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Irond Will

Donkey Kong wrote: »

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT wrote: »

Cass when I see someone hiccuping I think "well that must be annoying for him/her" not "wow what a dingus"

I think "wow what a dingus" because I can control hiccuping and stop it I I don't understand why everyone else doesn't just do this!

(half trolling, half serious, can y'all really not stop it?)

i don't think i've met anyone who could just make it stop

i don't hiccup very often and when i do it doesn't generally last very long, but while it's going on, there's nothing i can really do about it.

bloodyroarxx

Deebaser wrote: »

Thomamelas wrote: »

My inner 12 year saw this and started screaming yes. He has now lost his voice.

What is this and how do I get one?

Its a one off Lambo, for some rich bastard

skippydumptruck

Ravenhpltc24 wrote: »

How does blood type work, genetically? Like, you're made inside your mother so I don't see how a father's blood type could influence what blood type the child ends up having at all.

All this stuff about "there's power in blood!" blah blah your father was important blah blah. You don't really have any of your father's blood. You have his DNA and genetics otherwise, but blood?

I don't know but I think my wife's rh was negative and sawyer's was positive or something (maybe not rh, I don't know)

anyway she had to get a shot to suppress something, or I guess this pregnancy would have gone okay maybe but she would reject a second or third where the whatever value didn't match

dporowski

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Ludious wrote: »

I'd buy music from itunes if I could do it in a browser without an app

like every other decent digital music seller

I find the purchase experience from amazon way more irritating

like, buy the shit

then launch this proprietary downloader instead of just downloading the file

then like, where is my shit now

whereas with itunes I just buy it and it's in my thing easy peasy

but maybe it's diff on windows and I will come to hate itunes too

Oh jesus I hate that. I've bought from Amazon exactly once because of that. I'd forgotten, blissfully.

TTODewback

Oh apparently that was the last track.
I guess that is the reason it ended with a bunch of ear bleeding distortions.

So It Goes

Ravenhpltc24 wrote: »

How does blood type work, genetically? Like, you're made inside your mother so I don't see how a father's blood type could influence what blood type the child ends up having at all.

All this stuff about "there's power in blood!" blah blah your father was important blah blah. You don't really have any of your father's blood. You have his DNA and genetics otherwise, but blood?

DNA = "blood" in that context.

I mean really, it's no one's blood but your own. You made it!

Ludious

itunes is hitler on Windows and I hate it

Mazzyx

dporowski wrote: »

Mazzyx wrote: »

dporowski wrote: »

So It Goes wrote: »

dporowski wrote: »

As a happy iTunes user, what's the problem with buying mp3s from one store for a buck vs buying 'em from that other store for a buck? I mean I don't use the other stores 'cause lazy, but I could, NBD.

because I hate iTunes and it never accepts my login and I'd rather just listen to it on Spotify

That's fair, I'm all about the electronic vindictiveness. (Though will never use Spotify due to "it needs you to use Facebook". See: Vindictiveness.)

Fun fact, it doesn't require your facebook.

<===facebook not connected.

Did they walk that back? I'd read a while back that "yay, it's here! ... For facebook users only, lol". Site does seem to say "sign up with email address" though so... Hm.

When it first started it was facebook or invite only. Think that has changed.

Winky

Ravenhpltc24 wrote: »

How does blood type work, genetically? Like, you're made inside your mother so I don't see how a father's blood type could influence what blood type the child ends up having at all.

All this stuff about "there's power in blood!" blah blah your father was important blah blah. You don't really have any of your father's blood. You have his DNA and genetics otherwise, but blood?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type

Your blood type does not come from literally receiving blood. Iirc the fetal blood is completely cut off from the mother's blood pretty early in development.

So It Goes

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Ludious wrote: »

I'd buy music from itunes if I could do it in a browser without an app

like every other decent digital music seller

I find the purchase experience from amazon way more irritating

like, buy the shit

then launch this proprietary downloader instead of just downloading the file

then like, where is my shit now

whereas with itunes I just buy it and it's in my thing easy peasy

but maybe it's diff on windows and I will come to hate itunes too

it's bad on windows.

y2jake215

Irond Will wrote: »

So It Goes wrote: »

y2jake215 wrote: »

So It Goes wrote: »

y2jake215 wrote: »

So It Goes wrote: »

dis daft punk album

hm

What

Did it leak? I thought it was may 17th

http://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZContentLink.woa/wa/link?path=daftpunk

this will launch itunes and you can preview it

I like this new style of streaming albums a couple days before they get released

I keep buying the albums so it must be working

I think I only like a few of these songs so far

maybe they put too much mojo into the tron soundtrack

a lot of pop musicians later in their careers transition really successfully to scores - marc knopfler, RZA, trent reznor, daft punk

not so many seem to transition back very well

mark mothersbough

Deebaser

SammyF wrote: »

Thomamelas wrote: »

My inner 12 year saw this and started screaming yes. He has now lost his voice.

