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by nope96 4y ago
Openness to new things? Variety is the spice of life, how spicy are they?
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by nope96 4y ago
> "I frequent drug-friendly events and hang with drug-friendly people" Adults or Children? My friends were all "gifted kids" who hung out in the same social circle, and did lots (and lots) of drugs (acid, DMT, mushroo
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by nope96 4y ago
One friend's mom, who was a "natural medicine healer", noticed we were all into computers (early 1990's), and thought we had "Electric Fungus". I always thought that would make a good band name. Or maybe the X-
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by nope96 4y ago
They are in their 40's now. The girlfriend struggled with mental health and never really held a job. The guy on mushrooms went through years of therapy and anti-depressants, and seemed to have a normal life. The best friend still strug
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by nope96 4y ago
I've never taken hallucinogens, but I had many friends that did: Best friend and his girlfriend did LSD, the girlfriend had an immediate mental breakdown and was hospitalized. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the following months, has b
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by nope96 4y ago
I rent a house. Both houses on either side of me have radon vents, mine does not. But I can see they've got basements, mine is on slab (no basement or crawlspace). I asked the landlord if this house was ever tested, he said not to worr
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by nope96 4y ago
I know that even in the early 90's, there were still a few chat BBSs (D-Dails) using 300 baud in my area (Chicago) http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/APPLE/II/DIVERSIDIAL/
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by nope96 4y ago
What I loved about Turbo Pascal (and probably Delphi), was you could put the cursor under any function, press F1, and get documentation that showed that function being used in an example problem. Great way to learn.
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by nope96 4y ago
Wow, I haven't thought about that program for years. I'd thought it was abandoned.
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Walmart will now charge for order substitutions(winsightgrocerybusiness.com)
2 points by nope96 4y ago|0 comments
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by nope96 4y ago
well, I have this shrink wrapped Stadia box I got from the Cyberpunk deal I procrastinated on, and never opened. Is it worthless or does the controller work on other platforms? I think it also came with a gen 2 Chromecast, but I think that
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by nope96 4y ago
I love that there is still an active Tandy user group! https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/
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by nope96 4y ago
Already released to Kickstarter backers a couple days ago! (by the makers of Space Quest, for those who don't know what this is)
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by nope96 4y ago
This is a game by the creators of Space Quest (Sierra), a kickstarter 10 years in the making! HN must be cutting the URL short, the blog post is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-s...
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SpaceVenture will be released on PC September 16th to Backers(kickstarter.com)
3 points by nope96 4y ago|1 comments
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by nope96 4y ago
> People looking for rational informed discussion about covid have realized it's no longer on HN, so they just don't participate anymore. Meanwhile,those who think this is all a giant conspiracy have found fellow travellers wit
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by nope96 4y ago
> It is not real ... The posters on https://www.reddit.com/r/covidlonghaulers/ would disagree with you
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by nope96 4y ago
Seriously, you need a better doctor. What did your doctor say, specifically? That you should not get the newest Covid booster? Have you ever been vaccinated? Calling me a jerk is rude. What's also rude? Refusing to get a vaccine that w
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by nope96 4y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09/01/cdc-fall-bo... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Thursday that millions of eligible Americans, including those as young as 12, ge
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by nope96 4y ago
Because it protects you and others around you from disease. Cowards will make up lies and excuses for not taking it, though. I suppose you have to decide who you trust, your doctor, or internet trolls. My guess is, if you ask your doctor, h
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by nope96 4y ago
"authoritarian vaccine policy", what are you talking about?
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by nope96 4y ago
Adversaries of the west want us to be unvaccinated and sick. Knowing what we know about "troll farms", I would not be surprised if there is an effort by some states to discredit the vaccine on English speaking forums.
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by nope96 4y ago
Same here, took the new Moderna Ba.5 variant along with a flu shot 7 days ago. Zero side effects. Everyone should get this new booster.
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As masks are shed, routine visits to medical offices pose Covid risks for some(statnews.com)
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by nope96 4y ago
This article is."A significant rise in obesity incidence has even been noted in laboratory rodents and primates – animals raised under strictly controlled conditions of caloric intake and exercise. The only possible factors driving wei
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by nope96 4y ago
I learned that Stable Diffusion can read! It's called a "typographic attack". https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/08/typograph... For example, this site lets you create variati
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by nope96 4y ago
So it's like a compiler which produces a 4GB executable file? And that 4GB is all the "logic" which can produce infinite possible images?
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by nope96 4y ago
I think he burned his rep pumping "United Bitcoin", a strange Chinese scam coin https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/garzik-forks-unitedbitc...
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by nope96 4y ago
Here's more, characters from old DOS games: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x2wwxx/usi... and https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x5qrj
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by nope96 4y ago
Oh, I agree, but I can't think of any major US retailer that does not do this 3rd-party stuff. Amazon, Walmart, Newegg all do. I guess Target doesn't (yet). It's frustrating to explain to older parents, "You have to pick

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