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New comment by antinomicus in "The AirPods Effect"

antinomicus — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:51:09 +0000

That’s sad man - I also talk a lot to strangers and yeah most of the time you get average people, but then you meet that one in a million person and learn something truly fascinating or expand your sphere of knowledge or emotion or art or whatever. I’m always on the lookout for the next brilliant engineer, sensitive artist, or just a well read janitor.

New comment by antinomicus in "The AirPods Effect"

antinomicus — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:38:36 +0000

I have a family member who works substantially on some of the main design/components of the AirPods who might have a different take. He wears them all the time but, as this article fails to mention, with transparency mode on. Thanks in large part to my family member, we are able to hear the outside world through the AirPods just fine and our brains are able to process the audio coming in as real time and not disorienting.

Thanks to this mode the AirPods have now been certified as hearing aids and many other friends and family members have said the same thing: that the AirPods are better hearing aids than actual prescription hearing aids (which usually cost absurd prices)

I talk to those people with those AirPods in as if they have no AirPods in at all, and thanks to those AirPods they are able to hear me better.

This is all a matter of perspective and comfort ability with adopting new paradigms and technologies. You need not see everything from the perspective of “technology bad”.

New comment by antinomicus in "Why I email complete strangers"

antinomicus — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:22:52 +0000

I’m curious to hear about why talking to strangers is troublesome for you? For me maybe when I was younger but these days I just treat everyone like an old friend. What kind of pitfalls do you run into? Just a general sense of anxiety?

New comment by antinomicus in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

antinomicus — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Lmao but the first part of your comment really shows the true reason other countries don’t have shootings…because they regulate guns….

So yea maybe some super rare cases of ssri aggression are real but by your own admission the solution to it is gun control.

New comment by antinomicus in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

antinomicus — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:55:23 +0000

The side effects of finasteride are wildly overstated, millions of people take it without any issue, myself included

New comment by antinomicus in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

antinomicus — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:54:32 +0000

You don’t? Are you okay with what it’ll look like once you lose the hair behind your transplant? Folks who get a HT who don’t get on meds will have a weird crescent hairline and then no hair behind it. Feels like at that point just don’t get the transplant in the first place.

New comment by antinomicus in "Last.fm is now independent"

antinomicus — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:18:22 +0000

I can’t stand streaming and wanted to get off all streaming services and now self host every single piece of my digital media. Last.fm is an important component for the music side of my services in order to use the last.fm api to track listens and provide recommendations.

New comment by antinomicus in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

antinomicus — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:13:35 +0000

I’ve been getting scared of psyllium due to lead risk. Any thoughts?

New comment by antinomicus in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

antinomicus — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:42:18 +0000

Plenty of canned things that don’t have added sodium or oil though.

New comment by antinomicus in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

antinomicus — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:39:09 +0000

Risks? The risks of a colonoscopy are crazy low though.

New comment by antinomicus in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

antinomicus — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:37:20 +0000

Yeah, what? Increasingly worried this site is bots talking to bots.

New comment by antinomicus in "Ferrari Luce"

antinomicus — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:16:20 +0000

What market exists that would buy this car??

New comment by antinomicus in "Star Citizen game has reached $1B in funding"

antinomicus — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:08:03 +0000

I remember being in high school, so excited about star citizen coming out as soon as I get to college. College was 5 years ago, and I’m still waiting. The promise of this game is so unbelievably enticing but I’ve given up on it.

New comment by antinomicus in "Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order"

antinomicus — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:30:11 +0000

You really think he got murdered?

New comment by antinomicus in "Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25"

antinomicus — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:49:27 +0000

That last bit is false, you are conflating Zionism and Judaism. Plenty of non weird non colonizer non Zionist Jewish folks.

New comment by antinomicus in "The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work"

antinomicus — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:15:16 +0000

Yeah, I hear everyone talk about it like it’s just super easy to get…

New comment by antinomicus in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

antinomicus — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:56:21 +0000

What a nasty, small minded, ignorant comment to make.

New comment by antinomicus in "Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank"

antinomicus — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:40:03 +0000

This is a pretty naive post. First, Russia has nukes. You say Iran can’t have a nuke because dictatorships “tend toward escalation” yet in the same breath mention Russia who has nukes and does not use them against Ukraine. How about North Korea? They have nukes have they “escalated”?

You say Iran is “dangerously close” to a nuke. Do you know this has been said for decades at this point? Do you remember Netanyahu’s ridiculous bomb picture from like 2009?

Did you know Iran specifically had a religious policy AGAINST nukes, a fatwah? So most of your premises are wrong and most importantly, paradoxically:

In fact if Iran had the weapon, the whole region would be MORE secure.

New comment by antinomicus in "Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank"

antinomicus — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:35:57 +0000

Claiming that Israel is entirely a Netanyahu problem is ridiculous. No Netanyahu and what do you have left? An apartheid state, probably run by any number of awful replacements, like ben gvir or smotrich. Israel was founded in the shadow of the Nakba - they displaced million people and killed something like 15,000. That was only right when it was founded too. Post 1967, Israel ceased to have any left wing politics, and dove head first into their genocidal project, they’ve been doing it ever since. This is not antisemitic. I don’t care about religion and I’m not a baboon - I don’t care what you believe, I care what you do. And Israel has done, since the beginning, very bad stuff.

New comment by antinomicus in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

antinomicus — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:42:38 +0000

You are clearly just at the beginning of your musical journey. I am happy for you. Yes, music for me too makes no sense without other people. This means, I suggest, that you must go out and find other people to collaborate with. The more you do it the more you realize just how many people out there are in the same boat as you. And once you find that right person or group, it’s like nothing else. And let’s be clear, this will take you far far outside your normal social circle. The type of people who like the same music as you may be completely different in every other way. It is important to actively seek out the right people and along that journey, define exactly what that person is, as well as who you are. This is the thing I care most about and yes I hope that more tools, AI or not come out to reduce that work that you have to do to make something polished, so everyone can focus on being creative.