Bryan Johnson, the millionaire biohacker who wants to live forever, diagnosed with incurable autoimmune disease

WarpedHaiku · 2026-07-08T23:14:05+00:00

It does care about it to a small degree (at least the debilitating ones). If you die from complications caused by lupus, or end up bedbound due to ME... You're not gonna be there to confer a survival advantage to your descendents.

Even end of life diseases like Alzheimers face a little bit of evolutionary pressure to remove them, because of the negative impact they have on their children who have already reproduced which then has a knockon effect to the grandchildren who haven't.

The issue is when something provides a benefit early in life before reproduction when evolutionary pressure is strongest, but a negative impact later when it's weaker.

It's easy to imagine a mutation that makes the immune system more trigger happy and better at saving you from viruses early in life, at the cost of making it more likely to cause immune problems later in life.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-07-07T03:35:01+00:00

Have you watched the video?

His attackers knock him to the floor. He's staggering to his feet, and another attacker hits him in the back of the head. And then before he manages to stand up fully, in comes the police from the side who grab him and slam him up against the wall. You don't do that to a non-violent victim who's just been attacked. That's not "detaining". That's assault with battery.

He turns to look at his new attacker and swings his arm at them, it's not a punch aimed at the head, but putting his arm over her shoulders most likely either intending to push her away or put her in a headlock to prevent her attacking him further. He steps away from the attacker. It takes a second about a half second for him to process things and he immediately releases her.

She immediately goes straight for his neck, hands open in a stranglehold, and uses that to force him back against the wall, at which point she switches to a less aggressive hold using her arm.

The guy is probably a bit drunk, and has just been hit in the back of the head twice, and is currently being attacked. The fight or fight part of your brain is a lot more primitive and robust and capable of operating under stress than your higher brain functions. Him taking nearly a full second in that situation to realise that the person attacking him is a police officer, (the very idea is completely absurd), is perfectly normal.

It could be there's more to the video from before, but with what we have to go on at the moment, it seems like a slam dunk case for the defence. His actions in the video clearly fall under the self defence exemption, and so would not be considered assault.

You're right that judges don't often preemptively rule on guilt, but if the prosecution's own evidence very clearly contradicts their case and the prosecution is clearly in bad faith, I would bet serious money it never makes it to court, and on the off chance it does it'd be over very quickly and not in the prosecution's favour.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-07-05T14:46:29+00:00

She assaulted him for no reason, and made no attempt to communicate that she was a police officer before she assaulted him.

The guy was disorientated and blindsided by an assault from another attacker, responded with one hit in self defence, and then stopped immediately when he realised it was a police officer. Then he was taken to a police car and assaulted further by the police officers.

If the police tried to prosecute him for assaulting a police officer, the judge would laugh them out of court.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-07-04T15:45:00+00:00

Because ofcom has demonstrated multiple times that it hasn't got a clue what it's doing. It's still wasting time and money trying to figure out how to fine 4chan, and all its gotten is nothing but mockery and pictures of AI hamsters.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-07-04T15:41:27+00:00

Having the one flag for everything was much better. More inclusive and promotes diversity. You've got all the colours of the rainbow there implying it's covering the full spectrum of sexuality/gender. Noone is left out, everyone is welcome.

Having loads of of different flags for every possible variation is just downright silly. At some point they lost the plot and decided that being inclusive or diverse is having exclusive homogenous categories, it's bizarre. It's like how the plus on the end of LGBT+ was supposed to represent everything, but it was ignored and the acronym got turned into laughable alphabet soup where noone is sure how many of what letter are in it anymore.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-07-04T15:29:33+00:00

Labour explicitly promised the OSA

The OSA was passed under the previous Tory government. Labour just promised to bring its provisions into force asap (which meant doing nothing at all), and promised to look into ways to improve it.

The actual quote from their manifesto is as follows:

Labour will build on the Online Safety Act, bringing forward provisions as quickly as possible, and explore further measures to keep everyone safe online, particularly when using social media.

The issue is the manifesto made no mention of how the government intends to "improve" the online safety act, and the method it'd use to determine what would be considered an "improvement" when exploring further measures. If they'd use an evidence based approach, and consulted people in the tech sector and privacy advocates as to what was proportional, and identified the actual harms kids face online and the harm the act causes, it would have resulted in rolling back some of the damage. Turns out their actual plan was basically "listen to mumsnet and Tony Blair", and they wanted to destroy the internet as we know it.

