Dasus
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- Comment on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet 1 hour ago:
Also I’d like to see it done on a “heavyweight smoker” who’s not uses cannabis for say, six months to a year.
Because I think all of the heavy lifetime users were also actively blazed as fuck.
- Comment on Benefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud drive 1 week ago:
UBI to all.
The real cheaters are the billionaires.
- Comment on 'ELIZA,' the world's 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code 1 week ago:
I tried it a fair bit and it seemed to just give vague questions as answers. I wondered why but it was essentially modeled to play a psychiatrist in terms of the sort of language one might use,
So if you write “unhappy” or smth it’ll goe “why are you unhappy” /“did you come to me because you’re unhappy” etc.
Very simple ofc but would’ve been impressive 60y ago.
If you input *help you’ll see commands and *cacm repeats the ELIZA / DOCTOR conversation from the original paper so you can sort of see what it’s capable of when the writer knows pretty much exactly what to prompt. (There’s still some variance in but eh…)
- Comment on I just finished watching Voyager... again 3 weeks ago:
Oh I enjoyed it. It’s just a tad new for what I go for, which is the late 80’s to mid 90’s scifi with boring one camera angles most of the time and just the effects are believable but also some times rather laughable. Depends.
Anyway good sort of background watching. Enterprise iirc has a tiny bit more action on the screen just in terms of camera angles even if not action action
- Comment on I just finished watching Voyager... again 3 weeks ago:
In the past 10 years I’ve prolly rewatched TNG like 2-3 times, DS9 once or twice and voyager a few times as well.
Haven’t rewatched Enterprise. Might do that after I finish rewatching American gods.
- Comment on Reborn as a cute anime girl 3 weeks ago:
Correct.
- Comment on on topic 3 weeks ago:
I’ve gone on a gluten and dairy free diet. Not ouf of some fad, but because I think I have NCGS, Non-celiac gluten sensitivity.
The difference it’s made is massive. I used to think no way those lifestyle hos ranting about their gluten free diets isn’t bullshit, but for at least 1/10 of them, it’s real with all probability.
And it’s not just stomach issues that they cause.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 3 weeks ago:
Definitely clinically psychotic, just like Trump, but who the fuck is gonna do anything about that?
- Comment on Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why? 4 weeks ago:
“Unmanned” doesn’t mean “driverless”.
Pretty sure RC cars existed before RC airplanes.
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t usually eat more than once or maybe twice a day but often still take more than one shit.
Everyone’s bowels are bitty different.
- Comment on Stitch markers I painted 4 weeks ago:
I recognise the others but what’s that on the right side of the leek?
- Comment on BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes 4 weeks ago:
Posts like these are rarely the ones in which pro-Israeli people make their stance. Same with all the articles about them killing kids on purpose.
“Israel has a right to defend itself” doesn’t mean they’re allowed to commit genocide.
Fuck Israel
- Comment on Desertions spark panic, and pardons, in Ukraine's army 4 weeks ago:
It’s pretty charitable for Matt Damon to be volunteering there.
- Comment on Vehicle plows into crowded Christmas market in Germany, killing 2 and injuring dozens 5 weeks ago:
No.
I’m saying that they’ve understand someone smoking weed isn’t doing anything more harmful than drinking beer. Both can become issues, but usually don’t and takes a lot for them to actually matter.
Alcohol use disorder and substance abuse isn’t diagnosable from “I like cannabis because it helps with my nausea” while just having proved for months you cam go without it.
The 60 year near retirees still actually buy into all that feeder madness bullshit and any mention of using cannabis gets your markers as an incurable substance abuser.
You think I exaggerate, but I I’ve tons of these on tapes. In Finnish though
- Comment on Vehicle plows into crowded Christmas market in Germany, killing 2 and injuring dozens 5 weeks ago:
A lot of the older psychiatrist I know seem rather unwell. Like not unstable, but not well. So I don’t wonder that one eventually snapped.
The younger ones, the ones okay with cannabis, seem like they don’t have as much issues. But it might just be lack of being worn down who knows.
- Comment on ugh i wish 1 month ago:
Very kind of you.
- Comment on ugh i wish 1 month ago:
Sure man, but I’m a pedant with a shit sense of humour and I like to point out myths that may or may not be actually relevant if it “came down to it.” And unlike in the movies where you just spray some whisky on a wound, alcohol isn’t a magical get-rid-of-all-chance-of-infection when it’s in levels of like <50%.
- Comment on ugh i wish 1 month ago:
Even if you do 95% everclear (which we don’t even have in the EU, we’d fucking kill ourselves with that shit), you’d still only get 47.5% alcohol with the rest being milk, which is not enough to sterilise it.
