Worsening standard of living as a result of 40 years of cuts to social services as neoliberal economic policy seeks to manage the contradictions of capitalism in the u.s. Basically the u.s. deindustrialized itself at the hands of monopoly capitalists which savaged the working class.

Tl;Dr class war

Racists having a laugh

This is a good one! Sounds like an example of art therapy.

I used it–it was the first book I worked with. I still like it quite a lot and I often think about his guidance as I learn from my own meditation, or in the context of other readings I’ve done. For me, as a nerd (previously) pretty averse to religion, I found his nuts and bolts instruction really useful and free of “woo woo” entanglement which might have turned me off at the beginning.

For newcomers, his teaching is perhaps not the norm in that it sets beginners up to practice concentration, or Samatha meditation. It seems like insight/Vipassana practice might be more common for newbies. I’m not sure how much it matters that much, tbh. For me, just learning to sit and explore my reactions to sitting took plenty of time before the distinction between concentration and insight even meant anything to me.

I’ve been trying helix and the built in LSP integration is excellent. Out of the box it’s capable of a lot when paired up with a good language server. The equivalent LSP integration on neovim takes some fat plugins.

I will say helix seems immature in a few areas. I noticed it’s missing tab layouts present in vim. Also might it not be impossible to resize splits? There’s also no linewise selection mode.

Helix out of the boz is close to my 15 years of accumulated vim config, but it seems like it’s not quite there yet.

This is cool. I also read China is coming up with interesting designs for winter greenhouses which maintain above freezing temps using only solar radiation and in some pretty far northern latitudes https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/chinese-greenhouses-for-winter-gardening-zm0z17amzmul/

I’ve made this one before and can vouch for it being excellent https://www.seriouseats.com/french-onion-soup-recipe

I assume both services harvest and sell data. As a Usonian, a foreign service is less likely to be able to act on the data they harvest about me. I guarantee meta sells the social graph gleaned from e2ee communications to a data broker who then sells it to the CIA etc al.