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> willpower

I mean, sure, but if it was just willpower for everyone then we'd all speak 10 languages, play piano, be buff as hell, be emotionally stable, and no one would be an alcoholic.

But we're squishy apes that are regulated by hormones and live busy messy lives with cars that are probably needing a tire rotation 3000 miles ago and putting it off a few more miles won't really hurt.


> natural

Yeah, "natural" would be living in constant fight-or-flight fear from being eaten and/or attacked by a neighboring tribe. Probably always quasi-starving and having low-level diarrhea from eating scavenged rancid food and dying before your 28th birthday.


> They don’t really have a monopoly on local events or marketplace.

Yeah, I'd say from 2004 - 2015 was the heyday for me on local events for small bands, house shows, and punk/DIY venues. Eventually FB Events died out socially by not being able to send invites to mass groups of friends/previous attendees, and attrition, and so on... A real shame for non-major venue events and the DIY scene.

Marketplace is semi-useful still, quasi-better than craigslist, but keeps getting filled with a lot of cruft of drop-shippers and scammers.


I had almost forgotten about the 2004-2015 music scene on Facebook. For me things died down around 2011 when the police started using Facebook to identify and break up unlicensed events.


More food:

- Brussels Sprouts taste much better now: https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/


Not to sound like the oldest person in the room/thread, but the use of "opponent" as 'opps' has gained a lot of traction in the vernacular of Gen-z/alpha. Not so much as an outright enemy, and not so much as a 'hater'.


Do you have a link or reference to this? I'm going to be thinking about this for weeks now.


I found some fragmented search scraps earlier today which I saved.

The thread is possibly: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=170324391 (now defunct)

The link title was "Pitbull vs Sun, Pitbull wins because.... - Bodybuilding.com Forums"

The link text preview was "it just has to attack in the night time when the Sun is sleeping. amirite or is there a way for the Sun to win?"

Unfortunately this is not in archive.org or archive.is


Retro gaming enthusiasts have been creating mini-PCs first starting with industrial computers (386) built for CNC machines, and have recently been getting custom PCBs made like the Pixel x86: https://youtu.be/B8WfiRRvQXo?si=lbDZymYKATkT66pf

You can find some oddball stuff on AliExpress that’s probably made to replace as close as possible 1to1 EOL equipment: https://youtu.be/6bODiZ5bP84?si=GTwF6MOQqm_VLy4s


I guess these systems are certified, so changing the hardware with a platform that is basically an emulation (based on the first video) requires re-certification. At that point, changing the entire system to something more modern seems like the better option.


The author is probably Indian based upon the blogs subtitle of “ tales from indian web rabbit holes. “


I mean, if someone is saying plainly "I'm going to ruin your life and critically endanger your health." then one should expect some pushback.


"Pushback" being death threats, yes?

In what ways is Elon ruining lives and critically endangering health?


Oh this is an easy one! Ruining lives by firing lots of people while destroying the economy, and endangering health by doing things like eliminating Ebola prevention funding and totally screwing up the NIH health research structure.


Burning Reputation?

It's so out in the open if you know, or more likely, worked in media advertising.

Their competitor, Vizio, owns iSpot[1] which is, in my opinion, the best in the space.

Samba TV[2] is it's nearest competitor and they have their hooks into 24 Smart TV brands globally[3]. These brands are listed on their website as Philips, Sony, Toshiba, beko, Magnavox, TCL, Grundig, Sanyo, AOC, Seiki, Element, Sharp, Westinghouse, Vestel, Panasonic, Hitachi, Finlux, Telefunken, Digihome, JVC, Luxor, Techwood, and Regal.

[1] https://ispot.tv/

[2] https://www.samba.tv/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_TV#Customers


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