CapuccinoCoretto

Can't think of a film. But books! Anything by ~~Tolstoy~~ Dostoyevsky. Younger me thought Orwell tested my limits of gloom in 1984. Then I read Crime and Punishment...

In apology to OP for the film>book derailment, I will say film has a hard time disturbing me because it's so complete and direct. Even the really nasty stuff can't phase me, because I know its just a film, and the picture it paints always feels like its coming from the outside, trying to get in. It has to get through natural mental barriers that just exists. No conscious effort required.

Books give both far more detail, and room for your mind to contextualize what's missing. That contextualization is done internally so it doesn't have to slip past your conscious defenses. The disturbance, if there is one, was born in your deeper psyche. As clear a case of "the call is coming from inside the house" as there is.

Crime and Punishment took a lot longer than it should have. I loved every minute of it, but had to take breaks. It was emotionally taxing and no one writes like him.

Disturbed doesn't mean don't like.

*takes another shot and melts into chair

"Captain, I can't take much more of this!"

No one can be specific until they understand the context. You have three issues to clarify for a quality, helpful answer.

Where can surface water runoff go? It's flat now so it goes nowhere, but if you sloped it gently like 1-2% grade, where would that slope put the water? Urban or rural? Are you on a hill or in a depression? Do you have existing drainage infrastructure nearby? E.g. ditches and storm sewers. Identify your neighbours surface water properties. Does their runoff flow onto your property or vice versa? Where is the water going and where should the water go.
Can water penetrate the surface? You say it's overly compacted soil. What kind? Sand, clay, silty, loam? What is the surface? Grass? Shrubs? Options here include lawn areation. Preferably deep aeration. There are machines you can rent that are rollers covered in 1-2" hollow steel tubes that cut little plugs out of your lawn to reduce surface compaction and lets air and water in a little better. If your land is pooling, this won't be nearly enough, but its an essential step for part 3 below. Also plants, grass, shrubs help slow the flow of water, they absorb and transpire it and their root systems and annual cycles of decay turn mineral based ground into genuine soil. Soil's moisture absorbing qualities are defined primarily by its organic content within the matrix. Rich soil high in organic carbon looks like chocolate cake. It absorbs and drains well. If you have only mineral clay soils, you have the liner of a swimming pool. Either way, how deep is this surface layer? E.g. if its a water bowl for the first 2', but underneath the subsoil drains well, you can just ammend the surface and solve your problems.
Where can water that penetrates the surface go? Take a 4' or longer length 1/4" steel tube and hammer it into the ground. Pull it up and check out the dirt plug you just made. What is the deeper soil made of. Sand drains well. Clay does not. Rock less so. Everything else is in between as per #2. You get little organic content the deeper you go because fewer roots can get there. Usually just big trees. Can water get into the spaces between particles? If not you need to fix this. But before you do, ask yourself, once the water get in this deep, where does it go? Creeks, rivers, drainage ditches, storm sewers. Your neighbour a urban triplex or a farmers field? What is their subsoil likely to be? How far down until bedrock?

Putting 1,2&3 together, a great, resilient system looks like this when rain falls.

A) gentle minimal rains land on vegetation like trees plants grass. The plants stop the water from even hitting the soil and it just evaporates off the improved surface area.

B) light rain does A, then trickles down to the surface where it is immediately absorbed by porous chocolate cake surface soils. Thirsty plants are happy. The soil both absorbs water and retains it so plants are happy between rains.

C) moderate rains first do A, then B, then C where the weight of more water on top pushes the water in the chocolate cake surface soils downward into the subsoil. Its well draining so its basically a sponge and can take huge amounts of water. It's also connected to neighbouring subsoils that also let water infiltrate and flow to a nearby creek, that then flows to anriver then on to a lake or ocean and its nobody' problem. Alternatively it goes through municipal storm sewers to the same end.

D) In very heavy or frequent rains, A,B,and C are maxed out and you have yet more water still do deal with. When this happens we are back to A. Surface runoff accumulates and now we are technically entering flood territory. A little surface run off is nothing to worry about. A lot is. Here is where your grading and elevation make all the difference. If the land is graded 1-2%, surface water flows downhill to whatever awaits it. Hopefully those storm sewers and creeks and watnot. If your property is on high ground you're in great shape relatively. You'll be the last to flood. If you are in the bottom of a hardpan bowl, put your swimsuit on, turn off the power and start emergency protocols.

If you managed to get through all this, feel free to give me your details and I can tailor some advice more specific to your situation. Feel free to dm me for specifics.

Edit: french drainage is one option, but you have to have the above context to know where the drains can put the water, or if there are better or cheaper options.

Source: lots of geotech in uni.

I just had a friend overshare he uses LLMs to play out his nastiest sexual fantasies. Hillarious and disturbing. This seems tame by comparison.

I don't have any answer to offer other than "We're likely about to find out".

Edit: Sus question from a brand new account, but a good one.

Me dropping my manuscript off to my agent.

I would pay my last kidney to see this for real at the La Scala Opera House in Milan.

