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by piazz 8y ago
Can you elaborate? This would be mindblowing. I have fructose malabsorption, and have had sleeping issues most of my life. Never occurred to me they could be related. Please say more.
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by piazz 8y ago
“It attenuates all feedback loops that our bodies require to form empathy” Care to elaborate? Also, what do you mean by “L7”?
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by piazz 8y ago
Yeah I don’t think this author has any idea what he’s talking about. His argument basically is that real-time animation and motion capture will, what, replace what Disney and Pixar are doing? What people like this don’t realize is the degre
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by piazz 8y ago
This was a weirdly emotional read.
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by piazz 8y ago
I transferred into my university as a junior. I was older than my peers, having trod a somewhat unconventional life path before transferring. My first year at the new university, I felt felt alienated and invisible. While I made a few close
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by piazz 8y ago
cowering at the feet of scrum master goons, boot-licking their rituals like a servile worm Truly cinematic imagery, bravo
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by piazz 8y ago
It’s your life, and your call, but one compelling reason to ween off these drugs is simply that you’ll feel better (most likely) when you’re off of them. I felt like I got my old brain back when I got off Lorazepam. While we take these dru
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by piazz 8y ago
I was taking 3mg Lorazepam nightly for almost three years. Weening off of it safely took almost an entire year of miserable work, and the final stages I had to do while I had no other significant life responsibilities because of the incredi
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by piazz 8y ago
Looks fascinating - I’ve added it to the list. Thanks for the recommendation.
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by piazz 8y ago
It’s a direct observation I made from being in a relationship with an individual diagnosed with severe ADHD for ~2 years. It’s not a superficial observation extrapolated from a few encounters. I’m not drawing the conclusion that individuals
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by piazz 8y ago
The bits of the transcript about having to wear a mask in order to function, having to internalize algorithms of human behavior that are totally unintuitive, and realizing that one’s deepest interpersonal instincts are out of sync with the
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by piazz 8y ago
"War with the Newts" is simply amazing. I read this book as part of a University course in "Russian & Eastern European Sci-Fi literature", and reading this book was just about the only time I wasn't slightly bit