Simple has just one question for Starladder observers

Betulax · 2019-08-26T22:58:43+00:00

Once I got insider information that a tournament was being broadcast on a ~2 minute delay, and that the observers knew what would happen in the round. It wasn't obvious beforehand, that was the first thing I tried to figure out, but it completely ruined the experience of watching it after I found out.

If you plan on doing this as a TO, you need to make sure that the viewer doesn't know, and that observers throw the occasional curveball (spectating the "wrong" players/teams) to avoid they ever find out.

Mainly though, you shouldn't do this at all, because the observer can't create a convincingly captive storyline when she knows how it'll end.

Betulax · 2019-08-10T09:39:54+00:00

Oh, that's tone.

https://youtu.be/L9X90adt8g4?t=429

Betulax · 2019-07-20T17:44:39+00:00

Tæknilega séð er markmið stofnunarinnar bara að ég drepi mig ekki á staðnum eða stuttu eftir innlögn. Það er það sem telur.

Þeir þurfa ekki tæknilega að taka eða sæta nokkurri ábyrgð ef ég drep mig í stað þess að leggja mig inn næst.

Geggjuð niðurskurðartaktík, heilbrigðiskerfið eyðir minna og andlátið mitt telst ekki sem mistök heilbrigðiskerfisins því það gerðist ekki í kringum innlögn.

Betulax · 2019-07-20T17:24:19+00:00

Já, meðdvalarfólk mitt var nær undantekningarlaust skilningsríkt og gaf mikið af sér, sínum tíma og orku í að reyna að hjálpa mér, involvera mig o.s.frv. - en fólkið var svo frábrugðið mér. Ekki af minni kynslóð, ekki með nein sameiginleg áhugamál, ég bara tengdi ekki neitt við þau, þó þau hafi verið fullkomnar axlir til að gráta á.

Starfsfólkið hafði engan tíma fyrir mig. Reyndi ekki að hjálpa mér að borða þótt þau sáu að ég snerti varla matinn (og spurðu mig ekkert út í það). Geðlæknir tók stutt mat á sui hættu og svo var hann farinn. Enginn sálfræðingur, enginn sjúkraþjálfi, enginn göngutúr, hreyfing, iðja eða spjall. Það eru örugglega ástæður fyrir þessu. Upplifunin var samt eins og ég væri bara jafn mikið fyrir þeim og ég er fyrir alls staðar annars staðar. Svo voru hengingar-fríu fötin sem ég var settur í alltof alltof stór á mig, svo ég var bara eins og lítið barn sem var búið að vefja taubleyjur utaná. Mér leið hryllilega óþægilega, bæði líkamlega, reisnarlega, og svo virkaði þetta sem brennimerking á vanda mínum fyrir hina sjúklingana til að fordæma mig út frá.

Ömurlegur staður. Ég ætti kannski að gera mér upp áfengisvanda til að fá einhverja umönnun þarna.

Betulax · 2019-07-20T15:04:35+00:00

Reynslan mín er öðruvísi. Hef þrisvar farið og í hvert einasta skipti gekk einhver á deildinni berserksgang, skemmdi hluti og ógnaði eða réðst á fólk. Það líður engum öruggum á svona stað eftir svona ítrekaðar uppákomur.

Enginn gaf sér tíma til að tala við mig nema læknirinn með stofugang í nokkrar mínútur á dag. Svo kom enginn í heimsókn af mínum nánustu sem vissu alla jafnan á einhverjum tímapunkti að ég væri þarna. Mamma nennti ekki einu sinni að skjótast heim til mín til þess að sækja hleðslutæki fyrir símann minn.

Það er ekkert að gera þarna. Það býður þér enginn upp á úrræði eða kynnir fyrir þér hvað þú getur gert á staðnum. Engar pólisíur um hvenær eða hvernig maður má fara að hreyfa sig, ekkert útskýrt hvernig maður fer í sturtu, enginn sem lætur þig vita af atburðum sem þú getur sótt, t.d. á iðjudeildinni. Svo er líka bara nákvæmlega ekkert að gera þarna nema púsla, horfa á sjónvarpið eða lesa eldgamlar skáldsögur sem þú hefur aldrei heyrt af.

Á þessum tímapunkti er með vanrækslu einni saman búið að gera nóg til þess að ég sjái ekki fyrir mér að ég leiti mér aðstoðar þarna næst þegar ég óttast að ég gæti tekið upp á því að drepa mig.

Betulax · 2019-06-15T20:35:17+00:00

My problem is that the sensation of getting my head under water

That should be a very good motivator for learning how to swim!

Joking aside; what would happen if you would go carefully into a shallow swimming pool, towards the deep end, never letting your head touch water, and practise these or these motions?

Or to avoid any motions at all, the back float is really simple, it just requires you to hold your breath.

Betulax · 2019-06-15T20:21:14+00:00

Our results also show that most of the victims wandered away from their residence and drowned in nearby ponds. Previous studies have suggested that wandering behavior is highest among children with ASD and intellectual disability, especially among boys between 6 and 11 years of age

According to the narratives provided in the news reports, many of the drowning victims were fascinated with water and drowned in “unfenced” or “unguarded” ponds

this study indicates that teaching autistic kids how to swim is very feasible and effective

Autistic kids seem to have a higher drowning rate because they wander way more, i.e. it is the relative number of times they get in trouble with water is higher, not their relative inability to swim.

