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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 23h 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....

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 23h 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?

sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 23h 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?

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 23h 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.

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d 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?

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d 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?

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d 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?

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d 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.

sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d 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.

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d 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...

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d ago

Yep, all good plans if you got any land to grow anything on.

I'm apartment-bound, so, maybe aquaponics is in my future.

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d ago

"Lottery winners, how did you win the lottery and what advice can you give?"

This whole idea is basically a myth that pretty much doesn't actually exist in practice.

Especially now, with jet fuel costs soaring.

Almost nobody is 100% remote.

You may find an expert niche position where you travel often, but basically no one has a 100% remote job.

Unless you want to argue that being an overseas landlord who manages things from your overseas home counts as a '100% remote' job.

EDIT:

Since some almost nobodies have showed up, I guess I need to show my work.

www.forbes.com/advisor/business/remote-work-statistics

www.apollotechnical.com/statistics-on-remote-workers/

Upwork’s prediction proved accurate: as of 2025, approximately 32.6 million Americans representing 22% of the workforce now work remotely. According to Gallup data, among those with remote-capable jobs, 52% work in hybrid arrangements, 27% work fully remote, and 21% remain exclusively in-office

32.6 * 0.27 = ~8.8 million.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01000000

Total US Labor Force = ~169.5 million.

8.8/169.5 = ~5.2%

So maybe 'almost no one' is slightly strong phrasing, but I guess congrats to the top 5% most pampered and privileged workers in the US at least, who actually fully work remote.

If the 'Almost Nobodies' here would agree to submit the zipcode that they grew up in, well, I'm reasonably confident it'll be one that's historically had a significantly higher median income than those near it.

Oh also submit your age. I would expect that those in this top 5% to be a distribution centered around... well basically the average US home buyer age, 59.

https://fortune.com/2025/11/13/average-homebuyer-59-years-old-senior-citizen-housing-market-affordability/

(Yes I realize that's an unreasonable ask in terms of privacy, but it would make for an interesting study)

((I guess lemmy is surprised to discover its own user base is an example of selection bias))

sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d ago

'Don't look up', I guess.

sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago

Yep, $61 million dollars for a 150 unit building that's practically waterfront, downtown.

~$400,000 per unit.

So at that rate, you got what, 30, 40% of Seattleites seriously rent overburdened?

Well ok, we can solve that problem for uh... around $162 billion dollars, with this approach.

The tax reveune for this program is, this year, about $150 million. So we'll have this home affordability problem figured out in around a century, sounds great!

Err, wait a minute:

The social housing developer has promised not to displace any current tenants, so change will happen through roughly 10 existing vacancies and then through expected renter turnover in the coming months.

Oh so... ok then. Maybe more like a couple of centuries for this approach to work, for the currently existing Seattle.

... this is a fucking joke.

This is a payoff to existing real estate owners that are in more debt than they want to admit.

The social housing developer declined to disclose the value a seller-commissioned appraisal assigned the building. King County values the property at about $54.5 million. (Valuations for property tax purposes are typically lower than what buildings may sell for on the open market.)

Yes, they indeed typically are for multi unit buildings, because fraud is indeed rampant and normalized and literally institutionalized.

Does uh, do your own home assements and valuations follow that 'rule of thumb' too?

No, probably not, unless your house is in Medina or Laurelhurst or Queen Anne.

Maybe somebody could target that difference with some legal changes and reforms, I dunno.

This is an incredibly unserious attempt to actually address housing affordability problem, that people seem to take seriously, for some reason.

Why not just tax the fuck out of any building that offers any unit for rent above 3x median household income?

You know, have the rich pay?

Instead of the other way around where the city pays them?

sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago

Everyone in WA should have been boycotting Starbucks for at least the last 10 years, but nooooo, everybody's gotta have their goddamned morning milkshake.

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sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2d ago

Its the same exact goddamned thing as Boeing.

Another state will pay us more money and give us more tax breaks to build or be based there.

That's it.

Everything else is traitorous yapping noises.

And understand that 'state will pay us more money' means... with their taxes, or debt their taxes will have to pay one way or another.

That's what a 'business friendly environment' is.

It means the government rapes taxes out of the people and gives them to people and organizations that already have a stupendous amount of money.

FTA:

Tennessee is rolling out the red carpet for Starbucks corporate executives, both rhetorically (at a fawning press event in Nashville) and financially with a whopping $30 million incentive package financed by state taxpayers to benefit the 119-billion-dollar company.
...
In 2001, Boeing moved its corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago. In 2003 Boeing persuaded (blackmailed) the Washington state legislature to get a $3 billion tax incentive to keep manufacturing in Washington state. What did they do with that tax incentive? They built a new production facility in South Carolina, a state storied in racism, slavery, and union-busting. In 2013 Boeing received $8 billion in Washington state tax incentives and promptly laid off thousands of employees in our state.

Its rape, mass societal financial rape, and we need to start using that terminology, or the rape will continue and get much, much worse.