dr_analog
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
I don't think the outcome determines whether or not the action taken today means it's a mistake or not.
But I get the spirit of the question.
Went well: Iran has a revolution and re-establishes a stable constitutional monarchy.
Less well: becomes a bombed out basket case like Syria and can't really threaten anyone geopolitically and is only a drain on our adversaries if they want to help at all.
Bad: we get bored or lose our nerve and pull out and the Muslim theocrats re-affirm control and get nukes.
I'm in favor of this war with Iran.
I think #1-4 are great reasons. Additionally I would add setting the precedent that if you even think about using development of nuclear weapons as a bargaining chip we'll kick your ass.
Also it's generally good if we remind the world that we still have the will and ability to beat the absolute shit out of regimes that are annoying.
dr_analog
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1d ago
Makes sense.
Monitoring the color of your urine is a good way to outsource for most people.
I've spent a lot of time camping in the desert (re: festivals) and the common recommendation was to drink water until you piss clear. That's a good heuristic but my pee hadn't been particularly dark.
dr_analog
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1d ago
Yeah. No matter how much research I do on running and lifting I feel like I miss basics like this all of the time. I would feel like shit after a run without water but I guess I thought it was normal? Just pain that I need to push through? Ho hum.
It took me a very long time to get better at running economy during races, like not flaming out immediately in the first mile and a half during a 5k.
dr_analog
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1d ago
well, when you put it that way it sounds kind of stupid
I just never felt thirsty :/
dr_analog
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1d ago
16 miles
I had a 12oz glass of water with salt in the morning and brought 60oz with me.
dr_analog
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1d ago
I learned this week that I was waking up multiple times in the middle of the night with a scratchy throat and an increasingly worsening headache due to dehydration.
I almost never feel thirsty anymore but given my level of running and lifting I should be drinking about 100 ounces of water a day and I was coming nowhere near that. As a corollary, I did a long run on Saturday and made sure to drink water before and actively during and it was the first time I finished one without a headache.
Who knew? Not me!
dr_analog
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2d ago
Look, I think we can all agree that this open letter about nation-state disinformation is completely credible until 50 more intelligence experts sign it.
But more seriously, why can't this person just read too much 4chan?
One thing I've learned from a deep and long festival phase in my 30s was that there's a kind of underbelly to the sexual consent education and enlightened psychedelic crisis assistance. Festivals, you see, hate emergency/police attention. Many festivals are barely tolerated by their communities and every drug overdose death or reported rape reduces their chances of happening again. Especially if your festival is at all counter-cultureish, like embraces nudity or polyamory or drug use.
On the tin, consent education and psychedelic awareness are good!
It's good to teach people that "no" means "no", and that an absence of clear "fuck yes!" is more safely interpreted as "no" (dubbed "enthusiastic affirmative consent").
It's good to have medics that know how to treat people undergoing a psychedelic crisis by talking them through it, or giving them valium rather than sending them to an ER where they'll be strapped to their hospital bed and spend hours being terrified while square doctors treat them like they're having a toxicology emergency.
The flip side of consent education is the diffusion of responsibility. To some degree they try to teach women that they share responsibility for unwanted sexual encounters, and festival services people do try to change date rape from black/white to a continuum where it's considered a learning experience and the women are encouraged to learn and grow rather than call the police. The end result is some women feel social pressure not to report sex crimes against them. Quite a lot more than you'd expect from such a self-proclaimed feminist environment.
The situation with psychedelic aware counselling is mixed. Although it's good to not medicalize someone having a rough LSD trip, the festivals can go the other way towards encouraging psychedelic use, and treating it like a form of wimpiness if you can't handle your LSD. You probably have some undiagnosed psychological hangup if you're so scared of tripping, right? You're not trying to avoid doing the work, are you? Oh, you're wasting your DMT vape pen if you're not breaking through to the machine elf dimension so make sure to get a good proper hit. It's true fewer people end up being sent to the hospital for psychedelic crisis, but I do wonder how many more people are one shotted into burning their professional and personal lives down because they got pushed into experiencing the interconnectedness of all things a bit too vividly.
