The biggest thing I learned from living in Italy for two years and then marrying a Korean woman a few years after that is that Americans have fucked up views on sexuality and nudity. I came from a pretty liberal secular hippie type family and I was surprised to find I had some residual cultural hang ups just from growing up in the US.
What stood out the most to you about Americans sexual hang-ups?
The thing that stood out the most was some latent inherent shame to being naked. When my wife and I first got together, we’d rent some cheap hotel rooms and go there to hook up, she’d get there first and shower. I’d arrive and she’d answer the door naked and it was just wild to me. She was so comfortable in her own skin and fine just existing totally naked (in the appropriate circumstances). I had to quickly recalibrate what I thought was “normal” and my life was improved as a result.
“Military ammunition” sounds scary until you realize it’s only made to be acceptable for military purposes, and the truly excellent grade ammunition is made for civilians.
I’ve had about 275 BTC pass through my wallets throughout the years. I actually used it. My friend who was “too stupid” to use it still has 2 of them from the $10 BTC era.
Never saw it as an investment, just something to help me get acid in the mail.
I recently re-entered the dating pool for the first time in a decade and it’s incredible how much attention I get from just appearing clean, having my shit together, and not posting a picture with me holding a fish. Never got so much attention from women before in my life. Had a date in like one week.
The bar is very, very low. I am sorry, ladies out there.
You can buy a cheap Chinese HT like a Quansheng UV-K6 for like $40. These have open firmware and there’s a bunch of custom options radio nerds have whipped up. Get the USB programming cable even if you’re not doing custom FW, makes programming frequencies and tweaking options much easier. You’ll also need a license and in the US, HamStudy.org has the exact questions from the test. There’s a ton of YouTube channels you can watch and books you can read for general purpose radio knowledge. Then it’s just a matter of getting a proper antenna and pointing it in the right place at the right time; there’s free resources online, paid apps, all that is out there and it’s just a matter of wanting to learn it. The actual hardware you need to get started is really cheap these days.
Honestly I’ve been doing this for like 2 years now and I’ve not really keyed up and transmitted in the amateur radio sense, just GMRS walkie talkie stuff with the homies. Still, it’s super cool being able to listen. Picking up satcom stuff is just neat. I also take it to the airport and listen to the pilots talk with tower/ground crew.
One of these days I’ll transmit for real, but I have no problem following the “LURK MOAR” guideline as applied to amateur radio as I learn the culture.
No worries! It’s a cool hobby. Getting licensed was a bucket list item, as nerdy as that sounds. Still gotta learn Morse code but I hope to one of these days. Seeing some old heads tapping away at a local HAM event was pretty damn cool.
Radio is the OG fediverse and I want to promote decentralization and self-sufficiency. Amateur radio is a lot easier and more accessible than you might think.
They wish they were in an antenna and going out as radio waves, but instead they’re in a dummy load and not going anywhere. 50ohm is a common antenna impedance.
The FBI has been unable to access a Washington Post reporter’s seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a sometimes overlooked feature that makes iPhones broadly more secure, according to recently filed court records. ...
It’s got nothing to do with insulin or glucose levels, though. It blocks either sodium or potassium channels, can’t remember off the dome. Temporarily ruins the electrical conductivity of nerves.
I’m a former biochemist and my university studied conotoxins for use as analgesics. Cone snail venom as commonly understood are ion channel blockers. I’ve not heard of what you’re mentioning until now, but when you mention “cone snail venom”, most biology people are thinking of ion channel blockers. This is their primary method of disabling prey.
If you’re bit by a cone snail and try to drink some soda to counteract the toxin, you’re going to have a bad time. They’re called cigarette snails because you’ve got time to smoke one cig before you die - and not from low blood sugar.
From your source:
For example, fish-hunting cone snails use a “motor cabal” to disrupt the propagation of action potentials at the neuromuscular junction. Motor cabal toxins include those that block presynaptic voltage-gated calcium channels (CaV), postsynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR), and voltage-gated sodium channels (NaV) on muscle cells6.
ω-conotoxin inhibits N-type voltage-dependent calcium channels.[15] Because N-type voltage-dependent calcium channels are related to algesia(sensitivity to pain) in the nervous system, ω-conotoxin has an analgesic effect: the effect of ω-conotoxin M VII A is 100 to 1000 times that of morphine.[16] Therefore, a synthetic version of ω-conotoxin M VII A has found application as an analgesic drug ziconotide (Prialt).[17]
The cone snail referenced in the study you linked, Conus geographus, also has the same ion channel disrupting venom that is typical of cone snails. If you were bit by one, you’d die of paralysis. It does appear to use an insulin-like peptide to initially stun the fish, but the coup de grâce is from typical paralytic conotoxins.
Conus geographus is the most dangerous cone snail species known, with reported human fatality rates as high as 65%. Crude venom gland extracts have been used to determine animal LD50 and to aid the isolation of several potent paralytic toxins. […]The molecular composition of individual defense-evoked venom showed significant intraspecific variations, but a core of paralytic conotoxins including α-GI, α-GII, μ-GIIIA, ω-GVIA and ω-GVIIA was always present in large amounts, consistent with the symptomology and high fatality rate in humans.
I need some advice: I have a system that refuses to run without memory errors and the resulting file corruption has forced me to start replacing components until I get the advertised/expected performance. In this case, the DDR4-3600 (CL18) RAM I purchased cannot get through Memtest86 (Test7) without a ton of address errors. ...
FWIW, I always set the main timings and voltage manually on my motherboard. My motherboard always gets the last timing wrong. I can’t recall the exact one ATM, but it’s auto set to like 52 rather than 36, something like that.
