A county in eastern China is offering couples a "reward" of 1,000 yuan ($137) if the bride is aged 25 or younger, the latest measure to incentivise young people to get married amid rising concern over a declining birth rate.
The latest alcohol advice ignores the value of pleasure.
Emily Oster makes another common sense case.
The first chapter of the second part of notes from the underground was really interesting
Dostoyevsky's notes from the underground Part 2 Chapter 1 has a story about a long "vendetta" between the underground man and an officer. It was a comedy in how he was so intent on things and cared so much about an imagined slight and prepared and saved and got an advance on his salary and all this preparation... to nudge this guy slightly while walking down the street instead of completely moving aside.
It felt like a comedy to me, where someone uptight got themselves all worked up against someone who didn't hardly even know they existed, become obsessed, and the impression I got is that the officer didn't even know the other guy existed.
The way the Underground Man talks and acts is starting to make me realize he's a nerd, and almost shockingly similar to repressed nerds in the current age.
He is also highly vain about his intelligence, and how well-read he is, and he really feels like that makes him a better person than others. His imaginary feud started up in part because he did
Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.
This article is pretty short and pretty hilarious.
We Drove the Worst Reviewed Car in America (Donut Media)
I found this kind of funny...
Unofficial Myst port for 8-bit Atari 2600 gives the '90s adventure a '70s makeover.
Private cloud storage
So I've been looking up VPN stuff, and in the process, I've stumbled on ProtonVPN, from the same people as ProtonMail. They're now offering private cloud storage, and I'm wondering how private is it. e2e means I have to manage the keys on my device right? I don't know how else it could realistically work, if they manage keys, they can access my keys etc?
From a space-themed bar in San Diego, to conjuring the 70s through wine in New Orleans, and reinventing the quintessential dive in New York, here are all the new spots to order another round or three.
A bit pretentious, but I always enjoy Esquire's "Best Bars in America" list
Does partizle/lemmy remind anyone else of BBSing?
Logging in, seeing who else logged in, to a small community that controls its own destiny.
Lately I've been nostalgic, I guess, about how tech was in the 90s. It was less glamorous, less usable, but also way more human and civil. Everyone was just into technology and sharing cool stuff.
This little corner of the web kind of feels like that sometimes.
Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet - GitHub - k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball: Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
Reverse engineering of 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet, a game bundled with Windows. Instructions in the repo for getting this running on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Put this in Random, really hit the feels hard for some childhood memories.
Anyone using Raycast AI?
I ponied up and paid for it. I just wish it were based on GPT 4 instead of 3.x.
But still, it's useful enough for me to pay for quick, integrated access to. I could use gpt directly, but I like using Raycast AI because of how easily it integrates into my desktop.
If I just want a little help with q sql join, it's amazing.
I might even have cancelled Copilot, but we get that at work now on the corporate account so 🤷‍♂️
