@Thorwegian βοΈ morning was not terrible, but after lunch, everything Microsoft stopped working
and that's where everything is
@Thorwegian βοΈ morning was not terrible, but after lunch, everything Microsoft stopped working
and that's where everything is
@Abhijith Balan It's an originally Christian framework, so people do what they can to make it work, and they redefine the terms as a workaround.
If you say "I interpret the 'higher power' of this framework to be my loyalty to my family" it doesn't suddenly make you believe in miracles, an afterlife and an omniscient Creator.
@Hypolite Petovan No, Alcoholics Anonymous have as one of their rules that nobody can recover without the help of a higher power.
I think the idea is you need to leverage some kind of external pressure to yourself, to hack your peer pressure circuitry as a force to help you do the right thing.
For some people it's a simple as their God, Christian or otherwise. For atheists, they may use something more abstract like the ideals of Starfleet or whatever.
Disclaimer: There is a lot of legitimate criticism against AA, ideological and in terms of outcome, I'm just explaining what I've learned of their higher power concept.
@Hypolite Petovan Haha, you always pick up on my observations, even when I try to keep it low key.
I will find an example.
HP = Hewlett-Packard
HP = hitpoints or health points
HP = Harry Potter
Recently I learned that among AA people:
HP = higher power
An internet spotted this bumper sticker:
"Midwives help people out"
It's becoming more and more common that I can't search-fetch a post. Reposting it from another place brings it here and then I can search and find it.
I'm guessing this is because more sites are enabling authorized fetch and Friendica hasn't yet implemented it ... for search specifically? Otherwise I shouldn't get the reposts either?
Not pushing anyone to do anything, it's not a weird corner case, I'm sure the relevant people are aware and it's in the backlog, and a fix will arrive in due time.
@C++ Guy I know Dua Lipa because she was on Barbie. I know Billie Eilish because kid liked one of her songs and because people made parody memes.
Ava Max was in Barbie too (and so was Eilish, but I had already heard her), but she wasn't on this top list.
They're all great, and I've listened to them more since, but I wouldn't have known of them if they didn't reach me in some incidental way.
Taylor Swift is everywhere and impossible to have not heard about. She's even in the news, because men older than me aggressively don't like her for angry old man reasons.
But what I listen to most is Queen, Mike Oldfield and Daft Punk.
I understand why, Roomie is in the music industry and as a youtuber he is even more in the business of knowing what's hot and commenting on it, whereas I'm your typical "stopped listening to new music after college unless a song really forces itself into the zeitgeist", but it's still amazing to me that I have heard less than maybe 25 of these top 100 streamed songs before, and several of the top artists are complete blanks to me, but he has heard 99 of the songs, relates them to other works by the same artist, accurately predicts which artists will show up again closer to the top etc.
Such different bubbles! He's Swedish, but he's also ten years younger than me, but that's likely not what really puts us apart, it's our interests and especially his professional interest.
RoomieOfficial: "Top 100 MOST STREAMED Songs of All Time (Updated 2024)" (21:46)
@gunnar Once the soil is stripped of vegetation, it becomes hard and dry, and rain water washes away rather than going into the soil. It's a vicious cycle, but removing the hard, dry layer, building structures that keep water from escaping and adding vegetation that protects the soil, all that together breaks the cycle.
Plants retain water and the soil retains water -- these are plants that have grown in the area for thousands of years and can handle the dry spells, but only if the whole supportive structure is in place.
@Kermode Thanks, it's helpful to see the less rose-tainted view.
It sounds like they have some problem with vandalism and wild animals, but mostly what they're doing really works, they need to do four times as much of it, and the main problem is funding.
"Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery project within the Great Green Wall of Africa that is harvesting rainwater, increasing food security, and rehabilitating the ecosystem."
"How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert"
farside.link/invidious/watch?vβ¦
youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwLβ¦
#senegal #mauretania #desertification
#sahara #sahel
#UNFP #GreatGreenWall
How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwLβ¦
"For the people who built it, for the people who release it, and for the furries who keep all of our clusters online, we present to you Kubernetes v1.30: Uwubernetes, the cutest release to date."
Love to see some furry sysadmin recognition.
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