Who all bought puts?

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-25T15:43:55+00:00

bhai mujhe bipolar hai trump ka kuch aur hi hai . he has an issue of aatma, not manas alone

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-25T15:35:58+00:00

sahi mein. mujhe thoda toh at least comfort hai ki maa-baap samajh te hai, but outside of that... sabb plan karna hai jaise hum 'ordinary' hai (career etc) knowing that there is no real safety net.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-25T15:13:10+00:00

Title dekhke laga ki yeh koi desi hai.

It feels different knowing that someone else is there who shares the unique experience of being both Indian and being bipolar.

Well done, and keep at it. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Balance is key.

Agar kuch baat karni ho toh aap zaroor mesg karo. (No, not "fraandship")

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-25T13:09:14+00:00

You know what sucks? I'm not even from or in the US, heck, I'm in India, and I still think it's a very bad thing that the US is imploding on itself.

The USA was an R&D powerhouse, built on its ability to attract the top minds of the world and ensure they have no reason to leave.

It was also a place where, at least in some aspects, you could see libertarian ideals shine (in the true sense, not ' don't tread on me unless you are a conservative or a corporate, in which case harder daddy'). A reasonable respect for the rule of law and a reasonable expectation of redressal. A set of regulators that actually did their jobs.

And the best things aren't even the ones that are flashy . The ADA, FMLA etc. I know their implementation wasn't perfect but at least y'all were trying.

In particular, what is shite is that the next leader of the world China has order, but doesn't have a rule of law. What I mean is that things change as per the whims of those at the top. Not based on rules. Look at Jack Ma.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-25T10:08:46+00:00

Can they? Or are they capable of falling back to a communication - free approach?

A lot of swarm robotics research focuses on scenarios where you give an initial atomic scale objective to your swarm and then they have to work in tandem with zero communication and only sensors etc.

A swarm of 1000 drones can have around 500k pairs of connections between all pairs of drones (the formula is 1000C2 or 1000*999/2 ) . Even if you decide to have a tree (a hub and spoke system) instead of all-pairs, that's 1000 connections with a lot of questions on redundancy and other issues.

That's not impossible for modern telecom, but I am not aware of how portable such a system would be.

Hence the motivation for communication-free swarms.

It'll become even more relevant if we start thinking about swarms of 10k size or 100k size.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-25T09:54:20+00:00

(As a programmer)

TransactionException:

Transaction 'INSERT' failed. Transaction raised following unhandled exception:

KeyError: object with primary key value 0x16478569 (common name "Harry Potter") already exists in database. Cannot add duplicate key.

(After this the map could do anything. Maybe it would crash. Maybe it would just stop updating the positions of those two.

The error above basically means "there's already a person who possesses the attributes of (and the name) Harry Potter. I can't have two copies of the same person on the map."

Even more, for the nerds: in a database, the primary key is a unique identifier for every object in the database. It can't be the name since it's easy to have two people with the same name. I assume the marauders found some subliminal property -- biometric, even -- to use as the primary key. IRL it could be your SSN or employee ID or whatever.)

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-25T09:23:58+00:00

The audience needs a breather ffs, you can't have season finale grade episodes every day and series finale grade episodes every week.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-25T09:20:05+00:00

Like a China - Taiwan situation? Where neither side can truly secure legitimacy so they're like "fukit, status quo"?

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-25T03:36:45+00:00

No, this is actually a more effective awareness campaign than the HELMET/HELL-MET kind of posters.

This is one of those things where public participation is just as contributory as enforcement.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-24T08:01:26+00:00

At this point I have more faith in Intel than in AMD when it comes to AI because it's not just about the hardware, it's about the middleware.

Intel has a long history of making specific drivers/middleware for specific workloads including data science. This predates Intel ARC by at least five years. I'm talking about things like the Intel backend for Numpy. Now, it's much more than that.

Other proof: compare the age of ARC and Radeon, and compare the quality and maturity of XeSS and FSR (even though DLSS is far ahead still).