It could be the CPU that’s bad - memory controller is on CPU these days. I’m not totally up to speed on AMD voltage names but I’d check whatever CPU voltage is for the memory controller as well as doing a single stick test.
You can get a cheap Geiger counter for $50 today and it’s about the same size. I see some for $30-40. These are based on old, proven technology, not some new thing with new unknown problems and an app.
Not that it isn’t neat, but it’s kind of a solved problem.
To put this into perspective, a 10 Gray dose to the skin is high enough to cause permanent hair loss.
A 10Gy exposure is well, well beyond hair loss range and into the fatal within days zone. The LD50 is 5Gy, LD99 is 9Gy IIRC. Methinks the author did not do their research on the topic.
Your entire comment is incorrect. LD50 is lethal dose to kill on average 50% of the time. LD99 is the dose that kills 99% of people. The figures I listed are for humans. There’s no way to extrapolate LD50 from other species to humans. There is enough data on humans radiation exposure to directly calculate LD50.
Other comment is wrong. LD50 = 50% chance of dying. LD99 = 99% chance of dying. The figures I listed are for humans, not mice. LD50 in mice is likely drastically different than LD50 in humans.
That is metabolism. CICO will make literally anyone gain or lose weight. Nothing in the universe violates thermodynamics. You maintain a healthy caloric deficit and lose weight. End of story.
Not eating anything for a month is an eating disorder.
From bouncing around my favorite corners of the Internet, I get the impression that large numbers of people have "a guy" (of any gender), akin to a weed dealer in furtiveness and legality, who is hooking them up with an underground, probably Plex-based (but increasingly moving to Jellyfin), streaming service. I get the ...
I’m a Plex server guy for friends and family, I have about a dozen users and maybe 3-4 at a time at the peaks. I charge nothing, it’s just a hobby. We’re out there.
I’d switch to Jellyfin but my users need transcoding and Plexamp is my favorite audio player since Winamp.
I’m specifically doing this to get family and friends to cancel their streaming subscriptions. Not to save them money, to hurt the corporations more than I can do just myself.
Doesn’t have the excellent Plexamp automix nor ability to add all my friends shares to my radio stations.
I appreciate the efforts but I’m very happy with my current setup. It works, it’s almost zero maintenance, and I got lifetime plex pass for like $50 years ago.
None of the above, well maybe the last one. Plexamp has algorithmically generated playlists based off song/album/artist, decades, genres, top rated tracks, etc. including auto mixing with crossfading, and ability to choose tracks not only from your own libraries, but from all libraries shared with you.
This feature has done wonders for library discovery as I have an absolutely massive music stash. It’s completely replaced music discovery via streaming apps for me.
I really do appreciate all the efforts to inform me of JF features but I am quite happy with my setup currently, and I don’t want to reconfigure all my shit AND get 12 n users to switch apps. It was hard enough as it is.
I picked up a 5090FE just after Christmas at MSRP, also tax free since I bought it from the military PX. Seems like an absolutely insane deal now, which is sad considering it’s the single most expensive computer purchase I’ve ever made in 20 years of PC building. This shit is untenable.
I miss the era of overclocking for easy performance gains. Pencil modding a Duron to an Athlon and increasing clocks by mounting a big fat copper heatsink and cranking vcore. You could save tons of money just by learning fun shit and having a modicum of technical ability. Now everything is dynamic clocks and power limits and it’s all so boring. My 5800X3D / 5090 rig absolutely tears ass but there’s no tweakability and I miss that shit.
The first boot of a computer during the era of jumpers for setting vcore was a tense experience. Will the magic smoke come out? Never did, but I always puckered up.
My only response to Discord
Beyond fucked up (CW: sexualizing children)
I can't wait for 2016!
Mexican Cartels Overwhelm Police With Ammunition Made for the U.S. Military ( www.nytimes.com )
Retro StarCraft prizes
‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses ( lite.cnn.com )
New Objective Unlocked: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space ( www.theregister.com )
50ohm goes brrrrrr
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How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?
Like, if you accidentally cut someone off, and they get mad and honk, how do you apologize?
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled ( www.404media.co )
The FBI has been unable to access a Washington Post reporter’s seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a sometimes overlooked feature that makes iPhones broadly more secure, according to recently filed court records. ...
Breaking the law is okay if you drive a car, Trump administration says ( www.washingtonpost.com )
What's actually unfair: Scumbags gambling with other people's lives when they floor it and hope they don't get caught
ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
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Cone snails
Puzzling issue with using DDR4 XMP profile
I need some advice: I have a system that refuses to run without memory errors and the resulting file corruption has forced me to start replacing components until I get the advertised/expected performance. In this case, the DDR4-3600 (CL18) RAM I purchased cannot get through Memtest86 (Test7) without a ton of address errors. ...
My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht!
Hiroshima scientists turn any smartphone into a radiation detector ( techxplore.com )
Iran’s internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only ( restofworld.org )
Two-week blackout tests system where web access becomes a vetted privilege. ...
send pics
Designer drugs
What are the metal sticks on aircraft wings for? ( aerospaceglobalnews.com )
What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?
What's up with "Plex Servers"?
From bouncing around my favorite corners of the Internet, I get the impression that large numbers of people have "a guy" (of any gender), akin to a weed dealer in furtiveness and legality, who is hooking them up with an underground, probably Plex-based (but increasingly moving to Jellyfin), streaming service. I get the ...
it's a real chicken or the egg scenario
‘Exclusively for the elite’: why Mumbai’s new motorway is a symbol of the divide between rich and poor ( www.theguardian.com )
Three RTX 50 cards reportedly make up 75% of NVIDIA’s Q1 2026 supply ( videocardz.com )
YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee ( www.kare11.com )
It's fine