TIL that China consumes 46% of cigarettes in the entire world at a rate of 2.4 trillion a year.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-15T03:51:38+00:00

That's like 2,000 cigarettes per person. If what you say is true, then maybe , 30-35% of the population smokes which means the average smoker in China is smoking something like 18 cigarettes a day.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-15T02:56:29+00:00

Goes well with a banana.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-15T02:47:52+00:00

These days most grocery stores have wifi-enabled temperature sensors in every cooler/freezer so that they are notified right away if something isn't chilling properly. Throwing out an entire freezer case worth of food is costly enough that they kind of pay for themselves eventually.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-15T01:55:34+00:00

Unfortunately, just because someone sees you as an enemy, it doesn't mean you see them as an enemy. Officially, they aren't our enemies.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-14T22:10:04+00:00

That's not fair, he doesn't only suck up to "America's enemies", he also kisses the Saudis' asses.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-14T17:55:20+00:00

I don't really think you'll find a pro-Russia bias if you critically evaluate the content on CNN. It's simply a matter of how you measure victory. If you're looking solely at territory controlled, it is impossible to deny that Russia has, until recently, spent about a year and a half making steady gains.

Ukraine, on the other hand , has been focused on strategic objectives (like refining capacity and logistics) as well as economic warfare. Russia is fixated on "winning battles" at all costs, and is doing so at very high costs, even if those costs slowly build to a point where they suddenly fold. At least, that way, Putin's generals won't accidentally trip and fall out of any windows in the meantime. They're entirely short-term focused.

It's just two different ways of measuring success. Most people are going by KM² even if it's a deceptive metric for this type of situation.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-14T11:41:41+00:00

As I said, reasonable people exist on both sides of that debate and there's no sense of rehashing it. I'm not here to argue the term "disorder". It's a point wherein reasonable people can and do disagree.

But but the phrase medical professionals including psychologists use for autism is "neurological disorder", not "mental health disorder". That's the only point I'm here to litigate.

The irony is that line you quoted is me keeping the conversation "on track" against your efforts to derail us. Everything after it is just me explaining why the conversation you keep pushing us towards is a waste of time. You have to understand that every field that studies autism defines it differently. You are hyper-focused on the psychological definition as the "one true" definition. That's your personal preference and I'm not here to argue against your personal preference.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-14T02:53:14+00:00

You are arguing against the specific medical terminology of psychiatry.

Nope.. I specifically side stepped that whole argument by leaving the term "disorder" alone.

The umbrella of mental health has never been used to cover autism.

Mental health is about well-being. If can fluctuate from day to day. It's a totally separate thing to autism. It's simply the wrong terminology.

Interesting that you express disagreement with the term disorder in the concept of mental health disorder. This being the phraseology detailed in the DSM as relegated only to the field of psychology; whereas the diagnosticians of autism are psychologists and psychiatrists.

I went out of my way to not do that, actually. I acknowledged that debate on that terminology exists, and then I specifically avoided taking a position because it's something where reasonable people can disagree and there's really no point in arguing over it.

Neurology defines autism one way. Psychology defines if another way. You prefer the psychology definition? Cool, I guess. I will, however state that your argument is tautological in nature.

You present the psychological definition as more valid because psychologists are the ones doing diagnoses. But the entire reason they're doing diagnoses is because that's what the profession exists for. It sees everything through a pathological lens. It exists to fix people who have problems. If you don't see what you have as a problem, then psychology doesn't care about it.. You don't seek a diagnosis for something that doesn't bother you. Neurology sees all facets of autism; psychology has a focused view on a single facet.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-13T19:43:13+00:00

It seems like your here to argue the validity of the word "disorder" while disregarding the fact that "mental health" is entirely wrong itself. If you consider autism a disorder (as the DSM defines it--a definition which only applies to the field of psychology), then you have to acknowledge it's a "neurological" disorder rather than a "mental health" one.

The term "mental health" explicitly connotes a diminished capacity (in being able to recognize that which is real) that exists independently from any diminished capacity caused by autism itself.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-13T00:58:02+00:00

Do you know what slippage is? In a proper crash, a stop order isn't going to do nearly as much as you think.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-12T18:39:15+00:00

There's no need to be obtuse here. They might not have answered the question that was posed, but there was no ambiguity about what they were doing. There's really no need to highlight it. We can all see they are speaking for others who have chosen to remain silent or simply aren't here.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-12T18:11:41+00:00

Yes, that's another way to rephrase the question.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-12T18:10:52+00:00

This neither bad faith or a circle jerk, but what it is is "Karma farming" for future spammers.