Goddamnit, Thomamelas, before I backtracked your hyperlink and found the Jalopnik article, I thought that someone had rediscovered what made 1992 awesome, and flight simulators with moving cockpits were making their way back into video arcades where they serve you pizza as an animatronic teddy bear sings at you while pantomiming at strumming a banjo.

Sammy,
Thom

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK THAT THING IS.
IM THROWING MY CREDIT CARD AT THE SCREEN

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

Donkey Kong wrote: »

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT wrote: »

Cass when I see someone hiccuping I think "well that must be annoying for him/her" not "wow what a dingus"

I think "wow what a dingus" because I can control hiccuping and stop it I I don't understand why everyone else doesn't just do this!

(half trolling, half serious, can y'all really not stop it?)

The only way I can stop hiccupping is taking a comically deep breath like 'HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA' and then holding my breath with my cheeks all puffed out for like 20 seconds

which is WAY more goofy than just hiccuping

Senjutsu

So It Goes wrote: »

I really like Get Lucky

yeah it is rad

it is rad to get lucky

Ludious

Deebaser wrote: »

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Ludious wrote: »

I'd buy music from itunes if I could do it in a browser without an app

like every other decent digital music seller

I find the purchase experience from amazon way more irritating

like, buy the shit

then launch this proprietary downloader instead of just downloading the file

then like, where is my shit now

whereas with itunes I just buy it and it's in my thing easy peasy

but maybe it's diff on windows and I will come to hate itunes too

I buy album.
It syncs to my phone.
I don't even need to plug my phone into a computer.
iTunes is pretty awesome.
The haters are cray.

the haters don't have idevices nor do they want them

Pony

I also find that people are less sympathetic to conditions that don't have specified names and might be the subject of ongoing research and understanding.

I have a mental health diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and also Personality Disorder (Not Otherwise Specified), the latter of which is DSM-speak for "Clearly something is wrong but it doesn't fit existing diagnostic criteria for something more specific".

Even among people who don't have the same stigma for mental illness (like SE++'s threads on brain problems, for example), I can talk about struggling with bipolar disorder but if I bring up my PDNOS issues people are largely confused and sorta struggle to sympathize, because they're not even sure if it's like, a real thing so they're hesitant in case I'm some malingering layabout or something.

I also have some kind of inborn error of metabolism that I've struggled with since a teenager that never had a name or satisfied existing metabolic disorder diagnostic criteria and it was only a few months ago that a doctor did a CT of my organs and went "Oh, you have congenitally malformed adrenal glands, that's probably the source of a lot of this", finally giving me some kind of thing to blame in my body rather than just being a symptoms list.

y2jake215

this stream isn't working for me

f u itunes

wandering

ITunes on windows seems okay to me! Although it does take a long time to start up

So It Goes

y2jake215 wrote: »

this stream isn't working for me

f u itunes

click the link twice

click on the play button on the album cover

SammyF

Deebaser wrote: »

SammyF wrote: »

Thomamelas wrote: »

My inner 12 year saw this and started screaming yes. He has now lost his voice.

Goddamnit, Thomamelas, before I backtracked your hyperlink and found the Jalopnik article, I thought that someone had rediscovered what made 1992 awesome, and flight simulators with moving cockpits were making their way back into video arcades where they serve you pizza as an animatronic teddy bear sings at you while pantomiming at strumming a banjo.

Sammy,
Thom

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK THAT THING IS.
IM THROWING MY CREDIT CARD AT THE SCREEN

It's a Lamborghini. Your computer screen isn't the only thing declining your card on that particular purchase I'm afraid.

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

My anxiety is out of control lately, it sucks because anxiety is way harder to sympathise with than depression.

skippydumptruck

my wife bought a bunch of music recently and I made her price match every album between itunes and amazon and buy it from the cheaper store and she was mad about it

Winky

Pony wrote: »

I also find that people are less sympathetic to conditions that don't have specified names and might be the subject of ongoing research and understanding.

I have a mental health diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and also Personality Disorder (Not Otherwise Specified), the latter of which is DSM-speak for "Clearly something is wrong but it doesn't fit existing diagnostic criteria for something more specific".

Even among people who don't have the same stigma for mental illness (like SE++'s threads on brain problems, for example), I can talk about struggling with bipolar disorder but if I bring up my PDNOS issues people are largely confused and sorta struggle to sympathize, because they're not even sure if it's like, a real thing so they're hesitant in case I'm some malingering layabout or something.

