To have something tasty to drink, I buy lemons and limes. I squeeze two lemons and two limes into a pint glass, add five tea spoons of sugar, and top up to a full pint with water. Stir until the sugar dissolves. I used to do this noisily with a fork, but a bamboo chop-stick is quiet and stirs better.
I recommend *against* drinking alcohol, but you have already worked that one out for yourself, so I'm on to the practical question of recipes for alternatives :-)
There is interesting history. Plant biologists were trying to understand a transmissible disease of tobacco plants. According to germ theory there was a germ that caused the disease. Germs were big enough to be seen with a microscope. A good microscope with say 500 times magnification, but still big enough that you could filter out germs.
But the disease got transmitted by liquid from infected tobacco plants even after filtering.
Cutting a long story short, this lead to the discovery of the tobacco mosaic virus, and of a new kind of infectious agent that was smaller than the microscopic germs of germ theory. Then people grew stupid and started wearing masks, hoping to filter out viruses with a filter that you could breathe through quite easily. Or maybe it is just education that changed. Children stopped learning the origin story of viruses, and learned the origin story of Marvel super heroes instead:-(
Maybe it is more evil than that. Maybe it is an unfocussed depopulation agenda. Russia refuses to back down. NATO continues to provoke. WWIII. Maybe the extra deaths that come from WWIII are just as much part of the plan.
Had a quick watch of the first three minutes of the first video.
> It is very nice when you have a problem that you can solve exactly but almost no problems are exactly solvable, that is the problem and that is why it is difficult. And all the exactly solvable problems (and there are about three or four of them, that's all) um, have already been solved unfortunately and all the rest of the interesting problems that need to be solved cannot be solved exactly ...
I've also taken a peak at lecture number three where he starts off talking about other ways to make solving x^5+x=1 into a perturbation problem, so I think that lecture number one is about to turn into hard maths and its past my bed time,...
> Bacteria, fungi, and viruses tend to love warm, moist environments, like saunas, pools, spas, or gym showers, says Dr. Schottenstein.
The relevant warm, moist environment is the inside of your shoe! Go barefoot and your skin stays dry and cool.
> Going barefoot increases your risk of an injury, like a cut or scratch on your feet. When the skin barrier is broken—no matter how tiny the cut is—pathogens can get in and potentially cause problems like warts, athlete’s foot, nail fungus, and infections, Dr. Schottenstein explains.
You would have to be an AI to think that nail fungus is caused by a cut or a scratch.
You can find advice written by humans at https://barefooters.org
The topic has been stale for centuries. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
The simplified version is that in 1828 Washington Irving published a "Hollywood" style biography of Christopher Columbus which replaced the boring stuff about whether it was 5000km to China or 20000km with an invented but more exciting tale of people thinking he would sail off the edge. Anti-Catholic propagandists thought "we can use this" and pushed the story that we know the Catholic Church was ignorant and backwards because it believed that the Earth was flat.
It has been maybe two thousand years since any-one believed that the Earth was flat. Sometimes propagandists use the idea of a flat Earth by saying that their political opponents believe that the Earth is flat. Sometimes propagandists use the idea of a flat Earth by posing as their political opponents and pretending to believe that the Earth is flat. It is always black propaganda.
> Evidence of previous police interaction with Hamilton was presented to the Cullen Inquiry but was later sealed under a closure order to prevent publication for 100 years.[24] The official reason for sealing the documents was to protect the identities of children, but this led to accusations of a coverup intended to protect the reputations of officials.[25] Following a review of the closure order by the Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd, edited versions of some of the documents were released to the public in October 2005. Four files containing post-mortems, medical records and profiles on the victims, as well as Hamilton's post-mortem, remained sealed under the 100-year order to avoid distressing the relatives and survivors.
Collide that with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kincora_Boys%27_Home a scandal about the security services letting the buggery continue for the sake of having compromising materal to force sodomites to become informants. We are fairly sure that the UK government is willing to sacrifice children to pursue its ends.
Did the UK groom Thomas Hamilton to become a school shooter so that they could ban guns? Tune in in a hundred years time to find out when the records are unsealed.
Young men need to think about the Irish volunteers to the Spanish Civil War.
