insurgentrat

The real research is useful. Putting aside nerd rapture stuff which is probably fantasy as far as we can tell it ought to be possible to make thinking machines. whether we do? who knows. Increasingly we make and use machines able to make at least some decisions and the good research into alignment and training helps with even mundane shit; such as making sure the machine is actually seeing cancers and not say the institution the MRI was taken at.

Even with relatively stupid machines it would be important to have certainty that idk a car isn't going to take a shortcut through a pedestrian. You don't need to reach AM level for it to be important that an autonomous system using some degree of heuristic decision making, quote unquote, cares about the things we do.

You know the sound of Velcro being torn off really quick?

My dream would be drugs sold in an extremely boring and ugly place with no advertising. Like beige walls, unpleasant lighting. Plain packaging, nurse to educate on safer usage, harm reduction material and rehab advertisement. Volunteers on hand to talk about addiction and recovery experiences if you're interested.

You can get them with good safety information and without judgement but it's made as unappealing as possible. No colourful cans of beer with smiling people on them, no weed called like galaxybrain ultralove 7000, just plain "heroine, injectable preparation, 1 mg/ml" "cannabis, 100g, thc:cbd 2:1, dry herb preparation" etc.

We can't remove drug use but we can make it safer without encouraging use.

So much misinformation about nitrous oxide use.

Here's the lowdown:

• You can't tell when you're running out of oxygen, only when co2 builds up. If you are inhaling anything that isn't oxygen (e.g. nos, or even helium) you can very easily pass out and that can be dangerous.
• Low o2 levels can cause all sorts of problems, from brain damage to heart attacks. If you are using gas for any reason do so in a well ventilated space.
• if inhaling nos for recreational reasons at least mix it with air and avoid continual breathing. Monitor blood oxygenation with a cheap pulseox from a pharmacy. Better yet, buy oxygen and inhale a 20% o2 mix.
• Using nos depletes enzymes necessary for b12 use in the body. You cannot get around this by supplementing b12. This is the one drug you want to binge and leave large recovery periods in between. Enjoy a silly weekend then don't touch it for months. If you even slightly suspect you couldn't keep to this then don't touch it. Take it from someone with unrelated nerve injury, howevermuch pain you've experienced neuropathy is worse.
• Industrial or cooking supplies may not be safe for inhalation due to lubricants or impurities used. A weekend will be fine, but this is yet another reason to avoid chronic use.
• Never use anything that affects coordination while standing up. A fall from standing can just kill or permanently maim you. Don't be stupid.
• never fucking inhale anything directly from a pressurised container. If it could pop a balloon it could pop your lungs. That is an injury you do not want.

Drugs can be used with acceptable levels of risk for most people, but only with community and education. Don't be stupid, don't take unnecessary risks, and know yourself. If someone went skydiving without practice and guidance, and took shortcuts on safety equipment would you expect that to go well? Don't be stupid, don't diminish risks, but also don't inflate them.

I think I could get her to watch all of them! Thanks for your suggestions.

Oh I love that book!

I am willing to lie to her as long as I wont spend 50 years making up for it.

Like everyone, she's wrong about her preferences. If something is good enough she'll find it satisfying.

I love stalker but I don't make the rules. She likes to keep it upbeat, needs happy ending etc etc.

Hexbearians outing themselves as uncultured swine. Truly nothing can compare to the smell of crushed thyme wafting up as you sail o'er the rolling hills of France.

It is defs campy. Campy purple pros is essential to Gothic horror, it's part of what I love haha.

"Nature, I call unto thee, increase thy thunders . . . And hasten me upon the wings of thy barbarous winds.

You just can't get that shit anywhere else. I'm a big fan of the supererogatory phrase

It's literally magic. Her calling out resurrected him, from being "buried in darkness". He isn't like a vampire like idk lestat from Anne Rice's novels, he is more like a force of nature, devourance, plague, death made by Satan from a fell sorcerer to go do evil shit.

It's like fairy rules, he was killed before by a maiden's sacrifice, a maiden called out and awoke him again, they are magically bound and her sacrifice puts him down again. Presumably until some new sensitive person awakens him.

He doesn't have a choice in his desire for her.

He doesn't lose track of time. They are spelled together. He looks to the rising sun and she pulls him back to her breast.

They explain that 4 times in the film. Once Orlok says they can't resist each other and she will be his, once diagnosis? demon! doctor reads it in the big book, he mentions that to her when explaining he will keep her hubby at bay with a false hunt (and she has already figured out she must die which is why she asks to walk him to his door), and then at the end diagnosis demons explains it to the hubby after they watch her die.