dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
Why can't one have a zenned out acceptance of their own mortality while still choosing cryonics? Not being able to prevent all causes of death isn't an argument to not try to prevent some causes.
And what would you say about the God-shaped hole if the success rate was credibly discovered to be closer to 50%?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
I'm not sure I follow the conceit math? Choosing the 80% chance an emergency treatment saves your life seems obviously better than asking to be cryopreserved and killed now for the 1% chance you can resurrected later.
Conveniently forgetting, or desperately whitewashing, that Blue Checks were treated as the last word in authoritative sources, regularly cited in arguments, and used as "shut up" debate stoppers when A quoted "well Blue Check Z said..." and that was it.
I honestly was not in any communities where a blue check was considered anything other than an indicator of Twitter prestige. I truly can't remember people citing Blue Check said so-and-so with the same authority as a Wikipedia article on the topic.
To me blue checks had the same valence as CNN covering a bridge collapse and cutting away to, say, a gangster rapper and asking him to react. Entertaining but also worthless. But maybe I wasn't paying enough attention.
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
This is my throwaway comment that isn't an answer to your question, sorry.
I bought an air purifier and an air quality monitor for my house. So much insight! It makes me constantly worry about the air quality in rooms that aren't in my house now.
In the future we'll look back on this time in history and think it's insane that people used to walk into rooms and breathe even though they had no idea what was in the air.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
I have what I think is a very good relationship with my parents. They currently live with my wife and I through the working week, and help care for and teach our children. We attend church together. My father and I take walks in the evening where either he listens to me lecture about the news, or I listen to him lecture about theology and church history. It's a really good way to live.
You are truly blessed to have them in your lives like this.
Broken forbes link.
Who thought Twitter was this influential? I still kind of don't believe it. But I'm open to believing it. It still seems kind of crazy for Elon to have bought it.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
I mean, I ran into this problem with nvidia drivers. They failed to update with signatures trusted by Ubuntu. Then I tried to self-sign it and failed. Then I just gave up and disabled secure boot.
I've generally had good experiences replacing waifu computers with Linux. They pretty much never have a problem, though they just use webapps. The most they struggle with is file management since a lot more Linux apps will drop stuff in Home and they don't know to check there if Documents and Desktop don't have it.
Unfortunately it wasn't signed, so I had to turn off secure boot for it to load.
I would think you could just self-sign the printer driver and tell Linux to trust that signature but it might be too annoying.
Check out Crandall Office Furniture https://crandalloffice.com/
They have refurbished high end chairs in your price range. I have two of the Steelcase refurbs in my home office, both about 5 years old now and going strong.
I've had my butt in Herman Miller chairs most of my pampered techbro office career and can't really tell the difference.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
Agreed, it's not lawful, but it isn't exactly completely outside of the spirit of the matter either.
Okay long summer outdoors stuff is winding down. Back to Tron bike lighting!
Seems like I fried my ESP32-C3 by over-tightening the adjustment screw on the 12v step-down converter. Apparently if you break the screw it just kind of wobbles and the "5v" you're reading right now might change in an instant.
Then I broke a second buck converter doing this same oven-tightening before realizing the ESP32 was already fried anyway.
Electricity is kind of unforgiving :/
I did one of these successfully for the proof of concept but I guess forgot or got sloppy in the intervening months. On the bright side, everything involved is only $2-4 each!
The Trump administration's actions are 100% unlawful. Yet, Intel did it anyway. Unlawful actions can create a lot of short term pain for a company such that they may decide it is better to eat the cost than press their claims. That does not mean the action was lawful.
Re: lawlessness. Who is the plaintiff here? Intel took the deal. There's some presumed upside for having the government truly in your corner now as a stakeholder. The funds were authorized. Taxpayers presumably got more for it as well. They got equity. The executive had some authority to administer the deal.
Who is going to sue over it? What does it look like? This is an example of Trump just doing things that violate norms but might not be that illegal.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
Is the government taking the mob's side if it's too intimidated to act?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
I feel similarly. I was most politically concerned about a BLM protest happening across the street from me in 2020 not really because of the movement itself but because of rioting and looting that would typically happen afterwards (perhaps by people completely unrelated to the protests). It drove me towards gun ownership, in fact.
I was also just in general taken aback by reports of people walking into businesses demanding they put up BLM signs, or intimidating people at restaurants demanding to know why they're eating instead of protesting with them.
To me, this stuff seems like lawlessness that doesn't have a sufficient remedy. The riots may be quelled and the harassment by mobs may die down but in the interim you can come fairly close to being terrorized.
