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rene  ·  286 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: People Aren't Still Having Sex

Obesity in the USA has gone from 23.2% in 1988 to 42.8% in 2017[1] and it's not slowing down[2]. Fat people fuck, but it's harder (actually, it's softer [3]). Child and adolescent obesity has doubled since 1988 [4].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity-adult-17-18/overweight-obesity-adults-H.pdf

[2] https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6448569/

[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/285035/percentage-of-us-children-and-adolescents-who-were-obese

rene  ·  390 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: And the prompt was: Hubski Poetry

Figure a better setting then where I am now

life wears on you worse than the skin of a cow

the struggles the hurt of where you are now

distinguished feelings to respect if only you knew how

to respect me a life god-fearing deserving of praise

thanksgiving dinner is not enough give me a raise

trials and tribulations foment feelings malaise

eternal life is not enough to earn peace in my days

remember life is fluid atomic rearrange the pie

pecan piquante the crunch sells the question why

why why why cries the pig in the abbattoir

my oh my says the pig in the butcher on the loire

what recourse have we to return our received life

what number to call and complain

shall I end it now? What will be the nature of your death.

We all must die, the luckiest thrice and in good health.

What's left for us, the rest? A rest, a bath in distress

instead turn your head, not right but left.

A turning gaze instills fear in the best

left left left cried the cat, the emperor left his vest

if you could wear the clothes of dreams, seen or unseen, how would you seem, empress?

rene  ·  387 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: And the prompt is [3] CERTAINTY

up and coming and let the thought drop down

drowning just the mighty while you others act like clowns

spitting right as left rotates you never off the ground

grass is greener meditate and hear how fucking loud

the sound of your ego getting off the ground

consider once a family full of feasting the soul was left aground

I've feasted once a many times my eyes were surprised

stupendous was the cause I walked 30 miles

the yaw may break the yoke the maw is but a jaw

even the powerful do choke strength is but a light stroke

the pen beats paper till it drowns in red

I beat paper just to make amends

tears drown out the sky as salty eyes can't see the end of sky

it fuzzes to corn on a night drive

sleep calls but I'm on texts the sex don't last as long as regrets

my turn comes again flip the tune play a friend

that's who I need I'm on my knees thinking why again am I alone

moving motions on the floor I call it patterns we recognize a turn

digitize the spoke an angle brings a cause stemming pause

shrinking cause to say enough for me something's free

but explore the words not one note many chords

harmonizing angel's sword beaming light upon lord rays of light

newton's words stemming from penning and spinning alchemy storms

shaking and rumbling gently stroking quill scratching like barns screeching

a touch of history comes to mind but whats the story I describe

express the feeling come to mind but mind it's not, gut personified

the intestine thinks and liver makes merry

the bladder worries the anus ferries

the sphincter asks who the butt comes in two

and I'm sitting here grinning with the party called tooth

am I too nice is a question I ask

taking others at their word is a dangerous task

I assume good intentions and get condescension

gaslighting is normal I'm dropped in a bottle

to be me is normal and unacceptable

do I live unapologetically or with my family

its easy to say hard to do money just a number but numbers kill too

sticks and stones break my bones but I'm buried six under

sometimes I wonder what's next in life

is it for me or them if not the when do I go zen

or grasp possibility could it really be as freeing as it seems to be

those freaky bees you been seeing be free online just killing time

the number crime shrinking to none like us all in time

so who wins the competition because there's just one way the better way

and judgement cometh from comets cousins or the church

it's public opinion or private gossip lip it check it bop it

ooh wrinkles got me down they wrap the mouth like a frown

why can't they wave feel the breeze let noise be the wind coasting not projecting no cone just sooth

oh my god the fucking word to be free to express no judgement just see everything is a crime

