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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Boomers: am i a joke to you?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And how it aided and abetted the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar by knowingly amplifying pro-genocidal hate speech to increase engagement on the platform: https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-how-facebook-contributed-to-genocide-in-myanmar-and-why-it-will-not-be-held-accountable/

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure whoever killed that guy was aware that the death penalty was a possibility. They probably made their peace with that possibility a while back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yep! Definitely stick with it. Also, tbh things sometimes just go wrong for no discernible reason. But the fact that you got some mushrooms is awesome!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Yeah it could be depleted. Three flushes is about what I expect from mine. Your yield sounds low though - 30g dry may be a disappointing haul depending on the size of your bag.

Looks like not enough FAE (fresh air exchange) to me (esp the fluffy myc on top & long stems. The beads of water are most likely due to high humidity + lack of FAE = condensation. The condensate on the myc surface will limit pinning. The liquid on the surface could also be mushroom metabolites - which could be a sign of many different things, including but not limited to high humidity w/o enough FAE.

I'd recommend getting a very fine spray bottle -"atomizers" I think they call them. Spray the walls of your fruiting bag and not the myc itself. Since it is a bag, and it sounds like it's mostly sealed, there is likely not much FAE, not enough evaporation, and a buildup of CO2.

I've never used bags, just PF tek and Uncle Bens bags - then spawning to bulk or spawning from pf tek cakes directly. The key is to have a lot of FAE and monitor the humidity. I now use Ikea Samla boxes for fruiting, and I basically just leave the lid cracked all the time. If water is beading on the sides still, your humidity is fine. If it isn't beading, then just close the lid for a bit. Probably similar for bags.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

My father in law was just bragging about how the treasury earned over $100B in tariffs so far as though it's not just ~~foreign companies~~ importers passing that cost on to consumers.

It's literally just a $100B sales tax hike. So far.

Edit: yeah, the cost is paid by importers, not exporters. So it's literally a tax on US-based importers passed on to US consumers.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I can see it now. Grey pigtail braids cascade down the slumping, geriatric shoulders of Steven Bannon's porcine form, skirts swishing, while he attempts to seduce the aging pedophiles on the island. Time and time again he fails. The men look at him with disgust. "Oh no. They all think I'm ugly. Daddy Epstein will never make me a model now", he thinks to himself, tears welling up in his dead, rheumy eyes.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

Most folks in the south are good, honest, hard-working people - but the levels of propaganda aimed at keeping them ignorant and blaming minorities for systemic issues are hard to overstate. That coupled with a crumbling education system, poverty, and voter suppression is what keeps the south voting against the best interests of the majority of people.

The average Southern voter is just trying to do the right thing with the information they have access to. Doesn't make them any less wrong, but it does make the situation more morally complex.

It always makes me sad when I see people in Left spaces saying things like "it serves them right" etc etc when disasters occur. Sure, the majority of voters may have voted for policies that caused these things, but they are ignorant and have been lied to their whole lives. Not to mention all the folks who have been disenfranchised by the system.

Edit: for those responding: most. Most people. Like 40% of people don't vote. And another 25+% vote Dem. Of the remaining 30-35% that decide elections for Republicans, most of those are extremely misled, either thinking Dems are to blame for Rep policies that harm them, that Dem policies will make it impossible for them to make a living, etc. etc. A subset of those 30-35% are just outright evil and either want to throw everyone under the bus for a few tax breaks or are just rascists/bigots. But, that is not most people. Note, I don't lime the Democrats, but their policies are significantly less harmful than Rep policies. If you actually talk to people in the South, you would understand that. Some are out-and-out ghouls, but most people are miseducated, poor, and have been told who to blame by the powers that be.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So "remain silly" = build class consciousness & engage in direct action? Sweet.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Over 50%. Voter turnout is low & is higher among Republican voters (who are on average more able to vote due to economic and voter suppression factors). Not to mention that they aren't the ones who'd be deported.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I want a NAS solution to back up my PC and host media files, but prebuilt NAS solutions are incredibly expensive and underwhelming and so I'm planning to build one. Does anyone have recommendations for a NAS interface?

I'm brand new to server management and would prefer something user friendly. I have used linux mint, but currently use windows as my daily driver (planning to switch to mint soon). I'd be fine with a dedicated NAS OS or with something I could run on mint since I'm already familiar with that distro.

 

Pretty much the title. I've been training for 5 months, injured for 4 weeks in there - just came off of a 2wk recovery from a knee injury. I'm relatively young, 6ft 175lbs, in pretty decent shape.

But I overexert myself to the point of vomiting nearly every class. It's frustrating and embarassing.

I've started doing more cardio and have improved a lot in that regard, but it doesn't seem to help at all on the mats. Do I just need to do more cardio? Is there something nutrition-wise that could help? Open to any and all suggestions.

Edit: Thanks everyone for the advice. I will try 1) not try so hard and ask partners to help me with that, 2) advice to talk to my doctor - I have in the past and he wasn't much help - but it got me to do some research... some medication I'm on can cause hyponatremia, which can cause nausea and vomiting especially after exercise... so I'm going to try a saline solution before/during class and may report back if it works.

