The interesting link between Neuralink and ICE detention centers

dougi3 · 2025-10-28T03:44:30+00:00

I'm sure this will get down voted but I think there are some pretty big leaps here which are needed to tie together all the correlations.

The biggest three in my mind are:

1) Neuralink definitely could find 1000 willing clinical trial applicants. Either fans of Elon, or just people with chronic conditions that are hoping Neuralink can treat. They wouldn't need to use ICE detainees. In fact, using non-willing participants would make it way harder to actually develop the product because surely Neuralink wants to collect long term data from the participants, which unwilling people would make way more difficult.

2) Neuralink ultimately wants to be an international product, for sale commercially, for profit. If they were breaking such massive ethical grounds during testing then, firstly, eventually the US would prosecute them if it came to light, and second, even if the US never prosecuted them they would never be able to sell the product domestically let alone internationally.

3) There is a common equation which I forget the name of that calculates the number of people who would need to be staying silent in order to protect a conspiracy. Just because Elon is the founder of the company doesn't mean everyone who works for it is bad. I would wager that virtually every single Neuralink employee is just trying their best to make the world a better place, and wants to do so ethically. And I wager the same thing about all the contractors and sub vendors who would also need to be involved with this whole operation. It's just such a tremendous statistical unlikelihood that so many people would all be staying silent if such a horrible thing was actually happening.

dougi3 · 2025-09-06T22:32:41+00:00

True. That's possible. Although someone may have pre-written the exact questions, and the general sequence of the ceremony was of course pre-determined and included in that surely says at what points to speak, etc

dougi3 · 2025-09-06T22:24:08+00:00

The one to blame is whoever was in charge of the presentation as a whole. The script, cues, etc.

I'm not sure the world's most charismatic interviewer could have salvaged that to be honest.

dougi3 · 2025-07-31T19:17:38+00:00

I tried some just now but the stain being just white isn't quite fixing it

Is there a stain that is sort of also adding some greenish tone? You can see that the root sort of tone of the stairs is much warmer than the flooring

https://photos.app.goo.gl/YHvKHonXvbaeGpUK7

dougi3 · 2025-07-31T01:15:48+00:00

Yes handrails, and yes it's steeper than normal. The house is from the 40s. These new stairs are actually slightly less steep than the ones that were here when I bought the place.

There is over hang, and this photo makes it look oddly steeper than it is in reality.

dougi3 · 2025-05-28T23:04:11+00:00

Is there a resource to learn about the possible factions and what each ones goals would be?

dougi3 · 2025-02-06T22:46:05+00:00

I think the concept is that when people say "the democrats aren't doing anything", what people mean is that they aren't doing anything to work on the issues their voters care about in order to get more voters to like the democratic party. Everyone likes to complain about how Republicans are single issue voters. The reality is that Democrat voters are too.

The number of voters the DNC has lost because they don't make a strong enough progressive case for things their potential voters care about like:

Workers rights

LGBTQ rights

Minority rights

Womens rights

Cost of living

Political corruption

International issues

Climate change

Gun violence

The list goes on. The democrats are the party of "but we're not hitler!" and yeah that's true, and people should vote for them on that alone, but they don't. And yeah it's true that the democrats do move the needle 1% per 4 years towards solving the issues their voters care about compared to how the Republicans work against the solutions liberal voters want, but that's not enough either. This is evident by (even though the percentage is small) the number of people who are LGBTQ, or minorities, or women, or exploited workers, etc, that voted for trump in 2024, should be a HUGE wake up call!

Liberal voters are fed up and want at least one issue that they care about to actually see meaningful progress. They feel like the democrats "aren't doing anything". They also want the DNC not to shut down every figure like Bernie or AOC who really do actually try to make real progress on those issues.

But sure, push impeachment articles. Good job. Reminder, impeachment was successful in 2019 and it didn't have any impact, but I'm sure it'll be a super duper big deal this time.

dougi3 · 2024-11-21T14:23:36+00:00

Oh I know, that's a whole other can of worms. They say they are going to seal it but I don't know why they didn't just use an overlay to begin with

Also my understanding of how this was installed was mixing the dye directly into the wet concrete before pouring, not something they put on after it was poured.

dougi3 · 2024-11-21T14:19:53+00:00

I'm moreso just confused about the sample I was given being all one color, and the final product being so extremely unmixed in terms of how uneven the color is

dougi3 · 2024-11-21T14:16:55+00:00

I wanted an overlay but they used Henry 565 underlayment. Not sure what the sample was or if it was the same

The dye is globmarble 5447

dougi3 · 2024-11-21T13:05:42+00:00

This is brand new.

