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- Comment on I sometimes can't sleep at night. Perhaps my brain's "CMOS Chip" battery ran out and my circadian rhythm defaulted to my "factory settings" of Beijing Time (UTC +8), which would explain my insomnia. 4 days ago:
I have sufferef from bad insomnia my whole life. On a good night, I would lay in bed for a couple hours with my eyes closed trying to fall asleep. On a bad night, I’d lay like that until my alarm went off in the morning, and then I’d get up, shower, and go to work. That (not sleeping at all) would happen at least once a week for years.
I tried a lot of things. I tried prescription meds. They didn’t work. I tried booze. No luck.
On Reddit about 10 years ago I came across a post about a podcast. The Sleep With Me Poscast.
It doesn’t work for everyone, but it was like a miracle for me. The guy running the podcast is so incredibly boring and the episodes are so unbelievably meaningless that I could actually feel myself falling asleep while trying to follow his meandering stories.
When I first started listening, I’d play one episode, but then when the episode ended, I’d wake up. Then I started setting it to play all episodes without stopping, but then I’d sleep through my alarm. I finally had to set a sleep timer to stop the podcast a minute or two before my alarm.
- Comment on Beer tastes somewhat like piss because it's processed through fish bladders. 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I’ve never liked the taste of beer. It’s just not my thing.
I’ve always assumed I wouldn’t like the taste of piss either, although I never tried and I never imagined the flavors would be similar.
I’m left wondering how you determined that beer tastes like piss. Did you do a comparison? Did you do a peepsi challenge?
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 weeks ago:
There were some things that could be interpreted as prayers, but the vast majority were not.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 weeks ago:
Shit, cats do that. Do they also pray to god?
Why would cats pray to themselves?
- Comment on Zero tolerance policies in schools and mandatory minimum sentences have the same arguments and issues 2 weeks ago:
I had a rule for my kids for dealing with bullies in school.
First, tell a teacher.
If that doesn’t work, tell me, and I’ll tell the principal.
If that doesn’t work, deal with it yourself, but avoid causing permanent damage.
I never really expected telling the teacher or the principal would help. I just wanted it on the record in case shit went down and lawyers had to get involved.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 2 weeks ago:
29 months? I bought my current phone in July 2020! Previous was Feb 2014.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 3 weeks ago:
I’d argue that he’s just trying to claim that the reason no woman has ever gotten pleasure from sex with him is because he didn’t want her to.
- Comment on Are Memoirs and Autobiographies partly fictional? How the f do people remember so much detail? 5 weeks ago:
Some people keep journals. When those people write their autobiographies, they can check the records.
Other people have good memories.
It’s probably also more important for it to be a good story than for it to be 100% accurate.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 5 weeks ago:
Because the victims of the rape of children in the Epstein case don’t have the money. The perpetrators do.
- Comment on If you are not a real fan of Marvel or DC you have no right to come see these movies 5 weeks ago:
This is that guy?
No wonder he’s spewing bullshit. It’s leaking out of his brain.
- Comment on A hypothesis 5 weeks ago:
Witnessed a radiology resident typing her password into a computer and for each uppercase letter she would press shift-lock, type the letter, then press shift-lock again.
I couldn’t figure it out until my mom pointed out she probably only ever used a phone or tablet.
Which is crazy, because I can’t imagine getting through high school, college, and medical school without ever working on a desktop computer.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 month ago:
Thankfully the values my mom taught me are the same ones Jesus taught: love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have done to you.
This is what baffles me when my dad argues with me for being left of center.
You sent me where they taught this, did you not want me to learn it?
(Also not religious, but kept some of the philosophy)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I was single for 16 years until I started dating my first girlfriend. We dated for seven years, and we’ve been married for 32.
We started as friends and stayed friends.
- Comment on Eaten by Jesus 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sneaking snacks into the theater is objectively wrong if you are a movie fan 1 month ago:
Have you seen their books?
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 1 month ago:
Yeah, even if you’re not a minority, if you’re one of the peasants, you’re gonna catch hell for murder.
If you’re rich, you can probably get away with it.
However, I was referring to corporations. If you’re a corporation, you can murder as much as you want, and when it comes time to pay for your crimes, well, you’re not really a person.
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 1 month ago:
We mostly don’t treat murder like murder.
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 month ago:
I had a class on college taught by a Catholic priest.
He loved to have people come to his door to talk religion. He’d invite them in, give them tea, and then talk to them about Catholicism until they asked to leave.
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 month ago:
I don’t really want anyone to knock on my door (the doormat says “GO AWAY!” for a reason). However, I’m likely to be much more polite to someone talking about science than religion.
I’d probably say “no, thank you” before slamming the door in their face.
- Comment on Israeli guards stripped and filmed Thunberg naked, wrote 'whore' on her luggage 1 month ago:
While that’s true, they had me suckered for a long time.
- Comment on Israeli guards stripped and filmed Thunberg naked, wrote 'whore' on her luggage 1 month ago:
It’s quite something. I have supported Israel for all my life (and I am an old fart).
But now, if Israel was to disappear from the face of Earth I wouldn’t give a fuck.
I too am an old fart who always supported Israel. However, at this point I’d go further than you. If Israel was to disappear from the face of the Earth, I’d consider it a good thing.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 2 months ago:
You are saying I should have said:
“It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than me.”
The personal pronoun, “me” is used when it is the object. However, that’s not the case here. I’m not being held. Thoughts are the object. I’m comparing how well they hold onto thoughts with how well I hold onto thoughts.
The sentence, “It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I”, has an implied verb. This is common in informal conversation.
The meaning I would expect an English speaker to understand would be, “It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I can.”
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 2 months ago:
We had one in an auditorium where I work. Only problem is it was underneath an MRI scanner. Every time they’d open the door to the MRI, the magnetic field would knock the projector tubes out of alignment.
The technician who came out to work on it said it was hopeless. He told us he had a customer whose projector would get out of alignment if he moved a speaker in the room.
I was so happy when we finally replaced it with an LCD projector.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 2 months ago:
No. It’s clear to me now that other people have an ability to hold onto a thought longer than I.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 2 months ago:
If you have a bit of memory retention
Ah. That’s my problem.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 2 months ago:
You guys can remember your thoughts long enough to post them after you get dried off?
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- Comment on Does anyone know how I'm suppose to open this? 2 months ago:
Put some ice and water in a plastic bag and sit it on top of the cap. Let it sit there long enough to cool down the cap.
While the bag is sitting on it, pour hot water on the ground against the pipe to heat up the pipe.
The cool cap will contract while the warm pipe expands. This might loosen it enough to use a straight bar to unscrew the cap.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 2 months ago:
While I appreciate the composting efficiency, I was thinking something like this for maximum gruesomeness: