thinkingtoilet (u/thinkingtoilet)

thinkingtoilet commented on You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019) cbc.ca/news/science/blood... · Posted by u/pabs3

loloquwowndueo · 20 hours ago

Really hard to get the suckers (literally) off using regular tweezers without squeezing them into regurgitation and death. They sell special tick removal tools that look like a tiny two-prong fork which grabs them from the … face I guess… and allows removing them cleanly.

thinkingtoilet · 19 hours ago

If you live in an area with ticks, getting tick tweezers is a must. The ones we have have the fork you mention on one end, but what is much better is it has tweezers on the other end that have a hockey stick like curve at the bottom and come to a very small point. Very easy to grab a small tick and pull it off.

thinkingtoilet commented on You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019) cbc.ca/news/science/blood... · Posted by u/pabs3

thinkingtoilet · 21 hours ago

It's the same with Ticks! People will say to burn them off but if you do that they will throw up and increase the likelihood of disease transmission. You want to pull them off in one clean pull.

thinkingtoilet commented on A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks nordbayern.de/news-in-eng... · Posted by u/tietjens

jklinger410 · a day ago

> but actual fraudsters and criminals are never deterred.

When my argument is kinda weak I love throwing in some hyperbole to spice it up.

thinkingtoilet · a day ago

The article is about $10 billion dollars in fraudulent transactions that PayPal has allowed that the banks had to catch themselves. Given that, it's hard to say the OP is speaking in hyperbole.

thinkingtoilet commented on Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed fortune.com/2025/08/23/ne... · Posted by u/danielmorozoff

ckemere · 2 days ago

I think that the negativity here is unfortunate. The reality is that it’s very hard to see a normal VC level return on the $100M+ Elon and friends have invested here. And don’t let anyone fool you - this is the fundamental reason the BCI field has moved slowly.

If Neuralink proceeds to a scenario where quadriplegic patients can get reliable (ie lifelong) control of their computers for less than $100k that will be a huge win for them for a cost that no one else was willing to pay.

To be clear, at that order of magnitude they might make back their investment, but it won’t be 10x or 100x, and the potential healthy-brain-connected-to-the-AI play is much less rooted in reality than Teslas all becoming taxis.

Worst case scenario is that Elon loses interest and pulls the plug and Mr Arbaugh loses continued tech support a la a google product. I think that’s the one question I wish the author had asked…

thinkingtoilet · a day ago

After nearly two decades of flat out lying about Tesla's capabilities and then the last year of insane lies, I literally don't believe anything that comes out of any of his companies. Perhaps you do.

thinkingtoilet commented on Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6? righto.com/2025/08/Cr2Ge2... · Posted by u/freediver

rdtsc · 2 days ago

Gr is the science journal version of Van Halen's brown M&M rider -- it's how you can tell the reviewers and the authors had no idea what they were doing and just copy pasted junk around.

I think established authors should try to sprinkle obvious mistakes like that on purpose once in a while in the literature and then see how much it spreads.

thinkingtoilet · 2 days ago

The Van Halen one is true. They had a crazy tour set up for the time and had very intense electricity requirements where if something wasn't properly set up it could literally kill someone. Any musician who has played a shitty venue has been zapped by a mic. The brown M&Ms were a canary in a coal mine to see if requirements were being followed. You can go on Snopes and literally see a concert rider from them.

thinkingtoilet commented on One universal antiviral to rule them all? cuimc.columbia.edu/news/o... · Posted by u/breve

abeppu · 2 days ago

> When he and his colleagues looked at the individuals’ immune cells, they could see encounters with all sorts of viruses—flu, measles, mumps, chickenpox. But the patients had never reported any overt signs of infection or illness.

Given that the article goes on to talk about mild persistent inflammation, is it possible that these individuals are sometimes asymptomatic but still capable of carrying/transmitting viruses at least temporarily? The article talks about potentially immunizing healthcare workers during a future pandemic, but if this was just allowing people to never develop symptoms (and not have to leave work) while having low-grade infections, would we accidentally create a work-force of Typhoid Marys?

thinkingtoilet · 2 days ago

I would imagine the worker would be wearing protective gear. They're not walking around mask-off. Also, if you know you have gotten this treatment, you would obviously have to take different precautions.

thinkingtoilet commented on Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs cnbc.com/2025/08/25/tech-... · Posted by u/Teever

carefulfungi · 2 days ago

If you advertise a job and fail to find a qualified candidate, and then don't fill that role, is that fraud? If you advertise for talent constantly, interview regularly, and hire rarely (but hire), is that fraud? If you have a single role to fill and advertise it multiple times in multiple states as multiple listings because that's how job posting forums work, is that fraud?

thinkingtoilet · 2 days ago

No. Obviously not. Are you intentionally being difficult? The article clearly addresses this and the main point is that these jobs are being posted with no intention to fill the role.

thinkingtoilet commented on FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections docs.fcc.gov/public/attac... · Posted by u/impish9208

_fat_santa · 3 days ago

Before I got my phone number, a woman by the name of "Sade" has the number. Recently I've been getting at least one call per day from the same company regarding an extended auto warranty.

I've told them politely that this is the wrong number, they keep calling. I've asked them to take my number off their list and they happily agree to, but they keep calling. I've threatened to contact the FCC is they keep calling yet....they keep calling. I've tried to block their number multiple times, but they just keep fucking calling from different numbers.

I honestly don't get the logic of these places. "Hey this guy has told us 20 times in all manner of ways to stop calling him....but I think he might buy an extended warranty on the 21st call!!"

Can someone explain to me what the logic of these places is? It just seems like an absolute brain-dead strategy.

thinkingtoilet · 3 days ago

I've always thought that it's because you picked up in the first place. This number is now marked as one that has a human who picks up the phone.

thinkingtoilet commented on Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice coloradosun.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/mooreds

CodingJeebus · 3 days ago

I don't agree with how the city made the decision either. But the politics is pretty simple: you are going to support the interests of the people who voted for you over those who have no vote. And those who have no vote in this matter chose to have no vote by living outside of the city.

thinkingtoilet · 3 days ago

Obviously. The point is cutting off water with no warning in the hottest month of the year is unnecessary cruel. At least give people a few weeks to start accounting for the change.