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threads2··on Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach
Good Mitchell and Webb bit about "identity theft":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E

threads2··on DMT, Derealization, and Depersonalization
Thanks, didn't know this - but from my experience, DMT smoke smelled and tasted kind of plasticky (like when you burn plastic). Did I just interpret the poop-smell differently?
threads2··on DMT, Derealization, and Depersonalization
For anyone reading, I think this is the best description of derealization in the thread. The window metaphor is good. I even had a quite literal experience of this "window" kind of effect. I took a strong dose of salvia (known to cause derealization, as a dissociative drug) and actually saw my vision as a small "window" at a distance from my actual "self". It was like being aware of the blackness around my vision.

Later I took a much smaller dose of salvia and I didn't hallucinate but still got the strong feeling of derealization. It's so hard to describe but everything seemed "fake" or "plastic". Like hollow and so lonely. Maybe, I guess, what looking at a scene through VR would look like. The sun didn't feel warm, the grass I was touching had no feeling of comfort with it (?). Ah, I thought I could describe it but it's so hard to describe, I give up.

If you take a small dose of salvia you can understand what it feels like. Definitely don't recommend but as far as I know, it's harmless and (for me) impermanent.

threads2··on The damaging results of mandated return to office
> slowing down passage of time

My days/months have been flying by and I thought I was just because I'm getting older. Thanks for mentioning this in the context of working from home. I feel a little better now.

Maybe I should get an office job too.

threads2··on Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
yeah I went back to google to verify the information - like the other commenter said, I didn't know where to start, so gpt was very helpful.

It's shocking how gpt has almost no utility though because you can't actually TRUST anything it says. I've been thinking about that a lot lately.

threads2··on Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
We won a set of fancy cast iron pans and gpt explained to us what each of them are for. Way better experience than googling or reading wikipedia.
threads2··on What character was removed from the alphabet? (2020)
pre-kindergarten I thought it was elemeno!
threads2··on Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search
I cant give up DDG cause those shortcuts are just too damn good. !m and !ud
threads2··on This Word Does Not Exist
I just got "Rattata". Like the Pokemon.
threads2··on Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada
Government-approved, advertiser-approved - what's the diff? It's all garbage when it's being forced on you.
threads2··on The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere
Maybe it's economics.
threads2··on Round formation with steep, smooth sides found on seafloor off California
Devils Tower something something The Abyss.
threads2··on Something weird happens to companies when they hit 150 people (2017)
This reminds me of a part of In Dubious Battle by Steinbeck where Doc Burton talks about large groups, the "group-man".

> ...they seem to me to be a new individual, not at all like single men. A man in a group isn't himself at all; he's a cell in an organism that isn't like him any more than the cells in your body are like you. People have said, 'mobs are crazy, you can't tell what they'll do.' Why don't people look at mobs not as men, but as mobs? A mob nearly always seems to act reasonably, for a mob.

... when group-man wants to move, he makes a standard. 'God wills that we recapture the Holy-Land'; or he says, 'We fight to make the world safe for democracy' ... But the group doesn't care about the Holy Land, or Democracy ... Maybe the group simply wants to move, to fight, and uses these words simply to reassure the brains of individual men. ... You might be an effect as well as a cause, Mac.

threads2··on Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta
I'm trying to learn emacs too - last night I kept ChatGPT open and asked it any questions I had ("what's the hotkey to open up a new window below the current one") and I'm getting better really quickly.
threads2··on The Biggest Penguin That Ever Existed
thanks, I didnt even think that this could be one of those ddg flags.

big m! fan btw

threads2··on We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it
You have to know what to ask it.
threads2··on Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm
I set the Mac OS dock to auto-hide and it frees up, like, an inch of space. Blows me away when I see people with the default-sized dock always open. Any real reason for this?
threads2··on Corpse Medicine
I was going to write the same thing! More like "scull medicine".
threads2··on Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)
WOW I will never sleep on a plane again.
threads2··on Chess is booming and our servers are struggling
Screw this company - my poor dad got perma-banned for sandbagging and he has no recourse.
threads2··on Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater
I like something Schopenhauer said about a lot of errors coming from either defining a concept too generally or too specifically. Something like that
threads2··on Canadians are now stealing overpriced food from grocery stores with zero remorse
I think the reasoning goes they're small and high-calorie.
threads2··on Rashomon Effect
I love this device when it's used comedically in movies/tv shows - like this King of the Hill episode:

https://youtu.be/U9v_nTo5qmY

Anyone have other good examples?

threads2··on The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (2006)
"How can I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this."

https://open.spotify.com/track/1iOHLlEsMbgJfYBFWy4TjG?si=QnT...

threads2··on A Harry Potter Trivia Bot, Powered by GPT-3
"does Harry Potter's mom know he's gay?"
threads2··on NeevaAI
RIP Benny Harvey
threads2··on Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)
At least they'll probably be on the first step. ...if they're going up.
threads2··on Tesla FSD Beta 10.69.25 Struggles in Snowy Detroit MI: A Scary Video
I noticed that too - closer to the end he mentions the public
threads2··on Discovering which parts of the brain are engaged when coding
Forgot about this. Thank you!
threads2··on Even the LastPass will be stolen, deal with it (2015) [pdf]
memes really age terribly, dont they
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