Miscellaneous Discussion Thread II
Quote: billryanIf I write an A-worthy paper, why would you think it's okay to penalize me because of what other students do?
It isn't a competition between students;
No, actually it is. "A" is supposed to be "superior." Only a small minority can be superior. Your paper cannot be "A Worthy" unless it is better than 90% of the other papers.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: billryanIf I write an A-worthy paper, why would you think it's okay to penalize me because of what other students do?
It isn't a competition between students;
No, actually it is. "A" is supposed to be "superior." Only a small minority can be superior. Your paper cannot be "A Worthy" unless it is better than 90% of the other papers.
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A paper is supposed to show your grasp of the subject and your ability to research and advance your position. If you do an outstanding job, you earn an A. I'd have thought you would be against quotas. Do you really believe the grade you receive should depend on anyone but yourself? Should a research paper be graded not on its contents but on where it fits in relative to others in your class?
That's silly. If the entire class does D work, who decides which 20% of them get A's?
Quote: billryanQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: billryanIf I write an A-worthy paper, why would you think it's okay to penalize me because of what other students do?
It isn't a competition between students;
No, actually it is. "A" is supposed to be "superior." Only a small minority can be superior. Your paper cannot be "A Worthy" unless it is better than 90% of the other papers.
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A paper is supposed to show your grasp of the subject and your ability to research and advance your position. If you do an outstanding job, you earn an A. I'd have thought you would be against quotas. Do you really believe the grade you receive should depend on anyone but yourself? Should a research paper be graded not on its contents but on where it fits in relative to others in your class?
That's silly. If the entire class does D work, who decides which 20% of them get A's?
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Generally agree. I would grade resident doctors. If there were 20, in an average year one would merit a failing grade. That doesn’t mean there couldn’t be years where none would fail, or more than one would. For the ‘best resident’ award, no matter how good or how bad, there would always be one.
Quote: DieterQuote: rxwineThere’s a news story about Harvard allowing As to only 20% of the students.
Can’t you just make harder tests of many subjects instead of doing that? Almost any course has enough detail to compose a harder test. That’s my theory anyway. Surely the instructor of the easiest course still has more minutiae knowledge than 90% of the students in his class, Or perhaps add a speed requirement into the test. If you really know something well, you can usually fly through it faster than others.
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So grading becomes relative, not absolute?
Some extremely competitive student might be incentivized to get the top rated students sick (or otherwise impaired), to improve his relative standing?
Surely, nothing could go wrong with such an incentive structure.
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Yes, sometimes it is relative. And back when Ivy League schools were real schools and grading was competitive, students would do things like that to one another all the time.
A notorious one was when they had to use research material from the library, non-circulating, irreplaceable references that you are unlikely to find outside of an elite university, they would all have to take turns reading it in the reading room and taking notes. So someone would use a razor blade to cut the relevant pages out and take them with him so no one else could access the same information he did.
Understandable that professors do this especially at an underclassman level, because they don't know what they're going to be getting from the high schools or what the admissions department is going to be accepting for financial or other non-academic reasons and a curve also keeps them from having to flunk everyone. Then he can modify how he grades so that he doesn't have to flunk or give A's to an unexpected number of students.
Quote: billryanQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: billryanIf I write an A-worthy paper, why would you think it's okay to penalize me because of what other students do?
It isn't a competition between students;
No, actually it is. "A" is supposed to be "superior." Only a small minority can be superior. Your paper cannot be "A Worthy" unless it is better than 90% of the other papers.
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A paper is supposed to show your grasp of the subject and your ability to research and advance your position. If you do an outstanding job, you earn an A. I'd have thought you would be against quotas. Do you really believe the grade you receive should depend on anyone but yourself? Should a research paper be graded not on its contents but on where it fits in relative to others in your class?
That's silly. If the entire class does D work, who decides which 20% of them get A's?
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It cannot be "outstanding" unless it is graded against other papers, otherwise how do you know what "outstanding" means. Yes, I believe an "A" should be based on what the rest of the class does. When half the class gets an "A" it ceases to be an "A."
It is called a "bell curve." Look it up.
I had one HS teacher who was so bad the class would regularly flunk tests. He had to devise a curve for every test he gave so that students who got 40's at least passed the tests. If you got an 85 you got an A. If you got a 70 you got a B, etc.
A Jr HS math teacher had us do extra credit work and out of his hundreds of students, only one was deserving of an A+ for each report card period, because of high test scores over 100% and extra credit homework handed in. I got it twice! I'm addicted to math.