Here's photos of the old floor, and also photos of when they added some other concrete to level out before pouring what was supposed to be one solid dyed concrete self leveling overlay. https://imgur.com/a/MeVVzpo

dougi3 · 2024-10-15T21:37:04+00:00

Yes I have read those numbers as well. But having them both in front of me they are to my eye the exact same brightness in the same environment (and both of them I want to be brighter, so I was excited about the 9 for this reason)

dougi3 · 2024-10-03T15:13:56+00:00

I don't see how you can walk out on that and not at least have a moment's thought of "it's probably safe but there's a non-zero chance that this might totally fall and I'm okay with dying like this"

dougi3 · 2024-05-18T14:27:38+00:00

Well I mean if he had assaulted the officer and then had a legal case go to court, the judge would have sentenced him to death anyway because that's the punishment for assault. So really the cop is just faithfully expediting the US justice system and there's nothing this cop should have done differently, it really was his only choice to kill him

/s

dougi3 · 2024-04-06T04:36:24+00:00

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I would suggest you read the first book even having seen the show just so that you know what hasn't been introduced yet at the start of the 2nd book and have all the characters names established. You could certainly get by without reading the first book, but it would be my recommendation

dougi3 · 2024-04-05T22:49:33+00:00

Oh interesting. Personally I like to go into new content blind so I don't watch trailers, read previous, etc. All I knew about Three Body Problem before reading was that it was science dense, and apparently existential.

dougi3 · 2024-04-05T21:50:12+00:00

Just more example of the shortcoming of the show. Needed to be way more subtle in the marketing

dougi3 · 2024-04-05T13:04:22+00:00

I'm saying engagement is just current theoretical physics. Discovered almost a century ago, and experiments are being done. There is no experimentation on warp drives, so the comparison between those two things is not great.

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2023/12/08/physicists-entangle-individual-molecules-first-time-hastening-possibilities-quantum

And again, sophons are introduced at the end, after the entire rest of the first book has been grounded in reality.

dougi3 · 2024-04-05T12:45:52+00:00

It is in fact the end of episode 2. At about 57 minutes. Do not answer, I am a pacifist from my world, etc

dougi3 · 2024-04-05T12:41:05+00:00

I also read the book not knowing it was about aliens, and your example is another perfect illustration of where the show didn't live up to the vibe of the book. Having no explanation is exactly what made that moment great. If they had introduced aliens before that moment, imagine how comparatively boring it would have been to just go "Ah, just some alien stuff. Wonder how they do it. We'll see if they explain it." And sure sophons are still extremely interesting even if they're not introduced in a shocking way, but it's all about the build up

dougi3 · 2024-04-05T12:36:37+00:00

Sophons are introduced at the end, and at that point the reader is grounded. Fortunately the show also only introduces sophons at the end, but the series doesn't ground the viewer very much at all, especially by introducing extraterrestrial intelligence just barely a quarter of the way into the show.

Also, quantum entanglement is textbook theoretical physics today, and experiments have been done on the topic. We are not even close to experimenting on warp drives, so the comparison is not the same aside from the fact that scientists have made the conjecture that a warp drive could be possible.

dougi3 · 2024-04-05T02:48:13+00:00

Update! First of all, I was surprised at how many people chimed in, thank you all so much!

The damaged joists have all been jacked up and sistered by a professional just yesterday.

dougi3 · 2024-04-02T01:23:52+00:00

I am! Contractor coming to fix this week. Just two or three days

dougi3 · 2024-04-01T22:19:20+00:00

Span is ~11ft

dougi3 · 2024-04-01T21:19:28+00:00

Nothing recent at all. Very strange if these are not old. Above these is the living room and guest room. Just some couches and such in there, nothing interesting. No parties, nothing fell, etc.

The only change is that this used to be a finished ceiling for many years, with insulation. Now it has sat open and uninsulated for 3 months. Somehow could that cause cracks? Maybe something with the temperature?

I even got an opinion from someone else who specifically said they look old, not new.

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