Gemini Links 25/02/2024: Chronic Pain and a Hall of the Broken Things
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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🔤SpellBinding: ABLMOPW Wordo: OXBOW
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Frames Of Reference- Chapter 9
I thought he’d notice the sound of my car pulling up, greet me of his own volition, but it looks as if I’ll have to get out and take the initiative. No trouble.
I strut like a dejected cat, the sun hangs low over the peaks and the evening chill is setting in, but the splintered shadow of Verwus’ shack can be made out all the same, and my shoes scrape against the cracked concrete slab that at one point in time, long ago, must have been a driveway. It’s dead silent, and for a moment I consider that last night may have been a dream brought on by the sedative, that this is a dead realm and I have no business here.
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Advance prime requisite bonuses?
Some older editions of D&D have a rule where every batch of XP you would get, you get plus or minus a percentage of that XP. For example, a cleric with wisdom 4 gets -20% XP, or a fighter with strength 16 gets 10% extra XP.
I’m not sure of the gameplay wisdom of this; making those who are behind stay even further behind and those ahead get even further ahead.
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Our biogeoclimatic monomyth
As a bit of jargon, you've probably heard of the word "biome" before. A biome is a major regional complex of similar life. The biome I live in would probably best be described as a taiga, or a boreal forest: heavily forested, mostly by pines, spruces and things of that nature.
My home isn't the only boreal forest in the world. In fact, if you looked at a map you'd notice that there's a strip that traverses the whole circumference of the Earth that's mostly boreal forests along the more polar latitudes of the northern hemisphere. But, the boreal forests of North American aren't the same as those of Russia or Finland. They are similar in certain regards, but different. They've got different organisms living in them that respond well to the same kind of climate, and that's ultimately what a biome is: a set of climatic conditions you might find in different parts of the world. Those different places will lend themselves well to similar organisms.
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Gratitude - Being Aware
It's all the little things that matter. He's always aware of our surroundings. None of the others were that way. It's something that I know many people want in a partner, but I never thought about it much since I never experienced it really. I feel protected, yet at peace, independent, and calm. (and I make sure to still be aware of my surroundings as I should.) Things are easy, and in the last "rodeo", nothing was easy.
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it may look horrible
it may look horrible but it smells so sweet.
i saw flour was added, anyway - but not professionally. looked haphazard to me, but i'm no chef. you can see it's clumpy though. got the color of wet tissue you left in your pockets for months, plus the consistency of the jelly you get with fish eggs.
didn't realize it was so dangerous until i went to do a taste test. the chef put his hand on my chest as i was about to dip the spoon in. then he took it and plunged it to the base of the pan. had to double take when he pulled out was left. only the stem.
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chronic pain
i am so tired of my chronic pain. not even opioids (at the doses im comfortable with) help really. i've tried so many different medications and other things to help and my pain just keeps increasing.
i really hope this pain specialist can help. im at my wits end, i don't want to increase my opioid use because well primarily i hate the sideeffects of cotton mouth and constipation, but also apparently addiction runs in the family.
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people complement me on how many projects i do and how much stuff i get done so quickly but they don't really realise that the reason im constantly working on something is that if i don't have constant distractions i can't survive.
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Politics and World Events
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Gemini Radio — Episode 60: Trip to Afghanistan, Part 4
Trip to Afghanistan, Part 4
00:00:00 Introduction
00:07:57 Urbanization and Liberalization
00:25:50 First Night in Kabul
00:47:48 Tailor Shop
01:02:38 Abandoned Fortress and Bolani
01:17:20 Bagh e Babur
01:36:39 Interrogation
02:19:52 Dinners
02:30:45 Conclusion
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Technology and Free Software
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Game: ascii art telephone
Do you want to play telephone with me? *You can skip to # How to play.*
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Happy Birthday, Macintosh!
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ChatGPT wrote a wild story for me, again (It's a spinoff!) [Ed: Not wrote, spewed; and the quality of these is said to be appalling, a pagpag of plagiarism without grasp of content or context]
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Internet/Gemini
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In the Hall of the Broken Things
CloudFlare is another problem; probably this was due to them trying to run JavaScript to "check the security" of the SSL connection in w3m. Hence the new moniker for them, ClownFlare, as w3m is rather lacking in JavaScript support, and the notion of having to run JavaScript, a source of security issues, to check on who knows what with SSL strikes me as being, at best, silly. At present this isn't much of a problem as one usually can find some other page that hasn't been clownflared. Rather a larger problem for those academic papers is the iron curtain of JavaScript on the paper serving sites. The ones that do not use CloudFlare, that is.
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