I got into college and the teacher marked me down on a test to a failing grade. I had to go up after class and explain how he was wrong to mark all my answers wrong, and I got an A.
I think if the teachers are going to give hard tests and everybody still Aces them because they were top of the class to even get into that school, there shouldn't be a curve to separate them out and make 93's B's and 85's C's, etc. Some teachers suck and give too hard tests that most of the class nearly fails and it brings the grade average down with family consequences.
Quote: DieterQuote: rxwineThere’s a news story about Harvard allowing As to only 20% of the students.
Can’t you just make harder tests of many subjects instead of doing that? Almost any course has enough detail to compose a harder test. That’s my theory anyway. Surely the instructor of the easiest course still has more minutiae knowledge than 90% of the students in his class, Or perhaps add a speed requirement into the test. If you really know something well, you can usually fly through it faster than others.
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So grading becomes relative, not absolute?
Some extremely competitive student might be incentivized to get the top rated students sick (or otherwise impaired), to improve his relative standing?
Surely, nothing could go wrong with such an incentive structure.
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If mastery were the only thing, Harvard could just issue pass or fail certificates for grades. You mastered it or you didn't. Is that what they want?
Quote: rxwineQuote: DieterQuote: rxwineThere’s a news story about Harvard allowing As to only 20% of the students.
Can’t you just make harder tests of many subjects instead of doing that? Almost any course has enough detail to compose a harder test. That’s my theory anyway. Surely the instructor of the easiest course still has more minutiae knowledge than 90% of the students in his class, Or perhaps add a speed requirement into the test. If you really know something well, you can usually fly through it faster than others.
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So grading becomes relative, not absolute?
Some extremely competitive student might be incentivized to get the top rated students sick (or otherwise impaired), to improve his relative standing?
Surely, nothing could go wrong with such an incentive structure.
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If mastery were the only thing, Harvard could just issue pass or fail certificates for grades. You mastered it or you didn't. Is that what they want?
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Relative rankings seem meaningless.
I don't need the strongest weakling; I need to know if a person can lift a certain weight. It's nice that you can outrun me, but I want to know if you can outrun the bear. That seems to be how rubrics and metrics work.
I know there's at least one private prep school that maintains their standard of excellence by booting out subpar students. Their education is okay; their filtration is excellent.
The introduction to a certain Jarvis Cocker tune comes to mind, although I'm trying to be classy about it.
Quote: rxwineQuote: DieterQuote: rxwineThere’s a news story about Harvard allowing As to only 20% of the students.
Can’t you just make harder tests of many subjects instead of doing that? Almost any course has enough detail to compose a harder test. That’s my theory anyway. Surely the instructor of the easiest course still has more minutiae knowledge than 90% of the students in his class, Or perhaps add a speed requirement into the test. If you really know something well, you can usually fly through it faster than others.
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So grading becomes relative, not absolute?
Some extremely competitive student might be incentivized to get the top rated students sick (or otherwise impaired), to improve his relative standing?
Surely, nothing could go wrong with such an incentive structure.
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If mastery were the only thing, Harvard could just issue pass or fail certificates for grades. You mastered it or you didn't. Is that what they want?
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You can get a Brown University degree taking all your classes pass/fail. Most students opt for a mix of ‘regular grades’ and ‘pass/fail’ classes. Because of this, Brown does not even give a GPA for its students.
I've always been amazed by musicians who can play classical piano in this manner
just incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhoARwu6cBg&list=RDEhoARwu6cBg&start_radio=1
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Police found an unidentified male in 1975 but couldn't identify him with the technology of the day. Recently, the body was ID'd, and it turned out the man's daughter worked less than a mile from where the body was found.
No word on why no one ever reported him missing or why benefits were being paid out to a 123-year-old man.
Quote: billryanVery strange murder case here in Tucson. Police arrested a 79-year-old woman for fraud. It is alleged that she has been cashing her father's pension and Social Security checks for 50 years. She was caught when someone realized a man collecting a state pension for over fifty years had never visited a doctor or had a prescription filled since 1973. More serious charges are expected this week.
Police found an unidentified male in 1975 but couldn't identify him with the technology of the day. Recently, the body was ID'd, and it turned out the man's daughter worked less than a mile from where the body was found.
No word on why no one ever reported him missing or why benefits were being paid out to a 123-year-old man.
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Not new or rare, generational Social Security fraud. Remember when there were reports of all these people in South miraculously living to 130 or 140, but being denied recognition for this achievement because racism or something? It was obvious what was going on. Can't say anyone was murdered, more likely just died and informally buried with no records, and in a town where everybody knows to keep their mouth shut.
