People want to believe this war will end soon.

There are readers with a 'full text mode' which will fetch the website and display it in something like Mozilla's Readability view. It does not always work, especially if the page is paywalled but it works for most sites.

Most quality journals are paywalled nowadays, I'm considering to scrape using my cookie, or maybe use archive.is..

If you're paying, there's probably a way to get a RSS feed for paid subscribers. If you can't find it, maybe email tech support?

This is how all the podcasts I donate to work (they offer ad-free feeds, bonus episodes, etc, usually with some url like https://rss.podcastsite.com/show?token=<random code>, and then in my podcast app, it either says "Some show - Paid feed", or sometimes "Some show - your name's feed".

For a lot of sites Firefox's reader mode is great at bypassing paywalls, just turn it on & refresh

Apparently the debt is keeping the Fed from raising interest rates as much as they did in 1979 when a similar crisis happened. Raising interest rates would increase the debt servicing costs pushing the US into a debt crisis.

Where we are now is nothing like where we were in 1979. Inflation was something like 14%. Interest rates hit 20%. Yeah, I know that the last few years were painful after 15 years of ZIRP, but it's not at all the same.

If Elon Musk hadn't sacked those government workers it would probably be less than 39 trillion as he had to pay termination packages and hire back people he accidentally fired.

> hire back people he accidentally fired

much worse in reality, many have been replaced by government contractors we are paying 2.5/3x more

32 a day!?! I guess I’m not that abnormal after all then.

I was reading up on some RCTs on social media and mental health recently and one of the surprising findings is that social media is actually worse for older people.

That makes sense, they haven't "built immunity".

Can you share some things you were reading?

Not OP, and I’ve been looking at more meta-analyses than RCTs, but:

* Lei et al 2024 metaanalysis, generally positive associations but no causal evidence for psychosocial effects, especially when the social media use is family-directed - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-psycho...

* Balki et al 2022, metaanalysis, same thing: good for reinforcing existing real-human social connections, overcoming barriers to/increasing regularity and frequency of contact, acquiring access to resources; isolating to use outside that context; regular and frequent contact much more effective than occasional or episodic: https://aging.jmir.org/2022/4/e40125/

My overall impression seems to be what common sense tells us: to the extent it lets you overcome aging-related obstacles to interacting with real people, great; to the extent it’s brain rot, it’s isolating.

This is the one I read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266656032... which says how older participants benefit more from restricting social media use.

Gemini is also my favourite. It’s very smart and has a backbone. I don’t think the Gemini 3 Pro complaint is very fair as it was listed as ‘preview’. Although I should note Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is 2.5x the cost of the previous version and I’m quite annoyed by that.

This actually makes me more likely to think it’s AI generated and you used a script to try to hide it.

it certainly is portrayed that way.

It’s always amusing when the all powerful agents need our help to work properly.

Them: Agents will write code 10x faster than a human.

Also them: You will have to dumb down your CLI for them to function properly.

Ah, file permissions. My old friend. Good thing this happened on a 'local' server and not a remote VPS.