I love a faceplant, and this is up there with the best of them. Excellent job nuggeting, Nugget. You do your name proud.

Fuck, I’m going to try that. Thanks!

Unavoidable timers. For example:

1. Devices with low battery and the charger is out of reach.
2. Drinking a bunch of water.
3. Playing an album with nothing queued afterwards.

Along the same lines: incidental timeboxing. My toaster takes 2 mins, and leaving the kitchen means I’m likely to end up with sad cold toast, so I better stay and deal with some of the kitchen mess in those two minutes. The phrase “if you have time to lean, you have time to clean” has been strangely useful to me.

Allowing things to be partially done, but not in a state where is going to be a big problem. For example, the above kitchen mess.

• A cup and bowl with food left in it will be hard to clean and attracts bugs and grows mold, and that’s a problem.
• An empty but dirty cup and bowl is better but still harder to clean.
• A rinsed cup and bowl filled with water left in the sink is easiest to clean, so that’s the least problematic state to leave it in, and it’s not much harder to do that than it is leaving the food-filled cup and bowl there to begin with.

Australia (the country) wasn’t invaded by the Ottomans or Germans back then.

Japan considered it and did bomb Australia, but they also estimated that anywhere near 45k to 250k people would be needed to invade - before considering shipping supplies for such an effort. There is too much land to cover.

Isolation was the reason they considered doing it at all - Australia made a safe launch base for allied forces. Had it been a smaller region, they may have taken the option. They certainly took the north of New Guinea in the attempt to cut Australia off from other allies.

Isolation is relative though, and even less of a benefit now there are missiles than can hit targets thousands of miles away. You can’t ship supplies with a missile or satellite though.

What Australia both benefits and suffers from is not being powerful enough to be worth paying attention to.

1. Controversy is always going to happen with anything politics, which is clearly something very important to you
2. Your worth is not a measure of the controversy your posts generate or karma
3. Maybe instead of giving up completely, consider also posting about some things that bring you peace and joy. I have no doubt that there is much more to you than very understandable anger about the world we live in.

In my case, I can’t survive on a diet of outrage alone, especially when I’m often picking up my phone to get away from some kind of life stress, so I’m always keen for more posts in art, photography or pet communities. It helps to break up the wall of misery that is the news and reminds me there are still things worth fighting for. Sometimes I need to see a photo of a beach sunset someone saw and thought was pretty, or read a post about how they discovered a new hobby even if I’d never try it. Show me the cute dog you saw on a walk, or the weird random trash you found on the street, I’m here for it.

Consider it a form of community building. rest, and morale boosting for the war against humanity and the environment that we’ve been caught in, if you will.

Just updated the post. If Petty and Xsponse are involved, and they use CSC, I don’t think they care about the appid issue because it’s possible they control the entire internet infrastructure stack anyway. But that’s only an if.

I fell down a wild rabbit hole.

• Dev Forty Five LLC was created 2 weeks ago and lists Ty Nielson as the registered agent
• Ty Nielson is listed and at some point was described on LinkedIn as the Head of Engineering at Gemini (not the Google product) with location in St George, UT. Gemini lists an office in Ogden, UT on linkedin.
• His employment history says he started as a software engineer, but he may not be the head of engineering. I’m unsure if he lives in Utah at all. He did ask how to do authentication in a React Native app properly in stack overflow 7 months ago. Not a great sign.
• Gemini is a product of Blue Rocket, inc. and the primary address for both companies is listed as a thinkspace in Redmond, WA.
• Blue Rocket Inc. also has an office in Ogden Utah and one in West Palm Beach, Florida according to its linkedin - but withdrew their business registration in FL years ago
• A previous (?) head of product for Gemini and/or Blue Rocket is/was Ryan Petty, who was part of a Federal Commission on School Safety roundtable at the White House with Trump, and DeSantis made him the Chair of the Florida State Board of Education
• Jason Kap owns Blue Rocket inc. and was put on the board of Claritev last year, which is now a defendant in an antitrust lawsuit for conspiring with major health insurers to fix prices. The DoJ is currently siding against Claritev
• Jason Kap used to work at Microsoft, MS is also in Redmond WA.
• Kap may live or still have properties in Redmond WA, Belmont MA, Ogden Utah, and possibly others - through shell companies technically owned by his family, such as Player 85 LLC, for which he is an authorised agent
• Kap may have been an LDS bishop in Redmond during a case where the LDS leadership was accused of covering up child molestation by a former Microsoft employee, Buckland Darrell, who was sentenced again a few weeks ago
• According to floodlit there were victims in both Hartman Park Ward, Redmond and Sammamish Valley Washington.
• The registered agent listed for Blue Rocket and Gemini in WA is Kap’s wife, with a Redmond WA address matching the charity “Sammamish Trails Youth”.