I also have some kind of inborn error of metabolism that I've struggled with since a teenager that never had a name or satisfied existing metabolic disorder diagnostic criteria and it was only a few months ago that a doctor did a CT of my organs and went "Oh, you have congenitally malformed adrenal glands, that's probably the source of a lot of this", finally giving me some kind of thing to blame in my body rather than just being a symptoms list.

You may be very interested to read this:
http://ollibean.com/2013/05/03/nih-rejects-dsm-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nih-rejects-dsm-5

Ludious

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

My anxiety is out of control lately, it sucks because anxiety is way harder to sympathise with than depression.

do you ever find that when you are having an anxiety attack and someone tells you to calm down or relax that you just kinda want to make their head go nova as they just made your anxiety twice as bad with a few careless words?

Pony

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

My anxiety is out of control lately, it sucks because anxiety is way harder to sympathise with than depression.

On the upside the toolset tends to be a lot easier to utilize because you don't have a core refusal to even try, unlike with depression. ie getting an anxious person to try to deal with their anxiety is a lot easier than trying to motivate a depressed person to do the same because by its nature depression fucks with your motivation to do anything.

Kalkino

skippydumptruck wrote: »

my wife bought a bunch of music recently and I made her price match every album between itunes and amazon and buy it from the cheaper store and she was mad about it

I hope you made her fill in an Excel sheet too. Otherwise how will she remember the good times?

Winky

Thomas Insel, Director of the NIMH wrote:

“While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity. Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure. In the rest of medicine, this would be equivalent to creating diagnostic systems based on the nature of chest pain or the quality of fever. Indeed, symptom-based diagnosis, once common in other areas of medicine, has been largely replaced in the past half century as we have understood that symptoms alone rarely indicate the best choice of treatment.”

Thomamelas

Deebaser wrote: »

SammyF wrote: »

Thomamelas wrote: »

My inner 12 year saw this and started screaming yes. He has now lost his voice.

Goddamnit, Thomamelas, before I backtracked your hyperlink and found the Jalopnik article, I thought that someone had rediscovered what made 1992 awesome, and flight simulators with moving cockpits were making their way back into video arcades where they serve you pizza as an animatronic teddy bear sings at you while pantomiming at strumming a banjo.

Sammy,
Thom

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK THAT THING IS.
IM THROWING MY CREDIT CARD AT THE SCREEN

It's the new Lambo concept car. You're gonna need a bigger card. But basically they realized "Hey, our cars already look like fighters....maybe we should just go whole hog". And I responded with "Squee!"

Feral

Winky wrote: »

Pony wrote: »

I also find that people are less sympathetic to conditions that don't have specified names and might be the subject of ongoing research and understanding.

I have a mental health diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and also Personality Disorder (Not Otherwise Specified), the latter of which is DSM-speak for "Clearly something is wrong but it doesn't fit existing diagnostic criteria for something more specific".

Even among people who don't have the same stigma for mental illness (like SE++'s threads on brain problems, for example), I can talk about struggling with bipolar disorder but if I bring up my PDNOS issues people are largely confused and sorta struggle to sympathize, because they're not even sure if it's like, a real thing so they're hesitant in case I'm some malingering layabout or something.

I also have some kind of inborn error of metabolism that I've struggled with since a teenager that never had a name or satisfied existing metabolic disorder diagnostic criteria and it was only a few months ago that a doctor did a CT of my organs and went "Oh, you have congenitally malformed adrenal glands, that's probably the source of a lot of this", finally giving me some kind of thing to blame in my body rather than just being a symptoms list.

You may be very interested to read this:
http://ollibean.com/2013/05/03/nih-rejects-dsm-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nih-rejects-dsm-5

Winky, did you see the stuff I've posted to my Facebook about the DSM-5 in the last couple of weeks?

SammyF

Like part of me is saying "I can get behind a car having a cockpit, but why does this one have a goddamned gunsight?" And then part of me is looking up how much equity I can get out of my house.

y2jake215

So It Goes wrote: »

y2jake215 wrote: »

this stream isn't working for me

f u itunes

click the link twice

click on the play button on the album cover

Oh that was weird. The actual "Random Access Memories" page itself had no way to start streaming. I had to click back to Daft Punk and then forward again

So It Goes

that looks stupid to me

except for the controls maybe

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

Ludious wrote: »

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

My anxiety is out of control lately, it sucks because anxiety is way harder to sympathise with than depression.

do you ever find that when you are having an anxiety attack and someone tells you to calm down or relax that you just kinda want to make their head go nova as they just made your anxiety twice as bad with a few careless words?