I'm not who you expected is that alright because it doesn't seem to be

my goodness, I'm in, my head

rene  ·  387 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: And the prompt was, [2]

sitting here falsely tripping over leaves of skin forgetting the while dreaming of this and that over again for the love of another craving swimming juicing feeling scrambling heaping feeling loved and lost another time is building where should I go a frog whisper I stand here dripping toes wide on a wet leaf hair askew with dew on my brow exulted is a word with empty meaning jumping pushes me closer to breathlessness red shock fills me up I spin wondering what a cause may be fantastic is the light sent up but struggle outlines my shadow the need the want the urge my instinct a plague I should overcome the hurt motivation and loss I will define my life and I will die growing flowers is my purpose where is my watering can gentle rain trickling I love but where can I put it intelligently and with care time is cruel everything has its time but the mind a snap is imaginary do live to love or is love imaginary I hurt to know the truth where is my love did it run through my hands in piles of sand covering my toes I sought to make a castle time passed stone crumbled but whats left but seconds in the minute the small doth define our life aren't we small growing in twisted shapes I touched someone once they turned away I touched someone once who was a friend cruelty is simple and loneliness a sin patience is a virtue that brings about the end.

rene  ·  265 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 20, 2024

Another in the moment as I sit here waiting

pushing daisies growing gardens waiting for my lady

a kiss of air the touch of spring I wonder sitting idly

my butter browns my coffee simmers I am left a wondering

a momentary pain, builds up until the end

a flash of history still reminds me of my mortal sins

struck by thought the feeling builds hark my bungled words

joy is in the sweat and grit of social earthly worlds

Cleanliness is godliness way too damn up high

dirtiness is earthliness warming next to fire

What s'more the air you breathe, should be shared with friends

even those you've known for not a moment past PM

Go out and choose a life that makes you try and fail

Keep failing 'til the weather changes opening up the veil

re-tracing steps sets you back the frog slips down the well

yet steps alight and wiser yet that prince might yet prevail

rene  ·  1570 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wait, are we doing it wrong? [Potential major Hubski experiment]

I like Hubski. I check it every day. I frequently encounter interesting ideas and thoughtful discussion here. Can people be aggressive and confrontational here? Yeah, but that’s part of the nature of the discussion and I think a large proportion of people invite a battle of ideas if it is good natured, productive, and fair. Do I think people can be kind, inclusive and supportive here? Yes, I’ve seen It many times even though text conversation over the internet makes that difficult. Do I post often on Hubski? No, primarily for personal reasons so perhaps I have a different perspective from contributors.

I really enjoy hearing from people with different perspectives and being introduced to new ideas, and I find that at Hubski. It would be a shame if the new site mechanics made that harder for me. Imagine making a comment but no one sees it until 6 hrs later when someone shares but by then the convo died out? Or making a new tag so no one notices the content until a share from global? The new user experience would be like walking into a ghost town, where there is an energy to the air of which you catch whispers, but it is all hidden to you.

The change to the feed requires users to view the feed differently, and puts me in mind of switching from forks and knives to chopsticks. Sure, some meals will be easier to eat with chopsticks and others will slip through but you’re still pulling from the same fridge, so what changed?

I’m all for experimentation maybe this merits a beta test at a new url? implementation invites participation (chat?). The problems this post is trying to address are real but slightly different for each community member. I like that mk’s suggested change creates an incentive for you to participate and use the mechanics of the site, otherwise you will miss out on quite a lot. I fear FOMO and people talking behind each other’s back. I think we just need more people participating and contributing, I will make more of an effort.

rene  ·  355 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: And the prompt is [4] Apologies

When I wish upon a star

I end up seeing you

Picking up the threads

I end up where I begin

Sewing strands just to see

What they be on me

An image comes to light

My rods adjust to see

Twisting strands, you and me

A little strand of life

A rainy mood to beat

Cross each other in a life

A bridge is knit between

Two thumbs and fingers crossing crafting strands

Child hands play twisting lives up for a laugh

Youthful play a fullsome cannot describe my inner drive

Lulling me mightily I close my eyes trying to epitomize

Darkness comes first

Then light, diffuse

Twisting shapes, not a heart

Hard lines, spinning apart

Where are those soft threads, soft hands, soft feet

Not thinking about what’s next to eat

Discriminating hunger refined by thought and feeling

Mirroring lust the should of feel

Should I choose or just be, mixing sand and surf my foot leaves prints by moving the earth

Innocence comes first. Than knowledge and hurt.

