There were benefits achieved. I'm assuming you're a traditional Japaneese person that's not familiar with USA drama-level politics. But these drama-level politics are now affecting the fate of the whole world*.

There is/was a children lovers ring which was gradually being revealed to have ties to many important people. People ready to start wars and cause suffering of millions just to steer the public opinion away from revelations on this child-lovers ring. You can learn more about this ring by googling it's apparent leader, whos name rhymes with Frankenstein. It looks like a man, who used to be named Milejkowski and has Polish roots, also had a great influence on this war even happening. His apparent leverage on Trump is not neccesarily disconnected from Frankenstein.

And this attempt to steer the public opinion away from the subject until mid-term elections are done has largery succeeded. At least until the whole operation stopped being Venezuela '26 and is slowly nearing something like American Invasion of Vietnam.

Additionally, while US people loose money due to Trump's War, many US companies are making a good buck on it (oil, military, more?). And these companies have money to influence US goverment decisions.

Sorry to say it, as this makes the world look much more cynical and evil. At least compared to a world where Trump's War was started to zero benefit whatsoever. There are people benefitting on your loss. And even though your loss is arguably greater than their benefit, they don't care.

* There's a good chance that thousands, worst case even millions, will starve. There are already crops NOT being planted due to fertilizer and fuel prices hike. Lack of this food will be felt in a few months to a year from now.

There's a lot of stigma about it and a lot of opinionated people who don't know anything about them and still have a lot of judgements.

Then there are these people calling psychedelics hallucinogens. The former can give spiritual revelations and the latter gives vividly realistic, usually nightmarish, hallucinations.

There are also people putting an equal sign between crack cocaine and psylocibine mushrooms. But I don't think an addict will rob a petrol station with a screwdriver just to get another dose of magic mushrooms.

In such surroundings, it's just not a good idea to publicly say anything about drugs, unless you're so rich or known for your expertise, that you can shoulder some negative judgement and it's implications.

I know this proverb as (translating from Polish): You're asking the boar if he's shitting in the forest.

Sexualization of teens is a thing. I personally blame social media together with showbusiness. But kids had access to the internet at the same time.

And the internet was slightly different than it's now. It had much more sharp edges that we learned how to live with.

But it also was much less predatory. World's smartest psychologists and programmers didn't work 80 hour weeks for small fortunes to make it as much addictive as possible.. if it was only that. It's also as triggering and depressing as possible, because distressed and depressed people are engaging more and can't stop.

What I mean to say is that you can't really draw an equal sign between internet we grew up with and the one we give (or choose to limit) to our children.

I don't mean we should block them, just that it's not the same.

Slept just 2:50h today according to the fitness tracker. Not my top form.

Many days like that are actually exceptionally nice (given expectations of the contrary).

I look at it as a low energy situation, where the regular ego train of thought gets extinguished.

Had one long, rare moment, where I genuinely enjoyed just being at work, tired. People around, things happening - just enjoying being there.

Wonder how much it had to do with me getting a couple therapy session the day before, having mum flying over to visit for 17th may festivities and listening to a good part of Ram Dass podcast where post-stroke Ram Dass was discussing sth with the host on Skype.

But now I'm the one using them. Haven't done as much work researching earplugs as some posters above, but like the Loops. For comparison, I have earplugs at work, that feel like someone was raping my ear every time I'm putting them on.

So, there's definitely earplugs and earplugs. If you need to use them, might be worth few hours and few bucks spent on testing/research.

No, it wasn't. She was chosen by a group of country leaders during a closed doors voting.

If it's democratic at all, it's very tangential.

When I'm cooking meatballs with sauce and the recipe calls for frying them, I'll have an LLM guestimate how long and which program to use in an air fryer to mimic the frying pan, based on a picture of balls in a Pyrex. So I can just move on with the sauce, instead of spending time browsing websites and stressing about getting it perfect.

I used to hate these non-deterministic instructions, now I treat it as their own game. When I will publish my first recipe, I'll have an LLM randomize the ingredient amounts, round them up to some imprecise units and also randomize the times. Psychologists say we artists need to participate and I WILL participate.

Would you care to elaborate a little on how you did it?

It doesn't happen that often to me, but sometimes adblock setup I'm using results in such issues.

You seem more knowledgeable in how browsers and js work than me. Does the below text still mean that AdNausem is downloading and running all the advertising JS?

Here's what's in the link: >AdNauseam 'clicks' Ads by issuing an HTTP request to the URL to which they lead. In current versions this is done via an XMLHttpRequest (or AJAX request) issued in a background process. This lightweight request signals a 'click' on the server responsible for the Ad, but does so without opening any additional windows or pages on your computer. Further it allows AdNauseam to safely receive and discard the resulting response data, rather than executing it in the browser, thus preventing a range of potential security problems (ransomware, rogue Javascript or Flash code, XSS-attacks, etc.) caused by malfunctioning or malicious Ads.

It doesn't block ads. It clicks them first, and then blocks them.

I don't want websites to loose revenue because of my adnlocker. I want them to make extra money because of it!

I'm not affiliated, but would like the project to get more followers. This can stop ads once and for all.

I always used the "doesn't work on my system". Though, most of the games I've refunded were really not working on Linux the way I'd like and I just didn't want to hack around or have to reboot into Windows for that game.

Regular controllers are good for people with the default number of arms, legs and fingers. But if you have some kind of disability, it's often pretty unique.

Regular game/computer controllers for disabled folks were pretty pricey last time I've checked.

AFAIK, 3d printing is not that expensive. Many places have hacker spaces or just people who print for almost free.

So I guess it's a huge win for people who need accommodations. I'm very happy for that!

I'm not disabled myself, it was just the first thought I had when I've read the news.

As an outside observer (from Europe), but with all my knowledge of law originating from American TV, Is it the same in other countries, or is American system special in the case of discovery?