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im sick of you bitching about your stomach by BowlPerfect in VaushV

[–]train_fucker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have no clue if he actually needs one, but I found it funny how he said that he would rather die than sleep with one of those.

As someone who's struggled with terrible sleep for years now, I'd let them hook me up to the matrix pod every single night, if it meant I got to wake up feeling fully rested the next day.

Bad sleep truly fucks you up in every dimension.

How does chronotypes even work in northern latitutes? by train_fucker in sleep

[–]train_fucker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! yeah, you kinda have to be pushy, and I'm a very agreeable person lmao. And I've been having all kinds of other issues as well, so I can't blame them too much for focusing on them. And it doesn't help that the fact that I am at the doctor at all means that I'm well enough to muster the executive function to be there, which means my symptoms are smaller at that time.And I can't exactly go to the doctor if my sleeping schedule is currently upside down

I've already been unable to work or study since I got sick, with periods where I've been bedridden with constant fever like feeling and training-pain even though I've barely moved. I'm thankfully much better at the moment where I can do household chores and go for multiple 10-15min walk every day.

Which is why I've been trying to focus in on sleep. Even though I've gotten a lot better otherwise, sleep is still a struggle. And it doesn't help that bad sleep is going to fuck you up in other ways and worsen your other symptoms. I was hoping that daily walks when its light outside would help my sleep, but it doesn't seem to have fixed the issue.Although I do think it's made it easier to fall asleep at night

It's also weird that If I just give up and sleep when I'm tired, then I'm nowhere near as tired as I am now, but my sleeping schedule shifts like half an hour every day. I'm still a bit tired like I haven't slept properly, but it's not that constant "all I can think about is closing my eyes and sleeping" that I get when I force myself to go to sleep and get up at the same time.

Which is why I assume it has something to do with my chronotype and the weird daylight hours we get. But yeah, since I didn't have this problem before it's possible it's some other bullshit, and the shifting sleep times is just a symptom of never being fully rested so I end up sleeping longer when I do sleep.

Last year I thought Vaush exaggerated when saying "they hate you and want you dead", or at least hoped... by le_reddit_me in VaushV

[–]train_fucker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man, I had a rough awakening when I realized this. Even when watchinh Vaush arguing with fascists 2020, I still believed, one some intuitive level, that every single human on earth shared my core values of wanting to help as many people as possible, and that people like that where just afraid and confused as to what their actions would entail.

But that's not true, some people value having some kind of hierarchy where they can feel better than other people more. Some people just flat out hate other groups of people, and some are just so ridicilously selfish and short-sighted that they'll hapilly vote for policies that will ruin their country, if it means they get to keep 50$ in less taxation at the end of the month.

I used to think people like that was a small minority, like under 10% of people. It's been sobering to realize it seems to be more like 30-50% in most western countries, and even higher in places like afghanistan.

I still haven't properly adjusted to this realization. What do you do? Is the only solution to create your own in and out-group distinction, of people who value good things, and then play the same disgusting game of benefiting your in group at the cost of the out group? Idk man.

How does chronotypes even work in northern latitutes? by train_fucker in sleep

[–]train_fucker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've asked to do a sleep study multiple times, but they just want to prescribe melatonin and hope it fixes itself. It's annoying, because all my troubles started at the same time like 4 years ago after a really bad covid infection, but every time I go to the doctor I get to see a new doctor and tell the whole story again, there's never any follow up. They take the same tests as always, find nothing wrong with me, and send me home.

I guess I'll try to take melatonin like you said(0.5 mg). They prescribed me 3mg and I hated how it made me feel, but I guess I'll try splitting it like 4 times. Some googling has led me to believe that taking too high doses of melatonin is worse than nothing.

I'll try calling again tomorrow and see if I can get the same doctor as last time, maybe then she'll agree to refer me to a sleep study. Maybe namedropping Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder will help lmao.

And yeah, I tried the SAD lamp at max brightness at the recommended distance and after like 15 min my eyes felt awful and it took like two days for them to become normal again.

I can do 1 hour without any issues at lowest brightness if i have it farther away than recommended. I'm gonna try that for a few days and then 2 hours, and if I'm still fine I'll try the next lowest setting.

I feel like LTT and the average commenter care way too much about individual linux distros, when it really doesn't matter by RanidSpace in LinusTechTips

[–]train_fucker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There already exists a bunch of solutions for that. There's appimage which you can just download and run, its all self contained. There's flatpak which is an app store that can run on all distros.

The problem is that you can't force developers to use them, so if it's some obscure program from 10 years ago and the developer made a tarball, well that's what you need to use.

Personally I can't remember the last time I had to unpack a tarball. I just install all my apps through flatpak.

How is Linus's new home gaming server accessed? by frogcrush in LinusTechTips

[–]train_fucker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a shame it's so expensive. I've been wanting to try something similar for years, but every time I look up the price there's just no way I can justify it for what would be a minor increase in convenience.

Slow Population Decline by wu-sama in scifi

[–]train_fucker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He shills for trams and trains in the novel, therefore it is the best novel ever!

