"whichever one I have the most experience with".

So - public education. Although the healthcare system runs a close second.

I absolutely agree with that. Don't want government to push me to commit suicide, but after a certain point, I do not want medical care - the mind of medical care that keeps you alive as a vegetable, in bed wearing diapers.

It's all about the hospitals making a huge chunk of money in those last months/years of life - it's not at all about making people's lives better.

It looks interesting. I wonder what kinds of events they schedule, to get people out from behind screens/underneath headsets.

Interesting...by chance do you know what plant this is, and if the passing would be easy? I'm curious because I'll bet a lot of people would be interested.

A story from a friend of mine who owns a private plane...this friend knows some other people in the flying community. One of them - let's call him Joe - was very seriously ill with a fatal, painful cancer. Joe knew that in higher elevations, you pass out without oxygen, and then you painlessly pass away. As pre-arranged, a couple of Joe's friends took him up for a flight very high up, where you'd normally need oxygen. The Joe took his oxygen mask off, and after a period of time, passed away.

The problem is when government is pushing these options.

As in - aren't there some people who should be committing suicide, but aren't? Maybe we should encourage them?

Seriously, there's a checkpoint in a public square in Turkey, and they force people to get on the scale, announce their weight, and tell them to lose weight?

I'm all for healthy living, but if that's true (I doubt it), it's insane.

Okay, after a lot of "vibe-coding" with AI, I think I have the browser extension. I'm going to test it some more, and if everything goes okay, maybe I'll put it on github.

It really is a useful little thing - instead of me instantly popping up a new tab at the slightest little hint of boredom, I pause for a sec, and decide whether I really want/need to. If I decide that I DO want to, I just open the tab, am presented with the little math problem, execute a bit of mental arithmetic to solve the problem, and VOILA the new tab comes up.

So far so good. I'm really impressed with this vibe-coding thing. I'm using ppq.ai., with grok 3. It's taken quite a few prompts - there's bugs, I tell the ai model what the bugs are, I get some updates, load them, and repeat.

But right now, I'm at a state where it seems to be working fine. I'll probably need to change it to make the math problem more difficult. Or maybe allow an option in that regard. Also it needs an icon...

Yes, right now it's so automatic (cntrl + T to open a tab, type url in browser, hit enter) that if I'm just a tiny bit bored or frustrated, I will instantly pop open another tab, and do whatever (check weather forecast, stacker.news).

It's like scratching a little itch, or biting a fingernail or something. It's mindless. And very destructive of my ability to focus.

So...on a lot of platforms (for instance, Gumroad, where you can sell digital content), you can also request a tip.

That kind of tip is now tax free? Or doesn't that count in the list of occupations?

Holy smokes, yes.

All the time. And I try HARD to work against this. My digital detox (most Sundays) is really useful.

I'm thinking about making a browser extension. Key would be that before opening ANY new tab, you'd have to solve a tiny math problem - something simple, but not too simple - maybe adding two 2 digit numbers together. When you do that, you can open the tab.

I'd have to change the way I browse, though. When I browse, I right click and open a bunch of tabs at a time, then go through them. I'd need - to rethink this.

I do the weekly digital detox, but also need to figure out daily digital detox - i.e. each day have at least an hour or two where I can't access ANY internet.

One of the big barriers to this is that the big tech companies are constantly knocking on government doors, offering goodies if government buys the software.

There's nothing like that, on the side of open source software.

Yeah, when I first started digital detoxes I completely put away both my phone and laptop for the day.

Then I felt resentful that tools like using my phone to call people was not an option. And these are, of course, tools I used regularly BEFORE the internet made the digital environment "dirty" (in other words, touching anything digital meant you were exposed to crazy stimulation).

So right now I draw the line at:

I can understand the desire to be completely without stimulation. Now, when sunbathing, I've started to NOT bring a book, or listen to a podcast. I tried it just as an experiment, but now I'm hooked - it's cool to just be able to let your mind drift. I start focusing on clouds, birds, whatever noises I hear in the neighborhood. And I also think about my projects, and often get good ideas on them.

For me they work fine - the only thing you need to do is have a commitment to not switch to the regular launcher.

If that doesn't work, then maybe put the phone away where you can't get to it.

You might be surprised at what you'll find to do, when you don't have the constant stimulation of screens to occupy your time.

Here's my theory on that. The harder it is to put down your phone, the more you should consider doing a 1 day - just 1 day - digital detox.

You may really need it...

NVK also hates on Seed Signer, open source DIY hardware wallet, competes with cold card.

Is there something specific about France, that these attacks are all happening there?

In the waiting room of a car repair shop recently, I really noticed this. Earlier there would have been people paging through the magazines laying around, or having little conversations.

Not anymore. Everyone is staring down at their phone. No magazines around anymore.

There's an old novel by Nevil Shute called In The Wet (https://www.amazon.com/Wet-Nevil-Shute/dp/0884113183).

A big theme in the book is that one person can have multiple votes, if they've achieved certain things. I can't remember what they all were, but things like starting a business, getting a college degree, getting married, having kids, things like that.

Nevil Shute is an author from decades ago, he wrote most of his work between the 1930's and early 1960's. His books are often really outstanding reads, I've enjoyed all of them. If you want to start with one, the best are Trustee from the Toolroom and A Town Like Alice.

No corruption at all there, I'm sure...

maybe tell them it's a work phone, your employer doesn't allow you to install it...

Agree with the meat thing for sure. And the quote is from Fiat Food.

As I go longer as carnivore, I'm now very unexcited about fish and chicken even. I'll eat them, but give me BEEF any day. And I just had some mixed beef/lamb meatballs, they were great.

I'll throw this out there for discussion - Extreme exercise causing early aging.

Yes, this is an anecdote, but I think it's telling. I know two guys in my neighborhood who are (now WERE) absolutely insane about exercising. Multiple ironman, running long distances, just insane levels of pushing themselves.

And now, in ages ranging from mid 60 to early 70 - they're looking really bad. The early 70 guy - I haven't gotten details on his health, if he has any specific condition, but WOW I don't think the constant Ironman competitions did him any good. I saw him just last night and he's very slow in walking and needs a cane. The other guy in his mid 60's was a really insane exerciser and even now works out as intensely as he can every single day, which isn't nearly as much as before. He's vegetarian leaning (I'm not sure if he's 100%), very hunched over, and just ... frail. Has had some falls when hiking.

Yes, just anecdotes, but I think I've heard about this before - people that do the really extreme exercise tend to age more quickly.

Thoughts? Me, I exercise, but nowhere near as extreme as these people.