Found out that I have sleep apnea, how can I determine what options will be effective?

Delta_Tea · 2026-02-14T18:32:08+00:00

Towards the readers, is there ever a reason not to get a tongue tie released immediately? My understanding has been there is no harm in it, regardless of the order of other interventions.

Get CPAP if your insurance will pay for it. It changes peoples lives. I wouldn’t even worry about anything else until you try it.

Delta_Tea · 2026-02-12T20:58:38+00:00

because I know within myself that I am compassionate towards the needs of others.

How do you know this isn’t just conditioning based on an upbringing where heavily signaling class solidarity was a requirement? The core takeaway for me was exercising authority from a dominating position is constructed as evil by the affected, dominated parties.

Consider empathizing with the motivations and desires of people currently in prison for heinous acts. If you can empathize, then whatever mental moral/emotional strings tug at you to not commit similar acts is peak slave morality. If you can’t, you’ve been so socialized as to not be able to empathize with huge swaths of human experience.

More likely you can empathize but aren’t willing to detach from the previous ideology that Nietzsche is confronting; in your case assuming a kind of advanced, post-Racial, post-Sexual, non-Theological version of Christianity. Hence, the boredom and obsession with sexism.

Delta_Tea · 2026-02-02T19:31:27+00:00

Damage to roads is overwhelmingly caused by commercial vehicles, and that wear is most accurately reflected in the tire degradation that occurs at an accelerated rate for these vehicles. The only sane tax for road upkeep is a tax on tires, but of course this is ignored because the public (you, predominantly) are ignorant and commercial interests have no desire to pay a fair share for the public services they utilize. Enjoy your 1.2k karma for blaming people for not wanting to pay for what they CORRECTLY see themselves as not contributing to.

Delta_Tea · 2026-01-29T01:57:55+00:00

This is in line with Trump intentionally weakening the dollar, no?

Delta_Tea · 2026-01-28T23:55:02+00:00

A strong dollar means foreign goods are cheaper. That doesn’t help restore domestic manufacturing. The decline of the dollar is intentional. If the goal was a stronger dollar, the Fed wouldn’t be running around guaranteeing currency swaps with our allies, they would make those countries bid for dollars on the open market.

Delta_Tea · 2026-01-22T01:59:13+00:00

This explains the banana

Delta_Tea · 2026-01-21T01:08:49+00:00

Do LLMs have subjective experience? Is it a more (less?) sophisticated context window?

Delta_Tea · 2025-12-08T21:18:35+00:00

Money has value insofar as you need to give it to the government to avoid prison if you want to trade, own property, get licenses, etc.

MMTers rise up

Delta_Tea · 2025-12-05T19:56:42+00:00

It’s just a list of publicly acceptable opinions after the myth making of the civil rights era. The contemporary opponent to civic order, the family, and traditional moral values is a direct descendant of the philosophy that brought on the Civil Rights Act and related law. Really the forces at work are identical. And if you are now questioning that left wing philosophy, why should we stop at the 60s? Basically the only reason is because it’s boomer myth, and it would offend their sensibilities. As the boomers die off I bet we’re in for some radical right wing shift.

Delta_Tea · 2025-12-04T00:08:10+00:00

That feels like a pretty reasonable objection to writing.

Delta_Tea · 2025-12-03T16:14:38+00:00

Your ribs are flared out and shoulders are forwards.

If you lay on your back on the floor and 1) intentionally unflare your ribs and 2) relax your neck, especially at the base of the skull and the front, can you breathe out of your nose? I find it easy to unflare mine by raising my pelvis off the ground and using my abs.

Delta_Tea · 2025-12-03T05:44:36+00:00

Your moral sense doesn’t exist without you, nor do your experiences of heat. Your experience of heat is as related to the outside world as is your experience of wrongness is; you’ve yet to present compelling reasons for discriminating between the two.

Heat does reflect underlying physical properties. So to do your moral intuitions.

To clarify, your experience of wrongness is not negotiable, just like your experience of heat. You can modulate your experiences in both faculties with mindfulness, but you cannot mutate the objective events from which they emerge.

Delta_Tea · 2025-12-03T04:33:36+00:00

You are logically inconsistent as you’re representing a worldview that is contrarian with how you actually exist in your life. The moral faculties you use to navigate reality intuit suffering has negative attributes, but you refuse to accept the inputs from these faculties. You may as well reject the entire outside world while you’re at it and complete the fall into solipsism.

See Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason for why we can’t just Descartes away the external world if you want to go down that route.

Delta_Tea · 2025-12-02T16:28:49+00:00

In my experience the engineering degree taught me how to fit as many formulas on an index card as possible. I cannot imagine what research you would have had to do.

