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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • And some of it is boiling salt!

    Which then boils water, of course.

    But some of it is electrons from photonic impact, no water involved! In the process of energy generation anyway. Statistically and perhaps somewhat ironically, the electrons from that photonic impact may well be used to boil water regardless… Humans just fucking love boiling water.





  • My concern is in regards to AI… I think many are relying more and more on it. Making such content a waste of my time in this perspective.

    Another way to frame this is “I don’t have anything new to add to what AI would write on the subject”.

    Don’t you? Then why are you thinking about writing a blog? Even if it’s just a documentation of your projects, it’ll be your perspective. AI can’t write that, so people who want to read your blog aren’t going to get it from AI.


  • You’d be astounded at the places you’ll run into the idea that foreskin is gross. I was at a burlesque show - very left-leaning crowd - and the MC asked for “what ruins a bedroom experience for you”. “Uncut cock” was like the second answer and everyone hooted and hollered (though props to the MC, they managed to seem real uncomfortable while playing it off well). I’ve never had it directed at me thankfully, though I have had some surprise from one or two partner that I’m not cut.

    I’ll say it til the day I die, I owe my mum a debt I can never repay for not letting my dad do that to me. Just one of the multitude of ways she protected me.




  • You herd the group of cats that are all my friends, family, and work colleagues and get them to use a standard app that’s not Facebook Messenger

    So much this, it hurts. Signal removing SMS support was the biggest setback to getting my friends and family to adopt secure messaging. I had such a huge percentage of people actually switching because they could use just the one app, and then Signal went and fucked it all right to hell! Now I’m back to a handful of contacts on Signal.



  • I don’t enjoy online texting and find it worthless and a waste of time to me, and as such in person interaction is what I cherish the most;

    Yeah, I didn’t miss that bit.

    so that’s why I am so hung up on the time ratio question

    This is still a non-sequitur for me. How’s this for a ruleset:

    • If some night you don’t have energy to go and don’t want to go, then don’t go;
    • if you do have energy and you don’t want to, don’t go;
    • if you don’t have energy and want to, figure it out at the time 🤷
    • If you have energy and want to go, go.

    What about alternatives like crashing at his place every once in a while?

    Just remember, this isn’t a negotiation - I’m not the one getting you there and back. I’m just trying to give you another way of looking at it in case that makes it easier to figure out.


  • Aside from this being an entirely personal question that nobody else can answer for you, I think it’s getting to see your friend that justifies the drive, not the amount of time you spend with them. I had a commute like this to see one of my buddies for a while; sometimes we’d spend as little as an hour, sometimes 8. The 4-hour round trip each time isn’t what I remember.






  • but autism? Nah.

    Preaching to the choir haha.

    Regarding your point on the efficacy of acetaminophen: agreed wholeheartedly. Like /u/i_has_a_hat said, if you combine it with ibuprofen it’s far more effective. My go-to for bad pain is 500-1000mg acetaminophen and 400mg ibuprofen; I stole the idea from my ex’s neurologist when he prescribed it for dealing with the side effects of her main medication (and he also specifically said it would help with her period cramps too, hers were always bad).

    As to the guy taking 5 an hour… That’s an incredible amount of acetaminophen, even “normal strength”. You said you wouldn’t, I think I couldn’t take that many pills. Just the idea has me gagging 🤢 I think it’s fair to call that one an outlier in the data.


  • I appreciate the sources, but I don’t appreciate the

    You… you didn’t try at all, did you?

    Because nothing you’ve posted here is news to me. I think you’ll find I said:

    If the danger is people not bothering to check what they’re ingesting, I’ll concede that’s a clear and ever-present danger - just not one specific to acetaminophen.

    So I’ll just quote directly from your very first link, because the rest of them don’t say anything different:

    Responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits and 2600 hospitalizations, acetaminophen poisoning causes 500 deaths annually in the United States. Notably, around 50% of these poisonings are unintentional, often resulting from patients misinterpreting dosing instructions or unknowingly consuming multiple acetaminophen-containing products.

    And

    At therapeutic levels, acetaminophen is generally considered safe. However, instances of acetaminophen toxicity often arise due to patient misconceptions about dosing or a lack of awareness regarding its presence in multiple medications they may be consuming. Intentional ingestion of large doses also contributes to toxicity.

    So, in around 50% of cases, the danger is people not bothering to check what they’re ingesting. They took other medications containing acetaminophen and didn’t know it, or they took other drugs that amplified the ability of the acetaminophen to cause damage (like alcohol, which is made very clear you’re not supposed to take with acetaminophen).

    In the rest, overdoses were intentionally taken, so you can’t really count those in the danger statistics since the goal was to use it dangerously.

    To put this in perspective:

    When taken at therapeutic doses, acetaminophen has a good safety profile. The therapeutic doses are:

    • 10 to 15 mg/kg/dose in children every 4 to 6 hours with a maximum dose of 80 mg/kg/d
    • 325 to 1000 mg/dose in adults every 4 to 6 hours, with a maximum daily dose of 4 g/d

    Toxicity is likely to develop in adults at:

    • >12 g over a 24 hours
    • 7.5 to 10 g in a single dose
    • Doses >350mg/kg

    Toxicity in children occurs following a single dose of 150 mg/kg or 200 mg/kg in otherwise healthy children aged 1 to 6.

    Just do the maths on how much acetaminophen you normally take for any given ailment, and you’ll realise just how far beyond those doses the danger really lies (or maybe that you’re one of the people who doesn’t check what they’re taking).

    So, to conclude: acetaminophen is indeed dangerous if you don’t pay attention to what you’re taking or how much. Other examples of things that are dangerous if you don’t use them right: cars, ovens, lawnmowers, cotton buds, the internet… the full list is quite long, actually, but I’m sure you get the idea.



  • Just block and move on, I think 🤷 If they ban you, so what? I doubt any single instance forms a huge percentage of your experience here, and that goes double for some knob’s shite little personal instance. Put another way, that kind of moderation is never going to grow a large community; maybe they want it that way, but it does mean they’ll stay irrelevant to the majority of users. And the reasonable ones that person bans will make their own instance; the instance with the most reasonable moderation will end up with the most users.

    At least, this is how I’ve been using it. Just firehose the lot at first and filter down the noise over time. My block list is long, communities and users. Hell, I’ll block a whole community if I see the admin or a mod being a dick. I feel this has only improved my experience.