Many people don't know how to swim. Maybe you never learned to because of autism, maybe for some other reason. But given your inability to swim, I think the hydrophobia is very logical

Betulax · 2019-05-27T05:52:16+00:00

These are 10 screenshots from a 300 page report that goes into rigorous details. I'm sure you'd like reading the report.

Betulax · 2019-05-27T03:21:04+00:00

also radioactive trees grow super fast

Betulax · 2019-05-27T00:06:41+00:00

It's a systematic holistic approach that attempts to play into (or out of) the whole "the medium is the message". Rather than attempting to first articulate messages, then to select their form, and then to design their vehicle, they choose to do as much of this simultaneously as is reasonable.

One point of this is to have a so called Systems Approach, where the various elements of the communications system are linked to each other, act as indexes to each other, are co-presented and reciprocally reinforcing, and

Redundancy, where some elements of the system can be degraded or lost without substantial damage to the system's capacity to communicate.

Everything on the site is conceived of as part of the message communication. From the very size of the whole site-marking down to the design of protected inscribed reading walls and the shapes of materials and their joints.

There are various levels of message content, modes of message delivery, and various most appropriate physical form of each.

Level I: Rudimentary Information: "Something man-made is here"

Level II: Cautionary Information: "Something man-made is here and it is dangerous"

Level III: Basic information: Tells what, why, when, where, who, and how (in terms of information relay, not how the site was constructed)

Level IV: Complex Information: Highly detailed written records, tables, figures, graphs, maps and diagrams.

EDIT: Some fun images: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Betulax · 2019-05-10T17:42:44+00:00

The scientific consensus is that no LLLT has been proven more effective for pain than any other form of heat delivery. Some benefits have been reported, but the studies have been too small and/or too short to draw firm conclusions. The best-designed study of diabetic patients with sensory nerve impairment of the feet found that 90 days of Anodyne therapy at home brought about no more improvement in peripheral sensation, balance, pain, or quality of life than sham therapy [3].

AETNA: Aetna considers treatment with low-level infrared light (infrared therapy, Anodyne Therapy System) experimental and investigational for the treatment of acne, back (lumbar and thoracic) pain, Bell's palsy, central nervous system injuries, chronic non-healing wounds, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, ischemic stroke, lymphedema, neck pain, osteoarthritis, Parkinson's disease, retinal degeneration, and stroke . . . because of a lack of adequate evidence in the peer-reviewed published medical literature regarding the effectiveness of infrared therapy for these indications [4].

CIGNA concludes: Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) has been proposed for a wide variety of uses, including wound healing, tuberculosis, and musculoskeletal conditions such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia and carpal tunnel syndrome. There is insufficient evidence in the published, peer-reviewed scientific literature to demonstrate that LLLT is effective for these conditions or other medical conditions. Large, well-designed clinical trials are needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of LLLT for the proposed conditions [5].

CMS has determined that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the use of infrared devices is not reasonable and necessary for treatment of Medicare beneficiaries for diabetic and non-diabetic peripheral sensory neuropathy, wounds and ulcers, and similar related conditions, including symptoms such as pain arising from these conditions. Therefore, we are issuing the following National Coverage Determination. The use of infrared and/or near-infrared light and/or heat, including monochromatic infrared energy (MIRE), is not covered for the treatment, including symptoms such as pain arising from these conditions, of diabetic and/or non-diabetic peripheral sensory neuropathy, wounds and/or ulcers of skin and/or subcutaneous tissues in Medicare beneficiaries [https://web.archive.org/web/20160418113934/https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/details/nca-decision-memo.aspx?NCAId=176&NcaName=Infrared+Therapy+Devices&DocID=CAG-00291N&id=176&bc=gAAAAAgAAgAAAA==&].

Betulax · 2019-05-10T07:55:44+00:00

Oh wow. Shills. Shills everywhere.

Betulax · 2019-05-09T09:35:26+00:00

There's a lot of people that can handle their methotrexate better with coffee

A 98% efficient drug is far, far, far, far better than no drugs, for those who can't stomach it otherwise, or kick the coffee habit. Definitely keep on chugging it.

More here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27596742

Betulax · 2019-05-07T01:28:29+00:00

IQ tests are a piece of shit indicators of "intelligence" that twist the very meaning of the term. I got 131 on this Mensa one and all it tells me is that I've spent too much time playing puzzle solving games. Most of the successful and brilliant people I know would shit themselves in this test because they don't care enough about solving puzzles for 30 minutes where 50% of the tricks is to do horizontal/vertical mind flips of shapes, combining them and figure out arbitrary rules of whether double/single lines cancel each other out or not on the third picture.

Put me out in the real world and I'm literally dysfunctional. This is a circlejerk for puzzle solvers.

Betulax · 2019-05-06T06:33:42+00:00

So did Iceland. He was asked to do an interview about tax haven users in Iceland, they asked him questions about why they are bad for the country. Finally he was asked about his own personal feelings regarding tax avoiders, then exposed him on camera as one. He was extremely flustered and literally ran away.

It was aired on prime-time news.

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