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2015-11-30 at 2:35 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionHey, hydro, try the pm system again. Just a test pm or copy paste from an earlier one, but I think I have a temp fix that works. Posted about this in another thread but vb5 is shitty and I feel bad for inflicting it on everyone, I'm thinking about strategies to move to something less terrible (prolly vb4/3) but in the meantime we should at least have PMs working.
You mean like a speakeasy? I am not so sure that whole thing worked out very well.
Yeah, I'm fully aware of prohibition but you'll remember I specifically said I'm not arguing for outlawing alcohol, I was simply arguing that we would expect prohibition to reduce incidence of alcohol consumption (although other negative outcomes make it clearly a poor policy, or at very least poorly executed). Like yes, subversion of the law was common, but you're not actually claiming rates of alcohol consumption went up during prohibition are you? -
2015-11-30 at 2:21 AM UTC in Roshambo is dead
ask her what she's wearing
Good advice
Also sploo, tell that nigga he's not allowed to die, the triangles duo (you need to find a third so there's three) is going to be boring with only one person. -
2015-11-29 at 7:03 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
There likely will be some rebound effect, although being away from home and other things occurring in your life are strong confounders. There are multiple possibilities. You may be having lighter sleep, signaled by the dreams, and simply waking up during one of the lightest periods. I posted something about a smartphone app that determines when to wake you based on your sleep cycle so you wake up at the optimal point, feeling refreshed and not groggy. If this is not your natural optimal sleep length eventually the negative effects should accumulate. If you were taking bacopa too soon before bed or at too high a dose it would definitely have a detrimental effect on sleep quality, and this could simply be a rebound with your sleep architecture shifted to make up for this by greatly increasing the amount of time you spent in deep sleep stages. Melatonin can also definitely cause grogginess upon waking if you haven't slept at least a certain number of hours.
Seems reasonable. Dreams have been qualitatively quite different, feels significant but of course that means nothing. The most interesting quality (to me) is that it's the first time I can ever remember being surprised in the context of a dream. I don't know if it's just me or a common experience but there's a kind of event-intimacy in usual dreams, like because the flow of events is dictated by the mind what you think about is what's likely to happen (particularly noticeable in nightmares and dreams where you get the "moving through molasses" experience, expectations clearly shape the dream) and conversely you can't be surprised, what happens has to be a subject of thought, like you intuitively expect even the bizarre. Last couple nights though haven't felt like that, like I genuinely didn't expect what happened. In one I discovered my own corpse in a car, thought the dream up to that point had been some sort of afterlife and recast the whole thing in a different light, which kinda freaked me out for a little while after waking up. Oh well, whatever.
I've seen the app thing before, or something similar at least, it uses expected sleep phase durations right? Like it anticipates that if you fall asleep now you'll be in a REM phase in X hours for the least X greater than eight it wakes you up. Seems like variability in sleep phase length and time to sleep would be likely to throw it off, especially in my case since I can spend a while in bed before falling asleep. There are some products that would seem to offer better measures, I remember a headband that worked through pulse measurement and a "mat" you put under your sheet that detects your level of motion. Headband would seem to be the most reliable but I haven't read enough about the science behind it to want to give it a try. Would probably be a worthwhile investment if it worked, I could really do with feeling like I have these past few mornings all the time but I'm sure I'll be back at baseline pretty quick. -
2015-11-29 at 1:28 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionBtw, Malice, have you ever heard anything about bacopa or melatonin "withdrawal" effects? Been away from home and the last several nights I've been having really atypical vivid dreams, kinda dark but not strictly nightmares, and waking up feeling really well rested after like 5 hours of sleep. Those are the only things I've been taking that have sleep related (side)effects and the only thing that's changed is I've stopped for a few days.
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2015-11-29 at 1:21 AM UTC in Community Secret Santa 2015!Sounds fun.
Count lanny the tranny in. -
2015-11-29 at 1:16 AM UTC in It takes quite some time before I am able to type somethingYeah, it's CK editor, takes ages to load. It's what does the wysiwyg stuff (which actually bugs the shit out of me).
