I thought this was really fascinating. Not super applicable unless you have a stream I suppose.

I linked the thread, but the constraints that poster gave were:

• The route must connect exactly two metropolitan areas (no branching lines).
• The distance must be at least 150 miles and no more than 800 miles.
• You may include up to two intermediate stops, but they must lie naturally along the route.
• Assume realistic constraints (budget, terrain, political feasibility), but you don’t need exact cost estimates.

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If anything I could see it being useful to get people familiar with the process, but could also be useful within your job or association.

I like to point people to Mondragon as an example of how worker cooperatives can get big and compete with antidemocratic workplaces. I think we need that to build a sustainable society.

But Mondragon is in Spain, and there's a valid question why we don't see lots of large worker cooperatives if they're so great.

Obran is a cooperative holding company - they acquire and convert small/medium size businesses to be worker controlled. Not Mondragon yet but maybe in the future.

Political democracies have a hard time thriving when their economies are dominated by micro-kings who rule businesses. Worker cooperatives are one approach to achieving economic democracy, where workers own and control the business. Mondragon for me has been the go to example of an entity that's able to do this at a large scale.

Particularly this part: "* I don't do shit that's my decision

• Not doing shit is like my religion
• Look to the east five times a day
• And if I'm doing shit then I put it away"

Crudbump - I Don't Do Shit

In the little western media I've seen covering Sudan, the general impression I get is that the RSF is worse in terms of human rights abuses, but that initially the army and RSF initiated a coup together.

Is it just two power hungry factions falling out, or are there deeper ideological differences? For example I came across a reddit comment saying RSF are atheist ultra-nationalists, which may be true or false, but I haven't come across much info characterizing the two sides motivations at all. I'm interested to know more, I don't feel like the coverage I've seen has been in depth.

Edit: another article about the same incident: https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-arrested-after-ambush-texas-ice-detention-facility/story?id=123555164

I'm interested in ways that people document, prioritize and execute items they need to do. What have you found useful?

For me: I don't particularly care about other Outlook functionality, but flagging emails and managing them in the sidebar has helped me a lot. I have it set to display only items due today, and then sorted into categories like "now," "soon," "pending." If I don't expect to get to an item today I change the due date to tomorrow or next week. Items don't have to be based on an email either, you can just type into the sidebar text field.

When I get emails I either immediately reply, flag it for later action, or ignore, and then I drop all emails into one giant folder. If I need to find something I do it all by search.

I've tried other systems like gmail's to do list, but it feels like way more friction to accomplish the same things, especially wanting to only view tasks due today, and categorizing tasks.

Likewise I've tried to-do-list apps, but not being able to instantly convert an email into a task, and not having documentation easily at hand when I go to perform the task makes them feel more burdensome.

Recently replaced the headlight bulbs for my car and saw the box indicated you shouldn't put them in the garbage because they contain mercury. I know that some retailers like home depot have a program to recycle florescent bulbs, but my understanding is that's specifically for residential bulbs (like the kind you might get at home depot). AutoZone will take back some parts but don't appear to have a program for bulbs. What's the easiest, responsible way to dispose of these?