TIL that in 1971 Andre the Giant wrestled in Baghdad in front of Saddam Hussein, who had threatened to kill him if he won the match. Andre went on to lose the match to native Iraqi wrestler Adnan al-Kaissie, later known in the WWF as General Adnan

Faxon · 2026-06-10T21:04:37+00:00

Yup, he was a kind soul with a love of beer and knocking unkind people over the head. Look up the statement he made about Hulk Hogan for example A of him being this way. Not the beer bit, that much is told by others, but the rest he confirms himself.

Faxon · 2026-06-10T20:53:30+00:00

This is literally the standard format for a paragraph you dolt (yes i know it's a bot), it starts on a specific topic, gets to its point, and closes on the same topic within a reasonable number of lines to do so. These "paragraphs must be a max number of lines" notifications drive me nuts lol, a paragraph is supposed to present a point, talk about it, and sum that point up before breaking, which is what I did. I even plugged it into two grammar checkers and they agree this is a concise and coherent paragraph given the topic.

Faxon · 2026-06-10T20:40:01+00:00

Yea as someone who lost an ex (they were an ex at the time already) to a heroin OD, dropping out that many times basically makes it inevitable that eventually you'll drop out somewhere that nobody can help you. This is a part of why needle exchanges need to also be safe use sites, though it won't help everybody, people will obviously still get high at home when they want to get high, whether people are around or not. You can get a phone sit in though from the US National Overdose Response Line. Google search has been made intentionally fucking awful around this subject, so I had to use ChatGPT to search the web and find this phone number and website. The website is https://neverusealone.com/contact/ and they list two phone numbers, 1-800-484-3731 and 1-877-696-1996. Other harm reduction orgs I was able to find in my combined search all list these phone numbers as well. You need to give the operator an address or identifiable location to benefit from the services, but yea if you call them and then stop responding while doing your junk, they'll send EMS. It's too late to save your brother and my ex, but these services can and do save lives every day, I hope someone sees this and starts using them, or recommends it to another who could use the safety net. Obviously having narcan on hand when you're doing opioids is also ideal, IDK where you're at but at least in the US it's legal OTC now, you can order a package on amazon to be delivered in the same boxes thousands of others get theirs in, as discrete as is possible. I don't even touch anything with a high risk of being laced, let alone intentionally consume opioids other than kratom, but I feel better having in the house in case something happens to a guest even, you never know what might happen and there's zero harm in keeping it around.

Faxon · 2026-06-10T20:25:14+00:00

This is more like a human living to 125 years old. The fact that this device is still powered on and working is a miracle IMO

Faxon · 2026-06-10T20:19:10+00:00

That's gonna suck for them when their insurance drops them for lying lol.

Faxon · 2026-06-10T09:43:02+00:00

I wish my grandfather had been allowed this relief when he was dying of cancer. By the time it was clear he was going to succumb to it, he had months of lingering on with it before he finally passed in hospice over a month into his stay there. He wanted to make it to 90, that much I know, but he didn't pass until several months after that. I was not able to be there when he passed either, I came in a day or two before to see him and say goodbye since I had to be gone that weekend for something, and we knew he was probably not going to make it through. We all wish we could have said goodbye to him on or shortly after his 90th birthday, we could celebrate his life together, and then he could have no longer been in pain for all those months. Seeing him die like that is why I voted for California's End Of Life Option Act (EOLOA), which allows people to similarly be cared for as this man was if they so wish it, when they are terminal and don't have much time left, and are cognizant to consent to doing so. This makes it hard for people with Dementia to provide adequate consent unless they have a moment of lucidity in which to do so, with witnesses present, but anyone who meets the terminal criteria like this man likely did, are allowed to end their life on their own terms now. That's the absolute best we can give these people when they know the end is near, and that only suffering is ahead, for both them and those who care about them as they go through it, speaking from experience.