Socialism was fashionable in Ireland, so there were volunteers going to fight for the Republican side, because it was left wing.
But Ireland was also Catholic, and Spanish communists were anti-clerical, killing priests and nuns. So there were volunteers joining the Nationalist side, because the Republicians were obviously the bad guys.
Whatever you think of the Spanish Civil War, it wasn't Good versus Good. Maybe it was Good versus Bad. Maybe it was the other way round. Maybe it was Bad versus Bad. What is certain is that some of the young men tried their best to volunteer for the Good Guys, but misunderstood and volunteered for the Bad Guys.
Young men need to stay in their own countries and only fight in wars that they fully understand. Which restricts them to wars that are happening in the country they grew up in.
One needs to know about MINFLUX to understand the article. Fortunately the [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minflux) gets crisply to the point. MINFLUX involves steering a tubular beam of light onto something that fluoresces. When the dark center of the beam is on target, fluorescence stops. If your beam-pointing is calibrated, you know where the target is.
Sounds like a pain in the arse? It is. The article is about a cheaper way to build the gadget.
It reminds me a bit of WWII airborne radar, intended to allow fighter aircraft to attack bombers at night. Those worked at VHF frequencies, it was what they could generate at the time. So the angular resolution was too poor to be useful, except for this clever trick. Don't use the obvious beam shape. Use a beam with a null. The echo tells you that there is a bomber out there, somewhere ahead. Wiggle your path a bit. If the null of the antenna pattern hits the bomber, the radar return stops - time to shoot!
I thought that it had pretty much died out. Then (1950?) there was a campaign to revive it, with language lessons being compulsory in school. The children went through the motion of learning because the had to, but learned very little. (source: friend from Ireland)
I like watching videos of people playing with charismatic megafauna. So naturally I see videos like this

Why I don’t go in with the brown bears! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Jxb4X9biyU
(It is a happy video, he doesn't fuck around and doesn't find out :-)
Thus I know that you only get to play with bears that you have hand reared from cubs. It also shapes my perception of humans. I end up thinking that every-one who would want to take a selfie with a bear would know this.
Which gets me thinking about René Girard and his theory of memetic desire. We don't have our own desires, we copy what others desire, even though they don't have the own authentic desires and are themselves copying the desires of others... René Girard takes this too far, and makes it a theory of everything.
I guess that memetic desire works as an explanation here. Daft tourist "wants" a selfie with a bear. How come they don't know the danger? They have copied what they "want" from other people. And it is a superficial copying that doesn't include copying the knowledge of the dangers.
I think that is a "summer heat" thing. The window is full height and opens in like French Doors. The iron work is the railing to stop you walking out of the second floor window after too much wine.
My memory tells me that one of the Golden Era editors, John W. Campbell, or Hugo Gernsbach, pushed his authors to write science fiction stories by changing just one thing. Don't go building a whole new world, that will be too much for readers and will not sell. Pick a single scientific wonder and follow the human consequences.
I've read your story, and I'm thinking that "Blink Date" is right in the center of the Science fiction tradition. I've spent the last hour hunting for a quote to back up my recollection. I couldn't find one. I had to ask a friend, a science fiction buff who would certainly know. Whoops! My memory is just making things up. Oh well, I will just get spooked by my memory playing tricks in the context of just having read "Blind Date".
My name is weirder than you can imagine. I have been corrupted by [this sinister cult](http://barefooters.org) and my toes are happy because I don't wear shoes and go barefoot 360 days of the year.
What is sinister about the cult is that on the mailing list some of the members claim to be diabetics and claim that going barefoot has improved the circulation in their feet and reversed their peripheral neuropathy.
It is not an impossible claim. When you go barefoot you end up having to change your gait to avoid landing heavily on your heels. You end up using your calf muscles more. This squeezes the veins than run through the calf. Since the veins have non-return valves, this turns them into little pumps that help with the circulation. So maybe there is something in it.
But I'm aware of the "hoof to paw" transformation. Start going barefoot and you need to change from treating your foot as a hoof, for stomping and crushing, and treat it as a paw, for grasping and feeling. Fail to make the change and you will get lots of minor injuries (because you are no longer protected by shoes). Fail to make the change when diabetic and you will get gangrene and die.
