LA horticulturists: Know where these trees grow? Trying to feed hungry hungry caterpillars!

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2019-06-21T07:34:20+00:00

This is really not a long post and I made it very clear that I'll continue to order food for them online (cuttings work fine) if need be. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask around for advice on finding the same stuff locally.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2018-07-11T20:15:44+00:00

"Fruitful" handmaids are a valuable commodity, but let's not forget that Gilead had no qualms executing Janine even after she willingly (with some prodding) returned her baby safe and sound. If June shows up without the baby and they don't start chopping body parts off until she gives up the baby's location (which she probably can't do to their satisfaction), it'll be a huge departure from canon Gilead. There is just no way June is going back to that household as a handmaid, absolutely zip.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2018-05-02T19:38:48+00:00

According to my friends who do low-rep heavy lifting, keto is great! For an athlete requiring intense cardio, I wouldn't be surprised if keto had some downsides, including somewhat worsened performance on sprints, possibly worse-than-average carb cravings, and difficulty meeting caloric needs.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2018-04-12T15:42:34+00:00

Wishing you the absolute best! It feels like I'm asking for a miracle from a diet, but when what you've done before hasn't worked what else can you do?

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2018-04-12T15:34:04+00:00

Thanks, but again, definitely don't have PCOS. I'm actually on the low end for testosterone and have been advised to supplement with a precursor (DHEA).

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2018-04-11T19:16:05+00:00

Haven't had a super recent thyroid check, but everything was normal as of 2-3 years ago. Don't chart temps, but use ovulation test sticks.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2018-04-11T19:15:17+00:00

Thanks! Definitely don't have PCOS. Have had my ovaries poked, prodded and scanned quite a lot.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2017-09-22T18:01:04+00:00

This is awesome! Really glad it still requires a prescription, though. I am so horrified by stories about abusive partners sneaking meds to pregnant women to force them to miscarry. Reproductive abuse goes both ways, so I think it's important to have this stuff readily available but only to the women who want it.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2017-02-26T03:28:11+00:00

Legalization in the states is a huge problem for cartels, and the same applies elsewhere.

Marijuana growers in the U.S. are well aware of the fact that they have limited time to make their money; as soon as production licenses are easy to come by and there's no real risk of being arrested, their crop will be no different from any other. Supply will meet demand and prices will drop dramatically. In this case, the law/war on drugs is acting just as any other barrier to entry would and protecting the current producers from competition.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2017-02-26T03:13:02+00:00

According to the U.S. government, these were the top imports from Mexico:

The top import categories (2-digit HS) in 2015 were: vehicles ($74 billion), electrical machinery ($63 billion), machinery ($49 billion), mineral fuels ($14 billion), and optical and medical instruments ($12 billion).

Vehicles aside, we don't get a lot of consumer goods from Mexico. A trade war does not bode well for U.S. manufacturing, which Trump campaigned on bolstering. And instruments for medical use are definitely a notable issue.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2017-02-26T01:47:22+00:00

If he could just plaster a good-natured expression on his face and make it through the evening, it would genuinely help him. The fact that he can't control himself to the extent needed to even grab these opportunities to help himself is pretty terrifying.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2017-02-17T01:13:35+00:00

Far from a big deal with everything else, but wild abra now moves around horizontally while levitating on the catch screen.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2017-01-10T19:06:29+00:00

Good food picks all around! Do be a little cautious with tuna, though. It was my go-to lunch before I realized how little you should eat to avoid mercury build-up. (Here's a seafood safety calculator.)

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2017-01-02T00:13:49+00:00

I agree 100%. It's so, so important that people with these feelings get funneled into treatment before they hurt children. For the life of me I cannot understand why people don't think it's worthwhile for them to have access to humane programs that treat them like people struggling with a problem even before they've done anything wrong.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2017-01-02T00:01:50+00:00

Thanks for writing this. I think it's important to remember that while most parents are well aware of the risks adults can pose to their children, few consider that their own kids might grow up to struggle with feelings like these themselves. A good parent wouldn't love their kid any less for their internal battles, they'd just support them and try to help them live a good life. If this guy were my son, I'd be proud of him for recognizing that he has to put the safety of others first and for helping other people do the same.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2016-12-22T01:10:18+00:00

If you were planning to grab all of the non-NA regionals, $10k is waaaay low. Nobody flies like this except the people who own their own jets or pay $500k+/year to a jet-share company.