In Vegas when I would choose to ride my bike to one of the casinos, I learned quickly I needed to lock my seat down. Instead, I wrapped solder around the seat post. Looked like a b----- to get off, either hacking at it or unwinding. But was all an illusion. Did the job.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: rxwineWell, I doubt this is far enough.
Quote:Municipalities generally require data center buildings to be located anywhere from 200 to 500 feet away from residential property lines
The one video I looked at mentioned the highway nearby was loud, but at least it was quieter at night whereas the data center was constant.
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THINK!
If the data center was that loud outside people would not be able to work INSIDE. Inside would probably be 10X as loud as outside.
200 to 500 feet sounds average for any commercial/industrial buffer zone.
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People don't generally work "inside". There are technicians who go in briefly to repair or replace, and then promptly exit. It's hot, loud, and dark, because keeping the lights off saves a few bucks of power and cooling.
The highly paid programmers and data scientists are usually off site, because anything that doesn't need to be touched with a screwdriver can be done remotely over the network.
70 decibels at the property line doesn't seem awful, until it's incessant.
Cheapest single seat (not really a seat…. Standing room) was $335! If you wanted an actual seat it was over $600!!!
Front section was over $1k.
You going, MDawg?!?
Quote: SOOPOOIncredibly, my wife has become addicted to watching ‘Power Slapping’. She streams it for free. So I went on line to see where events are held, ticket availability, etc…. Only scheduled event in USA is in…. of course….. Las Vegas! July 10.
Cheapest single seat (not really a seat…. Standing room) was $335! If you wanted an actual seat it was over $600!!!
Front section was over $1k.
You going, MDawg?!?
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You never know what someone’s interest will be.
Lots of promise in various potential events. “Slap off”, “Slap King” “Slapping the Night away (endurance slap)”, “Can’t stop slapping”
Or how about Battle Royale Slap. A ring full of contestants slapping.
Pre-dawn on June 6th, 1944, 13,000 American paratroopers, along with 10,000 Allies, jumped into Normandy. By the day's end, 150,000 troops had successfully established a beachhead, at a cost of some 10,000 lives.
Freedom comes with a high cost.
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70 decibels at the property line doesn't seem awful, until it's incessant.
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Funny you mention that- I'm dealing with a noise issue in my apartment, from someone else's A/C compressor, where I measured the noise at 70 decibels.
Literally on my pillow.
If it was incessant it would be less atrocious than cycling on and off every 10-15 minutes.
Quote: billryanFor four years after the fall of France, Hitler and his minions spent billions of dollars and used tens of thousands of conscripted slave laborers to build his Atlantic Wall to ward off an invasion across the British Channel. But his design had a fatal flaw. It didn't have a roof.
Pre-dawn on June 6th, 1944, 13,000 American paratroopers, along with 10,000 Allies, jumped into Normandy. By the day's end, 150,000 troops had successfully established a beachhead, at a cost of some 10,000 lives.
Freedom comes with a high cost.
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You would have thought he would have learned something about the limited value of immovable barriers when he invaded France to begin with.
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70 decibels at the property line doesn't seem awful, until it's incessant.
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Funny you mention that- I'm dealing with a noise issue in my apartment, from someone else's A/C compressor, where I measured the noise at 70 decibels.
Literally on my pillow.
If it was incessant it would be less atrocious than cycling on and off every 10-15 minutes.
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Sounds like maybe you should disable his unit so he has to get it fixed.
Quote: AutomaticMonkeyQuote: Dieter...
70 decibels at the property line doesn't seem awful, until it's incessant.
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Funny you mention that- I'm dealing with a noise issue in my apartment, from someone else's A/C compressor, where I measured the noise at 70 decibels.
Literally on my pillow.
If it was incessant it would be less atrocious than cycling on and off every 10-15 minutes.
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I find sound blocking earmuffs surprisingly comfortable to sleep in.
Much more pleasant than weeks of sleep deprivation.
Quote: DieterQuote: AutomaticMonkeyQuote: Dieter...
70 decibels at the property line doesn't seem awful, until it's incessant.
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Funny you mention that- I'm dealing with a noise issue in my apartment, from someone else's A/C compressor, where I measured the noise at 70 decibels.
Literally on my pillow.
If it was incessant it would be less atrocious than cycling on and off every 10-15 minutes.
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I find sound blocking earmuffs surprisingly comfortable to sleep in.
