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New comment by resumenext in "How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission"

resumenext — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:45:16 +0000

Excellent point about CC’s. The downside is that instructor quality varies considerable both within and between CCs, and many students drop out or are not provided with adequate guidance in terms of GE requirements and transferability.

In terms of costs of UC other than Berkeley, (Davis, Cal Poly, UCLA, etc…) 16k in current times is a great bargain especially given the pipeline to grad school which is great even at non-Berkeley UCs.

New comment by resumenext in "Sigmund Freud's Begonia"

resumenext — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:27:42 +0000

I’d be so neurotic about watering it I would probably kill it just for catharsis.

New comment by resumenext in "US oil giant ExxonMobil says Venezuela is 'uninvestable'"

resumenext — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:09:55 +0000

Consider how that will restrain the diplomatic and geopolitical options available to future US presidents, particularly those of the other party and it starts to seem quite strategic if not a major win for isolationism and Trump’s Monroe 2.0 agenda.

New comment by resumenext in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"

resumenext — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:54:15 +0000

And now twitter.

New comment by resumenext in "Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression"

resumenext — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:51:06 +0000

Thanks for the response and the useful (to me at least) data point. Glad the AD helped and sorry to hear you didn’t find all that exertion useful. Goes to show how individual we all are in terms of mental health.

New comment by resumenext in "Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression"

resumenext — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:46:01 +0000

That seems like a minor concern. Therapeutic malpractice is a thing, misdiagnosis, iatrogenic treatments and so forth; not uncommon. Was a time when gay was in the dsm, the pendulum has swung back and forth on transgender children.

New comment by resumenext in "Eat Real Food"

resumenext — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:19:20 +0000

I was referring to the artwork specifically, the actual pyramid.

New comment by resumenext in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

resumenext — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:13:54 +0000

A bigger evil than banking apps themselves? Commerce ruined computing.

New comment by resumenext in "Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression"

resumenext — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:10:45 +0000

I hesitate to ask but what is your gender? I think there may be very gender specific effects in this comparison. I would also be very curious the type and intensity of exercise and whether you had comorbidities that impact ability to train (obesity, low testosterone, etc).

New comment by resumenext in "Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression"

resumenext — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:03:24 +0000

Therapy carries a huge risk, so maybe if you compare average outcomes exercise is only nearly as effective, but if you consider the 2 overall exercise comes out way, way ahead imho.

New comment by resumenext in "Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE"

resumenext — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:50:53 +0000

What is the value of being in front of a car? The value is in opening the door, which is on the side. Sure you could have two jackers, one in front and another on the side but then running over 1 of the 2 (or more) again becomes useless as the side jacker would shoot you.

> Or women in?

You must be rolling in women. Lucky them. Maybe you can take them out to dinner and run over some car jackers on the way home.

New comment by resumenext in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"

resumenext — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:30:04 +0000

I was thinking of ipv5.

New comment by resumenext in "Eat Real Food"

resumenext — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:20:49 +0000

Probably. Was kale in there somewhere?

New comment by resumenext in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"

resumenext — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:12:39 +0000

It’s intended to be human readable, but it’s not and its slow adoption is proof of that. A random 10 digit string would arguably be better.

New comment by resumenext in "Eat Real Food"

resumenext — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:10:41 +0000

The big issue I have with this is no kale or oatmeal in the pyramid image. And rice seems to get a bad rank too. How many fat Asians do you see? People diss oatmeal (lames, tbh) cause of “leaky gut” but is that even a real thing? There’s also glyphosates but quaker is nongmo according to the label. Anyway, I see “leaky gut” and I think quack. The pyramid should have more kale, truly.

New comment by resumenext in "Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE"

resumenext — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:02:32 +0000

Your reasoning is flawed. The man could have parked his truck in front of her car and her ability to ram it wouldn’t make a difference. Most car jackers and would be rapists do not approach their victim on foot at a 0 degree approach angle, from the front, they come from 270 degrees (the driver side), where the door they will open is located. They cannot jack the car or rape without that side approach.

New comment by resumenext in "Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE"

resumenext — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:28:21 +0000

So we should have shootings like the one yesterday just because you want to drive a Lamborghini and murder carjackers? Current tech is totally sufficient to implement this. It’s already found in Waymo taxis based on news reports I’ve seen. It probably exists in teslas too, give or take software updates. It seems almost trivial: if someone is a foot in front of the car, disconnect the accelerator or drop to neutral on high acceleration. If cars can run people over from a dead stop, and if this is a common issue in law enforcement where people try to run over cops, and it clearly is, then we will have many more shootings like yesterday’s. That’s a world you want to live in? She wrote poetry.

New comment by resumenext in "Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE"

resumenext — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:29:50 +0000

We have mandatory seat belts and air bags. A sensor on the hood to insure a car is not being used as a murder weapon seems minimal in comparison. Such a sensor would save many lives including the young lady involved in the incident today. We have strict gun laws, why does it make sense to let any psycho buy a cheap used car and go kill people with it? It’s a glaring inconsistency.

New comment by resumenext in "Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE"

resumenext — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:01:38 +0000

This was after the alleged attempted ICE ramming in Oakland last year where shots were fired but thankfully nobody died. I think there was a similar incident in LA. It would be great if there were technology to solve this problem. People perceive cars as deadly weapons and open fire and whether it’s good or not people who think they’re going to get smooshed and have a firearm will tend to use it. I didn’t see the one today but there have been enough of these cases that it really begs for a technological solution, like some sort of kill switch (no pun) that halts a vehicle if a person is in front of it. They’d have to make a law to retrofit older vehicles but it seems like something we could engineer fairly cheaply, and it would prevent at least some of these events. Even cases where the person in front of the car aren’t cops, like the guy who drove through the Christmas parade and killed the little kids, or the nazi kid in Charlottesville. Car rammings are becoming a horrible sort of meme. It’s contagious.

New comment by resumenext in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

resumenext — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:02:47 +0000

Zelensky is far too concerned with the human costs of war to use nukes, even if he could. He doesn’t have a napoleon complex.