Woe is you

Shared stressors are what bring people together. Communities form when a group of people all have the same problem. Go around egging peoples homes in your neighbourhood, and keep doing it. By the time your neighbours finally catch you they will all have gotten to know and appreciate one another better. They will have formed a communtiy identity.

I suppose human patients are also prone to telling their psychoanalysts what they want to hear.

My dad and I picked out a Braun Espresso maker as a Christmas gift for my mom in the mid-80s. When I grew up and moved out I took it with me, and used it daily up until 2010. When it was finally time to replace it the replacement lasted 6 months and the next one lasted 2 months and then I just stopped using home espresso makers.

6 and 2 months for espresso maker is insanely bad. They are fairly simple devices. I am doing 4 years with Breville which is definitely consumer appliance grade (but semi pro results when paired with a good grinder)

Google's ham-fisted rollout of Bard as an answer to Chat GPT's was a confounding variable because otherwise there was little reason to doubt Google's ability to compete at AI over the long-term. It's in their DNA.

That imperialism shit doesn't care what you think because it's bigger and meaner than you are and there ain't a damn thing you can do about it.

Once normal people get desperate and mean enough, imperialism tends to loose in a big way. History has proven it at great cost.

Yep, the "great cost" is something that seems to get lost in the shuffle sometimes in conversations about this. No leadership realizes the error of their ways before a lot of suffering.

The whole reason for Taiwan's existence is to be a thorn that western powers can press into China's side. It would never have come into existence in the first place if it was not propped up by hostile meddling foreign powers.

Or maybe Schizophrenia is linked to increased risk of cat ownership

or maybe we, as a group, underestimate the impacts of chronic infection on the body and brain.

Otherwise “simple infections” are (likely, almost obviously) responsible for tons, including dementia, Parkinson’s, more,

and they’re the ones everyone ignores,

or struggle to even get a diagnosis for,

and instead say “it’s normal to not be able to squat once, or have any energy when you’re ‘getting older’!”.

These infections can drive…completely life-changing medical trajectories - without the patient ever noticing.

Everyone just thinks they won the “reverse—lottery” when cancer or dementia finally shows up…I’m becoming less convinced it’s a “chance” thing at all.

We just don’t see, nor monitor the beginnings - and if we do happen upon them, hey, “everybody has Staph, EBV, [insert bacteria or virus here] - nothing to be worried by! Very common!”

Generated video is just as costly to stream as non-generated video.