Man is it refreshing to hear a Taiwanese perspective in the mix. Every post, every comment is a bunch of armchair “experts” talking about an issue they clearly haven’t the slightest personal experience or context for. Not to come off as a jerk but it sure would be nice to hear what the actual people involved think instead of rank speculation. Reminds me of all the infectious disease experts during covid and military strategists in Feb 2022.

It’s called: “THAT MITCHELL AND WEBB LOOK”! Why else do you think they named it that way?

Tildes.net

It’s pretty heavily curated, but it’s where I go for non-bot discussion on any variety of topics. Sorted hierarchically, and they keep out the riff raff pretty actively.

The best thing is adding the metadata of a book by ISBN. That or simply search it on worldcat.org and adding by the browser extension.

Phenomenal citations manager.

Academics focused, but Zotero indexing a large cloud storage drive.

Let’s things organized by subject, tag, author, title, or whatever else I want. Also keeps my notes all in one place. Huge huge proponent and it’s open source!

Yeah! The US is totally a paper tiger! They’ve never even shown their military industrial complex is capable of effectively disrupting entire regions from the other side of the world!

What even is this take?

Should be required viewing in every middle/highschool class.

Yeah! Airbags suck! Wait, what?

Clown take if I’ve ever seen one lol

Paramotors. If you haven’t, give it a search. I don’t think it’s been done before outside of this conflict, but maybe in Ukraine as well?

Powered paragliding and bulldozers too, that was correct.

Yes and no. You are of course right about the economy of scale that injection molding gets you for price per part, but that isn’t the whole story is it?

When you are fighting in a highly fluid conditions, setting up production lines that rely on tooling would be really really nice, but that not the operating environment in Ukraine where they need weapons yesterday and can’t rely on long logistics trains.

With intermittent power at the front, and the difficulty resupplying anything under fire, a mobile production station like a cheaper 3d printer is the difference between being able to use existing mortar rounds as precision munitions, or needing to spend the fuel, time, and risk of compromise to the logistics convoy and personnel. Trucking in parts from a place with stable electricity, and tooling to produce something cheap and efficiently pales in comparison to the flexibility being able to rapidly iterate and adapt to the changes on the ground gives you.

It’s about the right tool for the right application, and there are negatives to additive manufacturing that are outweighed by the positives on the ground. It’s so much better to be able to make a small change mid-operation, than needing to redesign and change tooling for a minor but important change.

Right tool, right job, right time. 3d printing is a part of that, but not a solution. Nothing is really.

Hey so I’m not a therapist but I have some personal experience with CBT as an ADHD haver. I’m my humble opinion, people really need to not get their advice from an internet posting when it comes to this stuff. There’s so much bad info (even in this thread) that I’m not sure how useful this reply will be, but CBT is a demonstratedly effective tool set for retraining internal dialog and consistently produces measurable improvements in mental health across a variety of metrics.

That said, only a licensed therapist will be able to judge whether or not it’s the right fit for any one specific person. More importantly, CBT is only one of a variety of approaches and what seems to make even more of a difference is finding a good fit with the provider. That is to say, the best technique with a poor provider is going to be much less effective than a different approach from a provider you click with.

There are some really valuable tools in the CBT tool case. But there are a lot of valuable tools out there in general, and finding a provider who can help lead their patient to learn to use them is much much more important than which shelf they come off of.

All the best. It’s not an easy process regardless, but well worth the effort.

It’s not all one thing or the other. People ascribe these kind of blanket generalizations to US foreign policy frequently but it’s as short-sighted as painting German foreign policy as imperial. Certain US presidents have started wars. Others the Marshall plan, WTO, IMF, the UN, NATO, etc.

Right now there’s a crisis in the US driven by the same fear of change that drove them into containment during the cold war. That isolationist populism certainly benefits some narratives but it’s no better than the worst elements of China-first economic coercion in the ACS that’s alienated a lot of Philippine fishermen in recent years.

Fact is the biggest threat to the human race is the dissension these isolationists/populists are selling. No meaningful action on climate, migration, or the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine can occur in that worldview and anyone should be suspicious of politicians who promote them.

Most US policy has been quite good when non-isolationists have occupied the white house, just like most non-reich based German leadership has strengthened European unity. The Nazis and Trump’s me-first exceptions prove the rule. Education, familiarity, and exposure should be the Rx for the US right now, along with all the countries dealing with the current wave of populist snake oil movements. In the words of a US propaganda film of the same name “don’t be a sucker”.