I don’t think I’ll continue on. There’s clearly a lot going on here and it is not looking good. Edit: I lied. But this is the end for me:

• Ryan Petty is currently the Chief Product Officer at XSponse
• Xsponse “is a comprehensive AI security ecosystem committed to enhancing detection, alerting, and mass notification.” It lists a Florida virtual office as it address but it’s registered in Delaware via Corporation Service Company.
• Corporation Service Company, specialises in being a DE address for companies to claim DE tax residency, and as separate services will act as an ICANN registrar, manage and deploy TLDs and do monitoring and enforcement as “brand protection”. Amongst many other things they do.

Not good.

It’s a rental. I’m wondering if it’s not basically a front. The guy listed is a 22 year old (edit: age is maybe not the same guy) “head of engineering” for a company owned/run by Blue Rocket Incorporated, which seems to typically be a parent company to a lot of places.

Some guy in Utah, apparently. The company was registered on the 18th of March.

Via Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code Business Registration search which did not allow a direct link to individual results.

Hey thanks, I really appreciate that. I assumed nobody would read it, especially after the deletions. It was way longer than I had intended.

And that sounds like victim blaming to me. You can’t stop people lying about you. They’re individual researchers getting paid peanuts, not corporate executives with PR agents and lawyers at their disposal.

Their only choice would be to stop allowing public access to science, which has really terrible consequences for science and society both.

In my experience researchers are being very clear, but the context of this is super important.

When researchers publish in journals, their target audience is other people in their field. In this case other researchers and doctors. With that in mind, they choose words and phrases very specific to their field that have agreed-on definitions inside that field. Their obligation (amongst others) is to communicate to their field about their findings, as accurately as possible. They obviously have to publish their research so that science can move forward too.

But then when they publish it, people outside the field can also read it, and this is where the problem starts creeping in.

There are no qualifications required to be a “science reporter”. Unlike the researchers, those reporters aren’t required to have experience in the niche they’re writing about. They’re not required to have any knowledge of the wider field or subspecialty. They don’t necessarily know which of the words are specific and which are common use words. They don’t have to declare their conflicts of interest. They aren’t required to quote the researchers in full. If you’re lucky, they might have a science-related undergrad degree, but that’s only a taste of what is needed.

And researchers almost always say a hell of a lot, knowing that they’re trying to translate their everyday jargon to someone who doesn’t know it.

So in better examples of this problem, nuance gets lost. In worse examples, words are substituted that fundamentally change the meaning of the work. You can see this happen in the abstract here, emphasis mine:

“We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) testing the efficacy and safety of cannabinoids as the primary treatment for mental disorders or SUDs.”

In common speech, “primary treatment” sounds like it could just mean “biggest help”, but in medicine it holds a lot more meaning. “Primary treatment” in medicine means the absolute first thing you do that has the least destructive side effects and cures the patient, or if there is no cure, it is the thing that has the best quality evidence to help the patient as much as possible with the least destructive side effects. It’s the silver bullet you reach for before all other things, or as close as you can get to it.

And so sciencedaily, not appreciating (or actively disregarding) that there was significant meaning in those two words, chose the word “helps” for the title. The title differs from the body, which comes closer with “does not treat”, but that’s still not the same thing. The difference between title and body is part of why I lean towards classing this as wilful misrepresentation. The other part is where they’re pushing discussion about regulation, which has no relation to the contents of the paper.

