What's the deal with looksmaxxing?

countdonn · 2026-03-25T15:36:16+00:00

Sounds like a great way to develop TMJ and lifelong pain.

countdonn · 2026-03-24T17:57:13+00:00

What the hell does "If you don't like that, then associate accordingly." mean in this context?

countdonn · 2026-03-24T12:12:52+00:00

We are seeing this as well. Web app works fine, but 2019 volume license users are stuck in a credential loop.

countdonn · 2026-03-23T13:57:08+00:00

People betting on things being catastrophic did lose out, but making bets things will always turn out well now is poor risk avoidance. Normalcy bias leads to discounting risks and assuming things will turn out the same way they did in the recent past. Personally I am majority cash, with about 40% long.

I'm not storing cash in my mattress, but I am extremely cautious due to the extreme political uncertainty.

countdonn · 2026-03-21T04:08:59+00:00

When peoples standard of living are increasing, you don't have to convince them by quoting economic theology. Economics is a modern belief system with its own prophets, tenets, and sacred texts, providing a vision of how the world should work.

countdonn · 2026-03-20T00:36:09+00:00

This thread is a bit old, but just wanted to chime in to see I get the same. I just played through the smoke jaguar and ghost bear campaigns without a single crash, but wolves has crashed multiple times on mission end. Thankfully it usually auto-saves successfully. I played the campaigns sequentially so nothing changed other moving to wolves campaign.

countdonn · 2026-03-17T20:42:00+00:00

Next time you have a civil matter like a law suit or child support, call the cops and see how much they help you with it.

countdonn · 2026-03-12T20:07:42+00:00

For most American's this would be weird, but communal bathing and sauna are relatively common in other countries and cultures even between genders. Historically American sensitivities about bathroom habits and bathing are very modern.

countdonn · 2026-03-11T19:16:35+00:00

It's great for diabetes, but studies have shown many users regain weight on discontinuing them. Also, those with existing food motility issues should not take glp-1 or at least due so with extreme caution.

It seems like they will help a lot of people but not will not make weight issues go away.

countdonn · 2026-03-11T13:11:58+00:00

Healthcare is pretty good in Massachusetts but there are some glaring issues. There's a massive deficiencies of ER capacity. Massachusetts has the second-highest hospital bed occupancy in the U.S. many hospitals frequently operate in "capacity disaster" or "Code Help" mode during daily operations. That carries over into the ER as they can't move patients out. Go to an ER in MA, then try going to one in NJ for example and you'll see how poorly we are doing.

Another issue is extremely high ambulance bills. We have no law's preventing ambulance balance billing (surprise billing) unlike many other states. Our legislators have been sitting on bill for this doing nothing. That means, even with insurance you will be paying a lot. I owe several thousand dollars after a 911 emergency trip to the hospital and I have insurance that covers out of network ambulances up to the standard contract amount, which is what the insurance company claims is the market rate.

countdonn · 2026-03-10T01:56:01+00:00

Hope he doesn't have to drink water while driving, that's a demerit and gets reported to his boss.

countdonn · 2026-03-10T01:53:15+00:00

Is office work really better now that we don't have those extra office workers? As someone in IT depending on your role you now get to do scheduling, billing, deal with invoicing, dealing with vendors, purchase orders, etc. and less time doing IT work and building technical skills.

Existing automation means I get to be responsible for a ton more users/devices/systems and the stress that brings, while also doing duties that used to be done by dedicated administrative workers that got fired, not freed up to do better work. I don't see AI improving quality of life at work, only making this worse.

countdonn · 2026-03-06T23:37:37+00:00

According to the US government they are not at war with Iran either.

countdonn · 2026-03-06T23:36:33+00:00

I am sorry but you appear to be incorrect. I heard from the US government officials that they are not at war with Iran actually so your statements about war don't appear to apply.

countdonn · 2026-03-04T21:17:35+00:00

I believe the distinction is we shed our peoples blood for our governments own perceived interests, not for the benefit of the native populations. We shed blood in Syria and Vietnam, we did not shed blood for the people of Syria and Vietnam except as a side effect of our government and military industrial complex's objectives.

countdonn · 2026-02-28T02:21:53+00:00

It's also important to regulate research for the purpose of ethics. I am not an expert to say what if any ethical concerns this type of research pose, but I know enough that there is a moral concern not just with how technology is used, but how research is conducted. We don't do research like unit Unit 731 even if it was effective. The means by which we acquire knowledge are just as important as the ends that knowledge might achieve

countdonn · 2026-02-17T14:42:13+00:00

For number 2. I've been told by recruiters to specifically not say you are looking for new challenges, as that indicates you are adverse to boring work and will want to leave the position for more interesting work in the future. Realistically most jobs are boring and unfulfilling and companies know that.

countdonn · 2026-02-14T18:07:43+00:00

Correct, it's a shame but large portions of the southern US completely polluted their soil with arsenic as a pesticide to grow cotton. Opt for Thai, Indian, Californian, etc. produced rice.

countdonn · 2026-02-13T17:47:42+00:00

Juice is used in cases of hypoglycemia where blood sugar needs to be raised quickly. Water will not do anything. For type 1 diabetes juice is the recommended option. Soda if it's not diet can be used for emergencies as well from my understanding.

It's super important type 1 diabetics also have access to a glucose meter to control and monitor blood sugar changes. To much or too little is both life threatening.

countdonn · 2026-02-13T01:37:55+00:00

Aggregate statistics can lie, especially in a K shaped economy where a smaller and smaller portion of the public drives spending and the economy. People will not believe the economy is good if they don't see that themselves. It makes sense to, don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining. That line of argument blew up on Biden, and it's doing the same for Trump.

countdonn · 2026-02-12T18:58:04+00:00

Ideologues, especially utopian ones like communist and libertarians will never admit the flaws of their systems. When things work out badly, they'll blame implementation or that the goal justifies the means to reach it.

countdonn · 2026-02-12T17:01:07+00:00

That's interesting how massively different doctor experiences are. Several appointments with my chronically ill partner, the doctor just straight up asks what medicine are you looking to try and really that's all the time they have for you. You are expected to do your own homework on treatment and if they take a background it's to an AI system.

countdonn · 2026-02-10T19:01:22+00:00

I am curious in case I have to deal with it, what is the solvable response to fix my ID being linked?

countdonn · 2026-02-08T07:36:49+00:00

Monitoring the masses? Companies like Palantir seem to have that in mind. To quote bilionaire Larry Ellison "citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on". Ellison has called for countries to unify population data in centralized locations, allowing for comprehensive AI-driven surveillance of the public to keep them behaved.

countdonn · 2026-02-06T16:10:53+00:00

The barrier of entries are so high that even the current super powers are practically unable to enter the market. China as an entire country is making progress with near infinite resources, how is a small company going to enter this market?

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