I have a potential contract in Singapore. I know it's not based, but if I can turn that into a full-time job and residency, I'm thinking it might be a better escape hatch than anywhere in just by proximity to and relations with . Is that part off? It's largely vibes-based.

Then there's the general question about fleeing the imperial core instead of staying and helping my community. I don't have a community. The last place where I knew the names of my next door neighbors was my childhood home, which I left a generation ago. Do I owe it to the people living here to pick a place in amerikkka and join an org or am I ethically free to just pack up and move wherever suits me, even to a place with maybe even less revolutionary potential?

This was a small hit in the 90s. I don't know if I had heard it since, even when bars for old people switched over from classic rock to 90s music. Guess it didn't make the cut.

Never had it. Growing up, the only place I'd see it was on the grocery store shelf. My folks didn't have it and when I'd stay anywhere else, they didn't have it either. I figured it was more for the previous generation and would be really hurting if not gone by now.

Turns out it's still here and even had a bit of a surge when WFH ramped up and people had time to prepare breakfast.

Have I been missing out? Anyone have a recipe I should try?

Solving real pain is the only shortcut to demand.

I once paid twenty dollars for a garbage bag at a concert just to stay out of the freezing cold rain.

I remember standing there, soaked and shivering, while a guy walked by selling garbage bags for twenty bucks each. Not ponchos. Not jackets. Garbage bags.

And I paid it without thinking twice.

In that moment, the pain was so real that the value felt obvious. I did not care what it looked like. I did not care what it cost. I cared about staying warm and getting through the night.

That is supply and demand in its purest form.

When the pain is high enough, people will always pay a premium. They are not buying the product. They are buying relief. They are buying safety. They are buying a way out of discomfort.

Every great startup is built on that exact moment. The moment when someone is cold and tired and desperate for a solution, and your product becomes the garbage bag that saves their night.

If you want people to pay for what you are building, solve a real pain. Feel their discomfort. Understand the urgency. And build the thing that makes them say yes without hesitation.

Solve a real pain and people will pay real money.

linky

wyd?

I have a chance to go through India soon and people recommended Kerala over Delhi. Thing is, it's longer than Pennsylvania is wide, so how can I make sure I'm going to the Philadelphia of Kerala and not its Pittsburgh or shudder State College?

I just installed an update to my phone's OS, which required a reboot. The screen went blank for longer than I expected and I got to wondering if that was the end for my phone. Then I got to wondering if it could be intentional -- if the developers decided that they had enough of the project and hated their userbase enough to have the last update brick their phones.

Two seconds later, the reboot proceeded successfully so that scenario clearly isn't the case for /e/os, but the question remains -- has anyone done anything like that and what were the ramifications?

The developer, rin/rinnogogo, indicates that this game is a departure from their earlier work. Everyone seems to agree because a rinnogogo game was usually good for dozens of puzzles across various locations which could all be solved in a day or two, while the whole world is stuck in the first (only?) room of this one, released three weeks ago, with only three puzzles.

Puzzle 2 is not that bad and I got it on my own. Others figured out the more challenging puzzle 3, which I won't spoil but should crop up in the first page of search results.

Puzzle 1, though, the 4-letter word you're supposed to key into the laptop, is the doozy. The most significant thing I've found is that:

Anyone?

Do you use it to erase some personal trauma or to forget We Built This City?