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Short sightedness in politics is already painful for all of us.

Nobody’s tackling climate change, nobody’s building anything fairer for younger generations, especially in places without enough housing (and what there is owned by older generations).

I won’t list all the problems this would make worse, but for example, do you really want a government with only 6 months to do 2-3 extreme populist things, hoping to dredge up enough support to get a larger mandate next time?

Took a while to settle on our cat’s name.

First of all I tried Linux commands (sudo was the one that stuck for a while, given how the cat dominated the dog.)

That fell out of favour though, and then we had kids and needed a proper name for her.

And then they printed a Magic Card called Generous Stray:

https://cards.scryfall.io/large/front/3/2/3289db66-231f-4370-aca6-644d75bee293.jpg

Reminded me so much of my cat, it had to be done. Therefore:

Genny.

Kids can say it - yes. Sounds normal - yes. Cat doesn’t respond to it - of course. Really weird story - well, I think so.

My wife just called the dog Bella by the way, perhaps she should name the next cat.

Oh no! Anyway…

I actually use a dice (D6, 50:50 choice usually) to decide between two options sometimes.

The idea is to fool my brain into revealing what it really wants. Like, if I can’t decide, I’ll assign each choice odds or evens, then roll.

If I’m OK with the result, then it decided for me no problem. Maybe I didn’t care, maybe I preferred what I rolled.

If I don’t like it, then RNG just showed me what I really wanted – now I can go with the other option.

Reduces decision fatigue, and speeds up my life. I’ve been teaching it to my kids (although their favourite RNG is the Chwazi app.)

I recommend Kaon’s Wonderland (novel).

They literally build a solar panel that blocks the sun, so they can charge people for the heat and light.

Congestion charge initial draft was bonkers, it included the park and ride car parks!

I don’t mind it, as I essentially never drive in the city anymore, but I also don’t have a vote because I live elsewhere and commute in.

Only place I use cash for is the Fish and Chip shop. They did have contactless during covid, but the transaction fees from the bank are a big % if most of your custom is small orders, so they bite those for online orders and it’s cash only in the shop.

Hell, half the trousers I buy come with a belt. (It’s a problem for vegan trouser-customers actually, as many of the free belts are crappy cheap leather, meaning you can’t buy the otherwise cruelty free trousers.)

TIL they never had a year 0. So the whole damn calendar is an off by one error 🤯

Thought I still had to head back to reddit for the Triathlon threads, but here we are.