Or perhaps, someone you hate the most being sponsored by someone you hate the most in the hopes they all die tragically in an act of mutual anihilation.

I still can't believe prediction markets exist. Every bet requires a counterparty and information asymetry means its not a market, its a killing field going up against rigged bets just like this.

Billie, you're a genius

Enough to be a fool

A fool to gamble everything

And never know the rules

Some of us can only live

In songs of love and trouble

Some of us can only live in bubbles

The Magnetic Fields - My only friend

Fun fact time because I'm that guy.

Coke and meth are similar in that they both activate stimulate Dopamine (reward, motivation), Norepinephrine (arousal, alertness) Serotonin (mood, modulation).

However they do it in very different ways:

Cocaine blocks neurotransmitter reuptake from the outside, it stops the neurotransmitter from being released from the synapse causing the area to flood and the synapse to fire more strongly, but still tied to normal stimulation. I.e. your body still produces the transmitter based on normal stimuli, coke just keeps it there longer, stretching the existing signal.

Methamphetamine drives release from the inside. It pushes dopamine out and into the synapse, and has some reuptake inhibition that combines drive the synapses far harder than normal. In contrast to coke, it doesn't stretch existing signals from physiological stimuli, it makes signals regardless of what's going on.

In short, coke blocks the sink's drain. Meth turns on the tap and sorta plugs the drain. Slight advantage to meth here for ADHD. CNS depression that underlies it responds better to meth because the taps don't open enough to begin with. Normal psysiological stimuli isn't enough.

Both in theory could treat ADHD, but meth wins by a longshot because of the speed and stability of its pharmacokinetics. Coke is in and out too fast to give the user the therapeutic window of relief without causing spikes that trigger negatives like addiction or heart problems. Meth is slower and longer lasting. 20-60 mins for coke, ~4 hours for meth. Leveraging extended release (er) formulations pushes meths already superior action (turn on tap) into a daily therapeutic window, while coke is still just behaving like a party drug.

Source: Lots of personal research. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I can't tell if this is a shitpost or not. (Intentional or otherwise).

The Nature vs. Nurture is poorly phrased.

We have: (a small selection)

genetics
epigenetics
physical environment
emotional environment
information environment
social environment

All shaping us at the same time. So yes, if you would go back in time and be the same genetic you, but like adopted at birth somewhere else, you would still be you genetically, but everything else would be different.

Maybe better, maybe worse. Even if life brought you down some bad backroads, you never know. Maybe this is the multiverse that takes you to where you really want to be. Your best self. We'll see.

I saw this one coming before I clicked on the post.

Ground b~~eef~~illionaire. It's surprisingly affordable, but for the best quality cuts, you have to work for it.

Arsenic? Cyanide? Don't trust strangers on the internet. Do your own research! A blind taste test will settle this once and for all.

Fascists.

Edit: They are technically edible, just very hard to stomach.

Never met a bean I didn't love.

I've never had such a toxic statement come from the person who is supposed to look out for their employees wellbeing. They at least act like they have your best interest at heart.

Sorry to hear about your rough time. If I can share an insight, in the hopes you find it helpful; you have an overly high view of what managers are and do. Good ones try to do this, but the default is not this at all.

Your managers are there to make sure you get the job done in a manner consistent with their operating policies and proceedures. This can vary a lot depending on the job and industry, but it usually means, fast and cheap and profitable.

At no point does your well being enter into the equation. The very rare exception is for highly skilled ultra-rare empoyees in critical roles. They are too valuable to lose and get some consideration. Everyone else is disposable.

It's cheaper and easier to fire somone you lose confidence in, than it is to deal with someone with chronic issues who can't seperate their personal and professional life. Your messaging would be interpreted by most managers in this context. You're sowing the seeds of doubt and it can't help and can only hurt your standing in a company.

My advice, seek comfort and support outside of work. Don't let your boss know anything worse than cold&flu. Never share chronic conditions unless absolutely necessary. It almost never helps, but can and will be used against you in a secret court of employer opinion.

Source: Am manager, Have hired and fired many times, never because I wanted to. Always because the business demanded it.

It's not me. The spiders make me issue corrections where warranted.

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What's a movie you had to watch in pieces because it disturbed you, but you learned to love it?

What's a movie you had to watch in pieces because it disturbed you, but you learned to love it?

Scotty very curious

My yard floods every time it rains after a landscaping company leveled it, what are my options?

Is Grok the dumbest AI?

Anyone else tired of guessing at how to make life better for a majority of people like its your personal life mission or something?

What is justice? What are you willing to sacrifice for broad accountability? Are you free? Is oppression ever warranted? Are you willing to become inconvenienced for the truth? How far will you go?

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Le Wrath di Khan

Who do you hope is secretly funding your favorite streamer?

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When was the last time you thanked the person who affected you the most?

What's old is new again.

The tailor has spoken

You can eat ONE inedible thing of your choice. What's for dinner?

What are your favorite and least favorite variety of bean, and why?

Times you knew it was time to find a new job?

Don't blink