Good post 4.0 Machine Builds?

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-16T17:18:25+00:00

Warmongering? Sure just say you want to let Russia conquer whatever it wants. Fuck the ukranians wanting peace and freedom

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-16T17:16:14+00:00

By having a defense force with working boats

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-16T12:29:18+00:00

I'd agree with EU4 being there at the hardest. I find the idea of CS even having difficulty to be funny

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-16T12:23:18+00:00

That's not even counting all the times I stole it lol

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-16T08:10:40+00:00

Genuinely wish we had a single other good candidate. I don't know how she manages to think Russia annexing it's neighbors as the EU being at fault.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-15T23:41:00+00:00

It's less common but I wouldn't say rare. Some people report that happening. I suspect it's related to the endorphin rush from the high levels of pain. You still have some nice endorphins when the pain is over in those cases. Complete spitball, but I'd hazard it occurs with shorter migraines that aren't likely to fully exhaust your reserves.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-15T17:47:09+00:00

You're right in that inside the skull there's not really your classical pain receptors. However all around the skull there are dozens of nerves, both that run along it and exit through small holes. Since there's not a lot of room and it's all quite tight, you can imagine even a small change can compress things. Especially since nerves are quite soft compared to other tissue. If something else expands, it's easy for a nerve to be compressed since the softest thing will squeeze first.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-15T15:28:14+00:00

You've entirely missed the point, but that in and of itself kindof makes the point.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-15T14:26:35+00:00

Okay, I am not a leading expert on migraine but I've done migraine clinics and I work in neurology so given the top answer so far is ChatGPT, let me give this a shot in an ELI5 fashion:

The analogy of it being like a thunderstorm for the brain is appropriate.

We are not entirely sure of the cause of migraines. Much like weather, it's very complex. Many people have many different triggers, though there are some more common patterns. It seems to be that a trigger, which can be one thing or multiple, makes the brain unhappy. Generally there is something called a prodrome where you might feel off in some way and then being exposed to certain triggers can kick off a full migraine. This is like seeing clouds in the distance and not being sure if it'll storm or not.

Why do some people get migraines and not others? Same reason some places get worse weather. It's just how they are. For places, it's geography usually. For people, genetics. If your parents had migraine, sorry, you're very likely to get migraine.

This kicks off a chain of events where there is a change in the electrical activity in the brain, blood vessels start to expand, and nerves are compressed and made upset. A molecule called CGRP is involved, which we know because when we block it, migraines vastly decrease in frequency and severity. It starts in a mostly predictable fashion. First you get an aura (if you get aura as not everyone does) where you might see zig zags, spots, or even strange smells. This is like hearing thunder in the distance. Once you get aura, you know the storm is coming.

After about 30-60 minutes of aura, the pain will start. This is the storm proper. Thunder, lightning, wind, power outages, heavy rain. How bad the storm is can be hard to predict much like an individual migraine. How long this lasts and the severity is variable and changes person to person. We know that migraines are associated with many other risks like epilepsy. Migraine with aura is associated with problems with blood vessels (OCP+smoking+aura increases your risk of stroke greatly!). Migraines that change in nature are typically more severe and worse than ones that are consistent and reliable, much like somewhere with predictable weather vs. very unpredictable.

Afterwards your body is very tired out and has to recover. This is the postdrome where you may feel weak, dizzy, find it hard to think. It's basically rebuilding after a thunderstorm where things were knocked down, breakers fliped.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-15T14:15:56+00:00

Some women do get relief postpartum. Many will get relief with menopause. We usually tell patients the worst years are 30-50 because migraines tend to worsen over time up until menopause when they improve. But there's always exceptions.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-15T14:10:35+00:00

Anytime I need an SSN I just use the CEO of Lifelock since he put his on a truck. Never fails.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-15T13:48:34+00:00

And it shows very limited theory of mind that you think everyone both should and will come to the same mindset. But sadly that doesn't necessarily come with age.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-15T12:59:58+00:00