Stuff that Trump does feels fairly abstract and easy to undo it it is in fact lawless. Though I recognize that if I were a lawful US Hispanic citizen I'd probably feel pretty on edge from potentially getting caught in a bureaucratic tangle that would feel terrorizing because they thought I was an illegal.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
Yes, I am pretty worried about our youth. We might have to check out of society and join a Christian commune or something.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
I mean, I'm open to believing the popular culture narrative of the Holocaust is not true but it seems really exhausting to open that door and mostly unproductive. All that will happen is people will think I'm crazy, the epistemics will be too lousy to be confident of anything else, and I'll just have wasted a lot of time.
But I can see how if I was forced into debating this I'd write a post like OP did.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
I'm fully prepared to believe most of the top 1% of posters are mentally ill people collecting disability who wake up from sleep every 2 hours to post.
I guess it's a win for capitalism because the people that were spending $1000/month on weed ten years ago can get by spending significantly less now?
Re: coca leaves, on a distantly related note I was at some sweat lodge recently and some guy offered people a puff from his home grown tobacco (in his hand carved pipe, of course) and the uptake was like 5 out of 6 people. I'm very certain if he had handed out a pack of Marlboros he would have had 0 takers.
So... maybe chewing coca leaves has room to come back too?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
I took a visiting friend to a weed store near my house the other day and he stocked up on some products. The store sold weed buds, like straight from the plant, but he bought gummies and a vape pen and a super concentrated weed juice cartridge to slide in.
I took a puff from the vape pen for about 1 whole second and immediately started coughing and then spent the night being fairly dumb and unable to follow conversations and also a bit paranoid over how dumb I was.
I was expecting a very light buzz, not to check out. Stuff is so potent now and it's quite cheap. I'm fairly experienced with drugs but this caught me by surprise.
Incidentally, this weed store near my house is a nuisance because it's like a beacon for strung out people to congregate by in the early morning while they wait for the store to open so they can self-medicate. Which would be fine if they kept to themselves but they shout all morning and wake up the people that live across the street.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
But you're also American so you folk still have ridiculous takes on weed.
My vibe is Europe struggles more with alcoholism and public drunken disorder since drinking is so much more normalized.
Just from a sanitation perspective there were so many more drunken buffoons peeing on the streets around me compared to the US, including women.
I could see that tempering attitudes a bit as well.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
I feel like I'd be really good at money laundering. The part that seems hard is the millions of ill gotten gains that I need to wash in the first place.
Am I doing something wrong that I don't have access to millions in ill gotten gains??
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4mo ago
Mexican food can be pretty disappointing as a category in NYC. There are of course exceptional places and you can find extremely sophisticated low brow regional Mexican cuisine in Queens but I can't really say "go enjoy Mexican food in NYC".
Indian food is kind of like this too. Indian food should be top of its class in NYC but it surprisingly doesn't compare to the Indian food in London, for example.
Cuisine won't automatically be mind blowing just because it's in NYC, is my caveat.
Lived there all of my life. Moved away recently.
I assume you're already bombed with the usual touristy advice. My delta is NYC actually sucks at some food but its strengths are: Korean food, Jewish kosher deli food (bagels + fixins) and pizza. Though you might have to sample a few places as there's lots of scrubs trying to cash in on the name recognition. Also the median restaurant actually sucks because they're just "location" plays. It's astonishing how bad a lot of places are but they're still viable just because they are in a lucrative location. You have to worry about this a lot more in NYC, IMO.
Anyway, the usual stuff aside: if you're going to be in Manhattan proper the west side river path, from Battery Park City all of the way to Harlem is pretty much endlessly beautiful for walking or (rental) biking.
NY actually has nearby nice white sand beaches. You can take a ferry to a Jersey beach in no time and have a day of it.
There's also almost always multiple interesting things going on every night of the week, just think it and check a few lists. E.g. there's some amazing comedy nights that often have random celebrity comedians dropping in trying material and they're not even particularly crowded.
Do you like the idea of combining running and drinking in public while singing random dirty ridiculous raunchy songs? Try to find a Hash House Harriers group. H3 is a global phenomenon but there's several of these groups in NYC, should line up well with travel.
Also with respect to psychiatry - don't sleep with your patients. It sounds stupid advice but it isn't.
Borderline girl. Realizes her psychiatrist is the only person in the world who "gets" her. Turns on the love bombing. Gets visibly horny in the office. She's hot, too. Psychiatrist, just a mortal man, fights for his life to resist.
There's like, a nasal spray you can all take that turns off your sex drive in case you have patients like this, right?
It could also be officials in the administration leaking this to the NYT now to sabotage Trump's peace efforts.
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