It definitely activates my pain receptors after a few minutes.
Also
> For the typing condition, participants typed the same words on a keyboard using only their right index finger
This “study” is complete garbage.
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> For the typing condition, participants typed the same words on a keyboard using only their right index finger
This “study” is complete garbage.
What you will see however, is completely unknown.
The thread is possibly: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=170324391 (now defunct)
The link title was "Pitbull vs Sun, Pitbull wins because.... - Bodybuilding.com Forums"
The link text preview was "it just has to attack in the night time when the Sun is sleeping. amirite or is there a way for the Sun to win?"
Unfortunately this is not in archive.org or archive.is
Cultured gentlemen such as yourself may also appreciate:
>Intellectuals Solve Life's Big Mysteries | Big Brain by Tom and Don
[nsfw discussion] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYzzS7PwG8
Was a loooong time ago, so I don’t remember the details.
I staying on a thinkpad R31 with win2k until I got a R61 (4gb ram) with vista on it several months after vista’s release. At that point it seemed like driver and other early teething had been worked out, so my experience was pretty positive.
When I eventually moved to win7 I didn’t notice any real difference.
Just yesterday I was trying to remember the name of a vague concept I’d forgotten, with my overall question being:
“Is there a technical term in biology for the equilibrium that occurs between plant species producing defensive toxins, and toxin resistance in the insect species that feed on those plants, whereby the plant species never has enough evolutionary pressure to increase it’s toxin load enough to kill off the insect that is adapting to it”
After fruitless searching around because I didn’t have the right things to look for, putting the above in ChatGPT gave an instant reply of exactly what I was looking for:
“Yes, the phenomenon you're describing is often referred to as evolutionary arms race or coevolutionary arms race.”
Considering it’s god is a raging and abusive narcissist[0], and how often the religion is used as a tool to justify hatred, physical and psychological abuse, I would be just as concerned at someone actively trying to proselytize. Religion is entirely unnecessary for a moral upbringing.
I would likewise be just as concerned if 4chan’s /pol/ started to target my kids with their propaganda. There’s a strong difference between intellectual good faith exploration of politics and world events, and harmful radical indoctrination intent on controlling their actions and reactions.
As another poster said, at best it’s a good opportunity to sit down with your kids, and show them the tricks and traps being used against them, but they are too inexperienced to be let alone to be preyed upon with impunity.
[0] A wonderful resource outlining the parallels, which helped me escape from the abuse I grew up with: https://www.youtube.com/@TheraminTrees/videos
From what I understand, tumors seem to be common way for rats to die. Note these can often be confused with abscesses (which should be shown to a vet asap)
They will leave little bits of wee everywhere (scent marking). Apparently female rats are preferable in this regard. Something to look into.
That such a little creature with such a big personality only lives around 3 years will have an emotional toll. I know former owners that just can’t deal with the guaranteed loss anymore after such a short span.
Having been an early user of 4chan back in late 2003, from what I saw, the tone shift of nazi stuff just being edgy belligerence for the shock value to people saying “no really, this is my serious political ideology” really got traction somewhere around 2012-2014. Prior to that, there was still pushback. Much like how the idea of having a “waifu” was originally a derisive joke, but somehow turned into actual practice.
This coincided with a few things, massive increase in internet use, raids having increased 4chans notoriety, but most importantly it was the timeframe when Russia prepared for and invaded invaded crimea, which included ramping up “active measures” to shift conversation with troll farms/propaganda. 4chan (and later, 8chan, which had a huge population of boomers buying into “qanon” nonsense) became an ideal host to try to amplify disruptive propaganda.
I didn’t quite notice what was going on, since by that time I was mostly only on select boards like /tg/ or alt chans like operatorchan, but the Russian influence became obvious in the lead up to the 2016 election.
And it wasn’t just nazi stuff, it was all sorts of bullshit like Marxism, esoteric magic and conspiracy shit that was being thrown around to see what stuck. And they were active across every social media site. Though as bad as 4chan was, I’d argue russian presence on Facebook and twitter was especially harmful and far reaching. They didn’t even need to be subtle or target groups: https://qz.com/1284222/russian-facebook-ads-were-barely-targ...
Be warned though, the artist/label can decide for whatever reason to take the music they have listed on the website down, which includes what you’ve purchased, so while it’s rare, it’s possible for things to just disappear, so make sure you download before then.
The tool I use is: https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader
I just create a tmux session on my proxmox homeserver and copy+paste a command whenever I make purchases. I can paste the command I use tomorrow if anyone likes.
I recently learned that foobar2000 can load the zip files of songs directly without having to unpack them, which is nice.
>But the study showed that another part of our blood - the platelets that normally stop bleeding - were suppressing the T-cells and making it harder for them to take out the cancer.
>Aspirin disrupts the platelets and removes their influence over the T-cells so they can hunt out the cancer.
I had severe depression during Covid, manifesting as involuntary and passive suicidal ideation. Basically a hours long whirlpool of daydreaming about dying in some way, because it was the only thing which brought comfort to what I would best describe as a sort of mental agony, but without pain. Just the constant need to escape existing. Passive meaning at no point was I actively intending to act on it, but obviously this was not something to be allowed to continue.
