Procrastes

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by Procrastes 14d ago
I'm one of those folks who appreciate a well-engineered landfill. We had a great one in Nevada County, CA. Now that I've moved back to Texas, I've learned the difference the hard way, although not as hard as the people who lo
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by Procrastes 19d ago
Some of the data centers in Texas are at least partly being built to turn surplus natural gas into cash.[1][2] 1. https://energynow.com/2026/03/us-natgas-prices-at-waha-hub-i... 2. https://www.rbccm.com
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by Procrastes 19d ago
I'm not a geologist, but for comparison, the Siberian Traps[1] erupted for 2 million years, and there have been other large events on that scale. Any heat we release will be insignificant in comparison. 1. https://en.wikiped
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by Procrastes 1mo ago
It really is beautiful. It also makes me think of Sir Terry Pratchett, which is a good thing. If this were Ankh-Morpork, it would be a stunningly realistic carving of a cabbage—carved from another, larger cabbage.
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by Procrastes 2mo ago
"A.I."[1] like "technology"[2] is a term colloquially reserved for things that don't work yet. Once something works, we have to call it something else. 1. "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being
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by Procrastes 3mo ago
Sorry, I conflated Finnish lunches and Norwegian matpakke in my head. Nothing wrong with Finnish lunch.
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by Procrastes 3mo ago
I actually know a goat rancher who is working to require ag impact studies for data centers in Texas. Sounds like I should give him a call while I can. (Also CVE-2026-LGTM would be an awesome name for a Culture ship)
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by Procrastes 3mo ago
This is great! Thank you for sharing it. Fun to use and already customizable.
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by Procrastes 3mo ago
I was thinking the same thing, or even just little minigames and Easter eggs for people to find.
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by Procrastes 3mo ago
Yes, definitely. Shades of Accelerando, Saturn's Children, and Neptune's Brood. Give me the tentacles any day.
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by Procrastes 3mo ago
> Democrats US who always love to say “Follow the Nordic Model” past performance is not indicative of future results I'm not about to run out and suggest Finnish lunches or buy a tin of Surströmming for breakfast, but it might be ni
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by Procrastes 3mo ago
As I recall, the Dr. knows were programmed to feed that information to runaway mechas who, who were, in turn, programmed to seek out the blue fairy. Probably a lesson in there somewhere.
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by Procrastes 4mo ago
The metaphor may not hold up well in practice, but as counterexamples, I've had a pair of motorcycle boots since the late 80s that have never needed any maintenance beyond some saddle soap, and my grandfather's fountain pen from t
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by Procrastes 4mo ago
Yes, that's more what I'm saying. There's no aether, but there's a much more interesting and complex world of forces and fields. There are no humors, but anatomy and biological processes are spectacularly complex and ful
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by Procrastes 4mo ago
But not in any convincing way, which seems like the root of the problem.
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by Procrastes 4mo ago
I sometimes wonder if we'd make more progress in understanding ourselves if we gave up the whole concept. More and more, it feels as though "consciousness," like "aether" or "humors," is an insufficient ab
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by Procrastes 4mo ago
I gave up on Kindles long ago. They wake up and drain their batteries, so they're always dead when I pick them up to read something. Not a problem with Kobo. But I really want to pick up one of these little Xteink readers next. They ju
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by Procrastes 4mo ago
These were the last posts from Sir Terry's Twitter account, March 12th 2015: AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The e
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by Procrastes 4mo ago
As Jack T. Chick said, "No one can save you. We will all be eaten."[1] But isn't the real goal to be eaten first, so you can miss out on all that noisy screaming and awful mess? Eschatons have a solid track record of never sh
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by Procrastes 4mo ago
I want to buy you a CMOT Dibbler Sausage for the Vimes reference. Perfect metaphor for this situation. His point was that it was the cheap boots that keep people poor, so that makes me think artist and artisan patronage will be an even bigg
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by Procrastes 4mo ago
This reminds me of the central ideas in Adam Curtis's Hypernormalization[1]. I feel the pressure of the complexity, too, but attempting to oversimplify complex things has consequences. "Politicians, financiers and technological u
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by Procrastes 4mo ago
I'm having a Mandela Effect moment. I could have sworn it was a typo for "antipode" instead, but that must be a false memory I picked up somewhere.
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by Procrastes 4mo ago
A more charitable reading might be that the comment you're replying to was specifically referring to how jaywalking was a made-up offense that was specifically created and promoted to cynically protect the auto industry from liability.
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by Procrastes 5mo ago
Diapers are no problem, as other folks have mentioned. The hard part for me is the over-the-top hypervigilance. One little breathing change, and I was halfway across the house to her room before I realized I was even awake. I could feel eve
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by Procrastes 5mo ago
@aselimov3 Thank you for the reminder! This is something I used to do all the time when I was younger, and I have gotten away from it. Very helpful.
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by Procrastes 5mo ago
Mediator here. This comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of what mediation is for. Mediation is about helping the disputants find a solution they can live with, but mediators never decide what that is. Mediations have a large emotional
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by Procrastes 5mo ago
I remember the first time I heard this story. I was maybe 7 at a planetarium and they animated it with music little hand drawn starships and retro computers floating among the stars. They turned the stars all out for the final scene.
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by Procrastes 5mo ago
A half-joking comment I once heard from someone who was part of the group that established the NUC. It stood for "Not US Currency," but tracks the dollar because that compromise was the only thing everyone could agree on. The firs
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by Procrastes 5mo ago
There used to be a story going around, possibly apocryphal, that the process to reset them used to be entirely manual and generally unknown to the rest of the organization. There was a big problem the week the person who had that task retir
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by Procrastes 6mo ago
Here's a thought experiment. I offer you the chance to be put in a medically induced coma and shipped around the world to strangers you know nothing about. You don't know what economic, political, or moral system you'll awake

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