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by smeej 2y ago
I'll raise my hand here. Took antidepressants for a year. Successfully weaned off of them. Have not had recurrence of symptoms. I needed the boost to be able to get out of bed often enough to do the work in therapy. That led to being a
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by smeej 2y ago
"Intellectual property" almost seems like a contradiction in terms. Like, I can't arrange the bits on my own computer hardware in a specific order because someone else arranged the bits on their own, separate computer in that
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by smeej 2y ago
Wow, I'm glad I clicked this. Feels kind of like you buried the lede not giving the title: "Subliminal acoustic manipulation of nervous systems"
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by smeej 2y ago
I'm one of those people who has become convinced that device addiction has ruined the capacity to think or pay attention for an entire generation from the time they were most vulnerable, and we haven't even begun to realize the ne
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by smeej 2y ago
We're also susceptible to bright colors and certain screen movement patterns and topic sequences, as practical the entire internet industry has figured out and has been using against us with competing degrees of success for about 20 ye
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by smeej 2y ago
It makes me wonder about the meta question about how to stop whatever the next iteration of this will be. Like, if we look back at this, surely there were people saying, "Hey, things have changed. You don't actually 'own&#x27
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by smeej 2y ago
> (as we both know that's the only goal of mixers) Do "we" know that's the only goal? I've reported every digital currency-related gain or loss I've ever had on my taxes, but that doesn't mean I wante
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by smeej 2y ago
This is why I keep my mechanic in business repairing my '07 Prius. I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one left in the world who would rather the internet not eat me alive.
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by smeej 2y ago
Back when Google Glass came out, I learned I was accidentally a good benchmark for wearable tech, in that if it's too dorky even for me, it's never going to fly. This is solidly in that category. It's a good thing they don&#x
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by smeej 2y ago
Any suggestions for safely discharging? I have two very old puffed up phone batteries, both removed from their devices, but I can't figure out how to discharge them since they won't fit in their devices anymore and I don't ha
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by smeej 2y ago
People like X because they can just start shouting into the void and people who care what they have to say might hear it and actually start listening to them on purpose. But then they complain that some such people might say negative things
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by smeej 2y ago
This kind of report always raises the question for me of what the existing system's goals are. I think people assume that "new, reliable knowledge" is among the goals, but I don't see that the incentives align toward tha
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by smeej 2y ago
That's not remotely true. I get a receipt from a specific service provider every week that I could easily recreate from memory, but the ink fades within a month.
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by smeej 2y ago
But again, how do you make the thug believe you?
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by smeej 2y ago
Addresses, sure, but not wallets.
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by smeej 2y ago
It's a surprisingly hard threat to model against. For example, sure, don't store your funds on an exchange and they can't get in with a SIM swap, but when they're in your house, that doesn't help you. You could stor
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by smeej 2y ago
I'm female and do the same thing you do. I'm sure this product works just as well for anyone who does like having long nails, whatever their reasons and regardless of sex, but it sounds like you and I simply aren't the targ
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by smeej 2y ago
I don't think we're friends, bot...
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by smeej 2y ago
It won't run on GrapheneOS, and I don't have any other Android phones. They hide behind "security," but I don't buy it. What risk is there?
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by smeej 2y ago
Are you doing that with "old-fashioned" TTS, or have you found a good resource for uploading your own docs/epubs and having them read back by one of these higher quality synthesized voices? (I've been looking for the lat
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by smeej 2y ago
I don't know that "parasocial relationships" are the primary reason people like having real hosts. I have a huge list of things I've managed to change in my life because I heard some other real person talking about how t
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by smeej 2y ago
Doesn't making this data available also provide it to the grocers? Is it still "collusion" if they all just start raising their prices to public benchmarks on any items where they're low? They're not "working w
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by smeej 2y ago
I want to receive as few MRIs as possible, which you might have gathered from my comments. That is very much the point. Edited to add: Why are you pitching having to leave my life for up to months as though it's a good thing and no
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by smeej 2y ago
It took several minutes and a couple tries to get the exposure right on certain shots. They didn't seem overly concerned about the exposure. The person operating the machine didn't seem at all worried about it, so I didn't wo
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by smeej 2y ago
I know they say "not tested in humans," but I don't think anybody's going to convince me nobody in the lab tried it out when they thought nobody was looking, unless there's some really obvious (to experts) reason
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by smeej 2y ago
I had a motion x-ray as recently as 2020. I don't know enough about the technology to know why this was different, but I have a copy of the video. Edit: This is the type of machine it was: https://www.dmxworks.com/
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by smeej 2y ago
When I was 12, I got contacts for the first time. Well, technically, contact. I was only nearsighted in my right eye, so they only gave me one for my right eye. My mother, absolutely serious, asked why I had been wearing a full set of glass
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by smeej 2y ago
It tells me to rotate my device, implying it should work on my phone, but I can't figure out how to move the colors. Holding and sliding doesn't work. Tapping doesn't seem to do anything. Does it not actually work on mobile?
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by smeej 2y ago
I appreciate the thought, but "Look at a globe, figure out which healthcare systems are honest, and then figure out which doctor will know what to do based on a vague description of "it looks like there's something in my thor
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by smeej 2y ago
I'd happily (well, not happily--my last MRI sucked. But willingly ) get one here in the U.S. if anyone could tell me what test to get. You can't just walk in and ask for "an MRI." MRIs come in categories. A lung MRI i

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