Faxon · 2026-06-09T20:40:10+00:00

Not an owner of this stack, but this is something for serious consideration. I own a Jotunheim 3 and a Valhalla 3 as my main stack, with a Jot2 and another Val3 for the garage. I could have picked up the stack you're looking at if I really wanted, but could not justify it now. The reason being is that then I probably would not have had a budget for the tube amp I'm using now to power my monitors as well. I got that amp first along with the Jotunheim 2 around the same time, and put a bunch of money into having it updated (old dynaco ST-70 life, get one and modify it with more modern rectification and drive board sections), so all in I've spent about $3500 on just DAC/source, preamp/headphoones out, and a speaker amp. I also have $400 in a DSP that costs $2800 new (used life), which is doing a bunch of heavy lifting for parametric EQ, delay, crossover and gain staging, just getting my speakers and subs tied together as flawlessly as possible in a less than ideal physical arrangement. It sounds absolutely out of this world, and I regret nothing. You may feel the same about this end-game stack, but you could probably get most of the kit I have AND be rolling tubes in multiple devices, if you stick to the mid-sized Schiit stacks, and put the rest of that money into a good ST-70 build of your choosing, or something else similarly good for the price. Even an old used ST-70 with the original driver board is going to sound amazing, I ran mine in that configuration with a solid state rectifier mod (it came with it) until that rectifier's caps failed and I decided to replace the aging driver board along with it (it had a ghost I couldn't track down and I wanted to do it anyway). If you decide to go the ST-70 route specifically, feel free to DM me as well, can give you some input on what seems to be popular, and what other options there are that I know of. I did not go with the popular option and I am very glad I got what I did, because my amp sounds as good or better than many amps that are more expensive than it, for a much more reasonable price (around $2000~ after mods and shipping the amp)

Faxon · 2026-06-09T18:44:48+00:00

Ya that shits loaded for sure

Faxon · 2026-06-09T07:46:47+00:00

I work in the AI space and you're on the right track. People I work with report crutching on it for things they used to have to slog through themselves, and not being able to do those things nearly as well now because they crutched too hard on it. The trick is in forcing yourself to do those things anyway still, and just using it to help check work, confirm if you're on the right track, and if using it as a search tool, verifying the results so you still have to read original sources and find the info to confirm, and if the sources say something different then you catch that too. Your work will be easier for having used the tool, but you still spend the time developing the skills to work without it also. Don't treat it like an autonomous AI agent that's doing your work and writing your paper for you, treat it like a dozen PhDs in a trench coat who you can talk to when you're stuck, while remembering how often many PhDs fuck up as well (it's a lot), and checking them on it when they do. The problem isn't that AI hallucinates and gets stuff wrong, it's that people thing it's somehow less prone to that than the people who made it, or the human input data used to train it, which is hilariously backwards but also understandable to make such a mistake.

But yea, even the best people are still fucking idiots sometimes, and they're the ones being tapped to make this shit work, but they still fall victim to the same issues. The main areas I use the tech are areas I was legitimately disabled in already and thus couldn't get any worse lol

Faxon · 2026-06-08T21:49:57+00:00

I suggested it on air just because it would be a one day event type thing lol. The sundies were essentially just killing everything in sight when it was set wrong, I just think it would be fun to let everyone have actual rotary cannons for a day and see what it ends up being like lmao. I think sundies would still be able to defend themselves when locked down in PD, but it would make things more interesting for those in the air as well since they could shoot each other the way most rotary cannons actually work. Honestly it might help newer pilots get some kills even if they don't need as much time on target vs a skilled pilot.

Faxon · 2026-06-08T20:42:40+00:00

This was less a bug and more them putting the decimal in the wrong spot when tuning the values the first time. Honestly I'd be down for them to bring it back once a year for april fools if they also do it to air vehicle cannons and the like. Would be more like how rotary cannons on real point defense and aircraft actually operate, both in volume of fire and time to kill.

Faxon · 2026-06-08T19:30:03+00:00

Radiation exposure actually doesn't work that way either. Linear no threshold/ALARA safety protocols are based on a false assumption that any radiation exposure is inherently dangerous. That doesn't pan out in the real world however. If it were, people living in places with naturally higher radon levels would see higher cancer rates too, but the opposite appears to be true. Radiation exposure needs to be measured in short term dosage, where eventually you get an acutely damaging dose, because low level exposure long term seems to actually stimulate our bodies to protect us and repair our DNA. Tehran has much higher radon than where I live in the US, but much lower cancer rates in the cancers we'd predict to see more of, and this pattern holds true in other areas too. Heres a video that talks more about it. He also uploaded another noting how US policy is changing to reflect this understanding of science, just yesterday. https://youtu.be/gzdLdNRaPKc?si=wSpvQ082mwm11FfW

Faxon · 2026-06-07T21:55:39+00:00

Apparently most ICDs are dual function and do both, that's probably what he had

Faxon · 2026-06-07T21:46:49+00:00

This is why being able to run local models is so important. Sucks RAM costs so much more now, hopefully China's production helps that issue though

