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The reason I dislike pure free-market #capitalism is that it invariably leads to decisions being made by accountants that should instead be made by scientists and engineers. When this happens, people tend to die.
Since the capitalist typically doesn't suffer these consequences directly, the only factor that ends up mattering is what it does to their balance sheet.
Strong regulation can translate these human costs into financial ones. To those who argue against this approach, I submit that the only alternative solution to the problem is decidedly... less kind.
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Today while I was out, I saw a guy at a busy intersection holding a handwritten sign. Obviously, I assumed he was panhandling, because people frequently do that there.
As I approached, I saw that his sign only had a URL on it. Out of curiosity, I visited it. Turns out it was some bitcoin mining scam.
While this was definitely a novel marketing approach, I wonder how they figured this particular tactic would instill confidence in anyone...
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There is a concept that some of you might find helpful - "subjective units of distress".
Many years ago, I was struggling badly with my life, going through one mental breakdown after another. I asked my psychiatrist: "How can I live my life if my anxiety goes from 0 to 60 in the matter of seconds?". The psychiatrist said: "But Nina, no one, including you, goes from 0 to 60 instantly. It just feels this way."
So, he explained, human brain is silly and usually cannot tell the difference between not being distressed (SUDS 1) and quite distressed (SUDS 7). As long as we keep functioning, our internal brain state and suffering in it seems to be almost invisible for us.
If I am at SUDS 2, and accidentally spill morning coffee on my blouse, it will probably raise my distress to SUDS 4 or 5, but I will change to a new blouse and go to work.
If I am at SUDS 7 after a doctor's call, and spill coffee on myself, I'll go from being calm to a sobbing mess faster than you can say "therapy".
Keep track of your SUDS!
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Yea
I always explain it like, emotions are building up in me, and if I don't do something to reduce pressure again, at some point I will collapse under it, but while it's rising i can still keep it together. To me this is somewhat feel-able, but that's partly bc I have extreme emotions and am very aware of them
Even at 80% load, I can still work at my pace and handle stuff, but when an unexpected extra process starts, "frantically trying to swap memory pages in and out" immediately becomes 98% of what I do.
And of course, if almost none of that capacity is left, one can't compensate for even minor hiccups.
Then let me quickly infodump these two things:
Vagus-nerve massage (three points in and on each ear to stimulate the vagus nerve that apparently partially controls "stress" and "relaxation" phases). Personally find this very helpful.
And of course: Removing distrations that gnaw on your mind constantly. From that annoying sound to the half-finished project on your desk that you feel vaguely guilty about. (And now that I write it: I should definitely move that electronics stuff on my desk to my workbench. Right now.)
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yeah. It can be a surprisingly hard step to take to admit to yourself "I'm not OK."
It's harder still to acknowledge how long you haven't been OK.
@thejikz looking out for warning signs helps to change the course of action in time!
PCI sounds a bit stigmatisingπ
@Nekoplanet there are many; I used to use one that would send me notifications at random intervals to get a more precise picture of my mood changes.
It was horrifying to see that my mood could swing from 2/10 to 9/10 and back in the matter of hours. I was seriously "disregulated" π Having this chart handy easily proved that it's not bipolar ;p
dialectical behaviour therapy, a fork of CBT that actually works and isn't a torture:
@pavel I suppose so. But then I remember getting into real trouble a few times (one was shooting and one was traffic accident), and I remember being strangely chill about either.
I imagine that I'd go from 0 to 60 if I learn something truly terrifying and unexpected...
Hey Matthew, how are you doing today?
Probably around an 8. How about you?
What?
What?
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Due to autism I have no idea what it's like to not be anxious π
When I converse with others, I sit at a 4-5
Depending on how the conversation goes, if it's difficult, then it can go into 8-10
I'm currently working on trying to better myself, so I frequently hit those highs lately
I can't always take the extra stress/burden that comes with "becoming aware" and changing in a meaningful way
I try, and I have to, though
I do like this scala on the one hand, but find it overly simplified on the other.
"Functioning" is a complex matter. Someone in a fight or flight response might function in some areas, although in extreme distress.
Someone with a mix of cPTSD and ADHD might only really function under a certain amount of distress (and yes, I mean distress, not eustress).
So a linear scale doesn't work for many, I'm afraid.
Don't know a better way of visualising thisy though.
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goddammit, I've been trying to explain this to people for yearsβ¦
"Chill! It's just Xβ¦"
"No, it's not just X! Y and Z already happened, so if X happens, it'll be X, Y, and ZβNOT JUST X!"
I'm just gonna start showing them this infograph now instead, thank you.
