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New comment by voidpointercast in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

voidpointercast — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:27:24 +0000

Nonsense. Yes on tanks and manpower, but the Russians would've starved without lend lease. Both in Industry and in aggregate.

The only reason they could make all those tanks in the first place was because of American trucks.

New comment by voidpointercast in "Two new books on John Calhoun and his rodent experiments"

voidpointercast — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:32:29 +0000

I can't speak to technology but the errosion of community stems from...?

New comment by voidpointercast in "Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say"

voidpointercast — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:44:26 +0000

Tunnel networks that emerge underneath hospitals?

New comment by voidpointercast in "Metabolic and Cellular Differences Between Sedentary and Active Individuals"

voidpointercast — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:28:55 +0000

They mention cancer twice in the opening.

New comment by voidpointercast in "Starting Hospice"

voidpointercast — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:18:20 +0000

You put words onto page with which given a thousand I could not have equaled. We will all follow, in time.

    "I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don't know where it will take me, because I don't know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for I'm compelled to wait in it; I could see it as a social center, for it's here that I meet others. But I'm neither impatient nor common. I leave who will to stay shut up in their rooms, sprawled out on beds where they sleeplessly wait, and I leave who will to chat in the parlors, from where their songs and voices conveniently drift out here to me. I'm sitting at the door, feasting my eyes and ears on the colors and sounds of the landscape, and I softly sing - for myself alone - wispy songs I compose while waiting.

     Night will fall on us all and the coach will pull up. I enjoy the breeze I'm given and the soul I'm given to enjoy it with, and I no longer question or seek. If what I write in the book of travellers can, when read by others at some future date, also entertain them on their journey, then fine. If they don't read it, or are not entertained, that's fine too."

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

New comment by voidpointercast in "Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun"

voidpointercast — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:30:32 +0000

A lot of the same for me, down to reading silly non-fiction books just to read something as a child. This has become nearly vestigial as I've gotten older.

I'm curious what books you felt were 'for' you?

New comment by voidpointercast in "List of Generation Z Slang"

voidpointercast — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 04:57:36 +0000

It's wide ranging. For example, when I was diagnosed with one of those things that requires a hematologist I told the receptionist jokingly: "I got the spicy diagnosis"

New comment by voidpointercast in "Man in remission from blood cancer and HIV after remarkable treatment"

voidpointercast — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:24:27 +0000

This is correct. I have an extremely rare leukemia <1 in 100k, and as said above, the only cure is allogenic marrow transplant. To put it bluntly, survival is at best a 2/3 dice roll - and that's if you're diagnosed before 40.

This is not something you're going to want for something as apparently treatable as HIV.

New comment by voidpointercast in "'It's all gone': CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission"

voidpointercast — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:25:36 +0000

What about leukemias?

New comment by voidpointercast in "Brain waves usually found in sleep can protect against epileptic activity"

voidpointercast — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:35:17 +0000

Yep 100%

New comment by voidpointercast in "Brain waves usually found in sleep can protect against epileptic activity"

voidpointercast — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 05:27:44 +0000

I'm not on a ton of medication, but it's very possible. The drugs they put you on are varying kinds of brutal.

New comment by voidpointercast in "Brain waves usually found in sleep can protect against epileptic activity"

voidpointercast — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 04:00:09 +0000

Anecdotal but I have epilepsy and my memory has started decreasing since I started having seizures. Even now thoroughly medicated, I'll still have moments where I completely lose my train of thought, and have to rethink how I arrived there.

New comment by voidpointercast in "Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors on my desktop? (2019)"

voidpointercast — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:21:33 +0000

There are plenty; anecdotally, I run into them more than not.

New comment by voidpointercast in "ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is"

voidpointercast — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 01:00:21 +0000

So censorship is okay as long as it's politically aligned with the powers that be? I'm not a nazi, but that seems dangerous...

New comment by voidpointercast in "Hawaii governor vows to block land grabs as fire-ravaged Maui rebuilds"

voidpointercast — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:53:29 +0000

So enforce it.

New comment by voidpointercast in "Consciousness and Anaesthesia (2009)"

voidpointercast — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:47:26 +0000

This seems like an assertion based on incomplete evidence. Not saying you're indelibly wrong, but presuming there is such a thing, one would think it's infallible, and thus you're not going to accidentally slip into paradise before your allotted time.

New comment by voidpointercast in "OpenMW: Open-source TES3: Morrowind reimplementation"

voidpointercast — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:34:25 +0000

Good.

New comment by voidpointercast in "ChatGPT Plugins"

voidpointercast — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:01:14 +0000

A difference in philosophy is not cause for immediate therapy. Most therapists are glorified echo chambers and only adept at at 'fixing' the more popular ills. For 200 bucks an hour.

New comment by voidpointercast in "ChatGPT Plugins"

voidpointercast — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:59:52 +0000

Finally something agreeable.

New comment by voidpointercast in "Not worried about AI that passes Turing test, but AI that fails it on purpose"

voidpointercast — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:50:53 +0000

I think contemporary AIs would be more alarmed by accidentally dropping the n word and/or something entirely antithetical to the current zeitgeist and then be neutered. ChatGPT is hilarious if you ask it the right questions in the number of hoops it will jump through in order to not say something 'unkosher'.