Cats killing birds is not an issue. Those little ground finches? The sparrows? They're prolific. They climb into other birds's nests and destroy eggs. They kill small birds. They're vicious, hateful little bastards, and they're extincting the native species of the United States.
95% of birds I see are sparrows now. They're ground-foraging. We need more cats.
I read that as Texas A&M at first. Hilarious because we have potato scoopers, peanut harvesters, corn combines, and such here; while Arizona is using mexicans, and giving reports on the labor-intensive task of harvesting peanuts and potatoes.
Sealed briefcase stops drug sniffing dog noses. Sealed polypropylene bags stop permeation of marijuana and cocaine; the residue on the outside from your handling of the bags, however....
Also, a detector to detect that a certain object should have airflow, but doesn't? Without holding every object up for screening?
Point 4 will never happen. A little duct tape over the security sensor. Sealed briefcase bomb.
The rest of this is stupid. We have already put RC receivers into regular cars and used a Radio Shack car controller to drive. They did that on Blues Brothers 2000, and probably The Simpsons. We have real RC car races. You just need a Pringles can, a wire, and a car.
Most people would pay $30/mo for a better Internet experience.
People are not dumb enough to pay for 30 individual sites; and paying a flat fee...that's what your ISP does. The cash troll filter is the secondary annoyance that drives away everyone but hard-core users, and filters out everyone but the most hard-core trolls (and hackers who cracked your password list).
Formal proofs are simply analytical. Every application of technical analytical skills is not "problem solving". Building a bridge is not "problem solving"; identifying why a bridge is not meeting performance requirements (i.e. why does it sway or resonate too much in the wind?) is problem solving.
It's not problem solving until there's a performance deviation from an established baseline, either a quality guideline or a prior performance measurement.
Yeah I'm convinced I have DSPD; however, recently it's become full-blown insomnia. I can't sleep early, and then I can't sleep in. I am now trained to awaken at 6am, even if my brain decides it doesn't want to sleep until 2am. Sleep is often restless.
When I went from a good 8 hours if I can have it between 2am-10am to not sleeping past 6am and still not being able to sleep early, it became full insomnia. Anecdotal evidence suggests chronic morning shift work is abusive to patients with DSPD, and it is medically harmful to require a regular schedule beginning work early in the morning.
I've been self-medicating with flotation-REST lately.
You often wake up to go to the bathroom, only to find once you're there that you really didn't need to go that badly.
Usually, I don't have to pee. I just wake up, annoyed, and go back to sleep. When I do have to pee, I've got enough to re-flush the toilet (flush it, then, while it's filling and there's water running into the bowl to raise the level to normal, piss like mad and the toilet flushes again).
Also, you sometimes have nightmares where you're running away from something, or doing anything that's physically exhausting, and then you wake up and breathe heavily for a while to catch your breath?
Only people who experience fear have nightmares. I don't. I only experience fear via debilitating nyctophobia--psychotic episodes triggered by specific conditions, notably, by darkness--and a large component of that is knowing the things are not real: I can't touch them, I can't fight them, they aren't real.
In dreams, I can kick the shit out of that stuff.
The monsters in my dreams are solid. They are real. They are there and I can touch them. Until I wake up, they are a part of my world. They do not frighten me, because they cannot hurt me.
I had nightmares when I was a kid. That didn't last, as I am made of steel: you can't break steel; when you strike it, it becomes stronger. I became stronger, and I wake up from those dreams feeling absolutely awesome; they are the best dreams.
The delayed sleep phase is due to your body having to make up some extra sleep, due to the poor quality.
No, a delayed phase isn't for exhaustion. A delayed phase is when your body doesn't WANT sleep until late, and doesn't WANT to wake up until late. You get 8 hours, but not 10pm-6am; you go to bed at 10pm, and you stare at the ceiling until 2am. Then you want to wake up at 10am. Even if you get to sleep at 10pm, your body just tries to sleep 12 hours and wake up at 10am anyway.
Even if I'm exhausted, I'll start to wake up as it becomes late. The period where most people start to shut down is where I become most active.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is bullshit. For those who aren't aware, it literally means "talk to the patient and figure out what they're doing wrong and tell them how to change it."
Being well-versed in statistics and having the most basic grasp of pharmapsychology, I must disagree. For primary insomnia (my case), CBT is superior to any known method. CBT is also effective for insomnia secondary to breast cancer; studies are ongoing for insomnia secondary to dementia, for example alzheimers or bipolar disorder. BPD should be especially interesting: better sleep should, in theory, stabilize BPD.
