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..and as expected, men here fail to get it.

Their compulsive erasure of female voices across the internet is just the same impulse of control.

It is always about exerting control over female bodies. Not rational, but evolutionary residue.

I recently talked about LSD to a spiritual person (the western esotericism kind).

He accidentally took a very high dose in his 20s and also read a bunch of books on the subject for a while, by Leary and so on. He equated it to a trip to the mirror maze, but nothing more. He doesn’t find it worth it and warns against it since for some people it lingers for too long. He is puzzled about people calling the experience „spiritual“ too.

It seems you did not understand what I was trying to illustrate with this example.

Edit: I removed the example because it just distracts from the point.

A lot of people out there do not listen to learn or share viewpoints or out of genuine interest for the other being, but to get information that they can later use against you. People with real interests (nerds) should be particularly careful when talking to most people because nerds don’t understand such intent, which is why I try to not share my interests or similar personal information when I don’t sense certain personality traits. Being shut up about yourself makes most people out there mad because they view a conversation as a “trade” and can’t expect a later dopamin fix if you don’t give them your share, but who cares.

Maybe ancient nomadic humans ate low-carb / keto in winter (which is why it seems good for using up fat resources efficiently) and high-carb in summer (which is why it seems good for filling up fat storages)?

Consider a dust mite hoover (Hoover Ultra Vortex is popular). Also good to have some turnover routine for your mattress as dust usually accumulates underneath in the bed frame.

Black Seed Oil at night also helped me as a mild natural antihistamine. I’m not sure whether it can / should be taken for extended time (my otolaryngologist saw no problem but I’m not sure).

The very first thing I did was turning off buying via voice.

My two Echo Dots 3 had an aura of technical immaturity from day one, but I always viewed them as inexpensive minimalist audio players with some extra functions. They were on sale for like 20€ when I was looking for a simple Bluetooth speaker and I am happy I gave them a try.

* Spotify across the apartment due to the seamlessness of Spotify Connect. No complaints about sync or sound quality, works beautifully.

* Audiobooks or radio while unable to control smartphone (bathtub, exercise).

* Quick access to radio stations, news shows (the ones it understands at least :) ).

* Simple automatic routines like a brown noise playlist during sleep or wake up music, or turning the lights off at night.

* Elderly people in my family who don’t understand tech love theirs to request favorite music via Spotify, set kitchen timers, play digital radio, get a morning greeting. It’s an extended kitchen radio for them and in heavy use.

Would not call this a failed product, perhaps they should focus on core functionality, and improve the app (that I fortunately rarely use).

I’ve introduced sabbath, one day per week (mine was Saturday) where you are not allowed to work or even think about work, not even reading mails. Do what your inner voice leads you to do on these days, including staying in bed all day while listening to audiobooks.

I’ve been using my sabbath day to explore the country I was living in (immersion in different places), and / or meeting people while at it. While traveling I was listening to audiobooks or playing games on my Switch (but overall reduced screen time). It was one of the factors getting me through an AI PhD.

I've been a beta user but the 10$/month price tag is too steep for me.

That being said, I'm beginning to think that having a price tag as entry barrier is a good thing for a search engine.

One of the reasons for Google's downfall is that they had to cater to dumb and easily controllable masses.

Also, the aggressive SEO that made the search results so bad made economical sense as soon as those masses flocked at the platform.

Kagi may only stay this good if it does not become too popular. I hope the developers think about the fact that their best strategy might be focusing on their current sizeable niche market of nerds and intellectually curious people.

These are some of the worst photos you can show of Dresden.

Try some image search instead. It’s called „the Florence of the Elbe river“ for good reason. There are almost no big cities in Germany today that are comparatively beautiful (Münster maybe, but it’s smaller). Some impressive art has been collected there.

Good people have died. And you are thinking about bad PR and shareholder feelings.

If I were in a deciding position at Twitter I would find it extremely challenging to handle war propaganda, to be honest. I’m quite torn here.

Using the Nazi trope is clearly playing the west, where it has been effectively tried, tested and abused in past and present. As one example of many, during the peaceful revolution the same accusation has been used by the GDR to discredit the Monday demonstrations. While it’s true that there were some neonazis walking, it was a tiny percentage.