Like above 42% will kill a lot of stuff in it, but it’s not enough to sterilise it.
- Comment on ugh i wish 1 month ago:
So you get a liquid that’d roughly 20% alcohol and mostly milk?
Yeah that’s not gonna do it.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
Yeah, it is. And even moreso here in the Nordics.
I take a vitamin D supplement every day. Especially in the winter.
I quickly googled and a Finnish article says that during summertime, wearing just shorts, you can get your daily amount half an hour. But that’s midsummer sun and midday.
But in countries where it’s more intense…
Anyway, supplementation is definitely necessary for most people, especially during winter.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
Yeah, I know it’s Vitamin D you get from the sun, but for instance exposing yourself to sun that requires sun lotion, you’re still getting all the vitamin D you can use.
Idk this might be a bullshit stat, but here in Finland you here all sorts of things about vitamin D and sunshine, so iirc, I think like 15 minutes in the sun already gives you your daily dose of vitamin D.
So it’s not exactly a good reason to lift the lockdown when people can just go out to walk their dog and have all the benefits that one can get from the sun. It’s not like sun worshipping yourself until you look like a two-day old hotdog is anything healthy. The sort of tanning RFK JR seems to have practiced. I had a friend (woman) who just loved suntanning. Like crazy much. And smokes. She wasn’t too bad looking when I worked with her, but god she’s gonna look like wrinkled leather in 10 years.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
I think it’s like the FDA having just reasonable guidelines on how much UV you can safely be exposed to. RFKJR prolly thinks sun lotion prevents all the healthiness from the sun and crystallises your amygdala or something along those lines.
- Comment on dear lord 2 months ago:
God a writing prompt I’m no writer but I’m drunk noooo.
I’m getting all sorts of ideas but again as I am no writer, I don’t know how well I’m gonna get them down.
But has anyone seen the Dr Who episode “Flatline”? >!2D beings invading a 3d space, basically.!< youtu.be/ll_UhrQMC-I
I think a mushroom would somehow evolve or “learn” to use electronics. Like accidentally being near a switch in the lab the mushroom grows in, and it’s near the switch for lights for plants in the lab. And the mushroom feeds on the plants. The lab is abandoned or it’s a fault the fungi gets near the switch or some such hijinks, but through that it learns benefits for electrical manipulation, even though it doesn’t actually know what it’s doing. It just knows it happened to manipulate electrics in some way, and the way it did it, it got more food.
This leads it to being “curious” about other electronics it faces (let’s say this is a mushroom in an abandoned robotics lab or something) and eventually it learns to manipulate a robot and through that, it learns to sense our world, of which it has no idea, except for the feedback it gets from the robots sensors, which it doesn’t fundamentally understand.
So it is the sentience, but mushroom sentiences are fucking weird.
I’d watch the shit out of what I imagine it to be. But since I have a hard time actually translating that into a movie myself to show you, you’re just gonna have to trust me. In like 5 years I’d be able to just show you through having an EEG BCI read my thoughts while writing this and having an AI translate it to a movie. But that’s only if we weren’t busy with destroying the world and no chance tech like that isn’t gonna be so proprietary that I wouldn’t have already been sanctioned with some shocks for violating intellectual property rights or something.
Thanks for the prompt, enjoy the incoherent comment.
- Comment on Sniffin Poop 2 months ago:
He knew exactly what he was doing.
Homeboi ain’t no snitch.
- Comment on Sniffin Poop 2 months ago:
Good boi refreshes my belief in goodness.
Daily dose of belief in hum… dogmanity.
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 2 months ago:
True enough
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 2 months ago:
Why on Earth is this surprising?
Ask “Do you want to get thinner?” to any obese person… What will they say?
- Comment on Petrichor 2 months ago:
There’s like an indian family/company that’s been making some hiqh quality petrichor perfume for idk at least 100 years, probably several hundreds, if not a thousand or more idk.
I forget what it’s called you can probably look it up with perfume pertrichor india
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 2 months ago:
It’s sounds like “bad”, but with a shorter “a”, so like “had”
Although I guess “bade” is used nowadays as well don’t know how erroneous it’s considered to be.
You can here people use it here
www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=I+bade&pos=4
www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=bade&pos=4
Seemingly Americans in those clips say “bade” (rhyming with “made”) but Brits say “bade” (rhymes with “had”)
- Comment on Frog's Gift 2 months ago:
Nono, my bad. I like Hank’s videos, hadn’t seen that, if I had, I’d have linked it as well instead of some clickbaity journalism that’s just riding off of Hank’s work.