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  • I'm interested in seeing an answer to this, too.

    For terpenes, please try Ajwain seeds. or pine-needles.

    I prefer pine-needles: the ajwain seeds are just too strong.

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    Oh, maybe search PubMed for the specific plants you're considering?

    That might provide some medical research papers..

  • Why is predictive text so hard to disable?
  • It's simple:

    Beat the population into learned-helplessness,

    & then all the AI molestingware that the device can run, can be running in it.

    Desensitization/enforced-learned-helplessness.

    It's just a conditioning-step, is all.

    The profit is in having the population not have any privacy left, & living only within the neuromarketing-platforms that the mainstream operating-systems are becoming.

    It's just a step in the suckerpunching humankind, is all.

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  • Advice Needed: Viable grass for a catio
  • Try oats: they love eating the shoots.

    When you buy "cat grass", it's oats.

    Just get some whole oats from your local health-food store, & plant 'em, & let your friends eat the stuff to their hearts' content:

    it'll do their health good, too!

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  • Requirement Management Tool
  • I'm suggesting you invest in reading a book on https://www.LeanPub.com called "Algebra-Driven Design".

    the reason I'm suggesting it is that the complex-requirements you're being persecuted-by, are exactly the sort of thing that that book can help with.

    ( I'm presuming you code )

    By creating the domain's algebra, & using meta-programming, you can prevent whole categories of bugs.

    I only got part-way into the book ( I'm braindamaged, & have beenfailing to learn programming since the 1980's, when I lost 1/10th of my brain-volume ), but being able to create an APi with ZERO bugs in it, is part of what I'd seen in that book.


    I'm a huge believer in keeping requirements divided into dimensions, & keeping those dimensions orthogonal, because once you fail in doing that, you're fscking doomed.

    Here: got the link for you:

    https://leanpub.com/algebra-driven-design

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  • Can electric woks produce great stir-fry?
  • Sorry, but air-quality damage from gas cooking & air-quality damage from burning cooking-oil have nothing to do with each-other.

    Both create harmful air.

    Cooking with electric stove ( induction seems to be the cheapest, next to microwave, in terms of energy ) removes the air-quality harm done by gas.

    Burning cooking-oil harms air-quality no matter what heating-technology was used to produce the mistake.

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  • AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside
  • To the best of my knowledge, back-propagation IS learning, whether it's happening in a neural-net on a chip, or whether we're doing it, through feedback, & altering our understanding ( so both hard-logic & our wetware use the method for learning, though we use a rather sloppy implimentation of it. )

    & altering the relative-significances of concepts IS learning.

    ( I'm not commenting on whether the new-relation-between-those-concepts is wrong or right, only on the mechanism )

    so, I can't understand your position.

    Please don't deem my comment worthy of answering: I'm only putting this here for the record, is all.

    Everybody can downvote my comment into oblivion, & everything in the world'll still be fine.

  • What is Cara, the anti-AI social media app for artists?
  • You don't have to do ANYthing in order to have copyright on your images.

    That is standard throughout the Berne convention & has been for decades.

    Registering makes court-cases easier to win, but having copyright on one's renditions isn't in any way requiring that one have registered anything with anybody.

  • Beehaw, what are your thoughts on Thomas Berry's 10 principles?
  • A question to consider, in the frame-of-reference of these 10:

    What are the rights of rabies-virus?

    It is a form of life, so it must have rights, then, yes?

    Smallpox?

    Ebola?

    Bloodworms?

    Cancer?


    Malfunctions happen, chaotically: including malfunctions in genetics, in evolution, in ecology, etc.

    Sometimes correction is required.

    Within an individual, within a population, or within an entire-ecology.

    This 10 doesn't allow that.

    ( also, it is life, not existence, which is the fundamental-validity: lumps of lead exist, they aren't living )


    just the opinions of an autistic rando, is all:

    pay no attention to meanings of mine.

  • “It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis
  • Use CD-RW: it records the information in the crystallization of metal.

    It's the ONLY method I've encountered that seems damn-near eternal.


