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Empress Dowager Cixi of China Part 1: Coup There It Is | 4

Even The Royals

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Intro

This chapter explores the extraordinary ascension of Empress Dowager Cixi from concubine to a powerful leader of China, shaping the nation for almost fifty years. The discussion highlights her bold ambitions and revolutionary spirit, illustrating her lasting influence on modern Chinese history.

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Speaker 1
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Speaker 2
like a silly one, but I realized once I put it in control center i actually quite like it widget smith added a little icon for a mirror no
Speaker 1
no this is funny so widget smith is made by our friend david smith and i had lunch with dave a couple weeks ago and i asked where it goes and he goes the mirror has been so popular oh really it's
Speaker 2
interesting and
Speaker 1
so as you started talking about it i knew you were gonna say mirror.
Speaker 2
Like, here's the dumb thing, right? I have a selfie camera that I can get to very fast. There is something psychologically different about the little mirror button that makes me actually use it sometimes in a way that I would never use the selfie camera. I don't know what it is, but that's amazing to hear from Underscore that it's been really popular. Because I felt drawn to it immediately. I was like, ooh, let me put this in control center. All right, well, then I guess I'll recommend, I have another mirror-related recommendation for the lightning round. I was going to recommend Hand Mirror for when you don't have your Apple Vision Pro do a call with just Mike and you're doing a regular FaceTime resume call. Handmirror is just a little menu bar app that basically just does exactly what Underscores Mirror does. It just turns on the FaceTime camera for a second, lets you check the placement of the computer, just see how things look, make sure you have stuff in or out of frame that you want to have in or out of frame. It's always kind of amazing to me when I open up FaceTime and realize you can't actually see what the other person will see. And so that's when I pop open Handmirror just to double check.
Speaker 1
That is a menu bar app, right? And I will now recommend a menu bar app, iStamp Menus. iStamp Menus has been around forever and it gives you the ability to get a bunch of information about what your system is doing along with other things. I use it to mostly monitor web traffic for uploading large files to Dropbox to make sure they're actually uploading because the Dropbox app over time has become less reliable letting me know if something is actually uploading or not. And with iStatMenus, I can see my up and down speed for my internet. And so I can see like, is anything actually uploading to Dropbox and at what speed is it doing so?

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