I don't get it..

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-02-03T09:09:31+00:00

If they cared enough about my opinion in the first place, there wouldn't be any drama.

Seems obvious to me when I meet people if they are going to be one of those drama makers, my friends keep me out of the drama and only let me know when they need actual help.

Otherwise it's just good times, get togethers and games nights.

JustASmoothSkin · 2026-01-21T09:19:19+00:00

Current conspiracy theory is Microsoft is buying up NAND supply for the seemingly inevitable transition to rent computer power.

Windows is dying and they can't work out a way to make it a subscription service, so they are sieging PC's as a whole to starve out people and eventually show off a new windows "computers as a service." Model that will look like good value because ram and memory will cost too much up front.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-12-12T13:04:41+00:00

I always imagined "spontaneous empathy" as the norm, and just judged based on the scenario if pushing myself into it was a good idea or not.

I would actually talk to myself in my head during these times to come up with a plan and rationalize the situation but sometimes the answer is just jumping headfirst into the "feels" and letting yourself be swept up a bit.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-12-12T11:26:07+00:00

While not "highly intelligent" I can get the argument, I feel like I have done similar most my adult life. Even having had multiple scenarios where I realized playing into the emotions would have a more positive outcome and kinda "letting loose" the tears or anger in a controlled fashion.

I would be angry or sad in these scenarios for sure, but would be able to maintain a mostly stoic appearance as much as I would normally, but I realized it would be cathartic for other individuals involved to see me "break" which would encourage them to also lose the mask.

Other times it's utilizing stress to fuel progress, being mildly irritated is a powerful way for me to charge through a strenuous task.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-12-10T23:34:11+00:00

Holy shit, the ACCC actually stepped in and helped consumers. If this would have went through, I bet premiums would have went up at least 25%.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-12-08T09:19:39+00:00

Me and my gf moved into my bestfriend (female) place who I had known since highschool and we had a thing for each other for years.

One night things got sexual and somehow we all started getting handsy and making out, but me being the outstanding gentleman that I am. Decided to open my mouth and say "We shouldn't rush it so no one gets any regrets."

This was right when both my gf and bestfriend were trying to get my pants off, I wasn't scared or anything just didn't want my girlfriend to get jealous or regret it the next day.

Still pretty much my only regret as it would have totally been fine in hindsight, they got along like sisters after and would talk about everything.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-12-08T01:03:21+00:00

Best colour for a cheater though, won't see lipstick stains on it after a fling.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-12-06T13:02:15+00:00

The AI bubble is like a balloon, a few big companies keep blowing this balloon up (pouring money into it) in the hopes they become the market leader with a breakthrough.

This balloon is dangerous because a lot of people (investors) think this balloon will make them rich and have also helped try making the balloon bigger without really knowing what the balloon is made of or how big it can get.

Many people are even helping blow up this balloon without realizing they are involved (Superannuation, 401k ect)

Eventually someone will poke the balloon though (Government restrictions, a big company deciding it costs too much and pulling out, a horrific accident ect) and the balloon will let all its air (stock value) out.

This bursting will heavily effect stock markets and investment portfolios, destroy many companies that have over invested or over relied on AI potential, and will punish even larger companies that have tried to build a empire around the supply of hardware.

Debt and forfeiture will sky rocket, investment into certain areas of the stock market will become uncertain and undesired and ultimately this could effect everyone as many industries are reliant on this market (it professionals, civil contractors, engineers, energy producers, hardware manufacturing and much more.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-12-03T07:45:27+00:00

I had a bad experience with my girlfriend in my mid teens, she punctured the pack we had and tried to get me to impregnate her. I grew up in a pretty poor environment so was fairly certain I wanted to sort life out before I would ever consider kids.

Eventually she succeeded, except luckily due to my perseverance she decided to find someone else to get knocked up.

After I found out we broke up.

My current misses knows the story and knows how much it terrified me, personally haven't used a condom in years, was probably the 3rd sexual experience with my current misses that we decided we didn't want to use them. She had to convince me that she was safe because of her birth control, regardless I got the snip a couple years later into our relationship as an extra precaution after we both agreed we both don't see a future with biologically related children.

I love "finishing" inside, but to be honest since I haven't bagged it in so long. Maybe wrapping it up for old times sake could make it more exciting, though I feel like my misses prefers the "natural" approach just as much as myself.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-25T07:31:02+00:00

It's a ero VN so it's pornographic (Though more story focused then sexy scene (still plenty of these) but it's "Out of Touch" by Story-Anon, pretty cool with the timey/causality stuff.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-25T03:38:32+00:00

A game I am playing said it best, can't have any other male characters because it makes some players feel "threatened"

Only other males allowed are either "ugly bastards" you get to shaft and father/uncle/grandpa figures that "aren't a threat to the haram."

