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Comfort is the Enemy | Nietzsche — The Last Man
  • Summary from the youtuber that made this video "The living philosophy":

    "For Nietzsche The Last Man stood as the opposite of the Ubermensch and the great danger of the "levelling" tendency of modernity. In this episode we are going to look at what Nietzsche meant by the Last Man and how his prophecy has come through. We look at The Last Man in 21st century society and what Nietzsche got right even while we should be cautious of fully embracing his ideal.


    📚 Further Reading:

    • Joseph S (2011) What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth. New York: Basic Books.
    • McGonigal K (2015) The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It. New York: Avery, a member of Penguin Random House.
    • Seligman MEP (2013) Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment. Atria paperback edition. New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Atria Paperback.
    • Nietzsche FW (1976) Thus Spoke Zarathustra in The Portable Nietzsche. New York: Penguin Books.
    • Nietzsche FW and Kaufmann WA (1974) The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs. 1st ed. New York: Vintage Books.
    • Nietzsche FW and Kaufmann WA (2000) Basic Writings of Nietzsche. Modern Library ed. New York: Modern Library."
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    This library has every book ever published. | Tom Scott
  • From the video description:

    "The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK — and the only one that doesn't pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That's a lot of books to store, and the internet's only making it worse. ■ The BL: https://bl.uk ■ UK Web Archive: https://www.webarchive.org.uk/

    This video has a correction: it turns out the formal interview requirement for a reader pass has been dropped. However, you'll still need to get a pass, and you're not allowed to take books out of the reading rooms! You can see all corrections on the channel here: https://www.tomscott.com/corrections/
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  • How NYC Became a Rat Kingdom 🐀 | PBS Terra
  • Summary from the video description:

    "When it comes to NYC, the rat is the undisputed king of the urban jungle — and we made it that way! Find out why with host and evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton in this episode of Human Footprint.

    Human Footprint is a show that delves into the impact of humans on the planet. Join Shane as he travels from farms to restaurants, from high-tech labs to street markets, and from forests to cities to uncover the consequences of our unique history. Are you ready to explore our past, present, and future as a species?"

  • NYC Underwater: The Day Nature Rewrote the Record Books
  • From the description of the video above:

    "September 29th, 2023, will be etched in New York City's history as the day the skies opened with an unparalleled ferocity. The deluge was so intense that JFK Airport recorded its highest 24-hour rainfall since 1948, with an astonishing 8 inches pouring down.

    Brooklyn faced nature's fury head-on, as three hours of ceaseless rain equaled an entire month's average downpour. Witness water roaring into basements, stranded vehicles, and impassable roads that brought the Big Apple to a standstill.

    This video dives deep into the heart of the devastation, spotlighting the worst affected regions like Brooklyn and Long Island. From shattered rainfall records to streets that became rivers, experience the magnitude of NYC's epic flood crisis."

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    Books @kbin.social SentientRock209 @kbin.social
    What's your favorite tool to track your reading habits?

    It used to be a todo list set up where I just check off and add whatever books caught my interest but it wasn't very shareable so I moved onto storygraph which I liked more than goodreads as the data visualization and breakdown of books via tags and moods gives me a better idea of where I tend to lean in books I seek out and which genres I rarely touch at all.

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    How NYC Turns Food & Yard Waste Into ‘Big Apple Compost’ | CityLimits
  • City Limits takes a multimedia look at how food waste is repurposed at the Department of Sanitation's 33-acre composting facility in the Fresh Kills section of Staten Island. The site is part of New York City's effort to operate "the nation's largest composting program" and limit the climate impact of its waste sector, which accounts for 4 percent of citywide emissions.

  • How NYC Turns Food & Yard Waste Into ‘Big Apple Compost’ | CityLimits
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    City Limits takes a multimedia look at how food waste is repurposed at the Department of Sanitation's 33-acre composting facility in the Fresh Kills section of Staten Island. The site is part of New York City's effort to operate "the nation's largest composting program" and limit the climate impact ...

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    Literacy is a beautiful thing, Don't Waste It | Better than food book reviews
  • I edited the name of the post to better reflect the content of the video as the original video title is just "Don't waste it", the host talks about the stats relating to how many people in the modern world in first world countries are still counted as illiterate and how those stats made him reflect on how lucky he was in being encouraged to read and still does to this day. I like this video as a decent summation of what makes reading wonderful in and of itself.

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    Literacy is a beautiful thing, Don't Waste It | Better than food book reviews
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    The Feared Pirate Lord: Sam Bellamy | History Dose
  • This summary is from the youtube channel that made it: History Dose.

    "The young sailor Sam Bellamy sails to the West Indies to seek Spanish gold and discovers a sea infested with thieves. Turning pirate himself, Bellamy navigates a back-stabbing and libertine underworld host to the pirates of Nassau, including Henry Jennings, Benjamin Hornigold and Blackbeard.

    The art is original and manually made by Joseph Feely. "

  • Launching Kbin Migration website, with resources and guides to help new users migrate to Kbin and the Fediverse from Reddit.
  • Small criticism, I think your first article on "The redditor's guide to how Kbin works" is the one packed with the most useful information for any newbie migrating from reddit or any social media so it deserves a sticky or some kind of mechanism to make it the first thing that pops up imho. Otherwise, awesome work. I thought the Artemis app was still in exclusive beta so it's good to hear it's available on the app store now.

  • A discussion on paying for open source software | Louis Rossmann and FUTO
  • The video above is a discussion between Louis Rossmann, a philanthropist and a programmer who use and advocate for the usage of open source software. The connection between all three of them is that the philanthropist heads an organization called FUTO that gives grants to people developing useful open source projects and Louis Rossmann (I believe) is an employee of that organization and the programmer Aiden is a recipient of that grant. The conversation goes over the complication in trying to monetize and fund open source software that's typically expected to be free all around.

    For those curious about the FUTO organization, you can find some of their links below.

    FUTO - https://futo.org/FUTO
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/FUTO_Tech
    FUTO Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIBNAd4nO5rk6G8YaEudqNw

  • What is your best travel tip?
  • Download the offline version maps of wherever you plan to stay/travel to. You can do this via google maps or OSM maps, at the very least it's helped me keep peace of mind when out and about.

  • Uzumaki Trailer | Toonami | adult swim
  • I'm so thankful they're keeping the original black and white coloring of the manga as I think it helps to emphasize the horror as it goes on. Fingers crossed this'll be the adaptation to disprove the naysayers saying none of Junji Ito's horror stories can be adapted to animation

  • Possibly a dumb question: What is the point of using Lutris versus just adding a non-Steam game like normal?
  • I don't know why but Lutris has been consistently dependable at installing and launching gog games but installing them via heroic launcher has been hit or miss where it says it can't locate the install folder. Maybe I mishandled the mounting of the SD card but Lutris has been a simple way to install more gog games from my library so that's why I use it more than adding each non steam game one at a time.

  • How do we move forward?
  • Outreach and exposure are things I worry about a lot in terms of having this community on lemmy. Granted it doesn't have to deal with the whims of random admins doing god knows what to the policies, mod permissions and api prices but the one thing I'll give to reddit was the cross exposure across subreddits was unparalleled, it was a simple autocomplete /r/InsertSubredditNameHere and that ease of click through was a major factor in getting the word out to people who had similar outlooks to LWMA but may not have known to look for that kind of phrasing or name.

    In my ideal future, I hope this community can one day become it's own instance with it's own funding (patreon maybe) so as to make a self autonomous space for us to discuss media, research, personal issues and where we can come together.

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