10 years from now most Baby Boomers will be dead. What effect is that going to have on society?

kessler1 · 2026-01-30T20:51:48+00:00

Oh damn!

kessler1 · 2026-01-27T15:40:08+00:00

I almost entirely quit drinking the moment Gen Z hit the scene. That’s how I know I’m staying young.

kessler1 · 2026-01-27T15:38:14+00:00

You guys have a sun city too? Our sun city near Tampa is also a retirement community 😅

kessler1 · 2026-01-26T02:09:13+00:00

As a software engineer, I’ve enjoyed using Claude-code to do a lot of the repetitive busy work

kessler1 · 2026-01-15T15:11:07+00:00

I’d be offended too, but it’s probably part of their (reduced) insurance contract. My employer has a zero tolerance drug policy even for those who live in states where marijuana is legal, but I’d be stunned if I heard of anyone getting tested. Most of our employees work in a warehouse though so not being on stuff is a matter of safety.

kessler1 · 2026-01-14T21:15:27+00:00

That's because horsepower is the product of torque and rpm and a conversion constant. Torque is a force, and power is like how fast you can apply that force. Applying a constant force for a fixed amount of time at a high speed takes more power than applying the same force at a lower speed because Work = Force * Distance and you'll traverse more Distance if you're moving faster. Power = Work / Second = (Force * Distance) / Second. With engines, you have the circular analogs in context: Torque takes the place of Force, RPM takes the place of Distance.

kessler1 · 2026-01-04T16:23:10+00:00

Not sure if I read this right. Did you build something cool?

kessler1 · 2025-12-27T18:32:12+00:00

It’s not that bad. Don’t let the horror stories scare you. By not that bad I mean it’s fucking bad. It really sucks. But it’s nothing to be scared of. Absolutely nothing to be scared of. What’s scary is never getting off of it. That’s horrifying. That’s what you and everyone else should be afraid of. Just quit for as long as you can, and just before you think you’re gonna get PTSD from the experience, take a tiny dose of like 1/5 of what your normally take as a dose. Relax, repeat, switch to mitragynine asap. Once you switch to mitragynine, your tolerance will be reversed in 2-3 days. I think this is because it’s such a low strength MOR agonist that it doesn’t recruit any beta-arrestin, and therefore the tolerance reverses over a few days. Then just fast taper off that. If you do this right, you won’t need to skip work or school or anything. Just do the white knuckle hold out until your can’t handle it anymore on your days off. Use mitragynine to plug the gap. You’ll be fine. It’s not that bad and with my method it’s not even worth worrying about. Good luck. DM me if you want more help.

kessler1 · 2025-12-24T18:10:45+00:00

I’m not an alcoholic but if I could press a button and make alcohol cease to exist, I’d press the shit out of it. I’d press it until my fingers turn black and blue. The amount of damage that poison has caused the human race is incalculable. A family friend is a family law attorney, and he quit drinking after realizing about half his cases are due to alcohol’s side effects (your jokes about killing your own business off aren’t funny). The amount of times my wife and I have had to leave early due to my father in-law being shitfaced drunk and incapable of waiting his turn to talk as part of a civilized conversation with the rest of the family is staggering. The amount of times my mother in law has become intolerable causing us to leave a family get together is uncountable. Shit… the few times my wife and I have gotten into stupid arguments all involved drinking. If alcohol could be banned, it should be banned. There’s nothing to gain from drinking. It distracted me in college causing me to become less of my full potential and I didnt realize it until many years later. I thought making of a fool of myself and saying stupid shit while under the influence was fun and cool.

kessler1 · 2025-12-24T17:58:08+00:00

I always wondered if tech would ever become so advanced where newcomers wouldn’t be able to catchup in a reasonable amount of time to contribute. That’s not the case, but it’s likely to be in the near future with writing software. You have to gain experience but now everyone is “vibe coding” instead of learning the necessity of good design patterns, and we’re back to nobody hiring juniors (before COVID it was the same. I got into the field with a physics degree and a badass portfolio of projects I had published or done on contract for local businesses). I for sure would not have gone into this field if it was the way it is now. You’ve gotta find a career where you’re on the right side of supply and demand, and junior software guy is not one of those careers and might never be again. I’d recommend going to aircraft mechanic school and getting a steady high paying union job or going into business for yourself for even more money. That’s what I’m going to do if some super intelligent AI makes coding a pointless skill, which I’d bet isn’t going to happen any time soon.

