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- Comment on The Matrix 10 hours ago:
Its much… much more terrifying if you watch both parts of The Second Rennaissance from the AniMatrix.
Basically, the machines win the war against humans and then spend a century or couple just… doing all kinds of horrifying Mengele level experiments on humans, to attempt to fully understand their biology, neurology, etc…
And also, Smith gives details about the previous versions of the Matrix, in the first movie, as he is taunting Morpheus:
Agent Smith: Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You've had your time. The future is *our* world, Morpheus. The future is our time.
I believe the Architect says some things about it as well, and like, the Merovingian and his entire crew of Exiles, and Seraph… they’re all programs that were designed to be essentially monsters or angels, in older versions of the Matrix, who refused to be deleted along with a version change, and basically hide in the Matrix… an Agent would see them as an anomaly and try to destroy them.
The Matrix Online went into this kind of thing in a lot more detail, but … I think it basically mostly isn’t canon anymore. But parts of it might be. … very confusing to try to sort all that out.
- Comment on The Matrix 10 hours ago:
Johnny Mneomic got a headache after reading that joke.
- Comment on The Matrix 10 hours ago:
The fun part is that the inhabitants of Zion are, canonically, shown to have very incomplete information about the actual state of the world, their own history.
Neo is told basically ‘we think it is the year 2XXX, but really, we have no idea’, in the first movie.
Without spoiling much… Morpheus is wrong about some things, some pretty important things.
Hell, so is the Architect and even the Oracle says that some things are beyond her ability to predict.
But anyway… its entirely possible that the battery explanation is just another thing that Morpheus, the broad understanding of Zion itself, is wrong about.
So this doesn’t actually ‘break’ the canon at all.
In fact, I’d argue that it makes the idea of ‘free your mind’ even more interesting and complex.
Even the truthseekers and truthtellers… can be wrong.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 1 day ago:
I was homeless for a while.
… I know I couldn’t handle being a real paramedic.
Made my way as a make shift paramedic, treating various injuries and wounds that people would… appear with, at or near an encampment or something. Usually just field dressing a laceration, jerry rigging a makeshift splint.
Occasionally a gunshot.
I always begged people who needed more care than I could provide to go to a hospital.
Sometimss they did, sometimes they or their friends would refuse.
Fentanyl… zombies is actually pretty close to an accurate description.
I’ve seen more necrotic flesh, gray tissue and flesh where either a stab wound or injection site once was… than I want to remember.
Successfully stabilized a few ODs … not all of them.
Also happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time: drive by shooting.
The streets are basically like a warzone, if you’re in them too long.
Fuck, I’m two years out of homelessness now, and I’m still doing PT to recover from my own injuries.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 1 day ago:
… this is the tame, fishbowl, lemmy version of 4chan community.
Yes, yes obviously most of the people here come from very fucked up families.
… do you think normal, well adjusted, happily raised children… tend to end up anywhere near 4chan?
There’s a reason 4chan has been repeatedly targetted and 4channers have been repeadtedly weaponized by extreme right wing political groups.
4chan’s demographic is primarily fucked up young men/boys.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
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- Comment on Wavelengths 4 days ago:
Oh my god this is so stupid but I love it!
Got an actual belly laugh out of me, oh god, I’m crying… thank you OP.
- Comment on wat 4 days ago:
Things cannot move through space at a speed faster than lightspeed.
This rule does not apply to space itself.
Also, interestingly, shadow boundaries can ‘move’ faster than the speed of light.
iflscience.com/shadows-can-move-across-a-surface-…
Because a shadow isn’t truly a ‘thing’.
Its just an area where light bouncing off of something is not happening (as much).
- Comment on Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial 5 days ago:
Circular breathing is used by many brass players to hold particularly long notes or unbroken chains of notes.
Same for oboes, bassoons, clarinets.
Its also very useful to harmonica players, which are technically reeded wind instruments.
Circular breathing might not be strictly necessary for some styles, but its definitely used by a lot of people, its basically only an upside if you know how to do it properly, raises your skill ceiling.
- Comment on Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial 5 days ago:
At one point, myself and some college buddies rented a townhouse after we all graduated.
In the garage, I stumbled upon a bamboo stick, maybe a bit wider than a thumb, pretty long though.
I held it aloft to examine it… it had a carb and a bowl.
We were the first renters at this place, the couple had moved but decided to rent out to us.
So basically I foubd my landlord’s custom/jerry-rigged bamboo uh, ‘peace pipe’, I think is what we called it.
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 5 days ago:
Its kind of like the opposite of a guillotine.
