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I'm pretty sure Lupus was a running joke, almost every episode they would say "It could be Lupus" and it was never Lupus

How is it any more naive than thinking consciousness can arise on it's own from a box of carbon switches (aka a brain)?

I personally disagree. Timbre will give the music a certain quality, and while it's no doubt a big part of the experience, I think the dynamics of piece will be much more central to the emotional response.

If a song has a sax solo that really touches your heart, and you replaced it with a trombone playing the exact same solo instead, the timbre would be completely different, but the emotions that it would evoke would likely be almost identical. The timbre would mainly affect how well one or the other might blend with the rest of the orchestration. If someone played Ode To Joy on a recorder with proper dynamics, I can guarantee they could make it sound good. All my personal opinion of course.

So now anything that's modular with open standards is a "metaverse"?

In Canada we call it "humidex" because we're cool like that.

I imagine it has less to do with accuracy and more to do with not wanting legitimizing their rule.

I've noticed over the last couple of years that frozen meals, especially pasta or anything with sauce, has had their sauce slowly replaced with water. Now there's usually not even enough sauce to cover all the noodles. I went through a phase where I basically wasn't cooking ever so I ate a lot of them. I'm actually thankful though, the fact that they became pretty gross made me finally decide that I needed to start cooking again.

Part of me came to this thread hoping to find that someone would have a similar situation to me, someone I could relate to. But that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm not estranged from my parents, but my sister is. And it's definitely less typical that most cases. We had a very stable upbringing, no abusive parents, nothing like that. Our parents got divorced when we were both very young (3 and 4), but it was always amicable between them. It's kind of complicated, but here's the gist:

Essentially, when she graduated university, she got a job and moved away. She met this guy who seemed really great and very soon after she started talking to me about "this great book she was reading", and a podcast by the author, and basically she was getting really into this thing. Some of you may be familiar with him, his name is Stefan Molyneux.

I just googled him to verify the spelling and apparently he's now considered a "far-right white supremacist", which is new to me but unsurprising. Back then I would have just considered him a "very strongly ideological anarcho-capitalist/libertarian", the "taxation is literally violence" type. There's a lot that could be said about him but that's beside the point. Suffice to say there's a section on his Wikipedia page titled "Cult accusations".

So back then, probably 7-8 years ago, his content was more focused on his libertarian ideals, but also various "self-help/improve your life"-type topics. This was more what my sister was into. One topic in particular is "De-FOOing" (Family of Origin). Essentially, cut off ties to your family. He gives lots of very compelling reasons why your family is terrible and you shouldn't talk to them anymore, in his typical intelligent-sounding charismatic cult-leader way.

Fast-forward a year or two, she's still getting along with everyone, but she definitely seemed to be thinking differently. A few minor things happened between her and my mom that she wasn't too happy about, and then my mom made the mistake of driving over to her place unannounced. Which, yeah, she probably shouldn't have done. But my sister responded by sending her a formal letter basically saying "don't ever come here again, and don't ever talk to me again or I'll be calling the police" and I think it was even signed by a lawyer or something. Basically just shy of a restraining order. This was really out of nowhere. I didn't really know how to react so I didn't say anything to her out of fear that she might do the same to me...

Not long after that she moved across the country without telling anyone except my dad, cut off communication with basically everyone she knew, including all of her friends and family (except my dad briefly, I think she called him once after moving).

I haven't seen her in 6 years, and no one has heard from since not long after that. The last communication I had with her was on my birthday over 5 years ago where she wished me a happy birthday and was happy that I had found a job after graduating college. Her birthday is 8 days after mine. I wished her a happy birthday, got no reply, and haven't heard from her since.

We got along great and there's no reason I can think of that she would want to cut ties with me, and I think that makes it worse. Sometimes the pain is hard to deal with. Our grandmother died a little over a month ago, and I honestly think it was more painful for me to know that she never got to see my sister again, than her death actually was. She lived across the street from us our entire childhood, would babysit us every morning when our dad was gone to work. She loved us with all her heart. I can't imagine the pain she must have felt knowing she wouldn't come back before the end. It just tears me apart.

I find myself regularly wondering whether I'll ever see her again. Whether she's even still alive. Would I even find out if she died? Is she even still in this country? God I hope she comes back soon. Or at the very least while our parents are still alive.

I don't even really know what I expect to get out of posting this, but it's a small relief to finally get some of it off my chest.

Is it right for you be taxed for using the sewer system? What are the environmental impacts of the massive scale of human shit having to be processed in treatment plants? Why does the government prevent me from shitting wherever I want, infringing on my freedom? First they take away your rights to shit on your neighbour's porch, then they take away your rights to see your kids on weekends. Stepping stones to tyranny.

