edmund-nelson
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edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
8d ago
yeah well I should have mentioned this, the reason I chose states as a comparison is because states are an example of "what happens when you shrink the size of countries" (Standard deviation increases)
So "country with financial hub and less than 5 million residents" = economic superpower because variance
(The state of california though is less cheating than the country of ireland because it's got a much bigger population.)
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
8d ago
I know this is going to sound strange but are you by any chance moderately rich?
A lot of the growth in the past few years in the USA has been driven by rising wages for the poorest people, so stuff like fast food has gotten way more expensive.
This means that while certain things got cheaper (TVS phones ect) and certain things got more expensive, the things that are more expensive tend to be the "upper middle class" purchases (ex restaurant food)
edmund-nelson
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9d ago
European growth these past few years has been remarkably bad? (source is world bank data if anyone has a better data source I'll accept that
From 2009 to 2024 we went from European countries being frequently ahead of the USA gdp wise (ex Netherlands, norway, ireland denmark) to functionally even (Finland, belgium, sweden) to only moderately behind (Germany, france UK), to by 2024 only Ireland being ahead, Norway being basically even, Denmark and the Netherlands moderately behind and everyone else significantly behind.
I never realized how big the eurozone crisis of 2014 was to Europe, it basically wiped a bit less than a decade of growth from the countries. Sure us Growth from 2019 until 2024 has been much greater than that of say germany (31% vs 17%) but in the 2009 - 2018 time frame the 4 countries that were ahead of the US grew 1.5% (netherlands) NOR 3.84% Ireland 54.87% (I know everyone goes Ireland cheats, but Irish GDP per capita isn't really any greater than New york, and it's only slightly higher than the state of california) DEN:4% while US growth was 33.29%
Yes Us growth is still dramatically higher than europe even excluding 2014, but 2014 provides a major thorn in the side. US grew at a 5.64% annualized growth rate from 2019 to 2024 while Germany only had a 3.22% annualized growth rate.
(also why are these growth numbers so high??? is the world bank doing nominal gdp and not RGDP?)
Still with these trajectories California will have a GDP higher than the country of germany by 2030.https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/04/23/california-is-now-the-4th-largest-economy-in-the-world/ (6% growth compounded vs 3% growth)
There's probably something I fundamentally misunderstand (though NVIDIA has a higher market cap than the entire german stock market) so maybe it's more "wtf uS growth is that big compared to northwestern europe why didn't I notice this before"
edmund-nelson
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1mo ago
My story about getting banned by reddit was really strange.
I was on /r/anime participating in a subreddit watch of Re:Zero. The only important thing about that show is the main character has the ability to go back in time by dying, he returns to a set "save point" defined by the plot.
At one point I said " Try to get your sword repaired it's really useful for the small amount of fighting you can do, but more importantly you can use it to Kill yourself" which got me a temp ban on reddit.
Meanwhile this phrase didn't even get a peep
"Get a knife and be ready to stab myself to death if things are going south"
So it must have been a bot.
What was incredible of course is that the /r/anime mods apparently messaged the admins defending me and my post. This is mind you a 13 million user forum yet the mods feel really that strongly about defending users from admins.
IDK why the mods in /r/anime are like this but it's convinced me that it's the best modded subreddit by a large margin and it remains one of the only subreddits I actually use. (that and /r/slatestarcodex)
edmund-nelson
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2mo ago
yeah it's gotten game of telephoned indeed. I heard it get called Double tapping in justin Taylor's youtube channel figuring that's probably a more "modern term" than what legal scholars from the 70s were saying...
The other place I read it is https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/wvlr/vol108/iss3/10/ which is an article from 2006
edmund-nelson
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2mo ago
Shooting at somebody after you've already hit them.
Shoot>Hit>Shoot again to make sure they're actually dead.
edmund-nelson
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2mo ago
White Phosphorous munitions is the most common one you'll see online.
