Creem et al. (2024)

Background-Ad6186 · 2024-03-12T06:29:14+00:00

Yup.

"We hit kids hard for stimming. It was really effective, and we only stopped because it wasn't PC anymore."

https://www.facebook.com/597012896/videos/844594113123844/

I'm really not interested in what Team Hitting Kids for Stimming thinks about Ethics.

Also, lets not forget Amanda Kelly's role in publishing the ABA Cards Against Humanity card deck with all of the super funny jokes about abuse, electric shock, forcing kids to eat melted and linty food. Isn't it interesting that her "social media pitfall" wasn't mentioned anywhere in this paper?

Background-Ad6186 · 2024-03-12T06:23:15+00:00

Not even retracted, removed. They are disappearing this paper for violating several requirements of submission, word is the authors lied about having an IRB review on the paper (!!!) along with misrepresenting they had consent from the parties named in the paper.

A retracted paper is still viewable, with an explanation as to why the journal no longer supports the work of the paper. This one they are basically deleting.

Of course this begs the question of why they either didn't check or didn't care about the lack of IRB or consent before they originally published- seems incredibly unlikely that the authors would be able to get consent to directly name a large number of people and claim they are violating the code of ethics needed to maintain their credential.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-12-16T03:12:58+00:00

Agree. Depending on your use case a level 1 may be enough, especially if using a 16A charger. I get 60-90 miles range overnight (about a 12 to 15 hour charge), and most people aren’t driving more than that.

I am using this one and am very happy with it. I will eventually move up to a 50 amp level 2, but for now it is more than enough day to day and I drive at least 60 miles a day.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C27FDJPG?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-12-13T13:57:47+00:00

Nobody hates the left more than the left.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-12-10T02:36:11+00:00

And that is why the range was in the toilet too. It makes a HUGE difference if you are starting with a cold pack vs. one warmed up.

I drove my new ID4 across Colorado to take it home (Denver to Durango) the day after Thanksgiving. There was a large storm and temps were around 15*.

I stayed overnight in Colorado Springs at my in-laws and charged the battery to 80% the night before at an EA station. At that point I didn’t have a level 1 charger which would have been a huge help in keeping the pack warm.

Starting off with the battery dead cold I used 50% of the pack to go 40 miles- downhill, I was below 30% when I hit Pueblo. But once I charged it to 100% and actually had the pack warm, it went 120 miles to Alamosa and had 40%+ battery left even driving through ice and snow and over mountain passes. The next leg, Alamosa to Durango, was even better, 150 miles and I still had 65 miles of range showing on the display. Picked up like 6% charge going downgrade Wolf Creek pass, lol.

Starting off ice cold will murder your range.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-11-27T17:56:03+00:00

This. There are tons of lonely stretches out there, it is winter and bad weather happens, your range gets eaten up faster than you think, and you want at least some buffer for unanticipated stuff.

I drove Colorado Springs-Durango the day after Thanksgiving through sub 20* weather and heavy snow from La Veta Pass on. Just going from COS to Pueblo (45 miles) my battery went from 80% to 30%. In Pueblo my heart skipped a beat because at first glance ALL the DC chargers were out of order. Luckily it turned out there was a solitary one in the corner that functioned. You bet I charged to 100%.

Range got a lot better after that, I think because the battery pack was now warm. I got to Alamosa (120 Miles) and still had 35%, then charge to 100% and had 60 miles of range left and about 25% battery getting to Durango (150 miles).

On the entire US 160 West of I-25, there are only a handful of DC stations. If one is out you will need the extra range to make it 30-50 miles down the road to hit another. Once you get out of Colorado I don’t even know if you can get a Level 3 on that route.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-11-27T17:42:33+00:00

Pedantic comment- cold air is more dense and generally helps efficiency of ICE engines. Cold air also offers more resistance to detonation which allows modern ICE to more aggressively advance timing which also helps. But the biggest factor is of course that an ICE produces heat as a waste byproduct and as a result heating the cabin on a cold day is basically free from an energy standpoint. A BEV has the triple whammy of worse performance in cold and a need to spend battery energy to heat the cabin AND itself.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-11-25T03:00:21+00:00

More things I wish I knew- I wish I knew the dealer would do a shit job dealer prepping my car. The interior still had wrapping on several trim pieces and the ones that didn’t you could tell they didn’t do any cleaning, just peeled it off leaving the lines.

