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loceng··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
How much confirmation bias do you think you're leaning into, in order to not have to swallow the equally, if not more likely case, that the IDF was ordered or purposefully delayed in their response by higher ups?

And about the Hannibal Directive you didn't respond? We can assume too then, since you like assumptions, that they were deployed to kill their own citizens as well - right?

loceng··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
You can start spending time first studying these:

https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/

https://ifamericansknew.org/

loceng··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Most sophisticated-best funded military in the world doesn't have automatic alert systems in place, redundancies, etc, eh?

You probably also don't believe that the Hannibal Directive was deployed on Oct. 7th as well, even though Israel is known to have done the same as early as 1986.

P.S. There are IDF intelligence agents who are whistleblowers that say that this had to have been allowed.

loceng··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
You do know this so-called war didn't start on Oct. 7th, right?

This world needs to be mandated to watch all of the actual evidence, and just propaganda by those who mostly control the mainstream-social media channels.

loceng··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
And yet it took 5 hours for IDF to respond to Hamas breaching their border - where it only takes a maximum of 45 minutes via helicopter to get to any point along the Israel-Palestine border?

Is there any technology possible to help people more seriously see incongruences for what they are, technology to help prevent people from propaganda - or is that primarily simply a systems control issue - education system, information system, etc - that would be party to a censorship-suppression narrative control and distraction apparatus?

loceng··on Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat
Can't have malinformation that may make the so-called King(s) look bad..
loceng··on Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat
BOOK TO READ: Wilful Blindness: How a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper - an investigative Canadian journalist, to get a deep dive into how long this has been going on.

This current government in power [9 years now; the Trudeau Liberal-NDP majority voting power coalition] has done nothing but to allow rampant fraud including this to continue; Trudeau himself on video has stated he admires China's basic dictatorship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8FuHuUhNZ0

loceng··on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can Be Cleaned for $7.5B
"They are spreading propaganda that it isn't they doing it!"
loceng··on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can Be Cleaned for $7.5B
So the solution is use tax money instead to commission citizen-run oversight then?
loceng··on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can Be Cleaned for $7.5B
Are all countries currently honest with their fishing practices, e.g. catch sizes, etc?
loceng··on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can Be Cleaned for $7.5B
Any way to identify where that fishing gear is coming from or produced? Obviously anyone from anywhere could be buying it to use and then trashing it.
loceng··on Fake CV lands top 'engineer' in jail for 15 years
What if he outsourced his work to actual engineers?..
loceng··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2024)
SEEKING FREELANCER(S) | Remote is fine but I prefer real-time collaborative workflow.

- Elixir/Phoenix et al

- Tailwind

Once core feature sets are in place then will scale quickly; I have 30 years domain experience, self-taught since age 11, 41 now.

Eventually I'm looking to build an Elixir/Phoenix boilerplate stack with annual license to gain access to latest version. That boilerplate will be used as the foundation for the network of platforms I'm developing, and provide a an evolving robust foundation for all developers to tap into a growing base of customizable feature sets.

I'll be eventually launching 100s of contextualized platforms, and arguably developing 1000s of feature sets; and then open up the primary platform for 3rd parties to integrate with as well.

Contact matt@engn.com

loceng··on The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection
A good peripheral nerve specialist will direct the diagnostic nerve blocks, and he prefers you use his pain management guy who he trusts is doing the nerve blocks properly - so you're getting an actual proper diagnostic response from patient.

Dr. Tollestrup in Las Vegas would be my recommendation - I've done 7 surgeries with him so far. To note, every doctor I've encountered isn't perfect - in this case with Tollestrup, he himself hadn't heard of Eagle's syndrome before, arguably because he's a peripheral nerve expert - and the vagus nerves aren't considered peripheral afaik.

An "LVI Global" trained dentist may be able to help you find a proper bite, to create an orthotic that will allow your low jaw to relax/stop guarding. They try to upsell you to full mouth reconstruction, where they actually make money, although the daytime+nighttime orthotics they make for you aren't cheap either. Part of their protocol is also doing a head/neck CBCT scan - which is what incidentally found the Eagle's syndrome for me.

loceng··on The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection
What's considered a low dose for Xanax? Never taken it before.

