teleoplexy
7hr ago
Wouldn't it be cheaper to:
- Ban immigration from and travelling to the countries with this problem
- Treat your own citizens if this issue arises
After a while these poor countries find new sponsors who will solve their problems. Or solve it by themselves.
teleoplexy
8hr ago
People dying of TB is bad. But it's net negative only for the countries with the TB problem. Why should US subsidize this?
teleoplexy
10d ago
Hundreds of Beavers
I don't think you can realistically compare the two countries in question because it doesn't take in consideration outside factors. There are two variables:
- How often are people getting arrested for something they say online.
- How often do people say something online that they can get arrested for.
My argument is that in Russia, due to the chilling effects of propaganda, astroturfing, arrests, assassinations, difference in treatment in prisons, general depoliticization of society, people in Russia are less likely to say something that attracts the attention of the government, especially using their real name. This isn't the free speech as you conceive of it in more liberal societies. This likely accounts for #2 being lower per capita in Russia than in UK in general - people know that you shouldn't speak out in a way that can attract unwanted attention.
Additionally, specifically due to section 127 including harassment, I'd argue that you'd need to go through each case to determine whether the government was punishing someone for exercising their right to free speech. This likely accounts for #1 being lower than reported in the original tweet for UK. I don't have modern data, I'd expect with the riots this would be higher than in 2017.
So do raw numbers really matter? My answer is: "No, they don't. The two cultures, social norms and political situations are fundamentally different".
You are wrong. Those data points are out-of-context and do not reflect the realities of speaking out in Russia.
The report discussed by Newsweek – authored by Agora, a Russian human rights group – found that 411 criminal cases were brought against internet users in Russia in 2017. The article does not give a figure for arrests.
In 2017 The Times made a Freedom of Information request which found 3,395 arrests had been made by 29 UK police forces for “section 127” offences, which is used for cases of online abuse. According to the article, 1,696 people were subsequently charged. Section 127 offences cover harassment that takes place via an “electronic communications network”, and is not limited to social media posts – harassment via email or other forms of online communication can also fall under this definition.
This stat is half cherry-picked and half lied about. Comparing UK and Russia, two fundamentally different societies with different levels of censorship online is intellectually dishonest.
> Even our code is in German!
> Java Spring Boot
Must lead to some long class names...
Ex: AbstractAutomatischeKonfigurationsStrategieProxyFactoryBeanImplementierungDelegate
teleoplexy
22d ago
It already functions in most workplaces, honestly. At least everywhere I worked at there was a clause about notifying management when you start dating another employee, with the underlying assumption that it would prevent uncomfortable situations regarding power dynamics. It's not that uncommon, you don't need to introduce new laws to do this.
teleoplexy
23d ago
Do you by any chance have Gilbert's syndrome? My pet theory is that it could be related although there's literally zero evidence that it is
teleoplexy
23d ago
For sure! I noticed I never got "the rush" many get after a cardio workout, I'm just more on the edge, not less
teleoplexy
23d ago
I'll admit right away that I'm late to the party - the Motte, SSC and the subculture around all of it seems to have pretty much died down and I'm not sure where to find everyone other than Twitter, which I refuse to use. But I think I want to catch up with all of the stuff that happened and was important to you all at the time. I'm aware of multiple SSC best-of compilations, but what about the others? Don't we have some legacy other than Scott?
So, to the survivors, I have two questions:
- What do you think are the best articles/arguments/comments/posts of the past decade?
- What's the book/article/comment that attracted you to the community in the first place?
teleoplexy
26d ago
I take 400mg Magnesium Bisglycinate 1-1.5 hours before sleep. No weird dreams, no feeling in the legs either
teleoplexy
26d ago
When I got diagnosed with RLS, doctor did a blood test but did not find any kind of deficiency. I think it’s worth trying it again. Testing supplements myself is a good idea, I’ll try it after ruling out electrolyte imbalance. Thank you!
I would also wager that your depression is a symptom of an underlying physical problem.
I don’t think I’m currently depressed, but let’s see whether any of the advice I got here changes my mind on this!
teleoplexy
27d ago
Literally Gatorade? Despite the advertising, the "electrolytes" in Gatorade are mostly sodium. One potato has ~8x the potassium of a 20 oz Gatorade, IIRC. Some of your symptoms are consistent with your electrolytes being completely wack. Slightly supported by the mentioned magnesium supplementation combined with high sodium, but no mention of potassium, phosphorus, or calcium.
I actually don't know anything about micronutrients and that's on me, I'll do the research. I haven't seen anyone mentioning that this can have a connection to sleep quality.
Not just Gatorade, of course. I salt my food a lot which I assume counts as more sodium, but I haven't supplemented anything else. I just checked and Macrofactor also has a micronutrient tracker, I'll start using that today.
Maybe try tracking micro-nutrients in cronometer, and seeing if you are hitting adequate intake for everything? It's hard to get enough potassium, especially at higher sodium intakes since the ratio of potassium and sodium also matters.
I think potassium is a really likely culprit. When I worked out my didn't have a lot of vegetables and the fruits I ate didn't contain a lot of it too. I was likely very short of the required ratio.
I used to live with a very high level athlete, it wasn't uncommon for him to allocate like 10+ hours for bed. You can get away with a lot less if you are not training hard, other stressors are low, or if it's a short stint but some people just naturally need more sleep time.
I find I feel great with 7:40 hours when I'm not working out and it's hard for me to reshuffle my routine during work days due to family obligations, but I'll see whether I can do it and feel good in case I can't solve it while working out.
teleoplexy
27d ago
Thank you taking your time to respond!