Self-control yet again, domestication of sins

The apple falls far from the tree blame the wind

The early bird gets the worm, then a snake bit me

The tree, a tree, any tree I guess, is quite enough for me to make a mess

I will apologize, but not with words.

Instead I will carry mood and feeling into action.

Transmutate thought into being.

What do I have left

Words are so useless, drama king being

I live to die, how else may I be, if not me than me than me

Kiss my ass, iconoclast, I knit my words for thee

I spin yarn into hard bales for lil’ plump hands and those that act to be

Sorry, this comment is private.
rene  ·  1569 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We Don’t Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.

I agree America began decaying some time ago, but I don't believe the analogy to death is apt. It is more like a slow descent into schizophrenia. What are the symptoms of schizophrenia?

- Delusion (we are the greatest country in the world)

- Hallucinations (red scare and threat to american nuclear hegemony)

- Disorganized thinking & speech (cold war politics and the pivot to asia)

- Disorganized or abnormal motor behavior (what crisis has america actually solved recently?)

- Negative Symptoms (collapse of the social safety net and a crisis of social mobility and healthcare)

I think it is clear how America will act in its authoritarian period. Any individual pursuit of liberty will be denied unless sanctioned by authority or financed by extreme personal wealth. All others will be marginalized and rendered destitute unless they fit in the corporate picture.

Young people don't see much hope. A lack of hope turns into fear. Fear leads to anger, and we all know where that will end up.

rene  ·  2219 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How wombats make cube shaped poops
rene  ·  1438 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt 2020-01-08

I’m finding words of wisdom in a wishing well

A frog is croaking at me with a mild truth to tell

“My patience is a rainbow and at the end I find

A delicious golden fuzzy buzzing muncher of a fly

.

It fills me and fixes me and let’s me play again

As I ring around the rosy I wonder what is next. “

I send a bucket down to fill with water and clear my head

My slippery green friend eyes the mark and jumps right in

.

Up and up and up he cries I haul him to the top

I take a nice big swig he cries “this was my dearest hope

Out in nature I will find the rainbow’s start, ahoy!

I am full up out the downspout to seek the sweetest joy.”

.

Along he hops I wipe my brow and take my own sweet time

Then clamber in the bucket waiting for my big muncher fly

rene  ·  1474 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski challenge. Don’t think. Just do. Write a poem now.

Simple swimming pulls the cover over me and mine

Another way to say it is to find another dime

Fitting hikes in tubes of clay I stammer out and say

Living tall the mighty fall and simple here to stay

rene  ·  557 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I have a deep and burning desire to rag on Apple's nerd helmet.

They never pulled an iPhone out of those deep pockets. You can be sure an iPhone is in most of them today. You still have a hard time comparing a HUD built for a fighter pilot in a F-35 with an AR device built for a digital work and life-style. Keep your knobs and switches, give up a couple displays. I'm no technophile, I think there's a greater movement towards real-world experiences coming, but I think AR will be more and more common for work and entertainment.

rene  ·  557 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I have a deep and burning desire to rag on Apple's nerd helmet.