A war comes with propaganda and is probably the most difficult moment for social media tech. I will be curious whether someone can come up with an intelligent, rational solution that learns from the mistakes made in history - and values and represents the principles of human rights the west defines itself by.

A tech solution could be detecting polarized, one-sided speech and automatically presenting information orthogonal to it. Could also help against other kinds of rabbit holes and increase frontal lobe usage in people.

In this case, there should be a category like „car accident“ there. I don’t see it.

Instead there are strokes, myocarditis, thrombosis, facial paralysis, etc.; most of them in age group 30-50 that has comparatively small covid risk ( U Oxford numbers: qcovid.org ).

In my understanding these are reports submitted voluntarily by regular people after market release, who saw a connection to the medication. See section 2 point 1, „Methodology“.

Why do you think did Pfizer fight in court against publishing these documents?

And why have they still blacked out the total number of vaccines shipped? (p.6, 3.1.1)

You probably have a food addiction. This does not only materialize in eating, but also in thoughts about food or inventing ways to not eat. Thinking about food is very primal and you can easily slip into a different kind of food addiction (other kinds of eating disorders) if you are not cautious.

Your plan needs to be simple and reduce the mental capacity used up by thoughts about food.

Detailed calory tracking is counterproductive as the logging makes you think about food all the time.

Example low-mental capacity plan: Only eat one moderate meal per day (and one little other thing if you really get too hungry) for a set number of weeks, maybe 6. Don’t look at the scale more than once per week. Have one cheat day per week. Recover, then repeat.

Less difficult example: Fast for one or two days per week. Track calories with a method requiring low mental capacity all other days. (Noteworthy trivia: Obama fasted every Sunday.)

Use gamification like:

* AppleWatch with CaliCalo (you get exp for every calory saved) plus some simple fast way to enter calories into AppleHealth on your wrist

* Fitness games like RingFit Adventure, Fitness boxing (sports don’t help you loose weight substantially but do improve health)

The calendar-as-todo-list advice might be suitable for busy managers, but seems quite unsuitable for engineers, scientists and any kind of „makers“ who can rarely tell how long solving a problem will take.

Some reasons why can be found in Paul Grahams well-known essay „Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule“. Another one is getting the various random demands occurring in life out of the head so that it is free for difficult things that require full attention.

If you want to use calendars, the idea of the „unschedule“ from „The Now Habit“ might be more suitable for makers: Only put meetings, chores and actual freetime into your calendar so that it becomes obvious when there are blocks of time for focused work.

Well, chronic fatigue syndrome is out there and has been suspected to be triggered by viral infections for long time. The community actually became quite hopeful when long covid came up that someone would finally listen. Maybe your friend has even found remedies among these long-term sufferers.

The people in CFS documentaries look as bedridden as those with long covid to me. So why does long covid get this much attention, while CFS remains obscure?

Herd immunity would only occur if the vaccine stopped transmission, right?

Sadly, this is not the case. Vaccinated people achieve high viral loads too.

Yes, you missed stratifying by age and preexisting conditions and BMI. This data was missing in the beginning, but we have more than the overall mortality rate now. This is indeed relevant for young people, which tech largely consists of.

Here is one of many risk calculators, based on UK data: https://qcovid.org/

Unknown factors for the unvaccinated are the severity of new strains (against which the vaccines may not work well though, see the CureVac trials) and long covid (which does exist but is not well studied yet). Unknown factors for the vaccinated are the potential of the spike protein to create havoc in your vascular system (yet a real infection gives you an uncontrollable large dose of it), and the related anecdata about rare severe vascular side effects.

Such unknowns have to be respected when making personal, political and employer decisions. Overconfidence easily slips into failure. People have issues with the related cognitive dissonances and prefer to take and rage defending sides.

Thanks for sharing this thought, very interesting.

