as alive as you need me to be
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At one point, myself and some college buddies rented a townhouse after we all graduated.
In the garage, I stumbled upon a bamboo stick, maybe a bit wider than a thumb, pretty long though.
I held it aloft to examine it... it had a carb and a bowl.
We were the first renters at this place, the couple had moved but decided to rent out to us.
So basically I found my landlord's custom/jerry-rigged bamboo uh, 'peace pipe', I think is what we called it.
Fela Kuti - Zombie.
I propose this as anti-coworker-music; for maybe 70+% of them, they'll be amazed or impressed if they've never heard it before
Its obviously old school, but its also obviously incredible, is energetic, has a solid driving rhythm and melody, and at least parts of the lyrics are simple enough you can sing along or they may get stuck in your head.
But its not offensively noisey/distortiony or sappy or whiney.
Then you also tell people the backstory behind the song and album, if they ask about it, which is basically equally incredible.
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You could also probably just make a shitty/unique one out of PVC pipe, a handsaw, and a drill bit.
Or maybe even just core out a stick of dried bamboo?
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I might suggest the harmonica as another potential alternative.
Or you could just do the blow test thingy from 'The Right Stuff', for fun, or something, maybe?
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You do not appear to be reading this right.
Here lemme break this down and slightly rephrase it for readaibility:
Compared with the control group[,] in the didgeridoo group [we observed] daytime sleepiness and apnoea-hypopnoea index improve significantly.
[Their] partners reported less sleep disturbance [as well].
There was no [discernible/signifcant] effect on the [self-reported] quality of sleep.
So what you describe as 'masking daytime sleepiness' is actually just 'less reported daytime sleepiness'.
IE, you're more alert, less sluggish, when awake.
Apnoea-Hypopnoae index is basically the time you spend during sleeping having blood flow oxygenation below critical levels... this also significantly lessened.
Meaning that people got more regular well oxygenated blood flow while sleeping, after blwoing through a tube regularly.
The only thing that did not improve was self reported 'quality of sleep'.
Yet they were observed to snore less, and reported being less tired during the day, and their sleeping partners reported being disturbed less.
So, the only metric that didn't improve was the one that is the most subjective and least important.
They didn't report 'better sleep' but... everything else indicates that their sleep was indeed of greater quality.
Psychosomatic dubiousness that anything is different vs every other metric showing improvement.
Or, your response, basically.
Going back to the numbers, the day time sleepiness index is from 0 to 24, where over 11 is excessive sleepiness. The mean improvement is -3, which basically means these people got 3 more useful active daytime hours a day, they got 12.5% more useful time in each 24 hour period.
Again that's not masking, that's the exact improvement you are looking for.
The 'choking in your sleep' index improved by -6, when the average score of all was 21, so basically the average result was roughly 25% less time spent choking in your sleep.
Who would opt for this treatment?
I dunno, maybe anyone with a CPAP machine that wants to one day maybe not need a CPAP machine, or someone with a CPAP machine and also an unreliable local power grid?
I actually had a kind of mental breakdown / existential crisis, a few years back.
I was playing RDR2.
I realized, while ambling around St. Denis, that that was the closest I was ever going to get to ever seeing New Orleans.
... because the real one was gonna be underwater before I could ever afford to visit it.
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I mean, makes enough sense in concept.
Could also work with any larger wind instrument that requires moving a considerable volume of air.
Builds up muscles related to breathing, could thus potentially moderately reshape the throat and nasal cavity.
Maybe you'd prefer a tuba?
... at least its not a vuvuzela...
Yep, all good plans if you got any land to grow anything on.
I'm apartment-bound, so, maybe aquaponics is in my future.
"Lottery winners, how did you win the lottery and what advice can you give?"
This whole idea is basically a myth that pretty much doesn't actually exist in practice.
Especially now, with jet fuel costs soaring.
Almost nobody is 100% remote.
You may find an expert niche position where you travel often, but basically no one has a 100% remote job.
Unless you want to argue that being an overseas landlord who manages things from your overseas home counts as a '100% remote' job.
EDIT:
Since some almost nobodies have showed up, I guess I need to show my work.
www.forbes.com/advisor/business/remote-work-statistics
www.apollotechnical.com/statistics-on-remote-workers/
Upwork’s prediction proved accurate: as of 2025, approximately 32.6 million Americans representing 22% of the workforce now work remotely. According to Gallup data, among those with remote-capable jobs, 52% work in hybrid arrangements, 27% work fully remote, and 21% remain exclusively in-office
32.6 * 0.27 = ~8.8 million.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01000000
Total US Labor Force = ~169.5 million.
8.8/169.5 = ~5.2%
So maybe 'almost no one' is slightly strong phrasing, but I guess congrats to the top 5% most pampered and privileged workers in the US at least, who actually fully work remote.
If the 'Almost Nobodies' here would agree to submit the zipcode that they grew up in, well, I'm reasonably confident it'll be one that's historically had a significantly higher median income than those near it.
Oh also submit your age. I would expect that those in this top 5% to be a distribution centered around... well basically the average US home buyer age, 59.
(Yes I realize that's an unreasonable ask in terms of privacy, but it would make for an interesting study)
((I guess lemmy is surprised to discover its own user base is an example of selection bias))
'Don't look up', I guess.
The 'good' news is you might not live through the next one.
Food.
