Don’t let your emotions turn you into an unwilling consumer. If you feel your phone is going to imminently crap the bed, then get a new one. If not, then don’t. Also, phones don’t change much generation to generation anymore, so just get a used/refurbished one from a couple generations ago. It’ll be nearly identical and save you probably upwards of $600-700 (or your local equivalent currency).

Below the iceberg: “Not all dogs have bones”

“Redwood are algae” is a similar statement to “Pterodactyls are fish” or “bees are crustaceans”. Redwoods are land plants, thus are also members of Viridiplantae - the clade containing land plants and green algae. The sister taxa to Viridiplantae in clade Archaeplastida are Glaucophyta (unicellular algae), and Rhodaria (contains red algae among other things). Thus since land plants are more closely related to green algae than green algae is to red algae or glaucophytes, if we want to treat the term “algae” as a monophyletic clade, then we have to include land plants in that, which of course includes redwoods. Essentially, this framing would make the term “algae” equivalent to Archaeplastida.

Another simpler interpretation (same idea as “ducks are dinosaurs”) might be that all land plants evolved from algae, and nothing can evolve out of a clade, therefore plants must be algae. My hesitation to put this first is due to the fact that I’m unsure if the most recent common ancestor of green algae and plants would itself be classified as algae - this is an exercise left to the reader.

Thanks for the rec!

Mingus is definitely my favorite artist!

Haven’t listened to it much, still need to explore the genre more. I do like Herbie Hancock and Casiopea.

My album rotation in my 5 disc CD player for the past few days has been

1. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Buhaina’s Delight
2. Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street
3. Charles Mingus - The Sound of Jazz
4. Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Study in Brown
5. Albert King - Live

I feel for you comrade. I’ve had a very different journey than you but I’ve struggled with loneliness and lost friendships as well. I think an important thing to do in the short term is to reach out to your old friends. Some may be uninterested, but you might be surprised how easily many dormant friendships can be rekindled - I’ve had friends that I hadn’t spoken to for well over 5 years that picked back up like we didn’t miss a beat once I actually built up the nerve to reach out. This could be helpful to getting you out of a negative feedback loop.

I’ve been reading House of Leaves. Not too much to say on it yet since I’m maybe a third of the way through. There’s one chapter that serves as a deconstruction on the meaning of echoes that was exceptionally difficult to get through .

I’ve seen this posted around here a few times. Do you know the source of where this came from? Not trying to be combative, just want to arm myself with more knowledge!

I just finished A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. Certain aspects of it were good, but I think “cozy” books probably just aren’t for me. I think I need my fiction to have higher stakes. I’ll probably still finish the series out to see if it grows on me any further.

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