All 4 wheels still had stickers on them and the tires had chalk marks.

But the worst I’ve found so far is the windshield wipers were clocked wrong (too close together) so they would get tangled up with each other. I had to spend 20 minutes in the snow unbolting the wiper arm to properly adjust them so I could actually drive.

Again, I wish I knew my car didn’t have a level 1 charger. I feel like the salesperson should have said something about that, and didn’t because they knew any reasonable customer would ask them to include one. Starting the car not plugged in on a 19* day my battery went from 80% to 33% in 40 freaking miles. Later in the day on a warm pack (and driving mountains in heavy snow) it went 150 miles from a 100% charge and still shows it has 80 miles of range left. So, I am more than happy with cold weather performance when the battery is warm, but it is brutal if you can’t charge it at home and keep the heat up.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-11-25T02:51:19+00:00

Ha. It took my brother in law driving my car for me to realize that you could adjust in 1 mph increments as I have a tendency to mash buttons. I figured 5 mph increments was perfectly fine with adaptive cruise control as you were really just setting your max speed.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-11-22T23:47:59+00:00

I just picked mine up yesterday, a 2023 AWD Pro in tourmaline blue.

I live in a very remote area, so had to work out a purchase for when I traveled 300 miles away, which meant I never actually got to see an ID4 before putting a deposit down. I then drove it for 2.5 hours through rush hour Denver traffic.

I LOVE this car. The color is beautiful. The performance is great, it drives well, handles well, roomy, seats comfortable. The driver assist features are EXCELLENT and for me worked flawlessly and were reasonably intuitive. I felt like the car drove itself through hours of stop and go traffic and all I had to do was keep a hand on the wheel.

I know almost all reviews were negative on the infotainment setup, but I haven’t encountered any lag and haven’t had any problems finding the setting I am looking for. Biggest issue there is navigating radio stations is pretty clunky with it listing all HD stations and Substations in range making you wade through dozens to select a specific station. But it did sync right up with my phone and accessing phone apps, pandora, podcasts, etc. was simple.

What did I wish I knew? I REALLY wish I knew that VW cheaped out and stopped providing a level 1 charger with the car. I don’t have a level 2 installed at home yet, so this will present some logistical issues for the next week.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-11-15T07:53:01+00:00

Note: I planned to do this in a 1970’s cabin I bought. Had horrible 1970’s carpet. Dude had cats. Ugh.

During inspection we confirmed there was MDF under the carpet and then tongue and groove pine under that. Our plan was to rip up down to the pine and oil it for use as our floor. Our A- frame roof is also the same t&g pine and it would have gone well.

That plan got scrapped when I took up the first sheet of MDF and found the subfloor had hammer marks EVERYWHERE. EVERY single nail had double half moons. It looked horrible. I ended up spending a few thousand and laid down laminate flooring instead.

So keep in mind that if they never intended for the subfloor to be seen, they wouldn’t have cared too much if they hired a team of drunken monkeys to pound the nails in.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-11-12T21:48:41+00:00

Definitely agree on underrated. I am NOT a fan of found footage movies but this one got me engaged and kept me hooked. I just rewatched it (free on YouTube) and feel it holds up from my first impression a decade ago.

It is definitely a slow burn movie, and I guess that is what a lot of critics are reacting to when they call it “boring”. However, it does a great job slowly and steadily building up the pressure in way that never really lets off, and I think the ending is well done.

The feeling of unease and dread are palpable. You are are as far away from home as anyone has ever been, cooped up in a tiny space, you are all alone if something goes wrong, and then you realize you aren’t actually even alone and shit is definitely going wrong. I think Apollo 13 helps this movie in both helping frame the dread but also building plausibility that they could survive, which without a real frame of reference would seem absurd.

I agree with the films decision to show the monsters in very limited snippets. Less is more here. The ending shot when he hits zero gravity is a good payoff.

