Culture is not a static system. Elements may be destined to be counter-rational for now, but a better of awareness could also destine us for a more fair and effective system in the future. Just because something hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean that determinism dictates it never will.

Are you talking specifically about powered speakers? Certainly, resistance is a lesser concern when you’re passing almost no current.

But it’s important to have a heavy enough gauge cable between amplifiers and passive speakers so that there is not too much resistance, as this will cause it to overheat and potentially start a fire.

Generally speaking, I think a coat hanger’s gauge is too small for common amplifiers. Plus, if it’s iron then it’s going to have a higher resistance compared to standard materials, meaning more voltage drop and more heating.

Pay as much as you want but the sound will not be any different than if you used metal coat hanger wire.

The speakers won’t sound too good after the coat hanger has caught them on fire, though.

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The good: An even more addictive Harvest Moon!

The bad: Normal Harvest Moon was already addictive enough, so I skipped this one.

Not everything is the worst. Just the important things.

The collapse community is filled with anarchists. What are you suggesting that is considered ecofascism by these authoritarians? And where is this growing anti-intellectualism on the left?

Great idea, Hjalmar. Thanks for sharing.

Morrowind was peak imo, too.

The book’s epilogue talks about the changing crypto landscape and notes Monero.

A merit to the book for acknowledging it even though it didn’t tie into the narrative focus.

It more or less says that law enforcement is making strong progress on tracking those transactions as well.

Still a point of contention afaik, I’m fairly convinced that it’s mostly puffing the chest, along with more experience in ID’ing operators based on other means. Zero days and quantum decryption are not going to be used to investigate the average dark net transaction. Targets for those would be things like nation states and maybe criminal ring masterminds imo. But tbf once the blockchain is cracked, the whole historic record goes from anonymous to pseudonymous (for those who are able to view it).

I don’t want to nerd out but the summary mentions bitcoin, while I think monero is what is used for the dark net these days. Bitcoin is considered pseudonymous but monero was actually designed for privacy.

Are you a little high-strung, maybe? Nerves got your pareidolia on overdrive?

Full paper (published edition): https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/files/409660541/Brownlie_Comment_or_Perspective_AIP_JG_1705507289_85_WB2_35_.pdf

That’s a rather long video. Does he have something he says that specifically counters the risk of the observed severe potassium deficiencies regionally? I.e., do plants not experience harm when growing in what we classify as severely deficient soils?

I think the six measures the researchers called for are all rather common-sense and the harms they identify legitimate, but I understand you to mean that globally there should not be a concern for the effects of potassium depletion which is a somewhat different matter in my mind. And I’m curious about it.

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wait can i still change my answer? this is it

Just the original is fine.

Get addicted to something healthier. Force new patterns until they become the routine instead of your old addiction. You can get addicted to pretty much anything. Then take the time to observe how the addiction works, and get used to denying it.

But not too much or you’ll destroy your drive to do anything at all. Most people are addicted to some degree but they don’t call it addiction because they are not addicted to things that are traditionally recognized as addictive. You can even get addicted to the duties of being a parent - helicopter parents. In some ways, being addicted to something recognized as addictive is huge head start on breaking down the addiction, because if you are addicted to something normally considered good then it is much harder to realize that you could be causing harm.

Now, one of the obstacles is that addiction has a dual-purpose as a coping mechanism. It is easy to get addicted to healthy things like exercise and socializing when living a life of great privilege - but if you are compensating for living a life of struggle, then the traditional addictions can be excellent for blunting the trauma (terror management theory): If you’re a helicopter parent, then you’re probably caring for your kid(s) and their college fund(s) rather than smoking weed to suppress the realization that you’re never going to retire and will die in the climate wars.

r/collapse (forgive me but I have reasons for keeping tabs) recently had a post about something like 73% of US teens using drugs or alcohol to relieve stress. You’re answer partly depends on what is your poison, and why did you pick it? Because sometimes things like weed really aren’t a bad compromise while you work on changing your circumstances. Just get a dry herb vape (and try to source bud sustainably!).

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