> Some studies weakly suggest that people with lower total blood cholesterol levels may be more likely to be depressed, violent, or have suicidal thoughts, but other studies do not. All of the studies on both sides are “epidemiological” studies, which are incapable of showing cause and effect relationships—they can only point out possible associations. So, *even if every epidemiological study* showed a link between low cholesterol and psychiatric problems, the apparent connection between the two could simply be a coincidence. At this point in time, there is no clear scientific support for the notion that low blood cholesterol increases risk for depression, violence, or suicidal thinking.
Best bit: even if every epidemiological study showed...
Confounders will confound every epidemiological study the same way. More of the same cannot fix it.
Notice how Q-anon has soured people on prophecy. On patriots.win, some-one announces "breaking news, X is about to happen" and they get mocked by a sarcastic chorus of "two more weeks".
I'm guessing that this is going to be a problem for Christianity. Jesus is supposed to return in glory to judge the quick and the dead. Trying telling people that now and you will just get "tWo MoRe WeEkS". I'm expecting attempts at a Christian revival to fail hard, because people are sick of prophecy.
happytoes 1 point 8 months ago
To have something tasty to drink, I buy lemons and limes. I squeeze two lemons and two limes into a pint glass, add five tea spoons of sugar, and top up to a full pint with water. Stir until the sugar dissolves. I used to do this noisily with a fork, but a bamboo chop-stick is quiet and stirs better.
I recommend *against* drinking alcohol, but you have already worked that one out for yourself, so I'm on to the practical question of recipes for alternatives :-)
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happytoes 5 points 8 months ago
There is interesting history. Plant biologists were trying to understand a transmissible disease of tobacco plants. According to germ theory there was a germ that caused the disease. Germs were big enough to be seen with a microscope. A good microscope with say 500 times magnification, but still big enough that you could filter out germs.
But the disease got transmitted by liquid from infected tobacco plants even after filtering.
Cutting a long story short, this lead to the discovery of the tobacco mosaic virus, and of a new kind of infectious agent that was smaller than the microscopic germs of germ theory. Then people grew stupid and started wearing masks, hoping to filter out viruses with a filter that you could breathe through quite easily. Or maybe it is just education that changed. Children stopped learning the origin story of viruses, and learned the origin story of Marvel super heroes instead:-(
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happytoes 0 points 9 months ago
Maybe it is more evil than that. Maybe it is an unfocussed depopulation agenda. Russia refuses to back down. NATO continues to provoke. WWIII. Maybe the extra deaths that come from WWIII are just as much part of the plan.
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happytoes 0 points 9 months ago
Jingo like its 1853!
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happytoes 0 points 9 months ago
Had a quick watch of the first three minutes of the first video.
> It is very nice when you have a problem that you can solve exactly but almost no problems are exactly solvable, that is the problem and that is why it is difficult. And all the exactly solvable problems (and there are about three or four of them, that's all) um, have already been solved unfortunately and all the rest of the interesting problems that need to be solved cannot be solved exactly ...
I've also taken a peak at lecture number three where he starts off talking about other ways to make solving x^5+x=1 into a perturbation problem, so I think that lecture number one is about to turn into hard maths and its past my bed time,...
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happytoes 0 points 9 months ago
No. Looked and found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_M._Bender#Research
Sounds very advanced.
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happytoes 2 points 9 months ago
> Bacteria, fungi, and viruses tend to love warm, moist environments, like saunas, pools, spas, or gym showers, says Dr. Schottenstein.
The relevant warm, moist environment is the inside of your shoe! Go barefoot and your skin stays dry and cool.
> Going barefoot increases your risk of an injury, like a cut or scratch on your feet. When the skin barrier is broken—no matter how tiny the cut is—pathogens can get in and potentially cause problems like warts, athlete’s foot, nail fungus, and infections, Dr. Schottenstein explains.
You would have to be an AI to think that nail fungus is caused by a cut or a scratch.
You can find advice written by humans at https://barefooters.org
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happytoes 2 points 10 months ago
> The topic has been stale for years
The topic has been stale for centuries. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
The simplified version is that in 1828 Washington Irving published a "Hollywood" style biography of Christopher Columbus which replaced the boring stuff about whether it was 5000km to China or 20000km with an invented but more exciting tale of people thinking he would sail off the edge. Anti-Catholic propagandists thought "we can use this" and pushed the story that we know the Catholic Church was ignorant and backwards because it believed that the Earth was flat.