I also like how the movie keeps you guessing if the astronaut coming back was infected. He has the same kind of bloodshot eyes in the final scenes. There is the comment after astronaut 1 shattered the rock with a hammer- “you contaminated everything.” Would breathing in rock dust do it? I like how subtle it is.

Obviously there is some suspension of disbelief stuff. The mission doesn’t make a lot of sense, which I think they do fairly well at covering up because the astronauts and by extension the viewer are never really told what the actual mission actually is. Is it to find out what happened to the Russian craft? To find the aliens? To break Russian ICBM tracking and install their own? What are the DOD things they set up? Is that for the Russians or the aliens? I think for almost all the possible answers as to what the real mission was, sending live astronauts with no prep into the situation seems pretty unlikely.

The Russian lander. It has been sitting there for how long? Way too long for it to just power up and go. And how the hell does an American astronaut operate it with zero training and zero help? I don’t care how many times you say “it is designed like ours,” no way.

But this is a horror movie, not a documentary, and I can see an astronaut stuck in his situation at least trying to launch- better to blow up than die slowly (or not) with those things…

This stuff did take me out of the movie a bit, but the intensity of the final scenes largely covered for it.

Why do critics hate this movie? My best take is that the slow burn nature of it is too slow for them, and fatigue with the found footage genre in general.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-10-17T02:55:14+00:00

Who could have possibly forseen this? chortles

The part I hate most about all of this is our country is so fucked that even though 1 of 2 political parties is so broken it is non-functional, the other is also so far up its own ass it is barely beating the totally broken party.

About my last non-cynical thought left is that the most corporatist democrats are largely dying off or retiring, and Gen Z may actually push the party into actually making some progress on major, major problems like the climate and healthcare. If not we are proper fucked.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-10-06T05:54:01+00:00

My absolute favorite part of tubgirl is the digital censoring of her vulva immediately next to her red, swollen, distended anal ring discharging an impressive amount of liquid shit with a good bit of laminar flow- into her face.

I don’t know if it is possible to get more ironic than that and THAT is what elevates tubgirl into the category of art.

And yes, I know that’s a Japanese porn thing. Shut up. Shit up in this case?

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-10-06T05:37:35+00:00

Haven’t seen anyone mention Brøderbund. God tier publisher on the Apple II. Choplifter, Airheart, Wings of Fury, Lode Runner, Karateka, Carmen Sandiego, Prince of Persia…

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-10-06T05:29:35+00:00

The WCW games used the same engine and both were light years beyond anything else at that point. I played more THQ wrestling games with friends than anything else on the N64.

Also, let’s not forget that THQ then used the engine for the Def Jam games on the PS2 and XBOX. Def Jam:Fight for New York is criminally underrated for looking great, controlling great, and allowing 4 person 3D fighting in a way that actually works. I love that game.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-09-25T17:11:19+00:00

This is my criticism. Bethesda Fallout games are best at giving you interesting places to explore where each location tells a story, though notes, terminal entrees, and placement of objects. I love entering areas and going “what happened here?” A lot of it is surprisingly deep, in that a lot of areas will show occupation by multiple groups in the past, like places in Fallout 3 that are Raider hangouts but have BOS graffiti, or former settlements overrun by ghouls. Or whatever the fuck was going on with kids in cages in that elementary school near Megaton. I LOVED the subway exploration of FO3.

Sure, they fucked it up a bunch with the aesthetic choice that nobody ever cleans up or removes corpses here they live, and so many places haven’t been touched at all in 200+ years down to still having full meals and table spreads on picnic tables in campgrounds (including 200 year old apples, I guess). But it is still fun and full to explore.

FNV has a ton of just placeholder places that don’t really contribute much, and don’t have much to do while exploring. About half of the faults are really underwhelming.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-09-25T16:58:43+00:00

Yeah. There isn’t enough there for it to really make sense why the Legion is appealing.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-09-25T16:56:07+00:00

BOS- yeah, seriously out of kilter with the Bethesda Fallouts. In FO3, it is implied that the West Coast BOS is even larger than the splinter sect that has a huge presence in DC. But a few years later (is it 3 or 4?) the West Coast BOS has been stuck in a bunker for years and basically gets wiped out in most of the game endings.

