Happy Birthday, Spacy. And happy caturday
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Thoughts about the book the new CSS layout by Rachel Andrew 📚
I finished the book Book The new CSS layout by Rachel Andrew this week. And after being bumped out initially because it was so old, I was still glad to have it read. I knew most of the contention in there already, but I could glean some interesting tidbits from the book, especially with the grid layout, which I have not used much at all so far. And until now, I did not understand why you wanted to use it when you have a flexbox.
I started watching Avatar: The Last Airbender this week – only the first episode so far. I liked it. But it was strange; it was sometimes made quite near the original, but some things were changed. The main characters, especially Aang, were matched quite well.
Does anybody has experience with Venlafaxine, specifically in it off label use against migraines? And would be willing to talk about it? Write me an email at comment@vmac.ch.
I finished reading THE NEW CSS LAYOUT by Rachel Andrew.📚
Looking forward to seeing foil arms and hog live today. I’m eagerly anticipating the evening.
Yesterday evening I destroyed my favourite pants. I sat down and it tore a big hole in the back of them :-(
I’ve created my first Obsidian plugin today. It helps me manage my companion folder for attachments to a given note. Now, I need to wait for the PR to go through to get it added to the community plugins list. If you want to test, you can find it here: NoteCompanionFolder.
Word of the day: prodrome, as in an early sign or symptom for an illness.
I just started reading The Humans by Matt Haig.📚
Interesting how I was able to produce some good notes this morning after waking up with a massive headache OO – I’m feeling better now and I’m glad about that. But I don’t understand my body at times.
Window in concrete.
Oh and we got a new car yesterday – we are now also have arrived in the future and don’t use old dinosaur juice to move around :-).
Went to test drive a JAC E-S2 (iEV7S) and liked it so we bought it directly. We needed something new as our old car stoped working at the end of the last year (engine failure) :-(.
My dinner from yesterday - this was for two persons. Its called “Mix Kababe Shahrzad” and was very tasty.
I like the illustration of this video. And it is amazing what invisible effect forest have and trees have on their environment.
What would it mean for a world to be at peace? Would this automatically mean everybody is happy? How would you handle the impending stagnation? Does world peace imply that humans can’t develop any further? My thinking here is that when humans change, it can mean that we have change, which could ultimately make somebody unhappy again. And unhappy people lead to conflict.
I thought about a new project today and the domain for it would still be available. And I did not buy the domain
I finally watched the show. It took me a while as the show was so slow, and it also took some dedication to sit through the first five episodes. Suppose I had not heard the reactions of all the people on Micro.blog about it, I would never have finished the three two episodes.
It just contains enough information in each episode to keep you hooked if you like this sort of show, and the last episode was a banger. It reminded me of 1899 (2022).
⤑ Automators #147: Smart Home Automation with Robert Spivack - Relay FM.
I’m not alone:
If you do a house where you have three or four or five blinds or shades, when they all completely go up and down, completely synchronized, they’re not all at a half inch off of each other.
Mentioned by their guest around minute 47:30 in this episode. Having blinds not move in locksteps is aggravating.
Apple
I finally found the options which prevents the auto populating of the queue with new episodes in the Apple podcast app. The name of this option does not make sense, I would expect something else: It stops playing at the end of an episode, but it actually only stops at the end of the queue.
I peel your skin, to cook you.
You come in all varieties: Earthy brown to a deep violet.
Off you go into the pot; get all mushy.
I like you. I devour you. Oh, the humble potato
Motor
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I just started reading THE NEW CSS LAYOUT by Rachel Andrew.📚
Boss
I treated myself to some more comics. One of my favorite webcomics at the moment.
@V_ Something I was thinking about this morning. I wonder if anybody has some other ideas about this topic. The conclusion sounds sad.
by V_ on
@V_ Personally, I would question the idea that peace leads to stagnation. I think change is a given of biological life. It’s impossible to avoid it. Conflict comes when the pace and scale of change is outside human limits. Change will happen, but if it is naturally, slowly, and at human scale then conflict is less likely. So peace can coexist with change.
by jabel on
@V_ Very much agreed with @jabel on this.
by Denny on
@V_ Very much depends on what we mean by a "world at peace". To me, a world a peace is not a world free from disagreement and dispute, but a world where disagreement and dispute doesn't lead to violent conflict. Rather than stagnation, I imagine such a world will unleash human creativity and innovation. As @jabel says, change is inevitable. Creativity need not be wasted on fighting. I was feeling down this morning about the prospects for the future in this election year. But in the end, democratic politics shows us a way to manage disagreement without violence. We still have some way to go, though. cc @denny
by mmetcalfe on
@V_ I think the truth of what you're saying is at the bottom of pretty much every world religion. Suffering is inevitable; how do we deal with it? And it isn't just about human-directed change; imagine a community that keeps its same technology, social organization, religion, etc. for a thousand years, and you'll still have droughts and floods. You'll still have disease and old age. Marriages will not be perfect. Adult children will fail to get along with their parents. Happiness is less about avoiding conflict than about how you deal with it.
by dwalbert on
@V_ If you want to go pop-science-philosophical, there's a theory that without tectonic activity (and the resultant earthquakes, volcanoes, disaster, destruction, etc.) there could not have been life on earth.
by dwalbert on
@V_ you’re not wrong. I would posit that “conflict” (which is inevitable) doesn’t have to lead to war. There are nonviolent ways to resolve conflict. The trick, though, is getting buy-in from all parties involved. So I guess it depends on your definition of “peace”?
by oddevan on
@V_ Years ago I read Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Dispossessed", which I thought gave him interesting thought to this. Basically the premise is that the protagonist comes from an anarchist society which successfully overthrew capitalism in a revolution ages ago – in theory, the perfect utopia – but it has, indeed, fallen into a rut of stagnation. Innovators get accused of egotism, so everything stays the same. Given LeGuin's own politics, I'm sure she wasn't saying this is an inevitable consequence of post-capitalism (which I'm conflating here with "peace", I know ????), but simply cautioning that this is a tendency we mustn't let ourselves succumb to. There'll always be creatives and innovators and all of that, because it's human nature. In a post-conflict, post-capitalist world, there'd actually be fewer material barriers to people pursuing those things. The trick would be to have a society which doesn't get complacent with itself, too.
by jayeless on