I am fairly sure this is a mix of plotlines from several different movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke

So my chance of developing gastric cancer doubles to 1.8% chance over my lifetime if I drink sugar-beverages every day… (This math wasn’t sponsored by a cancer testing company.)

After you actually get the the study, there wasn’t any mention of other associated lifestyle behaviors that may contribute to the risk of gastric cancers. What sticks out to me is that people drinking one or more sugar-packed beverages per day likely have additional diet or lifestyle concerns.

It’s not that I think the number crunching for the study was wrong or that the sample sizes were too small, it’s just that it was extremely focused on making a correlation for the sake of making a correlation.

I would try and light it outside, but with a long stick (like a wooden skewer). There is a high chance that those are O2 bubbles, if you were trying to make some Sodium Percarbonate which is a common additive to laundry detergent anyway… It’s supposed to be equal parts mix, but I suspect the excess of hydrogen peroxide is intentional as to have the best chance to convert all the sodium bicarb and still have plenty of liquid to soak something in. (Just a guess. Chemistry can be a weird science sometimes and I think there were a few reactions that could of happened here.)

Consumer grade hydrogen peroxide is dirt cheap, and so is the baking soda. I dunno if you saved money and a made a more effective solution for what you are trying to accomplish. A spoonful or two of regular laundry detergent may have masked smells a little better. Dunno. I like science but I also like efficiency, so whatevers! (Experiments are fun.)

Flags have always been poorly standardized outside of system apps and tools. Generally, -u should equal --update (and depending on how the app was written, may warn for --up: “Did you mean --update?”) Single tick flags are generally combinable: -ua or -ls. I have seen long single tick flags somewhere, but can’t remember where. (Your -update example.) Various python libraries than handle flags have helped a ton with getting people to use the same patterns, so that is nice.

You just summed up my first experience with systemd many years ago.

systemctl != sysctl. Both somehow got wedged into the same index in my brain and took years for me to correct. On top of that, <service> <action> was reversed to <action> <service>. (Or was it the other way around?)

I was convinced from my first experience with systemd that the person who wrote it was the purest form of evil. (It’s leveled out a bit over the years, so it’s tolerable to use these days. Still not a fan though.)

Billionaire Island, Issue #1

Tried Vyvanse, but couldn’t do it. I think it fried a dopamine receptor or two, so just Adderall for me. Either way, and as you described, it’s an extremely “noisy” brain that I have difficulties filtering through when I am not medicated.

In fact, I couldn’t really join group conversations in the past because it was just too much data to process and trying to compute every possible outcome for any response I would think to give was just too much effort. (Plus, the conversation likely shifted 5 or 6 times before I could settle on the thing I wanted to contribute and say 10 mins ago.)

Alcohol “helped” a ton, as it destroyed any rational thought and I was capable of talking. Needless to say, I drank a lot. (“Self-medicated”) I gave up alcohol a few years ago for obvious reasons.

Kind of a side-note, exercise isn’t as immediately effective as people may make it out to be. It turned out to be more of a long-term repair project, it seems. I have been running (up to 20 miles a week) now, and finally after a year, there are marked improvements in my productivity and brain function that I can actually notice now. (I have been taking Adderall for the better part of 15 years now, so feel I know the difference between medication-assisted thought and what is actually"good" brain function.) It was a weird shift, and I seem to have developed a level of clarity that I have never had before. As an experiment, I put together and pushed a fairly large PR for a project I needed to use on Github. Strangely enough, I was able to keep one change (or small groups tightly related changes) in their own commit bundles. Weirder still, I was able to actually group and prioritize the problems to fix, commit and push before I even started. (That isn’t particularly hard work, TBH.) It was more amazing that I made a plan, stuck to it and followed-through with some seriously mundane work and keep it organized enough for someone else to understand.

The exercise commitment and medication are a good combination, it seems.

Alas, I have (yet again) written a wall of text that is a bit meandering and probably off topic in a couple of ways.That probably is never going to change, unfortunately.

Shocked expressions, big red arrows pointing to nothing, titles based on shock, surprise or open-ended questions are videos I tend to avoid. I don’t particularly care to watch a video where the first emotion had is sympathy for desperation. (It makes you almost question the emotional state of most of the users that “the algorithm” tuned itself for, TBH. I say that only as an observation of scale when looking at the sheer numbers of viewers that YouTube has.)

Sticking with the subtle stuff is just fine. A picture of the host smiling with an informative title and thumbnail is OK, and not very gag evoking.

Blaming “the algorithm” for having to do that shit is likely a very real thing. However, I will religiously watch channels that produce good content first.

