electrodynamica

This really sucks when you spent 45 minutes constructing a thorough reply.

Definitely agree.

I'm not a gamer either, but I learned programming in the 80s from the people who built these types of games. Also I played them a little bit because I was a kid.

Although, technically, you could jump in the wall if you ever go between one of those columns.

Yeah they are different because you could exploit the game mechanics and box clipping. You can also double jump if you land a little short in the first one but it doesn't work in the second one.

Let's fix this with incremental reforms

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I'm not familiar with pictrs and how it works, but software I wrote which contains thumbnails and full copies of every image on the fediverse along with fingerprints, full database metadata, etc, doesn't take up even a tiny fraction of that space. So...

Lowlights from the video:

it starts with "plants don't want to be eaten so they generate chemicals that can be harmful to you" 🤡😂 as if animals want to be eaten 🤦

It ends with "plants have non protein amino acids, which could trick their way into passing the blood brain barrier and act like prions. There's no studies to back up this theory but..."

🤡🤡🤡🤪

It uses peltier effect, which isn't very efficient. There are more efficient ways. Also, personal peltier coolers are really old tech. The article says Sony incorporated their cell phone heat dissipation technology, which means patents. But overall it seems like good product design with mediocre tech.

Using it outdoors probably isn't too bad. It can remove heat faster than skin can conduct heat from the air, and faster than sweat. It can also help during all these wet bulb weather events that are increasingly common.

As far as battery usage, I can't find anything on capacity. They say 100 minutes charge, commenters say it lasts about 2 hours on full charge. Given the size it's probably similar to a cell phone battery. A blurry image I found looks like it says 1.5 amp charging rate. This would put energy usage at around 5 watts with a smaller than average cell phone capacity. According to physics Substack, people generate around 3 watts of heat at rest. So it is just powerful enough to cool you. Also why it says only "light exercise" in the ad copy presumably.

As for energy efficiency, it's actually probably very environmentally sound. But it has lithium ion batteries, plastic, integrated circuits etc. So in that sense, not so great.

Also it's best use case is for riding mass transit to work. Working from home would be so much more environmentally sound.

Other drugs such as dissociatives like ketamine are much less addictive. In

Or even cannabis. The OG of pain management. Cannabis is documented over 10 millennia before Aspirin. Who knows how long before that it was used. Before the oligarchs in USA conspired to eradicate it from earth in 18th, 19th and 20th century, it had significant biodiversity, who knows how many medicines were lost. But thanks to the many outlaws who continued to cultivate it in very diverse soils and climates, it is very diverse again. Still, the capitalist pharma companies can only think in terms of "what molecules can I patent and sell?" They reluctantly allowed the studies investigating whole-plant effects, marketing it as "entourage effect", but this was only so they could patent formulae in much the same way.

I think my point here is just that we have to get away from the stupidity of the capitalist system before we advance.

Even with pain management in general I may have been a bit harsh on the doctors for believing lies. Their entire schooling is filled with capitalist lies, so they are trained to believe them. But that doesn't mean innocence either.

There are courses in med school about pain management, reducing physical dependence and all that. Even if they are colored with pharmacorp propaganda, a good doctor should be able to filter out the bullshit.

Right? This is what always gets me about 'public square' arguments. We have that. It's called the Internet. Corporate honeytraps are not anything special or unique, other than there's billions of idiots dumb enough to get caught in them.

Pharmaceutical companies lied to doctors and patients about how addictive opioids are.

Every single opiod, from opium itself, to heroin, to morphine, etc. Has been promised to be non addictive. How many times can you believe the same lie before you hold some responsibility for the outcome?

Then, a series of studies concluded that many people are living with untreated chronic pain;

Which is still true. In fact, the reason for this is at least partly because of fear of addiction, so they too cautiously don't treat pain at all.

But no one wants to admit, not doctors nor pharmaceutical companies, that medicine doesn't have a viable solution to the most basic of medical problems.

Considering the sophist university system and the centuries of materialist bigoted psychological pseudoscience, I'd be surprised if it was a system even capable of churning out a rational humanist therapist.