So on top of the specific muscle weakness from my post-exertional symptom after mulching the other day (itself atop all the soreness) I also spent yesterday effectively two creatine scoops down in general, and it was interesting to see a bit of the effects I hadn’t really thought of as energy deficit related – fingers growing fumbly as I did delicate work, some brain fog and limits on mental complexity – showing back up

Today I’m like one scoop down but I was expecting to cut back a scoop in a week or so so fine.

Also to anyone complaining about countries devoting resources to this sub, the US maintains deep sea capabilities for reasons of state, which includes deep sea rescue capabilities mostly relating to the SLBM leg of the nuclear triad, this was a free practice scenario and like, enrichment for those guys.

Badger’s not as cuddly in the warm season but this year he’s become more complexly vocal, vocalizing to alert me when he’s in a dark room or in response to being directly addressed (as “Badger” or more often “cat!”), and he’s able to meow for food for like 10 seconds as mealtime approaches but if no positive response give up and try again 10 min later.

obiternihili:

kontextmaschine:

dumbfilmschoolkid:

While every force available in the world is searching for the 5 people in the oceangate submersible, a boat filled with mostly Syrian and Pakistani refugees sank under still “unknown” circumstances off the coast of Peloponnisos, Greece (with the coast guard present). More than 600 people drowned but guess which of the two is making headlines

I mean, they will! They were going to already, now you’ve just volunteered that to represent a failure on behalf of your movement. What are we even doing here?

how have i volunteered anything? what are you talking about?

this happened before the sub even went missing and the coverage is absolutely disproportional

The wreck of the Titanic is in the Atlantic, which is not the Agean or “Europe’s Biggest Migrant’s Cemetery” – the Mediterranean – how are you even bringing the sub into this? Their issue is about Europe accepting and not mitigating the hazards of arrival by sea so as to maintain their effect as an illicit migration deterrent, and in that context I continue to ask — what are we even doing here?

Summer already but it feels like spring only went past mid-April for like two days there and then gave up and stayed

curlicuecal:

curlicuecal:

curlicuecal:

these ai-generated articles are really getting round the bend

fascinated by “keeping nipples hard with asexual nature”

don’t just say that like anyone knows what it means

teaboot:

beowulf22121:

afloweroutofstone:

cryptotheism:

radiofreederry:

radiofreederry:

I love to make meth in the subway with what appear to be sugar packets

Person who never takes public transit seeing a classic “random shit strewn about the train car”: oh god. Oh god. Is this meth.

The Alchemist of the Subway

Green cap bottles are Zyrtec, OTC allergy medication. Pretty sure red cap bottle is Tylenol. What does the NY Post think meth is made out of

“chemicals”

Some of that is straight up loose dog food

The Korean War is weird because on one hand it was one of those wars not even like Iraq II so much as Afghanistan where it’s not only an unsatisfying result but it doesn’t matter that much cause it turns out to have been pretty peripheral to the American narrative and interests anyway, but on the other it’s like our last great war of large-scale maneuver – more than WWII where we pretend the Battle of the Bulge was even in the same ballpark as any continental army’s land warfare experience, shading more into what people expected of World War III in those pre-ICBM days

And on the third hand we kind of had the WWII mindset (and the broad draftee military fighting it) still around and going and preparing for WWIII, and writing this into the national epic – like, the Korean War was known as “The Forgotten War”, something that I absorbed by osmosis having been born 3 decades afterwards because, unlike the many truly forgotten wars in American history, people remembered it – there was a memorial in my hometown, and representation at civic holiday parades, M*A*S*H may really “have been about” the Vietnam War, but it was set in the actual historic Korean War.

dumbfilmschoolkid:

While every force available in the world is searching for the 5 people in the oceangate submersible, a boat filled with mostly Syrian and Pakistani refugees sank under still “unknown” circumstances off the coast of Peloponnisos, Greece (with the coast guard present). More than 600 people drowned but guess which of the two is making headlines

I mean, they will! They were going to already, now you’ve just volunteered that to represent a failure on behalf of your movement. What are we even doing here?

Okay, not only sore from yesterday but wiped by the post-exertionary symptom, in fact I think some of the former is ongoing irritation because the latter makes helper muscles too weak to keep major groups away from rubbing up and inflaming each other.