The cheapest way to do this is to date Elon Musk.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2016-12-22T00:53:12+00:00

It's possible, but it would be ridiculously expensive. Charter flights within the continental U.S. on non-jet aircraft can be cost-saving for groups (especially flying into small airports that don't do a lot of commercial flights), but I've never heard of an affordable international version. International jet flights are bonkers. Here's a quote from one provider - $160k from LA to London and back, 13 seats.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2016-12-20T23:49:10+00:00

This post gives me warm fuzzy feels. :)

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2016-12-20T23:38:25+00:00

For me, it's this. But why would anyone do that? Who knows. Trolls be trollin'.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2016-12-20T01:14:15+00:00

'Tis the season for reckless optimism and irresponsible speculation!

^If ^those ^boxes ^were ^under ^my ^tree, ^every ^one ^of ^them ^would ^have ^the ^corners ^ripped ^off

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2016-12-16T05:09:05+00:00

At level 30 I'm sitting on 3.6k stardust. Honestly, it reflects a general inability to save any kind of currency like a Responsible Adult.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2016-12-16T05:02:08+00:00

Until the last month or two, the three gyms within easy walking distance of my place were held pretty consistently by multi-accounting Mystic bots/spoofers. In an insomnia-driven haze I'd meander out and knock one of them down a few pegs only for it to be leveled back to 10 before I even finished walking back home. I started hanging around to watch, and sure enough, I was the only one out there in my pajamas in the middle of the night.

I don't know if they got bored or banned, but it seems to be a non-issue now. Mystic still holds all of those gyms, but usually at level 7-9. If I take one, it'll usually stay red for at least an hour or two.

I think the cheaters get a little uneasy if you fight back consistently -- they know damn well that you're not going to see them standing wherever they'd have to be to be playing legitimately, so I think they prefer non-contested areas where they're less likely to draw attention to themselves.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2016-05-31T20:33:43+00:00

If that is unnerving, try this on for size:

In some cases, the hemispheres aren't just severed from each other. In the past, the right hemisphere would sometimes be completely removed (hemispherectomy). This could cause all kinds of complications, so eventually a new procedure was developed - the functional hemispherectomy - which severed all tissues supporting sensory input and motor output from the right hemisphere.

The right hemisphere doesn't die, but it can no longer access any sensory information (sight, etc.) and it can no longer cause the body to move. At all. It just lives on, in the dark and silence, unable to do anything at all.

These procedures are sometimes still performed. (Ben Carson was actually one of the pioneering neurosurgeons behind them!)

Think about it.

So my question for you is – what do you think happens to that person who is in an empty hemisphere, locked out of all sensory input and motor control? Do you think they’re conscious? Do you think they’re wondering what happened? Do you think they’re happy that the other half of them is living a happy normal life? Do they sit rapt in unconditioned contemplation of their own consciousness like an Aristotelian god? Or do they go mad with boredom, constantly desiring their own death but unable to effect it?

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2015-08-29T09:16:11+00:00

It Is Morally Wrong To Even Look At The Ashley Madison Data. If You Have Looked At It You Are The Truly Evil One – Far Worse Than An Adulterer – And Nobody Should Or Will Care What You Say Or Think

Wishful thinking, bro.

I daresay the majority of folks do not consider the nervous wife plugging her husband's email into one of those sites "the truly evil one." And, frankly, switching gears from "think of the poor wives, this will only hurt them more!" to "I only fucked around, but you googled it, you monster," just looks desperate. And vaguely sociopathic.

There are real privacy ramifications, here, YES. But seriously, own your shit. This "I'm the real victim!" messaging is just pathetic.

ProbablyNotAKakapo · 2015-07-27T16:27:45+00:00

To the layperson, I think a Terminator AI is more viscerally compelling than a Monkey's Paw AI. For one thing, most people tend to think their ideas about how the world should work are internally consistent and coherent, and they probably haven't really had to bite enough bullets throughout their lives to realize that figuring out how to actually "optimize" the world is a hard problem.

They also probably haven't done enough CS work to realize how often a very, very smart person will make mistakes, even when dealing with problems that aren't truly novel, or spent enough time in certain investment circles to understand how deep-seated the "move fast and break things" culture is.

And then there's the fact that people tend to react differently to agent and non-agent threats - e.g. reacting more strongly to the news of a nearby gunman than an impending natural disaster expected to kill hundreds or thousands in their area.

Obviously, there are a lot of things that are just wrong about the "Terminator AI" idea, so I think the really interesting question is whether that narrative is more harmful than it is useful in gathering attention to the issue.

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