I now try to control my screen time.

But when I see 90% of the people on the subway, including kids, glued to the phone, I feel as though an addict trying to quit see others' using and devastated 😅

right? will be tons of fun to share snippets from around the web to nostr on your phone.

Now that all our SSNs have leaked, can we finally put an end to the delusion that knowing these 10 digits is somehow a reasonable proxy for proof of identity?

It’s madness that creditors are permitted to extend credit on such a shoddy basis — and have it hold up in a court of law! If a creditor chooses to use this kind of garbage, pseudo-public information as the only means of identity that should be their choose. But courts should be summarily throwing out any debt for which no evidence of an actual proof of identity can be produced.

Damus Purple subs can also view web highlights! We are putting finishing touches on the safari extension to create them, stay tuned! nostr:note1unfengux62t36g90x85h72ck8km5cc6vaqzjd7u60x8cwfyjl58qfk6apc

GM, nostr. Hope everyone has a happy and healthy Sunday. PV.

even chatgpt says the tongue. maybe the way we use words is confusing thing.

if tongue is used for taste, and nose is used for smell

maybe a more correct thing to say is that taste in not the most important sense for *flavor*.

the issue is people overload the word *taste* for flavor when really flavor = taste + smell, where smell gives the greatest contribution to the flavor?

maybe I should just get back to coding... nostr:note1ay59666y934lky6qfejfxzm8ks2wky8dh7td227r4mgww9tqz7tssqtz4k

not sure why I never thought of this before, but the tongue is not the *main* taste sensor. I only just realized this when I held my breath when I accidently drank an old cup of coffee and tasted nothing. smell seems to be the most important thing when it comes to taste.

I mean I get that most people know that holding your breath changes the taste but am I wrong thinking most people think the tongue is used as the main taste sensor.

can't tell if I'm retarded or a genius for this observation

America is not its federal government; it is its people, principles and states united. The federal government is scrapping itself through money printing, but most states will survive and thrive in unity. I have hope for the states of the United States, the principles of our founding, and the people of this country. If these things are allowed to thrive, they will.

Absolutely not. Our country was not founded so that we could have faith in corrupt government institutions. Our government was founded under the premise that it should not be trusted, not be powerful, and if it got out of hand it should be driven out violently by the populace. Having faith in any government institution is inappropriate under all circumstances, because it is against the principles on which our country was founded. It is anti-American.

What are the guitars for?

I won't tell anyone else to not vote, but after seeing what happened in 2020 I am supremely confident that my vote does not count. And after all, why should I work for what others print for free? 😆

I don't want to give the impression that I care about politics or Trump. Not gonna waste my time voting. These are just intensely interesting current events and I smell a tremendous amounts of bullshit.

Growing up in Japan, we always had a rice cooker at home and didn't know any family that didn't have one. When I left my house for college I bought one.

When I moved to the US, I naturally thought, I must have a rice cooker and bought a cheap one.

At one point, our, me and my husband's, rice cooker broke. I looked up how to cook with a pan. To my surprise, rice tasted better when cooked by a pan over the gas stove. We have been without a rice cooker since, for a good 10 years.

I recently read someone in Japan cooked rice for the first time on the stove as he couldn't use electricity because of an earthquake. He said "what the point of rice cooker, if we can cook better without it?"

Well, a rice cooker keeps the rice warm. But, it is not a really necessary device as most of us, Japanese people, believe.

The companies like panasonic and zojirushi, make a lot of money, selling rice cookers to us and many people are employed there. Maybe, this has been the point of rice cooker and the 20th century, growth, growth.

I am not saying it was all bad. Still, I prefer to live in a way that any false belief, a certain product is necessary to do something, is unveiled and make a choice based on that.