Bjorn K Holmstrom

I am talking about the game GeoGuessr. I have played it a lot lately, it is fun, has a high skill ceiling and is educative in it's own quirky way. Basically, each game/match you get five Google street views, and you have to guess where in the world it is taken from. You get points for how close you are, with 5000 points being the maximum, if you are within 100 to 150 m of the marker. Modes which limit the interaction are whether you can move (change location step-wise along the car or trekker path), pan (look around 360 degrees) or zoom (self-explanatory). I mostly play the NM-variant, where you can not move, only pan and zoom. But many people like the other variants better (moving or NMPZ (no pan, move or zoom - just a static image). Locations are taken from maps, which range from the minimum 5 to over 1 million locations from which a seed is drawn. User's can create their own maps, which is fun too. I don't recommend the Single Player mode on the website, at least it's not for me. While it costs to play on GeoGuessr's website (I pay around 3€ per month), you can play free (yay!) via the extension ChatGuessr, just find a streamer (for example on Twitch) streaming the game using the extension. Look for !cg in their stream title. I am called "Pwnytale" on there, feel free to say hi.

I think we are missing out if we replace all manual labor, it has a value at least in our current biological configuration. I am speaking from experience, I have suffered sever depression for five years and something that helped me out was doing wood crafts and other manual labor at a local reconstructed Viking village. There was also some garden work. I also have fond memories of working half-time a year in a greenhouse, the monotony of tasks have great value for developing concentration, focus and awareness, not to speak about the connection with nature, and led up to some of my first awakening experiences in which no psychedelics were involved. I would like to see the production of food become somewhat more local (of course not all crops can be grown anywhere, at least right now it does not seem feasible) and I would like to see more young people and more old people activated in these endeavors, instead of being locked up in the school ("prisons") and elderly homes ("prisons"). I envision local communities setting up for example a web-site of work that can be done, and people signing up for the tasks freely. It does not need to be paid work, but could of course include that if for example some extra-ordinary knowledge is required. The thing is, now we more an more can learn precisely what we need via the internet. Eventually we might grow out of the need for material sustenance, but come that day when it may.

Just want to point out that there is no "true" view of the Earth revolving around the sun, it depends on where you set your fix-point and orientation in space. One can easily set up the case where the Sun does revolve around the Earth.