Edit 2: took a 3% hypertonic salt solution to class today and it seems to have worked. I asked a higher belt to really push me in a difficult roll after class to test it. Not certain yet, but seems to have fixed the vomiting

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I have been playing Go with my friend (who has a Chess background) for a while now. We started on 19x19 boards but he found it really overwhelming and struggled. He wanted to switch to 9x9 and we have now played several 9x9 games.

These games are just for fun and I don't think he has much intention of ever playing seriously, so it doesn't really matter, but I feel like the skils developed playing 9x9 are really not all that applicable to a real game other than just basic life/death, some endgame stuff, etc.

I started on a full sized board, and I ran a successful club where we started beginners off on full sized boards, so I don't really know how others do it. What do you think about starting beginners off on 9x9? When do you think they should transition to larger boards?

 

I've been using AI to review my games for a while, but how do you personally use AI to learn?

I've found it really helpful in strengthening my joseki as well as general game-sense/intuition. Re-training myself on which moves feel correct.

One weird result has been that a lot of my intuitions that I used to brush away in favor of moves that I felt were more big-brained, turned out to be the moves that the AI prefers. So I'm having to work through when I'm overthinking moves.

The main problem I find is that it is so much better than I am that I can't understand the logic sometimes - so I walk away with "Well, that move was just better, I guess" and fail to get a good understanding.

 

Portrayal of the Physician Hua Da Scraping the Bone of Guan Yu to Treat an Arrow Wound (Hua Da hone o kezurite Guan Yu ya-kizu o ryoji suru zu), Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1853

"Guan Yu was once injured in the left arm by a stray arrow which pierced through his arm. Although the wound healed, he still experienced pain in the bone whenever there was a heavy downpour. A physician told him, "The arrowhead had poison on it and the poison had seeped into the bone. The way to get rid of this problem is to cut open your arm and scrape away the poison in your bone." Guan Yu then stretched out his arm and asked the physician to heal him. He then invited his subordinates to dine with him while the surgery was being performed. Blood flowed from his arm into a container below. Throughout the operation, Guan Yu feasted, consumed alcohol and chatted with his men as though nothing had happened." (Wikipedia)

 

I'm not entirely sure how Go plays into this story, but it's a wild print that shows Minamoto no Yorimitsu, who had apparently been in the middle of a game of Go, fighting the legendary Yōkai Tsuchigumo (土蜘蛛, i.e. Earth/Dirt Spider), a giant spider demon that lives in the earth.

I'm not sure why so many fights broke out while samurai were playing Go in feudal Japan. But, Minamoto no Yorimitsu is Minamoto no Yoshitsune's (whose retainer, Sato Tadanobu, beat a bunch of samurai to death with a floor goban) great, great, great, great, great uncle (5th great uncle), so it must run in the family.

 

First published in 1855, Sato Tadanobu Bravely Resisting Arrest (左藤忠信勇戦芳時が勢を移る圖) depicts a man fighting off a number of attackers with a Goban. But who was he and what is his story?

Satō Tadanobu (佐藤 忠信) was a samurai in service of Minamoto no Yoshitsune who lived between 1161AD and 1186AD. There are two accounts of his death, but which one is real may not be as important to us as which makes for the better story.

The first part of the story is the same in both accounts and is recorded in the Gikeiki (義経記, or Chronicle of Yoshitsune) and involves Tadanobu retreating with his master Minamoto no Yoshitsune's forces to Kyushu, fleeing the advance of his half-brother Minamoto no Yoritomo's army. Sato, serving as rearguard with a few of his men, aided the retreat by donning Yoshitsune's armor and, acting in disguise as Yoshitsune, killing twenty of his pursuers. Though his companions died in the fight, Tadanobu escaped and continued on to Kyoto to take refuge in the house of a woman he knew there.

This is where the stories diverge, and where the subject of this painting comes from:

Telling #1: While staying at his acquaintance's house, he was discovered and attacked. He committed seppuku before he could be captured alive.

Telling #2: Sato Tadanobu was enjoying a game of Go at his acquaintance's house, when he was suddenly attacked by Yoritomo's men. Unable to reach his weapons, he grabbed the Goban he was playing on and proceeded to single-handedly beat a number of armed and armored samurai to death with it before he was able to reach his weapons and commit seppuku, thus evading capture by the overwhelming force.

In the Kabuki plays (such as Yoshino Shizuka Goban Tadanobu and Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura) and Ukiyo prints inspired by this event, Tadanobu is implied to be a Genkurō (fox spirit) due to his cunning impersonation of Yoshitsune.

 

And if you haven't played yet, what's stopping you?

 

I found Gomagic from the YouTube channel of the same name. It's a really nice way to do high to mid-kyu Go problems (there's a 9k - 1k section under development too). They have a wide variety of types and it walks you through a bunch of different skills.

The downside is you only get a limited number of free problem sets each day if you don't pay for a subscription, but it's like 15 free sets of 5-6 problems per day or something pretty generous.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Great tutorial for anyone who wants to learn how to play. Gomagic does a great job with all their videos.

 

Breakdown of Lee Sedol's famous ladder game

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