📧 Cambiare indirizzo Gmail non è mai stato così facile! Scopri come farlo seguendo la nostra guida - colpo d'occhio su un mondo più organizzato! #Gmail #TechTips
Google introduce la possibilità di modificare l'indirizzo Gmail, una funzione attesa da tempo che permetterà agli utenti di cambiare l'email scelta anni fa.
Il Capo dello Stato nel suo messaggio al Pontefice: «Abbiamo il dovere di resistere alla oscura inerzia, rivolta verso abissi della storia che il genere umano ha già tragicamente sperimentato, agendo con rinnovata saggezza e rapidità»
Todo o mundo pode #correr. Uns máis rápido e outros máis amodo, uns máis lonxe outros quedamos máis preto. A evolución dunha situación a outra debe ser progresiva para que o corpo a asimile de xeito saudable. Sen dúbida, o chanzo máis grande a superar é do sofá a trotar.
📆 Estamos a día 1 de xaneiro. De xeito máis ou menos consciente, tes a intuición de que che viría ben moverte máis e estas son datas nas que ideas e proxectos forman unha nube dando voltas arredor de ti.
Poucas actividades mellorarán máis a túa calidade de vida, farán que te sintas mellor e proporcionarán máis autonomía e confianza en ti mesma que adquirir o hábito de facer algunha actividade física con propósito.
Recupero unha vez máis unha proposta (orixinal de 2020) para comezar a camiñar paseniño pero de xeito recurrente e a medio prazo poder correr media hora seguido. O obxectivo non é «correr», é o que implica «ser capaz de correr».
Está no artigo, pero non canso de repetir que correr non doe, nin te asfixia, nin vas romper ou darche un vaído. Se algo disto comezas a sentir é que vas demasiado rápido ou demasiado lonxe para o teu estado actual. Para, se honesta, e primeiro camiña. Se en lugar de 9 semanas son 16, que máis da!?
Correr é simple e barato, empodérate 💪
O último párrafo non o digo por dicir. Se o precisas estou aquí
Fonte C25K ¿por que este plan? I am often asked how fast you should run and walk on the treadmill. The answer is that you should run as slowly as possible. In fact, if you can run more slowly, you...
For the new year's todo-list I have one thing to do. Start #selfhosting my own instance, so that I can interact with others with my name and project. I have already "elettrona @ plusbrothers.net" on my main project's site, based on #WordPress #activitypub platform. But I don't manage to reply through mastodon clients as it returns an error using Enable Mastodon App plugin. But if I have my own instance, with long text writing enabled maybe, I can decide. Reading from here (and MastodonUno) keeping noise there, while interacting with the other one.
I really liked these three cranes, standing up into the background sky. I also liked the framing of them with the two, utility poles. With the same, prime lens, I found two, different ways to frame everything.
Seattle, WA, December 2025 Nikon Zf | Nikkor 50mm 1.8 S
Non mancano gli esempi: da chi ha ricevuto una piccola pietra con inciso “You rock”, sicuramente un messaggio di incoraggiamento unico, ma non proprio il regalo che ci si aspetterebbe di trovare sotto l’albero, fino a chi si è visto recapitare gadget improbabili o sorprese tanto creative, ma altrettanti poco utili. A raccontarlo è Pluxee Italia, che ha raccolto le storie più divertenti e surreali che sono state condivise online dai lavoratori di tutto il mondo: una Top 5 dei regali aziendali più assurdi, stravaganti e memorabili scovati tra i dipendenti, un piccolo viaggio nell’universo dei doni che, forse, sarebbe stato meglio non scartare.
Idee regalo da... digerire con calma
Tra chi punta sulla sostenibilità estrema, regalando una calza piena di patate impacchettate eco-friendly e chi invece preferisce il digitale inviando una torta virtuale via e-mail, il risultato non cambia: i dipendenti avrebbero gradito qualcosa di un pò più… commestibile. Evento aziendale per le Festività Natalizie
Quando il personal… è troppo personale
Il brivido di ricevere un pensiero “intimo” dal proprio capo ha sempre i suoi limiti, specialmente quando si traduce in una cornice con la foto dei suoi figli, da esporre con orgoglio sulla propria scrivania. Un Natale “di famiglia” certo, ma non la propria.
Ricevere un buono digitale per gli acquisti da 50 euro strappa sempre un sorriso. Scoprire che è un test aziendale di phishing, lo cancella in un istante. Un caso esemplare di regalo che regala solo diffidenza.
Esperienze sì, purché non impossibili
Il desiderio di regalare “esperienze” è sempre apprezzabile finchè non si traduce in inviti a feste aziendali che richiedono un costo aggiuntivo per partecipare, o in voucher per il cinema utilizzabili solo dall’altra parte del Paese. In questi casi, l’unica esperienza reale è scoprire che non potrai goderne davvero. Episodi come questi, per quanto curiosi, mostrano come un regalo aziendale possa facilmente diventare un momento imbarazzante invece che un gesto di cura. In tale contesto, Pluxee ha sottolineato come ricevere un regalo da parte dell’azienda che risponda davvero ai bisogni concreti dei dipendenti sia fondamentale: soluzioni semplici, utili e capaci di adattarsi alle diverse esigenze dei lavoratori. Puntare su proposte realmente fruibili non solo evita sorprese indesiderate, ma contribuisce a creare un clima aziendale più positivo, attento e contemporaneo, proprio quello che ogni dipendente dovrebbe trovare sotto l’albero. Perché un regalo ben pensato non è solo un gesto: è un modo di valorizzare il talento e costruire un ambiente di lavoro più inclusivo e moderno.
E-commerce fragranze per la casa: il mercato italiano cresce tra design e benessere
In Italia la crescita del comparto home fragrance si inserisce in una trasformazione strutturale dei consumi legati alla casa. I nostri connazionali, infatti, sono sempre più legati all’esperienza, al comfort e alla qualità percepita degli spazi, piuttosto che orientati esclusivamente alla funzionalità. Secondo i dati dell’Accademia del Profumo, il mercato delle fragranze per la casa cresce a un ritmo del +7,8% annuo, trend che trova ulteriore conferma nell’analisi dei comportamenti digitali degli utenti.
Maggior propensione e ampliamento della base
L’elaborazione dei dati di Trovaprezzi.it, mostra che nel 2025 le ricerche nella categoria Profumatori e Candele sono cresciute del 18% rispetto all’anno precedente. Un incremento che suggerisce non solo una maggiore propensione all’acquisto, ma anche un ampliamento del pubblico interessato e una maggiore frequenza di esplorazione e comparazione dei prodotti, segnale tipico dei mercati in fase espansiva. Photo by Rebecca Peterson-Hall / Unsplash
Un design integrato con l'arredamento
Dal punto di vista della distribuzione dell’interesse delle varie tipologie di prodotti, i diffusori per ambienti sono ancora oggi la categoria più esplorata, con il 32,5% delle ricerche. Questo dato riflette la preferenza delle persone verso soluzioni continue, durature e a bassa manutenzione, spesso caratterizzate da un design integrato con l’arredamento. Seguono i profumatori per ambienti, con il 17,8%, e le candele profumate, con il 15,5%, che continuano a occupare un ruolo centrale nel mercato grazie al loro valore simbolico e all’impatto esperienziale. Gli oli essenziali, con il 10,1% delle ricerche, indicano invece un interesse crescente per prodotti associati a pratiche di aromaterapia e benessere, finalizzate al rilassamento.
