1st, congratulations!
2nd, this is a friendly reminder that DIY is safe, reliable, not subject to the gatekeeping of providers or insurance, inexpensive (I.e. $200 can provide you with a lifetime supply), and does not leave a paper trail if you’re in a jurisdiction where that might be a concern.
Pretty close.
This is unlikely to be helpful, but it tastes almost exactly like HP sauce.
It’s getting to be time to educate parents on diy.
Where is this non-capitalist utopia you think we should emulate. It can be from anytime in history, when and where is it?
If that’s a real question and not a gotcha, I strongly recommend the book The Dawn of Everything. The world is and can be more complicated than the choice between various flavors of authoritarianism.
Personally, I don’t believe in utopia, but I do believe we all deserve an opportunity to exist free of the coercive power of others. The fact that any real community striving for this will be in some way imperfect does not diminish the worthiness of efforts toward that end. We don’t need to emulate some extant utopia, but we might, as individuals and groups, seize the freedom to choose what is best for ourselves in as many ways as we see fit.
Great for camping or if you’re just feeling lazy. Just rip it and sip it. 😂
Due to my habit of eating soup straight from the can, my partners refer to it as “bachelorette chow.” I remain unrepentant.
Voters in the U.S. would, unfortunately, continue to believe that locking people up in torturous conditions for decades is both an effective and just means of dealing with antisocial behavior, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.
Humans, in their current form, have survived for ~200k years sans the ability to surveil the location of their children at all times, an activity that has dubious safety benefits.
Honestly, I think this will be a bigger boon to folks like Elevated Access than to the billionaires of the world. Makes it a little harder for some chud who doesn’t like what they’re doing to show up at a pilot’s home with a rifle.
Quite right you are. So I did.
It’s not. It’s at best pseudonymous. You are correct that every transaction is perpetually traceable. If you want anonymous crypto, look toward something like monero.
Don’t forget the Falklands.
100% is a percentage I’d okay with.
I think the point you’re missing is that without the monetary incentive that arises under capitalism, there would be very little drive for anyone to build these wasteful AI systems. It’s difficult to imagine a group of people voluntarily amassing and then using the resources necessary for “AI” absent the desire to cash in on their investment. So you’re correct that an alternative economic system won’t “magically” make LLMs go away. I think it unlikely, however, that such wasteful nonsense would be used on any meaningful scale absent the perverse incentives of capitalism.
These would make incredible fundraisers.
Friendly reminder to everyone: What is pictured in this image is not a molotov, but a self-immolation device that is likely to explode in the hand.
A molotov, on the other hand, consists of a sealed bottle of fuel with a flaming cloth wrapped around it, which prevents ignition of its contents prior to impact.
I don’t think he knows about second hand, Pippin.
Hard to feel sorry for them, tbh. If you can’t tell something’s up when they slice the pizza into 19 slices, you’re kinda cooked.
I am in fact suggesting that one could choose to do injectables from raws. There’s every indication that raws themselves are shelf stable if stored properly and the learning curve is quite shallow, particularly if you’re doing terminal heat sterilization. The numbers I’ve read give a lifetime of ~5 years for prepared vials and indicate that the rubber stoppers are the weak point, but if you’re preparing your own vials, that’s sort of irrelevant. It takes maybe an hour to prep a vial, which if you’re doing 10ml of estradiol enanthate at 50mg/ml, will last most people at least a year at a sane dosage.
Given the fact that many places are literally sliding daily into fascism, I see no other viable way than DIY for folks to ensure their supply going forward and injectables are the cheapest way to do that (and are likely much better for your health than oral, which is what almost every doctor will start you on). The exact price was not my point- those I imagine will be changing somewhat daily given the state of things. I was mostly just letting OP know that she does not have to be subject to waiting lists or hoops to jump through if she doesn’t want to.