Even though you say it doesn't matter when you do the workouts, it has to matter somewhat, right? For example, if you did a workout 2 days ago you would sleep better than if you did one today.
I experience severe side-effects from insomnia so on day 2 I usually just sleep easier just from the sheer lack of sleep on the previous day. But after intense workouts the symptoms usually persist for 2-3 days.
From a practical level, try to give yourself more than 7hr 40m to sleep. Obviously its better to sleep through the night, but it's okay to wake up if you get overall enough.
That's what I have been doing, more or less. If I don't get enough sleep during the night, I just wake up later, but I find it inconvenient enough from the work-life balance standpoint to actually try to resolve the underlying issue.
teleoplexy
27d ago
Seems like it, in all honesty. I'll try just doing Zone 2 cardio for a while and increase it in 5 minute intervals weekly.
I can't google anything useful about my issue and Claude is largely unhelpful, the doctors try to diagnose me with depression (I have a very well managed SAD, so I technically might qualify but this is not the main root cause), sports medicine physicians just don't exist where I am, so I want to dump the list of the symptoms I have and see whether you guys can help me come up with a direction to dig.
The main issue: when I do sports, whether it's cardio or weightlifting, I find it really hard to sleep. Fundamentally, my sleep is more fragile. I fall asleep easily all of the time, but when I work out it's easier for me to wake up during the night (for any reason, e.g. noise, wanting to go pee, being too hot, being too cold) and harder to fall back asleep after I wake up.
- I've had those problems regardless of whether I'm depressed or not. But in general, I'm not depressed. I get depressed when I don't get enough sleep consistently.
- Given the allotted time slot of 7 hours 40 minutes, when working out, I sleep 5-6 hours, when I'm not I sleep around 7+ hours.
- I've worked out consistently for over a year and during all of that time my sleep quality was in the dumpster. As soon as I stopped, it improved drastically. I stopped waking up in the middle of the night as much and I have no trouble falling back asleep almost entirely. I thought that if I power through sleep issues, they are going to go away, but they didn't.
- I tried to start working out again and bad sleep quality was back after the first session.
- If I engage in a physically demanding activity (for example a hike) bad quality returns the same day.
- I have a restless leg syndrome and drink magnesium for it. Magnesium removes the feeling in my shins almost entirely, but it seems like it flares up more when I work out. Rolling out the shins doesn't help.
- When I work out, I am constantly thirsty, regardless of how much I drink. Due to that, I wake up to go pee 2 or 3 times a night. I tried to stop drinking 1-2 hours before going to bed, but it just feels really uncomfortable.
- I was working out both when I restricted calories and when I was supporting my current weight. When restricting calories, I woke up due to being hungry sometimes (I attribute that to the sleep being fragile).
- Working from the assumption that this might be related to the restless legs syndrome, I tried to refrain from targeting legs in my workouts, but it doesn't really matter which muscle group I target.
- I maintain strict sleep hygiene, so we can rule out external factors.
- Room where I sleep is cool, dark and (reasonably) quiet.
- I tried working out in the morning and it doesn't matter when I do it.
- I thoroughly stretched after the work out (when I did work out) and I also stretch before going to bed.
- I tried adding more electrolytes (i.e. Gatorade), but I don't know what the hell I'm doing or what I'm measuring. In any case, I eat a lot of salt as is and I didn't notice any difference when adding additional electrolytes in my diet.
I desperately want to see a doctor, but they are trying to diagnose me with a mental health problem rather than a chemical imbalance. Feel free to ignore my complaints about doctors and suggest me to see a doctor, but I'd be grateful if you could spell out what I should say to him.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
I agree, they can't be substituted and the examples I gave are specifically the exceptions to the rule.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Most of the games, yes. But some of games can certainly put you in the head of someone else: Disco Elysium, Mouthwashing, Pathologic series, Omori, Signalis. They are much more of an exception to the rule, though.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
I disagree, the only thing that it requires from you is that you are Russian and lived in Russia. It’s actually funny how every review for it that I’ve heard from non-Russians is negative, but Russians love it. In general, I’m a bit baffled that foreigners try to read Sorokin because it’s akin to trying to understand an inside joke without any context.
I'd be happy if you could provide any examples - news articles, maybe even social media posts. The reason I'm asking is I've been to community development meetings in multiple cities in Canada and I've never seen anyone but nimbys opposing new builds and rezoning changes. The main concerns I've heard in those meetings is that high-rise buildings bring crime, put less tall houses in their shadow, change the character of the community, pose threat to children due to the increased traffic.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Is there a concrete example where self-defined Canadian marxists/communists/socialists have been against building new housing?
teleoplexy
2mo ago
Sorry for sidetracking (great post btw) - I've just realized that you are FTTTG. Loved your "Contra DeBoer" essay, I still link it everywhere DeBoer and trans issues are mentioned together.
teleoplexy
2mo ago
The meme-ness of it is the main reason I'm opposed to widespread normalization of trans minors. I've seen multiple young people (my relatives even) playing around with the idea of transitioning based on the social and online groups they were in. All of them stopped being interested in gender when separating from those groups. One push from a gender-related medical specialist and I can totally see any of them cementing gender beliefs into their identity.
teleoplexy
3mo ago
Also curious about Trump County, CA
Ah, thank you for pointing this out. It's already paid for and thus unnecessarily cruel - this is the main point. IMO good faith interpretation, from the US government perspective the management of the drug supply chain isn't free, so they are just saving on that.
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