Estetica ed efficacia
Anche l’analisi dei prodotti più desiderati evidenzia una progressiva convergenza tra funzione e valore estetico. I diffusori in porcellana decorata di THUN, così come le soluzioni firmate Ambi Pur e Glade, intercettano esigenze diverse ma complementari: da un lato, la volontà di integrare il profumatore nell’estetica degli ambienti domestici; dall’altro, la ricerca di efficacia e continuità nella profumazione. A questi si affiancano proposte più tradizionali ma ancora rilevanti, come i foglietti profumati Orphea per cassetti e armadi, che dimostrano come l’attenzione per il profumo non si limiti agli spazi visibili ma si estenda all’intero ecosistema domestico. Nel segmento delle candele profumate, il brand più scelto continua a essere Yankee Candle, che mantiene una posizione di leadership nella percezione degli utenti. Le fragranze maggiormente cercate – tra cui Vanilla Frosting, Warm Cashmere, Clean Cotton, Wedding Day e Pink Sands – delineano una preferenza verso note rassicuranti, pulite e avvolgenti. Photo by Pelicular Studio / Unsplash
Il comparto preferito da un'ampia fascia di popolazione attiva
L’analisi sociodemografica conferma un interesse trasversale, con una prevalenza femminile che rappresenta il 79% delle ricerche in categoria. Le fasce d’età maggiormente coinvolte sono quelle comprese tra i 25 e i 54 anni, con un picco nei 45-54enni (23%), seguita da utenti 25-34enni (22%) e dalla fascia 35-44 anni (19%). Questo dato evidenzia come il comparto non sia circoscritto a target estremamente giovani o di nicchia, ma intercetti una fascia ampia di popolazione attiva, spesso impegnata nella gestione dello spazio domestico e sensibile alla qualità della vita quotidiana.
Dove si acquista di più
Dal punto di vista geografico, la Lombardia si posiziona al primo posto con il 34% dell’interesse, seguita ben distanziata dal Lazio (11%) e da Campania, Emilia-Romagna e Veneto (8%). Tuttavia, l’interesse distribuito su quasi tutto il territorio nazionale indica una tendenza ormai diffusa e non limitata a singole aree geografiche.
“La crescita delle fragranze per ambienti racconta molto dell’evoluzione del rapporto tra persone e casa. Oggi non ci si accontenta più di una dimensione funzionale: l’abitazione è vissuta come spazio identitario, di benessere e di espressione personale. In questo scenario, le fragranze diventano uno strumento per personalizzare e qualificare l’esperienza quotidiana, unendo gusto estetico, cura di sé e attenzione alle tendenze sociali. Lo vediamo chiaramente nelle scelte dei consumatori, che confrontano non solo in base al costo, ma anche per profumo, intensità, durata e design, segno di una sensibilità sempre più raffinata verso la qualità della vita domestica.” ha sottolineato Dario Rigamonti di Trovaprezzi.it.
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Papa,prima omelia 2026 per Pace globale 11.45 "Il mondo non si salva affilando le spade, giudicando, opprimendo, o eliminando i fratelli, ma piuttosto sforzandosi instancabilmente di comprendere, perdonare, liberare e accogliere tutti, senza calcoli e senza paura". Così Papa Leone XIV nella prima omelia del 2026 in S.Pietro, in una Messa per la Solennità di Maria Santissima Madre di Dio e nella ricorrenza della 59ma Giornata Mondiale della Pace. "Accostiamoci al Presepe, nella fede, come al luogo della pace 'disarmata e disarmante' per eccellenza". #televideo #ultimaora
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｢ Alex Cohen, a startup founder based in Austin, Texas, said he was first exposed to nicotine pouches in the workplace after seeing tins of Zyns on the desks of his software engineers. His company, Hello Patient, makes AI-powered healthcare-communication software ｣
The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of tech startups are stocking offices with free nicotine pouches as founders and employees chase sharper focus and stamina in hyper-competitive AI-era work environments.
Taiwan reinstates Christmas as a public holiday after 25 years, coinciding with Constitution Day and offering workers more time off. Read more at straitstimes.com.
European leaders moved swiftly to back Greenland on Tuesday after Donald Trump named a special envoy to the Arctic island, sparking a new diplomatic frenzy on the continent.
Trump’s appointment of Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as his envoy to Greenland marks another move in his gambit to annex the self-governing Danish territory. The U.S. “has to have Greenland for national security,” Trump said at a press conference on Monday.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen reacted with anger to the announcement and summoned U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Ken Howery for a dressing down. Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen called the appointment “completely unacceptable.”
Several European leaders reacted to Landry’s nomination by expressing solidarity with Greenlanders.
Considering his behavior in Venezuela has proven he's more than willing to commit terrorist attacks and other Undeclared acts of War you have to wonder if Europe is going to take it a lot more seriously now. Who's to say US ships won't move off the coast of Greenland and start blowing up fishing vessels and hijacking ships?
Video. A fire, likely triggered by fireworks, engulfed the Vondelchurch in Amsterdam shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day, leading to its collapse.
Alberta’s election agency announced Monday it has approved a proposed referendum question on the province separating from Canada.
The question seeks a yes or no answer to: “Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?”
Elections Alberta says the proponent — the Alberta Prosperity Project and its chief executive officer, Mitch Sylvestre — have until early January to appoint a financial officer for its petition campaign, after which signature collection can begin.
Elections Alberta has approved the proposed referendum question, 'Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?'
.... Does Alberta realize that doing business in a landlocked country can be difficult? Almost all their imports and exports will have to go through either Canada or the US.
Oh they will. With glee. And good luck with Alaska. Bc takes great pride in being the headache of Alberta. This feud has been going on well before trump or Daniel was around
I usually approve of genuine independence movements...but this doesn't look like one. This is another Donbas/Luhansk People's Republic situation, where the separatism is sponsored for future annexation by a bigger neighbour.
The Trump-cult ones, not all Albertans, want this, so they can join Trump's rampaging of the "woke" Canada, after Trump annexes Canada, using Alaska & Greenland to cut-off all trade-by-ocean to us ( NO food imports to Canada, by land or sea, .. how long will Canada live?? )
It's part of Putin's & Trump's & CCP's divide-and-conquer imperialism..
Thoroughly enjoyed the Hacking Washing Machines talk video from #39C3. Expected it'd be about IoT stuff, but it mostly wasn't! Some great reversing efforts.
It did dawn on me that if we had good Right to Repair and vendor interoperability laws then pretty much all of the demonstrated hacks would have been redundant (even the joke one). 😒 (cc @pluralistic)
Thanks for this amazing talk at #39c3 @pluralistic ! I think the idea how all other countries can benefit from scrapping anticircumvention law now since US tariffs are coming anyway has great potential, and the final section about hope eas just what I needed. So thank you again for all your words and all your work. Happy new year.
*On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech*:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all of America's...
Nel giorno della solennità di Maria Santissima Madre di Dio e della 59ª Giornata Mondiale della Pace, papa Leone XIV ha pronunciato un’omelia fortemente incentrata sul rifiuto della violenza come strumento di salvezza del mondo.
dagli anni Quaranta alla fine dei Cinquanta, scrittori e artisti, musicisti e registi prelevano dalle più diverse fonti materiali decontestualizzati e riusati con gradi diversi di indifferenza alla loro identità. Schaeffer con i suoni del reale, Gysin/Burroughs con il cut-up, Bene con la scrittura di scena. a un secolo da dada e ottant'anni dagli oggetti sonori, eccoci qua: "ma che vuol dire?".
dagli anni Quaranta alla fine dei Cinquanta, scrittori e artisti, musicisti e registi prelevano dalle più diverse fonti materiali decontestualizzati e riusati con gradi diversi di indifferenza alla loro identità. Schaeffer con i suoni del reale, Gysin/Burroughs con il cut-up, Bene con la scrittura di scena.
a un secolo da dada e ottant’anni dagli oggetti sonori, eccoci qua: “ma che vuol dire?”.
