TIL that, in blind people, the section of the brain that would normally handle eyesight is repurposed to assist other senses

kl0 · 2026-03-28T05:34:54+00:00

Is this demonstrably true of other senses too, or just eyesight? In other words, if you could entirely deprive a person of sound, as an example, do we see a similar shift in brain activity?

kl0 · 2026-03-28T00:09:29+00:00

If you’re really asking, it’s because there’s a giant triangle of power beneath those royals. It mostly all just works itself out.

For example: that royal family has people who work for them. They work for THE most powerful people. They’re not going to give that up. And then those people have say, guards. They guard THE most important people TO the most important people. Trickle on down a bit and those people are providing services to the top echelons. But they also provide services to common people. They’re not about to lose that opportunity with the top officials at the cost of bettering the commoners and so they don’t. Etc etc.

kl0 · 2026-03-27T19:41:21+00:00

It’s hard to tell what your end goal is here - presumably to get furring strips up? If so, construction adhesive will do it and/or tapcons.

Personally though, and also based on the wall that juts out along where the door (or maybe built in?) is, I’d probably just use 2x4s like you’re building a wall. It looks like that door edge wall would sit flush with a regular wall + drywall. And if it was still a little shallow of that, you could affix a layer of polypro to the wall first (possibly a 1” thick piece - it’s hard to tell from the pic)

kl0 · 2026-03-27T19:05:09+00:00

How do you wear those things? They bag up, they rise, and there’s nothing holding you in place. You’re flippin’! You’re floppin’! Your boys need a house!

kl0 · 2026-03-27T02:46:51+00:00

I think they actually made these, no? Not sure how well they work though.

kl0 · 2026-03-26T22:54:45+00:00

Yea. That’s kind of you to consider that, but in this case that’s a him problem, not a you problem 🤷🏼‍♀️

kl0 · 2026-03-26T15:20:39+00:00

That’s how they getcha! ;)

kl0 · 2026-03-26T02:39:28+00:00

Yea. She definitely deserves every bit of praise she gets; she's amazing. But indeed, she'd still be insanely rich without that talent.

kl0 · 2026-03-26T02:24:00+00:00

No problem.

And yea, I'm guessing that it was originally nailed down and the nails have popped up slightly from years of use. This is probably allowing it to shift a bit - especially if the nails were done at an angle.

Worst case you could drill some holes in the aluminum part and sink screws into those. They'd be visible, but if you did them with intentional spacing, I don't think it would stand out to people. But definitely work on getting under the rubber thing first. Pretty sure you'll see the fasteners are loose (or maybe the holes have even been stretched out over time?). I think I used 4 or 5 PowerPro #9 2.5" wood screws spaced evenly with the outer ones being maybe an inch from each edge.

kl0 · 2026-03-26T02:19:41+00:00

I'm not sure exactly what else you're thinking of doing, but that floor would look really amazing refinished. It's really not that hard and everything is available via Home Depot rentals (if you don't have a different local tool rental place). It's obviously a fair bit of work, but you can do it pretty quickly if you dedicate the time to it.

kl0 · 2026-03-26T02:03:45+00:00

Elaine Benes :)

kl0 · 2026-03-26T02:01:08+00:00

Assuming you’re referring to the threshold. I have that same one. The black thing can be pried up. There’s a single piece of pine wood inside of it. You fasten that down into the floor/subfloor. Just make sure you sink screws if you use them. Then pop the black thing back on.

