I use Colota for tracking and feeding dawarich. Seems pretty reliable and reasonable on resources.

Nice meme, and i take the point. Self-work can be painfully. Another sage similarly said, you cant make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

However in this meme’s formulation I’d wonder about the definition of suffering. (And also “remake”). Not to pick appart the sentiment of the analogy too much, but biological, sociological, psychological and really most systems that make up life operate very differently to marble. And thus can be moulded and reformed with very different tools and procedures than hammer and chisel.

Work tends to be (even definitionally) an effort, whether on yourself or otherwise. But there are many ways actual suffering might be minimized or alleviated. Chemically, socially, procedurally, etc.

Yet another philosopher, Thomas the Tank Engine, said for example, nothing works like team work. Does marble take into consideration that friendship is, philosophically speaking, magic?

Once alone, Poggi ordered Díaz Balbín to undress, and he got naked too. According to reports, Poggi wanted to provoke Díaz Balbín in order to prove that he was a [sexual deviant]

Okaaaaaaay…

A guardian article that leads to the page of some weird looking advocacy group which finally leads to a like to the study which is self hosted, not a peer review journal, and is apparently funded by the advocacy group. Hmmmm.

Came across this remix from some rock friends…

Turns out the company in questioned already was bought by a UK company, so already isn’t even Dutch (or even EU anymore). But at least it’s not American (the concern is that American laws potentially give the American government a lot of access to the Dutch citizen data). Companies owned by companies. It gets complicated.

It seems this story is based on an unpublished paper abstract presented at European Congress on Obesity 2026 titled “Higher Dietary Polyphenol Intake Is Associated with a Lower Risk of Short Telomeres: Evidence from the SUN Cohort Study”.

You can see it in the conference program.

https://eco2026.org/assets/docs/programme-book.pdf

And here is another reference.

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-a-european-congress-on-obesity-unpublished-conference-abstract-on-association-between-higher-dietary-polyphenol-intake-and-lower-risk-of-short-telomeres/

I knew an old apple tree something like that. The rotten cut limb was a few feet higher though. The thing looked bad, with a gaping hole, but somehow it just kept going. Mostly it didn’t produce hardly any apples, but every 4 or 5 years or so for some reason it would be loaded with big decent enough cooking apples. It was always covered in ants. It was a great tree for climbing too, despite the ants.andnl caterpillars. Hard to imagine anything killing that tree, even if it was mostly useless and a bit on the ugly side, and looked like it might die every year. Eventually the property was sold to some rich people. They blasted away the outcropping of granite close by, and razed the old house, cleared a bunch more of the land to make room for a monstrous “cottage” just where that big old apple tree always had been. So it goes.

Anyhow don’t listen to me. Take the advice of the arborist and plant some new trees, and let that one go when the time is right if it doesn’t leave you first. But also don’t underestimate a tree’s ability sometimes to deal with crazy circumstances and keep going perhaps longer than they should have.

The short International Science Council post says:

As conflict escalates in the region, the Swedish-Iranian disaster medicine scholar remains wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death.

April 2026 marks ten years since Dr Ahmadreza Djalali’s arrest in Tehran by Iranian authorities. He has been denied due process and access to medical care, and has endured extreme treatment, isolation, and repeated threats of imminent execution. Dr Djalali’s case is one of the most urgent unresolved instances of Iran’s wrongful imprisonment and politically motivated hostage-taking of Western-linked academics.

Just about any song by Jesse Welles these days…

A few examples:

War isn’t murder, Red, Join Ice, The Poor

Looks like a slightly fancier “poor man’s chocolate cake” variation. By fancier I mean uses apple sauce and soy milk. So fancy! Which is great. By all means if you need a cake and have applesauce this is probably excellent.

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But also it’s kind of awesome.

Because this is an extortion scheme, not a military engagement.

Interesting description of the relationships, but no hint as to the content of the proposed plan.

The suspect told investigators he was “hoping to meet the ambassador to tell him to refrain from making hardline remarks, and if that request was rejected, I wanted to surprise him by killing myself”, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported, citing unnamed sources.

You’re using an outdated dictionary. ;) Try this…

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=[gimp]

The slowest weakest face punch in history, but sure.

Yes, it is sort of miraculous! And it may serve you well, as long as you’re careful with it. Many cyclists do not favour using it with bikes because it is not a very good long lasting lubricant and will interfere with better lubricants. Some are nervous about it particularly around greased bearings such as a bottom bracket, where it might get in there and compromise seals and good grease. That being said, it is a pretty great product for cleaning and short term lubing stuff in my opinion. Just got to be careful and aware of limitations. However, not sure it’s worth the size of a can for touring. Might depend on a bunch of factors such as type and location and duration of tour. As much as I personally like the stuff it would not be high on my priority list. But you do you! Have fun, however you decide.