Finalmente in italiano uno dei testi classici della musica elettroacustica. Questa è l’avventura pionieristica di Pierre Schaeffer, al tempo stesso un avvincente e leggibilissimo diario dei suoi esperimenti di composizione sonora e un trattato sulla …
dagli anni Quaranta alla fine dei Cinquanta, scrittori e artisti, musicisti e registi prelevano dalle più diverse fonti materiali decontestualizzati e riusati con gradi diversi di indifferenza alla loro identità. Schaeffer con i suoni del reale, Gysin/Burroughs con il cut-up, Bene con la scrittura di scena.
a un secolo da dada e ottant’anni dagli oggetti sonori, eccoci qua: “ma che vuol dire?”.
Finalmente in italiano uno dei testi classici della musica elettroacustica. Questa è l’avventura pionieristica di Pierre Schaeffer, al tempo stesso un avvincente e leggibilissimo diario dei suoi esperimenti di composizione sonora e un trattato sulla …
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Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrations
Rare footage of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush the 1989 student protesters has been leaked online, offering a highly unusual glimpse into the upper echelons of the military at one of the most fraught moments in modern Chinese history.
General Xu Qinxian’s refusal to take his troops from the PLA’s prestigious 38th Group Army, a unit based on the outskirts of Beijing, into the capital has been the stuff of Tiananmen lore for decades.
The six-hour video recording of Gen Xu’s court martial hearing the next year sheds light on the rare act of defiance. In the video, Xu said he refused because he did not want to become “a sinner in history”.
Don't worry, I've been told by users that it didn't happen, and that if it did, it wasn't what we saw, and it wasn't that bad, and that, if it was, they deserved it.
If you're seeing anti China stories about literally pre Bush times - asks yourself: why?
This is "World News?". Wtf? No, this is historical shit that belongs in a fucking museum. (Thank you Indiana).
Why are people commenting on China like the last 30+ years hasn't happened? Does it make us feel good when they are absolutely dunking on us as our incompetent form of governance sends us spiraling to another financial crisis? Seriously. How the fuck is this world news?!
Like, would we be criticizing Germany today if some new photos of the concentration camps were found?
I'm sorry. The fact that we let this shit get posted in "world news" is just pandering to the right wings "war with China" narrative that is completely unjustifiable. Reddit levels of garbage mods.
Every year before the Christmas holidays, Romanian TV channels show many images, videos and testimonies from the Romanian revolution, where the military fired into, and killed many civilians. We're not afraid to grapple with our history, even 36 years later.
Sure. But this is World News. And it's constantly filled with "remember when China was a shit hole and America was a superpower?!".
Do you think if new footage of the Romanian revolution was found it would be on the top of a World News sub? No. Because the West isn't trying to manufacture consent for a war with Romania.
That's my point. It's not that the footage isn't meaningful. It's WHAT the footage is being used for by it being covered by western media and the response (see the comments here) that it instills.
Bro no one cares about Romania because we're not worthy of anyone's attention, genuinely, we're like a tiny speck of dust in the global economy or geopolitics, don't give me this "manufacture consent" talk.
I do think that China gets portrayed unfairly negatively in western media sometime, but look at our society that thinks Nazis were cool because the Hitler or Mussolini edit some 14 yo did on Tiktok. People need reminders of the horrors of the past, not just the rosey state approved calls to a "period of former glory"
It's ok. Respect to anyone that knows more than one language. I just found your initial comment interesting.
I was trying to make the point that China is a focus of western media because they are a threat to the interest of the wealthy people that rule the US; or at the very least want them to be seen as a threat. So, any chance to talk about past events the western audience views as negative towards China, like Tiananman Square, makes world news.
In contrast to your comment about Romania. I agree. The west would not care. Not because it is not historically interesting or relevant, but because Romania is not a threat to western interests. So they don't jump on the opportunity to display them in a negative light. They largely ignore anything that happens there. Unless one of our sex offenders like Andrew Tate decides to make his home there. Sorry about that lol.
Not sure if that clarifies it. But I don't disagree with what you said about the west not caring about Romanian history. Our media decides to cover things that uphold the interest of our ruling wealthy class.
Don't be sorry for Andrew Tate coming here, femicide and sex trafficking (often of minors, often by their own families) is a big issue and probably why Tate decided to come here.
Besides the point, I get your idea, and I think western media has a direct interest in painting China in a bad light, it's an ideology war: the post-Thatcher, post-Reagan small state, deregulation by all means, vs a state capitalist model that is starting to have big soft power around the world.
I do think China engages in the same kind of game, but because most of the world doesn't speak Mandarin yet, this isn't as broadly seen. I think of the yearly "Reports on Human Rights abuses in the US" by Xinhua, or the aunties going "美國完蛋了" endlessly on their Kuaishou pages lol
Interesting comparison to Germany. As you may be aware, there was quite a significant change in government structure right around 1945. While yes - if new evidence from that period were to be released, it would indeed reflect poorly on Germany. But everyone would know it's news from basically another country. Whereas in China nothing has changed when it comes to the structure of the nation. And they sure as hell did not go through a period of national mourning or apology to reflect on past mistakes.
Disagree on the last part but rest is pretty good.
For context: AfD is the most popular party today in Germany. Their leader Alice weidel publicly praises the time of her grandfather while her grandfather was a member of NAZI party. Another high ranking member of AfD was recently caught doing a zeig heil in front of parliment building. In early 2023, they were caught attending a neo-nazi meetup.
And despite all that, they are today number 1 in polls. This doesn't look very "reflecting on past mistakes" tbh.
Well it's been that long that they went full circle again. I guess my age is showing (I'm a geriatric millennial). Until a decade ago, or maybe two, a successful AfD would have been unthinkable. Just goes to show how far off OPs comparison with Germany is.
Still the same party in control, still the same way folks get selected for power. Not exactly comparable to a country losing a war, getting split in two, one adopting liberal democracy, the other a Soviet style communist system. And then later rejoining into a single country again.
If you see history as a change in "ideas" and not in a change in the material conditions of a people well then, yeah, your incorrect perspective of progress is what you will end up with.
China has surpassed the west in all aspects of material improvement to their citizens. They are leading the world into a green energy revolution. They have built more solar energy production in the last year than the entire rest of world has built in all of history.
Acting like China is "the same" today as it was 30-40 years ago is just absolutely ignoring material reality.
It's hard to have this conversation with someone that views the world through the "idea" of having freedoms. Instead of looking at things being part of society that actually cause one to have freedom. Things like, healthcare, shelter, affordable food, transportation, education, etc.
If you judge China's freedom by ones access to basic fundamental parts of a society that actually allow one to BE free. They have significantly more freedom than the average American does today.
Do I agree with their crackdowns on speech? No, especially now that they have solidified their position as a world superpower. I think it's an unnecessary hold over from a time when they were in danger of outside influence meant to destroy their system of governance.
Having said that, they ARE heading in the right direction when it comes to free speech. The west is currently heading in the wrong direction with speech. America and Britain are especially moving in the wrong direction as they opress anyone that criticizes, not just the countries leaders, but even the leaders of a foreign country like Israel.
You saying China is "the same" as it was 30-40 years ago. Is just cope.
I really wish the people in the west would learn from China's success. Unite in improving the material conditions of both nations and all nations. But for some reason there is just blind hostility towards a country that has done nothing but trade peacefully with us for most of its history.