I'll bite. seems like apples and oranges, IHADSS tech is over 30 years old, is over twice as heavy and is a monocular display which quote

    When...used, the visual input to the two eyes differs greatly. This...gives rise to binocular rivalry, a competition between the two eyes for the information that gains attention

Which won't occur with the vision pro. More criticisms in the paper you linked are difficult to also levy against the vision pro:

    Most problems that I have had are due to faulty equipment. Examples: The greyscale is not able to be properly adjusted. This leads to reduced resolution and the inability to 'break out' details

    "The is a very poor system in every respect. It is heavy, sloppy, provides a poor quality picture and a narrow field of view, the monocular display is annoying and

    uncomfortable, and the thinner versions of the cord gets wrapped around things in the cockpit. Getting a decent picture requires the combiner lens to be placed right next to the eye - anything interfering with that placement (such as NBC masks) makes it impossible to get a full field of view (and the "full" field of view isn't sufficient anyway

You can still have your switches and dials, they'll still be programmable, but now with the option to keep them static or have them change function based on what you're looking at. I think that's cool and smoother than alt-tab'ing.

Your choice is strapping your work to your face or to your lap/desk, like how you strap the time to your wrist. It's new, but not extreme. I also don't think it will be necessary for anyone to get their work done, but it may be more comfortable or effective. Just because your computer is now strapped to your face does not mean you're a slave to it and cannot unstrap it. That's is the slippery slope that everyone has to climb up off of in order to deal with the difficulties of modernity today. For better or for worse, in our own lives we have to find habits that handle isolation, distance from nature, lack of physical exercise, hustle/overwork culture, tech addiction, and mindless consumption. It's either that or you make choices to take temptations out of your life, i.e. don't strap your job to your face.

(I'm also waiting for a good speech-to-text interface demo, that's the biggest need for a keyboard right now. As a programmer, I would also like spoken dialects/grammars that make speech-to-code fast)

rene  ·  557 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I have a deep and burning desire to rag on Apple's nerd helmet.

Remember when this screen was undesirable?

rene  ·  558 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I have a deep and burning desire to rag on Apple's nerd helmet.

good eye tracking effectively pulled into a user interface system is new, and useful. Plus the highest quality of any VR screen allowing you to actually use it for text or media work. A quality platform for 3d interfaces may challenge our dependence on 2d rectangles to convey information. It's expensive, imo not unreasonably. Is 3500 worth not hunching over a 2d screen all day to get some work done? Can a (well-paid) white collar office worker be more comfortable with a free-moving headset rather than be locked to a desk to rest their laptop and peripherals off of? I think they could be, but remains to be seen once this launches. I'll give it a shot. Not a fan of Oculus Quest 3 though, resolution is too low for real work, plus I don't game that much. I'm imagining the software ecosystem around apple's new VR OS will take a few years to mature. I like the immersion dial too, oddly the most dystopian thing for me is the how it generates a 3d model of you for FaceTime 🤷. Gargoyles are here ❄️💥🍕

rene  ·  1517 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 21, 2020

A quick healthy lunch could be pieces of fruit, some crackers with cheese or nut butter, and mixed nuts. Takes minutes to make and with no funky junk inside (unless you love velveeta). Pair it with slices of cured meat and you'll be full with basically no cooking.

rene  ·  2227 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: mk's senolytic smoothie

Found some curious articles. Seems like cooking at moderate temperatures releases compounds from cell material without degrading them.

Key takeaways are:

1) don't heat fats/oils to smoking point (150+C/302+°F) while cooking vegetables

2) if you're making soup, add acid (vinegar, tomato/tomato paste, lemon, yogurt, creme fraiche, etc.) to preserve phenolic compounds (particularly fisetin).

Temperature-dependent studies on the total phenolics, flavonoids, antioxidant activities, and sugar content in six onion varieties

    In general, heating had a positive effect on all four flavonoids. For instance, the total flavonoid content in the red onion variety (Q + QMG + QDG + IMG) increased from 9.34 μmol/g DW to 9.70 μmol/g DW on heating at 120°C for 30 minutes and then decreased to 5.40 μmol/g DW at 150°C. In all the studied onion varieties, the total flavonoid content increased up to 120°C, and then decreased at 150°C...

