faun @faun@merveilles.town

Make things that change people

https://soundcloud.com/thegoingpriceforgold/all-roads-returning-kollektiv-15
Praises to @salamander

bring me your dreams so that I may make them kings and queens and presidents and, Musicians

One of the things I'm looking forward to in crycog is putting the player in situations where most of the puzzles are known to be unsolvable, and they have to convince themselves of this.

The player must develop the character to be able to seek solutions in spaces where there might not be any, and then also to be extremely careful before accepting any impossibility proofs they come up with just in case they trick themselves into entering a cynicism trap.

@cblgh Kill or Save.

Alright! I'm posting it! Here! https://makopool.com/better_space_with_wots.html

A design for a better kind of social tool for information discovery and discussion!

I'm fairly sure we should make it!

Part of the reason we are going to need nuclear it is that we also are definitely going to need to do a lot of energy-intensive direct air capture (DAC) and storage. A good article about that is https://www.orbuch.com/carbon-removal/

Unlike solar radiation management, decarbonisation can't just be done by an enlightened few. It will need to be a global shift. You and I have a lot of evangelism to do.

I am going to start by reading Nuclear 2.0 and learning about the new reactors. They sound neat.

Mark Lynas "thinks that once you believe in a climate emergency, you have to rethink your opposition to nuclear energy."

"You end up with nowhere else to go"

"I know people in Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and all of these mainstream groups who know perfectly well that you’ve got to have nuclear as a major part of the mix to solve climate change, but they would be sacked if they said so"

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/mark-lynas-climate-change-nuclear-energy/

Does Arcosanti have a mastodon??

(arcosanti is this https://faircompanies.com/videos/arcosanti-paolo-soleris-futuristic-utopian-city-in-az-desert/ and it's one of the most beautiful things and it must be protected)

Wondering whether I really like amaranth chickpeas, or whether my body has become confused and thinks it's extraordinarily high in vitamin D because I started taking supplements with it at around the same time I started making it
#theGalley

It feels kinda dirty though cause these marketplaces are not transparent at all, 2/3 aliexpress sellers will lie about at least one feature of the product, and there will be no environmental or labor condition audits to be seen anywhere.

But for a lot of stuff I don't think there's really an alternative. A lot of the physical stores you'll go to buy their stuff from aliexpress and so are just as bad and even less transparent and are also ripping you off.

Should I make a subreddit for merveilles-adjacent people to curate aliexpress (and amazon?)

We generally have better taste (both for usability and aesthetic) than its recommender algorithm, so I think it would be useful

I'm sort of obsessed with non-destructive construction aesthetic. No nails, no glues, everything connected with bolts and clamps and joinery, no wire ever laid in a place you wont be able to reach later, nothing permanent, everything renegotiable.

Follow these principles and experimentation will have no material costs.

I don't know how practical it is, but I was raised on Lego and Data and an edict of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and so I do not know if I can live well any other way, I just need it

Hm other sources are saying it's a complete protein, maybe they just mean it can be improved a fair bit with the addition of wheat.

If it turns out that the real reason I love this is because I started taking vitamin D pills at around the same time as I started making it (usually eaten during the meal) that's going to be disappointing

Hm. Nope, not a complete protein apparently: "Amaranth grain is deficient in essential amino acids such as leucine and threonine[9][10] – (both of which are present in wheat germ)"

An unprofessional recipe for the staple meal I have been scarfing for like 2 months now, Amaranth Chickpea: https://makopool.com/amaranth_chickpea.html
(I might update the review once I've measured and perfected the quantities involved)

"may well be at the very optimum of nutrition, taste, ease of cooking and affordability"

#theGalley