drukenemo (u/drukenemo)

drukenemo commented on Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy aaronmate.net/p/noam-chom... · Posted by u/Red_Tarsius

tgv · 2 days ago

Although I'm not a fan of Chomsky, neither of his political-philosophical, nor his linguistic work, he's never come across as dishonest, and I won't believe implications until corroborated by hard evidence.

drukenemo · 2 days ago

The guy is literally photographed inside a plane with Epstein. And supported him after accusations had been made.

drukenemo commented on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants blog.ncase.me/on-depressi... · Posted by u/mijailt

isoprophlex · 12 days ago

Because it's common to hate on antidepressants, I've always personally had a bias against them.

For the past 15-20 years, november thru february are basically a writeoff due for me due to seasonal affective disorder. Cold showers, exercise, no alcohol, strict sleeping rituals. Vitamin d. I can still sleep 11 hours and feel like reheated cat shit.

Enter citalopram. "It will take up to six weeks to dial in" they said. Within four days I felt like the inside of my head was designed by Apple in their glory days. My mind became an orderly, well lit, tastefully designed space... instead of a dimly lit crack den. I'm more emotionally available, no longer tired, less cranky. I felt cozy. I could cry with joy because I could finally understand emotionally why people like the Christmas season.

I won the SSRI lottery I guess, the side effect are sweaty feet, vivid dreams and a dry mouth. That's all.

This just goes to show that for me, they're extremely effective.

drukenemo · 11 days ago

Thank you for your comment. I think that can help many people.

drukenemo commented on RSS is awesome evanverma.com/rss-is-awes... · Posted by u/edverma2

geor9e · 5 months ago

Yes! I've been using RSS (feedbro reader) to de-algorithm social media for a long time now. Twitter (via nitter), Facebook (public posts only), HN, etc. It's all in a chronological RSS feed. No algorithms choosing what I see, no infinite scroll. If it's not a public post from a user I added, I don't see it. Luckily all my close friends are public-only type posters so it works.

My pet conspiracy is that big tech has wanted RSS dead ever since Google Reader briefly took off, because they can't suck you into a walled garden of infinite ads when it exists. Obviously they can't kill it entirely, but they can pressure browsers to drop support, acquire and softly kill off the readers, paywall them so they suck to use, discontinue others, make scraping to RSS against the TOS of their site, etc, etc.

drukenemo · 5 months ago

How are you using Nitter? I’ve tried, but it’s a headache to host it.

drukenemo commented on The ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook's content policy (2022) mronline.org/2022/07/14/m... · Posted by u/WhereIsTheTruth

buyucu · 6 months ago

Meta has basically been taken over by US and Israeli intelligence agencies.

drukenemo · 6 months ago

It was always in their hands.

drukenemo commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari apps.apple.com/app/ublock... · Posted by u/Jiahang

rckt · 6 months ago

I'm a long-time user of Wipr. Does the job perfectly.

drukenemo · 6 months ago

Origin feels much faster to me than Wipr

drukenemo commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari apps.apple.com/app/ublock... · Posted by u/Jiahang

forgotoldacc · 6 months ago

I've been using Adguard for a couple years and have had no problems. I think I've only seen ads slip through a couple times. If there's anyone who's able to compare, is there any real difference between these ad blockers?

drukenemo · 6 months ago

I’ve been testing it in beta for a month or so and I can report that at least to me websites load much faster than with Adguard or Wipr.

drukenemo commented on Let Kids Be Loud afterbabel.com/p/let-kids... · Posted by u/trevin

airstrike · 7 months ago

There's a difference between being loud in public vs privately. As a kid, I was never allowed to be loud in a restaurant, unless it was a restaurant for kids—and even then up to a reasonable limit

drukenemo · 7 months ago

That’s a reasonable argument. But in this day and age there are no shades of grey.

drukenemo commented on Let Kids Be Loud afterbabel.com/p/let-kids... · Posted by u/trevin

YorickPeterse · 7 months ago

There's kids being noisy, which in itself isn't much of a problem, and then there's _Dutch kids_ being noisy, with the latter sounding more like a bunch of roosters at a heavy metal concert.

drukenemo · 7 months ago

That’s my experience too. I wonder why. Too much freedom given to the kids here?

drukenemo commented on Let Kids Be Loud afterbabel.com/p/let-kids... · Posted by u/trevin

dustbunny · 7 months ago

I recommend you not comment on this kids screaming. These parents might be extremely self conscious of their kids screaming. They might have constant anxiety about it. Your "polite" word could hurt far more than you imagine, and I doubt the screaming is something fixable with a little elbow grease from the parents.

drukenemo · 7 months ago

Are you serious about this advice? Parents cannot be politely approached by a neighbor, because their kids, who they chose to have, are disturbing others regularly?

drukenemo commented on Let Kids Be Loud afterbabel.com/p/let-kids... · Posted by u/trevin

sarchertech · 7 months ago

I have 2 young kids, but I also had my first when I was 38 so I have a lot of experience as an adult with no kids.

I’ve only ever been seriously annoyed by loud kids a handful of times in my entire life. Each time it was always travel sports teams at hotels.

And I’m the kind of person who gets really annoyed at loud sounds like leaf blowers, and loud car stereos.

Kids can be noisy, but I have never had dinner “ruined” by an uncontrolled kid. I’ve never had a movie ruined by loud kids (I have had movies nearly ruined by loud adults and older teenagers). I’ve never been seated near a baby crying on a plane that I couldn’t tune out—especially with headphones (that is until I flew with my own baby on a plane—can’t tune that out because you’re just desperate to get him to stop so you don’t annoy anyone else).

I think people are just being overly sensitive.

drukenemo · 7 months ago

Your tolerance to noise levels says nothing about other people’s tolerance for it. Do not use your baseline to determine what is normal and what is not when it comes to sensorial experiences.