Re: Tinnitus -

Interesting thought to put forward, thanks.

If you still have issues with tinnitus or hypersensitive hearing, look into Berard AIT (Auditory Integration Train) - and where there's a book called "Hearing Equals Behavior: Updated and expanded" that details it, and a sound treatment that can help with all that you said.

loceng··on The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection
My vagus nerves were constantly being compressed until roughly 4 months ago, when I had bilateral Eagle's syndrome surgeries - Eagle's syndrome a hardening, calcification-ossification of ligaments that connect from the styloid process and wrap around the neck connecting to front of throat; I had played American football for all of high school and most likely the cause from reptitive injuries/trauma to the tissues.

Well, this understanding, if true, could help explain why the severe-debilitating pain level I've had would very easily cause me to get completely lost in the pain - where I couldn't get my mind going, couldn't focus past the pain, would be lost and fully distracted by the pain if I didn't 1) keep my activity level as low as possible (even slight movement of my neck would strongly worsen the symptoms of Eagle's syndrome, particular to the right - a commonly described symptom that one side is much worse), and 2) if I had had any inflammatory foods during the prior 2-3 days or 5 days if dairy.

Now my struggle is, now that my nervous system isn't so interfered with with my vagus nerves' signaling no longer being interfered with - my nervous system is working far stronger now, so I feel the remaining few areas of pain far more strongly - and along with that emotionally the experience is far harder as well, far more aggravating; and I arguably no longer get as easily lost in the pain anymore, but now that I am more often connected to my mind, the remaining more strongly experienced pain is more constantly disruptive - whereby the disconnect otherwise was arguably a sort of coping mechanism; being lost in pain is not fun, but at least then routine could act as a functonal crutch.

The biggest problem now though is it is even more difficult to get my mind focused on a specific task that I need to get done, having had severe executive dysfunction that had slowly been improving over the years as I played whack-a-mole to knock out the next strongest sources of pain - but now trying to organize and get together what's needed to book next diagnostics for next likely needed treatments to get last 2-3 major-excruciating remaining pain sources has been so difficult now, the uphill battle has turned into a steep cliff; the biggest problem is I am in Canada, Ontario specifically, and the knowledge and competency-critical thinking here is absolutely abysmal - where I've had to spend likely now over $800,000 for medical treatments in the US over the last ~8 years, and now struggling to find competent dentists - made worse by a dentist 1+ year ago - lastly being bounced around I think to 5 different dentists now the past 3 months.

My story is more complex than this however. My issues with pain only started after "successful" LASIK eye surgery ~12 years ago caused my nervous system to get overwhelmed - causing central sensitization - was the tipping point or the "final straw that broke the camel's back." Prior to LASIK my mind could handle suppressing whatever underlying pain the injuries and nerve compressions I had; so there is definitely a factor of compounding and arguably amplification (along with hyperalgesia, a hyperesensitivity to pain) between different the eyes and the rest of the body-brain.

I'm at my wit's end, and as pain has localized, unmasking the remaining pain sources more strongly, it appears there's a possibility while LASIK may have been the impetus - it may have been the teeth damage-specific teeth pain but overall bite occlusion causing severe sensitization via disruption of my reflexes-autonomous nervous system, essentially TMJ-TMD but only problems runaway guarding-muscle spasming that's compressing nerves - and then perhaps TMJ-TMD guarding compounding with the Eagle's syndromes; and then perhaps also with the corneal damage that happens in 100% of LASIK surgeries, of which there is nothing more I can try to reduce that as a source of pain.

loceng··on U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news
I'd worry that this type of public announcement by a US ambassador is part of propaganda to manufacture consent for the Canadian government to either block select US "news," and/or promote select Canadian "news" - where many people don't realize that this current government already does censor/block news from organizations that are above a certain size.
loceng··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
From my understanding the arrest warrant only was created while he was en route; sneaky sneaky..
loceng··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
TL;DR - The bad guys are winning?
loceng··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
And tactics exist outside of control of communications, to capture these bad actors, to infiltrate their ranks; why are these alternatives to fighting the production of child exploitation and abuse content not brought up in conversation ever?
loceng··on Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
Government, and said justices paid by the taxpayer pool of money, is arguably guilty of similar things when taxes are forced-required, no?