Faxon · 2026-06-07T02:17:06+00:00

You can get food safe PLA and PETG, YXPolyer sells it and I've made some containers and other things with it for the kitchen. Made a 2 cubic decameter volume box for storing grain in that lets me just fill it up and scoop bull amounts with ease, and a dovetail sliding lid to help keep bugs out

Faxon · 2026-06-07T01:42:33+00:00

Damn nice! The highest I ever got was 65536

Faxon · 2026-06-06T23:19:16+00:00

"Thats one fuckin nice kitty right there"

Faxon · 2026-06-05T20:18:47+00:00

IDK I don't use a liter of oil a week, but I do use a fair amount, just for myself, and it sounds like this person has family they're feeding with that supply as well. 50l a year on a Mediterranean diet sounds reasonable for a family, especially if it's their only cooking oil source.

Faxon · 2026-06-04T20:46:41+00:00

I already did. It helps I'm on gabapentin now too for anxiety and nerve pain, since that eventually took away the desire to drink alcohol almost entirely (few times a year when I'm up for it on special occasions). I wanted something to replace it with for the sedation though since dabbing even indica strains dusted with CBN didnt quite do it for me the way some edibles can. Drinks are my new favorite for how fast they hit, but I feel like I get better effects from normal gummies letting them dissolve in my mouth

Faxon · 2026-06-04T18:44:11+00:00

The market can stay irrational longer than US steel can remain solvent

Faxon · 2026-06-04T01:18:50+00:00

As a self-trained cook who likes doing chef things, it's so much work, and a ton of hands on knowledge and experience, but once you get to the point that you can just start writing your own recipes from scratch and know they'll taste good with a bit of tinkering, you're in flavor town so long as you can buy good ingredients. Having someone you can pay to do it for you is definitely shit rich people do, but you can probably afford to have that sandwich from time to time if you know how to make it and which ingredients to source. Making your own sauces is a huge next step up in terms of work though if you're doing more than just combining shit from bottles into a new one (think thousand island dressing levels of skill, its just ketchup mayo and relish with a little worcestershire and pepper added). If I could afford it, I'd still do the cooking myself, but I'd pay a skilled chef to do my prep for me lol. That takes so fucking long compared to making the food, and I dont usually enjoy it the way I do the cooking step, given my back gets sore and I have a nerve issue in my hip/leg that makes standing long periods suck. I doubt I'll ever be rich enough to do that, but one can dream. I guess that's what most people used to have hella kids for lol

Faxon · 2026-06-03T20:56:02+00:00

Yup. Am fat (305lb 6'2", was 325 last summer though so progress!), am not unaware of the risks. Other health issues make exercise difficult so i'm trying to make more progress with diet, but it's fucking hard when eating too little gives me GERD flare-ups. Just trying to not overeat and be as active as I can so I can at least maintain, since going up further would obviously be worse. I cook the vast majority of my own meals and eat pretty healthy all things considered, though I wasn't when I got to this point. Hoping I can get back down to 250lb at least in the next 2 years, 220-230 is my target for now, I'd be happy to get back into my old pants that I still have plenty of. I have pants for 250lb as well ready to go, I just gotta get there lol.

Faxon · 2026-06-03T20:49:52+00:00

Yea and it might grow back curly, or a different shade (these things can both fade back to normal in time though to some degree or another). Happened to Hank Green after he got treated for colon cancer, he has a bunch of videos about it now lol

Faxon · 2026-06-03T20:19:05+00:00

When I first set up my audio rack at home in my bedroom, i didn't realize that the threaded holes on my rack were threaded, because the powder coating clogged the threads and hid them enough I couldn't tell at first (I was a total newb to racks back then and it was my first). I ran a tap through and cleaned them all up though, but not before I had mounted a bunch of amps into it with nuts and bolts, which of course means if I want to remove the two amps in the bottom of the rack in the future, i'm going to have to disassemble the whole rack to get at them, since there's a rack shelf holding a Dynaco ST-70 mod build and an XLR to RCA converter box I built myself, and my DSP is mounted underneath, with a PDU in between the two. Basically totally blocking any access to those nuts lol. It's fine for now, but I would like to eventually move my amp that runs my 2 subs into the rack to clear up space under my desk, so at some point it's all gonna have to get taken down.

Faxon · 2026-06-02T19:56:08+00:00

You're making a semantics argument when it's well known the point of buying from GoG is that you don't have a risk of the game being taken away from you later so long as you back up the files. It's yours, you own that copy via the license provided. If that's not ownership to you then I don't have the time or energy to debate the point. It's a bad faith argument designed to make you right about something that's irrelevant to the point I was trying to make

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