I was indeed not talking about the history of quality of life of the people, but about the way hard politics are organised. As far as I can tell, this has become even more centralised under Xi. When it comes to freedom of thought and expression of the people, I see as much reason for pessimism about recent evolution in the West (especially in the Anglo-Saxon world), but I don't see much reason for optimism when it comes to China. E.g. look how they are not even allowed to know their own history, or how independent thought in Hong Kong is being stuffed out. Lifting, what, 800 million people out of poverty is an impressive feat, and certainly holds a few lessons for laissez faire capitalists. Then again, large part of that poverty were self inflicted wounds. And that growth shouldn't blind one for the immense cost at which it came, and the large challenges ahead to keep things afloat.
Like, would we be criticizing Germany today if some new photos of the concentration camps were found?
Yes, if it weren't for the blindingly obvious historical fact you're blatantly ignoring: Germany admitted to everything it had done and very publically repented for decades.
China has done the exact opposite of that, so until that changes, there should be constant pressure on them.
Where do you get that germany has repented for everything bad that they have done?
I still read news where certain African countries are seeking reparations and damages for the genocides that Nazi Germany committed, but Germany doesn't accept that it was genocide, but according to experts it was genocide.
For anyone else that is interested in what came of him:
Xu was expelled from the CCP and sentenced to five years in prison. He lived the rest of his life exiled from Beijing and died in 2021 at the age of 85.
But I do agree, seems like you hit your own nerve reading these comments. Having trouble stomaching the fact that blind support for "AES" means cheering for the jack boots running over hunger striking students? Keep digging up conspiracies and excuses, you'll beat that cognitive dissonance eventually.
I think we make the mistake of letting people govern groups of people that they are too distant from to care about. Leaders are essential, but they have to care about the people they lead. I dont think its actually possible to care about people a thousand miles away the same way as the people in your community. I think this is why the largest countries that are controlled by the fewest people have the most problems. Its a delegation issue essentially.
Why are leaders essential? I would say just the opposite, leaders are unnecessary and inherently dangerous. Anyone seeking a leadership position is a red flag.
It doesn't matter. Folks see a foreign country doing foreign things foreign-ly, rather than toeing the NATO line, and they're evil incarnate.
Meanwhile, NATO allies - from the Brits to the Saudis to the insanely corrupt Philippian government - go fully under the radar of liberals.
China's biggest crime right now is their success. They aren't being crippled by sanctions like Cuba, gunned down like Venezuela, or systematically genocided like Palatine. So they must be doing the most nightmarish things imaginable to their people - and to the rest of the world - in order to no-sell American foreign policy.
Why China's property crash must be kept top secret
Cheap Housing... Bad?
Peaceful?
This analysis contends that China’s aggressive actions represent a deliberate violation of international maritime law and the South China Sea Code of Conduct.
You broke a set of rules we haven't even defined yet!
Not doing terrible things to their citizens?
China signs police patrol agreements with nations
In 2016, an Italian police official told NPR that joint policing would “lead to a wider international cooperation, exchange of information and sharing resources to combat the criminal and terrorist groups that afflict our countries.”
Collapsing industry so houses can’t continue to be built
Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday showed that nationwide residential housing starts fell 19.9% year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2025 to 392 million square meters, while new home sales dropped 8.1% to 658 million square meters.
So demand is off it's peak, but they're still building about half a Cleveland's worth of homes this year.
I wouldn't consider that an economy which has forgotten how to build housing.
Violating other countries sea borders isn’t undefined.
Whose borders?
Yes, monsters when they kidnap dissidents and call them terrorists.
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My Wordpress setup will not let me publish posts including certain special characters. I just failed with 𐌓𐌄:𐌉:𐌕𐌉:𐌀, the Venetic goddess of writing, and a few weeks ago was unable to post about 𝔓⁵². Cyrillic, Arabic and Chinese seem OK though. Is this a known Wordpress feature / bug?
Boiling lobsters while they are alive and conscious will be banned as part of a government strategy to improve animal welfare in England.
Government ministers say that “live boiling is not an acceptable killing method” for crustaceans and alternative guidance will be published.
The practice is already illegal in Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand. Animal welfare charities say that stunning lobsters with an electric gun or chilling them in cold air or ice before boiling them is more humane.
Not sure about lobsters, but mammals who die slowly and painfully have lactic acid in their blood and tissues from anaerobic metabolism because of panic response which makes the meat taste bad.
It's why you want a good, clean kill when hunting. If it's panicked and dies slowly all that acid builds up. But the biology of arthropods is really different.
All I know is that happy animals taste better, and I've been switched off before - touched my head to an electric fence, woke up some time later in the mud - and if that's what cutting their brains apart does then it's a good way to go
…in practice sometimes it isn’t, or the pot is too small and the lobsters drop the temperature. That actually happened to me with a pot of Dungeness crabs (years before I was a cook). It was pretty horrible.
My thinking is that this is just an issue for amateurs at home. Seems like public education would work better than a law…but I’m not in the UK. Maybe restaurants in the UK boil them alive more often or something.
Makes sense that it's amateurs in the home. The pot is probably not nearly as big, and they're more likely to be in a rush and not wait for a really hot boil.
From what I've read so far, unfortunately, it seems like they might. Plants can communicate with each other and form underground resource networks with other plants, fungi, and microorganisms. Including for illness, boring bugs and pain responses. The smell of fresh cut grass is one of those warning/pain responses.
I've wanted to do some bonsai succulents, but the process towards any living thing seems cruel and painful.
We cannot measure pain for neither plants nor animals. You presuppose the feelings of the animal while at the same time rejecting it for the plant when we really do not know.
Do they require a nervous system? Maybe. To what extent? We do not know.
No, I'm simply going by my best guess, informed by what I know about the current state of research. That's not conclusive evidence, but it is morally incredibly hard to argue against it.
After all, I cannot measure pain for humans besides myself. You may just be a philosophical zombie. When I'm treating you like you can experience pain, I'm presupposing your feelings. What if you're programmed to act scared of pain & secretly wish to experience it?
I do not know. Does that mean you may have a lesser pain experience than plants? How should that affect my decision making?
No, you are at best basing your opinion on measured pain response in order to determine the level of pain experienced. Many animals have a measured pain reaction. You also know of your own experienced pain and assume it in other people and animals while excluding plants.
The first part is scientific and the second is not. The problem is that you are acting like your belief about how animals feel pain is qualitatively different from the above regarding plants.
We both know why you get agressive about it: You want to some extent anthropomorphize animals because you care about them, which is ok, but not scientific.
Since it's unscientific for me to assume your experienced pain, there's no moral reason why I should let my assumptions affect my behavior. Consequently it's just as moral for me to eat a potato as it is for me to eat you alive. Am I understanding you correctly? If not, please explain what your standpoint has to do with the discussion, as you've already ignored my previous attempt to bring it back to the topic.
Indifferent, dismissive, in denial, about the suffering of plants? Speciesist? Just never been introduced to plants, be it with plant medicine, or scientific studies? Plants feel. Just because it's not expressed in familiar mammalian ways, does not mean they're not living feeling beings. Seeing chopping down plants and eating them as barbaric is a valid perspective to take. I wonder if you have anything above contradiction on Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement to make your argument have any compelling substance...? Or if this will just remain as a limbic reflex to preserve self image, without entertaining the idea in curiosity. Come, get curious, not furious. 😀
[Edit: Oh wow. Just saw the up/down votes ratio on that "Chopping down plants & eating them is also barbaric." comment. At time of writing, up 8, down 55! Wow. Presumably a lot of other people also kicking off all reflexive in defence of their magnanimous morally-superior identification/self-image (presumably) being vegetarian or whatever. Face the horror, folks. 'Ain't the angels promoted to be in that moral relativism and speciesistical ignorance. LOL. (Cue all the more down votes on this comment, due to this edit clashing with those who'll still double down in wilful ignorance refusing to look into this. Hehehehehe).]
