Activity from brainwane

Oh and the "approach to fighting spam" template I link to was written by MeFite lapsed.catholic in 2003 in a Slashdot comment thread. In that Ask thread, lapsed.catholic notes that one source of inspiration was a form letter disproving… [more]
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genpfault, thanks, I'll ask the mods to fix those! [more]
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Fediverse conversation includes: "This 2019 document claimed that all triggered content thus far has been through publisher request. Which would explain why so many other cases were faster. http://documents.clockss.org/index… [more]
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Managing risk and taking care of accidents in the wilderness
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Digital preservation, access control, and scholarly needs
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Turns out I can't go on the 27th. If anyone wants to take over as host, please speak up by midnight the end of the day Saturday, April 20th. I'll leave this up till then. Otherwise I'll contact the mods to ask to delete it; I wouldn't want anyone to turn up on the day, expecting MeFi company, and find absolutely none, not even the host. Other NYC people: if you would like to set up an IRL event that isn't this, please do! Some ideas: Outdoor dining! (Recent recommendations from Ask: 1, 2, 3, 4) Search the Parks calendar for something that speaks to you. The Queens Night Market, starting Saturday, April 27th. Whatever movie or play you're already going to go see. [more]
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grouse, thank you for that! The specific wording, for those seeking it in that boilerplate Publisher Agreement: the Archived Content is determined in good faith by the Board to be unavailable from any publisher for at least six consecutive… [more]
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I am an Indian-American woman and this article MADE ABSOLUTE COMPLETE SENSE TO ME and I empathized extremely thoroughly with it. As a person in my twenties I did know how to turn on a stove, boil water, make a few basic stovetop and oven and… [more]
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I appreciated the link to the February 2023 thread by Mekka Okereke. Through it I found a link to "excerpts from the tapes and transcripts delivered to the Court by Laura Hart McKinny" with quotes by Fuhrman spanning 1985-1994 which I had… [more]
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Previously on the blue (March 30th). Quite a lot of discussion and useful links in that thread. they did it by messing with autoconf and... nobody understands autoconf. My friend Zack Weinberg and I did some work on autoconf a few years… [more]
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You are not alone - it's a fundamental human thing to sort of subconsciously believe one is invincible. There is this moment in the Mahabharata called the yaksha-prashna -- a riddle contest with a disguised god. The punchline is: the… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

Azz wrote a comment responding to many bits of the discussion here. Includes sleep maintenance tactics. [more]
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[Please note that neither of these people is giving readers advice of the form "you should do this" -- they are each saying what they do. Azz notes in their profile page: "You are the expert of your own situation… [more]
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There is a subreddit for Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder and they have a Discord as well, by the way. [more]
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20 Questions has very few rules and is reasonably child-friendly. Also, please consider whether the person who "doesn't like complicated games" enjoys games at all, and consider having a Plan B shared leisure activity in case they don't… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

“I just wanted to make food,” Lou said.
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MeFi post - 2 months ago

"new perspective on things by looking at your fundamental assumptions"
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"try to analogise these great matters of state to your daily life"
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Free emergency medical quizzes
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I'm not someone who is very adept at speaking up/speaking out, I'm pushing myself to do this and it feels a bit scary/like I don't know what to do/how to do it skillfully. If we imagine the skill of "gracefully and effectively… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I highly recommend the late, great Schickele Mix and thank kristi for linking to my spouse's archive project! :D Hrishikesh Hirway started the podcast Song Exploder several years ago and it's been an excellent for my music appreciation… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

eschatfische recommended Robot & Frank and I agree. Of the other films suggested in this thread that I have watched (which is not all of them), none actually fit the specifications laid out. I don't know the anime world well but maybe… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Luis Villa and I are friends so it's not surprising that I pretty much agree with what he wrote about the xz incident in his capacity as co-founder of Tidelift. (Disclaimer: I sometimes do a little consulting for Tidelift.) [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Question for clarification: do you only want fiction, or are you open to nonfiction as well? [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

ngaiotonga wrote, I've worked with good project managers and terrible project managers. The main difference to me was that with the good ones, I had enough EF points left at the end of the day to clean the bathroom on a weekday. It… [more]
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I've now made 2 more posts in this series, using the tag "DanielDavies". [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

A lot of conversation about this in the Fediverse. [more]
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Colonoscopy strategies
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Ghosting
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And, an octopus IRL, your reasoning is also a reason I recently got more into this topic. (Well, that and my increased outdoor activity, and my mother's decline and death and probably some kind of sublimated wish to help others where I could not, in… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I was stunned by what my husband told me, and--what bothers me the most--suddenly extremely angry. I'm not an angry person. I tend to turn things inward rather than act out. You were surprised at noticing your own anger. Anger is often a… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

You both might be interested in this recent post about quizzes to help check wilderness medicine knowledge and keep fresh! [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

"to maximize its utility and accessibility"
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Thanks all! [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 2 months ago

flabdablet and Dysk, you have given me an experience I hadn't realized I was missing: the experience of being a bystander during the thread in question. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Christopher Mims, author of Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy, posted in the Fediverse: As a person who has actually ridden with harbor pilots before and wrote a whole book… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

supermedusa, you may have read the story because kristi posted it to the front page last year. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Found a PDF source that is likely that FEMA briefing (evidently it's just nearly impossible to find the daily ops briefing on FEMA's site so this independent aggregator finds, reposts, and archives them): Impacts: (USCG, R3 SPOTREP as of 6:45 a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

In case you are finding that you're also lacking desires in general, you might also find some useful suggestions in this question from last year. My tip for you would be: Is there is something you think could be pleasurable to try, but… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I also use Whisper and I wrote up how and why, especially regarding privacy and other ethics concerns. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Sympathies. This sounds tough. Navigating "friendship's frequency" is hard. The comments on that post have some interesting reflections and ideas and recommendations, including setting up a regularly scheduled call (and initiating it). [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

BTW, people who haven't noticed this yet: even after you post a front page post, you can add to or remove tags! So it's possible to go back and add tags to your own past posts. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 2 months ago

Hi, Stoof. Your question resonated with me. I have not always felt as you describe, but there have been times, multiple times in my life, when I have felt this way. Most recently I felt this way just after spending a significant and intense… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

"I am here on business and my accountant's a real wizard."
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MeFi post - 2 months ago

Pride - underdogs and solidarity. The 1947 The Bishop's Wife - support for someone who is underappreciated. Eat Drink Man Woman - family coming to understand each other. Newton - democracy is the underdog. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

[Within the last year, we had a 600+ comment MetaTalk thread about how we talk about billionaires on the site, especially when they are the victims of tragedy. I hope we do not recapitulate it here; I do recommend it to your attention if you are in… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Oh, huh, I guess I do post a lot about that
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MetaTalk post - 2 months ago

Another way to advertise an IRL event: make a front page post about something related to the city in question, and mention your IRL event in the comments. Similar strategy is available using Ask questions. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 2 months ago

Trying to follow the doctor's orders
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MeFi post - 2 months ago

I'm partway through a wilderness medicine textbook from NOLS (formerly National Outdoor Leadership School). Something from the section on burns keeps ringing in my head because it's interesting in its literal truth but also figuratively resonant… [more]
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