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Liquixon Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models

It is like Pascal's Wager but has nothing to do with "what God wanted" or "God hating you"... It's more "if it doesn't work the outcome is the same anyway" (eternal oblivion in Pascal's case, certain death in this case), therefore why not give it a shot in case it does work.

Liquixon Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants

yes, i had it backwards - thanks for the correction.

Liquixon Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants

5000 IU is very high, might be beneficial during the winter for folks with very fair skin. but most probably shouldn't take that much every day

Liquixon Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants

can vouch for a diet high in fatty fish along with supplementation of D3 + cofactors (K2, A, magnesium, zinc, copper, boron). sample size of one but noticeably improves mood and energy levels.

recent evidence [0] suggests there's not much of a link between serotonin and depression, and therefore the effects of SSRIs are either placebo or an as of yet unexplained mechanism of action. IMHO it seems much more likely that modern lifestyles (excessive screen time, poor diet, lack of socialization, no connection to nature, no spirituality, etc) have more of an effect than serotonin levels.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35854107/

Liquixon Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

not much in the parent comment is anti-graphene. it's probably the best available option for a mobile OS right now.

the sentiment is that the dev team - specifically one zealot - does not engage politely/rationally/transparently in any public forum, which undermines the image of the OS as a whole.

Liquixon A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)

Makes sense when talking about human postures and emotions.

Victory/elation/worship corresponds to extending the arms above the head or in a "V" shape, sorrow/grief corresponds to dropping to the knees and holding the head in the hands, etc. These associations seem to persist despite language barriers and great spans of time.

Liquixon Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]

The remote viewing declassified documents available at the CIA reading room are mind blowing IMO. Keyword to search: "GRILL FLAME"

Liquixon Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA

perhaps "making less harmful to the body"? this could potentially be accomplished separately from making them less effective

Liquixon Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

The issue is lanmaoa asiatica is ectomycorrhizal, meaning it grows exclusively on the roots of certain plant species in a symbiotic relationship. This is not like TTBVI or p. ochraceocentrata (misclassified as p. natalensis until recently) where amateurs can produce grain spawn with relative ease. Cultivation would involve planting or having access to the correct host species (Yunnan pine) which is a prohibitive barrier for most.

It's also not yet known if the active compound can survive dehydration like psilocybin. If not, it would mean even experiencing l. asiatica will be very difficult to impossible for enthusiasts not residing in its native region.

Liquixon Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

https://xkcd.com/1105/

Liquixon Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

https://i.imgur.com/hhlg100.jpeg

Liquixon AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating

> What happens when AI is analyzing all of that information...

They run simulations against N million personality models, accurately predicting the outcome of any news story/event/stimulus. They use this power to shape national and global events to their own ends. This is what privacy and digital sovereignty advocates have been warning the public about for over a decade, to no avail.

Liquixon 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions

adblockers on chromium-based browsers were severely crippled by manifest V3. they're fine with extenisons (and apparently malware) as long as users can't effectively block their tracking/ads.

Liquixon SoundCloud has banned VPN access

> record the audio during playback and manually enter the metadata

there are more elegant solutions similar to yt-dlp. scdl is very user friendly and automatically embeds metadata.

https://github.com/scdl-org/scdl

https://github.com/miraclx/freyr-js

Liquixon Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

the issue is that eventually SIM cards will be baked in to deliver ads and spyware; there will be no alternatives because everyone was fine with buying smart TVs and not connecting them to wifi.

see: Android's recent transformation into a closed platform which no longer allows users to control devices they purchase. it's important to fight against trends like this loudly and vehemently while we still can.

Liquixon CoMaps emerges as an Organic Maps fork

uh, i think "related" is used a bit too loosely here...

Liquixon Adventures in upgrading Proxmox

it seems like a bot or LLM "user", all their other comments feature the same broken quotes and nonsense responses

Liquixon Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship

there are plenty of "real" open source mobile OSes. the issue is third party apps. if Debian couldn't run NGINX, Apache, Docker, Kubernetes, etc, it wouldn't matter how mature or solid the OS is, because 90% of software people want to run on a server doesn't work.

if FAANG apps and banking apps don't run on a mobile OS it will never be viable. the government, these big companies, and the device manufacturers all have a vested interest in making sure it never happens.

Liquixon Core Devices keeps stealing our work

> ...Pebble Technology Corporation, went out of business and dropped support for the hundreds of thousands of Pebble smartwatches out there. Rebble – and our community! – put together a Herculean effort to salvage the data that was left on the Pebble app store.

> We’ve built a totally new dev portal, where y’all submitted brand new apps that never existed while Pebble was around.

> We’ve patched hundreds of apps with Timeline and weather endpoint updates. We’ve curated removal requests from people who wanted to unpublish their apps. And it has new versions of old apps, and brand new apps from the two hackathons we’ve run!

it sounds like Rebble scraped the original store, built a new API and storage layer, facilitated the publishing of new apps, and kept old apps updated when external changes would've rendered them otherwise unusable. then tried to work with Eric to reach an agreement where both parties could have a piece of the pie in the relaunch.

Liquixon Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies

pure racemic MDMA has very little stimulant effect. street MDMA can feel stimulating because it is either intentionally mixed with caffeine/speed/meth or contains residual precursor from clandestine synthesis.

my major state was one of deep relaxation ... MDMA does not work like Dexedrine ... I feel totally peaceful.

- Alexander Shulgin, PIHKAL

https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal109...

Liquixon Firefox expands fingerprint protections

to defeat canvas size fingerprinting in firefox:

about:config -> set privacy.resistFingerprinting to true

about:config -> create new boolean key privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing set to true

this will set your canvas to a common size which fits in the viewport and display a grey "letterbox" border in the surrounding space.

Liquixon A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

there seems to be a parallel with the industrial revolution - being fit and having muscles used to be the norm when everyone worked the fields all day. but now that grocery stores and sedentary jobs have made exercise optional. so choosing to pursue fitness signals to others that one is disciplined, takes pride in their appearance, etc.

i can see the next couple generations of AI agents causing the same effect on reading, critical thinking, and intelligence in general. thinking is no longer necessary with AI agents, so maybe cultivating one's ability to think will become optional/personal pursuits which send similar signals.

Liquixon Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15

this seems to run parallel to the "i have nothing to hide" / "well they have everyone's data, so who cares about mine" arguments.

this is too narrow a view on the issue. the problem isn't that a colleague, acquaintance, neighbor, or government employee is going to snoop through your data. the problem is that once any government has everyone's data, they will feed it to PRISM-esque systems and use it to accurately model the population, granting the power to predict and shape future events.

Liquixon Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files

IME this can sometimes be resolved by selecting 'use grub2 mode' instead of allowing the ISO to boot normally.

Liquixon Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels

> typically without a meal

any reason why? it's fat soluble and absorbs much better if taken with a meal.

Liquixon Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions

or cancel your subscription. you would not continue to patronize a restaurant that intentionally put an extra charge on your bill to make themselves more money. why continue to pay M$ after they deliberately tried to trick you to squeeze out more profit?

Liquixon Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

IME NextCloud is a bloated PHP monster with poor performance. Twake seems to be leaner and have a narrower scope.