GoldenRacer

There's a book called "Bowling Alone" that explores a lot of ideas around this. Iirc the conclusion is two fold:

1. Historically women were largely responsible for community building. As they joined the workforce, they had less time to community build and so there became less community.

2. Technology allowing home entertainment. People can now stream movies instead of going to theaters. Play computer games instead of go to arcades. Check Facebook instead of call friends to catch up. Use a Keurig for convenient coffee instead of go to a cafe.

I have a similar setup. Corne keyboard, trackball mouse, portable laptop stand. Never had an issue with TSA. I don't even bother taking the keyboard out of my bag since each half is roughly the size of a cell phone

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. That article appears to be about a women who is now in a wheel chair due to nerve damage caused by a b12 deficiency which supports my comment that one of the most concerning risks of nitrous use is b12 deficiency.

I don't think replacing oxygen in the brain is the main mechanism of action (in medical settings they mix nitrous and oxygen and it's still effective without risking hypoxia). Looking at Wikipedia it says the mechanism of action isn't fully understood but it says the effects "are likely caused mainly via inhibition of NMDA receptor-mediated currents".

I've been under the impression that biggest risk of long term use of nitrous is that it causes b12 deficiency which is really bad for your nervous system. Wikipedia also mentions that NMDA receptor antagonist in general are neurotoxic and studies in mice suggest that nitrous has this neurotoxicity.

My favorite is 1 mile = phi kilometers with <1% error

I'm way out of my depth here but I believe this would function as a very sensitive accelerometer. The rubidium would be still relative to the lasers so when you accelerated, it would have inertia and take some time to catch up with the rest of the device. You'd then integrate the acceleration to find the velocity and integrate that to find position.

I've been using kagi and that's my biggest complaint. Upgrading from the basic plan seems like a lot of money but being on the basic plan, I have mental friction every time I do a search because I have anxiety about running out of searches. I actually haven't ran out in the 3 months I've been using it for but I don't like the anxiety 300 searches/month creates for me and maybe I would run out if I didn't have the anxiety limiting me

The article also claims they were imported from China. They also said samples were sent for genetic testing and confirmed they were of the species Morchella sextelata. Not sure if that is what you're referring to as a species with a higher hydrazine content but I agree with you that you should be cooking them regardless and it's strange to me that they were serving them raw.

Asimov wrote an essay called "relativity of wrong" that I think does a good job of capturing the changes our understanding of the world goes through.

Yes, Einstein's theory of relativity was a change from Newtonian physics but it's a fairly minor correction for most practical purposes and Newtonian physics is still important to know and understand.

So yeah, our understanding of physics will likely change but it'll only matter in more and more extreme edge cases and will likely build on our current understanding. Maybe it'll result in us finally having fusion reactor, room temperature super conductors, or quantum computers but you're still going to get a roughly parabolic arc when you throw a ball through the air.

Doesn't having those numbers available help you ask questions like "why are houses of worship more likely to install solar panels than a warehouse?" which could possibly point towards answers to the question "how can we increase the percent of warehouses that are installing solar panels?" Maybe it doesn't lead to anything (many churches are more motivated by ideals and less motivated by profit than a warehouse) but studying outlier categories even if they're minorities seems like a reasonable thing to do.

Where exactly is the line drawn for how much and what type of human intervention is required? When I cook food, human intervention is causing chemical reactions that change the composition of the food. I doubt many people consider grill marks to be unnatural or synthetic.

I never said the majority of the population has severe incurable diseases. I said that have genes that aren't great (maybe they have a predisposition for certain diseases or they're a carrier but are healthy themselves).

Also, many diseases don't effect you until after you're past reproductive age. Evolution doesn't care if you get Alzheimer's at 70 but it still has a fairly large burden on our modern day society.

Sickle cell is particularly interesting because the gene that causes it makes the carriers less susceptible to malaria. So there actually was an evolutionary pressure for people in areas with high levels of malaria to have it (which is why it's so common among African Americans). Apparently it's better to die of sickle cell at 40 after you've had kids then die of malaria when your 10.

What genes do you think we should be testing for and which ones do you think are severe enough that you parents with those genes shouldn't have children?

Almost everyone has some sort of gene that isn't great. They might have a family history of Alzheimer's, maybe a family history or some sort of cancer, or bipolar disorder, or any other of 100 different serious illnesses. Humans would go extinct if we only allowed those with perfect genes to reproduce.

Oh, and with sickle cell, you're going to be in particularly hot water with suggestions like that given the fact it's mostly African Americans who have the gene.

