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For me personally, best way to try to get more sleep is get really damned good blackout curtains. I'm really sensitive to light levels from a sleeping perspective, so I'll frequently wake up when it gets bright enough outside automatically...which sucks if you went to bed really late.
 
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Aldarion

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What? The article isnt about people trying to get more sleep and failing -- its the opposite.

Some people sleep ridiculous, excessive amounts of time. Like more than the "8 hours" nonsense. I mean there are grown ass adults walking around thinking "no man I need 10 hours or I'm too tired"

While others are fine on a reasonable amount, like 6 to 8.

Its like we're discussing why some people are fat and eat too much and you walk in with an anecdote about how you can make your belly hold a little more food if you walk around the table in between courses.
 
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www.salon.com

What makes humans intelligent? These unique neurons might hold the key

Research suggests our intelligence may arise from specialized brain cells only found in humans
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A great read about what makes the human brain unique: concept cells.

Now I want to see a study of variation in concept cells across human populations. Correlation with aphantasia / no inner monologue? Are there genetic markers? Really huge concept here.
 
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Wow, that was a fascinating read and makes complete sense. Developing language moved to abstract concepts because words had to represent things and brains that supported that had an advantage

The ethical concern aspect making it difficult to study is unfortunate - would be curious if elephants or orca could be shown to have evidence of concept neurons. Elephants have been shown to recognize accents/language in humans and avoided humans who are associated with elephant hunting tribes. Orcas also are frequently observed teaching each other skills or behaviors

Also would be impossible to tell, but I wonder if these existed in other human species, like Neanderthal
 
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If you lose, just call your opponent a smelly poo-poo head to feel better

Paris AP — British tennis player Harriet Dart has apologized after asking the chair umpire to tell her opponent to put on deodorant because she “smells really bad.”

Dart lost 6-0, 6-3 to French player Lois Boisson in the first round of the clay-court Rouen Open on Tuesday, and was picked up by a microphone during a changeover telling the umpire: “Can you tell her (Boisson) to wear deodorant? … Because she smells really bad.”

After the footage spread on social media, Dart posted an apology on Instagram and said “it was a heat-of-the-moment comment that I truly regret.”

“That’s not how I want to carry myself, and I take full responsibility,” she wrote. “I have a lot of respect for Lois and how she competed today. I’ll learn from this and move forward.”

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www.afterbabel.com

On The Death of Daydreaming

What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
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A great read on how smartphones have fucked up humans.

Whats unique in this piece is it doesnt pretend its an issue for children. It starts right off by saying "yeah this is happening to adults to".

Theres a dozen quotable sections but I especially liked this one:
We must, every day, try to reclaim the time that technology has colonized.

Why? Anecdotally, history provides many examples of scientific breakthroughs—“aha!” moments—that arose during moments of daydreaming or downtime: René Descartes in bed staring at a fly on the ceiling and coming up with coordinate geometry; Albert Einstein’s glimpse of the Bern tower on a streetcar ride prompting the theory of special relativity; the walk in the woods that prompted Nikola Tesla to devise alternating electrical current.
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But nearly everyone who reads this post or even clicks the link and reads the article will go back to doing exactly what the article describes, after they come here to call me an idiot cause their coworkers need to have acess to them 24-7 on some ridiculous app

I believe we are too far past the inflection point for it to ever be fixed, unless the networks themselves are destroyed....
 
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Aldarion said:
www.afterbabel.com

On The Death of Daydreaming

What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
www.afterbabel.com www.afterbabel.com
A great read on how smartphones have fucked up humans.

Whats unique in this piece is it doesnt pretend its an issue for children. It starts right off by saying "yeah this is happening to adults to".

Theres a dozen quotable sections but I especially liked this one:


But nearly everyone who reads this post or even clicks the link and reads the article will go back to doing exactly what the article describes, after they come here to call me an idiot cause their coworkers need to have acess to them 24-7 on some ridiculous app

I believe we are too far past the inflection point for it to ever be fixed, unless the networks themselves are destroyed....
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You're an idiot

Posted from my Galaxy S21
 
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This is hilarious and awesome


But this is ridiculous
It’s a topic of controversy when it comes to air travel: When your plane reaches its gate, when is the right time to stand up and begin the deplaning process?
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No, there is exactly zero controversy. If you're in row 21, every single goddamn passenger in rows 1-20 gets off the plane before you, and you sit there like a civilized person and wait your fucking turn
 
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If you are still seated when the row before you is deplaning your ass is getting skipped and your whole row is gonna be pissed, better be sitting in that window seat and not blocking anyone.

1. Never stand up until you are parked at the terminal and the fasten seat belt ding goes off.

2. Depending on how far back you are seated, Make reasonable accommodations to stand up, open the overhead bin and gather your bag before it's your rows turn to exit. If you are the aisle seat, be courteous and hand the bags to your fellow passengers in the middle and window seat if possible.