Doesn’t always works, but when it does, you basically did it to yourself.
The corpse pile problem on Everest has been getting significantly worse for a while now.
… same thing, to a lesser extent, with the Titanic.
Maybe we could make an empathetic argument that there shouldn’t be any billionaires: Having that much money makes you so stupid and encourages such risky behavior that really, you should be thanking us for not allowing you to get into a dangerous headspace.
- Comment on Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial 5 days ago:
You could also probably just make a shitty/unique one out of PVC pipe, a handsaw, and a drill bit.
Or maybe even just core out a stick of dried bamboo?
- Comment on Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial 5 days ago:
I might suggest the harmonica as another potential alternative.
- Comment on Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial 5 days ago:
You do not appear to be reading this right.
Here lemme break this down and slightly rephrase it for readaibility:
Compared with the control group[,] in the didgeridoo group [we observed] daytime sleepiness and apnoea-hypopnoea index improve significantly.
[Their] partners reported less sleep disturbance [as well].
There was no [discernible/signifcant] effect on the quality of sleep.
So what you describe as ‘masking daytime sleepiness’ is actually just ‘less reported daytime sleepiness’.
IE, you’re more alert, less sluggish, when awake.
Apnoea-Hyoapnoae index is basically the time you spend during sleeping having blood flow oxygenation below critical levels… this also significantly lessened.
Meaning that people got more regular well oxygenated blood flow while sleeping, after blwoing through a tube regularly.
And their sleeping partners reported being disturbed less.
The only thing that did not improve was self reported ‘quality of sleep’.
Yet they were observed to snore less, and reported being less tired during the day.
So, the only metric that didn’t improve was the one that is the most subjective and least important.
They didn’t report ‘better sleep’ but… everything else indicates that their sleep was indeed of greater quality.
Psychosomatic dubiousness that anything is different vs every other metric showing improvement.
Or, your response, basically.
Going back to the numbers, the day time sleepiness index is from 0 to 24, where over 11 is excessive sleepiness. The mean improvement is -3, which basically means these people got 3 more useful active daytime hours a day, they got 12.5% more useful time in each 24 hour period.
Again that’s not masking, that’s the exact improvement you are looking for.
The ‘choking in your sleep’ index improved by -6, when the average score of all was 21, so basically the average result was roughly 25% less time spent choking in your sleep.
Who would opt for this treatment?
I dunno, maybe anyone with a CPAP machine that wants to one day maybe not need a CPAP machine, or someone with CPAP machine and also an unreliable local power grid?
- Comment on Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial 5 days ago:
I mean, makes enough sense in concept.
Could also work with any larger wind instrument that requires moving a considerable volume of air.
Builds up muscles related to breathing, could thus potentially moderately reshape the throat and nasal cavity.
Maybe you’d prefer a tuba?
… at least its not a vuvuzela…
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 6 days ago:
I mean the extremely literal answer is roughly:
All counties/cities have a bureaucracy dedicated to doing the equivalent of yearly audits to determine your home/property’s value.
This does not exist for corporate capital assets.
Instead, the audits are privately conducted (either internally or via a contracted private accounting firm), and valuations are basically only issued around time of sale, when corporate capital changes specific private ownership.
Even earnings reports are not done by an outside agency for the purposes of assessing a tax, they’re either done privately by the owner (again, internal or contracted out), or as private market research for something like a hedge fund or something like that.
We as a society (legal system?) just decided that homes get a bureaucracy and taxation, capital does not, it plays by different rules.
Its… its the oligarchy baked into the system, been like this for quite a long time.
Its not that its… any kind of theoretically impossible to imagine a or many different kinds of systems…
Its that rich people have rigged so many things so far in their favor, for so long, that they believe these artificial engineered differences … are fundamental rules of reality.
Like yes they’re very hubristic and classist… but a part of it is that they’ve basically indoctrinated themselves into thinking this is… objectively correct. Its sort of like a religion, its their dogma.
I will note that at least some billionaires don’t buy into this dogma nearly at all… either out of genuine empathy and humanity, or pure self preservation of not wanting to be guillotined… you do end up with the ‘Tom Steyer <-> Mr Wonderful’ spectrum.
Of course, the Steyer types are exceedingly uncommon.
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 1 week ago:
… that… is not something I previously had imagined as possible.
sigh
- Comment on Xbox Player Voice Quickly Reveals What Players Want Most 1 week ago:
I’m genuienly convinced at this point that you could apply a sociological analysis framework of ‘religion’ to branded platform fanboys and conclude that they are indeed religions.
