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  • i cant be bothered to read everyone elses replys but ive found the best thing for me is some earbuds with a nice pair of over ear hearing protection. ive got some industrial over ear earmuffs with a 32 dB or so attenuation. those by themselves help a ton, but to really get the isolation ill play some brown noise or ocean waves through my earbuds. the combination of controlled noise and high attenuation of outside noise provides almost perfect sound isolation, to the point i cant hear anything in the room, even someone speaking right next to me. it helps if you can find a kind of noise thats comfortable for you, like i said for me something like brown noise or ocean waves work best. they’re soothing for me but you might prefer something else.











  • i think it was more that they were all really big and couldn’t survive a massive resource restriction. we dont have the same problems, being omnivorous generalists who can eat pretty much anything. if something like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs happened to us a lot of us would die sure, but the species would survive. we could still get power from wind, dams, fossil fuels, and nuclear, and grow food indoors using grow lights. most people wouldnt make it but most likely enough would that wed still have a stable breeding population when the dust settled.


  • my intuition is more depressingly right than scarily right. ive spent a lot of time thinking about how people behave and how that relates to their internal state, thoughts, feelings, motivations, goals, etc. i notice when people are into each other very easily, and sometimes i even notice when someone is into me without them having to say it directly to my face (be jealous lol).

    but the depressingly right part is at work. management is so predictably selfish and stupid, and their dumbass decisions have such obvious consequences, especially when theyre at the expense of workers. i work in a pretty technically demanding field with smart people, but every time they act like management is thinking and planning rationally and the thing i say is bad about the latest decision wont happen or wont be that bad. then its shocked pikachu when it turns out badly in just the way i said and its all “no one could have predicted this”.

    sometimes its baffling how people never learn from this. management keeps being shortsighted and selfish, and most of my coworkers keep not seeing it coming. its happened at every job ive had so i dont see it getting any better. sometimes pattern recognition is just depressing when you cant do anything about it.




  • we have hair all over our bodies. most of it is vellous hair though so it isnt as visible. we just have far less terminal hair than other primates, but the hair density isnt that much lower. as far as the head hair growing long, its not that its unnecessary its just for different purposes than most animal fur. head hair is primarily social, and people like people with long hair, so theres a social benefit to having nice head hair that can grow long. its so ingrained that being completely bald is socially isolating to some extent, especially for women.


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    this feels like one of those shrink wrapped dinosaur situations. like they arent doing a good job estimating how her soft tissue would have been distributed at all. why are her eyebrows so low, why are her cheeks so lean, why is there so much tissue below her lips, why is her hairline so high and with a bit of a widows peak? it feels like they put a mans tissue distribution on a womans frame completely uncritically and called it good.

    edit: i think the harsh drop lighting theyre displaying this under is making it way worse too. it might not look quite as bad with softer more diffuse lighting.