tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
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Want to feel dumb? Read the comments here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/znn1nt/the_truly_scary_smart/
A moment after your child is born, doctors offer you a **one-time pill** for your newborn that would greatly reduce the probability that they would end up at the **bottom of the social ladder** (criminal, incarcerated, homeless, addicted, suicidal, murdered, etc). Only side effect: the pill would also greatly reduce the probability that they join the **social and economic elite** (high-rank politician, big company executive, top sportsperson, very rich person, popular intellectual, etc). Assume the pill is known to be safe and effective.
_Would you give that pill to your child?_
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I'm getting my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow, and I have to choose between Nitrus Oxide or being smacked on the back of the head with a wooden canoe paddle to knock me out. It's an ether/ oar situation.
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I've just spent 30 minutes coding something which will save me 45 seconds each time I use it.
So far I've run it ~25 times.
I have a feeling this will be the most productive thing I do for the whole year 😂
My recommended first step towards a saner, more productive public conversation about #drugs: stop talking about certain (legal) drugs as if they were not, in fact, “drugs”
#BasketballAndSports #alcohol #DrugLegalisation #news #media
You're looking at the rendering of a digital photograph of a piece of furniture featuring the sculpture of a helmet featuring a human face
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French Makes No Sense: Je T’aime ♥️
🐦🔗: https://nitter.hostux.net/loicsuberville/status/1608465263120228353
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Some books being elevated to the public domain from Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, etc.
also some movies like Metropolis
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#Browsers, time to bring back the RSS/Atom feed icon displayed when a website has an RSS/Atom feed. 
It's long past-due!
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One of the benefits of #Mastodon being #OpenSource: The EU can help make it more secure.
"Awards of up to EUR 5000 are available for finding security vulnerabilities in LibreOffice, LEOS, Mastodon, Odoo and CryptPad, open source solutions used by public services across the European Union. There is a 20% bonus for providing a code fix for the bugs they discover."
https://commission.europa.eu/news/european-commissions-open-source-programme-office-starts-bug-bounties-2022-01-19_en
TIL about [cluster headache](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache)
> _“The #pain […] is usually described as burning, stabbing, drilling or squeezing. While #suicide is rare, those with cluster headaches may experience suicidal thoughts (giving the alternative name ‘suicide headache’ or ‘suicidal headache’). […] The disease may be the most painful condition known to medical science. […] #ClusterHeadache is probably the worst pain that humans experience. […] Women with cluster headache will tell you that an attack is worse than giving birth. So you can imagine that these people give birth without anesthetic once or twice a day, for six, eight, or ten weeks at a time. […] Their pain was so severe that several of them had to be constantly watched for fear of suicide. Most of them were willing to submit to any operation which might bring relief.”_
#qualia #HedonisticImperative #consciousness
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🗞 Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe steps down as W3C CEO; Ralph Swick appointed Interim CEO https://ift.tt/V1GKpUP
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
