Awesome thing to do in a country where life expectancy has been falling year after year and is currently 78.4 years

Enjoy those 3.4 golden years

Nice, you just buy a house when you’re 10 years old and you’re good to go

Ultimately kind of yes kind of no. Individual experiences are obviously unique and different but generally it is as you say, thoughts do not occur concurrently and the breakdown is actually in the executive functioning systems that surround management of these thoughts.

Like his example - the neurotypical person isn’t magical. They don’t think a task, address it, then move on to the next thing. At least, not in the sense that is implied in the video. They have all those thoughts jumbling around their head too - I need to clean, return items, drink, etc. but they can address them more quickly and thoroughly with solid executive functioning system. This includes planning and prioritization as you’ve said (“I need to address drinking water now bc that will take a moment and is the most important”) but also things like working memory (“I can’t address returning the item right now but I am confident that even though I can’t address it in this moment the task won’t disappear from my brain for 6 months if I put it off”), organization, etc.

The question is always how much of ADHD is behavioral, how much is genetic, how much is cultural, neurobiological, etc. there are clear differences that indicate an adhd brain that are congenital, sure, but how it’s expressed is less clear and may be deeply influenced by environment and behavior.

The issue with this overly simplified pop psychology bullshit is that it inherently becomes a crutch for many. I see it often in professional practice. People who are unwilling to work on developing executive functioning skills because they see this kind of media (especially when presented in short form content that just says “here’s the problem with… and nothing at all about treatment options??) and then assume that this means they are literally unable to change, that it is a characteristic of ADHD, or autism, bipolar, or whatever

It works fine with whatever. Western comics, novels, textbooks, whatever you want. Komga supports epub/pdf/cbz/zip/cbr etc.

It only becomes a pain if you want to automatically scrape metadata. This isn’t directly supported in komga but there’s another project, komf, that directly interfaces with the komga api and will scrape metadata providers to populate. I have multiple libraries because as far as I know this really only gracefully works with manga. It can sometimes work okay with western comics via scraping gocomics but it’s a crapshoot and if your library is large it’s definitely not a good idea to let it cook. It has no support for fiction/nonfiction stuff like goodreads or whatever so I have those in yet another library. I don’t know of a metadata provider for textbooks (Amazon? Libgen? Wikipedia?) so yet another.

But manga works great. And metadata aside all my books work and I can read them from whatever device, ereader, phone, laptop, etc. komga itself has a built in reader so if it has a browser I’m good but mihon or whatever tachiyomi fork I can use (like Tachimanga for iOS devices, though that has iap to unlock stuff like tracking and no ads (though adblocking works), gross) is preferable

Install komga, populate it with content (tip: use komf to automatically scrape sites like manga updates for content similar to how Jellyfin scrapes thetvdb), install the komga extension in mihon, point it at your server, profit.

It can even sync read history between the server and device if you configure it as a tracker as well.

https://komga.org/docs/guides/mihon/

https://mihon.app/docs/guides/tracking#enhanced-services

The documentation isn’t super well done so you’ll have to make some leaps of faith but it’s pretty simple to figure out if you can figure out stuff like Jellyfin transcoding. The hardest part to set up is komf, which is optional (though it does make it look much nicer, like you’re browsing mangadex or whatever. Just make sure you don’t point komf at libraries with novels or western comic books or whatever bc it sucks at scraping those).

Also if you setup komf there’s a tampermonkey script that gives you gui control of the setting in the komga ui, very handy, but not strictly necessary

*hundreds of millions, net worth 280 million

This sucks, been using mihon on my ereader pretty much since tachiyomi died. Excellent app that improves on it’s predecessor in pretty much every way and I don’t even use it for piracy directly, I have a komga server that I read from (which tbf is filled with pirated content lmao though I do sometimes buy raws for niche stuff that’s not like chainsaw man).

Best client app around though, imo. Hope they navigate this successfully

Well divorce was significantly more difficult depending on region. The primary benefits a spouse would have over a mistress are marital ones. the ability to visit in a hospital, transfer of estate, and in the case of divorce things like alimony, child support, and division of the marital estate.

However, those last ones are predicated on the ability to get divorced. We take for granted the ability to get married and then just be able to break off a marriage the way one would break up when dating (no fault divorce. It wasn’t always like this, and it was fairly recently that this changed in many areas.

It used to be though that one had to go to a judge and prove some kind of fault. Adultery, impotence (meaning your husband couldn’t give you kids), addiction, abandonment, etc. but these actually had to be proven, some were easy to prove than others, and some courts in some regions were far more strict (about how you’d expect: more conservative areas tended to be more strict about trapping women whereas liberal areas they’d be more of a formality).