The abstract could have been better, I did have to read some of the methodology to confirm what I suspected, but as far as I can tell, they did use the correct terminology for their target audience. And you’re not supposed to only read the abstract anyway.

Ultimately the responsibility for the accuracy of reporting about a research paper outside of a scientific journal comes down to the reporter and their employer. The researcher can only do so much to explain their work to that reporter, they can’t be responsible for teaching that reporter their entire field of knowledge, or knowing which parts the reporter is ignorant of. They probably also aren’t given the opportunity to suggest edits for the article before release and they probably don’t know to ask for the opportunity because they don’t work in the media.

Tl;dr sciencedaily needs to do better

I hear you and I know the feeling very well. I just hate that really bad media reporting is causing people to lose trust in decent science.

I hope that if you find a moment of space and energy, you can consider adjusting the target of your anger. If not, I totally get it - I’ll continue railing against the wilful misrepresentation of people’s hard work elsewhere, and I wish you the best of luck.

But it’s not the study that said that weed doesn’t help. It says there’s no evidence that using it on its own will help, which is exactly what you’ve described. The awkwardly positioned dick sucking you demand should be from sciencedaily.com

It’s not the study that’s the problem here, the study clearly examined it “as the primary treatment”. This is a common science media failure, they’ve conflated “primary treatment” with “helps”, and that is not the same thing at all.

Crutches aren’t the “primary treatment” for a broken leg either, but they do assist recovery by allowing someone to not use the broken leg. I’d suggest cannabis plays a similar role, it gives people the distance from the pain and further injury that they need for actual recovery, which sounds like it could describe your experience.

I suspect Liberia is just going to do something similar to what it was originally designed for - to be the dumping ground for former U.S slaves.

Being one of the poorest places in the world, I doubt it has a particularly robust immigration system.

So he’s originally from El Salvador.

1. He was going to be deported, so he designated El Salvador as the destination.
2. A judge blocked his deportation to El Salvador.
3. He was “by mistake” deported to El Salvador.
4. The courts told the administration to bring him back.
5. The administration said they couldn’t find him. Repeat 4 and 5 up the court ladder.
6. The Supreme Court told them to bring him back.
7. He was “found” and brought back to the US to face charges.
8. He designated Costa Rica as a country he’d be willing to be deported to, because he couldn’t be deported to El Salvador.
9. The Head of ICE says they have “decided to disregard” that, and they’ve negotiated to deport him to a completely different continent, because it would be “prejudicial to the United States” to deport him to Costa Rica. There is no indication he has any relation to Liberia.

ICE claims that preventing deporting him to Liberia is a “direct contradiction to established judicial norms” - as though it’s normal to deport people to entirely different places to where they’re from.

They’re punishing him because the Supreme Court embarrassed the administration, and now they’re reminding everyone that they were schooled by their own stooges. If they deported him to Costa Rica, the media might not have even picked this back up.

Their tourism and banking sectors start doing really well. Don’t leave without a visit to the iconic deposit box vaults, a real cultural highlight.

They also have a $73 billion nuclear and gas collaboration to build next-generation small modular reactors and natural gas power plants.

This article seems to want to push the idea that Japan is distancing itself meaningfully. Japan is making deals with both Iran and US - Japanese media just announced Iran is allowing Japan access through the Strait. Make no mistake, the Takaichi government is a conservative government, with all that entails. And Japan is forever finding ways to bend around legal constraints without breaking rules outright.

Swap the names and this could have been an article from where I am. I’d give examples but it’s a small enough place that I try not to mention it online these days.

The military action against workers doesn’t surprise me, but the eugenics sex change law thing was a truly bizarre law to begin with - and 2013 is… quite late. I’m guessing the name “Sweden democrats” is deceptive given that vote.

I’m happy to live here, but we’re not some utopia.

I hear you, I’m in the same situation. And thanks for the links, I’ve learned a lot more about Sweden than I have in many years!

I hope we both are fortunate enough to make and experience progress again in our lifetimes.