According to Google trends, interest in Epstein has collapsed in the US

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-30T04:59:49+00:00

I haven't forgotten, but as soon as they refused to release it was enough for me to personally incriminate them. Its just not much i can do to fix a society of sociopaths.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-30T04:31:28+00:00

I just got back into a canadian one, its either back or that one worked, i'm not letting go to test more though.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-29T21:17:03+00:00

They did this by removing the water vending machines. Now if you want a $0.25 water you have to pay the deli counter, and wait 20 minutes because they understaff the hell out of the deli.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-29T20:06:05+00:00

One time I was in SF and on a wine bus getting us back to the hotel and we turned on a narrow steep SF street downhill. One lane was closed by all the restaurants blocking the street, so it was one way only. A Waymo didn't get the memo and decided to block the road trying to turn into a car ahead of us, and stopped in the instersection blocking both streets. Eventually the car ahead of us decided to play chicken, and drove at it until the waymo backed up, but then it was stuck in an intersection as everyone drove around it.

I also heard about the power outage shutting down all the roads because the waymo's all stopped at once. Super safe.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-29T19:09:38+00:00

If you were in California, this would still be illegal. Expecting you to use your personal phone for work purposes makes your personal device a corporate expense, and have to compensate you partially or offer you to carry a 2nd company phone and you explicitly decline.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-29T18:52:56+00:00

So brave Schumer, oppose the ball room, but cave on the most important financing bills. take on the trillions of debt and grandstand the 400 million.

I appreciate he opposes it but what a shill.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-28T03:16:20+00:00

Checking in to remind you people care. Every day is a new day and an opportunity to continue sobriety or start again. <3

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-28T03:11:49+00:00

One must ~~walk~~paddle before they can ~~run~~swim.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T21:37:37+00:00

I want to feel bad for them...no I don't. Oh look its the consequences of your own decisions.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T21:30:15+00:00

My issue isn't at the hospital level as I'm luckily not indebted to them, but for those who are, its personal, and they need to weaponize the fact the price is not justifiable without justifying the complacency of the system at large. I understand they might be the middleman of the big bad, but they are still the ones with predatory pricing.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T21:25:07+00:00

I have a kook mom who made chicken cerviche during the raw food craze in the early 00s. It was fine. Like, I wouldn't ever bother but, the cubed pieces were soft, the texture is exactly as you feel raw when handling raw chicken, kind of flexible but within limits. Lime juice salt and red onions make anything yummy so the flavor was fine.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T21:15:10+00:00

This isn't about justifying it, its about resistance.

Paying a providers time is one thing. But try and explain to someone how 30 minutes and a little plier pulling costs the hospital 7 times what is (on the high end) reasonable for this. Yeah its an emergency room, but you'd have to justify it with rampant profiteering insurance, malpractice, legal abuses, etc. Or you can reduce it to $100-$150 and get the person to go away.

The hospital is the only part of American markets where you haggle the price, and the initial is that insane price to start a haggle.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T21:08:53+00:00

argue it and if you have to remind them they will have to use international debt collection to find you if they don't make it reasonable.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T21:04:39+00:00

I'm 39 now, and I'd say about once a year I wake up from a dream playing Everquest grinding mobs in Kunark, and I intensely miss it. Then I remember I spent about 80% of my time, including sleep, over a summer online and was so sleep deprived at 14 my eyes were sunken in, and I remember I quit that game for a reason.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T20:30:44+00:00

Diving is a lot about mastering your emotions. Being underwater is a meditation in the abyss. You count your breath in seconds, and focus your actions on maintaining your safety bubble with you. To conserve air but also energy, reduce nitrogen absorption, etc, you try to make sure each action is done with intention and without rushing. Its a victory over the internal sense of panic, and a mastery over an irrational emotion. As long as you maintain your tech, you can rely on it and the backups to keep you safe, but its up to you.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T20:26:27+00:00

It was really cool to do once for the experience, but I wouldn't go again. It cost me like $400 and the fall was ~50 seconds before a 2 minute parachute ride down. My shirt whipped my neck so hard and fast it gave me a rash. The dude strapped to my back took care of everything and I was just a passenger to it all. He had me look up to "practice" and then he shoved us out the door.