Sure, hypothetically. It's just not what I'm seeing the wealthy parents in the town I grew up in doing. Most of them are fighting for school vouchers so they can divert money from public schools into their private schools.

The wealthy parents sent their kids to private schools and try to defund public education

They didn't say sending kids to private school was a way to actively defund public education just that wealthy parents do both which is true. What's your motivation to vote and support politicians that advocate for better funded public schools when it doesn't effect your kids but raises your taxes?

How long ago was that? All the ski towns are now filled with signs saying overnight parking is prohibited. I'm sure you can still find spots if you're in the know but if they ever get popular, they'll be quickly shut down.

I tried osmand when I first switched over and didn't like the quality of directions it gave me. They've possibly gotten better since then but I'm not really feeling motivated to try it again just yet.

I'm on Android so don't think Apple maps is an option.

As for organic maps, I tried it a while ago and it gave me some rather annoying directions. Maybe they've improved their route finding algorithm since then but I'm not feeling motivated to try it again just yet.

Google maps limits the size of the regions you can download. With Magic Earth, you download entire states. I have several states that I visit regularly pre downloaded so I don't have to worry about downloading specific regions every time I go on a trip to a new area.

I use it. It works substantially better than other OSM based map apps imo. My big use case for it is I frequently travel places without cell service and like having a mapping app where I can download whole regions worth of maps to use offline.

And then you have to pay someone to maintain the artificial ones. That might be a better plan in some areas but certainly not all

There's also the convenience issue. If you work multiple low skill jobs just to make ends meet, you might not have the time to turn fresh produce into a meal. If you're trying to limit yourself to foods that require limited/no preparation and are cheap, you do end up getting a lot of unhealthy options that fill that niche.

You can get around this. I've personally spent years of my life eating just rice and beans with a bag of frozen vegetables. You can get a really low priced rice cooker ($20-30) that you can spend <1 minute setting up (it'll steam the veggies while it cooks the rice) and then let it run while you're in the shower or doing something else. In the end you get a reasonably health albeit bland meal with less time spent prepping than actually eating. I get why it starts to make sense to just grab a $5 burrito at taco bell as a meal when you're rushing to your second job though.

As a note: lots of sauerkraut sold in stores (at least in America) isn't actually fermented but just cabbage soaked in vinegar which is shelf stable. If you want the fermented kind, make sure you get it from the refrigerated section and check the ingredients and it should not have vinegar.

I'd be way more hesitant to recommend that move in a car. With a motorcycle splitting lanes, there's a low chance anyone will be between lanes and if there is someone there, it's the motorcyclist that will likely suffer the consequences so they'll have a high level of awareness. On top of that, being squished between two cars is a much riskier place to be for a motorcyclist then a car.

I say this because I had a friend who was killed when another driver swerved into her lane while trying to avoid rear ending another car. In that case, rear ending the other car would've been way safer. So yeah, just be absolutely certain the lane you're swerving into is clear. That should go without say but apparently it didn't for the woman that killed my friend (and I bet she thought she was pulling off a ninja move until it was too late).

What type of layout do you use for 34 keys?

I've got a 42 key split board so I'm not a total noob to minimalist keyboard but struggle to see how 34 keys can be used effectively.

NBOMe was super popular in the early 2010s. I'd be willing to bet that on my college campus 90+% of "LSD" was some sort of NBOMe during that time.

No idea what's going on nowadays but plenty of gray market LSD analogous will test positive as LSD (Al-LAD, Pro-LAD, Eth-LAD, 1P-LSD, idk what else is available now). I wouldn't be shocked if people get those without realizing.

For context on what an appropriate dose is, this article seems to suggest that the intensity of most effects start to flatten out as you go past 100ug. The effects that continue to get more pronounced past that level seem to be negative effects such as anxiety or potentially difficult to navigate such as disembodiment.

Seems like 100ug is likely a sweet spot for most first timers.

Where are you getting the idea I can't separate the book from the person reading it? I've personally read the book. I have no problem with people reading it or even enjoying it.

My comment was on people who are regularly referencing the book by using the word "grok". When you do that, you are intentionally associating yourself with the book and implying other people should read the book if they don't want to feel left out.

“Pipe down, Anne. Close your mouth, Dorcas. This is not a time when women have the vote."

I'm projecting insecurities because I think interactions like that are sexist?

And if you do read that old book it has a lot of overt sexism and to me it felt like some sort of incel fantasy (I really enjoy older scifi so understand times were different back then but Stranger in a Strange Land felt over the top). So now I associate that word with all the problematic aspects of the book and assume the person using it is either using the word without having read the book or didn't see a problem with the book when they did read it. Neither really makes me think highly of the person.