And pay a $15 subscription for the poop cloud service.

That’s a really good point too. Belief in conspiracies and other junk beliefs can be a surrogate for agency.

For some reason thats always how it is.

I think it’s because the obvious answers aren’t interesting. A big thing for conspiracy theorists is that they are part of a group who knows the real story. It’s as much about feeling like they belong to something important and exciting as anything else.

It’s like the people who believe the apocalypse is coming soon. Well if the apocalypse happened 1000 years from now that would be pretty soon (a geological blink of an eye) but it wouldn’t be anywhere near to falling within the lifespan of the believers. That doesn’t work! These people need to feel special, to feel important, to believe their life is meaningful for no other reason than to be alive when an important event happens.

The rural areas sure. Edmonton and Calgary are not. They’re the stronghold for the provincial NDP. Wasn’t too long ago that Alberta had an NDP government on the strength of their support in those two cities.

Electrician? I do my own electrical work! This issue is pretty low priority for me though. I have a ton of other things to fix around the house!

There’s no driver. These are bulbs designed for traditional halogen fixtures which connect directly to 120V mains AC.

I prefer to think of beer as liquid bread. Delicious and nutritious!

I live in Canada (60Hz here) and I just installed a new range hood above my stove. It came with standard recessed halogen light fixtures with LED bulbs. Rather than being fully dimmable, the switch has high and low settings. When set to low, I can definitely see visible flicker.

I also have this same style of lights above my bathroom mirror and a dimmer switch there. They also display more and more flicker when dimmed.

50Hz is what you’ll find in the UK and Europe.

LEDs aren’t 50Hz or 60Hz or anything else. They’re DC devices and they don’t flicker at all if you run them on a clean DC power supply.

The issue with LED bulbs is that they don’t have clean power supplies. They have very simple AC to DC, usually a capacitive dropper. Without filtering, this type of cheap power supply produces a lot of ripple which manifests in visible flicker at the same frequency of the input AC mains power.

Wow thanks for this! It’s so helpful to learn about and have a language for describing why these new movies feel so wrong to me. I’m going to watch this after work and share it with my film club!

I have the opposite issue. I tend to only enjoy older films. Recent films tend to have this digital colour-graded look and a style of editing (millions of 1 second cuts) that make them pretty much unwatchable for me.

I really love films that take their time, both in plot and character development, as well as in how shots develop to establish the scenes. I also have a passion for photography and for me that’s a really big part of films. I want to see beautiful photographs that took a lot of time and experience to set up (and wait for the right moment, in the case of outdoor scenes). I love practical effects that were built and painted by hand, explosions rigged with real explosives, much more than CGI.

I think there is an issue with attention spans though. The modern films that I mentioned above seem to be ideal for people with short attention spans, whereas older films tend to be boring for these folks. This makes it hard for films to appeal to both audiences!

Those kinds of arguments fail if someone believes that God created logic as well.

Check out this video: Moka Pot Voodoo by the Wired Gourmet . Caution: turn down your volume for the early part of the video! Random siren sounds for some reason. Or skip ahead to 28s to avoid them.

This is the technique to make really great coffee in a Moka pot!

Funny that the line piece is the rarest piece in classic NES Tetris.

Most of the world’s problems are ultimately collective action problems. We would all be better off if we could cooperate more effectively but we just can’t seem to get on the same page.

What? I always thought the guy was the negative side! The woman is the reasonable normie, the guy is the weirdo tinfoil hat nerd!

What even are all those crappy icons?

To get YouTube to work you need to curate your watch history. Any video you regret watching should be deleted from history so that it won’t be used for recommendations.

If your history is filled with these bad videos then you’re better off wiping your history entirely. Then start from scratch watching only videos that really interest you and your recommendations will all be based on those.

Like the internet itself, there is a TON of great content on YouTube. The trouble is finding it! For me, the internet has been gradually reverting to the situation I remember from the mid-90s (before Google existed). There were lots of search engines but they were pretty much all bad. I relied a lot on word of mouth (and site-to-site links) to find things.

It says you can teleport. Doesn’t say you can take anything with you. Maybe you arrive there completely naked?

I see this a lot and GM definitely deserves a large share of the blame but we also need to look at ourselves, our culture, and the way we decided to evolve our cities.

Redlining, white flight, car-centric suburbs, HOAs, wide streets, 2-car garages, Hollywood movies like Rebel Without a Cause. The list of factors goes on and on and on.

A lot of people like to blame boomers for all our ills but I think the trend started earlier with people who were teenagers at the end of WW2. They were too young to fight in the war but they were old enough to get sucked into this brand new marketing and cultural phenomenon known as the teenager.

Prior to WW2, marketers targeted only older adults and their messaging was very practical and family-oriented. After WW2 there began a movement towards teenage independence, rebellion, and rock & roll. The centre of all this independence was the car!

They’re not just random examples for some people though. For some indigenous peoples these items are a foundational part of their cultural practices.

How about using birds’ discarded feathers for decorations? Discarded seashells? Pearls from clams that died naturally?