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on What are these "bowls" for · c/cooking · 12 pts · 21d

Then I think they might be berry bowls https://www.epicurious.com/shopping/tiny-colander-berry-bowl

Letting water sit on soft fruit will speed up the process of them getting mushy and gross. So you wash them, put them in these, and the air circulates to help dry them off and they keep a little longer. I wouldn't try these with blueberries, but it looks like they'd work for strawberries, cherries, small apricots, etc. the lack of a hole in the bottom is probably because they're not for actively straining things. The size is probably about right for a single pint.

If a country is an enemy, it is condemned as undemocratic and sanctioned in various ways; but if it is an ally, the fact that it lacks freedom of expression, human rights or democracy is ignored ...

The European Union, in fact, imposes economic sanctions on one country, and sends financial aid and weapons to another; yet fails to do the same in the face of other, even more serious invasions with even more brutal consequences for entire populations ...

These contradictions ... suggest that, in practice, concerns boil down to the political and economic interests of different regions of the globe ...

There is no longer a real and stable framework of truth and values.

- Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, present day.

Hmm...

The decision by a sovereign instrumentality to give funds to a foreign anti-Communist political movement rather than to a Communist regime, at the time where the Cold War was beginning in earnest in Europe, is not a "commercial" act; it is jure imperii, a deeply sovereign act

- The Vatican, ~2005, arguing in Alperin v. Vatican Bank why they shouldn't have to hand over documents about, or, compensate victims of the holocaust, for laundering the gold the fascists brought them in WW2.

I look forward to seeing the documents and restitution now that the Vatican has reversed it's position. I expect this is the height of pontification though.

on Anthropeum daily game · c/dailygames · 2 pts · 74d

Never had a chance with that necklace. And ceramics are hard. Nice game though, I enjoyed it!

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I got the opportunity to rescue some baby plovers years ago when I was at work. They'd fallen down a storm water drain and just needed someone to lift the very heavy grate and scoop them out (and cover the drain a little to prevent it happening again later).

They looked like cotton balls, were not much larger than a couple of them, and they didn't weigh much more than that either. I knew birds were light but it gave me even more of an appreciation for just how light they are.

I'm pleased to say that brood made it to adulthood. Thanks for reminding me of that experience!

I don't think you're wrong about the inflammation, because naphthoquinones are anti-oxidants, and anti-oxidants are anti-inflammatory.

So, when dopamine or whatever else oxidizes into quinone form, they go and cause damage. This is "oxidative stress", a term frequently co-opted by snake oil merchants, but it's a real thing. When your body experiences oxidative stress, it triggers inflammation. Anti-oxidants help prevent oxidative stress by converting things like dopamine quinone back to catechol form, so they aren't wreaking havoc. Converting it back to catechol also means it can do what dopamine is supposed to be doing for you. So you get both less inflammation, and the usable dopamine you need, which helps your ADHD.

Inflammation and oxidative stress is also a self-perpetuating cycle - inflammation will cause oxidative stress and vice versa. So how much of your experience might be from reducing inflammation and how much is from having higher concentration of usable dopamine is not easy to determine - if it is any of this at all.

There are some very benign experiments you can try with your diet if you're interested. Natto is one of them, increasing the amount of leafy greens you eat like spinach (with a source of fat at the same time) is another, ideally alongside other colourful fruit and veg. If those also make you feel better, it may well be the quinones. If they don't, it could still be the quinones, but something else might be contributing from the lapacho or your body. I do know from my own experience that when my diet has a lot of diverse fruit and veg that my symptoms also reduce, but... It's hard to keep that up, for obvious reasons, so I'm actually interested in trying this tea myself.

Just don't accidentally take your ADHD meds within 30mins to an hour of eating fruit high in Vitamins C, especially citrus. It won't kill you or anything, but there is undesirable interaction.

science is not that interested in it after they made “cure for cancer” claims

I wouldn't be so sure about that. It seems β-Lapachone is still being very actively studied for its anti-cancer properties. It's clearly not a silver bullet, but almost nothing ever is.