    Table 2

    The total phenolic content was significantly increased after heating at 80°C, 100°C, and 120°C for 30 minutes each...

    Heating at 150°C for 30 minutes decreased the total phenolic content for all of these onion varieties. Different processing steps such as boiling, sauteing, frying, and roasting can be used to liberate phenolic compounds from various plants...

    However, simple heating reportedly cannot cleave covalently bound phenolic compounds; however, far-infrared treatment can cleave the bond;

Degradation kinetics of fisetin and quercetin in solutions affected by medium pH, temperature and co-existing proteins

    Some results were obtained based on the changes in the k values under different pH values and temperatures. The first is that fisetin was more stable than quercetin, giving smaller k values in all cases. The second is that the degradations of fisetin and quercetin were sensitive to medium pH, especially at alkaline pH values.

    Flavonoids in aqueous solutions show instability, resulting in concentration loss (i.e., degradation)....These mentioned studies shared similar conclusion to the present data, supporting that fisetin and quercetin were more stable (but instable) under acidic (and alkaline) conditions.

rene  ·  2501 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Everything Easy Is Hard Again

    simply npm your webpack via grunt with vue babel or bower to react asdfjkl;lkdhgxdlciuhw

This is about the level of detail a lot of online guides/tutorials have for most of these packages/workflows/tools/watchamacallitnow. The next step is to read through the documentation, which is often verbose, not pedagogically structured, and sometimes non-existent. The method of last resort is to attack the source code: akin to reading someone's notebook written in a foreign language. You have to get used to their style and shorthand.

"Remember, we're just manipulating text" is what I repeat to keep me sane when troubleshooting tooling issues. It's a big time investment to understand the full-stack; a bigger one to keep on top of it. This issue will only grow exponentially as more code is written and more individuals become developers.

If anybody is interested in learning web development, Full Stack Python is a great resource that places lots of different web technologies in proper context, it helped me a lot in the past. I can also recommend Mozilla's Documentation Pages for HTML/CSS/Javascript as it relates to webpages, although the quality can be inconsistent.

(If you want an example of atrocious documentation, check out the Galago Search Engine/Lemur Project. It's so opaque a research paper dedicated a section to how hard it is for phd's to understand the source code)

rene  ·  1931 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Share a short poem. Here's mine "Dappled Sunlight"

A charm is left and let unsaid

The price is paid the piper bled

Lo in time a tune will prick

Your ear and turn your head

Note the banded sky and pick

A chord to hum for them

rene  ·  3730 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 1, 2014

Might as well tell someone.

I'm seriously considering dropping out of college and living on my own for a year or two. Family and personal circumstances are dragging me down, depressions affecting my academics and I'm in the middle of imploding. The thought of dropping out is scary and therapeutic at the same time. I just have to decide whether to go the route prescribed for me or try something different. I have a big decision coming up in my life and I'm still not sure what fork in the path I'll be taking.

rene  ·  3539 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 8, 2015

I'm switching to a Mac after years of PC use, and don't know what to expect. Any tips?

rene  ·  2802 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Machine learning algorithms exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals

Link to Paper (ScienceMag Paywall): http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6334/133

Author's Homepage: Anthony G. Greenwald, PhD

Algorithm used for analysis: GloVe - Global Vectors for Word Representation

    GloVe is an unsupervised learning algorithm for obtaining vector representations for words. Training is performed on aggregated global word-word co-occurrence statistics from a corpus, and the resulting representations showcase interesting linear substructures of the word vector space.

    GloVe is essentially a log-bilinear model with a weighted least-squares objective. The main intuition underlying the model is the simple observation that ratios of word-word co-occurrence probabilities have the potential for encoding some form of meaning . . . The training objective of GloVe is to learn word vectors such that their dot product equals the logarithm of the words' probability of co-occurrence. Owing to the fact that the logarithm of a ratio equals the difference of logarithms, this objective associates (the logarithm of) ratios of co-occurrence probabilities with vector differences in the word vector space. Because these ratios can encode some form of meaning, this information gets encoded as vector differences as well. For this reason, the resulting word vectors perform very well on word analogy tasks, such as those examined in the word2vec package.

