Like 80% of the serotonin in your body is in your intestines iirc.
Autism is a spectrum. If the label of autism describes the symptoms you have and helps you to understand and contextualize them, who cares about what some test says tbh - but if your doc also thought it fit, then even less reason to doubt it.
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Cocaine "no worse than whiskey," would be "sold like wine" if legalized worldwide, Colombia's president says
I generally agree. Still, cocaine is super addictive and the risk of OD is pretty high
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Cocaine "no worse than whiskey," would be "sold like wine" if legalized worldwide, Colombia's president says
I mean... it is waaaay better than whiskey. Which is why it's worse than whiskey.
The Donald Slump ^tm
Learn what you need to do to follow recipes, and then you'll learn the rest over time. Cook things you like to eat.
Don't get a bunch of junk for your kitchen. You only need basic things and can buy them as you go.
- Knives - you only need a chef's knife (8" or 10") for most kitchen tasks and a paring knife for small things. Optional: bread knife (i just use a chef's knife), filet knife, boning knife, cleaver.
- Pots and Pans - get all stainless steel and/or cast iron/enameled cast iron. Don't buy aluminum or nonstick. Frying pan. Saucepan. Big pot and/or Dutch oven (can use as a soup pot on the stove or in the oven for other things, enameled recommended). Baking sheet (and a silicone matt for nonstick).
- Other: peeler, box grater, garlic press (way easier than mincing garlic), citrus juicer, steamer insert for a pot, measuring cups and spoons, cutting board (plastic is OK - bamboo is another good budget option, one for meat and one for plants recommended)
- Know what it means to steam, boil, simmer, sautee, bake.
- Keep your knives sharp.
- Learn the basic cuts (dice = .5 - 2cm cubes, mince = very tiny little pieces, julienne/batonnet/chiffonade - strips of stuff of various sizes).
- The key to cutting anything is to break it down into manageable, regular pieces that you can easily turn into cubes or rectangles.
Since you have difficulty tasting:
- Don't over-salt. You can always add more, but you can't remove it.
- Acidity and fat are important to make food taste good. Vinegar is often a hack to make food taste better.
- Adding MSG to your food is also a great way to make it taste better.
- Learn what herbs and spices belong in different kinds of food. Some can go in a lot of different cuisines and dishes - like salt, pepper, garlic, onion, parsley, and chives. But others have more niche uses, and some combinations are very typical of specific cuisines. Buy individual spices, not spice mixes. Dry spices are stronger than fresh spices, so if substituting dried for fresh, you will use less than you would use if they were fresh.
The head chef of Alethea (3 star michelin restaurant) totally lost his sense of taste for years and still ran one of the best restaurants in the world.
AFAIK you can literally mail anything (except these things) as long as you pay the right postage and address it.
Their CEO said he liked that people are saying please and thank you. Imo it's because he thinks it's helpful to their brand that people personify LLMs, they'll be more comfortable using it, trust it more, etc.
Additionally, because of how LLMs work, basically taking in data, contextualizing user inputs, and statistically determining the output iteratively (my understanding, is oversimplified) - if being polite yields better responses in real life (which it does) then it'll probably yield better LLM output. This effect has been documented.
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New rule: "No generative AI content"
That's a great change.
I generated this response with chatgpt btw
I largely analyze data and create software to automate business tasks. This allows people in my company to make informed decisions about the business, how money is or should be spent, who & where to hire, helping non-techical people automate repetitive tasks. I also present/interpret data and influence decision-making.
This might mean creating forecasts. Automating data analysis with reports. Building data sources (gathering and manipulating data from different places and compiling it). Building interactive software or excel sheets for non-technical users. Creating white papers or presentations on analysis I've done. Etc.
I use excel, google sheets, google app script (basically javascript), tableau, python, and SQL.
The existence of publishers for scientific literature is completely unnecessary in the modern era. They exist only to make profits to continue their existence. They don't actually provide value anymore when research institutions can just conduct peer review and then let researchers self-publish.
They create negative value (a bottleneck) by limiting who can access research for just... aggregating and hosting articles.
If I wasn't so sure Trump actually thinks the tariffs are great and popular, I'd say he's trying to sabotage Vance's presidential aspirations in the event Trump can't hold office. That'd be pretty smart.
It was just a joke. But deleted since it was in bad taste.
Some of the early episodes really show their age. It's definitely still worth watching in 2025, but it is an old show at this point.
That's the one book on basic economics they might actually read though. Fuck thomas sowell
I thought it was:
Women being gay: they were dear friends who lived together for the past 50 years, owned several cats together, never consorted with men, and are now being laid to rest under the same tombstone as it was their eternal wish never to part. What close roommates they were!
Wait you mean Tow Glhvartz didn't write it? Next you're going to tell me it isn't "Domale's inside look at his lime of fomim sun thant the om curayer"
Fake and gay but also🥚
NAS Server OS/Software Suggestions
I want a NAS solution to back up my PC and host media files, but prebuilt NAS solutions are incredibly expensive and underwhelming and so I'm planning to build one. Does anyone have recommendations for a NAS interface?
I'm brand new to server management and would prefer something user friendly. I have used linux mint, but currently use windows as my daily driver (planning to switch to mint soon). I'd be fine with a dedicated NAS OS or with something I could run on mint since I'm already familiar with that distro.
Throwing up almost every class. Is there anything I can do about it?