Even then, I distributed the last of the bark nuggets, finished setting up the weight bench and the plate tree – even if the neurodexterity issues aren’t noticeable at baseline, if I do precise fiddly stuff with my fingers long enough they get enragingly clumsy – and did some planning.

mourning-again-in-america:

kontextmaschine:

You see the ironic thing is the association with Fortunate Son is probably going to be one of the last things about the Vietnam War to fade from memory.

Like how people remembered “Remember the Alamo!” long after they, in fact, remembered the Alamo.

Do you think Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Ohio” will last?

not nearly as long as that one photo

and mostly as trivia to it

I feel like some of the schadenfreude towards these submarine guys comes from finally seeing a rich guy attempt to buy their way to a peak experience fail. You can hire an army of Sherpas to summit Everest, you can pay Musk to go to space, but you can’t vulgarly buy your way to the depths of the ocean.

“Vulgarly” is the key. How else would you do it? Train hard? Work your way up through the normal Abyss Corps? It’s definitionally a logistics challenge.

To which the “legitimate” approach of course is James Cameron, personally involved at the forefront of submersibles, as supported by multiple Oscar-winning and/or highest grossing in history movies specifically drawing on that interest. No one would begrudge him, but then again no one could see him going down on a sub piloted by Xbox controller.

You see the ironic thing is the association with Fortunate Son is probably going to be one of the last things about the Vietnam War to fade from memory.

Like how people remembered “Remember the Alamo!” long after they, in fact, remembered the Alamo.

Self-help guide to bedroom communication with the chapter heading “If You’re So Submissive How About Submitting to the Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known?”

kontextmaschine:

My take on this missing submarine is it’s part of the thing where since Harambe the world operates on novelistic logic. Like, it’s not even that it’s poetic justice for these billionaires to die so much as that it’s a dramatic event arising from the confluence of several major themes of the contemporary world

Also I’ll say the prospect of awaiting inevitable death trapped at the bottom of an ocean in an ersatz high tech tin can with a few other representatives of a wildly wealthy novelty-seeking class is very 80s horror, that could have been a Tales From the Crypt episode back when it was Black Mirror about yuppies.

(Fuck if I know how you’d shoehorn in the practical effects gore and tits.)

galois-groupie:

triviallytrue:

triviallytrue:

Anyway for any other billionaires out there looking for high risk vacations costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, in change for $10k I will take time off from my job and google publicly available info about the company to compile a dossier of how likely you are to bite it. I will even knock a couple thousand off the price tag if you pinkie promise not to drag your kids along

For reference, US citizens drive an average of around 15k miles a year and the US has a death rate of around 1.5 fatalities per 100 million miles driven, so assuming you’re statistically average your odds of dying in a car crash in one year are about 15,000 * 1.5 / 100,000,000, or close to 1 in 400.

Conversely, a little over 6000 people have climbed everest and over 300 people have died on it, so your risk there is more like 1 in 20.

With the power of easily googleable statistics and back-of-a-napkin math, you too could avoid dying in a really stupid, expensive way

Because people are naturally not great at reasoning with probabilities, especially when it comes to matter of life and death, I propose the adoption of a new measurement, the U.S. passenger mile fatality expected value equivalent (USpmfEVe), which is much simpler and more intuitive. At 0.57 deaths per 100,000,000 passenger miles in the U.S., that puts a single sure death at approximately 1.75e8 USpmfEVe.

For example, skydiving is equivalent to 440 miles per jump and whitewater rafting is about 1200 miles per trip. Hopefully this has helped someone reason about risk.

enki2:

Okay def. not going to start getting topsoil today for fear of making this stitch at the lowest point of my right rib cage worse, though

Huh, there’s a tree that had ventured a branch into a rich vein of sun and had branched really profuse there but Monday we got the hardest rain since its leaves came in and they got wet and weighed down the whole big zone to slightly drooping, and now even dry and undrooped it’s more horizontal, like the experience strained the branch enough for a little cracking.

But then I look at the rest of the tree and I wonder if this might not actually be the usual growth pattern. I know trees incorporate weighing-down into their growth patterns, I have one in the upper backyard that tends to send off shoots awfully vertically but then the second year they bear flowers and the fruit (one of the for-birds soury things we’d probably call “crabapples” if anything) weighs the branches down more horizontal in time for it to get woody and rigid and stay there.