https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992568

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992475

1. Place your hands over your ears such that your fingers are on the back of your skull - thumbs should be on your neck and middle fingers at the base of your skull.

2. Tap your middle fingers on the base of your skull repeatedly for ~30 seconds

It apparently doesn’t work for everyone, and it’s not permanent, but for me it greatly reduces the “volume” or stops it entirely.

I have no idea what the explanation is, but it’s free, safe, and you can try it right now.

Hope that helps! Tinnitus sucks.

1) they knew they were insolvent, and wouldn’t be able to continue

or

2) the campaign was used to demonstrate market demand to enable their sale to Fitbit

Edit: also, they sold for $23 million [1], total pledges were for about $13 million, and not everyone got a refund [2]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/fitbit-bought-pebble-for-23-...

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-2-time...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-2-time...

1) Yay! That's great that meta is helping popularize Fediverse!

2) It's a trap.

I'm in camp (2) - just trying to show people the trap before they step in it. It doesn't matter anyway, these kind of warnings have never, ever worked. Just let the old man shake his fist at the clouds FFS :) Where else am I supposed to do it? Threads?

Edit:

To be fair - "extinguish" is not entirely accurate..RSS, IRC, etc still exist - they're just ghost towns.

(Edit) Examples:

- Google and RSS

- Slack and IRC

- Google (chrome) and web standards

- Apple (iMessage) and SMS

  - The rehab programs were never properly available
  
  - The general culture in Portland made it very difficult for the city to form any coherent response to homelessness. Most people in Portland really want to be "compassionate" to the homeless/drug addicted/mentally ill, so there was strong pushback on any effort to clear homeless encampments (literally to the point that people were advocating for changes in building code that would force commercial buildings to *enable* homeless people to sleep in front of them by building sleeping platforms.)
  
  - This time period overlaps the BLM protests (which were absolutely massive in Portland), with all the "Defund the Police" / "ACAB". Indeed, the majority of Portland has been very anti-police since the late '90s. The police, obviously, didn't like this. From anec-data, it seemed to me that the street cops just stopped even bothering arresting people. (Here's an anecdote - a friend of mine was riding mass transit, with homeless men both behind him and in front of him, who got in to a conflict that resulted in one man brandishing a knife. The police were called and showed up at the next stop, no arrests were made.)
 To make the point abundantly clear, the brandishing of knives in public was never decriminalized, but the police absolutely stopped enforcing *any* laws on the homeless.

  - Oregon is generally terrible at implementing anything, even well-supported, popular programs fail to achieve even basic milestones of success. There's also a general lack of funding for most everything.

  - COVID

  - Fenatnyl use rose massively, nationwide, in spite of local drug policy. The negative effects have definitely been more pronounced in far-left cities, but it's disingenuous to assume that decriminalization increased usage.