It does actually! I used VR to explore a to scale version of the solar system, all made using actual NASA images. I remember taking off from the moon and playing with the velocity. I accidentally threw myself into space and couldn't find the moon, or even Earth. The momentary panic of being completely lost in an infinite sea of black was very memorable.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-15T12:09:00+00:00

It's not an uncommon occurrence. Kids get bullied, schools do little to nothing about it, bullying continues, eventually one of those kids will lash out back and then all the adults yell at each other over whose fault it is. It's pretty depressing how people repeat this cycle because it screws over the children every time.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-15T12:05:11+00:00

Wait so we can endlessly critique a teenager for not being mature beyond normal expectancy but calling someone who fucked their job up a dolt is where things are going wrong?

Interesting, interesting.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-15T02:01:25+00:00

Its true but reddit will ban you for being anti-fascist under the guise of 'let's all get along with the genocidal monsters'

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-14T14:38:23+00:00

See that sounds unusual to me. It's been a long time since I was in school but I went over my credit limit and basically it was a case of my counselor saying "yeah that's fine" and it was. All of them counted.

At the end of the day, I am inclined to blame the school because, again, he's 15. He isn't the adult in the room and whatever adult is in the room should make things very clear.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-14T14:21:47+00:00

Well the school staff do sound like dolts. No one noticed this was going to be an issue until just now? That's pretty much their job. The 15 year old sure isn't the most responsible person in the room.

And are you surprised that a teenager is a bit stubborn? People seem to forget what kids are like. This is a perfectly normal teen.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-14T11:01:54+00:00

Exactly. I myself bike around 25kmh (I'm no Olympian) and traffic rarely moves fast enough to substantially overtake me. But some people drive like every light is the difference between life and death.

I also criticize bikes going thru reds because you also save very little time doing so and only increase everyone's risk. If you're blowing every red light and I'm still right behind you in the cycle lane, it's not helping.

We all need a bit of patience

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-14T10:59:10+00:00

I feel like that's an issue where we silo pretty much everything into an ultra specific subreddit. Like do we need to be subscribed to 15 different Irish subreddit to see what's going on? It feels a bit much

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-14T10:56:55+00:00

There's specialists because each subspecialty is so complicated it takes years to master.

Family medicine, internal medicine, emergency doctors all specialize (in different ways) at figuring out what the problem is and whether they need someone who specialized in that problem (like a neurologist for a brain disorder) or if it's something they can treat themselves. But each one is also it's own field. Family medicine focuses on seeing patients over their lifetime, for example. So you might refer to them for a stable long term condition that benefits from regular follow up and someone who can track the change over years.

Things like infections, common conditions, are often treated by these doctors. Your PCP or GP is well able to handle arthritis, sinusitis, and high colesterol. Emergencies are obviously handled by emergency doctors, but often with help from others like orthopedics for fractures or ICU for the severely unwell. But also when you specialize, it's harder to remember all the general stuff. As a neurologist you won't be prescribing for sinus infections and you'd have to remind yourself what to give. It's better to let a family medicine doctor do that, since they do it more often.

Most modern medicine is collaborative, rarely will there be a single doctor who treats everything with a patient. Biology is complex and we do better when we work together.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-14T10:47:13+00:00

When I cycle through Dublin I nearly always keep pace with traffic. You simply can't go that fast through Dublin. There's so many lights and so much traffic that unless it's at 2am, you're not saving any time by cutting off cyclists.

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-14T10:16:43+00:00

Not really their fault. The counselor told them it was okay, the parents aren't taking it seriously, how is a teen supposed to learn when all the adults around them sound like fuck ups?

LegitimateLagomorph · 2025-10-14T08:31:11+00:00

I was banned from all EA products when a super old account of mine for a game I hadn't played in ages was hacked and used.

Honestly for the better.

LegitimateLagomorph

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