Perhaps more interestingly, Extended Reading:

Implicit Bias: How Should Psychological Science Inform the Law?

Statistically Small Effects of the Implicit Association Test Can Have Societally Large Effects

    OMBJT characterized their average correlation finding for IAT measures (which they estimated as r .148, in the domain of

    intergroup behavior) as indicating that the IAT was a “poor” predictor (pp. 171, 182, 183). This section’s analysis reaches a very different

    conclusion by applying well-established statistical reasoning to understand the societal consequences of small-to-moderate correlational

    effect sizes. The first step of this analysis shows that OMBJT’s and GPUB’s meta-analytic findings had very similar implications for the

    average percentage of criterion-measure variance explained by IAT measures. The second step explains how statistically small effects can

    have societally important effects under two conditions—if they apply to many people or if they apply repeatedly to the same person. In

    combination, the two steps of this analysis indicate how conventionally small (and even subsmall) effect sizes can have substantial

    societal significance . . .

    Small effect sizes comprise significant discrimination. For most of the time since the passage of the United States’ civil rights

    laws in the 1960s, U.S. courts have used a statistical criterion of discrimination that translates to correlational effect sizes that are

    often smaller than r .10. This criterion is the “four-fifths rule,” which tests whether a protected class (identified by race, color,

    religion, national origin, gender, or disability status) has been treated in discriminatory fashion. A protected class’s members

    receiving some favorable outcome less than 80% as often as a comparison class can be treated by courts as indicating an “adverse

    impact” that merits consideration as illegal discrimination (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1978, §1607.4.D).

rene  ·  2227 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: mk's senolytic smoothie

Are these heat-stable compounds? Do you have any idea what proportion decomposes after cooking at high temperatures?

rene  ·  3497 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Millennial is a stupid word

It's an opinion on the WORD millennial with this implied, angsty attitude towards the perceived marginalization of his (and my) generation. He doesn't have a problem with the word, he has a problem with popular culture's perception of millennials.

Do you want to be called Baby Boomers? Generation X? These are meaningless tags so we don't have to say Born: 1920-1940, Born 1940-1960, etc. He may as well complain about why we name hurricanes in alphabetical order.

I just don't view this as productive: it's not a discussion of WHY we are perceived this way and what this informs us about generational differences - it's the author complaining about how people complain about him.

That apathy is primarily taken as a denouncement of the system though. That is what Obama is responding to: the dissatisfaction or indifference towards our current government.

He's promising to do well these next two years as a way to give non-voters a reason to participate in the next election. I would suppose he's gambling on them being democrats.

rene  ·  3472 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bizarre ruling with far-reaching consequences in AIG government bailout case

This is actually a good ruling as it limits the Fed's abilities to bailout large banks. The main crux of the argument is that the Fed treated AIG (insurance) in a tougher manner than Morgan Stanley (finance), etc. and that, with other things, is illegal (basically, the Fed unjustly favored the banks with the bailout. It demonstrates how the Fed is more beholden to Wall Street). This ruling makes it much riskier to depend on receiving a bailout from the Fed in order to publicly subsidize risky activities. Here's some brief analysis.

It's also pushing back on Wall Street's encroachment into monetary policy.

rene  ·  3472 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who will own the Robots? Improving on sharing the wealth technology produces

Not that I like bitcoin, but there are some interesting applications of the blockchain technology that can allow for autonomous systems to exist financially independent from human institutions. Here is a developer discussing what an autonomous taxi service - among others - with no middle-men would look like at the Turing Festival in 2013

rene  ·  3484 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Haiku Alone

Long winters spill green

Do all springs lead to summer?

Young bud blooms northward

rene  ·  998 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Latecomer's Guide to Crypto