It's just they're the current power structure, so they can get away with the state monopoly on violence et al?

loceng··on Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
Using this as a means to manufacture consent to implement-enforce such systems, and then what regulation will be used to counter the tyrannical takeover of these systems - who may be the most vile child predators seeking control-power to be able to do what they want - to pillage, rape, and murder as they please?
loceng··on Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains
With all of the upsells and other offerings that monthly services that also can allow a user to use a domain name, I think you're right.
loceng··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
https://www.boringcompany.com/vegas-loop - doesn't exist?
loceng··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
"Extreme sycophancy without much critical thought."

A claim you make with no supportive arguments.

My comment is packed with critical thought. Maybe you're just lacking understanding to unpack it? Or are you too arrogant to not think that you know all?

And then ridiculous ad hominem that you think was clever enough to actually waste time to type out; what work do you have that you hate that you're procrastinating from working on?

I'm really curious if you know what sycophancy means, and if so, how exactly my comment is benefitting me? I think it's more likely you're jealous of Elon's success, have past trauma from personal work experiences you're projecting onto him, and taking it out on anyone who notes his successes and extrapolates to estimate where his projects will lead to.

loceng··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
Should a person with the most followers in the world have more people seeing, to then be able to know what they are sharing or saying, to then have more eyeballs to scrutinize them?

Should they have more or less eyeballs witnessing them, and responding to them?

I'd rather see what they are saying directly vs. seeing other articles about him that are most likely propaganda nowadays with how corrupted the media currently is, hence partly why ELon felt compelled to buy Twitter-X to begin with.

But fair enough, blocking him then could make sense.

loceng··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
So my understanding is Elon reduced the algorithm's bubble effect - causing people to be exposed to contrarian content, content a person doesn't agree with, so that it would be witnessed by more people.

Do you think it's a problem that people are coddled in bubbles?

loceng··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
Thanks for replying with some depth-specific concerns.

Okay, so perhaps the worst case scenario is only goods are shipped in the tunnels - taking all semi-trucks off the roads for at least the major long-haul routes?

All-or-nothing thinking without critically thinking or brainstorming through how adaptations for adoption could be made isn't helpful.

Re: Safety

Perhaps battery tech that eventually is safer than currently driving a vehicle, perhaps even safer then with the casualties from airplane crashes, or other solutions like before entering the tunnels everyone is provided emergency kit/safety-oxygen masks/goggles, etc; and maybe necessary for doors that have an emergency "blowout" handle to pull and have doors pop off their hinges? I'm not sure you're correct about being unable to open and get out of a vehicle in such the tunnels.

We go through security checks, etc, at airports to save time - what level of "inconvenience" are people willing to implement or follow if a ~5 hour drive can turn into say a ~30 minute ride in a Hyperloop?

Also, in the Hyperloop almost vacuum state that's planned, fire will be less of a problem - and perhaps a safety system could be implemented, especially if everyone is temporarily given an oxygen mask-goggles for each longer ride or all rides, that at certain points a fire extinguishing-suppression system could be implemented where non-oxygen gases are flooded into the tunnel between the point a fire is detected?

Arguably so long as cost of implementation is less than or the same cost than current existing infrastructure costs, where the time savings are arguably up to invaluable - but a cost per ride for each person using the system will be determinable, then it can be a great alternative especially with the positives of how it allows transport regardless of winter weather conditions, etc.

loceng··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
Hey dang, what exactly in my comment above warrants -5 (or more) downvotes?
loceng··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
I haven't looked into it recently, however their Las Vegas network is going and expanding; 40 million people per year travel to Vegas, a great testbed and for exposure.
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