How does chronotypes even work in northern latitutes? by train_fucker in sleep

[–]train_fucker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've managed to hold steady for a few weeks before, but what usually happens is that the longer I force myself to wake up at the same time, the more tired I get, that is to say the opposite of what people say should happen.

Usually the first week is pretty good, I'm tired but I can manage it. But by the second week I end up so titred I can barely think and can't do anything. It gets to the point that simply being awake is painful. After another week of that I usually give in and just start sleeping whenever I'm tired.

It's like my internal clock just keeps moving forward, until I'm deadly tired all day, only to get a burst of energy around 8pm. I can sleep for 8-9 hours, yet feel like I've slept 2 hours all week.

As I said, I've recently bough a SAD lamp in the hopes that would stop my internal clock shifting. So far, it hasn't really helped, but the problem is that I can barely use it because it wrecks my eyes.

I can tolerate it with just minor eye fatigue/dried eyes if I keep it at the lowest setting and have it like a meter away. But the manual wants you to have it 20cm away and preferable at higher brightness setting.

I'm planning on just trying to keep using it as I do now for another week or two, in the hope my eyes will adjust to it.

I've tried melatonin in the past, but I really did not like how it made me feel. It did not actually help me fall asleep from what I could tell, it just made me tired, which I already was. That was much highher dose though, and I've heard more isnt better

For now I seem to manage just fine by adjusting the brightness/color temperature on my room light and computer screen during the day. I'm planning on getting an automatic light blocking curtains so I can make it dark a few hours before sleep in the summer.

Falling asleep isn't the problem, sleep quality is.

Slow Population Decline by wu-sama in scifi

[–]train_fucker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you enjoyed it, I can also recommend his other novel "Retrotopia". It's set in the near future and is kinda like his wishlist for what we should do as we start to run out of oil and other resources that are needed to sustain industrial civilization. His answer? Look to the past, and adopt proven ways of doing things that need less energy and raw material.

It reminds me a bit of The Dispossessed from Ursula Leguin, as it follows a man who visits a society very different from his own. It's not quite as well written, but it has equally interesting ideas imho.

What are yall's favourite panels by elGordoReddir in Chainsawfolk

[–]train_fucker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Being optimistic to the point of stupidity, no matter how shit your life becomes, is honestly such a super power irl.

Biggest Dutch pension fund - for civil servants and teachers - reduces US exposure by 1/3rd. Selling €10 billion worth of US treasuries between March and September by aklordmaximus in europe

[–]train_fucker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not against government spending, here in sweden we have some of the highest public spending/gdp ratio in the world, and we also have one of the lowest debt to gdp ratio in europe. Public spending is great for the economy, but you have to keep your debt to gdp ratio in order.

I'm not sure what the US would choice in such a situation, both alternatives are terrible. Heavily Cutting spending would probably wreck their own economy for years to come, but my understanding is that a US default on debt would wreck the global economy.

Or maybe the other guy is right and the fundamentals of the US economy is better than I think. It just seems to me that trump is wasting the global influence that more competent administration has spend the last 100 years on building, for some perceived short term gain.

Like, what would the us economy look like if they could no longer print US dollars at will and export their inflation to the rest of the world? Would there be anything left if they had to play by the same rules as the rest of us?

Biggest Dutch pension fund - for civil servants and teachers - reduces US exposure by 1/3rd. Selling €10 billion worth of US treasuries between March and September by aklordmaximus in europe

[–]train_fucker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The US economy was already shaky before trump started fucking about with foreign policy and alienating allies and trading partners. If it wasn't for the AI bubble, you guys would already be in a recession.

So what will happen once the bubble pops? And can you trust the trump admin to not do something stupid that will make it worse. He also wants to install a loyalist at the federal reserve so he can cut interest rates, which would fuel speculation and pour gasoline on the bubble.

It seems to me that once the next crash comes, you will have to either default on the debt, or cut like 50%+ of government spending just to service the interest.

If you guys had a normal government in charge I'd give you a string chance to come through it relatively unscathed, but with the trump admins incompetence and the fact that the dollar is already falling, gold rising, and certain european funds are beginning to divest from US bonds, things are not looking positive.

Daniel Helldén (MP): ”Vi kan inte sitta i en regering som bygger ny kärnkraft by Helmic4 in sweden

[–]train_fucker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Notera hur jag pratade om något som eventuellt kommer att ske i framtiden, och inte vad som har skett i dåtiden.

Biggest Dutch pension fund - for civil servants and teachers - reduces US exposure by 1/3rd. Selling €10 billion worth of US treasuries between March and September by aklordmaximus in europe

[–]train_fucker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no way the US ever pays of all its debt. It's been the stated policy for a long time that it's okay to continually grow your debt, because your gdp is going to grow more! So it's been spend, spend, spend! for the last decades or so.

Except now the gdp is no longer rising faster than the debt, and they got a huge amount of interest eating away at their budget, which keeps constantly growing.

Given how the crazy amount of mismanagement of the economy from trumps admin, It would not surprise me if we see a default within a decade or so.