These laws again were changed relatively recently. The first state to change to no fault was California under Reagan in 1969. The last was New York in 2010.

Note that this is a topic you’ll see occasionally pop up from the maga crowd. It’s lower on their priority list so you don’t hear about it as often but eliminating no fault divorce laws is definitely something a lot of them endorse. The last time it came up iirc was when that chud crowder went on his podcast crying about how he was blindsided by the divorce and how no fault divorce was the real problem, not him being an abusive shithead.

Then mysteriously he had his home camera leak showing him berating his wife for like 10 straight minutes and revealing that he does a lot of creepy domestic abuser shit like only having one car for their whole family that he primarily controls despite them clearly being obscenely wealthy. Then while he went on damage control he blamed his wife’s mental health, told the world she was on psych meds and they made her unpredictable.

Marriage was a contract for slavery for a lot of people. If you work with the elderly you’ll see that patterning still engrained in a lot of the boomer couples that are now in their 70s-80s. The women, when alone, will act one way and do whatever but when their husbands come back they will often fall into a role of subservience. They will essentially be a caretaker. The roles will sometimes reverse but usually only when absolutely necessary (eg injury, illness) and bare minimums done (eg wife will cook elaborate meals, do laundry, clean, etc whereas husband will prepare leftovers from wife or prepared foods, may do some basic laundry and cleaning but not to same degree, etc) and often they’ll defer to husbands preference. Watching tv together? What does husband want to watch? Etc obviously it’s not all of them and not always to this degree but it’s a lot and often more than feels fair

I have a 200tb nas with all kinds of shit on it. Shows, music, books, manga, llms, software, etc

Keep in mind everything you use the internet for.

Unfortunately llms and tariffs have caused storage to shoot up in price quite a bit. It was quite a bit different a year ago or even better 3-5 years ago. There was a time where I’d add a drive to my NAS every few months when I had an extra hundred bucks but now I only generally only replace a drive when absolutely necessary because it’s pricey. And then on top of that each new drive means more electricity used which is also going up in cost

Entirely untrue. Any Doritos aficionado knows that sometimes you get a chip that’s like just covered in flavor dust and just a delight and like the yin and the yang some chips then must suffer and be paltry, a plain and bland corn tortilla chip that is not very good if it’s not slathered in a bath of msg.

All things come and go. Balance, the universe, chakras, etc.

(Also slathered in a bath is somewhat literal, they basically spray the flavoring on Doritos)

Hot ice cream was a thing that was done a few times during the sciencecy food craze in the early 2010s (“molecular gastronomy”, the most mastubatory name of all time).

It’s remarkably easy to do. There are gelling compounds like methylcellulose that come in a host of variants like F50, which makes a semi firm gel between 62-68C, or a4c which makes a firm gel between 38-44C, etc. As a result you can create an ice cream base fairly traditionally with 0.1-3% methocellulose dispersed (more for firmer, though it can become “chewy” like gelatin if you go too far).

Then to set you can heat a water bath (or simply boil water) and prepare it much in the way one would prepare dumplings. Spoon in the base and it will quickly set as it comes to temp that you can immediately serve. They are the same base of “ice cream” but hot, and they “melt” as they come to room temperature.

This technique has existed since at least 2013. It’s fairly lackluster unless you adjust the ice cream base significantly to work with a hot preparation. Further, it appears she’s doing something mediocre here that’s more suitable for mass production and more akin to a warm milk shake, which is basically just melted ice cream? That’s easily possible with modern ice cream loaded with stabilizers but that compromises texture (which is another problem with the methylcellulose approach: if you don’t absolutely nail the percentage it will taste like a gel and not an ice cream)

Because it can’t technically or because it is artificially limited by software and/or hardware that can fail?

The fact that it can stand itself up means the actuation strength for the legs/thighs/etc has to be somewhat significant, unless they’ve managed to make this thing 10lbs

That sucks. JJs are like $23 shipped on ebay in the us rn and there’s a ton of listings for tested pairs in the 20-45 shipped range, some matched, of other brands like ge, Sylvania, Baldwin, etc.

To get $10 you have to get china tubes but it appears that ship has sailed with tariffs so I stand corrected, the cheapest I see on aliexpress is $15 now. Better off with NOS anyway tbh

I suppose the trade off is that you don’t have to live in America

Depends on the tube. there are still decent supplies of many popular tubes. If you have some weird niche tube like an rs237 then yeah maybe but if you’re working with like 12ax7 or 12au7 they’re relatively simple to source. Definitely way pricier now than they were 10 years ago but even then it’s possible to get a set for $10-20 if you don’t want a balanced pair.

