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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
5hr ago
Read any of his recent Substack posts. His seething hatred for Israel is on full display.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
5hr ago
I can't speak for Fetterman's policy stances in general, but it's indisputably true that he used to support a two-state solution in Israel but no longer does.
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10hr ago
Per @ToaKraka's suggestion, I've built a fairly snazzy-looking map in QGIS. What I'd now like to do is export it to HTML so that senior management can peruse it at their leisure without having to install QGIS. When you open the link, it should show you a map of my country broken down into counties, with scale-based rendering applied so that, when you zoom in, the county boundaries disappear and are replaced with electoral boundaries. Clicking on any electoral district should produce a pop-up listing key metrics (population, population density, average age etc.). There should also be several layers that you can toggle on and off visually representing e.g. average age by electoral district.
Someone is bound to suggest exporting to qgis2web. I have tried this, and while it works perfectly when zoomed all the way in, panning and zooming are unforgivably slow when zoomed out to the national level. ChatGPT and Gemini have suggested several ways to improve performance (dramatically simplifying my vector layers, exporting to vector tiles, customising the JavaScript produced by qgis2web), with limited success. One or the other also suggested exporting to raster tiles, and in fairness the panning and zooming are as smooth and fast as I'd like. On the other hand, the export files are half a gigabyte, and that's only including 2 of my desired 11 layers. This seems preposterously large for a 2-dimensional map of a small island.
Anyone with any experience in GIS have any resources on how to produce a lightweight, high-performance webmap, ideally for someone with limited coding experience?
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10hr ago
I liked Jeff Maurer's take on Platner. The Dems are heavily pushing him because, unlike so many of their candidates, he comes off as an ordinary man of the people. He's a tough guy (a veteran), an oyster farmer, and he curses a lot. His working-class credibility make it easy to overlook certain flaws which would sink a more milquetoast candidate. All bolded text is in the passage below is my emphasis:
On the one hand, this doesn’t surprise me: Brawny dudes with the politics of a Portlandia character don’t come along every day. On the other hand, I’m surprised because the left just went through this with John Fetterman. Fetterman, of course, is now persona non-grata on the progressive left due to his strong backing of Israel and occasional support for Trump (he was the only Democrat who voted to confirm Pam Bondi). He sits alongside J.K. Rowling and Bari Weiss in the Pantheon of People Hated By the Progressive Left. Is nobody on the progressive left thinking that there might be a chance that if elected, Platner might go the Fetterman route?
Platner’s Reddit posts — some of which are as recent as 2021 — do not reflect uniformly left-wing views. Yes, he called himself a “communist” and an “ANTIFA supersoldier”, but he also mocked gay people and took a casual attitude towards sexual assault... Combined with the whole Nazi unpleasantness, these posts might cause one to wonder how deep Platner’s progressive convictions run...
And Fetterman, of course, is far from the only person to start out on the populist left and end up right-of-center... Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald are journalists who made the switch. Tulsi Gabbard went from endorsing Bernie to being part of the Trump administration in just four short years, which makes you wonder if she was a centrist for 20 minutes as she rocketed from one end of the political spectrum to the other.
...the populist tough-guy schtick is a shallow narrative that appeals to people with shallow political beliefs, so we shouldn’t be surprised when those beliefs change.
Platner has showed a decades-long interest in being an anti-establishment edgelord but only a recent interest in progressive politics. Which isn’t too surprising — a lot of people who like the “high-testosterone progressive badass” persona really only like the “high-testosterone badass” part. As of four years ago, Platner’s politics were a mix of left and right, and now they’re hard left, but who can say where they’ll be in another four years? Nobody. But some people like Platner’s vibes and have decided that’s good enough.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if, in the next ten years, Platner jumps ship and joins the GOP.
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13hr ago
If your diagnosis is accurate, do you have any suggestions for how I could correct it?
I've had intermittent lower back pain for years, long before I ever started lifting weights. The earliest I remember experiencing it was 2019, which I attributed to an old mattress: replacing it seemed to do the trick. In the first few weeks of Covid I was sitting on a kitchen chair for eight hours a day which aggravated my back dreadfully, but my employer was good enough to have a swivel chair delivered, after which the pain subsided for months. Ever since then I've had periodic flare-ups wherein my lower back will feel a bit stiff and painful for a week or so, before receding. Over the years I've tried dozens of different back stretches and exercises, with effectiveness ranging from mild to non-existent.
By some combination of search terms the benevolent YouTube algorithm bestowed upon me this video yesterday evening, and after completing all the stretches in it (which took all of fifteen minutes), my back felt better than it had in weeks. I immediately went to the gym and did five sets of deadlifts at 170kg, experiencing no discomfort during or after.
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1d ago
I authorize anyone and everyone to call me unkind names.
Be advised: I can be very creative.
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1d ago
New Year's resolution check-in ( @thejdizzler posted in last week's thread by mistake):
- Had an idea for a blog post which I intend to write the first draft of this evening.
- Went to the gym three times last week. Yesterday I did a 5k run on my lunch break, then went to the gym in the evening. I intended to do deadlifts, but found my lower back was bothering me too much, so I did bench press instead. After years of my herniated disc bothering me on my lower right side, the pain now seems to have migrated to my lower left side. Then on other days (like today) it returns to the lower right. Very strange. I need to get into the habit of doing lower back stretches several times a day even when I really don't feel like it. Can deadlift 1.84x my bodyweight for 3 reps, squat 1.22x for 8 reps and bench press .87x for 6 reps.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble and @falling-star?
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2d ago
I've heard this theory before and I think there's a lot of truth to it. I can't fathom why it would be though.
