Diederich

I'm somewhat anxious about old.reddit.com going away, no doubt.

> harder to monetize

Honest question: how is old.reddit.com harder to monetize than 'new.reddit.com'? I've been seeing ads creep in over the past couple of years I think. (Not that I necessarily have any beef about that..)

I exclusively use old.reddit.com and it seems pretty good.

My wife uses Supernatural almost every day, and while it's a bummer to be subscription, she really enjoys the new content that keeps coming in.

My wife uses Supernatural almost exclusively, and I use Beat Saber.

Yeah the Quest 2 was amazing, my first VR headset. I got my wife one, and she enjoyed messing around with it so much I ended up getting one, and we often play games together in VR.

Mostly though we use it for various workout apps.

Hah thanks. It was actually not too bad. The only really challenging part was the few hours of aphasia which came up in the middle of the night.

Overall it was a nice 'shared adversity' kind of experience.

This is an understandable reaction and question.

Fundamentally LSD is physically safe at most any reasonable dose. What remains is psychological safety, which is quite important. I've always been a well grounded person, and with the serious measures we took to prepare, I felt like it was most likely safe for me. And it was, nothing bad came out of the experience, even though there were some scary parts.

To be clear, the intensity of the trip wasn't a surprise. My wife and I knew that we were getting into a 'serious situation'.

When I said 'me being me' above, it's a personality trait: when something I'm interested in, that is potentially useful, and that is very safe comes up, I tend to go all in.

In general I strongly recommend people start very low and work up from there.

I agree that 100 is a good starting point, or even less.

Agree with everything you're saying here, I'll add what might be obvious: it's generally best if the first doses aren't too large.

I first took LSD back in 2014 I believe, after researching everything surrounding the topic for a year. My wife was completely on board and we allocated a three day weekend.

All of the research indicated that it was completely safe from a physical perspective and for a stable and fairly well adjusted person like me, with a very informed and willing helper, fairly psychologically safe.

Me being me, I decided to go big on the first dose. I took well over 600μg.

I won't say this was a mistake for me, but it was a rather rigorous experience that lasted most of three days.

All of the trip was interesting. Most of it was a range between neutral and amazing, but there were definitely some bad trip elements.

About once a year since then I've taken a much smaller dose. At the moment I don't have a desire to repeat the huge experience, but I won't rule it out for the future.

Very briefly: during the worst of the bad trip parts I lost the ability to understand and produce language, which was scary for both my wife and I, though we understood that the impact would be temporary. This happened about 8-12 hours after the trip started.

None of my subsequent trips (all between 50μg and 200μg) had any big bad effects.

And yes, the whole experience was a big win. While I as doing pretty well beforehand, there were some areas of tunnel vision that greatly improved.

I'm sorry to hear that you're dealing with that. If you're comfortable doing so, I wonder if you could share more details about how increased testing is involved? Thank you.

I didn't get even a small sense of bragging from the above comment, and I'm actually quite glad it was posted, especially the pictures. It's good to see other people doing something similar to what we're trying to do with our ~1ac of grass.

We do 95+% of our charging at home on 120VAC at 12 amps, which is about 1500 watts. For our mileage use we're charging perhaps 75% of the time.

I found at 1200W panel on Amazon for less than $400.

Various realities will substantially increase that number, but it's still not too expensive just to solar charge your car at home if you don't have a substantial commute.

Yes, I watch this a couple of times a year. It's just beautiful.

Falcon Heavy, with 27 engines, has had a number of successful launches, and zero failures.

Heavy/Starship design process is poor? Can you expand on that?

I think I saw at least one in flight engine relight. If true that's a capability I haven't heard about before.

> This test launch was never planned to actually make orbit.

Very, very technically true, but not really. Their target trajectory was only a few tens of m/s short of orbit.

> aerodynamic stresses similar

Right, within one percent.

The described methodology has worked very well for the Falcon 9 stack, and it's carried quite a few humans safely to orbit.

Iteration is key here. Nobody is talking about putting a human on Starship until it's quite reliable.

The Columbia case is a better example than the Challenger case, because they actually caught that right after launch and analyzed it, though incorrectly.

Video of the SRB leak just prior to the Challenger disaster was quite useful after the fact.

Why would Tesla be talking about Mars?

That's a damn shame.

We definitely need more rather than less competition in 'new space'.

I worked at the WalMart home office in Bentonville, Arkansas for about 13 years, the whole time in Information Systems, salaried.

For most of that time, there was something called 'store appreciation', around November, where everybody salaried had to travel to a WalMart store and work a full day there. And it had to be a Saturday, in addition to the normal Monday-Friday.

Most of my peers really complained about it, and it was kind of a pain in the ass, but it was usually illuminating and interesting. More than once, my experience there directly illuminated stuff I was working on or could work on back in tech land.

Inspired by that, I started to strongly encourage everyone on my team to spend a day in the NOC or Field Support (the two help desks we supported more than others) once a quarter or so. Again, a lot of complaining but most of the time we'd come back with some really useful insights.

EDIT: To be clear, 'everyone salaried' definitely included all of the executives, who would make a big deal out of it during big meetings, and often talk about their own personal findings.

It went back to a very "in the store, hands on" style from the founder, Sam Walton.

I left Twitch in 2017 and all of these things were true then as well. I worked with quite a few smart people and the perks and comp were great, but damn so much toxic crap going on, and seriously poor management.

All true, but as a reminder, more energy in a pseudo stable chaotic system means more extremes in both directions: more frequent floods, more frequent extreme snow events, etc., all across the globe.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/global_weirding

We got a lot of shit about it at the time from various sources, but I think my wife and I were correct in limiting our son to a flip phone until he was 18. It was very awkward in a lot of ways, because all of his peers had smart phones, and him not having one got in the way of some good things.

However, a couple of years later, now with a smart phone, he seems a lot more grounded than a lot of other young people he interacts with.

> His audience is fanboys

SpaceX fans?

Is one example his recent set of videos about how quickly electrical energy travels travels?

Do you know if she got sick after taking the vaccines or after she got C19?

Nice! We are on steamboat, cell signal is absolute garbage out here.