But there's also "firing at fleeing soldiers" "Double tapping" (very controversial but probably not a war crime though it can be a war crime in certain circumstances)
Also what counts as a child soldier depends on the treaty, for example the Geneva convention sets the age at 15, but OPAC defines it as below 18. (most nations have signed OPAC)
One funny thing about watching an anime with people was going "yeah meteor bombing the city was not a war crime but Inaho(the main character) using the school as a command post was because there was a hospital next door to his command post"
edmund-nelson
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2mo ago
Well I just finished The Geneva convention(s). So I started with a new book "In another world with my smartphone"
The Geneva suggestion convention is a way more interesting read when you have all the cultural context of people calling things war crimes. It's a lot of fun to read and go "wow that isn't a war crime and the amount of effort it puts into this is really fun. (admittedly I was also watching an anime with a bunch of people in /r/anime and just recording the war crimes comitted by the good/bad guys (mostly the good guys) really made it a lot more fun of a read.
edmund-nelson
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3mo ago
How do you best verify Large language model output?
I hear lots of people say they use LLM's to search through documents or to get ideas for how something works, but my question is how do people verify the output? Is it as simple as copy-pasting keywords onto google to get the actual science textbooks? Or is there some better set of steps to take that I miss. I also wonder how you do that for looking through a document, is there some sort of method for getting the LLM to output page citations so you check those (maybe it's in settings or something)
Just finished reading the first Volume of The chemical Formulary, a book which is best described as "What if the Necronomicon were real"
It's got all sorts of recipes from adhesives to cosmetics to explosives to (insanely sketchy) medicine. It also presents everything in a mater of fact way without telling you of all the demons you are possibly creating.
Here's the recipie for cleaning coins for example
Sodium Cyanide 8 ounces
Water 1 Gallon
Apply the above solution with a tampico brush and when tarnish is removed wash with cold clean water then hot water and dry.
Note: this material is Poisonous and care must be taken in handling.
When this book says something is dangerous what they mean is this has a level 4 safety risk in the data sheet cleaning coins just requires enough cyanide to kill 2000 people
In volume 6 they have a Defense against war gasses section on page 535.
The describe Titanium Tetracloride smoke as "harmless", and Zinc Chloride smoke gets the same treatment
Yeah that's right this book is that unhinged.
It's also got great recipes for making Hydrogen Sulfide gas, a chemical that if it reaches 1000 parts per million and you take 1 breathful you die instantly.
This book is both a gold mine and a walking disaster. The funny thing is most of the chemicals used in the recipes are super easy to purchase at your local hardware store or wal-mart. Then you can light your house on fire, give your neighborhood cancer, die of Cyanide poisoning (ok that one is harder), die of hydrogen sulfide poisoning. Some of the stuff is harder to make thankfully but the danger levels of this book rival removing a microwave transformer.
edmund-nelson
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3mo ago
Yeah, and it was pretty obvious given that you couldn't buy pizza near the pentagon
edmund-nelson
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4mo ago
They produce propaganda through omission
the other major option to produce propaganda is not omission but by putting 2 things close together
Ex
"Bryan said he likes the idea of effective altrusim, effective altruism is a philosophy published by william macaskill who likes ice cream"
Guilt by fake association, Bryan doesn't necessarily like ice cream but the reporter is making you think he is.
(I choose a contrived example because real examples while plentiful are often more.... frustrating to read)
edmund-nelson
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4mo ago
I'm convinced that Delve has just picked up in usage after 2023 and now people often just use delve when it's appropriate even though it's also one of the hallmarks of Ai writing.
edmund-nelson
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5mo ago
This is an expensive diet. Fish and berries are very expensive and I don't think a person trying to save money would eat much of them.
yeah as mentioned that was just "random diet I had lying around" but it's actually cheaper than the US governments "thrifty food plan"
It's relatively easy to make cheaper by cutting fruits/vegetables
The diet is:
when putting that on Chronometer you were obviously really high on saturated fat, but also missing out on magnesium and vitamin C and on Omega 3s (the main one I'm pretty oof on)
Fish and berries are very expensive
Did you know that Canned Salmon per gram of protein is actually cheaper than soybeans? Canned salmon is actually really cheap. it's about $3.15 a can and 1 can has about 330 grams of actual salmon in there, so it's literally 2-3x cheaper to buy canned salmon compared to fresh salmon.
