sp3ctr4l

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44m ago

Um, actually
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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 44m ago

As with the rest of our lives... a very vivid, somewhat standardized and agreed upon hallucination.
We are dreaming sacks of meat.
But that can be miraculous and amazing, if you let it be.

56m ago

Music 🎶

System Shock 2: Med-Sci 1

looped until SHODAN gets you, you p̶̢̝̣̰̃͘͝͝a̸͉̓t̵̬͖̂̀́h̶̘͗͘ȩ̷̬̠̮̦̔̓̓ţ̵̯͔͉̏̓͛̆́i̷̭̰̺͔͊̋̅̽̒c̸̳̆ ̸͎̈́͠ͅc̶̢̞̝̣̽͂͘r̴̢̧͖̲̒̃̑͋̑e̵̠̔a̵̪̔͌́̚t̷̢̮̙̍͊ụ̸͔̪̑̐̊́̍ŕ̵͉̝̫̝̏͜e̶̘͊̑͝

1h ago

Music 🎶

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1h ago

No problem!

Now, spread the gospel of Fela, and let there be funky afrobeat jazz, ahhahahah!

1h ago

DeepSeek Permanently Reduces The Price Of Its Flagship V4 Model By 75 Percent

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1h ago

Ah guerllia gardening! Or something like that.

Also not the worst idea.

Just make your own unauthorized food garden haha!

1h ago

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1h ago

Circular breathing is used by many brass players to hold particularly long notes or unbroken chains of notes.

Same for oboes, bassoons, clarinets.

Its also very useful to harmonica players, which are technically reeded wind instruments.

Circular breathing might not be strictly necessary for some styles, but its definitely used by a lot of people, its basically only an upside if you know how to do it properly, raises your skill ceiling.

1h ago

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1h ago

At one point, myself and some college buddies rented a townhouse after we all graduated.

In the garage, I stumbled upon a bamboo stick, maybe a bit wider than a thumb, pretty long though.

I held it aloft to examine it... it had a carb and a bowl.

We were the first renters at this place, the couple had moved but decided to rent out to us.

So basically I found my landlord's custom/jerry-rigged bamboo uh, 'peace pipe', I think is what we called it.

4h ago

Music 🎶

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4h ago

Fela Kuti - Zombie.

I propose this as anti-coworker-music; for maybe 70+% of them, they'll be amazed or impressed if they've never heard it before

Its obviously old school, but its also obviously incredible, is energetic, has a solid driving rhythm and melody, and at least parts of the lyrics are simple enough you can sing along or they may get stuck in your head.

But its not offensively noisey/distortiony or sappy or whiney.

Then you also tell people the backstory behind the song and album, if they ask about it, which is basically equally incredible.

4h ago

Literally a shitpost.

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4h ago

Its kind of like the opposite of a guillotine.

Doesn't always work, but when it does, you basically did it to yourself.

The corpse pile problem on Everest has been getting significantly worse for a while now.

... same thing, to a lesser extent, with the Titanic.

Maybe we could make an empathetic argument that there shouldn't be any billionaires: Having that much money makes you so stupid and encourages such risky behavior that really, you should be thanking us for not allowing you to get into a dangerous headspace.

4h ago

This is how the ruling class was ACTUALLY planning to solve the climate crisis.

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4h ago

Yeah thats true too, and... thats a lot of math to do, to try and estimate that.

And also yep, might make more sense if we actually had some kind of asteroid refining ability... but we do not.

6h ago

This is how the ruling class was ACTUALLY planning to solve the climate crisis.

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 6h ago

... Defintiely a thing to be concerned about, but I feel like it at least might be possible for the basics to pencil out toward 'actually makes sense', if you can make a heavy lift vehicle that 'exhales' not CO2.

Like, if you use LOX and LH2... that produces primarily water vapor.

Once upon a time we actually tried to make an actual 'space ship', an SSTO, reusable, heavy lift vehicle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VentureStar

Got cancelled because it was decided that this project needed to be a testbed for a whole bunch of experimental components and component manufacturing tech all at the same time, and well the fancy pantsy composite honeycomb tank didn't work out.

The engineers proposed a replacement with more standard fuel tank construction and construction methods... but that got kiboshed for some reason, and then the whole project got axed.

And then not long after that, we decided that actually we should just throw money at SpaceX, basically.

So with that plan we're now 4 years behind scheduled delivery (and counting) and still have yet to generate a heavy lift vehicle that achieves orbit, but it has produced a lot of... large explosions, mostly, and OSHA and EPA violations.

6h ago

This is how the ruling class was ACTUALLY planning to solve the climate crisis.

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 6h ago

I hadn't heard of MSFT doing that, but I could swear I just read about China trying this.

Wouldn't surprise me that either actually are or are at least trying to.

Of course... then... you're just dumping a heat generator... into an already warming ocean.

So... thats maybe not great.

Bioshock! But data centers.

Yeah, underwater welding is not exactly safe or easy....

6h ago

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 6h ago

You could also probably just make a shitty/unique one out of PVC pipe, a handsaw, and a drill bit.

Or maybe even just core out a stick of dried bamboo?

6h ago

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 6h ago

I might suggest the harmonica as another potential alternative.

Or you could just do the blow test thingy from 'The Right Stuff', for fun, or something, maybe?

