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Citizen Vigilante is a great movie. Would give it 9.5/10. Raising some important issues in a dramatic way. The west is sleep walking toward collapse but can this be prevented, if at all? Or do we just accept the end of western civilisation, like sheep?
I'm still kind of shocked every once in a while that I live in a time when I can access any book I want in seconds.
The time I spent years ago conniving, searching, driving, hunting, and always waiting to get my hands on some book or other...so much time and effort.
but do you think that effort made us cherish the books more too? And perhaps even to treat knowledge itself with greater respect
Treating knowledge with greater respect is an interesting idea. I certainly was more willing to sit and think about an idea. Now thinking feels more rushed. Gotta go gather more info, you know? Gotta read new analysis. Before, reading everything on a niche subject was a necessarily slow process because I couldn't track down all the sources. Finding sources is a cinch now. So there's no reason not to jump into the firehose -- except knowledge waterboarding isnt any more fun than choking on water.
Do you feel this pressure?
what are the blake-coiners going to do when they run out of transactions?
(mining a block a minute right now)
Spent a few hours reading fiction without the mandate of doing it for recovery today. I forgot how nice that is.
why would you have been mandated to read prior to this?
to relax
mandated to relax?
I was being dramatic
vernor vinge still or something new?
more hard scifi but Blindsight by Peter Watts
I learned about "Who Goes There?" yesterday. It's the book The Thing (the book) was based on.
And The War is Over by Algis Budryl.
oh man! That's on my list! You should write a review when you're done.
I’d like to!
It's one big boys club and you ain't in it
At this point, we have had both the chairman #1462850 and the director #1510576 of Ocean's board on SN for AMAs.
MaxisClub
Four years ago I told people not to do a certain accounting move or it was going to blow up in their faces.
Today I get to sit in a meeting discussing how it blew up and what they can do to fix things.
I can't make this shit up.
“You don’t need a smug ‘I told you so’ from me… and smug it would be because tell you I most certainly did.” -Mallory Archer
Godspeed and godspood.
That's it.
Hey @justin_shocknet, any way to force refresh the transaction list? The balance looks right though. Thanks!
Long press the balance, about 3 seconds, it should try a refresh
This message popped up, but the list is now completely empty!
keep it in focused, it clears and trys to repull... longer history can take a bit
When you say 'keep it in focus', I gotta long-press till the message pops up and then just leave the page open?
Yes, the fetch connection could drop if the tab/app is backgrounded
Mines got daily SN history since 2023 and it takes a few minutes
It doesn't look like it's doing anything, but the balance updates!
browser or app? cache may be borked, nuclear option is to clear storage for it and re-auth
I'll try, thanks!
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How do you Learn a New Language? 👀
Lol weren't the key rocket people that made it all possible Ze Germans like Werner Von Braun?
https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/2095472877260701729
Basically.
and yet, u were able to endure... 👏
I can't believe I just discovered https://www.languagereactor.com/. What an amazing language learning tool! For example, when you are watching a show, you can hover over the subtitle to get an explanation and pronunciation of any word. The best part is that you can even export the new word lists! omg, that's exactly how I learned English, the only difference is I did that manually, writing down all the new words. 😂
But I kinda miss those days when you could focus on learning something for a year or two, no social media, no endless messages or attention-seeking vids. I just read books and watched the shows I liked, talking to foreigners was such an exciting thing! Now we could do that easily without leaving the house, but somehow it feels a bit transactional with all the following and unfollowing.
Nice, kagi translate on steroids
let me test it!
what is with this steroids thing btw, why stackers mentioning it from time to time?
haha
kagi let's me easily translate while surfing, this has way more options and functionality for learning
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