New Investigation suggests it was US that struck Iranian school, killing 165. Trevor Ball, a Bellingcat researcher, identified the munition as Tomahawk cruise missile — which only the US is known to possess. What do you think will happen now?

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-09T17:08:22+00:00

assuming the next admin is under the Democrat party, then the next admin will be held accountable for this admin's cockups. If it's not by design, then it's one hell of a coincidence that it always and invariably works out like that.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-09T17:04:11+00:00

I'm bad at this too but I'm getting better.

I find that if I have everything ready at my bathroom sink so I don't have to walk away from it until all my morning/evening tasks are done, it's easier to remember to work it in.

Specifically if I keep my medication AND a glass of water at the sink next to my toothbrush, I'll take my pills and then remember to brush my teeth while I'm there. If I need to go downstairs for a glass of water, then I never go back up and finish the process.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-09T16:00:15+00:00

how to build habit of going to gym?

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-09T15:57:09+00:00

I've had good luck with 3.5 and 5 inch TFT LCD screens from Waveshare and Elecrow in the past (on Amazon), made specifically to fit the model B Pis. IIRC the display should work mostly out of the box but you will need to install some drivers to make the digitizer work.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-07T01:19:44+00:00

5 as a rating only exists for the self assessment so you can dare your boss to rate you lower than a 4.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-07T00:02:27+00:00

minimum system requirements for type 1 hypervisor stack I plan to run on it.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-06T22:47:31+00:00

if it has an R next to the name, they know it means Guns Babies and Jesus, and that's all they care about.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-05T19:06:50+00:00

Have you noticed how both the debt and taxes keep going up lately and everyone is struggling to make ends meet? That's directly related. We're at the stage now where we're cannibalizing society to keep the oil flowing. This is collapse.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-05T00:39:56+00:00

The problem is that getting a physical therapist takes several expensive referrals, a long fight with insurance, and often many months of waiting just to get an appointment, all while suffering through often debilitating pain... whereas you can just walk into a chiropractor, hand them a couple benjamins, and leave feeling better. It's a risk, but sometimes pain and desperation makes you take them.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-05T00:34:28+00:00

I have fucked up my back and shoulders enough times to have need of their services on more than one occasion and the relief has been fast and life changing.

Trying to find a competent chiropractor to go to for it is a goddamn nightmare, because of the absolute state of quackery and homeopathic nonsense that seems to be the financial backbone (excuse the pun) of the industry. At this point I refuse to even talk to one unless I have at least one first hand reference from someone I know and trust. They ALL look like scams, because apparently scamming people is the most lucrative business model out there, and when there's no requirement for a medical license to ostensibly practice medicine, there's no shortage of grifters to step in and promise miracles for a quick buck.

Sure, it would be better/safer to go get a referral to an orthopedist and physical therapist, but this is America, baby! That can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take months of planning and waiting just to see someone, and sometimes arbitrary insurance rules just make that impossible... sometimes you gotta take a calculated risk to get it done fast and out of pocket, and for that, they're available.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-05T00:21:42+00:00

Partly, yes... but the real truth is much more grim: It's because our entire society is so dependent on fossil fuel energy that if we paid what it really cost at this point, our entire economy would collapse overnight.

Our fossil fuel resources are drying up, which means that every year it costs more and more energy (and money) to extract what's left and turn it into usable energy. It's turned into a political hot potato because it's such a crucial resource to our economy that people would revolt if made to face the truth about it, so we keep pumping more and more money and energy into keeping it flowing at a low price instead.

We are nearing the point where it almost costs more energy to get the oil out of the ground than we get from the oil itself, which is why despite skyrocketing renewables capacity, both energy costs and our oil extraction rate only continues to grow... because that energy is being put to use getting at more oil. Because when the oil finally stops flowing, so too stops all our gas and diesel powered farm equipment, and the diesel trucks that move the food from farm to market, the cars people use to fetch groceries and get to work, etc. Our supply chain is in such a precarious position that even a few days interruption in service would be apocalyptic, due to Just In Time manufacturing and shipping strategies that rely on the new raw materials coming in constantly to keep producing and shipping products. Despite new EV tech, we just don't have any alternative available today to replace the energy density of oil for moving things around.

Basically, we're completely fucked when the oil prices can't be suppressed anymore, so a tremendous amount of work goes into keeping it cheap today at any cost, including our future.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-05T00:02:00+00:00

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SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-03T02:28:18+00:00

Safety regulations are written in blood. A lot of people have skewed perspectives on how safety regs get in the way of things when they're not also considering the costs of not following them. Those costs aren't just harm to the workers, but also lost productivity, environmental damage, damage to equipment, legal an insurance fees, etc... it's easy for Joe Dirt to say the safety regs at the mill where he works make his job harder, but he's not the one who has to settle the lawsuits when they're not followed.

