@SteveBellovin He strikes me as more of a learn-by-doing sort of authoritarian megalomaniac.

Do you have ADHD? Does it make it hard for you to feed yourself properly? FILL OUT THIS SURVEY THAT I PLAN TO USE TO MAKE AN ADHD COOKBOOK ONE DAY. (But also, I have ADHD too, so be gentle about the timeline.)

**please share widely, goal is 1000 responses**

#ADHD Food Survey

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1j9RQhanOoKsZRtRjD_MBwMb3df3fiZb-3TQwRM36NME/viewform?edit_requested=true#responses

@WideEyedCurious
#5: An excuse to visit Family without waiting for a funeral

Guess should do an #introduction, huh?

Well, most people think I’m a walking contradiction. I’m both serious and funny. Science-minded yet creative. Visual and verbal. Introverted yet extroverted when I connect with someone. Down-to-earth and a dreamer. Kind-hearted yet hard-edged. Really…there is a method to my madness. (I’ll let you l know when I find it). The key thing is that I love to learn and have an insatiable curiosity (which is probably why I have so many hobbies).

@freequaybuoy
That would have been too obvious. Instead they linked 9 buildings using a 10th.

“By the 17th century in Europe it was a well-established fact that the only people who smiled broadly, in life and in art, were the poor, the lewd, the drunk, the innocent, and the entertainment […] Showing the teeth was for the upper classes a more-or-less formal breach of etiquette."

Our perceptions of smiling have changed dramatically since the 1800s. In explaining why smiling was considered taboo in portraits and early photos, art historian Nicholas Jeeves wrote in Public Domain Review:

"Smiling also has a large number of discrete cultural and historical significances, few of them in line with our modern perceptions of it being a physical signal of warmth, enjoyment, or indeed of happiness.”

Why didn't people smile in old photographs? It wasn't just about the long exposure times.

https://www.upworthy.com/why-didn-t-people-smile-in-old-photographs-it-wasn-t-just-about-the-long-exposure-times

the Surat Diamond Bourse, a massive diamond-cutting and trading hub, that exceeds the Pentagon’s area of 66,73,624 sqft by almost 55,000 sqft. The sprawling 15-story complex covers more than 35 acres of land on the outskirts of Surat, in India’s Gujarat state and features over 4,700 office spaces and workshops, as well as 131 large elevators

New World’s Largest Office Building Surpasses the Pentagon

https://www.odditycentral.com/architecture/new-worlds-largest-office-building-surpasses-the-pentagon.html

During the trials, the rifle was suspended in the air and fired, with its front-to-back swing measuring only 1.8cm, demonstrating its minimal recoil.

China develops recoil-free AK-47 for drones to advance unmanned warfare

https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-develops-recoil-free-ak-172932905.html

The Emotion Wheel

Incorporate It into Mindfulness Exercises: Mindfulness-based therapies, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), can use the wheel to help clients notice and name emotions non-judgmentally, fostering acceptance and emotional regulation.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/commit/202411/the-emotion-wheel

The growing popularity of electric trucks, as well as those that run on liquefied natural gas, is also weighing on demand for diesel. Chinese consumption of the fuel peaked in 2019 and will drop by 3% to 5% a year through 2030, UBS Securities Co. said in a note this month.

The more rapid-than-expected uptake of EVs has shifted views among oil forecasters at energy majors, banks and academics in recent months. Unlike in the US and Europe - where peaks in consumption were followed by long plateaus — the drop in demand in the world’s top crude importer is expected to be more pronounced. Brokerage CITIC Futures Co. sees Chinese gasoline consumption dropping by 4% to 5% a year through 2030.

Now, according to official statistics, China’s sales of electric vehicles and hybrids have in fact reached a tipping point. They’ve accounted for more than half of retail passenger vehicle sales in the four months from July, according to the China Passenger Car Association

China’s EV Boom Threatens to Push Gasoline Demand Off a Cliff

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-ev-boom-threatens-push-010516103.html

“In our untouched forests, the purple rhododendron blooms in spring,” Kutluata tells CNN. The bees collect nectar from those flowers, and that’s how we get the mad honey.”

For millennia, deli bal has been used as folk medicine, a spoonful taken daily to lower blood pressure or used as a sexual stimulant. Today, this potentially dangerous delicacy sells at a premium price.

The nectar contains a naturally occurring toxin called grayanotoxin. The amount that makes it into the honey varies per season and what other flowers the bees have been feasting on, but a spoonful can pack enough buzz to deliver a gently soporific high — while a jar would land you in a hospital.

This is a food that has felled armies. In the 4th century BCE, the Greek military leader Xenophon wrote of soldiers traveling near Trabzon on the Black Sea coast who overindulged on the sweet treat: “Not one of them could stand up, but those who had eaten a little were like people exceedingly drunk, while those who had eaten a great deal seemed like crazy, or even, in some cases, dying men.”