Indeed. Every time I read even a probable cause affidavit I'm both impressed by how clear they are--they're good writing--but also disheartened at how expensive they must be. This is a limited resource!
Not trying to argue that they're PhD level documents or anything, but I'm surprised that every salty ragged looking detective has to be able to write one at that level.
dr_analog
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5d ago
Israel did that and we allegedly told them to chill.
dr_analog
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6d ago
Trump just announced they destroyed all military targets on Kharg Island, so, presumably they'll conquer that?
Kharg Island, I have learned through situation monitoring, is the way Iran processes 90% or so if its oil for export.
I have no idea how sane this is. Maybe it'll be fine?
dr_analog
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8d ago
They already committed to killing him too, so, who cares what he thinks?
dr_analog
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12d ago
Her surgeon suggested a full six weeks before she can resume 100% of activities, though can function as an independent adult after 1-2.
dr_analog
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12d ago
They were on the big side but, like, almost okay after the first two kids. But the third kid sent them into the next dimension.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
12d ago
For some reason, they never were as keen on taking up that offer as I was extending it.
women, who understands them?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
12d ago
They shrank like, 10% after she stopped nursing. Still enormous.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
13d ago
One thing which might happen, which would be hilarious, is that OpenAI is slightly too early but Anthropic is just right. That is, AGI is going to take just slightly longer than expected and OpenAI implodes from overinvestment while Anthropic rides to the moon.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
13d ago
Oh, good idea Mrs FiveHour! I thought her surgeon did an amazing job but I'll be sure to let Mrs Analog know since I'm sure her mind will wonder anyway.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
13d ago
My wife, having finished bearing and nursing kids, just had a breast reduction and she's spending the night at an Airbnb with her mom so that the kids don't crawl all over her.
It was quite necessary. They were huge to the point of causing back pain and impeding exercise and just being a bummer. It'll be about 6 weeks before she can resume normal life, but she'll be back home in a few days.
Anyway, what can I text her besides "send nudes"?
My kneejerk read on college is the upper class used to send their children to college to round them out and have them obtain their prestige certificate. The rest of society then got the causal arrow backwards and decided college was the key to improving normies and began pushing it as a moral imperative. Worse, it worked for a bit as a signaler, early results were accidentally promising and we've been stuck with this shit ever since.
Agreed. There's no shortage of men who could have an idyllic trad wife like that at home who would almost certainly still go out to the pub after work and spend 1.1 days worth of wages there.
Seems like a fantasy to believe homes would be so much happier if women stopped being libs.
dr_analog
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15d ago
no they're not gay. they're very mad that women won't date them. they just may as well be as unappealing to straight women as gay men
I live in a part of the world with second and third generation hippies running around and I can't tell you how many millennial men I know who bought into the "love is all you need" mythos, got jobs as massage therapists, glass blowers (weed pipes) or went into "farming" (selling weed, now unemployed since legalization) and they basically can't get women to look at them at all because they make ~minimum wage.
And the excuses! God the excuses. Muscles? How shallow, besides women just aren't turned on by that stuff. Confidence? Jockeying for dominance, I'm all about cooperation. Professional jobs? Can't support the crooked system, man. Stoicism? Just afraid of vulnerability.
But they're slowly, rudely discovering that when women signal an affinity for the hippie ethos that they don't mean it personally, certainly not as they approach the end of their fertile years. A man with a bumper sticker that says "I didn't cry today" and who hosts authentic relating workshops might as well be screaming I'M SO GAY. But they're everywhere. I feel bad for them. They're less fuckable than the median hick HVAC technician you find in the deep south.
They were born into a little micro culture that told them masculinity was bad and they believed it.
I would say it's because politics is by definition polarizing. If 70% of people agreed on something it isn't really a matter for the political sphere. Politics is for deciding on issues that may only barely have majority backing.
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