Frozen blueberries are similarly much cheaper We're talking literally under half the cost of fresh blueberries. (still about $30 for 2k calories but much much cheaper than fresh)
Anyway salmon ends up mostly being clutch for the Omega 3 DHA, EPA and having some Selenium/Vitamin D as an added bonus. It's hard to beat.
After trying hard to reduce costs without going overboard in cutting fruits/vegetables I ended up at $6.73 a day with most of that (4.13) coming from fruits/vegetables
What doing math really shows is that most of the price of eating comes from fruits and Vegetables and other food groups are a distraction. Oats/Beans are basically free per calorie
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
5mo ago
There is no substitute for physical fitness.
fitness is the most underrated thing in sports IMO
I only did HEMA for about a year (got to enter 2 events total) but one time I got into a longsword match and in spite of his vastly better skill and experience the fact that I had a sub 20 minute 5k and could deadlift 315 mattered way more than his incredibly superior skill. These aren't even good numbers I'm putting up my opponent was just that out of shape.
Ringen is the most physically demanding part in any HEMA tournament holy crap. I think nobody had any serious skill other than the NCAA division 3 wrestler but pure fitness won out by an insane margin I got 3rd in the only ringen tournament there was in our area off of near pure athleticism with the tiniest bit of skill.
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
5mo ago
I really liked the 5v5 formation halberd event we did locally. It was a lot of fun. Though I think that it was way to easy to win by being taller, it was also a little too easy to disarm people, I think most HEMA guys don't good enough grip strength, anyone with sub 45 kg grip strength is just too weak to hold the halberd properly and you probably want >50 kg grip strength realistically)
I've also seen a few armor sim events where you had to hit a shock sticker (signaling where gaps in the armor were) and a light would go off if you hit it hard enough. (these were very rare but were very different from the standard events, It became basically a wrestling contest with daggers more than a sword fighting competition)
(again these were basically one off events but they were fun, I stopped playing HEMA due to cost and how much less enjoyable it was compared to pure grappling. HEMA is very weird.
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
5mo ago
You know I was going for currently airing shows but that and Redo of healer are much better at showing my point.
Interspecies reviewers had 1 episode of the dub it was extremely sad they didn't go with fully dubbing the anime. It got removed from funimation a company that hosts softcore porn like high school dxd (NSFW) otherwise we'd actually get the most cultured dub from a mainstream anime site.
There are some truly amazingly strange things in that show.
Temporarily becoming trans
BDSM Roleplays
Grandma's I'd like to fuck
Using a girl as a dinner plate
Making sex Golems
A girl making love to a bottle of Mayo
Semi Public sex
and that's just some of the episodes!
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
5mo ago
On the liberal end of the table, no one is willing to make movies that really push the boundaries of sex and culture-norm violation
For that you have to go to japan (specifically the weird outcasts called otaku) For the really Bizzare pushes.
edmund-nelson
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6mo ago
110 grams is so many grams that those sorts of limitations are not meaningful. Even 110 grams of lentil protein will contain enough for all major amino acids.
edmund-nelson
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6mo ago
Sure thing.
The cheapest healthy food generally is in the "1 pound bags of dry stuff" isle. Lentils, Black beans, dried barley ect. Dried oats seeds and nuts are also really cheap per calorie. (except for like macademia nuts)
The basic theory is you copy dr greger's daily dozen adding 2 servings of Canned fish, (Mackerel, Salmon Sardines, Herring, Oysters, anchovies, trout being the best, though as far as price goes Mackerel/salmon/sardines are far cheaper than the others) and adding other foods to meet the calorie goals
5 servings of vegetables, 1 cruciferous 2 Dark leafy green (for some reason broccoli counts for either leafy/Cruciferous) and 2 other (peppers onions carrots ect) Serving size = 1/2 cup cooked for each type
4 servings of beans (1/4 cup dried = 1 serving) Including 1 serving of split peas (choline)
3 servings of whole grains (sources seem to differ on if you should count potatoes as a grain) serving size = 1 slice of bread, 1/2 a bagel or 1/4 cup dried grain, 1/2cup oats)
4 servings of fruit including 1 serving of berries serving size= 1/2cup berries 1 medium fruit (2 kiwis)
3 serving of seeds/nuts (serving size = 1 ounce) 2 of Sunflower seeds and/or Almonds for Vitamin E, then 1 of peanuts or walnuts or pine nuts for Omega 6s
3 servings of Flax or Chia seeds (serving size = 1 tablespoon ground, this is 2 ounces if you use a scale)
2 servings of fish (serving size = 1 small tin or in a normal size can 1/5th of the can, I usually round up to half a can a day)
1 serving of calcium rich food (Milk, Almond milk, unncessary with chia seeds)
in general more beans is probably best if you're lacking in calories as they are cheap and have decent protein.
