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Some of the old timers are really amazing to engage with. A friend of mine who recently started running a Traveller campaign emailed its creator with a question about a rule detail, and got a very friendly, informative answer. They've since corresponded on other aspects of the game. I had a similar experience with one of the producers of a fantastic stage satire of Star Trek that I saw back in the 90s (which unfortunately was shut down by Paramount's lawyers). I think the important thing is just to be respectful of their time and privacy, and not to come off as a drooling fanboy lol.

The 80s saw the dawn of BBSes, the precursors of the Internet. I wrote my own in the late 80s in Turbo Pascal - Tomb of the Unknown Modem - which I ran for several years in Portland, OR. It had about 200 registered users and 20 or 30 regulars. I only knew a couple of them personally. It was divided into 10 sub-boards, which included a joke board, play-by-post D&D and Robotech campaigns, and an adults-only "hot tub". It also had a choose-your-own-adventure style game I wrote called "Toddler Terror". I put in a separate phone line for it so it could stay up 24/7 on its 1200-baud modem. It all ran on a 2MHz portable PC made by Televideo, with no hard drive, just dual 360k floppies! Good times.

There's no sense blaming people for being dumb enough to vote for politicians who hide the truth from them. I think it's more important to fix our problems. But if you really want the ultimate scapegoat it's individuals who manipulate public perception for their own personal gain. That group ranges from uber-powerful media moguls to people who create misleading memes for reddit points.

A lot of people did the right things, just not powerful enough people. Activists have been raising hell about CO2 and other emissions since at least the 1960s, long before Antarctic research revealed the hole in the ozone layer in 1985. Offset credits for lead started in the 70s, and were expanded to CO2 starting in 1988. Mark Trexler, one of the drivers behind carbon offsets, said they were largely a philanthropic effort at that time, to get that ball rolling until public policy caught up with reality - which still hasn't happened. "No one then thought that we would be doing offsets 35 years later.” Ideas for public good often get shouted down by money interests as "communism".

I'm sick of saying this same thing on reddit and getting douchevoted by people who tell me I don't understand how AI works. Nice to get some validation from AI scientists who clearly do know how AI works.

In a random conversation this morning a Home Depot employee told me he and his friend have figured out a way to do VR without a headset, which they're working on turning into a business. I didn't ask how they were doing it because I knew he wouldn't be able to reveal it, but I'm very tantalized. Looking forward to this new development and hoping it's real. Just so I can point back to this comment if it comes true, the guy's name happens to be the same as a well-known agro company.

Why do you call Elon a fuckwad? Because he doesn't agree with regime changing every nation that refuses to become JUSA's little bitch?

Or maybe it's because Elon doesn't think JUSA should be bombing the crap out of brown people villages in the Middle East just to get more oil or satisfy the zionists in AIPAC that buy the JUSA Congress every year.

Of course you probably think that all that regime changing and coup instigating and brown people village bombing is all so that we can spread DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM to these unwashed heathens. That's what the unforunate citizens of JUSA are propagandized to believe. JUSA = the greatest superpower of propaganda and brainwashing in the history of the universe.

Elon is just calling a spade a spade. When the JUSA bombs the shit out of some poor Slavic country or some Muslim country and kill a few million people and call it DEMOCRACY, and you keep believing this propaganda coming out of your CNN or BezosPost or whatever, well I'm sorry but you're just a mindless brainwashed zombie. As unfortunately most American are.

You can just dual boot into Windows and install Fitgirl Repacks.

but Steamdeck hardware is kinda slow. Good news, you can install the equivalent of SteamOS/linux on ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion GO (my preferance due to bigger screen) and enjoy faster hardware than Steam deck.

I'm sure the people who research this stuff to earn a living will vigorously disagree, and big pharma will also. But what causes depression and other mental illness has been pretty much all figured out. And we know how to cure it (or at least prevent it)

In hunter gatherer societies (there were still quite a few in existence as recently as the 20th century) the incidence of depression and mental illness is zero. Suicides are zero. Seriously. Let that sink in.

For 2 million years of our existence, humans spent 99% of their time outdoors (except for the time spent sleeping, maybe in a cave). For 2 million years humans did physical labor, every day, all day, such as hunting (which involved lots of running) or foraging for food. No one sat around being sedentary doing soul-crushing bullshit spreadsheets and attending pointless idiotic meetings.

The further you get away from this 2 million years of ingrained evolutionary physiology, higher the rate of mental illness and suicides.