It has been maybe two thousand years since any-one believed that the Earth was flat. Sometimes propagandists use the idea of a flat Earth by saying that their political opponents believe that the Earth is flat. Sometimes propagandists use the idea of a flat Earth by posing as their political opponents and pretending to believe that the Earth is flat. It is always black propaganda.
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happytoes 1 point 10 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre
wikipedia adds details that I never knew
> Evidence of previous police interaction with Hamilton was presented to the Cullen Inquiry but was later sealed under a closure order to prevent publication for 100 years.[24] The official reason for sealing the documents was to protect the identities of children, but this led to accusations of a coverup intended to protect the reputations of officials.[25] Following a review of the closure order by the Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd, edited versions of some of the documents were released to the public in October 2005. Four files containing post-mortems, medical records and profiles on the victims, as well as Hamilton's post-mortem, remained sealed under the 100-year order to avoid distressing the relatives and survivors.
Collide that with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kincora_Boys%27_Home a scandal about the security services letting the buggery continue for the sake of having compromising materal to force sodomites to become informants. We are fairly sure that the UK government is willing to sacrifice children to pursue its ends.
Did the UK groom Thomas Hamilton to become a school shooter so that they could ban guns? Tune in in a hundred years time to find out when the records are unsealed.
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happytoes 0 points 10 months ago
That is why *Saw Stop* tests with a hot dog, not a banana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq3o0VGUh50
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happytoes 1 point 10 months ago
Another post from two hours ago: https://www.upgoat.net/viewpost?postid=669fe7a857e70
is about some-one who left it too late to stop drinking alcohol.
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happytoes 1 point 11 months ago
Have a play with https://www.alpertron.com.ar/ECM.HTM to get a feel for the current state of the art.
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happytoes 10 points 11 months ago
Young men need to think about the Irish volunteers to the Spanish Civil War.
Socialism was fashionable in Ireland, so there were volunteers going to fight for the Republican side, because it was left wing.
But Ireland was also Catholic, and Spanish communists were anti-clerical, killing priests and nuns. So there were volunteers joining the Nationalist side, because the Republicians were obviously the bad guys.
Whatever you think of the Spanish Civil War, it wasn't Good versus Good. Maybe it was Good versus Bad. Maybe it was the other way round. Maybe it was Bad versus Bad. What is certain is that some of the young men tried their best to volunteer for the Good Guys, but misunderstood and volunteered for the Bad Guys.
Young men need to stay in their own countries and only fight in wars that they fully understand. Which restricts them to wars that are happening in the country they grew up in.
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happytoes 0 points 1 year ago
One needs to know about MINFLUX to understand the article. Fortunately the [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minflux) gets crisply to the point. MINFLUX involves steering a tubular beam of light onto something that fluoresces. When the dark center of the beam is on target, fluorescence stops. If your beam-pointing is calibrated, you know where the target is.
Sounds like a pain in the arse? It is. The article is about a cheaper way to build the gadget.
It reminds me a bit of WWII airborne radar, intended to allow fighter aircraft to attack bombers at night. Those worked at VHF frequencies, it was what they could generate at the time. So the angular resolution was too poor to be useful, except for this clever trick. Don't use the obvious beam shape. Use a beam with a null. The echo tells you that there is a bomber out there, somewhere ahead. Wiggle your path a bit. If the null of the antenna pattern hits the bomber, the radar return stops - time to shoot!
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happytoes 0 points 1.1 years ago
I came back for another listen, and its gone :-(
[Here is another good performance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui83eGkU0ik)
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happytoes 1 point 1.1 years ago
I thought that it had pretty much died out. Then (1950?) there was a campaign to revive it, with language lessons being compulsory in school. The children went through the motion of learning because the had to, but learned very little. (source: friend from Ireland)
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happytoes 0 points 1.1 years ago
I like watching videos of people playing with charismatic megafauna. So naturally I see videos like this

Why I don’t go in with the brown bears! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Jxb4X9biyU
(It is a happy video, he doesn't fuck around and doesn't find out :-)
Thus I know that you only get to play with bears that you have hand reared from cubs. It also shapes my perception of humans. I end up thinking that every-one who would want to take a selfie with a bear would know this.