Either way, I have conflicting views: A person has to earn a living, but when emotional exploitation is used in this way, I don’t know what to think. Is it really harmless? Not sure about that yet.

Not true. If they piss off richer, more prominent pedophiles they may accidentally fall out of windows or simply hang themselves in jail.

I did. All the important things have time to gracefully shutdown now. (Except my for my rack of 4 DL360’s, which need something a little more robust than a Walmart UPS. They aren’t critical and only exist to handle weird one-off projects anyway.)

This happens, too. A burst of local brownouts killed an OPNsense firewall of mine once. (The hardware was fine. The data got wrecked.) The firewall would boot, or almost finish booting, and then another brownout would hit. After the third or fourth cycle, the poor thing was toast.

I should thank the power company for free resilience testing.

There absolutely is a darker side to Lemmy, but for the most part, many of those “legacy” instances have already been pruned from the federation that we are in now. (I suspect there are smaller, highly niche, “Lemmy” bubbles that even I wouldn’t want to go looking for that have never federated with the larger group. There are also various branches you can explore via instances that keep their doors mostly open.)

On the surface, and depending on what you consider toxic, the misinformation campaigns that are run on Lemmy seem fairly normal, but can get fairly dark if you understand the sources and start to do broader geolocation estimation of some of the participants.

There are still the occasional DDoS’s and the occasional CSAM posters, both of those are only a degree or two away from the really nasty shit.

The biggest issue now, and probably will always be, is how easy it is to avoid bans. Some seriously troubled users have generated hundreds of accounts across multiple instances just to troll and appear to generate traffic to specific communities. (“you_emm” being one of the worst, but its posts are fairly easy to sniff out still. It will actively search for untagged mentions as well, hence, my obfuscation.)

But for the most part, the bullshit is easy to filter out. When you stumble across a specific niche, they tend to niche themselves super hard, so beware. All-in-all, Lemmy is chill and fairly quiet which is why I still use it.

In most cases, I believe it’s a mix of hormones and traditionalism. Men have generally been more likely to seek grandeur by participating in violent activities, or, violent activities are demanded by their particular social group. Sometimes a mix of both.

I think it also it boils down to how gender roles are taught by different cultures. If men are taught to be the risk takers, it only makes sense that boundaries and laws will get pushed more by men. After all, intentionally breaking a law may simply be viewed as a calculated risk and not as something that should never be done.

Honestly speaking, it seems too easy of an answer to just blame male physiology. The social aspects of this can’t be ignore either.

I’ll see if I can find one that doesn’t actually contact the back of the phone, but the trial and error to find one of those may end up destroying the autograph.

It’s on the phone itself, unfortunately. The case is off in this pic.

The autograph is on the phone itself, and I have a durable Spiegan case for it. I head out to the art supply store tomorrow and see what options they have as far as spray fixatives go, for sure. (Thanks! Knowing the name of things is usually half the battle and “spray fixative” was not part of my regular vocabulary.)

The first idea is to seal it somehow, and then have the case protect it from daily wear. (When I get sad or something, I can just always have it with me to cheer me up in a pinch.)

But yes, I am also considering the option of this being a permanent display piece or simply even a moment I can simply keep etched in my memory.

Red Rocks is a wonderful venue, too! Awww! Sorry for your loss. :(

I only go there for artists that absolutely respect what that place has to give. It’s a “sacred” venue for me, TBH.

We were at Cervantes Ballroom tonight, and TBH, it’s a bit cramped and can be a little rough for some, but the sound is absolutely peak quality. Don’t turn down tickets for that place either, is my point. (I am friends with a local death metal singer that knows the owner and he said quite a bit of money was spent on that sound system.)

And that is exactly what I have resigned myself into, my friend.

If all other options fail, this exact picture is perfect.

I’ll still remember looking at this completely starstruck while me and my wife (of 25 years this month; hence the TCM+Okenfold concert being the perfect marriage, in itself, of our musical taste.) were sitting on the street tripping our balls off in the wonderful Denver atmosphere of weed smoke and piss smell, all while trying to enjoy the fresh air with a few drags from an American Spirit cigarette. (Incidentally, I was wearing the same cargo pants she bought me for one of our first parties over a quarter century ago.)

In the most literal sense, a picture is worth a thousand words in this case. It’ll be an instant flashback, at anytime.

He is kinda my heartthrob as I have seen dozens of his shows over the last 20+ years. It’s invaluable to me, and that is the important bit. :)

That is a sick idea, and not actually out-of-scope.

I’ll need to think on that as the “pristine” nature of it in its current state would literally get etched away. Alas, it is slowly fading now anyway, so the memory still could be preserved for a lifetime.

As they say: Think, but think fast.

I may end up just buying a new phone, TBH.