As someone who thought they used obsidian somewhat well, I feel like a caveman/casual after reading that.
I mean that as praise, it reeled me in as both a puzzle (what am I even reading right now) and a conclusion (the bleeding edge of obsidianmd space is like XKCD straws).
For what it’s worth that tracks with me experience in video games.
When I sat with 30 other testers for 6 days per week I achieved mastery I did not believe possible. Eventually I could cakewalk even the most difficult challenges in those games and I was generally recognized as a highly talented tester.
Meanwhile I’ve sunk more cumulative hours alone into Elden Ring and I have accepted I will never reach that same level of mastery.
It’s a humbling realization how much of my prior greatness was actually just my environment at the time.
> something as simple as a parking ticket is borderline life threatening
I always lived in fear of being pulled over and getting busted for not having the insurance I couldn’t afford.
Eventually get pulled over and ticketed, cough up $1000 for proof of insurance to bring to court then get a payment program to pay off $1000 fine.
Once the proof of insurance expired, begin the cycle again.
Until I finally got enough earnings to always pay my bills every month on time, my entire financial existence hinged on how often the police stopped me.
There are definitely people in Louisiana who just dispense with having a driver's license and tell the police to arrest them and they will bail themselves out with cash (and keep the cash around!)
I lived in the UK briefly and this episode broke my brain Series 3 Episode 53:
> Host Forbes Robertson, the only man in the group, is Ayr's answer to Donald Trump, and his menu plan includes pigs' trotters, which don't appeal to his guests
This isn’t about eyewitnesses, it’s about looking at historical pictures of the sky before the advent of space flight.
> Villarroel and her team used the digitized scans to study the night sky as it was before the 1957 launch of the first artificial satellite, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, to eliminate the possibility of seeing space-based interference from human activity.
> Under the auspices of Villarroel’s Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project, they identified more than 107,000 transients.
In the recent UAP hearing, whistleblower Borland talked about how financial ruin is the real fear holding whistleblowers back:
> Are you scared for your safety?
> … I am not scared for my physical safety in the sense of an agency or company coming to kill me, but I have no job. My career has been tarnished. I'm unemployed. Living off of unemployment for the next three, four weeks until that's gone. So it's a complicated question.
I thought it would be a few trivial steps to reach the Emperor Maurice from Belle’s dad Maurice, but the best I could do was 5 torturous hops between List of Beauty and the Beast Characters and the Maurice disambiguation page.
> Each jurisdiction determines what is legal tender, but essentially it is anything which, when offered ("tendered") in payment of a debt, extinguishes the debt. There is no obligation on the creditor to accept the tendered payment, but the act of tendering the payment in legal tender discharges the debt.
This tracks with what I saw, one day there was an email sent out to make sure you don’t have docker desktop installed.
It was wild because we were on the heels of containerize-all-th-things push and now we’re winding down docker?? Sure whatever you say boss.