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Cake day: 2023年7月27日

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  • From the first:

    This is the first documented case of Klingsor syndrome related to psilocybin, in which a psychologically disturbed person self-inflicts harm on their genitals. Plus the dude was already messed up and an alcoholic.

    The second guy was on ADHD meds and hypertension meds:

    Although some might be tempted to draw broad conclusions from this single case, it is important to understand the nature and role of case reports in medicine. Case reports are detailed descriptions of unusual or novel clinical events involving one patient. They do not establish cause and effect or generalize to larger populations.

    It’s pretty common advice not to mix drugs unless you know what you’re doing, which is something that happened in both cases.

    But the point is your “warning” is the same as telling someone about to drive or fly about the worst accident on their mode of transportation. It’s just a paranoid thought (and a dick move), not a reflection of reality.



  • It’s not as hard as you think to start, but it takes forever. I used to wait until stuff broke and needed replacing. I’d open it up and “try to fix it” knowing that I was going to break it worse and that I was buying a new one anyways. Looked up a lot of videos on YouTube.

    Little by little I leaned to take things apart and put them back together without breaking them worse (mostly). Then I started to buy cheap Amazon spare parts to try to fix things without taking a big risk. Again I figured if I could buy a few more months of use it would be worth the risk.

    After about 20 years I have a lot more confidence and have a pretty good success rate for household repairs and probably 30% for broken appliances. Sometimes shit is irreparably fucked, sometimes it’s still beyond my skill. When I fix something I usually get a couple of extra years out of it. It’s a nice hobby, save a few bucks sometimes. Better than spending an afternoon on the Internet.


  • I had a dryer like that. Ancient thing. Simple as fuck too, unlike modern dryers with 1000 features. I replaced just about every part on that thing, sometimes multiple times. Finally the control board broke and it started turning on the heating elements without running the fan. Damn dryer tried to burn my house down. Can’t get the boards anymore.

    I almost shed a tear putting that dryer to the curb.



  • Recognising the “AI voice” isn’t just the voice. It’s also the clearly “written by AI” circuitous script that keeps talking without saying anything and non-stop clickbait “but wait until you find out what the answer is” crap.

    The other type of AI voice is people just stealing Reddit stories and putting them to AI. Also lame. I want my stories narrated with human emotion. The point of stories isn’t to transfer knowledge, it’s an art form, I don’t need shitty robot emotions thank you very much.

    So no, the use case for AI voice is very narrow. Some of my favorite YouTubers use text narration. Maybe they don’t like their voice, or speak a different language, I don’t know, I’ve literally never heard them. It doesn’t stop them in the least from showing me amazing things. They don’t need to resort to polluting their video with the lowest garbage idea humans have created so far.

    I’d like to see a video that is improved by the use of any AI.





  • Spotify is just trying to get out of playing Canadian content to Canadians. When we listen to a Spotify “radio” we’re expecting random but themed music, like we get from a radio station. What we don’t get is Canadian content. The Canadian content requirements exist because we’re attached to a very big exporter of culture and music. It’s important to keep our music scene alive in the face of pressure from American artists and American media networks.

    If Canadians don’t listen to Canadian music who will?


  • en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan

    You can read Soviet Union negotiation attempt and Potsdam.

    Basically Japan was ready to surrender months before the war, disarm, and pay reparations. The Japanese wanted to surrender everything but keep their government and Emperor. The allies knew this right away through interception of communication to the Soviets. But that “wasn’t good enough” somehow.

    So the Americans nuked them twice, then proceeded to bomb the shit out of the Japanese. The Americans were less than a day away from nuking Tokyo over the concept of “unconditional surrender”, which again, the main difference between the Allies and the Japanese was that the Japanese wanted to maintain their government.

    Anyways eventually they accept “unconditional surrender” and the fucking Americans let them keep the damn government anyways. Like it’s absolutely baffling how insane this was. The only thing like it is the ro-sham-bo scene in South Park.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan

    However, unlike in Germany, the Allies never assumed direct control over Japan’s civil administration. In the immediate aftermath of Japan’s military surrender, the country’s government continued to formally operate under the provisions of the Meiji Constitution.

    Now there is an argument that the group of people working on surrender within the Japanese government may not have succeeded. Maybe, without the atomic bomb, a coup would have happened and the side willing to surrender would have lost. It’s hard to think of what would have been. It is still historically very clear that we all prioritised warfare over diplomacy and it has likely caused hundreds of thousands of needless deaths.

    Not that anyone has learned from that considering Trump is yammering about “unconditional surrender” all over again.









  • Do both. The people in Washington aren’t going to Philly. Don’t let him get unspoiled parade footage so he can act like the county supports him. Force him to use violence to suppress peaceful protestors. Let the whole country see him hurt Americans for his selfish deeds. Throwing a military parade for his birthday like fucking Kim Jong-Un. Force him to use the US military to hurt Americans and see how that goes.

    Don’t give them an inch. Resist every action, everywhere, everytime, at every level.