I have always thought that government officials and departments using Twitter as one of the primary platforms for disseminating their messages is peak neoliberalism. In 2022, I would have expected government websites to be much better but it is an uphill battle trying to extract any information out of them.
A bit tangential but I read a book called Dead Epidemiologists which outlined out how the modern industrial process of animal rearing is a major driver in allowing the evolution of new varieties of pathogens. In industrial farms you have animals in extremely close proximity to each other which gives plenty of leeway for pathogens to spread and mutate.
I think I read about it last month but since then there hasn’t been any mention of it. Wondering what came of it…
Using autocorrect makes typing much easier on phones. Not only you can write words you don’t know the spellings of correctly, but it also compensates for mis-hits on the tiny keyboard. …
A subcommunity for the upcoming game if anyone is interested…
I see this being mentioned a bit in American media. I understand why this can happen. Capital does not want to pay living wages to the working people and workers do not want to work for pennies. There is no such thing as labour shortage, only capital not willing to pay. …
I have tried to use fast fingers to preorder a PS5 as soon as it restocks and have failed. Now I want to turn to the dark side. …
I feel tangibly anxious when playing horror games so trying to understand how people who enjoy horror games do it. …
Just want to listen to that lofi stream while studying. …
Someone in my family uses Alexa to do things like control lights and some other electrical appliances in the home. I don’t know anything about this smart home trend, but I immediately disliked Alexa because: …
I want to stop using WhatsApp because I fuckin hate it. Does anyone use XMPP regularly? It allows encryption so I was considering it. …
I personally use passwordstore.org with a git repo on a personal VPS. But I wanted to set up a password manager for my boomer parents and looks like Bitwarden is one of the better options out there. …
Just wondering what the discord is up to…
Nima Shirazi or Adam Johnson?..
What the hell is it even used for? Please don’t say business.