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New comment by tsol in "A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

tsol — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:42:52 +0000

How do get to do that? As in what did you study to get the prerequisite knowledge, and how did you find this particular job? When I see interesting jobs I'm anyways curious what path lead there

New comment by tsol in "Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines"

tsol — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:10:14 +0000

In that case America's founding would be rooted in terrorism. Against the British monarchy, of course.

New comment by tsol in "How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy"

tsol — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:07:24 +0000

Very cool. I have a friend with cerebral palsy and he has very little movement in his hands. I'd love to connect him with these kinds of devices but he has an intellectual disability that makes it especially tough. I wish there was an easy affordable way to get someone who can give advice to a guy like him. He's learned to use an iPhone because SIRI does a lot of things for him, but computers are difficult for him. Which is very limiting

New comment by tsol in "Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts"

tsol — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:43:59 +0000

Why would that be the only way to get porn that they don't crack down on?

New comment by tsol in "Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It"

tsol — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:56:58 +0000

This is a cool idea, I like it.

New comment by tsol in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

tsol — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:40:02 +0000

Not sure why this was down voted but there's truth to this.

I quit an SNRI antidepressant twelve years ago and for ten years I had horrible migraines, inability to form sentences, constant anxiety, low motivation, and other symptoms. Doctors just diagnosed it as depression and me having problems.

I knew something was wrong and I suspected it had to do with withdrawal from my old antidepressant. I read online and found others saying something similar. Gemini was able to help me confirm with and provide resources from specialists about this because the average psychiatrist knows nothing about this.

Finally I had a name for my issue-- protracted SNRI withdrawal syndrome. Trying to get off the medication too quick put me into some kind of continuous withdrawal. After confirming this I got back on the old medication and slowly reduced the dose this time.. I feel better than I have in 10 years.

Doctors still don't understand it and sometimes when I mention it to one(I have a few in my family)they just say "that's not supposed to happen". Never put your health solely in another person's hands. Utilize every resource available to you, even the most educated doctor in the world cannot know all there is to know about their field

New comment by tsol in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

tsol — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:58:12 +0000

I don't see anyone else's messages. Don't know if they turned them off at this point. This is why we can't have nice things

New comment by tsol in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

tsol — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:38:13 +0000

Last I heard the US govt is taking equity in some private industry too.

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

tsol — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:13:00 +0000

Had the same issue. With reta I have more energy than normal and workout even more than usual. I get great workouts despite eating around 1400 calories a day. I don't wanna act like it's without flaws but I gotta say it does it's job very well

New comment by tsol in "People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia"

tsol — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:10:49 +0000

Probably has more to do with how they regard hallucinations. In some cultures they're regarded as possibly mystical and a good thing, in other cultures they're regarded as strictly a sign of a malfunctioning brain which is of course bad. Even a corpse can create different feelings based on context and beliefs-- ie a corpse at a funeral is a somber memorial, a corpse lying in the street is sad and worrying.

New comment by tsol in "Amazon says restoring damaged Middle East cloud operations to take months"

tsol — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:58:40 +0000

The United States leadership is full of religious fanatics saying this war is for Christ, that God stands with their army, those that bless israel will be blessed, etc in the context of political speeches. If the Iranian regime has killed 100 Americans in 47 years, it's shocking how small that is compared to the 1000+ reported civilian deaths that the USA caused by attacking civilian infrastructure and even schools and hospitals. The abusive relationship here is the one American people have with the political class that benefits from these forever wars.

New comment by tsol in "Grok 4.3"

tsol — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:12:13 +0000

VW was established by the nazis and was so excited at the conflict in Gaza they converted a factory into a missile factory recently to help the side that killed more journalists than in any other recorded conflict.

New comment by tsol in "Gen Z is 10 times more accepting of violence against speakers than Boomers"

tsol — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:11:05 +0000

I question how accurately using a survey alone really answers this question. Some people would never admit(or even think) they're against free speech--at least until they see speech they deem too dangerous to be allowed. We have seen this on college campuses lately. We've seen this during the 'War on Terror'. It's the same result even if their initial beliefs are different.

New comment by tsol in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

tsol — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:18:23 +0000

Sounds more like he's saying killing civilians naturally makes people mad at you. We shouldn't avoid talking about this because of this fear of terrorism. In fact some would say when army kils someones family, they will look at us as the terrorists and demand it not be accepted like you

New comment by tsol in "US FDA Expected to Lift Restrictions on Dozen Peptides Previously Banned"

tsol — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:04:22 +0000

The reason they were banned is because they never went through complete safety testing. There are still unknowns. For example BPC-157 is used for recovery from injury and has good reviews.. but there are also a small number of people who say after taking it they become depressed and emotionally numb for months. Another odd symptom some people report is insensitivity to stimulants.

Some reported they don't even feel powerful stimulants like Adderall anymore. And if you're reliant on a stimulant for adhd treatment, you're kind of screwed. No one can tell you why it happens and you basically have to wait weeks to months for the effects to wear off.

If you don't even know all the risks how can you make an informed decision? It's all very experimental and while there are success stories there are also much less talked about horror stories.

New comment by tsol in "Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs"

tsol — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:08:37 +0000

I didn't read that as saying anything about your character; it's an understandable way to react. It is an indictment of the system that people have to feel that way when it really shouldn't have to feel that way.

New comment by tsol in "KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge"

tsol — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:38:32 +0000

The incentive isn't to make a better product, it's to make a more profitable product. Sometimes that leads to improvements in quality but much of the time it's the opposite

New comment by tsol in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

tsol — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:35:10 +0000

I thought you were going to go somewhere else with that. With excess clothing they'll unload it in Africa and Asia for cheap, weakening local clothes manufacturers. A bit of what happened with Tom's Shoes

New comment by tsol in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

tsol — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:08:50 +0000

Seems like it would be hard to fake. The was she tells it she put her finger on the pad and the OS unlocked the account. Sounds very difficult to do

New comment by tsol in "Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time"

tsol — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:45:37 +0000

In the USA we manage to do that without turning the internet off by just saying they were resisting the police.