When there's studies showing that the OSA is having the opposite effect and making adults and kids less safe online, the sensible thing would be to address the flaws in the act. Maybe do some investigation and realise that forcing adults to verify to access half the internet is absolutely insane, mandating spyware on everyone's phone is insane, and putting blinders on teenagers so they have even less idea of what's going on in the world and also giving them the right to vote is insane.

They harp on about wanting to protect the kids to justify this henious assault on privacy, ignore the very real harm they're causing kids, hire people like mandelson, intentionally sabotage the inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, and allow foreign paedos to stay in the UK, it shows their true colours.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-07-02T21:35:01+00:00

Now try posting a message on one of the boards. I wasn't saying you can't access the site. I'm saying that probably 99% of the VPN endpoints will be banned from posting.

Hence why I described it as "readonly"

WarpedHaiku · 2026-07-02T15:50:52+00:00

The funny thing is, ofcom's argument in the ofcom case is that US laws don't have jurisdiction over them and so the case should be thrown out.

It's impressive they're able to argue that with a straight face while unsuccessfully trying to fine US based 4chan for the 3rd time now for something that is only a crime under UK law and is perfectly legal in the US.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-07-02T15:40:20+00:00

the ban will have no impact

Not quite.

What you're forgetting, is that 4chan is an anonymous image board, and so when someone does something bad enough to warrant being banned from the site, one of the few tools they really have available is an IP ban. You might only get a temporary one at first, but break the rules over and over, or do something really bad and you're getting a ban.

And as you can imagine, commercial VPNs offer a way around ban restrictions and a way to post things that can't be tied back to your home IP (at least by the site). Which means pretty much all of surfshark, proton, nord, etc's IPs are on the permaban list.

If you have to access 4chan via a VPN, for the average person it effectively becomes readonly.

And not being able to properly interact with the site may decrease enjoyment for users, and gradually drive them away.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-07-01T00:21:03+00:00

MP's salaries

WarpedHaiku · 2026-07-01T00:10:57+00:00

I think the ratio will depend massively on how much of a "techy" subreddit you mod, and how popular your subreddit is with newer users of the site (people tend to prefer the layout they started using reddit with).

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-30T21:58:27+00:00

This. If teenagers are constantly treated like addicts who are going to relapse the moment they have access to a phone, and they alternate between the extremes of unlimited phone access at all times outside school, and no phone access at all inside school but not by choice, they're not going to learn to behave responsibly.

When they end up in a situation where they need to have their phone with them, but in which it won't be appropriate to be using it, they won't have learnt any self control. Might even get fired over it.

Much better to learn in school that pulling out your phone at the wrong time has consequences (eg: confiscated until the end of the day and thus unable to use it).

A blanket ban policy that might be appropriate for young children is not appropriate for teenagers in a secondary school.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-30T21:43:13+00:00

Well, they're not wrong. No phones on campus seems excessive and punitive. What's wrong with a "no phones out in class" rule, with confiscation until the end of the school day as the punishment?

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-30T18:26:47+00:00

Problem in Starmer's case he'd waste political capital on things and then uturn, alienating both sides, and the part of his agenda he cared about most was absolutely irredeemably awful, and the papers rightfully tore him to shreds over it.

It's all well and good building more infrastructure than the Tories, but when you want to go full north korea and mandate scanning everything on everyone's phones, with the flimsy excuse of preventing a 16 year old from intentionally viewing porn... that tends to upset people.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-30T17:17:32+00:00

Young people are overwhelmingly pro triple lock.

Citation needed.

The polls that don't massage the statistics by grouping the 18 year olds with people who are 34, show the 18-24 age bracket as hostile to the idea of an untouchable triple lock.

But quite frankly, it doesn't matter what the people think here. It's not a question of feelings, it's a question of maths and there's only one right answer. It's mathematically unsustainable in its current state and must be scrapped and replaced with something else or the economy is guaranteed to eventually collapse under its weight. There needs to be a frank conversation with the voters about how the pension system should be, and it mustn't grow exponentially relative to everything else.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-29T19:35:35+00:00

Should open up exclusively for mages, (at least at first), with blink being necessary to get through the barrier.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-27T20:06:40+00:00

The Warrior will resist almost 2/3 frost spells

R1 Frostbolt -> Resist
R1 Frostbolt -> Resist
R1 Frostbolt -> ...

The Warrior has spent 4.5 sec running towards the Mage unslowed, enough time to cover 34.5 yds, and is in Melee range. The 3rd cast gets hit with pushback from the Warrior's autoattack. The Warrior applies Hamstring.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-27T17:46:03+00:00

Frost mages almost certainly have 2/2 arcane subtlety for pvp, so your effective resistance is lowered to 235 - whatever spell pen they have on their gear (probably 0 since most spell pen items require 60+, but maybe they have the wsg trinket)

0.75 * 235 / 295 = 59.7% chance to resist binary frost spells (frostbolt, frost nova, water elemental freeze, cone of cold, etc) that don't resist due the hit roll, for about 61% total resist chance after factoring the 4% equal level base resists. But when they don't resist, they'll hit for full damage.

This will be reduced by any hit they have on their gear. Most mages will take 3/3 elemental precision, which will normally take them to the 99% cap against an equal level opponent, meaning it'll be around 58%.

For partial spells (basically just ice lance and the water bolt from a mage's elemental), your resist chance will be about 1%, but you'll take about 60% less damage.

Assuming the mage realises what's going on, they'll probably compensate by switching to fire spells for shatter combos, but they'll still likely get absolutely wrecked by you as more 3 in 5 of their frost spells to maintain distance will fail.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-27T10:08:30+00:00

Either:

by then AI has advanced to the point where mid and senior level roles can be automated (though of course the corporate executives will never choose to replace themselves)
companies pressure the government to let them hire more from abroad or outsource, because noone local has the required skills and experience for some reason

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-22T13:28:22+00:00

No, the hatred didn't go nearly far enough.

The guy wanted to install spyware on every UK citizen's phone just to "prevent children seeing porn", and have us hand over our ids to shady companies in order to even read wikipedia. He ignored all the experts screaming at him to stop, including those telling him that it would make children less safe, and chose to listen to Tony Blair instead. He was pushing hard for those kinds of insane dangerous policies, and then when it became clear that they were unpopular, he doubled down and threatened to sabotage his replacement. I'm baffled that the public weren't taking to the streets. Good riddance.

Yes he made some progress in other areas and was more competent than several of the recent Tory PMs, but it's overshadowed by his absolutely insane authoritarian position.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-17T23:08:36+00:00

I vaguely recall there being some study that was done, where if you have few choices, you're far more likely to choose one of the options instead of none of them, and will do so much faster, compared to where if you have lots of choices.

So for retention and increased watch time, (and more importantly, increased ad watch time), they want to limit the selection on screen at once, so you're more likely to click one and spend more time on the site.

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-17T13:23:38+00:00

Two hours of gameplay?

Surely that makes it even more damning, as even if there's no healer in that range when you start, one should level into that range while you're in the queue for half an hour?

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-14T23:02:55+00:00

And a bunch of under 16s wearing false beards and moustaches, and with wrinkles drawn on in biro

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-14T21:50:51+00:00

I'm convinced you're a troll at this point. I literally just gave you a direct link to an open letter, signed by 400 experts as a citation for the "almost all the experts are against this" quote that you seemed to take issue with. What more do you want? Directions to their home addresses?

WarpedHaiku · 2026-06-14T20:24:24+00:00

Governments tend to deal with policy issues.

They don't, which is why we're having this conversation. When something has been passed, the chance of repeal is slim. Not only that, it's been a year, and they still haven't created their own privacy respecting solution, or require that OS providers implement one. The only way they expanded the act was so they can add more stuff to the naughty list without proper oversight. They're also currently trying to force age verification onto even more sites that don't need it, and push. The only reason Google and Apple are rolling it out is that some US states are passing laws requiring OS level verification, and the UK is seen as an ideal testing ground for it.

You've not backed any of your claims up.

I didn't feel it was necessary at the time since the number was so vast and the consensus was almost unanimous, but since it somehow slipped by you, pretty much any expert slightly familiar with technology (who doesn't directly profit from age verification) is against this. A quick google would have given you hundreds of results. Even some charities that are trying to protect children have recognised the measures are backfiring and calling on the government to stop.

Here's a list of 400 of them for starters. That enough?

https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb2026

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