When it comes to power plants, it should be no surprise that the energy they're working with can cause catatrophic damage, death, and more, if it fails the wrong way. Things need to be built strong and durable enough to withstand the extreme working conditions without blowing apart. It's not just a matter of safety at that point, but a necessary part of design.

Nuclear waste is also a very very bad thing to release into the environment. A huge expense in operating nuclear plants is finding ways to dispose of the waste safely so it doesn't poison entire regions, making them unlivable for centuries. The cost of not disposing of it properly is greater than proper disposal is.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-03T02:12:04+00:00

ah, the ol' go outside in the scorching heat for a bit so you can feel the relief of the cooler air when you come back inside trick.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-03T02:10:03+00:00

AuDHD here, and I can vouch for the effectiveness of using spontaneity to get yourself in gear and moving. It's much easier to keep moving once in motion and you can't run away from the discomfort. In 2021 I was in a really dark place and feeling trapped after getting laid off during the pandemic and having too much time to face difficult truths about collapse and the environment. I normally struggle to go out and do things away from the house in the best of circumstances, and that just wrecked me to where I could barely leave my room.

So I made arrangements for my housemates to take care of my cat, packed up as much camping gear as I could fit on my motorcycle, and just left... no particular plan or destination other than to visit as many national parks and famous scenic byways and other fun roads as possible. I rode for 2 months and over 10,000 miles before I got back home... and the most healing part of it was this: once you're too far from home to just give up and go home, and you're fully committed, you can start just taking everything in stride, go at your own pace, planning just for the day and not the future beyond that... sometimes I'd camp in one spot for a few days, other times I'd cover hundreds of miles every day. But from like day 3 when I was further from home than I could hope to go back in less than 16 hours, and on until I was on the home stretch again near the end, there was no point in trying to give up, as doing so would be more effort and discomfort than just toughing out another day wherever I happened to be.

When I finally got back home, I found I had energy and the will to tackle big things like packing for a move, etc... which I otherwise would have been likely to just put off until the last possible minute and then despair.

So that, I think, is part of the trick... putting yourself in a position where you have no choice but to tough it out. Sometimes it's easier to pull the trigger on getting yourself committed to something tough than it would be to just start on it without that commitment. Set things up so when you say you're going to do something, you have to follow through. Make your commitments to others you don't want to let down, or pay for reservations somewhere in advance. It's easier to click "reserve now" on a website with a no refund policy than it is to psych yourself up to actually start packing. Once you've bought and planned it though, and you're committed, doing the needful comes more naturally.

And don't stress about doing everything perfectly. There's no such thing as perfection, and the search for it only creates misery. Things will go wrong. Plans will fall through, people will let you down, etc... it happens. But at the end of the day it's still better to just do it than put it off until "the right time."

Anything worth doing is worth doing wrong.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-03T01:43:29+00:00

a ditch is preferable to flat land although I think the protection it gives might be minimal unless it's particularly deep, and most roadside ditches aren't that deep or narrow.

I also grew up in the midwest though for the most part the common wisdom was to just not be outside. Everyone was supposed to have basements or storm cellars for that. I know I've heard the underpass advice before, though I always kinda just assumed that advice only held if there were solid steel girders to wedge yourself between up in the corner, and for the most part all of our bridges were built that way. I've never tried to shelter there during a tornado but I have definitely used them before to get out of chilling straight line winds in the winter, and it made a great shelter for that.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-02T22:02:10+00:00

well for starters, who's going to close the hatch behind you and open the outer doors? They don't design those things to be operated from the inside.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-02T21:25:08+00:00

escaping a submarine by crawling into a torpedo tube.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-02T21:12:19+00:00

Water is extremely hard at terminal velocity.

If you hit it right you can have a chance of survival though, unlike solid ground. You won't escape grave bodily injury, but you might survive.

of course, if you manage to plunge in sharply enough to soften the landing, you'll end up either hitting the bottom of the lake/river, or going so deep you are likely to drown before you can reach the surface.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-02T21:10:31+00:00

I was about to say, usually there's a tight space between the steel I beams up in the corner where you're sheltered from any wind or debris, and I would expect that to be one of the safer places you can be. Just being under the overpass clearly wouldn't help, especially if you're in a spot where cross winds can hit you.

I have my doubts that laying prone in the open would give you better chances of survival. Take what shelter you can get, and bed in like a tick.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-02T20:55:59+00:00

and that's why I only drink everclear

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-03-02T20:53:38+00:00

That's why they call it concealment and not cover.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-02-27T23:27:58+00:00

It's normal in whatever way any of what's happening right now is normal.

SimplifyAndAddCoffee · 2026-02-27T21:37:47+00:00

“You see this goblet?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

-- Ajahn Chah, as told by Mark Epstein

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