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zombocomvibes··on Tesla Hasn't Had a Successful New Product Launch Since JB Straubel Stepped Down
The odds of that acquisition actually happening dropped dramatically last week.
zombocomvibes··on El Niño is flooding California's coasts with the highest tides to come
Allocate money is the first step.

But this isn't Florida; California is an enemy state, so that won't happen.

zombocomvibes··on She Worried About Cutting Her Medication Dose. ChatGPT Told Her to Push On
LLMs occupy a different niche from other deterministic doohickeys. They are sold as replacing human thought and judgment and so they should themselves be judged by their output... just like the humans they replace.
zombocomvibes··on Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government
Hegseth probably doesn't want to push the issue any further lest he invite more legal scrutiny.
zombocomvibes··on US President says he will ban the term 'artificial intelligence'
The adulation he receives from his fans is an even worse look for them.
zombocomvibes··on US President says he will ban the term 'artificial intelligence'
AI is a very bad and inaccurate term!
zombocomvibes··on New 'Circadian' Subtype of Depression Affecting 1 in 4 Patients
I wonder what the specific recommendations for light therapy and melatonin are.
zombocomvibes··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
I think the Latino community who cares about such things prefers "latine".

LatinX is awful. An AIM screen name from 1998.

zombocomvibes··on Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates
I read that eMudhra is well connected with the BJP? Then, in my experience, no consequences will happen.
zombocomvibes··on Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there
I'd rather not visit that site, mind a copy and paste?
zombocomvibes··on Mark Zuckerberg Threatened to Leave California. Meta's Board Cut Him a Deal
Populism for 0.01% of the population!
zombocomvibes··on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought
24 cents is like energy cost plus a dime for hogging a GPU for an hour.. not too bad?
zombocomvibes··on Mark Zuckerberg Threatened to Leave California. Meta's Board Cut Him a Deal
Brin is MAGA-aligned now. Dunking on CA is virtue signaling for his tribe.
zombocomvibes··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
Makes sense.
zombocomvibes··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
I sang this to the tune of That's Amore
zombocomvibes··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
Look at getting a set of Luminette glasses and work with them on! They're from Belgium which is a place that's almost as dark and depressing as your lab in the winter. I have a pair and I use them instead of a shot of espresso as a pick-me-up when it's dreary outside.
zombocomvibes··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
Klonopin is less fast acting and much less euphoric than something like Xanax. It's not something you'd abuse for fun.
zombocomvibes··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
I don't think that the likelihood of dependence is correlated to the disorder being treated. The GABA receptors will do what they will.
zombocomvibes··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
Lavender works but it takes a long time to build up to a therapeutic serum level.. like a couple weeks to a month. Once you're there it's lovely stuff. Look at Calm Aid.
zombocomvibes··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
I see you!

Mental health issues are an invisible hell. I have so much more empathy after being out the other end of bzd bs.

zombocomvibes··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
Awful drug. They're seen as "safe" by doctors... because you can't OD easily like you can with barbiturates (very narrow window between an optimal and a dangerous dose). But the addiction potential and the WD are dangerous as hell. Doctors don't pay attention to that last point.

Such misery coming off them. Crying like a bitch, as if your parents and dog all died yesterday... every single morning. Overstimulation lurking around every corner that provokes palpitations and flop sweats. Your skin goes "on fire" when you're worried. For months and months and months. Maybe forever? You don't know if there's light at the end of the tunnel.

zombocomvibes··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
Shop for a psych who knows the Ashton taper protocol.

If you make the switch be sure to manage the "cross taper" carefully.

zombocomvibes··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
You don't know until you start to get off. And then when things start to go wrong and you realize that you're in too deep.. it's not a good tim
zombocomvibes··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
Some countries are worse. France hands them out like candy
zombocomvibes··on The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results
Great pedagogical tool.
zombocomvibes··on Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor
And nothing bad happens to the settlers.
zombocomvibes··on Tesla Roadster
LendingTree's own research has Tesla in the lead for worst drivers and highest fatality rate, updated for 2026.

https://www.lendingtree.com/insurance/brand-incidents-study/

zombocomvibes··on Tesla Roadster
They have the highest rate of fatal accidents across all car brands, more than double the average.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highes...

zombocomvibes··on Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
Maybe the moire effect is a Pavlovian turn-on for them?
zombocomvibes··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
Americans are wasting their precious dopamine on stupid shit.
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