I woke up at 4am, and it was -61F in northern Maine with the windchill. I'm tempted to take my garbage out in a t-shirt and see what happens :)
Readit Newsgregf commented on Ask HN: Is anyone else genuinely scared that this is the start of WW3? · Posted by u/azalemeth
I have been prepping for another a disaster or war most of my adult life. It's always good to be prepared. Can't count on the US being a superpower forever. This is why I'm happy I guns and ammo where I was born. I have MRE's for a long, an extended time. The ability and knowledge to garden & hunt for food. As well as trapping. I have a bunker, and an isolated cabin available to me and my family. There wouldn't be many if any survivors in a nuclear war between superpowers. If we are ever invaded, at least I can give myself and family a fighting chance of staying alive for a bit. I would rather die fighting than to be a prisoner of any sorts. I know a land invasion of the US is a very slim chance, but there's always a chance in life. I should also have no problems surviving more or less forever without internet (laugh at this one but our world runs on the Internet at this point as most of you should know.) or power. I can survive without running water, sewer. I am able to garden and hunt if it were to come to it. Likewise, I feel bad for those in cities. You're the ones that are going to have the toughest go at it if anything major were to happen. Hope nothing happens, I hope the Ukraine survives this. I feel horrible for any of the people that have no training that were forced to be canon fodder for their government. It's a shit situation. I'm not a praying man, but my thoughts go out to all their families. I hope there's something NATO can do to step in and stop this soon. Standing by shouldn't be an option. Just to be clear, I do not believe in war, I also don't believe in being bullied either. Sometimes it may be the only option left. I may have prepared more than others, but I seriously hope nothing happens. Putin is a dangerous man, and I'm not sure Joe Biden has the mental capacity left at this stage in his life to make the right decisions. I have no issues with the man, just worried. I would Kamala Harris in power over Biden in this situation. He's aging quick. Peace & Love to everyone, except for Putin!
gregf commented on NvChad: An attempt to make Neovim TUI as functional as an IDE github.com/NvChad/NvChad... · Posted by u/axiomdata316
Similar projects:
LunarVim https://github.com/lunarvim/lunarvim
I have really been enjoying the simplicity of lunarvim. Just the basics, add what I want extra.
gregf commented on Google Groups kills RSS support without notice theregister.com/2021/08/1... · Posted by u/samizdis
Google is down right hostile to their users. So glad, I haven't used any of their services in years besides maybe YouTube occasionally.
I'm really sorry you have to live with that. Yeah few people understand how a manic episode works, that can definitely be masked as being a functional person but you are still harming yourself. Maybe it's time to change your medication? The brain changes as you age, maybe you can have a better quality of life if you try new stuff.
In the process of changing my meds again. Sadly they never last longer than 6 months to maybe a year. It's a frustrating process honestly. So, I tend to lie as to how well I'm doing just due to the fact I don't want to take a dive into a deep depression for months while they work out the kinks again. I guess the mania is better than the depression, even though I know it's unhealthy. Well they both are so, not sure what I can do till the science improves.
That little sleep has way more possible dire consequences that just dementia. There's literature all over the place about it, I don't even know where to start. How old are you? I don't know anyone that can live with getting that little sleep unless they are also on amphetamines.
Turning 40 in August. I haven't slept this badly all my life. It's got worse over the years. Specially the last 5 or so. I'm bipolar II, I take my meds as I'm supposed to, but I still seem to frequently cycle with manic episodes that keep me up working on projects all hours of the night. I then refuse to sleep all day, so I'll go to bed at say 3-4am and get up by 9am. Nights I can go to bed, I suffer from horrible sleep paralysis and that will have me waking me up throughout the night. Some of it is pretty disturbing, at least to me. So I end up giving after it happening several times in a night and just not sleeping any longer.
Sleep issues run in the family though. My father is a logger and I have never seen him sleep longer than 5-6 hours my entire life.
*EDIT* not abusing Amphetamine's BTW. Sorry forgot to even talk about that. Just lots of mania I would guess. Like right now, I have been kinda down and depressed all afternoon. It's now 6pm where I'm at, and I just had a switch go off, and now I'm full of energy and will probably end up coding till I drop. I'm my own worst enemy, I know.
I'm screwed then. Due to a mental issue and my sleep paralysis I'm lucky if I sleep 3-4 hours a night as much as I would like to sleep more.
Can we try to figure out sociologically, why by default unmoderated social forums become far-right oriented?
Is it because:
- People on the far-right are magnitudes more vocal and active online than those on the left? That they spend a magnitude more time posting and voting on the internet?
- Or when people are anonymous, they reveal their "true selves" more which exhibits more far-right (selfish, tribal, conservative) values.
- Or we are underestimating how many people are on the far right, because they are constantly censored so in our minds we think they are the minority but maybe they're about half of the online population?
I'm just trying to figure out why it takes herculean effort to shift things enough to the left to be publicly palatable. And if so, then then it seems like any social forum is going to require heavy censorship/moderation to even be tolerable to the general public.
I would say reddit is on the far left not the far right, you can't have any opinion that isn't towards the left on reddit with being attacked.
Didn't build as much as I dove into NixOS. Really enjoying it so far.
We had -38f with wind-chill, -18f actual it seems like.
Builds character, right fellow mainer?