Much more pleasant than weeks of sleep deprivation.
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As long as you can still wake up to smoke alarms.
I wonder if that is why my property value has dropped 20% in four years.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/florida-cape-coal-home-prices-3f64a0df
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_bScR4Tzis
Quote: DieterQuote: AutomaticMonkeyQuote: Dieter...
70 decibels at the property line doesn't seem awful, until it's incessant.
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Funny you mention that- I'm dealing with a noise issue in my apartment, from someone else's A/C compressor, where I measured the noise at 70 decibels.
Literally on my pillow.
If it was incessant it would be less atrocious than cycling on and off every 10-15 minutes.
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I find sound blocking earmuffs surprisingly comfortable to sleep in.
Much more pleasant than weeks of sleep deprivation.
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Oh no, there is so much noise and vibration that even the PPE I use for shooting is ineffective at getting the volume down to where I can sleep.
But I did one better- checked into a weekly rental for the purpose of sleeping, certified letters have been sent, code inspectors contacted, legal paperwork submitted, a few GB of documentation has been compiled already and there is more every day, and now it's my turn to be a ruthless bar-sinister.
Regarding the weekly- I like it! Due to background I prefer the world of the lower class to that of the middle, as long as things aren't filthy, noisy, are generally in working order, and nobody there wants to hurt me. Seeing the slow walks, smiles, the laughter and cigarettes around a picnic table, the simpatico staff that understands what is and what is not worth worrying about.
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70 decibels at the property line doesn't seem awful, until it's incessant.
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Funny you mention that- I'm dealing with a noise issue in my apartment, from someone else's A/C compressor, where I measured the noise at 70 decibels.
Literally on my pillow.
If it was incessant it would be less atrocious than cycling on and off every 10-15 minutes.
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Sounds like maybe you should disable his unit so he has to get it fixed.
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[checking statutes of limitations] Yes, and I have been present for such events in the past.
But in this place all of the units are on the roof and bringing a ladder to a single, very visible access hatch is necessary to get there, and I think the odds of getting caught are unacceptably high. Also possibly a felony due to the value.
I considered something else too, which would require a good line of sight to it from an obscured vantage point, and the problem would be solved on July 4th. But I can't see it from the ground.
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I considered something else too, which would require a good line of sight to it from an obscured vantage point, and the problem would be solved on July 4th. But I can't see it from the ground.
Ukraine has proved that FPV drones are good for operations like that.
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70 decibels at the property line doesn't seem awful, until it's incessant.
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Funny you mention that- I'm dealing with a noise issue in my apartment, from someone else's A/C compressor, where I measured the noise at 70 decibels.
Literally on my pillow.
If it was incessant it would be less atrocious than cycling on and off every 10-15 minutes.
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I find sound blocking earmuffs surprisingly comfortable to sleep in.
Much more pleasant than weeks of sleep deprivation.
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I've been wearing two things for the last 25 years to sleep better. A hoodie with the hood pulled down almost completely over my face and over my ears and a pair of sound blocking earmuffs over the hoodie, the construction type. It blocks out 80% of the sound maybe. The wizard does this also He's the one that told me to never buy plastic earmuffs always buy the wire ones and I did 15 years ago and I'm still using the same pair. You have to sleep on your back of course but I've been sleeping on an incline on my back for 40 years so that's not a problem. Sleeping on an incline on your back you wake up every morning in exactly the same position you went to bed in. No part of your body ever falls asleep Your back never hurts It's wonderful
I'd be preparedQuote: SOOPOOIncredibly, my wife has become addicted to watching ‘Power Slapping’.
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I've been wearing two things for the last 25 years to sleep better.
My method for about 15 years was 10 alcoholic drinks followed by a 10mg Ambien.
Quote: DRichThe city where I live, Cape Coral Florida, now has the distinction of being the worst housing market in the U.S. and has also been named the worst designed city in the U.S. Not coincidentally it was also the fastest growing city in 2022..
I wonder if that is why my property value has dropped 20% in four years.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/florida-cape-coal-home-prices-3f64a0df
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_bScR4Tzis
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These things are cyclical. Atlantic City was the #1 market one year in the late 1990s and ended up on the worst list a decade later. You're in no rush to sell or refinance, so don't sweat it.
Quote: DRichQuote: EvenBob
I've been wearing two things for the last 25 years to sleep better.
My method for about 15 years was 10 alcoholic drinks followed by a 10mg Ambien.
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That explains the sterling quality of your health today
Quote: odiousgambitI'd be preparedQuote: SOOPOOIncredibly, my wife has become addicted to watching ‘Power Slapping’.
