There are some moments in that which are pretty brutal and I was like, “Oh wow… Not sure if my kid should be watching this yet…” but it was an incredible film.

I know it’s a considerable cost increase and installation, but still way cheaper than upgrading your central A/C, and way more efficient, quiet, elegant than a window unit: add a mini-split to the room. I added a Mitsubishi to our hot office with tons of electronics and it’s one of the best home investments I made.

When I moved out west with my mom and sister, the road trip took around 5 days. Most stops were good. The Red Roof Inn in Oklahoma was a total shithole. Lock on room didn’t work. Flickering broken lights in hall out of horror film. Super suss guests… Slept with a knife under my pillow.

I used to play the shit out of The Specialist, a HL1 mp mod.

Also while most were hooked on Twisted Metal my brother and I loved Vigilante 8.

I echo this.

I went with a lower tier Bosch simply because it had a built-in water softener and that was my main priority. On hindsight I may have jumped for the 800 series.

The 3rd utensil tray becomes way more usable with the 800, and your stuff actually dries unlike in my model.

I will say I thought my old whirlpool that came with this house was well designed (more capacity and utensil tray being out of the way on the door was nice).

Can you elaborate?

Are you discussing API calls? Remote Procedure Calls?

My initial assumption was you wanted info on Data Marshaling — utilizing the likes of JSON or XML to communicate data between different programs.

But then maybe you mean data allocation in memory, how the heap and stack work, etc.? References and pointers, and deep and shallow copies, etc.?

Hope you’re doing better now. As someone who works in the medical field, it can be a real bitch to navigate everything.

For the future: Nobody here knows your baseline. If you tell any clinical medical worker you have had chest pain followed by difficulty breathing and vomiting they’re very likely to tell you to go to the ED/ER (Emergency Department / Room). Speaking for myself only, that would depend how stable I feel following the vomiting incident and if the chest pain persisted, and baseline conditions and history (e.g., do you have a history of hypertension, high cholesterol, overweight, etc.? When was your last physical exam?).

We also don’t know the full context on what you mean by couldn’t breathe and feeling like you could die. For example, did you have a major GERD / Acid-Reflux incident (could explain mild chest pain)? Did you eat something and have an allergic anaphylactic reaction followed by a surge of adrenaline from your fear of death and a panic attack followed by vomiting? Have you had sinus congestion say from a cold and a glob of postnasal drip obstructing your airways? Do you take drugs? And yes, it’s possible you also had a heart attack.

Worth noting: Urgent Care has limited resources beyond an X-ray machine, usually. The moment you mention chest pain, they’ll hook you up to an ECG to take a reading. If your vital signs are okay (blood pressure, SPO2, heart-rate, temperature) and your ECG reads no active heart attack, then they might just refer you to a cardiologist follow-up. If on the other hand there are signals of a recent or active heart attack, they will pretty much demand you get loaded up into an ambulance and send you to the nearest hospital with a cath lab (due to liability on themselves). You’ll thus be triple-dipping costs from urgent care, ambulance, and hospital when you might’ve been better off going straight to the ER.

ER will be a higher co-pay with insurance and absurdly costly without (but there are options, some ethical some not surrounding this). The good news is unlike Urgent Care, they cannot refuse treatment based on lack of insurance, if that’s your predicament. Urgent Care will.

Also when you call 911 for a medical emergency, police aren’t going to be involved. ACAB rhetoric aside, DO NOT REFUSE TO CALL 911 BECAUSE OF THIS. The moment the dispatcher sees this is a medical emergency, nearby fire departments or ambulances will be notified.

The original IP used to register is kept forever. I believe subsequent IPs used to log are held for a year. If you request all your data from reddit (they’re legally obligated to provide, you can see this).

They also combine this IP with browser fingerprinting.

Thanks! I could use some improvement in 3 of those, so definitely worth trying.

Can you elaborate on the specific benefits you saw? Did you notice anything in terms of health metrics? Resting heart rate, HRV, blood pressure, watch sleep quality, etc.? I need some motivation to overhaul my desk setup lol.

12 hour desk job. Had Hermann Miller chairs in office but now at WFH I’ve only just started to upgrade my chairs. I’m active, I’m a runner…but I feel it. I always feel off following my several shifts. It takes a lot just to get back to baseline.

If I slack on my stretches I definitely notice the lower back especially.

I probably should get a desk treadmill…

Great choice, and cheap compared to others!

The standard valentines is close to cholula sauce for a fraction of the price.

Frank’s (extra hot buffalo, too) and Sriracha are always on hand in my house, too.

Censorship — So many subs have extremely odd restrictions on posts and comments; special rules to be able to comment; a list of words or phrases that shadow-remove your comments, etc. This sometimes doesn’t matter with day-to-day stuff. It inhibits the capacity to explore controversial topics or have hard conversations. “Can’t meta-refer to another thread or sub,” “We want good content, but don’t post lengthy sourced write-ups!,” You find after dissecting why your comment was shadow-removed that “genocide” or “apartheid” trigger removal. No Ellipsis use on one sub, lol. I have a list of censored words by sub. Can’t explore tough issues without legitimate adherence to free speech. It’s one thing not to enable bigotry and incivility, but we need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable sometimes in order to yield breakthrough progress across echo-chambers.

