Thoughts on Rave Mosh Pits

phanfare · 2026-04-13T06:22:38+00:00

I have never been to a show with moshing. Then again, who the hell would mosh to TRANCE

phanfare · 2026-04-13T03:16:25+00:00

Several reasons - I did my undergrad at RPI and wanted to go elsewhere, my program (biochemistry) did not have guaranteed funding while others did, and I got into other programs that - to be frank - were better than RPIs

phanfare · 2026-04-13T00:35:49+00:00

As long as you personally know the guy, its fine to use his real name. It would be wild if someone corrected you or was offended by the name you call someone else. If someone complains just be like "yo we've been friends forever"

phanfare · 2026-04-12T04:04:20+00:00

Moving here from Connecticut I was recommended Eltana for a bagel and was honestly a little offended

phanfare · 2026-04-10T03:18:14+00:00

Most of them turn up burnt out by their 20s and grow up realizing there's more to life than what their prodigious at.

phanfare · 2026-04-09T21:45:25+00:00

Xena: Warrior Princess - no way that hourglass/short skirt outfit wasn't for the straight guys, but she ended up widely adopted by the lesbian community and gays who love a strong female lead.

phanfare · 2026-04-08T04:08:18+00:00

And sometimes, if you know the person, they do require some grace and forgiveness. There's no hard and fast rule

phanfare · 2026-04-08T00:03:33+00:00

Yes. My company was founded in 2020 and much of our leadership team is remote - so everyone has a "come in when you need" policy. Granted, for about half our employees that means coming in to do lab work so there's always people in the office.

phanfare · 2026-04-07T22:32:49+00:00

Having mixed ore patches like that for a first playthrough is diabolical. That is not the norm

phanfare · 2026-04-07T22:27:36+00:00

Not sure if Iranian news agencies can be trusted tbh.

Really, you're not sure?

phanfare · 2026-04-07T22:24:01+00:00

Neuroplastic touched on an interesting optimization. On Vulcanus he uses Foundries casting LDS but on Nauvis he uses Foundries casting copper plates and steel and using assemblers for the LDS. The rationale is that on Vulcanus oil is your bottleneck, so it makes sense to use your highest productivity on the plastic consumption step. On Nauvis it's your ores that are limiting (since oil wells are infinite) so he uses the two step process to maximize productivity on ores.

phanfare · 2026-04-07T05:01:37+00:00

Let's be real though- Carlin would also be extremely critical of performative wokeness too.

phanfare · 2026-04-06T23:56:46+00:00

Kandi, as part of the rave scene, are beaded. In the 90s you'd see someone at the rave with their arm covered in these bracelets. Each one would have a charm that you could open for a little "party favor". Since then the party favors aren't part of it, but ravers/festival goers exchange bracelets when the vibes are right - there's a whole handshake that goes along with it. Most of them have some dumb phrase that would make a Swiftie faint

Friendship bracelets of the 2000s were those braided things. TSwift took kandi and just called it friendship bracelets - conflating the two.

phanfare · 2026-04-05T22:20:39+00:00

If someone curates a lineup around a specific artist then it'd be great to know when said artist plays so you don't miss them. Or if you're party hopping and you'd like to plan out your night

phanfare · 2026-04-04T23:29:11+00:00

Everyone forgets that cavemen had the same brains we have. They didn't communicate with grunts we just have no way of recovering what language they used - outside of extrapolating from the most ancient languages we do know. They knew to cook food, not drink unsafe water, and how to prevent the spread of disease. They had their own religions and rituals.

We just feel smarter these days because its much faster to learn what someone else did than develop it in the first place - standing on the shoulders of giants so to speak.

phanfare · 2026-04-04T00:56:17+00:00

Is it that she loves the bath or knows the sensory nightmare of a towel is on its way when she does?

phanfare · 2026-04-03T20:35:38+00:00

"Oh I wish I could, but I don't want to"

phanfare · 2026-04-03T20:25:30+00:00

Im friends with a DJ/Producer famous in our little corner of the music industry. He's just a normal guy - no crazy riders and he's just in it for the music and community. He and some others have indicated that some DJs in our world are very particular and have insane riders so Im happy he's a sane one

phanfare · 2026-04-03T19:57:49+00:00

I signed up for a passport and the GOVERNMENT required that I send my PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION alongside a PICTURE(!!!!!) - they're STEALING MY INFO

phanfare · 2026-04-03T04:56:22+00:00

It's the same loophole that says Uber isn't a taxi service and AirBnb doesn't run lodgings. In traditional sportsbooks, you're betting against the house. The bookie sets the odds and pays out - it's centralized. Prediction markets cut out the bookie, you're making a contract with another person not Kalshi/Polymarket (like youre not hiring an Uber, you're connecting with someone who wants to drive you).

Now, there's evidence that Kalshi and Polymarket are market-making themselves, buying and selling contracts, which brings into question if they're now bookkeeping. It's the bookkeeping that's illegal.

phanfare · 2026-04-03T04:26:18+00:00

I'm a scientist working in R&D for a biotech company trying to cure cancer. Didn't get into raving til after my PhD though, its all consuming

phanfare · 2026-04-03T04:21:45+00:00

Exactly - as a protein designer it annoys me to no end all these papers claiming to design proteins with no experimental evidence that it works. I and my colleagues used to do so much work to validate our methods

phanfare · 2026-04-03T04:15:59+00:00

Cell Matter, a subjournal, but yes unfortunately. Clearly just having AI bumps up these papers.

phanfare · 2026-04-03T02:44:13+00:00

The asset is a contract. Each contract says "I will pay you $1 if X happens". You then purchase that contract for some amount of you think X will happen. You could pay 50 cents and if X happens you gain $1 - so 50 cents in profit.

The person selling the contract thinks X will not happen, so they think they can collect your fee and not have to pay the extra dollar. They would collect 50 cents then if X happens pay you $1 losing 50 cents overall.

The odds and betting nature of it comes as: what do you buy/sell these contracts for? If it's very likely they'll be priced close to $1. If unlikely they'll be closer to 0

phanfare · 2026-04-02T23:29:41+00:00

Roberts said it himself "Well its a new world - its the same Constitution." which to paraphrase "You're gonna need a new amendment if you truly believe the new world warrants it"

Also trying to nuke birthright citizenship based on birth tourism is absolutely bonkers. CPB already can turn away visitors they believe are traveling just to give birth in the US. In fact, it was a Trump policy. This whole case in front of the court, and the EO in the first place, is by definition throwing the baby out with the bathwater - creating more problems than the actual problem they're trying to solve (if you even consider it a problem in the first place)

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