NielsBohron

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So this is how liberty dies...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
And his lack of any sort of moral compass beyond “money”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That’s all well and good, but are you really suggesting that trans people who are fearing for their lives should stay put to help the electoral college issues four years from now?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feral Science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I do live the feeling of disorientation I got from the first book. The whole thing felt like I was in a fever dream and I was never sure if I was losing my mind or it was the book.

Of course a big chunk of that could be the sleep deprivation that came with having 2 kids under two at the same time as reading the book.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We got in on early 2016 and the price of real estate increased by 20% while we were in escrow.

Our house has more than doubled in price since then but if we had fallen out of escrow, we would not have been able to buy anything anywhere near our jobs/preferred city (and my partner and I have a combined income north of 150k/year).

Shit is crazy these days
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max Planck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s because you’re thinking of it like a distance, but matter at that scale actually behaves more like a standing wave that only has discrete solutions.

Or at least that’s how I think about electrons and Schrodinger’s equation. I dunno, I only teach about stuff that’s as small as an electron, but it’s a useful tool for thinking about quantum numbers, so I assume it applies to smaller matter, too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know that you’re wrong, because those MD/PhD programs are exceptionally demanding (but are a good way to avoid med school debt for some). It’s more that even for pure MD’s, research is a very, very different career path than practicing physician. I think researchers still have to go through residency, but after that they’re mostly designing and arranging clinical trials, writing grants, interacting with related university departments, etc.

So, you know, research stuff rather than patient stuff.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There are medical researchers that have MD’s, but they are not practicing physicians (usually). There are MD/PhD programs that are aimed toward medical research fields (usually with the PhD being in biology or chemistry as you mentioned), and lots of biological and biomedical engineers working on certain medical fields as well (especially using stem cells and other chemical cues to regrow tissues). So yeah, biology- and physiology-adjacent sciences are where most of the actual advances are happening.

Actually practicing medicine is basically like being a mechanic that specializes in keeping one particularly poorly designed piece of equipment running.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m aware of and support her current work and I agree that she’s much smarter than her public persona would lead people to believe. However, she still comes from a place of unbelievable privilege and telling people to “stop being desperate” is incredibly tone deaf, IMO.

Two things can be true at the same time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“Stop Being Desperate” has a real “Let them eat cake” feel, especially coming from her.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
As someone who teaches chemistry to premeds, this is not surprising at all. To make a swing generalization, premeds, med students, and the MDs they become are done if the most entitled, condescending, and obvious people I’ve ever met.

There are exceptions of course, but in general, I can’t stand most premeds or how our culture puts MDs on a pedestal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Believe me, I’m all for using religious imagery when it’s appropriate for getting the point across. However, the whole point of OP’s statement is lost if it’s not made clear that religion itself is the primary source of this evil. Otherwise, “It’s always the Devil who tries to convince everyone that he speaks for God,” could just as easily mean “my god is right and yours is the devil.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Fair point, but using ambiguous religious language to convey the dangers of religion seems a bit open to misinterpretation, imo.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d remove the religious implications and say “it’s always those who are most convinced they have a monopoly on Truth who are most dehumanizing to the out-group”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Appropriate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Also, may I introduce you to our slug metal overlords, Slugdge
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Windhand was my gateway into this whole world, and I couldn’t agree more. The first time I heard their stuff, it just blew my mind in a way I hadn’t experienced in probably a decade.

I came into metal from metalcore, and there’s no faster way to get yourself banned from the metal subs than posting metalcore, so I feel you in the gatekeeping, too. The doom scene really does pull from all sides of influences and tends to be pretty accepting of a ton of fringe bands and sounds so you get people that are excited to talk about music instead of just shitting on other people’s taste. So you get “doom wop,” stoner rock, doom ‘n’ roll, fairy doom, witch metal, caveman battle doom, and so on.

