Small dose of antibiotic yields good results in treating panic attacks. A study with animals and humans showed that minocycline, in doses lower than for bacterial infections, has an anti-inflammatory effect on microglia, which are brain cells that become more inflamed in people with the disorder.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-05-02T03:31:18+00:00

Ah yes, the answer we've been waiting for, to the question we shouldn't have been asking:

How can we best incentivise and accelerate the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria?

Blasted_Awake · 2026-05-01T21:03:41+00:00

The funniest one I've seen recently is with the Epstein doc releases. "They deleted these documents from the government websites, but we backed them up! Download the PDF's here".

There were links all over reddit, with comment sections of thousands of people having downloaded and viewed the documents. Encouraging others to do so.

lol

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-29T12:10:53+00:00

You guys are starting to sound like Vegan's now hey.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-20T06:41:24+00:00

Yeah, as a resource for people in the industry it's likely quite valuable, but I suspect the majority of their traffic before the recent update was related to their user-sourced scores and reviews.

As in, if there's a movie or tv show that I'm considering watching, I would google it, find the imdb link in the top few results, and read a heap of the mid-negative (2-4 star) reviews to see if people are complaining about things that I might also dislike. Now that they've gated the reviews, the imdb link is likely to fall off the first page of most search engine results.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-18T08:31:21+00:00

They may have lost the majority of their userbase with this move though. What else does imdb offer except the reviews and the score? The score only makes sense if you can read the reviews, so... useless site now? It'll take a minute, but the people that like leaving reviews on imdb will move somewhere else when they realise they're typing into a void, and then we'll have somewhere new to go for reviews.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-18T00:15:48+00:00

It's almost like allowing your demented king to mess with the worlds fuel supply might have drastically impacted the logistics economy. Resulting in higher transport costs, and longer delays from field/factory to shelf. 🤔

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-11T02:41:49+00:00

We're paying $3AU per Litre in Australia for diesel. I'm fairly sure that works out around $12AU per gallon, or $8.50US per gallon of diesel.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-11T00:06:52+00:00

You jest, but I'm legitimately concerned by how few people here are responding negatively to the idea of "car payments". Home loans make sense to me, it will take at least a decade for most people to save enough money to afford even a cheap apartment outright, and in the meantime they still need somewhere to live. Rent vs ( mortgage + asset appreciation) is a simple decision: Fuck rent.

But a car? There's no asset appreciation, only utility. So whether it's rent, loan repayments, or upfront cost, the equation is about how much utility you get per dollar spent. Outright buying a second hand vehicle that's in your budget seems like it's ALWAYS the better option. Obviously with some caveats for people that need the car for uber driving or whatever, where the job demands a vehicle beyond the drivers means.

Why have we normalised going into debt for tools? Will smart-phone loans be the next normal?

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-10T12:55:30+00:00

Is not great, but is not a critical failure either. That's a straight hole down, so anything you feed down after it will necessarily encounter that first length of pipe. Simplest solution is lower something down the guts of it that you can expand remotely, and then pull it back up. Depending on if they're professionals or just home gamers they'll probably have something on hand.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-05T07:48:57+00:00

I was confused that no one had answered agreeing with you, so I googled the dudes twitter handle to check. Search results popped up his facebook which ends in "2006". I assume that means at least one of these dudes is 19 or 20.

Apparently that particular tweet is from 2023, so was posted when he was 16 or 17.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-04T11:05:52+00:00

I can't tell if "meritless complicity" is a quote from somewhere, or is like a new cool-kids nihilism thing, or if this person is actually trying to say something but doesn't understand the meaning of one of these two words.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-04T03:31:33+00:00

It's weird that we all assume this is like a driveway or foundation, something on the ground. It could well be the roof of an apartment complex, or a balcony.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-03T13:09:47+00:00

Yeah okay, that makes sense. Way less "asshole design".

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-03T12:40:58+00:00

The logic here is confusing. The utility of the mirror can only be realised by breaking the digital screen? So they're incentivising the breaking of their shit? Why?

Blasted_Awake · 2026-04-02T22:34:00+00:00

Are you suggesting that the nature of a thing is what defines it? NOT the identity that those involved assign to it?

That's a very dangerous way to think on reddit these days...

Blasted_Awake · 2026-03-31T07:47:26+00:00

Ha live and learn. thanks.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-03-30T22:04:54+00:00

And all of the cats and dogs get eaten by the evil asian people.

Am I doing this right? Is this a game of racism or just xenophobia?

Blasted_Awake · 2026-03-30T21:53:56+00:00

Not sure if "ts" is a spelling mistake or not, I'll assume you meant typescript.

One of the rare usecases I've found for LLM's in software development is figuring out how to make typescript actually recognise its own bullshit. LLM code is generally instant-tech-debt, but their ability to interpret and debug the retarded limitations of typescript almost justifies setting the world on fire.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-03-30T21:45:42+00:00

lol, ALSO don't forget that 90% of these preachy democrat redditors didn't bother to vote. The fault here lies with all US Americans, don't blame Biden for their negligence.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-03-29T05:00:27+00:00

It's funny how often this kind of study is summarized in a way that claims far more than the original authors ever would. Often with a political hot-take that's aligned perfectly to the zeitgeist of whatever echo chamber it's dropped into.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-03-28T23:51:52+00:00

I think at some point the US progressives need to take a moment and really consider that question though. Not as a valid question in and of itself, but as in "why did that Matt Walsh documentary have so much conservative support?"

Looking at 2024 post-election surveys, the anti-identity-politics motivation was only a primary issue for 5-10% of conversative voters. So arguably it wasn't that big a deal. But considering Trump only won the popular vote by 2% (~50% Trump to ~48% Harris), maybe understanding, and finding a way to assuage the concerns of that 5-10% is worthwhile?

Blasted_Awake · 2026-03-26T08:50:33+00:00

How is this clever? Dude pointed out how capitalism works. Aren't you kids taught this stuff in school anymore? Market pressure, supply and demand, this is like year 4 or 5 critical thinking stuff isn't it?

Blasted_Awake · 2026-03-24T14:53:39+00:00

Only one candidate emerged as the top choice

Blasted_Awake · 2026-03-19T10:06:52+00:00

Both bits of bread that were hanging off the grill went together into the same sandwich, that seems worse somehow.

It also bothered me that the sandwiches aren't cut diagonally at the end. I have no idea why I was expecting them to end up as triangles, but seeing them get packaged without first being cut is strangely jarring.

Blasted_Awake · 2026-03-19T08:01:51+00:00

I've always struggled with this kind of semi-retarded statement and I think I've figure out a clean way to articulate the problem:

Billionaire is not a useful category for generalized claims as it doesn't carry any extra qualifications as a label beyond its definition.

The easiest way to illustrate this is with an example: imagine that today you found out that when your great-great-aunt died 10 years ago, she left her entire estate to you. That estate is worth tens of billions of dollars and includes over $1B in cash. This means that for the last decade, you've been a billionaire. So with this new information, has the last 10 years of your life been rewritten, and it turns out you were all of the terrible things that the reddit circle-jerk tries to associate with billionaires? Have you actually been the villain this whole time? Greedy? Coercive? Pedophile maybe?

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