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Who gets to decide whether I'm being misinformed or not?

Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places.. or something like that.

Serious question: Is Shatner being serious here? https://youtu.be/lul-Y8vSr0I?t=20

I agree with your sentiment. Something that's helped to keep me learning/improving/progressing past the 1 month mark is to remind myself how much I managed to learn and or enjoy during that time. If I can't think of anything -- usually this is rare -- I'll give it up. Extend your reassesments to every 2 months, 4 months etc... I end up finding it harder and harder to give up. Still, it's good to know when to throw in the towel.

“Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

... and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

This document matters. It’s a fucking miracle it even exists — still.

I dose a similar amount of B12 as you and likewise see real benefits, but I recently stumbled across some research that claims vitamin B6 and B12 supplemenation show increased incidence of lung cancer in men [1]. I'm wondering if any of the above physicians can comment on this research.

1. https://examine.com/nutrition/vitamin-b-cancer/

Thanks very much. Finding a copy from the states seems to be hit or miss. Some searching brought me here though: https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/52/mitrok...

Would you call this a legitamite/equivalent source?

My favorite from this summer so far, and one I don't see mentioned much is "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August" by Claire North (Catherine Webb). https://www.amazon.com/First-Fifteen-Lives-Harry-August/dp/0...

Oh, thanks very much!

Here's a thought I've had recently: it might be worthwhile to have a page, perhaps linked to from the topic's comment page, that shows all flagged comments for said topic. People would not be able to reply to these comments, but everyone would be able to read them. I'm not sure if it has any merit or not, but it's just an idea.

I see what you mean, but wow, his description of Klaus Kinski frothing at the mouth while shattering a wine glass by screaming at it (whether true or not) definitely makes me want to keep watching -- Herzog is unapologetically over the top, but he sure knows how to tell a story.

That Peter Eisenman building looks like it'd be a killer skate park. Say what you will about James Howard Kunstler, his TED talk on Architecture seems to be in the right direction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ

Try getting a non-notarized VST to run in your DAW. At least in my experience, even after allowing the plugin in security and privacy it still never loads in Reaper. It's entirely possible, even probable, that I'm doing something wrong. But what a headache.

“We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!”

― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Correct, hollow-point ammunition is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions. This has always baffled me since large caliber and high explosive munitions (120mm HEAT rounds from an Abrams) are regularly used against soft targets in combat, not to mention things like hellfire missles or JDAMs. That's the rules of war for you.

Unfortunately not. I share your sentiment; that "something bigger than us" feeling seems to nag at us.

Only once: While on an Army training exercise at Fort Irwin California, through the IR scope of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, at night (~ 9:45 PM) in the summer of 2009. I was gazing at the exhaust of a hovering black hawk when a perfectly spherical, very hot, object moved into my field of view. It was behind the helicopter, and as I followed it I realized It was rotating 360 degrees -- at an unknown distance -- around our position. I attempted to range the object with my gun, but once I did, it immediately froze in its position, went from white hot to cold black and back again, and then shot up (very quickly) and out of my view where I lost sight of it. I shared this with the rest of my platoon afterwords, after which we all took to our scopes, ... and it came back, but six spheres this time and in a diamond shaped formation. After one full rotation, the objects slowly broke formation and disappeared into the sky. I never knew what to make of it, but like Mulder, I want to believe.

I might add that this might be specific to the kind of circles you run in. Either way, this conclusion is far too absolute and a hasty generalization.

Pretty true. The worst is when they butter you up a bit with, "how was your weekend?", or "The weather is pretty nice today". Like they actually care about you, ha!

Indeed. I ran it through outline. It's a fascinating read. https://outline.com/quXJhb

just nod if you can hear me

For anyone interested, this a pretty good write up on "Bogons": http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2004-04/2004-04-isp.htm

Apparently their CEO was in it, dogfooding https://twitter.com/BoeingCEO/status/1113539958139183104

This is an old but worthwhile lecture on the topic by the, at times bombastic and over-the-top, James Howard Kunstler: https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_sub...