To add, it's important to reflect on the anxiety and worry.

I know it's cold comfort to know that it's still the safest way to travel, so I won't lean in to that. I guess what took me into my early 30s to truly learn is that worrying and anxiety won't prevent the future from happening, it only prevents you from enjoying the present. Having said that, it's human to worry but it's a problem when it takes over your life. One strategy I've used is allowing myself to worrying for a set period of time, breathing, focusing on what's important, forgiving myself for it, allowing it to pass, and then moving on. As a father of a teenager and a preteen, I also try to be aware that anxieties and fears get passed down from parent to child. My mom struggled with anxiety issues and I really try my best to break that cycle with my kids.

I have not had it. I'll give it a try, thanks for the recommendation!

I have an alternate trigger warning. I highly recommend decaf - I switched about a decade ago because while I like coffee I don't like how caffeine makes me feel, and nowadays good whole bean decafs are, flavor-wise, indistinguishable from regular coffee. I also find that I have more energy and sleep better.

This one still gets me charged up, inspired, and wanting to dance like nobody is watching.

https://youtu.be/mKkIysX2Bow?si=Nag0RdiVQ5pEPvx1

The Anakin story arc in the confines of the prequel movies I'd say was disappointing and feels rushed, but it was much more fleshed out in the Clone Wars series. It's totally worth a watch.

Good point.

That's a good idea - one potential metric could be something like "average zaps per note".

Another way you could fix the Follower problem would be to make following someone cost some nominal fee in sats - could be pennies but would rapidly become cost prohibitive for bots to follow everyone under the sun like they do now, much in the same way that physical junk mail has costs that limit their reach. One problem is bots would then predominantly only follow prominent people. In that case, one could make the fee adjustable so a prominent person could charge more before you can follow them.

Further to this, for individual users the cost can sometimes cancel in an "I follow you, you follow me" scenario.

I believe, like many of your listeners, in free markets so I'm not a big fan of tariffs in general. Having said that, I'm glad I listened to this episode with an open mind. Pomp makes some solid arguments and, like you, I feel more optimistic about the direction the administration is going. And for what it's worth, as a Canadian, I'm glad he brought up the lumber issue - the notion that we subsidize that industry never really sat well with me.

Lol. I was thinking about that the other day. Good times! 😂

Proton does indeed have storage, and as of about a year ago, the Proton Drive app automatically syncs your photos directly from your phone in the same way Google Photos or iCloud does.

Bitcoin just shrugged it off (at least for now). Amazing.

Not to mention how often the point of sale systems go down. Off the top of my head, the gas station near my place has been down twice in the last year or so - and that's the times I know about, I don't go there every day.

I'm Canadian and I love America and Americans (my own country too of course) so I think this would be amazing.

My main worry is if America can overcome the institutional inertia to adopt and embrace this. It does feel like it is slowly happening though.

Good to know. I bought an HP LaserJet very cheap at a surplus sale at work. While it only cost $25 or something HP drivers are terrible. HP Smart Driver is not smart - one of my computers can't see the printer. I miss the good old days where you found the specific driver for the device, installed it, and it just worked without any obnoxious bells and whistles.

I quite like The Jordan Harbinger Show. He's a good interviewer and has a good mix of guests - some examples of episodes I enjoyed in the last year or so were the history and geopolitics of semiconductors, resurrecting the woolly mammoth, an episode about lawns, and one on the dark side of the chocolate industry.

When people think of modern scientific geniuses, names like Einstein, Hawking, and maybe to a lesser extent Tesla come up. Feynman doesn't get nearly the love that he deserves. Arguably he unofficially birthed the computer revolution with his lecture "There's Plenty of Room At The Bottom" - and the world today is indistinguishable from that 30 or 40 years ago.

It's true. We have an older specialized piece of equipment in our lab that stil runs on a Windows 3.1 machine. The other day the computer crashed and had to be rebooted, and it starts in DOS. My students would've had no idea what to do when the computer started up with a black screen and a C:\

I'm not even sure that they would've known what question to even ask a search engine or AI to find out what to do.

Growing up (I'm tail end Gen X, born late 70s) you had to know the back end of how computers worked out you were screwed. Nowadays computers and devices just work.

The 22nd only prevents him for getting *elected* more than twice - could he not run as a VP with another presidential candidate and then have the puppet president step down?

His album Devour is, in my opinion one of the most underrated albums I've ever heard. That's my favorite, but I also quite like Blood Harmony.