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@Gargron I'm not interested in debating this Eugen. You can continue to feel however you want to about it. I wrote more about how I see it here. https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/111927627567544475
Yeah this is worth talking about a bit. I'll say more about why I consider bluesky to be part of the fediverse. I'm no expert. So this is mostly my way of thinking. I'm not trying to represent any "official" stance. (Again, there's nobody who could do that. Nobody is in charge.)To me, the thing that makes bluesky count as fediverse is that they intend to support federation and decentralization. They haven't *yet*. But it has always been their stated intent.
https://tenforward.social/@noracodes/111927402077531350
@Eugen Rochko @Marco Rogers Some info to be helpful perhaps...
You can't communicate with users on platforms running protocols your platform does not support (limiting your reach and visibility to AP protocol support is your choice). Unlike microblog Mastodon, Misskey and others which only support AP, Friendica and Hubzilla both are federated macroblogs that support the greatest number of protocols and therefore have the greatest reach and visibility.
The number supporting diaspora is far more than other protocols besides AP so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss them. Users I know on at least one diaspora platform prefer not to be federated with Mastodon. From Friendica or Hubzilla I can communicate with them and with Mastodon users but you cannot from Mastodon servers.
You can get/host accounts on other federated platforms if you choose - many do. I choose to be on Friendica so I don't need many accounts on many platforms to increase reach or visibility - makes using the open source global social network far less confusing and time consuming. My reach from a single account is organic and far more information than I can consume each day!
But the definition of the Fediverse is inclusive of any platform supporting at least one of 17 federated social protocols.
https://the-federation.info/#protocols
AT is listed by at least this source as federated protocol even if not functional yet in terms of federation support akin to Friendica and Hubzilla.
In a nutshell, the Fediverse is a collective term for all users on servers supporting social web protocols not just Activity Pub. Dismissing projects in the Fediverse using other protocols can be taken as insulting users who choose to not be on AP only platforms. IMO Mastodon, Misskey and others should improve the reach for their users by supporting all protocols.
Perhaps you are not aware of the number of Fediverse projects and servers.
Here is one unbiased list (voluntary listings): https://the-federation.info/#projects
Me, clearly and explicitly: "I have this idea. It's unpopular today, so I'm sure it'll take people a while to come around on this idea..."
Other people, immediately: "No! I absolutely disagree with you at this point in time!"
Me: "Yes, I know. That's why I... you know what, it's fine. Thanks for stopping by."
Let me find a way to critique without being acerbic. I don't like how people popup to tell me they disagree about how to define the fediverse. But that's not important
What I do think is important is how hard people work to gatekeep and squeeze down the actual promise and potential of the fediverse. It's exactly the kind of pedantic myopia that reminds us that the nerds will not lead us to the future we want. That's not what they do.
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$music_streaming_service
has been playing me a lot of LE SSERAFIM lately for some reason, and I have to say, I'm not mad about it.You know what feature I find conspicuously absent from the #LambdaMOO programming language?
Lambdas.
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@screwlisp At the moment, the only way in is by teleportation. I've requested a link in from TinyTown, but the person who owns the area hasn't been online in about a month.
You can use @go #43453
in the meantime.
I'll link it into my already existing area if necessary, but I was hoping for something more central.
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@glyn It's actually pretty surprising what you can get done in a text-based "VR" with only a few KB.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised though. I started programming when cassette tapes were the storage medium of choice. I'm just impressed that something like this is still around.
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I love to see news outlets and organizations move from Twitter to the Fediverse and join my instance for example
But I would recommend for such parties to setup their own dedicated instance for a few reasons
- Easier verification aside from the link in the description, if one uses a subdomain for examle (social.news.tld)
- Manage the instance according to the orgs needs
- Easier for people to block whole news parts, because let's be honest. We all need a break sometimes
Just think about it π
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I believe @judeswae has written a wonderful article about this!
https://martinfowler.com/articles/your-org-run-mastodon.html
Your organization should run its own Mastodon server
Run your own Mastodon server to control your social media presencemartinfowler.com
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they'll figure it out. this is internet history on repeat. don't know how instances pick and choose but the ads will find a way
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TIL that "ACAB" is in Nintendo's list of "banned words" in #AnimalCrossing. I suppose this makes sense if they want to remain apolitical.
Interestingly enough, "MAGA" is perfectly fine... so I guess there goes that theory.
#ACNH #censorship
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When you think about it, blood glucose meters need to be shockingly precise. Let's take a real-world example to illustrate this.
This morning, my glucose levels were 6.7mmol/L. What does that mean? Let me dust off my high school chemistry and bust out a calculator.
The internet tells me that glucose has a chemical composition of C6H12O6, which would give 1mmol of glucose a mass of about 180mg (0.18 grams).
A reading of 6.7mmol/L means that in a litre of blood, there would only be about 1.2 grams of glucose.
For perspective, a litre of water is 1000g. I don't off hand know the density of blood, but I imagine it's not too far off.
My meter was able to tell this from a drop of blood.
That's pretty wild. Can someone check my math on this?
