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I’m a sucker for procedural #journalism films (The Post, She Said, and Spotlight, which won the Oscar Best Picture in 2016) so I watched Netflix’s Scoop, which is about the infamous BBC Newsnight interview of Prince Andrew in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. I had the fortune (?) of not having seen this interview so it was interesting seeing how it all came about. The film wasn’t as good …

About life and feelings, gloomy and private
The feelings we get from the activities we do could be classified as neutral, positive and negative.
Let's take developing #Gentoo as an example. It's something that makes me happy — but you can't (or at least I can't) just get the happiness and reject everything else. Most of the Gentoo work is basically neutral, even bland — a duty that takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a little of your health. It's statistically probable that you're going to get some positive feelings out of it — the joy of success, satisfaction, appreciation, awareness that you've done something good. But you also get negative feelings — from failures, frustration, negative interactions.
My hiking trips are like that too. My family believes that "I do it for pleasure" — but it's a harmful oversimplification and it only tells me that they even aren't trying to understand me. In fact, it's mostly a necessity, a way of solving specific problems that works for me — halting diabetes-related problems, coping with emotions. Of course there's a positive side to it — good mood, energy to survive another day, something the joy of visiting a new place, seeing something beautiful, finding a solution to a vexatious problem, positive interactions with people. But there are also negative feelings — anger and sadness from failure, stress from problems, negative contacts with people. Sometimes you end up slowly charging your social battery for a whole week, just to have one person destroy it all.
If you think about it, life's something like that. It's mostly a bland effort to survive every following day, sometimes interspersed with positive or negative moments.
#ActuallyAutistic

Another great example of (charitably) Kruger-Dunning (or more realistically, towering naivity) among the vljmstoligy community.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair
The reason GHG emissions still aren't falling far or fast enough to avoid global catastrophe is "lack of political will" and "corporate vested interests". The fact is that governments of even nations with undemocratic and tyrannical regimes are in the hands of the populace in the medium to long term. How long would, say, Putin remain in power if he announced a ten year programme to tax meat to the point it's a rare luxury reserved for the wealthy, to transition from petrol and diesel fuels, a crash programme to dump coal and gas for power generation and heating and roll out renewables, abolishing hidden subsidies for concrete manufactures to ensure the the emission externalities are priced in, virtual bans on civilian aviation and so on? Certainly there'd be an interesting Keynesian multiplier effect from all the expenditure and investment*, but he'd still be dangling from a metaphorical lamppost within a few years.
*actually the debt incurred would cause huge inflation.
The other big problem, still, is lack of public understanding. There's "awareness", but here are still huge misapprehension. Eg., many people still seem to think thst net zero would mean a return to mid-20thC climates; people still don't grasp the consequences of passing major tipping thresholds, or that many climate elements (ice sheet melting, ocean circulations,..) have multi-decadal or multi-century lags before reaching a final equilibrium. And they still have no clue how fragile civilisation is, or what life in 2100 -- or 2050! - will be like.
I remain more optimistic than I was 25y ago when I first started taking an interest, though. 2.5°C still looks plausible to me, if current reductions continue to accelerate, given a few weather megadisasters to chivvy us along.

I’d noticed some Premium Economy flights are really, really nice with a separate cabin and food service, but most are just Economy with More Inches of Leg Room, which isn’t worth the upcharge imho. Now I know why: When flying from San Francisco to Newark, I was flying a plane configured for International flights. But—only Newark. Chicago, Boston, no, you’re going to have a Bad Time unless you pay two or three times as much for a ticket.
"A great way to fly United's brand new Boeing 787-10 is on a transcontinental flight from Newark (EWR) to Los Angeles (LAX) or San Francisco (SFO). United's 787-10 fleet has (real) Polaris seats and Premium Plus, United's new international premium economy cabin.”
https://simpleflying.com/uniteds-domestic-widebody-flights-and-how-to-find-them/

Given the orthodox nature of industry, exp creatives are often conformist. Novices aren't the key factor here; non-conformist design is.
Important study:
"Most surprising of all though, was that the films by novice filmmakers that were supported by a Studio significantly outperformed the films of experienced filmmakers by a factor of 3 to 1. The films by novice filmmakers were also more likely to screen at a high profile international film festival."

“The countries and companies that have continued to supply oil to the Israeli military since the decision of the international court of justice are contributing to horrible human rights violations and may be complicit in genocide”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/m…

'A Few Teams Interested' In $72 Million Cut Candidate https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/a_few_teams_interested_in_72_million_cut_candidate/s1_17198_40102480

'A Few Teams Interested' In $72 Million Cut Candidate
In news that should surprise absolutely nobody, the Las Vegas Raiders are planning to cut Jimmy Garoppolo and set him loose on the free agent market. After a mostly successful six-year run with the San Francisco 49ers, the quarterback signed a three-year, $72.5 million contract with the Raiders following the emergence of Brock Purdy. Reunited with former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, Vegas believed the former second-round pick would thrive with his former coach. Instead, Garoppolo strug…

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“Twelve of Israel’s most prominent human rights organisations have signed an open letter accusing the country of failing to comply with the international court of justice’s (ICJ) provisional ruling that it should facilitate access of humanitarian aid into Gaza.”
https://www.