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I had this idea to create a running log of problems in life whenever I encounter some kind of problem, and maybe to come back to it and edit it if some problem is solved, and to think about whatever growing list of problems that get listed

(And to seed this list to get started)

I remember once thinking about managing this like a "bug tracker" or listing "issues" like on github, with discussions about them, and then "closing" the issue if it gets solved in some way

Has anyone approached problem solving like this or does anyone have related approaches?

Only finished the first one so far, but it goes into a bunch of "isms" from the Catholic view that have been "crises", and I recall this set of lectures being referenced by other "traditionalists".

One thing that popped out at me that I'd think this community would discuss was the author attacked nationalism as being divisive and related to heresy. Yet, I'm guessing what people here call "nationalism" the author might think of as "patriotism". Still, there are various heresies that arise from nationalism (and I haven't seen that topic discussed openly as much), and various "nationalistic" (patriotic) impulses that to me seem fine with respect to Catholicism.

YotLD coming soon?

As some of us suspected, "pope" Leo seems to be pretending to be a "traditional Catholic" and "conservative", while attacking the Catholic faith and arguably presenting himself more clearly as not Catholic, nor as a Catholic pope.

Apparently in a recent "papal" message he said:

However, when we read the account of what is commonly called the “multiplication of the loaves” (cf. Mt 14:13-21; Mk 6:30-44; Lk 9:12-17; Jn 6:1-13), we realize that the real miracle performed by Christ was to show that the key to overcoming hunger lies in sharing rather than in greedily hoarding.

Catholics believe the "real miracle" of the multiplication of the loaves, was an actual supernatural miracle where a few loaves of bread physically became many more loaves of bread. To suggest the "real miracle" of this story, is that Christ was helping the hungry and was displaying a virtue of being charitable, seems as an indirect denial of the belief in the tangible supernatural miracle that took place in the story.

We would not expect a Catholic or pope to say such a thing.

Credit to this link for the story (note that I may not always agree with NOW's analyses but they are usually correct, although I'd personally "police" their "tone" a bit more maybe): https://novusordowatch.org/2025/06/leo14-christs-real-miracle-sharing-loaves/

After writing for as long as you could remember, you might have thought you knew everything there is to know about punctuation but here we gathered a list of uncommon punctuation marks which go beyond the period, comma, and dashes. This list includes everything from the interrobang to the question comma.

Our ultimate end is that of Voltaire and of the French Revolution—the final destruction of Catholicism, and even of the Christian idea.” —From The Permanent Instruction (See p. 6).

I think this kind of writing is intended to inspire a "holy fear" of God, against those who might sin with complacency

Also to inspire a kind of love of virtue, and a striving towards doing good:

"If you want to be certain of being in the number of the Elect, strive to be one of the few, not one of the many. And if you would be quite sure of your salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few" -St. Anselm

https://www.olrl.org/snt_docs/fewness.shtml

A Kennedy march is a long-distance march of 50 miles (80 km), named after former American president John F. Kennedy.

John F. Kennedy came into the Presidential office with a goal of improving the health of the nation as part of his New Frontier. As President-elect, he wrote and had published an article in Sports Illustrated, December 26, 1960, called The Soft American which warned against the negative aspects becoming unfit in a changing world where automation and increased leisure time replaced the benefits of exercise and hard work.

The idea of the march developed from Kennedy's discovery in late 1962 of an executive order from Theodore Roosevelt challenging U.S. Marine officers to finish 50 miles (80 km) in twenty hours.

The Kennedy march became a fad in the UK shortly after American people took up Kennedy's challenge. After Dutch television showed images of the Kennedy march craze, some Dutch people decided to make an attempt at finishing the 80 kilometers within 20 hours.

The documented health benefits from hot peppers continues to grow at a break-neck speed, similar to the increasing popularity of consuming hot foods in various forms. The heat and health benefits comes from a chemical called capsaicin.

Over the last twenty years, smartphones gradually replaced many earlier digital tools such as PDAs, cameras and music players. Today these objects are regarded as obsolete: they may hold some esthetic or nostalgic appeal but they do not fit in a modern, zerofriction, cloud-first workflow. Yet these devices still have desirable qualities that smartphones lack: a singular focus on a specific use case; hardware buttons and physical connectors; multi-day battery life.

Even their lack of connectivity can be seen as an asset from a resilience, privacy and security standpoint. Actually using decades-old tech today is challenging, in spite of its apparent simplicity. The friction of physical media-based workflows now feels unacceptable. But much like classic cars can be fitted with an EV motor, it is possible to retrofit older devices in order to make them usable again in a connected world.

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/papers/limits2025-lafrechoux-retrofitting.pdf

The country has a time-honoured tradition of using the sounds of bees buzzing to relax everyone from firefighters to school children, acting as an alleviant for anxiety and stress.

In our high-stress, modern society, there’s luckily no shortage of relaxation aids: bedtime story audio apps, phone-free offices, or ASMR, hypnotic YouTube videos of people whispering or crinkling wrapping paper into a microphone to help people drift to sleep.

But in Slovenia, there’s one relaxation technique that may actually shock some people, especially entomophobes: lying down in a room filled with cages of thousands of buzzing bees.

Related topic:

Apitherapy is a branch of alternative medicine that uses honey bee products including honey, pollen, bee bread, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Apitherapy

edit: there are some vids online where you can listen to bees buzzing, not sure if it has some benefits to listen to such audio compared to listening to actual bees