Pretty much the title. I've been training for 5 months, injured for 4 weeks in there - just came off of a 2wk recovery from a knee injury. I'm relatively young, 6ft 175lbs, in pretty decent shape.
But I overexert myself to the point of vomiting nearly every class. It's frustrating and embarassing.
I've started doing more cardio and have improved a lot in that regard, but it doesn't seem to help at all on the mats. Do I just need to do more cardio? Is there something nutrition-wise that could help? Open to any and all suggestions.
Edit: Thanks everyone for the advice. I will try 1) not try so hard and ask partners to help me with that, 2) advice to talk to my doctor - I have in the past and he wasn't much help - but it got me to do some research... some medication I'm on can cause hyponatremia, which can cause nausea and vomiting especially after exercise... so I'm going to try a saline solution before/during class and may report back if it works.
Edit 2: took a 3% hypertonic sal
Opinions on 9x9 for beginners
I have been playing Go with my friend (who has a Chess background) for a while now. We started on 19x19 boards but he found it really overwhelming and struggled. He wanted to switch to 9x9 and we have now played several 9x9 games.
These games are just for fun and I don't think he has much intention of ever playing seriously, so it doesn't really matter, but I feel like the skils developed playing 9x9 are really not all that applicable to a real game other than just basic life/death, some endgame stuff, etc.
I started on a full sized board, and I ran a successful club where we started beginners off on full sized boards, so I don't really know how others do it. What do you think about starting beginners off on 9x9? When do you think they should transition to larger boards?
How do you use AI to train?
I've been using AI to review my games for a while, but how do you personally use AI to learn?
I've found it really helpful in strengthening my joseki as well as general game-sense/intuition. Re-training myself on which moves feel correct.
One weird result has been that a lot of my intuitions that I used to brush away in favor of moves that I felt were more big-brained, turned out to be the moves that the AI prefers. So I'm having to work through when I'm overthinking moves.
The main problem I find is that it is so much better than I am that I can't understand the logic sometimes - so I walk away with "Well, that move was just better, I guess" and fail to get a good understanding.
Go in Art: Guan Yu plays Go during bone surgery
Portrayal of the Physician Hua Da Scraping the Bone of Guan Yu to Treat an Arrow Wound (Hua Da hone o kezurite Guan Yu ya-kizu o ryoji suru zu), Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1853
"Guan Yu was once injured in the left arm by a stray arrow which pierced through his arm. Although the wound healed, he still experienced pain in the bone whenever there was a heavy downpour. A physician told him, "The arrowhead had poison on it and the poison had seeped into the bone. The way to get rid of this problem is to cut open your arm and scrape away the poison in your bone." Guan Yu then stretched out his arm and asked the physician to heal him. He then invited his subordinates to dine with him while the surgery was being performed. Blood flowed from his arm into a container below. Throughout the operation, Guan Yu feasted, consumed alcohol and chatted with his men as though nothing had happened." (Wikipedia)
Go in Art: Minamoto no Yorimitsu and His Retainers Defeat the Earth Spider
I'm not entirely sure how Go plays into this story, but it's a wild print that shows Minamoto no Yorimitsu, who had apparently been in the middle of a game of Go, fighting the legendary Yōkai Tsuchigumo (土蜘蛛, i.e. Earth/Dirt Spider), a giant spider demon that lives in the earth.
I'm not sure why so many fights broke out while samurai were playing Go in feudal Japan. But, Minamoto no Yorimitsu is Minamoto no Yoshitsune's (whose retainer, Sato Tadanobu, beat a bunch of samurai to death with a floor goban) great, great, great, great, great uncle (5th great uncle), so it must run in the family.
The history behind the community banner and a little piece of Go lore: Sato Tadanobu Bravely Resisting Arrest
First published in 1855, Sato Tadanobu Bravely Resisting Arrest (左藤忠信勇戦芳時が勢を移る圖) depicts a man fighting off a number of attackers with a Goban. But who was he and what is his story?
Satō Tadanobu (佐藤 忠信) was a samurai in service of Minamoto no Yoshitsune who lived between 1161AD and 1186AD. There are two accounts of his death, but which one is real may not be as important to us as which makes for the better story.
The first part of the story is the same in both accounts and is recorded in the Gikeiki (義経記, or Chronicle of Yoshitsune) and involves Tadanobu retreating with his master Minamoto no Yoshitsune's forces to Kyushu, fleeing the advance of his half-brother Minamoto no Yoritomo's army. Sato, serving as rearguard with a few of his men, aided the retreat by donning Yoshitsune's armor and, acting in disguise as Yoshitsune, killing twenty of his pursuers. Though his companions died in the fight, Tadanobu escaped and continued on to Kyoto to take refuge in the house of a woman he k
What first got you interested in Go?
And if you haven't played yet, what's stopping you?
Go Problem Tree for Absolute Beginner to Double Digit Kyu (30k - 10k) - Like Duolingo for Go
I found Gomagic from the YouTube channel of the same name. It's a really nice way to do high to mid-kyu Go problems (there's a 9k - 1k section under development too). They have a wide variety of types and it walks you through a bunch of different skills.
The downside is you only get a limited number of free problem sets each day if you don't pay for a subscription, but it's like 15 free sets of 5-6 problems per day or something pretty generous.
How to Play Go - Beginner Tutorial
Great tutorial for anyone who wants to learn how to play. Gomagic does a great job with all their videos.
Real board Kifu-Spread on Lee Sedol's infamous "The Broken Ladder"
Breakdown of Lee Sedol's famous ladder game