In basic terms. Humans have a hibernation instinct, from somewhere in our past. When the days start to get short, and we get less sunlight, our brain tries to kick this in. It makes us want to be lethargic and sleep a lot. Unfortunately, modern life isn’t conducive to this. When you push past it, the effects are very similar to depression.

Different people are affected to different degrees. Some are downright miserable, others unaffected. It’s also possible to treat it. Sun lamps can trick the brain into thinking it’s not winter, as vitamin D. The effectiveness of this can vary, however, and it doesn’t compete with the real sun jumpstarting your brain back to full functionality.

I’ve seen that functionality on an oven (Inc mine, though I don’t use it). I’ve never seen it on a hob before.

Right now, we have more than enough to support basic necessities for everyone. It’s mostly a distribution issue now. It’s also being fucked up by run away capitalism creating artificial scarcity.

You will have a hard time getting anyone to join a system that others nothing more than gruel, a grey jumpsuit and a dorm bunk.I would strongly suspect such a system of funneling thr excess to a few elites.

The question is, how to judge values, without a capital based system at all. What is a lead brick worth in corn, or bananas?

I agree that a hyper focus on efficiency is a bad plan. At the same time, we would need some corrective mechanism.

A good example would be food preference. Say you have 3 food options, A,B and C. A is the easiest to produce, but bland. B and C are more difficult and so more limited. Some people love B but hate C, others vice versa. Some people would happily just have A, and use the excess value on other luxuries. How do you resolve this?

A limited capital based system would find it easy. Each person has an assigned value. They can choose how to distribute it. This dynamically finds the fairest distribution. By passing it to the farmers, they can choose how to direct effort.

As for regulatory capture, etc. That’s a sign that capitalism is getting out of control. It’s akin to your curtains starting to smoulder. It needs to be used like fire on a wooden ship, with extreme care and control.

A fully planned system has also shown to become highly inefficient.

The the key phrase there is “under capitalism”. My point is capitalism can’t be the top level. If it is, then it will run away, exactly as Marx saw.

At the same time, it’s an incredibly effective tool. It allows for dynamic value assessment in a system that has minimal trust. It’s a perfect method of fairly distributing luxuries. It’s akin to a fire being useful when trapped in a fireplace, or a blast furnace. The problems occur when it’s allowed to run amock.

How would you go about fairly distributing limited luxuries, particularly when the value to a given person varies?

Capitalism is like fire. Unchecked, it will happily consume your house. Never the less, it’s an excellent tool for certain tasks. It must be handled with care and contained appropriately.

Right now, a lit of the world looks like London during the great fire. Capitalism has been allowed to run unchecked, and has gotten completely out of control. The massive dilemma is how to reign it in, without collapsing large chunks of society.

Abandoning Capitalism completely is almost as bad as letting it run unchecked.

I use auto generated passphrases. It’s mostly for the occasions where I need to give the password to someone, without logging into my bitwarden account, on the device. It’s a lot easier, for comparable levels of security.

This is a learned effect. We got so battered during childhood that we internalised the criticism, but lost track of the praise (if any was given).

A good solution is “basking”. Take the time that a task took. You should allow yourself to bask in that achievement for at least half that amount of time. This includes bragging to friends and family etc.

This helps to recondition your brain. You’re ALLOWED to feel good about getting stuff done. You’re allowed to sit back and just feel happy about it. This starts retraining your brain to give you that hit. That, in turn, makes the jobs/chores a positive thing, and so your more likely to get it done.

Another trick that’s related and worth mentioning.

Externalise the negatives.

I know, at least personally, my thoughts can lense around problems. I train myself not to even think about them. I’ve found this is because I beat myself up internally. This is quite counterproductive. I learn to avoid the problem, while eroding my sense of self. Instead, direct it outwards.

This is easier by example. E.g. washing up. I used to get annoyed with myself for not doing it. This made me avoid it, and so feel worse. I now direct my annoyance at the washing up itself. It’s ugly and smells. There’s old food congealing on my plate. There’s mold and nastiness growing there. I WANT it GONE!

While this seems silly, its effect is huge. If I don’t get it done, I don’t feel negative about it, I’m annoyed with it. Once I do get it done, it now feels good. I made the problem go away! I no longer lense away from it. My brain actually wants to get it done.

Basically, I want my various types of weirdness tolerated by others. Others want their weirdness tolerated. We mutually agree that it’s beneficial to each of us to tolerate each other. This gets expanded to other forms of weirdness. So long as it doesn’t significantly impinge on others who dont want it, we have no reason not to be tolerant of others. This is the social contract.

Intolerance inherently impinges on others. While it might not impinge on my personal weirdness, I will still fight against it. I know it could be me next, and I would hope others would stand with me then. In turn, I will do that for others, both because it is right (in my mind) and because I don’t want to be targeted next.

I will default to assuming people are happy with the contract. If they demonstrate disagreement, or contempt for the contract, then I withdraw its protections.

That’s close to what he’s saying. Slow the fuck down until either the distance is safe, they back off, or overtake.

It might be worth a clarifying edit.

It’s the following drivers responsibility to maintain enough distance.

IF they don’t do that THEN it falls on you to do it for them (by slowing both of you down appropriately).

A camera flash would be more effective. An old school external flash unit will destroy your night vision.

Poor wording on my part.

The B1 trades rugidisation and capacity for speed.

The B21 trades them for stealth.

B52 is optimal for mass bombing. It’s shape makes spares, repairs and production cheap. It’s optimised for bombs/$ via mass deployment. The B1 and B21 could fill the role, but not as well. They are optimised for other uses (B1, get in fast, smash a target and get out. B21, sneak in and pummel a limited target.)

That being said, the last time the US needed that capability was likely Vietnam eta (leveling large areas of jungle). Having it available is still militarily useful.

The physics of a strategic atmospheric bomber hasn’t changed. The B52 is close to optimal in shape for the task. A lot can change, however, both within that shell, and construction materials it’s made of.

They are a quantised wave in the electromagnet field. The concept of shape or object size breaks down at this level.

Some scientists refer to them as point like, since we can’t measure any diameter on them. It’s more likely tied to their current wavelength. The faster they move, the more energy they have, and the shorter the wavelength. The shorter their wavelength, the smaller they are. Unfortunately this is also a vector (speed and direction) so their shape is different depending on the direction you measure them. Even more confusing, relativity comes to play too. Their velocity is different for different observers, therefore their apparent size is different.

Most experiments don’t bother dealing with this however. They just assume it’s point like, and that seems to align very well with experimental results.

Given the mention of NHS on the sign, this is focused on the UK.

Step 1. Note down the various reasons you think you might have adhd. Also include times that it has actively had a negative effect.

Step 2. Make a GP appointment.

Step 3. At your appointment, explain that you would like a referral for a mental health assessment, since you believe you have adhd. The note previously can either act as a prompt for yourself or just give them to the doctor. They were mostly to crystalise your thoughts and stop you going blank at the appointment.

Congratulations, you are now on the (very slow) path to a diagnosis. There are methods to speed it up, but even if you just passively follow instructions, you should get there.

Different countries will have slightly different systems, but the broad approach should still work. For our American friends, you have our commiserations.

I can definitely see dicksplash being used as an insult down the pub.

Fuckletoes is in a weird dead zone. It’s far too poncey for working class use, but far too crass for the toffs.

The rest I’ve heard used before.

It makes a lot more sense in the earlier versions of chess. The queen used to be the “Vizier”. The sultan made the decisions, the Vizier ran around and implemented them.