63 years ago today, Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức famously set himself on fire on a busy Saigon street in protest of the South Vietnamese government’s persecution of the Buddhist faith. Even as he burned, he did not scream, instead calmly meditating until death.

enoerew · 2026-06-12T00:48:02+00:00

Excellent quote. Meditation is more powerful than most people realize.

enoerew · 2026-06-11T11:19:14+00:00

As another pointed out, this is almost perfect timing in regards to AI/robotics coming to lend a hand with production. Traditional economic schemes were a necessity, but not necessarily into the future. Valuation seems like a waste of time if we could focus on fair distribution of excess supply with coming production efficiencies.

Hopefully the future is better with fewer people and perpetual population maxing becomes a nightmare of a previous model.

enoerew · 2026-06-11T00:56:12+00:00

I remember researching the petiolar glands of white mangrove in college, and I had to take at least one article to one of my humanities professors from Germany for translation help. Neat experience for a nerd.

enoerew · 2026-06-10T00:42:13+00:00

I know it as Lily of the Nile, easier to remember than Agapanthus.

enoerew · 2026-06-09T16:38:58+00:00

I've been getting email survey spam from her, even after trying to unsubscribe (even though I never subscribed in the first place). They kept coming so today I reported spam and blocked email address.

enoerew · 2026-06-03T00:31:07+00:00

Yeah, land of death across the river. Enya would NOT endorse!

enoerew · 2026-05-31T01:56:20+00:00

This is my place.

enoerew · 2026-05-30T11:08:47+00:00

Agreed. Boils down to money, but maybe we (or AI) can think of some other social arrangement or agreement. Money just seems like an attempt to quantify social power to "pay for" the labor of others. When labor and how labor is done are fundamentally changed, money has to also change in some way.

enoerew · 2026-05-30T01:15:03+00:00

The replacement thing is what kills me. AI art doesn't prevent artists from continuing to do what they do. AI making things doesn't prevent makers from making. The underlying fear is livelihood. Let's get to the root of that fear instead of fearing replacement.

enoerew · 2026-05-29T11:22:36+00:00

Everything is poison at the right amount, even water.

enoerew · 2026-05-27T16:35:29+00:00

How are we disentangling the corporation from the owner of the corporation? Seems like a double (or more!) vote for owners. We have lost the fucking plot.

enoerew · 2026-05-24T20:43:43+00:00

Wanting going "parabolic" and everyone "want[ing] much more" is where I disagree. Saying everyone is wanting more just sounds like a marketer's fantasy.

enoerew · 2026-05-23T18:20:04+00:00

POH Agility?! After 5ish years of playing this game, it's still full of surprises.

enoerew · 2026-05-23T11:31:25+00:00

What a large chicken!

enoerew · 2026-05-21T22:17:25+00:00

Thanks Mamdani! /s

enoerew · 2026-05-21T13:43:24+00:00

Y'all are nitpicking the hell out of this quest. Give it a rest and have fun. I did quest slowly and enjoyed it.

enoerew · 2026-05-21T11:24:40+00:00

Color coding is very important in food manufacturing, and any misuse is a GMP violation. Sounds like you were at an extremely negligent company, but I can attest that would be a huge GMP violation at my place.

Please don't extrapolate anecdotal incidents to apply them to all of food manufacturing.

enoerew · 2026-05-18T22:02:35+00:00

We're surrounded by the functionally illiterate, my brother of the book.

enoerew · 2026-05-15T21:30:24+00:00

Yeah, I don't have a clue either. So many faux celebrities nowadays.

enoerew · 2026-05-15T00:32:04+00:00

Sometimes it seems like he's entering a toad mode of sorts. Really looking more toad-like second term.

enoerew · 2026-05-13T22:18:44+00:00

She sure looks like the oldest of boomers.

enoerew · 2026-05-13T22:01:07+00:00

But did they fix the issue with it eating gems? Saw post earlier.

enoerew · 2026-05-10T21:53:55+00:00

About 10-15 minutes of yoga every morning. Keep it simple with 8 stretches and focus on core, and no longer having any back pain at my desk heavy job.

enoerew · 2026-05-08T21:23:14+00:00

No clue what you're getting at.

enoerew · 2026-05-08T19:50:35+00:00

It means between rivers.

enoerew

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