Downgrade to vB3 is a good plan, but it's involved. The DB schemas look nothing alike and depending on what hashing looks like could require a big migration effort in the form of password changes. I want to do it, I've started but it's not something I can do overnight. There's a bunch of fucked things about vB5 though so I definitely intend to do it. -
2015-11-29 at 1:11 AM UTC in Would you turn in a close family member if they manslaughtered someone?Not sure, I'd try to talk them into coming forwards themselves if there weren't extenuating circumstances. If they still didn't and I thought there was a meaningful risk of doing the same thing again I'd probably turn them in, or at least I'd like to think I would though it would be a lot easier not to. I love my family as much as the next guy but their freedom generally would not outweigh the value of another person's life, regardless of my personal attachment to either of the people involved.
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2015-11-28 at 10:54 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
I think honestly the problem is in the food industry more than anywhere else. I dont think we should be using them in commercial feed lots evwn if it means higher price for beef and chicken.
I agree entirely, but I don't think that gives other offenders a pass. I mean we have confirmed cases of humans not responding to last-line antibiotics so we can't blame the situation entirely on large scale commercial farming.In areas like mine where its near impossible to find a cow vet (the one my friend had worked at major dairys all over the state and often just called her in shit over the phone for shit thst was rx only because he was so busy) and when you can find a vet, they charge out the ass.
That's unfortunate but you were the one who said higher meat costs are acceptable. If we have to centralize farming a bit I think it's worth it for the payoff, small scale farming really doesn't produce a tremendous portion of our meat.We all know where the bulk of the problem is and it would be easier to regulate them without punishing people likeBlah and me.
You yourself said doctors overprescribing antibiotics is an issue, people having access to them in the form of animal meds and shit could only possibly be a worse situation. You both implied you'd use animal meds if you couldn't get antibiotics from a doc which is a problem, even if you personally aren't going to abuse them you have to be able to say the same for everyone who every wanted antibiotics and can do a google search for this to not be a huge problem.Im talking other drugs like opiates. If a nigger is stupid enough to snort 5 oxycontin 160 and dies well.. he know what the fuck he was doing or should have. Im not saying there should be nodrug regulation, a personshouldknow waht they are buy is infact that and with reason (within its own chemical make up) safe. People die all the time from not knowing the purity or it being cut with god knows what. Thats the danger of street drugs especially opiates. If I can go to the pharm and buy my shit I know what I am buying X at X strength. If I take toomuch well, thats my own stupidity and nobody should suffer but me.
Well we still have to foot your medical bill, or the bill of someone who injures themself through abuse of a drug. I have a softer position here, admittedly, but sometimes big brother really does know better. Like you're going to say you have pain and am self medicating and maybe that's OK but if you can buy oxy or xanax OTC then evidence suggests we're going to see higher incidence of opiate addiction in short order, and no matter how much you like opiates (or maybe especially if you do) I think you'll agree a world with fewer people with dependence is better than the opposite. Like if you had to go to some shoddy back alley to get alcohol it really does seem like we'd see lower incidence of alcohol use. I'm not saying let's prohibit alcohol or even opiates, but I am saying that we should pick policy on consequences and there are a wide range of meds we can think of where there's tremendously minimal social utility gained from making the OTC weighed against minor to great risk. For any medication, making it a prescription drug should at least be on the table and decided on based on expected outcomes. -
2015-11-28 at 7:56 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Antibiotic resistance is happening now. Also, any antibiotic you name I can source without a script for animal use. How do you think I have 100ct of bactrim (fish forte), eyrthromycin, and cipro? Nothing I have is illegal, its all under 'for animal use only' but its the same she we use. Also, if more people were educated to antibiotic use it probably wouldnt be an issue. Frankly, we need new shit as its stands because the food industry (you know the anibiotics feds to cows and poultry) and doctors over prescribing. Also, I believe that if you buy shit and do something stupid or 'off label' with it, you should dealwith the consquences your self. Im all for signing a liability waiver to purchase my drugs of choice.
That seems like more of an argument for tighter regulation of veterinarian supplies than for looser pharma regulation.
Bacterial antibiotic resistance is an example of why "deal with the consequences yourself" doesn't work, because we all suffer for abuse or poor decisions. Do doctors and the food industry overuse antibiotics? Hell yes, but again, this is an argument for reducing accessibility of antibiotics for those who abuse them (including the food industry) rather than deregulation.
