ConstantVigil

I'm not sure if this is going to be seen, but I was temp banned or am still shadowbanned or something?

Either or. If you do see this, yes, you are both right that I would be best to be using a maul.

But not everyone has a proper splitting maul available, and mine was kind of missing that day... So I used my 20$ timber store 'everything' axe. I should have been more specific, as you make a point of. I call it that, cause I'm not sure which kind of axe it really is, but it gets used for pretty much everything, lol.

I used to see this happen with our old TV's at an old house with really bad grounding. I always wondered why it did that.

We could be playing a video game or movie, and set all the other tv's to channel 2 or something like that, while we played on channel 1. You could see the action on each of them. Almost 1:1 on the reaction times, albeit a little fuzzy.

Yes, but it defeats the purpose of the intent to share with as many relevant people as possible; since you have to build up that membership count in the first place.

So it really sucks when the Reddit mods get out of control from time to time over what should just be simple situations able to be remedied with a simple 'sorry'.

Yes, the drone approach is very tempting. But I still insist on us removing the need to use of manmade chemicals that don't exist in nature naturally... (That I am aware of...)

For instance, I am all fine and dandy with using lye soap and vinegar to kill weeds. It's not 100% effective, but it's also not going to poison you just because your potatoes happen to be near by. Lye is a tricky example, because it's not exactly always natural, but not exactly always manmade either. You can get naturally occuring sources, etc.

Hi there. You actually just kind of stepped into my ring here... sort of. Not an expert; but definitely more knowledgeable than the random person out there.

I used to work with G.E organisms. Particularly enzymes.

Long story short is this. While you are technically correct, there is a glaring issue surrounding the more... radical... kinds of G.E. See, the problem is that nothing on earth really is (at least as far as we can tell) meant to be cross bred between completely different species of plant/animal; or plants with animals...

That's not to say it is all immediately bad, harmful, dangerous, etc. BUT it does mean we should be careful we aren't causing ourselves more problems than solutions by mucking around with the genetic code of the things we eat...

And that's not just my opinion... This is just a fact of life when it comes to human nature. For every solution we come up with, we tend to find 2 to 3 more new problems to solve.

Now I don't know about you, but I prefer my food to not be causing me issues that would have never existed before except for scientists playing god with our food...

Take it or leave it, that's my stance on it. IF they can prove it is actually safe over the course of a multi-year study with full follow up procedures; then I am fine with eating it. Mostly.

If not however, then I really don't care about anyone's opinion on the matter. Because at the end of the day, there is a HUGE difference from what Norman Borlaug was doing with Wheat; and what we are doing with things like Corn today.

Yet more evidence that lotteries and other forms of gambling really are just a stupid/desperate person tax.

Right, so as politely as I can say this...

Tell me you have never lived on a farm, without telling me you have never lived on a farm. I say this, because if you had lived on a farm; you would know it's really, really fucking difficult to spray a chemical on a bunch of weeds separately when they are infesting your entire crop...

Though I do agree with the premise that we should only be using it on the weeds, if at all. I personally don't think we should be using it at all though, because we can easily deal with all the weeds and such; by hiring laborers.

Congratulations, we just created a new job market out of an old profession that should have NEVER gone away.

P.S. Just as an FYI for anyone who figures this would be silly to do...

We already do it to some degree with crops that are better off hand picked... And there are A LOT of people who could use that job... and would have no problem doing it either.

I'm sure the author means well, but...

Every time I looked closely at their text I could peer into their minds, and inside lay a thought process oblivious to what writing really means.

This is the literal exact basis of what we all tend to see with folk online when it comes to projecting their own thoughts and assumptions onto the text of others...

Let’s change that. I used to misunderstand writing too, and my style suffered severely as a result. Now not only is it miles better, but I’m also a smarter human thanks to realizing the true meaning of writing. To get there, I had to spot the misconceptions I’ve been fed about writing. Reading this piece, I’m sure you’ll at least identify a couple you can build on to change your writing mindset.

Yeah... like not assuming you know everything going on in a persons head just because you read some words they wrote as a rough copy of their work...

Jeezus...

Anyways. He's right about people having that misconception about writing being easy... but I can't be bothered to read anything further due to the blowhard nature of his words he chose.

Thing is... if your methods work well enough to help you avoid the thing you wish to avoid; does it matter if it's right or wrong? It works, right?

Here's a helpful trick for those of you who might need to get some firewood going but the chainsaw gave up the ghost.

