I remember this discussed in my economics class 20y ago… Whether housewives work should be in GDP. One would hope economists move forward from there.

I think it’s a plan to keep their names mentioned in media, free advertising of sorts…

How did Hungarians get there first place? (to elect Orban)

Belt bikes are very expensive, likely because the frame has to be open at the transmission…

I use 3 numbered glass cuncumber jars: one with some mineral spirits (for paints), one with denaturated spirit (for household cleaning), one with alcohol (reused for acrylics). That’s setup is for factor-greased chain but is reusable for rewaxing (but probably overkill). Just had to buy denaturated spirit! Shake in chain in each and it’s dry & ready for rewax.

$30 crockpot from Amazon + cheap Gulf Wax from Walmart, cut with some Microcrystalline Wax from BW, is what works for.me… The worst enemy of the wax seems wet riding, which i avoid. I am experimenting with Teflon powder (I think it gave some improvement) and Molybdenum Dissulfate (meh, expensive…). Plus Squirt wax based chain lube (6 small drip containers) in case I go on a longer trip.

Check Ali for replacement cushions!

If I got $100 each time I see a car in NYC blowing through red light or stop sign in NJ I would retire, sit and watch traffic! (Maybe not in 0F lol)

Dont give them ideas!

That dogshit is often an antivirus and other corpo surveillance processes…

Often it is the hardware. One should check what is supported, the chipsets etc… Or just get Framework (or maybe a mainstream Dell). It’s a pity they only do laptops…

Mmmm… Spaghetti with cream and sugar, sprinkled with cottage chasse… My childhood delicacy!

I setup music with Clementine, and output analog via the jack. Surely there must be better way… But it was easy & I can choose songs to play from cellphone.

It’s even easier with Brew: have terminal window open, type brew install librewolf & if MacOS complains, xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LibreWolf.app (for example to get a nice bland browser without corporate spyware). Every now and then, brew upgrade librewolf.

I had a friend trauma & sleep psychology profesor visiting; she said improvement of school performance with better scheduling was proven in few real life (cross-sectional?) studies.

FreeTube on desktop, NewPipe on droid!

But does it build?!

Meh, I found VR a gimmic…

It was pita to setup, gave me headaches (from wearing the kit), and “the best” game (Half Life Alyx) had complicated dynamics… so I already forgot what I was supposed to do (after Windows Updates, VR updates, approx. 2 reboots needed… Not to mention Windows updates fkd up my Linux multiboot few times…)

LLMs could be useful for translation between programming languages. I asked it to recently for server code given a client code in a different language and the LLM generated code was spot on!

I think it’s all noise to distract from issues US should solve on its own.