4doorsmorewhores
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4doorsmorewhores
6mo ago
I don't have much positive to say about Trump's foreign policy nominees or strategies but it's very funny to have seen every western country except the US ignoring all of their defense industries, spending, and global security, and then getting mad when the US doesn't spend those resources and materiel in the way they want.
4doorsmorewhores
6mo ago
Oh yeah my comment was for 2rafa thanks for letting me know I fat fingered it.
4doorsmorewhores
6mo ago
Principally I don't really have a bone to pick with you here, and many others are discussing the implications. However, still loads of addicts die all the time from overdose. Narcan prevents very few deaths, as you need to have it available, someone who uses it, and then having them actually contact 911 so they can get a second dose is not very common. Dementia is a progressive incurable disease, drugs aren't and the 99% number needs a lot of qualifying by you. Also there are alternatives to Narcan. E.g. intubation. We actually do this with specific overdoses of carfentanil. If a machine can breath for you, it doesn't matter if you're fucked up on opioids. Its the same — effectively — as Narcan.
Edit: Replied to wrong comment.
4doorsmorewhores
6mo ago
This piece has some interesting and well-written and well thought out passages, but I can't help thinking the conclusion is just too extreme. Trump and his political equals or coalition members obviously represent reactionary push backs against a lot of the left-wing political and social overreach, but claiming that it's an end of the open society, liberal personal focus, global interconnectedness, forbidding to forbid, when that Trump coalition embodies a lot of them just to a slightly lesser degree than the most progressive 'liberal' forces in society reminds me of how any curtailing of Christian social pre-eminence is met with cries that they're banning religion in society, when opponents on the other side would claim that they're just slightly removing some of their domination.
Obviously it's possible that this only began 5-10 years ago and the author is exactly right, and that Trump not embodying every single idea of where we're ending up doesn't prove we aren't in that direction - and credit to the author for trying to write some history in the middle of it happening (a difficult thing to get correctly) but I remain skeptical for the above reasons.
4doorsmorewhores
7mo ago
Kenneth Gaintermittently
4doorsmorewhores
7mo ago
That's quite true, and the dynamics of different body systems and what we eat/how we act is obviously not a solved system, but I would be happy with individual reviews of his practices of diet and supplements even if they amount to "X: 95% agreed by all very good and helpful, Y: 70% probably good but maybe is just targeting biomarkers and not getting perceived health benefits, Z: 40%, lacking evidence of claim, cutting edge practice by Mr Johnson"
4doorsmorewhores
7mo ago
Does anyone know of any reviews or analyses of Bryan Johnson's food guide/protocol? To me a large amount of this is obviously useful (eating well, sleeping properly, exercising, etc etc) but him also selling $50 packs of blueberries and supplements infowars-style suggests me that some portion of it might be grift. I'd like to see a rating of what's useful and what's more skeptical other than from the author himself.
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
That's why congestion pricing is a very small toll.
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
You can't do this to me on new years eve
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
Mentally preparing myself for when the Chiefs win a playoff game against a backup QB or a beat up team, have an uncharacteristically bad game from Allen/Jackson, then win the Superbowl 24-20 after a tight defensive performance, some questionable calls, and a late TD.
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
What do you think being a second class citizen in the USA vs a regular citizen in the UK entails? Being able to open a bank account? Having a SSN?
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
I write to it exactly the same I would a work email "Could you please X? And consider Y as well. Thank you", since I suspect most of it's training data is illegally harvested gmails or something and therefore more likely to mirror it's operations
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
Are you currently an american or brit?
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
Helicopters are very unstable and crash a lot.
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
Others have given good answers but you seem to be trending in this direction for a question of fundamental assumptions or what productivity or gain really makes. Try this:
I don't see the use in framing common disagreements between different groups as some sort of political contradiction. Wanting more government regulation of the border or guns, but also wanting fewer EPA requirements for food or DEI requirements isn't a contradiction or a gotcha, it's a valid expression of people's political desires. Similarly, wanting healthcare but not have addictive or unnecessary procedures or medicine pushed on you is totally acceptable. I reject the notion that it's just a matter of politics as a broad claim you've made. I concede there is a large amount of political finagling and ideology in many of these decisions (whether by doctors, congress, hospitals, the federal executive), but I also believe you could parse out 60-75% of policy as being harmful or helpful to individuals and have broad (over 75%) public agreement.
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
Yes, I flagged that in brackets.
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
This seems like a misrepresentation or at least to have some logical leaps.
My objections:
- It's perfectly fine to hold those beliefs and still want accountability for a drug company that does bad things. Someone's desired counterfactual isn't limited to a binary.
- "I think these firms should do less to limit beneficial healthcare and do more to prevent harmful healthcare" isn't some gotcha where you should object "Well do you want more or fewer free markets"
- The tradeoff between good-quality tested opioids and sketchy street drugs isn't real. I can't pull them up right now but throughought the 2010s the economist had like 4 studies cited that showed about 60% of people dependent on street drugs (from someone else's prescription to black tar heroin) started out on prescription pain killers like oxycontin.
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
Can we read them
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
Mr Freeze is for the modern era, he uses technologically complex equipment such as an ice-gun and has the yet-unperfected technology similar to alcor, to keep his dying wife ins stasis.
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
I wonder if modern dynamic IPs work this way for Wikipedia (but not other websites) because Wikipedia logs your IP specifically for edit-tracking purposes. Creating specific demi-profiles for each of them behind the scenes. I don't know anything about networking this is just speculation.
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
If you won't make an account then it will be hard for a website to remember your preferences across different devices or cookies etc. I imagine your only option is to use an add on for example:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/legacy-wikipedia/
4doorsmorewhores
9mo ago
In the same vein I'm finding it harder and harder to approximate the value of these good RBs. On a really good offense they are clearly force multipliers, dynamic runners and catchers that add points to every game. The convention wisdom is that they aren't worth a lot of salary because they're replaceable, and even on bad teams they do very little. I'm more skeptical of this these days, seeing the big drop off in effectiveness on the Raiders and Giants offense after losing Jacobs and Barkley. The flipside of this is a good blocking and offensive team that has a bad RB who is carried by his environment. Najee Harris maybe? Not a lot of examples come to mind.
The fact that you needed to pick a contrived example (Why just NATO, why not other western countries? why current defense % GDP spending and not a historical average? why is 65% of them doing it but 35% of them not doing it considered a success? why aren't we just comparing total or % of GDP expenditures against the USA's numbers?) sort of proves the point I was making. If Italy produced 80% of the EU's steel, whether or not there is some norm or rule in the EU rules or treaties, I would find it pretty fucking rich if 5 other countries made it an international incident that Italy isn't using it's steel output for X or Y industry after those same countries neglected their production and investment for years.
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