declan_roberts

My TV thinks it's January 1st 1970.

Is it going to get better with these departures?

No dealer sales is such an enormous perk. We need this everywhere but of course there's too much incumbent vested interest to keep the status quo.

I don't believe at all this is from a lack of funds. The only thing that lacks here is the desire to put criminals in prison.

I don't understand flock cameras in high crime areas. Every time somebody commits a heinous crime it's always like "they were arrested 72 times and were well known by the police"

What's the point in helping the police catch criminals when they don't do anything after the fact!

Ah yea, Christianity, famous for spreading around the Middle East via the sword.

During this period, from the late fourth to the mid-seventh century AD, Christianity became the dominant religion, towns expanded across the country and Egypt served as one of the empire's richest provinces.

It's easy to forget how different the Middle East looked before the conquest of Islam starting in 600 AD.

So is it fun to play or just fun to look at? I'm getting "Mixtape" vibes from the article (not good!)

Very American actually. A significant amount of Americans have a surname that was changed or transliterated from another European language.

"Director Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France"

Even the titles are sci-fi.

2018 cars get FSD 14 lite this month. Not a great situation but not bad for an 8 year old car.

It's really easy to do this actually. You just create cars that drive themselves and rockets that land themselves and people start throwing money at you.

That's not true. I believe firmly the American taxpayer and government is responsible for the lives of every single person in the world.

That sounds like a great idea. What kind of prompt do you use?

We really need to bring back corporal punishment, both for petty crimes and white collar crimes. The prison sentences don't make sense for the petty crimes, and the fines don't make sense for the white collar crimes.

We need to legalize public caning and the stocks.

Really glad they confirmed this, about 5 years after I was forced to take one at threat of job loss despite 1) already having had natural Covid and 2) working a fully remote job.

But better late than never I suppose.

I highly doubt these figures. Grok is tightly integrated into twitter (sorry X.com) which had over 600 million DAU in 2025 and is probably much higher now. My guess is most of Grok's usage is actually "internal" and related to x.com.

Websites like Finnrick provide testing for gray market research peptides (including tirzepatide and retatrutide). There are no direct links to shops, etc., but you can at least see the current state of things, both good and bad.

Cremieux is a popular biohacker on Twitter who has a paid Substack describing the process.

That's enough to get anyone started.

Did it still plateau on the highest dose?

I can say the things I like, I like the same or even more (higher sex drive is one noted example). I can sit and program for hours now without thinking about other things. I assume this is what people who took Ritalin felt.

I do notice it makes it harder for me to get up and do certain harder, outdoor chores.

Some downsides:

1. They make you stop eating, which for most of human history kills you.

2. They are a life-long treatment and kind of expensive unless you go gray market.

3. Gastrointestinal issues especially when titrating up.

GRAY market is way undercounted in peptide use. Go to the gym and there's like 25% of the people there taking gray market peptides (some for weight, some for injury repair, etc)

I have to exercise and go to the gym for life already?

Gray market peptides are excellent. You can do you own independent lab testing, buy with a group who's testing, or buy from a reputable vendor who pre-tests before sales.

Even after all that it comes down to like $50 a month at the highest dose.

It's not just anecdotes. Eli Lilly is actively in trials with a glp-1 peptide brenipatide for treatment for certain kinds of addictions, such as alcohol, smoking and opioid addictions.

Nobody forced anthropic to go on a media blitz loudly proclaiming the dangers their new AI model. Serves them right honestly.

Access to everything every American company feeds into the AI is well worth it to the CCP.

I was getting a fat raise every year. I didn't think I needed it from a first principle.

Between AI and H1b, it might be too late.

I've been mostly resistant to unionization for my whole career, but I think now is the right time. Between AI and H1B, the pool of jobs available for engineers is getting smaller and smaller, especially at the low end.

When you destroy the entry level position, you also destroy the pipeline that creates senior engineers, a shortage of which is used as leverage to increase H1B in America.