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Like wow wtf, these incidents are really just endless, huh? I must've gone through hundreds of these now. It seems like it doesn't matter whether someone is an experienced scuba diver or not, these caves have a tendency to just fuck up your shit.

People who you could call not just world class divers, but world class cave divers apparently routinely enter these things en masse and are never seen alive again. Rescues are extremely rare because they tend to run out of air before anyone even realizes something went wrong. Then the only hope of retrieving the body is to fly in another world class cave diver, very likely a friend of the now rotting corpse floating in the cave. This isn't a very commonly practiced hobby as you can imagine.

Good chance this guy fucking dies in the cave too. At that point the property owner tends to just block off the entrance and let the two spend eternity together. It's very touching.

Most common scenario seems to be losing their guide rope back to the cave exit, accidentally stirring up previously pristine and undisturbed silt, reducing the visibility to literally 0, and then totally losing track of the claustrophobic passage that they originally shimmied through to get into that chamber. This is very obviously the perfect time to panic, hyperventilate away most of your air supply, and swim around wildly kicking up even more silt while trying to find the way out. Kind of like being stuck under a sheet of ice, but far worse because you probably still have something like 30 minutes left to think about the fact that no one can possibly rescue you in time.

I can't imagine being in this situation, what a shit way to go. I'd rather go fucking wing suiting than get anywhere near an underwater cave.

I've tried Chameleon and Valyrian root tea blends before thinking they might make good sleep aids, but I've never had any luck with them. A lot people say they find those very relaxing, but I wasn't even catching a placebo effect.

So for a while I just assumed all this herbal tea bullshit I see in stores and pharmacies must be just a step above homeopathic products. They're probably pretty good if you like the taste of the herbal blends and find sipping a warm beverage relaxing in itself, but otherwise a waste of time. Clearly if they really worked they wouldn't be sold in large supermarket chains. Instead they'd be relegated to the weird, near grey market status that Kratom seems to exist in, right?

Today at the store I just happened to notice something very alarming. A box of Kava blend tea was the absolute one and only herbal tea variety on the shelf to include a warning asking you to consult your doctor before use, and stating that minors and pregnant women should not consume this product.

Well, that warning instantaneously lit up the junkie addict center of my brain like a Christmas tree, and I impulse bought two boxes. This might have major negative health consequences? Wow, must be the fucking good stuff. I got home and brewed six of them into a single mug of tea, and yep, this shit is psychoactive all right. Subtle, but definitely not placebo subtle. It quite honestly feels similar to a moderate dose of Gabapentin, and it's making me sleepy.

I sure wish I knew this before I most likely took 15 years off the lifespan of my kidneys by using 200mg of Diphenhydramine every night for years just to have a fighting chance at falling asleep more often than every two days.

The most obvious possibility is AOC. In that case I am sure she'll move even further right and get totally ratfucked by the party regardless. That's the most jokerified option, I think. At the very least, her obvious ratfucking will push many more people to the left like the Bernie campaigns did.

But the worst possibility is some rando Democratic apparatchik we've never heard of like Mayo Pete showing up. They take up all the aesthetics of Bernie's campaigns, they receive the glowing endorsements of Bernie and the squad, but they seemingly refuse to outright promise anything we would call "good", and they suspiciously receive no material push-back whatsoever from the Democratic party establishment other than some clearly bad faith grumblings about how spooky and radical this person is. Win or lose, they completely suck the energy out of leftist movements in the imperial core for a further decade.

Just found out there are tons of people on Youtube actually doing the former, and given the amount of anime avatars present, my assumption is there must be some number of them simultaneously doing the latter

Those things are too rich for my blood, but it seems to me like the concept is a great idea, and it would be nice if something like that became cheaper and standardized across brands.

I've always been really annoyed by the fact that laptops with socketed CPUs disappeared a decade ago. And these days a ton of laptop manufacturers are very eager to solder the SSD and RAM as well. This occasionally goes as far as laptops with permanent, soldered single channel RAM, and that's horrifying. These things are destined to be e-waste, ending up in landfills far sooner than typical for equivalent desktop components.

When you upgrade a desktop you have so many more options that will save you money over buying a totally new system. GPUs are essentially plug 'n play. You can often upgrade the CPU just as easily, though every once in a while you'll need to replace the motherboard. Same goes for RAM. Everything else can almost always be reused: the case, the fans, the CPU cooler, the storage, the monitor, the mouse, and the keyboard. Even the PSU if you're not getting a significantly more power hungry CPU or GPU. All of that can add up to a ton of money.

