As someone with a 5yo.

Sit on the floor when interacting with them. Literally being on their level can help a lot, that and talk about stuff they are into.

As someone else mentioned, don’t baby talk to them, unless they have some specific learning disability, a 5yo will know a lot about what they are into (a dinosaur kid will know heaps about dinosaurs)

My boys all love Lego, build cool stuff, then let them have it, don’t use instructions.

Came to say this exact thing.

FFS I have 100’s of passwords saved in my keepass DB, they are all different.

Passwords will only autofill on the correct site, so look alike sites are captured by that simple bit of security.

This list looks very interesting, I’ll have to check them out, Completely Arbortrary really appeals.

Edit: I listened to the first two fall of civilizations, it is really good. Thanks for the recommendation.

Bernard Hickey is pretty good. Enjoy.

• RadioLab: so many great episodes on random topics, some absolute gold here.
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: relatively new, from the author of the best still book of the same name. So far, great!
• Planet Money: US focused but still really interesting. Economics focused, non political.
• The Inquiry: BBC deep dive on current affairs.
• The Forum: BBC deep dive on various topics, some really interesting stuff.
• Critical Role: its critical role…
• The Kākā: NZ focused economics and politics.
• Unexpected Elements: BBC science podcast.
• The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: very deep dive into the history of philosophy.

It is somewhat simple, and I know some people live in “food deserts”; but really if you couldn’t get it 500 years ago, it is probably not good for you.

Eat simple foods, with few steps from identifiable grown thing (veg, fruit, animal, fish) to what ends up on your plate.

This is not as easy as that, people don’t know how to cook well or don’t have access to good quality foods.

Went to a steak and ale bar, asked for a medium rare and my partner asked for a medium.

Mine came out blue and hers was rare…I was like wow these are undercooked, sent them back…

They literally just microwaved the plate, salad and all…

Never went back, told a bunch of people to avoid the place.

How is this still relevant.

Something something rule 34

Are people actually talking about what he did?

There are active fields of study that consider the ideas of Socrates, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Einstein…

What a great question.

A few that come to mind. (In no particular order)

• Socrates and Aristotle - literally changed the way humanity as a whole thinks, their influence echoes thorough time their ideas are talked about 2500 years later.
• Marcus Aurelius - stoic philosopher and emperor, set the standard for what a great ruler could be, modern politicians have nothing on him.
• Albert Einstein - literally changed the way we look at the universe, overturned Newton and his theories have stood up to ever more precise tests.
• Linus Torvolds - the impact of the Linux kernel on computing cannot be overstated, from the smallest single board computers to the biggest most powerful supercomputers, all run Linux. The internet wouldn’t be the same without it.
• Johannes Guttenburg - inventer of the printing press, the wide dissemination of knowledge that directly stemmed from this invention changed the world.
• Alexander Fleming - discovered penicillin, finally gave humanity an effective weapon against bacteria, penicillin and it’s derivatives have saved billions of lives.
• Stanislav Petrov - Ignored the nuclear early warning system, which erroneously reported 6 launches from the US against the USSR. If he had followed protocol the resulting nuclear response would have triggered WWIII, he saved billions of people by not launching.

To those saying sports personalities, I doubt people will be talking about their achievements in couple of hundred years.

Edit: added Stanislav Petrov.

How did I forget about Farther Ted, that is such great show.

I haven’t seen House of Cards, but I’ll have to put it and To Play the King on my list.

• Fawlty Towers
• Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister
• Good Omens
• Black Books
• The Expanse
• For All Mankind (feels like a precursor to the expanse)
• The Boys
• Firefly
• Stargate / SG Atlantis
• Castle
• The Orville

Invest in yourself.

Increase your skills, weather it’s university, an apprenticeship or on the job training. Your skills compound over time.

And as another poster said, take care of your teeth.

Religion isn’t really evolving fast enough. It is being out competed at every turn, the fastest growing religious position in a lot of places is ‘no religion’.

What are we doing instead, various fandom’s…

As a life long atheist, the simple answer is no.

The longer answer is:

Humans have a brain that is effectively an extremely good pattern recognition engine, we are wired to find meaning in things, we anthropomorphize everything with no regard for logic or sanity.

Humans are hard coded to make religion or religion adjacent things.

To imagine a world without religion, would mean that we are talking entirely different brain structures, basically we wouldn’t humans anymore.

In saying the above, I think religion has had its time, it has had a good run. It now causes far more problems than it solves. Having a belief system based on an imaginary sky daddy, really doesn’t add much to the modern world.

Side note: why do people anthropomorphize their food, it is really messed up.

There is another way to think of things you create.

They show the progress of you, if you can’t look back and say I’d do that differently now then you haven’t grown as a <writer/engineer/programmer/builder/friend/father>, accept that you are a work in progress at are we all.

Agreed, but crossing over on Wed would work out for changes.

3 hours a day wouldn’t be that useful. You still have to “be” somewhere 5 days a week.

What is useful; I did this for a few years; 3 x 8hr days. Mon - Wed, normal work hours, and a 4 day weekend. No need for “public holidays” even paid time off becomes less relevant, when you can switch one week to Wed - Fri. Leaving Thur - Tue as a “normal” way to take time off, giving a 6 day weekend possible every second week.

High temperature superconductors.

Specifically anything above commercial / household freezer (-18C); but if we could get to ~105C (above water boiling) it would change literally everything.

Electric motors become more efficient over a much greater RPM range.
Superconducting magnets become much easier to construct and run, this gives us a much better chance at fusion.
Transmission lines themselves are pretty efficient as it is, but all of the associated switchgear at the conversion points all gets really warm, this could be virtually eliminated.
The conductors on circuit boards, and potentially inside microchips. This reduces heat loading and thus makes all computing devices more efficient.
The conductors in batteries; enabling these to be smaller and thus increasing battery energy density.
Finally making super-capacitors actually viable as longer term energy storage.

There are so many aspects of life that would be impacted by this one breakthrough, that it is probably the most important thing that will happen this century (scientifically speaking). It would be almost as revolutionary as when electricity itself became widespread.