Yeah our entire modern agricultural system is basically a process of squirting refined oil into the ground and then food comes out.
Drive up the precursor cost?
Well a whole bunch of that process breaks, and that's not even considering the oil burned to move things from one place to another.
Even if you solve that problem: Climate's broke, ain't gonna fix it at this point. That'll fuck up food production massively as well.
Population control (culling) via food prices doubling or tripling every few years, and the chaos that results from that.
They're hoping enough of us will die before we actually try to eat them.
I suggest making what stockpile of edible reserves you can now, keep cycling through it, eat a bit of it, replace more of it, etc.
We got the worst el nino in recorded history, AMOC is currently giving out, as is the 'doomsday' glacier... and roughly 1/5 to 1/4 of the world's oil just stopped, it'll take years to recover from the damage thats already done.
Everything that has happened so far will be a footnote compared to what happens next.
Its only a matter of time untill a gaming pc made out of Chinese architecture components is legally considered by the US to be a weapon of mass destruction.
Yeah, the whole plan is to have every US citizen's 401k's autobuy into the SpaceX IPO.
Your retirement fund is Elon's exit liquidity.
Its a truly fantastic fraud.
Because... the Nasdaq... well a few weeks ago it changed its rules on the delay time between an IPO and it being part of the index, the index that everyone's 401k's buy into.
I guess you could say its going to be 'epic' when this all blows up.
See this is basically how the us economy works:
Poors roll over negative equity into their next car loan.
The ever diminishing 'middle class' basically does the same with homes, helocs, etc.
The owners roll over debt via corporate amalgamations.
But because the rich have a magical legal barrier of 'all the bad and dumb things i do are a legal fiction doing them, not me personally', well, the legal fiction gets what its due and/or evaporates when it can't pay what it owes... and the rich remain on top.
Yeehaw!
'rich people with more money than sense who will give you their money if you can generate for them a stupendous return on investment by massively raising prices 3-5 years down the line'
Satya Nadella called AI a bicycle for your mind.
Close.
It's training wheels, not the bicycle.
The training wheels also come from a factory that drains local aquifers, creates so much noise its basically a sonic weapon of mass destruction, and also generates its own significant heat island effect.
And the training wheels have a very expensive subscription fee and will detonate if you stop paying it.
Well, I guess that's preferable to being assassinated by the CIA.
This was a week ago:
A CIA whistleblower said during a Wednesday Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing that the agency had taken 40 boxes of files related to John F. Kennedy (JFK)’s assassination and Project MK-Ultra.
James Erdman III, during congressional testimony alleging “concerted” COVID-19 cover-up, said under oath that the CIA “took back 40 boxes of JFK files and MK-Ultra files being processed for declassification” from Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard.
Yeah, yeah, the CIA is alleged to have broken into the office of ostensibly their boss, to steal back JFK and MKUltra files... that Trump had actually ordered be unsealed and Gabbard appeared to actually be trying to do.
Jesse Waters ran a segment on this on Fox, and then deleted it from his social media feed.
Anna Paulina Luna corroborated all this, and then 180 flipped to 'I must have misspoken'.
Gabbard denied this happened, but her PR person said basically 'well it kinda did happen but not exactly as described'.
So yeah, a week later, I guess you could say the CIA has effectively fired their own boss.
Also: There aren't even supposed to be any possibly unclassifiable MKUltra documents, because we were told by the CIA in the late 70s that they burned them all, but missed some in an annex somewhere near Langley or DC, and those are the documents that exist, that people have been reverse engineering for decades.
But apparently that was a lie, I guess, because apparently there were/are more of these documents, and the CIA so very much did not anyone to see them that they... broke into their boss's boss's office to steal them.
And, again, seem to have effectvely fired her now too.
Fucking incredible.
Tucker Carlson is a man who, with a straight face, has repeatedly told multiple people, on camera, that he went to sleep in his bed with his 4 large dogs, and woke up with scratches, after feeling s pressure on his body...
... and he concluded this was demonic attack.
I think at this point the alcohol is taking its toll on Tuck.
Oh and of course when Fox News got sued by Dominion Voting Systems, its came out that Tucker absolutely despised Trump, while he was fluffing him up every night, and fluffing up his viewers with leading questions that feed into or generated conspiracy theories.
... Lately he has 'asked' if Trump is the AntiChrist.
And then a few weeks later, he denied that he said this, despite... there being video, of him... on his own show... that he published... saying that.
You can only possibly take Tucker seriously if you are either extremely religious, or basically have brain damage.
Butlerian Jihan when?
This would all be less funny to me if it wasn't so incredibly broadly predictable.
Jesus fucking christ, did Github expose its own fucking Github credentials?
Via having LLMs write and push its own updates, live, to production, where they were immediately scruntinized by... other LLMs doing 'penstesting'?
We're gonna run outta honking noses and squirting flowers, the clown show is becoming too immense.
Either that or we're going to need to quarantine Github, actually make the fucking Blackwall before these things gain not sentience, but roughly the judgement skills of a toddler, armed with nuclear weapons.
Circular breathing is used by many brass players to hold particularly long notes or unbroken chains of notes.
Same for oboes, bassoons, clarinets.
Its also very useful to harmonica players, which are technically reeded wind instruments.
Circular breathing might not be strictly necessary for some styles, but its definitely used by a lot of people, its basically only an upside if you know how to do it properly, raises your skill ceiling.