You'll avoid eating carrion and probiotics and fallen fruit and seeds and nuts? Did you simply overlook other possibilities than harming living things?
I'm daunted by the possibility some may fall for that false dichotomy, and not mean it in jest.
Seeds and nuts are offspring. Carrion/Roadkill is caused by unsafe/Subaru infrastructure standards and not practical as a law dir everyone without killing a lot of people. Fruit are somewhat fair game, but could also be eaten by wild animals and are unnatural cruel breeds.
Avoiding all suffering is embracing death for all. Existing is suffering by necessity.
Some seeds (~ and some nuts?) require/want(?) to be imbibed and crapped out, to spread the offspring further, strip the germination inhibiting layer, and provide fertiliser for.
Avoiding all suffering is embracing death for all. Existing is suffering by necessity.
Though be careful with that, otherwise suffering can be made a fetish.
Correct. Scientists have done studies on vibrations from plants and they have a reaction to being cut and pulled that could be equated to a "pain" response.
Let's suppose that you actually genuinely care about reducing the amount of plant suffering in the world. If this is the case, surely you would be vegan, because 3/4 of our total agricultural land is used to grow plants to support animal agriculture. (Since grass feels pain just like soybeans do, this includes pasture land.) So far fewer plants would be killed if everyone was vegan.
Of course, you don't actually live your life in a manner consistent with believing plants feel pain. I don't think anyone would think twice about swerving into some flowers to avoid a dog in the street for fear of causing suffering to the flowers.
much of what animals eat are parts of plants people can't or won't eat. I don't actually believe any fewer plants would be harmed if people were vegan.
While this likely pans out with historical methods of meat production, alongside historical quantities of meat consumption, it breaks down when scaled up.
This would signal towards a reduced meat consumption across a population. On an individual level, removing meat from the diet would be beneficial to offset those who aren't reducing.
They aren't producing for funsies. If people are buying less, they're going to produce less in order to maximize their profit. If they don't ramp down production in response to reduced consumption, they are losing money.
Lots of businesses have scaled down production when demand for their product has declined. Lines literally get discontinued if demand drops low enough.
Do you have any idea how many animals and bugs suffer at the hands of your monocultures in to produce soybeans and tofu? They destroy the habitat, poison the ground and the water, and make it impossible for most things to live on vast tracks of land. They interrupt migration patterns of larger animals.
You guys must all be small scale organic farmers like me! Surely if you cared about all life so much, you would be doing more of your personal space to accommodate? Shall we analyze your diet Friend? Let us discuss what you were eating and how you are acquiring it.
Cmon let's be real, again this is a very simple trophic levels thing. If you truly care about the suffering of all the field mice and bugs and whatever being killed in soybean monocultures, and their other various environmental harms, then surely you would be vegan, because 75% of all soybeans grown globally are used as animal feed. (Source)
75% of the weight of the crop is fed to animals, but 69% of the crop weight would be industrial waste if it wasn't fed to animals. that's a conservation of resources
The majority (77%) of the world’s soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. 7% is fed directly to animals as soybeans, but the remainder is first processed into soybean ‘cake’.{ref}Soybean cake (sometimes referred to as soybean meal) is a high-protein feed made from the pressurization, heat treatment, and extraction processing of soybeans. The oil is extracted from the soybeans to leave a protein-rich product.
Per the source above, although it's fair if you missed it because it's in the footnotes
soybeans are pressed in an oil press. the soybean meal is a byproduct of that process, and if we didn't give it to livestock, it would be industrial waste
I truly care about the health of the planet and our many diverse eco-systems. I truly believe in the mountain of science on the subject. I truly believe in the laws of nature. The cycle of life and death that forms the eco-system. I think your vegan farming is just as bad as the meat farmers. Vast tracks of land poisoned to produce soy protein, fuel corn, palm oil and what ever else you need to create such an unnatural diet. I truly believe that eating food you produce and that is local to you is the real ethical choice. A healthy cow farm benefits the neighboring veggie farm, macro fauna increase biodiversity and manage plants. There's a lot going on in the natural world, I'd rather not see it all get replaced by ignorance, self righteousness and Soylent.
Im always supriced how many people think huntings only reason is to kill the animalls and eat the carcasses.
There are many places where humans have killed the natural predators for some animals and in those places animal population is in danger to grow uncontrollably spreading disaeses and dangering natures balance even further. Herbivores without carnivores can and will destroy the forest floors and growth if let unchecked, wich can cascade to further destroy enviroment for different species like small mammals, bugs and birds.
Most obvious fix (and best for enviroment) would be introducing the big predators back in the area, wich is very easy to say when you live in a big city and your, children, pets or livelyhood is safe and sound. People dont want wolfs on their backyards any more than people want lions on the streets of NY. Also i dont see much difference for the animal if they get shot by a rifle or tearn down by a pack of predators.
Other solution for protecting the animals would be capturing and shipping hunted animals to wildlive reservois where they could live with the predators without any interactions with humans, but that would again leave the nature where they were transported from in a unbalanced state where for example plants like vines could spread suffocating other plants.
Then there are exotic animal trophy hunting that many people seem to hate. Most places that offer that have chosen the hunted animal preforehand. Like old male lion that are not fertile anymore, but still tries to kill other lions cubs, or elephant that has started to showing extreme aggression. With that money source safaries can fight against illegal poachers and protect endangered animals like black rhinos, while they keep the other animal population healthy. Those animals would need to be killed anyway and if somebody is willing to pay for doing it I dont see how that is bad.
I personally live in rural area. This year wolfs have killed few dogs and livestock like chickens from the yards of my neighbors. Do i wish all the wolfs to be killed? No. Do i wish childrens could walk or bike to school without fear of being attacked. Yes. I have also lost family in accident where moose ran in front of their car. I definedly dont wish for uncontrolled moose population making accidents like that more common.
But i agree with your sentiment that we need to move away from animal farming. Not because reason i personally find naive and childish like "cows are friends" but because its bad for enviroment and we as a humankind are eating meat in our meals more than we need.
Meat is heavily subsidized and benefits from economies of scale. Once enough people stop eating meat on their own, more people will follow suit because it will be too expensive.
It's one of the big reasons why there's such a huge cultural resistance to veganism. Meat abstinence will make meat more expensive for the ones who keep eating it, and of course cut into the profits of the shitty companies making it.
I do care about the planet actually surviving this. We've created way too many animals, the natural ecosystems won't be able to sustain them all if we release them into the wild and let them reproduce. The outcome will be devastated ecosystems and a lot of animals dying due to starvation. Sterilization is the least inhumane way out of this mess.
So, what is your proposal? This is not a rhetorical question, I've thought and read about it for a while and it seems to me like the least bad practical option, because the others are:
Kill them directly (way more suffering, seems worse)
Release them into the wild, ensuring most die from hunger or predators and destroy entire ecosystems (seems worse to me as well)
Keep them in the same hellhole farms where they already are, but stop insemination and ensure sex separation (seems the same as sterilization but with another way to remove autonomy)
Magically build shelters for them and let them reproduce freely while providing them with food. This is (1) pretty much impossible economically, (2) clearly not sustainable because it will just result in an explosion in their numbers, without a clear plan to provide food for them long-term.