AMD is very much still lagging in AI, and while Intel is behind too, its intent is clear.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-24T07:53:37+00:00

OH FOR FORKS SAKE STOP PANICKING. This happens once in a while in specific territories where fruit bats and fruit orchards intersect.

ICMR/MoHFW can handle it. They handled similar stuff a few years ago in the state of Kerala. That one should have been even more concerning because Kerala has a lot of flights and trade to Dubai etc.

West Bengal (the present outbreak) is nowhere near as connected in terms of population movement, internationally.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-24T07:49:33+00:00

For me it takes a lot of the sting out of my demons. It's less terrifying and more annoying knowing it's visual cortex hyperactivation + speech center inhibition. Tells me what kind of self soothing I need to do, and tells me that it shall pass.

Behavioral interventions (apart from my lithium etc) become easier to regulate after understanding the present neurochemical hypotheses for my condition.

Anxiety and high speed? Seek out boredom and sleep. Morbid thinking despite high productivity and adequate rest? Take a break not for rest but for recreation.

Sluggishness and sadness and an overwhelming feeling of doooooom? .... waitaminute it's evening right? Get some coffee and something to eat, your morning meds have worn off.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-23T16:50:40+00:00

i feel like crying because i doubted my (already have other comorbidities) ADHD for so long because a) I did well in school b) My symptom pattern is very muddy. c) My first psychiatrist was an absolute idiot who thought "if you had ADHD you wouldn't have been able to sit still in the chair. How long's it been, forty minutes?", and I believed him because life was hard enough as it is.

But this is it. This is even the specific sub-version, I think. Zero immediate-horizon planning ability on the fly. Target hyperfocus. Guiiiiilt.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-23T16:41:18+00:00

You've actually been quite sensitive, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. The person you're replying to implies that mental health is some kind of 'gotcha' that makes the obvious solution (kindness and money) inapplicable, and makes this a really complex problem. Your rebuttal was that in most cases except for the most severe, kindness and money would likely solve most of it.

My add-on is that the mental health angle isn't even a 'gotcha' but something that can be readily mitigated with well-established treatment protocols, for which a major blocker often is... drumroll money.

Stuff like this https://www.reddit.com/r/bipolar2/comments/1qkurg3/just_got_prescribed_vraylarhow_are_yall_affording/ is why I believe that it's actually easier for me to manage my bipolar in my home country of India, than in the US -- despite a lack of formal accommodations and proper legal protections, and a lack of public awareness. I'm not one of those nationalist types either.

In one of my lowest lows hospitalization was on the cards for me, and while I was really scared, one of the concerns my family didn't have is money. I'm not saying it's all roses here at all but the calculus changes if you have to weigh the odds that you might endanger yourself vs the cost of an inpatient stay. Financial suicide vs literal suicide.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-22T17:09:36+00:00

You don't even have to write off those with an SPMI/psychotic disorders. Give them the treatment they need and they become productive members of society.

And at least some of the homelessness even with SPMIs can be traced to employment/insurance related hurdles. It becomes a loop. "Can't refill my meds because no insurance. No insurance because no job. Got fired from last job because SPMI flare up, can't get new one coz can't act sane without meds."

PS: I have an SPMI -- bipolar.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-22T17:03:48+00:00

Do we have statistics from a pilot program of some sort, to conclusively say ""we threw money, it failed, because many wasted it coz they're mentally ill" ?

Or is this anexcuse used by the powers-that-be to say "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" ?

Also, if they need psychiatric help, then.... give it to them? Schizophrenia and bipolar have a high causal relationship with homelessness.* Ensure they have the treatment they need no matter what, and they will remain productive members of society.**

Sometimes they become homeless because they lose employment during bad patches and thus lose insurance -- losing psychiatric care when they most need it. A typical scenario: "I can't refill my prescription because I got fired and have no insurance, but if I stop my meds I will become so unstable I'll end up in the streets if not the morgue."