I think we can't say which effects are at play here though without waiting for more numbers. Next to reports in e.g. VAERS; by now there are many reports by different real user accounts from different nations reporting severe side effects and deaths. There is a lot of tribalism, totalitarianism and unscientific overconfidence from those who decided for the vaccine as well. For them such reports are either pure statistics of large numbers (which I agreed with at first but wouldn't be so confident about anymore) or collateral damage (which is extremely cynical, given that the damaged people are often young and healthy without high risk from covid and just "wanted to do the right thing" or get certain freedoms back).

A less severe but suspicious and little explained side effect - the menstrual issues - are quite widespread, but are dismissed as hysteria..

Can you give us some advice on how you recharge effectively between such bursts? Since starting receiving salaries I am staying within 40+ hours work weeks but it does depress me because indeed my head is not always in the game. I thought about only doing the necessary busywork for some weeks because I want to get difficult projects done that just won’t work out if I’m not full-in. But I get feelings of guilt whenever I do that, and that prohibits recharging.

Conservative media has been and is almost exclusively doing the vocal delusional pandemic denial. You are completely right about this. The source claiming the right-wing conspiracy theory has been an outlier here.

There was an article from a popular outlet I've been particularly surprised about, since left-wing media otherwise mostly took the pandemic seriously here and around the world, and tried to stay science-based.

This article remained in my memory because they present themselves as fact checkers and are popular with many prominent people in my primary political and media spectrum.

They politicised covid early on and claimed it is just an anti-open-borders / anti-foreigners campaign: "The secret reasons why conservatives want you to be afraid of coronavirus": https://www.volksverpetzer.de/politik/rechte-panik-corona-vi...

This is from 27th January 2020, while many people here on HN likely have read the first concerning reports about this virus at the end of December 2019. I started being careful from mid January.

Until today this page self-righteously claims that "the available facts at that time" pointed towards nothing to be concerned about in the Western world, which is simple not true if you took your research seriously.

I mentioned that Men in Black scene. There were several other topics where I could find concerning evidence by carefully browsing otherwise questionable sources very early on – the lab leak theory (ProjectEvidence, Zerohedge), the aerosol transmission, that mask wearing is reasonable, the unclear and potentially harmful effects of the spike protein itself –, while I've been completely ignoring such websites before covid. ( Other things like people just dropping dead on Chinese streets did not turn out true ofc. )

That newspaper scene from Men in Black. I’ve relived it a number of times over the past year particularly.

Local mainstream “fact checkers” have even called Covid-19 a “right-wing conspiracy theory” in early 2020.

Deeply sorry if I could not make myself clear to you, thanks for showing me with a downvote. What I'm trying to do is dissolve these binary categories and find another explanation for their presence in public discourse.

The word "Merkel" seems to act as a trigger for you. I can assume quite well where you are getting your political information.

Wondering how you evaluate the "track record" of the "extrovert" people I mentioned.

What if the introvert vs. extrovert categorization is a concept invented by so-called "extroverts", to pad their egos?

It's a concept that places randomly, emotionally acting people on the same level as people who try to think rationally before acting and prefer quietly educating themselves over socializing, as "they are just different personality types". It's a concept putting people that spend all their evenings in bars drinking on the same level as those they perceive as "introvert bookworms". They don't have to admit that the quiet wallflower who doesn't seem to be interested in participating in their primate dominance games is just more intelligent, careful and thoughtful than them. It's thus a quite useful idea for people who don't do a lot of non-social activities.

It even gives those "extroverts" an excuse to pathologize and patronize "introverts", just as they do during other social settings. Even the article has a list of "coping" strategies at the end, such as "Balance your time: For every 1-hour meeting, make sure to plan at least 30 minutes to yourself." – as if thinking before speaking makes you mentally ill and require special treatment.

Angela Merkel and Obama are introverts.. Bolsonaro, Johnson and Donald Trump extroverts. Looking at the past year that's 'nuff said.

It seems some countries have a preference for extroverts, and confuse loudness and random action taking with ability. Fooled by charisma – especially Western nations seem to continuously fall into this trap.

It’s all just primitive chimp brains.

Somewhere deep down we always knew.

Ok, I took your advice. It was a trigger for a lot of unprocessed events, and this made me realize there seems to be a lot of trauma related to bullying indeed. Thanks.

If you have any further suggestions, they are welcome.