6h ago

Um, actually

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 6h ago

There is a fair amount of evidence that the brain indeed does produce a very powerful hallucination in some people, as they pass.

Near death experiences... do often result in a kind of passage through or into a tunnel of blinding white experience.

Many people who do die in the sense of their heart stopping, but not permanent brain death, or very nearly die... many other kinds of vivid hallucinations of people in their lives or who knows what, or out of body experiences, etc...

While I don't think there is a beyond, there do seem to be genuine, extremely vivid last moments.

No explicit need to turn those into ... well I guess literally the worst trip of that person's life.

8h ago

Um, actually

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8h ago

There's little kindness in breaking the grand comforting delusion of a dying delusional mind.

Just let them go in peace, to do otherwise would be needlessly cruel.

Or, maybe they deserve that cruelty: I don't have every relationship between every theist and atheist.

Just be aware that it is cruelty.

Some may deserve that, some may not.

Or you could just not be there.

That's all between you and... well, you.

Now that that's done and dusted, may we return to discussing the affairs of the living?

The cruelties repeatedly and incessantly enacted upon some category of them, by one particular group or another, because they don't share some particular principle or value in the way they live their lives?

The cruelties that are themselves mandatory ritual elements of those particular group's worldviews?

9h ago

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 9h ago

You do not appear to be reading this right.

Here lemme break this down and slightly rephrase it for readaibility:

Compared with the control group[,] in the didgeridoo group [we observed] daytime sleepiness and apnoea-hypopnoea index improve significantly.
[Their] partners reported less sleep disturbance [as well].
There was no [discernible/signifcant] effect on the [self-reported] quality of sleep.

So what you describe as 'masking daytime sleepiness' is actually just 'less reported daytime sleepiness'.

IE, you're more alert, less sluggish, when awake.

Apnoea-Hypopnoae index is basically the time you spend during sleeping having blood flow oxygenation below critical levels... this also significantly lessened.

Meaning that people got more regular well oxygenated blood flow while sleeping, after blwoing through a tube regularly.

The only thing that did not improve was self reported 'quality of sleep'.

Yet they were observed to snore less, and reported being less tired during the day, and their sleeping partners reported being disturbed less.

So, the only metric that didn't improve was the one that is the most subjective and least important.

They didn't report 'better sleep' but... everything else indicates that their sleep was indeed of greater quality.

Psychosomatic dubiousness that anything is different vs every other metric showing improvement.

Or, your response, basically.

Going back to the numbers, the day time sleepiness index is from 0 to 24, where over 11 is excessive sleepiness. The mean improvement is -3, which basically means these people got 3 more useful active daytime hours a day, they got 12.5% more useful time in each 24 hour period.

Again that's not masking, that's the exact improvement you are looking for.

The 'choking in your sleep' index improved by -6, when the average score of all was 21, so basically the average result was roughly 25% less time spent choking in your sleep.

Who would opt for this treatment?

I dunno, maybe anyone with a CPAP machine that wants to one day maybe not need a CPAP machine, or someone with a CPAP machine and also an unreliable local power grid?

10h ago

This is how the ruling class was ACTUALLY planning to solve the climate crisis.

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 10h ago

Yeah, I'm still amazed anyone takes that seriously.

Even if you can somehow solve the heat problem...

Data Centers on Earth need maintenance. Onsite personnel.

What we're gonna space bus up astronaut/it specialists, just, on a regular basis?

... We're gonna have humanoid robot technicians?

Or what, just grow short lived human clones like fucking Blade Runner or Moon, who 'think' they're real people, but are actually just an orbital slave caste?

10h ago

This is how the ruling class was ACTUALLY planning to solve the climate crisis.

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 10h ago

Cloud seeding is a real thing, that the US government (and probably a few others) uses as a weapon, and does not like to talk about.

'Chemtrails' aren't real, the idea of ... basically all contrails (natural condensation trails) are laced with zany chemicals that make the frogs gay or whatever...

But cloud seeding has been a thing since Vietnam, you move moisture around at ... well small scales in terms of the global weather system, but roughly regional / area of operations scales... cause floods or landslides in one area, droughts in others.

But uh yeah... yeah, geoengineering is ... not a great plan, generally speaking.

At this point, the only thing that I can think of that might make some sense would be throwing up a stupendous amount of solar arrays at the L1 Lagrange point between the Sun and Earth.

Theoretically you could gather and store solar energy, use it as a kind of gas station in space.

And it could block out some radiance from the sun, and if you had a managed cluster sitting there, you could theoretically manage it over time.

... But this would require an utterly stupendous level of orbital engineering, that we are currently no where near.

11h ago

Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 11h ago

I actually had a kind of mental breakdown / existential crisis, a few years back.

I was playing RDR2.

I realized, while ambling around St. Denis, that that was the closest I was ever going to get to ever seeing New Orleans.

... because the real one was gonna be underwater before I could ever afford to visit it.

11h ago

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 11h ago

I mean, makes enough sense in concept.

Could also work with any larger wind instrument that requires moving a considerable volume of air.

Builds up muscles related to breathing, could thus potentially moderately reshape the throat and nasal cavity.

Maybe you'd prefer a tuba?

... at least its not a vuvuzela...