edmund-nelson
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6mo ago
i work in a warehouse not in a grocery store sadly.
I know that many poor people have absurd habits, though my bubble issue was that since I was known in the warehouse as "the guy who studied nutrition in college" the guys in the warehouse ask me for advice on how to eat on a warehouse workers salary.
My bubble is Gym bros warehouse workers and upper class rationalists which uhhh defintely hurt my perception of "normal poor people" since the gym bros and warehouse workers were my "normal people"
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
6mo ago
Glad I put that I probably missed something major! thanks!
Also page 36 they state " Two micronutrients are below the RDA, specifically vitamin E and vitamin D," but they did meet 85% of the RDA. Still just eat some sunflower seeds goddamnit
edmund-nelson
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6mo ago
How feasible is it to eat on food stamps
Confidence level: 20 hours of research probability I missed something major >90% Felt it was pretty clearly CW since SNAP benefits are pretty CW
Food stamps recently had a proposed cut that is probably going through. Of course it's hard to know if these will actually go through or not and will it really make a major impact.
I decided to look into how much food stamps actually cover I decided to run some numbers
First I had to pick "what an actual diet might look like"
I decided to use my "standard bulking diet" which I had laying around (notably it's got nearly complete nutrition. and input the numbers into a spreadsheet.
I got to $9.30/day. in costs. slightly below half of that were the fruits and vegetables (thank wal-mart for having frozen vegetables and canned salmon.) Man fruits and vegetables are expensive!
Now you could definitely reduce costs by say going down to 1/3rd of a can of salmon, but I found myself limited by getting enough Selenium, B12 and vitamin D while avoiding getting too much folate. Replacing some salmon with some more beans is definitely an option though. Tofu is low enough in folate that you could go with that instead.
The main issue though is that I don't see how you cut down on the fruits/vegetables department very well. previously fruits and vegetables made up $4.51/day so as far as major expenses go that's the 2nd main place to look But the price of food is definitely surprisingly constraining. Though I think if someone tried to be more thrifty than me they could definitely get costs down about 40%. The main constraints are the B12, vitamin D and choline. cutting meat consumption in half and adding more split peas is a good solution there, cutting walnuts for more sunflower seeds and replacing chia with flax and some soymilk may also be wise. As long as the soymilk is vitamin D fortified you can cut down on salmon even more. We're already on frozen vegetables though cutting the few fresh ones for canned/frozen seems like a reasonable option, you'd still be at about $3 a day in fruits/veggies though.
Looking at how SNAP works, SNAP beenefits curve manages to avoid welfare cliffs! So for someone working a 20 hr/week job it covers about $5 a day. that's a little over half of all food costs absorbed by SNAP. There's probably a decent amount of room to reduce costs.
Though at the same time SNAP benefits basically give you a 30% tax on income <2k/month (roughly anyway) in fact in the state of california it seems that you'd need to be a family of many to qualify for SNAP. a single person house working full time literally cannot qualify with standard rent payments. A person working full time as the sole breadwinner of a 4 person household can get ~$400/month from SNAP if they make the minimum wage in california. Though I guess that's why it's only 1 in 8 people taht are even on the program in the first place.