3. Exit the plane in a civilized manner.
 
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If you are still seated when the row before you is deplaning your ass is getting skipped and your whole row is gonna be pissed, better be sitting in that window seat and not blocking anyone.

1. Never stand up until you are parked at the terminal and the fasten seat belt ding goes off.

2. Depending on how far back you are seated, Make reasonable accommodations to stand up, open the overhead bin and gather your bag before it's your rows turn to exit. If you are the aisle seat, be courteous and hand the bags to your fellow passengers in the middle and window seat if possible.

3. Exit the plane in a civilized manner.
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All of that is correct but it doesnt change the number one rule at all.

Every single person seated in a row number lower than yours gets off the plane before you do.

If I'm on the plane I enforce this for 100% of the people seated behind me. It can get hilarious. If only someone up in row 1 or 2 would do the same we could make the whole damn plane act civilized.

It was always noticable when I landed in Texas, people would deplane like civilized human beings. No, sir, after you. Nowhere else is it so universal. But its the rule everywhere.
 
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Wasn't really sure where else to put this, but there's a rather large (~4 mil units) recall on Bowflex adjustable dumbbells that got released today.

Keep yourself safe and check the serial so that your head or neck doesn't get bashed in.
 
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Ironically my family has a set of those sitting in the basement for years, 182MAG1XX instead of the recalled 182MAG2XX so maybe they made a revision and screwed it up.

edit: looks like their remedy is a voucher for their website ranging from $60-$90 depending on which you had instead of full replacement. Modern era prices for a new set are $400+
 
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Aldarion said:
All of that is correct but it doesnt change the number one rule at all.

Every single person seated in a row number lower than yours gets off the plane before you do.

If I'm on the plane I enforce this for 100% of the people seated behind me. It can get hilarious. If only someone up in row 1 or 2 would do the same we could make the whole damn plane act civilized.

It was always noticable when I landed in Texas, people would deplane like civilized human beings. No, sir, after you. Nowhere else is it so universal. But its the rule everywhere.
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Or people not smart enough to place their things in the bin directly above their seats. People just throw shit wherever, not thinking that doing so greatly slows down getting off the fucking plane. The same goes for people who can't think ahead 1 minute and don't put their shit away until lines of people are wanting to leave. And people pushing forward irrespective of the wall of bodies in front of them is doing.

Air travel in this country has been completely ruined.
 
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Or people not smart enough to place their things in the bin directly above their seats. People just throw shit wherever, not thinking that doing so greatly slows down getting off the fucking plane. The same goes for people who can't think ahead 1 minute and don't put their shit away until lines of people are wanting to leave. And people pushing forward irrespective of the wall of bodies in front of them is doing.

Air travel in this country has been completely ruined.
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I'm glad I'm too big and grumpy looking for people to attempt to push past. Shit ain't happening.
 
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Never understood the rush to get off the plane when you have to stand at the baggage claim for 20 minutes anyway. Just sit there and relax until the aisle starts moving, then head out when there is a spot. Take a nice relaxing stroll through the terminal and then maybe have 10 min or less to stand around.
 
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Never understood the rush to get off the plane when you have to stand at the baggage claim for 20 minutes anyway. Just sit there and relax until the aisle starts moving, then head out when there is a spot. Take a nice relaxing stroll through the terminal and then maybe have 10 min or less to stand around.
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That's always been my argument too, people rushing about just to wait for their bag. Also, if I fly to the USA it takes 40 minutes to drive to the airport, 20 minutes to park and get to check in which is 2-3 hours before the flight, then an 8-10 hour flight, followed by customs, bags, and then car hire hire pickup etc etc, so 12+ hours. Why would I crouch over, half out of a seat getting stressed about not being off the plane in 10 seconds. It's the same dickheads who overtake in stupid places, to shave 1 minute off their 2 hour drive, because you're only doing 55 in a 50 zone, or they end up in hospital or a morgue because they crashed.
 
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Burns said:
Never understood the rush to get off the plane when you have to stand at the baggage claim for 20 minutes anyway.
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Top 3 reasons probably are:

1) Connecting flight concerns if you aren't at your destination and you have a tight window to catch the next flight
2) People want to use the airport bathroom instead of the airplane bathroom, or they have to use the bathroom and couldn't use it on the plane during the descent phase
3) They want to get off the plane after being cooped up on it for hours
 
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Kalaar kururuc said:
That's always been my argument too, people rushing about just to wait for their bag. Also, if I fly to the USA it takes 40 minutes to drive to the airport, 20 minutes to park and get to check in which is 2-3 hours before the flight, then an 8-10 hour flight, followed by customs, bags, and then car hire hire pickup etc etc, so 12+ hours. Why would I crouch over, half out of a seat getting stressed about not being off the plane in 10 seconds. It's the same dickheads who overtake in stupid places, to shave 1 minute off their 2 hour drive, because you're only doing 55 in a 50 zone, or they end up in hospital or a morgue because they crashed.
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Why is it 2-3 hours to get through check in?
 
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