It can be kind of tricky and kind of dangerous for the foot if you aren't careful; but you can split a log length wise using only your axe and some torque. Carefully work your way up the length of the log slamming the axe down into the wood in a straight line, or as straight as possible. Depending on the tree and your strength; this may take one or two passes to get it splitting apart nicely.

Worst case scenario is you start cutting off small chunks on the side; but honestly you gotta be wailing pretty hard to get that happening on a strong log.

Otherwise, once you have your first pass done, start bringing the axe down harder to finish the split; twisting the axe each time to help spread it apart. If you did it right, you should end up with two long halves of a full log. Once that is done, you can do it again with each half; and then buck it down into smaller pieces with a hand saw.

Yes, you could use the hand saw first; but this is a much faster method. Or at least I think it is. I can get through a full log in about 5 minutes or so. 10 minutes tops. Never timed it; I just know how long I can stand outside chopping wood with a pair of jeans and t-shirt in -30c weather.

Yes, I meant Abandonware, thanks. Sorry about that.

Hmm... I could have sworn it was legal; but it looks like it's only legal once the copyright expires and nothing prior like failure to support...

Even then, all they have to do is do what Nintendo did with the e-shop.

That said, I think there is legal grounds to take these kinds of scenarios into court to attempt to get the laws changed. Maybe not in past decades, but the current situation with digital goods basically requires that abandonware be legal; lest we are just going to roll over and give in to these companies that only care about profits solely and only.

Yes, profits are important; but so is repaying your fanbase for their loyalty. They might not be able to keep these games running forever, but that shouldn't stop people from being able to do it for themselves.

That's my nickels worth on this matter.

What will likely end up happening is the more dedicated fans of the series will do what others have done with old MMO's and make their own servers and such to ensure the game stays playable.

There may be some legal issues, but once Ubisoft does this on Sep. 1st, there are some technicalities surrounding vaporware and such that make it legal to 'own' the game without ever paying for it, etc and so forth. Running servers to make it playable again as well would also be fair-game as well as I understand it.

But I am not a lawyer, so if anyone knows better please by all means say so; but keep in mind I speak from the Canadian side of the law. So there may be differences that matter.

The only game this doesn't seem to work on for me is Civilization; since I am often fixing the game now to work better or how it should have to begin with.

I personally wouldn't have any issue with this. At that point it's all down to who's more clever in their ruses and cheats.

I don't know... if it was 'somewhat controversial' you wouldn't be the first person trying to tell me about it...

And I am quite adept at finding controversial topics...

Annnnd my sources are usually from things like the NCBI... and Mayo Clinic...

But to be fair to you, I did find this study done by Wayne B Jonas posted to the NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707261/

So I'll give it some consideration; but yeah... I usually ignore this kind of thing because of how misinformation is first seeded as being "They don't want you to know this" or "Unknown to others, but now you can learn the truth" etc, etc.

So no offense. Just me being my usual critical self.

Edit: I'd like to post this excerpt from the start of the article. It basically reiterates what I was ultimately getting at, while still pushing the authors original point and your point about placebo itself being a myth.

The fact is people heal and that inherent healing capacity is both powerful and influenced by mental, social, and contextual factors that are embedded in every medical encounter since the idea of treatment began. In this chapter, I argue that our understanding of healing and ability to enhance it will be accelerated if we stop using the term “placebo response” and call it what it is—the meaning response, and its special application in medicine called the healing response.

Fair enough. Though I do want to say anecdotally at least that mind over matter can be pretty powerful stuff...

Placebo's and Nocebo effects wouldn't exist without it.

Not the person you are asking, but I think I have a point that can help shed some light on the matter. I'm going to be speaking from the Canadian side of things, and so I'll be saying 'We' a lot due to the US and Canada tending to trade alike in a lot of ways AFAIK.

Ultimately, it all boils down to known trajectories. The EU and other places in the general area such as the UK, are all known to have histories of their own no doubt. Not just good histories, but bad as well. We trade with Germany, despite WWII. We trade with middle eastern countries, despite having many beliefs and ideologies and laws that are not exactly loved by all to put it lightly. We trade with even out economic adversaries because why not. Cheap labor, etc.

In all of these cases where we trade with any one of these places that someone could make some argument or another that they would be undesirable trade partners for; the future trajectory of that nation is what is the key point of where the decision is based off of to keep trading, or go with sanctions, etc and so forth.

The key to understanding this as I do, is the basis of Canada still trading with China when USA decides not to, or to restrict trade, etc and so forth. This is because our government for the past while now has decided that they wanted to help China get out of its economic slump from the past decades. And so of course since America tends to be a bit hawkish around working with communism in any form, while Canada has more socialist roots established; we tend to be more willing to work with such nations than America tends to. (And this absolutely sometimes pisses them off, government wise so to speak. And the nationalist types...)

