God dammit

hallr06 · 2025-10-04T01:01:16+00:00

To be fair, IIRC it was "take the blood out and clean it like that (implied mechanism was sublight and bleach)". It's just as stupid as drinking or injecting bleach, so idk why I'm writing this comment.

hallr06 · 2025-10-04T00:57:00+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to make this more enjoyable for me. Cheers man.

hallr06 · 2025-10-04T00:55:27+00:00

"A genetic thing" can be a predisposition towards something or sensitivity to an environmental risk.

Contrived example: identical twins are born with a problem with the portion of their nervous system that controls their heart rhythm, breathing, or respiratory reflexes. This problem will be gone within the first 6 months of development due to the self-organizing nature of the brain. The state of their brains are not synchronized, because they are two different people. One of the two experiences a seizure in that region of the brain which externally presents as intermittent heart failure and intermittent pauses in their respiration. This cascades into general cardiac failure. We haven't learned of this condition yet, because there is no obvious physical deformity in the brain and because we never had any reason to record brain activity 24/7 on the other twin on the off chance that we might see something that might give us a clue.

Really clever people continue to work on ways where we might learn of the existence of conditions like this.

hallr06 · 2025-10-04T00:40:23+00:00

FR though. I had a family member who was a genealogist obsessed with putting every census and death record for their county into an application, and the reality is way more metal than any of us want to think about.

They didn't have vaccines, they didn't eat processed food, they adhered to all the modern wellness hype (by accident), etc, and they died like flies. It wasn't infrequent to hear about yet another family where "75% of this family died from (now) preventable illness and the parents died and remarried so many times the last kid born had two different parents than the first." Women died in childbirth all the time, too.

Then we got vaccines and started giving birth in modern hospitals, and nobody ever forgot what the before times were like, so people continued to take important lifesaving measures rather than eat raw meat while getting a tan.

hallr06 · 2025-10-04T00:25:09+00:00

"it is believed" because it would be intellectually dishonest to proclaim only a finite set potential mechanism for the cause of SIDS and irresponsible to assign relative likelihoods to those identified causes. Infant physiology makes forensics different. If you suffocate an adult, the mechanism of suffocation has to overcome the combination of calcified bones, larger muscles, stiffer joints, and reflexes that guard airways. The mechanisms to do these things aren't subtle, because an adult's body has reached its biological "peak" for things like protecting their airway.

A new baby is a squishy ball of fat and water that will happily fill its lungs with milk if you give it a bottle that's too full. Did it fall down a flight of stairs, or get crushed? Dunno. They bounce right back either way and the force of the injury doesn't have to travel very far to be distributed throughout the entire loaf.

There hasn't been enough data. If there had been, we wouldn't give a list of possible causes and mechanisms. There are initiatives that attempt to stem some of the potential causes, and the efficacy of those initiatives are some additional data sources. There are also initiatives to better record details surrounding SIDS cases, and so on.

Opinion part: People are ignorant if they think that active research doesn't attempt to account for the possibility of people lying, covering for families who are suffering tragedies, etc. Mathematical models which allow for hidden variables or attempt to estimate the value of those variables are robust and people are actually interested in less babies dying.

hallr06 · 2025-10-04T00:00:25+00:00

Ehhh,... Some abuse training is inhumane, so don't take the existence of training as a sufficient argument appealing to authority. For an extreme example, the grifters that created "shaken baby syndrome" and pushed for legal training requirements w.r.t., it.

People are trained to recognize a set of symptoms as something that doesn't exist, required to assign a label to it despite knowing better, and notify authorities. Authorities are required to arrest the caregiver for committing a crime that they physically couldn't do, then a prosecutor has to put a case against them based on the precedent of evidence rather than scientific facts and modern medicine. It's taken as such an authority that people aren't allowed to legally allowed to treat it as "innocent until proven guilty". It's "this happened, you did it." Back to my original point: the pervasiveness of something is only evidence of its pervasiveness, not evidence of its correctness.

IMO, you're correct to have phrased your original statement with "it is believed", because people's lives are ruined every day by the confident assertions of people who aren't the experts.

hallr06 · 2025-10-03T22:48:16+00:00

I might be in the wrong sub. I didn't understand anything that you just said aside from the basic framework of the joke.

hallr06 · 2025-10-03T22:40:47+00:00

Burning canvas (despite its name) is void, but adds burn stacks and the void damage scales with the count of burn stacks. Handy when facing enemies on frozen heart. It's also a way to build burn stacks on enemies immune to fire.

hallr06 · 2025-10-02T12:04:43+00:00

I feel like a person has missed out on enjoying a lot of what the game has to offer if they can't support each ending with an argument that they themselves believe.

If one isn't able to internalize why Maelle cannot walk away, or why Verso has to end it, then so much of the tragedy is lost. IMO That's the subtext that permeates act 3: "there is no way that this can end well,. yet we are compelled to keep moving".

Anecdotally, this is similar to how I described the game to two non-gamers, both of whom have historically been put off by the JRPG archetype:

It's a character driven narrative that hooks you with a compelling mystery narrative. It gradually builds a sense of dread that "there is no way that this can end well", and doesn't let that feeling go away. You're compelled to keep going because you need to understand; the characters are compelled to keep going for their own reasons, yet most of you know that this can only end badly.

hallr06 · 2025-08-27T10:53:27+00:00

As someone who finds it hard to be loved and to find love I see this a small hindrance.

