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by nasredin 9y ago
I get amusement from these people, the people who voted against their interest WRT Trump and now reap the consequences. What is a proper term for this? I don't want to use "schadenfreude", the "enjoyment obtained from th
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by nasredin 9y ago
>Have sociologists studied this phenomenon? There's research into authoritarianism (think Germans in WWII) and RWA personality type (Right Wing Authoritarian). Most of it is not very "accessible" to the average person. Fro
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by nasredin 9y ago
I don't follow your analogy. IMHO, a better one: Your friend (used loosely in this case) is doing criminal acts. Would you tell him to stop doing criminal acts while you treat him? --- Sometimes journalist take this "ALLWAYS two s
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by nasredin 9y ago
TBH if I was Assange, I wouldn't leave the embassy now that Trump is president. Yes, Obama aggressively prosecuted whistle blowers, but Trump is certainly worse. So, at least three more years in the embassy? It's ironic that he&#x
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by nasredin 9y ago
A "super" like? They are gonna be soooo disappointed!
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by nasredin 9y ago
Congratulations, you have beat the "80% of men competing for the 20% of women"* statistic. *My numbers may be off.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Fake button JPEGs and bug crawling on your screen GIFs? Yeah it's been done before. It's funny, every few years people discover something... that has been done before.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Disagree. I think you are descibing empathy and selfishness, not anxiety. Anxiety and empathy are probably somehow connected, but they are different things.
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by nasredin 9y ago
I love reading about experiments performed in the 50s and 60s before all those pesky Ethical Review Boards(?) >In an early version of the study, Brady placed monkeys in 'restraining chairs' and conditioned them to press a lever
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by nasredin 9y ago
I HATE people who put IANAL and other acronym disclaimers everywhere, but I just feel these type of posts can negatively influence people. I am glad magnesium and vitamin D worked for you, but some people may need prescription medications f
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by nasredin 9y ago
IIRC there is an issue here. Former doctors who now work for pharma companies and take their peers to dinners and push the new (patented) drugs. Doctors then prescribe these new drugs perhaps needlessly (Vioxx?) or over generic ones. Also i
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by nasredin 9y ago
Speaking of supplements. CoQ10 gives you some extra energy. If you are in the US, buy the brand that's USP (IIRC) certified.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Not gonna happen. Cannabis is on Schedule 1. Which, IIRC means zero beneficial medical use (think heroin, cocaine). See the recent article with pictures of the "marijuana" that the government gives to researchers. And with Session
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by nasredin 9y ago
I would say wealth not only reduces but eliminates a lot of the problems for an average person. Every week there's a study that being poor causes a lot of damage to your body (on the DNA level IIRC).
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by nasredin 9y ago
Not an expert. Low energy often comes with depression. So it's not easy as telling a depressed person to "do more exercises". Depression is "invisible". I like to think that being depressed is like having a broken l
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by nasredin 9y ago
Gentlemen, may I interest you in a gently-used bridge over a pristine river in New York City?
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by nasredin 9y ago
...like a particular painter and WW1 veteran in Germany that the than current art world dismissed...
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by nasredin 9y ago
RT has some questionable ratings. On some new movies the rating is very high, but it goes down sharply. IIRC one of the Fast and the Furious "movies" had a stupidly high rating, which is now more sane. https://www.rotte
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by nasredin 9y ago
>I like to think of the universe as a deterministic computer that is calculating its own outcome - there is no shortcut to jump to the end. I hope there's no bugs in it then!
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by nasredin 9y ago
Fury Road felt like you unknowingly did a large amount of very potent crack cocaine. I needed several minutes to cool down after that movie ended.
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by nasredin 9y ago
I could never skip the ending credits of The Wire. And for some seasons the opening ones too. If opening credits are done right, they can serve a function, e.g. The Wire. An example from the cinema world would be Michael Mann's films.
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by nasredin 9y ago
For the people who hadn't had their coffee yet: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/navy-seal-copypasta?full=1
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by nasredin 9y ago
>I even explained the theory behind the movie, Dave ending up in an environment he couldn't understand, like an animal in a zoo. "A theory", not "the theory". There's quite a lot of theories about this movie
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by nasredin 9y ago
Uh uh. Nope. Not gonna fool me this time! IIRC I have only been Rick Rolled 2 or 3 times. You had to have Navy SEAL level of discipline during that year or two.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Mr. Stallman, is that you? --- One more reason Google sucks: Google recently deleted hundreds of videos of the war in Syria. Potential evidence of war crimes erased. Original uploaders may be dead. I don't think some tech people realiz
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by nasredin 9y ago
Prescient money quote: >As I said before, hiding in this list are 20-30 bugs that cannot be worked around by operating systems, and will be potentially exploitable. I would bet a lot of money that at least 2-3 of them are.
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by nasredin 9y ago
All this marijuana to crypto currency stuff is great in theory. But at some point, you, the skinny geek with your bags of cash and bitcoins is gonna run into people who have already solved this problem and have been doing it for the past 40
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by nasredin 9y ago
Yes. Americans are the most divided right now. Polling these questions began in the 1990s. IIRC General Mad Dog Mattis (not sure) when asked what's the biggest threat said it's the internal divisions and not terrorists, Russia, et
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by nasredin 9y ago
... with sex dolls... with Intel Inside stickers on them?! ;)
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by nasredin 9y ago
Regarding .XYZ TLD: Please don't use XYZ. Reason: It's 99.9% full of crap (SEO spam, malware, etc.)

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