own nutrients. The only issue there is a higher risk of kidney stones, which is easily avoided by eating a balanced variety of mixed greens regularly instead of any single one.

How dare you accuse me of being a weirdo keto person, I am most definitely not one of them. 😑

The effect is caused by an enzyme in bananas that are part of it’s natural immune response. It breaks down polyphenols.

I don’t think you understand. By adding the banana, you are canceling out the benefits of all of those other things.

Bananas are way overrated. Not nearly as much potassium as potatoes. As far as fruits go, they are lower fiber, high sugar (aka the not good kind of carbs).

And you know how they turn brown quickly after being exposed to air? That process virtually eliminates the absorption of any sources of antioxidants that it might be mixed with. Like adding bananas to your smoothies? If you were hoping for health benefits, you just wasted your money.

If true, guess dude was right, the True Fans found a way to pay that $80 price tag.

I’m still playing the waiting game, will not pay more than $40.

This looks promising, I’ll look into it more. Thank you.

I think you’re exaggerating about those sites. With an adblocker turned on they’re generally totally fine, and often a nicer viewing experience than some of the big streaming services - especially YouTube.

I actually wouldn’t mind playing directly from those sites in fact. My biggest priority is having a convenient home screen or desktop on the TV, and providing easy one-click access to those services to make it easy to use if I have guests over or something.

Yeah currently I’m just leaning toward using a docked Steam Deck, and using desktop mode with a wireless keyboard that has a built-in touchpad. The browser as is would be fine.

Maybe if I want to put in the extra effort I can see about adding the browser as a “non-Steam game” and set it to open straight to a streaming site, so that I can open it directly from gaming mode.

I’ve gone as far as 55 miles in one bike ride, and hope to do a full century ride someday. 30 miles is not at all out of the ordinary for bicyclists.

You can find YouTube videos of people experimenting with flywheel-based regenerative braking. They’re completely impractical but pretty funny to see.

The traditional method of pedaling uphill less strenuously is to drop to a lower gear. You might go slower, but I’d bet even on existing e-bikes with pedal assist, this is something that’s already pretty reasonable now days.

At least twelve lanes on a single track. If I recall, the cool keytar instrument you could get for… was it Rock Band 3? might be able to make a song with that track in it. Not sure how many other games or instruments could do that though.

Well, to some degree it might be possible to selectively breed plants to prioritize root production a little more. I’m not sure to what extent that’s feasible though. You also have to understand, plants have evolved to actively want to be as big as possible. If you’re a small plant, your neighbor is more likely to grow larger than you, which blocks the sun from getting to you, which will cause you to die. So trying to make plants smaller in and of itself has ecological risks. Or at the very least, such naturally short lawns would be a lot more susceptible to weed encroachment.

It makes perfect sense. When the foliage is cut, it takes energy to regrow it. If there’s not enough greens or sunlight for photosynthesis to account for the plant’s total needs, it will draw those nutrients from the roots into the rest of the plant.

And there’s a whole lot of other things going on in the soil around roots as well. For example the interrelationships between plants and microbes has a tendency to start with the roots exuding sugars into the soil in order to attract those microbes. And that’s just a start. I think it’s really interesting stuff. If you wanna learn more, Regenerative Soil by Matt Powers is a fantastic book on the subject.