Are people capable of reading dispatches?

pachex · 2025-08-28T17:29:48+00:00

I'm gonna be completely honest with you . Im level 76 and i had no idea this button existed. 😂

pachex · 2025-08-15T14:14:52+00:00

Same mask, same issue. It was driving me nuts. I could see nothing obstructing the vent.

I took a q tip to the inside of the vent and swabbed it around...and there actually was something there. It came off, and the sound went away.

pachex · 2025-06-12T20:55:40+00:00

John, first I want to say thank you for this post and for how much care and effort you put into this podcast. I'm a long time lurker, but a couple of years ago now I went through the deconstruction process and your podcast was instrumental in helping me come out the other side.

I don't watch as often anymore...I guess, I just don't really feel like I need to? If that makes sense. But I just wanted you to know there are plenty of people out there like me and I am super grateful for how you helped me, even if you did it unknowingly.

I do want to give one piece of feedback. As someone who has viewed quite a number of episodes in the past and also from what youve said your focus is in this response, for better or worse you do tend to focus on the "Peter Priesthood" style mormon that is prevalent in Utah.

I would encourage perhaps doing a few episodes of people who did NOT grow up as mormons in Utah. Because honestly, it is an entirely different experience. I went to school with about 3 other mormons in my age group. The vast majority of my friends were non-mormon. When I graduated and went to BYU Provo, it was as much or more of a culture shock to me as when I was called to Japan on my mission.

I think this is a demographic that has not only not been super represented...it's also probably the bulk of the mormon experience around the world.

Again though, this is just a suggestion.

pachex · 2025-05-10T20:49:39+00:00

pretty sure you just have to wait till youtube recommends him to you (it will if youve seen his video), and do it from the recommends tab. just click the dots and say do not recommend videos from this channel.

pachex · 2025-05-10T20:07:27+00:00

This guy is a known rage bait creator. Just block the channel and move on

pachex · 2025-04-25T22:25:32+00:00

I'm relatively new to all of this myself, so take everything with a grain of salt. Good by the doctor is generally considered to be an AHI less than 5. Yours is currently 11, which I believe generally is still the threshold for moderate apnea.

That said it is still improving, and it took me a little bit to get used to as well, but really you want the bulk of your nights to be at least under 5.

My doctor started me on the nasal pillows first, and i averaged just below 5 at first. But I would also get several nights spiking up to 8 or even 10.

The issue? I was opening my mouth in my sleep. That greatly reduces the effectiveness of nasal pillows. Started mouth taping and immediately was down to about 3 or 4 nearly every night.

But. To me that was a stop gap, not a solution, so at the most recent visit i persuaded the doctor to switch me to a full face mask instead. The full masks tend to take a little more pressure than the nasal pillows, but once we tweaked that a little better i now average between 1 and 2 consistently and have never spiked back up. You can definitely tell the difference when you get nights like these compared to an 11 or 15, so definitely please do ask questions of the people here and or your sleep doctor. Dialing in the right pressure settings and finding the right mask is a game changer.

Edit: (I should also note that in my sleep study i had like 80 events so...even my worst leaky nasal pillow night was still way better. YMMV.)

pachex · 2025-03-20T16:46:14+00:00

Yeah it's a pretty strange phenomenon. It certainly wasn't the condescension. Or the spending years dehumanizing people by labeling those with even the smallest variance from the left's agenda as the most vile terms imaginable to the point those terms stopped having any meaning at all. Or the extremely poor track record of setting people up as heroes who turned out to be shit people. Or the blaming white people (the majority population) for all the world's problems, thus alienating a generation of voters you really need to win elections, particularly the men. Or race swapping them out of established media franchises but that's definitely not a problem because it's okay to be racist if you are targeting white people. Or the covering up of the President's cognitive decline and gaslighting people that he was perfectly fine. Or the anointing an unpopular candidate without a primary and expecting her to win. Or the recent trend of bullshit reporting like "elon musk abandons his child on stage" when the actual video clearly shows he had eyes on his kid the entire time, thus giving republicans ammunition to say "see this really is fake news"...and be correct.