Claiming what you're looking at is bullshit because it doesn't fit your world-view is pseudoscience. It's like claiming going down to the river, rubbing mud on your wounds, and praying to the river god helps your wounds heal more quickly and gains you blessing of the water deity for the hunt. In psychological treatment, this is even more true: you're dealing with behavioral issues, and just convincing someone they're tired or not suffering from job-related stress is an effective way to make these things true.
I mean, just how many psychological conditions aren't known to be associated with sleep disturbances? Are there any?
Very few. Fucking up your brain is a good way to cause sleep disturbances. For example: drink 15 cups of strong java before bedtime; you will have sleep disturbances from an induced arousal state. Manic disorder (the hot side of bipolar disorder) is effectively that. Depression actually makes most people sleep more.
In America, our answer is drugs, in high doses, and then more drugs. We don't try anything; we look for single miracle-cures, and then dump them on people. Our doctors don't take any sort of in-depth approach to health; they just assess your symptoms, diagnose a disease, and grab a treatment off the shelf.
Think about this: our doctors put all old people on lovastatin to help control cholesterol. They don't assess their health, their diet, or any of that; they just hand them lovastatin, because cholesterol could be bad for your weakening heart as you get older. This isn't a recommended treatment at a certain age; it's something doctors started doing, because they are concerned about old peoples's hearts getting weaker, concerned about cholesterol straining a weakened heart, and know Lipitor lowers cholesterol.
You're in Sweden. When was the last time you met a woman who gave birth by cesarian? In America, we cut the baby out through the abdomen some 40% of the time.
Our doctors are nuts. If I wanted medication prescribed in this manner, I would petition the FDA to give me license to self-medicate and use Google.
I've read multiple studies claiming testicular atrophy. It only came to my attention when I noticed my nuts hurt whenever I took melatonin chronically; at the time, I thought the only side effect was tolerance, followed by insomnia.
Phenotropil works for ADHD because of a weak stimulant effect. Side effects include insomnia, because it's a stimulant. Side effects also include enhanced memory and treatment of dementia, though, so there's that. Negative side effects are largely minimal to non-existent; and phenotropil shows no acute toxicity at some 20 times the normal dose (I find 20mg of Pheno works, even though most people are taking 100mg; 100mg is too high and builds tolerance. 400mg is common).
Methylphenedate and adderall are stronger stimulants at dosage levels which don't cause tolerance (higher doses of Methylphenedate and dex do cause tolerance; this is well-explored in ADHD literature, and the recommended control is lower dosing). They also have high chances of psychosis (6% after 3 months on Methylphenedate), severe insomnia, anxiety, paranoia, etc. It's also extremely toxic: try taking 20 doses at once, let me know how that goes for you after you come out of dialysis. This is not stuff you want to be amped up on; you want the doses low.. (Lithium is worse: the dosing window is so small it's hard to get pharmacological effect without going into toxicity.)
Don't whip out the biggest hammer you've got to start with unless you know the job's that big.
They put me on methylphenedate. Then they put me on Risperdone to control the psychosis induced by methylphenedate. The drugs are horrible. The only thing worse is Prednizone.
Phenotropil is effective in small doses, with fewer and less severe side effects. I did the pharmacology myself, with lots of Googling. Psychosis isn't a side effect--Phenotropil sharply controls, reduces, and prevents dementia--but INSOMNIA sure as hell is!
Okay, I found better drugs. But the drugs still have bad side effects. Let's face it: Insomnia is bad. I have always had delayed sleep phase disorder (self-diagnosis): if I don't rigidly discipline my sleep, any deviation causes me to stay awake. Stay up until 10:30? Become no longer tired, until 1-2am, then sleep until noon--and continue to do this until I somehow fix my sleep cycle, so I can't ever have a night out. On-call fucking sucks. And now, due to further conditioning, I not only can't sleep early, but I can't stay in bed past 7am; I'm sleep-deprived because my body refuses to get more than 4-6 hours of sleep!