This is why it peeves me when people constantly just go "hey do you have a few minutes to chat?". Just tell me what you want, there's no good reason to keep me in suspense.

This sounds like it's coming from someone who has 0 experience with weed and has been told their whole life that it's bad and only bad people do it for bad reasons. And judging by the "repentance" language, probably a religious aspect too.

Not sure what value this is bringing to the conversation, everyone says/writes stupid things sometimes.

Before anyone jumps in this thread saying "WOKE CULTURE IS DESTROYING THE WORLD", she also lost all of her lawsuits.

> In October 2019, the Tribunal ruled against Yaniv and ordered her to pay $6,000 in restitution... The ruling was critical of Yaniv... stating that she "targeted small businesses, manufactured the conditions for a human rights complaint, and then leveraged that complaint to pursue a financial settlement from parties who were unsophisticated and unlikely to mount a proper defence."

This is a person who deliberately does all sorts of weird shit for the sole purpose of using her trans identity to sue people when they react negatively to it.

For example, she apparently called her local fire department "dozens of times" for "help getting out of the bath" (when in reality she needed no assistance) and "subjected Fire Department staff to "inappropriate and lewd conduct"".

Wow, it's a good thing you caught that or else people may have been mislead. Phew. Crisis averted. We're lucky there are people as pedantic as you around.

Pretty weird take. I guess every classical composer didn't make anything authentic because they were all nobles from rich families.

What, we aren't allowed to talk about issues if we haven't already solved them? Surely you can see how ridiculous that sounds. Ironically, you're also saying "these proposals aren't good enough" without proposing options that are actually better.

This has to be one of the strangest takes I've come across...

There's a ton of great content on YouTube to learn the basics. There's a channel called "Pro Home Cooks" that's definitely more focused on teaching you the basics as well as techniques, tips and tricks, etc. That's what I watched to get me started.

They have a couple of "Basic tips & tricks everyone should know" type videos and I definitely recommend those. It's stuff like, "pat down your chicken before cooking it or the water will make it steam instead of sear", "tenderize your meat so that it cooks evenly", "salt your veggies to reduce the water content, it will cook better and faster", "adding salt to boiling water doesn't just season it, it makes it boil faster too".

Lots of good stuff that you definitely won't get from recipes.

Steam actually has a family share feature, and while you "can't" play games if your library is being used by someone else, you can just go into offline mode to bypass that. So if you want to play single-player games, that works pretty well.

As a non-American, that sounds pretty fucked.

Jupyter notebooks are a very popular development environment for data science and related fields because they provide a great tight feedback loop for experimentation and iteration. Essentially the main difference from a typical dev environment is that there are "cells" of code that you can run individually, and the program "state" is persistent. There's definitely a better way to explain it, because that doesn't sound very big, but it really is a game changer for a lot of workflows. They run python by default, but there are integrations for many other languages. Over the last few years, many alternatives and versions from different companies have been released with various differences and features (i.e. Google Colab, Kaggle, ObservableHQ for a JS version with lots of extra features, and tons of others I'm sure).

So at this point people have come to call this concept in general a "notebook". Basically a development environment with cells where you can add markup and HTML and stuff.

Hope that helped a bit.

Ah yes, because social security is literally Stalinism.

no that's latin

The Russian civil war after the 1917 revolutions had something like a dozen different socialist factions fighting each other. There's plenty to disagree about (to the point of going to war) even if you agree on "big picture" stuff.

Please stop peddling this post-truth bullshit. No one is "deciding which politics is wrong", they're talking about people spreading things that are verifiably false.

> It's just interesting to think about.

Is it? Your line of thinking is really confusing to me. The likelihood of this happening by accident is effectively 0%. Even if it was intentional, this makes even less sense. Because then the person would not only have to find some prions to put in their vape, they would also have to inhale it themselves to then blow it into other people's faces?

I just really don't understand where you're coming from or why you would say any of this.

As long as you don't put ketchup on it.

Then you're not looking very hard. I've seen plenty.

Wasn't Spectre a hardware-level vulnerability and not at all related to cryptography? I remember it being something along the lines of, the way the CPU cache worked could be exploited and allow an attacker to read the data it contained. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Judging from the last sentence, it seems like you're aware that the word "gender" as it's used nowadays often doesn't refer to biological sex, especially in the context of gender identity/expression. Setting aside the semantic argument, is there even anyone out there saying "there are more than two genders", and actually mean biological sex? What would they even mean by that? From what I can tell, anyone saying "there are only two genders, it's a biological fact" seems to be deliberately shifting the goalposts for the sole purpose of being inflammatory. Otherwise I'm not really sure I understand. I've never heard of anyone saying they were genderfluid as a result of their chromosomes.