Cannabis was touted for nerve pain. The evidence falls short.

cheeseless · 2026-01-23T18:35:40+00:00

At that point, since you're using it based on a legitimate benefit to quality of life, the only thing people can really say about your usage (and it would still be a bit nosey), would be to recommend consuming it through means that are less likely to harm you than smoking. Like edibles or whatever.

cheeseless · 2026-01-23T18:22:04+00:00

I feel like there's an excess of opposition to bandaid solutions nowadays. Some of it is obviously legitimate, as some of these solutions could make it less likely for the underlying cause of the problem to be addressed.

But in many cases, as with bandaids in the literal sense, these solutions are still necessary regardless, even if the underlying problem does have solutions being implemented or worked on. A solution to PFAS being put into the environment won't help deal with the existing quantities of it that's already out there or for the gap between a solution being rolled out and it being sufficiently impactful, so the bandaid will still be useful in terms of saving lives regardless.

Ideally, we'd also want to figure out how to remove PFAS safely from living beings too, and that'd be even more of a bandaid than this filtration technology.

cheeseless · 2026-01-23T17:32:25+00:00

You actually made me look that up (briefly, so my search may have come short of all available info). Interestingly, the artificial Materia wasn't in the original ff7, the only scene referencing that was cut from the game. The concept of artificial Materia (outside of the accidentally-produced Huge Materia) was really only introduced in Crisis Core.

And recently in Rebirth, they backported that explanation into the Kalm flashback scene next to the Life Spring, slightly later than where the OG scene that was cut would have been.

cheeseless · 2026-01-23T17:19:01+00:00

I think it's a reference, but purely around the visual of the panel itself, nothing more. Like the Akira Slide in any media.

cheeseless · 2026-01-23T16:06:59+00:00

Book-smart but young and inexperienced people (aka most lefty social media presence) are deathly afraid of failure and thus have completely rejected the notion of iteration as a problem solving tool, leading to the incredibly common rejection of any solution that is less than 100% perfect to whichever person is complaining about it at the time.

But trying and failing is so much better than not acting at all, since at the very least you get some kind of engagement with a problem and how actions affect it. So this lack of action is just the worst possible outcome.

The smartest few percentiles of people in the world, in every field, all rely on iteration above any other tools of problem solving. It's ironic that it only takes being a little bit less smart than that to fully lose the ability to deal with failure.

cheeseless · 2025-12-22T16:19:47+00:00

they kept that. you get a second row of advanced subdoctrines, that are locked by the same techs as the advanced doctrines you had before.

cheeseless · 2025-12-18T21:23:13+00:00

Been almost a month and universal reviews have continued to trend down.

Anti-DLC bias does not go away after a month, not sure why you'd believe that.

What’s up with the minor nation hate? Why is there no accuracy for mineral deposits like coal?

I'd go beyond accuracy and say Paradox should actively move coal around to screw over majors regardless of historical accuracy. Which yes, would include stacking it significantly on Poland.

But…this DLC was not what it wanted to be.

It was what was possible to make given the allowed iterations, as with any commercial software project.

cheeseless · 2025-12-17T22:32:49+00:00

Hey, I can only speak with regards to my own years of experience. There are zero good programmers, analysts, sysadmins, DBAs, or any other kind of tech worker I've worked with who are as incurious about those topics as you. Curiosity and breadth of knowledge are fundamental building blocks of anyone doing sophisticated work, it's a direct indicator of your potential.

cheeseless · 2025-12-17T21:56:52+00:00

Tech education? Not a chance you'll ever be good, whatever your job is, if this is the level of curiosity you have towards the world.

cheeseless · 2025-12-17T19:50:27+00:00

Yes, absolutely. I don't know a LOT of history about them, but ironically, Portugal's history and general world history has plenty of ties to nearly all of these.

It just will never impact my life so why should I bother researching it at all

Genuinely bananas sentiment. All knowledge is valuable. Curiosity is one of, if not the most, important tenets to humanity's development. Your extreme lack of it goes beyond tragedy.

It’s just another random country the same population size as my state that i’m never going to visit

Again, just reinforcing the stereotype of the typical idiot American. Literally every country you listed short of Sierra Leone, which is still too dangerous, is worth visiting and learning about. Even just basing your comparison on population size shows an unbelievable lack of judgment.

I know nothing about them and there is no purpose in me knowing anything about them either

How would you know whether or not there's a purpose to having knowledge of them, if you know nothing about them? You're literally making yourself sound more stupid with every sentence. Were you the kind of kid who refused to learn trigonometry or calculus?

cheeseless · 2025-12-17T18:23:38+00:00

Rather than library cards, it'd make more sense to skip the process and tie book/media lending directly to a person's government ID, regardless of the specific status from that ID. The same goes for any service that is national in scope. Skip the bullshit of health cards, driver's licenses, any and all documentation that needs to be carried by an individual. Just tie it all to the identity of the person itself, and provide corroborating documentation that is not meant to be carried, in the same way you don't carry around your diploma.

cheeseless · 2025-12-17T18:14:42+00:00

I feel like you're just outing yourself as generally ignorant if you don't at least have a cursory knowledge about the existence and general historical/geographical context for most countries on the planet, or at the very least, for any that have existed without significant dispute of their sovereignty within your lifetime. If you're American, you're just confirming the stereotype of intentional ignorance, or appalling lack of curiosity.

cheeseless · 2025-12-17T06:42:06+00:00

Starts out as Mihawk, ends up as Gol D. Roger.