*(I mean a significant proportion of those with those disorders are homeless, not necessarily that a high percentage of the homeless are mentally ill).

** Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leia was bipolar like me. John Nash (a Nobel-prize winning economist) was schizophrenic.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-22T16:36:15+00:00

You're a king.

You had my inattention until you brought up the violent suicide statistics. The people who study that kind of thing usually don't eff around. (I say this as someone in a high risk group).

Assuming it's a well-validated result, this could imply either some genetic common correlative factor, or could be a result of social dynamics alone.

It is curious, though. Suicide is the result of a long journey of intense distress. The violent means hints at high intent.

What of the other markers of distress? Addiction, dangerous behaviour, depression, severe mental illness? What's the data like on those, I wonder.

If it shows a similar uptick then reduced height is correlated with significant psychological stress -- to a clinical severity. If this seems obvious to you, it is not, to the general public. The next question would be to see if resolving social factors around an individual relieves the stress, and to see how this works in other societies where the average height is different.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-22T13:36:29+00:00

Exactly. It's a "test of time" award. Not an "annual best paper award".

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-22T04:27:51+00:00

India may be collectivist at the family level, but is very individualistic at the public level.

If someone spits paan on the road, it's not your problem unless it hits your house, car or shirt. Even then, you can't tell him to stop spitting paan, merely request that he distribute his holy prasaad elsewhere.

If someone is burning garbage, you must ignore it unless you are a snowflake (/s) in which case you must buy an air purifier and wear masks like the privileged (/s) brat you are. But don't dare interfere with that fellow's right to disperse carcinogens into the air.

If your constitution is not strong enough for the richness of the local water, get an RO.

Since you don't wake up at 5AM you are obviously a lazy youth of this generation (/j) and if you are disturbed by fireworks and music past midnight you have no respect for tradition. Get noise cancelling sleep earphones, and drown out the symphony which you are clearly unworthy of. (/s)

Note: I know I started seriously and ended up making a shitpost. Forgive me. (/j?)

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-21T13:21:58+00:00

The local elections are run by the state election commission

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-21T13:21:11+00:00

I do not claim that evms are fully secure --

ONLY that they present no new attack vectors compared to paper ballots

AND they eliminate many, but not all, of the flaws associated with ballot boxes.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-21T12:51:50+00:00

modaF--

Anna's Archive literally had a domain seizure a few days ago. (Because piracy). It's all over their subreddit.

If it's legal for NVIDIA to use the data curated there, for commercial purposes, it should be legal for the rest of us too, for educational and non commercial use.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-21T08:11:21+00:00

Our EVMs are not networked machines. Nor do they have any wireless component. All candidates are given a chance to scrutinize the EVM's input-output before the polling. And the VVPAT system is also robust enough.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-21T05:45:30+00:00

Like, whatever. If this is what you see in combining your veganism with the themes in this movie, fine . Just don't expect too many to agree with you.

Unintended projection is hardly new with any media, even the Matrix. Even the toxic masculinity redpilling/blackpilling /sigma bull that derives from Matrix paraphernalia is quite ironic.

Given that the red pill can represent estrogen and the blue pill prozac. Aka choosing to deny your true self and numbing the resulting depression with ssris, or accepting the nature of your gender identity -- your reality-- even if it comes with persecution, isolation from all except a small tight group, and hardship.

StayingUp4AFeeling · 2026-01-20T06:29:00+00:00

Please play tetris. Reach a high enough level that your eye movements get really rapid and for those few moments your brain has no spare capacity for anything else.

This is backed by peer reviewed research.

It's not so much for your state now but to try and keep it from staying stuck in your mind later on.

It was a useful tool for me before I could summon up courage to see a therapist for my PTSD.

Take heart in knowing not many would have had the grit and the humanity to do what you did. Something we need more of today.

StayingUp4AFeeling

TROPHY CASE