I could take sleep drugs. Melatonin no longer works: after some occasional use, it now only works in high doses; and both high doses and chronic use cause my nuts to ache for extended periods, which I thought was just me sleeping on my side or something... until I found out melatonin affects testosterone production and can be bad for the testicles. Whoops. Valerian... I ran through a railroad crossing barrier. Ambien and Allegra I've seen do the same: you're incredibly fucking high, but you feel fine... until you crash into a parked car, or smile and nod while a pedestrian wanders in front of you. Thud.
That doesn't mean drugs are BAD; they're risk. You risk side effects against a disease. Is your ADHD worse than... potential insomnia? Potential minor psychosis? Psychosis can be MAJOR if you're prone to dementia. Sleep drugs may not ruin your life; out of millions of cases, I know one person who almost died because Ambien affects him for 10 hours and he didn't know that. Of course you should take life-saving drugs, and life-enhancing drugs, if the side effects don't occur or are less bad than your symptoms.
I think we should drop back to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and floatation-REST as our first attempts for ADHD and Aspergers and insomnia. CBT is a particular sticking point in insomnia: bad sleep hygiene is terrible, and parents are horrible parents for forcing their kids into bed. Go to bed even if you're not tired? Fuck you, mom. If you're not asleep in 10 minutes, GET OUT OF BED. Don't do other things in bed. Wake your ass up in the morning; if you're tired, too bad. Get up. When you're sleepy, you'll sleep at night.
So yeah. Let's eject this ADHD magic pill bullshit. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, physical activity, and flotation-REST to start; move up to lighter drugs (lighter side effects, even if less effective), and then into the heavy shit (methylphenedate, adderall, drug cocktails). Throwing methylphenedate down someone's throat as a first option is like launching MIRV nukes three seconds after someone stands and shakes his fist at the UN table.
Not to mention in an actual war you occasionally run into insane people. Like me. I have some weird form of sociopathy that prevents me from meshing with people and forming cohesive social groups; I'd tend to turn violently on anyone who commits moral atrocities, and protect anyone who appears weak and harmless. You just can't do that in America.
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Cats killing birds is not an issue. Those little ground finches? The sparrows? They're prolific. They climb into other birds's nests and destroy eggs. They kill small birds. They're vicious, hateful little bastards, and they're extincting the native species of the United States.
95% of birds I see are sparrows now. They're ground-foraging. We need more cats.
Bald eagles are the true symbol of liberty. They've been nigh on extinct since liberty died in America.
Because deserts are delicate ecosystems, and intrusion is severely disruptive.
We don't need to produce more food; we need to waste less than 63%.
I read that as Texas A&M at first. Hilarious because we have potato scoopers, peanut harvesters, corn combines, and such here; while Arizona is using mexicans, and giving reports on the labor-intensive task of harvesting peanuts and potatoes.
Farms don't employ labor on the east coast.
No, you're wrong. We have a Mexican labor SURPLUS, not an unlimited supply. It is, in fact, artificially limited.
I'd like to see this happen to them instead.
This would be cool.
I'd like to see this happen.
https://petitions.whitehouse.g...
What if half of Slashdot filed with the FBI to investigate RightsCorp for racketeering?
Sealed briefcase stops drug sniffing dog noses. Sealed polypropylene bags stop permeation of marijuana and cocaine; the residue on the outside from your handling of the bags, however....
Also, a detector to detect that a certain object should have airflow, but doesn't? Without holding every object up for screening?
Point 4 will never happen. A little duct tape over the security sensor. Sealed briefcase bomb.
The rest of this is stupid. We have already put RC receivers into regular cars and used a Radio Shack car controller to drive. They did that on Blues Brothers 2000, and probably The Simpsons. We have real RC car races. You just need a Pringles can, a wire, and a car.
Most people would pay $30/mo for a better Internet experience.
People are not dumb enough to pay for 30 individual sites; and paying a flat fee...that's what your ISP does. The cash troll filter is the secondary annoyance that drives away everyone but hard-core users, and filters out everyone but the most hard-core trolls (and hackers who cracked your password list).
Formal proofs are simply analytical. Every application of technical analytical skills is not "problem solving". Building a bridge is not "problem solving"; identifying why a bridge is not meeting performance requirements (i.e. why does it sway or resonate too much in the wind?) is problem solving.
It's not problem solving until there's a performance deviation from an established baseline, either a quality guideline or a prior performance measurement.
Yeah I'm convinced I have DSPD; however, recently it's become full-blown insomnia. I can't sleep early, and then I can't sleep in. I am now trained to awaken at 6am, even if my brain decides it doesn't want to sleep until 2am. Sleep is often restless.
