Wasn’t his art inspired by a psychedelic trip of some kind?

Can’t find him saying it outright but this is interesting:

SECONDS: What is the relationship of your art to psychedelia?

GIGER: I think there’s a relationship. Not so in the colors but I have some older works that look very psychedelic.

SECONDS: What have drugs done for the art world?

GIGER: You know, drugs are forbidden in Switzerland. Even psychedelic drugs that open you up are forbidden. LSD was invented by Albert Hoffman, who is Swiss. He had his first psychedelic experience on a bicycle, after accidentally getting some LSD on his fingers. He didn’t know what he had discovered. He was looking for something that would help women in labor. He changed the world. Many artists symbolize the psychedelic experience with a bicycle. This man is now 88 years old. I met him about six months ago. He’s very healthy and intelligent. Each day, he hangs upside down with his wife for half an hour, like a bat, in gravity boots.

SECONDS: You know Timothy Leary too, right?

GIGER: Yes, but not too well. When he was in Switzerland, he was looking for a place to hide because they wanted to put him in jail. My father was a pharmacist and knew Leary was in trouble. He was not very excited about Leary being in Switzerland, so I didn’t tell him I was trying to get help for him. He wouldn’t have been pleased.

Thanks for this great answer! I was thinking about swiss-style (like with the holes) and didn’t even consider that some cheese might be imported from actual Switzerland!

Isn’t it fancy Swiss cheese?

Where do you get email? Mine is about $4 US a month but I don’t like it much.

Thanks for describing the research assistant. Hopefully ddg copies this

There is no Valve invested in bringing CAD to the masses.

My phone doesn’t have filter, and can’t show system apps.

EDIT: I found what you’re talking about in the Settings>Apps app list.

The nice thing on Android is that all apps support it somehow.

I also didn’t create an account, but it still annoys me about it sometimes.

I hate trying to do something on my phone and finding out it is gated behind a Samsung app that I have to try to install from a 3rd party website to avoid making an account.

I switched from a Pixel to a Samsung and I would like to inform you that Samsung is bullshit. The phone is nice and all but I’m always fighting the software. Google Pixel software stays out of your way and occasionally helps you.

I will add one more: a quick once-or-twice blink of the hazard lights indicates “thank you” if someone lets you merge in front of them, etc.

This seems analogous to the video game “Killing Floor”, albeit with much lower stakes. This game is an FPS, and playing it requires your attention. Voice chat exists, similar to CB radio in cars, but many people opt out, to avoid the distraction.

The game has a “quick chat” feature which cannot be disabled, which allows for messages like “follow me,” “get out of here”, “medic”, “thank you” and a few others.

Perhaps a quick chat system for cars would be an improvent over the ambiguous “hazard lights / high beams / honk” messages which can be misunderstood. I think we’ve all had the experience of wondering, “why were they flashing their lights at me, or were they just going over a bump in the road?”

Although the first concern would be to limit their potential for abuse / distraction.

Possible messages:

1. My vehicle is stopped
2. My vehicle is moving slowly
3. Hazard ahead
4. Let me pass
5. Wait
6. Thank you
7. Turn on your headlights
8. Turn off your high beams
9. You have a light out
10. Something is wrong with your vehicle
11. OK / Acknowledged

There is a highway near me where the limit is 55, but the average speed in the fast lanes is 70+.

I don’t get it. This makes everyone a criminal. I isn’t realize that 75+ would be a felony.

Thanks to your sacrifice, I now know that I shouldn’t click on these links.

I think the point of the comic is that it is really depressing to hear this as a kid, in ways the teacher doesn’t understand.

I was an environmental educator for a while and part time activist in college but I gave up.

It really seems like an intractable problem. But I recommend Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future novel for a speculative fiction / near future grappling with how society might respond to a warming world.

Spoiler: it starts with a heat-wave natural disaster which radicalizes India into a rogue state, which then does geoengineering on its own, but this isn’t enough by itself.

Mods should still be able to remove. But if a user deletes their post with comments under it, the most it should do is show deleted user or however reddit does it, and remove the body of the post. But not touch the comments.

Check this out https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/08/enable-zram-ubuntu/amp/

*froggy

I would get a different seat lol

Puppy Linux is fun and cute but nothing really ever worked for me the way a normal distro works. But I haven’t spent much time on it.

How familiar are you with Linux? I recommend lubuntu over xubuntu as it is much more lightweight, at the cost of being more barebones. Also look for guides to make a zram drive for your swap.

The biggest drain on resources tends to be web browsing and writes to disk, so try to minimize these.

I am in a similar position with a 32bit hp laptop, but I think I will try to experiments with a cli-only machine, and go with Debian.