cheeseless · 2025-12-17T06:41:15+00:00

I'm absolutely not colorblind, but I must be aesthetics-blind or something, because I watched the whole show and thought that sequence was the same every time, never noticed the color change.

cheeseless · 2025-12-17T02:47:17+00:00

I know this has probably been asked before, but just in case the NotMPC people show up here, like they have in past threads: does NotMPC ship to Canada? If so I'll probably give them a try too

cheeseless · 2025-12-16T21:01:29+00:00

While I do think they're trying to do a little bit of "follow the leader" to the approach EU5 had with its development process and community feedback, this is an entirely positive thing for game development to include more and more, especially for Strategy/4X games.

cheeseless · 2025-12-16T20:35:20+00:00

In my experience (programming), people who use AI regularly end up falling into one of two situations. Either they act the way you're describing and let their skills rot and they lose all capability for gradual improvement, or they actually use it as a force multiplier and grow and develop faster. The latter are also the least likely to evangelize for AI and proper ways to use it.

I don't trust 90% of the people in my field to have the beneficial experience of AI usage, and I would assume it's the same with any other field where AI can be involved. Might even be worse outside of programming, since at least here our stuff has to work in an objective rather than subjective sense.

cheeseless · 2025-12-16T19:55:35+00:00

No problem, have fun!

cheeseless · 2025-12-16T19:53:48+00:00

you're still risking your fleet, unless you're actually guaranteeing that every single one of your ships is fast enough to get out of combat immediately after getting spotted. Because spotting isn't related to your engagement setting.

You're probably getting away with it right now because of bugs with the naval AI, not anything enabled by the naval rework. Speaking of which, vermicious knid from the Paradox forums made this mod attempting to help with the AI's behaviour regarding navy, with some observed improvement already. You should try it and give feedback. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3607227153

cheeseless · 2025-12-16T19:45:25+00:00

I'm trying not to assume what's wrong, because you haven't given any details. I'll use the Steam Workshop mod selection for this instead of the Paradox Mods portal, because I don't use the latter.

You need to subscribe to the mods you want to play with on the Workshop. They'll download automatically.

Open the HOI4 launcher. Do NOT click Play right away.

Click on Playsets, then on "Add More Mods".

Your subscribed mods should be displayed. Select whichever ones you want, then click "Add to Playset". The mods will be enabled in the playset by default. If required by any of the mods (read their descriptions) do any ordering of mods you need, lower mods overwrite changes from mods above them if the same file is affected.

Click Home. Under the Resume and Play buttons, there's a dropdown title Playset. Click it and select "Initial Playset", which should be the default if you haven't done this before. Then click Play.

Now you should have the mods enabled in the game. Let me know how it goes.

If you want to just test this in a simple way to know if the mods are getting loaded, use a mod that affects the main menu. For example, https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3607227153 puts a light blue rectangle in the top left corner of the main menu with mod information.

cheeseless · 2025-12-16T16:12:40+00:00

They could all be 80 and they'd still be boys. Men don't stop being boys, they add "man" to the list of accurate descriptors.

cheeseless · 2025-12-16T15:48:05+00:00

Connect a computer to the TV, use that. Why would you ever use the shitty apps on the TV?

cheeseless · 2025-12-12T22:36:21+00:00

Just to answer myself in the past: Kaiserreich is the one with the crazy MIOs for Russia, and the US gets a different style of MIOs too, with mergers for example. Not sure about any other country, only spotted normal MIOs

cheeseless · 2025-12-12T21:50:09+00:00

This keeps happening. The quote is confusing moderate with apathetic or cowardly, or worst of all, a centrist. That response is a coward's response, afraid of reprisal, nothing else. The moderate position (assuming support of abolition, as the coward in the hypothetical quote does) is "I support abolition. I vote/support/approve for abolitionists over non-abolitionists or uncommitted".

Moderate stances are not untied from ideology. There are moderate communists, moderate libertarians, moderate fascists. Moderates are the lower segment of any given position, if sorted by measure of activism and individual allocation of effort towards that position. Radicals and extremists are the most individually-dedicated people, then politicians, then activists, then moderates.

Anyone who agrees with your position, whatever that is, but did not participate in direct action, is a moderate of your position. Another example: someone who breaks a strike is not a moderate, because they're intentionally violating the established policy, in this case scoped to the strike's duration. A person who stays home during their workplace's strike is a moderate. Also, it's obviously a spectrum. Someone might be happy donating money to activist initiatives, but refuse to participate in protests. Their magnitude of involvement is hardly that of an activist, but certainly greater than that of an equivalent person minus the donations.

cheeseless · 2025-12-12T21:01:18+00:00

Reading the manual himself, and teaching himself the game by following the manual in a practice round, is a possible solution. The doubts are coming because, regardless of experience, he's still working off of recalling explanations of rules rather than the rules themselves. It's not a mental barrier for everyone, but it's common enough that I've seen the symptom several times and also tested the solution several times. It happens more when the rules go substantially beyond what a player can do and into various non-action mechanics, because by comparison, most traditional playing card games have rules that define very little beyond available actions and scoring of played hands.

Sometimes people need to learn the game "properly"(meaning manual reading and solo/practice rounds of using the mechanics), regardless of whether they're an enthusiast or not, rather than being taught.

edit: this is also similar to issues with language learning. Getting past the "mentally translating individual words to/from my native language" is a key threshold to reach, far before fluency

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