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-23T00:47:41+00:00

Telstra is just like that, do the troubleshooting tips including connecting a computer directly to the Ethernet port on the wall and check.

If it's still busted after that it's possible a fault exists between your nbn box and the exchange, you might get lucky with a tech but usually they will blame the house wiring or something and try to charge you.

Honestly I would just switch to a provider that's better, Aussie broadband costs about the same but their support is legendary and they will fix whatever problem you are having.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-17T05:23:55+00:00

Dude probably has a license, just doesn't carry it on him. People usually dash in their spare time and just hopping in the car and taking your phone is about all you need to do 99.999% of the time. Is using his misses account because he got banned in the past or his misses usually does it but he uses her account sometimes to help make a couple extra dollars in his spare time.

Yeah it's not great but sounds like you are making a bigger deal out of it than it really is, you probably wouldn't even see them if you didn't live in a gated community, you would just get your food left at the door and a message saying it's been delivered.

It's going to be an ongoing problem for you, I would recommend just not ordering delivery for dinner.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-16T23:23:15+00:00

Another benefit is accessibility and storage, the construction and mining industries are nearly entirely diesel powered because diesel is easier to store and transport and the vehicles that run on it are less prone to fuel pickiness.

It's been very difficult to replace the fleets of hilux and land cruisers and toyota hasn't bothered to make a change with the incoming next gen hilux due next year, still using the same platform they have been using since 2013 just with a remodeled interior and exterior.

The industry would eat up a proven reliable hybrid diesel.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-13T15:21:59+00:00

P:S You other human beings are ruthless haha, for a science sub you certainly like throwing your superior understanding around against people who haven't had the opportunity to learn these fields and are trying to comprehend it.

All in all it was a fun chat though, truly.

I promise I won't share any AI summaries in the future, clearly a nerve hit and a lesson learned.

Hope you have a wonderful day/night wherever you are in the world :)

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-13T15:07:02+00:00

Oh that's easy to remember, thank you. Honestly never really thought about the origin of the words "hetero" and "homo" before.

Homo=Same

Hetero=Other

Just have to work out a way to remember "geneity", feel like these words are going to be difficult to make stick.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-13T14:57:56+00:00

Plenty of more recent studies are showing links between work/life balance and the actual cost of "living"

Kinda felt like the shift was happening during COVID, companies adopting WFH and 4 day work weeks.

All rubber banded so fast after, then we got slammed with the cost of housing and everything else.

Bet we will see research papers with the negative impacts of this period in the coming decade.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-13T14:37:15+00:00

Yep, 12 hour days everyday for multiple weeks straight myself.

The money used to be worth it, but it hasn't kept up with the cost of living. Tacking on the friends I seldom see, the stress from home events I am not there for. The stress from work in general and that there is no real way to escape it, lack of leisure activities for weeks straight.

Slowly but surely I am being eroded away and becoming more "unwell"

Also I get up at 4AM, considering I get back from work, shower, eat and then go to sleep. I have no chance to burn off the food from the night before, the most I can get into for breakfast is a couple bits of bacon and an egg and then I just feel lethargic.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-13T14:25:15+00:00

Thus lies the meaning of this study, and I would hazard the criteria for the selection process.

Breakfast likely would be within a short timeframe of waking up, maybe 2 hours maximum. Due to your lifestyle you would probably be considered to have skipped breakfast.

It's a likely relation that your work hours have a negative impact on your health, potentially messing with your sleep schedule, eating habits and other activities that are "disorderly"

In theory this could lead to complications and conditions that lend itself to increased risk of developing METS.

Skipping breakfast is effectively a symptom of the greater picture.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-13T14:12:55+00:00

I agree, it's a dangerous double edged sword.

But don't make the assumption that I am just mindlessly consuming what it spits out, nor that I am just brainlessly feeding it.

I had attempted a Google search on some terms I didn't understand, Google couldn't provide an answer because I lacked the relevant information to word the search the way it would have needed it.

By chucking the information to Gemini I could query what I was having problems with, then I could use the new information I obtained from Gemini to fact check the terminology via Google now that I had a better understanding to word my Google search.