In countries outside of the USA, where big pharma does not own the entire government as they do in the USA, they did some studies and found out, making people exercise had a dramatic reduction in depression. Spending more time in the great outdoors had a dramatic reduction in depression. And believe it or not, fasting (not eating food for a few days) had a dramatic reduction in depression.

The first two most people will grasp, but the 3rd one (fasting) is a bit of a head-scratcher. But not really. For 2 million years people were hunter-gathers. There would've been times of plenty of food and times of scacity. Our bodies are exquisitely adapted and evolved to store food during good times (by converting excess food into body fat) and survive the lean times by using up the stored fat. By not using this mechanism, and just build up body fat store and keep building it and building it and never ever using it (which is what most Americans do), your body cries out in protest. It's a huge imbalance. You are MEANT to burn fat for survival once in a while. You are not meant to stuff your fact 6 times a day, every day, 365 times a year. (The average American eats 6.3 times a day). Fasting is not just something religious fanatics used to do 2000 years ago. It's actually something that every human needs to do to, at least once in a while, because our bodies have 2 million years of evolutionary pressure to do this.

A lot of US govt propaganda being repeated here. In the past 24 years since Putin came to power, Russia has improved in every measurable way. The life of the average citizen, from median income to life expectancy to healthcare coverage to education to even little things like how the subways operate and the amount of (or lack of) trash on the streets, drug use, homelessness, violent crime... has improved. It is a society on an upward trajectory.

I'm a pretty old fart, so I was already an adult in the year 2000, and I remember life in USA vividly. Things over here have declined in every way possible since then. There are streets where I grew up in, where I used to go to school, go to work, and they are filled with human feces and drug addicts sleeping on the sidewalk. Median income (real income, adjusted for cost of living) has plummeted. Press freedom has completely disappeared in USA, whereby every newspaper is just a govt stenagrapher repeating what they're told. Entirety of Congress and the federal government are just bought and paid for agents of the military industrial complex and big pharma.

And yes, the US govt blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. Personally ordered by President Biden himself and carried out by US Navy Seal divers planting C4 during the BaltOps exercises, then remoted detonated later. Read Seymour Hersh's report.

is humans. The average human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat.

That was US government mantra drilled into the heads of the citizens of USA (including you and me) for decades and decades. China is evil and Russia is evil because they're evil communists.

Now that China has completely embraced capitalism and market economy and become so good at it that it's burying US corporations, China is once again evil.

It ain't all about cheap labor. Labor costs in China now are far higher than places where US corporations have a strong manufacturing presence such as India and Vietnam. The #1 driver of Chinese manufacturing domination is that they've become very, very efficient. It's the same story we've seen before, with the likes of Toyota in Japan when they were far behind USA in the 1950's, but kept learning and improving until they surpassed the stagnant US companies.

In the last 20 years USA has spent 12 trillion dollars dropping bombs on villages in the Middle East that benefited no one except the military-industrial complex and some senators in the payroll of Blackrock. Meanwhile in the same 20 years China has spent exactly zero dollars waging foreign wars. Instead they spent trillions on improving their infrastructure (see all those new roads and bridges?) and automating their factories with robots. In fact the amount of industrial robots China bought in the past 4 years since COVID is astounding.... it's higher than all of USA Cananda and EU combined. *THIS* is the biggest driver of how China manufacturing has become so efficient.

Reputable sources -- government organizations and medical groups -- have a long and distinguished history being completely wrong when it comes to nutritional science. Actually even non-nutritional medicine.

Ever since the USDA food pyramid was released in ~1973 and pushed to all schools and hospitals, recommending eating less fat and less protein and more carbohydrates/sugar (which are just glucose molecules and basically the same thing), obesity has risen every year until it reached our current insane levels (majority of adults are now obese?? wtf) Just watch any old footage of a shopping mall or a street corner from before 1970 and notice how thin people are compared to today.

And not too long ago every child who ever caught a cold or a flu was pressured into getting a tonsilectomy by their doctor. Because that was the established, settled medical science. They really thought it was beneficial to the patient. I think as recently as 1970's they were giving out tonsilectomies like candies on otherwise perfectly healthy children who caught a cold.

Well today virtually no one gets a tonsilectomy just because they caught a cold. "Science" finally realized that all those decades of giving out tonsilectomies did not do a damn thing for the kids, they still ended up getting colds and flu at the same rate and it didn't make them any less sick either. It was just a completely unneeded procedure brought about by poorly done research.

Anyways you have group A saying PUFA is good for you and another group B (younger generation of doctors and scientists) saying it's horrible. Pick your poison.

Here's a few links to videos that are helpful. Of course internet videos are not proof of anything, but they do present the case for group B and you are welcome to judge for yourself.

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