As for drugs where there isn't a community interest (ala opiates) I think you have a better argument there but still, the "sign away your rights" approach runs the risk of reducing your pharmacy's accountability to actually less than a dealer's (if a dealer burns you there's at least some risk of legal repercussions, sing the right paper without consumer protection law and your pharmacy could give you sugar (or cyanide for that matter) instead of oxy and all they lose is a customer). -
2015-11-28 at 6:28 PM UTC in I have a math problem for yall niggasI've played Zertz a couple of times but that's it.
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2015-11-28 at 6:24 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Ive always wanted to live in myanmar. Its supposed to be a pretty friendly place. There was this pair of idiots my dad used to watch on youtube all the time and once they went there. they did everything ass backwards but sooo many people helped them out of a bind and even refused their money when they tried to give it to them and these were poor fucking people. Mainly though, Id live anywhere heroin is $2 a gram. i was reading an article about these people carrying cocaine out of the vraem. Its sad. So fucking sad all this shit is caused by someone who wants to criminalize (mind I said criminalize and not stop) you or me from partaking of a particular substance, from a particular plant. All this bullshit for nothing, well, thats a lie, its for something, to line the pockets of the already wealthy who only get wealthier by prohibiting substance x, y and z. I hope I live to see the day when I can go to the pharmacy without a script and buy whatever the fuck I want. I probably wont though. I can still hope though.
Pervasive antibiotic resistance endless consumer safety lawsuits sound like a real hoot.
Also sharpie, breh, chill out. I've seen american psycho, I was asking if there was any significance to the poster. Likes does it mean anything? Sure, which poster was there might not have direct relevance to the plot but that doesn't mean there's not some kind of symbolism there. Like someone had to pick what they were going to put there. -
2015-11-28 at 5:26 AM UTC in DXIARIESI've kept a diary with some level of consistency (averaging 11 posts per month) for the past 5 years. Kinda interesting to look back on, it's all searchable through my email so I mostly use it as a way to remember things, I write down stuff like design decisions on projects or if I make up some bullshit about why I can't do something so I can come back to it, the timeframe at which it stops being useful is usually a couple of days but it stays mildly fun to read years later.
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2015-11-28 at 4:05 AM UTC in What Games Are You Currently Playing
taht reminds me, I loved XCOM: Enemy Unknowjn last time I played it so I bought Enemy Within (the expansion) when it was on sale last.
turns out I also bought an ultrawide monitor since, and the assholes who make XCOM still haven't patched it to work with the aspect ratio. which is weird, because it renders and displays perfectly - the 'window' the mouse uses is essentially a 3:4 stretched to 16:10, so even though everything LOOKS fine, you have to click up to like 4cm away from a unit you're trying to select depending on how far away from the centre of the screen it is.
Yeah, Enemy Unknown was excellent. Weird they don't support 16:10, they had a pretty big dev budget as I recall, original retail was close to AAA. How was the expansion? -
2015-11-28 at 1:56 AM UTC in Do fast food workers deserve a $15 wage?Aww shucks guys, I'm really flattered you feel the need to avoid actual discussion with cheap slurs. Gives me the warm fuzzies.
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2015-11-28 at 1:52 AM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?
No, not really. You have never been confused by what I mean when I use the word colour.
I'm not sure that's true but I never said the issue was that I was confused or that anyone would be confused at all. I said your definition of color would make usage incoherent. There is a difference between coherence and confusing, many incoherent ideas confuse no one. The relevant detail here is that if we take color to mean what you insist it means then it would entail the word means something different than common or technical usage. Since the meaning of a word is dictated by one of those two things (depending on context) accepting your premise leads us to paradox, if we take Q to mean "color is not something out in the world" then your premise would lead us to the conclusion "Q and not Q" (the former from usage, the latter from your premise). We can thusly reject your premise like we would reject any premise that leads to paradox.The entire time we have been having this conversation you have understood exactly what I mean. I'm not saying anything incoherent at all. Colour can be used to describe a perception, to describe the way an object appears. When I type the word "RED" and your eyeballs see that, your brain automatically associates that with the colour red. You are probably imagining the colour red right now at this very moment, in a very subjective way. And when light of a specific wavelength which does objectively exist enters into your eyes, your visual system subjectively interprets that information as the colour red.