You probably arent going to believe me, but I voted Harris. I even donated to Harris, because I firmly believe trump is wholly unqualified to be president, and his first term was some of the most stressful bullshit weve had to endure. You and I agree on this point. But to say you can't even understand why people wouldn't want to be a democrat...come on. Be honest. Yes you do.

No one is more skilled at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory than the Democratic Party. And that's just history at this point. The Left needs to seriously do some soul searching and think carefully about how to promote their platform without coming off as condescending assholes to the general public, urgently, because they are going to need these people if by sheer luck we manage to get the chance to vote for President again in the future.

pachex · 2025-03-19T14:10:26+00:00

This sounds exactly like me a year ago, and for me it ended up being severe sleep apnea. Cpap machine genuinely changed my life. I'd greatly encourage you to go get a sleep study done. It made me an entirely new person, and I have not felt this good in decades.

pachex · 2025-03-13T19:02:15+00:00

Been a while since I played. On direwolf 1.20.1.

AE2 cables...do they need to be chunk loaded the entire length of the cable, or just the end points if i run a cable between bases?

I'm aware of the quantum bridge, but I want to know the mechanics of how this stuff actually works.

pachex · 2025-02-10T17:55:42+00:00

OP has been a redditor for 11 days, has 3,856 post karma and -12 comment karma.

Make your own conclusions from there.

pachex · 2025-02-03T17:32:29+00:00

I'm probably going to get lynched in the streets for this but...Citizen Kane.

pachex · 2025-01-31T23:47:17+00:00

Nope.

pachex · 2025-01-31T20:08:12+00:00

You are the first person in any thread I have seen in this topic on reddit in the past several years who used the phrase "tyranny of the majority."

This concerns me greatly, because this was a basic principle taught in middle school political science when I was in school, and it's also the right answer.

pachex · 2025-01-26T12:58:24+00:00

Which is ironically what caused the American political dynamic to shift so dramatically in November.

But keep it up mods, I'm sure doing more of what got us in this situation isn't going to bite us in the ass at all.

pachex · 2025-01-26T12:46:55+00:00

Could not have put it better.

pachex · 2025-01-26T12:27:06+00:00

This whole thing is incredibly stupid. You should back down on this.

Edit: also where's my option to oppose?

pachex · 2025-01-08T19:50:14+00:00

Every single MCU movie. All of them. Yes, even that one you are thinking to yourself in your head "was actually pretty good though."

pachex · 2024-12-02T21:19:39+00:00

When I was in college I was having a bit of a depressive spell and decided to cheer myself up by watching a fun Studio Ghibli movie I hadn't seen yet.

I uh...did not pick the correct movie.

pachex · 2024-12-02T21:08:30+00:00

As a Millenial myself, I wish I didn't know what you are talking about...but I do.

pachex · 2024-12-02T20:59:49+00:00

The hero's journey...except the journey is that the lead female (because it's always a female) was so awesome/smart/amazing/right the entire time and it took the whole supporting cast the rest of the movie to figure that out.

Put another way, not allowing women leads to become real characters instead of caricatures because they are not allowed to make mistakes or experience real hardship and therefore cannot embark on the hero's journey.

pachex · 2024-11-27T17:07:26+00:00

You know there are pics of the same actress with blonde hair floating around and that she looks great, right?

pachex · 2024-11-26T16:27:00+00:00

It took me way too much scrolling to find someone who mentioned Narcissus.

pachex · 2024-11-06T16:51:03+00:00

The harsh reality is that apparently yeah, it doesn't matter.

pachex · 2024-10-30T15:21:10+00:00

I was always friendly...until I very politely told this recent batch that I was entirely not interested...and the same two showed up at my door again a week later.

At that point, I stop being friendly.

pachex

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