When I went from a good 8 hours if I can have it between 2am-10am to not sleeping past 6am and still not being able to sleep early, it became full insomnia. Anecdotal evidence suggests chronic morning shift work is abusive to patients with DSPD, and it is medically harmful to require a regular schedule beginning work early in the morning.
I've been self-medicating with flotation-REST lately.
You often wake up to go to the bathroom, only to find once you're there that you really didn't need to go that badly.
Usually, I don't have to pee. I just wake up, annoyed, and go back to sleep. When I do have to pee, I've got enough to re-flush the toilet (flush it, then, while it's filling and there's water running into the bowl to raise the level to normal, piss like mad and the toilet flushes again).
Also, you sometimes have nightmares where you're running away from something, or doing anything that's physically exhausting, and then you wake up and breathe heavily for a while to catch your breath?
Only people who experience fear have nightmares. I don't. I only experience fear via debilitating nyctophobia--psychotic episodes triggered by specific conditions, notably, by darkness--and a large component of that is knowing the things are not real: I can't touch them, I can't fight them, they aren't real.
In dreams, I can kick the shit out of that stuff.
The monsters in my dreams are solid. They are real. They are there and I can touch them. Until I wake up, they are a part of my world. They do not frighten me, because they cannot hurt me.
I had nightmares when I was a kid. That didn't last, as I am made of steel: you can't break steel; when you strike it, it becomes stronger. I became stronger, and I wake up from those dreams feeling absolutely awesome; they are the best dreams.
The delayed sleep phase is due to your body having to make up some extra sleep, due to the poor quality.
No, a delayed phase isn't for exhaustion. A delayed phase is when your body doesn't WANT sleep until late, and doesn't WANT to wake up until late. You get 8 hours, but not 10pm-6am; you go to bed at 10pm, and you stare at the ceiling until 2am. Then you want to wake up at 10am. Even if you get to sleep at 10pm, your body just tries to sleep 12 hours and wake up at 10am anyway.
Even if I'm exhausted, I'll start to wake up as it becomes late. The period where most people start to shut down is where I become most active.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is bullshit. For those who aren't aware, it literally means "talk to the patient and figure out what they're doing wrong and tell them how to change it."
Being well-versed in statistics and having the most basic grasp of pharmapsychology, I must disagree. For primary insomnia (my case), CBT is superior to any known method. CBT is also effective for insomnia secondary to breast cancer; studies are ongoing for insomnia secondary to dementia, for example alzheimers or bipolar disorder. BPD should be especially interesting: better sleep should, in theory, stabilize BPD.
Claiming what you're looking at is bullshit because it doesn't fit your world-view is pseudoscience. It's like claiming going down to the river, rubbing mud on your wounds, and praying to the river god helps your wounds heal more quickly and gains you blessing of the water deity for the hunt. In psychological treatment, this is even more true: you're dealing with behavioral issues, and just convincing someone they're tired or not suffering from job-related stress is an effective way to make these things true.
I mean, just how many psychological conditions aren't known to be associated with sleep disturbances? Are there any?
Very few. Fucking up your brain is a good way to cause sleep disturbances. For example: drink 15 cups of strong java before bedtime; you will have sleep disturbances from an induced arousal state. Manic disorder (the hot side of bipolar disorder) is effectively that. Depression actually makes most people sleep more.
Do you think?
In America, our answer is drugs, in high doses, and then more drugs. We don't try anything; we look for single miracle-cures, and then dump them on people. Our doctors don't take any sort of in-depth approach to health; they just assess your symptoms, diagnose a disease, and grab a treatment off the shelf.
Think about this: our doctors put all old people on lovastatin to help control cholesterol. They don't assess their health, their diet, or any of that; they just hand them lovastatin, because cholesterol could be bad for your weakening heart as you get older. This isn't a recommended treatment at a certain age; it's something doctors started doing, because they are concerned about old peoples's hearts getting weaker, concerned about cholesterol straining a weakened heart, and know Lipitor lowers cholesterol.
You're in Sweden. When was the last time you met a woman who gave birth by cesarian? In America, we cut the baby out through the abdomen some 40% of the time.
Our doctors are nuts. If I wanted medication prescribed in this manner, I would petition the FDA to give me license to self-medicate and use Google.