    I've no idea if the DVD-RW discs also are metal-layers.


    The record-1-time media deteriorate, though the AZO chemistry is supposed to last longer.

    Magnetic media all deteriorate.

  • Hi, bees! Outside of news and politics, what kind of topics would you like to see more on Beehaw?
  • Decades ago, I discovered that there are 4 dimensions that need to be covered, in balance, in community news:

    • the Strategic issues, 7+y as a rough guideline, for significance
    • the Tactical issues, 1-3y as a rough guideline
    • the little Pervasive annoyances that never get given a headline, but are a "tax" on people's wellbeing
    • Grow The Good!! community, culture, accomplishments, anchoring people's hope, humanity, validity, etc.

    Leaving-out any 1 of those 4 dimensions has long-term costs.


    this is just what one autist discovered, it doesn't mean you have to think there's any validity in the concept.

  • Democracy is at stake. | An address from Bernie Sanders
  • https://www.hiddendominion.com/sir-glubbs-250-year-hypothesis-on-the-duration-of-great-nations/

    Anybody who pretends that the US hasn't operated as an empire, there is even a book named "How To Hide An Empire" on it.

    That insight ( the link ) of Glubb's was important.

    Please glance at the history backing it, in that table, on that page..


    I believe it is partly that the empire-rulers identity becomes sooo completely mis-matched from the actual composition of the empire, that it is an inevitable self-destruction, at that age of its evolution.

  • Are We Watching The Internet Die?
    1. insightful question,

    2. it isnt just the internet, in case you hadn't noticed, it is ALL civil-rights that are being gutted, in the enshittocene.

    "once the infection has moved the 'fulcrum', the balance between the involuntary-host & the infection, far enough, it can then switch from symbiosis to totalitarian rampaging growth-at-any-cost, excluding-all-vital-functions, enforcing its parasitic & fatal consumption, killing the patient"

    A tipping-point is being crossed, though it's taking a few decades ( planets are slower than individual-animals, in experiencing infection ).

    It's our rendition of The Great Filter, in-which we enforce that we can't be viable, because factional-ideology "needs" that we break all viability from the world.

    Or, to be plainer, it is our race's unconscious toddler setting-up a world-breaking tantrum, to "BREAK GOD AND MAKE GOD OBEY" its won't-grow-up.

    Read Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast & Slow", & see how the imprint->reaction mind, Kahneman1 ( he calls it "System 1", but without context, that's meaningless ) substitutes easy-to-answer questions for the actual questions..

    The more you read that book, the most important psychology book in the whole world, right now, the more obvious it is that Ideology/prejudice/assumption-river/religion/dogma is doing all it can to break considered-reasoning ( Kahneman2 ) from the whole world, and it is succeeding/winning.

    "Proletariat dictatorship" the Leninists want, "populist dictatorship" the fascists want, religious totalitarianism, political totalitarianism, ideological totalitarianism, etc, it's all Kahneman1 fighting to break considered-reasoning from the whole world, and the "disappearing" of all comments criticizing Threads from the Threads portion of the internet .. is perfectly normal.

    It's simply highjacking of our entire civilization, by the systems which want exclusive dominion.

    Have you checked your youtube account's settings section, in the history section, to see what percentage of your comments have been disappeared??

    Do it.

    Everybody do it.

    Discover how huge a percentage of your contribution to the "community" got disappeared, because it wasn't what their algorithm finds usefully-sensationalistic, or usefully-pushing-whatever-they-find-acceptable.

    I spent a few hours deleting ALL my comments from there, after seeing that around 1/2 of what I'd contributed had been disappeared.

    There are a few comments now, but .. they'll be removed, either by yt or by me, soon.

    No point in pretending that meaning is tolerable, anymore, you know?

    Only fakery & hustle remains, for most of the internet, & that transformation's going to be complete, in a few years.

    1984, but for-profit.

    Sorry for the .. dim .. view, but it's been unfolding for a couple decades, & it's getting blatent, fast.

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