Notices by Douglas Patriarche (dpatriarche@cosocial.ca)

@evan Qualified no. I have spent a lot of time thinking about possible futures and making plans, but ultimately it doesn’t help reduce my anxiety, rather the opposite if I’m honest. I talked to a psychologist about this, and he suggested dialling the planning back and trusting that one can handle crises as they arise.

@evan I’m “qualified no”. Not because it isn’t desirable, but because very few of the people who live there seem to want this. Many people might wants parts, but not important bits like “secular” or “equal rights”.

I’ve traveled a lot by air recently. I wore an N95 mask (3M Aura) on all flights and in airports. A couple of things: (1) N95 masks work really well! Even with the current high levels of COVID I remained healthy, despite twice sitting beside individuals who clearly had "summer colds”. (2) Nobody was weird about the mask, it was a non-issue. If you want to travel and not get sick then mask up. About 5% of travellers are masking, so you'll have company.

@evan oh no! I hope you make a quick and full recovery

@evan it’s a well-worded poll question. “Should”. Yes, postings about the Gaza war _should_ have a content warning, just like any other potentially disturbing content. We should give readers the opportunity to consent to viewing that content

@lanodan @christianselig I’m apparently with you in the plucky minority who prefer antiglare screens

@evan Gwynne Dyer makes the case that the ceasefire will probably become permanent: https://gwynnedyer.com/2023/israel-hamas-ceasefire/

@evan thanks for the recommendation. This was a good episode, as was its companion episode, the discussion with Amjad Iraqi.

@evan perhaps. The reason I mentioned @ivory is that the app does show that my vote was counted against the modified third response. My guess is the order of operations was: Ivory displayed for me the poll with initial response set, you modified response 3 text, I clicked on response 3 (which still appeared to me as the original text), Ivory register my response on the new response 3.

@evan when I answered your poll (using the Ivory app), I clicked on the third answer that was something like “the prosecutors would never accept”, but the poll suddenly changed the third answer to “no, he would never betray his team”, which isn’t what I think! Maybe other people clicked that third answer like I did and then felt the need to give the answer that they really wanted