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@PerryM β I don't understand Freedom Units, but I tried to put everything in the same unit (grams) to give an idea of the sense of scale. My main takeaway is that the glucose measurement makes up somewhere in the ballpark of 0.1% by mass. The fact that it's possible to get that precise a reading from a single drop of blood is downright bananas.
Edit: 0.1%, not 1%. 1% would probably be lethal.
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Jon, I was "pulling your chain". Your math is perfect and your amazement logical.
Not questioning the accuracy is nearly the same as not questioning the building an ARK big enough to hold 2 of every animal on earth and feeding them and what comes next and even getting all of them on the Ark without DHL!
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Seems to have been inspired by this: https://archive.ph/G4ai1
Reporting in the Washington Post that the CDC says one day of isolation is enough for COVID cases.
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#Amazon
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I'm working on building a sushi bar in #LambdaMOO. Katy and I had the following conversation regarding the waitress I'm currently programming:
Katy: I'm surprised you didn't make her a robot.
Me: I thought about it, but a lot of the other shops are basically run by vending machines. I wanted to give mine a more human touch... though, right now she crashes when anyone talks to her. Humans don't do that.
Katy: Well, some do.
Me: Okay, fair point.
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Sitting in a waiting room in a medical imaging place and they have an ad for their app to get your results on a mobile device. Among other things, it reads:
"Permanently store them with bank level encryption" (emphasis theirs)
In my experience, if banks are their gold standard of #infosec, I really don't want my medical data anywhere near this system. Just sayin'.
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#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #StarTrek #TWOK
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Today I learned that GNU means GNU is not Ubuntu. The more you know
I don't understand it but I guess it makes sense because GNU is not Linux and Ubuntu is
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now look who is the one making GNU jokes smh
Also it means GNU is not "an" Ubuntu, thank you.
[jive]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s
I Speak Jive - Airplane! (5/10) Movie CLIP (1980) HD
Airplane! movie clips: http://j.mp/1JagwTJBUY THE MOVIE: http://amzn.to/tk9JjsDon't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6prCLIP DESCRIPTION:When...YouTube
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Ubuntu, GNU , still neither POSIX compliant.
Flanders And Swann - The Gnu Song
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#lambdaMOO #lifestyle #show #bilingual #chinese #english #MOO #MUD #VR
1400UTC Fri https://anonradio.net/ https://www.moo.mud.org/
Okay in about 5 hours a half hour episode (still) of #ZhenHouseZhenBonkwave will air, #Bonkwave a la @keefmarshall . I am planning to be in the explored location at that time, and phase of the moon willing, UNK will be in @SDF commode chat.
I will add it to the emergency archive location when I have a chance on the 24th (aka the 23rd).
https://gopher.tildeverse.org/tilde.institute/1/~screwtape/zhen-house/
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Should I dive down the rabbit hole of learning #Godot while I already have so many other projects on the go? Probably not.
Am I? Of course.
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I was looking into solutions to allow players on my minetest server to use the shops that have been set up without just ransacking the entire stock (as has happened multiple times in the past). In my search, I have discovered that there is a mod that allows bitcoin to be converted into in-game currency... because, of course there is.
Grifters gonna grift, I suppose.
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"What makes the Ontario government's policy direction especially puzzling and troubling is that, by Canadian standards, Ontario actually performs very well in terms of wait times for priority procedures," said Andrew Longhurst of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Is it really that puzzling, though? This feels very on-brand for Ford. I'm sure he or his friends would benefit financially from this.
Waterloo Region Health Coalition raises concerns over private healthcare bill
Advocates are hoping to bring attention to concerns around Bill 60.CTVNewsKitchener.ca (CTV News)
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fun fact: the reason why the Sun will last for billions of years still isn't because it's a fusion reactor, but because the amount of energy it emits per unit of time doesn't grow exponentially like our energy consumption does. If we could consume it with a 2% growth rate (doubling time: 35 years), even converting it to energy with 100% efficiency, we would consume the entire solar system (Sun included) in less than 3,000 years.
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Unfortunately, a great deal. One of he things needing to be overcome in lasting long enough in multiple Goldilocks Zones, (its not just solar distance) is a galaxy large enough that the potential or probable sterilizing Gamma Ray Bursts are more than 50 to 70,000 light years away.
Earth is lucky to be out on the rim of a large galaxy.
90% of galaxies are probably sterile.
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@ryan2one3 the creation of the universe is widely regarded as a bad move.
It's boring and it becomes more boring in future. It will become a cold energy soup.
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This is now the second time that Katy has tried to FaceTime her mother from the contact on her phone, which she's used a thousand times before, and gotten a random stranger.
Is there a problem with FaceTime's routing or something?
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and orders 1 beer, 2 beers, 3.14159 beers, "quertyuiopo" beers.
Tests passed.
A user walks into the bar and asks for the restroom.
The bar goes up in flames
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