Apple storage is overpriced – here are some options
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Outside of the constant services Apple wants to push on users, or the fealty payments Tim Cook is making to the criminal insurrectionist president of the US, they charge stupid amounts for storage upgrades. At least there are options to avoid the Apple storage tax, even if you can’t stop the other crap they’re doing…
Women’s Health Issues are Minimized and Ignored
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This is a heartbreaking story about an IUD that caused suicidal thoughts so that’s a content warning. What really gets me is that her medical professionals ignored her at first. Although after reading Invisible Women this doesn’t surprise me at all because it documents so many ways the experiences of women are deemed “too complicated”…
Scarcity contracts moral circles of concern
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The moral circle was first talked about by Stoic philosopher Hierocles in 2AD and is defined as the number and type of entities you give moral consideration. In the context of Right Thing Right Now, Holiday talks lots about justice and who justice applies to in society. Which of the people in your city are…
Finding Sacred Blocks
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Last week I talked about consuming content and how your library should be about the stuff you want to learn instead of a performative shelf of stuff you’ve read. One key point I mentioned was that if I owned a book, but had read it and taken good notes on it I better have a…
Being a parent can be really fucking hard
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I was just talking with my coworker about how hard parenting can be. Like Matt, we don’t have family in the area and have never had much support with our kids. To add to this my wife struggled with post-partum depression with all our kids but very deeply with our 3rd child. Add to that…
Constrained by creating for others
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I felt so constrained. I was giving so much of my creativity to something I wasn’t actually creating. I have always had this hope to do things on my terms as a creative person. I’ve always had this passion for creating something from the ground up that was totally mine. I was initially worried this…
Lifestyle Creep?
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Interesting quick read on lifestyle creep which rightly says that so many people struggle to make their ends meet at all that of course they spend more when they start earning more. On a personal note, we live within our means, but when it comes to healthcare and specifically dental care we don’t spend on…
Male Flight impacting post high school enrolment numbers
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From Celeste on the dropping enrolment of men in college: Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued. Dang, the mental gymnastics shown by the men to say anything but they’re simply misogynistic and don’t want to compete…
Blog Questions 2024
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Jumping on Kev and Manuel, here are my answers. Why did you start blogging in the first place The oldest post here comes from 2008 when I thought I was a decent designer and made some Photoshop brushes. I had blogged a bit before that on WordPress.com, but those posts are gone. I started blogging…
Right Thing Right Now – Insights the First
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As a child you’re taught to tell the truth, at least that’s what I teach my kids coming down far harder on them for lying about eating all the candy than for eating all the candy if they tell the truth about it. Yet when I sit back and look at the news I see…
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