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So, keep the cycle of exploitation and murder going, but with slightly less shitty conditions? It's an improvement for sure, but doesn't solve the fundamental issue with murdering animals.
Murder is the process of intentionally killing a living being.
The entire species is not a living being. Extinction of a species can come from murder of all its individuals, but it doesn't have to. I'm literally proposing a solution under which there is no murder happening at all, and all individuals live out their lives happily until peaceful death, more or less.
Extinction of a species is not a problem by itself, especially when the members of that species don't have the necessary mental abilities to understand the concepts of species or extinction. It can be a problem if it causes ecosystem failure, which then results in unnecessary suffering and death. But it's not a problem by itself.
What you are proposing (keeping the animal farming industry going) will involve a lot of murder of animals, whichever way you structure it, or however many "animal welfare" stickers you put on the end products.
I really don't think we'll ever stop eating animals. We've been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years, it's practically part of our DNA. Why would we stop now? Vegans haven't made a lot of progress convincing people, that's for sure
We've done a lot of other awful things since forever: forced child "marriages" (or just sexual abuse before then), child exploitation, some form of slavery, have all been a thing for millenia. And yet many societies now frown upon those, punish the perpetrators and help the victims.
What makes you think this (or other awful shit we still do) will be any different?
All those actions are no more or less "in our DNA" then meat consumption.
And, well, vegans have convinced some non-trivial amount of people, as you can deduce by the fact that many companies put "vegan" stickers on their products, because they think it will increase their profits.
example, violence for entertainment. yes we've majorly turned against that which is good. child marriage, also good we got rid of that.
meat for food though, that is in our biology. our bodies need the nutrients that come from meat. we are biologically omnivores. yeah we can try to supplant that, but it's through an artificial means.
I'm all for it, but i don't think it's going to be frowned upon in the future and i don't think all humans can switch over to a plant based diet tomorrow. vegans are too much caught up in themselves to think of the practicality.
our bodies need the nutrients that come from meat.
This is definitely false. You can live as a vegetarian (i.e. stop eating meat) without any supplemental nutrients.
If you wanna go vegan, you will need to supplement your diet with B12. That's the only nutrient that can't be found naturally in plant-based sources. TBH practically speaking, if you're in the west, you'll probably be fine nowadays, because most prefab vegan foods (incl. vegan milks) are enriched with B12.
I'm vegan, all I do is take a B12 pills weekly, and all my vitamin levels were fine last time I got a check. I could probably skip the pill if I went out to eat more, or bought more prefab food, but I mostly cook for myself and so don't get many B12-enriched foods.
Most humans live in cities nowadays, and all of those humans can easily switch to a plant-based diet within a couple of years (which would mostly be redirecting the supply chains for plant proteins from animal agriculture to humans directly). There are some edge-cases where people really do depend on animals (subsistence farming, hunter-gatherer societies, etc). We can deal with those later.
Yeah, I guess I'm not entirely accurate, because you can get some tiny amount of B12 from plant-based sources (e.g. nori). But it's probably not enough, so vegans should supplement it. The rest is probably fine unless you're blasting junk food every day.
I'm more concerned that you're asserting everything else is in plant based foods. it's not and you should stop lying to people before they hurt themselves.
I'm asserting it because it's true. I'm vegan for over 7 years now, the only supplements I take is B12 (and occasionally D), I'm in good health. I'm friends with a vegan of 20 years, the only supplements she takes is B12 and iron, and she's in good health. The science backs it up as well, plants contain almost everything we need to exist.
In order to be healthy, you have to make sure your diet is varied and contains the sources for all necessary nutrients, but then it's exactly the same for omnivores.
Ok, name me a nutrient and I'll give you either a plant-based source of it or evidence that your body or gut biome produces it itself
And yeah, I agree, if you want to have a healthy diet you need to read up on dietology and/or visit a dietologist. But this has nothing to do with veganism, omnivores need to do it too.
Retinol, DHA/EPA, heme iron, creatine, carsonine, and carnitine all must be synthesized, and the precursors are not nearly as bioavailable animal based sources of the real deal
of course this conversation started with a statement that every nutrient is available from plant sources, which you've already moved the goal posts on. you're not here in good faith, you're here to be right.
and even "plant based" b12 from spirulina is biologically inactive in humans.
Does the same work for crabs/lobster? I can catch them around the harbour here, mostly crab really. Pretty sure lobster are usually further out, not sure if I could kayak out and get some. Need a bigger trap though.
From what I've been told lobsters will release a toxin if not killed properly. Boiling alive is/was the easiest way to do it and thus widely adopted especially at consumer level.
Quickly in the sense that bacterial growth on them becomes toxic within a far shorter time than other things we eat. Bacteria isn't growing in the 10 seconds it takes to kill them and then dump into the pot. Just don't leave them laying around for a long time.
Apparently it's not easy to kill lobsters. They don't have a single brain that you can drive a nail through like mammals, AFAIK.
One of the researchers who showed that lobsters feel pain recommended freezing them as the best available method, but maybe it's better to just stop eating them?
Edit: the article says that electrical stunning works.
Electrical stunning isn't an option for home chefs. I have heard of chilling but not sure if that is also being banned in the UK or not, given that they would still be alive. And yeah, no idea how reliable someone is going to be in actually killing it and not just rendering it unable to move but still feeling everything.
Even if a perfect knife cut works, how precise do you need to be? The best method would be the one which is pretty easy to do successfully. Also what about other crustaceans?
Freezing is an interesting method. Humans, being warm blooded, have a hard time in the cold. A lot of cold blooded animals just slow down when they get cold. I've no idea how it works for lobsters though, would be interesting to know.
Yeah that is how I understand it too. Could freeze them to death I presume, not sure how easy it is to kill them by freezing and not turn them into a solid block, or if you did freeze them solid how different it is to cook from frozen.
I can get free crab if I catch them myself, usually small ones but I have seen spider crabs at the shore. But prawns are tiny, even a shore crab has more meat than a prawn. Then use left overs for stock?
It's a fucking bug! Boil it and eat the shit already.
I worked at Red Lobster for a number of years as a young'un. A large part of my work in the prep kitchen initially (after I graduated from the dish ring) was to slice live Maine lobs in half to make "princess lobsters" (half a lobster with body cavity stuffed with yummy). These stupid bugs are no more sentient than a cockroach that you smash with a shoe.
Why would anyone spend even a second considering the feelings of a fucking bug?!
All the evidence points to the fact that lobsters do feel pain in the same way humans do. As they're being boiled alive they release significant amounts of cortisol, the same as us.
Bug or not, it is sentient. If we are going to insist on eating them then we have a moral responsibility to minimise their suffering before we do.
Humans and other mammals release cortisol as part of the pain response.
So do lobsters.
They feel pain when they are boiled alive.
That alone should be enough information for a sane person to think "huh, if they feel pain maybe I should put in a small amount of effort to make sure they don't suffer when I kill them" instead of trying to justify why it's ok and use thinly veiled insults aimed at those of us who don't think animals suffering from avoidable pain is acceptable.
Disregarding the pain of something just because it doesnt have a cute face or fur is far more evidence of mental illness tbh.
We used to perform surgery on infant humans without anaesthetics because we believed them to be lesser beings incapable of feeling pain. Scientific consensus shifted.
With enough evidence. The presence of cortisol doesn't prove a lobster's subjective experience is equitable to humans. Furthermore, that consensus can shift again so even current science isn't settled, science is never settled.