Have fun exploring it all! There’s a ton of good shit out there, and for my money, to this day, nothing hits like that first time hearing “Forest Clouds”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not really all that related, but if you like Panopticon by Isis, you might also appreciate the best Appalachian atmospheric black metal I’ve ever heard, Kentucky by Panopticon.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Happy to get you excited with some new music! I’ve listened to heavy music for decades but it had definitely gotten a little stale for me. It was only in the last 2 years that I discovered stoner/doom as a sub-genre, so I’m not all that far ahead of you. Some really great stuff that is frankly just as heavy but much catchier than most other metal subgenres. I mean, I love me some black/death metal, but I’m just not really getting obsessed with bands/albums/songs the same way as I can with this slow riff worship you see in stoner/doom.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Pallbearer and Ahab are both pretty good for funeral doom or death/doom (depending on who you ask).

I like a little bit of “epic” doom themes but trad doom, power metal, and actual epic doom are a little too cheesy for me, so I lean toward Conan (very heavy, approaching a sludge-drone hybrid) and Khemmis (who describe their sound as “doomed heavy metal”)

I actualoly usually skew more psychedelic doom or stoner/prog doom, which has a lot of great stuff in the past few decades. Sleep’s Holy Mountain (classic stoner metal), Grief’s Infernal Flower by Windhand (psych doom), Our Raw Heart by YOB (heavy stoner/prog), Lore by Elder (very proggy but still catchy).

Also, I assume you’ve seen the most common recommendations for classic sludge, The Melvins (especially Houdini and Bullhead), Eyehategod, and Side B of My War by Black Flag. If not, get started there
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The music is all written by a member of Isis, which is pretty heavy, but in an “atmospheric sludge/post-metal” way. So I can see how you’d think that if you’re looking for something more death metal (which would fit in the fight scenes, although atmospheric sludge or funeral doom would go pretty well in the rest of the game)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Once I got past the first few paragraphs, all I learned from that is that I don’t understand the Poincare conjecture or really anything about topology
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There can be only one winner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Certainly possible, but I’m sort of a textbook mild case of ADHD, just with the side case of insomnia from being fairly prominent (which was true even before medication). Everybody reacts to medication in different ways, so I’ve just found I have to rely on coping strategies more than medication for my case. It’s not a big deal and I’m at a point in my life where I can manage my ADHD symptoms in a way that doesn’t affect my life too much. So for me, the side effects of the medication exacerbate my preexisting insomnia to the point that the drawbacks of adderall outweigh the benefits for my particular brand of ADHD.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There can be only one winner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
No it’s IR, but taken 20 mg in the morning and then 10 mg in the early afternoon. It just always wound up with the physical effects lingering much longer than the mental effects, so if I tried skipping the afternoon dose, then I’d wind up totally scattered and useless from about 3PM on.

The XR once in the morning worked a little better, but for whatever reason didn’t really help the same way and I still had the insomnia from it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There can be only one winner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
There are no winners here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack and Coke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
In all honesty, I think it’s likely a simple mistake.

The object that artists use to hold their paints is actually a third homophone, spelled palette.

It could be that the word choice was intentional and is referencing the character’s bed, but I find it more likely that it was simply lost in translation from the original Japanese
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack and Coke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s just the synesthesia talking.

… But you’re not wrong
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack and Coke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s always worthwhile to be self-aware and to be conscious of the parts of your personality that others might be annoyed by or take offense to. I’m not going to change that part of my personality just to please others, but I don’t think it’s annoying to acknowledge that others might not appreciate that part of who I am.

But hey, you do you. If being your authentic self means not caring about how your words affect the feelings of others, then that’s just who you are, I guess.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack and Coke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

blown out ~~pallet~~ palate

FTFY. A pallet is a small bed or an object used for carrying things, a palate is part of the mouth or one’s ability to taste things. Pretty pedantic,I know, but I have this compulsion to correct misused homophones, so… Sorry? You’re welcome? Either way, have a great day!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pademelon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You seem unable to distinguish between nuance and pedantry, so it’s unlikely that we will be able to have a productive conversation that receives around nuance.

Have a nice day.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pademelon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Fair. I could have been more accurate by saying “they are exhibiting behavior that has been reinforced by certain positive responses,” but that’s a little wordy.