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grigri907 commented on I'm a Stanford student. A Chinese agent tried to recruit me as a spy   thetimes.com/us/news-toda... · Posted by u/zdw
khelavastr · 2 days ago
Liberal Americans say it's racist to be concerned about Chinapeople and the Chinese culture when the same culture promotes this level of international crime.

Americans certainly don't seek to turn Chinese students into international serial criminals with the same zeal. It's a Chinaperson problem.

grigri907 · 2 days ago
I can't think of a more textbook example of racism than blaming the actions of a relative few on the entire culture of ethnic groups comprising 1B+ people and spanning thousands of years. Except maybe, describing said people with allusions to well-known historical slurs.

That has nothing to do with American political opinions or word-policing. That's just, like, racism.

What isn't racism is a criticism of a current government's or government department's policy/strategy.

Before you say policy and the decisions of a few are a result of their culture, check out the Fundamental [0] and Ultimate [1] Attribution Errors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attriburion_error [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_attribution_error

grigri907 commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial   trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail
hinkley · a month ago
You've got a crowd of people raised in a Calvinist society who think nothing good comes without suffering, you've got people who feel this is a cheat where discipline should win out, and you have a bunch of people who are used to all easy solutions coming with either a bad lottery ticket or externalities on other people/the environment.

They can all agree that they're waiting for the other shoe to drop.

That said, we are at a point where people are overweight enough that getting exercise has its own risks, and taking a medication that allows you to be more active is likely to cancel out some of those downsides. As long as you do both I have no problem with people taking ozempic, mounjaro, etc.

I would prefer if we figured out what other than cultural changes is making everyone have symptoms of inflammatory dysfunctions. There is more than one thing going on. Processed foods, contamination, some microbe that doesn't culture in agar. And it's spreading to more of the world.

grigri907 · 25 days ago
That first paragraph could be the preamble to every conflict in my life and it would be evergreen
grigri907 commented on M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued   earthquake.usgs.gov/earth... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers
bicx · a month ago
That area of Russia has seen quite a bit of massive seismic activity over the last couple of weeks. I keep getting earthquake alerts about each one.
grigri907 · a month ago
What do you use for alerts?
grigri907 commented on Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system   gridfinity.xyz/... · Posted by u/nateb2022
grigri907 · 2 months ago
Learn from my mistake: Not at all about the electrical grid and energy storage strategies.

Great in its own right though

grigri907 commented on What happens when clergy take psilocybin   nautil.us/clergy-blown-aw... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
esseph · 2 months ago
I know people personally that psilocybin, LSD, and other substances do nothing for. All of them also have existing mental health disorders (extreme generalized anxiety, depression, bipolar, etc.).
grigri907 · 2 months ago
Fwiw I find that, due to my antidepressants, i need 3x the dose to have the equivalent experience as my friends.
grigri907 commented on Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs   pluralistic.net/2022/04/1... · Posted by u/GreenWatermelon
GreenWatermelon · 3 months ago
Reading this made my blood boil up a little

> In labor circles, “chickenization” refers to exploitative working arrangements that resemble the plight of the American poultry farmer. The U.S. poultry industry has been taken over by three monopolistic packers, who have divided the nation up into exclusive territories, so that each chicken farmer has only one buyer for their birds.

> Farmers are “independent small businesspeople” who nominally run their own operations, but because all their products must be sold through a single poultry processor, that processor is able to exercise enormous control over the operation. The processor tells the farmer which birds to raise, as well as what the birds are to be fed, how much, and on what schedule. The processor tells the farmer how to build their coops and when the lights are to go on and off. The processor tells the farmer which vets to use, and tells the vets which medicines to prescribe.

> The processor tells the farmer everything…except how much they’ll be able to sell their birds for. That is determined unilaterally when the farmer brings their birds to market, and the payout is titrated to the cent, to represent exactly enough money for the farmer to buy birds and feed and vet services through the processor’s preferred suppliers, and to service the debts on the coops and light and land, but not one penny more.

This amount of scumminess is mind boggling.

grigri907 · 3 months ago
In my experience, the processor is actually the one who owns the chickens (broilers). The farmer is essentially a baby-sitter for 6-7 weeks. The processor also owns the feed and the farmer gets paid on a feed-to-poultry conversion efficiency.

Variables like temperatures, lighting, ventilation rates, chicken house construction, and access/ density have well-established bounds to maximize pounds of poultry. The farmers have leeway to deviate from the recommendations, but they take on all of the risk in doing so. From the outside, it looks like a pretty oppressive relationship.

grigri907 commented on The accuracy of weather forecasts   abc.net.au/news/2025-05-1... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
lif · 3 months ago
agree.

Even a site that displays 'just' recent weather specifics (sans how the forecast was) would be quite helpful.

e.g., the hourly precipitation for the last week or month.

Am NOT talking about generalized monthly climate data, fwiw.

Anyone?

grigri907 · 3 months ago
University of Iowa has a service to aggregate this sort of thing. It's CSV format, but otherwise seems like what you're looking for?

https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/download.phtml

grigri907 commented on A guide to reduce screen time   speedbumpapp.com/en/blog/... · Posted by u/nullderef
f_allwein · 5 months ago
I don’t use TikTok at all. AMA.
grigri907 · 5 months ago
I think the challenge is to use TikTok, but to use it in moderation.

u/grigri907

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