I suppose I didn't really express my point. Is it just not better to err on the side of caution? I'm not saying to not eat lobster, people dictating what others should and shouldn't eat is a massive pet-peeve of mine, but it's not hard to find alternative prep suggestions that don't really add much in the way of effort, that's thought to be more humane.
Personally, I don't think lobsters experience the world the same way we do. The notion is ridiculous from a physiological standpoint. But it's equally ridiculous, and reeks of a more or less biblical human exceptionalist perspective, to assume that humans alone possess various traits that are evolutionarily advantageous, like for example the sensation of pain.
And if we're down to splitting hairs about "well the way other animals feel pain is different" then we're in purely philosophical territory. Rather akin to "how do I know that the colour I view as green is the same thing you view as green?"
Better how? It's has zero impact on anything. The lobster dies in seconds and the moment is past. All this effort to satisfy the overactive empathy of a minority of human beings with big, judgemental mouths. Suffering is everywhere and inevitable. Much of it caused by humans. Life is very capable of enduring suffering and it helps shape and grow organisms in important ways. I don't see suffering as an inherent evil that needs to be eliminated.
Ah. Well there’s our core difference then. I view suffering as an inevitability that we should do our best to minimise wherever possible. You clearly don’t.
I assure you I can precisely define every word I just used, and even provide corroborating third party definitions. Perhaps you are struggling under the very cognitive dissonance I mentioned. Perhaps like most people you are living in denial.
Lobsters are the one you are going to see alive most, though, as their meat breaks down very quickly after they die. That isn't true of most other crustaceans, at least not to the same degree
I could be wrong, but I don't believe that crabs flesh contains the enzymes that break it down the way lobsters do. I do believe you can buy fresh, dead crab at some markets.
But you should definitely kill any living ones before boiling
Being crushed and dismembered bit by bit, being gnawed on, for many minutes, and possibly even being left in parts, to suffer on for longer yet, after the other lobster had its fill?
When I eat prawns, I often think of this, often putting it context how I'm not doing anything they don't do to each other, simply meaning they know how tasty they are, and eat each other... but seeing this, makes me realise how much less cruel what I'm doing to them is, than they do to each other.
I'm open to even more humane ways to dispatch them, of course, not resting on any "lesser evil" fallacy, but also, lets not remove this context entirely.
Also, while we're talking context...
The government in the UK, last decade, committed assault and fraud, dereliction of duty of care, torturing and starving and denying medication, transport, and nearly every human right, to the disabled poor, propagandising against them to drum up hate with more fraud, to cull over 130,000 people in a very slow cruel way. So it's a little rich to think these tories (no matter if blue, yellow, or red), now "care". Those who were Killing people over durations often into the months and years of suffering, are now concerned for lobsters suffering for seconds?
Lobsters (probably) don't understand the concept of other animals feeling pain but we can. Lobsters don't have any other more merciful methods/tools in their disposal for survival whereas humans do this entirely because "it is more delicious that way". This is the right context.
Even the comparison "lesser of two evils" is not in the right context because it becomes more evil to the degree that you understand the other side's suffering.
whereas humans do this entirely because “it is more delicious that way”. This is the right context.
is that the reason given? That it's more delicious to boil them alive rather than kill them at their head? If so, what's the reasoning behind that reasoning? Like... do some more of the tasty juices remain in the lobster if not peircing/smashing their head first? I had imagined it was done that way simply because it was easier (/ safer, like if the claws were not adequately banded shut before taking the knife towards their heads).
Even the comparison “lesser of two evils” is not in the right context because it becomes more evil to the degree that you understand the other side’s suffering.
Agree. To an extent. (At least one) Exception warrants caution, in so far as induced ignorance is used to excuse atrocities. Though then the active point of contention's merely around the word "evil", and the many reams that can be written exploring and critiquing it, with or without missing the harms beyond that.
Perhaps "entirely because of taste" is an over statement. It is in reality probably a mixture of freshness and taste, the former being related both to food safety and taste. Nevertheless, living in a world of sea food abundance (and others), if you can not prepare a certain item of food safely without torturing an animal and yet still do it, then you are not doing this for survival but ultimately validating a tortorous means of cooking as a means to reach a certain pleasure. I myself, despite not eating lobsters, lambs, goose liver etc for this very reason, still for instance consume eggs knowing that chicken farms can practice male chick culling where I live. So it is not my intention to point fingers at anyone but just pointing out some observations and some of my inner contradictions on this issue.
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A hardware developer has built the Diptyx E-reader - a unique, dual-screen, open-hardware e-reader with no DRM or cloud tie-ins. The main focus of this project is to bring book-like reading and full device ownership to digital readers.
Um lol no. I could see using a pair of Inkplate 10's connected by (at least metaphorical)) duct tape. Doesn't seem worth mucking with special hardware.
Every affordable e-reader I know of is simply too small though. I mostly want to read stuff like ArXiV preprints (A4 sized pdf's) so would want at least a 13" screen. Someone a few days ago posted a link to a 14" Android tablet with a semi-reflective display at around $300. It seemed interesting but I'd rather degoogle.
There are some hinged Waveshare displays that look nice but they are regular TFT displays so wouldn't be great for a portable e-reader with long battery time:
It's just 10" and looks like an old design. Micro USB, oops. The Inkplate is 10" ESP32 epaper so it uses very little power. Alternatively there are tablet-style x86 laptops and I almost bought one last year. Now the price is way up due to DRAM shortages and so on, oops. I have some scrounged HDMI monitors so I want to try using one in portrait mode with my raspberry pi 400. If that works I could see getting one of the Waveshare dual screen monitors and maybe a Pi 500+.
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Hello there, just scrolling through and I saw your comment. You seem to know a bit about this topic. I'm currently thinking of buying a reader as I lost mine some time ago. I used a kobo and a kindle in the past and didn't see much difference. However, this thing about reading papers seems really cool. I have tried in the past reading PDFs on those readers without much success.
Do you think you have good options for reading articles/manuals? Consider I end up printing about 50 pages a day in articles I read. If I can turn that into something digital that'd be cool.
If an 8-inch screen is enough for you, then I recommend either the Pocketbook Inkpad 4, or the Pocketbook Color 3 if you want color. They run Linux and have a very capable PDF Reader (especially compared to Kindles)
If you want an even bigger screen then sadly they start to get very expensive, and usually ship with an already outdated version of Android and an underpowered SOC. And they also have the terrible standby battery life you would expect from an Android device
I guess the size is good to me for reading. I guess the kindle and kobo I used to have were even smaller than that. For reading books that's quite good to me and I never felt I needed something larger.
However, when I tried to read PDFs I had lots of problems. The readers either would show the full A4 page in the screen, which would make it unreadable, or show just a piece of the page and it would then be difficult to pan. I remember I had tried using some tools which would break up the PDF pages into pages which would be visualizable in such a screen, but that did not work too well especially when reading articles with two column layouts.
Ideally articles would be available as ePub, but that's quite rare. The main point would be: if I get one such tool to read articles I can dedicate it to just that. But, I need it to be easy for such purpose: I don't want to be panning up and down a page all the time. I don't know whether that is possible and how that could work however, because indeed resizing is not one of the objectives of PDF.
I've had luck with web2epub on Firefox. Web articles become epubs which work well with eink readers. PDF is such a storage format cause its many formats under a trench coat. If you find a good solution for those let me know. Even calibre isn't perfect.
I'm still looking for a good answer myself! There are lots of possibilities but all have drawbacks from my perspective. I guess the 13" Onyx Boox sounds nice if you don't mind the cost. I haven't tried it though. Same with the 14" TCL Android tablet if you don't mind Android.