The depression basically severely reduced my ability to mitigate my ADHD symptoms, causing them to become very apparent, essentially being co-morbid with each other. With that context, I first did some non-stimulant preliminary alternatives like:
* Bupropion HCL. This provided partial mitigation of the depression. Basically it was manageable and not threatening to implode my ability to do basic life tasks. No effect on my ADHD.
* And Atomoxetine (Strattera) which within the week had brought back my involuntary hours long daydreams of dying, and really fucked up my dick/physical and mental sexual response, which lingered for a few months after despite quickly ending treatment. As a male, I severely underestimated how much having a healthy sexual response contributes to overall wellbeing.
After that I tried extended release Dextroamphetamine.
The very first day, I wasn’t what I would consider euphoric, but I had a distinct calm sort of sense of wellbeing that was very much in contrast to the previous several months. Basically I could actually start to feel that things could be better, rather than trying to brute force reason while suffering. I liken it to what you feel when the pain from when you stub your toe fades, and you have some minor lingering endorphins.
After that first day, I didn’t feel anything else directly connected to taking the pill after that. I’d typically forget if I already took the pills 2-3 times a week (meaning skip the dose). All I could notice after resuming after skipping a day, was being slightly more chatty, and feeling like I was slightly worse at driving. The few times I probably doubled up, I’d feel this sort of mild head pressure.
But the overall effect of Dextroamphetamine within 3 days was the complete elimination of my passive ideation. Intrusive thoughts are like flies, they land on everyone, but healthy people can brush them away. I still had to take care not to voluntarily sustain negative thoughts, but it was actually voluntary now.
I later moved to Lisdexamfetamine ER because the supply of dex at the time was severely constrained, but it was basically identical. Supposedly less addictive/abusable too, though for me either felt as addictive as a collagen supplement.
After a few months, I had the dose lowered, and several months later, I halted taking stimulants. They didn’t really do much for my ADHD symptoms, and I felt that whatever had triggered my depression had cleared up so I could manually deal with the symptoms like I always have.
So that left some mild side effects of slight head pressure, probably being a slightly worse driver, probably being a slight detriment to my sleep, and possibly increasing jaw clenching (I now have a fitted nightguard), so I had zero reason to continue.
But it’s very reassuring that if I get another severe depression episode for some reason, I now have a first response tool I can use.
>Like the classic trope says, it's not about affording to buy the Ferrari, it's whether you can afford to maintain it.
That sounds interesting. Wish it had been converted into a blogpost or something for more permanence.
https://www.sciencenewslab.com/this-beautiful-golden-chamber...
>In order for the light from these shockwaves to reach the sensors, the water has to be cleaner than you can possibly imagine. Super-K is constantly filtering and re-purifying it, and even blasts it with UV light to kill off any bacteria.
>Which actually makes it pretty creepy.
>“Water that’s ultra-pure is waiting to dissolve stuff into it,” said Uchida. “Pure water is very, very nasty stuff. It has the features of an acid and an alkaline.”
>“If you went for a soak in this ultra-pure Super-K water you would get quite a bit of exfoliation,” said Wascko. “Whether you want it or not.”
>When Super-K needs maintenance, researchers need to go out on rubber dinghies (see above) to fix and replace the sensors.
>Matthew Malek, of the University of Sheffield, and two others were doing maintenance from a dinghy back when he was a PhD student.
>At the end of the day’s work, the gondola that normally takes the physicists in and out of the tank was broken, so he and two others had to sit tight for a while. They kicked back in their boats, shooting the breeze.
>“What I didn’t realise, as we were laying back in these boats and talking is that a little bit of my hair, probably no more than three centimeters, was dipped in the water,” Malek told Business Insider.
>As they were draining the water out of Super-K at the time, Malek didn’t worry about contaminating it. But when he awoke at 3 am the next morning, he had an awful realisation.
>“I got up at 3 o’clock in the morning with the itchiest scalp I have ever had in my entire life,” he said. “Itchier than having chickenpox as a child. It was so itchy I just couldn’t sleep.”
>He realised that the water had leeched his hair’s nutrients out through the tips, and that this nutrient deficiency had worked its way up to his scalp. He quickly jumped in the shower and spent half an hour vigorously conditioning his hair.
>Another tale comes from Wascko, who heard that in 2000 when the tank had been fully drained, researchers found the outline of a wrench at the bottom of it.
>“Apparently somebody had left a wrench there when they filled it in 1995,” he said. “When they drained it in 2000 the wrench had dissolved.”
This does not address the fundamental problem of having just 27 inventory + 9 hotbar slots over 1000 possible items (which is constantly increasing) that can be picked up, many of which don’t even stack, and having to manually move things where you want them.
Dealing with that turns exploring+looting into the promise of a grinding chore unless you simply don’t collect things. Which will hurt during future building projects.
I would not enjoy a game where I manually swapped out memory to disk. Yet often games demand the same as part of their “gameplay”.
The only viable fix is mods.
I’m working on fixing this with mods.
A decade later it turns out my sister got into it that she had a realms server with friends and I joined. Basically a completely different game, which is mostly a positive.
Though mojang really needs to fix inventory management bullshit, which is not fun. There are many more possible items now, but with the same inventory space as the game started with, meaning anything you do results in inventory constantly filling up.