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I couldn't figure out why my drafts weren't able to be edited after I Ieft the email to be done later. I finally got the answer in help when they asked if I want Gemini to be turned on so it could help me edit the draft. I thought I screen-shotted it, but I can't find it..

Was recommended retroreflective lights but i only have a small magnifyed mirror randomly which i taped up good and secure and just below eye level ever so slightly angled up just so and wouldn't ya know, incidents have decreased at least 69%

I do have blackout curtains but that wasnt enough (and also thats more for my privacy rather than specifically others' light pollution) so i had to bring out the big guns. The best part is i no longer feel anger or annoyance, because there is an automated, impersonal system setup that lets people choose how long they want to stall and experience their own light pollution. Its creating a better world tomorrow night, tonite.

The miracle of choice in action, its all about easing and leaning them into naturally automated impersonal consequences that let them be their own jailkeeper and options all the while I remain detached and transcendent. I'm out that game. Its a beautiful thing and I'm officially chill as cuccumber without any of the 'cumberment

Namaste🥱🪞🪟🚗⚖️❓

Edit: to anyone who says just move, I ignore and reject that, the offender can move, or more specifically, easily be made to move to my will and their own which are aligned conveniently in this case. Thats how you do it, the way is thru, not around or below/above

Pulling clear packing tape straight out or straight up will give you that loud tearing sound, especially if you pull it off quickly. Pulling clear packing tape backwards at an extremely acute angle along the roll eliminates that loud cracking, ripping sound entirely.

I can't find any mention of this tip online, so I had to improvise with the image.

Enjoy!

I don't know if this is an issue for other people, but I always hated that noise.

because that's fucking crazy.

they were like "hey, instead of using this land for our new city, let's take the trees from this land, strip their branches, transport them and shove them down into this lagoon in the next state, cut them so they're all level and then build a city on millions of log butts. it'll be fine in 1600 years."

and they were pretty much right.

The alder trees the wooden piles were made from are apparently still composed of sound alder wood, fiber cellulose, and their composition and placing are a big reason why Venice is still afloat.

fascinating article.

this is the other article by the team that inspected one section of the piles themselves about 10 years ago:

https://share.google/RLMuBm3wTDRaaI7m4

Chemtrails, trails of aerosolized chemicals secretly released from aircraft over civilian populations, were dispersed without consent or warning over US cities and towns in the early 1950s.

The US Army Chemical Corps conducted Operation LAC(Large Area Coverage), a program to test what it would be like to drop extremely dangerous bioweapons over enemy cities by dropping less dangerous carcinogens like zinc cadmium sulfide(ZnCdS), over US civilian populations without knowledge or consent, and without following up on the long-term health effects of dropping ZnCdS on US civilian populations.

The Army said the carcinogen was probably not harmful before dispersal, but no human trials were done

NIH recommends the Army conduct tests on the toxicity of ZnCdS since it can get stuck in the lungs

The Army was like, nah.

broad overview

YSK because as nonsensical as some later chemtrail theories became, the conspiracy of secret chemicals dropped from aircraft onto US civilians without knowledge or consent did occur, according to the US government and military branches that conducted the tests.

Sometimes doing the right thing makes a big difference.

in 1983, Petrov, a Soviet Lt Col, received multiple reports of US missiles being fired at the USSR but decided not to report the missiles to his direct superiors, who could order a retaliatory nuclear strike.

Petrov decided that the reports were more likely a system malfunction than a genuine attack from the US.

He was right; the detected "missiles" turned out to be reflected sunlight.

Professor Douglas Sandy at Arizona State University once caught someone plagiarizing. After being told things like "you will hear from my lawyer", he got curious and found books online that were supposedly written by this student. After getting one or more of them, he discovered that wildly big chunks (I can't remember if it was the whole thing) of books were plagiarized. I can't remember what happened after.

This makes it much easier to set your screen's brightness to a comfortable level at each time of the day.

(For Windows, see the very bottom of this post.)

On Linux, if you currently have no keyboard shortcuts for that available, a good way to create them is via ddcutil. Once you have ddcutil installed, have your displays' properties printed in the command line by typing ddcutil detect.

This should show you a list of parameters for each of the displays you have connected. For a display of your choice, try these commands:

ddcutil -n <Serial number> setvcp 10 - 5 # reduces brightness by 5 %
ddcutil -n <Serial number> setvcp 10 + 5 # increases brightness by 5 %

ddcutil -n <Serial number> setvcp 12 - 10 # reduces contrast by 10 %
ddcutil -n <Serial number> setvcp 12 + 10 # increases contrast by 10 %

ddcutil -n <Serial number> setvcp 10 0 # sets brightness to minimum
ddcutil -n <Serial number> setvcp 10 100 # sets brightness to maximum

If these commands all work, you can create in your desktop environment's settings (e.g. KDE) custom keyboard shortcuts that execute these commands. Personally, with my two displays and with dedicated "Brightness up" and "Brightness down" keys (macros) on my keyboard, I am using combinations with the modifiers Alt to address the secondary instead of the primary display, Shift, to adjust contrast instead of brightness, and Control to set an absolute value (0% or 100%) instead of going by increments.

Further notes:

Instead of addressing your displays via their serial number, you can also address your display via most other parameters shown in ddcutil detect by using another option than -n, e.g. via bus number or manufacturer name, but I've found that bus number is not persistent over the years, and manufacturer name ("Mfg id") may contain spaces which may lead to problems.

A full list of all other possible vcp commands (the numbers after setvcp) can be obtained through ddcutil vcpinfo.

If you're using a laptop, brightness adjustments for its internal screen are of course almost always a no-brainer.

On Windows 10 and perhaps 11 as well, you can apparently do the following:

Step 1: Press the Win + A to open the Action Center.

Step 2: Press Shift + Tab to select the brightness slider.

Step 3: Use the left and right arrow keys to adjust the screen brightness.

psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, has proven itself to be effective against depression and physiologically safe. there are over 100 therapeutic psychedelic experiments going through the FDA approval process since the breakthrough status designation.

"At Day 21, following the second dose, 53% and 44% of patients in the 12 mg and 16 mg groups, respectively, were classified as responders (achieving a 50% or greater reduction in MADRS scores). By Day 126 (four months after the initial dose), the percentage of responders increased to 75% in both dosing groups."

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/fda-breakthrough-therapy-designation-granted-to-novel-psychedelic-molecule-cyb003-for-major-depressive-disorder

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37247807/

caffeine only needs 190 mg per kilogram of body weight to have a 50/50 chance of killing you, whereas you would need 280 mg per kilogram of body weight of psilocybin.

caffeine

psilocybin

Weird that the nearly ubiquitous US pay-for- stay incarceration policy is never mentioned on TV, huh?

A conspiracy is "an unlawful, harmful, or evil plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot."

A conspiracy is not inherently fictional or nonfictional, it is a plan secretly devised by multiple people for an often harmful purpose.

In the same way books can be fictional and nonfictional, conspiracies can be fictional and nonfictional.

Fictional book: Harry Potter

Nonfictional book: The Diary of Anne Frank

Fictional conspiracy: Vaccines contain microchips - there is no evidence supporting this claim.

Nonfictional conspiracy: The Fake Electors plot - a documented and testified to attempt to steal the 2020 US presidency by Taco and friends by lying about the US election results

Nonfiction accounts are supported by verifiable, corroborated evidence.and has no rational basis for dispute

Why YSK: I see many posts and comments conflating the word "conspiracy" with "fictional scheme", which is not at all what the word "conspiracy" means.