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This idea reminds me of https://postsecret.com/ . I don’t know if it’s helpful, but it’s interesting.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/with-developer-verification-googles-apple-envy-threatens-to-dismantle-androids-open-legacy/ Is this what you’re asking about?

I watched a bunch of old twilight zone as a kid. I never watched new versions, because critics always had a lot negative to say about them, and I personally only sorta enjoyed the classics. They did stick with me, the classic ones, even when kid-me didn’t like them. They’re influential.

Honestly, if I was starting now, I’d just find a list of best episodes and watch those first, and if you are super into them, then you know you’ll probably enjoy the less notable ones. You can watch them out of order. The most famous ones are good to watch just to understand the many modern references to them.

I’ve seen some stories where vampires suck blood through their teeth, back when I read more vampire fiction, but I don’t know how common those are. I think it seems a bit comedic, so it probably depended on how funny the story was supposed to be.

Reading around, it seems like if you keep it within recommended dosages and have no existing kidney problems, it’s all good. The main thing is to make sure whatever supplement you’re actually taking is reporting the amount of creatine correctly.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/creatine-long-term-use-safety-11867165

Supplements aren’t regulated well.

I do think it’d be interesting to do a real study on it. Keto can reduce seizures, and after study it might turn out the same mechanism of action that helps there helps with schizophrenia symptoms. I hope there’s a more extensive study being planned out there.

It’s a treatment for people who don’t respond to medicine.

https://www.epilepsy.com/treatment/dietary-therapies/ketogenic-diet

It’s pretty interesting! I listened to a medical history podcast about keto years ago.

https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/sawbones/transcript-sawbones-ketogenic-diet Apparently the diet started as a treatment for epilepsy. Way back in history people noticed that if you were inclined to have seizures and were starving, you had fewer seizures. In the early 1900s there were experiments to figure out how to reduce seizures without, you know, starving them to death. keto!

I wouldn’t be shocked if keto had some kind of effect on the brain that helps with schizophrenia, but there’s no real info yet.

The evidence that ketogenic diet might help with schizophrenia symptom remission comes from two case reports that Palmer published in Schizophrenia Research in 2019. When discussing them, Palmer was quick to emphasise that “yes, it’s only two”, and that “case reports don’t prove anything. They’re not controlled. They come with tremendous amounts of bias.” But, Palmer noted, that can be important for generating hypotheses about what treatments might work. Palmer thought it was valuable to publish these case reports because remission of schizophrenia symptoms is incredibly rare.

Two case studies! The scientist quoted knows that it means nothing! Don’t read one article that might show something that confirms your bias and go “this is real.”

I’d assume drugs if I saw a guy staring at a vending machine for ages. That’s “took too much of something that doesn’t leave the system fast” behavior. Possibly he wanted to get something from the vending machine, but couldn’t hold on to the thought for long enough to go through the process. Perception of time gets fucked on those sorts of drugs, so he has no idea he’s been there for however long. The behavior sounds specifically like that of people I’ve known who accidently took a higher dose of edibles than intended.

The world is real but we perceive it with a brain that can read signals of it imperfectly if something goes wrong in there. That leads to strange behaviors like you described.

Well, abusers also groom witnesses (like: “see? you were around me and i didn’t abuse you or your kids. those accusers must be lying, right? you’re such a good judge of character!”) but I really really doubt that’s the case with this specific dude.

There’s no recall mechanism for members of congress. Fetterman has me reminding myself of constitutional law.

Name them cookie! Unless you don’t want to.

There are a bunch of different kinds of places that all link together! Lemmy is a bit like reddit, Mastodon is like twitter, Mbin does the twitter and reddit thing mashed together, pixelfed is like instagram, friendica is like facebook- and so on.

https://jointhefediverse.net/join?lang=en-us

Maybe this will help?

I think it’s an easy naming scheme when you have a litter of puppies to try and adopt out.

What are you interested in? I bet people can link you to some communities you might like, if you can’t find some just browsing.

Mastodon has microblogging, like twitter/x and bluesky, if you’re interested in that! Lemmy is more about finding communities on topics and posting in them.

https://www.rawstory.com/washington-post-lays-off-ukraine-reporter/

“I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I’m devastated,” reporter Lizzie Johnson wrote on X.

Remember to build something of some value to society in your lifetime so someday a billionaire will take and destroy it like a toddler with a toy.

Yeah, definitely. Anyone want to buy a stack of old encyclopedias? It’s a shame that so many useful resources are being removed or destroyed.

https://github.com/simonw/cia-world-factbook-2020/ Oh, hey, I saw this a minute ago.

Magnicide, maybe?