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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (20 children)

I still don't like communities. When you're small it's just too hard to get everyone together when you're trying to fit 150 users into 3000 subs. The normal has to be you look at EVERYTHING unless something super offends you, turn it off.

Option B: someone mail me a laptop with saidit on there in a test server and a big bag of amphetamines and check back in 3 months.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (19 children)

I still don't like communities.

I take it you mean subs. I completely agree but I also do like the idea of metatags and custom filtering. I don't even know if Lemmy can do that yet. I also wonder if Lemmy is too simplistic like SaidIt. Maybe there's a better forum that needs a decentralization addition - or maybe the Lemmy developers are able to improve things over time. Critically we need better qualitative information about each post (ie. MetaVote™) and more.

When you're small it's just too hard to get everyone together when you're trying to fit 150 users into 3000 subs. The normal has to be you look at EVERYTHING unless something super offends you, turn it off.

Mos def.

Option B: someone mail me a laptop with saidit on there in a test server and a big bag of amphetamines and check back in 3 months.

Why? What's the end result? Might as well send me some gear and drugs too, while they're at it.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (18 children)

Why? What's the end result?

I think that's what it'd take to motivate me to rewrite the codebase from scratch. I have no energy these days.

Might as well send me some gear and drugs too, while they're at it

You sure you'd survive that? You're old af dude 😗

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (17 children)

I think that's what it'd take to motivate me to rewrite the codebase from scratch. I have no energy these days.

MetaVote™ would be a better project for us to dev, then build or adapt a new Phoenix Forum around it.

Ever take 5HTP, ginseng, or kratom?

You sure you'd survive that? You're old af dude 😗

I'm old at 50. Twice that and I'm old as fuck.

I'll survive it until I don't. That won't be as hard as kicking bad habits, or worse: quitting Big Pharma poisons cold turkey, as I've done.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (16 children)

MetaVote

No idea what that is.

Ever take 5HTP, ginseng, or kratom?

Of course. The reason I resort to more extreme methods is because nothing else worked. It's been a problem for decades now. I still maintain good sleep hygiene even though that didn't fix it, the measures make sense.

I take kratom for pain. It keeps me awake. Kind of a devil's bargain. Can't sleep if my knee is buggin me, might not sleep because kratom might wake me up.

I just got in two new amazon purchases though. Two steel tools for deep massaging. I'm hoping that helps. So far so good. I like a non surgical, non chemical approach.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

In summary, from the new and improved /s/PhoenixForum/ sidebox:

MetaVote™ is a revolutionary simple new GUI interface and qualitative way of organizing data with greater purpose and superior utility. Among many other uses, it would replace forum voting and subs/categories/metatags. This interface will be vastly superior to the low-information up/down vote and takes meta-tags into entirely new dimensions. The BIG surprise is how effectively simple while informative it could be. This simple GUI interface could be applied to MANY more things beyond just forums.

I can't code, but I can mock it up and animate it to illustrate how it should work, along with many variants for people's feedback to fine tune it into the best it can be - before it's even made. Kickstarter and the like might help fund real coders, etc.

I desperately need a patent lawyer for 7 great ideas, including this one (plus maybe some others). Failing that I can just open source them and hope people kick back.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (14 children)

My brother's a chiropractor. He uses electro-thingies and magnets and all sorts of stuff a lot. Don't know if that kind of stuff might help at all.

Buddha says life is suffering. Largely I'd agree, but not entirely.

[–]Area_88 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Buddha says life is suffering. Largely I'd agree

Completely disagree with him on that.

Life is pure bliss.

The suffering is our inability to cope with the fact that that bliss comes in a limited edition and needs to be washed and sometimes cooked first to be enjoyed.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

No matter how much bliss you have, no one is exempt from suffering, so your bliss can never be pure.

If you knew anything about legit suffering you'd have more respect for it.

Life is not good. Life is not a bitch. Life is bittersweet.

[–]Area_88 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No matter how much bliss you have, no one is exempt from suffering, so your bliss can never be pure.

That's like saying sugar can never be sweet, because everyone receives it as a dirty sack of corn, and once it's finished, it's finished.

In medieval times, sugar was worth gold. Because it was so scarce, not despite of it. 😉

If you knew anything about legit suffering you'd have more respect for it.

If you knew anything about legit suffering, you'd have less.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

electro-thingies

TENs units. Another thing it boggles my mind how anyone could properly fit electrodes without knowing that biofeedback.

Never got to say biofeedback so many times. TENs units are awesome.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yes those are them. I've never seen them written. My bro's expert at kinesiology and anatomy. I know first hand he takes it slow with the TENs and other things. He's there to help, not hurt.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I just don't see how anyone is going to know where to put those things, ideally, besides the patient.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The patient won't likely understand anatomy as well, what's important to work on and what's important to avoid. Somethings you do NOT want to figure out via trial-by-error.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

My brother's a chiropractor

I would NEVER trust another person to do these things to me. I have immediate biofeedback for everything I do, how could anyone possibly do it better?

On a related note, if you ever need an earwax cleaning I recommend you buy an ear loop and do it yourself very carefully. Biofeedback can help keep your eardrum from being punctured.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I mention it because the professional gadgets he has have are now largely abundantly available for lesser versions and home use. My Mom even has some now. I don't know if magnets or electric shocks are what your knee needs, but maybe. I'd say "couldn't hurt" but that would be wrong, maybe doubly so.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

They're not lesser versions. It's just now thanks to China you can buy what was a $300 unit for $20. The absolute best, money is no object, version I found was only $120.

I use them. It's not perfect but it's a tool in the box.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They are lesser. My brother's are industrial with strong wires, used many times daily - one in each room. My Mom's is light and portable and is not meant to be durable nor used more than once a day.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Buddha says life is suffering.

Buddha says, suffering exists, it has a cause and an end, there is a way to make it stop existing. The four noble truths.

Buddha was a perfectionist. He had rejected already existing techniques because they require reinforcement.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Some suffering won't stop until you stop existing.

I don't recall the techniques. I studied Zen Buddhism 29 years ago at university, and then thereafter, but forgot much of it. Still like it the best of all religions, as my statue collection attests.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Some suffering won't stop until you stop existing.

Suffering is produced by the mind. Find the cause, show it to the mind, never suffer again. Buddhism simplified.

I don't recall the techniques.

Yoga, it's India. Let the mind know it can produce pleasure, enjoy the result.