Last month I was crying and going "I'm the worst, everybody hates me, nooo"

and Aaron yells NO! STOP!

and that just made it worse

it was awful because it was just both of us were in over our heads and making each other feel worse over something that was no one's fault

That being said I have been in the middle of a panic attack and Pony is so aggravatingly insistent that I snap out of it ... because I want to strangle him

which works

I guess

Delmain

Ludious wrote: »

Deebaser wrote: »

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Ludious wrote: »

I'd buy music from itunes if I could do it in a browser without an app

like every other decent digital music seller

I find the purchase experience from amazon way more irritating

like, buy the shit

then launch this proprietary downloader instead of just downloading the file

then like, where is my shit now

whereas with itunes I just buy it and it's in my thing easy peasy

but maybe it's diff on windows and I will come to hate itunes too

I buy album.
It syncs to my phone.
I don't even need to plug my phone into a computer.
iTunes is pretty awesome.
The haters are cray.

the haters don't have idevices nor do they want them

Not to mention, I can do that same thing Skips described on my Android phone via the Amazon mp3 store. Purchase album on pc, phone downloads album next time app is opened, it's automatically in my music player and plays along with all other music.

desc

skippydumptruck wrote: »

my wife bought a bunch of music recently and I made her price match every album between itunes and amazon and buy it from the cheaper store and she was mad about it

Skippy why are you a dork

Also amazon is the easiest thing in the world to buy from

Pony

Winky wrote: »

Pony wrote: »

I also find that people are less sympathetic to conditions that don't have specified names and might be the subject of ongoing research and understanding.

I have a mental health diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and also Personality Disorder (Not Otherwise Specified), the latter of which is DSM-speak for "Clearly something is wrong but it doesn't fit existing diagnostic criteria for something more specific".

Even among people who don't have the same stigma for mental illness (like SE++'s threads on brain problems, for example), I can talk about struggling with bipolar disorder but if I bring up my PDNOS issues people are largely confused and sorta struggle to sympathize, because they're not even sure if it's like, a real thing so they're hesitant in case I'm some malingering layabout or something.

I also have some kind of inborn error of metabolism that I've struggled with since a teenager that never had a name or satisfied existing metabolic disorder diagnostic criteria and it was only a few months ago that a doctor did a CT of my organs and went "Oh, you have congenitally malformed adrenal glands, that's probably the source of a lot of this", finally giving me some kind of thing to blame in my body rather than just being a symptoms list.

You may be very interested to read this:
http://ollibean.com/2013/05/03/nih-rejects-dsm-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nih-rejects-dsm-5

yeah the DSM is... problematic.

Mazzyx

Who needs a liver so I can buy that car?

Feral

Oh, here's the one that I liked.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/health/psychiatrys-new-guide-falls-short-experts-say.html

The expert, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said in an interview Monday that his goal was to reshape the direction of psychiatric research to focus on biology, genetics and neuroscience so that scientists can define disorders by their causes, rather than their symptoms.

While the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M., is the best tool now available for clinicians treating patients and should not be tossed out, he said, it does not reflect the complexity of many disorders, and its way of categorizing mental illnesses should not guide research.

“As long as the research community takes the D.S.M. to be a bible, we’ll never make progress,” Dr. Insel said, adding, “People think that everything has to match D.S.M. criteria, but you know what? Biology never read that book.”

...

Dr. Insel is one of a growing number of scientists who think that the field needs an entirely new paradigm for understanding mental disorders, though neither he nor anyone else knows exactly what it will look like.

Winky

Feral wrote: »

Winky wrote: »

Pony wrote: »

I also find that people are less sympathetic to conditions that don't have specified names and might be the subject of ongoing research and understanding.

I have a mental health diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and also Personality Disorder (Not Otherwise Specified), the latter of which is DSM-speak for "Clearly something is wrong but it doesn't fit existing diagnostic criteria for something more specific".

Even among people who don't have the same stigma for mental illness (like SE++'s threads on brain problems, for example), I can talk about struggling with bipolar disorder but if I bring up my PDNOS issues people are largely confused and sorta struggle to sympathize, because they're not even sure if it's like, a real thing so they're hesitant in case I'm some malingering layabout or something.

I also have some kind of inborn error of metabolism that I've struggled with since a teenager that never had a name or satisfied existing metabolic disorder diagnostic criteria and it was only a few months ago that a doctor did a CT of my organs and went "Oh, you have congenitally malformed adrenal glands, that's probably the source of a lot of this", finally giving me some kind of thing to blame in my body rather than just being a symptoms list.

You may be very interested to read this:
http://ollibean.com/2013/05/03/nih-rejects-dsm-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nih-rejects-dsm-5

Winky, did you see the stuff I've posted to my Facebook about the DSM-5 in the last couple of weeks?

No I missed it.

I just heard about this stuff from my roommate and it blows my mind.

Zombiemambo

I just discovered Skrillex was the lead singer of From First to Last

this makes me so happy