Which gets me thinking about René Girard and his theory of memetic desire. We don't have our own desires, we copy what others desire, even though they don't have the own authentic desires and are themselves copying the desires of others... René Girard takes this too far, and makes it a theory of everything.
I guess that memetic desire works as an explanation here. Daft tourist "wants" a selfie with a bear. How come they don't know the danger? They have copied what they "want" from other people. And it is a superficial copying that doesn't include copying the knowledge of the dangers.
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happytoes 1 point 1.1 years ago
Are mandatory vaccinations violent crime? Yes.
Even if the vaccine is safe and effective? [still yes](https://saidit.net/s/corruption/comments/8u63/an_argument_against_mandates_for_safe_and/)
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happytoes 1 point 1.2 years ago
I think that is a "summer heat" thing. The window is full height and opens in like French Doors. The iron work is the railing to stop you walking out of the second floor window after too much wine.
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happytoes 2 points 1.2 years ago
My memory tells me that one of the Golden Era editors, John W. Campbell, or Hugo Gernsbach, pushed his authors to write science fiction stories by changing just one thing. Don't go building a whole new world, that will be too much for readers and will not sell. Pick a single scientific wonder and follow the human consequences.
I've read your story, and I'm thinking that "Blink Date" is right in the center of the Science fiction tradition. I've spent the last hour hunting for a quote to back up my recollection. I couldn't find one. I had to ask a friend, a science fiction buff who would certainly know. Whoops! My memory is just making things up. Oh well, I will just get spooked by my memory playing tricks in the context of just having read "Blind Date".
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happytoes 2 points 1.2 years ago*
My name is weirder than you can imagine. I have been corrupted by [this sinister cult](http://barefooters.org) and my toes are happy because I don't wear shoes and go barefoot 360 days of the year.
What is sinister about the cult is that on the mailing list some of the members claim to be diabetics and claim that going barefoot has improved the circulation in their feet and reversed their peripheral neuropathy.
It is not an impossible claim. When you go barefoot you end up having to change your gait to avoid landing heavily on your heels. You end up using your calf muscles more. This squeezes the veins than run through the calf. Since the veins have non-return valves, this turns them into little pumps that help with the circulation. So maybe there is something in it.
But I'm aware of the "hoof to paw" transformation. Start going barefoot and you need to change from treating your foot as a hoof, for stomping and crushing, and treat it as a paw, for grasping and feeling. Fail to make the change and you will get lots of minor injuries (because you are no longer protected by shoes). Fail to make the change when diabetic and you will get gangrene and die.
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happytoes 4 points 1.2 years ago
No!!!! He has to hang on and die of blast, burns, or radiation sickness in WWIII along with the rest of us.
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happytoes 0 points 1.2 years ago
I like this article, especially this paragraph
> Some studies weakly suggest that people with lower total blood cholesterol levels may be more likely to be depressed, violent, or have suicidal thoughts, but other studies do not. All of the studies on both sides are “epidemiological” studies, which are incapable of showing cause and effect relationships—they can only point out possible associations. So, *even if every epidemiological study* showed a link between low cholesterol and psychiatric problems, the apparent connection between the two could simply be a coincidence. At this point in time, there is no clear scientific support for the notion that low blood cholesterol increases risk for depression, violence, or suicidal thinking.
Best bit: even if every epidemiological study showed...
Confounders will confound every epidemiological study the same way. More of the same cannot fix it.
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happytoes 1 point 1.2 years ago
Notice how Q-anon has soured people on prophecy. On patriots.win, some-one announces "breaking news, X is about to happen" and they get mocked by a sarcastic chorus of "two more weeks".
I'm guessing that this is going to be a problem for Christianity. Jesus is supposed to return in glory to judge the quick and the dead. Trying telling people that now and you will just get "tWo MoRe WeEkS". I'm expecting attempts at a Christian revival to fail hard, because people are sick of prophecy.
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happytoes 1 point 1.2 years ago
I doubt that they A/B test it to know for sure.
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