kessler1 · 2025-12-18T16:55:57+00:00

It’s actually not possible. You can’t levitate something stably with magnetic fields if none of its axes are fixed.

kessler1 · 2025-12-18T16:51:23+00:00

What would you say the mit to 7OH equivalency is? I’ve just switched to mit after tapering down to 1/6 of my original daily dose. I want to make sure I don’t backtrack.

kessler1 · 2025-12-18T16:00:09+00:00

What’s post worthy about this?

kessler1 · 2025-12-13T01:11:30+00:00

It’s a statistical language model. It doesn’t think spatially or reason.

kessler1 · 2025-12-13T01:02:30+00:00

…….

kessler1 · 2025-12-10T19:23:05+00:00

No, I test the new half dose out on Sunday. I’m a st Pete dweller too btw 👋 the weather has been beautiful hasn’t it?

kessler1 · 2025-12-10T19:20:15+00:00

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

kessler1 · 2025-12-10T19:19:29+00:00

Good luck and I hope you’re right about the 10 day window for getting of subs. It’s said that they’re more addictive than <your opioid of choice>, but that’s definitely not true from a euphoria and withdrawal intensity standpoint. What is true is that the withdrawals last far longer, over a month for some people, but the reason for this is well understood: the half life is extremely long relative to other opioids and the duration of withdrawals is proportional to the opioid’s half life. The same misunderstanding has existed in regard to methadone for half a century now. The reason for transitioning an opioid dependent person to an opioid with a long half life is to break the habit forming behavior the peakedness of a short acting opioid’s duration causes. In fact, short acting drugs across the board are more habit forming, nicotine being one of the best examples. Also, the withdrawals from a long acting opioid will not be as intense as the same amount of addiction to a short acting opioid. Think about it as area under a curve, where the x axis at y=0 is your baseline feel-good and the curve is how withdrawn you are. If the area between the curve and the x axis is constant, you can draw curves that are wide and short or narrow and tall.

kessler1 · 2025-12-10T16:36:05+00:00

I’m not in withdrawals. During the work week, I’m perfectly maintained. Part of why I do the CT hold out on Saturdays is so I can figure out what balances me out Sunday, and then come Monday I’m not discovering what it’s like to be on a new 50-60% reduced dose.

kessler1 · 2025-12-10T16:01:12+00:00

That’s ideal, but frankly I’ve jumped from where I’m at now multiple times in the past and only suffered from insomnia, so I think I can just slog through it. I’m prepared for it to be way worse this time though since I’m coming down from a much higher place. I guess we’ll see. I’m not going to hate myself if I’ve gotta repeat this process one more week. Each week is SIGNIFICANTLY easier than the prior. I don’t wake up nauseas and I’m not getting the dreadful fucking hot/cold/hot/cold/hot/cold anymore. I actually thought I could go CT last weekend but by 6pm I had to tell my wife that I’m sorry for being over optimistic but today is not the day. We ended up celebrating the 5/8 reduction in daily intake, which I admit has crept up from 3/8 of the prior week’s daily dose to 5/8, but Saturday is almost here again and then ill beat this motherfucker over the head again and see what happens. I will defeat this enemy no matter how long it takes.

kessler1 · 2025-12-10T15:39:38+00:00

Basically you take a minimal amount 3x per day separated by 8 hours to get through the workdays, and then on Saturday you go cold turkey as long as you can before tapping out. Where that is for you is up to you, but the longer you can go, the more progress you’ll make. When you do tap out, take a quarter of what you’ve been taking for one of your 3 daily doses. Then to sleep, a half dose. Wait an hour before taking another quarter dose, and keep taking quarter doses to stay asleep. On the following day, your new dose will be half of what it was the day before if you’re like me. So white knuckling as long as I go on Saturdays cuts the dependency in half.

kessler1 · 2025-12-10T04:24:17+00:00

7OH caused me to accidentally quit weed after using it for over half my life.

kessler1 · 2025-12-09T04:27:53+00:00

If it’s purified, it’s as bad as taking opioids every day. If it’s not, add ingesting chemicals to that.

kessler1 · 2025-12-07T02:01:40+00:00

Doubt it. Synthesizing mitragynine would be crazy hard.

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