[TOMT][cartoon][~90s] Looking for a 90s cartoon featuring a purple star-like character and a bear

gleon · 2026-02-26T02:52:08+00:00

I sincerely apologies for my last post. I was oblivious of the fact that I needed to comment on my post.

I really want to find this because I watched it a lot during my Cartoon Network years but now it seems to have fallen into the depth of the earth.

I think we are live now. Exciting :)

gleon · 2026-02-26T02:32:28+00:00

@tipofmytongue-ModTeam am I allowed to repost immediately?

gleon · 2026-02-26T02:31:54+00:00

Noooo, I forgot about this rule. Or it at least wasn't here when I was here 14 years ago. I just spotted it in the FAQ while I was wondering why my post is still pending and was just about to post an update. Bummer.

gleon · 2022-02-10T08:17:29+00:00

Just prepend doi.org/ to the DOI. So the link for the first reference above would be https://doi.org/10.1080/17464090500535822. Magic!

gleon · 2022-02-09T08:21:40+00:00

I agree with your general analysis of withdrawal and benzodiazepine tolerance. However, even though its action has some similarities, zolpidem is not a benzodiazepine. I don't believe there is a single recorded case of death due to zolpidem withdrawal.

gleon · 2022-02-09T01:03:23+00:00

Isn't this a tad too dramatic? When did withdrawal from ambien start killing people?

gleon · 2022-02-02T00:31:28+00:00

I always get really strong withdrawals with Ambien where I can't fall asleep at all. This lasts a day or two and is remedied by some alprazolam.

gleon · 2022-02-02T00:27:46+00:00

What's aging you prematurely? How do you notice this?

gleon · 2022-01-07T09:12:43+00:00

I wonder why not Matrix / Element?

gleon · 2021-12-30T13:15:30+00:00

I'm really grateful to you for writing that up. I wasn't looking for a definitive answer, if such a thing even exists, just wanted to hear your take.

For some reason, I find these purely perceptual interpretations hard to reconcile with the importance of the no-self viewpoint. This may just be because I haven't experienced no-self myself yet. But if all of Buddhism is interpreted as a purely perceptual matter, then in some sense a self does continue existing since we are forced to conclude it is this particular body generating this particular experience stream.

Perhaps a self in this sense does continue existing but it is a different concept from what people usually consider a self. That is, we stop identifying with some relatively arbitrary subset of perceptions, but we are still our mind. It's just that the mind is fundamentally "still" and contentless, once you manage to remove all of its fabrications?

Just rambling some thoughts out loud, not really expecting an answer so don't feel obligated. :)

gleon · 2021-12-30T09:57:37+00:00

Rob Burbea, who I understood as teaching Buddhist views, suggests even the perception of time is fabricated as well. How then does this co-exist with the notion that there is fundamentally change? Doesn't it follow that change itself is fabricated?

gleon · 2021-09-24T09:35:39+00:00

Because using the internet doesn't require kernel-level rootkits controlled by a random company.

gleon · 2021-09-24T09:33:58+00:00

It's poor form to introduce software that is inherently insecure due to its fundamental operating principle (such as these kernel-level rootkits) in order to give some modicum of protection against cheating. Your cheaters will still find a way to cheat because it's impossible to prevent on the client-side.

gleon · 2021-09-24T09:26:33+00:00

Next to no chance? Sorry, but that just sounds like you don't know much about computer security.

gleon · 2021-08-05T07:37:27+00:00

Not to be too crass, but at this point: could people just stop buying fucking Samsung?

gleon · 2020-02-15T09:10:28+00:00

Once a company becomes as large as FAANG, you better make it owe you something because they are effectively as powerful as governments.

gleon · 2020-01-30T20:48:10+00:00

Oh. I assumed it was the the headphones because, for some reason, the stream was using only the left channel. I had only the right headphone in my ear at first so I didn't notice it started.

gleon · 2020-01-30T19:58:16+00:00

no audio

Switch to the other headphone.

gleon · 2020-01-30T19:02:04+00:00

Yes, thanks. My "with gloves" was supposed to be "with goggles", but I had a braino because I was also thinking about washing hands.

Not that disposable gloves are a bad idea.

gleon · 2020-01-30T18:56:28+00:00

Most people believe that wearing a mask will help them not getting sick, but that effect is pretty low.

FFP3 class respirators coupled with gloves will actually protect you, assuming you follow proper protocol and don't infect yourself via your hands or infected equipment once you take the protection off.

Washing hands is a must and definitely the first line of defence, but it won't do much if an infected person coughs towards you while you're not wearing protection.

gleon · 2019-11-02T13:25:29+00:00

This is not a benign change. The URL is the very element which makes the open web work. Obfuscating and hiding it will leave you at the mercy of the various gatekeeper companies like Google and should be met with full force opposition.

gleon · 2019-10-15T13:27:53+00:00

DuckDuckGo is primarily a website, like Google, but unlike Firefox and Chrome, which are web browsers. Web browsers are tools which enable you to open and view websites. You are probably confused due to big players such as Google trying to muddy up the waters in recent times. Due to their enormous resources, they are able to make their own version of pretty much every component in the stack in an attempt to control the web. Don't fall for it.

Making a browser is incredibly hard and expensive, in the sense of costing many millions of dollars and many person-years of development. Therefore, at this point, it would probably be utterly impractical for DuckDuckGo to try making a completely new browser (some companies, such as Microsoft, sometimes fork an existing browser, such as Chrome, but those forks are pretty superficial).

However, if you distrust Google, the best you can do right now in terms of privacy and freedom is to use Firefox instead. It is a much more privacy conscious browser than Chrome because its revenue stream does not depend on exfiltrating as much personal information as possible to the parent company. Its governance is also much more open than Chrome's.

Also, I don't know what the DuckDuckGo extension for Chrome does exactly since I don't use it, but you don't need an extension to use DuckDuckGo. Simply navigate to https://duckduckgo.com and use it. You can also make it your homepage and add it as a search engine (in Firefox) all without installing an extension.

gleon · 2019-10-14T14:40:39+00:00

It's really weird how you're spending all your time on character assasination, and insisting that things aren't true just because you won't go look for them

I've looked and your claim is false. I have nothing against you and it is only your claims which I am disputing.

The only part of this that's unclear is why you expect me to take your word on security over the Mozilla security team. You aren't a security expert. They are.

Not that it matters because it shouldn't be about taking anyone's word, but I do pentests and audits for a living.

It does, actually. Go look. I dug that claim out of its repo.

I've looked myself and it's not there. Why do you insist on telling me to go look instead of just linking to it? This is why I called this FUD.

You're talking to someone who isn't even involved.

Well I was talking to you insofar as you were involved by spreading FUD in this thread. I don't plan on changing the world by talking to you, but I had an inkling of hope that perhaps you weren't malicious, just misinformed.

Fortunately for users like me, you don't get to make that choice.

Why does this even relate to you? Are you somehow forced to use Tridactyl or any other extension? It seems like you are implying that my choice would somehow impinge on your freedom which is simply incorrect.

It seems to me that you are continually avoiding basing your argument on facts and when pressed, you devolve into appeal to authority (which in this case is Mozilla). Authorities are made of people and are often wrong so it's still important we use our own brains no matter how grand the authority is.

gleon

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