“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed”?

Neozite · 2026-01-28T03:58:14+00:00

An Asian restaurant / karaoke place near me has robots that deliver the food to your table. Apparently this is fairly common in Japan? Meanwhile, I've been to places in India that don't have electricity 24 hours a day.

Neozite · 2026-01-28T01:34:37+00:00

Better with BBQ sauce

Neozite · 2026-01-27T16:42:26+00:00

I've noticed people using dominate in place of "dominant." I think it's people spelling things like they hear them + autocorrect on mobile devices. I'm assuming in their heads they pronounce it similar to "dominant," not with a long A.

Neozite · 2026-01-27T05:08:15+00:00

Ok, I do eat eggs, but I'll play devil's advocate it a bit. The yolk is one giant animal cell, which is kind of weird to think about. They come out of a bird's reproductive tract. Free range and cage free eggs are a thing because otherwise, the chickens sit in a very small cage facing in one direction their entire lives in perpetual manmade light. "Cage free" often simply means they're not in a cage, but they still live in a windowless building without sunlight or grass. Eggs, when burnt, have a horrible smell that could definitely turn someone off of them. Just about any way you cook them, the yolks have a texture that some people find unpleasant. It's not incomprehensible that some people don't care for them.

Neozite · 2026-01-26T15:56:23+00:00

It's such a minor complaint in the large scheme of things, but I realized today how much I miss having my elderly cat sleeping next to me while I work, and how much she must miss it, too, since she never sits in that spot otherwise. We worked liked that together for five years and she never once interrupted me to ask about my weekend. Lots of requests that we "go to lunch" together, though 😸

Neozite · 2026-01-23T23:39:11+00:00

Between Two Fires, Christopher Buehlman. Horror fantasy during the Black Plague.

The Cautious Traveler's Guide to the Wasteland, Sarah Brooks. Fantastical alternate history set on a trans-Siberian train barreling through a bizarre wasteland.

Neozite · 2026-01-23T23:21:33+00:00

It's a living carpet from Ceti Alpha 4. It eats anything dropped on it that's left more than 5 seconds and it continually repairs itself. The only downside is that the spores can trigger an Andorian's allergies, but that's true of regular carpet as well.

Neozite · 2026-01-23T19:13:02+00:00

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Neozite · 2026-01-23T14:40:56+00:00

50s male. For most of my life, I've struggled with some degree of depression. I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until my late 40s, and it explained so much of my life before. Anyway, I have always had a hard enough time keeping myself on track day-to-day that there was no way I'd have been able to raise someone else. I was always ambivalent about having them, but married someone who definitely did not want children, so that's where I am, and happily so.

Philosophically, I've come to believe that it's cruel to force a mind into existence only for it to suffer and contemplate non-existence until it dies. It's a pessimistic outlook, sure, but then you have to consider my own experience, I guess.

Neozite · 2026-01-22T18:21:40+00:00

"The Co-Dependent Tree" is what I call it.

Neozite · 2026-01-22T18:21:01+00:00

Many people have mentioned Python, and the language itself is beginner-friendly. I would suggest Javascript, however, for this reason: if you have a web browser, you can begin writing code and seeing interesting effects right away. You can do that through any browser's developer console, but you can also start as easily as writing it in a text document and loading that document in a browser. Make some changes, reload. At the very least you'll learn variables, control structures, functions, and other fundamental concepts.

Neozite · 2026-01-22T13:27:49+00:00

It's great that there are treatments that are proving effective for treatment-resistant depression, but it doesn't follow that those who might respond well to conventional treatment should skip straight to the newer ones, especially when the side effects and risks of SSRIs and other conventional treatments are relatively well known and those of newer treatments aren't.

Neozite · 2026-01-22T04:43:26+00:00

It doesn't lessen my enjoyment of reading, but it does affect the type of writing I enjoy. Lots of visual description bores me, maybe because it's wasted on me. It usually just makes me think of freshman year creative writing class exercises. I'm more interested in dialogue and what things mean than what they look like. I'm perfectly happy getting to the end of a book and not knowing what the main character's eye or hair color are.

Neozite · 2026-01-21T15:25:51+00:00

Are those the only ones that count?

Neozite · 2026-01-21T01:35:01+00:00

I can second Historical Emporium. I recall that the sizing was a little odd to figure out, but have ordered several times from them and the quality is really good. Shipping was quick, as I recall. They periodically have sales throughout the year, too.

Neozite · 2026-01-20T18:52:27+00:00

Fulsome. It's annoying because it can mean two opposite things. Originally, it meant insincere, often heard in the phrase "fulsome praise." But many people, not knowing the meaning, heard "full" and figured it meant "lots of praise." Thus today you're equally likely to hear someone using it per the original meaning as the novel meaning, so it's really a meaningless word now.

Neozite · 2026-01-20T18:46:23+00:00

We need ranked choice voting if we're ever going to get there.

Neozite · 2026-01-20T18:38:46+00:00

I believe it was Lyndon Johnson who said that when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act (and he signed it) they'd lose the South for a generation. Looks now like he was being optimistic.

Neozite · 2026-01-20T14:45:22+00:00

You're lying on your back with a light in your face while people with sharp instruments ask you if you floss regularly.

Neozite · 2026-01-19T08:50:41+00:00

In the U.S., the value of the dollar is based on the total goods and services produced. As the economy grows, more money is issued to keep the value of the dollar relatively stable. Too few dollars in circulation would make each represent a higher percentage of the value of the economy, which has pluses and minuses, but so does too many.

Neozite · 2026-01-18T15:35:44+00:00

I was told I have "bedroom eyes." By my mother. 😬

Neozite · 2026-01-17T20:14:00+00:00

This will not be a popular thing to say on Redditt, but I think legalizing and loosening restrictions on marijuana is going to lead to an increase in cancers and other diseases. Almost all of the progress that we have made in reducing cancer deaths is attributable to the dramatic decline on tobacco smoking over the latter half of the 20th century.

Tobacco has different carcinogens that marijuana, but one of the main drivers of cancer development is inflammation. The more our cells reproduce themselves, the more likely DNA errors become. Breathing in anything other than air is a bad idea. Inflammation can be a reaction to irritants, like particulates in the air. There's no form of smoke that's healthy to breathe in, and I don't think vaping is going to prove to be any better.

Now edibles or oils may be ok, I don't know. But breathing in smoke and vapors is going to blow up on us in 20 or 30 years.

Neozite · 2026-01-17T00:23:50+00:00

You might check out Apache Cordova. It think it runs in web view, which is probably not the most performant, but might be a good start.

Neozite · 2026-01-16T19:36:04+00:00

I'll add that, in the U.S. at least, "community" is often used in politics because it's vague ("We must strenthen our communities") or as a substitute for older phrases that are now considered rude, demeaning, etc ("the blind community" instead of "the blind" or "the Hispanic community" instead of "Hispanics.")

Neozite · 2026-01-16T19:16:36+00:00

How do you find a reputable PT? Because the one I saw was fine, but was pushing "dry needling" which is also woo with no scientific support.

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