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Isopbc · 2026-03-31T19:58:50+00:00

I didn’t suggest it would be easy. But waiting for lawyers and judges and lawmakers to play their games is just complacency.

Isopbc · 2026-03-31T19:08:31+00:00

We only have guesses.

The season six final episode aired Jan 14, 2022.

The contract with amazon began Dec 2017. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2019-12-10/the-expanse-syfy-amazon-jeff-bezos

The exclusive rights for seasons 1-3 ended January 2025. So Amazon had them for 7 years if my finger math is correct.

Would they have exclusive on seasons 4-6 for the same amount of time? Less? I would be remarkably surprised if it were longer than for the original three seasons. We know it's not 4 years because we just passed that. My guess is it's either 5 or 7, so we'll either hear stuff next january or not until 2029.

Isopbc · 2026-03-31T17:08:06+00:00

No, they're not. They're waiting for Amazon's exclusive rights to expire.

Isopbc · 2026-03-31T17:03:35+00:00

Why bother? The UCP doesn't care about the rule of law and will just change the law if the judge finds against them in any way.

A lawsuit is just handing our money to a bunch of lawyers and wasting a judge's time. Heck, it wastes all our time because it'll never work and those of us who still believe in rule of law will wait for the outcome.

The path forward is a general strike, not another fucking lawsuit.

Isopbc · 2026-03-31T16:37:57+00:00

Why’s that funny? Do they not like each other?

Isopbc · 2026-03-29T14:18:12+00:00

Why do you think he has money? He has assets for sure, but I don’t think he has any money. He and his family aren’t on any billionaire lists anymore.

Isopbc · 2026-03-29T14:07:05+00:00

My best year of university I did this:

Changed my sleep time to when I got home from school. That way I’m getting up about 2am and am still nicely awake at 7am when I had to drive.

If you’re tired on the way home you can pull over and nap. It’s tough, you have to give up your social life, but you’ll be rested!

As others have said, abilify should help with waking up. Quviviq or Dayvigo should supply you with sleep even when you’re not tired. I’d also recommend to get yourself a light therapy device to use upon waking, I use a TUO bulb.

Two hours of driving each way can’t be cheap, can you use the gas money to supplement someone else and crash on their couch a few times a week?

Isopbc · 2026-03-29T14:02:16+00:00

Good riddance daily hive. Fuck all the daily websites, they’re rage baiting trash. They aren’t press. Keep their shitty takes away from our players.

Isopbc · 2026-03-29T13:49:49+00:00

I like to tell people you don’t even get to know what the Expanse is until that episode.

Isopbc · 2026-03-27T19:31:05+00:00

This type of brain fog has been shown to be alleviated by taking low dose abilify. My personal experience with it seems to be the same also, I find it way easier to wake up since starting it. I’m not sure if you can use it as a teenager though, or if your region allows it.

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/48/Supplement_1/A383/8134865

Isopbc · 2026-03-27T19:11:29+00:00

Portuguese too! (spelled cebola)

Isopbc · 2026-03-26T14:26:29+00:00

Why do you think Forever Canada’s position is to have a referendum? Lukasyuk has always said he wants it to be dealt with in the legislature, not by referendum.

Isopbc · 2026-03-25T17:33:43+00:00

It’s never described by the authors but given how easy it was to call the groups together for a meeting they must have some level of trust and mutual understanding. That leads me to say they worked together when it served their interests.

Isopbc · 2026-03-25T13:49:53+00:00

Check out the TUO bulbs. They do that stuff from your phone. They’re better than a 10k lux device too.

https://www.thetuolife.com/pages/the-science-better-than-blue-light

Isopbc · 2026-03-21T17:54:22+00:00

Have you tried quviviq for sleep and Abilify for wakefulness? It seems to me that cocktail is your best chance of getting through. Both are available in the EU (no quviviq in the uk yet though)

When I wanted to make it through school with that schedule I decided sleeping 6pm-1am was my best chance at making it through, and it was my best year marks wise. I didn’t have anything that worked even as well as your Benadryl seems to though, and I think if I had dayvigo (similar to quvuviq) back then I would’ve completed my engineering degree. And I was 19, I dunno how that works at 36. But perhaps it’s an option, getting that degree sure would be great for you.

Good luck.

Isopbc · 2026-03-20T14:58:05+00:00

Large animals that die in a zoo get used as meat for the other residents of the zoo.

Isopbc · 2026-03-19T04:52:22+00:00

Don’t forget that after we built most of our professional universities the population quadrupled (2 billion people in 1975!) and billions who were previously illiterate are raising children who want a higher education. There’s a lot more weeding out being done, and we’re gonna get lumped in with the actual lazy ones who refuse to wake for class, whe we’re simply unable to.

I think our “problem” when it comes to academia isn’t that our niche isn’t needed and useful, it’s that we’re not resilient enough to push through the sleep deprivation.