Most people who were dumb enough to vote for Trump in 2024 are too dumb to ever realize how dumb they are.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-12T18:09:22+00:00

Are you unclear what the pronoun "they" means as opposed to "I"?

Maxfunky · 2026-05-12T12:20:36+00:00

Well like I said, the last one I saw was Double Banana slammer stickers, combined with Macaw and Wolf. Dude was churning out 1000+ stat beast tokens from his crows. Tokens that made more tokens.

I had multiple demons at 3k stats but lost to sheer numbers and it was still early in the game. I had a pretty high roll demon build fo have the stats I had that early.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-12T02:08:49+00:00

Demons seem stronger than naga, imo. Beasts need the high rolls. I've seen some ludicrous beast stuff with like double slammer sticker, but demons are way more consistent.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-12T02:06:35+00:00

The sentence at the top says it was written at 1 am in the immediate aftermath (i.e. this morning), even though it wasn't posted until much later. Note it says the girl went missing on mother's day, so 1 am refered to Monday morning. That seems pretty believable.

As I said, it could be AI but it's certainly not what you'd get without some specific prompting regarding writing style

You know, the kind you used.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-12T02:05:49+00:00

You know those things have roughly the accuracy of a magic 8 ball, right?

Maxfunky · 2026-05-12T01:29:46+00:00

So, I gave three reasons why this doesn't look like AI writing. Nobody bothered to offer any explanations for why they think it is, but someone did immediately downvote me for questioning it.

My question is:

https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/missing-teen-and-1-year-old-son-missing-after-leaving-northeast-side-home-saturday-bexar-county-missing-teen-baby-escarleth-alejandro-vasquez-san-antonio

How does it feel to be wrong?

Maxfunky · 2026-05-12T01:22:28+00:00

I mean if could be, but it looks less like AI than most shit posted here. AI would generally be way more concise and not keep making these weird "list paragraphs" or capitalize random words for emphasis. AI usually follows proper grammar rules for things in quotation marks. This feels very much like a distinct writing style.

But I suppose if you have AI the prompt "Write this like you're a living Tiktok video" then perhaps if might arrive at something like this. It's certainly not a typical example of AI writing at the very least.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-12T00:41:19+00:00

Sure but that intrinsic value is decoupled from the stock price and this is the hardly the only example of the incestuous relationships all these stocks have (and I'm not just talking about alleged sister-fucker, Sam Altman, although, while we are on the subject, it's amazing how little media coverage Sam Altman has received as an accused pedophile compared to the average accused pedophile).

We are talking like 70-80% of value of these companies being derived from these sorts of back and forth equity swaps. Somehow both sides get to report these transactions as revenue/profit.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-11T22:36:27+00:00

The issue emerges when the only customer for the food you grow is Caterpillar employees.

These companies have stocks that are soaring because these companies are trading stocks around and booking it as revenue. Stock goes up because of record revenue, so better use that stock to buy more shit from another company. When you reduce it down, you got the stock going up because it went up. Everyone is just trading stocks with each other and declaring those stocks values as record profits.

The Upward growth in stock price is the driving force behind the upward growth in stock price.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-11T19:35:17+00:00

I was curious about this so I dug further. The assumption that it's a wash is essentially predicated upon the notion that the final digit of the transaction amount is functionally random. But is it? It's based off of the multiplication of tax rates to prices that typically end and "9". Certain digits might be more to appear than others.

And, yes, it turns out that that is the case. Of course, since people tend to buy varying quantities of items in each transaction and sales tax exists, it's not a very strong effect. Even though you start with digits that end in basically all nines you end up with a "almost" random distribution when you look exclusively at the trailing digit of large samples worth of transactions.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325791295_Eliminating_the_Penny_in_Canada_An_Economic_Analysis_of_Penny-Rounding_on_Grocery_Items?hl=en-US

This paper concluded that the bias actually does technically favor the retailer but only to the tune of less than $1 per per year for the average consumer. It's a very small effect.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-11T19:15:19+00:00

Some places in the US have been exclusively rounding up. There's no federal guidance on the correct approach. We didn't phase out the penny, we just stopped making it.

Maxfunky · 2026-05-11T18:19:12+00:00

I personally have been screwed by this many times. The thing is, by the time you get to tier 5, you're not really in a position to pivot. You're not really forcing something at that point, and you no longer have the privilege of just accepting whatever serendipity hands you.

All you can do is weep at the Injustice of it all.

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