That is an interesting experience you described with the use of cocaine. I’m trying to understand this: would you say, while on a dopamine agonist you’d up the dose of cocaine as to reach the same effect when not on it if you’d feel compelled to do so?

The drug is Pramipexole and it has this weird side effect that has been well documented:

Pramipexole (and related D3-preferring dopamine agonist medications such as ropinirole) can induce “impulsive-compulsive spectrum disorders”[20] such as compulsive gambling, punding, hypersexuality, and overeating, even in people without any prior history of these behaviors.[21][22][23] There have also been reported detrimental side effects related to impulse-control disorders resulting from off-label use of pramipexole or other dopamine agonists in treating clinical depression.[24] The incidence and severity of impulse-control disorders for those taking the drug for depression are not fully understood because the drug has not been approved for the treatment of depression and the first major studies of its efficacy in treating anhedonic depression were conducted in 2022. There have been anecdotal reports of abrupt and severe personality changes related to impulsivity and loss of self-control in a minority of patients regardless of the condition being treated, although the incidence of these side effects is not yet fully known.[24]>

From Wikipedia.

This of course does not diminish the suffering of those affected.

As a teenager I loved to read Lovecraft. It was a way to learn English as a nice side effect because it isn’t my native language but that also obscured the appalling racism from me which lead to disappointment when I found out later.

The demise of Rapa Nui’s civilisation (Easter Islanders) is not because of deforestation, but because of colonialists. Prior to the encounters they were triving with agriculture despite (rather because) of deforestation. This was done to yield larger farm land and not because of a misguided goal to move some statues.

Saying they had it coming because they cut down their trees is colonialist propaganda and denies the folks of Rapa Nui to be victims of plundering and kidnappings.

Would that not imply that the incident count be lower in women? If they are getting fewer diagnosis than men makes me think that they socially adept better to not qualify, which on the other hand does not diminish their possible suffering.

Cao is usually pronounced as /tsao/. For example: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/操

This is a common misconception:

Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions sometimes do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are generally not sovereign territory of the represented state.

From wikipedia

What do you mean the terminal is stuck? Is it not responding? Or do you not know how to navigate out of the current working directory?

Is this not how it looks if you list receipients in the BCC field?

We have Dies Irae from Verdi’s Requiem. Not that it gets played much anymore since we are now older and dull.

A Necronomicon for the stone age.

Yeah, every time my child and I walk to the beach we collect the most interesting rocks we can find. And some beach glass. So that’s why I was thrilled finding this community of rock aficionados.

My life’s motto.

Thanks! I’d hoped with learning the name I finally would have learned the cause for the cavities, but alas it seems there’s no consensus as per the link you kindly shared.

End game not so much, rather a tendency where the world around him reflects his inflated ego by leaving some sort of legacy bearing his name: a nobel price or resolving a major conflict or annexing some other nation.

Ah, a fellow dry dreamer. I’m a dream virgin. I always wondered what it would be like, how it compares to the wake experience.

Not sure but I think the limiting rate is actually Python syscalling the kernel rather than the actual GPIO hardware.

It regretfully is not called hand socks.

Yes! And weirder that bicolour banded flags are not consistently on top. I suspect some float errors. I just know that using the typical Shannon style does even worse. I might add some filter that calculates a differential or something.

That really depends on the algorithm used. Ideally it takes colous and spacial information into account. I’ll keep you posted on the ranking.