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Cake day: July 1st, 2021

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  • Nuclear power is literally more expensive at this point than renewables. No, you can’t keep using the shitty, cracking, deadly waste producing nuclear plants of the past, not even the power companies want that, and building new ones takes over 10 years, not counting all the planning and beaurocracy you have to go through. And to become CO2 neutral after all the excavation, construction and mining necessary takes another decade. Nuclear power plants are MASSIVE engineering undertakings.

    Meanwhile modern windmills can be mass-produced right now and take like 5 years depending on their placement to be both cost and CO2 neutral. After that it’s LITERALLY free energy for a good 30 years. And they become cheaper and bigger and more efficient every single year. And btw if you ever pull out an article or a calculation that is older than a year for any comparison, you are dealing with OLD data. They have become far more efficient and flexible in their placement and will likely continue to do so.

    The anti-nuclear protests were completely right. Stop playing the people who wanted a safer world without nuclear waste and incidents against the modern climate movement.

    TL;DR: Wheels on windmill go brrrr, nuclear power is not a short term solution and never has been.




  • I’m not a avid league player, but as far as I know Flash has been mandatory in competitive on like 99% of champs for pretty much most of leagues existence.

    Blink is just a different approach on the topic of instant movement skills.

    Flash is free and has no downsides, but is rather short and has a long ass cooldown.

    Blink Dagger is fairly expensive, can be disabled through player damage, gives zero stats but has long range and a reasonably short cooldown.

    Both fundamentally shape their game for the better, because without them the game would be a lot slower and less spectacular. Probably 80-90% of all “greatest highlights of dota” scenes feature a blink and I presume it’s vice versa in league.





  • While they aren’t immortal, there is something deeply unnatural about these zombies still walking the earth. Yes, the best medicine that money can buy is quite powerful, but cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and various other degenerative diseases are so incredibly common at their age and are mostly irreversible.

    My wonderful grandmother lies, bed ridden, barely conscious in a care home, waiting for the end. And these freaks stumble around, withering before our eyes, yet always getting up again to inject a little more desperation and destruction into the world. It’s so bleak and I don’t know if I can stand another round of this charade.


  • If you try to look up anything DIY or household related, you used to get forum posts, maybe a blog, or a at very least a company site that still made a human write a little article about the topic.

    Now it’s just pure ai generated garbage. They all have the same bullet-point list form, endless blabbering in a casual tone (So you like many other people want to drill a hole into a wall. Well there an many things to consider…), lack any specifics and are like three times as long as they should be. And then 10 product referrals to Amazon with names like the above.

    The internet was always kinda fucked, but this feels like digital Kessler syndrome. Once you hit a critical amount of garbage, every bit of useful information will just be buried by trash.


  • I don’t want to compile anything. I don’t want to “make”. I don’t want to use command lines. I don’t want to download Rust. Or know the difference between python2 and python3 and how you still have to be specific about it. I never wanna read a git manual with lines that mean nothing to me again. I don’t care about snap or flatpack or whatever package distribution gives me a year old version of my program on this distro and how that version differs from the one from the webpage.

    Sorry Linux, but a big download button, double click, “install to c:/program files”, “want a short cut to desktop”, done. is the gold standard for 99% of applications.

    I know there are reasons. But still, it sucks.



  • Happy to hear that it mirrors your experience. It’s a weird ass condition for sure.

    A first year psychiatry student would absolutely wipe the floor with me.

    Doubt that. I’ve met plenty of them and knowledge about ADHD is not really as prominent as one might think for something that affects possibly 5% of people. All the science dealing with the psyche is still extremely young and underdeveloped. In most cases we have no idea what a drug does to a brain. Just look up Lithium. Stops people from killing themselves better than anything else and nobody knows why. Until recently we thought that people would just “grow out” of ADHD. The naming schemes and definitions change frequently and adoption varies wildly throught the world. It’s a mess and they don’t always know better.

    I would trust a fellow affected person with 327 browser bookmarks about ADHD medication, diagnosis and therapy more than any neurotypical student at pretty much any point. And even some doctors.




  • The best description I’ve heard is that with ADHD (and probably other neurodivergent conditions) you need to become your own pharmacist, psychiatrist and research specialist. There is so much information out there and the effects are so different for everyone. It’s a constant balancing act of benefits, side effects, dosage, timing, food and choice of drug.

    The pharma company “just” need to prove that there is a significant benefit above placebo for a certain fixed dosage under controlled conditions. We need to figure out how to use it in our normal daily ADHD riddled lives.


  • Vyvanse/Elvanse (why the fuck they have different names in EU and US is just beyond me) are a so called prodrug called Lisdexamphetamine, a derivative of Dexamphetamine that has the aminoacid L-Lysine bound to it. This compound is inactive and has to be absorbed through the gastrointestinal system and then converted in your bloodstream into Dexamphetamine. This delays the peak level by about an hour and makes it more resistant to ph-levels and the influence of food.

    Like the others wrote, it’s probably not entirely inert to acidic environments but apparently much better than Adderall (raw Dexamphetamine) and Ritalin/Concerta (Methylphenidate).



  • I think there might also be some “the only way to not portray a toxic masculinity manchild in a lot of games is be a woman or an alien”

    I would very much concur with that. I would rather be portrayed by a woman than that guy. It’s more interesting and and flavourful than generic dude xyz. I reject most of societies notion of being a man, so why not be a woman here in this space free from consequences.