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AntennaPod and Slide for Reddit. And I raise by Newpipe and uBlock (in Firefox)!

Also automatically recall silently, if the line timed out. Basically notify me when it got through to a human. Maybe record my interactions with automated systems and then offer me a dialog for a pre-fill next time. Would be a real, valuable edge for me. I hate spending life time in phone queues.

How's battery life? I think it's not great, is it?

For all I care, a CEO can get whatever, if it's from the funds they raised, exclusively. Just not my donations or revenue directly from the product other people made. A "vision" or "leadership" isn't worth that much. Maybe connections are. Basically get payed for the stuff they exclusively enable.

Maybe that's even what's happening here. I agree, it's probably not the main issue at hand considering the overall financial situation.

"This lady", or "managerette", and "this guy" are quite different tho, don't you think?

The question is, if she's criticized differently, because she's a woman.

Personally I feel like the patronizing/infantilizing language wouldn't be used for "a guy".

I don't speak up for the CEO's protection, but for the women reading this. I don't give a fuck about the CEO's feelings at all, but the women who may feel discouraged by the additional burden of sexism.

Not defending the CEO's parasitic behavior. I don't get why execs should be paid differently at all, anywhere. It's a position which inherently attracts toxic people, if it's hold up as exceptional. She sucks. I totally get why people want to be a little mean, but please consider the collateral damage. That's all.

User's actual opinion may not matter here, at all. Popularity may be self-serving.

To add: I want to stress the phosphorus is used by all livings things part.

Plants get phosphorus from soil, animals get it from plants, predators from other animals, and finally microorganisms from our all remains. But it all starts with plants. We cannot grow "low phosphorus" food plants or anything. It's used in ADP and DNA synthesis! Phosphorus sits at the core of life itself. Every living cell on earth depends on what plants can extract from soil.

I can only speculate.

I think wood itself contains little phosphorus, compared to other parts of the plant. The inner rings of a tree are dead cells, a formerly living tissue, which condensed to cellulose and lignin. I assume the plant will not have phosphorus left there substantially. Phosphorus is needed to make ADP and DNA, by all living things, and is used in photosynthesis by plants, too. Quite useless in the middle of the dead wood zone. In woody plants, only the outer layers and leaves are living cells. If you leave those in the forest to rot, you retain some phosphorus.

You could also burn furniture after a century of use for energy and then bring the ash back into the forest to close the cycle, I guess. But that's requires non-toxic ashes - compatible paints and glues, no heavy metal agents and so on.

Either way, you are in competition with agriculture land use for food production. And bio fuels. And bio polymers. And bio... You get the idea.

Tho, if I had to guess, I would say wood probably is not the worst in terms of phosphorus leakage.

Seems like you mostly have issues with Wayland. What distro are you running?

For me Zoom screen sharing works fine with Wayland, if everything runs Wayland, including the browser. Xwayland apps can't "see" Wayland apps or the desktop.

I assume the Zoom client may be Electron/Xwayland, correct?

The X to Wayland transition is mostly over soon. Probably with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

No, that's still ignorant of ecological processes, I think. We need to adapt culturally/economically.

What do you think happens, if we continue as we do, but assume "infinte" ressourses? You would still exhaust regenerative/reparative capacities, accumulate chemical byproducts and waste - shift balances. See nitrification of water bodies.

The core problem is our lazyness to recapture uncompressed former dense resources; to operate closed cycle.

And well, I have my doubts we can establish the extend of space exploitation to meet our current e.g. global phosphorus needs within the next 30 years. Is phosphate rock even plenty around in asteroids?

AFAIK it does solve a problem with steel, tho: Energy expenditure of production. You cannot make steel with heat generated electrically. At least not directly. Energy dense fossil hydrocarbons are powering furnaces today. You may replace that with generated hydrogen, but I am not sure the math checks out on a global scale.

We survive on stored energy borrowed from the past.

It's worse than that: We fully rely on borrowed time!

Natural geological cycles to restore surface phosphorus span many thousands of years. Our current agriculture (food production) critically depends on mineral phosphorus, which may be exhausted in just four or five decades. And we retain none of that, but flush our soils into the oceans (partially through the toilet, literally). No phosphorus, no food. I wish everybody knew about peak phosphorus. (It's also a geopolitical near future issue as almost all phosphate rock is located in Morocco...)

We also need to develop tech (weather technique or technology) to reconstitute waste and refuse into the inputs for our food, buildings, transportation, etc.

Yes! We also need to collect and recycle human and livestock feces and urine to prevent mineral loss. Those cannot leak from the ecosystems anymore - madness!

Honestly, I think it's possible humanity will barely not make it, comically, because no one wants to lobby for collecting people's shit, while everything else goes full Star Trek.

I think wood can be quite fire resistant even with traditional modifications like charring. And it may retain structural integrity better/longer than steel. I think steel can become an enemy in a fire quite abruptly.

As far as I know, the Earth's surface cannot meet humanity's current need for hydrocarbons, polymers or building materials. Biomass production is limited by sun energy and most importantly phosphorus and nitrogen cycles. Even hundred of years ago, people were already exhausting regenerative capacities and back then there were only around half a billion humans living on all this planet. Petrol chemistry and mineral exploitation saved Earth's ecosphere short term. But obviously that can't last forever.

It's nice to have functional carbon sinks and all, but we will never replace even the majority of petrol, metallic and mineral based production of today with biomass derived alternatives. The surface and geological cycles cannot support that. And food is priority. If phosphorus rock is gone, we're fucked for good.

We need to cut down.

I wasn't aware "ego depletion" was studied in such a direct and simplistic/naive manner.

People with ADHD can attest "executive functioning" can be depleted or even borrowed from/overexhausted - like a resource. E.g. an extended period of hyperfixation may lead to days or even weeks of near complete inability of executive control, or "lethargy"/"depression". There certainly is some kind of budget/debt and some tasks are more taxing than others.

I assumed it's some deficit in homeostatic balancing stemming from a partially deficient brain preventing "burnig out".

'Ego depletion' was a fitting term, but now I cringe at myself for using that in presence of people knowing psychology/psychiatry, if it's something of a more defined thing.

Maybe the situation in ADHD is different as reward/expectation of reward/"dopamine" is very much different than "ego" in neuro typical folks. Guess with NTs it could be more related to "exhaustion", priorizing of activities over rest/sleep.

Is there a better hypothesis/theory related?