I indeed understand I won’t be able to stockpile food and water to hold out for years. I am wondering though what kinds of good I can stockpile that will become very “valuable” once war does come. I mean valuable in the sense that it brings me a lot of value to have, I do not want to get rich because of a war where people are dying.

I am thinking of ways of communication where I don’t rely on a functioning government for instance (it is cheap to buy a radio now, compared to when a government blocks incoming goods).

Water filters might be good as well indeed, they last forever and will bring a lot of value when there is no water coming from my tap.

What else?

It is kinda problematic that it matters how deep pockets of both parties are in court, isn’t it? This system does not seem fair to me, unless fair means “the biggest guy always wins”. Ahhh the American dream, how amazing…

Super interesting build

And if programming doesn’t pan out please start writing for a magazine, love your style (or was this written with your AI?)

The only winners will be the people selling the guns.

I get very grumpy and useless when I don’t sleep. Tried a few times, things like a birthday party in my teens where we would play poker all night long, and a hackathon where we wanted to make the deadline. I try not to do it anymore, because nothing good comes out of my hands/mouth at some point.

Regarding the issue of being afraid you won’t be back in schedule before school starts: i totally recognize this. I try to make an effort to plan enough time to wind down on Sunday evening (if i have to get up early again). No social media, no news, no action packed movies or tv shows, some herbal tea around 8pm, only a few lights on in the house, meditation a bit earlier in the day to clear the mind, start brushing my teeth on time (around 9-ish) and actually go to bed at or a bit before normal weekday bed time.

I don’t always manage, but I do find i cannot sleep when I totally disregard these steps. I then just lay in bed being afraid i dont sleep wel enough and that makes it even harder to sleep.

Some thoughts that help me reduce stress:

“My body knows what to do and will make sure it sleeps when it really needs to. Worst case we can just try again tomorrow”

“It’s ok to wake up in the middle of the night, that’s just how sleep cycles work. Just go to the toilet for a bit and try to have another go. If it’s thoughts keeping me awake, write them down so they can be handled later on”

Sleeping is important, but your body can handle quite a lot, so try not to worry too much.

The problem is that AI is not useless. It has a lot of other issues, but not that it is never a helpful tool.

Help search what you lost there

This is such a foreign question for me. In the country I grew up in children are kicked out of the door to go and play outside as soon as possible (age 3 or 4? Idk, long time ago). My parents would give me rules like “don’t cross the big road! And home by 6” and I would ride my tiny bike around the neighborhood together with my friends.

I think you’ll just have to go out as much as you feel OK with. And maybe think of a plan B for when things do go wrong. Stay close to other people who can help out if something goes wrong, tell others where you are and when they should expect you back, take self defense classes, have a phone at the handy, etc.

It’s difficult to think when seeing this picture. Amazing ass!

I don’t think an invasion of the most powerfull army in the world is something you can really prepare for in most cases. It costs way too much money.

There’s so much stolen data, let’s produce more data that can be stolen…

I feel 1984 we passed the situation in 1984 now, and the book now depicts a utopia instead of a dystopia.

Yes, but how many did they introduce?

Met de kans als boomer te klinken: ik denk oprecht dat “grote techbedrijven” hier een aanzienlijk aandeel in hebben gehad, meer nog dan politici wmb. Ze maken winst door angst te zaaien en doen dat vrij letterlijk de hele dag door, omdat iedereen op zoek is verslaafd is aan dat beetje dopamine dat ze krijgen door negatieve berichten die ze op hun telefoon te zien krijgen.

Maar goed, wie ben ik.

Having worked in both a very seperated multirepo codebase and a monorepo, I’ve got to say, at the moment, the monorepo (using pnpm) wins hands down for me.

Driving cars, more important than dead children. (Sarcasm)

The hard line is the 1st of Januray 1970

I never understood cruises. Am I missing out?

I mean, I do get using a boat to travel to nice places, but that boat should not have a bowling alley on it imo.

Big bird, probably…

Shygothexhib, it’s been a while!

Dit is wat mij betreft de beste (en enige) optie: alles met motor het park uit/van het fietspad af in de stad.

Maar dat zal voor veel mensen een brug te ver zijn. Daarom is het zo interessant hoe ze in Amsterdam denken dit te gaan uitvoeren.