Power-tripping mods — It has become worse in recent years. Subs that used to have respectable mods and a true appeals process just comes down to them blindly reaffirming whatever judgement there is absent of reason or ethics. Ultimately they aren’t arbiters of civil discourse but more often than not blatantly attempt to shape discourse relative to their own agenda; r/news and r/worldnews are notorious for this, particularly.

Blocking — The hit-and-run of users throwing out weak arguments then running away by blocking is itself disappointing; but that when a user blocks it nukes the rest of the thread, disallowing you to respond to anyone else who independently replies to you makes ZERO sense.

(Bonus: bots, but that’s a given).

In the end I’ll go wherever the people are. I’ll use reddit, lemmy, and I’m hopeful that the new old Digg returning with Kevin Rose and Ohanian will work out.

For those who haven’t heard, Digg is poetically making a comeback, with a team-up between Kevin Rose and Alex Ohanian no less. They bought Digg back a couple months ago and are going back to something closer to the old Digg.

I’m still using old reddit, but I’m very excited about the return of Digg and partnership of Kevin Rose and Alex Ohanian. Hopefully that scares Huffman and somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aaron Swartz is smiling.

Thanks for this! Very helpful in improving my understanding. Transmedicalism seems kind of absurd to me out of the gate given the entire premise behind what I at least always thought trans meant as in “transitioning”; a state of flux if you will. What point along that state largely shouldn’t matter. Yet people attempting to justify their bigotry will of course latch onto extreme edge cases the likes they will never actually feel or experience themselves or are so trivial it’s irrelevant or scientifically baseless in the first place — the obvious one being sports.

Thanks for writing this! This makes a lot of sense to me. I echo the same in terms of the aversion to toxicity and competitive nature (like a little friendly competition can be positive, but beyond that…). Here in America that shit is rampant especially among right-wing circles and it’s so tiresome. My wife said she was attracted to me because I wasn’t like her dad, like most other men in her life that fell into this toxic masculine competitive crap. I’d rather see more cooperative engagement.

Where I diverge is just my lack of interest or desire to wear women’s clothing, makeup, poise, etc. Don’t get me wrong! I have no problem with anyone along any combination of the sex/gender axis enjoying those things, but yeah just not something I’ve yearned for myself, which explains why I may not have gender dysphoria? I don’t know. But this has helped me understand why others do!

If comfortable, could you or someone else who is trans try to explain the feelings behind transitioning to me, a cisgender? I support trans rights and maintain the philosophy of live and let live (dare I say, true individual freedom as a leftist); I’m just trying to better understand for my own sake.

More specifically,

• Is it a matter of societal forces imposing masculine expectations because of your physical characteristics when ultimately, what you feel deep down are effeminate characteristics of the true you? (Or am I wrongly assuming that one is transitioning to another gender and not instead to non-binary?)

• If yes to the first, if society was more receptive to, say, masculine women or effeminate men at face-value, would that have made you more comfortable prior to transitioning?

• If no, I’m interested in better understanding how this sort of realignment for lack of a better word improves the feelings of gender dysphoria if it’s more an internal pressure than one imposed upon you by society.

• In terms of physical attraction, are say MtF by the statistics more attracted to M or F, or is it split, are the bisexual/asexual/pansexual, or is data unclear? Is the aspect of gender dysphoria entirely decoupled from the notion of partner attraction (gay, straight, etc.)?

Hopefully I asked these in a way that is both respectful and makes sense. No pressure to respond, thanks.

Crysta from Fern Gully

Or Gadget from Chip 'N Dale.

My family including my parents moved from rural conservative to progressive left (probably somewhere around Social Democrat).

I’ve spent A LOT of time trying to truly reach out to conservatives, Trump supporters, from this angle. It requires a lot of time, but know two key things:

1. All you can do is plant seeds for neurons to grow. Belief structures get locked in like worn paths through a jungle, and so carving new ways requires an immense amount of time. You’ll never see the fruits of your labor yourself — both because the vast majority of people have an ego they protect at all cost, and because by the time something “clicks” and new neural paths build, you’ll be long gone.

2. Always recognize that your target audience is not the individual, themselves, necessarily, but the onlookers to the discussion. Always hold the high road. Always be courteous and let them throw the first punches. You’ll have a much easier task convincing the fence-sitters whose egos aren’t directly on the line as a direct participant in the conversation.

You can increase the probability you’ll reach these people by ending the conversation on a cordial note once you realize arguments are starting to become circular. You also know you made some decent ground if they just ghost the conversation or delete their entire comment chain without warning. You pierced their ego; they feel embarrassed. You’ve given them food for thought. Try to also frame how you got out of the echo-chamber so it’s not necessarily an attack on them, but an example of growth on yourself.

It’s a thankless task, the victories you’ll never see until we see it on a statistical level. The problem is that it’s a competition for who commands their attention the most, and you’ll never compete with Twitter, Fox News. You just have to hope they have that eureka moment, combined with perhaps a direct run-in with the fascism you warn about.