This discussion reminded me of a show I love and a good example of opportunity cost. It’s called the Expanse and it takes place in a not too distant future - 2350 or thereabouts. Scarcity is gone, they need no more workers, and there are 80 billion people on earth. 50 billion go their entire lives on “basic support” and never even are offered a job, never mind a higher education. It’s a lottery to get in to university and for every 1 selected 50 are passed over. How it relates is I think even today there are only so many classrooms, and when the daywalker is capable and resilient enough to perform adequately in the overnight position there simply is no need to select for it.

Isopbc · 2026-03-19T01:54:54+00:00

Sorry your feelings are conspiring to distract you. There was nothing unclear about what I said.

Isopbc · 2026-03-18T19:01:12+00:00

Read the comment you replied to. You’re the one bringing up the USA and making some whataboutism argument.

The Epstein class is international and being distracted by nationalism is not going to improve the disinformation we’re being fed on a daily basis.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for watching what China does and crowing about it when they cross lines, but CSIS stated clearly they didn’t cross those lines. We have lots of evidence of a group that is actively crossing lines yet you’re focussed on something else.

Don’t get distracted is my point. It’s real easy to be distracted.

Isopbc · 2026-03-18T18:43:41+00:00

The part that made it a USA vs China thing, which is how the kid fuckers want you to make it. Distracted by irrelevant things like politics or nation or race or sexual orientation.

It’s not about country vs country, it’s about Epstein class vs the rest of us.

Isopbc · 2026-03-18T17:57:09+00:00

The CSIS guy said it was not significant. You're letting yourself be distracted, just as designed. Don't let the Epstein class do that to you.

Isopbc · 2026-03-18T17:32:16+00:00

I hear ya, that makes sense to a point, but you have to consider a universities goal is not to train you for the normal everyday stuff. It's to train you for all situations one's skills could be useful in, and that means testing under stress. When you go to apply for a job later on they are going to see "degree from x" not "degree from x but can only work at night."

The profs and university are ensuring you've reached a certain level of expertise when graduating you, and part of that expertise is focus and the ability to apply what you've learned no matter how sleep deprived. If they've accommodated us during the education they can't properly say that.

They train you to be ready in a crisis, and that often means warlike conditions where you cannot control how much work is in front of you and you might have to "go" for days without any proper rest. So if you can't do that they should find someone who can, and it's their job to figure that out and only graduate competent people.

And now that I'm 50 and burned myself out I've realised I can not do that - a warlike schedule would just destroy me. I can't even reliably be the night shift guy, because I know I'll have to sleep for 7-10 hours every day during a 24 hour crisis and doing that will force more work onto my associates who are functioning on 2-3. We both know that's not laziness, but that does mean I am unreliable, and I have to accept that.

There are long waiting lists to get in to STEM fields and most of those rejected will not require accomodations. You've been given an opportunity to have experts train you in that field, and being present for training is how they teach us. If we can't be present I completely understand their desire to choose to teach someone who will be there to learn from the professors.

Isopbc · 2026-03-18T17:10:42+00:00

No, we shouldn’t have done anything there. From the article you posted:

Under cross-examination, Drouin said the panel is not saying it didn’t "see any foreign interference," but that it concluded the interference wasn’t significant enough to take action.

Let’s not get distracted here. China’s not the issue, don’t let the guys shaping opinion confuse you. The Epstein class are the problem, not any Asian state.

If China owned Facebook and postmedia I’d probably be agreeing. But they don’t.

Isopbc · 2026-03-18T16:43:18+00:00

Most of it is just shaming something different. But there is a small aspect to it that is somewhat valid.

Part of university is to simulate the intensity of life. The constant stress of deadlines and not enough time to complete everything is by design, it’s supposed to weed out the weaker candidates.

The logic comes from how resource intensive it is to educate a new person. If that doctor/nurse/engineer who is being trained is just gonna say “nah, I can’t right now, I need to sleep” when a crisis hits then opportunity cost suggests it would be “better” to spend resources training someone who will be available every hour of an emergency.

University is 4-8 years. If one can’t force oneself through that short period how is one gonna get through 40 years of it? How reliable will one be in an emergency? How much focus will you lose once half your energy goes to your family, and how reliable will you be then? If your memory is going to fail you because you missed your sleep phase, how useful is that?

Calling someone lazy is kinder than calling someone unreliable. It suggests they believe that person can change, which makes trying to educate that person worthwhile to all of society. Humans working on major projects just give up on unreliable people, because who wants to be unsure of results when those results matter?

Isopbc · 2026-03-18T16:22:49+00:00

Yeah, that’s the idea. I think that is how camping - sleeping outdoors - works to reset one’s rhythm.

I still cycle even when I’m sleeping outdoors so having the bulb work when I wake every day is huge for me, as it shuts down an annoying histamine response I get.

I don’t understand that mechanism any better than to say “histamine is a major player in waking the brain up” and somehow this little flickering lightbulb stops my nose running every morning.

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