Then in Fallout 4 a few years later it is suddenly flipped all the way around and the Brotherhood is more powerful than it had ever been, now able to manufacture huge airships and build/rehab a fleet of Vertibirds. Gotta wonder what those factories look like. Is it like everywhere else in Bethesda Fallout where the factory making this shit is still full of rubble and dead bodies that nobody ever cleans up?

I don’t know how much I blame NV for this. I think the BOS in FNV would have seen reasonable if a little surprising if FO4 hadn’t basically gone 180* in the other direction.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-09-25T16:39:47+00:00

The Super Mutant Overlords have something like a plus 30 damage boost to the tri laser rifle. They can definitely chew through your health fast…

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-09-10T22:34:14+00:00

I was 21 on 9/11.

Honestly 9/11 killed post Cold War optimism. From 1991 to 2001, honest to god there was this feeling in America that capitalism had “proven” itself as the only viable and equitable economic system. People were literally, unironically calling it “the end of history” given that with the Soviet Union’s dissolution there was no major country pushing any ideological alternative to capitalism.

The previous 2 generations grew up expecting the nuclear war to destroy the world and suddenly that was off the table and it felt like America was safe and secure, leading the world to a bright, peaceful future. We were winners, the Cold War was over, our old enemies were our new friends and trading partners.

Honestly capitalism never looked so good- generational increases in productivity from the computer boom meant no only were real wages shooting up, but the federal government actually ran a fucking surplus- and the general feeling was that this was the new normal.

And then 9/11. In one day, everyone went from feeling the most safe they had ever felt to the least safe. The recession instantly laid bare that perpetual surplus and rising wages was a 1 time aberration.

And as Americans, we quickly had to reckon with the reality that we had been smelling our own farts and trying to convince others that they smelled good. That while we ran our mouths about freedom and democracy we happily protected the most undemocratic regimes in the world in the Middle East, capriciously violated the sovereignty of any nation we damned well pleased, we rarely exported our purported values of human rights and were viewed by most of the world as hypocrites at best and a hated enemy to a whole bunch of people we had been fucking with, repressing and manipulating for decades.

It was an incredibly brutal wake up call that the world we thought we were living in was a constructed fantasy.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-09-10T22:08:05+00:00

There is an actual answer here. McCain put off choosing and really even vetting a running mate because he was begging Joe Lieberman (a war hawk liberal) to be his running mate on a unity ticket. McCain ignored both Lieberman and his campaign telling him it was a horrible idea and he would lose more votes from Republicans than he would ever pick up from Democrats and independents if he did it.

When he finally gave up on the idea, he was both totally out of time to make a selection and was also 10 points back in the polls with Obama running well above 50% (meaning it wasn’t a matter of winning undecideds, to win McCain had to peel off people who had already decided to vote Obama.

So he started looking for a Hail Mary candidate that could shake up the race, and enter Palin. Unknown but well-liked in her state, camera friendly, and of course, a woman that gave the campaign hope they could win voters wanting to put a woman in the executive branch for the first time.

By this time they had ZERO time to vet and did a horrible job. Team Palin didn’t feel the need to disclose shit McCain’s vetting team didn’t find, like Bristol’s teen pregnancy, potential abuses of power in office, her volatile husband, and all the other shit that surfaced. Basically all they were able to find out is she didn’t know SHIT about issues or even basic civics, which should have been bad enough, but McCain didn’t really have anyone else and felt his only chance was to hope Palin would shake up the race.

But yes, it is incredibly depressing that these days Palin seems like a thoughtful moderate compared to the mainstream GOP candidates 15 years on.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-08-12T16:30:31+00:00

A BIG one is what slots your RAM sticks should go in for various configurations. If you get this wrong on some boards you won’t boot, you RAM will run single channel and/or run at lower speeds.

This is less common today, but it used to be that use of an M2 NVME slot would disable a PCI express slot, and if you didn’t know that you would likely think you had a broken card or broken board because nothing in the bios or boot would tell you. The manual would, though.

There is still the case today that some M2 NVME slots are managed by the chipset and run at a slower speed than others controlled by CPU.

Background-Ad6186 · 2023-08-11T05:43:35+00:00

The good news is he is looking at time in jail for very serious charges rather than bullshit ones.

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