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It's difficult to get animals in captivity to mate, as environmental stressors affect them physiologically or they instictively know that conditions aren't right for raising offspring.

Applies to people as well in many developed societies.

The Outsider (L'Étranger) will give you something to think about. Camus' idea with this novel was to see what would happen to a character who went through life only telling the truth.

If you like going through the historical back catalogue of original satellite images for a place you can try Lucky Satellite Pic [1]. There are often clouds but sometimes you will hit upon a gem. Apropos of another post in this thread that mentioned Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct here is an example [2]

[1] https://luckysatellitepic.com

[2] https://luckysatellitepic.com/x/SATL6AB5A57891542

A few tidbits I wish I had known about sooner:

bash: Ctrl-L to clear the screen

VSCodium: Shift+Alt+[arrows|mouse click] to select a rectangular block

scp for moving files (instead of ftp)

if alcohol can damage your short term memory,

Imagine what effect alcohol has

Another word for 'going outside the cave' is 'seeking external validation'. If you need other people to tell you if what you believe is true or not, do you actually believe anything?

At last! My blargs have been in disarray for ages.

With less ice around than there used to be, the same incident energy can do a lot more ocean heating. It takes 80 calories to convert 1 gram of ice at 0C to 1 gram of water at 0C. Once the ice is melted, a further 80 calories can raise the temperature of the gram of water at 0C to 80C

Sitting Bull killed his first buffalo with bow and arrow from horseback at the age of 10.

An alternative for PHP full text search is the PHP DuckDB client [1], and using DuckDB with the Full-Text Search extension [2]. It also stores everything on the local file system and can scale to millions of records.

[1] https://duckdb.org/docs/lts/clients/php [2] https://duckdb.org/docs/current/core_extensions/full_text_se...