Now in the past, most of this would have been water under the bridge, and nothing to be concerned about. Trade is trade, nothing more, nothing less; usually.

But with the advent of all of this digital revolution we are going through, and politics being stuck into everything that has a usable screen; the end result is stuff like this where countries with histories of X thing that Y government doesn't like automatically get extra scrutinized.

Especially when those countries have active militaries that support that kind of regime in said country. Doubly so when that country is in support of those militaries. One might say militia instead, but I fail to see the difference once they own navy vessels. I think this should be a fair opinion on the matter.

Anyways, right or wrong on the military/militia part as I may be, the end point is that we are seeing a rise in more extreme behavior in that country, in this case China and Russia lately; and so it only makes sense to be even more scrutinizing of anything to do with them.

Literally anything, since again; politics is in everything now.

Even us in Canada are starting to pull back from China, even though we are doing it at a slower rate. Our government is trying very hard to basically only enact these kinds of retracting changes only when it is going to hurt their future election outlook the least; or hurts their opponents outlook the most.

As for an example of this in action; Huawei 5G networks are effectively banned in Canada now. It took a while to come into fruition, but it finally happened. Whether or not they were right or wrong to do so is not my hill to fight on right now, but it is a great example of them biding their time til the last moment.

Not to mention that I am fairly certain I've caught him being horribly wrong more than once. But for the life of me, I cannot seem to remember which times it was. I'm sure I'll come across those videos again sometime though, and when I do; I'll be sure to edit this comment. Knowing my luck, it will be in the next few days time.

So, I'm not alone in wondering if they should be treated like bible thumpers, or not.

Good to know. Also good to know they aren't bible thumpers, and just happen to be 'Christians' monitoring science, as per the name implies.

Thank you. This is pretty much what I am getting at as well, though in different words.

But of course, the general populous thinks it knows better than the people who actually know best. That being those of us who have been able to live our lives while learning from not just our mistakes; but others around them.

We are the rare and few; and considered the enemy to the mob. Good luck comrade.

I love to hate on Meta, but their actions here are spot on and make my morning very enjoyable as I sip my cup of coffee.

You might want to reassess your intelligence there friend. It seems to be suffering from a common form of cogntive dissonance combined with some form of confirmation bias.

How so?

Well you clearly don't like scraping, otherwise you wouldn't be agreeing with a criminal... So there's the confirmation bias...

Which is also the cognitive dissonance part. You clearly don't like Meta/Zuckerberg by your own admission; but you are agreeing with a empty rhetoric attack against people who are smart enough to make use of Zuckerbergs terrible security practices...

Do you not see the problem in this?

So much about this case is ridiculous, and it’s complicated by the fact that nearly everyone agrees that weev is a world-class jerk. But, you need to separate that out from the details of what he did here, to note that it was nothing particularly special, and it involved the sort of thing that security researchers do all the time, and which all sorts of non-security researchers do quite often.

Yeah... uhm... I used to do exactly this sort of thing...

When I was a teenager, I would look at the URL of whatever site I was on, and would change a number here, or a letter there; and see what I got.

Sometimes you get nothing, sometimes you get something. Sometimes that something is quite interesting.

I'm fairly certain this is a really old site...

Got this link:

https://mebious.neocities.org/Layer/Wierd.html

It's a Thought Experiments Lain website

P.S. There absolutely is definitely going to be sound coming through speakers. Fair heads up.

Might I kindly ask where the plan for AMD support comes in, if at all?

In that framing, I'm really surprised that, on Level 27, 70% would rather send a trolley into the future to kill 5 people 100 years from now, instead of 5 people now. In almost 11K votes, this seems significant.

RIGHT?!?

I mean, who know's the potential reprecussions that portal might hold for us if we send that trolley through. Sure, 5 people might be saved today; but millions could be saved instead in 100 years when that portal isn't reopening to whoop our ass for killing 5.

Edit: Okay, I might be a bit tired. Sorry... I should have read that twice...

Comment redacted to help hide idiocy... sorry.

Sorry, but wasn't taking it at face value just cause it was used as a data point only at the time.

And not to be that person; but proof please.

I really do want a comprehensive list if possible of which charities are actually worthy of even being allowed to keep existing on this planet.

This. Though I might try to get them to agree first before pulling the lever.

This is all assuming that the money actually goes towards them, and not to everyone else inbetween you and that person you are trying to help.

And while yes, some good charities do exist apparently; I can't name any.

Edit: and no one better try to say 'WE' is a good charity.