Portable personal radar on helmet with a tablet or wrist thing that says when and where drones are so they can shoot them.

Think they are planning on selling Yank deterrent?

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1W6CNhOqSGxJFuGEBOg129

I have taken almost a year long break from reading fiction to focus on non-fiction. I am ready to start reading fiction again, but after such a long break I have no idea where to start.

Here are some books I have enjoyed in the past:

• Dragon's Egg (Robert L. Forward)
• The Damned Trilogy (Alan Dean Foster)
• Mage Errant series (John Bierce)
• Cradle series (Will Wight)
• Gods of Blood and Powder (Brian Mckellan)
• The Spiral Wars (Joel Shepard)
• Basically everything Brandon Sanderson has written

Or were all the old second counting systems wrong?

Many people have pointed out that if you start a timer on your phone and count out to 45 Mississippis, hippopotamus or number-one thousands it now ties out to a minute.

I have tried it a dozen times myself and after 45 counts I get anywhere between 54 to a minute and 4 seconds.

I specifically remember counting chunks of time as long as 15 minutes and not being off by a minute.

My idea is some non profit gets setup to manage a system where someone announces their mortgage and then they can have friends, family and second and third degree friends and families finance your loan.

Let's say someone buys a $250k house. Each person puts in $100 and then they get a receipt showing they are owed $200 against their 1/2500th share of the mortgage. Repayments are paid the $200 in return in a random time frame of between the first month to the last month 30 years later. Repayment is completely randomized, meaning you could get your money back really soon... Or a really long time from then.

There are a lot of other ways you could build on this idea.

I will go first.

I hate how so many people act like every kind of art or media is now derivative because someone else out of billions of people and thousands of years had a somewhat similar idea.

The Daily has a good recent episode about this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/podcasts/the-daily/trump-activists-climate-policy.html

Occasionally there will be a popup saying the phone is putting apps that haven't been used in a while to sleep to save battery. Why doesn't it just do this all the time? Why does an app need to be "awake" if I am not using it?

Related video

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qlpzu8/another_ice_murder_in_front_of_glam_doll_donuts/

You would think someone would have thought to encase two shells in like a cage in headphones so you can listen to the ocean while you sleep. It's like a sound machine, but no battery required.

Am I missing out?

I came to the realization that I couldn't think of an example of when vertical integration isn't just an older name for enshittification. Apple owning an app store, Amazon being a marketplace and seller, etc. What examples of vertical integration aren't bad? Are there any?