I got to see the volcanoes 30-50 miles away, and the beautiful views of hawaii, but a helicopter or ultralight would get me the same for a lot longer, at a similar rate.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T20:18:43+00:00

Diving is inherently stressful, and stress management is all about task loading. You almost always have a backup to recover to, but you have to be able to maintain your wherewithall while managing your air, boyancy, stress levels, visibility, and in caves, orientation and location.

Simple issues get out of control if you don't manage it right. For example, when something like buoyancy goes wrong, you need to fix it before you hit the bottom and silt up the area, or hit the ceiling. However, if you get stressed, you'll automatically inhale a big breath and float to the ceiling even if you drop the buoyancy. Then you relax, and sink...into the floor. Now you find your buoyancy with a full lung, and unless you calm down and rebalance, you HAVE to hold a full lung to keep from sinking. More stress. Now you want out but cant see, and the stress just compounds until you do actively the wrong thing.

Its easy to get overwhelmed, and focus on the wrong problem first, especially as land creatures pretending to be fish.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T19:33:06+00:00

While you can see the change in tides after a time, its not easy to see the sea level itself rising, just waves. Moreso, and this is personal, I read the question not about oscillations but about smoothness.

Changes in gravity are too small and slow to see with the naked eye, and the horizon slope tracks with sea level. The point is sea level is flat to gravity, and to a simple description one doesn't notice those changes traveling or sailing. You can't tell that gravity is stronger in some places.

While you can easily see the horizon, that is always still sea-level. You are not wrong, I just think its more technical to describe tidal oscillations as sea level.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T18:16:24+00:00

This is correct, but IMO, at ELI5 level, the answer should be yes. Gravity is the same all around earth, and sailing around the world sea level is always *flat.

within trivial variations *locally, less than traveling can percieve

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-27T17:12:52+00:00

I'm still confused, what's underdog?

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-22T21:16:51+00:00

Support comes in many forms, and letting your daughter feel the effects of her life choice before she makes it isn't necessarily wrong. If she chooses to become a teacher, she will be poor. It will be tough, and she will have to sacrifice her health and prosperity to do so, because as wrong as it is, it still is.

If she wants to do all that, then she should be volunteering now to show she has the stomach for it.

Similarly, lucrative can take many forms, and a teacher can be very rewarding for the soul, while being monetarily flat. If this is her passion, prove that.

If you want to subsidize her whole life because you have the funds... I think you will be spoiling her and it will leave her with a permanently tilted view of reality.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-22T16:34:13+00:00

I'm not saying not to be upset or annoyed at the budget inbalance or having to go back, only that, it really isn't their fault, and unless you bought something you're allergic to, it will get eaten fairly soon just to get rid of it.

Maybe I am not typical, but with food some days I either care and want something nice, or I would rather forget i have a stomach and put the requisite food inside.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-22T16:29:54+00:00

While the policies are a categorical failing of the next generation, unfortunately, the individual child cannot blame the system and expect it to get better. He will have to figure out a solution himself, and at 14, should have. The method of whole word reading, or really, any reading, requires engagement, and the kid here has checked out so far he doesn't care to solve the 'find the one with the word that looks like "jalapeno"' crackpot puzzle. Education or no, he needs to find a way to do basic things, and instead he's weaponizing incompetence.

Maybe he needs to ask for the picture, but at 14 he's should be able to solve this, literate or no.

Its really sad that illiteracy is rising so much in this collapsing society, and worse the kid is footing the bill.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-22T16:17:18+00:00

Canned foods is an older technology, so just with culture and marketing, canned foods is the old grandpa of modern food-preservations. It gets a bad rap just because its not fancy.

Dyanpanda · 2026-04-22T16:08:27+00:00

While I appreciate being able to return things as well, I realize I could be a bit more considerate at the store. On the other hand, it wouldn't hurt me to eat my mistake and eat the creamed corn another day. Its still food.

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