And goatse gave us the ability to laugh at that Micky Mouse clock

That’s “parent” not “adult”

I with no kids at home have excellent sleep

Teens are the ones (after new mothers) who suffer the most, with natural sleep cycles starting around midnight or in the early morning and wake times in the late morning or early afternoon, but school schedules that force them to be active at school from 9am

My sister got told off regularly for reading after lights out

As adults my mother told me that after they found books for me I liked they pretended to never notice the light leaking through my doona, they were just happy to see I was reading

It’s not like the US manufacturers anything anymore, and Hollywood has forgotten how to make movies

It’s like you don’t even try to export your culture anymore, when I was a kid everyone watched Sesame Street, now all the kids in all the English speaking world are watching Bluey

Mine are grass finished, and watered with rain - the most environmentally friendly meat available. I expect the cheap meat in Texas is grain finished, which makes each animal fatter and heavier and cheaper per unit weight

I got server space pretty cheap recently. There’s a lot of competition in that space and they compete on price as well as quality

So whatever performance level you need doesn’t cost a lot more than the fraction of hardware lifetime you’re buying

“Harder” depends on what services you’re offering. Email is hard now; web is no harder (though web sites are as hard as you want them to be), hosting a game server is as easy as it ever has been

And that cost of labor

I buy a fair bit of meat. At my nearest butcher scotch fillet steak (rib eye, I think, in American English) is $35 per kilo. It is from a meat packing plant with reasonably cheap labor, with expensive equipment amortized over thousands of cattle a year, cutting up cows all day

At my next nearest butcher it’s $60/kg. It’s cut off a cow carcass hanging in the back of the shop by a butcher with a knife

On the good side there are few middle men in meat

We are more efficient. In my work computer automation has saved the equivalent to five thousand workers

Those five thousand workers don’t get to work a fraction of a day for the same pay, the saving is made a level or five above the workers

Some of our savings are hidden by inflation, but many products are far cheaper now

I have lots of books in paper. I have dozens electronically

The paper ones are good. I can lend them to friends, smell them, have them looking good on a shelf, can read while I’m doing something else on my phone

The electronic ones are with me. I can read them when I find myself surprisingly with nothing better to do.

That assumes the work of creating or collating the information has been fully amortized. The cost of information should tend toward zero, but it should start high enough to fairly reward its creators and those who made it visible

I’m glad I’m not as bad of as him or the one on the podcast

It really sucks for nightmares. I heard about someone else with the same thing, they were prescribed sleeping tablets and told to use a sleeping bag if sleeping above ground floor (for fear that the dream might make him jump out of a window

I don’t think accidentally hurting oneself is a likely outcome though as these dreams only happen when you’re very close to full consciousness on the way to sleep or wakefulness, and they dispel quickly after you start being active

Mic (short for microphone) is pronounced the same as the name Mike (sometimes short for Michael)

He’s doing that because he believes that it the way the people from there called it during the period he’s talking about

I note he doesn’t do the same for other places

You’ve heard of sleep paralysis?

Some of us get that dream effect (eyes open, dream reality overlaid over real reality) but without paralysis.

Opening your eyes? They’re already open and the dream is running

Getting out of bed? Touch hallucinations may become part of it

Usually turning on a light gets me out. That or time

There are only so many historical synonyms for black people, racist language should be searchable with few false negatives

The reason being that at any temperature where a liquid can be a gas (over zero degrees Celsius at standard pressure) some of that liquid will become gas.

Over time all of the liquid will become gas

Yeah, that’s why you’d want two phones

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Last I looked you could pretty easily get root on many phones, just if you did you couldn’t use stuff that checks the device security

If you want to carry two phones you could use one for banks and 2 factor authentication, and have root on the other