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If your wife is addicted to power slapping who is it do you think she's visualizing in her head is the one getting slapped. I guarantee it's not her
There is alot of threads online about the crazy things people did while on ambien. Did you do anything unusual while taking it?Quote: DRichQuote: EvenBob
I've been wearing two things for the last 25 years to sleep better.
My method for about 15 years was 10 alcoholic drinks followed by a 10mg Ambien.
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I find sound blocking earmuffs surprisingly comfortable to sleep in.
Much more pleasant than weeks of sleep deprivation.
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As long as you can still wake up to smoke alarms.
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I took the batteries out of the CO detector.
The alarm was giving me a headache.
(...I jest...)
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I've been wearing two things for the last 25 years to sleep better.
My method for about 15 years was 10 alcoholic drinks followed by a 10mg Ambien.
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Oh my, that is risky. I don't believe there are any prescription drugs that were tested for safety and efficacy on those who were alcohol intoxicated.
Possibly the safest drug to induce sleep with the minimum of side effects is the one that is now legal in a majority of states, and there are a lot of "1020" smokers who don't use it for anything but bedtime. A lot of people swear by it for health benefits that are all unproven, but lack of sleep is being discovered to be such a health detriment that all of the benefits of pot might be just due to making you sleep.
Quote: HunterhillThere is alot of threads online about the crazy things people did while on ambien. Did you do anything unusual while taking it?Quote: DRichQuote: EvenBob
I've been wearing two things for the last 25 years to sleep better.
My method for about 15 years was 10 alcoholic drinks followed by a 10mg Ambien.
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In 15 years of Ambien addiction I am only aware of one incident. In the morning the wives were laughing at me and I didn't understand why. I have no recollection of this but according to the wives I went out into the backyard naked and was dancing in the sprinklers.
I took ZzzQuil (diphenhydramine) to help me sleep and it really works
but my Dr. warned me it can cause memory problems & increase the risk of dementia which is a big concern for older people
so I stopped - I've already lost a lot of memory - it's weird - some things like driving directions I completely forget - but I can remember computer stuff such as logins and passwords
mj is now legal in my state and I bought some edibles
wow - they took me far into space
I stopped the mj too - I can't risk losing any more memory
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Quote: DRichQuote: HunterhillThere is alot of threads online about the crazy things people did while on ambien. Did you do anything unusual while taking it?Quote: DRichQuote: EvenBob
I've been wearing two things for the last 25 years to sleep better.
My method for about 15 years was 10 alcoholic drinks followed by a 10mg Ambien.
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In 15 years of Ambien addiction I am only aware of one incident. In the morning the wives were laughing at me and I didn't understand why. I have no recollection of this but according to the wives I went out into the backyard naked and was dancing in the sprinklers.
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Dude that was yesterday. Somebody posted it on the Internet I recognized your picture.
Quote: lilredrooster.
I took ZzzQuil (diphenhydramine) to help me sleep and it really works
but my Dr. warned me it can cause memory problems & increase the risk of dementia which is a big concern for older people
so I stopped - I've already lost a lot of memory - it's weird - some things like driving directions I completely forget - but I can remember computer stuff such as logins and passwords
mj is now legal in my state and I bought some edibles
wow - they took me far into space
I stopped the mj too - I can't risk losing any more memory
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My Doctor recently had me to switch from melatonin to ZzzQuil Pure Zzzs. I take it about three times a week and never three nights in a row. I've adopted an unusual sleep schedule. I sleep two or three hours every ten hours or so. Roughly every two weeks, I'll sleep ten or more hours in a single session. It beats lying in bed for hours waiting to fall asleep.
Quote: billryanQuote: lilredrooster.
I took ZzzQuil (diphenhydramine) to help me sleep and it really works
but my Dr. warned me it can cause memory problems & increase the risk of dementia which is a big concern for older people
so I stopped - I've already lost a lot of memory - it's weird - some things like driving directions I completely forget - but I can remember computer stuff such as logins and passwords
mj is now legal in my state and I bought some edibles
wow - they took me far into space
I stopped the mj too - I can't risk losing any more memory
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My Doctor recently had me to switch from melatonin to ZzzQuil Pure Zzzs. I take it about three times a week and never three nights in a row. I've adopted an unusual sleep schedule. I sleep two or three hours every ten hours or so. Roughly every two weeks, I'll sleep ten or more hours in a single session. It beats lying in bed for hours waiting to fall asleep.
