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My guess is the music goes into the past, leaving echos in your memories.

I think it's more fair to compare average income versus average life satisfaction. (using a scale of 1 to 10) (On this scale Finland is the happiest, and Afghanistan is the least happy)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness

Average satisfaction for Costa Rica (6.61) or Mexico (6.33) isn't that much lower than the United States (6.89) at roughly 1/4th the GDP.

South Korea (5.95) doubles Mexico's GDP ($45.5k vs $20.25k) but has a lower life satisfaction.

Or Hong Kong (5.31, $58k) is close the US ($64k) in GDP but less happy than Russia (5.66, $27.4k).

Costa Rica is at the 1.5t per capita probably safe emissions and has a life satisfaction of 6.61 compared to the US's 6.89.

Our world in data also has life satisfaction versus CO2 emissions and central america looks to be doing fairly well for themselves. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-satisfaction-vs-co-emissions-per-capita

Most of the young adults in America currently can't afford kids, housing, or cars.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1225957874/housing-unaffordable-for-record-half-all-u-s-renters-study-finds

The xz/ssh back door made it into Debian testing, So I felt I should wipe and reinstall.

Debian has had a rolling release for ages.

Where does the church of sleeping in on weekends go?

Take it up with men and current gender stereotypes.

"The research, conducted with three other colleagues, consisted of seven experiments involving more than 2,000 American and Chinese participants. We showed that there is a psychological link between eco-friendliness and perceptions of femininity. Due to this “green-feminine stereotype,” both men and women judged eco-friendly products, behaviors, and consumers as more feminine than their non-green counterparts. In one experiment, participants of both sexes described an individual who brought a reusable canvas bag to the grocery store as more feminine than someone who used a plastic bag—regardless of whether the shopper was a male or female. In another experiment, participants perceived themselves to be more feminine after recalling a time when they did something good versus bad for the environment."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/men-resist-green-behavior-as-unmanly/

It's likely using nature is coded as masculine, while showing you care about nature is coded feminine.

Tires are a large if not the the largest source of microplastic pollution.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majority-of-ocean-microplastics-study-finds

Yes by being far more numerous private vehicles are the largest source, but buses will also be contributing too.

Related sources: "The biggest source of microplastics in California coastal waters? Car tires" https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/us/microplastic-pollution-car-tire-trnd/index.html

"Pollution from car tires is killing off salmon on US west coast, study finds" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/03/coho-salmon-pollution-car-tires-die-off

Where you getting bloodcursed elven bullets?

( https://skyrim.fandom.com/wiki/Bloodcursed_Elven_Arrow )

Librature has a list of DRM free individuals and small presses https://libreture.com/bookshops/

Oh I forgot also if you check the details on kobo, some of the books are sold DRM free. Mostly I think it was from Tor, but could be other publishers as well.

Dark Sky is a group working to protect the visibility of the night sky. https://darksky.org/what-we-do/advancing-responsible-outdoor-lighting/

They've got suggestions on both limiting use of lighting and using lights that don't point upward, automatically dim, and don't generate a lot of glare

There's some weird links between american christianity and oil. At the very least a bunch of the people who got rich off of oil also tended to be devout christians, and used their money to support evangelizing christianity and oil dominance.

There's a number of different reviews for "Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America"

This is an especially detailed one. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/kim-phillips-fein-anointed-oil/

I found the book and it's reviews after noticing just how biased toward the republicans the owners of the oil companies tended to be. Other large businesses tend to play both sides in politics, but the owners of the oil companies really seem to be really into the traditional gender hierarchies.

darktable used xmp, and that looks like an alternate metadata format, it looks like exiftools might be able to work with the xmp standard, and it looks like there's some face tagging features in xmp.

https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/106410/how-does-xmp-define-the-face-region