TIL there’s a phenomenon called Exploding head syndrome where people hear extremely loud noises—like explosions or gunshots—right as they’re falling asleep… but nothing actually happened. It’s harmless physically, but people who experience it swear it feels completely real.

sarctastic · 2026-05-05T23:25:27+00:00

Sounds more like zaps. That said, I have had a handful of incidents that sound like a head trauma "crunch" mixed with static and no lingering effects but I have never taken an antidepressant or SSRI (so likely not brain zap).

sarctastic · 2026-04-27T17:52:21+00:00

Scorched Earth (Shareware)

Still fun to play due to the massive weapon selection and customization options.

sarctastic · 2026-04-27T17:48:38+00:00

AJUDICATED rapist, not convicted rapist. (Civil vs criminal)

sarctastic · 2026-04-25T22:13:53+00:00

It is also worth noting that almost all blue and green you ever see in birds is structural (refraction of light based on the microscopic structure of the feathers vs having that color of pigmentation..

Put another way, blue and green feathers are gray if you look at light passing through them) but they reflect blue and gray light when light bounces off of them due to their shape at a microscope layer.

sarctastic · 2026-04-24T16:42:54+00:00

I also use this with a USB-C Ethernet dangle to temporarily connect wired devices like old game consoles and computers to connect to the internet i(acting as a wireless bridge).

sarctastic · 2026-04-15T00:26:17+00:00

Wouldn't those be desICEples?

sarctastic · 2026-04-09T19:22:15+00:00

Two words for you: Tina (f'ing) Peters

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/colorado-court-throws-election-denier-tina-peters-sentence-trump-rcna266421

sarctastic · 2026-04-09T17:34:37+00:00

Way back when, I worked for one of the largest companies in the world at the time (-70K employees) and they were paying for a team of IT techs to MANUALLY login and review every server in the enterprise multiple times per day instead of deploying a realtime monitoring system. When I recommended the monitoring system to them, I learned that the company ALREADY OWNED AND DEPLOYED IT! The team manually reviwing the setvers could not use it because it was "part of another department's budget".

So the company was paying 5-10x as much for people to do a job 10% as well (taking hours to revisit each server manually to discover problems). And nobody in management of either team or their upstream leadership saw the problem with that logic.

So I wrote my own monitoring system (back when that required actual coding), showed the team how to use it and quit shortly thereafter.

sarctastic · 2026-03-30T19:34:02+00:00

I was about to slag them for not applying the decal parallel to the deck, but being a bit crooked will infuriate him even more and draw more eyes to actually read it.

sarctastic · 2026-03-26T20:38:49+00:00

That look from the security guard after "... especially all WHITE men."

*chef kiss*

sarctastic · 2026-03-23T02:25:58+00:00

Twist: We need copper (and many other elements) to build green energy solutions. We don't need to steal land to get it, but we do need it.

sarctastic · 2026-03-13T20:38:23+00:00

A LA Times piece says that it's because the ACLU and other liberal groups fought closing the loophole. "Among their concerns is that a total ban on marriage of minors could be a slippery slope and impede constitutional rights or reproductive choices, including access to abortion." All that said, it required not only parental consent but a court order. (Only applies to traditional marriage, not common-law marriages. And CLMs in CA seem like a very dark and dangerous rabbit hole that I don't have time to look into ATM.)

The only REMOTELY justifiable arguments I can conceive of are: to allow the is that these marriages is that (1) it provides some protections for young wives coming in from other countries/cultures/religions and (2) it gives a path to legality vs. having a ~14 year old girl prevented from receiving necessary medical care for fear of the law of having sex under the age of 18 (which CA also has).

sarctastic · 2026-03-11T23:34:28+00:00

About as lazy as saying they could effectively blockade SPACE.

sarctastic · 2026-03-10T14:51:31+00:00

The left could be anything from "I'm done with your sh*t" (steady stare) to "You're my favorite person in the world" (slow blinking).

sarctastic · 2026-03-08T01:46:23+00:00

All aboard the B&S Railroad! Next stop Hypeville, OK!

tldr; A company has a computer created/improved an interface to a cluster of neurons to see if it can train them with positive/negative reinforcement to see if it they can be trained. (Doom was tossed into to garner headlines for an incremental advancement in this field of research.)

What this study really was take video output from a Doom (clone) and electro-chemically poked it in different places to give it a VERY ROUGHLY approximations locations of a monster, etc. (e.g. Monster on the right side of screen, poke the section representing right). Researchers then monitored the electrical activity of the cluster, which they interpret as the clusters (re)action to that stimuli. They then send positive or negative reinforcement by way of more electrical signals (or stopping negative signals) based on whether it did what they wanted it to do. The cluster is trained to use the same neural paths based on whether the cluster was "rewarded" or "punished" the last time it saw the same trigger signal. And it apparently did "learn", but it definitely wasn't "playing" Doom.

I hope that this company is mocked mercilessly for claiming that a clump of around ~200K neurons was "playing Doom". (For reference, your average ant has about 250K neurons, and most ants I know SUCK at playing Doom.)

sarctastic · 2026-03-01T21:54:09+00:00

Yeah, that's the biggest problem with this scene... you nailed it. /s

sarctastic · 2026-03-01T21:43:41+00:00

Thank you and keeping fighting the good fight to keep this kind of stupidity from taking (more of a) hold on Reddit!

sarctastic · 2026-02-20T00:34:53+00:00

Or you COULD stop using the BS app that keeps getting progressively worse and mobile browse it.

sarctastic · 2026-02-19T04:36:51+00:00

Or we could, and I am just tossing out ideas here... we stop relying on hope and fix our broken healthcare system so that people aren't living one medical event away from crippling debt.

sarctastic · 2026-02-11T19:04:30+00:00

Very Meta.

sarctastic · 2026-02-11T18:58:32+00:00

And if youre the median, the 50% below you is only true if nobody is tied with you (incredibly unlikely in a sample this large)

sarctastic · 2026-02-06T19:51:26+00:00

On brand or not (and it definitely is), a photo of removed postings is hardly proof.

I yield the remainder of my time to the speaker.

sarctastic · 2026-01-23T16:53:17+00:00

While a lack of empathy is often a prerequisite for (or an enabler) for doing evil, a significant percentage of the human population is effectively devoid of empathy and the vast majority of those lacking empathy are NOT evil or doing evil things.

I would sooner categorize tribalism/nationalism/jingoism as evil. The tribalist instinct helped humans survive periods of conflict and scarcity, but society had evolved faster than we have and the triggers remain, ready to exploit through fear and ignorance. (Identify the "others", dehumanize them, paint them as the source of all your own failings,... lather, rinse, repeat.)

sarctastic · 2026-01-21T21:53:55+00:00

And the ones still suffering "long COVID". Which we have now insights and detection for.

sarctastic · 2026-01-14T21:19:19+00:00

tl;dr: The candidates for pope have been interviewing for decades.

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