Rituals? Shibboleths? Group Identity vs Other? Apologia/Theology? Divine symbology? Appeal to transcendental authority?
Yep yep and yep.
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 1 week ago:
This is waay too fucking perfect.
I’ve not owned a farm, but I grew around county fairs and often visited and helped out at horse stables or farms or what not.
The only change I could possibly suggesg is that somehow a horse needs to be ‘big chaotic stupid’, but i know that breaks the system, but goddamnit horses are fucking stupid.
- Comment on Aussies are a strange beautiful people with ways that are alien to me... 1 week ago:
I’m not even Australian and I support this.
Funnier names for all funny money!
- Comment on Anon gets laid 1 week ago:
A slightly less deranged and more wholesome way of putting this would be to basically describe the blood donor as the greatest wingman ever.
… The recepient most likely couldn’t have done it without him.
- Comment on It's actually that simple. 1 week ago:
If you’re at that point, often, repeatedly… unless you’re with an Ace, your relationship is either over or wholly performative.
Probably best that you realize that.
IMO, consenting but unenthusiastic sex is worse than none, you should both have more respect for yourselves and either talk out what’s really bothering one or both of you, or just admit that you don’t even like each other.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
Well sure if you wanna take the angle that game mechanics being patentable is in and of itself a problem then… yeah, ok.
What is anybody gonna do about that?
Best case scenario I can possibly think of is… maybe if SKG remains an actual political entity and score some actual wins, maybe something like 5 years down the line they could draw up draft reforms for patent and copyright laws, but…
… even just assuming that you could come up with a new framework that people would actually well understand and also broadly support… not gonna be easy to balance the idea of a small upstart trying to secure a wedge of a market, vs a giant megacorp that owns all neat ideas…
…that would be an even more insane battle than going up against just video game companies.
At that point, you’d be taking on essentially all of the wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet.
People have been arguing for reforming the DMCA for decades, its never gone anywhere.
It is barely realistically concievable to me that anything could actually be done about this.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
Wow I am now very tempted to come up with the ‘dialogue nonagon’ or ‘dialogue septagon’.
Like… are you kidding me?
At what point, how many n’s does the polygon need before it legally becomes a circle?
patents.google.com/patent/US20070226648A1/en
I actually think you coukd get around this via using a polygon with an odd number of sides, and not use a moving ‘selection box’ to indicate the selected category, but instead, just overdraw/shadow/highlight/bold/animate/colorchange/font change the text.
Then, then all you have to do is not offer ‘classes’ (ie set categories that define a static dialogue tree) as the primary options.
So you could just make those ‘classes’ dynamic within themselves, a full web or mesh, not a tree of boxes, and then just offer ‘mesh entry points’, not ‘category descriptors’.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
Its less terrible than you think, Nintendo has been suffering setback after setback in the totality of their legal battle with PalWorld, in both Japan and the US.
www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/…/ar-AA23uWgi
eurogamer.net/nintendos-palworld-lawsuit-suffers-…
nintendolife.com/…/it-is-ever-more-likely-that-ni…
Basically… both the US and Japanese versions of the patent battles are having things like… Japan just actually rejects a Nintendo patent as being too vague and non novel… the USPTO does a thing it almost never does and re-reviews a patent it had previously given to Nintendo as possibly being vague bullshit as well… Niintendo just completely rewrites the lawsuit in the middle of pre-trial, while also claiming violations of patents that it filed for after the lawsuit started.
…thats actually largely a bunch of bullshit, that has a decent likelihood of pissing off the judges and arbiters involved as essentially being legal misconduct.
- Comment on vacation 1 week ago:
The copay is ‘can you find a coconut today?’
- Comment on vacation 1 week ago:
Going to therapy?
… in this economy and healthcare system?
- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 1 week ago:
Insanity Wolf -> Microwave acts upon LiON battery.
- Comment on Stay hydrated 1 week ago:
Oh I don’t have a house, I’m under 40 years old so that will likely never be possible.
I have a studio apartment. The filter/tank is uh, i fill it up at the sink, holds 36 cups of water, gravity filter between the top resevoir and the main dispenser tank.
Benefit is the entire system is portable, and maintenance is very simple, the filters themselves are maybe $30 a pop, and the whole set up comes with a particulate detector mabob, so when it reads over a certain amount, filter is starting to go.
There is 0 chance the place I live can afford to overhaul the plumbing… they’ve been looking to sell the property for about a year now, lol, haven’t found a buyer yet.
- Comment on Even Trollops are Beautiful 1 week ago:
A rather notorious hornyposter has been quiet for a while, my thesis to explain this is they are being horny in meatspace.