And I thought he was immortal…

Hmm… What about… decentralized communism

And if it can run a 6 hours with 60% then I would like to preserve its ability to hold on for an entire day at 90% if the situation demands it. I often deal with this at school. A half day of back-to-back classes? 40% is game. But a schedule that has more than a 6 hour gap that I’d likely fill with studying from PDFs and gaming? Then a good 90% is needed.

But even having data for 2 years isnt very useful. If you replace your phone after 2 years then there is no need to care about battery life at all.

When I was younger my mother would scold me for needing a replacement phone every 2 or 3 years because of how much they cost. Aside from gaming I was also working on schoolwork or reading stuff on my phone because I had no computer, and I often charged my phone to 100% while doing those things causing it to overheat and charged it by 20% so that wasn’t doing wonders for its lifespan. Man if only I knew. So it grinds my gears when I see someone dismiss battery lifespan concerns by assuming you’ll want to buy a new phone in 2 years. My mother’s phone has been with her for upwards of 5 years and she’s perfectly content with it. And because I invest my time in only one game (the same one for years) there is no need for performance upgrades. So what’s the point of buying a new phone every two years?

Probably romanticism. I remember Don Quixote calling artillery an evil of their contemporary warfare. A bit understandable because the invention of artillery basically led to more indiscriminate destruction… And I reckon that because you can basically target people from afar, you can just hit people not actively engaged in battle and take them by surprise.

Chad Chad?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter
I like helicopters

What are the implications of this?

I remember when ICE took down Zlibrary…

Video essays, Deltarune, Minecraft and Movie discussions and theories. And music to drown out my surroundings while I read a book because my mother watches TV with sensationalised drama all the time and my house is not big enough to escape from it

So glad I stopped supporting Youtube with ad revenue

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When I read Don Quixote I saw a lot of references to “brain rot” and what was essentially pop culture at the rime ruining people’s perception of the world and I thought it was just funny to send in a quote that literally mentions brain rot

iirc solar depends on well, solar energy, so it is best paired with another more stable source of energy.

we weren’t ready for it yet. Filipinos didn’t understand what it meant and our politicos are too corrupt.

Do note that America’s rhetoric of “granting us independence when we’re ready enough” was mostly rhetoric. If they wanted us to be independent they wouldn’t have done economic policies that made the Philippines dependent on the USA, policies passed only if it was of benefit to the USA, as well as the fact that they didn’t return the land that was unlawfully grabbed by the Spaniards during a certain period of time and instead just appropriated it for themselves despite promises that they would divide it among the wronged parties (of tenants, who had owned the land), for the ready exploitation of Filipinos for American corporations.

Seriously, it is more laughable to defend colonialism perpetuated by a democratic nation, because the leaders would have to justify that it was beneficial, first and foremost, to their own people, else they become unpopular and won’t hold any position of power.

It was an act of colonialism for the sake of economic interests. And the reason why there was such a culture of corruption was because the way you survived in the colonial world (as a principalia) was to kiss up the asses of who will benefit you the most. Either it was the colonial overlords when you felt they were the safer bet or if you felt like a revolution was successful, the angry masses. To thrive you shouldn’t be loyal, only to that who would benefit you the most.

The colonial system of the Philippines perpetuated by the Spaniards themselves were notoriously corrupt, probably because of the distance between nations making laws hard to enforce, that the colonisers present in the country often broke the law even against the King’s commands, hell, even against the Pope’s. And did our period under American Colonialism helped us unlearn that culture? No, Filipinos were given a sense of Learned Helplessness, and a peculiar tendency to give apologetics for the practice of Colonialism.

Buying books for public schools directly, specifically for regular and SPED classes because our Department of Education is corrupt.

I remember being in the regular class of public highschool and seeing that there’s only one highly used book per 10 people. Sure the sections “for smart kids” were complete in books, often updated, but regular and special ed students were often lacking resources, and the Department Head of SPED even told me that the higher ups of the school were prejudiced against SPED students, and they couldn’t get funding for those students even for talent show events because a higher up said, “they have no future, so why bother?”, the specific reason I was contacted because I was identified as a Special Needs learner who had a bright (conventional) academic future as well as achievements, so I was encouraged to help the Department in proving prejudice otherwise.

I felt it was unfair that all the investments of education were to be given to already highly performing children. The reason why I wasn’t even in those sections for smart kids is because I was 1 or 2 points below the required report card grade in elementary, and that was when my mental health barely recovered from bullying. The reason I was bullied was due to classist bullshit (was relatively poor in a private school) and being neurodivergent.

(n.) Supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration.

“The devil take Don Quixote of La Mancha! How did you get this far without dying from all the beatings you’ve received? You’re a madman, and if you were a madman in private, behind the doors of your madness, it wouldn’t be so bad, but you have the attribute of turning everyone who deals with you or talks to you into madmen and fools, too; if you don’t believe me, just look at these gentlemen who are accompanying you. Return, fool, to your house, and look after your estate, your wife, and your children, and stop this nonsense that is rotting your brain and ruining your mind.”

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In the Philippines, if you stopped supporting your kid at 18 they have a low chance of ever finishing college because ~30 units is the norm. Imagine having to deal with that on top of a job and doing all the household responsibilities. And if they do work they’re stuck with low wage jobs because they only finished highschool. In that context doing that is just irresponsible.