Oh hmm, I just use my phone for that. It doesn't seem worth having an additional, limited purpose device. I assume a 7" e-reader is too big for a pocket.
The Inkplate 10 isn't pocketable but it's very light, easy to put in your backpack or whatever. I just wish they had a 13" version. The 13" Ipad Air is really very nice if you don't mind Apple products.
There are also some folding phones now with largish screens. A buddy of mine has one and it's nice. Too expensive for me though, and it's more Android.
Yeah most 7" readers have the page turning buttons on the side which usually makes the device too wide for pockets.
The 6" readers fit my pocket quite well... So a foldable dual screen 6" sound like a pretty nice upgrade.
Most of what I use my readers for are reflowable text like epubs... But I guess if you could show a single page from a PDF across both screens then it might actually be big enough to be able to read while still being pocketable... You would probably want to go with the high resolution e-ink screens, like the one in the Kobo Clara HD (1072 x 1448). A combined resolution of two of those would be 2144 x 1448,
Being able to fold down a larger "sheet" display so that it fit in a pocket would be pretty cool. Having extra room for reading things like maps and comic books is so much better than pinching and zooming on a pocket sized display. What you call limited purpose, I call functional design. I'm kind of over all-in-one devices. They've turned into Jack of all trades, but master of none.
Obviously that's not what this device is, but it got me thinking about why I'd want a device with multiple e-ink displays or a foldable display.
I just upgraded to a foldable phone and it's a game changer to have an 8in screen in your pocket. Reading long form content is so much more enjoyable, and I'd love to have an E-ink reader that folds like my phone does.
My buddy's folding Samsung phone is really cool and you might look into it. It unfolds to a single screen of maybe 10" diagonal and square perspective. I think for full page PDFs though, I need something bigger so I've given up on pocketability.
I want VR recreations of famous libraries with full on books you can take off the shelves to read and homeless people washing their feet in the bathroom sinks
Books are made like this because it's impossible to make them any other way, but a digital device can have just one "page" since you read one page at time like Kindles and Kobos
For some people, recreating the form factor of a book is the point, regardless of its convenience or cost. I'm sure whoever put this thing together was quite aware of how mainstream e-readers are built and didn't want that, or they would have bought a Kindle or a Kobo.
I can imagine a future device with an e-ink page that's so thin and flexible that it looks and feels like a paper book with magic changing text. I don't know how many consumers would pay a premium for that, but I would definitely buy my wife one.
The other option is a scroll. historicaly I'm told a book was always a scroll and the factor we now call a book was a codex. (I don't know how to verify this)
Nevermind the fact most readers and tablets come -with- a cover ... So its almost like a book anyway. Which people fold behind the page. Like a book. What was that extra screen doing again?
I like the concept. I have a e-ink reader where I removed the hull because it's annoying, but at some point I must have damaged the display a bit and now it has a little black spot. With this the added bulk also doubles the area available for text. Maybe not that useful for novels that you read through linearly, but for non-fiction it would be nice to see other chapters, glossaries, etc. on one display while keeping the other at the page you were reading. Mainly a problem of software and enough buttons to be able to comfortably use that.
Though the low-res displays of this prototype look atrocious to me (pixelation and uneven blackness), maybe a later version will improve on that.
It’s too bad this isn’t actually “DIY”, because I have been mulling over building a dual screen e-ink sheet music reader for a while. Dual screens definitely have a place, it’s just niche.
Why not hundreds of screens so you can present all pages of a book at the same time and you just skip through the screen? Would be so much more convenient and innovative!
I'd get a whole bunch of these and keep a different book on each one, so you could just pick it up and read it. But it'll never work, it's too much trouble to keep them all charged.
I think I see a business opportunity here. One could Design covers for each device so that you can identify them easily when they are standing next to each other. I bet these can be placed a lot a similar price as phone shells. If only we could find a solution to the charging problem.
The only reason I'd want 2 "pages" is so I could close it to protect the screen(s)... but that's exactly what covers are for.
Apart from the tiny minority of people who might prefer the form factor/"book feel", are there any actual advantages to having 2 screens for general reading?
It’s probably just for the people who want it. I have thought about how much nicer two pages would be in the past for this reason and for displaying sheet music.
I did consider less common uses like that, which is why I specified "general reading". I prefer paper for my sheet music, but I'd choose something with a faster refresh rate than e-ink if I had to use something with a screen anyway.
I would like to be able to get comics and manga in ebook form. I’ve always had to go with the print versions because two-page spreads end up looking bad/being more confusing to read on my ereader thanks to the single page display.
Could also be useful for doing research with ebooks. Maybe show a list of bookmarks or the table of contents on one screen and the text on the other screen. Or you could compare different texts easier, showing one on one screen and one on the other. Or use one screen for notes. But I guess people that need to actually do productive research will use a desktop anyways.
I read for hours on my tablet just fine. I don't even see the need for e-ink displays, let alone this form factor. Also, I find the tablet easier to hold for hours, compared to a book.
In spite of all that, I kind of want one, I'll admit. I have a 3D printer, maybe I'll make one.
And by "tending to last longer" it is good to note that it almost always lasts 5x-10x longer, as in you only need to charge it once a month instead of every few days with medium reading, depending on backlight usage.
When I only read a few pages a day because of my schedule, my battery lasts over 6 months easily. Meanwhile my unused iPad has to be charged every week or so even if it is used 0 minutes.
Yeah, for sure. I mean, it depends a little bit on the model of the e-reader (color takes more out of it, etc), but I only charge my Boox every other week, and I take notes on it, read on it, the works.
I've tried. I really don't want to have another "gadget" in my carbon footprint, but can't avoid it. I've read in my tablet, it's just too heavy. So, it's gonna be a PC, a laptop, a tablet, a cellphone, and an eBook reader -_-
The only good side is I use them way more, I think, than your average person. The PC is almost ten years old, the laptop is like six yo, my cellphone is getting to 4 years of use, but the tablet is only a couple of years old and it was supposed to serve as a reader. Also, if I use my tablet just to read, it's a waste of energy; eink devices are typically very efficient.
I'm just here to point out that the fact you genuinely care about your carbon footprint probably puts you ahead of 80% of the population, and the fact that it has materially affected your device choices probably puts you ahead of 80% of the remainder.
There's definitely a unique satisfaction that comes from filling tech needs with hardware that already exists, and which does a great job at it too.
That goes across hobbies and mediums too. I just finished a big outdoor carpentry project where I was able to find perfect long-term uses for pieces of wood from The Initial Build in the construction of The New Hotness.
Just I am waiting for Amazon to one day create something like Boox Palma 1/2 but that makes too much sense to give us something we can put in our pocket. I don’t know why they lack innovation. One day though…
BOOX Palma 2 Pro is a color mobile ePaper device featuring a Kaleido 3 screen, Android 15, octa-core CPU, BSR technology, 8GB + 128GB storage, a hybrid SIM slot, and supports InkSense Plus stylus. It's a mindful E Ink gadget to flow with you.
Those aren't build logs. Those are "I took an open source software package and put commercial hardware around it."
Which is fine, since it's MIT software (and why I push for GPL, personally). What's not fine is a creator calling their commercial product "open" or "DIY" without a BOM or build log.
I would revise the post title regardless of what the author calls it, personally.
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in reply to jaxxed • • •I don't know man, at this point I'm not sure what is the distraction anymore...
I mean, Trump will die in a decade max, the shit that they are doing will damage the whole world for a hundred years.
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in reply to starik • • •Would it really, though?
So far, they're putting up with white people being scooped up by ICE and tossed in "detention camps".
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