I know, it's dumb. My pet theory is that some people think that, by avoiding formalising a relationship by putting the associated labels on it, they can therefore protect themselves from emotional disruption. Obviously, this is silly: if you like someone and are dating them to the exclusion of all others, it's going to hurt if they break it off with you even if you never explicitly declared them your boy/girlfriend.
- I asked her to be my girlfriend two and a half weeks after our first date. She said yes, but then a few days later said she thought we were moving too fast and requested we go back to just seeing each other (albeit exclusively). Exactly thirty days after our first date, we again decided to be in a relationship, and have been ever since.
- Quite obvious.
- After our second date (which was perhaps one week after our first), I stopped pursuing other women on the apps.
- During the period in which we were just dating but not in an explicit, exclusive relationship? Not that I recall.
- Again, not that I recall.
- I think so.
If I drink while sitting and gaming or going online, I get nasty hangovers. But then if I drink while out with friends, I usually feel fine.
I'd say this is likely caused by i) drinking at a slower pace because you're talking to people and ii) I've heard it said that one of the best ways to avoid a hangover is to wait until you no longer feel drunk before going to sleep. If you drink at home, you're probably going straight to bed still drunk, but if you're out with friends, by the time you get home you've probably sobered up a bit.
Globally, my worst hangovers originate from mixing my drinks.* If I drink six (or seven, or eight) beers, I'll probably feel fine the next morning, if perhaps a little sleepy, nauseated or have a mild headache. If I mix significant volumes of beer, spirits, wine and/or liqueurs, I'll probably feel like shit the next morning, especially if any of the drinks were very sugary, even if the absolute volume of alcohol I consumed is lower than if I'd just drunk one kind of drink. Mixing my drinks also seems to be disproportionately responsible for the emotional symptoms of hangover, namely "the fear": the sensation of paralysing anxiety and dread that you made a fool of yourself the night before.
In terms of physical symptoms specifically (headache, nausea), I used to get the worst hangovers from cheap white wine. The only kind of white wine I drink any more is sparkling (prosecco, cava).
*That being said, the single worst hangover I've had in the last five years wasn't even caused by alcohol specifically. I went to a gig, mixed various drinks and someone offered me a cigarillo in the smoking area. I've never learned how to smoke cigars or cigarillos and always end up smoking them like a cigarette i.e. inhaling, when as I understand it you're only meant to "taste" a cigar. Never figured out how to do that. Anyway, I ended up getting too drunk and left the gig early (wasn't really enjoying it anyway, so no big deal). The next day I was so hungover I literally couldn't keep water down. If you're going to smoke a cigar, make sure you've got your technique down in advance.
FYI it's birB_crombLe. And I assume you meant to post this in this week's thread.
- Had an idea for a blog post which I intend to write the first draft of this evening.
- Went to the gym three times last week. Yesterday I did a 5k run on my lunch break, then went to the gym in the evening. I intended to do deadlifts, but found my lower back was bothering me too much, so I did bench press instead. After years of my herniated disc bothering me on my lower right side, the pain now seems to have migrated to my lower left side. Then on other days (like today) it returns to the lower right. Very strange. I need to get into the habit of doing lower back stretches several times a day even when I really don't feel like it. Can deadlift 1.84x my bodyweight for 3 reps, squat 1.22x for 8 reps and bench press .87x for 6 reps.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
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2d ago
Our go-to is a local roastery called 3FE. Their house blend is solid and reliable. I've been thinking of trying Cloud Picker again. My girlfriend likes an Italian roast, although it's a bit too dark for my liking.
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3d ago
I once spoke to a guy who worked in a recently founded distillery. While waiting for their first batch of whiskey to age, they started selling gin and vodka just to get a bit of revenue in their coffers. To their surprise, their gin and vodka ended up being so popular (winning assorted international awards) that many of their customers are entirely unaware they distill whiskey.
They might have been more selective than the average man when it comes to deciding whom to fuck, but once they selected me (or any other man who passed the selection, I'm sure), they wanted to fuck a lot.
I think this is exactly what people mean when they say "the average man has a higher sex drive than the average woman": that, owing to their higher sex drive, men tend to be far less discriminating in their choice of sexual partners.
Consider which demographic makes up the lion's share of prostitution customers vs. which makes up the lion's share of prostitutes (likewise strip clubs, porn consumption etc.) More darkly, consider which demographic commits most rape and sexual assault vs. which demographic is disproportionately likely to be a victim of rape or sexual assault.
Consider how many sexual partners the average gay man reports having in his lifetime vs. the average lesbian or heterosexual woman. While gay men are unrepresentative of the modal male experience on many axes, I think it's fair to say that gay male sexuality is what unconstrained male sexuality looks like (that is, male sexuality operating without the constraint of female selectiveness and libido).
I also think survey data (e.g. "how many times have you masturbated in the last month?" "how often do you look at pornography/erotica?" "have you ever visited a prostitute?" and so on) would probably make the disparity readily apparent.
Almost nothing about human culture is compatible with the claim that women are exactly as horny as men.
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4d ago
The best I can say is "persistence". Sticking with a relationship I know makes me happy even when my gut is telling me to cut and run. Per High Fidelity, it's about learning to recognise when your guts have shit for brains.
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4d ago
And the pernicious one is the avoidant who is mostly aware they're avoidant, and keeps trying to establish relationships with people then withdrawing suddenly, closing off all contact as if the connection never existed, and move on relatively quickly.
You rang?
Thank Christ I broke out of that cycle.
I don't think he's a crypto-conservative, but I do think he might undergo an ideological shift over the following years.
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