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Hang on. Isn't the "Pure Zzzs" variant basically... melatonin?
Personally, I take an occasional generic pink allergy pill (diphenhydramine) if I really need the sleep. I'm perfectly content with a couple 5 cent pills instead of a $1 shot glass for about the same result. (Bonus - no berry goo aftertaste.)
trying something new -
trading binary options on a demo account at capitalcore.com
you can of course trade other types of options but I like the binary concept which is a yes or no - will something be higher or lower than a certain number at a specific time
will see how I do to see if I wanna open a real account
they're a little different than other options traders - they don't charge a fee for a trade - they make $ on the spread
been reading reviews of it - they say you can make real trades for as little as $1.00
it looks like fun - am hoping that I enjoy it -
edit - tried it but it didn't work out -
short payout on a winning trade of only 85% unless you deposit a lot
very complicated platform
not for me
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I'm a big fan of "Law and Order SVU" which is now in its' 28th season
many of the shows are based on real episodes
I was curious about the closure rate of sexual crime in NYC which is what the show is about
I was shocked to find these stats:
"In New York City, only a fraction of reported rapes end in a conviction. Criminal justice advocates and statistical organizations estimate that out of every 1,000 reported sexual assaults, only about 50 result in an arrest, with an even smaller number leading to felony convictions.
"The Reporting Gap:
It is estimated that approximately 63% of sexual assaults go unreported to law enforcement altogether.
NYPD Arrests:
For crimes that are reported, national and state statistics indicate that rape has an arrest clearance rate of roughly 12% to 15%"
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I'm a big fan of "Law and Order SVU" which is now in its' 28th season
many of the shows are based on real episodes
I was curious about the closure rate of sexual crime in NYC which is what the show is about
I was shocked to find these stats:
"In New York City, only a fraction of reported rapes end in a conviction. Criminal justice advocates and statistical organizations estimate that out of every 1,000 reported sexual assaults, only about 50 result in an arrest, with an even smaller number leading to felony convictions.
"The Reporting Gap:
It is estimated that approximately 63% of sexual assaults go unreported to law enforcement altogether.
NYPD Arrests:
For crimes that are reported, national and state statistics indicate that rape has an arrest clearance rate of roughly 12% to 15%"
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Probably because most are by someone the victim knows. They happen in a familiar situation. Then things go too far.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: lilredrooster.
I'm a big fan of "Law and Order SVU" which is now in its' 28th season
many of the shows are based on real episodes
I was curious about the closure rate of sexual crime in NYC which is what the show is about
I was shocked to find these stats:
"In New York City, only a fraction of reported rapes end in a conviction. Criminal justice advocates and statistical organizations estimate that out of every 1,000 reported sexual assaults, only about 50 result in an arrest, with an even smaller number leading to felony convictions.
"The Reporting Gap:
It is estimated that approximately 63% of sexual assaults go unreported to law enforcement altogether.
NYPD Arrests:
For crimes that are reported, national and state statistics indicate that rape has an arrest clearance rate of roughly 12% to 15%"
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Probably because most are by someone the victim knows. They happen in a familiar situation. Then things go too far.
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Also because half of the claims are a load of crap, and the cops know it.
There was a trend going on back in the 90s where police and prosecutors were instructed to treat all rape claims as true- no questioning, no doubting, no investigating any ulterior motives of the complaining witness. This was based on some absurd feminist theories where all women are collectively victims of rape and all men are collectively perpetrators of rape, so even if a particular act didn't happen exactly as described- close enough- it makes up for all those times some guy raped and got away with it. So the result of that was odious women figured out they could walk into a police station crying and holding their beaver, and get any guy in more trouble than he's ever been in his life. For whatever reason, and being we are talking about the female of the species here, the reasons can be as frivolous as they are unpredictable.
One of the weird effects this has was on college campuses, because at the same time schools were applying these draconian policies about alcohol, up to the point where if they find you have had one drop of alcohol on campus you are expelled. So drinking became a furtive, underworld type of activity, much more dangerous than open drinking. But they also had a policy where if a girl claims sexual assault, all investigatory or punitive action against her stops cold, right then and there. So the campus drunkette discovered that if she's found passed out drunk on campus, she can avoid expulsion by saying someone raped her, touched her, sexually whatevered her and she skates- they can't apply any penalty to her for her actions.
Then the cops twigged to all this and developed ways to slow-walk charges that they are pretty sure are BS or outright alibis or attempts at extortion. Cops can be power-mad, but they do not like having their powers hijacked by others for cynical reasons and they take it personally.
