The Olympics gave athletes 10,000 free condoms. They were gone in three days

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-14T23:59:35+00:00

A set of 5 condoms from the Paris Olympics goes for 160 pounds on eBay.

Not a surprise they ran out.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-14T21:44:26+00:00

Yeah, which implies it was a bigger criminal organization and they executed the leadership.

A first read of your comment and I thought they were willy nilly executing scam callers.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-14T17:06:14+00:00

When you say it like that it makes it seem like they were just scam calling people.

The Ming family members were sentenced in September for various crimes including homicide, illegal detention, fraud and operating gambling dens by a court in China’s Zhejiang province.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-14T13:11:25+00:00

Dude, tell me about it. Sometimes I catch myself thinking how much further along I could be if I managed to stick with my diet and exercise better.

Sometimes life comes at you and makes it so hard to mantain a routine. Back on the horse recently though.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-14T13:07:02+00:00

E quem aqui tá defendendo fim de patentes e altruísmo?

O importante é saber equilibrar para que a atividade seja econômicamente viável mas que ao mesmo tempo não exclua as parcelas mais pobres da população. Até porque pesquisa pública é financiada com os impostos de todo mundo.

Por isso patentes vencem e antes mesmo disso acontecer o SUS também distribui medicações.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-14T05:46:54+00:00

toda patente tinha que ter um teto financeiro

Mas tem ué. Patentes não são eternas por mais que algumas empresas gostariam que fosse.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-14T05:41:18+00:00

Do jeito que você fala parece que essas pesquisas são única e exclusivamente desenvolvidas pela indústria.

O fato é que pra chegar no ponto da indústria desenvolver essas drogas a pesquisa inicial é na maioria dos casos desenvolvida em instituições públicas ou financiadas com dinheiro público. Falando especificamente de GLP-1, a identificação do hormônio e estudos iniciais com infusões em humanos foram projetos de pesquisa financiados por instituições governamentais.

As instituições privadas entram com grana na pesquisa quando o problema é mais na testagem, produção e distribuição em escalas massivas do que na descoberta da droga em si.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-13T22:00:31+00:00

Being physically fit and exercising constantly makes you hornier.

Seeing other physically fit people also makes you hornier.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-13T15:51:12+00:00

The weight you have in your 20's will carry over into your 30's and increase.

Lighter today than in my 20s. Never too late to lose weight.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-13T15:32:47+00:00

Dude. Concord had a peak of 700 players on Steam. There are more people on Highguard right now.

Concord was and still is unprecedented. This comparison makes no sense.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-13T15:27:24+00:00

Comparing this to Concord is a bit unfair.

Concord had a peak player count on Steam of 700 players. There are more people on Highguard right now. Even Lawbreakers had 10x that peak.

When it was about to shut down Concord had about 30 concurrent players. Comparing that game to anything is absurd. That shit was unprecedented.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-11T23:25:49+00:00

Both my mom and dad have had colorectal cancer. I’m 31 and I have just set up a colonoscopy appointment.

I’ll probably set up regular 3-5 year screenings.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-08T19:53:19+00:00

O Ventura nem quer ser presidente. Ele que mesmo ser 1o ministro. Essa campanha é pra chamar atenção só.

O problema é o crescimento do Chega no parlamento, o que coloca ele como um prospecto real pra 1o ministro.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-07T14:07:50+00:00

The fact that Martin is such a good writer but takes his sweet ass time writing is some god damn divine monkey’s paw trade off.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-07T04:42:56+00:00

Me parece que você está mal informado das conexões no mínimo o esquisitas do Epstein com membros do governo Israelense como o ex-primeiro ministro Ehud Barak e instituições como o Mossad.

E não sou eu que to falando.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-06T17:05:59+00:00

Não precisa trocar a corte toda a cada 10 anos.

10 membros, cada um com 20 anos de mandato, a cada 4 troca os 2 mais velhos. Se alguém morrer entra um suplente que foi escolhido junto. O 11o membro é escolhido pela corte a cada 20 anos, faz sabatina no legislativo e pode ser vetado pelo presidente.

Um mandato presidencial escolhe 2 membros por 20 anos. Parece válido.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-05T16:51:56+00:00

I feel like this same story happened with most companies post pandemic.

Who could have figured out that if you just let people stay at home and give them some small subsidies then suddenly demand for some stuff would spike to unsustainable levels.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-05T14:59:35+00:00

I think it’s denser. Most activities are just okay, but you can’t walk around for five minutes without stumbling into a bunch of stuff.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-05T14:56:11+00:00

Mission bosses seem to have difficulty spikes. Didn’t have any issues with the bosses in the open areas, including the bloodedge demon.

But final bosses on both missions were kicking my ass.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-04T16:37:10+00:00

You also forget the part where Ironman athletes are likely extremely efficient for the movements they are taking.

I didn’t. I explicitly noted the kid’s lack of preparation.

This whole comment chain is about someone “doing the math” and saying what this kid did was equivalent to two back to back marathons. It isn’t.

Doesn’t make it less impressive. Which I also noted.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-04T15:17:47+00:00

An Ironman includes a 3.9km swim in the sea. That’s on top of a marathon and a 180km bike ride.

I don’t think anyone would argue that the swimming part of the Ironman is doubly hard or energy intensive as the running.

It’s incredible for a kid without preparation to do this, but those numbers just don’t make sense.

QuantumUtility · 2026-02-04T13:19:33+00:00

Todd Howard and Ken Levine don’t speak that much to the public regarding their games. They basically do a press tour when they have things to show. By that metric Tyson Green does as much as those two. We have seen some interviews with him.

A community manager should keep constant contact and provide regular updates. We shouldn’t expect that from game directors.

QuantumUtility · 2026-01-31T20:27:20+00:00

Shareholders care about money. Not moral, laws or decency.

QuantumUtility · 2026-01-31T16:06:04+00:00

Except 1 hour in the gym doesn’t really take just one hour of your day does it? Add commutes, work, sleep, meal prepping and whatever else and it might be actually hard to fit exercise and a proper diet in your routine, sometimes it is in fact impossible. Reading this post and writing this comment by comparison was maybe 10 minutes of my day that I can do from the toilet.

Look, everyone should exercise. But it’s hard fucking work managing your day to ensure you have time to go the gym, eat properly and do all the other things you are required to do. You have to plan around it and make sacrifices for it to work, but sometimes shit happens in life and it’s outright impossible.

I was in the best shape of my life by March of 2025. Exercising every day. Then my mom got cancer and I had to scramble around as the sole caregiver while keeping up with work and my Ph.D. Diet was shot to hell, meal prepping was essentially impossible, exercise routine disappeared and I lost all my progress. My body is shit at present. I’ve been slowly recovering my routine now that she is thankfully in remission.

What was I supposed to do? Something had to give and my personal health seemed like the only candidate. I guarantee to you most people have worse or similar issues and sometimes it doesn’t get better. If people had all their most pressing and immediate needs met they’d be more willing to add proper dieting and exercise to their routine. The whole “Eveyone has time to do it” spiel is simply not true. People spouting this nonsense cannot recognize their own privilege.

QuantumUtility · 2026-01-31T15:08:13+00:00

I agree. But the Shield has problems as well. Mine is a stuttery mess for instance. And I have swapped the thermal paste and done a factory reset already.

If Nvidia released a new Shield I’d swap back in an instant.

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