For y'all

I think ima start actually cooking meals

I like the idea but I haven't really done it much because of problems with executive functioning

1 meal a day should be good enough to get the nutrients I need, whenever I eat junk food I feel like shit mentally and physically for the whole day (no shit) but I'm getting annoyed with it

Also there are a bunch of ants on the couch or whatever it is in the patio and I've been growing this mint plant and I'm too lazy to make mint oil so my plan is to just aggressively rub the mint leaves on the cushions to deter the ants, tbh it should work

Jokes aside every time I hear that EAS header signal it gets me paranoid, I remember being in my moms car in the middle of the night having the radio suddenly stop and change to the EAS it's so creepy, on top of that when I was little in Georgia we had the tornado warnings and sometimes that alert would play on the tv to make it even worse, even later in my childhood there were a few incidents where the EAS came on my tv in the middle of my room at like 12:00 am and even though it was a test it already freaked me out on top of my room being ground level and having 2 large windows that could see directly into it man freaky paranoia times, I was never in danger but damn that shit made me paranoid

Now adays I actually find how the a EAS system works really interesting and it's super cool to see it go off when it does, there are various types of "emergencies" from imminent flood warning to chemical plant deadly gas breach tbh that one is crazy imagine getting that and it telling you to close all your doors and windows and hide in the farthest room from the outside because there is a gas leak that could kill you, it's happened but the alerts have never gone off because of that due to various reasons (usually plant is in the middle of nowhere or residents already know about it because of the news, an example being during 9/11 the shelter in place EAS alert was not sent out because literally all of America heard about it within a few hours, shit still creeps me out just a little though but it's cool stuff to look into

(kinda loud fyi)

The first part of the sound is the header containing information about the alert, and time codes to verify its correct, and (iirc) code to tell the radio station equipment/operators to repeat the signal from their own station then followed by a sound specifically designed to get the attention of people, at that frequency because it's heard well and can mimic and activate your response as if you heard someone calling for help (like a baby crying or a woman screaming) it's also unnatural and unnerving af and then the automated voice will do its thing follow by another header that I forgot what it does

Radio stations are required to repeat the signal if the header is correct (to stop false alarms by malicious attacks) and it basically cascades to every station everywhere without the need for government built communication systems everywhere

Irl example is during hurricane season and we have a hurricane warning everyone's phones will go off at the same time (I haven't had the tv on at that time but I imagine it's have the alert

art, rest

"my dad likes to call the stretches of time where you're not creating "dreaming periods" and says that they're meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you're able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they're natural and healthy and needed - things that should be embraced rather than feared"

The term Luddite has become shorthand for “dimwitted tech-hater” or “technophobe” and the word is usually used as an insult. But the original Luddites were the victims of a very effective smear campaign.

They did not oppose (and in some cases, destroy) automated looms out of some superstitious fear of new technology. They recognized that these new machines being introduced to the factories they worked at would make the work easier and faster.

But they also recognised that none of the extra revenue would be shared with the workers: it'd just go to enrich and empower the bosses. They knew that, since this new technology lowered the amount of labour required to do the work, many of them would lose their jobs.

The Luddites were a labour movement opposing the further concentration of the means of production in the hands of the owning class: Capitalists.

The government cracked down on them, sending 12,000 troops to brutalize them, arresting and sentencing some to death. It was not the first or last time that anti-union activity would kill people.

If the Luddites had won, maybe we'd be living in a better world. If the Luddites had won, maybe less people would dismiss the statement “AI is a threat to our way of life” by saying “you're just afraid of technology”.