In unfamiliar places, in stressful situations, and after eating unusual things, my digestive system sometimes gets backed up. A large dose of nicotine or caffeine fixes this for me. Caffeine has other side effects in large doses, so I prefer nicotine. I'll take a 6 mg zyn, and 20 minutes...
Anna's Archive is the biggest open library I've ever found. You can find and download pretty much any book ever published there. Recently, they hosted a competition to see who could best visualize all the published books using their ISBN numbers. This one by Phiresky won: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/ Looking through these...
In unfamiliar places, in stressful situations, and after eating unusual things, my digestive system sometimes gets backed up. A large dose of nicotine or caffeine fixes this for me. Caffeine has other side effects in large doses, so I prefer nicotine. I'll take a 6 mg zyn, and 20 minutes later, I will have the bowel movement that I've needed for days.
The issue is that nicotine is famously habit-forming. It is addictive enough that I don't have the willpower to keep it in a medicine cabinet, unused, until the need to defecate arises. I, and many people I know, will use it for any moment that feels uncomfortable and would be smoothed... (read more)
Along with pants and a water based air conditioner, might I suggest an industrial dishwasher? Those puppies can do a load every 30 seconds.
I love the article. You would make a good farmer. We don't have regulations out here in rural Iowa. You can do all your own plumbing and electrical work, and nobody will complain that it looks like a spider's web of wires in your basement. There are also plenty of broken down vehicles to fix, always more than you feel like fixing. Your clothes would break down quickly, so you would need hardier pants. There are no rules against making them yourself, and there are few people around to claim they look weird.
You didn't have this in your article, but it's also a good, cheap place to raise kids. It's funny how much more worth it it is to make cool stuff when there are little ones around, always in awe of what you can do.
Anna's Archive is the biggest open library I've ever found. You can find and download pretty much any book ever published there. Recently, they hosted a competition to see who could best visualize all the published books using their ISBN numbers. This one by Phiresky won:
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/
Looking through these shelves feels like looking out of an airplane window or walking through a graveyard. Each book probably mattered a lot to somebody. I hope you get the same thing out of it that I did.
I eat venison nearly every day... and I don't think I'm stopping. Thanks for the article, though, I'll be sure to avoid the brain.
Slippery slope fallacy
I think there's another aspect that you haven't mentioned.
I've found that when I've overburdened myself with work, I tend to cope through copious amounts of caffeine. Over time, this habit limits my overall productivity, and forces me to undergo painful withdrawal symptoms to return to normal. When someone turns to alcoholism to escape the stress in their life, they limit the amount of productive time they can spend solving the problems that lead to their stress. The same goes for many ultimately destructive habits: binge eating, gambling, smoking, memes (yeah, they do decrease productivity), television, video games, violence, promiscuity, procrastination, and so many others.
I'm an undergraduate student, and the thing I've noticed... (read more)
A lot of people's beliefs are influenced by their political affiliation. I'd be wary of a rating system. If one political party got ahold of it, they might use it to completely discredit their opponents, when the issue is just not very well understood in the first place and having multiple perspectives is very useful.
Climate change is the issue that comes to mind first.
Interesting, I appreciate you taking the time to formulate a coherent and respectful response, and I'll do my best to do the same.
You don't seem to understand how rural life works and why it's important. You also seem to think that small town lives and rural lives are more expensive than city lives. Please, allow me to clear up some misunderstandings.
Small towns aren't places that manufacture food for cities. They're places where people live and thrive, where occasionally you'll see families that farm or raise animals for a job. You seem to think that all the rural area in the world can just be replaced by corporations that send out farmers to live more "efficiently". This doesn't make sense because you can't just make a farmer. You have to be raised on a farm,... (read more)
Interesting. I like this post. You've certainly got the right audience for a good reception. Everyone likes to think about how much more they know than anyone else, myself included. It's tough to think about what will actually make the world a better place.
If you took a person and taught them all about modern medicine, agriculture, technology, and everything else except how it's put together, how would they think the world works? What would be different in that person's mind from the way the world is now?
In other words, what do you notice that you're confused by in the world today?
I think that's where we'll find the lies.
My dad and uncle can farm 2,000 acres between them because of synthetic fertilizer and pesticides. I would like to see you do the same with integrated livestock and multi-cropping.
Why doesn't the block between B and D absorb the photon a third of the time, since it should have the same modulus as the detectors? What's so special about things that tell us that they've been hit by a photon?