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  • Reading itself isn’t what’s important, it’s mental stimulation that is. And more importantly stimulating different parts of the brain.

    It’s important if you want to understand how the world works on a deeper level. There’s a reason that all scientific research is primarily presented in the written form.

    Although I assume OP is talking about fiction which is a different matter.



  • Gadget bridge doesn’t really work for any “new” (i might be wrong here) devices.

    Most newer Garmin devices should work since 0.82 (and earlier with nightly). It’s not feature complete compared to using Gadget Connect but should be enough for most use cases, unless you really care about the social/awards aspect and some of the deeper metrics (although if you’re handy with SQL you can handle that yourself).

    Not being able to set an event date and have “daily suggested workouts” follow that is my only annoyance, although I’ve been happy just using the defaults for now.














  • that I put on a SD card for my phone

    Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a phone without expandable storage. On the plus side, internal storage is going up, but it’s still not big enough to hold a complete FLAC collection if it’s a reasonably large library. You can re-encode your library just for phone usage, but that’s a bit annoying to maintain.

    Also, I’ve found all of the offline music players on Android kind of suck, and don’t support the workflow I like or have bugs.




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    I mostly agree but I think we could maintain a lifestyle that is near Western levels, but done more efficiently. It wouldn’t be the same lifestyle, but it would be a good one.

    I.e.

    • dense, walkable neighbourhoods with mixed-use zoning
    • trains, trams and electric buses instead of cars
    • any job that can be done from home should be mandatory to do from home
    • minimal to no meat consumption, especially emissions intensive meat like beef
    • economic incentives and disincentives to minimise energy consumption and waste
    • circular economies that re-use and recycle most things
    • 100% renewable energy production (and eventually, green manufacturing).

    Although even with that, it would be an easier job if there is some level of population decline, but I don’t think any encouragement is needed (societies where women are highly educated tend to have declining birth rates).











  • I think in an ideal world, I’d set speed limits to be higher than they are now - say, (spitballing) 100mph for interstates.

    I suspect many cars on the road can’t even be driven safely at that speed, and then you have to account for the driving ability of the average person.

    You’d have more cases where there are high speed differentials too with some only going 60mph, and others going 100mph, increasing the amount of passing.


  • My gut tells me that, just due to the relatively sparse density of cars, rural driving is already significantly safer, and if you DO drive like shit, you’re likely to only injure yourself.

    Fatalities are typically more common in rural areas (proportional to population). Likely because of higher speed roads and higher drink driving rates in rural areas. And maybe due to truck drivers and people driving long distances driving sleep deprived.


  • You’re right that streets should be designed such that low speeds feel inevitable and not something you have to think about, and that they should serve one purpose and not two (no stroads). And highways should completely bypass cities, because the idea that they should cut through them is just absurd.

    Where are the cameras catching tailgaters, people who don’t signal, people cutting others off, people cruising in the left and not passing, people blatantly running stop signs, people texting or doing makeup?

    The technology to do this is more challenging then detecting speeding. Red-light cameras are also very common, because they are relatively easy to implement. I believe there is some tech for texting while driving at least, but I’m not sure how automated it is.