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) :-(.

/car
Two plates with food on a table. The left plate is filled with rice (with some yellow stuff on top) and the right plate contains (from left to right): A row of vegetables a row of Lamb fillet, a row of chicken filet and in the last row we have Kabab koobideh.

My dinner from yesterday - this was for two persons. Its called “Mix Kababe Shahrzad” and was very tasty.

 

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.

 

@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

I thought about a new project today and the domain for it would still be available. And I did not buy the domain

 

@V_ admirable self-control.

by Annie on

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).

/tv-show
Screenshot of the Apple Podcast settings dialog of the “Playback” tab. One options is marked with a green border, the text reads: “Continuous Playback”, the selected option is “Stop when an episode ends” and the other option (the default) reads “Continue playing after an episode ends”. It also has options for “Skip Buttons” and “Headphone Controls” on this screen.

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.

/podcasts-app

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

 

@V_ potato skins are the best part. Smother in olive oil, salt, pepper, thyme, rosemary; bake for nice crispy skins.

by dejus on

@dejus oh I need to try this. We only did it with apple skins so far (with sugar instead of salt).

by V_ on

A close-up of a stack of books lying on the side. The spine is facing the camera. It is book one to six of the webcomic questionable content.

I treated myself to some more comics. One of my favorite webcomics at the moment.

 

I fixed a long standing crash bug in my blogging app today. It would help when you read the documentation of the library you use to prevent such issues :-).

/coding
Some raspberry muffins on a plate under a transparent cover.

My daughter baked muffins with raspberry topping. They are tasty! And it handy having a daughter who loves to bake :-)

/baking

I have so many (coding) projects ongoing right now, but still my brain thinks I should start a new one instead of finishing the other ones.

/coding
My parent's cat Spacy in front of a door. The cat is grey-white and looks towards the camera.

Time for another cat 🐈 photo. Spacy looking for some action.

 

📝 The Adult Child

As I traveled to the city, the house passed past the bus’s windows. The sky is grey and dull. The bus stops at the next bus stop, and another person enters. I stand up and block their way – I can’t explain how this happens. I get an annoyed look back. They move to the other side to circle me, and I follow. “Oh, come on, move out of the way,” they say.

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/writing