BoxOfRain

>a vapor inhalation chamber equipped with a nebulizer spraying out liquid droplets containing >2% w/v brain homogenates from terminally scrapie-sick mice I have never been more grateful to …

Wouldn't an entire city being sprayed with prions be a fairly apocalyptic event in and of itself? Those prions aren't going to go away, they'll get blown about and distributed by the mi…

What I feel a lot of people who've not experienced them don't get about your average British pub is that it's basically a communal living room. You're not just there for the pints …

I wonder if you could build a modern-ish browser on Windows 98 and use it as a minimalist daily driver? Give me a modern browser, bash shell (perhaps an old version of cygwin?), and a decent text edit…

Yes, in fact visual snow has quite an overlap in symptoms with HPPD experienced by some chronic users of psychedelics! It was even sometimes misdiagnosed as HPPD in the past, although that theory was …

>For our actual conscious experience though, there's some evidence that we're very noise tolerant. I have a disorder that's very relevant to this, it's called visual snow syndro…

There's enough private healthcare interests with links to the Conservative Party to at least make it worth raising an eyebrow in my opinion. I'm not making any specific allegations but it wo…

It's a mainstream paper and it's pretty good by the standards of the British press. It's got a right-wing slant but that's not a bad thing in and of itself, it's not sensation…

>why are people going into hospital without having a Covid test first (assuming non emergency) The truth is that once you put aside the creepy fawning nationalism around the NHS it's actually …

It's a difference in philosophy for the most part. Google are an advertising company first and foremost, they'll do whatever is best for the advertising industry and to Google allowing every…

I think depriving users of that functionality is more than worth it if it also deprives the advertising industry of yet another way to make everyone's life worse.

I don't want to normalise endless notification spam, which is what having this feature in Google's advertiser-friendly conception of it available ultimately does. I'm already considered…

What updates are actually important though? A good 80% of notifications I'd get before I started systematically disabling them by default weren't important at all, they were just pointless n…

Speak for yourself, sharing an open office with a person whose phone resembles a casino with all the pinging and flashing is profoundly irritating, as is having to sort through a Sisyphean list of poi…

This is a personal opinion, but I'm actually really glad Apple are dragging their feet on this. I absolutely despise presumptious software that feels entitled to my attention as and when it choos…

Maybe in countries like the US where healthcare is run by predatory loan sharks, in the civilised world the economic advantages of keeping skilled workers with plenty of knowledge in the workforce lon…

I think it depends on the family and on the person. I for one hugely value autonomy and the ability to change my life on a whim, I've been working towards a very self-sufficient lifestyle of sail…

>This is somewhat the point. If using the language's standard libraries is "absolutely doing it wrong", that's an indictment of the language. Exactly, all languages have footgun…

>Nothing is meant to live forever. And you, axaxs, are the righteous and true arbiter of who lives and who dies? I'd rather make that decision for myself thank you.

Depends on what consciousness turns out to actually be in my opinion (which is another unknown that'll no doubt be looked back on in amazement). If it's something that can be recorded in a s…

I'm not sure that I'd want to burden my family with my old-age care, I'd rather they lived their lives to the fullest than had me as a millstone around their necks preventing them from …

They used to broadcast it into Europe during the Cold War on 648 kHz MW using an absolutely ridiculous 500 kW transmitter and an aerial system that developed 2 MW directionally. This got shut down in …