“They’ve also publicly threatened Iran that if it hits Israeli soil, Israel will hit Iranian soil again”

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I was listening to The Dollop podcast about old timey public health guy John Hurty, and in it they mention the town he was in had a small pox outbreak, and after about four years people were just like “It’s just small pox, gotta alive your life”, so I think it’s partly just a human trait to be able to normalize horrible things. Especially if, like back then, there’s not much people think they can do.

And there’s been a huge push to normalize covid, because keeping it at bay is expensive. Countries like China, Vietnam, DPRK, New Zealand, and Austrailia were largely successful, but with every other country on the planet giving up and encouraging the spread of it, there’s not much anyone country can do except strict isolationism. Really, we could put a huge dent in transmission rates with indoor air cleaning and having people wear properly fitting n95 masks, but the powers that be decided that’s too much trouble, and it’s easier to tell people that getting sick all the time is good for them, so now we have to wait for science to do magic with better vaccines.

I try not to get mad that so many people gave up, or even regressed, but it’s difficult. Especially when I’m personally and professionally close to vulnerable people who are still dying and being injured at alarming rates from this shit. It’s like if everyone decided indoor smoking should be a thing people should do everywhere, again.

I’ve been looking for stuff to install and ran across this list, it’s pretty comprehensive. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Right now I only have jellyfin and pi-hole with unbound.

Damn, I guess doing genocide on live stream has consequences?

Welp… https://www.cbs19.tv/article/news/local/officials-confirm-1st-human-case-of-bird-flu-in-texas/501-3c886ca8-338b-4036-9f80-c5ecb37fd4c7

It’s good for the cows, but doesn’t that make it more likely to continue to jump species?

The amount of heart problems covid is causing is pretty insane. A close friend of mine just had a second recorded heart attack in two years, and is constantly having wierd chest pains doctors can’t explain. They now live in care home and they’ve had four covid outbreaks in the past year. It’s fucked.

I enjoy all the monsterverse movies, even if they are kinda bad, but this sounds like a big oof. Even people who liked it are like “it’s big monsters fighting, what more do you want?”.

Also, wtf is Rebecca Hall doing in these movies? An incredibly talented actor, she elevates every movie she’s in, and hollywood has her doing mostly b-movies like this. Insane.

They also bragged about ending child poverty in the 2022 election cycle and then got rid of pandemic help programs causing one of the most dramatic increases in child poverty in US history.

The economy is good tho. Get back to work.

NNN seems to work pretty well.

That calender app looks really nice! I was looking for something like that.

I’ll keep that in mind. I’m probably going to go with the default bash unless there is a feature something else has that looks neat.

Sensible defaults and the lack of plugins seems to be why people like it.

pywal can also be very fun, it generates color schemes from your wallpapers

nice!

Cool, thanks!

A custom update function was something I was thinking of doing. The nix commands are a bit arcane, having a simple “update” command for all of them seems like it would be useful.

With ranger there’s a --chose-dir option that you can use in a function so that you jump to the folder you left on when you exited ranger.

that seems incredibly useful, thanks!

Zellij looked like the way to go, so that seals it. Thanks.

and three strong recommendations to start using flakes, so I guess that’s what I’ll jump into next.