ADHD studies are just not as attractive a research topic, especially compared to cancer, so despite the link between ADHD and oxidative stress / inflammation being relatively established, I doubt lapacho will be studied for this anytime soon.

The theobromine another person speculated might be part of it, but then you might experience similar from dark chocolate.

My speculation is the quinones and ortho-quinones; they're anti oxidants. Dopamine and serotonin both oxidize into quinone forms. In the quinone form, it seems they inhibit dopamine transport and slow cellular energy production, along with damaging some other stuff along the way.

But by introducing quinones from dietary sources, those steal the oxygen back from the dopamine quinone form to revert it back to its original catechol form.

Plant quinones aren't hugely bioavailable though, and are not water soluble (they are absorbed in the small intestine), so it might not be this at all, especially because tea, or maybe it's only partly this.

Given that you have a "temperamental" gut though, it could be affecting absorption of the other many quinones in lots of different foods. Perhaps have a look at how many different kinds of Vitamin K there are in foods and how much you get in your diet of each. (Ever tried natto? It's an acquired taste though...)

but my trust in the scientific method is very strong

There's trust in the scientific method, and then there's actively dismissing what your body is signalling. If you want to get hardcore, try ruling out your water intake hypothesis by brewing a different kind of tea for a few weeks. Try ruling out your good mood hypothesis by actively forcing yourself to make the tea when you're feeling shitty. Or asking your partner (if available) to brew it for you. Don't get dangerous with the experiments, of course.

Science is the best we've got, but it's not all-knowing or infallible.

It looks like ironfox disables WebGL by default to prevent device fingerprinting. If you go to about:config in your url bar, you can toggle it on to play and see how it goes. And then toggle it back off afterwards for the privacy.

Export control as a concept isn't new, but this a very new application of it. The ban seems to apply to all non-US citizens for a whole product version, not only one aspect of that product, or potentially even other versions of the same product.

The ban is also unlike cryptography in that this wasn't a military tech with regulatory controls that began to be adopted by companies who knew there were restrictions. This is the reverse, a ban applied to a pre-existing application where there were notoriously no controls in place.

Anthropic has multiple offices internationally, so even if we put Karpathy aside for a moment, it would be an unbelievably complex task to silo off internal access and work allocation. It's not like it's a Netscape situation where they have to make sure the few people working with the RSA algorithm details are US citizens, and they have to ship a slightly nerfed fork alongside the US version, for a product that works entirely on a local single machine.

I'm certainly not angered by the situation, but it's very clearly market manipulation with nonsensical justification, and far wider implications than just for Anthropic.

on Wizard stuff · c/witchymemes · 3 pts · 77d

Yeah the low res is really effective here. But check out top picture, bottom left, the head (?) on that eagle; also one of the attacking eagles.

Then look at how many of the eagles are in almost the exact same pose, often right next to each other.

The border lines of head feathers to body feathers is in the same shape for many too, with distinct lines - the difference with the Wikipedia photo is pretty stark for that aspect.

on Wizard stuff · c/witchymemes · 38 pts · 77d

Sadly this is slop. The pics appear to be from Homer Spit, Alaska, where there are legitimate gatherings of eagles (which is kind of weird in itself), but these pics aren't one of them.

They've added a lot of noise to the image to fit the body cam theme, but if you look closely, some of the eagle's heads are just... off.

Here's a photo of the real thing in the same general location as consolation.

Very fair point. I'm still inclined to think this wasn't primarily a marketing decision, because I don't think they would point the finger so directly at the government if that were the case. Perhaps the directive was a blessing in disguise for them though.

Either way, I think this is pretty telling for what we can expect over the next couple of months before we see any public SEC docs from either OpenAI or Anthropic. If it weren't for the immense damage it will cause for innocent people, I might have broken out some popcorn. Popcorn might be my staple food for financial reasons soon anyway.