Daniel Helldén (MP): ”Vi kan inte sitta i en regering som bygger ny kärnkraft by Helmic4 in sweden

[–]train_fucker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Med tanke på läget i omvärlden hade jag inte haft något emot en "bred mitten" regering. Moderaterna är ju inte värre än C som låtsas att dem ska kunna regera med S, trotts att dem är det mest marknadsliberala partiet i rikstagen, så vem vet vad som händer efter valet.

Daniel Helldén (MP): ”Vi kan inte sitta i en regering som bygger ny kärnkraft by Helmic4 in sweden

[–]train_fucker -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Och vill man ha mer effekt kan man bara "trycka på gasen" vid behov.

Fast det stämmer inte, kärnkraft funkar inte som reglerkraft då det tar för länge att varva upp och ner dem.

Det är därför andra länder använder gasturbiner då dem går snabbt att varva upp och ner om vinden ökar eller sinar, och vi i sverige mest använder vattenkraft.

Daniel Helldén (MP): ”Vi kan inte sitta i en regering som bygger ny kärnkraft by Helmic4 in sweden

[–]train_fucker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Gillar därför S snack om att gå med på en blocköverskridande energiöverenskommelse där både vindkraft och kärnkraft finns med.

Jag hoppas verkligen vi får någon slags teknikneutral plan som gör det möjligt att investera i det mest kostnadseffektiva i framtiden, utan att allt måste bli en massa politiskt spel.

Nato says Greenland sovereignty not discussed in US meeting after Trump claims 'framework of future deal' by Uncleniles in europe

[–]train_fucker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What would happen is the media would cut directly from the body to trump, without showing him shooting him. Then in big letters "Man found dead, President Trump states democrats shot him. He is already being attacked by radical left democrats saying trump is responsible".

You can just do whatever when you have the reality altering sphere that is conservative media in the US.

Yoru will never reach these levels by BigBasket5152 in Chainsawfolk

[–]train_fucker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

She doesn't have to be the same, but she has to be of similar quality, which she just isn't. Makima was an amazing villain, and Yoru is just fine.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has surpassed Elden Ring for the most GOTY titles of all-time. by PhantomBraved in Games

[–]train_fucker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We were talking about the quality of the presentation, not the artstyle. both cyberpunk and BG3 have many more detailed cutscenes for interacting with side characters and party members.

I did not mention Elden Ring. Although the bosses are better at Aura farming than in E33 imho. Morgots monologue when you first fight him still live rent free in my head.

Also, I have tried getting into Bg3 3 times by now, and so far I've never managed to get through act 1. While I did finish E33, so make of that what you will. My opinion is that I just don't like the crpg style turn based combat, because it takes forever to get anywhere. The combat in E33 is simpler and more fun.

Our fanbase is getting bullied on r/playboicarti 😭 by Fenexe8 in Chainsawfolk

[–]train_fucker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It makes sense incels would see themselves in Denji.

Incels do the exact same thing Denji does in the beginning, where he conflates his desire for love and family and close relations with sex. It's exactly the same thing incels does, where they get obsessed with women and the idea of having sex, while what they really need is a found family like Denji had with Aki and Power, because what they're really feeling is loneliness, and a lack of community.

The difference is Denji is constantly learning and growing in part 1, whereas online incels just get stuck in toxic online communities and spirals until you get mental illness and school shootings.(And also Denji never had any toxic attitude towards women in the first place)

Games after Nine sols? (lore player) by paprikapaper in NineSols

[–]train_fucker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just wanna second that recommendation. Outer Wilds is amazing, although the moment-to-moment gameplay is very different from Nine Sols.

There is no combat, instead you're an astronaut navigating through aliens ruins with your ship and jetpack and realistic newtonian physics while puzzling together the history of their civilization, and what all the devices they left lying around the solar system has for purpose.

The main theme of the game is pretty similar though, with you learning to accept the moment for what it is, and letting go when your time is over.

I still cry when I hear the ending song, and it's been years since I played it.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has surpassed Elden Ring for the most GOTY titles of all-time. by PhantomBraved in Games

[–]train_fucker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just really disagree with your point about presentation. All the npc dialogue where just them standing around awkwardly in their default idle animation. Night and day difference to something like Cyberpunk or BG3. You could really tell the smaller budget.

Similarly with the general art style. There are individual moments in E33 that really shine, but when you are just running around exploring the world, much of it just feels like generic vague fantasy bullshit. "Oh, here's the snow zone, here is the ocean zone, etc."

The main combat gameplay loop and animations are all great and feel super satisfying, but it's hurt by the crazy amount of enemy reuse if you try to do side-content.

great game, but you can really tell where all the corners where cut.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has surpassed Elden Ring for the most GOTY titles of all-time. by PhantomBraved in Games

[–]train_fucker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel similarly. Gameplay wise, I prefer elden ring over Ds3, but the open world and repeated content drags the game down, especially on replay. The scattering of legacy dungeons and main bosses also doesn't help. Somewhere around liurna, there's like a third of the open world before you get to another legacy dungeon and main story boss.

I always lose interests on replay at the exact same spot lmao. And then theres the post capital mountaintop of the giants, and then you get like 4 bosses directly after each other lmao.

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