I've read multiple studies claiming testicular atrophy. It only came to my attention when I noticed my nuts hurt whenever I took melatonin chronically; at the time, I thought the only side effect was tolerance, followed by insomnia.
Phenotropil works for ADHD because of a weak stimulant effect. Side effects include insomnia, because it's a stimulant. Side effects also include enhanced memory and treatment of dementia, though, so there's that. Negative side effects are largely minimal to non-existent; and phenotropil shows no acute toxicity at some 20 times the normal dose (I find 20mg of Pheno works, even though most people are taking 100mg; 100mg is too high and builds tolerance. 400mg is common).
Methylphenedate and adderall are stronger stimulants at dosage levels which don't cause tolerance (higher doses of Methylphenedate and dex do cause tolerance; this is well-explored in ADHD literature, and the recommended control is lower dosing). They also have high chances of psychosis (6% after 3 months on Methylphenedate), severe insomnia, anxiety, paranoia, etc. It's also extremely toxic: try taking 20 doses at once, let me know how that goes for you after you come out of dialysis. This is not stuff you want to be amped up on; you want the doses low.. (Lithium is worse: the dosing window is so small it's hard to get pharmacological effect without going into toxicity.)
Don't whip out the biggest hammer you've got to start with unless you know the job's that big.
The doctors suggested 60mg twice per day when I was 8 years old. Parents negotiated them down to 20 x 2.
They put me on methylphenedate. Then they put me on Risperdone to control the psychosis induced by methylphenedate. The drugs are horrible. The only thing worse is Prednizone.
Phenotropil is effective in small doses, with fewer and less severe side effects. I did the pharmacology myself, with lots of Googling. Psychosis isn't a side effect--Phenotropil sharply controls, reduces, and prevents dementia--but INSOMNIA sure as hell is!
Okay, I found better drugs. But the drugs still have bad side effects. Let's face it: Insomnia is bad. I have always had delayed sleep phase disorder (self-diagnosis): if I don't rigidly discipline my sleep, any deviation causes me to stay awake. Stay up until 10:30? Become no longer tired, until 1-2am, then sleep until noon--and continue to do this until I somehow fix my sleep cycle, so I can't ever have a night out. On-call fucking sucks. And now, due to further conditioning, I not only can't sleep early, but I can't stay in bed past 7am; I'm sleep-deprived because my body refuses to get more than 4-6 hours of sleep!
I could take sleep drugs. Melatonin no longer works: after some occasional use, it now only works in high doses; and both high doses and chronic use cause my nuts to ache for extended periods, which I thought was just me sleeping on my side or something... until I found out melatonin affects testosterone production and can be bad for the testicles. Whoops. Valerian... I ran through a railroad crossing barrier. Ambien and Allegra I've seen do the same: you're incredibly fucking high, but you feel fine... until you crash into a parked car, or smile and nod while a pedestrian wanders in front of you. Thud.
That doesn't mean drugs are BAD; they're risk. You risk side effects against a disease. Is your ADHD worse than ... potential insomnia? Potential minor psychosis? Psychosis can be MAJOR if you're prone to dementia. Sleep drugs may not ruin your life; out of millions of cases, I know one person who almost died because Ambien affects him for 10 hours and he didn't know that. Of course you should take life-saving drugs, and life-enhancing drugs, if the side effects don't occur or are less bad than your symptoms.
I think we should drop back to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and floatation-REST as our first attempts for ADHD and Aspergers and insomnia. CBT is a particular sticking point in insomnia: bad sleep hygiene is terrible, and parents are horrible parents for forcing their kids into bed. Go to bed even if you're not tired? Fuck you, mom. If you're not asleep in 10 minutes, GET OUT OF BED. Don't do other things in bed. Wake your ass up in the morning; if you're tired, too bad. Get up. When you're sleepy, you'll sleep at night.
So yeah. Let's eject this ADHD magic pill bullshit. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, physical activity, and flotation-REST to start; move up to lighter drugs (lighter side effects, even if less effective), and then into the heavy shit (methylphenedate, adderall, drug cocktails). Throwing methylphenedate down someone's throat as a first option is like launching MIRV nukes three seconds after someone stands and shakes his fist at the UN table.
Not to mention in an actual war you occasionally run into insane people. Like me. I have some weird form of sociopathy that prevents me from meshing with people and forming cohesive social groups; I'd tend to turn violently on anyone who commits moral atrocities, and protect anyone who appears weak and harmless. You just can't do that in America.