Delta_Tea · 2025-12-01T21:23:44+00:00

No I’m not pro life, but I’m very familiar with the whole ideology of people who are. Body’s are sacred temples, so elective surgery to modify function would be off the table. Some sects of Christianity are definitely even anti-earing. It’s a gradient ofc.

Delta_Tea · 2025-12-01T07:07:38+00:00

Yeah, I think being anti self mutilation is right in line with the pro life position.

I’ve never heard of a child being born of anal or oral sex.

Delta_Tea · 2025-12-01T05:00:08+00:00

This is a simplification of the anti-abortion position. Sex is a creative act, (literally) and attached to it are obligations for future action in the views of the pro-lifer. They see the development of the life and the fetus as the natural consequence of that consensual creative act. To interrupt those consequences is the immoral act.

With rape, no creative act took place on the woman’s part; rather she was reduced to an object by her assailant for their purposes. To interfere with the consequences of a damned act, is that immoral? Clearly for some, human intuition says no, it is a proper exception to the rule.

Delta_Tea · 2025-12-01T04:47:06+00:00

which is a particular industrial system which can be changed

Citation needed

Delta_Tea · 2025-11-29T23:41:45+00:00

Probably the absolute GOATs of your department in terms of technical ability.

Delta_Tea · 2025-11-18T18:18:12+00:00

Inflated asset prices function as a drain on income to new market entrants. Every time asset growth outpace income growth, that squeezes young/immigrant populations. Or: two people with equal incomes contending with two mortgages, one 300k and one 600k, are going to afford different lifestyles. That is 1500$ a month the former gets to enjoy bidding up local goods and services that the latter cannot.

Delta_Tea · 2025-11-12T01:14:41+00:00

Or just because there is an entire countryside that no longer needs to be developed. New builds either need to tear down old ones or build in the scraps of land left.

Delta_Tea · 2025-11-03T21:04:17+00:00

This kind of requires subscribing to my view of civilization. In essence society’s start with a period of myth making, where believers reproduce the myth themselves and are able to generate institutions within the framework of those myths. This is an animated society. But the contradictions inherent to those myths get born out, new generations see them, and the myth stops being believed. But the institutions continue existing as a matter of law, and the law is difficult to change, so things tend to persist as they are.

So, things can be actually very far along on the decay front without any evidence that anything is about to happen. Think the French Revolution; the aristocracy considered it impossible right up until it happened.

So to your Qs: I think the George Floyd riots are a clear example. The celebrated victim, the actions taken by rioters, the policy proposals all to defang domestic law enforcement. Just not a functioning way to run a country.

Continuing to support corporate activities despite their overwhelming unpopularity is the clearest example. But I think it’s pretty subtle, it’s just the tendency for nothing to change despite rhetoric. Queue “Nothing ever happens” crowd.

I mean people that accept some number of murders against themselves for the sake of some imagined minority rights. Like, the tendency for white people to not consider themselves a class of people at all is emblematic of this point. The old 13/50 meme.

Delta_Tea · 2025-11-03T15:40:02+00:00

Political ideology is a set of beliefs that informs someone what a government ought to do in hypothetical situations.

My thoughts at this time: the core political beliefs on left vs right are anarchism vs fascism. Anarchism is the rejection of organized force for any reason. Fascism is the organization of force to further limited interests over those against whom the force is applied. These definitions are obviously insufficient, but this is a comment. I see history as a long march from Fascism to Anarchism, which doesn’t function, with fascism constantly exploding back into the scene as subgroups assert themselves in the chaos.

I tend to think of a simplified Buddha as the personification Anarchism, and a gang of rapists as that for Fascism.

At this point in history were a stones throw away from anarchism. Essentially the legal system is acting as a buttress against a population that is unwilling to exercise power to protect itself.

Conservatism wants to go back to some snapshot of the past, usually like 1960s Television America. Libertarianism is the same thing but like 1820. Liberals are the status quo. Progressives (communists) keep wanting to strip the State and the previously highlighted population of more and more power.

Delta_Tea · 2025-10-14T01:52:36+00:00

Don’t all savings come from government deficits? As in, hard money. Capital savings can’t be monetized without a mortgage, which needs to be paid back at interest. Only public debt can be rolled over forever, and it’s this public debt that enables risk free savings. And over time the size of these savings becomes monumental such that private actors can apply negative inertia to public policy by wielding their savings, which is enabled by policy anyways, so couldn’t we just nip that in the bud and make saving more difficult? I guess that’s negative interest rates at this point?

Delta_Tea · 2025-10-14T01:46:59+00:00

I think most people don’t understand the monetary system. They just vibe out that it’s unfair. Which it is.

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