Socketed CPUs in laptops are probably never coming back due to how much space they tend to take up. And laptop GPUs will probably never be socketed in the first place for the same reason. But if you could buy a standardized chassis and simply swap out entire motherboards that come in a standardized laptop form factor, upgrading would be so much more cost efficient, as would laptop repair. Also, lets bring back easily removable and swappable laptop batteries while we're at it.

Unfortunately, this all flies in the face of the inherent capitalist enshittification going on with consumer electronics, and I'm skeptical Framework will ever be anything more than a very expensive niche for enthusiasts who like to tinker with their devices. But I don't see any technical reasons why something like this wouldn't be possible and practical.

Generally speaking, I get the feeling I should stick to something that isn't worth enough for felony theft charges to apply, so no RTX 4090 or 4080. The 4070 Ti isn't at all a bad deal for $0.00, so I suppose that's the one.

I've heard conflicting reports on how likely Amazon is to refund you if you simply claim the box showed up with a brick in it. I've also seen conflicting reports on whether or not they'll actually check if a return has the same serial number on it. What say you, Hexbear?

Sometimes I wonder what it's like to be a dog or really any other non-human animal, and I think about how simple their understanding of the world around them must be given their lack of ability for much abstract thought. We take for granted all the ideas that are extremely obvious to us that other animals will absolutely never come close to understanding.

There are no creatures on Earth smarter than humans. Elephants, cetaceans, and non-human apes may come closer than we perhaps realize, but there are no creatures that absolutely crush us on this front, we have yet to be humbled. I feel like this gives rise to the common perception that human intelligence is infinite, that we are destined to understand every truth about the universe given a long enough timeline and enough effort.

That's a comforting thing to believe, but I don't think it makes sense when there's no reason at all to think we're the apex of intelligent lifeforms in this universe. It not impossible that there are alien species out there that would view our understanding of the world in much the same way we view that of other animals.

In that case, the implication is that there are any number of shockingly huge and fundamental revelations about the universe sitting right under our noses that we simply lack the ability to even perceive much less understand. This to me can be a bit of an unsettling line of thought to explore. It's the fear of the unknown with heavy reinforcement from the likely possibility that the unknown will always exist, often just beyond our reach.

Upon looking it up in the Dell service manual for this model, I found the spec sheet actually lists compatibility with both 3200MT/s and 2666MT/s. But of course the fine print had some caveats. Apparently only the SKU of this model that included an MX350 dedicated GPU has the privilege of running the memory at 3200MT/s.

Is there a technical reason for this or is it just another example of bullshit product segmentation? I can't imagine why the presence of a dGPU would allow for faster system RAM. That seemingly implies that the motherboard in my laptop is probably perfectly capable of doing the same, but has been artificially limited in the firmware. This really pisses me off because it's the iGPU model that would have greatly benefited from faster memory since iGPUs pull from the system RAM. They don't have fancy dedicated VRAM optimized for bandwidth.

It sucks that lower end laptops always have jack shit for tuning options in their BIOS. I feel like a lot of performance is left on the table when it comes to these things.

66 million years ago, a massive 17km wide asteroid impacted what is now the modern day Yucatan peninsula at 25km/s. The immediate collision was so violent that the resulting crater floor was briefly deeper than the Mariana Trench while the crater rim was briefly taller than Mt. Everest. In total, it killed off 75% of all animal and plant species on this planet, including the dinosaurs.

The linked video is a real time demonstration of the catastrophic events that would occur within the first hour after impact if a similar asteroid were to hit Earth today.

I'm basically asking about the most notable 24 hours in human history.

Btw, I'm going to become a super-soldier mech pilot for the Britannian empire to brutally put down resistance groups fighting against the multiple ongoing genocides in the numbered zones.

MOTHERFUCKER, GAZA IS AN OPEN AIR PRISON WITH A POPULATION DENSITY SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER THAN NEW YORK CITY. THEY ARE SURROUNDED BY A LITERAL WALL WATCHED BY ISRAELI SNIPERS. LITERALLY WHERE ELSE CAN YOU POSSIBLY EXPECT THEM TO CONGREGATE

FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH