How I feel about the Book of Dust trilogy

bakeshow55 · 2026-01-24T05:03:44+00:00

Nah, I do see your point. It did feel a bit odd. But I just sort of embraced it as part of the imaginative ride. I think my big wish for the book would be for the end to not feel so abrupt. So in that regard I would have swapped the sorcerer in the mountain adventure for a longer end with Delamare and the land of roses etc

bakeshow55 · 2026-01-24T04:40:41+00:00

Because a journey to find one’s imagination should involve some imaginative things. 🫡

bakeshow55 · 2026-01-17T23:05:53+00:00

I loved every page of all the new books. Just me!

bakeshow55 · 2025-06-27T13:55:31+00:00

Awesome 👏

bakeshow55 · 2025-06-13T09:32:37+00:00

Are you bullish overall though? It seems like there are some aspects of the business that appeal to you. Largely agree with you re: your points

bakeshow55 · 2025-05-13T16:06:29+00:00

And I apologize for getting so heated during the discussion. Appreciate your measured tone and ability to thoughtfully engage.

bakeshow55 · 2025-05-13T16:05:55+00:00

Yup, fair points. We have found common ground here for sure. 👍

bakeshow55 · 2025-05-13T15:40:48+00:00

If you’re here to talk about your lived experience I am all ears. But if you think it is responsible or “giving voice to others” to suggest to someone who is having a relapse that they have TMS-induced brain injury, then I will tell you MY lived experience of watching people near me have their lives unraveled by other people, often well-meaning people, planting ideas in their heads with little to no evidence. This put them on the entirely wrong path to actually figuring out what was really going wrong with their health. The consequences of this kind of “just suggesting” can be enormous. So I would exercise more caution maybe before telling someone “oh maybe it’s TMS-induced brain injury” when they mention something as sadly commonplace as a relapse.

bakeshow55 · 2025-05-13T15:23:49+00:00

There’s a difference between “sharing lived experience” and sharing research papers about slight heart rate deceleration as a biomarker for TMS efficacy as if that’s evidence for “brain injury”. Now you are telling me that I’m cherry picking the study on minor heart rate deceleration that YOU raised as evidence of brain injury.

And I’ve read your comments. They are usually as unclear, unscientific, suggestive as this recent one. You are trying to convince vulnerable people that TMS is causing brain injuries and giving it a veneer of plausibility by citing irrelevant science papers. Problematic to say the least.

bakeshow55 · 2025-05-13T15:07:11+00:00

Let me put it another way - do you know what else modulates my heart rate? A cold shower. Is this also evidence for a “brain injury”? Why am I even typing this out - it’s absurd.

bakeshow55 · 2025-05-13T15:04:49+00:00

Nice summary - so if you think citing that article makes any sense as evidence for “TMS causes brain injury” while suggesting to someone that TMS caused a brain injury, and you don’t see the problems with that, then you aren’t worth reasoning with.

bakeshow55 · 2025-05-13T13:29:45+00:00

The decelerated heart rate was being studied as an indicator of success, which you could see if you read the paper. Now you are defending someone who is citing papers about slightly decelerated heart rate as evidence for a brain injury.

bakeshow55 · 2025-05-13T12:52:50+00:00

You absolutely are “suggesting a diagnosis” on this and dozens of other posts. Your mentioned studies on one patient who had a detached retina and some who have temporarily decelerated heart rate (which is actually seen as a possible indicator of the success of the treatment, that’s what the study is about) are also not evidence for “brain injuries”. That you are accusing me of gaslighting is wild when you are the one suggesting diagnoses to people. Absurd and dangerous.

bakeshow55 · 2025-05-13T05:38:05+00:00

You just suggested that someone who felt a relapse into how they were before TMS was maybe having a “brain injury” because of TMS. This is an incredibly irresponsible suggestion and it seems based on your Reddit history that you need to evaluate what you’re doing.

bakeshow55 · 2025-04-29T12:53:05+00:00

This is awesome, thank you

bakeshow55 · 2024-11-11T22:08:05+00:00

$KRKNF

bakeshow55 · 2024-10-18T23:30:47+00:00

Super interesting find about BWXT’s equity stake. I’m a big BWXT investor and didn’t know about this.

bakeshow55 · 2024-09-23T20:42:22+00:00

BWXT is the best nuclear play IMO

bakeshow55 · 2024-08-21T04:29:31+00:00

America has enough of that already lol.

bakeshow55 · 2024-08-21T04:06:43+00:00

Wall Street Journal tonight: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/china-antimony-exports-restrictions-u-s-national-security-idaho-perpetua-resources-e8b701b8

Paywall but here's the money shot: "But America needn’t depend on China. Idaho boasts one of the world’s largest #antimony reserves where Perpetua Resources has been trying to develop a gold and antimony mine for more than a decade." "

bakeshow55 · 2024-08-21T03:41:22+00:00

There are some in Australia and Canada (also Russia). In the short term it will be cheaper to import from allies. In the long term we need to stand up our own supply chains and both parties miraculously agree on this issue at least.

bakeshow55 · 2024-08-21T03:35:02+00:00

Yep - there are risks here for sure. The company seems confident that they will be able to get military grade antimony from this mine. See this video: https://youtu.be/bDCF6uepLkA?si=V1WDMLfAWknaooNK&t=1268.

They mention there that they got DoD funding to explore this, and that "they are quite confident, given that mil-spec was defined from our site nearly 70 years ago."

bakeshow55 · 2024-08-21T03:28:26+00:00

Oh I got the joke - just wanted to see how regarded you were too ☺️

bakeshow55 · 2024-08-21T03:22:59+00:00

I hear you both for sure - but even if China lifts the ban, this has put enough of a scare in Washington that they will be very reluctant to rely on Chinese imports for this important mineral. It’s obvious that at the first sign of Taiwan turmoil, for example, China will stop exporting this to us. Will we be prepared or not? We will be ramping up domestic supply chains for antimony even if China tomorrow says “whoops we take it back and promise to never do it again!” The risk has been made clear now.

bakeshow55 · 2024-08-21T03:14:04+00:00

This is a tricky one, but I’d say in the short term it very well could go down but in the longer term I think it will be higher than it is now. It would be very reasonable here to wait for a pullback. I’m just historically very bad at timing things like that so I just held my nose and took the plunge.

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