And we're back to lavalamps. When I write "lavalamp" you might think of lavalamps. This doesn't make lavalamps devoid of an objective existence.No, the phenomenon which becomes the rainbow objectively exists. All the conditions are objectively met. But a rainbow is not the conditions. A rainbow is the appearance of a colorful arch in the sky. It is perceived subjectively, it does not have objective existence. The conditions which create it do exist objectively, but the rainbow itself does not.
We're back to lavalamps. I could make the exact same argument that the effect which produces lavalamps is objective but lavalamps themselves are not. This, however, would be stupid because your argument is stupid and remains stupid for most, maybe even all, possible values of rainbow. -
2015-11-28 at 1:24 AM UTC in FreewillOh, this thread again.
Anyway, yeah, depends on free will. Sounds like OP is talking about libertarian free will, which yes, it's a fundamentally incoherent concept and no finding in physics can change that. And I've argued in the past, and still hold, that common usage of the term "free will" is in line with the libertarian definition. Compatibilists are, if we allow them their terms, strictly speaking correct but I maintain their move is largely a semantic one. I've softened my position on compatibilism a bit in recent years, I do think that in the context of philosophy, in an effort to find an answer to the question "what should I do?" it probably does make sense to adopt that language or minimally the idea of moral responsibility being dependent on compatibilist the presence of free will but I still maintain coining a new term would be a saner approach. Although Sarte's radical freedom isn't the same thing I think he made a good move in tacking radical on the front there. Even staunch determinists can come to terms with Sarte, and those that still disagree at least never do so for failing to understand his meaning which is more than we can say to the compatibilist tactic. -
2015-11-28 at 1:14 AM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?
Not really. The phenomenon which becomes colour objectively exists (the existence of visible light). However, colour itself is only perceived subjectively (your unique visual systems subjective interpretation of the objective wavelengths of light).
We've assumed earlier that perceptions and noumena are of fundamentally different kinds, perceptions and their causes are distinguishable at least in the sense that is necessary to say they have distinct objectivity statuses. It would then be odd to say both perceptions and noumena can be perceived. Either perception is the translation from external reality to objects of the mind or perception (verb) acts on perceptions (noun) such that we perceive subjective perceptions but do not perceive things in themselves. Using it both ways is awkward and confusing.
But it's largely irrelevant, for the following two reasons:
1. Wether we perceive perceptions or noumena doesn't change the kind of thing color is. Common and technical usage do not permit for "color" to describe a mere perception, it must describe something out int the world. So how you use "perceive" (verb) is irrelevant, it may change wether it's valid to say "I perceived a color" or not but it does not change the fact that "color", for usage to be coherent, must be something objective in the world.
2. Even if color is a mere perception (it's not), then you still have to give objectivity to its cause (light of a certain frequency) in which case rainbows still have an objective existence because, the light which causes their perception is still real, they are composed of objective parts (fields of light) thus they themselves must have some sort of objective existence. -
2015-11-27 at 10:35 PM UTC in the strangest thing happened to me todayI was expecting some bell-air pasta at any point. In fact I'm still expecting it... but I still want to know what happened. Imma read any followup but I'm just going on record now as anticipating bel air
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2015-11-27 at 7:45 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionWhy is christian bale looking at a les miserables poster?
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2015-11-27 at 7:31 AM UTC in Tool isn't actually that badI found an old ipod I had when I was a teenager while visiting the family abode (20gb classic model, these things are are still pretty groovy though the battery life sucks ass despite having like a 300x300 display) and it had every tool album up to 10,000 days on it. I'm listening to it now and it's actually pretty fun. So like I know they have this reputation of being really far up their own asses but it's 99% an obnoxious fanbase. They've even said all that shit with fibonacci sequence was just thrown in there for a laugh, there's nothing particularly "deep" in it, just kids to who smoke a little to much and read too far into song lyrics and shit. Like really, they have a couple of songs actually making fun of this kind of fan (ala rosetta stoned).
There's some pretty impressive production on these tracks (gets better with each album I'm noticing) and I mean the guitar churn/bass rumble thing is pretty fun to listen to. Anyway, obligatory video:
