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The part I'm struggling with is where "neuroplasticity" turns into "your psyche collapses". That sounds more like a metaphor than an actual mechanism

Did it actually change anything for you long-term or was it mostly profound while it was happening?

This seems like one of those areas where "double-blind randomized trial" sounds much cleaner on paper than it actually is. If nearly everyone can tell whether they got the drug, ex…

Yeah, "psychedelic toad" sounds a lot more whimsical until you actually live somewhere they show up in the backyard

How a tiny self-published pamphlet apparently created a whole practice that was later documented as if it had some deeper historical tradition behind it

The part that bothers me is that preservation has become the customer's problem while continued access remains the vendor's decision

The most damning part is that signing in isn't some obscure edge case. It's the front door to one of the biggest games ever made

The difference is that Linux usually fails loudly and gives you something to investigate. Microsoft software often fails behind five layers of UI etc.

The hardest part of the Halo 1 campaign is apparently defeating Microsoft account creation

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I like the idea of treating limewash as maintenance rather than a permanent cure. That is probably closer to how these materials were historically used anyway

This makes me want to see lime used more in ordinary homes

Yet carbonation is not universally helpful

I think the problem is that these things can both be true. Pesticides can be a much bigger threat to native insects, while dense managed honeybee populations can still put extra pr…

The hard part is probably that "native bees" are not a drop-in replacement for managed hives you can put on a truck and move between farms

I had no idea winter survival could come down to getting one brief warm spell at the right time so the colony can loosen up and move a few inches

Wow... And I think designing the hive so the bees' own grooming behavior is actually effective seems like a much better first line of defense

Spider venom saving bees was not on my bingo card, but this is genuinely cool. Obviously "works on mites in the lab" is a long way from "works safely and cheaply in a real hive", b…

In some ways the more interesting question might become whether Martian life, if found, shares the same basic biochemistry as Earth life

Maybe benevolent in the same way a heat-ray is a form of urban renewal

What I like about Mars stories like this is that they are a good antidote to both extremes: "we found life!" and "there is nothing interesting here"

The most worrying part here is not even whether this specific issue deserved a CVE. It is the incentive structure.

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