Comparing this to the thrifty food plan by the us government (skip to page 38) I notice that they literally don't get enough vitamin E or D, I understand vitamin D but vitamin E? Come on sunflower seeds are cheap and have plenty of vitamin E.
Adjusted for inflation the thrifty food plan pays about $10.66/day compared to my 9.30 so my meal plan is actually a small step cheaper. (you have to divide their spending by 3 because the reference male eats 1/3rd of the calories of the family and then adjust by inflation)
Roughly speaking per day they were eating
1.7 lbs of vegetables a day 1/3rd starchy with a small amount of leafy greens also including a large amount of beans (counting those as vegetables!) 1.28 pounds of fruit per day of which 1/3rd was fruit juice. 0.67 pounds of grains a day, of which half are refined 1.97 pounds of milk a day, 3/8ths whole fat 5/8ths low/nonfat almost all from milk cartons 0,77 poudns of meat a day 0.33 pounds of misc a day
At the same time the govs plan eats about the same amount of vegetables standard bulking diet. counting the dried legumes as vegetables, I typically eat 1.5 pounds of vegetables a day, (they use a family of 4 but a male is expected to eat 1/3rd of the calories that the thrifty food plan has). They also devote most of the vegetables to the starchy variety rather than the cruciferous ones I mostly ate.
Fruit again was a deviation (as expected) I was eating a little over 1.25 pounds of fruit daily on my reference diet, while the Thrifty food plan is going on the same but the composition changed to be 1/3rd fruit juice.
They also include a good amount of pasturized milk which makes sense I guess. The protein requirements they had were also significantly lower than my standard bulking diet's requirements (70 g/day vs 120) presumably this allowed them to cut out a lot of the foods I ate.
In fact it appears that the majority of protein the Thrifty food plan gets comes from milk, as milk represents roughly 30% of the diet by weight.
I think the low amount of seafood in their plan reflects the lack of omega 3 DHA or EPA required. They only checked for omega 3 ALA which is relatively easy to obtain via Flax/Chia/Walnuts. DHA and EPA are the reasons I had to eat a whole half a can of salmon while on my bulk.
I wonder though, how far down can you actually go in cost of food while still maintaining a healthy diet? I think I could get below $6 but much lower than that and we run into b12 issues. 1 serving of canned salmon covers b12 and lentils/split peas/chia seeds/sunflower seeds can cover most of the rest. Though chia seeds are randomly pretty expensive...
The constraints would be
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Must have 2300-2400 calories
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must have at least 110 g of protein (I'm a lifter ok?)
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must have no more than 16 grams of saturated fat
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Must meet all the reccommended Dietary intakes for micros/macros on Cronometer without exceeding the upper limit (Except for the carbs/fat). Note that cronometer has no EPA or DHA requirement and only has a total omega 3 category sadly.
Some Questions about SNAP that I can't understand for the life of me even after researching it for 20 hours
Is it me or do people earning about 10k-30k/year have effective 50% marginal tax rates after transfers? Is there this weird tax range where your marginal tax rate falls down as you stop qualifying for federal aid but don't get pushed into the upper tax brackets?
Why was 30% of gross income spending on food chosen? It's such a strange number to me, A normal family of 4 should be spending like 8k/year on food? Most families I know spend <10% of their money on food, (shelter though oh god)
When I look at the federal gov's Thrifty food plan I don't see actual equations, I know they used a linear optimization program but I can't for the life of me determine its constraints. Why so much Milk? Why so many potatoes and so little leafy greens? Why nearly no nuts/seeds? Why couldn't it get vitamin D or Vitamin E and why was the USDA willing to just give up instead of manually editing the diet to incude enough vitamin A/D? (pretty easy to do with canned seafood, sunflower seeds and almonds)
edmund-nelson
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8mo ago
First off while it's easy to construct very destructive bombs have you thought they might have intentionally wanted to bomb to be only that destructive?
ok, so that means you probably were hit the hardest by price changes!
The biggest changes price wise in the positive direction are medical care, housing and restaurant food.
So basically if you live in an apartment and eat out a lot you were hit the hardest by the recent changes in relative prices.
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