Would that mean there is correlation of those diseases to the latitude where people are living at? In Nordic countries (and Alaska, Iceland etc) the summer nights are light and the sun can be up more or less 24/7 for certain period of time. Adaptation to natural cycles may help, though.

The switchover periods spring and autumn are statistically the most dangerous AFAIK (with regarding mental health, and in consequence otherwise too perhaps).

Yes. Well, in an ultimate troll move the business and trade would have continued, but the profits from Russia would have been channeled to support Ukraine.

It is as if they try the hardest to avoid the actual and obvious subject. Not much unlike how AI and tech is used in dictatorships and elsewhere to control the population.

In one way there is more connection with the animal, but on the other hand a connection is lost, and the relationship is based on algorithmic cues. It is no longer purely organic, as it has been for thousands of years. We become part of the machine - do we trust the creators of the machine, do we make the animal a set of data and not really listen and watch how it acts and behaves?

This can help, of course, too. I am just afraid that laziness wins.

State media kindly tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/rianru/sta...

I've worked as an independent contractor since some time before the pandemic. The best move i've ever made. I do the same job, but for multiple clients and on my own. The office work before almost killed me (I started to descend into anxiety/depression). It wasn't the work or the people. It was the loss of control in the sense that I needed to be there from 9 to 5, and I was locked/forced into certain mode during those hours. Now I can freely flow between work and other stuff and it's perfect. My productivity is higher, when I'm in control of my time. I can do the day's work in less time than before and still get paid more. I haven't had an alarm clock to wake me up for 3.5 years, and I still wake up early and fresh. Actually earlier, because before even the idea that I need to be in the office at certain hour stressed me and disturbed my sleep.

I know this is not for all, but I sincerely hope that businesses understand what potential they're perhaps missing, if things are forced back to 'normal' for all. A deadline/target oriented way of work could be a solution. How anyone uses the time between start and finish could be up to them. This is not a new idea, but was a revelation for me.

Anyway, your mental health is more important than moving money.

When enough players use AIs to help them play, the AIs will practically play against each other using humans as useful idiots in between. There won't be Skynet. The AI's will battle against each other by trying to make their opponents' human avatars lives as miserable as possible by crippling their cars, overdrafting their credit cards, locking them out of their homes, inserting photos of their significant others with strange people on their phones and pushing notifications on cheap liquor nearby.

China, Russia et al are against free flow of information. They're already restricting internet as it is (Russia's latest action was against Tor), and decentralised open technologies that function on the internet are naturally the next target. Banning crypto would effectively mean banning blockchain technology (unless of course it's state controlled), because tokens are an integral part of any blockchain. This is about power and an effort to remove concepts such as decentralised, open, private and global from people's minds and hands. The fact that Russia's population is dwindling and the country is not doing very well otherwise either is something the leaders want to steer people away from anyway.

This is the planet of the apes

Only problem I see with this site is that it forces users and services to think about their password policies. The accumulated stress will eventually release as a revolution of some kind, over a totally unrelated matter.

More channels (surround etc) were inteoduced to have a better sound. Now that is being annulledâ¦

There is supposedly a whole channel (centre) for the dialogue, and still they (producers and directors) are muddying the mix up because of _reasons_. Hilariously tragic. The pushback from sound department should be harder, but audience is still too happy to have enough actual push or they just do not care. No change visible in the near future I fear.

It fixes many problems, if you're an authoritarian regime. The usage and flow of digital currency can be controlled and monitored. It could be tied to their social credit score for instance, and it'll be used with centralised and regime controlled applications, in ways the regime allows you for. They'll probably ban cash completely at some point.

In China's battle against cryptocurrencies/tokens/etc and bitcoin the idea is to remove notions of decentralisation and open systems. The concepts don't fit with the centralised regime.

Blockchains and distributed ledgers/systems will power web3 and many other fields of business (China has their own "internet" and government built systems, so they don't need to care). Even on Slashdot there are many who basically parrot Chinese state propaganda in their outdated and naive critic of these technologies.

Countering China is best done by opposing centralisation and closed systems, and embracing these innovative technologies. Sure there are problems, but they can be solved.

Crazy how people with mod points and Slashdot followers in general seem to parrot Chinese state propaganda, and are not into innovation and new technologies.

Enterprises are already using decentralised services and products, smart contracts etc. Tokenisation of everything is a big trend and will continue. Decentralised identifiers are being set as a web standard. Plus lot more.

Keep up with the times lol.

I for one welcome the Chinese non-web3-overlords. The decentralised systems use blockchain or other distributed ledger, which includes tokens, coins and such. In essence by generally banning crypto they are banning the future for themselves, and they are willingly giving the leading role in the new internet to someone else. Well, what do they actually even care, they are not on the same internet even... They want a net they can control - decentralisation, honest ledgers and open systems are not really fitting to it. Bitcoin is a nice scapegoat, but it's getting old.

The blockchain/crypto industry has come together in various ways to make itself greener. This in contrast to China for example building numerous new coal plants, while slowing down global efforts to curb emissions. When they slow the efforts they can also continue the blame, because Bitcoin et al are as green as the electricity they consume.

Also reported on Nature, which is a one of those magazines that every now and then publish something remotely scientific, to appear more reputable - instead of being perceived to be for nudists only.