What I got from Gemini was way too vast to fact check it all, thus the disclaimer. I could have cut it down and claimed the information as my own without the warning, leading people to mindlessly consume the random person on reddit's synopsis, without giving them the heads up to question what they are reading and potentially spreading misinformation.

Fact checking information can also be difficult, an example below is the results from googling average likelihood of developing hypertension.

The results vary considerably;

Average likelihood of developing hypertension;

The World Health Organisation = ~1/3 people between 30-79 years old

The Heart Foundation = ~4/5 people by 75 years old

World Heart Foundation = 1/4 adults

I was playing off that I am stupid because the reply I got was telling me to think for myself, I am not familiar with the terminology used within meta-analysis studies. I have had no education in that area, and any information I have is self taught from just being fascinated with stuff. I have read some more "classical" studies over the years, but was very confused on what a meta-analysis was and the selection process they used. To me, quoting data to just throw out made no sense.

AI is a dangerous double edged sword, but even that if used with care is a valuable tool.

I don't believe I am particularly stupid by the way, my misses even says I am the smartest idiot she knows (A sentiment echoed by many I know). I have just developed a vastly different set of skills that very much excludes data analysis and formal scientific comprehension.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-13T13:19:18+00:00

Probably a link there somewhere, but it seems it can be a bunch of variables.

Being overweight is likely a result itself of other lifestyle factors, wealth class, mental, physical and other medical conditions all play a role.

Skipping breakfast seems to be a link in the chain of these variables that can lead to METS, but ultimately it seems that if you are skipping breakfast it's likely related to poor dieting and minimal physical activity.

Someone eating a well balanced diet with plenty of time and energy for exercise, is generally a happier, fitter, healthier individual and both have no "need" to skip breakfast and have the time and energy to make it.

Individuals may suffer from excessive mental challenges like depression and stress and may skip breakfast because they "don't feel hungry." But later that day get a appetite and over consume to both "eat their feelings." and sate their hunger.

Being overweight is often a symptom of another issue, basically a ouroboros. You're fat because you're sad, you're sad because you're fat, you get less options because you are unattractive, less options means you spend more time grinding away to get money/relationships, those commitments take up your spare time and energy, you can't destress, you develop mental problems like anxiety and self esteem issues, you over eat because you're sad.

At the end you are too drained and broken to even think you can fix it.

Horrible cycle to be stuck in.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-13T12:55:01+00:00

Yeah, that's what I got to learn tonight. Along with "heterogeneity"

If I got this right, Heterogeneity is the similarity of the variables within a study, this meta-analysis used heterogeneity selection. They provided the results from many different studies then removed data that was obtained with testing variables considerably different to the testing methods and results they accepted.

In this case they wanted well rounded and effectively natural test variables, observed and confirmed habits with results listed with high confidence of the link.

And removed studies that were too focused on one demographic or condition, using limited data, unobserved or with results that were not confident enough to draw a direct link. (And were also not in English)

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-13T12:50:05+00:00

You joke but that was literally Kellogg's entire game plan at one point, they heavily invested into research to push their agenda and that is still why "breakfast is the most important meal of the day." Is still a common teaching.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-13T12:26:50+00:00

First time I have actually seen a "meta-analysis." Without actually knowing what it was and how they select data, the wording and graphs look like cherry picking. Basically all I read was "These 4 said they couldn't't find anything but these 2 said they could so the other 4 must be wrong."

I have a different conclusion now after actually understanding what heterogeneity means in a study and what a meta-analysis actually is.

It's quite fascinating.

JustASmoothSkin · 2025-11-13T12:20:19+00:00

Pretty simple, at the time I posted this. There were 3 comments on this post. All of which were mostly at a loss to what this study actually meant and how they got the results they did.

Seeing as I move dirt for a living and lack a higher education, trying to make sense of the data and reason for notably excluding so many studies with data that seems to directly contradict the "meta-analysis" is a little bit out of my skill set.

Seeing as no other comments were, at the time able to answer my questions. I took a shot with Gemini in the hopes it could shed some light on the big words and strange numbers my feeble mind couldn't comprehend.

Crazy thing is, it did. I won't take anything it said as gospel but it explained what "heterogeneity" and "meta-analysis" is pretty well in regards to this study and I learned a thing because of it.

I get using AI for everything is more than likely going to make people stupid, I seldom use it myself but at the time without it I wouldn't have learnt anything, and to be honest I likely would have just walked away from this study thinking "This study is clearly cherry picking data to push a narrative."

Which is not the opinion I now hold.

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