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Comment Re:You want a family friendly internet? (Score 1) 294

There is exactly one person in this whole wide world whose judgement about content and its appropriateness for me I will accept: MINE. There is exactly NO other person, organization, entity or being in existence that can successfully convince me that they should have any kind of say concerning my consumption of entertainment.

Personally, I consider a whole lot of shit inappropriate for consumption. Most of daytime TV comes to mind. Almost 99% of music is right behind it. And guess what, I make that decision for myself that it is inappropriate. For ME. Everyone else, I certainly do NOT think I have the right to dictate what they may or may not see, hear or for all I care smell.

That's THEIR decision. Not mine.

And it for fuck's sake certainly ain't any politician's!

Comment Re:Risk = Reward (Score 1) 224

And for men, especially in prehistoric times, those who took risks might have been rewarded with more and better food

Far more importantly, they were likely to be rewarded with more and better mates. Through history, most human societies practiced some degree of polygamy. Men are more likely than women to have many offspring, but they are also more likely to have zero offspring. So they have a stronger genetic incentive to pursue a risky "winner-take-all" strategy. Even today, a guy who takes risks that pay off, can sire a family, divorce, marry another woman half his age, and sire another family. Of course, this is easier in a community property state.

Comment Re:Psychologically speaking... (Score 1) 286

What is the unit of extraordinariness? If I have two semi-extraordinary pieces of evidence, does that satisfy the requirements for an extraordinary claim?

The whole idea of extraordinariness vs ordinariness is scientifically bogus. There are claims, and there is evidence. Either the claim is refuted by the evidence, or it is not. End of story...

Unless you have evidence to the contrary.

Comment Re:You want a family friendly internet? (Score 1) 294

Oh, ok. So it's ok for them to say their imaginary friend hates me, but if I go and say that usually people who heed the dictate of an imaginary buddy should probably consider seeing a shrink I get fucked over with "vilification of religious teachings"? Believe it or not, that is actually a legal term around here.

Just in case anyone thought that only in the US the religious hold the rest of the state hostage. There's equally insane bullshit littering the law books in Europe. Separation of church and state, my ass!

Comment Re:At a guess . . . (Score 1) 179

I actually use yellow tinted goggles after 6PM this time of year. The sunlight is so short and weak this time of year my sleep schedule gets totally messed up. When that happens in the summer I just get up in the middle of the night and work until bedtime, but that doesn't work here in December because there's not enough light during the day to get synced up.

So I try to go outdoors every day for an hour around noon, particularly if its overcast. And I wear those stupid goggles after 6PM, which is a PITA but beats lying in bed awake all night only to fall asleep at noon.

The particular pair I use (Uvex S1933X) cost only $8 and are, surprisingly, optically pretty good. There's slight distortion at the edge-of-field but they're fine in the center of the field. They don't actually block much blue light, but by looking at color swatches I've determined the cut off violet quite dramatically. When I put them on, all those irritating "blue" LEDS (which are actually violet) simply disappear. You can be looking straight at one with these puppies on and you'd never know it was lit, much less annoyingly bright. Subjectively, my eyes feel less tired too, although the lenses need frequent cleaning.

Another thing I find useful is a word processor called FocusWriter. It can edit ODT files, but it ignores all the color styling and hides all the Windows controls. The intent is to eliminate writing distractions, but I find it useful to eliminate blue-violet light exposure. I set the display background to black and the text background to amber, and those are the only colors on screen. I'd pay good money for an epaper ereader with an amber backlight. As for tablets, Amazon's Kindle App doesn't give you any nighttime-friendly options; the best is black text on sepia, but it's far too bright. Moon+ Reader is a good alternative for ePub files; Cool Reader is a GPL'd ebook reader that can be configured for comfortable nighttime reading, although it's UI isn't quite as polished as Moon+ Reader.

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