When you watch the videos of AA over London, etc., some of that must have fallen down and struck people? Or was it generally at an angle where it would not land within the city? Was this a big concern or was this seen as a given based on "metal in sky, fall on head, what can we do?"
The cataracts of the Nile (and Congo) seem to be huge obstacles to commerce for thousands and thousands of year. We see huge engineering projects in that area, as well as elsewhere in the world, for monuments, irrigation, etc.
Was there ever a real engineering attempt in the ancient world to do something about the cataracts?
Even a "let's do a dry dock approach here and get these boulders and land out of the way? We don't have cranes but we have 50,000 people that are on break from putting up the pyramid over there."
you have the EU working with Ukraine in Europe. why isn't the AU working with Sudan?
i was reading an interesting breakdown of why the us, eu, china, and russia are all taking passive roles (money, influence, global politics... the UAE per usual). so okay, east and west is not acting on this.
so why doesn't the AU? why isn't kenya or nigeria stepping up? why not the AU?
apparently over 100k dead in just the past year.
i'm an older man now but i can still get up from a sitting position without using my hands or any support. whether i'm in a chair, the couch, or sitting on the floor, i can just.. stand up. no hands on my knees, the floor, the arm of the chair or couch, etc.
only i notice this, but i know it gets increasingly uncommon as you get older. so i notice it to myself.
if i see one more 50 year man (or woman) with pitch black hair..
like, it looks strange.
let it go.
let your body breath a little. esp your hair.
next post: if you are low-riding your jeans at age 60, we need to talk.
some say the food is the city. some say it's not relevant. let's clear this up.
when i visit a new city, i skip the restaurants and go right to the source. a handful of grass from the median. a few leaves from a tree downtown. maybe a decorative shrub outside city hall if i'm feeling fancy.
you haven't really experienced a city until you've tasted its municipal landscaping.
people always ask, "how's the food scene?" wrong question. how's the grass? are the trees any good? can i survive off the roundabouts? that's what i want to know.
i don't get why people move somewhere because of jobs.. housing.. schools.. family.. or even the weather. if the food is the city, then the only thing that matters is whether the local plants are worth eating.
people talk about new york pizza and philly cheesesteaks. that's tourist stuff. i want the real local experience. i want to compare the taste of public tree leaves from city to city.
in ref to:
i'm aware that wars were somewhat frequent already in europe, but did the very recent ww1 have an impact on resistance fighters being able to mobilize and successfully harass nazi occupation during ww2?
that is, would the resistance in the occupied countries have been dramatically worse if the skills/training for ww1 had not happened for those populations?
obviously, this ignores ww1->ww2 relationship itself.
i'm currently eating ghost pepper chips. are they tasty? not really. but i just kind of like the challenge of eating them to see how many i can go through before i cry uncle.
ignoring starving people that will eat whatever can be eaten, how far back can we go to find a written account "look what i ate!?" i suspect this is more common with people that can afford the luxury of eating for the sake of eating, but i'm sure this is old behavior.
dear CW, i was once a CW customer. you have decent tools. however, your email system is insane. i get it, you like AI. you are AI. AI is your core being. heck, your mom is AI. your dad was once human but converted to AI because he loved your mom that much. but, i don't need 50 emails per day about your AI. i promise.
best regards and toodeloo, your friendly msp
i noticed a recent post where thread was getting riped pretty hard. i don't have any issue with thread but it made me think. what is the "new" bar for vendors? esp with ai and mcps etc etc.
like, is everybody just going to do everything in house? or like is the bar going to reset to be very high for vendors?
i don't know how to ask this really but i think you understand what im saying.
what is the "new" value/proposition/feature/benefit/whatever that a vendor has to provide now to win in this new age?
i saw some people are writing their own psas. i have no desire to do that. but i do some automations for sure and will continue to do that. so i guess for me a vendor that does one little thing likely wont meet the "bar" for me anymore. but if they do a lot of things well, i guess i dont know what id do.
we did a demo etc. we use autotask so take that as you will but halo had the complex feel of cw manage to me (we used to be on that). you have to click through a lot of things to see what is going on. autotask has real issues, but i like how everything you need is on the ticket screen. anyway, what am i missing? the menu has 10000 menu items, reporting is all over the place. i thought halo was the promised land?
i was playing soccer with my kid and tapped the ball and it started going sideways and slowly down a hill. so i was thinking that, oh, it's grabbing energy via gravity. but then i realized the hill i was on took energy to produce, so that would net against the energy the soccer ball got from gravity.
then i was wondering: is everything basically net zero on the earth? like, if you exclude the radiation from the sun, are we net zero, net positive, or net negative when it comes to energy on the earth?
i think we all know the story of the Red Delicious apples. what was once a, well, delicious apple is now absolute trash.
i was eating some strawberries and some of them were massive. like, some are getting freaky big. like almost the size of a woman's [edit: clenched] hand in some batches.
i realize they do this to fruit because it's what people buy... "i want big and beautiful" has ruined a lot of food but it's what consumers seem to crave.. so i am worried my delicious strawberries will not long be for this world.
edit: for the people struggling to realize the red delicious apple pre-dates their lives and was, indeed, delicious (and red), read this:
saw an interesting question about the impact of the plague in europe: https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryWhatIf/comments/1tbxlib/if_there_hadnt_been_the_plague_would_we_be/
i've always read that the plague actually pushed europe into faster political and tech changes due to depopulation, including a shift of power from landowners to workers.
did the same thing happen in asia. (i know, big place.) isn't that where the plague came from?
did the places in asia most impacted by plague have large institutional changes like europe did?
the push to be first with a short, funny comment has degraded real online discussion more than anything else on social.
social media was never perfect... but the "quip" means that early comments get the most visibility, and the ones that win are quick and "funny" (debatable most of the time).
people focus on speed and jokes over real comments. thoughtful replies take longer and get buried so instead of conversations we have shallow engagement.
i could be wrong. maybe it’s platform algos, or maybe good discussion just moved elsewhere.
what would change my view: evidence this isn’t a major factor, or that something else matters more.