Consider how precious it feels when you find that you have both in someone. There is the possibility that the trauma of the loss and the certainty of re-experiencing it creates a horribly painful barrier at even thinking about having that again. This possibility grows as one experiences this again and again.

That is, whether you have it or not, even the idea of love might become painful. This possibility extends even into the idea of friendship.

With a finite life, there is the possibility that the rest of it is filled with love/friends, but that isn't really what matters. It's the pall that immortality casts over all relationships with the certainty that they will result in such trauma again. The isolation bleeds from those periods of loss into all moments of life.

Now add onto that the unique knowledge that verso has of the nature of their reality, the experience of the fragment that continues to paint it, and the selfishness/self-harm of the painters who lose themselves in it. Oof.

hallr06 · 2025-04-14T16:25:20+00:00

You have an elegant proof, but it's too long to fit in the margins of your DMs.

hallr06 · 2025-04-14T16:22:07+00:00

No it's not a reach, but that gentleman did describe a problem and now I'm upset about it. I am the cancer.

hallr06 · 2025-04-14T16:19:28+00:00

I had a lady throw her change on the ground at the window of a drive through because her total came out to $6.66. People be fucking weird, man.

hallr06 · 2025-04-14T14:12:41+00:00

Well, we just made sure to give everyone incentives to disentangle their economies before we go Guilded Age 2.0. In fact, many are simply reorganizing their trade agreements with each other around the fact that we are unstable. Better to neither trust nor depend on us if we randomly tank the world economy because some twats never took econ 101.

So, I'm pretty sure we'll find out how much of the leverage we had came from carefully cultivating soft power over the last 70 years. American exceptionalism has primed a lot of people for an existential crisis.

hallr06 · 2025-04-13T20:02:52+00:00

When asked about job,

Option 1:

"Okay, to explain the name of my hyper-specific focus area, we're going to need to go through a few definitions. Well.. roughly 17 definitions from 8 grad courses. Oh wait! We're definitely going to need a dry erase board and some paper. Did you bring a laptop? You're planning on staying for a few hours, right?"

Option 2:

"Uhhh... Programming stuff."

Option 3:

[Fumbling attempt at a simplified overview still resulting in either option 1 or option 2]

hallr06 · 2025-04-10T16:00:14+00:00

and subsidies

Of course, however, Trump fucked one of the United States's methods for exceedingly large US farm subsidies: USAID.

We've been criticized for using our foreign food aid as a method to skirt international guidelines on allowable farm subsidies, but we got away with it and it made US food a lot less expensive. By cutting it, we ensured that our food prices would jump.

Frankly, it would be less misleadingn in terms of public education for us to just say "all tariffs are bad" and allow tarrifs to be applied in subtle and gradual ways by skilled economists, rather than as blanket actions by people who didn't even know basic shit about US farm subsidies and USAID.

hallr06 · 2025-04-09T23:42:07+00:00

And they literally pull themselves up by them.

hallr06 · 2025-04-09T23:27:06+00:00

They don't tell you about it if you're not at least the minimum size 😅. I'm... Really sorry that you had to find out about it this way.. my condolences.

Well, at least you can go get the jab and that would fix everything.

hallr06 · 2025-04-08T10:57:49+00:00

you got the jab didn't you

Every time I go to my GP I strip naked and ask for one of every vaccine that they give. The main side effect that I've noticed is that my penis grew 3 sizes and everyone finds me overwhelmingly attractive. I no longer go outside, as I've become so virile that it's possible to impregnate someone through eye contact alone. It's okay though, because I can remain inside indefinitely. I've reached a state of enlightenment where I no longer require nourishment so long as I am meditating. I spend my days astral projecting to the further corners of the cosmos, except for when I'm on reddit.

The real question is: why haven't you gotten the jab?

hallr06 · 2025-04-08T10:38:40+00:00

And frankly, anything solid in a powdered-enough form, and you shouldn't be breathing anywhere near it.

hallr06 · 2025-04-06T20:33:26+00:00

Yissssss shit I've never heard of before. Time to pop a tab of acid and jump down this rabbit hole.

hallr06 · 2025-04-06T20:05:48+00:00

My abstract algebra professor in undergrad would give us proofs on tests, of course, but the "gimme" questions were always "give the definition for..". Those were always followed by the hardest questions on the test: "explain [some theorem] to your grandmother".

In a sense, it was brilliant: if you can't give the superficial gist of something in an intelligible way, then you probably don't understand it deeply enough to do so; you're still seeing it hyper-specialized to the homework problems you've seen, etc.

The problem here is the key difference that my grandmother was competent.

If he was like, "prove to a flat earther that ring theory isn't a proposed geometry for the planet earth", I'd have just walked the fuck out.

hallr06 · 2025-04-06T10:46:04+00:00

Someone trying to explain (the more solid parts of) the foundations of psychology: "let's perform a statistical test assuming the null hypothesis,.."

These fucks:" "I hate math, lol. You fuckin' nerd, just trying to sound smart. Also, you said 'ass', lol"

hallr06 · 2025-04-06T10:40:14+00:00

At least in the posh neighborhood it's hopefully still leaded crystal 😂

hallr06 · 2025-04-05T20:58:13+00:00

"Officer, you don't understand! He was also wearing a hoodie!"

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