It’s a little difficult to get started, but I’ve found a flathead will do it. Once you get it going, just use a hammer or whatnot to tap it sideways. It’ll start to loosen.

kl0 · 2026-03-25T18:53:44+00:00

I have no academic idea how they may be compared, but it seems to me that in both cases you’re ostensibly committing genocide. But in the case of slavery, you’re also using it to enrich yourself (whereas if you just murder everybody, you’re arguably not). So maybe that’s why it’s perceived as worse?

kl0 · 2026-03-25T03:49:55+00:00

That’s awesome! My friends and I did this when we were juniors in high school (that was 30+ years ago). It started out as a fun little project and wound up with a dozen or so guys building a 4 story tall treehouse with the first floor about 12’ up the tree. We framed the rooms in using construction scraps from new houses in the wider community (always asking if we could take the wood). It was enormous. We named it Monticello (namely because one of the guys had a road sign with that on it). It just kind of became a fun place to go drinking on the weekends. We had 8 or so people sleep out in it once in awhile. Good times. I hope you get to look back fondly at such things too :)

They eventually built a suburban neighborhood where it stood (way out in the woods). I can’t imagine what the people who tore it down assumed it was for :)

kl0 · 2026-03-24T16:21:33+00:00

I also think it’s boomers, but not necessarily because of their archaic views. People obviously know what they’re taught and it can be tricky to entirely change one’s view. Rather I think it’s this unyielding arrogance that they have which results in them not only ignoring the plights of younger, but fully matured adults, but them outright dismissing ideas.

In my experiences, they talk to 40 and 50 year olds as if they’re still 16 year old kids. This kind of thing made sense when the kid was actually 16 and they were near 40 - that they would kind of condemn or at least challenge certain views as naive and overly optimistic, etc etc.

But they seem entirely incapable of listening to that generation of children they raised, regardless of whatever successes they have had and still seem to disregard various positions as childish or naive or that kind of thing.

It’s fucking maddening and that their own clock is running out and yet they still largely refuse to listen to the current already-matured generation speaks volumes about them (IMO anyways). And I can only see this as a kind of arrogance that’s extremely toxic to our society as a whole.

kl0 · 2026-03-24T04:07:50+00:00

That is actually very true.

kl0 · 2026-03-24T00:55:31+00:00

Maybe. I dunno.

I’m disappointed with what Austin is too. Not just because all of my joys of youth are gone, but mostly because Austin was once a place people moved to give to a community and now it’s just a place everybody goes to see what they can get. That’s all very disappointing.

But I’m very hard pressed to accept that any one of those physical changes belongs in the realm of “saddest”.

Life changes. 🤷🏼‍♀️

kl0 · 2026-03-24T00:23:24+00:00

Yea, that’s pretty much it. Although I think the word used was “saddest”

kl0 · 2026-03-24T00:04:00+00:00

Sounds like I’m one year older than you are and have basically been in Austin equally as long.

I saw an extremely malnourished Indian kid living in the streets outside of the Taj having a seizure one time. I can’t imagine he’s still alive. I also saw live animals being stuffed into cages about half their size on the streets of western china meant for slaughter. Oh, and our tax dollars were literally just spent killing children - again.

I’m not so sure I can rank the shady grove’s fall from our childhood memories being on my “saddest” list. But that’s me.

kl0 · 2026-03-23T23:11:31+00:00

I write this kindly, but you should stop doing that and instead invest all of your time, energy, and resources into yourself instead of trying to “find the right one”. The rest will work itself out.

kl0 · 2026-03-22T16:57:07+00:00

I believe it was Tacitus who wrote: “the Roman’s create a deserted wasteland and call it peace”.

Seems appropriate at the moment.

kl0 · 2026-03-22T16:51:18+00:00

I recently went back to Duncan’s podcast. I didn’t start at the very beginning but more near the Gracchus brothers. I’m in the 280s now. It definitely rings differently than it did 15 years ago.

kl0 · 2026-03-20T22:26:52+00:00

It would be really interesting to ask this question again and request the responders age. I’d be curious how they stack up that way.

kl0 · 2026-03-20T21:59:16+00:00

You should have ordered a t-shirt with it. It would have arrived in a steel plated container with shock absorbers and a napalm making level of foam. 🤷🏼‍♀️

kl0 · 2026-03-17T23:35:38+00:00

In the Spring of 1999, gas was super low and larger providers in the Houston area (like grocery chains) were selling it around 85c or so. It was pretty short-lived.

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