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I just spent an hour on the phone with first the a doctor's office, then the insurance company, and I've decided to just never attempt to get health care for anything ever again, and someday just die, hopefully quietly

We've all been raised to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, and successful authors like Chuck Palahniuk. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact.

I am attempting a Logseq/Notion to just @obsidian migration. The data transfer is a challenge for more reasons than I can fit in a toot. But the desktop app runs so smooth (I'm on PopOS on slow-for-2024 hardware) that I'm still trying (2 days in). I just confirmed it is Electron. HOW does it run better than MOST apps, and WAY better than any other Electron apps (VSCode being a distant 2nd)? Theory: no JS framework?

So we are supposed to burn the ships but NOT burn the bridges? It seems like the former would be worse, right? Do we unload the ships' cargo first? And what about ferries and barges?

Son, 9, scrolling YouTube, laughs.

Me: what?

Son shows me thumbnail that made him laugh.

Me: yeah that's KISS.

Son: so emo.

🤔

Somewhere under there is a website. I can't imagine why @TexasObserver is struggling with all these growth hacks in play

The news has been so bad lately I couldn't even watch Weekend Update on SNL

“The business model unfortunately in our beloved sport is a terrible one. It really is awful", says McQuaid. 

road.cc/content/news/sportswashing-and-cyclings-carbon-footprint-discussed-306889

I don't know why more people covering professional cycling aren't talking about this.

#cycling #pro #bike #racing

In the process of posting to my blog tonight, I stumbled across this mysterious 2022 post. At one point I removed a bunch of dead links instead of trying to redirect them to the wayback machine. I could undo that but it would be a lot of work, and I kind of like the mystery of, "These words once existed on the internet, and now they don't."

daniel.industries/2002/10/09/3/

Someone here posted to a sublime post about Voyager. I had to save it along with a link to a documentary film about the Voyager team.

daniel.industries/2024/02/24/a-voyage/