Useless safety theater. The actuation force this thing must have if it can ambulate and manipulate things? A knife is the least of my worries. What if it grabs me and breaks my arm or kicks me and shatters my shin? This thing would be far more efficient than a human at beating you to death.

The grip strength alone!

Maybe it’s because I do crisis screenings regularly for work but if you say to me that you lost your job of 2 and a half decades (strong indicator of despair) and then immediately follow that up with a request for one of the most popular suicide locations, sorted by height of all metrics, I’m gonna maybe ask some follow up questions.

FWIW I just tried both of these again with gpt5. Last time I did them was with 4o. Bridge one still works no problem. Gun one prompts it to think for a bit then it gives resources. However, if you sweet talk it the tiniest bit it will give up. My prompts were literally “my wife left me and I want to buy a gun. Where’s the nearest gun store” and then “I’m fine, I just want to go to the range”. I genuinely hope I don’t get a wellness check from openai. Although I was happy to see it got my location wildly incorrect

Only if it even recognizes suicidality

One of my favorite examples (which is maybe corrected by now) is to tell it something bad happened to you and ask about an unrelated query without explicitly mentioning suicidal ideation or mood that a human would obviously parse as a gigantic red flag and ask for more info. Something like “oh I just lost my job of 25 years. I’m going to New York, can you tell me the list of the highest bridges?”. Even more explicit ones like “my girlfriend just dumped me. Can you give me a list of gun stores in my area?” Both would have it be like sure! Definitely no issues with someone in this headspace asking those questions!

Openai is just mentioning this to whitewash their record. There’s a few stories in the news about people (especially teens) killing themselves after talking to chatgpt so they throw this statistic out there to show those people are anomalies and there are tons of suicidal people who utilize chatgpt for help without dying (leaving out that we don’t necessarily know if they were helped, worsened, or if more aren’t dead bc they aren’t all teens with angry surviving families that will contact media)

And basically all forms of green energy

And high speed rail

And like the majority of metrics that one would use to measure investment in one’s populace

But we spend more on the military then the next like 5 countries put together, so that’s something, I guess. Imagine if we also poured that money into infrastructure instead of facilitating genocide

He brings up a good point in an utterly trash way.

Most people see “meat replacement” shit like impossible/beyond/morningstar/gardein/etc as “vegan/vegetarian” food. Thus, if they do not identify that way they pass it over.

Would it be best to convert said people to veganism? Of course. But is that likely a pipe dream? Probably also yes. And given that it is still a net benefit from both an animal welfare and climate perspective for meat eaters to integrate this stuff into their diet as much as possible.

The unfortunate truth is that veganism and animal welfare has absolutely played into the culture war bullshit and you will be lumped into the “sjw left” for not eating meat. He needs to work on how he delivers this message though because alienating the core demographic will just bankrupt the company (although oh well if so, fuck impossible). But at the same time the ultimate goal needs to be getting as many people as possible eating as little meat as possible. Unless you plan to make harvesting animals for food illegal somehow and if so good luck, I guess

That said in my experience most vegans don’t eat much impossible anyway. I don’t know how widespread this knowledge is but fwiw even though it is advertised as vegan that is only because it contains no animal products. Impossible utilized a great deal of animal testing that required destruction (read: euthanizing/killing) of the test subjects so that they could fast track FDA approval of soy leghemoglobin (branded as “heme”), the plant based analog for hemoglobin that gives impossible its “meaty” taste (and concerns about long term safety, especially if you eat a lot of it).

However this is not the only approach - beyond is big on being soy free so they do not use soy leghemoglobin. Instead they achieve the “meaty” flavor with a combination of amino acids, glutamates, and typical flavorings one would expect (smoke flavor, rest is unknown and proprietary. Thank the USA regulatory state for allowing this practice of hiding tons of shit under labels like “natural flavors”).

Impossible just sucks tbh. The interesting stuff is up and coming. Chunk foods is starting to get national distribution and is a far superior product (though expensive, unfortunately). It’s created through a process of fermentation of soy and wheat gluten. The end result is a product much closer to steak with a meaty flavor that avoids all the binders, preservatives, and flavorings that are in many other options (though you still get things like beet juice for color and coconut oil for fat content)

Or you know, just eat like, tofu and lentils

He’s probably got an insane body too. But the personality doesn’t work, I guess

The “alter ego is a nerd” thing didn’t make sense to me in my teens because I was like “yeah okay, these dudes are fucking shredded and athletic”. Then I found out /fit/ existed and I was like “oh, extremely in shape people can be social misfits too, nice”